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With a bang, the city gate was opened, and the dejected governor Chunis, Colonel Delon, and others, with five hundred Dutch soldiers in the city, rushed out of the city gate.

Li Xiao watched quietly, the smile on his face was very bright, and in the sea breeze, his bright red cloak was like a flag.

The guards behind him, as well as generals such as Li Dingguo, all held their heads high, and their faces were full of smugness.

"Dear Lord Li, this governor led the whole city garrison of 500 people to surrender to you."

Chu Nis slowly walked to Li Xiao's horse, knelt down on one knee, put his left hand across his chest, bowed his head, took off his saber from his waist, raised his hands above the top and handed it to Li Xiao, fully demonstrating the most respectful etiquette of a surrendering general.

Some governors led by example, such as DeLong and a number of Dutch soldiers, who also knelt down and begged for surrender.

Li Xiao turned over and dismounted, took a few steps forward, took the sword from Chu Nis's hand, and laughed loudly: "Very good, Governor Chu Nis, who knows the current affairs and knows the general situation, but he has saved the lives of the soldiers and civilians in the city, please get up quickly." ”

Chunis stood up from the ground, and Delong and the rest of the army also got up from the ground.

Looking at Li Xiao with a smile on his face, Chu Nis sighed lightly, and then asked Li Xiao with a dodgy gaze: "Lord Li, now that our army has surrendered, I don't know how you plan to settle us." ”

"Yes, Master Li, your Zhao Wenguan said that you will give us a decent arrangement." Delong on the side hurriedly added.

After listening to the translation of the Han people's affairs, Li Xiao smiled even more on his face: "Two, Li has always said and done things, and he will always believe it, since you have gone out of the city and surrendered, our army will never embarrass you." In addition to all kinds of money, food, ordnance, and other materials in the treasury, Benbo may also allow you to take your personal property. As to whether you are going back to Batavia or to Holland proper, Benber will not interfere. ”

After listening to Li Xiao's conversation, Chu Niss and the others were all happy. They knew that Li Xiao's promise was much more generous than the conditions he had set for Spain. I think that at that time, those Spaniards who were entrenched in Taipei were all driven back to the Philippines by Li Xiao with their bare hands.

The joyful Chu Nis, who had not yet replied, added lightly: "However, although this official can make such a promise to you, he has one request, and I hope that the governor of Chu Nis can agree to Ben Bo." ”

"Please tell Master Li clearly." Chunis replied hurriedly.

"This requirement is very simple, if you and the Dutch in the city, including those prisoners captured by our army in the previous battle, can leave Taiwan safely, your naval ships that invaded our Taichung area must be delivered to our army as war compensation."

Listening to Li Xiao's calm words, Chu Nis and Delong on the side both looked embarrassed.

Eighty-two ships are the most powerful naval force of the Dutch East India Company in the Far East, except for Batavia, this Li Xiao is so greedy that he wants to swallow this Dutch fleet in his stomach!

If this powerful navy was handed over to the Ming army in this way, then the Dutch would not have thought of any large-scale military operations in the Far East in the past ten years.

This greedy and despicable Chinese!

Chunis scolded angrily in his heart, and Delong on the side was also breathing heavily.

For a while, there was an awkward atmosphere at the scene.

"Lord Li, what if we can't agree to your conditions?" DeLong finally couldn't hold it anymore and snapped a sentence out of his throat.

Li Xiao glanced at him, still with a faint smile on his face.

"Do you think that you who have surrendered now are still qualified to negotiate conditions?" Li Xiao's voice was very soft, but there was an irresistible force: "If you don't agree, then I'm sorry, you will have to become hostages of our army until your East India Company can offer a reasonable price to redeem you." ”

"You 。。。。。。"

Delon gritted his teeth and spit out the word, but swallowed back the words that followed.

Li Xiao suddenly looked like he remembered something, and said to Chu Nis: "Benbo received the news from Changhua City, your Dutch troops have told our army, saying that the fleet you went to Taichung to fight, the supplies you brought with you, but it has only been ten days, and now it has been seven or eight days, so if they want to forcibly leave Taiwan and go to Batavia, Benbo is thinking, it is estimated that they have not yet reached Luzon, this fleet without supplies and replenishment, will become a good meal for the Spaniards." ”

Li Xiao turned his face, looked directly at Chu Nis, and said, "Chu Nis, Ben Bo can tell you that the reason why I don't want to attack the Dutch fleet anchored in Lukang is that I really don't want to let more soldiers die needlessly when the battle is decided. After all, it would be a complete tragedy for another war like this, when you have all surrendered. ”

Li Xiao's calm words were very soft, but in Chu Nis, they sounded like a heavy hammer, hitting his heart fiercely.

