Winter 1622

Located on a tropical island in the middle of the Caribbean Sea, Willemstad is being surrounded by the Song Empire's fleet, and they have been surrounded for seven days, which is a difficult seven days, which makes people feel extremely desperate.

Rumble! Rumble!

This is the fleet under the command of Chelsea of the Song Empire, which is bombarding Willemstad.

Flowering bombs exploded above the city.

The shrapnel shot down and destroyed a lot of buildings and roofs, and some unlucky guys met their god under such an aimless bombardment, which was really no ordinary tragedy.

Thomas's old butler had arrived at Willemstad the day before the siege of the Song fleet, and the next morning he found the city besieged.

The enemy also did not have many warships, that is, more than thirty of them.

But it was just these more than thirty warships that destroyed the eight warships that were originally docked here in the port of Willemstad.

At this point, Willemstad had no strength at sea, and the city's administrators only had to let the army into the city and prepare to fight the enemy in the city.

It's a pity that the fleet of the Song Empire didn't want to enter the city at all, they just shelled the city continuously at sea.

In fact, Chelsea's idea was simple, he would not let his sailors and marines land and fight the Dutch in brutal street battles.

He would be at a great loss in that way.

Only a fool would choose which approach to take, but he Chelsea are clearly not fools.

Therefore, he resorted to shelling the city by sea, hoping to get the defenders of Willemstad to surrender themselves.

In short, if the other side surrenders, then the shelling from the sea will not stop.

This is a great test of patience and resistance to fear.

The copycat Dutch battleship, after being remodeled, has a total of seventy-six guns on three decks.

Such ships became frigates of heavy warships. The fire power should not be underestimated.

Thirty-six shells were fired at a salvo, and all of them were flowering shells, which caused great damage to the city's buildings.

During these seven days, most of the buildings in Willemstad City have been baptized with flowering bombs.

This also gave people a new understanding of the weapons of the Song Empire.

The old butler found the magistrate of the city, but when he arrived at the magistrate's mansion, he found that the magistrate had died unluckily under the bombardment.

Therefore, the duty of defending the city fell on the shoulders of a petty army officer.

When the old butler reported his identity. The little military manager was very happy to hand over this burden to the old butler, and he himself was happy.

You must know that after the siege of the city, the entire city was in short supply.

The food in the city was now only enough to feed the soldiers for two days.

At this time, the old butler was willing to take over this burden, how could this little officer not be happy.

He had been worried about where he would get the rest of the food when he ran out.

Now there are people who are willing to accept it, and he can't wait for it.

When the time comes, let the Governor's butler take care of this headache. Anyway, it has nothing to do with me.

When the soldiers make trouble, let this old man go up, and everyone is looking for trouble, and he has nothing to do with himself.

In fact, where does this petty officer know. The reason why the old butler took over the management of the whole city, he had his own ideas.

First of all, he had to do what the Governor had told him, or he would not have come to this dangerous place.

So. If he wants to get in touch with the people of the Song Empire, he must ensure some things now.

After taking over the administration of the city, he first ordered his soldiers to rest easy. and immediately sent men to the pier to erect a large wooden pole, and then raised a white flag made of white cloth.

What the old butler has to do now is very simple, that is, let the Song Empire's fleet surround the city, and stop the shelling first.

But the only thing that can make the other side stop the shelling is to raise the white flag.

Other than that, there's really nothing you can do.

"Are you going to surrender?"

When the little officer hung up the white flag at the dock, he found the old butler and asked.

The old butler shook his head and said, "No, I'm just using this method to temporarily stop the other party's shelling. For this reason, I can only use the method of raising the white flag, otherwise do you have any better way? ”

Faced with the old butler's questioning, the little officer thought for a moment and then stopped talking.

Yes, there really is no better way to stop the shelling of the enemy outside than to raise the white flag.

After all, as long as the white flag is raised, the enemy outside will definitely think that he is going to surrender, so he will definitely stop the shelling.

Regardless, this method works.

"What are you going to do after the enemy stops shelling? We now have 600 garrisons in the city, but most of them are cold. And the army of the Song Empire is all musketeers, which is not easy to deal with. ”

In the opinion of this petty officer, this old man must have had his own plan by raising a white flag to make the enemy stop shelling.

At that time, it sounded as if the old man had no intention of surrendering.

If that's the case, then what is this old man going to do?

The little officer felt that he was a little puzzled.

"I'm going to talk to the Song Empire commander outside, what they want is an intact city, wouldn't it be a pity if it was destroyed like this." , the old butler said to the little officer.

Really, if you want to talk to the other party, don't you still have to surrender?

Otherwise, what are you going to do with the enemy's commander?

However, the junior officer didn't say anything about this, in fact, he didn't want to be beaten so passively.

Seriously, the fleet of the Song Empire can attack itself at any time on the sea, but their people in the city cannot attack the fleet of the Song Empire at sea.

This is very unfair.

For seven days, they were passively bombarded by the sea in the city, and they fought for seven days.

It's been a hard seven days.

"I'm ready now, you can't relax here, organize the soldiers immediately. If the enemy thinks that we have surrendered and are going to land, you must lead your soldiers to drive the enemy into the sea. ”

Hey!

What does that mean?

The little officer was stunned for a moment after listening to the old butler's words. It was obvious that he couldn't figure it out.

Since you want to talk to the people of the Song Empire, if the enemy lands, why should you attack the other party?

If you do this, it will make the people of the Song Empire angry.

Seeing the little officer's puzzled look, the old butler explained to him: "We are only qualified to talk about it if we beat them up, and the white flag is just a means to see if they will be fooled." We need to let the enemy know the way, and it won't be so easy for them to take the city, and only then will we have value in their eyes. ”

Only then did the junior officer come to his senses.

