"A marine company is gone, and so are our reinforcements." Paul. Duradinius stood on the castle of Chi and looked at the kneeling soldiers on the shore in the distance, who were supposed to enter the city to strengthen their defenses, but were now taken prisoner as soon as they came ashore.

"We have to plan for the worst, the town can't hold it, the food there has to be burned, and the people are evacuated to the castle." An officer said.

Outside the castle is the town of the castle, which is equivalent to the inner city, and the town is equivalent to the outer city, but the town has no walls to defend, only a breastwall and a fence. The castle was occupied by the garrison, and the town was the residence of the clerks and soldiers, as well as the houses, as well as the markets, shops, hospitals, schools, warehouses, stables, etc.

The most important thing in the town is the 10,000 quintals of grain in the granary.

"Okay, I won't give the Ming army if I burn the grain." Paul nodded. "Let them come back when the grain is burned."

Originally, Paul's plan to deal with the enemy discussed with De Baul and Van Bronn was to shrink the troops and horses to the three cities of Rejialan, Sicaohaibao, and Chichi. As a result, as soon as the battle began, the Sicao Sea Fort was lost.

And the Ming army went straight to Chichi, and a company sent by Rejialan was gone. Paul's company, which had been in ambush in the town, was now alone.

It's just that Paul's order was a little late, and when he wanted to burn the grain and withdraw the army, the advance of the Ming army had already entered the town.

The soldiers who had entered the town first had already rushed to the warehouses in accordance with the battle plan. As soon as the Dutch soldiers came out, they happened to meet the nine-headed bird on the long street of the town.

The two armies suddenly met.

"Fire!" As soon as Mr. Bai Yu Jiahe found the Dutch, he immediately raised his gun and fired, and gave orders while shooting. Hearing the order, the Hydra soldiers also raised their guns and fired, and the gunfire continued to be banged, and the Dutch immediately fell a few. The Dutch dropped a few corpses, quickly took cover on both sides of the street, and then returned fire.

The two armies of soldiers and horses come and go, and the gunfire continues.

"Your Excellency. Let me take a team of brothers to outflank them from the flank. "A flag chief asks for help. The Dutch had a lot of guns and marksmanship, and several of their brothers had already been wounded.

"Okay, you take a banner to the left to outflank, and Zhao Qi always brings another banner to the right."

The two flag generals each took a flag man to outflank the two sides, and Yu Jiahe asked people to carry the tiger squat cannon over. "Call me and attract all these reds."

The Tiger Squat Cannon has now basically become the standard flag-level weapon of the Nine-headed Bird, whether it is an infantry army or a horse army, each flag is equipped with at least one Tiger Squat Cannon, which is a light and compact cannon. For melee combat, the firepower is extremely strong.

Several tiger squatting cannons roared, and bursts of iron sand swept through, immediately suppressing the fire of the Dutch, and taking advantage of the opportunity, Yu Jiahe and his men rushed over for another distance.

The Dutch, too, found themselves in great trouble, and the granary was not far in front of them, but they could not get in.

"Chong, I saw that there was no restaurant in front of me. We rushed in and threw torches from the upper floors at the opposite granary. After lighting the granary, how about we retreat from the back of the restaurant back to the castle? "Company Andrew consulted with his officers.

Several officers nodded. Agree to this battle plan.

"Rush!"

Andrew shouted, and the musketeers in the company fired the muskets together, and then Andrew and the others rushed forward with their shields, and rushed towards the restaurant with the rest of the people.

Yu Jiahe saw the Dutch suddenly rush out. I couldn't help but be a little surprised.

"It's not good, Hongyi is going to rush to the restaurant and stop them."

They also rushed out. The guns fired in unison.

The Dutch left behind a dozen corpses, but stormed the restaurant anyway. At this time, the other two banners had just arrived, and they were a step late.

Yu Jiahe led people to attack the restaurant, but a volley of guns was fired from inside, and several nine-headed birds couldn't dodge and were hit, but fortunately, they were not injured by vital injuries, and they were protected by cotton armor, so they didn't hurt their muscles and bones.

Yu Jiahe was very angry, and at this time, a large group of nine-headed birds arrived.

A Qian general glared at Yu Jiahe, "What's the matter, you haven't done it for half a day with a few red hairs?" ”

"Report to the sir, about 200 people with red hairs have fled into this tavern, they have a lot of firearms, and they plan to burn the granary next door."

"You can't handle it with two hundred red hairs? Rice bucket, take your people aside, leave it to us here. "Mr. Qian's head to face was scolded.

