Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 556 Negotiation Tricks

New Amsterdam, later New York.

At the moment this place is neither British nor American, but Dutch.

This is the capital of the New Netherland colony and the headquarters of the Dutch West India Company.

I have to say that the Dutch are really good at building forts. They even built a double-layer bastion on an island surrounded by water.

This is the famous Manhattan Island in later generations. The island is surrounded by the East River, Harlem River and Hudson River, just like having a natural moat, and it is surrounded by running water.

On the top of the mountain five or six miles north of New Amsterdam, more than a hundred riders stood in a row, standing awe-inspiring.

Lu Xiang raised his binoculars and slowly scanned the Dutch bastion, frowning slightly.

This place is too difficult to attack!

Their fort was built on an island surrounded by water, and even the narrowest river in the north was fifty or sixty feet wide, so it was too difficult for infantry to pass.

Moreover, the west of the island is still a river four or five miles wide, and the east and south are still islands. They can't do it even if they want to besiege others.

There are also densely packed forts, dozens of warships, and dozens of armed merchant ships.

How to attack such a place?

If there are only two or three thousand defenders, that's all. Send some elites to carry out sneak attacks at night, and it may be successful.

The problem is that almost all the British colonists in the north have fled to this fort. There are at least tens of thousands of people in the whole fort!

With tens of thousands of people guarding such a fortress, it is basically impossible for a sneak attack to succeed.

Alas, why does he encounter such a predicament every time he commands a battle alone?
Lu Xiangsheng put down the binoculars, sighed secretly, and then said loudly: "Let's go, let's go back to camp."

"Boom", there was a sound of horseshoes, and dozens of generals and hundreds of personal guards all rode their horses and ran down the hillside with him.

Behind them, there was a large camp that stretched for dozens of miles, and the densely packed tents were like a vast ocean, with no limit at all.

35 soldiers from the Shenwu Battalion, [-] soldiers from the Sioux tribe, [-] soldiers from the Apache tribe and [-] soldiers from the Cherokee tribe gathered here, and they had a full army of [-]!

New England has been taken by them, New Netherland has also been taken by them, but, this is New Amsterdam, they have nothing to do.

How to do?
At this moment, no matter how many people he has under his command, it is useless, because there are too many artillery in the bastion, and there are more than ten buildings and gunboats.

If he waved his army to charge intensively, he would definitely be bombarded with heavy casualties.

If he ordered people to disperse the attack and rush around, it would be to deliver food to tens of thousands of people in other people's fortresses.

In this case, there was really nothing he could do.

Unless, the naval fleet is here.

The problem is that most of the ships of the Navy Fleet are stationed in the West Yindu Islands at the moment, and a small half are also escorted by the holy driver, and these two fleets are more than ten thousand miles away from him. It will take at least more than a month to come back!

The strategy set by the emperor at the beginning was to recover the territory of the Cherokee tribe within a month. Now that the time is almost up for a month, can he delay for another month?

The problem is that he only has a hundred or so Spike warships in his hand, which can only be used to transfer food and grass, and they can't be used to attack the fortress of the wings of other buildings, gunboats, and gunboats.

How to do it?

Just as Lu Xiangsheng returned to his tent, he was staring at the map and frowning in thought. Suddenly, a messenger came in and bowed his hands, "Report, my lord, the Dutch have sent an envoy."

The Dutch sent an envoy?
How so fast.

He obviously used the binoculars to scan for a while, but there seemed to be no movement in the Dutchman's bastion!
Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but asked in surprise, "Where is the Dutch envoy?"

You ordered the guards to quickly explain in detail: "The envoys of the Dutch came from the southeast strait in an octopus boat, and they are waiting on the temporary pier we built right now."

Oops!

When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he couldn't help frowning again.

Did the Dutch send people to negotiate or did they send people to spy on the military situation?

There are dozens of Spike warships parked at the temporary pier they built!

If the Dutch sent a fleet over to attack their temporary docks, the dozens of Spike warships could only retreat quickly, otherwise, a salvo of other buildings, gunboats, and gunboats would wipe out everything!
What do these European barbarians want to do?
He frowned and pondered for a while, and then said loudly: "Order the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion to line up the gun carriages from the temporary pier to the commander's tent, and then order the clerk of the Ministry of Rites to bring the Dutch envoy over."

At this moment, the navy warship in his hand is indeed no match for other people's fleets, and he has to use land combat power to deter them.

The whole battalion immediately gave orders, and in a short while, three thousand gun carriages lined up neatly from the temporary pier to the vicinity of the commander's tent. The Dutch envoy was led by the general officer of the Ministry of Rites from the temporary The pier came all the way.

This time, Dutch Rear Admiral Mark Tropp was really taken aback.

Naturally, they had discovered the tents of the Indian tribal coalition forces that stretched for tens of miles. After all, they had the upper hand at sea, and they also had binoculars.

All they had to do was send their boats to scour the coast to see this horrible camp.

They have also heard about the fact that the Ming Empire led hundreds of thousands of Indian tribes to attack the British colony.

At that time, they had already become vigilant, and they also contacted people in New England and the New French colonies to discuss.

After several rounds of deliberation, they did not take immediate action.

Because they still have to look at the follow-up development, if the coalition forces of the Ming Empire and the Indian tribes only want to take Carolina and Virginia, then forget it, then they will acquiesce and keep silent.

After all, the Netherlands is the overlord of the sea at this moment, France is the most powerful country in Europe after Spain, and the British are not good at this moment.

Although they are in an alliance, it is impossible for them to fight the allied forces of the Ming Empire and the Indian tribes for the two colonies of the British.

Of course, it is not ruled out that the Ming Empire will continue northward with the allied forces of the Indian tribes to attack New Netherland, New England, and even New France.

If so, they can't bear it.

In this case, if they don't want to fight back, the entire American colony will be taken away by the Ming Empire.

The question is, how could they repel the hundreds of thousands of coalition forces of the Ming Empire and Indian tribes with such little strength in the North American continent?
Of course they have a way, if they can't beat it, then seek negotiation!
These colonial bandits are not fools who only know how to fight with others. On the contrary, they are very clever, or very insidious.

When they can't fight, they will use the trick of negotiation to deal with the enemy.

They can be said to be quite proficient in using this trick. They use negotiations to delay time, use negotiations to paralyze the enemy, and even use negotiations to divide and disintegrate the enemy, etc. They have a lot of tricks.

In short, as long as people negotiate with them, they will definitely suffer and be deceived!

At least, that's been the case historically.

Right now, they can't beat the coalition forces of the Ming Empire and the Indian tribes, but they can use naval warships to defend New Amsterdam, deter the coalition forces of the Ming Empire and the Indian tribes, hold the enemy back, and then seek negotiations and ask for help from the mainland of Europe.

This is the countermeasure they negotiated.

It is also for this reason that Lu Xiangsheng did not encounter much resistance when he attacked New Netherland and New England. The castle defenders in these two colonies ran away when they couldn't beat them, and they didn't fight them desperately at all.

This is also the main reason why he was able to take these two colonies in less than a month.

They didn't plan to fight recklessly, so naturally it was impossible to resist layer by layer.

All of this can be said to be in the calculations of the Dutch, British and French.

Anyway, they definitely can't fight on land, and it doesn't make much sense to fight hard. They are already preparing to use negotiations to deal with the Ming Empire.

(End of this chapter)