"Now, we divide our troops into two groups according to the plan. ●⌒, Deputy General Wang Qian, you lead two camps to land on the North Line Horizon Island. Your mission is to capture the Rebefire Castle on the North Line Horizon Island and reach the southern end of the North Line Horizon Island. Build a fort there to block the South Waterway and bombard the Reland Castle on the opposite Dayuan Island. At the same time, you must also guard the Rebefire Castle, cover the fleet at Beibokou on the island, and protect the Luermen Waterway. Do you understand?"

Wang Qian stepped forward and knelt down to receive the general's order, "The last general understands."

The entire plan of the offensive officers was calculated hundreds of times, and the generals of each battalion were familiar with the plan. The island of the North Line is very important in this battle. This narrow and narrow island in the north is the Luermen waterway to the north and the South is the South waterway to the south, and it is only separated from the city of Relan Fen.

As long as you can control this fort as soon as possible, you can protect the Luermen waterway and cover the fleet at Beibokou, and at the same time block the south waterway and shell the city of Relan.

However, the island at the tail of the North Line is so important. The Dutch also built a fortress here. The Han people often called this fortress Sicaohai Fort. This is a fortress with many Dutch soldiers and forts stationed on it, so it is not easy to take it down. But Liu Jun asked Zheng Zhilong and others not to worry. The Nine-Headed Bird has been a battle formation for a long time. The Sicaohai Fortress is not a city of Reyran. If the two battalions cannot even take down this small fortress, what else can I say? Besides, Wang Qian was not fighting alone. The fleet that stayed in Beibokou will provide naval artillery fire support for the battle.

"Please rest assured, the Marquis will definitely take down the island of the North Line. It's just right to practice with these red barbarians first. We'll fight the Donglu next year."

The plan was planned early to be that the fleet's large warships were guarding Beibokou, and then Liu Jun and his team entered the Taijiang Inner Sea through Luermen. Then they divided into two groups. Wang Qian led the nine-headed birds from the two camps to take down the island of the north line, while Liu Jun led the other nine-headed birds to land on a ship at Heliao Port north of Reli Lan City, preparing to take down Chichai City on the continent behind the Dayuan Island.

The whole plan is to first sweep the Dutch fortresses on the periphery and finally surround the city of Reyran on the Daren Island.

Liu Jun planned this battle for a long time, and the staff of the pre-war reconnaissance and combat plan were repeatedly discussed and revised, and worked hard. Liu Jun also planned to use this battle to practice the Nine-Headed Birds in actual combat, so that they could adapt to this kind of sea and land collaborative combat faster.

Although the Dutch looked very strong, they were just an isolated army. Even if the Nine-Headed Bird made mistakes at the beginning, there was no need to worry about the consequences. This is safer than fighting directly with the Houqing army. It is also more suitable for practical training.

At the northern end of the island at the end of the North Line, teams of nine-headed soldiers transferred from the troop transport ship to the dock and landed.

They landed on the east side of the northern end of the Beiyi Island, which is on the Taijiang Inland Sea side, with warship covers on both sides, so there is no need to worry about the Dutch warships.

Wang Qian and his subordinates even calmly boarded the island. The Dutch lacked enough troops. At this time, they mainly retreated to defend several castles and had to stay on the warships. They were stretched everywhere. Therefore, even though they knew that the Ming army would land on the island, they did not dare to leave Sicao Fort.

"Sir General, it's too easy for us to land on the beach?"

An officer gathered his cloak blown by the wind, looked at the two battalions of brothers who had already arrived ashore, and those who built defensive positions on the shore in accordance with the artificial plan. He shook his head and felt too relaxed. Before he came, when they were in Penghu, they had already deduced countless battle steps of landing on the beach.

Which troops cover when docking, which ships are in which positions, how to grab the beach after docking, how to build a beachfront position, cover and contact the subsequent troops to get ashore, and quickly set up artillery positions, etc.

Everyone thought about these things day and night, and then today it went very smoothly.

At Luermen, the expected naval battle did not happen. No Dutch soldiers ran to the northern end of the island at the end of the North Line to intercept the waterway, nor did they intercept them to land.

Wang Qian threw the only little cigarette butt left in his mouth to his feet and stepped on it. Then he held up the Qianli Milestone and looked around again, but there was still a deserted look.

"Sir, our forwards have already swept the island three times without stopping at night. Except for the Dutch in the Sicao Fort. There is no ghost in other places on the island. They are all so scared that they dare not come out in the fort."

Wang Qian snorted, "Don't underestimate the enemy. The Dutch are not afraid. They just made the most correct choice in the judgment of the times. How many of them are there? They pulled all the people to Penghu to fight us, but only six or seven thousand people. After the defeat of Penghu, they lost nearly a centaur, and the British ran away with four warships, and there were more than a thousand people. Now the Dutch of the generals will not exceed three thousand men and women, among which there will always be a thousand women. There are two thousand people left, but they are not all soldiers. You said that the generals are so big, there are many castles and towns. Do you say that they don't retreat to the castle, and will they come out to fight us to death?"

A young soldier next to him immediately said, "It turns out that the red-haired background has been touched so clearly, so he has been trying to deal with us every day, so what are the deductions?"

"War war means being prepared. What's wrong with doing more deductions? Are you unhappy? Okay, I've recorded your name. If you have the opportunity to be promoted in the future, you have to be left behind." Wang Qian joked.

"Oh, sir, please spare me."

