Sure enough, there was a small boat, which was slowly leaning against the shore, and a man got out of the boat, waving a small white flag in his hand, which meant that he was not hostile, and asked the Spaniards in the battalion not to shoot.

Gerard ordered everyone not to fire, and to extinguish the fire rope first, because it would be a big trouble for someone in the province to be too nervous and accidentally go off the fire.

He was nervous, but at the same time he had a sense of pleasure, and when they were in a desperate situation, the pirates finally remembered to send someone to contact them, and if they could make contact, then things might turn around.

So he watched the man with the small white flag slowly walk outside the camp, and then they realized that this person was actually an interpreter they brought from Manila, and he was also a Ming expatriate, specially serving them, but at this time, this person should have been captured by the other party.

So he ordered the man to be put into the camp, and immediately began to interrogate him.

"The leader of the sea wolves told me to come and tell your Excellency the Commander! Now Lord Anthony is already on his way back to Manila! Please stop having any illusions about him!

In addition, the leader of the sea wolves has already learned that you must have no food, and he told his subordinates that he does not want to kill you all, nor does he want to see you all starve to death here!

So he told me to come and tell Your Excellency, Commander, that you should immediately lead everyone here, lay down your arms, get out of the camp, and surrender to them!

The leader of the sea wolves will promise to save your lives, never kill anyone, and heal the sick and wounded among you! As soon as the interpreter entered the camp, he spoke to Gerald.

Gerald frowned and asked, "Is that all he said?" Didn't he offer other conditions? ”

The interpreter shook his head and said, "No! That's all the leader of the sea wolf says, and he asks you to lay down your arms and go out of the camp and surrender before noon tomorrow, or he will no longer accept your surrender!

And he also said that he will not accept any of the conditions you put forward, and only promise that after you surrender, he will not harm any of you! As for you, you can't put forward any conditions! That's all he asks for! ”

"It can't be! We have 400 brave soldiers here, and even if they surrender, he will have to promise us some conditions!

Go back and tell the pirate leader that we can surrender, but he must send a ship to take us back to Manila, and we must not delay the time, otherwise we will not surrender!" As soon as Gerald heard this, he immediately said.

But the interpreter smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Your Excellency Commander, please don't put forward conditions, the big leader of the sea wolf has made it very clear, he will not accept any of the conditions you put forward, only promise to ensure the safety of your lives after you surrender, and will not accept anything else, and will not continue to negotiate with you!"

If you don't accept surrender, you can leave here now and go anywhere, but they won't accept any of you until you've all been killed!

They said, "This is their territory, and you can't get out of here alive!" That's all they say! Even if Your Excellency Commander asked me to go back, it wouldn't do anything!

The time limit is until noon tomorrow, and by noon tomorrow, they will be shelling the camp here! And completely cut off the water flowing into the camp! ”

Gerald's scalp tingled when he heard this, and no one knew their present situation better than he did, and now it seemed that he had four hundred soldiers and more than two hundred artisan slaves at his disposal, and several light infantry guns, and more than three hundred arquebuses.

It seems that this force is very large, but in fact it is far from being as strong as it seems, because they have no food, and now it is the seventh day, and their last bag of grain has been eaten by them, and then unless they are willing to eat human flesh, there are more than 200 slaves who are already half starved to death, and they can eat for a while.

However, these Spaniards have no interest in human flesh, and even if they are hungry, they do not want to choose to eat human flesh, because most of them are Christians, and they believe that if they eat human flesh, they will never go to heaven.

So from now on, they will not have any food, and an army without food, no matter how well equipped it is, will not have a little combat effectiveness, and he knows this better than anyone else.

What's more, among the infantry under his command, there are also some European scumbags, they are not all Spaniards, they ran to Manila to make a fortune, and they were later recruited as infantrymen, these people will not sacrifice themselves for the Spanish king.

