Sanders, Van Penny, and Wedel are now on Zheng Zhilong's flagship.
Together, they use telescopes to look at the former city of Relanje and the Bay of Relanje.
Now flying over the brick-red castle is the flag of the Ming Dynasty, with the big character "Li" written on it, indicating that the owner has changed here.
There was no trace of the Polu warships in the Relanze Bay, only the burning wreckage of a small sailing warship.
Now this small ship of less than 100 tons is still floating on the sea tenaciously.
"It seems that Akito's fleet has escaped first.
I have to say that Akito's warships are faster than ours.
This is really embarrassing for us Europeans."
Wedel said with emotion that he felt that this trip was really a heavy blow.
A large number of coalition warships were trying to destroy some of Akito's warships and weaken Akito's strength.
Unfortunately, he saw the cold bay.
"Don't worry, we are surrounded by thousands of Ming soldiers.
Their commander will not give up.
Let's take a look.
They will definitely come to the rescue."
Zheng Zhilong despised these Xiyi people.
In his opinion, they were all short-sighted people who only acted based on their immediate interests.
Of course, this does not delay him and the Xiyi people from attacking this Ming Dynasty together.
After all, this Ming Dynasty brings him a great threat and threatens his position as the maritime hegemon of Fujian and Guangdong.
The overlord of the sea was won by Zheng Zhilong after more than ten years of struggle and more than a hundred bloody battles.
For this reason, his most effective assistant and brother Zheng Zhihu also lost his life.
No matter who threatens his position at sea, he will fight to the death. .
"Then we will wait here to fight to the death with the Ming people.
In the words of you Ming people, this time they can be regarded as an expedition, and we are just waiting for the hard work."
Sanders smiled slightly.
He was very optimistic about the situation.
With so many soldiers on the battlefield, he was now full of confidence.
"Before that, we have to capture the city of Relande and use the heads of these people to avenge our Dutch people."
Vanpenny's green eyes shot out with hatred.
"To capture the city of Relanje, we have to rely on Mr.
Van Peny.
After all, Mr.
Van Peny knows the situation here much better than we do."
Zheng Zhilong smiled and said that he had heard about the solidity of Relanje City, and he expected to capture Relanje City with the help of the Dutch people who were very familiar with it.
"We can capture the local natives and Ming people to help attack the city.
Of course, we can bombard them with naval guns before, damaging Ming soldiers and city walls to minimize the losses of our army."
At this time, Fan Peni expressed his thoughts about capturing the city of Relanja, which was to use the natives and Ming people near Anping as the attacking force to minimize their casualties.
Zheng Zhilong looked deeply at the little red-haired man and said, "I'm afraid Mingren is wrong.
After all, I and Anping Mingren are both fellows from Fujian.
It's really harmful to the harmony to drive them to attack the city like this."
Most of the tens of thousands of pioneer Han people in Anping came from the coast of Fujian and had a deep connection with Zheng Zhilong.
Many of them were brought here by Zheng Zhilong's ships during the last famine in Fujian.
There were even some of his subordinates who quit their maritime career and returned to their hometown.
If they drove Mingren to attack the city, it would be a blow to his prestige, and of course he was extremely reluctant to do so.
"They can be recruited first to transport heavy artillery and fill trenches.
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Maybe the natives have already captured the city of Relanja before they have time to attack the city.
Who knows."
Vanpenny shrugged.
Zheng Zhilong thought for a while, maybe that was the case, and we would discuss this issue later.
The troops of Zheng Zhilong, the Spanish, and the English began to land on the outlying islands.
They also landed in the west, far away from Anping City in the northeast.
They were fully aware of the power of Ming heavy artillery.
In order to capture Anping Fort, Zheng Zhilong sent hundreds of warships to carry his troops, accounting for more than half of his troops, a total of more than 4,000 people.
The Spanish also mobilized 2,000 people from the Manila garrison of more than 3,000 people to help.
There are also 500 Portuguese troops coming from Ceylon and other places.
These people were deceived by Wedel's beautiful scenery of fighting for trade with the Ming Dynasty.
Now they are also involved in the siege.
In comparison, the English, who had only 500 people, were a bit underwhelming.
They were drawn from the sailors on the ship.
It took a day for more than 7,000 infantry troops to land one after another.
The noisy west side of the island and the silent east side formed a sharp contrast.
More than 7,000 people set up camp.
In order to prevent Ming people from sneak attacks, their camp was built within the range of the gunfire cover of the Galen battleship on the west side.
This also made Li Lu feel itchy in his heart.
He really had the idea of attacking to defeat the opponent, but he immediately gave up the idea when he saw the enemy's camp under the cover of the Galen warship on the west bank.
Li Lu knew the damage of artillery fire to the dense formation.
In the next few days, dozens of cannons were lifted off the Galen warship.
These were twenty-four-pounder and thirty-six-pounder cannons.
They were the city-defending cannons of Manila and Jakarta.
In order to capture the city of Jelanja, The strong fortress was specially brought here.
These cannons have been unloaded, but transporting them forward is a problem.
There are no good roads on the west side of the island.
