Chapter six hundred and twenty sixth Taiwan disturbance
"I still have one thing to say, this time we have a narrow escape from death. We just want to show the red-haired ghost a little bit. So if you don't want to go, just say it, we will not underestimate him..." Huang Degong said to the sixty soldiers of the Marine Corps.
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"Instructor Huang! Are you old? Why are you so wordy?" Huang Ding, who was leading the soldiers, interrupted him, which immediately caused the soldiers to chuckle.
Most of these soldiers were born in the boy camp, and they exuded vitality. It was a good time for newborn calves not to be afraid of tigers. They were also Huang Degong's students, and they usually joked with Huang Degong, both young and old. And the leaders
Huang Ding, the team member, didn't even have a name when he first entered the children's camp, so he took Huang Degong's surname. It should be said that Huang Degong treated him as his son.
"Then be careful. Wan Sheng!" Huang Degong said with a smile.
"Wan Sheng!" The soldiers shouted softly and raised their clenched right fists.
Then Huang Degong watched these soldiers run to the seaside and push the small wooden boat on the beach into the sea. It was dusk, and the sun had been swallowed up by the sea level. The orange-red sunlight spread on the sea, shining brightly.
Stars dotted, Huang Degong's nose suddenly felt sore, and his eyes were a little moist. Huang Degong suddenly felt a huge pain in his chest. These are good children!
After the Marine Corps of the Runing Army arrived in Taiwan, Zheng Zhilong assigned a piece of land to the Runing Army and moved in nearly a thousand households of Fujian immigrants. Later, Wu Shigong also found a way to send hundreds of households of refugees from Henan.
Relying on these people, the Runing Army repaired water conservancy, opened up wasteland, built villages, and drove out the indigenous people. The hard work was difficult to explain to outsiders. After more than two years of hard work, the area finally began to show its scale.
Seeing that Runing's army's reclamation of wasteland had achieved results, Zheng Zhilong also strengthened cooperation and moved more than a thousand households from Fujian to reclaim more wasteland. But this time, the two parties agreed on a 50-50 split.
With more people and greater strength, and already having experience in reclamation, the Runing Army greatly accelerated their reclamation, and soon they expanded to southern Taiwan.
In the past, there was a tacit understanding between Zheng Zhilong and the Dutch colonists. Zheng Zhilong acquiesced that Tainan was the sphere of influence of the Dutch colonists. The two sides also acquiesced in a dividing line on the island of Taiwan.
However, the Runing Army was somewhat dissatisfied with this default dividing line. Originally, the Dutch colonists needed the ports along the coast of Taiwan and did not need the cultivated land in Taiwan's interior. Everyone did their own thing. Originally, water from wells did not interfere with rivers.
And when they saw the land on the other side of the dividing line being abandoned, the immigrants felt distressed! You can imagine the feelings of Chinese farmers towards the land. So the immigrants spontaneously crossed the dividing line and went to the Dutch colonists to open up wasteland.
Of course, the people in charge of the Runing Army and Tuntian Zhuangzi strongly encouraged them not to pick up this unowned windfall. It would be struck by lightning. Even Zheng Zhilong would acquiesce after knowing it, because they could still share half of it.
Everyone can imagine what happened next. How would the Western colonists treat these farmers? I don’t need to introduce it further. Anyway, several lives were lost.
But the Dutch colonists did not expect that what they encountered was not the colonial natives of Africa and Southeast Asia, but the aggressive Runing army. In addition, these immigrants who opened up wasteland were originally built in the style of the Runing army's farm villages.
, so it immediately attracted revenge from the Runing Army.
First, several lone colonists "mysteriously" disappeared, and then even the colonists in large groups were attacked. In the end, even the local people who were doing business with the Dutch colonists and transporting civilian supplies were attacked by the Runing army.
Not only did the Runing Army always want to sell Zheng Zhilong some face, but Zheng Zhilong, at the request of the Dutch colonists, also brought some civilian supplies with him while transporting goods. Those Western colonists were about to run out of food.
So the governor of the Dutch colonists in Taiwan gathered more than 700 soldiers from the fortress, local armed civilians and Western sailors, wearing plate armor and holding firearms, came to sweep them away. They thought that hundreds of such soldiers could defeat several
The legend of thousands of natives armed with primitive weapons is about to unfold again.
However, the Dutch colonists did not expect that the Marine Corps immediately assembled troops and village guards, totaling more than 2,000 people. They still had firearms and used the Western phalanx to start a battle with them.
Although the Dutch colonists had almost a handful of firearms, most of them were not soldiers after all, so when the Runing Army and the Dutch colonists were "lined up and shot", they had already collapsed.
What followed was a one-sided pursuit. If the fortress's artillery hadn't covered their escape, they might have been annihilated. But even so, only more than 300 Dutch colonists finally escaped back to the fortress.
But in this battle, the Runing Army also suffered more than 200 casualties, among which the Marine Corps standing at the forefront suffered hundreds of casualties. You know, the Runing Army only had 1,000 soldiers stationed on Taiwan Island.
Excluding those who boarded the ship for "internship" and escort, there were only more than 500 people on the island at this time.
So Huang Degong, the top commander of the Runing Army, immediately became furious. He ordered more than 200 Dutch colonial prisoners, including the Dutch Governor, to be beheaded. Why not kill the prisoners? In Huang Degong's eyes, the Dutch colonists were like this
Things that look weird and strange are not human beings at all.
Fortunately, at this time, Zheng Zhilong's envoys arrived in time, and they asked Huang Degong to redeem these prisoners with a ransom.
The envoy was of course entrusted by the Dutch colonists, and he also wanted to protect Zheng Zhilong's interests. Zheng Zhilong's Taiwan policy was that the Zheng family was the dominant family, while the Dutch colonists and the Runing Army had to balance the two. And he did not
I hope the two companies will fight to destroy the trade environment.
So the envoy put pressure on Huang Degong, and the logistics and sea access of the Runing Army were in the hands of Zheng Zhilong, so in the end, Huang Degong had no choice but to give in. But even so, Huang Degong still took the opportunity to pay a huge ransom.
Of course, the Dutch colonists couldn't afford so much money, so they could only redeem more than 20 officers including the governor of Taiwan first, and the rest could only be considered later. Huang Degong was also very straightforward. Once those people left, he
They killed all the remaining prisoners. It was not that they were not given a chance. People cannot blame God for being poor. So, the feud was ended.
After that, there were constant minor frictions between the two sides. However, under Zheng Zhilong's strong suppression, no large-scale battles occurred. The grudges between the two sides became deeper and deeper. The Dutch colonists did not dare to leave the fortress anymore, and the Runing Army
I don’t dare to move near the fortress anymore. (To be continued...)
