Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 308 Arrogant Putmans

As soon as Zhao Wen's voice fell, Song Hu shouted loudly, "My lord, these red barbarians are really hateful, we must make them pay the price."

"The price must be paid by them. However, we must plan carefully before attacking. In a word, we cannot fight unprepared battles."

Zhao Wen looked at the excited Song Hu and said.

……

Zeelandia City is a typical bastion-type fortress.

The trench surrounds the surrounding area, and the slope earth embankment serves as the platform foundation.The walls are made of red bricks, and the building materials used are sugar water, glutinous rice, shell ash, sand and stone.The city of Zeelandia is divided into an inner city and an inner city.

The inner city is square, with upper and lower floors.The length and width are 110 meters, the city wall is about [-] meters high, [-] meters thick, and the square bastion is [-] meters thick.

The basement is a warehouse, which is used to store ammunition, food and sundries.

On the upper floor, there are facilities such as the magistrate's office, church, watchtower, and soldiers' barracks.

The four corners of the outer city are rectangular, 160 meters long and 77 meters wide, slightly lower than the inner city, and there are dormitories for officials and staff, offices, conference halls, hospitals, warehouses and other public buildings.

There are two bastions in the outer city, a half-moon fort, the bastion in the northwest corner is called Hollandia Fort, and the bastion in the southwest corner is called Hederland Fort.

There are four bastions and three half-moon forts in the inner city.

The bastion in the northeast corner is called Fort Felisingen, the northwest corner is called Fort Annametten, the southwest corner is called Fort Mitter, and the southeast corner is called Fort Gamberfield.

Each bastion and half-moon fort each have 3 cannons, a total of 30 cannons, which can fire along the side of the wall and face to face.

The place where Zeelandia City is located is a place called Dayuan Town. This place has a higher terrain and is close to the sea. It is a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

There are more than 500 soldiers in Zeelandia.

The current governor of Zeelandia is named Hans Putmans, and he is a relatively capable person.

This person is relatively strong in business and military capabilities.

After he became the governor of Zeelandia, the trade share of Zeelandia increased greatly, bringing a lot of wealth to the Dutch East India Company.

According to the normal history, next year, that is, in the sixth year of Chongzhen, this Putmans will fight Zheng Yiguan in Liuluowan, Kinmen, and then be defeated by Zheng Yiguan.

At this time, he was sitting in the governor's mansion, and opposite him sat a Hongyi businessman who had been wandering here all year round.

The businessman's name was Foreman, and he often led his fleet to and from Taiwan, Luzon, Java and other places.

They are not so much merchants as half merchants and half pirates.

There are many businessmen like this here, and almost all of them are inextricably linked to the Dutch East India Company.

This person has a good relationship with Putmans, and the two often eat and chat together.

"My friend, what's wrong with you today? Why is it always like this? Did you lose your business?" Putmans looked at Foreman with a gloomy face, and said with a smile on his face.

Foreman let out a long breath, and said with a worried face: "My governor, why do you still look like you don't care?
Mingren's fleet, that is, that Zheng Yiguan's fleet was defeated by a mysterious force, don't you worry at all? "

When Zhao Wen took over Zheng Yiguan's power, the news of Zheng Yiguan's defeat was also passed on.

After all, this kind of thing can't be hidden, but they only know that Zheng Yiguan was defeated by a man with a treasure ship near Phi Island, and they don't know who the person who defeated Zheng Yiguan is.

Putmans shook his head with a smile, and said indifferently: "My friend, do you think the imperial fleet will be afraid of this Zheng Yiguan?

Zheng Yiguan's fleet is all old and bloated ships, and the combat effectiveness of these ships on the sea is far worse.

It's normal for him to be defeated by a mysterious force now, so we don't need to worry about it. "

Before Putmans, Zheng Yiguan's fleet also fought Hongyi, and Zheng Yiguan basically won.

Although Zheng Yiguan won, these Hongyi didn't think Zheng Yiguan was strong.

In their view, the reason why Zheng Yiguan won was because of their scheming and crowd tactics, otherwise, they would definitely not be their opponents.

Foreman looked at Putmans who didn't care, and persuaded again: "I learned from those smart businessmen that this matter has passed for almost a month.

