"I can't wait for the next year......"

In the city of Geranza, Paul looked at the busy Dutch soldiers and civilians in the outer city and said sadly.

After the defeat of the navy led by Putmans, the Zheng army immediately seized the northern line of Oshima and placed artillery at its southern end, bringing most of the port into range.

At the same time, dredge the Luermen waterway and pick up several sunken ships that the Dutch sank in the waterway one by one.

Although the Western-style sail warships in the fleet still could not enter the waters of Dawan through the Luermen waterway, the bird ships and blacktail ships completely controlled Dawan. Day and night, artillery shells bombarded the outer city of Geranza, and even the governor's office was so damaged by shells that Paul had to move from the office into the inner city a month ago.

Now, the busy Dutch soldiers and civilians in the outer city are busy repairing the forts, building forts with fort baskets (a kind of bamboo basket that can be filled with sand, similar to modern sandbags) on the ruins of the merchant houses that were bombarded by Zheng's warships, and then arrange firepower.

Even this kind of artillery barricade could not last long under the firepower of Zheng Jun.

As the old nest of the Dutch, the castle of Geranza is a typical modern European fortress. There are two fortresses in the outer city, a half-moon fort, the one in the northwest corner is called Holland Castle, and the southwest corner is called Hadelland Castle. The inner city has four fortresses and three and a half moon forts. The four forts are called Fort Frecinlian, Fort Cambefair, Fort Mitt and Fort Gambofell. The Fort and the Half Moon Fort each have three cannons, a total of 30 cannons, which can be used to spread fire along the sides and sides of the wall.

In terms of defense, the city of Geranza is very strong.

However, this is only defense, not offense. Compared with the artillery of the Dutch, Zheng Jun's artillery was more numerous and more intensive.

Now Zheng Jun is not only very traumatic to its surface building, but also the loss of the inner and outer city is not small. The walls between Fort Mitt and Fort Gambofell, the walls on the second floor of the inner city to the east and to the south, and the castle of Holland in the outer city were all badly damaged and shattered. But on the whole, the protective power of Geranza City still cannot be underestimated!

From a military point of view only, Paul was even confident that he would hold out until the middle of next year. But what about psychologically?

The crushing defeat of the naval warships dealt a heavy blow to the confidence of the Dutch military and civilians in the fort.

As sea coachmen, they have long been accustomed to the authority of their own people on the sea. But in the East, they have been defeated by the Chinese again and again.

In the past, they could have used Chinese tricks to justify themselves, but the current failure has left them speechless.

Zheng's sailors defeated the Dutch head-on with their strength. Yes, there were fireships in them, but they were also in the naval battles of Europe. The Dutch themselves were good at setting fire to ships in naval battles.

The defeat of Putmans left them speechless.

The morale of the Dutch soldiers and civilians throughout the city of Geranza was greatly reduced.

Because everyone knew that the battleships brought by Putmans were their largest fleet in the Eastern world, and since Putmans had failed, what did the Dutch use to turn the tables?

Sending the news back to the mainland, the fleets of Africa, Tianfang, Tianzhu, and even the mainland are dispatched to the east one by one, and I don't know how long it will take to prepare.

Paul himself couldn't tell, all he could tell was that Geranza would never wait for that time.

It's just a matter of food, and Geranza can at most support it until the middle of the next year, even if it saves some use, and it will support it until August and September at most. And at that time, the local people may have just received an emergency from Batavia!

Without food, no castle can hold out. This is a fact that everyone knows, and because of this, everyone here is in deep despair.

Even Paul himself was desperate. His despair is no longer his fate and future, but the Zheng Jun on the other side has not sent anyone to persuade him to surrender until now.

Not before, and not after the defeat of Putmans......

Does Zheng Zhilong want to kill them all?

Paul shook his head fiercely. "Zheng Yiguan won't do this."

The latter was a very intelligent man in his mind. Smart people don't do stupid things.

Although he did not know much about the internal affairs of the Daming, Paul knew that a large-scale rebellion was breaking out in China, and the Chinese faced a strong foreign enemy in the north.

In this case, he didn't believe that Zheng Zhilong was willing to be entangled with them for a long time.

The land and water army has been entrenched in the south of the island for a long time, and this is an army of tens of thousands of horses and horses that can play a great role in the war.

Paul always believed that Zheng Zhilong would take the initiative to send someone to him for negotiations.

Of course, he can also take the initiative to seek negotiations with Zheng Zhilong.

But whoever is more active now will undoubtedly be more passive in negotiations.

This is a very sensitive opportunity. Paul was trying to endure, and he believed that Zheng Zhilong outside the city was also trying to endure.

"Persistence, persistence......" Paul cheered himself up, he firmly believed that Zheng Zhilong's patience could not be compared to his. Although the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the city of Geranza was also very low, they actually possessed the fortified city.

The Zheng Zhilong army outside the city was very morale.

A lot of rewards have just been distributed, and Zheng Zhilong has sent out a lot of silver medals made by people using Chongzhen's reward silver, and the morale of the whole army is boiling.

Because everyone knows that they are not far from victory.

The teaching and training in the army has long begun to popularize the concept of 'earth', that is, many soldiers of the navy have seen the size of 'the world' for the first time.

Although they were in the Zheng Group, they had heard a lot of words overseas, South Seas, and Western ......, but when they saw the world map for the first time, it still shocked the eyes of countless people.

The instructors used numbers to explain to the sailors what the 'East India Company' was.

Everyone also knew how difficult and difficult it was for the Dutch to gather a large number of warships in the East again after the previous crushing defeat.

Everyone clearly saw the victory in this war, will their morale still be low?

A large number of Zheng's new army are immigrants from the north, their families are in Dayuan, and their 'home' at this time is in Dayuan, so how can they not have the belief to fight to the end?

You must know that most of the previous silver medals were taken by the navy, which has already caused the new army to be 'dissatisfied'.

Now they are all trying to seize a sign.

"Boom, boom!"

This is Zheng Zhilong's order to the artillery. When the twisted trenches stretched from Dayuan Town to the outside of the city of Geranza, the mortar cannons prepared by Zheng Zhilong also came in handy.

Including the warship group at sea, the water and land are flanked together, and they are besieged on all sides.

Although there was no heavy artillery like the Urban cannon, it still beat the Dutch bitterly. Whether it is the inner city or the outer city, whether it is the first floor or the highest third floor, many surface buildings have been destroyed.

The Dutch fought in piles of rubble.

The increasingly unfavorable war situation has made their morale lower and lower!

December 5, 1643 in the Western calendar.

Leonadus walked into Paul's room, "Your lord, it's time to make a decision. The soldiers are no longer able to fight, and unless God Almighty appears, we can only accept the fate of defeat. ”

"We should keep going. Zheng Zhilong will definitely give in. He can't afford to drag it off with us. Paul exclaimed.

"Maybe, maybe, you're right. But so what? As long as it doesn't happen, it's all uncertain. On the contrary, now that I am in front of you, you should understand what it means! ”

Leonadus still saved Paul a trace of face, and did not expose the bloody truth, but what did Paul not understand?

He opened his mouth wide to say something, but eventually shut up. In this battle with Zheng Zhilong's patience, he is a loser.

"Shall we convene a council?"