Although the Central Plains dynasty did not formally include the senior members in the territory, the development of Penghu can be traced back to the Qin and Han Dynasties. Later, with the development of navigation technology, the Penghu Islands gradually became a springboard for transportation between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. There is a good harbor here, which straddles the key to the southeast shipping, and is called the "Southeast Key". It was officially included in the territory of China in the Song Dynasty, and at that time, someone had moved to Penghu in the Fujian area.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the permanent population of Penghu had exceeded 1,000 households. However, it suffered a devastating blow in the Ming-Hols War more than 20 years ago. The Dutch captured more than 1,500 strong men as slaves and built the Redwood Garden Fortress in Penghu. Later, similar fortresses were built near Baisha and Baqiao. Most of these forts were square castles 56 meters on each side, and 29 artillery pieces were installed in each fort. The Redwood Garden Fortress took three months to complete, and 1,500 Chinese slaves died of exhaustion and starvation in these three months. The 270 surviving were sent to Batavia as a private gift to Governor Kuhn. Only 137 finally arrived, and the rest died on the way.

After suffering such a great disaster, the development momentum of Penghu was cut in half. In the past ten years, more and more refugees were unable to survive along the coast, and the population of Penghu returned to its previous level. After Zheng Zhilong traveled through time, he even asked people to focus on controlling the Penghu Islands, making it a transfer station for the Zheng Navy to contact the senior officials.

Whether it is the population transport of the majority or the trade with the Dutch, one sea boat after another has to pass by.

However, in order to prevent the Dutch from being too sensitive, Zheng did not build fortifications such as fortifications on the Penghu Islands. Even the cities are all simple old-fashioned walls, and the height is less than two meters.

"He Hui has met the Grand Marshal." He Bin's nephew appeared in Penghu and also appeared in front of Zheng Zhilong.

"Is your uncle okay now?" Zheng Zhilong was really worried about He Bin's safety. In his eyes, this person is a rare talent. As long as he can use it for him, he will be the best candidate to deal with Europeans in the future.

"Master Lao is worried. My uncle is fine now. The Dutch have not caught my uncle's handle. Besides, if the negotiations break down, they will not attack my uncle." He Hui felt warm as if he had drunk a cup of hot tea.

The He family has now put all their capital on the Zheng family and has obtained all the information from the Dutch. If something happens, they will be completely ruined.

The more humane Zheng Zhilong shows now, the more comfortable He Hui feels.

Less gossip, He Hui's mission to come to Penghu this time was to inform Zheng Zhilong. Although the situation in the south of the island could not be hidden from Zheng Zhilong. The two traded so frequently - the Chinese goods sold by the Dutch people in Japan needed to be purchased from the Zheng family. Every year, a large number of merchant ships sailed from Bamin to the south of the island. He knew the geographical terrain of the city of Relanzha (the Chichi Tower had not been built yet), waterway navigation, even the number of defense artillery, the number of artillery, and the number of garrisons, not only with the back of their hands, but also with the knowledge of the geographical terrain of the city of Relanzha (the Chichi Tower has not been built yet), the number of defense turrets, the number of artillery, and the number of garrisons.

What Zheng Zhilong needs more is the latest information. After receiving support from Batavia, the strength of the Hollanders in the South of the Island was even the specific food and food resources in the castle of Geranzza, as well as the latest military arrangements of the Dutch.

Chichai Tower has not been established yet. The city of Jelanzha is the only fortress of the Dutch in Taiwan. This is a typical Dutch-style bastion. Although due to the limitations of the terrain, the outer city and the inner city are connected in front and back, rather than the outer city completely wrapping the inner city, it is three stories high inside and outside, with a trench surrounding it, and the sloped earth embankment is the base of the platform. The walls are made of red bricks. The Dutch used sugar water, glutinous rice, oyster shell ash, river sand, pounded and stuck to it, and it was not strong enough to get down to the stone city.

The outer city with the lowest height (four corners) is rectangular, 160 meters long (meters) and 77 meters wide, which is lower than the inner city. It contains dormitories, offices, conference halls, hospitals, warehouses and other public buildings.

