Daming: Apocalypse of Longevity

Chapter 234: Capture of Relanze

After the two sides exchanged bombardments for several rounds, Zheng Zhibao found that his side could not take advantage at all. Although the steel cannon had a long enough range and powerful enough, the Helan people were not vegetarians. Their ability to drive warships was not good enough. It's really top-notch, it actually dodged all the cannonballs.

On the other hand, on my side, I am not very skilled in driving eight steam paddle-wheel warships. Moreover, there are many warships on my side, and the target is large. They are gathered together and cannot move around. On the contrary, it is difficult to avoid the Helan people's bombardment, and The Lan people didn't even need to take aim. There were more than a dozen cannons on the sides of the two warships. It was difficult to avoid such a dense bombardment.

Soon, some of his subordinates came to report that the warships had been damaged by bullets. Zheng Zhibao immediately gritted his teeth and clenched his fists. These eight warships were the "treasures" of the imperial court. He really wanted to be beaten by the Helan people. He couldn't afford to be sunk, so when he heard that the warship had been shot, he could only think of ways to save the warship and avoid damage to the warship, instead of continuing to fight with the Helan people.

When Zheng Zhibao was hesitating, he suddenly saw the large chimney with billowing black shadows behind him. Then he suddenly realized it and immediately ordered all warships to put down their sails and start reversing!

Zheng Zhibao suddenly turned from anger to joy. He patted his forehead and secretly said that he was still limited by his inherent thinking. The warships he was driving now were steam paddle-wheel warships, which could rely on the power of steam engines to sail. There was no need to Care about wind direction and ocean currents.

When the Helan people saw that Zheng's eight steam paddle-wheel warships suddenly put up their sails, they couldn't help but be a little surprised, but after thinking about it, they decided that Zheng's warships would not gain any advantage in the confrontation with their own warships. , had already planned to give up the pursuit, so he had to put down the sails and planned to stop. After all, sailing to the south is now a smooth wind, and it would be difficult to stop without putting up the sails.

Thinking of this, the Helan people had a bold idea. They suddenly no longer planned to run away, and even planned to try to see if they could sink the eight warships of the Zheng family with a backhand. If they could really do it, They became famous in one battle!

Then, Zheng Zhibao saw that the two Galen warships of the Helan people also put away a set of sails, and their sailing speed slowed down in an instant, but the two Galen warships of the Helan people faced him. The bombardment did not stop for a moment.

Zheng Zhibao didn't speculate too much on the Helan people's thoughts. He just urged his men to reverse quickly and distance themselves from the Helan people's warships. The eight steam paddle-wheel warships immediately began to reverse after retracting their sails. On both sides of the warships, The large paddle wheel began to rotate in the opposite direction, and the eight warships began to reverse and sail toward the north.

This made the Helan people dumbfounded. They had never seen such a large Galen-level warship sailing against the wind and current, and at a speed that was no less than that of sailing with the wind.

Soon, Zheng's eight steam paddle-wheel warships retreated beyond the range of the Helan warships. However, although the Helan people could not hit Zheng's warships at this time, the eight steam paddle-wheel warships The steel cannon on the ship can easily hit the Helan warship.

If the Helan people want to bombard Zheng's eight steam paddle-wheel warships again, they will have to turn around and sail north to close the distance between the two sides to within the range of their artillery. However, the Galen warships they are driving The ship has no ability to sail against the wind and current, so they will only be beaten passively.

Although Zheng Zhibao only has eight steel cannons that can be used to bombard the Helan warships, the situation now is completely different from the previous one. At this time, the eight steam paddle-wheel warships under his command are already under the attack of the Helan people. Now that they are out of range, they no longer have to scramble to avoid the Helan people's bombardment, but can aim at the Helan people's warships in an orderly manner.

In this way, no matter how superb the Helan people's driving skills are, there will always be times when they fail, and it is only a matter of time before they sink the Helan people's warship.

How could the Helan people not understand such a simple truth? If they are passively beaten unilaterally, they will only suffer losses in the end, so they still cannot be reluctant to fight, and running away quickly is the right way.

The Helan people hurriedly raised the sails again, then turned the rudder to adjust the hull, and began to continue to flee southward, but Zheng Zhibao saw that the Helan people were about to run, so he immediately ordered to adjust the course again, and followed closely behind. Driven by the steam paddle wheel, the speed of the warship was no less than that of the Helan warship with full sail, so the Helan people could not escape at all.

