Chapter 241 It’s over, I’m going bankrupt

Author: tx Cheng Zhi

Chapter 241 It’s over, I’m going bankrupt

Chapter 240

Cheng Shijie took drastic measures, of course, to protect Ning Haijun's interests. If he had adopted negotiation to handle this matter, the Dutch East India Company would have intensified its efforts.

If this matter is left lightly, more Chinese immigrant ships will be detained in the future. Not only immigrant ships, but also merchant ships, fishing boats, and even warships will no longer have a deterrent effect.

To put it mildly, the Dutch East India Company may not have been perfunctory with Ning Haijun, but it did not pay enough attention to this matter, did not have enough understanding of the follow-up caused by this matter, or did not understand Cheng Shijie well enough.

In other words, in the past, Ming Dynasty behaved too low-key. In fact, it was because of domestic and foreign troubles that it was unable to take into account Nanyang. Furthermore, the Chinese were too docile. That is why the Dutch thought that the Chinese were easy to bully.

Following Cheng Shijie's order, the Ning Navy's warships began to leave the port one after another. In addition to the fifteen warships that needed repairs, the Ning Navy's six strike squadrons totaling seventy-eight main warships began to sail towards the Subic Strait in the south.

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Since the Dutch East India Company put pressure on the Ning Navy, the Dutch East India Company assembled fifteen warships of over one thousand tons and arrived at the Subic Strait to cheer up Zheng Zhilong.

In fact, Zheng Zhilong actually looked down upon the fifteen warships of the Dutch East India Company. In comparison, Zheng Zhilong was confident enough to deal with these fifteen Dutch warships, even if the Zheng fleet was severely damaged.

However, Zheng Zhilong had no confidence in the fifteen Ning Haijun warships that were faster and more powerful than the Dutch warships.

Xie Jinglin watched the warships go out to sea, looked at Cheng Shijie and said: "Commander, how far are you prepared to go?"

"This depends on how fully the Dutch admit their mistakes!"

In fact, Cheng Shijie could not stay in Luzon for too long. Although the slaves in the Ming Dynasty had become honest, Lin Dan Khan died of illness, and Lin Dan Khan's son Ezhe was too young, only twelve years old. Ezhe could not convince the public.

The Mongols under Lin Dan Khan began to split up. Some went south to attack Hetao and Ningxia, while others defected to the Jiannu. This made the Jiannu resurgence.

As the Ning Navy continues to draw troops from Liaodong, more than 6,000 soldiers are stationed in Wusongkou, Chongming Island and Changxing Island, more than 9,000 soldiers are stationed in Daguang, and there are navy and army troops in Luzon, totaling 28,000

The remaining people were mobilized along with the more than 44,000 troops.

There will inevitably be a shortage of troops in Liaodong, and Jiannu is making more and more attempts in the direction of the Hun River. Maybe in winter, Jiannu will take advantage of the empty Ning navy to go south.

Although Cheng Shijie faced a series of difficulties, the problem was that Cheng Shijie would never compromise with the Dutch.

Xie Jinglin was speechless at this time: "Commander, if you don't want a decisive battle, can you lower some of the negotiation conditions?"

The settlement conditions proposed by Cheng Shijie were too harsh. You must know that although the Dutch East India Company has thirty-five strongholds in Southeast Asia, which can be said to be colonies, it has a unique geographical advantage in terms of senior officials, occupying nearly one-third of the territory.

The amount of trade is such that the Dutch cannot give up their trade.

Cheng Shijie's negotiation standards for the Dutch East India Company included three points. First, the Dutch East India Company must punish the parties involved and require that the murderers involved in attacking the Chinese must be handed over to the Ming Dynasty for trial. The second point is to compensate the Chinese who were killed.

The first two points are easy to say, but the third point is very excessive. Let the Dutch East India Company give up the management rights of Medan Port. According to the practice of Zhenghe Port Area, the Dutch East India Company must set aside no less than twelve square meters.

Kilometers, that is, a port area of ​​18,000 acres, is managed by Ning Haijun. Ning Haijun has legal, administrative, diplomatic, and military powers in the Medan Port Area, but Ning Haijun can pay taxes to the Dutch East India Company, but,

The tax rate shall not exceed three percent.