The person who defeated him seems to be a general of the Ming Empire. It is not clear who it is, and the general who defeated Zheng Yiguan used a treasure ship. Do you know the treasure ship? "

"Pfft, treasure ship?" Putmans laughed outright when he heard the word "treasure ship".

He stood up, walked to Foreman's side, patted Foreman on the shoulder, and said proudly: "Of course I know about treasure ships. The Ming Empire organized a fleet back then, and it almost arrived at our place.

But, hundreds of years have passed since this incident, do you really think this incident is true?
It took us hundreds of years to get out of that barren and mountainous place. With these stupid wise people, do you think they can do it?

According to the rumors, those treasure ships were huge in size, a treasure ship was as big as a hill and had twelve masts.

Please, think that this is impossible, no one in the world can build a ship with twelve masts, all this is a lie told by wise people. "

The story of Zheng He's voyages spread far and wide, and Putmans had also heard of it.

But for this story, he didn't believe it at all.

In his impression, this ancient empire was old and weak, and it was impossible to organize such a fleet.

It is also impossible to create such a huge ship.

If they had fleets like that hundreds of years ago, why didn't they colonize?

If these fleets were in their hands, they would have planted the royal banner all over the world.

Foreman looked at Putmans who didn't care, and hurriedly persuaded: "However, this ancient empire is not as bad as we think, let's..."

"Enough, don't say any more."

Before Foreman could finish his sentence, he was directly interrupted by Putmans.

"This Zeelandia city is extremely tall and strong, we don't need to worry about these problems.

I'm going to clean up Zheng Yiguan's influence on Taiyuan Island. I've wanted to clean up these yellow-skinned monkeys a long time ago. Putmans said slowly, a bloodthirsty light burst out of his eyes.

Foreman looked at the extremely stubborn Putmans, stopped talking, picked up the hat on the table, put it on his head, nodded to Putmans, then turned and left.

Putmans never took Foreman's words to heart from beginning to end. He never felt that the fleet he led would be defeated.

The current Hongyi is the empire on the sea where the sun never sets, and Putmans is also proud of it.

But one day, they will pay for it.

……

Time passed by little by little, and the sun rose one day, and the sky and the earth were all bright.

The entire Taiyuan Island is the same as usual, and there is nothing special about it.

In Phi Island, a fleet of five treasure ships sailed out from the mouth of Phi Island.

In addition to these five treasure ships, there are nearly 50 lucky ships closely following the treasure ships.

These ships were loaded with soldiers dispatched by Zhao Wenzheng.

Zhao Wen stood on the top of the Yangwei ship building, holding a telescope, looking at the calm sea.

From time to time, there are seagulls passing by the sea. Now that there is no industrial pollution, the sea water is extremely clear.

Zhao Wen put down the binoculars in his hand, looked at Zhao Daniu next to him, "How long is it?"

"My lord, it's not long since we set off from Phi Island, and it's still far away." Zhao Daniu replied.

Song Hu was also standing beside Zhao Wen. He looked in the direction of Taiwan Yuan Island and murmured: "I have never fought against Hongyi when I grew up. I heard that these Hongyi are very powerful in fighting. I I just want to see if this Hong Yi can resist the gun."

"Resist the gun? Hehe, unless these Hongyi are gods, it is impossible to withstand the gun." Zhao Wen sneered.

The treasure ship was sailing on the sea. This sea area was under the jurisdiction of Zheng Yiguan before. All ships passing through this sea area had to pay Zheng Yiguan a toll, and then Zheng Yiguan handed over to him the flag symbolizing himself , let them hang on board.

If no one hangs the flag and Zheng Yiguan's people find it, I'm sorry, your ship will be gone.

Of course, these things have changed now. Although the flag of Zheng Yiguan is still hanging, the real controller has become Zhao Wen.

Merchant ships pass by from time to time on the sea, and the maritime merchants of this era are half merchants and half pirates.

When they meet someone weaker than themselves, they will directly pounce on them and tear them to pieces.

If you encounter someone stronger than yourself, you will stay away from it.

When these merchant ships saw Zhao Wen's fleet, they hurriedly raised their sails and fled to the distance.

Among these ships was Foreman who came out of Putmans and was about to go to the country of Wa.

Zhao Wen stood on the ship tower, looked at these fleets that kept them at a respectful distance, and ignored them.

