Blood from Daming

Chapter 509
Marty Sunke's vice-captain of the guards, Marty Lark, was ordered to capture fifty coolies from the Ming Dynasty from the basement, and escorted them to the half-circle fort at the front of the castle. Knowing the evil deeds of the Ming army's cruelty to the Dutch prisoners of war, before Xue Yun on the "Yangtze River" could react, Marty Lark ordered the guards to shoot the fifty Ming coolies, and then took the bodies from the The castle was thrown down.

Xue Yun, who had just come to the bow with Liya, saw this scene and his blood spurted. Liu Ben and Wu Dahai were filled with anger, and immediately challenged Xue Yun. Xue Yun forced himself to hold back his anger and ordered Wu Dahai to fight. He issued a semaphore to order Xue's army not to act rashly, and then ordered his men to go to Wang Erwa's department to pick up fifty Dutch prisoners and behead them.

Liya on the side was feeling heavy and unable to stand still. Xue Yun ordered his soldiers to take Liya back to the cabin to rest. If we fight in pairs, we don’t have as many prisoners as they do, so we might not be able to beat the Dutch.”

Xue Yun said cruelly: "It doesn't matter. After the people are killed, we will transport all the captives from Changtu Island and continue to kill them. After breaking through Promincia Castle, we can slowly kill them. These words can tell Promincia Castle everyone in there."

About an hour later, the Xue family army in the south beheaded 50 Dutch captives at a time five miles away from Promincia Castle. The headless corpses were placed on the ground in the wilderness. The captive's head was rolling around, making the Dutch soldiers and immigrants on the castle of Promincia tremble when they saw it.

Standing on the Promincia Castle, Chief Mattisunk was so heartbroken that he couldn't breathe. The guards around him quickly brought him a chair and sat down. It was only after the army shouted that I remembered that there were still thousands of Dutchmen locked up in the hands of the Ming Dynasty army. It seems that the method of killing people did not work.

Mattisunke secretly thought that if the Ming Dynasty army killed the more than 1000 merchant crew members, he would be hanged when he returned to the Netherlands, and even his own owner, the East India Company, would be implicated. For a small population country like the Netherlands, In such a serious situation, the bankruptcy of the East India Company is possible.

The Dutch in the castle of Promincia calmed down and stopped doing anything, but the furious Dutch warships couldn't take it anymore, but they couldn't get out of Dagang and Luermen ports, so they organized a joint parade in the inland sea of ​​Hejiang River. The edge of Jiang Neihai fired frequently. The fleet circled slowly and fired artillery for a full two hours. Seeing no effect, they returned to the original anchorage in despair.

After the Dutch fleet finished firing the artillery, Yu Sihao and Luo Erwa took the soldiers to the original camp and walked around. The two of them suddenly felt cold, and about two-thirds of the entire original camp was occupied by the Dutch fleet. The ship's cannon hit was not a reminder from the young master at that time. After today's cannon fire, it is unknown how many soldiers of the Xue family army were killed or injured.

The Dutch took back the corpses of fifty soldiers who were beheaded by Xue's army. Half of them had relatives and friends in the Promincia Castle. The people of the Ming Dynasty were really too cruel. If you kill someone, why would you chop off your head? Even if a person dies, there won't be a whole body left behind.

Now the family members of the deceased turned to Mattisunke's prefect's office to make a fuss, and those Dutch people who didn't know the whereabouts of their relatives also cried around the prefect's office, asking Mattisunke to exchange those coolies from the Ming Dynasty for their relatives My friend, the whole Promincia Castle turned out to be a mess. Mattisunke was a little slow to leave the magistrate's office and hid, and was almost torn to pieces by the angry Dutch. At that time, except for the good clothes on the body, the clothes and gowns had been torn into strips.

Mattisunk, who was hiding in Fort Mitter, had to consider discussing with Daming about exchanging prisoners, but he had a group of coolies in his hands, and wanted to exchange one coolie for a Dutch soldier. Look at the corpses of the coolies still lying under the half-circle fort. , I know that the Ming army doesn't care about these Ming civilians, but they exchange a few coolies for a Dutch soldier, and these coolies are all food waste guys. I don't know if the Ming army is willing to capture prisoners.

"Boom" with a loud noise.

Matisunke almost fell off the chair. A lot of glass in the room was broken, and the decorations on the wall fell to the ground. What made Matisunke feel distressed most was the crystal vase that fell from the wall. Matisunke's heart was about to break when he smashed the Yuan blue and white vase placed next to the desk.

Nephew Laelke stumbled into the house and said to his uncle Matty Sunke: "My lord, there was a big fireball after the explosion in the east. It is estimated that the navy attacked the Ming Dynasty army on its own initiative and ambushed them. We are now in ambush. What should I do,"

Mattisunke's nerves jumped to the limit, and he couldn't help but yelled that the navy is a bunch of pigs, and it will only add trouble to the officer himself. Such a big action can't be called by the officer. Mattisunke cursed that the people in the navy should die But the rest of the mess has to be carried by Matty Sunk himself, and now Matty Sunk is going crazy.

