Zheng Chenggong recovered the information of Taiwan Province Province.

1647 (the fourth year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty, the first year of Li Yong), after the anti-Qing Dynasty in Xiaojinmen in January, Zheng Jun moved to the southeast coast of Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other provinces, helping the imperial clan and people of Ming Dynasty to cross the sea and settle in Taiwan Province Province and Southeast Asia for many times. In addition, Zheng Chenggong asked China businessmen to accept the Fu Zheng token and the banner of "developing the country" to help protect the safety of China people doing business overseas;

At that time, many overseas Chinese businessmen did adopt this law and were able to go to sea safely for business. However, tens of thousands of troops could not obtain a large base area, and Zheng Chenggong was forced to prepare his salary through overseas trade.

After the failure of the northern expedition to Nanjing, Zheng Chenggong's troops were greatly weakened and he faced the problem of insufficient military food. In order to solve the logistics problem of the army, Zheng Chenggong decided to adopt He Bin's suggestion and recover the islands in Taiwan Province Province occupied by Dutch colonists.

16 1 April (18th and 15th year of Qing Shunzhi, March of the lunar calendar), Zheng Chenggong left his son Zheng Jing to guard Xiajin. Zheng Chenggong personally led 25,000 soldiers and hundreds of warships, set out from Luowan in Jinmen, crossed the Taiwan Province Strait through Penghu and marched into Taiwan Province Province.

There are two defensive fortresses in the southwest of Datai Island in the Netherlands, one is Grand Castle in Dazhou (now Anping District of Tainan City) and the other is Pumin Castle in Chikan, inland of Taijiang River (now Central and Western District of Tainan City).

On the 24th, the army entered the Penghu Sea, and the storm came suddenly. In order to complete the great cause of recovery at an early date, the troops were successfully ordered to break the waves overnight under extremely bad weather conditions.

On the first day of April of the same year, Zheng Chenggong's army entered the inland sea of Taijiang through Luermen Waterway, and landed at Heliao Port (near Kaiyuan Temple in the northern district of Tainan City), with the intention of securing the city with weak defense.

Subsequently, Zheng Jun launched a naval battle with the Dutch warship in the waters of Taijiang, sank the Dutch warship Heckert, gained control of the inland sea of Taijiang, defeated the Dutch army at the end of the northern line, and surrounded the ordinary people with superior forces. Soon, on the fifth day of April, the defenders of the city were forced to surrender. After gaining the civilian fortress city as a stronghold, Zheng Jun immediately besieged Grand City by sea and land.

Considering that the salary of 20 thousand people is not easy to pay, Zheng Chenggong does not intend to fight a protracted war. From the beginning, he put pressure on the city of Geran, trying to coerce the Dutch army to surrender. After Yi Yi, a senior Dutch official, rejected his request for surrender, Zheng Chenggong once ordered a storming of the city of Geran, but the Dutch army met with extremely tenacious resistance and suffered heavy losses.

Due to the weakness of the storm and the shortage of food in the army, Zheng Chenggong was forced to change his strategy, sending most of his troops to the north and south to open up wasteland to collect money and collect food, in order to solve the urgent need of food shortage in the army, and adopted the strategy of long-term siege of Zhoulancheng.

166 1 year (18th year of Qing Shunzhi, 15th year) On the fifth day of May, Zheng Chenggong changed Chilang to "Oriental Mingjing" and established Chengtianfu, Tianxing and Wannian counties. The enemy commander described Nanding's defeat and surrender. Therefore, Yang Chaodong successfully entered Chikan Tower and personally led an army to attack Chikan City (the "King City" built by Dutch colonists in Tainan).

Zheng Chenggong wrote a letter to Yi Wei, the Dutch colonial leader and Taiwan Governor, asking him to surrender. There are a few words in the letter: "However, Taiwan Province Province has long been under the control of China people, and the land of China is also. ..... since you have come to ask for it, give it back to me. "

It is an indelible fact that the people of China have recovered their lost land. However, the aggressive Bayi still tried to fight back according to the danger, and successfully ordered the army to tightly surround the red embedded city and attack it with fire. The Gaoshan people near chibi city came to welcome and help Zheng Chenggong, and the Han people in the city also sent messages to Zheng Chenggong. The fate of the colonists is entirely in Zheng Chenggong's hands.

