"So, your Governor of Chunis, is still waiting for reinforcements to return from Taichung?"

Listening to Li Xiao's words full of ridicule, the generals of the Tiger Army next to him all laughed unconsciously, while the two familiar spies who were arrested looked embarrassed. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"It's time to tell you the truth about Governor Chunis." Li Xiao smiled and continued: "Cruel truth is better than false self-comfort, at least it can make people sober. ”

Then, Li Xiao waved his hand and asked the soldiers to take the two people down first.

Then, Li Xiao immediately ordered his personal guard captain Li Haoran to quickly return to Changhua City with ten escort cavalry to fetch something over.

Such a thing is the Dutch commander-in-chief Baudel, the head of the Tigers.

"Bembor is confident that after seeing this head, Governor Chunis must know what to do next." Li Xiao said to Li Haoran with a smile.

"Ahem, Master Li, it's long overdue! If our army had brought the head of Baudel's man earlier, so that the Dutch who were defending the city could see it clearly, it would have been said that the city had already surrendered. Li Haoran scratched his head and replied.

"Not necessarily, our army is fighting against the Dutch army, and it is not easy to break its fighting spirit with a single head. Moreover, even if the head was sent in, Chunis would suspect that this head was faked by our army in order to lure him to surrender. Now, if their spies sent back the skull in person, the effect would only be even better, and it would be a "surprise" for them. “

Listening to Li Xiao's reply, Li Haoran suddenly realized, he smiled and nodded, and immediately led ten cavalrymen to rush north.

"Lord Li, if this tactic is used, does our army still need to cut off the water source of Chiji City again?" Joseph asked.

"Of course, the more panic you can cause to the Dutch, the better." Li Xiao replied without hesitation. "Joseph, you must know that the more painful the enemy is, the more simply they will surrender in the future."

Two hours later, the culvert leading to the red socket was taken away by Joseph and the water source was cut off.

In the red embedded city, he immediately fell into a state of extreme panic.

Upon hearing the terrible news, Governor Chunis slumped into his soft chair like a deflated ball. Originally, because of the good mood of the city lord to successfully repel the attack of the Ming people, Delong suddenly disappeared cleanly.

"Damn it! I didn't expect the Ming army to have such a means. Chunis gritted his teeth in the chair, and then immediately shouted to the guards on the side: "What are you doing in a daze, quickly call Colonel Delong!" ”

"Yes!"

Soon, Delon, who was as fat as a pig, came to Chunis's office panting with a shy stomach.

"Delong, now that the Ming army has cut off the water source of my Chiji City, what should the soldiers and residents of this city do?!"

As soon as Delong entered the door, the restless Chunis immediately shouted at him.

Delong's face was also gloomy, he lowered his head for a long time before he raised his head and said, "Mr. Governor, the only solution now is to dig a well in the city to get water. ”

"Hmph, Chichicheng is close to the sea, and the wells that have been drilled before are all bitter and salty, and they can't be eaten at all!" Chunis retorted with a frown.

"Mr. Governor, now is an extraordinary time, I can only endure like this, and wait until the spies I sent out return with Commander Baldell's army, and then kill all those hateful yellow-skinned monkeys outside, both inside and outside!"

After DeLong finished speaking, he made a right-handed downward chopping motion with a hideous face.

Chunis let out a long sigh and immediately ordered, "Okay, let's do it first, go and dig the well out as soon as possible." ”

Delong was still very fast, and in just one day, he dug three wells in the city, and sure enough, these new wells, like the original well water, were bitter, salty, and astringent, and extremely difficult to drink.

Chu Niss tasted a sip of such water, and a strong regurgitation swelled, almost making him vomit all the wine and food in his stomach, but fortunately, he held back and swallowed the bitter water with difficulty.

Alas, is there any other way not to drink such water?

After all, in the Chiji City, which is now extremely short of water, it is better to have such bitter and salty water to drink.

For four days, when the city was in extreme panic and frustration due to the lack of water, Delong saw on the city wall that the Ming army outside the city was very leisurely, and they did not attack, but only surrounded the city to prevent the people inside from escaping.

DeLong gritted his teeth against these damned Ming troops, but he had nothing to do but hope that the two spies he had sent would bring Bowdel's army back quickly.

And at dusk on the fourth day, Li Haoran finally returned from Changhua City to the Ming army camp outside Chiji City with a huge wooden box.

Li Xiao opened the wooden box, and suddenly a pungent stench came to his face. Li Xiao condensed his eyebrows and looked closely, only to see that there was a huge fat red head inside, that messy red hair, that fat face full of horizontal meat, that short and thick red eyebrows and a huge hooked nose, it was not the Dutch army commander Baldel, who else could it be?