People are swordsmen, I am fish and meat, what more can I say, and what can I fight for.

"Well, Ben Governor promises you." Chu Nis sighed lightly and said, "Lord Li, I only hope that you can sincerely fulfill your promise. ”

Li Xiao laughed: "Don't worry, as long as your navy surrenders smoothly, then our army will definitely keep its promise." Moreover, in addition to this, Benber agreed to continue to conduct various commercial transactions with the Netherlands from now on to achieve long-term mutual benefit and win-win results for both parties. In that case, when you return to the headquarters of the East India Company in Batavia, your chairman will not blame you too much. ”

Chunis smiled wryly, then nodded helplessly.

For Li Xiao's way of slapping and then giving a sweet date, even if he hated it in his heart, he could only be helpless.

Since ancient times, losers have no dignity, and Li Xiao can talk to him so politely for so long, which is already very polite.

Next, Li Xiao and the Dutch Governor Chunis formally signed a new Ming-Dutch armistice, the details of which are as follows:

1. From now on, the Ming army and the Dutch army officially ceased war, and all the land, castles, facilities, storage money, grain and materials of the Netherlands in Taiwan were received and properly protected by the Ming army.

2. The Netherlands gave Taiwan's naval fleet to the Ming army as war reparations, and the Ming army sent people to receive it, and at the same time, the Ming army released all the captives and surrendered Dutch soldiers to let them regain their freedom.

3. Out of consideration for the friendship and mutual assistance between the Ming and the Netherlands, the Ming army took out six low-level armed merchant ships from the naval ships it had obtained, and used them as means for the Dutch army and the people to leave Taiwan.

4. After the armistice agreement was signed, the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands continued to maintain commercial and trade exchanges, and regarded each other as long-term business partners.

5. From now until the Dutch leave Taiwan, the Ming army guarantees the safety of the Dutch and their personal property from infringement, if the Dutch are willing to come to Taiwan to do business or settle down in the future, the Ming army is also welcome, but these Dutchmen have no extraterritoriality, and they need to fully abide by the laws of the Ming Dynasty.

6. This agreement shall be signed in duplicate by the leaders of both parties.

"Mr. Chunis, I hope that we can forget the unpleasant past as soon as possible and start a new and sincere cooperation."

After signing the agreement in duplicate, Li Xiao stretched out his right hand to Chu Nis.

Chu Nis had to smile bitterly and stretched out his hand, holding it with Li Xiao's sturdy right hand.

The next reception went very smoothly.

Thanks to the surrender document signed by the governor of Chunis, the remaining castles, such as the castle of Puruminsia and several small castles in remote locations, all surrendered on their own initiative.

And the LTTE Governors, in the following receiving and counting work, added up the statistics of the various castles to get a staggering total.

That is, the Tiger Army received a total of 23,000 taels of gold, a total of 13,580,000 taels of silver and silver coins, 9,600,000 stone of grain, and various types of ordnance.

This captured figure made Li Xiao very happy, and even made everyone in the Tiger Army smile, and every soldier knew that he would be able to get a rich reward next.

The only thing that happened was that a day later, when Li Xiao was about to take Chu Nis's surrender edict and go to Lukang to read the order for the Ming army to receive the ships from the Dutch fleet, the guards of the Four Seas Grass Fort off the Neijiang River had already reported that the Dutch fleet had just returned.

It turned out that the Dutch fleet, after waiting for several days in Lukang, had not seen any news from the Dutch commander-in-chief, Baudel, so it was very uneasy, so it sent personnel ashore to make contact, but unexpectedly, after these liaison personnel went to the interior, they all lost news.

Of course, the true fate of these liaison personnel, except for one or two who went astray, was basically captured by the Ming army.

However, because none of the liaison personnel who went ashore returned, the panic of the fleet was further exacerbated.

Therefore, when they stayed in Lukang until the sixth day, the captains of the fleet, after deliberation, decided to return to Tainan with all the fleet, and report the situation to Governor Chunis, and then make plans, in view of the fact that there was no news of the land forces that had come ashore, and that the fleet's supplies were becoming more and more insufficient.