In addition, Zheng Zhibao deliberately kept a distance from the Helan people's warships to ensure that he could hit the Helan people, but the Helan people could not hit him, which made the Helan people very depressed.

Finally, a cannonball hit the mast of one of the Galenic warships. The mast broke and fell, causing the entire Galenic warship to shake violently. Then they cut the rope and maintained the ship. Balanced, but after losing its main sail, this Galenic warship could no longer run.

Captain He Lan, who was above, was also desperate, and immediately ordered to cross the warships to fight Zheng's warships. However, Zheng's warships did not enter its range at all, and even drew a circle around it. Erdi's cannon fire was really unobstructed from the southeast to the northwest, which made Captain Helan and a kind of Helan soldier and crew desperate.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the Galen warship sank under the siege of eight steam paddlewheel warships. The other ship was hesitant to come to rescue just now and delayed the opportunity to escape. Of course, even if it allowed He escaped for a quarter of an hour, and eight steam paddle-wheel warships could easily catch up with him.

Perhaps because the former set an example for the latter, the Galen warship, which had never been hit, raised the white flag and surrendered to Zheng Zhibao when it was overtaken by eight steam paddle-wheel warships. The Lun warship also became Zheng Zhibao's trophy.

Zheng Zhibao sent people to take over the Galen warship, imprisoned all the Helan people in the coal bunker of the ship, and then sent people to inspect the damage to the eight steam paddlewheel warships and confirmed that there were no serious problems. After that, he returned to find Zheng Zhilong to recover his life.

The story is divided into two parts. In the south of Dongfan Island, Relandia City, the old nest of the Helan people, has been occupied by Zheng Zhiwan and Zheng Zhifeng at this time. The whole city of Relandia is full of flames and corpses. There is not even a living person. Helan people can't see it anymore.

The city of Geranze is a real fortified city, dozens of times stronger than the Franconian cities of San Salvador and Santo Domingo, and it is not as large as San Salvador and Santo Domingo. The city can be compared.

The city of Relanja is L-shaped as a whole and has a total of three floors. In addition, a basement is built underground.

The whole city of Relanja is not on the same plane. The first floor of the front is horizontal and the whole is a rectangle when viewed from above, while the back part is a square. The two rectangles overlap to form an L-like shape.The square part is built on a square high ground, with a basement built underneath it. It is actually on the same plane as the bottom rectangular part.

There is a semicircular fort on the front of the rectangular part of the first floor, and two prismatic bastions on the two right corners. The main building in the city is the governor's office, which is the governor's residence. There are also dozens of buildings of various sizes. .

There is a semicircular bastion built in the middle on all four sides of the square part of the second floor. There is no building in it. It is more like an outer city wall. Then there is a third floor city built inside. It is a square with bastions on the four corners. It is very standard. A square bastion containing a small military base including soldiers' quarters, warehouses and arsenals.

Precisely because the city of Relanja was huge and its defenses were strong, Zheng Zhilong sent more troops to deal with it. He brought [-] elite troops to Dongfan Island, but he only took [-] to attack the Saints of the Franji people. The remaining [-] troops in Salvador City and Santo Domingo City were left to Zheng Zhiyuan and Zheng Zhifeng.

After Zheng Zhilong led his army to join Hans Putmans and headed north, Zheng Zhiyuan and Zheng Zhifeng led their army and headed south to the city of Relanja. On the way, they also met with the Tufan people on Dongfan Island. Last time After Zheng Zhilong negotiated with the leader of Tufan to cooperate and work together to expel the Helan people, the leader of Tufan went back to gather all the young people in the tribe and formed a team of more than 5000 people.

However, the weapons and equipment of the Tufans were seriously insufficient. For this reason, Zheng Zhiyuan and Zheng Zhifeng also provided them with many cold weapons such as swords, guns, bows and arrows.

Although there were only [-] defenders left in the city of Relanzhe at this time, it was not easy to capture the city due to its strong defenses. Therefore, Zheng Zhiyuan and Zheng Zhifeng did not declare war with great fanfare, but quietly fought seven or eight miles outside the city. Dozens of giant steel cannons were fired, and they began to bombard the city of Relanja. After blowing out four or five large holes in the wall in front of the city of Relanja, they officially launched the attack.