After Matty Sun Ke got angry for a while, he had to send Gao Wenlu to bring [-] Dutch armed forces to rescue the navy brothers. As for his nephew Laelke, it was better to stay by his side to protect himself. He seemed to be busy for half an hour. The guns stopped, and Gao Wenlu reluctantly brought three hundred Dutch armed forces out of the east castle.

Gao Wenlu also had no choice. The Dutch in Promincia Castle were scared by the Ming army, and they refused to leave the castle to fight. These Dutch people are armed with immigrants, not mercenaries of the East India Company. Military law was used to restrain them, and it turned out that the battle between the castle navy and the Ming army was over. After Gao Wenlu staged an armed parade, he returned to Promincia Castle sadly.

Gao Wenlu came to Matty Sunk's room and reported to Matty Sunk, who was eager to know what had happened. It turned out that the captains of the three-masted warships Jacques and Specx were not angry about the massacre of Dutch prisoners by the Ming army, and the Among the returned corpses, there were more than a dozen corpses of naval soldiers, so the entire naval fleet joined forces and organized more than 700 armed forces in an attempt to sneak attack the Ming army castle in the east that was under construction.

Out of contempt for the coward Mattisunke, the navy did not seek the support of the armed forces of Promincia Castle, but prepared to fight a beautiful sneak attack before humiliating Mattisunke and the compatriots of Promincia Castle. As a result, as soon as they touched the edge of the half-high fort built by the Ming army, a violent explosion occurred.

The entire explosion area was about two miles long and one mile wide. Four hundred sailors and armed personnel of the Dutch Navy entered the explosion area. The violent explosion killed half of the Dutch soldiers at that time, and the rest were not wounded. It was stupid to be blown up, and was hit with grenades and flintlock guns by officers and soldiers of the Xue family army, and another large area fell down.

The rest, except those who were confused and running around, tried their best to turn around and escape, leading the three hundred sailors in the rear team to think about fighting, so they fired a burst of guns indiscriminately, and fled back along the same way. The Dutch Navy estimated that their soldiers had almost returned, and there was a burst of shelling facing the east. The artillery fired for half an hour before stopping. People are their own people. Did you see any shadow of the Ming army? The Dutch navy officers and soldiers who got the report were almost not pissed off.

Gao Wenlu told Matty Sunke that more than 700 people from the navy went to battle, and about 300 people escaped after being ambushed by the Ming army. We will not know until tomorrow if there are any soldiers coming back, but the navy Having suffered two heavy blows in a row, Matty Sunke and Gao Wenlu are both doubting whether all the warships can be activated with the current early manpower of the navy is a problem.

Mattisunke sighed and said: "Well, the combat effectiveness of our Dutch mercenaries is in Southeast Asia. Three to five hundred soldiers can sweep a country. It was the battle with the Ming army in the Penghu Islands the year before last. If we didn't ask for money instead of life, who would win? Negative is still unknown, how come we Dutch people can't play well when we meet this Xue Jiajun."

Gao Wenlu said: "My lord, the advantage of our Dutch is that our boats are strong and our guns are strong, and our soldiers have an advantage in their front-loading guns. During the Penghu War, the Ming army was completely piled up with people. The boats were a few sizes smaller than our Dutch. With knives, guns and sticks, they are shotguns and fire systems, and they are very backward. If you fight for a long time, you won’t be able to fight a second time. The distance is also very close. Basically, there is no threat to our Dutch army. , how can I win my Dutch army, but now this Xue family army is simply the nemesis of our Dutch people."

Matty Sunke said: "There used to be a Qi family army in the Ming Dynasty, but now there is a Xue family army. If the Xue family army is not destroyed, we Dutch will have nothing to do in the East."

Gao Wenlu said: "My lord, this Xue family army is different from the general army of the Ming Dynasty. They are also very proficient in firearms. We have muzzle-loading guns, and they have more muzzle-loading guns than our Dutch, and what kind of grenades and explosives do they have? This time the navy was blown up by explosives, and some of their weapons are already at the forefront of the whole of Europe. The reason why we lost the battle was not because of the Xue family army, but because of the advanced weapons in their hands."

Matty Sunke said: "The entire Ming Dynasty is decayed and backward, how could there be such a monster as Xue Jiajun?"

Gao Wenlu said: "My lord, you may have underestimated the generals of the Xue family army. The general surnamed Yan is very extraordinary. His subordinates even saw a set of chess in his cabin. This can show that the generals of the Xue family army are very important to us in Europe. The situation is fairly well understood.”

Mattisunke asked in surprise: "You said that General Yan, the leader of Xue's army who leads the team this time, can play chess, so it can't be my niece Mathilia's.

(End of this chapter)