It's just that when they just returned to the vicinity of the Four Seaweed Forts, they saw the flag of the Ming Dynasty flying high on these incomparably familiar fortresses, and the entire fleet was stunned.

The fleet immediately fell into chaos.

While the captains were urgently discussing whether to attack the fortress immediately, Chunis's surrender message was finally sent to the lead ship.

So, everything finally returned to calm.

On each ship, except for the six small armed merchant ships that Li Xiao ordered to be pulled back to the Netherlands, the rest of the ships, from captains to ordinary sailors, all lined up from the ships and let the Ming army sailors receive the ships.

Seeing a total of seventy-six ships of various sizes and sizes, being able to receive them in such a complete state, Li Xiao's heart was sweeter than drinking honey.

He saw that among these fleets, there were a total of five giant sail warships with a total of one hundred and four guns on four masts and three floors, that is, the Longxiang-class battleships ordered by Li Xiao, and then there were as many as six of them in total, plus his current flagship Shenglong, the Dutch first-class battleships owned by Li Xiao, that is, the Longxiang-class battleships.

In addition, there were as many as twenty-five large battleships with four masts and double-deckers with seventy-four guns, which belonged to the third class of battleships according to Dutch standards, that is, the "Tiger Roar" class battleships named after Li Xiao.

The other ships are 30 two-masted single-story armed light warships equipped with 46 guns, and their class does not belong to the category of battleships in the Dutch Navy, but as auxiliary combat ships, this kind of ship is named "Eagle Strike" class battleship by Li Xiao.

At the same time as receiving the ship, Li Xiao also ordered that the Dutch seamen, who had been forcibly detained by himself to work in the army, should also be allowed to leave Taiwan with their families if they wanted to leave the LTTE.

After Li Xiao's order was issued, only a very small part of the crew wanted to leave, and the vast majority of the crew still wanted to stay in Li Xiao's army. After all, the salary here is high, and if you return to the Netherlands, you will no longer be able to enjoy such preferential conditions.

Li Xiao readily agreed to their request and allowed their families to continue to live in Taiwan.

What Li Xiao didn't expect was that after listening to the Dutch crew members in Li Xiao's army introduce the level of treatment, a large number of Dutch crew members were red-eyed and wanted to stay and work for Li Xiao.

Li Xiao laughed, warmly welcomed them to join, and gave different categories of Tiger Army sailors according to their rank.

It's just that because these people have just joined, their loyalty has yet to be tested, so in the fleet, they are all appointed to the position of deputy, and the Akito crew serves as the chief officer.

After another three days, after taking the Dutch captives in Changhua back to Chichicheng and freeing them, the Dutch finally began to leave Taiwan.

The former governor of Taiwan, Chu Nis, stood on the side of the ship like a log, looking at the coast and castle of Tainan farther and farther away, and there were tears rolling in his eyes.

Sadly, the Dutch, who claim to be the guardians of the civilized world, were completely driven out of Tainan, which had been entrenched for decades, by these Chinese yellow-skinned monkeys, and left like a lost dog.

Although Li Xiao allowed them to take away their private property, the feeling of being forcibly swept out of the house was really humiliating.

It's just that the Dutch army, will there be a chance to come back and regain the lost territory?

Perhaps, in this life, I will never come to this eastern land again.

Thinking of this, Chunis's heart felt even more bitter.

In order to give him a buffer after he returned, Chunis wrote a letter to the chairman Zahn first.

In the letter, Chunis described himself as brave and fearless, brave and tenacious, and fought intensely until he ran out of ammunition and food, and then had to be defeated at the hands of a Ming army as strong and terrible as a monster and as numerous as cockroaches.

Of course, Chunis also emphasized one point in the letter, that is, under his own strong blow, the Ming army also suffered heavy casualties, so these hateful and greedy Chinese, although they forcibly occupied the land of Taiwan, still had to agree to continue to maintain trade relations with the Netherlands.

Two days later, when Chunis and his party had just arrived at the border of Luzon, the letter delivered by flying pigeons had reached Zahn, chairman of the Dutch East India Company.

After reading the letter, Zahn's face turned pale.

His hand holding the letter trembled involuntarily, and his mouth subconsciously moved and closed.

With a click, a delicate pipe made of brown oil and ironwood fell from his mouth onto a thick, dense carpet of woven flowers.