Lord of Ming Dynasty

"We can make a batch of wooden ox carts, and the soldiers will hide under them, push them forward, reach the bottom of the city, use bows and ballistas to shoot at them, and then the artillery will attract the attention of the enemy's artillery, and send people to storm a section of the city wall. Use your superiority to attract the enemy, and then send armored soldiers with shields to attack the city wall, open the gap with elite troops, and then flood the enemy with a steady stream of troops."

Liu Guoxuan's method is not out of the thinking category of people of this era, and it is not a clever method. In fact, he uses cannon fodder to attract the enemy, buy time for the elite troops behind and a chance to get close to the city wall, and then use the elite troops to raid the enemy's city wall and take it down. The enemy's city wall, the troops behind continued to rush in.

There are not many people in the Netherlands, which is recognized by everyone.

But Zhang Qiang didn't know whether the Dutch had more bullets or shells.

According to Western thinking, a strong castle must store enough food and ammunition for three or four years. There is also an arsenal inside, which can continuously manufacture ammunition and weapons, and perhaps farmland, which can feed the population inside.

"Very good, when are you going to prepare for such an attack?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Liu Guoxuan shook his head, "The king thinks it's not worth it, he doesn't want to take risks, he wants to besiege for a long time, send people to attack continuously, and clear away the surrounding obstacles, just this morning, they launched another attack on the other side of the city.

This time there were still 2000 people, and 600 people came back. They consumed a lot of enemy shells and gunpowder, opened a section of 50-meter parapet, and pushed forward 20 meters, flattened obstacles, and filled trenches. At noon We are planning to launch another attack on three sides together to disperse the enemy's forces. It is estimated that in less than half a month, all obstacles around the entire city will be cleared away. At that time, soldiers from various ministries will be sent to participate in the siege. This time, it is an adult Old pirates, they are some brutal guys. "

"Then when do we expect to play?" This is what Zhang Qiang wanted to ask.

"Estimated to be half a month later, the king of the county decided to let you take a rest and familiarize yourself with the climate of Treasure Island. It used to be a barren land, and most mainlanders couldn't get used to it when they came here. Many people died of illness." Liu Guoxuan Sincerely said to Zhang Qiang.

It's not like Zhang Qiang stayed here for half a month. There are still a lot of things waiting for him to do in his Jinhua Mansion.

The Qing army and the Longwu court wouldn't let him go without trouble for half a month. What's more, his three-way army was fighting against the Qing army, and he also promised Zhang Huangyan, the supervisor and scholar of King Lu, to take Nanjing.

Chapter 2 Let's try

After chatting with Liu Guoxuan for a while, Zhang Qiang followed Liu Guoxuan through several places, all of which were the villages that Zheng Chenggong recovered that were originally under the rule of the Dutch.

This is the coast, where there are many saline-alkali lands, sandy beaches and gravel land, as well as many rugged mountains, steep slopes, and weathered rocky areas. The residents here can survive in such harsh conditions. , most of them are fishermen, and the other one originated from the city of Zeelandia, where there is trade from the Dutch, Portuguese and other Westerners, so that the fishermen here can obtain food and daily necessities through the exchange of materials.

It was already evening when we returned to Zheng Chenggong's camp.

At this time, most of Zhang Qiang's army had recovered, and some soldiers were undergoing adaptive training in the evening.

"Stand at attention, take a break, walk in unison, one two one, one two one, turn around, stand still, run away—" In the entire camp where the Jinhua volunteer troops were stationed, the sounds of training came one after another, and the shouts made Zheng Chenggong's troops very excited. Because they couldn't get used to it, many people didn't want to work, and gathered around Zhang Qiang's camp to watch the Jinhua Rebels train.

Zhang Qiang saw Feng Xin and a young man whom he saw earlier. That young man was probably Yu Xing. Yesterday he led an army to assault the outer parapet of the Dutch castle. The battle was quite brave. It can be said that although he suffered huge casualties, he Zheng Chenggong's strategy was well executed.

"I've seen the governor," a group of generals saw Liu Guoxuan leading Zhang Qiang back, walked over, and greeted Zhang Qiang with their hands clasped together.

"My colleagues are exempt from the ceremony," Zhang Qiang returned the gift with his hand.

"My lord governor, your soldiers are really powerful. They don't feel tired after such drills. They look energetic and high-spirited. They really have the demeanor of a strong army." A middle-aged general sighed loudly.

Zhang Qiang smiled, and did not respond to the compliment, but turned to Liu Guoxuan beside him and said, "Who is this?"

Liu Guoxuan said: "This is a subordinate of the county king. The former general of Hayden, the general of the left army Huang Yan, and the rebel general Huang Wu are his cousins."

"Oh," Zhang Qiang became interested in him. Huang Wu was a member of the original Eighteen Zhilong, a member of Zheng Zhilong. In fact, he did not follow Zheng Zhilong to surrender, but he took the initiative to surrender. Later, Shi Lang also surrendered. They surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and participated in the pursuit and interception of Zheng's army. It can be said that Huang Wu and Shi Lang were the most active people in annihilating Zheng's army.

