At noon on the 10th day of the ninth month of the third year of Chongzhen, the Dutch envoy led an escort from the east coast over the mountains and mountains to Zheng Zhilong's camp not far from the city of Santo Domingo.

Under the briefing, Zheng Zhilong was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly invited him to meet.

This Dutchman's messenger is all too familiar to Zheng Zhilong, because this person is Zheng Zhilong's old friend Mr. Waite.

Speaking of which, Zheng Zhilong's relationship with the Dutch is more complicated, saying that he is an enemy is also an enemy, and that he is a friend is also a friend.

From the enemy's point of view, the two sides fought for Penghu, Dayuan and other places many times.

From a friend's point of view, Zheng Zhilong has a long history with the Dutch.

Because when he first begged for a living at sea, the young Zheng Zhilong once worked for the Dutch, and with his talent for language ability, he also learned Dutch.

It is precisely because he can speak fluent Dutch and Portuguese that Zheng Zhilong is appreciated by all the bigwigs.

For example, Li Dan, the king of Chinese pirates during the Apocalypse, asked him to act as his liaison, running between the Dutch and the Portuguese for him.

Later, at the request of the Dutch, Li Dan directly sent him to the Dutch in Penghu to reside as an interpreter for the Dutch, the Ming Dynasty and Li Dan.

When Nan Juyi led the Fujian Navy Division under Yu Zhigao to fight a series of bloody battles with the Dutch fleet in Penghu, Zheng Zhilong, who was still an officer of Nicholas Iquan at the time, served in the Dutch army.

And this Mr. Waite, who was the commercial charge d'affaires of the Dutch East India Company in Penghu at that time, was Zheng Zhilong's chief or immediate boss.

After six years, this Mr. Wetter is still a commercial charge d'affaires of the Dutch East India Company, and Zheng Zhilong, the original official of Nicholas, has become the overlord of black and white in the southeast sea of the Ming Dynasty.

Zheng Zhilong saw that the envoy sent by the Dutch was the old man Mr. Waite, and knew that the Dutch East India Company was attentive, so he immediately invited him to meet, hugged and saluted, and then sat down to talk.

Zheng Zhilong said: "After Penghu, after many years of separation, I don't want to meet here, I don't know what Mr. Bidno and Mr. Putmans sent you to contact, Mr. Putmans' side is there any progress?" ”

After saying this, Zheng Zhilong's face also had the surprise of the first meeting, and turned gloomy, and then said to Mr. Waite, who was red-haired and white-skinned and pockmarked:

"If Mr. Putmans' Dutch army does not go north to launch an offensive, I, Zheng Zhilong, will withdraw my troops and leave!

"I don't know if you and the Dutch East India Company have heard that Liu Xianglao and Li Kuiqi on the Guangdong Sea have sent troops to Nanao and Yuegang to attack my Zheng Zhilong's hometown!"

Zheng Zhilong met with the Dutchman's messenger, Mr. Waite, and did not hide his information and plans from him, but directly told him.

After Zheng Zhilong finished speaking, he only heard Waite say: "Nicholas! I'm glad you're still as honest with me as you were before! The news that the Guangdong pirates Liu Xianglao and Li Kuiqi attacked Nanao, Yuegang and other places, and the city has received the news!

"Mr. Bidnow has sent me to ask you and your army to hold out for a little longer.

"Now Mr. Biedno has taken 500 soldiers to capture the Spanish Castle of San Lorenzo, and the more than 100 Spanish soldiers left in the city have all been disarmed and arrested!

"As for Mr. Putmans, he has already taken a detachment of three ships and set out north to attack Fort San Diego!

"Mr. Bidno has taken care of the affairs of San Lorenzo, and will immediately go north to reinforce Mr. Putmans' fleet!

"Therefore, whether it is San Diego or San Salvador, the Spaniards are already taking care of themselves, and Santo Domingo will not have any more reinforcements from the Spaniards!"

"I see! It's cheaper for the Dutch! ”

Zheng Zhilong listened to Mr. Waite's words, and only then did he know that the Dutch had actually taken San Lorenzo, and then think about it, I am afraid that there are also their own contributions.