"Push the cannon over, grind with the Dutch or something, and bombard the fuck with the cannon." Mr. Qian said very angrily. Now the cannons of the nine-headed bird are quite sufficient, especially after more than a thousand cannons have been fished out of the Penghu sea, which is even more sufficient. Of the more than 1,000 cannons, the nine-headed bird and the Zheng family each got half. In addition to the salvaged naval guns, they also salvaged many army field guns from the sunken ships of the Netherlands and Britain.

Now Liu Jun's Beiyang Fleet has only a few ships, but there are more than 1,000 cannons. With such an abundance of artillery, of course Liu Jun would not put these guns in the warehouse to rust, but gave a lot of them to the battalions, as long as they dragged them, they could borrow them.

In addition to the original light cannons, this nine-headed bird's Qian Zong now has several three-pounder cannons under his command, and even nine-pounder cannons. The horse pulled the gun cart over, and the cannons were lined up, and the barrels of the black holes were facing the restaurant.

Hundreds or even thousands of pounds of field guns and shipborne extended guns are used to bombard an ordinary restaurant, or they are still set up in front of the restaurant

Yu Jiahe stood aside with his subordinates, very depressed, this is too bullying.

However, compared with Yu Jiahe, Andrew and the others in the restaurant were even more depressed and desperate.

Fuck, is there such a war? He pulled out a row of guns at once, and dragged all the fucking nine-pound ship-borne guns.

"Let's withdraw!" Andrew knew that the granary would not burn down, and that the mission had failed.

"I can't go, there are Ming troops on all sides, and we are surrounded."

Mr. Qian looked at the row of cannons triumphantly, with a sense of accomplishment, "Shout inside, Ben Qian always counts a hundred for them, and if they don't come out to surrender after a hundred counts, they will be smashed immediately." ”

"A hundred."

"Ninety-nine!"

Andrew leaned closer to the window and looked out, where the gunners were methodically reloading and preparing for launch.

"Let's surrender." Andrew helplessly said to his opponent.

His eyes looked over, and all his subordinates lowered their heads, no matter how brave they were, they didn't dare to say that they wanted to continue fighting at this time, and if they fought again, they would be killed.

"Since everyone is not against it. Then I'll assume that everyone agrees. Okay, I'm going to negotiate with them now. ”

After Andrew finished speaking, he leaned against the window and shouted loudly outside, "I ask for negotiation!" ”

"You are not qualified to negotiate, lay down your arms and surrender."

"We can surrender, but after surrendering, the safety of our lives must be guaranteed, and we need your assurance and commitment!"

Mr. Qian thought for a while, "Immediately put down your weapons and come out and surrender." Death is spared. ”

After a while, the door of the restaurant was opened, and Andrew walked out of it with his hands held high, followed by other Dutch soldiers.

Yu Jiahe and his subordinates stood aside and looked at the red-haired soldiers who originally belonged to their opponents, so they abandoned their weapons and surrendered, becoming the prisoners of President Qian, and they felt extremely uncomfortable.

But he didn't dare to blame Mr. Qian, so he had to blame these Dutchmen for not resisting.

"It's a crowd of cowards. The breed, the long ox is tall and the horse is big, but the battle is all cowardice, and it hasn't been fought a few times. and surrendered. ”

The other flag general also nodded hurriedly, "That's it, the red hairs are all soft eggs." What Spaniards, handed over the chicken coop to us without firing a shot. Such a large battleship was also handed over to us. And the Englishman, who just lost a battle and ran away. The same was true of the Dutch, who were breached in less than an hour. It's the same on our side, and in just a while, we captured two of them. ”

Another Qi always smiled and said, "I heard that these red-haired men have been instigated, just like those mules, they look very big, but in fact, they can't have children."

"Really?"

"No wonder they're all so bad, they don't have eggs." A group of soldiers were over there judging the Dutch captives.

However, some people expressed doubtful opinions, "But these people all have big beards, can they still grow beards after being instigated?" ”

The flag always felt very shameless when he was refuted, and glared at him angrily, "Set up camp tonight, you are responsible for digging the toilet of our bureau!" ”

The captives were disarmed and taken to the rear, the grain from the granaries was saved, and the town fell intact into the hands of the Hydra. When the town was cleared, more than a dozen Dutchmen who had not withdrawn into the city were also found.

Liu Jun looked at the Red Embedded City, which had been besieged, and said, "Send a Dutch back to the Red Embedded City to persuade you to surrender." ”

A Dutch woman was sent back to Chichicheng with a letter of surrender from Liu Jun.