Not to mention the Dutch, in Xie Jinglin's opinion, Cheng Shijie's demands were extremely excessive.

Following the practice of Zhenghe Port, the Spanish handed over Zhenghe Port to the Ning Navy. Less than three months after the handover, the Ning Navy warships bombarded Manila and occupied Manila.

If the Dutch didn't get kicked in the head by a donkey, they would definitely not agree to this request.

"I know that the Dutch will not agree. After a while, they will know how kind I am!"

Cheng Shijie actually does not have enough strength to control the whole of Nanyang now. Although he does not have enough strength, it does not mean that Cheng Shijie does not want to insert a nail in Malacca.

The port of Medan in this era was actually a large fishing village. The largest port in the Dutch East Indies was in Batavia, which the Chinese called "Coconut City". Medan was just an ordinary port on the island of Sumatra.

Cheng Shijie's so-called kindness, in Xie Jinglin's view, is actually a joke. Of course, Cheng Shijie is kind, but he has double standards. He is indeed very kind to the common people, but to the gentry and slaves, Mongolia, including Western Yi and indigenous people

, Cheng Shijie’s reputation can be described as thunderous.

Cheng Shijie is actually very double-standard.

However, he is not bragging, but truly awesome.

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Chen Dayong, who is located in Tamsui City, Taiyuan, immediately received the order from Cheng Shijie to mobilize the local indigenous people in Taiyuan to resist the Dutch colonial rule. In fact, Ning Haijun did not really take action.

Chen Dayong also obeyed Cheng Shijie's original order to avoid overly irritating the Dutch. However, as the Dutch seized the Chinese immigrant ship in Batavia and massacred Li Shichang's family in Batavia, Ning Haijun and the Dutch East India Company

Conflicts directly intensified.

Now that the conflict has intensified, there is nothing to be polite about.

When Chen Dayong led more than 6,000 elite soldiers of the Ning Navy to advance from Tamsui South Tainan, Army Lieutenant Colonel Metz, the Dutch garrison officer in Orange City, secretly mobilized the Dutch East Army without the governor's order.

The army of the Indian Company is ready to give the aborigines a show of color.

There was no way. In just over a month, these aborigines attacked the Dutch everywhere like crazy. The most outrageous thing was that on the night of July 24th, they actually touched the city of Orange.

There was a post outside. There were a total of thirteen soldiers in this post. They were all beheaded and thirteen heads were taken away. However, the thirteen corpses were thrown directly under the gate of Orange City and were not recovered until dawn.

Discover.

Lieutenant Colonel Metz led more than 1,200 troops from the Dutch garrison, including 200 cavalry, and stormed into the mountains. He had had enough and vowed to destroy all the tribes in the Nanshan Mountains and kill those who dared to do so.

All the villains who were against him were pulled out and their skin and bones were fried!

Metz was confident in his army. More than a hundred Spanish expeditionary troops destroyed the huge Inca Empire. The force he dispatched was ten times that of the Spanish, which was more than enough to deal with a group of barbarians!

In fact, Metz is really not bragging. These senior aborigines received training from the Ning Navy for a very short period of time, only about half a month. They only know how to maintain and maintain simple equipment, and they very lack combat experience in large-scale armies.

Not to mention more than 1,200 troops, even 120 Dutch troops would not be able to win a frontal war.

Under the strong attack of the Dutch army, six or seven tribes of the majority of the aborigines were conquered one after another. In these tribes and villages that were conquered, without exception, all men and women were killed by the Dutch. These frantic Dutch did not even give birth to babies.

Let it go.

Facing the Dutch attack, these rebel commanders of the Western Barbarian Alliance found that they were no match for the Dutch if they fought alone, so they gathered together.

Five days later, the Battle of Yau Ma Xi officially broke out. The Allied forces had a total of more than 6,500 people, while the Dutch army only had more than 1,200 people.

Lieutenant Colonel Metz took advantage of the characteristics of the Dutch army and launched an artillery attack on the Allied forces in the direction of Yau Ma Creek with twenty-four 12-pounder Franchise cannons and twelve 18-pounder Red Barbarian cannons.