Wang Qian coughed, "Okay, although the enemy retreated to the castle, they cannot underestimate the enemy. In the previous deduction in Penghu, you also heard from the staff members that the Dutch built the prisms, a new type of fortress, which has no blind spots in defense, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Moreover, they have more fire artillery in the city, and the firearms of the Red Barbarians are also sharp. Since our nine-headed bird was established, we have never fought a siege."

He glanced at his subordinate officer and said seriously, "We are fortunate to be the first troops to attack the city among the nine-headed birds. Therefore, the more we must be careful. Since we use me in the first battle, we must use me to win. This first siege will definitely win the flag and we must never fail, do you understand?"

"clear!"

"Very good. Everyone cheered up and showed twelve points of seriousness. We not only want to win, but also achieve beautiful victory. Especially this time, the Marquis also sent a team of Spanish artillery to cooperate with us. Don't let these Red Barbarian mercenaries laugh at us."

After some pre-war mobilization, the officers also put away their playfulness. They all cheered up.

"Now, do pre-war briefings."

The person in charge of the briefing was a military officer who was over 20 years old. Although he was very young, the officers of the Nine-Headed Bird were generally young. But he was also an old figure among the Nine-Headed Birds. The first group of team members, all the big and small battles of the Nine-Headed Birds, and they were trained in the martial arts lecture hall, and were highly valued by Zhennan Hou.

He walked up to the officers and talked about the battle plan again.

Mei Qing, the chief of the infantry battalion, listened very seriously, and even picked up paper and pen to make a simple record. After the meeting, she immediately returned to her infantry division.

"Sir, brothers are waiting for you to assign combat missions." A 100-year-old general in the department greeted him.

Mei Qin nodded and walked towards her own team on the shore. She was wearing cotton armor, wearing military officer robe, cloak hanging on her shoulders, a short gun hanging on her belt, and a sword hanging on her waist. She was wearing a pair of leather boots, and was handsome and handsome. The soldiers and generals under her did not know that their handsome boss was actually a young woman and the daughter of the current prime minister.

Since leaving Nanjing, they have been wandering on the sea for more than a month. They are mostly nine-headed soldiers from inland and have long been used to the sea breeze and waves. They took a boat from Penghu last night and took a boat for a day and a night, and they were not at all uncomfortable. Before she came back, everyone lined up to sit on the ground according to military orders, chatting and talking, which was very relaxed.

Mei Qing shouted, "Standing attentive!"

Hundreds of soldiers in the department stood up and saluted.

"After a moment. Brothers. This is the island of the North Line. There is a battalion in the middle of the island, with about one hundred Dutch defenders. The task assigned by the Marquis to our two battalions this time was to take this battalion. The task assigned by Deputy General Wang to our department was when most of the friendly forces surrounded Lingbao and attacked. We arrived at the south side of the battalion and made arrangements to intercept possible reinforcements from the enemy."

Six or seven thousand nine birds besieged a bastion with only one hundred people guarding, which is like a lion who beats the rabbit. But a lion who beats the rabbit also uses all his strength. Even if he deals with a hundred people, it must be like dealing with a thousand and ten thousand people. All arrangements must be made.

Which unit is responsible for the siege, which unit is responsible for the periphery interception, which unit is used as a reserve force, which unit is used as a feint attack, and which unit is the main siege force, are all well arranged.

A hundred-man asked, "Sir, is it really only one hundred red hairs in the castle?"

"Yes, the information I got was indeed the case."

"There are only one hundred people, so why don't we use such trouble? We just rushed forward and broke the castle and set up an ambush to intercept it. Isn't this because they eat meat, and we don't even have the chance to sing and drink soup."

"Yes, sir, why don't you fight for our main attack?"

Mei Qing coldly swept over the officers under her, "Dissolve, prepare for a quarter of an hour, and then the departments immediately set off and head to the designated location."

Half an hour later, Mei Qing led his subordinates to pass through the Sicao Fortress, which had been surrounded by friendly troops.

When they looked at the castle, no one felt that it would be easy to take it down.

When the Dutch came to Datai, they first established a shopping mall on the Beiyi Island and also established Shangsicao Sea Fort on the island to control the Luermen Waterway.

But later, because the island was often flooded, the mall moved to Chichicheng.

The original Sicao Sea Fort was also moved to the middle of the island.

The fortress is built with red bricks, and is made of sugar water and glutinous rice sweat to stir the oyster shell ash as an adhesive, which is as hard as a rock when dry.

The main body is square, with convex ridges each in the northeast and southwest corners. The fort can accommodate five upper and four nine cannons, plus the four cannons on the main body, there are a total of twenty-two cannons in the entire Sicaohai Fort.

Outside the castle, there is a trench that is seven feet deep and ten feet wide. There is also a chest wall between the trench and the city wall, plus six small cannons. There are two rows of wooden fences outside the trench, which are about five feet high.

The castle wall is three feet high.

Although the entire castle is not very big, its defense is absolutely strict. If it weren't for the only one hundred defenders in the castle, I'm afraid that the nine-headed birds surrounding the castle would have to retreat.

At this time, I passed by Mei Qing's troops at the fort. I was just clamoring that Mei Qing did not go to grab the position of the main attacker, but I was secretly shocked at this time. Fortunately, they were not the main attacker.

"Damn, this castle is so tall and there are so many cannons, so I'm afraid it's not easy to attack."

"What are you afraid of? No matter how tall the castle is, there are only one hundred defenders inside. We have six or seven thousand people, each of whom can drown them." (To be continued.)
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