Daming Military Empire

Chapter 193
The Dutch occupied the city of Santo Domingo. The news was quickly spread to Penghu by Jin Yiwei's spies. Romero, the Spanish coop chief in the city of San Salvador, also in the north of Dongfan, also quickly received the news. He dispatched the Clippers Asked for help from the Spanish Governor of Luzon, Coquian, and began to organize defenses.

As mentioned earlier, the city of San Salvador has more defenses than the city of Santo Domingo. There are not only the main castle cannons, but also three fortresses, which were built on the hills around the main castle, and the city of San Salvador was built on the On Jilong Island, the entire island is within the fire attack range of the main fort and the fort, so it is very difficult to conquer the city of San Salvador.

Despite the difficulty, Putmans chose to attack. He had to go. He had to bear a considerable part of the responsibility for the loss of dozens of armed merchant ships. A city of Santo Domingo was not enough to offset the merits. Go down to San Salvador and completely drive the Spaniards out of Dongfan, so that he can keep his current seat.

To say that Putmans really has a few brushes. After he surrounded Jilong Island with his fleet and Liu Xiang's pirates, he just observed a loophole with a telescope for a while, and found a flaw.This flaw is actually not too big of a flaw. If the number of Spanish defenders is sufficient, then this cannot be called a flaw, but the problem is that there are only five hundred Spanish defenders in total, so this flaw is covered Infinitely magnified.

This small loophole is located in the Fortress of San Domingo in the north of Santo Domingo. The Fortress of Santo Domingo is very close to the city of Santo Domingo, and the terrain is very high. Just one Fortress of Santo Domingo can completely protect the surrounding area of ​​the city of San Salvador. And the northern area of ​​Jilong Island, of course, this is when there are enough people. If there are not enough people, the problem will come. Sashou Fortress stands alone in the north of Jilong Island. Except for the city of San Salvador behind, the defense of other places It was all blank, and what was even more deadly was that there was a small hill to his left. If he fired from above, he could completely attack Sashou Fort.

Seeing this flaw, Putmans immediately had an idea. His battleships and armed merchant ships were mainly equipped with eight-pound cannons. Lifting it up, he calculated that there are more than 120 eight-pound cannons under his hand, and the Spaniard's Sashou Fort is so big in total, it is not bad if it can hold more than ten cannons. All the pound cannons were dismantled and carried to the hill near Sashou Castle, which could completely destroy Sashou Castle!

As long as Sashoubao is occupied, the city of San Salvador is completely within the range of his artillery fire, and the Spaniards will be miserable at that time.

In order to keep his seat, Putmans also became ruthless. He directly ordered more than 120 eight-pound guns to be dismantled from the ship, and then picked up more than 120 small boats and more than 1000 strong pirates with Liu Xiang. Each artillery was equipped with three artillerymen and three musketeers, so he lifted all the eight-pound guns onto the boat, and then he used his battleships and armed merchant ships as cover, and rushed directly to the beach north of the fortress. , Landing on the beach!

The Spaniards have nothing to do with his rogue tricks. There are only a dozen cannons on the fortress. It takes luck to hit his biggest battleship. It is basically nonsense to hit a boat rowed by more than a dozen people. Egg, so, his landing plan succeeded!
After more than 1000 pirates and more than 300 Dutch artillery carried the artillery to the beach, the target became even smaller. As long as they did not stand in a pile, it would be difficult for the Spanish artillery to hit them. In this case, the Spaniards had no choice but to Only by sending musketeers up can they be repelled, but there are only more than 500 Spaniards on Jilong Island, and they are scattered in one main castle and three outlying castles, each with a maximum of more than 100 people. They dare to go up and fight with others ?You must know that there are three or four hundred musketeers among the more than 1000 people. They rushed up to deliver food to others!

The Spaniards who retreated to defend the fort had no choice but to use shotguns to cover the attack, but more than a dozen artillery covered an area of ​​several hundred meters, and the hit rate can be imagined. In the end, they could only watch helplessly as the Dutch commanded the attack. Then the pirates lifted more than 100 cannons to the hills near them.

So, the two sides began to bombard each other. The Spanish side had more than a dozen artillery pieces, so they basically didn’t have to worry about being hit by shells because they had the advantage of the fortress. On the Dutch side, there were more than 120 artillery pieces scattered on the hills, and they bombarded desperately. 120 to ten, the result can be imagined. After bombing for a long time, the Dutch and pirates lost dozens of people, but the wall on the left side of the fortress was also crumbling from the dense shells.

The two sides continued to bombard until the sun went down, and finally had to stop. Early the next morning, the bombardment continued. After more than ten rounds of bombardment, one wall of the retreating fort was finally broken, and the Spaniards began to suffer casualties.Seeing this, Putmans put all his eggs in one basket and personally led more than 1000 musketeers to the shore and rushed to the fortress. The Spaniards in the fortress collapsed and gave up on the battered city The fort retreated to the city of San Salvador.

