Chapter 775 Nanyang Fan (7) Occupies the City of Relanja
In less than a moment, the Air Force's 96 flying vehicles finished dropping their bombs and then turned around and returned home.
While the air force was returning home, the 48 Zhenghe-class and Zhou Yu-class cruisers anchored outside the port of Relanje began to bombard the city of Relanje.
Accompanied by the rumble of artillery, the Army's 3rd Division began to seize the beach.
Following the Army's 3rd Division to seize the beach was the Shenhu Artillery Battalion.
When Tropp, Leint and other Dutch admirals were escorted to the deck of the Zheng He and forced to watch the battle, the Ming Army had already established a position in the Port of Jelandia.
The Divine Artillery Battalion also began to assemble and erect the Divine Artillery.
Looking at the cannons pointing slantingly into the sky, Tropp, Leint and others had pale faces.
Before today, Tropp and others had dreamed of conquering the Ming Dynasty with a powerful naval fleet, and nipping this dangerous opponent in the bud before the Ming Dynasty's navy became stronger.
But now, they realize how ridiculous this idea is.
It was also at this time that they discovered that the Ming Navy was not about to become stronger, but had already become stronger, and it had reached a height that they could not imagine.
The guns of the Ming Navy were more powerful than those of the Netherlands Navy.
The Ming Navy also had warships that could fly in the sky and drop bombs from overhead.
There are also the racks of unknown weapons in front of you, which make people shudder just looking at them from a distance.
It didn't take long for the Ming army on the sea to assemble unknown weapons. Then, a scene that made Tropp, Leint and others tremble with fear appeared. They saw rockets roaring from these weapon racks.
They took off into the air, drew a series of parabolas in the air, and then landed on the top of the city of Relanja.
Immediately, clouds of smoke and dust rose from the top of the city of Relanja and within the city.
The smoke and dust that would rise up were much more powerful than the previous aerial bombardments and naval gunfire. The huge clouds of mushroom-like smoke and dust almost obscured the sky.
Even from a long distance away, the huge sound waves can still shatter the eardrums.
Tropp couldn't help but look at Leint, feeling a little happy in his heart.
Fortunately, they were defeated and captured by the Ming army. If they were to defend the city of Relanja, even if they were not killed by the explosion, they would probably be shocked to death by the sound waves generated by the explosion, or be torn apart by the air waves generated by the explosion.
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About half an hour later, after the Shenhua Artillery Battalion completed a wave of fire coverage, the Army's 3rd Division dispatched a battalion and began to launch a probing attack on the city of Relanje.
More than five hundred Ming soldiers opened up a wavy line of skirmishers and advanced slowly with rifles in hand.
With the evolution of rifles, the Ming army no longer needed to rely on line arrays in combat.
In fact, the dense line array is not a help to the current Ming army, but has become a burden.
Because the current Ming army does not need to use dense line arrays to ensure firepower density. With the heavy machine guns, only a small number of infantry can ensure firepower density.
When they advanced to about 700 to 800 meters from the city of Relanje, the machine gun company stopped and set up the 6 multi-barreled heavy machine guns and 6 mortars belonging to the machine gun company, ready to provide the infantry with supplies at any time.
Fire support.
The three infantry companies stretched the skirmisher lines further apart, and the distance between the front and rear was also wider.
With the current skirmish formation of the Ming army, the Hongyi cannons of this era basically no longer pose a threat when loaded with solid bullets. Only shotguns loaded at close range are still a bit of a threat.
Peng Ada was holding a rifle and walking at the front of the team.
Peng Ada can be regarded as a veteran who has experienced hundreds of battles. He not only participated in pacifying the Shadingzhou Rebellion in Yunnan, but also garrisoned in Tianjin, and even participated in the Battle of Baliqiao and made great contributions.
Nowadays, Peng Ada’s little life should not be too easy.
However, Peng Ada is still looking forward to setting foot on the battlefield again.
Because his one wife and one concubine gave him six sons and five daughters.
Although he had 25 acres of land gifted by the imperial court, Peng Ada still felt a lot of pressure, so he dreamed of setting foot on the battlefield again and winning a battle.
He had already heard the stories of the 1st Division and the 2nd Division.
It is said that the 20,000 soldiers of the 2nd Division who conquered the Japanese were assigned ten Japanese women and 200 acres of bounty land.
Each of the 20,000 soldiers of the 1st Division was assigned ten Korean women and two hundred acres of bounty land.
Peng Ada had never thought of marrying an indigenous girl from Nanyang, because the indigenous girls from Nanyang were dark and ugly, incomparable to the one wife and concubine back home, while his one wife and one concubine were white and beautiful.
But Peng Ada dreamed of having two hundred acres of land.
With these two hundred acres of bountiful land, his six sons would not have to worry about having food to eat when they grew up.
Because of this, Peng Ada risked his life to earn this military merit. Thinking of this, Peng Ada's heart became hot and his steps became particularly brisk.
After a while, Peng Ada arrived outside the city of Relanja.
Relanja City is different from those cities in the Ming Dynasty. It can only be regarded as a castle at best. It is small in scale and the city wall is not high. It is only more than three meters at most. The wall is tilted and can be climbed up.