After the army entered the city, Zheng's army was quite restrained. After all, their purpose was just to capture the city and force the Helan people to surrender. However, the Tufan troops had no bottom line. They had been tortured and oppressed by the Helan people for a long time. , had long hated the Helan people to the bone, and this was their chance to avenge themselves.

Therefore, although the Tufan people were holding cold weapons, they were not afraid of the Helan soldiers holding firecrackers, and they performed more bravely than the well-equipped Zheng troops, but their methods were different. What he did was not humane.

Wherever they went, they wanted to kill and burn them all. In the face of Helan people, whether they resisted or surrendered, they were all hacked to death with random blades, and no one was left alive. Even those who were killed by Zheng's army The captured Helan people will also be killed by the Tufan people.

There are no restrictions on humanitarianism or international conventions these days, so even if the Zheng army has some military discipline and will not kill prisoners indiscriminately, they will not go out of their way to protect these captives in the face of the murderous Tufan people. The Helan people went to conflict with the Tufan people, and they could only let them slaughter and commit violence.

More than 5000 Tufan people were like more than 5000 executioners. The Zheng army led by Zheng Zhiyuan and Zheng Zhifeng did not break through any place, so they swarmed in and began to massacre the Helan people, setting fire to the Helan people's houses, and robbing the Helan people. The Lan people's property allowed the Helan people to experience what it means to "treat others in their own way"!
The battle lasted from morning to dusk. After three or four hours of fierce fighting, there was no breathing Helan in the entire city of Relanja. There were even a handful of intact Helan corpses.

This kind of tragic image made Zheng Zhiwan and Zheng Zhifeng feel a little unsightly, who have made a living by killing and stealing goods for many years, but who can be blamed for this?It's just the Helan people who brought it upon themselves.

While arranging his men to clean up the battlefield, he also sent people to report to Zheng Zhilong. The battle to regain Dongfan Island finally came to an end.

Then Zheng Zhilong ordered Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Zhibao, Zheng Zhiyuan, and Zheng Zhifeng to stay on Dongfan Island to deal with the aftermath, while he was to go to Beijing to report to the emperor and deliver the captured Franji and Helan people to the court.

As for the capital, Zhu Tianqi did not expect that Zheng Zhilong would defeat the Franji and Helan people on Dongfan Island so quickly and recover Dongfan Island. He is now busy earning money from the Taixi people. What about "foreign exchange"?

Now it has entered the twelfth lunar month, and it is the end of the year. The "Ming" flags sold to the people in Thailand and Spain will soon expire, so the people in Thailand and the West have to buy the "Ming" flags needed for next year from the Ming Dynasty. The flag was raised, which was a big gain for the court.

Last year, the "Ming" flags were sold starting from the middle of the year. Each flag was only half price, and they sold millions of taels of silver. This year, this is the cost for the whole year, and it will definitely exceed tens of millions of taels of silver. .

Furthermore, the number of Thai and Western merchant ships that came to buy the "Ming" flag was still relatively small. Except for the Franji, Helan and British people, some private merchant ships were reluctant to spend the 1 taels of silver. After all, they still had a sense of luck, but the more they dealt with such a Thai-Western merchant ship, the more Zhu Tianqi asked Mao Wenlong to focus on "taking care of" it. After they suffered a loss, they knew that they could not save this life-saving money.

Therefore, this year's "Ming" flags are particularly easy to sell, and sales have increased sharply compared to last year. However, at the same time, some other problems will arise, such as counterfeiting of "Ming" flags.

Regarding the forgery of the "Ming" flag, there are two situations. One is that people within the Ming Dynasty forged the "Ming" flag and sold it privately to the Westerners to defraud money.

One is that the Thai and Westerners are reluctant to spend money, so they imitate the "Ming" flag and make a fake one themselves, hoping to fool around with it in the sea and pretend to be fake, so as to get through.

Of course, Zhu Tianqi will not tolerate this. In fact, it is difficult to forge and imitate the "Ming" flags sold by Zhu Tianqi to be [-]% similar, let alone [-]%, even [-]% similar. It's hard to do.

Because these flags were customized by Zhu Tianqi in the Krypton Life Store. The material used is waterproof non-woven fabric. There is no material that can be imitated today, and it uses modern printing technology, let alone this The paints and printing techniques of the era could be copied.

(End of this chapter)