Seeing that the Ming army had gone around to the city of Geranza from behind, and the Dutch, who were still fighting Chen Jinnan on the beach in front of them, they were terrified, turned around and ran to the castle.

Just then, a gray-haired Dutch officer came out of the castle.

This officer was none other than the old Dutch ghost who had robbed me at sea when I went north to Shengjing that day.

"General Quay, open the gates!"

The Dutch soldier shouted loudly in English.

Kui's old bastard smoked a cigar, looked at the "Xuanhua Sutra" in his hand, and said in a foggy voice: "As the saying goes, if I don't go to hell, who goes to hell!" For the sake of my compatriots in the city, I can't open the gates, Amitabha! ”

He was right, it was strange that Lao Tzu didn't kill all the Dutch inside when he opened the city gate.

In this way, these Dutch soldiers were caught under the city by us, and all of them were killed, and none of them survived.

After killing these soldiers, I asked the soldiers of the Great Ming Flame Battalion to take out their artillery and prepare to blow open the city gates, and then attack it.

Unexpectedly, just as we set up our artillery and prepared to attack the gate, more than 1,000 Dutch musketeers appeared on the castle tower, and the musketeers were divided into two columns, front and rear, and opened fire on us with guns.

If I'm not mistaken, the Dutch in the city play with a platoon of guns.

The so-called platoon of guns is to divide the musketeers into two rows, the front and back, after the first row fires, the second row comes up to continue firing, so as to avoid the time break in the loading of gunpowder.

Under the suppression of the fire of the platoon of guns, the Ming army killed hundreds of people in an instant, and it was impossible to bombard the city gate at all.

Seeing this, I immediately turned the army to the other side of the castle and let the artillery storm the walls.

However, what I didn't expect was that the castles built by the Dutch were completely different from the ancient Chinese castle towers.

Although the ancient Chinese city towers were high, they were not sturdy, and they could be taken by a cannon bombardment and then by a cloud ladder.

But the European castles of the Dutch were all made of solid concrete.

At that time, the artillery brought by the Ming army was limited in power, and it could not hit the hard city wall at all.

It is precisely because of this that before the technological revolution, Europeans fought wars for as little as three months and as long as several years.

Seeing that the army could not be attacked for a long time, the Dutch on the castle were smiling and grinning, and actually peed at us.

The morale of the Ming army jumped like thunder, but there was nothing to be done.

In such a situation, the buddies had no choice but to collect their troops and let the soldiers set up camp tents on the sandbar, trap the Dutch ghosts first, and then cut down trees to make ladders, and then attack the city when the ladders were ready.

After arranging these things, I called Zheng Chenggong and others into my main business account and began to discuss how to run Taiwan after taking the castle.

Just as everyone was about to express their opinions, the guards outside the tent came in and said to me, "Your Majesty, there is a Dutchman who wants to see you!" ”

"Let him in!"

Immediately, a tall, lean, bald man wearing a European military uniform walked in.

When I looked at it, this guy was not Dutch at all, but an authentic Chinese.

Before I could speak, Zheng Chenggong yelled: "Pick up the ghost, why are you?" ”

It turned out that this guy used to be Zheng Zhilong's deputy, and later after the Dutch entered Taiwan, he betrayed Zheng Zhilong and became the military advisor of the Dutch guard general Kui.

The devil smiled at Zheng Chenggong, and arched his hand and said, "Zheng Gongzi hasn't seen you for a long time, how is my father?" ”

Zheng Chenggong said angrily: "You betrayed your father, and your father can't wait to skin you!" ”

"Oops! Don't say anything about betrayal or non-betrayal, we all came out to mix, everyone wants silver, how can there be any morality. ”

With that, the guy sat down next to me.

Obviously, he didn't know that I was the emperor at all, and thought that this time it was someone from the Zheng family who came to grab the land.

"Your ghost brother and I came here today to help Kui pass the word. The old ghost of Kui said that as long as your Zheng family withdraws from Taiwan, he can give you 1,000 taels of silver every year, plus 5,000 stone of grain. ”

Hearing this, Zheng Chenggong and Chen Jinnan were a little moved.

In their view, the main purpose of my attack on Taiwan was to solve the problem of lack of money and food for the imperial court.

Since Kui is willing to hand over the money and grain, then we can completely promise him, and then collect the troops in Fuzhou.

But buddy, I don't think so, the reason why I want to attack Taiwan, in addition to solving the problem of money and grain in the imperial court, is more important to permanently take Taiwan back to my Chinese territory, and then operate for a long time.

