Chapter 516 Negotiation

The two sides fought fiercely on Xinjie. First, the navy of the two sides fought. The Burmese soldiers were unfavorable and retreated to a sandbank a little south to defend. The Ming navy and some infantry attacked on the water and land, defeated the Burmese navy and killed more than 2,000 enemies.

, captured six warships. The Ming cavalry on the west bank suddenly rushed out, and the Mata camps broke through three Burmese camps and killed more than 1,500 enemies. After this battle, the Burmese soldiers retreated dozens of miles away.

In Guantun, the Ming army occupied Xinjie.

The Ming army advanced to Laoguantun in an invincible manner. The Burmese army had already established two solid camps in Laoguantun. The main force was in Dazhai, Jiangdong, and thousands of Burmese troops camped on the west bank. The camps extended into the river. The Burmese army

The navy was anchored on the river between the two battalions and supported the left and right. When the Burmese soldiers on the east coast saw that the Ming army had just arrived, they went out to attack and were repelled by the Ming army. Neither side had a great result. Both sides just bombarded each other with artillery from time to time.

After the battle, the Ming army camped on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to confront the Myanmar soldiers. The water surface between the two camps of the Myanmar soldiers was turbulent and there were sandbanks, so the Ming navy was temporarily unable to advance. On the second day, the Ming army sent a side division to the south of the Myanmar soldiers on the east coast.

The camp was set up and prepared to cut off its water route. The Burmese soldiers dug many three-foot pits in the camp, where the soldiers could avoid artillery fire and hide their targets.

The Ming army scouts observed the height of a tree and mistakenly judged that there were very few enemy soldiers in the camp.

So he launched a large-scale attack, and Qin Bangyi also arrived dozens of steps outside the gate to command.

There were deep trenches outside the Burmese camp, the wooden fence was extremely strong, and the guns and cannons were extremely powerful. The Ming army was repelled many consecutive offensives within a day. The Ming generals were in full swing and planned to fight at night, but were later stopped.

On the same day, the navy of the two armies also had a confrontation on the river, and the Ming navy sunks twenty Burmese warships.

For three consecutive days, the Ming army's offensive momentum was not so strong. They tried to destroy the wooden fences with fire attacks, cannons, etc., but all failed. That night, the Ming army's navy made another effort and took advantage of the night to capture the sandbank near the west bank between the two battalions and seized the sandbanks of the two battalions.

Two warships, eleven prisoners were captured, the Burmese navy retreated to the east coast, and the Burmese water transportation on the east coast was cut off. The Ming army's morale was greatly boosted, and it broke through the wooden fence that the Burmese soldiers defended in one fell swoop. The Burmese soldiers resisted for many days and had been able to fight.

Exhausted, soldiers generally felt tired of war, and the entire army was greatly defeated.

The war that lasted for three months and cost 900,000 taels of silver finally came to an end.

This battle in northern Myanmar was huge and was the first war in which the Taiwan Town Army crushed the navy and artillery fire, and the inland waters was the main force. The actual combat proved that this kind of tactic was extremely effective, and the cost was also amazing.

The offensive in just three months cost more than 900,000 taels of silver, and more than half of the large amount of ammunition stored in Malacca was consumed. However, the results were also huge. The Inland Water Navy officially entered the establishment of the Taiwan Town Army.

In March of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the Netherlands finally couldn't hold on anymore, so he asked the Portuguese who had a rich mirror to contact the center and discuss redeem the people.

The treasury, the discussion hall.

Ma Cheng moved out the great god Yuan Keli and negotiated with the Dutch to trade prisoners of war. Yuan Gong was the only one who was irritated. The tyrannical veteran of the four dynasties sat in the parliament hall, drank tea and closed his eyes to rest, looking like an old god was there.

It looked like Zheng Zhilong, who was the general translator, was sweating. Who was Yuan Keli? He was a very person who dared to beat Emperor Shenzong and was also a great man who was known as the best strategic vision in the late Ming Dynasty.

