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- Keelung is located in the northernmost part of Taiwan Island, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea on one side. It is a natural harbor in Deepwater Valley Bay and has rich coal resources.
Keelung¡¯s terrain is mostly hilly and less flat. The east and west sides are surrounded by the Keelung volcanoes and the Wuzhishan Mountains. Flat land is mainly concentrated along the coast of Keelung Port, the coastline and the Keelung River Valley. The rest of the area is mostly hillside. Although the mountains are generally not high, they are mostly steep slopes, which greatly hinders the development and expansion of the city. Due to geographical reasons, Keelung is still quite deserted.
The Dutch now built a large fortress based on "Dajilong Island" (today: Heping Island). They captured 50,000 to 60,000 local residents and allowed these slaves to plant and cultivate crops on the flat land along the coast of Keelung Port. to supply the consumption of the Dutch.
Now Wu Yiping is leading the Dafeng to Keelung. Since he knew the time for the Dutch to send troops in advance, Wu Yiping made a clever arrangement. He set off one step ahead of the Dutch. In order to avoid encountering the Dutch fleet, Wu Yiping The Feng will enter the deep sea for a detour and is expected to arrive one day after the Dutch fleet leaves Keelung. If all goes well, the Dutch will not have reached Dafeng Village after the battle here.
The Dafeng, which is nearly two hundred meters long and twenty meters wide, is breaking through the sea water and sailing quickly. The wind is relatively strong today and the sea is rough. The sound of rolling waves is endless, and the waves are lapping against the hull and rumbling. The sound made the huge Dafeng horn rise and fall slightly with the wind and waves.
Behind the Dafeng, two orange boats more than ten meters long were towed. These were lifeboats lowered from the Dafeng. These two boats were used for landing.
When the Dafeng was designed, the standard crew configuration was more than 1,200 people. Now the weapon system and ammunition supply system that occupy the most space have been dismantled, which makes the Dafeng very empty, even though there are now With 1,200 people on the battleship, it didn't seem crowded.
It¡¯s just that the wind and waves are too big now, no one wants to stay on the deck, everyone stays in the stuffy sailor cabin.
Wu Yiping could only hide in the cockpit; holding tools, he taught everyone navigation knowledge such as calculation of orientation and distance. This map was hand-drawn based on the map found on the battleship. The original map was a regional map. The most detailed maps on it were introductions to various streets, such as such-and-such streets and such-and-such buildings. None of these exist now. You can take a look and remember the prosperity of future generations.
Fortunately, there was a simple route map on it. Now he asked Luo Bao, Tao Zude, Wu Shunkun, Huang Lang, Feng Yu and others to calculate the current position of the Dafeng, when it should change its course, etc. data.
Because the design involves a lot of numerical calculations, these older students all have frowning faces, scratching their hair, and have forgotten the tension before the war.
"President, what should we do if the enemy has not left when we go?" Luo Bao hates calculations, so when it was his turn, he calculated with a frown for a while, then rolled his eyes and changed the topic.
"That's right! President, if fifty of the enemy's warships are here, can we do it?" Several guys were also having headaches. When they saw someone bringing up the topic, they quickly followed.
"Don't worry!" Wu Yiping knew very well about their small calculations. He said slowly: "Gong Ping is in Keelung City now. I asked him to lead a radio station. The distance is enough, and we can talk directly. When the time comes, Everything about the enemy is under our control, and we can fight however we want."
Liang Yong, Luo Hu and other regiment commanders who had commanded several battles stayed in Dafeng Village for defense. This time, the 1,200 people, except for himself, the remaining battalion commanders, company commanders, and newly appointed The captains of the five sail warships all have experience in land warfare. This is the first time they have assisted in command like this.
With half-squinted eyes, he looked at the greatly simplified map. Wu Yiping did not think that this battle would fail. When he first arrived, he needed people and no weapons. But now, the two sharp knife battalions on the battleship have become veterans on the battlefield, and they have also been installed on the Dafeng. The weapon is a real battleship, and he finally has a little bit of power.