The main purpose now is to attack the city of Zeelandia, and put aside other things for the time being.

A few days later, Zhao Wen finally arrived at Taiyuan Island.

Zeelandia City is located in the south of Taiyuan Island, and Zheng Yiguan's power in Taiyuan Island is in the north of Taiyuan Island. There is a big difference between the two.

Although the difference is far, the friction between the two is not small.

After Zhao Wen arrived at Taiyuan Island, he first went to Zheng Yiguan's site on Taiyuan Island.

The current Zheng Yiguan's territory on Taiwan Yuan Island has been taken over by Qi Qingtian, and a city has been built where the common people gather, and it is named Xincheng.

Zhao Wen arrived in the new city, and after delivering some supplies to Qi Qingtian, he led the fleet to Zeelandia City.

Sixty miles away from the city of Zeelandia, Zhao Wen let the lucky boats in the fleet dock, and released the soldiers on these lucky boats, led by Song Hu and Mao Chengzuo, and marched towards the city of Zeelandia.

About 120 soldiers were released this time, all of them were fully armed, but because the 107 mortars and [-] rockets were relatively heavy, they were not equipped.

After putting these people down, Zhao Wen sent the lucky boats to Xincheng, and he led the fleet to stop on the sea south of Zeelandia City, more than 50 miles away from Zeelandia City.

This time Zhao Wen chose to attack from both land and water directions. When the people on land arrived at a place about ten miles away from Zeelandia City, they would send out a signal, and then both sides would attack at the same time.

At this time, five sailing warships were docked in the port outside the city of Zeelandia. These five sailing warships set out from Batavia to deliver supplies for the city of Zeelandia.

After a long voyage, the crew on the ship was extremely sleepy. Except for those left behind on the ship, the others basically went to Zeelandia.

Zhao Wen stood on the top of the ship building, looked in the direction of Zeelandia City, and said to Zhao Daniu beside him: "It's getting late today, we will launch an attack tomorrow.

According to the itinerary, Song Hu and the others will be able to reach the outside of Zeelandia City no matter what they do tomorrow morning.

Wait for their signal when the time comes, and launch an attack as soon as a signal comes out. "

"As ordered!"

Zhao Daniu cupped his hands at Zhao Wengong and said loudly.

At this time, in the Governor's Mansion of Zeelandia City, Putmans sat in the office, looked at his friend Foreman standing opposite him, and said playfully: "You said you met a huge monster on the sea. There are five ships in the fleet like mountains?"

"Yes, I saw it with my own eyes. After leaving the city of Zeelandia that day, I planned to go to the country of Wa, but I met this huge fleet on the way, so I hurried back to tell you."

Foreman stood in front of Putmans and said solemnly.

"Haha, Siviri, did you hear that? Look at how frightened our old friend Foreman is? Tell him who is the real overlord on this sea."

Putmans pointed at Siviri, who was sitting next to the office, drinking coffee, and laughed.

This Siviri is the commander of the five sailing warships in the outer port.

Siviri put down the coffee in his hand, stood up, and walked to Foreman, "I don't know if what you said is true or not, even if it is true, so what?

Our fleet is the most powerful fleet in the world, we have the best sailing ships and the best soldiers and commanders in the world.

In this backward country, we are the overlord on the sea, and no one is our opponent.

You just saw a few relatively large ships, which frightened you into such a state, what big things can you do in the future? "

Siviri's face was full of arrogance. He never believed that there were ships bigger than their sailing warships in this backward eastern world.

If so, it must be a dream.

"I really saw it with my own eyes. Not only me, but also my crew. If you don't believe me, you can ask them. I really didn't lie to you. Why don't you believe it?"

Foreman was so anxious that his forehead was covered with sweat, trying to convince the two of them.

But how could they, who have been arrogant and arrogant for a long time, listen to these words?

"My friend, you must be tired, it will be dark soon, don't leave today, sleep here.

I will let the oriental girl here serve you well. "

Putmans said to Foreman with a smile on his face.

"Yes, yes, let me tell you, these oriental girls are the most juicy, you should enjoy it." Siviri also said with a smile on his face.

Seeing the two of them like this, Foreman slapped his thigh helplessly and depressed, and walked out of the room.

Putmans and Siviri will eventually pay the price for their arrogance, and the price will not be too far away.

(End of this chapter)