The several attacks of Cen Meng's subordinates, although they did not make progress, at least at the cost of their lives, reminded the latecomers that this fortress could only outwit the enemy, not the enemy. Xu Tai led the border army and fought with the northern captives, and after he watched it for a long time, he also made a difficulty

"Although this city is not big, the walls are high and thick, even if the cannons on the ship are dismantled and bombarded, I am afraid that it will take ten days and half a month to bombard. Otherwise, you have to use a flying ladder, but how many people do you have to get in. If it is really such a way of playing, he will have to break the confidence of exchanging dozens of lives for one of his lives and exchange people with him. ”

The new army is a candidate for the forbidden army of the Son of Heaven who has been trained with great effort, and from Yang Chengzu's point of view, he does not want to consume them all in this kind of battle. However, it is difficult to find the right person if you use someone else to cushion it. The defenders also seem to have a lot of troops, and there are crowds of people behind the battlements, and arquebuses poke out from between the battlements.

These Buddhists now have no way out, they do not believe in the character of the Ming army, and after surrendering, they are afraid that they will be killed and captured. The soldiers on the defending side are afraid that they will fight to the death, originally Yang Chengzu was worried about flowering inside, or coercing the defeated soldiers to kill them, but now that these two strategies have failed, he has to return to the way he hates the most, and fight hard.

"Yang San, they also talked about this city, they are one of the builders of this castle, but even they can't say what weaknesses this city has. We can't rush into war, we have won enough victories today, and we are just a lonely city, not a climate. The old man just heard a report that there was a Ming righteous people in the Yiren workshop, killed several Yiren overseers, and seized countless firecrackers and artillery, so we should go to see those good people first, so as not to chill the hearts of the righteous people. ”

Although Wang Feng led the troops well, he did not think that such a fortress had too much value worthy of attention, and the attacker always had enough strategic initiative compared to the defender. Now that the Yiren have given up the outer line and are all cowering in the city, then the officers and soldiers can fight whenever they want, and they can fight as much as they want, and the Yi soldiers can only defend passively. Under the premise that there is no foreign aid, how long can this kind of perseverance last?

On the contrary, it was the change of hands of the workshop, so that Da Ming could directly take over a batch of finished guns and those production tools, which was much more important than a city.

Although Yang Chengzu knew that Leng Feishuang was in the castle, even if he attacked with all his troops now, it would be impossible to take down the castle. Fortunately, Leng Feishuang's martial arts and strategies are enough to protect herself, and if things are in crisis, she may know how to escape.

With this idea and the principle that the layman will never interfere with the insider, Yang Chengzu did not express his opinion on the battle situation, but followed Wang Feng all the way to the Portuguese weapons workshop in Tuen Mun. As Bartolok was preparing to fortify the entire Tuen Mun fortress, he established a shipyard, repair shop, weapons workshop and many other supporting facilities on the island.

However, he did not have enough workers at his disposal, and if the Portuguese and the natives of the South Seas were to undertake these tasks, there would be no soldiers available. Therefore, in the workshop, there are always Han Chinese craftsmen, mixed with some Portuguese workers as masters, and some Portuguese overseers.

The overseers, who had been swaggering in the past, had almost all collapsed in pools of blood and died miserably, and several of the Portuguese workers had also been killed, and the rest were curled up in corners with their heads in their hands, heavily shackled. The unrestrained craftsman whipped his whip at them, cursing from time to time, ignoring whether the other party could understand or not.

But when they saw Wang Feng come in, those craftsmen lost their temper and knelt on the ground, kowtowing and begging for mercy, repenting of their crimes. Compared with them, there is not much difference between them and the emperor, and a casual sentence can make these people raid their homes and destroy them.

Wang Feng was very kind to them, took the initiative to help people up, gave a short condolences, and then began to ask about the situation of the fortress and their craftsmanship. Ryan Stein took the Portuguese workers aside, communicated with them in Portuguese, and soon returned to report to Yang Chengzu.

"They are indeed skilled craftsmen, recruited by the commander here at great expense from the Lisbon military factory. Believe me, they deserve your price, these craftsmen are just apprentices, and they can be regarded as real good hands. I negotiated with them that as long as we kept them safe and paid them, they would work for us. As for the castle, I beg your pardon, I'm afraid there is nothing we can do. The craftsmen said that the castle could not be conquered, and even if all the cannons in the workshop were used, it would not necessarily pose a threat to it. Perhaps, we should think about siege tactics, which we did in Europe, confronting the people in the castle and forcing the people inside to negotiate until they give in. ”

The castle has food and water storage, but the total number is limited, unlike the cities of the Central Plains, there is no self-circulating supply system. It's that the warehouse is big enough and the number of stores is large enough, but it will always be consumed.

So in the comparison between the offensive and the defender, the attacker is definitely more advantageous, the only problem is that no one knows how much material the defender has stockpiled and how long the attacker can stay here. After the battle becomes a tug-of-war, the final comparison is often the psychology, who can hold on for one more day, may be able to win.

Yang Chengzu nodded and issued an order, and several brocade guards went over to untie the chains on the Yi people and brought them to his team. When those craftsmen saw the brocade clothes of the flying fish suit, they lowered their heads tightly, not daring to look at these people.

Wang Feng stroked those guns, as if he was caressing his lover's skin, that appearance made Yang Chengzu feel a little cold, after all, he couldn't think of being with these famous ministers. For these Western firearms, he just looked at them, but he didn't have much interest, as for how to make them, or how to arrange them, it was all the business of the craftsmen below, and he was not ready to participate. In contrast to these, he was more concerned about the location of the island's treasures.

The Portuguese built it into a free trade port, and they had a lot of income just by collecting taxes, plus they themselves were pirates, and counting the stolen goods, it was impossible for the island to be without savings for so long. Even with the funding of Yangzhou salt merchants, Yang Chengzu still hoped to make up for the military expenses through the seizure.

"Part of the wealth of the island is in the castle, which is the savings of Bartolok and the other captains. There are special treasure rooms in the castle, which outsiders are not allowed to enter, and now, those should be in the hands of Father Perez. The other part, the money of the church, should also be in the castle, or in the church. The craftsmen did not know the location of the specific treasure, but they could provide a general idea.

The whole war was almost caused by the church, and this group, no matter what, had to walk around the church.