Chapter 502: Breaking the City

Zhu Houhuang saw the effect of the artillery and immediately decided to mass production. However, as soon as he thought of the copper consumed by the mass production of artillery, Zhu Houhuang decided to have a toothache.

China is a country lacking copper, so the price of copper can be said to be high, the price of copper is about ten catties a tael, and the material of an artillery piece is about three thousand catties, which is three hundred taels, not to mention the wages of artillery craftsmen, the cost of artillery wagons and even gunpowder, the cost of each artillery is five hundred taels and one. The ten artillery pieces in front of Zhu Houhuang alone cost 5,000 taels.

Just looking at these ten guns, five thousand taels of silver is not much.

But fighting against the Francophile, Zhu Houhuang profoundly understood that artillery is the truth, and the larger the caliber, the greater the truth.

During this period of time, Zhu Houhuang did not restore a large number of sailors, but because Xu Song auctioned the rights and interests of the waterway, he concentrated the merchant ships of Shaofu on a few high-profit waterways, and the rest of the waterways were ceded to merchants. and sold the ships of Shaofu exclusively, and collected a large amount of silver. However, this large amount of silver only repaired the remaining sailors' warships, and very few ships were added.

First, because the Francophone was defeated and retreated, during this gap period, there were no other forces to threaten the safety of Dongyong, and secondly, Zhu Houhuang wanted to make a big change to Dongyong's sailors.

The artillery disadvantage in the battle with the Franc machine, Zhu Houhuang did not want to experience it again.

The ships of the Dongyong Naval Division are not inferior to the ships of the Franc machine in terms of tonnage, and even exceed a lot, but the ships of the Dongyong Sailor Division are far inferior to the ships of the Franc machine in terms of artillery and tonnage, and the same ships, the ships of the Dongyong can only be equipped with artillery, which is about half of the ships of the Franc Machine. In this way, it caused the complete passivity of the Dongyong Naval Division and the Franc Machine in the battle.

But putting artillery on a ship doesn't mean that you can load it.

This requires consideration of the structure of the ship and the gun emplacements left behind in the design. The Franc cannon is nothing more than a light artillery, and such a bronze cannon can already be classified as a heavy artillery.

As soon as Zhu Houhuang thought of the number of artillery that needed to be replaced as a whole, a ship needed at least a dozen guns, so the price of a ship's artillery was about 10,000 taels, plus the price of the warship, and even considered whether Zhu Houhuang's large number of copper cannons would raise the price of copper. Zhu Houhuang said secretly: "No, we must find a way to replace the copper cannon with an iron cannon, at least a copper core iron cannon."

A whole day passed, and the ten artillery pieces did not stop firing, one after another, Zhu Houhuang still sounded uncomfortable just now, but after a long time, he slowly became accustomed to it.

However, Zhu Houhuang felt that he was used to it, but the Franc machine couldn't bear it.

At this moment, there are no people standing on the city, and occasionally a cannonball smashes on the city, bursting out a large number of reincarnation fragments, and the power is no less than some flowering shells. Even the people who were hidden in the dark compartment felt that the entire city wall shook with the bombardment of artillery, especially the masonry of the outer city wall, which couldn't stop shaking and shaking with the bombardment of artillery. From time to time, large chunks of broken stone fell from the walls and smashed into the silt of the moat.

Although the walls are still in place, there will always be a day when they will be broken over time.

Aberqua arranged a large number of men to withdraw all the adults in the dark grid, and filled in a large amount of masonry to make the city wall solid and increase the resistance of the city wall.

But this is only a stopgap measure.

"My lord, in the current situation, it is impossible for us to achieve victory, and it is impossible to even hold out until the reinforcements come back, and even if we can hold out until the reinforcements come back, we may not be able to do anything? It's time for us to choose another way out. An officer said.

Aberqua knew that this was not just the meaning of this one officer, but the collective thinking of many officers.

In fact, this trend of thinking about peace talks and surrender spread under Aberqua very early. When the Francophile saw that the other party had mobilized 20,000 troops at once, he was already numb.