If Keelung is captured again this time, Wu Yiping believes that the number of people joining the federation will grow rapidly! Coupled with the tens of thousands of people captured by the Dutch and brought to Keelung, the Federation will grow rapidly.
If we can capture some more Dutch sailing warships this timeeven if only half of them are captured, the Federation's navy will truly take shape. At that time, the Federation will have a larger strategic space and basically can do When the enemy is at sea, no one can stop Wu Yiping's progress!
"President" Tao Zude was a little absent-minded and asked worriedly: "That side of Dafeng Villagecan we hold it?"
Tao Zude¡¯s words touched everyone¡¯s heart. In the cockpit, for a momentThere was silence for a while, and even the helmsman in front of the command podium raised his ears.
"It may be difficult to win" Wu Yiping curled his lips, lit a cigarette, and said leisurely: "It's just pure defense, no problem at all. Now the trees behind the beach in Dafeng Village have been chopped down cleanly. , they made a lot of fortifications with local materials and felled trees. They have 2,800 people, and they have no problem resisting the attack of 5,000 people. No matter what, we still have so many Dutch prisoners. When the time comes, we will put them on the position. , let¡¯s see what those guinea pigs can do.¡±
Having said this, Wu Yiping took a deep breath, tapped his fingers on the table and said, "I'm actually worried about the Dutch. If their commander is an arrogant guy he might wait for us to go back. By that time there was no fight left.¡±
The solemn atmosphere in the cockpit disappeared without a trace. Everyone became active and talked about it for a while, and the voices of all kinds of people mixed together and buzzed.
"Tao Zude, don't even think about what Liang Yong's men were born for" Huang Lang started to think about it in hindsight and boasted with a smile: "They are now experts in defense. The arrogant Dutch Let alone thousands, even tens of thousands is not a big deal."
"That's it!" Feng Yu and Huang Lang came from the same village. When Huang Lang spoke, he would definitely praise him and said: "What are these guinea pigs! Come and kill one, come and kill two of them." , safekeeping so that they never come back.¡±
"This is exactly the reason. To deal with ordinary residents, they rely on their tall people and sharp matchlock guns; but compared with us, in terms of training, the Dutch are far behind us. Swinging weapons, We are no worse than them, and with our fortifications and maintenance, they were beaten to a bloody head."
"When the time comes, we will suddenly capture Keelung, arrest their bastard Governor Bunuco, and go back and release him in front of them. Why don't they immediately surrender like shit!!"
"Hmph! They thought they could cross the sea with their sailing warships. This time they met our Dafeng, and the sailing warships that were keeping them were turned into small sampans and beaten to pieces."
The soldiers were getting more and more relaxed, but two people behind Wu Yiping were getting paler and paler. That was Carlos and his daughter. As Wu Yiping's translators, such an important operation would definitely require the two of them.
"I didn't expect these guys to brag so well!!" Seeing them getting more and more outrageous, Wu Yiping couldn't help but touch the non-existent sweat on his forehead.
However, Wu Yiping also knew that this was the natural reaction of the soldiers to relax. After all, this is the first time they have taken the initiative to attack the Dutch. They are both excited and scared. It is very normal for the soldiers who are worried about gains and losses to be worried about the defense of Dafeng Village. They can put aside their worries about gains and losses because of their own words. From his mood, he could already tell how high his status was in their minds.
The Dafeng was successfully anchored twenty nautical miles away from Keelung, and the contact with Gong Ping was also very smooth; the Dutch have always been arrogant and have always looked down on yellow-skinned Chinese. As Wu Yiping expected, this time they sent out all fifty first-level sailing battleships (for distinction, the first-level sailing battleships will be 1500-2000 tons in the future, the second-level sailing battleships will be 500 to 1000 tons, and the third-level sailing battleships will be less than 500 tons , hereby declare.), now only 2,000 Dutch soldiers, several second-level battleships and more than ten third-level battleships are left in Keelung.
