"Boom...... Boom ......"

Iron pellets weighing more than 10 or even 20 pounds hit the city wall again and again, and the strong city wall, which was regarded as the pride of the Dutch colonists in the past, was now blown apart like paper paste, and occasionally a cannonball flew over the city wall and fell into the residential houses in the city, which would cause great panic.

Just when the Xuan army began to bombard, in the slums south of the city, groups of people, local aborigines and Han people who came to reclaim the famine all crowded into the street, listening to the rumbling cannons not far away, and their expressions were very complicated.

Wearing a set of clothes that could no longer distinguish what color was gone, Nuo Nuo asked Gong Xiaoman on the side: "Brother Xiaoman, this is ...... Is this our Ming officer and soldier calling? ”

"I estimate that eight * nine is not far from ten!" Gong Xiaoman nodded very affirmatively, at this time he was like a mirror in his heart, where did he not know that this was Hou Ye who led the troops over.

Seeing that Gong Xiaoman said so surely, Uncle Gouzi on the side said with some dissatisfaction: "What's the matter, the officers and soldiers are outside the city, we are in the city, can we come in, don't forget that our lives are still pinched in the hands of those red hairs." ”

Uncle Dog sounds reasonable at first glance, but many people around him have also echoed it.

"Yes, we are now mud bodhisattvas crossing the river, and it is difficult to protect ourselves, what can those officers and soldiers outside do, is it possible that they will still give us silver."

"Isn't it nice for us to be here? As soon as the officers and men say that they will not be able to do this work, they may not be able to do it. ”

didn't get the expected response, which made Gong Xiaoman feel a little puzzled, he couldn't figure out why his own officers and soldiers called these people who were also the people of the Ming Dynasty, but they didn't look happy at all, but were worried that their jobs would be lost. Have these people forgotten that they are the people of the Ming Dynasty?

Thinking of this, Gong Xiaoman felt very depressed. These days, he tried to contact Arikawaji's companions who had infiltrated the city with him, but he couldn't get in touch with any of them, which made him wonder if these people had been exposed. Now the officers and soldiers have begun to attack the city outside the city, but these people still look cowering. Could it be true that you have to wait for the knife to reach your neck before you think of resisting? If this is the case, then his task of launching a Han riot in the city will be frustrated.

Just when Gong Xiaoman was a little frustrated, the Dutch did him a big favor.

A group of Dutch soldiers, led by an officer, trotted all the way to the middle of the street, and an interpreter shouted to the crowd: "In view of the despicable sneak attack on the city of Geranza by the Ming army, our governor of Ovaud has decided that as atonement for his sin, he will send you men to repair the walls!" ”

"What...... Let's repair the walls? ”

"The artillery fire outside is so fierce, doesn't letting us go up to the city wall to send us to death?"

"Folks, we can't go to death!"

These people who came from Fujian to do land reclamation immediately became in an uproar, and they only came to cultivate the land. I never thought of the idea of working for those red-haired ghosts, and soon many people exploded, and many people looked at these Dutch soldiers in front of them angrily, looking like Lao Tzu would not go to what can I do.

It's a pity that their thinking is still in the previous stage, if everyone is a villager in the Ming Dynasty, those government officials may not go too far, but these Dutch colonists will not be soft on them. These colonist armies, mostly composed of robbers, thieves, and murderers, did not come to the East to do good deeds, and there was only one way for anyone who disobeyed their orders, and that was to "kill"!

With a fierce glint in the eyes of the leading officer. A volley of guns rang out immediately, and more than a dozen of the most fierce people fell in pools of blood. Looking at the bloody corpses on the ground, soon a thick smell of blood immediately filled the street.

The bloody slaughter immediately sobered up the people who had been agitated just now, and they realized that this was not their hometown. The blonde, blue-eyed red-haired ghosts in front of them were not the official servants they were familiar with. After all, the official servants of the Ming Dynasty and them all belong to the villagers who bow their heads and don't look up, no matter how ruthless they are, they have a bottom line, and these ghosts in front of them will not pay attention to them so much, and they will kill if they don't agree.

Under the persecution of the flaming fire. The people who were still in the mood just now were dumb, and they might die if they went up to the city wall, but if they didn't go up to the city wall, they would die immediately. What these people don't know is that more than a hundred years later, there was a literary young man named Hugo who said a word. "To survive or to destroy, this is a question", this sentence describes their situation at this time, under the persecution of more than 100 firearms, thousands of people from the coastal area can only obediently carry stones up to the city wall and begin to repair the damaged city.

The actions of the Dutch were naturally noticed by the Ming army outside the city, and when Zhao Yongxin, who commanded the shelling, angrily approached Yue Yang to ask about countermeasures, Yue Yang asked lightly: "What do you say should be done?" ”

Zhao Yongxin was stunned, yes...... Those Dutchmen weren't good stubble. Now that the two sides are fighting, if these ghosts know that they care too much about these people, maybe they will use these people to threaten them to withdraw their troops in the next step, and then they will really retreat in disgrace?