An inexplicable smile appeared on Li Xiao's face.

It's a pity, people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, this Dutch army commander Baudel has already let him go once, but he didn't expect that Baldell, who was bent on annexing Taichung and wanting to take revenge, finally died under Changhua City.

When? Fate?

Li Xiao stopped sighing, and then ordered: "Quickly order Zhao Wencai, the director of Pingnan Yingjia, to come to see Benbo." “

Soon, Zhao Wencai came in a hurry.

This Zhao Wencai, as the first group of personnel to come to Taiwan with Ding You, the head of the Taiwan colonization regiment, and others, was very responsible and conscientious because of his work performance and attitude, so he was gradually promoted from the earliest cavalry supervisor to the commander of the Pingnan battalion. During this period of attacking the Spaniards in Taipei and the Dutch in Tainan, he was deeply appreciated by Chifengbo Li Xiao because of his conscientious performance.

Seeing Zhao Wencai's arrival, Li Xiao said: "Supervisor Zhao, Ben Bo ordered you to take the head of the Dutch army commander Baldel, protected by four rampant sentinels, and escort those two spies to enter through the entrance of the sewers of Chiji City together, and go to the city to persuade the Dutch governor Chunis. ”

The reason why Li Xiao chose this Zhao Wencai to go to Chiji City to persuade Chu Nis, was because he noticed that Zhao Wencai was very eloquent and courageous in addition to doing things seriously, so Li Xiao decided to send him after careful consideration.

And the reason why Li Xiao let them re-enter through the sewer mouth was to give the Dutch a bigger psychological blow.

For he thought that the Dutch would be shocked to find that the spies they had sent had returned from the sewers with the civilian officials of the Ming army. It can also make Chu Niss and others completely understand that the Ming army is already well aware of his actions and intrigues, so they no longer dare to play tricks easily.

Zhao Wencai was very excited when he saw that he was taking on this important responsibility, and immediately promised loudly.

Zhao Wencai was about to leave, and Li Xiaofu advised: "Supervisor Zhao, go to the city of Chichi, be careful in everything." The specific conversation can be improvised, and it must be very good at Na Chunnis, so that he can come down as soon as possible. “

Zhao Wencai replied: "Don't worry, your lordship, you understand that you will live up to your trust." “

When it was dark, Zhao Wencai and his party entered from the mouth of the sewer and went straight to the red embedded city.

"You two lead the way, don't play tricks, otherwise, I will end you up immediately!"

After entering the sewer, Zhao Wencai shouted coldly at the two spies.

Listening to Zhao Wencai's stern words, the two spies nodded like garlic.

They had been walking through the labyrinthine and foul-smelling sewers for a long time before the two spies, led by the two spies, emerged from a sewer entrance in the backyard of the city's governor's palace.

"What people?! What do you guys do?! ”

At this time, the group of people came out of the sewer entrance like ghosts, and the four guards stationed in the backyard screamed in horror.

In the whole courtyard, the alarm bell sounded. At the same time, the footsteps of a large number of guards outside the courtyard quickly reached the ears of Zhao Wencai and others.

The four guards drew their sabers and rushed towards them, while the four rampant sentries guarding next to Zhao Wencai immediately stepped forward and drew their swords to fight these Dutch guards.

Seeing that a fight was imminent, one of the spies hurriedly whispered a few words in Dutch to the guard who rushed to the front, and the guard hurriedly stopped his companion from moving forward.

At this time, the pot-bellied Delong, with a group of guards, panted and ran in from outside the hospital.

He saw the two spies he had sent at a glance, and his face suddenly showed surprise, but he soon saw that next to these two spies were four soldiers wearing Ming army armor and a person who looked like a Ming civil official, and he couldn't help but immediately have a look of surprise on his face.

"What's going on? Who are they? Why did you bring them into the city? Delon yelled at the two spies.

One of the spies hurried forward, leaned back into Delon's ear, and whispered to him for a while.

Duronton's face changed drastically, his originally black and red face suddenly turned pale, and his lips trembled incessantly.

"You, you said, but really?" Delong looked at the big wooden box in Zhao Wencai's arms with an incredulous look, and asked the spy with a trembling voice.

"It is true that the Ming army has completely defeated Commander Baodel's army under Changhua City, and Commander Baodel's head is in the box of the civil official. The Ming army outside, after getting the head of Commander Baodel sent by Changhua City, let this Zhao Eunuch return with us. The spy said with a frightened look on his face.

"Damn Ming Dog 。。。。。。"

Delong frowned, with a hideous face, he took heavy steps and walked towards Zhao Wencai, and before he could speak, he suddenly heard rapid footsteps coming from the governor's mansion.

