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Chapter 610 Surrender
"What happened, why are the ships of the Nanyang Fleet blocking the way downstream!"

Seeing that the Nanyang Fleet suddenly turned its bow and looked like it was about to start a war with them, the Ruan family's navy was stunned, and the captains hurriedly asked the main ship for instructions.

However, Ruan Youyi, who was the supreme commander, was tricked into boarding and caught by Deng Qianlong. When all the ships raised their flags to ask for instructions from the main ship, the main ship of the Ruan Family Navy was also at a loss.The second mate and other senior crew members gathered together, scratching their heads at the sudden change in the situation.

"Look, their warships have raised their flags... Want us to surrender?" Some generals of the Ruan family's navy then saw the signal sent to them by the Daqin, which was a semaphore asking them to surrender.

This time they finally knew the intention of the Kyushu Army, and it was to ask them to surrender. Obviously, the Kyushu Army had already betrayed them, so why?While everyone was shocked, they were also wondering why this happened.

"That's our general?!" A soldier of the Ruan Family Navy pointed to the bow of the Daqin, and saw a faint figure being escorted by several soldiers of the Kyushu Army.Originally, the two sides couldn't see each other's face clearly, but as long as they thought about it with their brains, they knew that it was Ruan Youyi who was on the Daqin.

"The general was held hostage by them, what should we do now? Should we take the general back or do what the Kyushu Army said..." the helmsman put down his work and opened his throat.

Everyone on the main ship looked at me and I looked at you, but they didn't dare to speak out, and no one dared to make this important decision!

"If we want to take back the general, how can we defeat those giants?" An adjutant looked at the four huge ships of the Nanyang Fleet, Da Qin, Da Wei, Da Zhao, and Da Han.Not to mention sailing battleships, even the frigates supporting them are enough for them to deal with.

All the people were still there in a daze, and there was no way to deal with the Nanyang Fleet.

"Maybe we can use fire to break through their fleet, and then join the defenders at Liri Haikou." Someone suggested.

"But what then? Even if we escaped with heavy losses, but the Nanyang Fleet betrayed us, the Zheng Family Navy will arrive soon, and we can only flee together with the Rili defenders. Flee back to Hoi An Port? What else can we do? The Zheng family has the Netherlands fleet and the Nanyang Fleet to help, no matter how brave our soldiers are, can they stop the attack of their three navy?" Someone objected.

"Young man, let others destroy our prestige! Our Ruan family will be smashed to pieces, and we will not surrender to the enemy. They think that if they hold the general hostage, they can force us to surrender. It is a big mistake. Not only will we not surrender, but we will Beat them!"

"How to defeat them? Hit them with the head? You are a child of the Ruan surname, but I am not Ruan. My ancestors were natives in the south. Why would you want to help your Ruan family resist them with your life?"

On the main ship alone, the adjutants, helmsman, and sailors were divided into two factions, the main combat faction and the main surrender faction, and they were exposed to the artillery of the Nanyang Fleet to argue.

"There's a ship that's turned back!" I don't know who yelled.

In the upper reaches of the Ruan family's navy, a small boat raised a white flag, and under the leadership of the captain, it left the Ruan's family's navy without the consent of the main ship and ran towards the downstream Nanyang fleet.There were only three NO.40 people in this small boat, so a consensus was quickly reached-surrender.The captain and the sailors on the ship looked very nervous. Their current ship was in the middle of the two camps, and it was very likely that they would be bombarded by both sides.For the Ruan family's navy, they were the first traitors. If a captain loyal to the Ruan family's family ordered the bombardment, they would be attacked by the Ruan family's navy.For the Nanyang Fleet, it is not necessarily safe to let a small boat approach, because this may be a strategy of the Ruan family's navy, taking the opportunity to approach the Nanyang Fleet and then use fire attack.

"My lord, do you think the Nanyang Fleet will accept us?" The sailors on the ship asked anxiously, "If they think that we have surrendered and attack us with hundreds of artillery pieces, we will most likely sink in this river. A sailor who has spent half his life dying in a river instead of the vast sea will be laughed at later."

"We do our best to obey the destiny." The captain held the crossbar tightly.

The first ship to turn back quickly crossed the center line, but no ships on both sides launched shelling at them.The Ruan family's navy was watching, but the Nanyang Fleet didn't seem to be worried that just a small ship could cause harm to them.The sailing battleship Daqin was even sure to destroy it with naval guns at the moment of hand-to-hand combat.

"Another ship has betrayed the water!" The Ruan family's naval camp became commotion again, and saw two ships also hoisting white flags and sailing towards the Nanyang Fleet's camp.One of them is still the main battleship.

"It's betrayal, it's all betrayal, what should we do? If we fall behind and surrender, will we be held accountable by the Kyushu Army afterwards?" The other captains of the Ruan Family Navy saw that their companions set an example, and that the Kyushu Army seemed to be silent. One after another moved their minds.

After a while, the Ruan family's navy waved the white flag to surrender one after another.Some captains in the Ruan family's navy who were loyal to the Ruan family's navy saw that the situation was over, so they had no choice but to recognize the facts.

On the bow of the Daqin, Ruan Youyi watched heartbroken and helpless as his subordinates rebelled one by one, and watched these warships belonging to the Ruan family raise white flags, if a knife cut off a piece of flesh from him.Not long ago, he was still discussing with Deng Qianlong how to repel the Zheng family navy, but now he was backhanded by Deng Qianlong.

"This is the general trend. If everyone doesn't engage in pointless resistance, how many lives can be saved." Deng Qianlong came to the side of Ruan Youyi who was tied up by five flowers, and looked at the Ruan family navy with the white flag together with Ruan Youyi.

"Up to now, I have nothing to say. It's just that you claim to be benevolent and moral, and you can't even achieve basic integrity. Confucianism is nothing more than that." Ruan Youyi said.

"Benevolence, righteousness and morality are here to educate the people. As for these unclean things, we can only be dealt with by soldiers. The so-called soldiers are deceitful." Deng Qianlong didn't care, and turned his head to order the navy soldiers, "Let those who surrender The ships lined up to surrender one by one, and if they swarmed up, I would regard them as a false surrender attack."

"Yes!" Said the marine soldier excitedly.Being able to subdue the Ruan family's navy without using a single weapon is of course better than a fierce battle. Even if the ships of the Nanyang Fleet have advanced firearms, there will inevitably be casualties.

(End of this chapter)