The inner city is square, with two floors, the length and width are the same, and the length and width are 115 meters (meters). The wall is about nine meters high, one or two meters thick, and the four-angle ridge is a little eight meters thick. The basement is a warehouse, which stores a large amount of ammunition, grain and debris. The upper floor is equipped with the office of the chief, a church, a lookout, a soldier barracks and other facilities. Looking down from the outer city, the firepower above can easily cover the entire outer city, and this is also the difficult point of the bastion.

Zheng Chenggong relied on long-term siege at that time. During the Ming and Dutch war, the Ming army was also siege in Penghu for a long time. Zheng Zhilong also planned to learn from his son, learn from the old seniors, and not attack the city of Relanzha without attacking. When the food is finished, the Dutch there will sooner or later get out and die!

The main premise of doing this is to completely destroy Batavia's main fleet and completely cut off the Dutch's foreign aid.

Putmans sailed into the south of the island with fifteen ships, and this was the best opportunity.

"There were about 1,500 naval and army troops in the south of the island. If the Dutch young and strong men were recruited to join the army, the number would be about 2,000." The Dutch soldiers and merchants stationed in the south of the island all year round were around 3,000. In addition to women and children, there were some top figures, and the two thousand people had reached their limit.

"Additionally, a patrol of about four hundred people."

"This is a team mainly composed of refugees who fled westward in the Big Belly Kingdom. They generally hate the Han people and have close contacts with the indigenous people in the eastern mountainous areas. Once the war begins, there is a possibility of further expansion. It will definitely be a sharp knife in the hands of the Dutch." He Hui said the patrol team, his attitude was very obvious, which shows that the patrol team was absolutely unhappy with the Han people in the south of the island.

"Nine of the fifteen warships brought by Putmant were real warships, five of which were single-layer gun decks. The ships were generally equipped with guns below thirty, and the strongest four were all double-layer gun decks, with guns reaching about forty. The remaining six, five were armed merchant ships, and one was a sloop communication ship. There were as many as thousands of Dutch infantry, and now only a small number were assigned to Dayuan Town, and most of the others were assigned to Heliao Port. The latter had built some fortifications."

Zheng Zhilong immediately thought of Chichuanglou. The role of Heliao Port in Heliao Port is probably almost the same as that after the establishment of Chichuanglou. It is a node on the land and also covers the belly ribs of Relanzha City.

After all, the Dutch's previous series of arrangements were all for the outer sea, not for the inner island of Damasa.

Whether it is the Kun-sin sandbank where the castle of Raranzha is located, or the Beishi Island and Jialaowan sandbank Island on both sides of Luermen, they are all sandbanks. Later generations have been linked to land. You can imagine how shallow the water surface of the sea is.

However, nature is magical. As people often say, God will close a door for you and will definitely open another window for you. The tides of the sea and the tides erode, often create magical under the water surface that you cannot see with your naked eyes. The Luer Gate is a large tide entrance, which has become an important harbor road to enter and exit the Great Bay. It is just that the rocks at the bottom are piled up, the reefs are crammed, and large ships are not easy to pass, and it is known as "natural danger".

The Dutch's nest, where the Dutch's nest, is located, is located. The navigation between the waterway between the southern end of the North Line Hot Island opposite is much stronger than that of Luermen, which is Dayuangang. Therefore, the Dutch only set up a simple cannon barracks at the northern end of the North Line Hot Island, that is, the Luermen waterway, and did not garrison the troops to guard it with great fanfare.

They set up their old nest in a Kun-body sandbank, built a solid castle of Relanzha, and controlled the entire Dayuan Port. And from Dayuan Port, it was the sea surface of Taijiang River, or the Great Bay, and the inner port was Heliao Port. At the same time, a series of cannon barriers were built along the seven Kun-body sandbanks, completely controlling the waters of the Great Bay in their hands.

From the shallows around Luermen to the cannon building built on the northern end of Beishi Island, there are Qikun bodies confronting the southern end of Beishi Island, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and seven sandbanks that emerged in the sea, lined up in each line, about a miles apart, and were like a bead, directly connected to the Dagou Mountain on the shore. There are cannon building built on the top.
Chapter completed!