Blood from Daming

Chapter 734

On October 25th, during the entire naval battle of Taiwan, [-]% of the warships of the Xue Jiajun Navy were seriously injured, including [-] warships lost and eleven damaged. Fortunately, the three three-masted warships "Huashan", "Hengshan" and "Hengshan" are basically intact.

The number of Xue Jiajun Navy participated in the battle reached 2, more than 2000 soldiers were killed, nearly 1000 people were missing, and more than 3000 people were injured. This is because the Xue Jiajun Navy fought in the local area, and a large number of naval soldiers were rescued by the army comrades on the shore. It will increase a lot, and there are hundreds of casualties in the Royal Dutch City, "Weiyuan City" and "Pingnan Pass" on the shore, and even nine soldiers from the Manchuka Kingdom died in the battle.

The Xue family’s navy suffered heavy casualties, but the loss of the Spanish navy was not small. Five of the 25 warships sank because the guest army did not have enough rescue. The Spanish navy on the five warships was almost wiped out, and half of the other twenty warships were destroyed Xue Jiajun's "incendiary bomb" burned.

Xue Jiajun's "incendiary bomb" means especially combustion-supporting objects, which cannot be extinguished with sea water. The only way is to block the air with flame-retardant methods. Unfortunately, there is no sand to bury in Spain. Only quilts and wet cloths are used to put out fires. The effect is really unsatisfactory. In the end Even the quilts and wet cloths were set on fire, and the strong wind at sea fueled the burning of the Spanish naval warships, which suffered heavy losses. In the end, the Spanish naval fleet was forced to withdraw from the naval battle just to put out the fire.

According to Xue Jiajun's navy estimates, the Spanish Navy fleet has about 6000 soldiers, and the casualties of soldiers should be around [-]. Considering that the Spanish Navy's five warships sank and almost no soldiers escaped, the number of Spanish Navy soldiers killed in battle will not be less than [-]. Next, what satisfies Xue Jiajun's navy is that the two three-masted warships of the Spanish Navy were severely burned. It is basically certain that these two three-masted warships are unlikely to participate in naval battles for a long time.

After the naval battle between the Xue family army and the Spanish navy, there has never been such a large-scale naval battle in Taiwan. Later, I got the secret of this naval battle from the Spanish captured officers. The Spanish navy participated in this naval battle. Less than 5000 soldiers, including one Thousands of wounded soldiers of varying degrees, this is the retribution of the Spanish navy's wanton participation in land battles, which made the combat capability of the entire Spanish navy fleet only play [-]%, and finally failed to win the naval battle of Taiwan's officers. When the Spanish navy fleet returned to Kaohsiung Port In the end, the shortage of naval sailors and oarsmen made it impossible for the entire Spanish naval fleet to drive warships out of the port.

Xue Yun did not expect that the Xue family army would fight such a big battle with the Spanish colonists in Taiwan. The troops invested by the Spanish colonists have greatly exceeded Xue Yun's understanding of this period of history. Coquera could no longer mobilize much war resources.

Yan Sanniang said with red eyes: "Husband, I didn't expect these foreign devils to be so powerful in fighting. Xue's army has never suffered such a big loss. Oh, what if Spain comes to fight with all its power."

Xue Yun said: "Although Spain is a powerful country in Europe, it is not comparable to our Ming Dynasty. For some small countries in Europe and Southeast Asia, Spain only needs a few hundred firearms soldiers to destroy the country, but facing our Xue family army has lost nearly ten thousand allied troops. The death of local soldiers should exceed [-]. Now the Spaniards in the entire Western region are stretched thin, and the local people will take the opportunity to rebel. Even if the Spanish mainland will deploy troops to support them, with our Xue family army playing a role in the Western region, the Spanish dream of dominating the East has come to an end. shattered."

Yan Sanniang said: "Husband, you mean to let the people in the Spanish-occupied areas rise up to rebel, so that they will cooperate with our Xue family army to drive the Spanish invaders out of the entire Western Ocean."

Xue Yun smiled and said: "Sister, this time the local natives of the Western countries rebelled against the Spaniards, the only purpose is to let them and the Spaniards consume each other, so that the natives of the Western countries and the Spaniards will lose out, and the strength of either of them does not match. For the benefit of my Xue family army."

Yan Sanniang looked at Xue Yun in amazement, Xue Yun rubbed his chin and said awkwardly: "Sister, there is no way, as long as one of the Western natives and the Spaniards is free, they will definitely covet the beautiful rivers and mountains of Ming Dynasty, isn't that right? Reject the tiger at the front door and enter the wolf at the back door?"

Yan Sanniang said: "Brother, when the Western people haven't done anything to offend us Daming people, aren't you a bit filtered?"

Xue Yun said: "Sister, people who are not of our own race must have different hearts. For those who can assimilate to other races, they assimilate. Those who cannot assimilate must be completely wiped out. But it is best to let them kill each other for a while."

Yan Sanniang said: "This time the Xue family army captured nearly a thousand fast guns in the battle of Fengshan, Kaohsiung. It seems that there will be no problem in deploying [-] new fast guns in the next year."

Xue Yun came to Jiangnan this time, apart from meeting Wei Zhongxian, and discussing with Yan Sanniang the situation of the Ming Dynasty in the next few years, especially the development direction of Jiangnan Xue's army, as well as Taiwan's unification and the strategic concept of East and West. It is for the expedition to the Tuxie Tuhan tribe that two to three thousand of the latest fast guns need to be deployed. This is the guarantee of whether the Xue family army can win the expedition to the Tuxietu Khan tribe.