It's just that these two people, now Huang Wu is more powerful and has a very high official position. When he fought against the Qing army, Shi Lang hadn't surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Later, when he fought against Zheng Cai, Shi Lang defected to Zheng Chenggong, but Zheng Chenggong's here, he was not reused. , although he was one of the top five generals, and he was quite powerful, but this man was born rebellious, and he surrendered to the Qing army before Zhang Qiang came here.

This is what Liu Guoxuan told himself.

Now, Zheng Chenggong's real five tigers will be Zhou Quanbin, Liu Guoxuan, Gan Hui, Feng Xin, Yu Xing, and the others are all veterans. Most of them are not famous.

I didn't see Gan Hui here, and Zhou Quanbin probably followed Zheng Chenggong to do other things.

"It's a pleasure to meet you. General Huang is exaggerating. They are just general training. They are just pretending to be serious. If we talk about fighting, the generals under the king of the county are more powerful. If I have time some other day, I will definitely say hello to them." Please ask for your advice." Zhang Qiang said modestly.

"There, there, the governor is humble. Such an army is not a strong army. We don't believe it. Although we are a navy, although King Zheng's fleet has been all over the southeast coast and has never been invincible, but we are also training. Not as strict as your army." Huang Yan continued to praise Zhang Qiang.

Feng Xin rubbed his nose, rolled his eyes, and interjected, "Everyone, why don't we go back to the camp and wait for the county king, and chat while having wine, how about?"

"Okay, after walking for a day, I'm hungry too," Zhang Qiang responded.

"Please" Feng Xin always looks polite and polite.

A group of people turned to Zheng Chenggong's Chinese army camp, where Feng Xin was in charge. It can be said that now that Zhou Quanbin and Gan Hui are away, Feng Xin is the top person in charge here.

In Zheng Chenggong's Chinese army camp, everyone was drinking and chatting happily, and it was very lively.

Soon, I heard the guard on duty outside the tent shouting loudly: "The king of the county is here—"

Everyone hurriedly stood up to greet him.

"The king of the county,"

"Lord Governor."

After paying tribute to each other, everyone sat down separately.

Zhang Qiang saw that Zheng Chenggong was accompanied by four or five generals, a large group of guards, and the guards were waiting outside the tent. The four or five generals sitting around Zheng Chenggong seemed to be his core figures.

After Zheng Chenggong took his seat, he first asked Feng Xin about the situation here, and then everyone continued to drink.

"King Zhengjun, when will we be able to conquer the castles of these two Dutchmen?" Zhang Qiang asked.

"Oh, it's difficult. Right now, I'm just besieging the city, and then I'm constantly transferring deployments and people here to open up the wilderness. The most embarrassing thing now is not how to take down the Dutch castle, but where to get enough food.

Now there are more than 20 people in Baodao, and my army has 20 people. Including family members, there may be [-] people. There are more than [-] people eating and drinking in total. There are nearly a million residents. Although I don’t need to be responsible for those people now, they have to think about the future. Therefore, the main job now is to reclaim the world and wait for the next spring to sow and reap. "

Zheng Chenggong looked worried and said to Zhang Qiang in embarrassment.

"But the Dutch don't get rid of it. I'm afraid you will make wedding dresses for other people in the future." Zhang Qiang said.

"Why don't I want to get rid of the Dutch, I guess they have sufficient supplies in their castle, if they can be used for me, then we will save a lot of expenses," Zheng Chenggong said.

"Then we must take down the castle as soon as possible." Zhang Qiang urged.

"I've tried my best. If it wasn't for the fear of the Dutch counterattack, I wouldn't ask my lord to lead the army here. We will deal with it at sea, and the Jinhua rebels will deal with it on land. This is my idea. You know, most of us are We are heroes at sea, but in the face of battles on land, our strength is really useless." Zheng Chenggong still understands the truth.

Historically, their Zheng family’s infantry on land was like the Italians in World War I and World War II. The army is great.

"So, when will our Jinhua Rebel Army go into battle?" Zhang Qiang asked.

"Let's wait another half a month. How about asking the Jinhua volunteers to attack the city after our army has wiped out all the enemy's perimeter?" Zheng Chenggong said.

Sure enough, as Liu Guoxuan said, Zheng Chenggong probably has some scruples, or he still doesn't want to eliminate the Dutch. Maybe his army is large in number, but as Liu Guoxuan said, the actual combat power is only 5000 people, compared to the castle. The Dutch inside had only three times as many troops.

"Well, why not let us try tomorrow, I guarantee that within a week, we will take down two cities and wipe out the Dutch." Zhang Qiang really didn't want to be so exhausted, so he said to Zheng Chenggong.

Chapter 2 Repeated

This is the second time Zhang Qiang has such an idea.

"Will the loss be too heavy? As you have seen, we have killed and injured more than 300 people, but the losses caused to the enemy are only a thousand or two thousand native monkeys of Baodao hired by the Dutch, and some mercenaries from them. In fact, their real casualties, I guess, are only [-]-[-] people, what they lost was supplies, and what we lost were civilians and soldiers.” Zheng Chenggong had a pitiful expression, as if he really cared about the casualties of those cannon fodder.

"It's okay, you don't care about the number of casualties, and you don't have to be responsible for the failure, I will bear it myself." Zhang Qiang patted his chest and said.