Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 255
Maoshi Nanding is young and promising, and is highly valued by Kuiyi, the governor of Dongfan Island.Everyone in the Netherlands knows that after Kuiyi retires, it must be Mao Shinanding who will take over the post of governor.

Mao Shi Nanding was very knowledgeable about military affairs. When Zheng Sen's fleet besieged the city of Relanja, he made a quick decision and sent a fleet to attack Luermen Port.This move was quite the essence of encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao, and immediately put tremendous pressure on Zheng Sen.

The fleet he dispatched only had more than a dozen warships, but two of them were the most treasured treasures of the Dutch, namely the Hector and the Maria.

The Hector was loaded with 36 cannons, and the Maria was smaller with more than a dozen cannons.

In contrast, although Zheng Jun's fleet has more than [-] warships, they are all sailing ships with a very shallow draft, each with only two cannons, and are at a great disadvantage in size and firepower.

When the two armies encountered each other suddenly, Zheng Sen secretly admired the strength of the Dutch warships, and shouted without hesitation: "Don't give them a chance to line up, use fish school tactics to surround them!"

After giving the order, Zheng Jun's fleet was not timid, and all the ships rushed towards the inconvenient Dutch warship.

Since each ship had two cannons, it could not cause damage to the Dutch army. Instead, a large number of rockets fired ignited part of the deck, causing considerable confusion to the Dutch army.

Zheng Jun took this opportunity to take advantage of the small boat's high maneuverability, bypassed the Dutch warship's gun and reached the stern position, and used cables to tie the two warships together. Then Zheng Jun began to climb the Dutch warship to engage in a boarding battle.

The Dutch army also reacted quickly, and quickly organized the musketeers to shoot at the stern, and pulled a few cannons to the stern cabin to open fire on the climbing Zheng Jun.The soldiers of the Zheng army finally boarded the Dutch warship after suffering a large number of casualties, and then the two sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

At this time, the powder room on the Hector was ignited. With an earth-shattering explosion, the Hector and more than 100 people on board sank together with five or six nearby Zheng Jun sailing ships.

The sinking of the most sophisticated Hector greatly damaged the morale of the Dutch army. With no chance of victory, they had to withdraw from the battle.

Zheng Sen took advantage of the victory and pursued the retreating Dutch fleet. In the evening, he annihilated the Dutch fleet in the harbor and then came to the city of Proventia.

The city of Proventia is the second castle built by the Dutch in Dongfan Island. Compared with the city of Zeelandia, the castle is much smaller, and the construction work has just started, so it is not considered strong and tall.

The city wall is reinforced with an adhesive mixed with glutinous rice, sugar water, and oyster shells. The castle has only two bastions in the northeast corner and southwest corner. Each bastion is divided into upper and lower floors and is equipped with 9 Hongyi cannons. There are also 4 cannons on the city wall. .

This kind of firepower equipment is nothing compared to Zeelandia City.Moreover, there are only a few hundred troops in the city, which is not enough for the tens of thousands of Zheng Jun.

After learning about the situation in Proventia City from He Bin, Zheng Sen smiled: "Okay, we suffered a big loss in Zeelandia City, and we happened to take Mao Shinan to express our anger."

He couldn't wait at all, and decided to make a quick decision, and let the soldiers hold torches to fight at night.

Tens of thousands of people rushed to Proventia City at the same time, broke through the outer trenches and fences, brought artillery from ships, and bombarded the city defenders.

The firepower of Proventia City was at a disadvantage for a moment. Zheng Jun blasted open the west city gate and blew up a city wall, flooding into the city like a tide.

The city was in turmoil, and hundreds of Dutchmen were like duckweed floating in the raging waves in front of tens of thousands of enemies, and they had no power to fight back at all.They had no choice but to keep retreating to Mao Shi Nanding's mansion, and gathered in one corner to resist.

"Sir, we can't resist anymore, what should we do?" People sought instructions from Mao Shinanding.

Mao Shi Nanding had a gloomy face, holding the hilt of the sword at his waist, but he was so confused that he couldn't make up his mind.It seems that there is only one way to choose surrender, but he is worried that his reputation will be ruined and his bright future will be ruined after surrender.

While hesitating, the yelling and gunfire outside the mansion stopped, and Zheng Jun temporarily stopped the attack.

"What's going on? What is the enemy trying to do?" Mao Shinanding asked.

Zheng Jun quickly gave the answer, and He Bin shouted in Dutch: "Your Excellency Mao Shinanding, your wife and children are in our hands, surrender quickly!"

