Chapter 30: Is it war or surrender?
The old guy who broke the city gate is naturally Uncle Zhang, and he went to surrender.
"Your gunboats were captured by us, your city gates were breached, and you could not stand on the top of the city. The gun battle was lost!" In the chamber of the governor's palace in the city, Chamberlain pointed out the Dutch people's plight in Dutch.
"So what!" Paul Buck said hardly: "We will shoot everyone, Orange City will be reduced to your hell, and Batavia will not see our message back, and will send a large army. At that time It’s your end!"
He still feels good about himself. Unexpectedly, the old guy said: "If it really is, is it our end? You can't see it!"
Now the Dutch are silent!
The old guy is right, it is a matter of future that the Mingren will die, and now the Dutch are about to die!
Seeing them wilted, Uncle Zhang persuaded: "As long as you surrender, we promise not to hurt your lives, Batavia will give you a reasonable ransom, and we will release you."
He sternly said: "We swear in the name of our **** Mazu, we will do what we say!"
Without waiting for the Dutch to say anything, Uncle Zhang didn't bother to speak much, and said straightforwardly: "If you don't agree, then fight, we will not accept the prisoners and kill them all!"
Someone made a fuss and said: "Oh, you barbarians!"
"If we are barbaric, we will hit the city directly. Give you an hour to decide. If we are willing to surrender, we will set up the white flag and throw the weapon out. If we refuse to surrender, then you will all go to hell!" Uncle Zhang frightened.
"We are all going to hell, then I want your life first!" Paul Buck said fiercely.
"How old are you?" Uncle Zhang said with a calm expression.
"Huh?" Hong Maofan's knees are hard, he can't bend, his brain is straight, he can't make sharp turns.
Seeing him so stupid, Uncle Zhang had to say to him: "You are young and I am old. Do you want to change your life with me? Are you willing to do this kind of business? I'll be with you! If I die, you will even have an hour's chance. No, let's go to **** together!"
"Enough!" Governor Matthew Yisi stopped Paul Buck, and said to Uncle Zhang: "You can go!"
After Uncle Zhang left, Matthew Yisi asked the officials and businessmen in the chamber: "Gentlemen, how did you decide?"
Everyone looked at each other, and Paul Buck yelled: "Fight them, let's shoot them together!"
Someone immediately laughed at him and said: "You have beaten them, but you can't beat them. Before, you could escape, but now you can't escape in the city!"
Paul Buck furiously said: "That's what they are doing! They are invulnerable..."
"Now you can break their spells again?" the man asked unceremoniously.
Paul Barker was poor and argued: "We, noble Westerners, cannot give in to the savages!"
"It's one thing to give in and not to give in, I just want to save my life!"
"Coward!"
"You are brave, go and fight!" It was Sherlock, a young Dutch businessman in the city who was talking. He was very annoyed. He was really innocent. He was doing business well (one of the big sailing boats in the harbor belonged to him) , Was preparing to ship the silver back to Batavia, and finally met the Ming and the Dutch here. He knew that his silver ship was finished on the city wall that had never been attacked!
a full 150,000 taels of silver from the shogunate!
The other big sailing ship, which was captured by the Beigang soldiers, had more silver taels, about 350,000 taels. That was the silver shipped by several big businessmen in partnership!
God, the boat is gone, and the vain money is gone, even people are ready to be prisoners, or go to hell, is there anything worse in this world than him?
Therefore, he was very unkind when he spoke, and no matter how miserable he was, he couldn't be more miserable now.
Paul Buck couldn’t really say it, so he cursed: "Jew!"
It turned out that Sherlock was of Jewish descent. He dared to take risks. He was young and promising. He already owned a big sailing ship and trade profits, which made people hateful.
Seeing Paul Barker speak more and more utterly, Matthew is angrily said: "Don't say anything meaningless, I ask you, if you continue to fight, can you hold on?"
Paul Buck opened his mouth wide, his upper and lower lips were opened and closed a few times, and the words reached his lips, but he couldn't say: "It works!"
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They were in the chamber, but they heard a loud roar and heard the familiar voice, Matthew's face changed, and he shouted, "Run!" Take the lead and ran out.
Everyone is unknown. So, only Paul Barker and the Jewish businessman Sherlock and Matthew are tightly connected.
The two were right, and what followed was that the cannonball fell, hitting the chamber wall and the window collapsed, and the smoke was filled!
Damn, Mingren's naval gun blasted at the chamber, a series of shells hit, Matthew's heart sank, and he heard an ominous sound.
The firepower of the Ming people has increased. It is possible that they have used the other two gunboats captured in the harbor~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and used the ship's artillery to launch a bombardment at the city!
His judgment was correct. After bursts of shells fell, the Dutch scolded the **** Mingren. It must be the old guy who went back and told to use the cannon to bombard the chamber, and wanted to kill the leaders (they really didn’t wrong Zhang, he Reported the situation of the Dutch immediately after leaving the city).
The walls of Orange City are well-defended, but what I did not expect is that the cunning Mingren would actually use grenadiers!
The Dutch artillery has a long range, but it is not an opponent of the grenadier in close combat.
Without the suppression of the city’s artillery, Mingren can bombard the city with naval artillery as he wants. How else to fight this battle!
As for Batavia's assistance, let's forget it, Matthewis smiled bitterly. He was a captain and knew that it was not easy to piece together an expeditionary fleet.
The main reason is the Dutch who got into the eye of money!
If someone explains that there is a silver mountain with one million taels of silver, and you can’t move it, then the Dutch fleet will come in mighty.
Now, Matthew Is estimated that the Ming people will move the things here, and the crops in Beigang are harvested. What can the Dutch fleet come to gain?
Nothing, the Dutch in Batavia will not be so nervous about things. They will slowly and step by step, sending envoys to negotiate with the Mingren, and everyone will be torn away. It is not guaranteed that they will not be able to send a fleet for a year. Come!
will come in a year anyway. . . The crops in Beigang are ripe. I heard that there is a lot of land reclaimed there. It was worth coming back then!
Mateis smiled bitterly again, don't think about it so much, Ming Ren fired like this, he is likely to be ready to attack, according to the old guy said, once the attack, no prisoners will be left!
His heart is beating, is it war or surrender? A choice must be made.
