The Dutch robbers were knocked unconscious by two rifle volleys. The huge casualties caused them to enter a state of rage and began to behave irrationally.
At a distance of one hundred and twenty steps, the Dutch actually set up their matchlocks and wanted to shoot at the riflemen on the top of the mountain. This distance was far beyond the effective range of the muskets, and shooting with the guns could only be random shooting.
The musket gunners had already loaded their ammunition, and now they set up their stands and started shooting up the mountain.
Pieces of fire appeared at the foot of the hill, and the crackling gunshots merged into a huge explosion. More than three hundred lead bullets flew towards the top of the hill.
These lead bullets had no accuracy and spread extremely wide after flying nearly 200 meters. Of the more than 300 rounds of lead bullets, only about 30 hit the soldiers of the trapped regiment.
However, these red-haired muskets had a large caliber and were very powerful. The thirty soldiers of the Trap Regiment who were shot had all their chainmails pierced and fell down screaming.
Seeing that Hong Mao had injured his comrade, the other soldiers of the trapped regiment were furious and immediately started firing a third salvo.
Before the Dutch musketeers in the second row stepped forward to shoot, the third volley from the trap group swept over. Dozens of red-haired sailors were suddenly stunned, and their bodies were covered with blood. They screamed and covered their hands with their hands.
He was holding the wound, but he couldn't hold back the blood that flowed out.
Some sailors who were unwilling to fall like this grabbed hold of the shoulders of their companions, roared loudly, and finally died hanging on their companions.
The five sixteen-pound cannons in the camp also fired at Hong Mao. The five cannons fired 1,500 cannonballs, which shot into Hong Mao's formation like a raindrop.
The Dutch soldier who was hit by the shotgun had no way to survive. The blood and flesh turned into pieces and were thrown in the air. The Dutch soldier who was still alive in the front row seemed to be bathed in a rain of blood, and was sprayed red by the blood of the shot comrades beside him.
Some of them still had bits of meat flying out from their shot companions hanging on their bodies, which was particularly scary.
The Dutch retreated.
More than 800 people were killed at once, and more than 200 were killed. The casualties were too high to bear, and the muskets here had not yet entered the effective range. Such a battle was impossible. The leading officer yelled something, the firecrackers
The same drum beat stopped. The Dutch soldiers gave up charging at the hill and fled back the way they came, carrying their muskets.
Fang Laosan turned to look at Zheng Hui and heard the commander shouting: "The whole army is pursuing us!"
More than three hundred soldiers, carrying rifles, chased the fleeing Dutch.
The camp was more than ten miles away from the bay where Hong Mao parked his ship. When the Hong Mao troops saw that the Tigers and Tigers were chasing after them, they ran very embarrassed. The soldiers of the Trap Regiment held up their rifles loaded with bullets and chased after them. When they saw the lagging Hong Mao, they opened fire a few times.
They were shot to death. They chased them all the way to the seaside, where the formation group shot and killed more than forty red-haired men.
The Dutch suffered heavy losses this time. You must know that even in the Liaoluo Bay naval battle that shocked the southeast a few years ago, Zheng Zhilong only beheaded more than a hundred red hairs. But today, the Dutch suddenly lost their lives in this unknown little place.
More than three hundred corpses were left behind the camp.
Zheng Hui only stopped the pursuit after chasing to the seaside and within the deterrent range of the Dutch ship's cannons. There were too many cannons on the Dutch ship, and a hit would cause very heavy casualties.
The Dutch hurriedly crowded into the small boat, rowed away from the shore, and rowed to the big ship. They did not dare to look back and fight the soldiers of the trap group.
Fang Laosan hid in the pine forest by the sea, observing the nine large red-haired ships in the distance. The nine large ships were not small, about the same size as the Nova, and two were even bigger than the Nova. The bellies of those ships
It is wide and has densely packed soft sails hanging on the ship. Each ship is equipped with many cannons on its belly, some are more than a dozen, and some are more than twenty.
Hong Mao has so many cannons! The cannons of this fleet are much more than all the cannons of the Tatars outside the pass.
These large red-haired ships are plundering everywhere and will be the governor's number one enemy in exploring Taiwan.
Fang Laosan was observing the ship there, and he didn't know who took the lead behind him and shouted "Wan Sheng!" Four hundred soldiers shouted in unison. Fang Laosan turned his head and looked at the excited soldiers of the trap group.
He also raised his fist and shouted loudly: "Wan Sheng!"
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In January, the shipwrights of Wangjiawan delivered another ship, and Li Zhi's fleet expanded to four ships. With the four ships devoted to the development of Taiwan, another 100 soldiers of the trapping regiment and 1,400 farmers arrived.
Arriving in Taiwan. By mid-February, Taiwan’s troops already numbered 3,500.
Boss Wei heard that the governor studied the map in Tianjin and called the area occupied by 3,500 people Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Hsinchu, Boss Wei thinks the name sounds okay, and there are indeed a lot of bamboos nearby.
Boss Wei has been cutting down the isolation zone in the woods during this time. It took 400 soldiers and 800 farmers more than a month to finally cut out the isolation zone around the first planned farmland and start burning the wasteland.
On the day of the burning, Boss Wei held a torch and lit fires everywhere in the woods. The time of burning was when it had not rained for several days. The woods were very dry, and a large fire burned a large area. Boss Wei and his two comrades-in-arms
Working in groups of three, they first lit a fire deep in the woods, and then retreated little by little, lighting fires in other places along the way. In the end, the fire rushed forward and almost burned the three of them, Boss Wei.
Fortunately, the isolation belt was cut out before, and the three of them escaped outside the isolation zone.
The fire burned for five days, causing the temperature in the surrounding areas to rise a lot. After burning for three days, Boss Wei was ordered to enter the fire area to inspect, and continued to light the areas that the fire had not burned until the area of more than 100,000 acres was completely destroyed.
The forest burned down.
In the end, all the forests on the east and west sides of the camp were burned away. When I stood on the hill where the camp was located and looked over, I could only see a piece of scorched earth on both sides of the river, with nothing but black plant ash.
The next step is to build irrigation canals. The irrigation canal planned by Commander Zheng this time is four miles long and will irrigate a large area. Such irrigation canals should be six feet above the ground at the riverside and gradually lower from the riverside to the distance.
Only by going down can the water flow further along the irrigation canal.
Boss Wei followed the squad leader and began to dig the soil with shovels, ram the soil with stone hammers, and began to build irrigation canals.
On this day, Boss Wei was shoveling the soil and suddenly said with emotion: "Yuan Jin, the burned soil is so fat!"
Yuan Jin, who was in the same class as Boss Wei, shoveled a shovel into the soil and said with a smile: "That's right, this plant ash is the best fertilizer. I heard from the platoon leader that this ordinary paddy field in Fujian can produce two stones and five buckets per acre.
of rice. The fields we burned are so fertile, the harvest will be even higher!"
Boss Wei also attended the Soldiers' Night School, and now he can count. He stood there and counted, and said: "The farmers who come to Hsinchu to open up wasteland are extremely rich."
Yuan Jin smiled and shoveled another shovelful of soil onto the cart without saying a word.
Boss Wei thought for a while and said: "I want to write to my young friends and ask them to sign up to come to Taiwan to open up wasteland. Although I can't be an officer to recruit them into Fanjiazhuang, coming to Hsinchu to be farmers is not much worse than being a soldier.