There is a wide trench outside the city of Relanja.
The trench is dotted with sharp bamboo thorns and pointed wooden stakes.
There is also a low and gentle slope protection outside the trench to protect the city wall.
This is a typical bastion, which can effectively resist direct artillery fire.
But for bombing from the air and curved fire from long-range artillery, the defensive effect of the bastion is not good, or very bad, as can be seen from the city of Relanja.
The walls of the city of Relanja and the surrounding foxholes were blown to pieces.
There were large smoking craters everywhere, and broken limbs were scattered everywhere.
Peng Ada even saw a Dutch soldier with only half of his body left. He had not yet died. When he saw Peng Ada walking over slowly with a rifle, he even managed to put on a flattering smile on his face.
Obviously, this soldier hoped that Peng Ada would show mercy.
Peng Ada stabbed him without hesitation and killed the Dutch soldier. This was mercy.
After stepping through the outer foxholes and then crossing the ditch, Peng Ada stepped on the gap in the collapsed city wall and was the first to climb to the top of the city of Relande, and then finally saw the still-living Dutch soldiers.
A smoking Dutchman was crawling towards a red cannon.
It seemed that this Dutch soldier wanted to fire artillery to block the Ming army's attack.
Peng Ada decisively pulled the trigger, a gunshot rang out, and the Dutch soldiers made no move.
More Ming soldiers climbed up from the gap and immediately began to search the whole city.
In the end, Peng Ada and the others found more than 500 corpses in the city of Relanja, in addition to a large number of severed limbs, but there were only less than 300 living prisoners.
Then, the Ming army suffered zero casualties, not even a single wounded person.
In February of the 26th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1653), the Ming army occupied the city of Relanja and killed and wounded more than 1,300 Dutch troops. The Ming army itself suffered no casualties, creating an unprecedented miracle in Chinese military history.
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The military occupation of the city of Gerlandia and the expulsion of the Dutch was only the beginning.
The next reclamation and development of the treasure island of Taiwan is a real challenge.
The most important thing is the lack of manpower. Ming Dynasty still does not have the ability to implement large-scale immigration to Taiwan.
Since the 20th year of Chongzhen, with the establishment of women's and children's hospitals in Nanjing, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, Suzhou and other big cities, the infant mortality rate in Ming Dynasty has dropped significantly, so the population has grown explosively. However, the time is too short. As of today
, the children born in the first wave of baby boomers were only six years old.
It will take at least twelve years until this wave of children reach adulthood.
So now, the local human resources in Jiangnan are not enough, and they have to buy laborers from Japan, Korea and even Nanyang, so they have no ability to immigrate to Taiwan at all.
But you can't do nothing.
So Chongzhen thought of establishing a construction corps in Taiwan.
It doesn't take too much, just leaving a regiment of suppressing troops in Taiwan is enough.
Chongzhen sent people to find Peng Ada, and Chongzhen was deeply impressed by Peng Ada.
"Peng Ada, I plan to leave a regiment of soldiers stationed in Taiwan for a long time. Can you take the lead for the imperial court? Of course, I will give you the most generous terms."
"It's the same as the soldiers who guard Japanese lands and North Korea, and each person is rewarded with 200 acres of land."
"You can also marry as many concubines as the Japanese and Korean soldiers did."
Speaking of this meal, he said: "You will still retain the 25 acres of graced land in Yuezhou Prefecture. When your eldest son reaches adulthood, you can go back and inherit it. Of course, in addition to farming, you can also like Japanese land.
Just like the North Korean soldiers, they cooperated with the branches of Nanyang trading companies in Taiwan to capture local indigenous people for profit."
As Outer Mongolia, Japan, and Korea were successively incorporated into the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty or Chongzhen had already figured out a model for how to govern these new lands and the indigenous people on them.
To put it simply, it is to station soldiers. In addition to farming or grazing, the soldiers also need to cooperate with local businesses to engage in slave labor trade. The long-term goal is to replace the indigenous people on these lands one by one. After three generations, in
The people who thrived in these lands were the people of the Ming Dynasty, who all spoke Mandarin and wrote all Chinese characters.
After hearing this, Peng Ada hesitated and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, it's okay to let me take the lead, but can I not take indigenous women as concubines? You don't know, these indigenous women are dark and ugly, and they can hug you at night.
If you sleep with them, they will have nightmares.”
Chongzhen laughed and said: "Of course I won't force you to do this. Then you might as well tell me which woman you like?"
Peng Ada scratched his head and said with a smile: "Our women from Xiangxi are quite good. Of course, women from Japan and Korea are also acceptable, but the indigenous Jurchens from Nanyang are not wanted."
"Okay, it's up to you." Chongzhen said with a smile, "Then you go back to your hometown in western Hunan to look for it, but I have something to say first. I will not bear the money for your concubine's gift. You will pay for it yourself. In addition, there will be rewards given to you by the court.
Field, whether it is the Enshang field in Yuezhou Prefecture or the job field here, you are not allowed to sell it for money."
"I will definitely not sell my land." Peng A was overjoyed.
