"Huh?!" All of them were taken aback. www.biquge.info After a while, someone asked, "Young Master, if we surrender to Zheng Zhilong, will he let us go?" ”

"That's right, young owner, this is ......," said more people.

"Uncle Ma, uncles, listen to me." Li Guozhu said, "Zheng Zhilong has received great favor from his father, and he has never denied this. The conflict between me and him was only caused by that money. Zheng Zhilong has never admitted that he hacked the money. In fact, we have no evidence that the money actually existed. However, this legend has spread widely, and almost everyone in the rivers and lakes knows about it. It is precisely for this reason that if Zheng Zhilong still wants to save face, he will not want our lives. Do you think, if Zheng Zhilong kills us all in one go, what will people think, how will this matter be spread? Besides, we only have a few boats and a few people left? Even if we were spared, how big of a wave would we be able to afford? With Zheng Zhilong's current strength, he doesn't have to worry about us being able to turn the sky upside down. Why, then, did he kill us to ruin his own reputation? Uncles, you say, I don't care what I said. ”

The bows began to chatter, and after a while, it was the "Uncle Ma" who spoke first: "What the young owner said makes sense, although surrendering Zheng Zhilong is risky, but the current situation is to survive in the death, where is there a reason not to take risks." However, if the young owner surrenders to Zheng Zhilong, the young owner is afraid that he will never be able to go to sea again in the future. ”

"I know that." Li Guozhu said, "If I were Zheng Zhilong, I would definitely not kill Li Guozhu who surrendered, but I would definitely look him closely, so that he would have no worries about food and clothing, but it would always be difficult to interact with outsiders." If it were usual, such a result would naturally be unbearable, but now, even if I don't think about myself and don't want to leave incense for the Li family, I have to think about everyone's future. ”

"Since the young owner has decided like this, then I won't say anything more." "Uncle Ma" said, "Do you want to send someone to contact Zheng Zhilong?" ”

"No way!" Li Guozhu immediately stopped and said, "Liu Xiang is not a fuel-efficient lamp, even if he doesn't mean to keep an eye on us, but in order to prevent someone from telling the Dutch, he will definitely watch everyone to death in the past two days." In case he finds out that our people sneak out, since ancient times, only the winner has the capital and necessity of magnanimity. Zheng Zhilong is now winning, and those who win always want face and a good reputation, so Zheng Zhilong will not kill us, but Liu Xiang is different, he has lost now, what he is doing now is to pull a few more people to support him and accompany him to die together. At this time, whoever touched his knife edge, how many lives were not enough to die. This risk cannot be taken. We still have work to do, and we can't do that. ”

At this time, someone asked: "What if Liu Xiang asks our people to take the lead and send them to death tomorrow?" ”

"Even if Liu Xiang wants to fight hard with the Dutch, he won't let us take the lead." Li Guozhu shook his head and said, "We think that Liu Xiang is already a dead end, but Liu Xiang doesn't think so, he feels that if this fight is successful, he still has a way to live, and to capture the city of Gelanza, it is necessary to rely on a sneak attack, and the performance of the person who takes the lead is very important." If you don't do a good job in the first place, it will be difficult to do the rest of the work. And if he loses, he really has nothing to walk with. At this time, he won't take the lead with people he doesn't trust or look down on, so let's follow behind, be careful, and don't appear under Liu Xiang's nose when it is critical. ”

A group of people thought for a while, and finally said, "What the young owner said." Only the "Uncle Ma" couldn't help but say more: "If it was back then, the Shaodong family would be what it is today...... so everyone suddenly fell silent.

……

Liu Xiang once again gathered all the important leaders together.

"Han San is indeed not mistaken, the Dutch must have colluded with Zheng Zhilong. And they have given us less food today. I guess they haven't negotiated with Zheng Zhilong for the time being, but if they do, as soon as the two of them collude, we will have only a dead end. Brother Kunisuke, what do you think we should do? ”

"Liu Da is in charge, we all listen to you, what do you say, we will do!" Li Guozhu said.