"These forces are foolproof in the eyes of the Dutch, but what they are encountering now is the Dafeng, especially since Wu Yiping knows all their deployments, so today is destined to be a sad day for the Dutch.
The only unexpected possibility is that Keelung Governor Bunuco is not in Keelung, but went out with the battleship. Keelung is now led by a count named Lucen. This made Wu Yiping's idea of ??beheading completely come to nothing, but now the arrow was on the string and he had to do it.
What Wu Yiping has to do now is to wait until dark, then send out personnel to explore the water depth, and finally launch a surprise attack in the early morning.
You know, there is no such thing as a searchlight in the world now. Even if a huge fire is lit, it can only illuminate a place of two to three hundred meters, but it will also point out the enemy's position; but the Dafeng is different. Not only does it have A high-power searchlight and a precise range finder, so Wu Yiping planned to launch a night attack on him.
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It's late at night, and the raging wind and waves have slowly stopped. The night sky is full of dark clouds, which has isolated the tiny light of the moon and stars from the clouds. Now the sea is very quiet, as if even the air has solidified. In Keelung In the east, a huge black shadow, like a dragon emerging from hell, is slowly sliding towards Keelung under the cover of night, silently
"President, is there really no problem with this thing?""Wang Tianbao was sitting in the middle of an orange lifeboat, clutching the two wooden boxes in the middle tightly. His fingers, which had not been loosened, turned white because of too much force.
Both boxes are relatively large, and one box contains twenty black iron balls the size of basketballs. He knew very well what these iron balls were, and even more so knew their power. The things in the other box were much smaller, with a wooden handle at one end and iron balls at the other, like corn, and the number was also smaller than the black ones. There are more iron balls, probably hundreds of them. The functions of these things are the same as that of Tie Qiu, but they are less powerful.
Although Chang Debing repeatedly assured that these things were extremely safe as long as they were not ignited, Wang Tianbao still felt uneasy about his words and felt a little nervous in his heart. Fortunately, the sea was very calm today, which finally relaxed his nervous mood.
"Don't worry! As long as there is no fire, it's safe. Go quickly!" Seeing Wang Tianbao's nervous look, Wu Yiping waved his hand impatiently, and the lifeboat slowly rowed towards the shore.
Combining Gong Ping's intelligence and after half an hour of observation, Wu Yiping discovered that Count Lucerne was still a very cautious person. He tripled the number of sentries on the city wall and placed a lot of torches, truly achieving the goal of "three steps and one sentry". , five steps and one post, it is simply impossible to kill the sentries and sneak into the city.
Fortunately, the Dafeng now has long-range weapons and a powerful weapon like the No. 3 mine blast. So Wu Yiping decided to pay attention to the attack.
Wang Tianbao will lead two sharp knife battalions and twenty mines, a total of 800 people, and secretly go ashore in a lifeboat under the cover of night. Then they will place twenty mines on a point on the city wall and use a huge cannon to The force forced an opening in the city wall.
The lifeboat carrying mine No. 3 disappeared into the night again, and Wu Yiping slowly became nervous. He held a telescope and kept checking the situation. Now the Dafeng had secretly parked about 100 meters away from the gate of Keelung. About a thousand meters away. After Wang Tianbao and others all landed, the general attack began. The cockpit became a little dull for a while.
"May the merciful God forgive" Suddenly, a prayer voice sounded behind Wu Yiping. Looking back, he found that Carlos was praying non-stop, with a look of pain on his face. His daughter closed her eyes tightly, her little face became white, and her long eyelashes trembled from time to time. , a look that shows me pity and lets you taste it.
"Damn! Vixen!" Wu Yiping cursed fiercely in his heart. Suddenly, Zhang Yunshan walked over in front of the cockpit and said softly: "President Get ready!"
The atmosphere in the cockpit suddenly condensed, and everyone looked at Wu Yiping. Even Carlos, who was praying, and Audreysha, who had his eyes closed, also looked at him.
"Even if there is a God, he will not forgive you!" Wu Yiping said this softly to Carlos, then took a deep breath and said firmly: "Fire!"