Ma Cheng also sat upright and looked around. The Portuguese in tuxedo, the Dutch in straight military uniforms, and the officials of the Taiwan Sansi were in a very strange mood, and they felt a sense of time and space disorder. Yuan Gong took action,

There are some negotiations, and no result can be reached in a short period of time. With Mr. Yuan’s temper, he will definitely slaughter the Dutch.

The Dutch are rich, and even Macheng is salivating. The Dutch are the richest men of this era.

Why can the Dutch become the sea coachman of this era? Because the Dutch are rich and stingy.

For example, the sailors on British merchant ships all carry weapons, so their ships need harder wood, while the Dutch ships are almost not equipped with weapons, so the Dutch ships are very cheap, and it is also very cheap to transport goods by Dutch ships.

So the Netherlands became the sea coachman in Europe.

In such a wealthy Dutch Kingdom, the permanent guards fell into the hands of Mr. Ma, and it would be difficult to take them back.

No wonder Macheng, Yuan Keli is here. The Dutch are now in a hurry. He has lost half of the powerful expeditionary fleet and an elite royal guard. No matter how unable to protect maritime trade, even the Netherlands is in a difficult situation.

, You should know that the Netherlands has just been independent from the rule of the Spanish Kingdom.

On the first day of negotiations, the Dutch were very anxious. Yuan Keli was very idle, bored and fell asleep. He just opened his eyes occasionally and nodded. Zheng Zhilong was very busy, sweating profusely and kept shuttled through the parliament hall.

The Ming officials stood up and left, leaving behind the angry Dutch jumping on the spot, but there was nothing he could do.

At dinner, the Portuguese politely sent an invitation.

However, on the afternoon of the negotiations, Yuan Keli left to visit friends in Guangdong.

Ma Cheng was funny in his heart, and cooperated with the escort of the warships and left the moat to inspect Hong Kong Island, intending to build a fortress on Hong Kong Island, and also to garrison the military city and commercial port, as a supply and parking lot of the Taiwan Navy. Naturally, the most important thing is

The important thing is to intimidate the Guangdong three departments and force the Guangdong three departments to choose sides.

In the second year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu Gao established the Guangdong Xingzhong Secretariat on the basis of Guangdong Road.

Hong Kong Island has extremely important strategic significance to the Taiwan Navy.

Hong Kong is located in the southeastern end of mainland China, on the west side of the Pearl River Estuary, bordering the South China Sea, adjacent to Guangdong Province, giving it a vast continental hinterland. At the same time, it is across the South China Sea and Southeast Asia, and on the north side of Japan's Golden Waterway, it has

On Hong Kong Island, the Taiwanese navy strengthened a huge shortcoming.

Now, it is a god-given opportunity to build Hong Kong. The court is deeply trapped in chaos in the north and is no longer able to take into account the southern coast.

In the evening, on Hong Kong Island.

Surrounded by personal soldiers, Ma Cheng stepped on the solid ground, looked at a navy general who was coming to greet him, and smiled slightly. The general gave a military salute in a ecstasy and hurriedly felt that it was inappropriate.

Leave it. Ma Cheng had no choice but to help the general with weak legs and comfort him with kind words. In the eyes of this general, he was no different from the king of a different surname. Now the court has extremely weak control over Guangdong and Fujian.

Fujian has long been in a separatist position, but Guangdong is a little better, but it is also obedient to the tune and not the publicity.

The Hong Kong region of the Ming Dynasty gradually flourished in trade and population also increased, making it an important place for coastal defense.

The old warships of Nantouzhai, Hong Kong for fifty-three years, with 1,486 officers and soldiers. After the 19th year of Wanli, the number of warships increased to 112, and the number of officers and soldiers of the small mainland was reached.

There are 2,088 people. The water village has six flood areas, including Buddhist temple gate, Longchuan Bay, Luoge, Da'ao, Langtao Bay, Langbai, etc. Each flood area has more than 200 troops stationed.

At night, Kowloon.
Chapter completed!