The Xue family army stationed in Taiwan and the Spanish army had more than 5000 new muzzle-loading guns before the war. After more than four months of fighting with the Spanish army, the new muzzle-loading guns increased to nearly 2000, and there were more than [-] ordinary muskets, and more than [-] guns. Zhihuotong is in a state of semi-unemployment. It can be said that Xue's army fought against the Spanish army. The Xue's army became stronger and stronger, and the Spanish army became the transport captain of Xue's army.

However, the fighting power of the Spanish army and navy is indeed strong. Xue's army achieved such a victory with the tactics of a sea of ​​flesh and blood. Victory, if the Xue family's army's technology cannot make great strides forward, for a long time, the Xue family's army can only use the blood of martyrs to win the victory.

The Taiwan Institute of Science and Technology is still unable to imitate the new type of front-loading gun, but the Taiwan Institute of Science and Technology still imitates the custom-loaded bullet casings, that is, the bullets and propellant are wrapped in paper soaked in fire nitrate. Xue Jiajun’s paper bullet casings can also be used in emergencies You can put the whole paper cartridge case into the gun chamber, and fire it directly after installing the cap. It is much faster than the linen cartridge case of the Spanish army, but it only increases the rate of slow fire or no fire, and the residue left after the paper case burns Needs to be cleaned up frequently.

In addition to Xue Yun's advanced scientific outlook, I would also like to thank the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci for his notes. With the high imitation paper cartridge case, the front-loading gun in Xue Jiajun's hand will not become waste, and the high imitation paper cartridge case Because of the excellent gunpowder, the shooting distance and power are much higher than those of the Spaniards and the Dutch.

However, the transfer of the [-] muzzle-loading guns on the island of Taiwan does not know how much impact it will have on the future situation in Taiwan. In fact, Xue Yun's bottom line is [-] muzzle-loading guns. Since Yan Sanniang said [-] muzzle-loading guns , Xue Yun did not refuse, the situation of Tushetu Khan's Ministry is complicated, and one thousand more muskets is more certainty. Xue Yun believes that Taiwan's Xue family army has already occupied a strategic advantage over the Spanish invading army, so he dispatched [-] muskets Taiwan's Xue Jiajun can overcome the difficulties that arise.

Xue Yun said: "Sister, order Second Uncle Yi to chase after the poor bandits. Now that the enemy and us are all hurt, it is the time when the two powers meet and the brave will win. Use your brains to fight guerrilla warfare, break raid warfare, and smart warfare. In short, the Spanish invaders on Taiwan Island should not have a chance to breathe, and strive to win at least one major victory against the Spanish invaders on Taiwan Island before the Spring Festival, and get rid of the Spanish invaders on both the north and south fronts. restraint."

At noon, Ren Ruping came to Xue Yun and Yan Sanniang's for lunch, and brought a bag of Hongze Lake nectarines as a tribute to the master and wife. Xue Yun taught Ren Ruping's martial arts these days, and Ren Ruping knew that she was a frog in the well , Xue Yun's martial arts was so high that she couldn't even imagine it. Ren Ruping, a martial idiot, finally met the true god.

Ren Ruping has benefited a lot from practicing martial arts with Xue Yun in the past few days, her martial arts has greatly improved, and her perception of Xue Yun has been greatly changed. Xue Yun took her to the mansion to poach fish. Now Ren Ruping has forgotten the defense between men and women with Xue Yun.

The lunch prepared by Yan Sanniang is simple, it is an iron hot pot, put the cut fish fillets into the pot and cook until it is ready to eat. Ren Ruping eats at noon and Xue Yun specially adds seasonings. While waiting for the hot pot to boil, Ren Ruping gives Xue Yun Yun and Yan Sanniang peeled the nectarines, and Ren Ruping handed the peeled nectarines to Yan Sanniang and Xue Yun successively. It was indeed a very pleasant thing to be able to eat fresh fruits in the winter of the Ming Dynasty.

Ren Ruping asked Yan Sanniang if it was delicious, and Yan Sanniang said it was delicious, Ren Ruping became proud and said, "Sister Yan, if you come to Hongze Lake two months earlier, there will be even better flat peaches here."

Although Ren Ruping recognized Xue Yun and Yan Sanniang as masters and wives, but she only called Yan Sanniang her sister, and Xue Yun called her by her first name. Now Ren Ruping speaks rigorously but glances at Xue Yun randomly, and then gets tired of her voice Qi said to Yan Sanniang: "Sister Yan, my little sister wants to learn how to fish."

Yan Sanniang said while eating nectarines: "Just ask your master to take you there."

Ren Ruping looked at Xue Yun and said triumphantly, "Hey, Brother Yun, accompany me to the lake to pick fish after dinner."

Seeing Ren Ruping's arrogance, Xue Yun became angry and said to Yan Sanniang: "Sister, nectarines are rich in nutrients, and eating them regularly is good for your health, but eating too much will easily cause you to get angry and get sores on your tongue." .”

Ren Ruping heard that because Xue Yun was targeting her, she immediately raised eyebrows and said coldly to Xue Yun: "What do you mean by that?"

Only then did Xue Yun realize that his words were misunderstood by Ren Ruping, and quickly said, "Miss Ren, don't get me wrong, I'm just talking about nectarines."

(End of this chapter)