Putmans took the opportunity to take down the fortress, and then lifted all the eight-pound guns to the hill where the fortress was located, and blasted at the north wall of San Salvador, which made the Spaniards miserable Well, Putmans was able to hit them, but they couldn't, because the hill was more than a hundred meters high, and their artillery couldn't hit that high unless the elevation angle was adjusted, and once the elevation angle was adjusted, the shooting range would not be enough !
Logically speaking, in this case, the Spaniards were doomed. As long as the Dutch kept bombarding them, they would sooner or later break through the northern city wall. By then, the city of San Salvador would not be able to defend.

Romero, the coop chief, had already decided that once the northern wall was breached, he would order surrender. He could only bet now that the Dutch didn't bring so many shells.

Putmans naturally brought enough shells. He bombarded for two consecutive days and saw that victory was in sight, but suddenly there was a roar of artillery on the sea. Judging from the intensity of the sound, at least a thousand artillery were firing at the same time!
What's going on here?The so-called praying mantis catches the cicada and the oriole is behind. It turns out that after the city of Santo Domingo was breached, when the news came back to Penghu, Zhu Cijiong had led the main force of the Ming army to the Penghu Islands. Zheng Zhihu led the Nanyang Navy's 1000 navy, took [-] super battleships, [-] Dafu boats and more than [-] small warships, and rushed to San Salvador together with the elite of the [-] Imperial Guard Second Corps led by Shi Kefa The sea area in the north of the city was surrounded from north to south, surrounded by the Dutch, Spaniards, and Liu Xiang's pirate gangs, and wiped them out in one fell swoop!

By the way, why did Zhu Cijiong send Nanyang Navy instead of Beiyang Navy?There is a reason for this. On the one hand, he wants to lead the Beiyang Navy and the main force of the First Army of the Imperial Guards to attack the Dutch city of Zeelandia. More importantly, Zheng Zhihu is quite familiar with Liu Xiang, so he asked him to lead the army to Naturally, encircling and suppressing Liu Xiang is better than going to Huanglong.

Both Zheng Zhihu and Liu Xiang are one of the Eighteen Zhi. From the very beginning, the brothers Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhihu were at odds with Li Kuiqi, Liu Xiang and others. After Zheng Zhilong led the army to defect to Daming, the relationship between them became even worse.

After Li Kuiqi teamed up with Liu Xiang and others to assassinate Yang Tiansheng and Chen Zhongji, Shibazhi broke up completely, and Zheng Zhilong began to encircle Li Kuiqi, Liu Xiang and other ministries. During this period, Li Kuiqi, Yang Liu, Yang Qi and others were successively wiped out by Zheng Zhilong. , He actually led his troops to join the Dutch. In the end, relying on the protection of the Dutch, he escaped Zheng Zhilong's encirclement and suppression, and has been able to escape to this day.

Zheng Zhihu and Liu Xiang are already old rivals, and both sides naturally know each other very well. During the Chongzhen Dynasty, it was also Zheng Zhihu who led his troops to encircle and suppress Liu Xiang. As a result, Zheng Zhihu was captured by Liu Xiang, and finally Liu Xiang was cornered by Zheng Zhilong. In front of Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhihu tied a big rock and threw it into the sea to drown, then swallowed a gun and killed himself!The depth of grievances between the two can be seen.

Of course, it is the Chongzheng Dynasty now, and Zheng Zhihu's subordinates are not pirates like Liu Xiang, but the Nanyang Navy of the Ming Dynasty equipped with advanced weapons.

This can be said to be the first battle of the Daming Navy. Zheng Zhihu didn't know how powerful the super battleships were. For the sake of safety, he did not divide the team too widely, but arranged all the battleships into three rows. There are 1000 super battleships, ready to break into the middle; the second row is [-] big luck boats converted into battleships, which are more than ten miles wide. Once the two sides exchange fire, these [-] big luck boats will form a semicircle The encirclement surrounds all enemy ships; the third row is more than [-] small warships. After the battle, they will form a larger encirclement to prevent any fish that slipped through the net from escaping.

After lining up the formation, Zheng Zhihu immediately ordered that all the warships slowly approach the chicken coop. Such three rows of warships lined up more than ten miles wide in the sea. Naturally, Liu Xiang and the others could not see them, so the fleet of the Nanyang Navy just approached The chicken coop sea area was discovered by Liu Xiang and the others. Looking at Liu Xiang's scattered formation, Zheng Zhihu directly ordered fifty super battleships to speed up, and the big blessing ships and small warships behind began to form a semicircular encirclement.

At the beginning, Liu Xiang was taken aback by the large lineup of the Daming Navy. Just kidding, the number of big blessing ships and small warships is almost twice as many as theirs, and there are fifty more super battleships. They all know the result, they will definitely lose.

But when he saw that the Daming Navy had only rushed up fifty super battleships, his eyes shone with hope again.He is very clear about the power of Daming's earthen cannon. Which idiot general commanded this Daming's fleet. Do they really think their earthen cannon can compare with the Dutch's cannon?Do you think that each ship is invincible if it is equipped with a hundred or so cannons?

Even if the power of Daming's earthen cannon is not much higher than that of the Dutch's cannon, they can't charge like this. They can fire a few shots when they charge in like this. What's the use of more artillery!

(End of this chapter)