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Volume 1 Chapter 85

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    The new Dutch aristocrat, commander of the Third Army, and current acting governor of Keelung City, Earl Lucerne, is now extremely frightened. He was ordered to stay at Keelung City, the Dutch stronghold in northern Taiwan, just two days ago. However, in the early morning of this morning,  After he finally fell asleep, several huge explosions woke him up. He first thought it was an explosion in the ammunition depot in the city.

    However, what happened next made him understand that this was not an accident, but an enemy invasion, because there was a huge explosion behind him, and just as he kicked away a woman who was clinging to him like an octopus,  He shouted "Here comes someone!" and came to the window, opened the curtains, and checked the situation outside.  [bsp; About a hundred meters away from him on the northeastern city wall, there was a sudden "boom" and an earth-shattering explosion.  The power of this explosion was so great that the powerful shock wave not only flattened nearby houses dozens of meters away, but also knocked Count Lucerne away in front of the window. The huge force carried him several meters away.  , then fell to the ground in a daze, and the exquisite chandelier and the ceiling with exquisite patterns fell "crackling"

    With great difficulty, I crawled out of the ruined bedroom. The city of Keelung in front of me was like a hornet's nest that had been severely stabbed. Countless Dutch soldiers in pajamas were running around, and everyone was in complete chaos.

    Lu Sen¡¯s face suddenly turned pale. He knew that he had been attacked by a shameless enemy.

    In the darkness, countless heavily armed figures rushed in through the gaps in the city wall, slashing at anyone they saw. Countless Dutch soldiers like him who had just woken up were chopped down to the ground.  Suddenly, a group of soldiers ran from the main gate of Keelung City. They quickly encountered a small group of enemies rushing in. The well-trained Dutch soldiers immediately formed a queue to shoot at the enemies in accordance with the training requirements.

    The enemy quickly fell to the ground. Seeing the scene in front of him, Count Lucerne finally breathed a sigh of relief. In his opinion, although the sudden attack made his soldiers overwhelmed, the enemy could not do anything more easily.  He destroyed a small group of enemies. He believed that the heroic Dutch soldiers under his leadership would soon put down this sneak attack.

    However, just as he was about to turn around to gather the soldiers and organize resistance, out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that the enemy who had just fallen to the ground threw a dozen black objects at the Dutch soldiers who were lined up.

    What happened next completely shattered his newly raised confidence¡ª¡ªthe dozen black things exploded violently among the Dutch soldiers, and with a dozen "boom, boom" sounds  With a loud noise, the Dutch soldiers who were closer to the explosion point suddenly flew up and fell to the ground like rag dolls. The soldiers who were further away were all swept away like wheat straw in the rice field.  Arrive at the place

    However, what frightened Lu Sen the most was that there were many explosion points just at the feet of the soldiers. With a flash of fire, these unlucky soldiers suddenly flew into pieces into the sky. As the fire disappeared, various sizes of soldiers appeared.  The pieces of meat fell to the ground with a crackle.

    "God!"

    Earl Lucerne had a dull look on his face. Even though it was late spring, Earl Lucerne suddenly felt a biting chill. His exposed skin was covered with dense goose bumps. His body could not help but tremble violently.  He fell into deep fear; he knew that Keelung City was doomed.

    The sound of gunfire, explosions and the sound of steel crossbows in Keelung City were heard together, and firefights were taking place in every corner.  The city was full of running Dutch soldiers. They looked around blankly and kept running, trying to find their weapons, companions, and officers, but everything was in vain.

    The Dutch soldiers picked up everything that could be used as weapons and resisted to the death.

    But one after another, the unarmed Dutch soldiers fell to the ground.

    Holland desperately discovered that the opponents who rushed in seemed to be very familiar with everything in the city. The first places they occupied were always barracks and weapons warehouses.

    Even if they were lucky enough to find some weapons and gather together, there would always be a shockingly dense rain of arrows, or a few corn-like things would be thrown at them. After a whole roar, these were finally destroyed.  The organized team will be ruthlessly swept to the ground, leaving them without the slightest chance.

