When it was dark, the docks of the city of Geranza were in shambles, with dozens of corpses lying on the shore in various positions, and the bodies of more than a hundred Dutch sailors soaked in the red waters. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Two of the ten warships were already in the water, slanted in the water at the dock, and the deck of one of the ships was completely overflowing, with only two mainmasts protruding from the sea, telling others that it was a sea ship underwater.

The other eight warships also had at least a dozen large holes in their bodies, and the artillery decks inside were basically destroyed, and the cannons and other objects were damaged.

The mainmast and sails above were mostly broken and broken, and now these warships were a luxury to even move around.

The Dutch warships had reached such a point that Qi Wei was completely relieved, and the Dutch were no longer able to attack at sea and cause any trouble for the Breakers.

At this time, the warship of the Broken Army was divided into two parts and began to rest, sailing long distances, and when they arrived here, they started fighting, and when they did not stop, they could rest at night.

The Breakers had no worries, so the Dutch led by Vanderbilt Fander were crying without tears, and now the sinking of ten ships meant that they had no choice but to defend the city of Geranza, and there was no way out.

Many Dutch people had insomnia that night, they really didn't know how long they could hold out, and how many troops the Ming people came, which made it difficult for them to sleep.

Early the next morning, the activities of the Ming people brought the bay to life and awakened the alert Dutch people.

After a full meal, Li Lu ordered the soldiers to start boarding more than a dozen merchant ships and began to sail towards the island.

The Dutch people, who were watching all this from afar, knew that the Ming people were coming, and they were afraid that they would attack the city of Geranza.

More than a dozen merchant ships sailed out of the mouth of the bay and began to land on the west side of the island, except for 500 soldiers who stayed behind to defend Chikan City, more than 2,000 soldiers and more than 1,000 Korean soldiers began to land.

There are no piers here. They can only land slowly in small boats in turn, because it is not too urgent, so these soldiers are safety first, and land slowly.

And so all the soldiers went ashore, and it was already noon. The soldiers began to cook on the beachhead.

Vander was surprised to see in the telescope that it was these thousands of Ming soldiers, and of course he was extremely puzzled.

The city of Geranza is a fortified city, a fortified city that cannot be destroyed by artillery bombardment.

In order to take this city, it must first be bombarded with huge artillery, and then the city will be besieged with a sea of people, or it will be besieged until the city is exhausted.

Apart from these two methods, Fandel couldn't think of any other way, in his opinion. The city of Geranza is one of the most fortified cities in the Far East.

But the Ming people on the opposite side are thousands of people who have been stabbed by the big thorns, and it is these infantry troops who are attacking the city.

As soon as noon passed, the Ming soldiers began to reorganize their troops and march eastward, and they neatly sent out a neat large formation, shouting trumpets to the east.

When Van Del saw this extremely neat military formation of thousands of people moving like one person, he felt a little chill in his heart, he was a soldier in charge. Of course, I know that the training of the army and soldiers has reached this point, and I am afraid that only strict military discipline and hard work day and night can do it.

Such a soldier does not mean that the world must be invincible. After all, there is also a role in the armor formation, but it will definitely be extremely difficult to deal with.

The 1,500 soldiers and 700 sailors who were not in command of the defense attacked together, and the idea of catching the Ming army off guard was extinguished.

The key is that he doesn't know if the Ming army still has backup, and if he kills these Ming troops, he estimates that his loss will not be less, so the Ming people still have a large amount of backup. Do the Dutch still have the strength to defend the city of Geranza?

It's hard to be swept down by the Ming reinforcements, after all, he can't have any more reinforcements.

The Mingren's brigade had only walked two miles before stopping, and they were still four miles away from the city of Geranza.

Li Lu ordered the soldiers to start digging from here, yes, it was digging, and there was a reason why the landing was so slow, and there were a lot of shovel drafts. It's here to dig up the earth.

Zhao Lie didn't want to take the city of Gelanza with the lives of the soldiers, this is impossible, there are not so many soldiers to bury, every experienced veteran is extremely precious, that is, the eggs of the recruits are damaged a lot, Zhao Lie has to go bankrupt if he burns the silver, and the fortresses in Europe in this era cannot be taken without 10,000 casualties.

Then the siege took too long, and Zhao Lie is afraid that there will be changes after a long time. And it is even more impossible to take advantage of the enemy's capture or the pioneer of the people to attack the city, where did the Dutch people come from, if it is still about the same in the Japanese country, after all, the Japanese people have.

In the end, the only way to do this was to dig the tunnels, and finally to reward the Dutch with an airplane, and for this expedition, a merchant ship was piled up with black powder.

Li Lu resolutely followed Zhao Lie's order, even without Zhao Lie's order, he would not use his subordinates to fight, Jeju Town is more than 4,000 soldiers, he is reluctant, these are invincible elite soldiers in the field, and they can't die in the attrition of the siege like this.

The Ming people stopped and began to dig the earth, as long as they were not fools, they could understand what the Ming people were planning to do, it was not uncommon to use gunpowder to blow up fortified cities in European wars, not to mention that Li Lu did not hide it and carried it out with great fanfare.