So as long as there is no food supply, these people will definitely not fight for him anymore, fight for honor, honor, in the eyes of these scumbags, is not as good as bullshit at all, they only care about how many silver coins they can earn, if there are no silver coins and no food, they will not hesitate to surrender to the enemy.

What's more, even if he had food, his condition was not much better, there was too much rain here, the air was too humid, and after a few days, the large amount of gunpowder they carried had begun to get damp, and the fire ropes on their soldiers were also wet with rain, and it became difficult to ignite, with these, they wanted to fight the well-armed pirates, and there was no chance of victory at all.

What's more, they didn't intend to fight them at all, they only had to sail the gunboats to the shore and blast them at their camp day and night, and it was estimated that there were not many people in this camp who could leave alive.

Originally, Gerald also wanted to use the strength at hand to negotiate with these pirates and fight for some benefits for them, but now it seems that this idea is a delusion.

The pirates had already seen them through, and did not engage in any fair negotiations or deals with them, but forced them to lay down their arms unconditionally and surrender when they were to leave the camp tomorrow morning.

Overnight, the Spanish camp was like a boiling pot, arguing about what to do, some people were not willing to surrender to these Chinese pirates, what little pride they had left, did not allow them to surrender to these dirty Chinese pirates, so they proposed to rush out of the camp, rush into the jungle, fight a bloody way, and escape from here.

But the vast majority of the people, not interested in the proposals of these few fanatics, who were now feeling an empty stomach, were protesting as they were, rushing out of the bush on an empty stomach, running into the jungle, without the slightest chance of survival, and who had been sent here, not to commit suicide, but to make a fortune.

So more people are still willing to accept the request to surrender, at least save their lives first, the Spaniards did not stay in the green mountains without worrying about the proverb of no firewood, but they also understand this truth, as long as they live, at least there is hope, but if they die, then there is no hope, most of them, now do not want to be called by God, go to heaven to serve God.

When the light of day was shining again, the ships of the sea wolves began to appear on the sea outside their camp, slowly began to approach the shore, and lined up in a horizontal formation, turned the hull, and began to slowly point the muzzles of the black hole at the Spanish camp.

About three hundred other pirates, in small boats, began to approach the shore, and began to land on the shore, forming a neat procession, silently stopping in the distance, waiting for the next order to attack.

What worries the Spaniards in the camp even more is that in the jungle behind them, there has been no movement these days, but today, in the jungle, there are signs of human movement, and there are constantly figures flashing in the jungle, it is clear that they have surrounded the Spanish camp, and then they are just waiting for the time limit to come, if the Spaniards refuse to accept the demand for unconditional surrender, then they should attack the Spaniards.

The time passed slowly, and the sea wolf did not urge it, but waited quietly, but the more this happened, the more the Spaniards in the camp felt more pressure.

As the time limit for the last day drew nearer, and the pressure was increasing, Gerald still refused to give up, and sent two men out of the camp with the interpreter, trying to get to the people of the Sea Wolf tribe who had come ashore, and then make the last fight, hoping to get some favorable conditions for their surrender.

But before they could approach the sea wolf tribes, they heard someone shouting from one of the sea wolf tribes: "All of them, stand up!" Raise your gun! …… When those who came heard this, they were not allowed to take any further step, but immediately stopped and returned to your camp, and we will not accept any of your conditions! If you dare to take a step forward, we will shoot! ”

As a result, the two Spanish officers who had been sent out were immediately driven back to the camp in disgrace.

As the time drew closer to noon, Gerald finally broke down, knowing that it was impossible for the sea wolves to accept any of their conditions, and there was no point in waiting any longer.

So he could only lament and order the whole team.

Four hundred Spanish soldiers, immediately lined up in a hula and cheered, followed by more than 200 slaves who were already starving to death, and began to fish out of the camp and came to the open place on the shore.

The sea wolf tribes on the shore also immediately began to assemble, lined up in a small phalanx, and prepared for battle.