Seeing that Zheng Chenggong and the others were tempted, the ghost boy said again: "Zheng Gongzi, I think this business can be done!" As long as you promise to retire, Kui promises to send you the money to Fuzhou within three months! What do you think? ”

Without waiting for Zheng Chenggong to express his position, buddy I said coldly: "Then if we don't withdraw the army, what will happen to the Dutch?" ”

The Ghost Picker turned his head to look at me, and said with contempt: "The Dutch have sent 10,000 people from the Java headquarters, and these 10,000 people were originally going to clean up the mountain people on the island. ”

I'm grass, hearing this, Lao Tzu stood up angrily.

The mountain people in his mouth are actually the indigenous people of Taiwan Island, that is, the later Gaoshan people.

According to historical records, in order to suppress the Gaoshan uprising, the Dutch killed tens of thousands of Gaoshan compatriots in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

If I'm not mistaken, the reason why the Dutch on the iron ship were surprised to ask us what we were doing after we entered the bay yesterday was that they thought we were mountain people.

As a part of my Chinese compatriots, the Gaoshan tribe has been slaughtered by foreign races, how can I endure it, buddy.

I pulled out the knife and said to the traitor who picked up the ghost: "Let me tell you, this time it is not the pirates of the Zheng family, but the Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty." Those who offend my Chinese will be punished even if they are far away! ”

After speaking, Lao Tzu cut his head to the ground with a fierce knife, and the momentum scared Zheng Chenggong and Chen Jinnan.

I can see that Zheng Chenggong and Chen Jinnan are a little dissatisfied with my approach.

They thought I could work with Quiy to solve the problem of money and food in the easiest way possible.

I carried the head of the ghost boy and said, "Listen to me, Taiwan has been part of my Chinese territory since the Three Kingdoms, and as the king of a country, how can I give away my inherent territory to a foreign race for a thousand taels of silver?" And the Dutch are a bunch of pirates, not trustworthy at all, the so-called one thousand taels of silver, is just a delaying tactic for them! ”

Hearing this, Zheng Chenggong and Chen Jinnan lowered their heads in shame and no longer dared to object.

Seeing this, I said angrily: "You go back immediately and let your men cut down trees to make ladders, and in three days I must take the castle of Geranza!" ”

"The last general obeys!" After saying that, the two retreated.

Three days later, the ladder for the siege was ready, and I once again commanded the three armies to storm the castle of Geranza.

But what I didn't expect was that the Dutch devils' gun formation was too fierce, and they suppressed the Ming soldiers with firepower, and my five successive sieges ended in failure.

As a result, the Ming soldiers not only did not take Geranza, but also suffered more than 100 casualties.

If we continue to fight like this, the soldiers will only have to go and never return, but if we only rely on the siege to trap the Dutch inside, I am afraid that it will take too long, and once the Dutch reinforcements from Indonesia arrive, we will most likely be defeated.

Thinking of this, I was about to explode, but there was nothing I could do. The only way to do this is to let the army camp and besiege Geranza.

In this way, half a month passed, and the Dutch in the city of Geranza still refused to surrender.

……

Just when the siege could not be taken for a long time, Zheng Chenggong's deputy general Gan Hui took Zhang Zhao to Taiwan overnight.

I was very surprised to see Zhang Zhao coming, because when I left, I left him in Fuzhou and asked him to lead the forbidden army to protect the safety of Fuzhou.

I thought to myself that he was in such a hurry, could it be that something happened in Fuzhou.

As a result, nothing happened in Fuzhou, but something went wrong in Yunnan.

Zhang Zhao gave me a letter, and when I opened it, it was written by Mu Tianbo.

Mu Tianbo said in the letter that the current situation in Yunnan is far from being as simple as he thought before. Zhang Xianzhong, the overlord of the soil, not only attacked the military stronghold in the north of Kunming from the south of Jinsha River, but also asked his son Li Dingguo to attack the Zhaotong military and civilian government along Yibin, preparing to take the two large armies of Zhaotong and flatten Yunnan with one body. In view of this situation, Mu Tianbo hopes that I can send troops to support as soon as possible, otherwise Yunnan is very likely to fall.

Looking at Mu Tianbo's letter, buddy, I was anxious.

As Mu Tianbo said, if I don't send troops to support, Yunnan may really be finished.

But now that he can't take the castle of Geranza, how can he get money and food to let the soldiers of the five provinces south of the Yangtze River support Yunnan?

Just as I was anxious, there was a sudden commotion outside the tent, and I heard only a few swishing sounds, and the guard at the gate fell to the ground.

Immediately two men with tattooed faces rushed in, and they drew their crossbows and prepared to shoot arrows at me!