Seeing his demeanor, Sun Yueling didn't seem to have been abused by Li Guozhu, and his heart was a little calmer, and he said: "I see, Boss Li has to take care of himself, and in the future, the official will have a lot to rely on you to help!" ”

Li Dan said with a smile: "Thank you for your promotion, I will do my best to serve your lordship!" ”

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Soon, the streets outside the courtyard resounded with deafening shouts and the sound of slashing blades. Sun Yueling knew that Li Guozhu had already entered the palace, and said to Li Dan: "Boss Li, it seems that your son has come back here." ”

Li Dan's expression became nervous again, and he said in a trembling voice: "Yes...... Yes, my lord, if the bad son is stubborn, my lord...... Don't take my thoughts into account, you can ...... him And he was put on the spot...... Ahem......" Before he finished speaking, he coughed violently again.

Li Dan in front of him seemed to have aged a lot all of a sudden, Sun Yueling didn't want to see him worried, and said with relief: "Boss Li, don't worry, since this official has given the order not to hurt Ling Lang, I believe that no one dares to disobey." This official will definitely hand over Ling Lang to you unscathed. ”

Li Dan's eyes showed a look of gratitude, and he arched his hand at Sun Yueling and said, "Thank you...... Thank you, sir...... Li Dan has no way to teach his son, he must ...... He must be severely punished......"

After some time, the shouting outside gradually became smaller, and Sun Yueling knew that the hour was almost up, so he got up and said, "Everyone, go out with me, presumably the battle is over." ”

The crowd hurriedly got up and followed.

When Sun Yueling came to the street with the principals of the major chambers of commerce, he saw that the battle outside had ended, except for some corpses lying on the ground, most of the subordinates brought out by Li Guozhu had abandoned their weapons and surrendered and were taken aside. Only a few people who were loyal to Li Guozhu still gathered around Li Guozhu to resist to the death, and were besieged by the envoys.

When the people saw him coming, they hurriedly divided the encirclement and let him lead people through it.

Seeing Sun Yueling coming, Dongfang Shengping, who had been in charge of the raid, hurriedly rushed forward and said to him: "My lord, Li Guozhu refuses to surrender, and he resists to the death!" ”

Sun Yueling stepped forward, and saw that among the dozen or so people opposite, the person headed by him was tall and thin, with a clear appearance, but at this moment his face had become full of anger and bloodstains, and said to him: "You are Li Guozhu?" ”

Li Guozhu stared at Sun Yueling for a long time, and Fang spit out a sentence from his teeth: "You are Sun Yueling, the envoy of Fujian?" ”

Sun Yueling nodded and said, "Yes, this official is Sun Yueling." Do you know that you have fallen to the Dutch and put your father under house arrest, and all kinds of actions are actually enemies of the Ming court? ”

"Whew!" Li Guozhu scolded angrily and said, "Just because you can also represent the Ming Dynasty?" You're just a loser of the Donglin Party, and you really think you're amazing? ”

"Presumptuous, dare to speak to adults like this!" Li Dan couldn't help it on the side, hurriedly took a few steps forward, and shouted at Li Guozhu, "If you don't hurry up and surrender, your lord may spare your life!" ”

Li Guozhu's eyes shot out of anger, and he yelled at Li Dan: "If the eldest husband dies, he will die, so why wag his tail and beg for mercy? Thanks to your wisdom and wisdom, you have now become a sycophant! ”

"Son, unfilial son......" Li Dan trembled, pointed at Li Guozhu and couldn't speak, and suddenly coughed again, and coughed up a mouthful of blood on the ground.

Li Guozhu trembled when he saw this, took a step forward and said, "Father......"

Sun Yueling sighed secretly and said to Li Guozhu: "If you are willing to put down your weapons and stand on the side of the Ming Mansion from now on, I can not blame you for the past and forgive you for the mistakes you have committed." ”

Li Guozhu raised his head, looked at Sun Yueling and hissed, "Why should I listen to you?" How long do you think you'll be able to rise to power? You Donglin people have completely collapsed, even Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and other so-called 'six gentlemen' have been imprisoned, I don't think it will be long, you Sun Yueling can't escape Wei Zhongxian's palm, sooner or later he will be sentenced to death! ”

Sun Yueling was shocked when he heard this, and exclaimed, "What did you say? Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou were imprisoned? ”

Seeing his panicked face, Li Guozhu laughed and said, "What? Lord Sun didn't even know this, and he still claimed to be a member of the Donglin Party in vain? Seeing that he didn't speak, he continued to talk to himself, and said, "Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou were arrested by Jinyi Wei Tiqi half a month ago and returned to Beijing, and went down to the Imperial Prison, and other Zhou Chaorui, Wei Dazhong and others could not escape the fate of being arrested and imprisoned. ”

Sun Yueling's tiger body shook violently, and he suddenly felt a blank in his mind.

