Obviously, this battle should be fought by your Prime Minister's soldiers!

His Majesty the King has not yet been in charge of the government, and in addition to a few pulp boats, there are only eunuchs and a few guards in the palace.

And you, Prime Minister, have been in power all these years, and the army is also under your direct command, so go and fight!

The question is, can you beat it?

Well, let's not talk about whether the fight can be fought or not, the king now believes that if the prime minister's brain is broken at this time, and he forcibly asks the soldiers to board the ship and go to sea to fight the devil's ship, the soldiers are afraid that they will mutiny, right?

If the prime minister really did that, wouldn't he send the soldiers directly into my arms? So it is impossible to fight.

Well, if you can't fight, just ask for peace!

Then the question arises again, this robbery of other Han merchants is your subordinate of Lord Suhabi, right? The question is, as the saying goes, there is a debtor who is wronged, and who should pay this compensation?

Anyway, my king's inner court, don't even think about moving a penny of money from your prime minister! I didn't! I don't give it if I have it!

As for the public money, now the country is all yours, as long as you are not afraid of causing a financial crisis and arousing public anger, then you will give it!

The problem is, you're the one who caused it! But do you really plan to pay for the money? It's completely unreasonable! The inner treasury of your prime minister's mansion refuses to bleed heavily, how can you be convinced?

If you can't obey the people, that means that I have a chance to make everyone obey my king, right?

The more the young king thought about it, the happier he became.

So on this night, the king did only two things: one light and one dark.

On the surface, the king issued an edict demanding that all the fleets that went to sea return to the port of Holo at once to deal with the arrival of the devil's ships, and to defend the country and the capital with the same hatred! Secretly, he sent people out of the palace secretly, so that the fleet of his own cronies who had already gone to sea would not come back in the near future, and as for when he would return, he would listen to the news of the king himself.

The king's strategy is: watch the fire from the other side, and watch the excitement is not a big deal......

In fact, the country of Sulu is currently facing another big headache - the panic of the people in the city of Holo.

The battle of the Pride and the "magic show" in the sea outside the docks had caused a certain sense of panic among the people of Holo City, and the arrival of the Nicole had caused the people of Holo City to fall into even greater panic.

However, it seems that the Prime Minister's "five noes" strategy still has some effect, at least for the two full days that Nicole waited for the other party's response, the two sides maintained a stalemate on the surface.

However, in the past two days, the city of Holo has not been peaceful, and the news of a letter sent by the devil's ship is already known to the whole city at this time, but the content of the letter seems to be known only to the prime minister and the king, and even the generals guarding the city wall are not clear.

But there is an indelible truth in the world: the more information is blocked, the more rumors and gossip always prevail.

No, all kinds of gossip rumors have reached the ears of the prime minister, such as one of the rumors that says:

The Prime Minister's ship encountered the ghost ship while robbing outside, but the Prime Minister didn't know what was going on, he offended the ghosts, and now the ghosts have come to Holo City to take revenge.

Another rumor is that the reason why the devil's ship can run on the sea without oars or sails is because the devil drives ghosts to row, and we are mortal with the naked eye, so we can't see the oarsman and the sail on the mast.

However, there is another rumor that has caused panic among the people of Holo City: the reason why the Devil Ship came to Holo City is to replenish the ghosts, and the devils want Holo City to hand over 500 boys and girls, and then turn these children into ghosts for the demons to drive away......

That's enough! The Prime Minister was angry after listening to his subordinates' report, and he knew that if the situation was allowed to develop, the situation in Holo City might be unstable, and even panic riots would occur.

So Lord Suhabi Datu ordered martial law in the whole city the next night, curfew at night, and strictly ordered the city gate to be closed, and no one was allowed to leave the city without the token of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and sent his own soldiers to patrol the streets and alleys of Holo City, and found those who picked quarrels and provoked trouble, and those who spread rumors should be arrested immediately, and if the circumstances were serious, they should be punished on the spot!

From time to time, there was news that someone was taken to prison, who was beheaded on the street, and whose home was raided by the prime minister's personal soldiers.

The news spread so vividly that the house that had been raided was deserved, and that the family wanted to bribe the soldiers defending the city in order to escape from the city overnight.

But there is another theory: the family is related to the king, and they do not want to escape from the city at all, but want to enter the palace......

There is also a rumor that it is actually because the steward of the Prime Minister's Mansion has taken a fancy to someone's daughter and cannot get it, so he took the opportunity to take revenge in private......

However, these rumors show from one side that the Prime Minister's decision to impose martial law in the whole city is still correct, otherwise not only the nobles in the city will run, but the soldiers may also desert.

However, the two sides could not always be at such a stalemate, and on the morning of the third day, looking at the motionless city of Holo and the empty docks, the people on either the Nicole and the Pride finally pondered: it turns out that when these people are facing the "barbarians", especially in the face of those "barbarians" who fight but can't win, the strategy of pretending to be dead pigs and delaying not only happens in the old world, but also in the new world, it seems that all rulers will do this trick?

Nima's point is actually ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign!

Well, in that case, let's speak with cannons! Anyway, they don't understand the reasoning, or even if they already understand it in their hearts, they pretend to be deaf and dumb, OK! Very well, it seems that they only understand the sound of gunfire.

On July 7, 1657, on a sunny day, the sea was windless and waveless, and at ten o'clock in the morning, a roar suddenly broke the calm on the sea outside the port of Hollo, and two three-inch naval guns on the foredeck battery of the Nicole suddenly opened fire on the head of the city of Hollo.

Accompanied by the deafening sound of cannons, it was the ** that pierced the air and tore the calm sky, and every ten breaths, there was a piercing whistling sound that flew in, making the scalps of the people in Holo City numb.

At this time, the four three-inch-fifty diameter naval guns on the foredeck of the Nicole opened fire one after another, and with each firing, a cloud of gray-white smoke rose from the deck, accompanied by various passwords and the clanging of empty shells falling on the iron deck, and the battery suddenly became very lively.

Moments later, all the ship's guns opened fire in turn, and the front deck of the Nicole was almost covered in smoke.

In the first ten minutes, about twenty shells flew towards the city of Holo, about four kilometers away, and after a while, people on board the Nicole could observe through the telescope that the distant city exploded, and the smoke and fire appeared all over the city, and the bronze cannon at the head of the other city did not fire a single shot, obviously, the wooden wall of the other party could only be beaten passively.

However, at this moment, in the opinion of the first mate Xu Zhi, the attack effect of this round of shelling is simply miserable, although the fighting on the fort is quite lively, and the operating procedures of everyone who acts as gunners are also skilled, but the shells are particularly indiscriminate!

In the course of ten minutes, the quayside squares of the port of Holo, the shops near the square, the residential quarters of the city of Holo, and the city walls were all shelled, although barely three of them hit the walls north of the city, and one of them hit the gate tower - apparently this result saved the gunners a little face, but for the main target: the bronze gun emplacements on the city walls, they did not hurt the slightest bit.

Xu Zhi held a telescope on the lookout and scolded and shouted while observing:

"Recalibrate the shooting position!"

"Tian Jiali! Are your barrels crooked?! Look at what you guys are fighting! ”