Dare to be affectionate, this is to let the people of the Song Empire understand this.

In fact, the petty officer didn't know what to do. The old butler did this only on a temporary basis.

Originally, he came to the administrator's mansion just to temporarily put up the white flag and then create a ceasefire time for him, so that he could go to the port to find a small boat to approach the warships of the Song Empire and contact the other party.

But the death of the administrator gave the old butler a chance.

He actually became the supreme governor of the city.

In this way, the old housekeeper felt that he could make the movement bigger, so that he could have more initiative in the negotiation in the future.

When the time comes, he will be able to give Governor Thomas. Strive for some more favorable treatment.

But first of all, you let the people of the Song Empire know that they are not without the power to fight back.

Only in this way will the people of the Song Empire really talk to themselves.

Otherwise. If you go by yourself, you can only wag your tail and beg for mercy.

Of course, after the white flag was erected, the people of the Song Empire would not know what to do if they were not fooled.

Anyway, it's all about luck now.

"Remember. They all hid in the city, and did not attack until the enemy had come ashore. We have to wait until they enter the city, and we let the enemy start street fighting. Don't tell the people in the city that there will be any uncontrollable accidents in the province at that time. ”

The old warden confessed to the petty officer.

The junior officer nodded, then turned and went to prepare.

The old butler let out a long sigh.

"Your Excellency the Governor, you want to surrender and get good treatment, these are normal thoughts, but you don't have anything to get your hands on, so why should people give it to you."

The old butler sat there talking to himself.

It turned out that after the old butler came to the city, he inquired about the Song Empire with the defeated fleet members and sailors in the city that night.

The conclusion he came to was not good.

The fleet of the Song Empire was very powerful, and the soldiers were very brave and the weapons were very advanced.

No matter in any way, the colonies have no way to compare with each other.

Therefore, now that the Governor is in a hurry to surrender, it is estimated that he will be able to obtain an immortal.

As for the other conditions or something, don't even think about it, it's simply impossible.

But when he came out, the governor gave a thousand explanations, and instructed himself to send the letter to the commander of the Song Empire, and let him negotiate with him, he must ensure his interests in the colony.

Governor Thomas was reluctant to give up his many industries in the Caribbean, sugar cane fields, silver mines, and native slaves, so he pinned his hopes on negotiations between the old butler and the Song fleet.

In his opinion, there are still so many colonies in the Netherlands, and as long as he is the governor of the country, as long as an agreement is reached, then the Song Empire can also die fewer soldiers, right?

For the sake of this, it shouldn't be too difficult to ensure his industry and interests.

Thomas was naïve, and this was the old butler's comment.

But he had to fulfill the governor's commission.

I think he has been working in the governor's house since he was young, and he has been brought up with him since he was a child.

In the old butler's heart, in fact, he has unconsciously regarded Governor Thomas as his own child.

Now my 'child' has requirements, no matter how difficult it is, I have to meet him.

In this way, the old butler made a temporary decision and decided to create a condition to come out and let himself get some chips.

As for whether it will work or not, in fact, the old housekeeper himself has not counted it, after all, he has also heard of the massacre carried out by the Song Empire in the Spanish colony.

Although the authenticity needs to be verified, he believes that there is absolutely no wind and no waves at this time.

Therefore, he was also prepared to resist and provoke the Song people.

Anyway, I have the letter from the governor here, so if I can't do anything, I'll just get the letter out when the time comes.

It's a bit embarrassing, but it's better than dying.

In short, the old butler's idea was simple, to gamble with the lives of Willemstad's soldiers, as well as the lives of the inhabitants of the city.

If he loses the bet, he has nothing to lose.

But if the lucky bet for him wins, then he will be able to fulfill Governor Thomas's instructions.

As for how many lives Willemstad would lose, that wasn't something he had to think about.

For him, the affairs of the Governor were the most important things.

Well, the rumor that the Song people like the massacre should continue to spread.

In this way, in order to avoid the fall of the city, you will be slaughtered yourself, and the whole city will be angry and revolt, right?

The old butler thought about this, and couldn't help but secretly become proud-

Dividing Line –

"My lord, the white flag has been raised at Willemstad Pier, is it the Dutch who are going to surrender?"

A genetic officer hurried into the captain's room to report to Chelsea about the strange things on Willemstad's docks.

Hearing this, Chelsea hurriedly walked out of the captain's room and came to the deck, taking the monocular from the adjutant's hand and looking over.

Sure enough, as reported, a white flag stretched out in the wind on a large wooden pole that had just been erected at the pier.

"It seems that the other party is really going to surrender and fly the white flag."

Chelsea said with a smile as he looked left and right with his binoculars.

Wrong!

Suddenly, Chelsea noticed something was not quite right, and he saw through the binoculars that there were some soldiers in the city, who were hurrying to hide, and many of them were hiding on the roofs.

It doesn't look like it's going to surrender.

The old housekeeper in the city didn't know what to do at this time, he just forgot that the warships of the Song Empire also had telescopes, and the multipliers of their telescopes were much higher than those of European products of the same period.

"My lord, is there anything wrong?"

The non-commissioned officers and lieutenants who followed Chelsea asked questions after hearing his whispered muttering.

"See for yourselves."

Chelsea didn't put down his binoculars, but continued to observe with a serious face.

After listening to Chelsea's words, the genetics around him also picked up the binoculars and began to observe carefully.

Ha, do they want to use surrender as a pretext and then lead us into the city to ambush us?

A genetic officer observed for a moment and voiced his guess.

And his guess was exactly what those people in the city were planning.

Chelsea put down the binoculars in his hand at this time and said lightly: "If they really want to use this method to confuse us, and also want to set up an ambush in the city, then I can only say that they are really mentally retarded" (To be continued. )