"Don't roll your eyes, you know Minister Cixi, right? Boy, you wait, you will meet soon, and when the time comes, I will let you know what the means of the Ministry of Supervision are, and I guess you will have to tell me all the things about peeing at female classmates when you were a child! Little bastard, bet on it! Jiang Renjie was not knocked unconscious, he woke up immediately after being kicked by Hong Tao, his arm was grabbed by two Indian soldiers and he couldn't move, but his eyes could still spew murderous light, but unfortunately Hong Tao was not afraid of this thing. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Your Majesty...... He is the messenger of negotiations, you can't treat him like this......" Seeing that Jiang Renjie was escorted out of the tent by the soldiers, and there was no intention of releasing him, the Earl of Nassau couldn't help it, and planned to talk to Hong Tao about the rules of war.

"He is the younger brother of Baron Jiang, and at the same time a fugitive from our country! It doesn't matter if it's a negotiator or not, I won't release him, he must return to his home country to stand trial. Your Excellency, how did you find a traitor to be Lord of the Admiralty? I'm really impressed. "Since Hong Tao knew that this person was Jiang Renjie, he didn't plan to let people go back, no matter whether he attacked him or not, the final result was to be kidnapped and then handed over to Jiang Zhuyi for processing.

As for whether their siblings will have a grudge, that's their own business, but they have to do it. Fighting a war is not a joke, if Jiang Renjie killed a shell, or did it be fired by his own army, how should he explain to Jiang Zhuyi? Could it be that I saw him, but deliberately let him go back and continue to fight with me, and killed him in one fell swoop? In that case, Jiang Zhuyi might really want to take revenge on herself, even counting the accounts of her father and brother and younger brother.

"But......" The Earl of Nassau probably didn't know much about Jiang Renjie's origin, so Hong Tao couldn't think of how to refute it for a while.

"Whoosh...... At this moment, a flash of fire suddenly broke out on the east side of the castle, accompanied by a sharp whistle, and finally exploded into a fireball in the night sky. The patrolmen were warning that there was an enemy on the east side of the castle, but there were not many of them, and if there were many of them, it would not be a firework.

"Admire...... Your Excellency, you should really go to the East and have a look, and you have learned how to make noises? You don't think you knew anything about breaking through from the east while the negotiations were taking advantage of the negotiations, did you? Is this negotiation a cover for a breakthrough? I think you have deceived Lord Jiang too, ostensibly to let him intercede with me, but in fact, you are secretly using him as a cover to distract me! Silly boy, did you see it, you let someone else sell it, and you still helped others count the money! After waiting for a few seconds, seeing that there were no more fireworks rising in the east, and no dense gunshots were heard, Hong Tao probably understood what was going on.

"On the contrary, that's what I came up with. I already knew that you wouldn't let people go, and I also knew that I wasn't that valuable enough to exchange for your kindness. If I could trade my life for the Duke's life, I would be willing. The root of this war is mine, and I don't need anyone else to accompany me! Jiang Renjie listened to Hong Tao's banter, straightened his chest, and became awe-inspiring.

"Huh! It's so righteous! If you can use one percent of these kind eyes on your own sister, you won't be a bastard like this. Get him out of here, and don't let this stuff dangle in front of my eyes! "Hong Tao really wants to go up and kick this unashamed thing to death, no wonder the ancients have passed and want to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots. If he had been ruthless at that time and cleaned up the Jiang family, he would not have had so much trouble, but now he can't kill it, it doesn't make sense, it's really self-inflicted.

"Sir, please take your son back, you have given me a clear answer, and I will not have to wait until noon tomorrow. In addition, I would like to inform you of one thing, if I wait for the city gate to be breached, there will be no possibility of negotiation, and it will not be considered surrender at that time, so think about it! Let Jiang Renjie toss like this, Hong Tao's good mood will disappear immediately. As soon as he was in a bad mood, his patience was gone, and he couldn't pretend to be polite, but now he can be said to be in his true form and true colors. After saying what he wanted to say, with a wave of his hand, he directly asked the guards to take the earl's father and son away, without even giving him a chance to answer.

This night, Hong Tao basically didn't close his eyes very much. Not long after the Earl and his son left, the patrol escorted four people, although they were dressed as ordinary soldiers, but their neatly trimmed beards and clean fingernails betrayed them, these four people were by no means as simple as ordinary soldiers.

According to the patrolman, there were many people who tried to climb down the cliff in the southeast corner to escape, and after two people were killed, the rest climbed up the rope ladder, and only these four men climbed down first, but they did not have time to climb up again and became prisoners.

"If you don't see the coffin, you won't shed tears! Take them to the shipyard to take care of them first, don't get killed, it's all money! Hong Tao's sleepy eyes were fighting, and he didn't have the leisure to play with these four captives again. They love to confess or not, anyway, if they don't confess, they will always be imprisoned as ordinary soldiers, and whoever is uncomfortable will know. Now it's time to get some sleep, and in the morning you have to go ahead and besiege the city.