Liu Jun demanded that the Dutch in Chichicheng surrender immediately and hand over the castle.

After Paul saw Liu Jun's letter of persuasion, he decided to send someone out of the city to negotiate with Liu Jun. On the same day, several Dutch envoys came to the town with white flags to meet Liu Jun.

The Dutch showed Liu Jun the agreement signed between the Fujian officials and them, which stated that the Fujian officials asked them to come to Taiwan, but did not state that Taiwan was the territory of the Ming Empire. Therefore, the Dutch demanded that the Ming army retreat, but they were willing to pay the military expenses of the Ming army, and they were willing to pay the Ming army 100,000 taels of silver, and if the Ming army signed a trade contract with them, they were willing to pay another 100,000 taels of silver.

Liu Jun naturally could not agree to such conditions.

"Master Hou, it's useless to talk more to the Dutch, let's talk about it after fighting." Zhang Shan asked Liu Jun to fight.

Liu Jun shook his head, "Don't worry, the Red Embedded City is still very strong, and if you want to attack it, you will have to pay a lot of casualties." We don't need to pay unnecessary casualties, we don't have to besiege the city, and we can still trap the Red Embedded City. ”

"Can you take Akatsuki without attacking the city? Could it be that Lord Hou wants to persuade him to surrender? But these Dutchmen may not be willing to surrender. Zhang Shan said.

"Although the city is strong, he has a fatal flaw, that is, there is no water source in the castle, and their water source is in the East India Company lodgings north of the town outside the castle. All we have to do is besiege the castle, and within three days, the city will fall. ”

If you don't eat, you can last for seven or eight days, and if you don't drink water, it's over in three days.

When the Dutch built the castle, they probably never thought that the city would be attacked.

In the Red Castle, Paul and the others quickly realized the problem of water in the castle. They immediately sent men to dig wells in the fort, but the wells dug were less water and more muddy, and bitter and difficult to drink.

At this time, the Ming army had already begun to set up artillery and pile sandbags under the city.

"The Ming army also brought the naval guns." Paul looked at the Ming artillery position outside the castle with an ugly face.

There are hundreds of cannons of all kinds.

"How else is this going to be fought?"

Paul despaired, and the other officers in the city were just as depressed. After the loss of the company that reinforced it and the one in the town, there are now only two companies left in the city. All men, women, and children together are no more than a thousand.

There is no water source inside, no reinforcements outside, and the Ming army has surrounded the red embedded city, and there are 10,000 soldiers, especially the hundreds of cannons, especially the thirty-two-pound siege cannon and the twenty-four-pound mortar cannon.

"I now know why the fortress on the northern line of Tail Island was breached so quickly, with these huge cannons, we can't hold the city for three days."

"It is better to know that it is better to withdraw the soldiers and merchants to Dayuan Island as soon as possible, and maybe we can hold out more until the reinforcements arrive. Fuck, Van Bronn's rice bucket, Debaul is an idiot too. ”

After Paul scolded him, he finally sighed helplessly, "Kaesong surrenders, there is no need to make unnecessary resistance and increase unnecessary casualties." ”

On the same day, on the afternoon of the fall of Sicaohai Fort, the defenders of Chichicheng City surrendered.

Paul went out of the city with more than 600 soldiers and more than 300 women and children and servants.

The door of the castle opened, and Paul came to Liu Jun and presented his sword to Liu Jun, who took the sword and accepted his surrender, while publicly telling them that his life would be guaranteed.

More than 1,000 prisoners and the more than 500 prisoners of war who had been captured in the towns and seashores before were sent to the prisoner of war camps, where they were not allowed to leave the camp, and the nine-headed bird was guaranteed three meals a day and their safety.

In just one day, the Dutch lost the castle of Sicaohai and Chichi, and except for the town on Dayuan Island and the city of Rejialan and Utrecht, the rest of the place was captured by the Ming army.

After the outer castle was captured, the Dayuan also became an island.

Especially when the Ming army seized the tail island of the northern line, it immediately advanced to the southern end of the island, repaired the fortifications at the southern end, built a fort, and directly erected a cannon to the south waterway, which not only blocked the south waterway from the south port to the city of Rechalan, but also directly threatened the castle of Geranza.

It was the first day of the war.

De Baul and Van Brunn were at a loss, but if the situation continued, they were about to lose.

"We have to fight back." Van Bronn was in charge of the fleet at the mouth of the South Bokou and sent people to liaise with Debaul in the city of Rejalan. Receiving Van Brunn's letter, Debaul sighed helplessly, counterattacked, counterattacked, how to fight back? (To be continued......)

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