Yue Yang said lightly: "You immediately upload my order, not only can the artillery fire not stop, but also increase the intensity of the attack, so as not to provoke those Dutch to notice the abnormality!" ”

"Yes!" Zhao Yongxin's voice was mixed with a trace of imperceptible trembling, he knew that with this order, he didn't know how many people of the Ming Dynasty would fall into his own fire.

The heavy artillery fire continued, and it did not weaken in the slightest because there were more people on the walls. The rapid iron pellets continued to slam on the city walls, and the screams of terror, the stumps and broken arms everywhere, and the blood-stained city walls were still the main theme of the entire battlefield, and it took an hour before the shelling stopped.

When the whole battlefield began to quiet down, both the Dutch soldiers who hid in the corners and suffered and the Han Chinese people who were forced to go up to the city wall to work as repairers all left tears.

They were lucky enough to escape the catastrophe and lay on the city wall one by one, wanting to laugh but couldn't laugh at all, and finally tears couldn't help but flow out of their eyes. Gong Xiaoman was lying on a section of the battlement that had been blown up, and he tore off a slightly clean strip of cloth on his body to wrap a wound on his arm, and in the shelling just now, he was hit in his right arm by a flying stone, fortunately the stone was not big, otherwise he would have to practice eating with his left hand again.

At this time, a crying voice sounded nearby: "Brother Xiaoman...... Brother Xiaoman...... Where are you...... Come here, Uncle Dog is dying! ”

"What ......"

Gong Xiaoman looked at him for a while. Hurriedly ran in the direction where the voice came from. Soon he saw Erdan sitting on the ruins with the dog in his arms, shouting his name loudly.

He ran to Erdan's side and asked, "Erdan...... What happened to Uncle Dog? ”

Erdan hugged the dog and cried silently: "Uncle Dog was hit by a stone, Brother Xiaoman, what do you say you should do?" ”

Gong Xiaoman took a closer look, and found that the dog's head was smashed out of an egg-sized hole by a stone, and the blood was flowing out, seeing this, he was cold in his heart and slowly shook his head, "Erdan, Uncle Dog is no good, put him down!" ”

After listening to Gong Xiaoman's words, the second egg was stunned for a long time, and finally cried out. The dog is from the same village as him. It can be regarded as his clan uncle, but now he is so absent in his heart, and naturally he can't pass this threshold for a while.

Looking at the corpses lying on the ground all around, Gong Xiaoman sighed and said to Erdan: "Okay, take Uncle Dog down......

Until noon, the Xuan army did not bombard the city wall again. This time Oward couldn't help it, the bombardment in the morning made him realize that if the Ming army continued to shell again, he was afraid that the city of Geranza would be destroyed in two days, this time he sent Father Elmer down the city wall with a hanging basket, and then the priest came to the front of the battle with a white flag to ask for a meeting with the commander of the Ming army, and soon he was taken to a large tent. I saw an oriental man about twenty-six or seventeen years old, wearing a green military uniform, and a majesty all over his body.

The man looked at Father Elmer for a moment before asking, "Are you the representative sent by the city of Geranza?" ”

"Yes!" Father Elmer hurriedly stepped forward and bowed down, "Honorable Lord from the Ming Kingdom, I am the priest of Geranza City, and my name is Elmer. Berkdale, this time I have been commissioned by Governor Oward to negotiate with you. May I ask you, are you the loyal and brave Marquis Yue Yang of the Ming Empire? ”

"You know a lot about who I am." A faint sneering smile appeared on Yue Yang's face: "It must be someone from the Zheng family who sued you, right?" Yes, I am Yueyang, the loyal and brave Marquis of the Ming Empire, and I have come to declare to you our sovereignty over this island, which you have illegally occupied for so many years. It's time to give it back to us. ”

"Your Excellency Marquis, this is not fair!" Elmer quickly shouted, "This was Borderlands when we came here. It took us more than 20 years to get this land in order, but you want to go back so lightly, how can this work! ”

"Then I don't care!" Yue Yang waved his hand and said arrogantly, "I don't care if your East India Company is the king of Europe, but you shouldn't stretch out your hand to the East, you must know that this is our territory!" ”

"But the Spaniards are here, too, why don't you go look for them?" Father Elmer stood up angrily.

"That's because the Spaniards are smarter than you!" Yue Yang sneered and looked at the priest and sneered: "You don't know yet, this attack on the city of Geranza was also found by the Spaniards first, and now if my expectations are correct, the Spaniards have already begun to attack your Promin City." And I can also tell you in no uncertain terms that I will not allow you to station a single soldier in the land of the East, whether you are Dutch or Spaniard, this is a matter of principle! ”

"Damn it!" Father Elmer only felt that his heart was in turmoil, and now he finally knew why the Ming fleet suddenly appeared in the harbor outside the city of Geranza, it turned out that this qiē was the work of the Spaniards behind him.