After half an hour of shelling, the Allied forces, which suffered heavy casualties, had no choice but to charge against the Dutch bullets. Although the Allies were very brave, however, when the Allied forces rushed more than 30 steps in front of the Dutch army's formation,

, the Dutch army suddenly dispersed, and more than 200 cavalry rushed towards the Allied forces.

As a result, more than 6,500 Allied troops were suddenly in chaos and collapsed. The Dutch army took advantage of the situation to cover up the Allied forces. The Allied forces suffered heavy casualties. More than 1,500 people were killed and more than 2,000 people were injured. More than 500 of them were killed by the Dutch.

captive.

Just when Lieutenant Colonel Metz was preparing to expand his victory, Chen Dayong led Ning Navy soldiers to arrive.

What follows is the end of the Dutch.

A group of Dutch soldiers were chasing the fleeing Confederate soldiers. As they drove the defeated soldiers into a valley, they heard intensive gunfire.

The Dutch had never dealt with Ning Haijun and did not know that this was Ning Haijun's unique thunderous sound.

The bullets, which had a range of more than 800 steps, were fired at the Dutch army like a dense storm. The Dutch soldiers who were caught off guard fell in pieces.

Knowing that something was wrong, the rear group of the Dutch army moved back to the front group and retreated quickly. However, an even denser rain of bullets and arrows came from behind.

Not to mention, whether it was archery or marksmanship, Ning's navy officers were much more accurate than the army of the aborigines. The bullets and cannonballs seemed to have eyes. The Dutch soldiers who were hit fell down covering their bloody wounds.

The ground wails.

Even more terrifying than the guns and artillery on the frontal battlefield were actually Ning Haijun's scouts. These scouts were at home in the mountains and jungles, and the battle quickly turned into a one-sided massacre.

When Lieutenant Colonel Metz discovered that his opponent was Ning Haijun, he had already lost more than 400 men, including his most elite cavalry. Ning Haijun only used a small trick, more than 60 mines, and an additional 100 men.

With more than sixty grenades, the Dutch garrison's only 200 cavalry were wiped out.

Lieutenant Colonel Metz quickly ordered a retreat. However, the problem was that no matter where they retreated, the rebels always followed them. He desperately realized that it was an impossible task to escape their pursuit in the mountainous area, so he had no choice but to organize manpower.

They cut down trees and piled stones to build a defensive line in preparation for holding on, and at the same time sent out capable men to try to break through the siege and call for reinforcements.

However, the company sent several groups of people, but none of them could escape the pursuit of the rebels. Soon after setting off, they turned into bloody heads and were thrown back to their positions by the rebels.

What's even more terrible is that Ning Haijun's artillery also caught up, which was similar to the Dutch's artillery. But the problem was that the Dutch's ammunition and food were not enough to hold on, and they also brought hundreds of wounded with them. The painful wails of those wounded made Shang Shang

Those who are able to resist are so frightened that they almost collapse.

Lieutenant Colonel Metz realized that his troops had lost the conditions to stand still and wait for reinforcements. In desperation, he abandoned the wounded and left camp at night, quietly breaking out of the encirclement.

After two days of hard fighting and escaping, Lieutenant Colonel Metz led more than 200 wounded people and fled back to Orange City. At the gate of Orange City, Metz was still congratulating himself. Ning Haijun was too careless. If he had been replaced by the other party,

, it is absolutely impossible to let these two hundred people go...

At this moment, Mace realized that too many of his subordinates seemed to have escaped.

But the problem is, this discovery was too late.

The wounded Dutch soldiers who rushed into Orange City immediately took off their mummy-like bandages, brandished their swords and guns, and charged towards the city wall. What made Metz even more desperate was that a large number of Ning navy and allied forces came from behind.

Soldier.

On August 27, the seventh year of Chongzhen, which was the eleventh day after Cheng Shijie issued the "Operation Hurricane" combat plan to Chen Dayong, Chen Dayong led Ning Navy soldiers to successfully capture Orange City.

Orange City was first established in 1624 and is the oldest castle in the city. Since its establishment, it has been the center of Dutch rule in the city.

It's just a pity that it has now become Ning Haijun's Anping City.
To be continued...