"That's good! If you don't do it, you won't stop it, and tonight at the third watch, we'll go to fight the city of Reland! As long as you take Geranza, there will be food, gold and silver, muskets, cannons, swords and weapons, as much as you want. We have a way to live, and we have the capital to continue to compete with Zheng Zhilong. Come and see, here's what I have drawn of the city of Geranza. A few months ago, I went into the city of Geranza once, and this is what I and a few brothers who have been into the city of Geranza drew as I remember, and it will certainly not be too accurate, but it should look like this. You see, this is the gate of the castle, Brother Zhang, you choose a few brothers with good skills, we will climb up quietly from here, and climb the wall with a rope is nothing to our brothers who climb the mast every day. These brothers secretly killed the Dutch soldiers who were keeping vigil, opened the city gates, and then the Hu brothers led people from this side to hold the exit of the Dutch barracks, and then it was best to make them all surrender honestly, and if they were not honest, they would just set fire to them. Brother Wang, take your men and horses to the warehouse, move quickly, and don't let the Dutch burn down the warehouse. Do you understand? ”

"Big boss, I know." The "Brother Wang" replied firmly.

"Good! Zhang Fat Cat, you follow me, let's kill it directly here. Liu Xiang gestured with his hand on the sketch map, "Just rush over from here, kill here directly, and capture the Dutchman named Hans alive." Brother Kunisuke, you and the other brothers are on standby, and if there are not enough people on either side, you will bring people to the side to support, understand? ”

"The big boss is relieved. I understand that. Li Guozhu said with a flattering smile, just as he expected, at such a time of life and death, Liu Xiang would not let the miscellaneous players he didn't look down on at all to harm his business.

"Okay, let's go back and prepare, pay attention not to make too much movement, what to do on the surface, don't let the Dutch see that the problem is coming." Liu Xiang finally said.

……

It was already late in the night, and Private Lucien Evans was still crouching in the darkness behind the castle watchtower. In the past two days, the defense of the city of Geranza has been significantly strengthened, and the layout of the defense is even tighter than after the news of the defeat of Liuluo Bay, and the castle has not only set up open sentry posts and mobile sentry posts, but also arranged many such secret posts in many hidden places.

Lucien Evans is hiding in a very hidden place, the black shadow left by the watchtower in the moonlight falls on the corner where he is hiding, not to mention the people in the distance, as long as Lucian Evans himself does not move, others may not be able to find him even if they walk only a few meters away from him.

Of course, Lucien Evans's location is not without its drawbacks, and although he is located in a secluded place, the perspective is also very limited. But his mission was to just stare at the sentry above the watchtower over there.

Lucien looked up at the sky like a black velvet curtain adorned with gems, and based on the height of the Milky Way, he estimated that it was about one o'clock in the morning, and in another hour, someone should take his shift. Lucien lowered his head, and suddenly saw that something seemed to be moving under the watchtower in front of him.

The moon was not bright that day, and Lucien couldn't see it clearly, so he rubbed his eyes and looked carefully, but at this time a cloud floated over and covered the moon, so Lucian couldn't see anything.

Still, Lucien alertly picked up the flintlock pistol leaning against him, removed the hammer, and stared at it with wide eyes. After a while, the wind blew the cloud away, and the faint moonlight shone down again, and now Lucien saw clearly that there was something climbing up the concave corner of the wall below the watchtower, and that he was about to cross a bulge and had to expose his whole body to the moonlight.

Lucien raised the flintlock pistol in his hand, aimed it at the guy who was climbing up, and then pulled the bolt.

Lucien knew that at such a distance, the chances of him hitting the man on the opposite side were very low. The accuracy of the smoothbore gun was quite poor, and the distance between the target on the opposite side and him was more than 90 meters, and at this distance, the bullets he fired had long since known where they had flown to. However, the purpose of his shot was not to hit the target, but to raise the alarm.

"Bang!" "Bang!" At least two gunshots rang out one after the other, followed by more gunshots. Immediately afterwards, the Dutch threw torches from the top of the wall, illuminating the underside of the wall, and then the whole line of gunfire rang out.

The city of Geranza is not very large, but it is quite distinctive in its design, and due to its cost, it was not built into a large five- or six-star fortress that is now widely used on the European continent. However, the design concept of the fortress, especially the design concept of multi-inclined plane without dead ends, is still very clear in the city of Geranza. The jagged walls made it impossible to fire anywhere under the city. Any enemy crouching under the walls was faced with fire from at least one direction, or even two or three directions.

From the moment the gunshots rang out, Liu Xiang knew that he was in trouble with his attack tonight. However, out of luck, he launched a strong attack - maybe the main force of the Dutch was still asleep and had not yet had time to reach the position? However, the incessant volley of guns shattered his illusions.