    The opponent is still relying on speed to constantly penetrate them, dividing them into countless small pieces, and then slowly eating away at the defenseless ones.

    They once mentioned in their chat that the former Governor Carlos encountered a powerful enemy and was captured.

    "However, no one takes such words seriously; in their impression, some yellow-skinned monkeys have very powerful fighting skills and can make them run away with their heads covered in a one-on-one fight, but so what?  in their handsThe weapon is a matchlock gun, and there are dozens of pounds of artillery on the battleship. The battle now is no longer a face-to-face fight!  Instead, a large number of soldiers formed a queue and used overwhelming projectiles to kill the enemy.

    However, no one expected that in just a few months, the weapons of the yellow-skinned monkey in their eyes would have undergone earth-shaking changes.  Not only did they have crossbows that were as powerful as their matchlocks, but they also had explosives they had never seen before. In their opinion, these explosives were weapons used by the devil, and they could kill with a loud bang.  Kill an entire team of soldiers.

    Slowly, the unarmed Dutch began to surrender, and then more and more surrendered

    At dawn, the gunfire in Keelung City finally slowly stopped, and the fires ignited by the fighting at night gradually became smaller. However, thick smoke was still rising in many places, shrouding the entire Keelung City in a blanket.  In the smoke.

    As soon as the door of Keelung opened, Wu Yiping walked in. In Wu Yiping's sight, Keelung was completely in European style. Not only the city walls, but also the buildings inside the city were made of blue stones, giving people a strong sense of style.  But now the corpses on the ground destroyed this feeling, and a thick smoke rushed in, making Wu Yiping couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly.

    He was suddenly filled with emotion and murmured: "It is true that this is a Dutch city, but this city was built on Chinese land One day, I will also build on other people's land.  Our city.¡±

    Because of these words, the scene was unusually quiet for a while, and everyone around him was slowly chewing on the taste of these words

    After a while, Wu Yiping, who woke up, issued an order: "Carry out a strict search immediately, including the planting areas on the flat land on the shore, to ensure that no Dutchman slips through the net."

    "You damn invaders" Wu Yiping looked at the countless Dutch corpses on the ground and said harshly: "This is just the beginning. One day I will let you return all your capital and profits."

    "How are our compatriots in the planting area?" Wu Yiping left the gate and asked Wang Tianbao who was following him as he walked: "Are there any Dutch guards there?"

    "The planting area is very peaceful now! Gong Ping is in the planting area" Wang Tianbao followed and said very relaxedly: "There are not many Dutch people over there. When we start fighting here, Gong Ping is there.  A riot was organized, and hundreds of Dutch people soon became prisonersNow Gong Ping is looking at those prisoners, waiting for us to receive them."

    "Okay! Gong Ping did a very good job this time." Wu Yiping clapped his hands hard.  He had always been full of confidence in this battle. The only thing that made him uneasy was the planting area, where tens of thousands of compatriots were captured. He was afraid that the crazy Dutch would commit massacres. Unexpectedly, his biggest concern turned out to be  Gong Ping solved it easily. It seems that he must be rewarded well when he returns.  Thinking of this, Wu Yiping said:

    "Tianbao! Time is running out now! I won't accept the prisoners in the planting area" At this point, Wu Yiping stopped and frowned and thought for a moment before continuing, "You leave the second and third companies of the 1st Jiandao Battalion to  Gong Ping, ask him to select 5,000 strong men from the farmers in the planting area to form a guard force, responsible for guarding the Dutch prisoners and guarding Keelung City; we must rush back to Dafeng Village immediately"

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    Dafeng Village should probably be called Dafeng City, because the population here has exceeded 30,000, and it is completely the size of a county town.

    The beach is still full of dried fish, but the scene behind it has changed drastically. More than half a year ago, there were still a lot of trees and countless canes. If you want to walk from the beach to Dafeng Village, you have to walk through the path in the middle of the woods.  , very difficult to walk.  Now the place has become unrecognizable, all the trees have been cut down, and the weeds and vines have been cleared away, revealing the yellow-brown hillside.

