<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >National hero Zheng Chenggong"! #郑成功 #收复了台湾, the unity of the country was safeguarded</h1>
Speaking of the national hero Zheng Chenggong, it is very exciting to retake Taiwan occupied by the Dutch, and even more relieving is to defeat the Western colonists with muskets and cannons with an army with only large knives and guns.
At this time, friends who know a little history will have to ask, the Eight-Nation Alliance army can defeat hundreds of thousands of troops of the Qing Dynasty with only a few thousand people, then Zheng Chenggong's equipment is even more backward, and the number is only 25,000 people in such a disparity in strength, how can Zheng Chenggong succeed?
Now, let's talk about this topic.
After the Great Qing Dynasty entered the customs, anti-Qing movements emerged in an endless stream, Zheng Chenggong was organizing the Fujian coastal anti-Qing movement, but repeatedly lost battles, and finally in 1660, he was forced to Xiamen and Kinmen Island, the small island was narrow and sparsely populated, and the materials were scarce, so that Zheng Chenggong soon fell into a desperate situation.
In the case of being cornered, a man named He Bin pointed out a clear road to him, He Bin, who was originally a translator for the Dutch in Taiwan, escaped to join Zheng Chenggong because of a conflict with the Dutch, and the first thing he did after he surrendered was to strongly persuade Zheng to successfully recover Taiwan. In this regard, he explained that Taiwan is rich in products and surrounded by the sea on all sides, and it is most suitable as a base for resisting the Qing Dynasty, while the Dutch on the island are rampant, and the people are complaining, and it is easier to recover Taiwan now.
Zheng Chenggong's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he immediately summoned his generals to discuss the recovery of Taiwan. But what he did not expect was that all the generals categorically rejected him. The reason is also very simple, the Dutch on that island, built a strong city on the island, to recover Taiwan, can only besiege the city. But with the current situation of material shortages, and without strong ships and sharp artillery, it is almost impossible to capture Taiwan under such conditions.
Great people have the cognition that most people do not have, and Zheng Chenggong knows that the key to determining the outcome of the war has nothing to do with the strength or weakness of the army, the most important thing is whether what is done is the will of the people. Since ancient times, Taiwan has been China's territory, and it is the people's desire to regain Taiwan, and the people will certainly give their full support, and the people are the biggest supporter of the army. Therefore, Zheng Chenggong took this as a basis and decided to send troops to retake Taiwan despite the opposition of the people.
In March 1661, Zheng Chenggong had made all the preparations for the reconquest of Taiwan, and 25,000 officers and men, on more than 300 warships, sent troops from Kinmen to march to Taiwan.
Soon Zheng Chenggong won the battle of the outpost, recapturing the Penghu Archipelago and pointing directly to the main island of Taiwan.
However, the Dutch learned that He Bin had defected to Zheng Chenggong and strengthened their defenses against the island of Taiwan. By this time the Dutch on the island of Taiwan had increased to more than two thousand, not only reinforcing the coastal batteries, but also equipped with a powerful interception fleet. Even the farmland that Zheng Chenggong thought could be exploited was all destroyed in advance by the Dutch governor.
In the face of such a strong coastal defense, Zheng Chenggong could only look at the island and sigh, and at this time, He Bin told him not to be sad, the Dutch defense looked flawless, in fact, it was not impossible to open the Dutch defense, the Dutch's weakness was in the place of Deer Ear Gate, the area was usually shoals, ships could not pass, so the Dutch did not set up a defense in this area. However, on the evening of the first day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar every year, there will be tides here, and ships of all sizes can enter the Taiwan Neijiang River from here, and there is no problem in landing on The island of Taiwan.
So on the night of the first day of April in the lunar calendar, Zheng Chenggong led the fleet to raid Luermen, the Dutch were surprised when they knew it, and hurriedly sent a fleet to intercept it, although the Netherlands only sent four large ships, but each large ship was equipped with the most advanced equipment at that time, which brought great threat to Zheng Chenggong's fleet, at this time Zheng Chenggong did not panic, he took the method of capturing the thief first, he concentrated all his troops, attacked the Dutch fleet main ship, he not only concentrated all the cannons to attack the main ship, but also sent small fire boats to quietly approach and set fire to set fire. After losing several ships, he eventually sank the Dutch main ship, drove away the Dutch interception fleet, smoothly entered the inner river, and successfully landed on the island.
At this time, Yu Yi also understood the problem of Zheng Chenggong's lack of food, and ordered the Dutch soldiers to retreat to the cities of Chichi and Zeelandia, and prepare to hold the fortified city and wait for dutch reinforcements from Batavia.
Zheng Chenggong's side did not get the expected support of the masses, Zheng Chenggong knew that in the case of increasingly tight grain and grass, the siege of the city for a long time was bound to fail, and he should quickly cut through the chaos and quickly capture these two cities. At this time, the city of Chichi, which was guarded by only more than 500 Dutch soldiers, became his primary target. However, as soon as Zheng Chenggong attacked Chiqian City, he was fiercely counterattacked by the Dutch, and almost broke his siege.
