Dragon Sea Empire

Yin Feng defended Yan Siqi on the board of directors. In fact, he was still a little worried about Yan Siqi. This guy is indeed a maverick. He is so ambitious that everyone can see that he has been fighting in Java for many years and has always lived an independent kingdom. However, after all, the Chinese Army is an army established in accordance with modern military training rules and regulations. To a certain extent, it can be regarded as Yin Feng's private army. Constrained by factors, coupled with Yin Feng's personal popularity and superior military strength, although the Chinese Army's control areas are scattered all over the country, it is difficult to form internal separatist forces.

Yan Siqi was transferred to Hainan Island with 3000 elite personnel from the headquarters. The defense of the Java Island colony will be taken over by the fourth regiment of Zhao Xuanming, who is famous for fort defense.

The early landing troops led by Lin Xiao included more than 1300 sailors and musketeers with 3000 outposts. The commander was Major Lin Shuisheng, the Nanyang chief of the sailors and muskets. In addition, there were 600 regular infantry from Zhao Xuanming's fourth regiment, and The two battalions of the Artillery Regiment, the most special unit is the Siraya Battalion, all composed of indigenous soldiers from the four major villages of the Siraya tribe, such as the Xingang Society, which was the first to form an alliance with the Chinese company. The non-commissioned officers are all Siraya natives. This is the first time that Taiwan's native troops have been incorporated into combat troops instead of existing as auxiliary troops.

The infantry of the Chinese Army has generally replaced a new type of flintlock gun. Because it is an improved version of the flintlock gun commonly used in these years, it is called "new gun". The pool cover is integrated into one body. After the trigger is pulled, the hammer strikes the steel fire sickle to generate sparks. At the same time, the steel fire sickle is knocked away from the powder pool, and the spark ignites the exposed gunpowder. This action is called a percussion firing action. Although this improvement is small, it is of great significance. It makes the structure of the tunnel engine more simple and reliable, and the cost is low, and the maintenance is convenient. A quartet of masterpieces.

However, the new muskets have not been equipped to the sailor musketeers and the indigenous troops, and the garrison troops in various places have not yet changed their outfits. This time, the sailor musketeers who came to Hainan basically still carry the old-fashioned flintlock muskets.

In the fifth year of Wanli in this dynasty, Shu Dayou ordered soldiers to patrol the townships of Qiongzhou prefectures and counties. There were 480 brave men and 470 elite soldiers in Qiongzhou Prefecture, including 210 brave men and [-] elite soldiers in Yazhou Township. There are more than [-] regular guards in Qiongzhou Prefecture. However, like the township soldiers, this is only a theoretical number and has never been realized.

The previous Li rebellions swept the entire island in a short period of time. The officers and soldiers of the island were powerless to suppress them and could only protect themselves. The official army can only stick to the city walls of the prefectures and counties, and wait for reinforcements; when the reinforcements from all over the mainland gradually gather, and then the army begins to move south, those rebellious Li tribes and villages will be wiped out one by one. Li tribes in internal strife are often defeated one by one, and finally have to surrender; this has become the basic pattern of Li chaos. Before this Li chaos, it had been repeated several times in the hundred years since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty Again, this time Li Luan repeated the scene again.

Le'an City, which goes deep into the Luohuoli territory deep in the mountainous area, is an important base for monitoring and suppressing the Li people. On the day when the advance troops led by Lin Xiao landed, Le'an City was captured by the Li rebels. Wanli rebels rushed to Yazhou City. At the same time, Wanzhou, Lingshui, Changhua and other places were all attacked by Li people who rushed out of Wuzhi Mountain.

The Li Nationality Army encountered five sentry teams of the Chinese Army's forward-Sailor Musketeer Third Fleet Detachment at the original Hebosuo, five miles east of Yazhou City.

Relying on the dilapidated three-entry mansion in Hebo and the surrounding river embankment, five hundred sailors and musketeers blocked the Limin rebels who came from all directions. Yin Feng first lived in Hebo when he came to Yazhou after crossing. Place.

The sailors carried three light field guns and one howitzer. The commander of the sailors, Lin Shuisheng, was a Danmin in Yazhou. He often did business with the people when he was a child. The gate, on the main path, was aimed directly at the swarming civilians. All the musketeers lined up in three rows at the gate. He ordered the four cannons to fire in succession. The grenades passed through a group of civilian leaders gathered [-] paces away. It was blown up and down, and dozens of catties of iron sand fired by three light field guns swept away the people within fifty steps. Suddenly, the swarming crowd seemed to be blocked by a pair of giant hands, and all the people's rebels were swept away. Scared.

Lin Shuisheng ordered again, and the flintlock muskets of the sailor musketeers began to shoot continuously.

The formation of the Li people who encountered firearms combat for the first time was crowded and chaotic. As you can imagine, more than 500 Li rebels were blocked by [-] people and repelled.