    Many strange shapes were dug out on the hillside; deep trenches more than one meter deep and two to three meters wide were dug out. Those trees that were chopped down and as thick as buckets were not transported away, but lay across the front of these deep trenches. Some even  It was built on top of a deep ditch.  But now there are many black balls of various sizes on the hillside. When you take a closer look, it turns out that these are lead bullets of different weights.

    There are 10 Dutch first-class sailing warships parked on the sea outside the beach, and they are firing continuously; dust is flying on the yellow-brown soil slope.  The dense lead bullets hit the ground and raised up a cloud of gravel and sand, like the surface of a lake under raindrops, with ripples one after another.  The deafening sound of artillery slowly slowed down, and through the thick yellow sand, densely packed figures appeared on the beach, and then gathered together to wait for the end of the bombardment.

    Things always have an unexpected side. Just like now, due to the very rare southeast wind blowing, the Dutch fleet arrived earlier than Wu Yiping expected

    "Boom, boom, boom" solid lead bullets fell from time to time on the position. Zhao Jiabao huddled at the corner of the trench. There was a crossbar at this corner, which could effectively prevent the falling lead bullets; but his body was already filled with shock.  While patting the sand on his face, he pressed his dirty face against the cracks in the logs and observed the movements of the Dutch on the beach.

    Zhao Jiabao is half a veteran. He used to be an out-and-out farmer, and his family lived an embarrassing but warm life. However, the arrival of the Dutch destroyed his family. He followed Wu Shunkun and fled hundreds of miles away to Dafeng Village.

    Later, they saw that they could find food in Dafeng Village, so they stayed.

    Later, I saw Wu Yiping leading less than 2,000 people to defeat the Carlos prisoners who had a larger number and owned artillery battleships, and captured a large number of Dutch. From that time on, following Wu Shunkun's escape,  Hundreds of people have become Wu Yiping's most loyal followers.

    They joined the escort one after another and received an hour of cultural study and various rigorous training every day. They discussed the color of the body hair of the Dutch prisoners, looked at the veterans with envy, and watched those veterans raise their eyebrows in their free time.  Neck told how many captives he had, how much extra food and dried fish he could earn every month

    As more and more people join the guard, and as more and more veterans show off their extra monthly income, everyone, including Zhao Jiabao, hopes that there will be a war soon, and they all hope that they  He was also able to capture several enemies, hoping to earn a lot of extra income every month.

    Days like this make the soldiers in the escort very anxious.  Especially after completing the training and holding the steel crossbow, everyone felt that no matter what kind of enemy they faced, they would dare to hit him in the face.

    If it were before joining the escort, even if there were hundreds of them together and they met a few Dutchmen holding matchlock guns, they would have disappeared long ago.

    But now, he has no idea of ??retreating. A dozen huge sail warships are lying on the sea, and then they start bombarding. You know, that scene can really scare a few people to death. The roar of the cannons exceeds the sound of summer.  The loudest thunder, and it was extremely dense, ringing all over again.

    Zhao Jiabao is still in the mood to talk to a recruit next to him: "Dutch shelling? That's what happened. There are trenches specially designed for shelling. As long as you hide as required, their shelling will just become boring.  Firecrackers can only scare the unsuspecting people."

    Before, the Dutch had carried out five charges, but except for leaving countless lead bullets on the hillside and dropping more than a dozen corpses in front of the position, they achieved nothing.  You know, Zhao Jiabao is still on the first line of defense!  Even they can't get through, and the second and third lines of defense in the rear beyond the artillery range are even more impassable.

    However, the enemy's several consecutive charges confused Zhao Jiabao, because the enemy didn't look like they were going to conquer this place, but instead seemed to come here to set off cannons. Each time they charged, they only had about a hundred people, and they were very scattered.  The team's counterattack was a little fiercer, and the enemy retreated in a swarm.

    Suddenly, he found that the Dutchman with red hair was advancing towards the hillside again. This time the enemy changed their strategy. They no longer ran straight forward quickly, but all hunched over and carried their guns.  , run quickly in small steps.