"Mr. Fandel, what are we going to do if these Ming people want to blow up the castle with gunpowder." Since he had some common sense to know what Akito wanted to do, Vanderbilt still had this knowledge, he asked anxiously.

"It's nothing, wait, if the Ming people don't have reinforcements, it's these soldiers in front of us, we can go out of the city to fight, and the possibility of victory is very great, but if the Ming people still have reinforcements, we can only defend the city."

Vander said unhurriedly, compared to Vanderbilt, he was in a stable mood, and the fortified city was in front, even if he was the commander of the Ming people, he had to find a way to attack the city, and there was nothing surprising about blasting into the city.

Because the Ming people are difficult to deal with, if the number of Ming people increases, he is afraid that he will be invincible, but if it is these people in front of him, Fandel is still very confident that he will win the battle.

It is better to go out of the city and fight than to be trapped in the city and finally destroyed by gunpowder.

Of course, the main force of the excavation was carried out by the Korean soldiers, who did the dirty work, and the soldiers of the Breaker Army were on guard against the surprise attack of the Dutch in the city.

Due to the long length of the tunnel, a lot of timber was needed, and the armor of the sailors and the sailors landed on the shore to cut down the trees under Qi Wei's orders, and then sent them to the infantry in small boats, which was also a tiring job.

However, the number of people in the infantry of the Broken Army is not too large, and with the coordination and cooperation that Zhao Lie repeatedly emphasized before leaving the army, Qi Wei certainly did not dare to slack off, if the major event of the adult's conquest was delayed, Qi Wei knew that even if he was now the deputy head of the water division, he would be reprimanded and punished by Zhao Lie.

Fortunately, there are dozens of soldiers in armor on a warship, and it is not too difficult to get together a few hundred people to cut down and transport wood, and there are really a lot of trees near the bay, so it is quite fast.

The tunnels were moving underground towards the castle at a rate of dozens of paces a day, and the Dutch were helpless.

Five days later, Van Del had already observed that the attacking Ming infantry was more than 3,000 people in front of him, and there were no other Ming soldiers, as for the sailors on the ship, Van Del automatically ignored that foot combat and broadside combat were definitely not the same thing, and there was nothing to be afraid of.

"Your Excellency the Governor, tomorrow our army will go out of the city to fight a decisive battle with the Ming people, and the probability of our army winning is very high." Fandel said confidently.

Vanderbilt nodded in agreement, in any case he still had a lot of confidence in Vander, and Vander's record in Europe and Jakarta showed that this man was shrewd and capable, otherwise the East India Company would not have spent a lot of money to hire him.

"However, once our army is defeated, it is better for the Governor to surrender, after all, it will save his life." Vander's words immediately made Vanderbilt creepy if he was defeated...

"Can't we not fight?" Vanderbilt's voice trembled a little, and only then did he remember that the Ming people on the other side were different from the natives of the southwestern islands, and that this was a well-trained army, not a rabble like monkeys.

"Are you waiting to be buried under the rubble?" Fandel disagreed, he would rather die in battle than be crushed to death by earth and rocks in the end.

Moreover, he was still full of confidence in victory, and he was reluctant to fight before, because he was afraid that the losses would be too heavy and he would be taken advantage of by the reinforcements of the Ming army, and he was afraid that there would not be enough manpower to guard the city wall.

But now does he have a choice, no, as long as he doesn't want to wait for death, he can only fight with all his might.

Early the next morning, as the North Korean soldiers had just begun to enter the tunnels to start construction, a melodious trumpet sound was heard in the direction of the castle of Geranza in the distance.

The west gate of the castle opened, and a large number of Dutch people began to pour out of it at a rapid pace.

Li Lu immediately ordered the recall of the Korean soldiers underground, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to form a team.

Under the order, the Korean soldiers underground hurriedly ran out, and it can even be said that they ran out with a rolling belt, after all, the tunnel below is not so spacious, after all, it is just a passage for transporting gunpowder, not a reserve for transporting troops.

The North Korean soldiers did not wear armor, and the first thing they did when they came out was to hurriedly run to the place where the armor was stacked, but fortunately, the effect of the training in ordinary times was reflected at this time, and the stacking of their armor was placed one by one according to the formation when they left, and they only needed to rush there to help each other put on the armor as soon as possible.

And the soldiers of the Broken Army did not wear armor, you must know that this is the hot south, if you have nothing to put on heavy iron armor, I am afraid that you will faint in the heat in half an hour.

But all the soldiers just kept the iron armor around, and what they did now was to pick up the iron armor and start putting on the armor.

Under the order of the general commander, they finished putting on their armor as soon as possible and began to form a team.

At this time, the Dutch people were also forming a team under the orders of the military leaders at all levels, in fact, 1,500 soldiers were well-trained and the whole team was extremely fast, but the 700 sailors were not like that at all, and it was very tossed for a while, which gave Fandel a headache. (To be continued.) )

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