After a long time, he came back to his senses and muttered, "This day has finally come." Although he knew that Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and other "six gentlemen" would be killed by the eunuchs sooner or later, he had been avoiding this question subconsciously and didn't even dare to think about it. Now that Li Guozhu is the first to drink, he suddenly touched the weakness in his heart, which made him frightened and difficult to understand.

Li Guozhu sneered and said, "Lord Sun, all the Donglin Party members in the court have been expelled, and you are now alone, and you can't fight Wei Zhongxian." I advise you not to go against Yu Dashuai, otherwise, I'm afraid you will not be able to protect yourself, maybe you still have a chance to survive Yu Dashuai, and with Dashuai's connections in the court, you will definitely be able to protect you. I hope you think about it carefully, it's best to let me go, and I may have a few nice words for you in front of the big handsome...... Haha......"

Seeing Sun Yueling silent, everyone thought that his heart was shaken, and his expression darkened.

Even Li Dan thought that Sun Yueling couldn't stand his son's bewitchment, and sobbed at Sun Yueling: "Your Excellency, ......"

Sun Yueling shouted violently: "Where is Dongfang Shengping? ”

Dongfang Shengping had already stood aside, and replied in a deep voice: "My subordinates are here." ”

Sun Yueling pointed at Li Guozhu and said, "Take it for me!" With that, in the surprised expressions of everyone, he turned his head and walked away.

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After the town of Geranza was taken by a surprise attack by the legations, the news soon reached the ears of the commander of the Dutch fleet, Song Ke. Upon hearing this, Song Ke was extremely angry and immediately gathered all the marines except the navy at Fort Geranza towards the town of Geranza, in an attempt to retake the bustling bazaar that had been under their rule in one fell swoop.

In the Li family trading house in the town of Geranza, Sun Yueling convened an impromptu meeting to discuss how to resist the attack of the Dutch. At this moment, the armed forces of Gerancha Town, under the integration of him and Li Dan, have completely obeyed the command of him, the envoy, and only obeys his orders.

Even so, Sun Yueling did not dare to be careless. The Dutch numbered in the thousands, and were well armed; The nearly 100 members of their entire envoy group, plus the 300 men of Yan Siqi's tribe who came from the north and the 500 people from the town of Gerancha, although the size of the number was comparable to that of the enemy, after all, it was a mixture of various forces, and if they fought against the Dutch soldiers with open swords and guns, I am afraid that they might not be their opponents.

Moreover, the 500 Minzhuang organized by the various trading houses in the town of Geranza had always been under the rule of the Dutch, and now although they obeyed his orders and turned to deal with the Dutch, after all, they were only forced by the pressure exerted by him and Li Dan, and if the envoys and Yan Siqi's team showed their decline, they would inevitably retreat and dare not really fight with the Dutch.

It will be extremely difficult to defend the town of Geranza at the moment.

But when the situation developed to this point, Sun Yueling was not discouraged, but was inspired to fight endlessly. Yan Siqi's troops have also become more and more warlike, since they came to Beigang from Japan to operate, they have not been less entrenched in the Dayuan area of the Dutch, now with Sun Yueling, a court official as a backer, they are eager to immediately start a war with the Dutch and expel them from Taiwan.

The outcome of this battle is very crucial, directly affecting the control of Taiwan by the Ming and Dutch, and the influence of the winning side in Taiwan will be greatly enhanced, and from then on the transit point of trade in the southeast sea will gain the leading power of trade exchanges.

Therefore, this battle is very important and cannot be lost.

Before the battle, Sun Yueling still sent an envoy to the Dutch, hoping that Song Ke could meet him again, because war was only a last resort, if Song Ke was willing to sit down with him to negotiate, he would never lead the Han forces in Taiwan to oppose the Dutch, and the two sides could cooperate wholeheartedly and get what they needed.

However, Sun Yueling's sincerity was exchanged for the indifference of the Dutch, and Song Keyan refused Sun Yueling's request and decided to launch an attack on the town of Geranza.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the Dutch officially launched an attack on the south gate of the town of Geranza.