Chibi City was besieged for more than seven months, and more than 1,600 enemy officers and soldiers were killed or injured. Finally, the enemy's water source was cut off, so we had to raise a white flag and declare our surrender.

Dutch colonists struggled in despair before they died. 166 1 July (18th year of Qing Shunzhi, 15th year of Li Yong), Dutch reinforcements from Batavia arrived in Dagong. In addition to more than 600 soldiers and 11 warships, reinforcements also brought a lot of materials and gunpowder to Geelan City.

At that time, Zheng Chenggong's military forces were still scattered around Taiwan Province to carry out their tasks, and the number of military forces stationed in towns covered by dignitaries and ordinary people was estimated to be less than 3,000, thus rekindling the hope of the Dutch army's counterattack. In mid-July, Dutch reinforcements moored in the open sea were hit by strong winds and forced to leave the coast of Daguan and go to Penghu for shelter from the wind and rain.

Among them, the Dutch warship Hourcq unfortunately ran aground, and all the crew on board were captured by Zheng Jun. This change gave Zheng Jun a temporary opportunity to prepare for the war. When the Dutch warships returned to the official waters in August, although Zheng Jun failed to recall most of his troops, he was already ready for the battle.

In mid-August, the Dutch and Zheng armies launched a fierce naval battle in the inland sea of Taijiang. Zheng Jun won a great victory, sank a Dutch warship and captured several ships. Since then, the Dutch army has lost the ability to take the initiative to attack.

/kloc-in October/February, Hans Juriens Rudd, a German-born Dutch petty officer, defected. According to the information he provided, Zheng successfully shelled and destroyed the Utrecht bunker in Gereilonge, thus making the destruction of Gereilonge a foregone conclusion. 1February 8, the Dutch official wrote a letter to Zheng Chenggong, expressing his agreement to "peace talks" and the enemy signed a surrender treaty.

1February 20th, surrendered to Zheng Chenggong, and Bayi led more than 500 remnants of the enemy to withdraw from our territory of Taiwan Province province. Taiwan Province Province, occupied for more than 30 years, has since returned to the embrace of the motherland.

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Zheng Chenggong regained the influence of Taiwan Province.

After Zheng Chenggong obtained Taiwan Province Province, he established the first Han regime in Taiwan Province Province, which also brought the Han immigrants. Although Zheng Chenggong died in the same year when he captured Taiwan Province Province, his successors Zheng Jing and Zheng Keshuang continued to rule Taiwan Province Province for 2 1 year, and under the planning of Chen Yonghua, they introduced palaces, temples and various laws and regulations made in China.

It laid the foundation for Taiwan Province Province to become a society dominated by Chinese culture in the future, not just another overseas Chinatown. Therefore, some scholars described this campaign as "deciding the fate of Taiwan Province Province in the next 400 years".

As for the Dutch East India Company, after losing its official stronghold, the trade route of "Southeast Asia-official (re-exported to China)-Nagasaki (Japan)" was interrupted, and the trade volume with China also decreased sharply, resulting in huge losses. The Dutch East India Company tried several times to restore this route, so it joined forces with the Qing court to attack Zheng.

1663, the Qing-Dutch Coalition forces attacked Jinmen and Xiamen. At this time, Zheng Chenggong was dead, and Zheng Jun was led by Zheng Jing. The two sides fought at Wusha Port in Jinmen, and Zheng Jun was defeated. He first retreated to Tongshan, and soon the whole army moved to Taiwan Province Province, completely losing its base in the mainland. But after this campaign, the Qing court only gave the East India Company silver and gifts, and did not send troops to help attack Taiwan Province Province.

1664 In August, the East India Company occupied the chicken coop. In June of the same year165438+1October, the Dutch fleet and the navy led by General Shi Lang of Qing Jinghai formed a coalition to attack Taiwan Province Province, and they were forced to turn back when they went to sea. Since then, the Qing court turned to attack Taiwan, and the East India Company also had financial difficulties due to years of military operations, and both sides stopped taking military actions against Taiwan Province Province.

In addition, due to the strict maritime ban imposed by the Qing court, the East India Company's stronghold in Keelung was almost unprofitable, but the maintenance cost was huge, so it gave up its own withdrawal in July 1668.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Zheng Chenggong Recovered Taiwan Province Province