I didn't sleep for most of the night, the lack of sleep was serious, and there was one more Jiang Renjie to embarrass me, which made Hong Tao's temper very irritable, and then the people in the castle were unlucky. Molotov cocktails were thrown like money, and were no longer confined to the vicinity of the city walls, and the mortars fired extended. In order to be able to hit the main building of the castle, he even moved forward to the front line and became a complete arsonist.

Under the cover of artillery fire, the soldiers began to cross the river with heavy barrels. One by one, the barrels containing black powder were stacked under the iron gates of the city gate, five in all, and then the soldiers began to run into the trenches.

"Ringing in Nyima! ......A moment later, a huge fireball flashed at the gate of the city, and then there was a thunderous explosion, rolling through the battlefield layer by layer, and Hong Tao could feel the impact of sound pressure when he stood a kilometer away.

"My lord, it doesn't seem to have exploded ......" Captain Broken Mouth began to show his eyes again, and before the smoke cleared, he saw the result.

"Nonsense, five barrels of gunpowder want to blow up such a thick stone city tower, you and I are two fools? Don't mess with me here, send breakfast to Jiang Renjie. Five barrels of black powder wanted to blow open the city gate, but Hong Tao was not so optimistic at all. The back of the gate may have been blocked with large stones, and when the Earl of Nassau went out of the city last night, the gate was not opened, but a small gate was opened.

The reason why only five barrels of gunpowder were used was to let the soldiers save some effort, and not to dig a pit under the city wall with a shovel and pickaxe. The real blasting was only now begining, and the soldiers hiding in the trenches were again carrying barrels across the river. This time, the barrels were all placed in the big pit that had been blown out before, a little more in number, eight barrels, and then ran back after lighting the fuse.

The second explosion shattered the iron gate in the gate, and the farthest fragment flew directly across the moat and stuck in the soft earth, as if someone had erected a cross there. But the gate tower is quite sturdy, and it hasn't collapsed much. However, the third explosion really made it a pit, because the soldiers took advantage of the large crater formed by the first two explosions to stuff more than 30 powder kegs into the city gate hole, almost sealing the entire city gate hole.

"Boom...... Rumble...... "This explosion was really loud, and even the earth trembled with it, and the soldiers closest to the city gate were shaken out of their trenches and vomited when they lay on the ground. And at the gate of the city, a small mushroom cloud rose directly, white on the top and black on the bottom, very enchanting.

Looking at the gate tower again, it has disappeared from the ground, leaving only a pile of rubble. Not only is the city gate tower gone, but the city walls on both sides have also collapsed for dozens of meters, it turns out that these city walls are not all made of stones, and they are the same as the Chinese city walls, there are stones inside and out, and the middle is filled with earth and gravel, and the stones on both sides are loosened by the rocks, and they naturally collapse.

Not only is the city tower gone, but the buildings within dozens of meters of the city gate are basically falling apart, and even the main castle building a few hundred meters away has also been affected, and the top of the unfinished spire has been shaken down a pile of stones, and I don't know if anyone below is unlucky.

"......" At this time, Hong Tao wanted to pull out his war knife very much, ride on the horse, and shout dumplings to give. It's a pity that there is no knife on his waist, only a revolver. No wonder the high-ranking generals of many countries during World War II still wore war knives, it turned out that that thing was not only an honor, but also very powerful when pretending to be forced, much higher than holding a pistol.

In fact, even if there is a saber, Hong Tao will not let the soldiers charge, the cat sneaks over, probes to see if there is any danger, occupies the first line of the city wall, and cleans up the remaining enemies, which is the rhythm of normal warfare. Only when the infantry is on a firm footing can the artillery move forward, and another artillery shot can be fired at valuable targets in the city. Incendiary bombs can't be thrown casually, there are not thirty left in total, and some have to be left for other ports, and one deterrent is enough to take the time to deter.

"Really surrendered?" After receiving the flag of the city wall, Hong Tao still didn't believe that the city wall was just the first line of defense for the entire castle, and they still had a strong castle to resist. I didn't surrender when I was killed before, why did I surrender again now?

This time Hong Tao guessed wrong, the other party really surrendered, because less than half of their main force was buried alive by this explosion, and the remaining soldiers were not willing to fight this kind of battle without touching the enemy, and they no longer listened to the command.

It turned out that a hundred and ten meters behind the gates of this castle, there was also a large underground space, which was a naturally formed cave. When the castle was built, the cave was converted into a hiding place and a storehouse. In order to avoid the attack of incendiary bombs and artillery shells, many soldiers and civilians hid in caves, hoping to launch a surprise attack from behind when Hong Tao entered the city. (To be continued.) )