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Momentum is something that cannot be seen or touched, but it can be truly felt.

Compared with old colonial countries such as Spain and Portugal, which were already showing signs of decline, the Dutch East India Company had only been established for just a few decades at this time, and was still in the stage of rapid growth in company strength. In history, after another thirty or forty years,

By the mid-seventeenth century, it would grow into the largest and wealthiest private joint-stock company in the world.

It has more than 150 merchant ships, and 50,000 employees work hard for it day and night - this does not include slaves and laborers in the colonies; if there is a need for foreign war, it can mobilize more than 10,000 mercenaries at any time.

Dispatching a huge fleet composed of forty large warships... It has the right to issue its own currency, organize its own army, and can establish formal treaties with other countries, build its own governor's palace, and implement colonial rule over overseas territories!

Basically, it can be said that this is a country - the phrase "a country with astonishing wealth" could not be more appropriate when applied to the Dutch East India Company.

When any organization is still on the rise, its members will naturally have such vitality and tough temperament - although the Dutch on Taiwan Island also suffered heavy losses in the previous offensive and defensive battle of Qiongzhou Prefecture

, the sea power was almost completely lost, and the army also lost more than half, but when they were attacked, they still behaved fiercely and aggressively, capable of fighting, and daring to fight.

The travelers realized this on the first day - even in the face of the Qionghai's artillery bombardment that transcended the times, and even though the strength of the two sides was greatly different, the Dutch defenders stationed on a fort near the landing port still fought to the last man.

, it was not until their fort was completely destroyed that the counterattack gunfire was completely silenced.

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Of course, no matter how powerful the Westerners are, they will never be able to overwhelm the rising tide of travel. No matter how powerful the East India Company was in history, in this time and space, it can only become a stepping stone for the Qionghai Trading Company...

In the final analysis, the main reason for the disadvantages in forward operations lies with the offensive forces themselves, which are problems within the coalition forces.

"...Those Dutch are quite good at hunting. Many of the deer hunters who were originally professional have now become snipers, causing us a lot of trouble in the jungle. It's a pity that they are not here in the northern latitudes.

The ordinary soldiers of the first battalion still have a hard time dealing with this kind of jungle attack. Not to mention that we also have a group of 'allied forces' who are just holding us back..."

The telegrams Ade recently sent back are quite detailed, and most of them are complaints... Complaining about how cold and humid the weather is in Taiwan, complaining about how ignorant the local natives are, complaining about how rampant the damn epidemic is... Of course, the content that complains the most is,

Or about the incompatibility between them and the Zheng Family Alliance...

The Zheng family is a warlord, this has long been known to everyone in time. As for the virtues of a warlord, the historical materials of the late Ming Dynasty, the late Qing Dynasty, and the Republic of China have long been clearly described. However, many things,

I just laughed when I read the historical data, but only when I personally experienced it and was outraged by those angry people, can I deeply understand that every word in those records is filled with blood and tears!

"To be fair, maybe we ourselves are also at fault."

Although he was full of complaints, the telegram sent back by Tang Jian was quite calm and he could still evaluate both parties objectively:

"If we fight this battle alone and don't rely on the Zheng family's 'hand-to-hand combat units' at all, we will definitely not be as depressed as we are now. Or we simply don't fight jointly and let the Zheng family attack several strongholds.

We are not so dependent on firepower, and we should be able to win... instead of like now, both sides are counting on the other, and one plus one gets a result that is not even 0.5."

According to Tang Jian's introduction, the Zheng family's army is not completely incapable of fighting. Compared with the Ming army they have come into contact with before, the training, discipline, and physical fitness of this group of soldiers are all above average. They should be regarded as the middle class of the Zheng family's private army.

of elite troops.

It's just that the fighting will of this unit is very problematic, and what's ironic is that it was precisely the firepower of their short-haired army that destroyed the fighting will of this unit.

——The officers and soldiers of the Zheng family who participated in the war were members of the Qiongzhou Crusade Army of the Ming Dynasty just a few months ago. They had seen the power of the Thor rocket launcher with their own eyes. Unlike other inland Ming armies of this era, the Zheng family’s private army

They often competed with Westerners at sea, robbing people or being robbed. They knew the advantages and disadvantages of Western firearms very well.

So when they saw with their own eyes that the thousands of Western troops who landed did not even have a chance to fight head-on, but were covered in overwhelming flames, the combat concept that these soldiers had established for a long time completely collapsed.

In the face of firepower, both personal bravery and strategic strategies seemed to be completely useless - in front of rocket launchers, these veterans suddenly found that they no longer knew how to fight.

