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Seeing that the sun was gone, the sky was getting dark, and Baudel, who had gone ashore in the early morning and set out in the morning, had not received any news until now, and he could not help but make Vanderbilt, the governor of the Dutch Taiwan, who was sitting on the giant command ship, anxious and resentful, pacing up and down the deck like a trapped beast. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The commander-in-chief took the best berthing position in Lukang and was directly connected to the dock, while the other ships could only dock farther away, and Vanderbilt, who was in a frustrated mood, looked back at the other ships, and in the darker and deeper night, he could only see a gray-black shadow.

Vanderbilt firmly believed in his heart that Baudel, a rough fellow, must have not suppressed his vigor after defeating the Ming army, and went to the Ming villages and towns to burn and plunder on a large scale, so that he did not send anyone to report the news so late.

Seeing that the sky was getting darker and darker, Vanderbilt, who was extremely impatient, was thinking about whether to send soldiers to meet him, when he suddenly saw that on the ground where darkness was gradually shrouded in the distance, a group of cavalry was quickly riding towards his command ship.

"Your Excellency the Governor, it's the Commander, they're back."

A guard officer next to him took a cursory look at it with a clairglass in his hand, and immediately reported to Vanderbilt.

Vanderbilt sighed, snatched the clairvoyant mirror from the guard officer's hand, and took a closer look, only to see that the more than 100 cavalry who came quickly were none other than the dragoons of the Dutch army, and at the forefront of the dragoons was the fat pig commander Baldel.

"Our Mr. Baldell, after finally having enough captives, finally remember to lead the army back." Vanderbilt put down the clairvoyant mirror, but his face was full of disgust: "This greedy and despicable fellow, let's see how he will explain to the Governor when he gets on the boat!" ”

Soon, the gangway was lowered, and in the dark night, more than a hundred dragoons followed Baudel up the gangway.

After getting on the boat, the dragoons jumped off their horses, hugged Commander Baudel, and gradually walked towards Vanderbilt.

"Hey, Mr. Baldell, I thought that you, who had made a fortune today, were going to spend the night in the Akito's territory to celebrate."

Vanderbilt said with a sneer in a mocking tone to Baudel, who was walking silently with his head down.

It's just that the smile on his face quickly stiffened.

A dragoon, with his head down and following behind Baldel, suddenly drew a cold, sharp sword with lightning speed and pressed it hard against Vanderbilt's neck.

This change was like lightning and fire, and Vanderbilt was stunned like a puppet.

At this time, several of Vanderbrough's guards were also stunned for a moment, and before they could react, several dragoons rushed out and rested their sharp swords on their necks.

"Don't scream, or I'll kill you with a knife!"

These dragoons who shot out almost at the same time shouted fiercely in Chinese.

Vanderbilt had been in Taiwan for nearly a year and was quite proficient in Chinese, and of course he understood what that short and ferocious sentence meant.

Vanderbilt's face turned pale, he couldn't believe what was in front of him, trembling all over, he looked at the dejected commander Boudel with disbelief.

"Your Excellency the Governor, please forgive me, I was forced to 。。。。。。"

Baudel didn't dare to look into Vanderbilt's angry eyes, his voice was like a mosquito.

Vanderbilt noticed that Baudel's back had been hit by several sharp knives at the same time.

He suddenly understood everything.

It's just that this is the case, Vanderbilt still can't believe that the high-morale and well-equipped Dutch army that set off in the early morning, under the leadership of the commander Baudel, who vowed to sweep the Mingren, could be in the territory of the Mingren so quickly, suffered a complete defeat, and now, he was even pretended to be dragoons by the Mingren, and coerced Bowdel, a damn rice bucket, to come and calculate himself!

It's just a fucking ridiculous black humor!

It is ridiculous that he thought of a thousand possibilities that Baodel did not return on time, but he did not expect that he, who led more than 3,000 soldiers and horses and had excellent firearms, would be completely annihilated by the Ming army.

"Baudel, you useless stupid pig, you wait to be court-martialed!"

Vanderbilt couldn't hold back his anger, and he yelled at the gloomy Baudel.

Ming Jun, who rested the knife on Vanderbilt's neck, was obviously very annoyed by Vanderbilt's uncooperative behavior, and with a little force, the sharp tip of the knife immediately scratched Vanderbilt's delicate neck that had been carefully applied with sunscreen, and the blood crawled out like a small snake, showing a strange black-red color under the dim and hazy moonlight.

Vanderbilt inhaled sharply in pain, and at once he hung his head like a deflated ball, but his mouth was muttering; "Are you going to kill me now?"

"No, we won't kill you, we're here just to talk to the Governor." At this moment, one of the dragoons took off his helmet and revealed a young and handsome face, and he walked towards Vanderbilt with a smile.

"Who are you?" Vanderbilt was so frightened by the young man's momentum that he subconsciously shrank back.

"Li Xiao, the chief military officer of the Ming Dynasty." The young man replied to him coldly.

Li Xiao?

It turned out that this person was Li Xiao, the supreme commander of the Ming people, but he was so young!