Song Ke divided the thousand fully armored soldiers into three detachments, and the first team of nearly 300 people rushed towards the South Gate Archway. The soldiers of these detachments were all mixed arms, with pikemen and sword and shield soldiers rushing to the front, and musketeers at the back, which shows that the Dutch soldiers were really well-trained and were able to form such a clever formation.

Sun Yueling knew that it was not a way to fight the Dutch, so he had long planned to adopt a strategy based on attrition and street fighting. Seeing the Dutch soldiers rushing to the archway, Yan Siqi shouted: "Release the arrow!" ”

"Whoosh, whoosh", countless subordinates who had been waiting for a long time with bows and arrows aimed at the target, and shot the sharp arrows in their hands at the Dutch soldiers who rushed to the front.

The enemy seemed to have known that they had this hand, and the sword and shield soldiers quickly stepped forward, raising their shields to resist the first volley of the storm. But even so, more than a dozen people who rushed to the front were shot down. Immediately after that, the second volley began, and by the time the Dutch soldiers rushed under the archway, the Ming had already fired three rounds of arrows, greatly delaying the enemy's advance.

Seeing that the enemy had rushed through the archway, Yan Siqi shouted again, and all the archers at the south gate put away their bows and arrows, and all of them retracted into the alleys, and there was no one left in an instant.

The first Dutch soldiers, after paying the price of nearly forty men, finally rushed into South Gate Street. But what awaited them were the swordsmen who had been ambushed on both sides of the street for a long time, these people were Yan Siqi's elite subordinates, who had been fighting with him for many years, and their combat power far exceeded that of ordinary soldiers, and many of them were even good at martial arts.

The Dutch couldn't imagine that Yan Siqi, who had always whispered in front of them, would be so brave and hurriedly responded.

"Bang bang" sounded, and the Dutch musketeers also shot at the Ming people who rushed out on both sides under the cover of pikemen, and instantly put down a group of people who rushed to the front.

As the first fierce general under Yan Siqi, Li Kuiqi took out a long knife in his hand and took the lead in rushing towards the Dutchman's spear formation. Unexpectedly, the musketeers behind the pikes raised their muskets again, aimed at those of them who had rushed into their formation, and opened fire again.

"Damn, a burst of fire!" Li Kuiqi scolded angrily and hurriedly dodged. The Dutch flintlock pistol was different from the arquebus of the Ming army, and the arquebus had to be cleared and drugged after being fired once, which was very labor-intensive, as long as it was touched, the arquebus was worse than the burning stick; The flintlock pistol is fired from flint and can be fired in tandem, making it extremely powerful in close combat.

If there were no swords, shields and spearmen in front of him to cover, Li Kuiqi still had the confidence to defeat the enemy's musket array, but the current situation was exactly what he did not want to see, if he continued to entangle with the Dutch in this way, I am afraid that all of them would have to be confessed here.

Fortunately, they had already arranged, Li Kuiqi sipped his lips, and a sharp hiss pierced the sky, and the brothers who had long been ambushed on the houses on both sides of the street appeared one after another, holding all kinds of weapons in their hands, shouting loudly, jumping from the top of the house into the Dutch's musket array, and a frenzied slash instantly reversed the whole situation, killing the Dutch and retreating.

Seeing that the Dutch couldn't resist, Li Kuiqi shouted: "Kill me!" With his men, he rushed towards the Dutchman, who could not stop the rout, and the steel knife in his hand danced wildly, and he had the posture of beating the water dogs.

The first attack of the Dutch, under the painstaking response of Sun Yueling and Yan Siqi, was a complete failure. More than half of the first group of 300 soldiers died, and they fled with their guns and shields.

Song Ke was furious when he saw this, these Dutch soldiers were all well-trained elite recruits, and even the multi-arm mixed formation just now was also imitating the infantry phalanx of the European god of war Gustav II, but he didn't expect to be so vulnerable to defeat by these barbarians with swords in their hands.

Song Ke felt that he could not accept this insult, but he did not have the courage to send the second corps into the deep and long street, and shouted at his subordinates: "Change the artillery team, bombard me!" ”

When the Dutch soldiers heard the order, they immediately changed into an artillery queue, pushed more than a dozen cannons forward, adjusted their firing positions, and prepared to launch an artillery bombardment on the town of Geranza.

Sun Yueling, who was watching the battle from afar, was taken aback when he saw this, Song Ke was simply crazy, and he did not hesitate to win the war at the cost of the entire town of Geranza. You must know that the town of Geranza has always been a subordinate city of Fort Geranza, and the town is not only a merchant and merchant of various countries, but also hoards a large number of materials and goods, and he does this, obviously at the expense of destroying this town to win this battle.