What the hell is going on here? It turned out that the Dutch had advanced weapons, and the fierce counterattack made Zheng Chenggong almost lose the strength of his backhand, causing his army to suffer heavy losses.
After the continuous attack failed, Zheng Chenggong reorganized the firearms in the army to attack, although the weapons were a little backward, but the good thing was that the distance, the short number was large, the Dutch army did not take advantage, cang panicked to flee to the two cities, Zheng Chenggong sent a large knife iron man army to encircle, the archers chased behind, so that the Dutch were defeated, leaving more than 100 corpses to flee back to the city.
Subsequently, Zheng successfully cut off the water supply of Chichi City, and four days later Chichi City surrendered. The only Dutch stronghold left was the city of Zeelandia.
After Zheng Successfully besieged the city of Zeelandia, he sent someone to persuade Yi to surrender, but what he did not expect was that he was rejected by a mouthful.
Knowing that Zheng Chenggong was short of grain and grass, and that the city of Zeelandia was not only easy to defend and difficult to attack, but also backed by the docks, there was no shortage of supplies, and he could hold the city while waiting for batavian reinforcements.
Zheng Chenggong could only besiege the city of Zeelandia without attacking. First, he ordered the construction of earthen platforms around the city, which would prevent the Dutch in the city from fleeing, and prepare for the general offensive in the future, and sailed the fleet close to the docks, cut off the fresh water and material supply routes, and organized personnel to cast cannons to prepare for the general attack.
At this time, the problem of Zheng Chenggong's lack of grain and grass broke out completely, and Zheng Chenggong's first thought was to buy grain and borrow grain, but after buying grain and borrowing grain, there was still a shortage of grain, and even if the supply of grain per person in the whole army was limited to more than four months, then it would not be possible to capture the city of Zeelandia, and all previous efforts would be wasted.
How did Zheng Chenggong solve this problem? He made full use of the surrounding fields for tun tian, because Taiwan is close to the tropics, any seed from sowing to harvest only takes about three months, leaving thousands of people to besiege the city and make artillery, the rest of the people were all sent to the plains on the north and south sides of Taiwan to carry out tun tian reclamation.
At that time, the land cultivated by the soldiers had to be cultivated by a very high degree of labor, and the soldiers had limited food every day, and nutrition and energy could not keep up with such high-intensity labor, resulting in thousands of soldiers starving to death and dying of disease.
After hearing that Tuntian had caused a serious reduction in soldiers, Zheng Chenggong still resolutely implemented the Tuntian policy, and sent 6,000 more soldiers from Xiamen Kinmen, saying that Tuntian could not be stopped until all of Taiwan was recovered.
Because the Dutch were huddled in Thermandia City, Zheng Chenggong's solemn military discipline outside the city made the various ethnic groups in Taiwan no longer suffer from cruel oppression. At the same time, Zheng Chenggong's resolute recovery of Taiwan also deeply touched the people of all ethnic groups in Taiwan, and the masses of all ethnic groups took the initiative to help Zheng Chenggong in tun tian, and zheng chenggong's grain and grass crisis was finally over.
At this time, the Dutch reinforcements planned to eliminate Zheng Chenggong's besieging forces through a surprise attack. Who knew that the sky was not as good as the people, the reinforcements had a ship that ran aground when they approached Taiwan, were captured by the local mountain tribes, and sent the captives to Zheng Chenggong's army, zheng Chenggong knew the whole plan of the Dutch reinforcements from the captives' mouths, and made advance preparations.
When the Dutch reinforcements reached the city of Zeelandia, Zheng Chenggong was ready, and the Dutch reinforcements were completely trapped in the trap set by Zheng Chenggong, besieged by Zheng Chenggong from both sides of the waterway, and finally collapsed, except for those who were killed and surrendered, the rest of the Dutch reinforcements fled. Unable to wait for reinforcements, Yuichi could only fight the trapped beasts in the city.
Zheng Chenggong soon succeeded in Tuntian and solved the problem of food shortage in the whole army. At the same time, Zheng Chenggong also forged cannons, shelling the city of Zeelandia every day, breaking through the city's defenses, and the Dutch in the city suffered countless casualties
After Zheng Chenggong's continuous shelling, the Dutch escaped from the city and surrendered to Zheng Chenggong, and this group of capitulators kept informing Zheng Chenggong of the weakness of the city defense, which greatly improved the efficiency and power of the artillery attack. Yu Yi had to order the Dutch in the city to go out of the city to compete for the cannon, but was successfully repelled by Zheng.
In the first month of the lunar calendar in 1662, Zheng Chenggong besieged the city of Zeelandia for more than seven months, the city had been severely damaged, only 500 Dutch people could fight in the city, and the stock of ammunition had basically been used up, and finally Zheng Yi was really cornered and decided to surrender to Zheng Chenggong.
On January 25 of the lunar calendar, chi chi cheng, the dutch governor of Taiwan, Yi Yizheng, signed a surrender agreement. Zheng Chenggong also kept his promise and let the Dutch leave Taiwan by boat.
After nearly nine months of tenacious fighting, Zheng successfully and tenaciously recaptured Taiwan, ended the colonial rule of the Dutch, saved the enslaved people of Taiwan, and became a national hero unparalleled in the world.