As the order was issued, a loud "ding" sound came from the front deck. This was the sound of steel colliding when the ultimate crossbow arm returned to its position. It floated far in the quiet night sky, "Huh" The three black men The shadow rushed to the front deck like lightning and was thrown into the sky, drawing a curved arc and falling towards the quiet city of Keelung.
Since the No. 3 mine now requires manual ignition of the fuse, it can fire up to three sisters at a time.
"God bless!" Carlos took two steps back dejectedly, pressing his back tightly against the wall of the cockpit. Although he was deeply disappointed with the Netherlands and although he had been abandoned, he could not help but feel deeply sad at this time. He knew that the word "fire" would mean the death of countless Dutch people.
The dark sky. Three rays of fire suddenly flashed, and even the huge Dafeng was revealed in the sudden fire.
"Boom, boom, boom!" followed by three loud noises.
"Okay!" There was a burst of cheers from the cockpit, and Wu Yiping couldn't help but wave his arms fiercely.
The foredeck suddenly became noisy.
"Quick! Start the motor, string the bow"
"Buzz buzz" the huge motor sound sounded! !
"Loader, get on No. 3 and explode the mine. Quick! Quick!"
In less than half a minute, the ultimate crossbow on the front deck shook again, and three black shadows flew out again
Three rays of fire flashed again, but this was not the end
In everyone¡¯s sight, on the right side of the city wall in front of Keelung City, a huge fireball suddenly flashed. This time, the light shone on the Dafeng, and it illuminated the entire sky
Immediately afterwards, "Boom!" An earth-shaking loud noise came, shaking the doors and windows of the cockpit.??. Even the huge Dafeng seemed to have been knocked back several meters.
In the center of this huge fire, the solid city wall built with strips of stone suddenly became extremely fragile. The huge wall split into countless small pieces, flying in all directions under the action of the shock wave. Stones were thrown away on the nearby sea surface. The block produced countless water jets. After the fire and smoke passed, I saw that a huge hole of five to six meters had been opened in the city wall that was still intact just now. Through this gap, I could still see some Dutch people in pajamas running past in panic.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!" The shouts of killing rang out from under the city of Keelung. Countless figures poured in from the gaps in the city wall, and then expanded towards the depths.
Carlos suddenly turned pale. He could no longer support his body and slowly slid to the deck
"Kill!" Wang Tianbao shouted violently, and rushed out first. Dozens of sharp warriors following him accelerated at the same time, like tigers descending the mountain, and rushed into the ignorant and ignorant man who had just come out of the dormitory. Unarmed Dutch soldiers.
With a "swish" sound, the long knife cut and polished from a steel plate slashed across the necks of the two Dutchmen at a speed faster than lightning. Wang Tianbao took a side step, bypassed the two Dutchmen who were covering their necks with their hands and gurgling in their mouths, and rushed into the crowd.
After he slashed down two more enemies, the two whose throats had been cut just now slowly softened to the ground. In just half a minute, the nearly one hundred enemies who had just gotten up from the bed fell down again and fell to the cold ground.
Suddenly, a large group of fully armed Dutch soldiers appeared at the corner of the street. When Wang Tianbao discovered them, they also discovered these enemies who suddenly broke in. The well-trained Dutch stopped immediately, half-kneeling in front and standing behind, and lit their matchlock guns at the same time. More Dutch came from behind them.
"Lie down!" Wang Tianbao, who had experienced many battles, and the soldiers behind him fell to the ground almost at the same time.
¡°Bang! Bang bang bang¡± a row of gunshots rang out The Dutch began to advance.
"Quick!" Wang Tianbao shouted: "Use the secret weapon"
After yelling, he took the lead in taking down a piece of wood and an iron ball from his waist, thinking it was something like corn. Then he took out a lead from the other side of the wood, and then shook the fire rod. He looked around and found that everyone else had completed their preparations, so he lit the fuse and threw it toward the crowd.
Around him, more than ten such things flew out at the same time
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