It's just that this person is so young, but he can command his subordinates and annihilate Baudel's Dutch army in one fell swoop, which is really a rare general.

Vanderbilt looked at Li Xiao who was slowly coming with a frightened gaze, and said with horror in his mouth; "Li Xiao, then what do you want to talk about with this governor when you came this time?"

Seeing his frightened look, Li Xiao couldn't help but have a contemptuous smile on his face, and he said lightly: "I am waiting here for a very simple purpose, that is, I want to sign an armistice agreement with you Netherlands. ”

"Oh, is that how you signed the deal with such a dastardly sneak attack?" Vanderbilt sneered.

"Well, it seems that you Dutch are despicable and shameless, so let's attack us first." Li Xiao snorted and said, "Now I can't wait, and I just treat others in the way of others." ”

Li Xiao paused, and his voice was full of cruelty: "Vanderbilt, to tell you the truth, for a despicable person like you who has no faith and no righteousness, the official's methods are quite polite. Your choice is simple: if you do not agree to sign an armistice, you will be sent to Heaven at once free of charge, and thousands of your captives will ascend to Heaven with His Excellency the Governor. ”

Vanderbilt's lips trembled, his face turned pale in an instant, he gritted his teeth fiercely, and then said to Li Xiao: "Okay, okay, the Governor is willing to sign an agreement, but the Governor hopes that before the agreement is signed, you can guarantee the safety of the Governor and our prisoners." ”

Li Xiao smiled, motioned to the cavalryman who pressed the knife on Vanderbrough's neck to take the knife away, and then said to Vanderbilt who took a long breath: "This official is not a devil who likes to kill, of course this can be guaranteed, since His Excellency the Governor is willing to negotiate, then I will go into the bow room and discuss it in detail." “

After entering the bow room on the side, Li Xiao told Vanderbilt his conditions very bluntly.

That is, Li Xiaobu returned all the prisoners and corpses in exchange for the main command ship of the Dutch fleet on this expedition, as well as five large battleships with 74 guns on a four-masted double deck, and ten light warships armed with 46 guns. The Dutch were only allowed to take with them fifteen twenty-gun brigs and twenty ten-gun sloops and twenty caramels from the fleet. The two sides then signed an armistice, which allowed them to engage in trade.

After Li Xiao's suggestion was raised, Vanderbilt's face turned pale, and cold sweat seemed to ooze from his forehead.

"General Li, your terms for peace talks are too deceitful!" Vanderbilt jumped up from his chair, his eyes full of anger. "It's not enough for you to wipe out our army, you still have to get rid of all the large ships of our Dutch Taiwan Navy, how can this really be reasonable!"

Listening to Vanderbilt's angry words, Li Xiao burst out laughing.

Then, with a smile, he said to Vanderbilt: "Your Excellency, I kindly remind you that the initiative in the negotiations is now entirely in our hands. If you deliberately refuse our request, I will think that it would be more appropriate for Commander Baldell to complete the negotiations in place of you, who had disappeared from the world. ”

Listened to Li Xiao's red. Vanderbilt's heart tightened at the scarcity's threatening words, and he subconsciously turned his head to look at Baldel, who had been silent, who looked back at him with an aggrieved and helpless look, and then shrugged his shoulders slightly.

Vanderbilt let out a long sigh and sat back in his chair.

"If I promise you, the Dutch East India Company will definitely arrest me and bring me back to China for trial, and I am afraid that the most optimistic outcome will be that I will spend the rest of my life in prison." Vanderbilt replied dejectedly.

Unexpectedly, after listening to Vanderbilt's complaints, Li Xiao didn't care at all.

"No, no, no, Your Excellency the Governor, you must be mistaken, how could it be that the Dutch defeated it, obviously the Dutch won this battle." Li Xiao deliberately said to Vanderbilt in a surprised tone.

Vanderbilt and Baudel on the side could hardly believe their ears.

"General Li, what did you say? Our army, it turned out to be victorious?! Baodel on the side asked Li Xiao in a trembling voice in an incredulous tone.

"Yes, it was you who won, you Dutch defeated us after a hard battle, and then, forced us to sign a market opening plan and trade agreement, of course, it's just that because the Ming Dynasty army came to help, the Dutch army lost more than a dozen large ships."

Li Xiao said these words slowly, and looked at Vanderbilt with deep meaning in his eyes.

Vanderbilt instantly understood Li Xiao's intentions.

Li Xiao, who entered this dog, reported the battle situation of defeat into victory in this way, and he could think of it!

It's just a good idea。。。。。

Li Xiao looked at Vanderbilt who was moved, but he was smiling secretly in his heart.

The step he found for Vanderbilt was inspired by the history of the previous life, when the Qing army invaded Burma and was defeated, but it reversed Qianlong's retribution.

Qianlong, who was kept in the dark as a result, really thought that the Celestial Empire army, which was invincible, had once again won a major victory over the Nayuer barbarian state. As a result, he was overjoyed, and immediately rewarded the main general Man Gui and others, and then asked the historian to summarize this achievement in detail in his own ten complete martial arts.