After this battle, Lin Xiao's brigade entered Yazhou, and he swaggered and returned home to pay homage to the magistrate. Under the guidance of entering the state office of Yazhou Prefecture, surrounded by soldiers with live ammunition from the Chinese army, all the clerks of the six rooms were driven out of the state office, and the civilian officials of the Chinese company immediately took over the government affairs of Yazhou; After Lin Xiao arrived, he immediately understood who he should be loyal to. The guards in the state city were quickly disarmed in the name of rectification and organized to screen. Sitting in his own room in a daze, all the guards at the gate of his house have turned into soldiers of the Chinese Army in black clothes and helmets.

At this time, the Chinese navy also quickly occupied and controlled Sanya Port, Yulingang, Lingshui and other places.

The Li people launched an attack on Yazhou City two days later, but they were bombarded by more than a dozen flower howitzers at the top of the city, and then the Chinese army opened the city gate to charge with bayonets, leaving nearly a thousand corpses behind. , fled back to Wuzhi Mountain.

A battalion of the [-]th Regiment of Lin Xiao sent out of Yazhou City in cooperation with the Artillery Battalion, occupied Mizoguchi and Xiamaling in the east of Yazhou, and built temporary fortresses at these two places, sealing off most of the rebels who rushed out. At the same time, he sent spies to the northwest to investigate the route to Changhua, Danzhou.

The Siraya Battalion formed by Taiwanese aborigines has no combat missions other than defending the city. The battalion commander Yaku and the supervising army Yan Songshan discussed it and came to ask Lin Xiao for another mission: the indigenous fighters in Siraya are good at fighting in mountains and jungles , defending the city is not a proper job for them.

Lin Xiao is not good at military affairs. He came to Hainan just to use his contacts to coordinate the relationship between all parties and occupy Yazhou as the base for the Chinese Army to develop its power across the island. Therefore, he entrusted the command of the battlefield to Lin Shuisheng, the Nanyang Chief of the Sailor Musketeers. .

Lin Shuisheng participated in the battle against Satsuma, and he is a new generation of Tanmin sailors who have emerged on the battlefield. Zhang Wei, the commander of the troops dispatched by Zhao Xuanming's fourth regiment "Iron Wall Regiment", also participated in the battle of Kyushu Satsuma, and Lin Shuisheng is very familiar with it, so the combat operations of the Chinese army after landing are all commanded by the two of them.

The two discussed for a while, and they both felt that the Limin rebels in front of them were not worth mentioning, so they decided to let the Taiwan native battalion take a sentry team from the artillery battalion, plus two sailor musketeers from the sentry team, to explore the road in the northwest direction and fight for it. Get through the passage to Changhua before Yan Siqi's reinforcements arrive. At the same time, this can also test the strength of the Limin rebels.

The Li Min's joint uprising was limited to the initial stage, and now there is chaos within the village communities of the various Li Min tribes; the tribes that have won the spoils only want to go back to the mountain to count their belongings, and the village communities that have not got anything want to continue fighting; The Li people did not have a recognized leader to command the operations in a unified manner. Therefore, the joint forces of the Taiwan Aboriginal Battalion and the Sailor Musketeers had penetrated into the western fringe of Wuzhi Mountain almost without a major battle.

After receiving the letter from Feige, Yan Siqi quickly began to mobilize his troops. However, most of the one-third of Java Island he occupied was in the northern coastal area, which intersected with the areas controlled by the Dutch and the indigenous Madura country. Setting up defenses takes a lot of time.

When Yan Siqi's Nanyang task force reached the southern part of Hainan Island, the counterattack of the Ming Dynasty official army had also begun.

The two sides started a race to seize time and land, but the Chinese army was organized and premeditated, and took the initiative; while the Ming Dynasty officials and soldiers had no intelligence, and they didn't know that the Chinese army was coming to seize the territory in advance. matter, so it immediately fell on the passive side.

The Limin rebel forces separated by the two sides are now under attack from the north and the south. As soon as Yan Siqi's troops arrived in Yazhou, the whole army immediately went to the north to attack, directly attacking the old nest of the Limin rebels deep in Wuzhi Mountain.

Most of the officers, non-commissioned officers and veterans of Yan Siqi's Nanyang Task Force were members of the former Fifth Regiment. With his tactical cooperation, trekking through mountains and rivers, not afraid of hardships and dangers, it didn't take long to reach the vicinity of Luo Huoli's lair through various small roads. Almost all the villages in the village were slaughtered, and Lin Xiao's sailor unit and the fourth regiment also started to attack, and soon took control of Thanksgiving and the Wanzhou area.

In the north, the infantry of the official army from Qiongzhou Prefecture was led by Jin Qijia, the deputy general of Guangdong, and Yu Zigao, the general of Qiongya, as his deputy. The total number reached more than [-].

When they set off, they didn't know that the Chinese army had landed in Yazhou. They were not surprised until the Haikou Naval Battalion reported that a large number of Chinese company ships had appeared near Sanya. Huitong and Wuwanshui areas were blocked on the northwestern coast at the Lingao and Wenlanshui lines, unable to advance. The government and army did not attack the Limin base camp in Wuzhishan Mountain on the middle road, but only at Shigu at the northern foot of Wuzhishan Mountain. Ridge, Fengshu Ridge area defense, with the purpose of preventing the Li people from going north,