Looking at Elmer, who was standing on the spot, Yue Yang asked impatiently: "Okay, I've said everything that needs to be said, since you are here on behalf of the governor in the city of Geranza, then tell me what you should say, otherwise I will start to attack the city again in the afternoon." ”

"Oh God...... Wait! As soon as he heard the words "open artillery and attack the city", Elmer's heart jumped, and he hurriedly said: "Your Excellency, Marquis, I think we can still talk." We can give you the city of Geranza, but in exchange you will return the ships in the harbor to us, and let all of us leave with our possessions. ”

"Leave ......" Yue Yang couldn't help laughing as if he had heard some joke, and shook his head with a smile: "Do you really think you still have the confidence to negotiate terms with me?" I can tell you plainly that I only accept your unconditional surrender. Other than that I will not accept any of your conditions, this is my answer to you, now you can go! ”

As soon as Yue Yang's words fell, the guards standing next to him immediately stood by his side and stretched out their hands to make a gesture of please. Elmer knew that any more would have no effect, so he sighed and walked out silently......

"What...... They are directly our unconditional surrender? They're too domineering, aren't they? ”

In the Doge's Palace, Oward's voice was loud enough to tear down the conference room. In front of him, more than a dozen merchants, clergy, and officers sat silently. They knew too well what unconditional surrender meant to them, which meant that the defeated side surrendered to the victorious side without any reservations, which also meant that all their possessions and their possessions had to be delivered to the Ming army. This is unbearable for them, who are accustomed to commanding and wantonly killing local natives, and are used to being the emperor.

Bobby, the representative of the merchants, asked in a trembling voice, "Is that really what he said?" Can't he even give us a promise to let us go back to our homeland? ”

"Nope!" Elmer smiled bitterly: "The attitude of His Excellency the Marquis is very tough, he has made it clear to me that he will not accept any conditions other than unconditional surrender, and I can see from his eyes that he is serious. ”

"This damn bastard is too domineering too." Oward scolded a little angrily, "We have already admitted defeat, and we are even willing to return the senior to him, is he still unwilling to let us go?" ”

It was a little funny to spit out the word domineering from the mouth of Oward, a ruthless colonist, but no one in the room laughed, they were all worried about their lives. Once accepted unconditional surrender. That means that they will hand over their property and even their net worth and life to the Marquis of Ming Kingdom outside the city, and whether they can survive can only depend on his will, this feeling is too bad for them.

There was silence in the conference room, and for a long time Oward suddenly said, "Lieutenant Colonel Villa." How many people were killed or wounded in the morning's shelling? ”

Soon Villa's voice rang out: "Your Excellency the Governor, we lost one hundred and thirty-seven soldiers in this morning's shelling, and we have not counted the specific number of dead and wounded among the Ming civilians who were sent to the city wall to repair them, but there should be three or four hundred." ”

Looking at the silent Oward. Elmer asked, "Your Excellency, are we going to continue to resist now?" ”

Now all eyes were on him, as the highest Dutch commander in the ranks. Oward's decision is at stake for everyone here.

Looking at everyone's expectant gaze, the corners of Oward's mouth squirmed several times, and finally he sighed and said with a wry smile: "Everyone, this decision is really too difficult, although I am the governor of the army, I can't make a decision lightly, because no matter what the decision is, it is too heavy." I think we all need to think about it for another night, after all, it's about our fate, isn't it? ”

Everyone didn't speak, they just nodded silently, Ovaud was right, this decision was indeed too heavy, so heavy that no one dared to say it lightly.

Time passed in hesitation, and in this afternoon, the Ming army outside the city did not launch an artillery bombardment on them, although some people felt strange, but for many people this is good news, there are no casualties without shelling, and they don't care why those Ming troops let them go.

The night was getting dark, but the city of Geranza was brightly lit, which was the preparation of the Dutch to prevent the Ming army from sneaking up.

As the Han people who were conscripted to participate in the repair of the city wall today, Gong Xiaoman and these people were not put back, but worked all night under the supervision of those Dutch soldiers to repair the broken and strict city walls before dawn.

"Bang Dang ......"

Gong Xiaoman slammed a heavy stone into a big gap, the whole person shook, his body was already a little exhausted, from noon today to now, he only ate a piece of unpalatable bread and two mouthfuls of vegetable soup, the rest of the time was in a hurry, these black-hearted Dutch soldiers once they found out that someone was lazy would can't help but whip it over, and several people were almost killed by them in this way.

Sneaking a glance at the two Dutch soldiers who were swaying not far away, Gong Xiaoman walked up to Erdan, who was filling in the stones, and whispered in his ear: "Erdan, our opportunity has come, do you want to avenge Uncle Gouzi?" ”

After hearing this, Erdan's body shook slightly, "Brother Xiaoman, how can you take revenge?" ”

"Tonight, let's contact the villagers on the city wall and start creating a riot, so that our Ming army will rush in and kill these dogs!" Gong Xiaoman's voice was full of resoluteness. (To be continued......)