Regarding the policy of joining forces with Shorthair, the Zheng family had no objections and unanimously agreed, which is why the previous negotiations were so smooth. But after the Zheng family relied on the big tree of Shorthair, they no longer wanted to fight - since

If the enemy can be completely submerged in a sea of ​​fire without even touching it, then what reason is there for soldiers to step forward and die?

The agreement signed between the Zheng family leaders and this side was that the short-haired soldiers were responsible for suppressing the Western army's firepower, and then the Zheng family's army went up to engage in hand-to-hand combat. However, in the actual battle, the two sides had great differences on how far to defeat the opponent would be considered "suppressed."

According to the concept here, fire support is nothing more than artillery preparation. These days, the Western combat method is very rigid, and they like to use dense formations. No matter what the formation layout is, if a few rounds of artillery shells hit it, they will definitely be blown to pieces.

Then you Zheng family infantry stepped forward and charged, didn't you just take it?

But the Zheng family didn't think so. Their so-called "suppression" concept was actually based on the fate of the Western army that landed on Qiongzhou Island last time. They felt that their mission was just to clean up the battlefield and clean up the mess! This was going to be fatal.

- often the short-haired army's artillery fire turned the enemy's position upside down, and the Zheng's army cheered from behind, and then... there was no movement. Finally, they came forward to communicate and sent a team of veterans to move forward a few steps.

, but as soon as there was a gunshot from the opposite side, the group of soldiers immediately fled back to the attack position, and in turn said that the short-haired man had not finished the job...

In the first landing battle, Tang Jian led his men to charge forward; the second time to conquer an outpost fortress, another battalion of soldiers rushed forward to finally complete the occupation. Although both battles were won, the short-haired army had already

There were slight casualties. As for the Zheng family's troops, except for two of them who accidentally drowned when they landed, it can be said that they were unscathed. Although there were three thousand people, they did not even play any role in the battle. This time

The time-travelers were naturally furious - it's no good cooperating like this, why don't we just make it up to our family!

Faced with the anger here, the Zheng family felt quite aggrieved. At the meeting, they spoke plausibly - there are still people on the other side who can fight back. You can obviously do better. We have all seen this before, so why hide it?

Why don't you let your allies use their flesh and blood to hit you hard?

——It has to be said that the big bosses of the Zheng family are quite advanced in their ideas. They realized the benefits of fire suppression so quickly and began to pursue zero-casualty operations. However, it is impossible for the Travelers to expose their shortcomings.

Take the initiative to tell the Zheng family that their firepower is not up to that level yet, and the shell reserves on the Qionghai are limited...

So the two sides naturally had a knot in their hearts, and both felt that the other side was too unreasonable. Of course, the Zheng family would not think of saving artillery shells for the short hair, but Ade had to consider: There are more than 3,000 Zheng family troops behind him, and his side must leave some of them behind.

Ammunition just in case... Once there is a rift within the alliance, it will definitely not be so active in external operations. Therefore, nearly a week after landing in Taiwan, in addition to capturing an outpost near the landing point, nearly four thousand

The short-haired and Zheng coalition forces never made any progress - all their energy was spent on internal friction and wrangling.

"What a tragedy... This is the mistake of our staff team. I didn't expect that the combat concepts of the two armies would be so different!"

The information sent back from the front finally made Pang Yu and others realize that their staff group's previous idea of ​​using the Zheng family's troops was unrealistic. The short-haired army and the Zheng family army were completely products of two different eras, both in terms of combat concepts.

, or courses of action, which cannot be coordinated at all. Forcing them to work together will only produce the opposite effect to what is expected.

"To solve this problem, unless we obtain the command of the Zheng family's troops, or provide them with necessary training in modern warfare concepts - the former is impossible for the Zheng family to agree to; the latter, we are not that stupid... So, at the moment,

The only solution seems to be to part ways..."

As a frontline staff officer, Ade is naturally racking his brains to think about how to solve the problem, but breaking up is not that simple... trophies, supplies, and the most important post-war division of forces... these are originally all

It can be done perfunctorily under the framework of the coalition forces, but now it has to be discussed in advance. Once specific interests are involved, the Zheng family's shrewdness and ability are fully exposed, so much so that it even makes people here suspicious.

——Were they deliberately holding back so that they could take the initiative to break up the gang?

The people at the front are thinking about countermeasures, and Pang Yu and others at the rear cannot just watch the fun, they must also find ways to help. But the terrible thing is: because the initial judgment of the situation was too optimistic, the staff team has used all the mobile power at hand.

Go out, even if the situation on the front line is not good right now, there are no reinforcements to send on Hainan Island.

It seems like I haven’t robbed for a long time...hehe...
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