An army of 20,000 well-trained and armed with a large number of firearms may not be a big deal for the Ming Dynasty, but it is a great force for the Fu Lang machine.

You know, Francois is just a small country with a population of a few million. The standing army of the Franco-Rang Army may not have the number of 100,000. With their own lives, they couldn't believe that Dongyong actually maintained 20,000 regular troops overseas to fight. At least the Goan side of the Franco-Rang machine will never be able to do it, not to mention the dozen or so warships lost in Xiamen Bay, the Goan side needs to replenish it for a long time. Even if he added it, what would the Franc machine do against Dongyong's army.

For the discerning people, the defeat of the Malacca people has become inevitable, it is just a matter of when this defeat will come.

But Aberkui is very heavy, and everyone doesn't dare to take the lead, but when the situation develops like this, these people can't take care of this, so they put out a person to Aberkui and said.

How could Aberqué not know the current situation, he knew better than anyone else, especially when the city of Famosha was actually surrounded by walls, and Famosa was surrounded into a city within a city in all directions, he knew that there was no hope, even if the Franco's reinforcements came, he would not be able to do it inside and outside. He understood that it was extremely wrong to deal with Dongyong in the same way as he dealt with the natives.

In the case of the Franco's war, there was a betrayal of the natives, leaving a small number of people to stick to the castle and wait for reinforcements a year later, but this method is used to deal with Dongyong and the Ming Dynasty, which is a little too underestimated.

"What do you want?" Aberqua said.

"My lord, we want to negotiate with the outside of the city to win a decent peace."

Decent peace is nothing more than a euphemism.

Aberqua was silent, and the officers around him were really suffocated, not daring to speak nonsense, waiting for Aberqua's severance. After a while, Aberqua said, "I'm tired, you can do these things yourself." ”

The officers below were immediately overjoyed, and they understood that Aberqua had acquiesced.

Without further ado, after their immediate consultation, they sent messengers to lower the white flag, hang it from the city, and immediately come to see Wang Zhi.

Wang Zhi didn't dare to slack off, and sent the messenger to Zhu Houhuang.

Zhu Houhuang got straight to the point and said, "What do you want?" ”

"We hope that His Royal Highness King Yong can give us a decent peace?" The messenger said.

"What kind of decent peace?" Zhu Houhuang asked.

"We cede the city of Famosha and hand it over to you, and you send a ship to see us off." The messenger raised his head slightly, observing the words and expressions.

Zhu Houhuang snorted coldly and said, "Aren't you ready to surrender?" ”|

The messenger said: "We still have hundreds of artillery pieces and thousands of muskets in the city, enough food for three years, and the city of Famosha has been carefully repaired, even if your artillery bombards for several months, it will not be possible to blast the city walls, but we do not want to continue the senseless war, please do not let the olive branch fall from my hands." ”

The familiar toe is arrogant, but there is just a little lack of confidence.

But Zhu Houhuang didn't want to get used to them.

Although he understands very well that there is a great overlap of interests between Dongyong and the Franc machine, such as the problem of the east-west shipping route, this channel is a channel flowing with gold and silver, so every day of disconnection is the loss of Dongyong and the Franc machine. Therefore, Zhu Houhuang is very anxious now, and he is eager to immediately negotiate peace with Franc Ji, reopen the waterway, and relieve Dongyong's financial pressure.

However, the more Zhu Houhuang understood the mode of cooperation and struggle between the Franc Machine and Dongyong, the more he could not give the Franc Machine a face, and he had to give enough deterrence in order to occupy greater benefits in the cooperation of the Franc Machine. If Zhu Houhuang easily agrees, then Goa's Franc Jiren will definitely look down on Dongyong, which will bring a lot of obstacles to the cooperation between the two sides in the future.

How to make the other party value themselves.

Then hit hard, fight hard, let them Dongyong in advance, they will feel afraid, they will naturally have enough concessions in cooperation with Dongyong.

Zhu Houhuang said: "Lonely only accepts unconditional surrender. After Zhu Houhuang finished saying this, he glanced to the side, Zhu Houhuang's side was very familiar with Zhu Houhuang's eyes, and immediately politely invited the Franc envoy out.