Daming Military Empire

Chapter 192 The Battle of Freshwater
Zhu Cijiong was very pleasantly surprised when he received Dong Fan's secret report. Naturally, he couldn't miss such a great opportunity. The relevant generals happened to be there. He simply turned this discussion-like imperial court meeting into an oath meeting, and asked everyone to plan how to send troops. Immediately wave to the East!

The generals were also very excited. When they were discussing just now, there was a difficult problem that they could not solve, that is how to take the city of Zeelandia as quickly as possible, so that the Dutch had no time to react.You must know that the Netherlands' Eastern Second Fleet is now in Manila. If the city of Zeelandia cannot be captured in a short period of time, the Dutch will definitely give up attacking Manila and directly come to reinforce Dongfan. At that time, it will be uncomfortable. To deal with the Dutch fleet is tantamount to being attacked on both sides.

It's different now. The Dutch went to attack the Spaniards. The city of Zeelandia has only [-] defenders in total, and there is He Binjin offering a map of the secret waterway. As long as you are careful, you can break through the city of Zeelandia in one fell swoop. Not impossible.

As for the issue of the Spaniards in the north of Dongfan, Zhu Cijiong originally planned to drive the Dutch away completely before paying attention to it. Anyway, Spain no longer has much strength at sea. It may not be enough for Daming to go to Europe to fight him, but in the southeast sea , the Spaniards have nothing to fear.

Now it's different, taking advantage of the Dutch fighting in front, Daming can clean up the Spaniards together, once and for all!
In such a good situation, there is no need for too much planning, as long as you look at the right time and rush forward, the battle will definitely be resolved quickly.

The most discussed issue was the timing. Now that the Spaniards have two castles in Dongfan, it would be best to attack the other castle while the Dutch conquered it. That would be safe.

This time point is a bit difficult to grasp, because there are no planes or satellites now, and the detection of the enemy's situation can only be done with the eyes. Not good enough to alert the Dutch.

In the end, Xu Tianqi came up with a good solution. It was not possible at sea, but he could investigate from the inside of Dongfan. His people have already familiarized themselves with the roads inside Dongfan. Even if they are local civilians who approach by land for investigation, it's okay even if they are seen. They shouldn't be afraid of even a few civilians.

Everyone discussed for a while, and soon a final decision was made. All the armies secretly rushed along the coast to Penghu to assemble. Zheng Zhihu led 25 super battleships and more than 1000 small boats from the Nanyang Navy to go first, and took Xu Tianqi and a group of Jinyiwei spies. Find out the situation in Santo Domingo and San Salvador first.

As for the main force for the follow-up, the lineup is quite scary. There are 75 elites from the First Imperial Guard Army led by Qin Liangyu, 1000 elites from the Second Imperial Guard Army led by Shi Kefa, and [-] Beiyang soldiers led by Huang Long. The navy and the [-] Nanyang navy led by Zheng Xing and Zheng Ming have [-] first-class sailing battleships, more than [-] armed Dafu ships, and more than [-] other small warships!
This time, Zhu Cijiong gathered all the naval divisions and Imperial Guards of the Ming Dynasty with [-] elite soldiers. It was necessary to recover Dongfan in one fell swoop. At the same time, he also wanted to let the Dutch and Spaniards know that Ming Dynasty was no longer a feudal dynasty that stood still. It is a maritime power that can compete with them in the world!

Zheng Zhihu on the Ming side has already taken the lead to set off for Penghu, and Zhu Cijiong is also gathering troops in Dongdaying, waiting for fifty battleships to be launched into the sea, taking Dongfan in one fell swoop and deterring the sea powers, so what about the Dutch and Spaniards? What?
Putmans and Liu Xiang are also gathering at this moment, but they are gathering on an island in the northwest of Dongfan. Putmans analyzed the defense situation of Santo Domingo and San Salvatore, and prepared to First take down the city of Santo Domingo near Danshui and talk about it.Because the city of Santo Domingo is just a lonely fortress with low walls around it, it is easier to take it down. The city of San Salvador is different. The fort is very difficult to attack, and it will not be able to take it down for a while.

Putmans is not a reckless person, he is more strategic. An isolated city like Santo Domingo is not difficult to take down as long as one swarms up, it just costs more cannon fodder.But he knows Liu Xiang quite well. If it is clear that he is to be used as cannon fodder, then he will definitely not go. Besides, even if he is tricked into taking Santo Domingo, if the attack is too expensive, the firepower will be lost. It is absolutely impossible for Liu Xiang, who is more fierce in San Salvador, to rush to the front and be cannon fodder.Therefore, he made careful planning before attacking, trying to take the city of Santo Domingo with minimal losses.

Liu Xiang can be said to be a combination of treachery, cunning, viciousness and cruelty. Although he has gained a lot of benefits from the Dutch, it is absolutely impossible for him to send people to serve as cannon fodder for the Dutch. Regarding the offensive plan of Santo Domingo City, Termans felt that he didn't look like he was going to be cannon fodder, so he readily agreed to rush forward and be the "main force" of the attack.