How can these behemoths weighing ten thousand kilograms be transported?
Fortunately, the Dutch who returned at this time solved the problem.
They continuously shipped more than 10,000 natives and Ming people.
These were collected from the Ming people who cultivated near Anping and the natives of nearby tribes.
The Dutch used violent means to capture and coerce them.
The natives and Ming people were helpless.
They knew the virtues of the Dutch very clearly.
As long as they disobeyed, there would be a bloody massacre immediately, which was completely contrary to their religious beliefs spread by their missionaries.
In order not to be massacred or exterminated, these people had no choice but to obey.
After the natives and Mingren arrived, they were immediately escorted by the Dutch and began to level the land on the west side, fill in the ravines, and clear away all the grass and shrubs that would affect the march.
During this period, the Dutch soldiers beat and scolded the Han and natives.
If they were sick or injured, they would be abandoned.
Some of the Han people were Zheng Zhilong's former subordinates and appealed to the Zheng family.
The Zheng family said a few words that the treatment of the Han people was slightly better.
As a result, the situation of the native people was even more miserable, but who cared about them.
After several days of leveling, the Han natives were driven by the Dutch and began to push the artillery eastward.
How to drive in?
If there are no big livestock, just put logs under the cannon, and then the people in front will pull and the people behind will push.
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This method is okay if it is on a flat road, but it is very difficult to move forward on wasteland.
A small pit, a small hill, or a tree stump will block the progress of the artillery.
The Dutch didn't care about this.
They just used the whips and swords and guns in their hands to drive the Han natives to move forward faster.
In just two days, more than a hundred people died in their hands.
Under this bloody and brutal method, dozens of cannons approached a distance of more than three miles.
Then, they encountered a head-on attack from the heavy artillery of the Polu army in Anping City.
After the Polu army occupied Anping City, they brought forty thirty-six-pound cannons to strengthen the defense of Anping Fort.
These artillery cannons are enough to hit the boundary of four or five miles.
Of course, there is no need to talk about accuracy, but the range is there.
Nowadays, there is no need to be precise.
It is enough to bombard dozens of targets more than three miles away.
It is impossible to concentrate them all.
The smoothbore cannon is an artillery that roughly compensates for accuracy with quantity, but it can always hit some objects.
The artillery of the Polu army began to roar, and the ten artillery pieces on the west side began to bombard slowly.
But it caused a huge obstacle to the forward movement of these dozens of artillery pieces.
Huge thirty-six-pound projectiles flew condescendingly from Anping Fort, bouncing and wreaking havoc in the wilderness more than three miles to the west.
Several times, he got into the crowd who were pushing the cannon forward.
Blood, flesh and stumps were scattered everywhere, causing the Han and native teams to immediately collapse.
At this time, no one was watching them, and the Dutch overseers were also captured.
The army's cannons were frightened by the power, and they retreated one after another.
Without their overseers, the Han and native troops would of course be disintegrated at the slightest sign of trouble, not to mention the rampant use of cannon projectiles that brought blood and terror.
The projectiles not only damaged many men, but also destroyed four thirty-six-pound cannons.
This made the Spaniards and the Netherlands extremely distressed.
How many such cannons did their garrison in the Far East have in total?
Zheng Zhilong, Saunders, Van Penny, Weddle and others discussed it and agreed, let's fight here, otherwise there is no way to move forward.
They really didn't expect that little Anping would have a thirty-six-pound cannon.
This was a treasured weapon of military states in Europe, but there were as many as ten here.
But now that we have encountered something, it can only be said that we are unlucky.
Let’s try to bombard it first.
It is almost impossible to move forward.
The Spanish and Dutch gunners took advantage of the darkness to enter the cannons, then positioned the nearly forty cannons that were still intact, and transported the ammunition packages and projectiles up.
At dawn the next day, these cannons were ready for bombardment.
On this day, a rumbling battle began on the outlying island.
The coalition forces, which had the advantage in the number of artillery pieces, were quite imposing.
Dozens of projectiles often hit the walls of Anping City, immediately sending sand and rocks flying and sending up large clouds of dust and smoke, which made them look very powerful.
Unfortunately, it can only be said that the Dutch were good civil engineers.
The Anping City they built based on their own bastions was really strong.
Although some damage was caused to the masonry outside, Anping City was basically intact.
Not to mention that in this era, many cannons in later generations were helpless against some solid ancient cities made of mountains and rocks.
Just think about the hardships of attacking and defending the ancient city of Longling in the Battle of Western Yunnan in later generations.
Their attack was not smooth, and from time to time the Polu army's heavy artillery hit a coalition heavy artillery.
At the end of the day, the somewhat unsightly Anping City still stood there.
However, seven of the coalition's heavy artillery were damaged.
This made the coalition forces vomit blood in distress.
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They saw that this method was absolutely impossible.
At this pace, wouldn't all these heavy artillery be destroyed here?
There was no way to retreat.
Using late at night, the coalition forces drove the Han natives to push the artillery back.
The artillery bombardment at the beginning of the siege ended with the coalition forces losing more than ten thirty-six-pound guns and hundreds of men
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