Zheng Zhilong was right.

In fact, the Dutch were as anxious as Zheng Zhilong, since the two sides reached an agreement, not long after Zheng Zhilong swore in Beigang, the news came back to the city of Rebara, and Biedno and Putmans took the fleet drawn from Batavia and other places by the Dutch East India Company, as well as the so-called Dutch governor's palace fleet in Rebara, and went north together.

This Dutch fleet, though called a fleet, consisted of only eight ships as large as the Gallion.

Five of them were pieced together by Bidno from the Dutch East India Company's Governor's Mansion in Batavia.

The Dutch East India Company's maritime power in the Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and Southeast Asia was very strong in this era, but it had too many colonies and trading posts that needed to be garrisoned and shipped.

Therefore, although they are generally strong, their powerful sea forces are very fragmented, and it will not only take a long time to unite all the forces together, but also prevent the colonies scattered all over the place from pressing down the gourd and floating the scoop type of resistance.

Therefore, this time the Dutch joined forces with Zheng Zhilong, and Zheng Zhilong undoubtedly became the main force on land.

This time, the Dutch army consisted of only eight large ships, and at the same time there were less than 1,700 mercenaries of the Dutch East India Company.

And this Dutch mercenary, which totaled less than 1,700 people, had to leave 200 to stay behind to guard the city.

Therefore, in the end, there were only about 1,500 people who followed the fleet north.

This was also the largest force that the Dutch East India Company was able to use on Dongfan Island in the three years of Chongzhen and many years afterward.

The Dutch East India Company was a company, a colonial trading institution owned by both the official and private sectors of the Netherlands, but it was a company after all.

Whatever they do, they are measured and decided by the ratio between costs and benefits.

Perhaps in their eyes, the value of Dongfan Island is only worth so much, or it is only worth so much for them to invest.

After leading the Dutch fleet north from the east coast of Dongfan, the first target of the attack was the city of San Lorenzo.

However, in order to guard against Spanish ships and reinforcements in San Salvador and San Diego in the north, Bidno had Putmans lead three warships and a few smaller supply ships north to bombard the port of Chicken Coop, where Fort San Diego was located, before directing his fleet to launch an offensive, pinning down and attracting Spanish troops to the north.

By the time the news of Puttmans' arrival outside the port of the chicken coop came from the north, and before Bidenor had begun to attack on the shore, González, the commander of San Lorenzo, welcomed two messengers almost at the same time.

One was a messenger for help sent by Antonio, the commander of Santo Domingo.

The other was the order of Sebastián Carmanda, commander-in-chief of the Spanish colonial forces in San Salvador.

This order was to send men to the city of Santo Domingo to rescue Antonio and his Spanish colonial troops, merchants and their families.

Gonzalez took with him almost the main force of the Spanish colonial army in San Lorenzo, as well as almost all of the Luzon soldiers recruited and repatriated by the Spanish Viceroyalty of Manila.

As for the result, needless to say, Gonzalez was ambushed and died, and the Spanish colonial army he led was almost completely wiped out, and all the native soldiers of Luzon were taken prisoner.

As soon as Gonzalez led the main army away, there were only more than 100 Spanish colonial troops left in the castle of San Lorenzo.

Bidno immediately commanded his main forces to land on the shore, launched an attack, and easily took San Lorenzo.

After listening to the news brought to him by Mr. Waite, Zheng Zhilong connected the situation he had on his side, and after thinking about it like this, he soon had a general grasp of these battles in the northern part of Dongfan Island.

However, at this time, Zheng Zhilong learned that the Dutch had taken advantage of him, and the faint worry hidden in his heart finally disappeared, and he understood the reason why there were no enemy reinforcements coming in the direction of Fort San Diego.

After thinking about these things clearly, Zheng Zhilong immediately asked people to call Zheng Lian and ordered Zheng Lian to immediately send someone to Zheng Cai to send an order, so that there was no need to ambush in the canyon south of Jilong Mountain.

Zheng Cai's black slave sentry musket team, but the elite of Zheng Jun, transferred all of them back, which means that Zheng Zhilong is going to attack Santo Domingo City.