Ojo, the head of the Spaniard Santo Domingo City, Freshwater Officer, is not having a good time now. Since the southeast sea area is basically controlled by the Dutch, it can be said that he has no business here, and he can usually get it from his The district harvests some food and so on, and even the soldiers' salaries have to be allocated by Luzon. It is quite sad for a colonist to do this.

He didn't know that this was not the saddest thing, there were even more sad things waiting for him.

On this day, he was standing on the main castle of Santo Domingo, boredly looking at the sea with a telescope. Suddenly, a row of black spots appeared on the sea in front of him. Is it a merchant ship?He was pleasantly surprised. It had been a long time since he had come to business. He had also heard about the hijacking of a Dutch merchant ship. Could it be that they couldn't do it anymore, so these maritime merchants took the risk to come here to do business?If so, great!
The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. When the row of black dots slowly approached, he finally saw clearly that there were merchant ships, but they were not here for business. The leader was actually a Dutch super battleship. Followed by a bunch of Dutch armed merchant ships, this posture clearly came to attack his city of Santo Domingo!
Ao shivered in fright, and shouted: "Enemy attack, enemy attack, notify everyone to prepare for battle."

Following his roar, several orderlies ran down the fort, shouting loudly as they ran: "Enemy attack, enemy attack, prepare to fight."

After all, the Spanish regular army was stationed in the castle. When the messengers heard the shouts of the messengers, they immediately got out of the barracks and assembled the whole team. Suddenly, the whole city of Santo Domingo became lively. Running up the city wall, spreading out, loading bullets and preparing for battle, teams of artillerymen also ran to their respective running positions carrying shells and gunpowder.

Ao watched the Dutch fleet nervously with binoculars. Fortunately, they only came with one super battleship and a dozen armed merchant ships, with a force of about 500 people. He should be able to handle it.

The Dutch did not attack head-on as soon as they ran over. They stopped on the sea about five or six miles away from the city of Santo Domingo, and then all the merchant ships moved to the right, moving about four or five miles horizontally, and then Drive straight to the coast.

Oh, Shetu, Ao couldn't help cursing in a low voice, the Dutch are going to put down the Musketeers to attack by sea and land!
Sure enough, after those armed merchant ships approached the coast, countless landing boats were lowered, and groups of Musketeers began to land and assemble.

Seeing this, Ao immediately ordered: "All musketeers gather at the wall on the right."

Those armed merchant ships put down about a thousand Musketeers, and then began to return to the back of the super battleship.

Ao knew that the battle was about to start, and he quickly ordered: "All artillery is loaded with live ammunition and ready to fire."

The messenger waved the command flag, and the artillerymen above and below the main castle began to load the shells, and the battle was imminent.

The Dutch didn't hesitate either. When all the merchant ships returned, the super battleship led them towards the city of Santo Domingo. As soon as they approached the castle about three miles away, they immediately turned the rudder and swayed.

Ao ordered without hesitation: "All artillery fire, continuous fire, don't stop."

"Boom boom boom" The artillery in the castle was the first to think of the roar, and hundreds of shells flew towards the Dutch fleet at sea. Hood to the castle.

The hit rate of both sides is not high. The shells on the Spanish side only hit dozens of hits. On average, each ship only hit a few shells. Human shotguns had no effect either. After all, this was a castle with a radius of tens of thousands of square meters, and the shotgun shots of more than 100 artillery pieces could not cover it at all.

Seeing this situation, Ao secretly breathed a sigh of relief, since a super battleship should not pose much threat, he turned his attention to the musketeers on the right, and the Dutch musketeers had spread out and slowly approached the castle.

However, the Dutch’s style of play is a bit strange. After all, they stopped moving forward when they reached about 500 meters. Showing weakness, began to fire back.

Ao always felt that something was wrong. What effect would the Dutch attack have? At most, it would only kill and injure a few people. As the offensive side, their casualties would be even greater. Playing a war of attrition?Are they affordable?
Just when Ao didn't know why, countless figures suddenly sprang out from the dense forest two miles to the left of the castle, a large area of ​​darkness, the number, at least 3 to [-] people!

A messenger next to him immediately shouted in horror: "Sir, look to the left!"

When Ao heard this, he held up his binoculars and glanced to the left: "Oh, those who bought cakes, send an order to send [-] musketeers to the city wall on the left, hurry up."

He knew that this time it might be over, even if he could kill a few more musketeers, he was just doing his best.

Sure enough, the [-] musketeers ran to the left and before firing two shots, the enemy had already rushed under the city wall. The zip line covered the city wall like a spider web, and countless pirates climbed up the city wall like ants.

Seeing this, Ao closed his eyes in despair, and ordered in pain: "I order, everyone, surrender!"

(End of this chapter)