On the trail at the foot of the hillside, a 7m bullet fired from a Mosin 7 Nagan rifle penetrated Zheng Zhilong's chest. Before Tongtaro and his party could react, two M77Bs fired Nato bullets and swept over, knocking down several Japanese mercenaries. On the ground, Tongtaro was eager to help Zheng Zhilong lie down on the ground, but fortunately escaped the first round of fire.
Tongtaro ignored the bullets flying around him and the people around him falling down one after another. He reached his hands under Zheng Zhilong's armpits, knelt and half-draged and half-pulled him over to the big stone next to the grass. After finally hiding behind a rock, he saw that Zheng Zhilong was not only shot in the chest, but also in the leg. Blood gurgled out, and blood foam flowed from the corners of his mouth. Seeing that he could not survive, he couldn't help but feel sad and couldn't help but shed tears. °
Although Zheng Zhilong was seriously injured, he had a clear mind and knew that he would not survive. He struggled and said: "Life is like dew, it will eventually dissipate... You don't have to be too sad... I started when I was young. In the midst of the turmoil, it would be worthwhile to earn this career right away..." As he spoke, blood welled up in his throat, and he coughed several times and was speechless. Totaro quickly wiped it off for him. He took a break and continued reluctantly, "I just don't worry about Fukumatsu..."
Tongtaro held back his tears and said: "The villain will definitely follow the young master to the death and protect him!"
Zheng Zhilong reluctantly nodded: "I trust you. If nothing happens... you try to take him back to Hirado to find..." He lowered his voice and said a few words.
"The villain understands!"
"I'm really unwilling..." Zheng Zhilong withdrew his gaze and passed away before he finished speaking.
Tongtaro's eyes filled with tears, but he was not allowed to grieve at this time. Several of the soldiers and mercenaries accompanying him were dead and wounded, and the Konthi ambush was about to rush down. In a hurry, they could neither bury nor hide the bodies. "The head of a general must never be taken away by the enemy." This is the consistent tenet of the samurai. He immediately pulled out his wakizashi and cut off Zheng Zhilong's head, wrapped it in clothes and carried it on his back, and escaped into the grass.
When Qian Shuixie and his men rushed to Post No. 6, the gunfire had completely stopped. The team leader who set up an ambush here briefly reported the ambush situation to him. I heard that the sniper hit a young man who "looked very much like the one in the photo." "People", Qian Shuixie's heart skipped a beat. Could Zheng Zhilong really be here?
He led the people to climb down to the path at the foot of the hillside. There were about a dozen corpses lying next to a big rock. Judging from the weapons and equipment they carried, they were obviously relatively elite troops, especially several of them who were obviously Japanese. The Japanese mercenaries were only in Zheng Zhilong's bodyguard, so there was no doubt that this group of people was Zheng Zhilong's bodyguard. The team members checked. Although some of them were still breathing, it was obvious that they could not survive. They could not tell who they were.
"Who is similar to Zheng Zhilong?" Qian Shuixie asked.
The problem is that none of the corpses on the ground match the photo of Zheng Zhilong. The sniper watched for a long time, but did not recognize anyone he had seen. The team members searched all the way and found a headless body behind a big rock. Judging from the wounds on the chest and legs, they were indeed shot with Mosin 7 Nagant rifles.
Qian Shuixie walked over and took a closer look. Although he had no heads, he was still wearing the homespun trousers and jackets commonly worn by Zheng Army soldiers. But it was clear that the heads were beheaded, and he had never beheaded his own dead soldiers without any reason. The method of decapitating someone would only take such an extreme step unless the person was an important person, and the other party had no time to bury the body and did not want the general's head to be removed by the enemy.
From this, it seems that this person is probably Zheng Zhilong! Qian Shuixie carefully observed his surroundings and found signs of dragging on the ground. Apparently, the man was shot and dragged behind a large rock. So many people have not been rescued, but this person was rescued. Obviously his status is higher than others...
If not, this person is probably an important figure in the Zheng Zhilong Group, and may be a member of the Eighteen Zhi.
"Search these bodies."
Almost everyone brought some gold and silver, but nothing to prove their identity.
The person who had been beheaded was clean and had nothing on his body, which made people suspicious. However, during the search, second evidence was found that this person was probably Zheng Zhilong or another important figure. This person was wearing close-fitting trousers and jackets made of fine poplin, which did not match the coarse cloth trousers and jackets worn outside.
Qian Shuixie took out his Casio card camera and photographed the entire scene, and then ordered the headless body to be buried alone next to a big rock and marked. Since the head has been chopped off and the possibility of identity verification has been lost, there is no need to transport it away again.
Although he subsequently reported the "suspected killing of Zheng Zhilong" to the Lichun, he continued to implement the blockade in the direction of Wulaofeng to prevent other fish from slipping through the net.