"What's going on? Why can't you be at night at peace! ”

An angry voice came from inside the door, and then, the back door was slammed open, and Chunis, who was wearing a pajamas, appeared at the door with an angry face.

Seeing that Chunis had come in person, Delon hurried forward and whispered to him what had just happened.

Chunis's face turned pale in an instant, and his legs trembled involuntarily.

Chu Nis, who finally controlled his own emotions, strode up to Zhao Wencai, frowned, and looked Zhao Wencai up and down.

Zhao Wencai also looked at him coldly, motionless.

A spy hurriedly approached and whispered to Zhao Wencai, "Zhao Wenguan, this is our Governor Chu Nis. ”

Zhao Wencai sighed, a contemptuous smile appeared on his face, and he didn't speak, and handed the wooden box in his arms to Chu Nis.

Chu Nis stretched out his trembling hands and took the wooden box handed over by Zhao Wencai.

As soon as Fang opened it, there was a disgusting smell of lime mixed with rotten flesh, which almost made him faint.

He fixed his eyes and saw that the red-haired head inside looked like it was in a deep sleep, who could it be if it wasn't Baldel!

A sad and cold emotion instantly permeated Chu Nis's body.

Holding the wooden box in his hand, he stood like a puppet, and Colonel Delong next to him also had a dull expression.

"Governor Chunis, I won't talk much nonsense, my Lord Li said, I hope you understand the situation, don't resist in vain, it's better to surrender in time."

Zhao Wencai's cold and low words were quickly translated by the spies to Chu Nis. These words, like a heavy hammer at this time, struck Chunis's heart.

"Hmph, why did my Dutch army surrender?! Even if Commander Baldell and all the expeditionary forces are wiped out by you, our army is guarding this fortified red city, what skills do you have to get in?! Delong on the side listened to Zhao Wencai's words, but asked angrily.

Zhao Wencai listened to the spies' translation, and a faint smile appeared on his face.

"If I tell you that the reason why Lord Li has stopped attacking with artillery in the past few days is to bring in more heavy artillery from Changhua City to prepare to conquer the city in one fell swoop, will Colonel Delong be very surprised?" Zhao Wencai said with a smile.

"You, you're lying! If you had so much heavy artillery, you would have brought in a siege long ago! Why bother to use the strategy of sacrificing Baodel's head to break the hearts of our army now! Delon retorted with a cold snort.

"That's because my family, Lord Li, is cautious, and will never act rashly until he defeats your Dutch expeditionary force. Now that the Dutch Expeditionary Force has been completely wiped out by our army, our army can pull all the 100 heavy artillery pieces in Changhua City to deal with you. Zhao Wencai sneered and added: "By the way, you Dutch brought a hundred artillery pieces in order to capture my Changhua City, and what I want to tell you is that these artillery, together with the heavy artillery of our army, are about to be transported to Chiji City." ”

"You 。。。。。。"

Zhao Wencai's faint words made Colonel Delong's words choke for a while, but it made Governor Chunis's heart tremble even more.

God, if the Ming army really brought a hundred heavy artillery pieces with full attack power, plus a hundred artillery pieces captured from our army, and used these more than 200 artillery pieces to bombard the walls of the Red Embedded City, this Red Embedded City, no matter how strong it is, is afraid that it will not be able to hold it.

If it really comes to such a bad situation, there will be no room for negotiation of conditions.

When Chu Nis was extremely depressed, Zhao Wencai's voice sounded again.

"Governor Chunis, my lord Li is kind-hearted and upright, and he really doesn't want to attack the city so strongly, causing the lives in the city to be ruined, and the army and people to suffer. Only then did he send his subordinates to the city to tell Mr. Governor, hoping that Mr. Governor would understand the righteousness, know his way back, and give himself and the soldiers and civilians in the city a way to live. With all due respect, if we wait for the artillery to arrive, after our army breaks through the city strongly, I am afraid that this red embedded city will really burn the jade and stones, and the chickens and dogs will not be left. Where to go, please think deeply about Governor Chunis. ”

Hearing Zhao Wencai say this in a heavy tone, Chu Nis's eyes closed slightly, and he looked up to the sky and sighed in pain.

"Okay, Ben Du is willing to surrender, then then, our two armies can talk about the conditions." Chunis's voice was low.

"Very good, Mr. Governor really understands the righteousness, can put the lives and safety of the military and civilians in the city first, and is also a handsome man who understands current affairs." A smile appeared on Zhao Wencai's face: "Master Li said, as long as you lay down your arms and surrender in Kaecheng, then he will definitely ensure that the lives of the soldiers and civilians in the city are saved, and he will try his best to give your army a decent arrangement." ”