    "Everyone is in position!" In my ears, the company commander's grateful voice came: "The enemy is coming! Get ready to fight!"

    "We must capture a few prisoners this time." Zhao Jiabao appeared behind his fighting position with his waist bent and a heavy steel crossbow in his hands.

    "Listen up, get closer and hit him. It's like the first time. I've already shot several arrows before I even saw the enemy." The company commander's grateful voice came through the iron horn and the sound of the urn.  : "Correspondent, inform the medium-sized crossbows to be ready for fire suppression at any time."

    ¡°Bang, bang, bang, bang¡± half a minute later, the Dutch finally entered the shooting range. A burst of gunshots rang out, and the small lead bullets whizzed over the trench without even breaking a hair.

    It is disrespectful to come and go. The medium-sized crossbows of the escort team were launched first, and then the sniper crossbows were fired in succession. The sound of "swish" became a sound, and countless black shadows slid across the sky and rushed towards the enemy head-to-head.

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    "I never expected that a small village would develop so rapidly."

    Buonuco stood on the top deck of the flagship, holding a rose-patterned monocular and watching the battle on the beach with one eye closed. He looked relaxed, not because of the failure of several charges.  Getting angry after failure.

    Bunuco is actually an unconventional person. According to their Westerners,?Traditionally speaking, women are not allowed on battleships because that will make Poseidon angry; but he chose to take his beautiful adjutant Marty with him.

    Buonuco put down the telescope in his hand, turned his head, admired the beauty of the adjutant, and said slowly: "When I catch them all, I want to ask their leader for advice. I want to ask him clearly about this knowledge.  Where did you learn it from? Such talents must serve us."

    "My Lord Governor, will you reuse a yellow-skinned monkey?" Marty, the beautiful adjutant, glanced at Bunuco with a charming look.

    "Hahaha." Bunuco laughed and nodded: "If possible, let him stay with me and become a slave. I just felt a little emotional for a while. The development of this village is too great."  It was a little faster, so fast that it almost threatened our rule here; and what surprised me the most was that the Carlos they captured"

    "Threatening our rule." Matti Min chuckled softly: "Since Carlos was captured by them, haven't you already investigated this small village clearly? You told me last time  , do you know exactly how many times their leader 'Wu' goes to the toilet every day?"

    "That's true!" Bunuco laughed and said: "The power of money is unparalleled, and no matter where you are, there are always countless people who are full of jealousy. It's funny to think about it. I was just about to inquire about the news about this village. That Lotus  The little pirate in the city jumped out and told us everything we wanted to know for free"

    "A ship that relies on people to step on the water wheel to drive the ship forward quickly, even if it is huge, is still a paper tiger; with just a few thousand people and some crossbows, they want to get a piece of the pie in front of us.  "Bunuco looked disdainfully in the direction of Dafeng Village, shook his head and said: "It's simply wishful thinking."

    "Since they are a mob" Marty said softly: "Then why did you make such an arrangement? Why didn't you attack with all your strength and capture this small village in one fell swoop?"

    "Babyyou have become bad! Don't talk to me again." Bunuco suddenly hugged Marty's waist, pulled her into his arms, and then said slowly:

    "Just look at the slope behind the beach. They have been here for so long and have built it up. If I were really stupid and launched an attack, even if I won, I would still have to pay a heavy price.  The price. And Carlos only failed last time because he foolishly ran to the shore, and also sent all the crew members on the battleship to the shore, so that the battleship could not start at the first time, which resulted in his being  Prisoner. Now that I know the reason, do you think I will make the same mistake again? So"

    Bunuco curled his lips and said coldly: "I will block them here now. After I have dealt with the little pirates in Lotus City and the little bandits in Shoufeng City, I am gathering an army and overwhelming them with the power of Mount Tai."  , completely screw them over."

    "You said" Bunuco suddenly said with a smile on his face, "If their leader knows that I am just trying to contain them, more than 20,000 troops will come in a few days.

    , will they surrender immediately?  "

    "My dear" Adjutant Marty kept twisting in his arms and said softly: "You are so bad!"

    "Ha ha ha ha"
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