The team led by Matos was chased all the way by Shi Zhiqi, and finally collapsed completely. Matos and some of the people finally escaped to the dock, grabbed two boats and escaped. Others may die, and those who escaped by chance lost their lives. Punishment, falling in the mountains.
Subsequent convoys arrived one after another, and the heavy artillery troops, army and logistics columns landed one after another. Although there were no targets worth fighting on the island, there were still many stragglers of the Zheng army scattered throughout Xiamen Island, and there were many Zheng family members. The fortress was not occupied, and the follow-up troops arrived just in time to carry out the subsequent security warfare mission.
Gulangyu fell later that day. The first expeditionary force waited until subsequent troops landed before crossing the sea. The defenders who occupied the small island of Gulangyu without resistance had fled.
As a member of the Intelligence Bureau, he was the first to board Gulangyu Island after the battle. This Piano Island is just a deserted island at this time, with no literary and artistic temperament except for a few fishing villages.
This small island in the southwest sea of Xiamen Island is almost entirely made of rocks, with an area of only four square kilometers. Allowed to climb to Sunlight Rock, the highest point here.
The surface of the rock is dyed a light golden yellow. What is strange is that the sunlight does not reflect when it shines on it, as if it is completely absorbed by it.
"No wonder people call it Sunlight Rock!" Xu Xu said, looking up at this strange rock on the hill - the distance away from this slightly angular giant was densely covered with np-shaped rocks.
Overlooking the entire island from here, it can be seen that the Zheng family also has considerable business operations on this small island. Not only did they build forts, they also set up a large-scale weapons factory and shipyard. There is nothing much to say about the shipyard. It still builds large Fuzhou and Guangzhou ships according to traditional Chinese shipbuilding methods. There are several unfinished Dafu ships on the beach of the shipyard. They seem to have a displacement of more than a thousand tons. It seems that Zheng Zhilong also knows that small-tonnage ships have no use in the current sea.
"There is not much oil and water in the shipyard, and those few ships are not finished yet. But there is a lot of oil and water in the weapons factory." A naturalized citizen of the Special Search Team of the Planning Institute who accompanied him to visit said excitedly, "It's all filled with pig iron and Copper, lead, especially copper, is estimated to be tens of thousands of kilograms! There are also many iron cannons and bronze cannons..."
He thought that this chief was also from the Planning Institute, because Chief Xu had been patrolling the yards and warehouses where the trophies were stacked since he landed ashore.
Xu Xu smiled slightly. He and the Planning Council were concerned about something different: not how much property could be seized, but whether there were any clues from the loot that could threaten the Senate's rule.
Just now at the Zhongzuo Institute, he had seen two 24-pound cannons made by Lingao. Although the mounts of these two guns were damaged, they were so special that the sailors recognized them at a glance as one of the navy's standard naval guns after occupying the city.
Xu Xu then checked the emblems and numbers on the artillery pieces and confirmed that the two guns were the artillery pieces on the missing patrol boat No. 64. He then ordered the soldiers to collect shells and other accessories for the two artillery pieces. The damaged gun mount, some accessories on the gun, some unfired shells and several grenade time fuses were quickly found.
These two artillery pieces fell into the hands of Zheng Zhilong, and apparently the Harbor Patrol No. 64 also fell into their hands.
This is not beyond Li Li's expectation. After all, there are not many people who have the motive and courage to do this. However, Xu Xu is more concerned about - what is the purpose of the Zheng Group's acquisition of this ship? Is it just to get these two artillery pieces? Now that we have the artillery, where is the typewriter?
Xu Xu thought thoughtfully and said, "Let's go to the shipyard first."
There is nothing special about the shipyard itself, whether it is equipment, raw materials or traditional Chinese shipbuilding techniques. However, when he looked at the unfinished Dafu ships, he discovered something different.
First of all, the length-to-width ratio of these two Fu ships is close to 4, while the length-to-width ratio of traditional Fu ships generally does not exceed 3. Such ships have good stability, but the price is very slow speed. The ship's ribs are installed in a European design, and on a nearly completed Fu ship, half of the upper deck has been laid.
These changes are of course invisible to ordinary people. However, Xu is a naval intelligence officer and is very sensitive to shipbuilding technology. He has accumulated various navigation and naval knowledge in the 16th and 17th centuries.
These improvements all show that the Zheng Group has begun to try to introduce some European ship manufacturing technologies. Increasing the density and strength of the ship's ribs and laying the upper deck seem to be intended to prepare for the installation of more artillery. China's traditional ship types such as Fuchuan and Guangzhou are unable to install a large number of artillery due to structural problems.
However, these technologies were already mature at the time, and there were no traces of borrowing from the Harbor Patrol Boat No. 64. The whereabouts of the missing patrol boat are still unknown.