Mao Shi Nanding was shocked and fell to the ground.Just now he was only focusing on commanding his men to fight against the enemy. He had no time to arrange for his family. The enemy rushed into the mansion and his family became prisoners.

He Bin's shouting came again: "Your Excellency Mao Shi Nanding, if you don't surrender, don't blame us for being ruthless and killing your family! I will kill you dozens of times, please make a decision quickly."

"one two Three……"

Mao Shinanding stood up in a hurry and shouted: "Surrender, we surrender!"

Not long after, under the leadership of Mao Shinanding, the surviving Dutchman held the gun barrel in both hands and held it high above his head. He walked out of the mansion dejectedly and formally surrendered to Zheng Sen.

"Pay their weapons!" Zheng Sen said. After these Dutchmen were unarmed, he suddenly changed his face, "Kill them to prevent future troubles!"

Before Mao Shinanding had time to meet his family, someone slapped his neck with a knife.All the Dutch people in the city, men, women and children, were all put to death.

The next day, Zheng Sen sent troops to seize the food hoarded by the Dutch in the city, and sent soldiers to post notices everywhere.At this point, the Zheng army occupied all the fertile land near Taiyuan Bay, and the Dutch only had the city of Relanja left.

"He Tongshi, how much food did we get?" Zheng Sen asked.

He Bin said: "There is not a lot of food hoarded in the city. If we add it all up, it will only be enough for us to eat for half a month at most."

"Why are there so few?" Zheng Sen originally expected to use the food in Proventia City to alleviate the crisis, but was disappointed.

In half a month, can they attack the city of Zeelandia?
Zheng Sen decided not to take any risks, and said: "It seems that we can only fight with Kui Yi. We have occupied the southern part of Dongfan Island and have made a lot of achievements, but Kui Yi is trapped in the city of Zeelandia, which is a deep wall. Gao, he also has a day when he runs out of food."

"Yes, that's the way to go. Our army will encircle and not attack. We will first farm the fields to solve the food crisis. Even if it takes until next year, I still have the patience."

8000 people were immediately dispatched into two teams. One team went north to Hsinchu, Changhua and other places, and the other team went south to Kaohsiung.The soldiers divided into two groups, traveled through mountains and rivers, and began to cultivate fields for a long-term plan.

However, Kui Yi is not a good person. As early as when Zheng Sen was sitting in Jilongyu, he smelled an unusual smell, and sent someone to Batavia (now Jakarta, Indonesia) with a letter, requesting more manpower Cooperate with him to protect Dongfan Island.

This was a few months ago. When Zheng Sen ordered to garrison the fields, the Dutch fleet from Batavia arrived just in time.This support force has more than a dozen warships and 700 soldiers.

Since it was difficult to transmit news at sea, the intelligence was wrong, and Zheng Sen had only [-] soldiers around him, all of a sudden a lot of panic was caused.

When Zheng Sen was thinking about how to deal with the reinforcements from the Netherlands, news came from the army in charge of the Changhua garrison that the local aboriginal Dadufan rioted, and the aboriginal soldiers rushed into the barracks and killed the general Yang Zu.

Zheng Sen suddenly felt upset and lost his position. He fell into a dangerous situation.

Originally attacking the Dutch was to solve their own crisis, but they didn't expect to add to the chaos, as if they had stepped into a swamp and couldn't extricate themselves.

"The vast sea is covered with hundreds of feet of ice, and the gloomy clouds are thousands of miles away. This is our situation." Zheng Sen sighed and asked He Bin, "What should we do?"

He Bin frowned: "Young Master, I have no idea..."

While talking, a soldier suddenly came to report: "My lord, good news, the Dutch reinforcements were blocked at sea!"

"What?" Zheng Sen couldn't believe it, and asked, "Who is blocking the Dutch reinforcements, is it Fourth Uncle's fleet?"

"No, it's not the Fourth Master's fleet. The Fourth Master is staying on Penghu Island. Our patrol ships saw it from a distance. The fleet blocking the Dutch reinforcements was under the banner of the Ming Dynasty. By the way, there was also the flag of the Portuguese. "

Zheng Sen was completely dumbfounded, staring at He Bin, completely confused, what's going on?

Why did the navy of the Ming Dynasty block the Dutch fleet for no reason, and why did the Portuguese also join in?It's messed up, it's all fucking messed up, the entire southern sea area of ​​​​Dongfan Island has become a mess!

(End of this chapter)