Now Vanderbilt could completely copy the strategy of the Qing Tartars, after all, the headquarters of the East India Company was far away in Batavia, and he did not know about the war, and it was impossible to learn the truth from the soldiers at the bottom, which gave Vanderbilt and other high-ranking officials a great opportunity to get their hands on it.

Li Xiao's voice sounded again without hurry, but every word of his seemed to be filled with a kind of seductive magic: "Everyone, in fact, this account is very calculating, compared to the dozen or so ships lost by your army, with your country's shipbuilding capacity, it can be completely remanufactured in two or three years, and it will not cause any real losses to the Netherlands." However, it is entirely possible that the two of them will be rewarded and promoted because they have retained their titles and official positions, and even because of the credit of opening up new markets. In that case, why not do it? ”

Vanderbilt blinked his pale gray eyes, he groaned for a long time, and finally let out a long sigh and agreed to Li Xiao's request.

In the end, after friendly consultation, mutual understanding and mutual concession between the two sides, and in line with the principle of shelving the exchange of win-win cooperation, the "Lukang Armistice Agreement" was reached as follows:

1. By a friendly agreement between the two armies, the two armies ceased fighting, and the armistice was set at two years.

2. On the Dutch side, one main command ship of the Dutch fleet on this expedition, five large warships with 74 guns on four masts and two decks, and 10 light warships armed with 46 guns, a total of 16 ships, were given to Li Xiaobu of the Ming Kingdom.

3. On the Li Xiao side, all the captured personnel of the Dutch Army were released, and the bodies of the Dutch soldiers killed in the war were returned to the Dutch side for repatriation.

4. The ships delivered by the Netherlands to Li Xiaobu must be left behind to ensure that the ships can move normally and can operate the gun emplacements, and after Li Xiaobu has found enough manpower and can be qualified to handle the ship, this group of Dutch seamen and sailors can be returned to the Dutch army.

5. Since the agreement came into effect, Li Xiao of the Ming Kingdom and the Netherlands have been allowed to carry out normal trade. Li Xiaobu's commercial goods in Taiwan were given priority to the Dutch.

6. This agreement shall be signed and pledged by the leaders of both sides in duplicate and shall come into force and shall come into force.

After the agreement was signed, Li Xiao signed it happily, while Vanderbilt shook his head and smiled bitterly for a while, and also signed with a long sigh.

Then, the commander-in-chief of the Lotus Orchid Army, Baodel, as an intermediary, also signed hard.

"General Li, can you be sure that this agreement will be kept secret?" Vanderbilt accepted his agreement and looked at Li Xiao with a worried look.

"Your Excellency the Governor, as long as you don't regret it after you go back, our army will definitely keep it a secret." Li Xiao replied to him with a smile, and then, after a pause, he said to Vanderbilt: "If, from now on, our army finds that you have repented or violated the agreement, I can guarantee that this agreement will definitely appear on the desk of the chairman of the East India Company as soon as possible." ”

"No, no, no, I believe in you, and I wish us a happy cooperation." Vanderbilt trembled slightly, then smiled wryly and stretched out his right hand to Li Xiao.

"Well, nice to work with." Li Xiao smiled and clenched Vanderbilt's skinny hands like chicken feet.

After dawn the next day, the Tiger infantry, heavily armed with ironclad armor, rushed to Lukang with a large number of prisoners and corpses, forming a strong threat to the Dutch fleet in the harbor.

Vanderbilt, who was still under the coercion of the Ming army, finally reluctantly ordered to hand over the sixteen large ships that Li Xiao wanted, including the ships and people, to Li Xiao's department. Then, with Baudel, he slipped off the ship and went to an armed merchant ship of his own.

Soon, the prisoners and corpses returned by Li Xiaobu were also escorted to the Dutch ships.

Sergeant Paul, a Dutch army sergeant who had recorded in detail the Dutch army's battle with Li Xiao's Ming army, was also among the Dutch army that returned.

Like the other captives sent back, his armor and weapons were all detained by Li Xiaobu, and he was wearing only an underwear, looking quite embarrassed.

It's just that now, with tears in his eyes, he shouted thank God in his heart, glad that he had finally saved his life and returned to the Dutch army.

In the thunderous cheers of Li Xiaojun, Vanderbilt, who was extremely bitter in his heart, ordered the fleet to return south to Anping Port, the territory of the Dutch army.

Shortly after leaving Lukang, in a brightly lit cabin, Vanderbilt put on round lenses, spread out the letterhead, dipped it in a quill pen, and began to write letters to Zahn, chairman of the East India Company.

"Chairman Zahn, your humble subordinate Vanderbilt is writing to you. Nothing cares me more than your health. However, I think there is one thing that will surely make you and the directors of the East India Company happy. That is, just today, my Dutch Taiwan garrison, under my command, completely defeated the Ming Dynasty army, and signed a defeat agreement with their commanders。。。。。。 (To be continued.) )

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