Blood from Daming

Chapter 517 Paralysis
It will be New Year's Eve in three days. The castle built by Yu Si and Luo Erwa completed the construction of the city wall and gate seven days ago. A small part of the houses in the castle were also built. For safety and weather considerations, Yu Si's Firearms Battalion and Luo Erwa's Marine Corps both lived in the castle.

Luo Erwa is very special, so she ran to Xue Yun to give the castle a name. Xue Yun originally wanted to build a castle to cut off the connection between the Dutch and Taiwan’s Pingpu, but now Luo Erwa proposed to name the castle. Xue Yun knew that the castle built by Yu Si and Luo Erwa was neither fish nor fowl, and looked more like a pass according to the terrain. Xue Yun had an idea and named this castle in southern Taiwan "Pingnan Pass".

However, Xue Yun did not favor one over another, and named the castles of Wang Erwa, Lian Xiong Wei, and Ji Tianenxiu "Weiyuan City", but the lowest part of the south wall of "Weiyuan City" can be crossed by horses Fortunately, the east, west, and north have begun to take shape, and the Xue family's army can somewhat shelter from the wind and rain by living inside.

The Chinese New Year is approaching, "Pingnan Pass" and "Weiyuan City" are full of joy. Xue's army fleet has transported a large number of New Year's goods into "Pingnan Pass" and "Weiyuan City", especially "Pingnan Pass" since the city wall was closed and repaired. Every night the bonfires are lit until dawn, and there is an endless stream of people from Pingpu who enter the pass from the east gate of "Pingnanguan". "Pingnanguan" has become a bustling commercial town.

The castle of Promincia, which has been besieged for more than three months, besides having enough food, the Dutch are very short of necessary living materials such as vegetables, fruits, fresh meat, and fodder for livestock. After being urged many times, I had no choice but to discuss with Xue Jiajun whether the two companies could open the market for trade.

After Xue Yun received Matty Sunke's request, he didn't let go until the end of the new year. Xue's army only allowed order trade for safety reasons, that is, Promincia Castle issued a list of needed goods. Xue's army was ready Afterwards, the two parties will trade goods in designated areas, and the specific time and scale of the transaction will be temporarily determined according to the actual situation.

Just yesterday, the Dutch in Promincia Castle completed the first trade with Xue Jiajun outside the north gate of "Weiyuan City". The Dutch in the castle exchanged cold metal for chicken, duck, pork, vegetables and fruits. There are only a few thousand catties of goods, but this makes the Dutchman who has eaten the old bangzi dishes for three months still full of happiness.

So Martisun Ke proposed to Xue Yun a larger-scale transaction before the Chinese New Year in the Ming Dynasty, and Xue Yun readily agreed. This transaction included livestock fodder and a variety of fruits and vegetables in addition to chicken, duck, pork, vegetables and fruits. A batch of beef cattle that the Dutch love, etc., and the demand was almost ten times larger. Xue Yun finally agreed to provide only one-third of the quantity.

However, recently Xue Yun also has something to worry about, that is, the group of Ming coolies rescued from Promincia Castle. Recruiting soldiers and technical personnel, most of the coolies joined the ranks of Xue's army.

However, the remaining 500 people asked to return to their hometowns, so Xue Yun announced that after the war between Xue Jiajun and the Dutch, he would guarantee everyone to return to their hometowns. Most of the 500 people agreed, but there were still 200 people who did not believe Xue Jiajun Then, they started to make noise and flee.

Wang Erwa, Lian Xiongwei, Ji Tianen and others who have always been ruthless and ruthless can't be cruel to their compatriots, but their kind words and good words make these people push forward. After being unsatisfied, things like fleeing and stealing ships across the sea began to occur.

Most of the coolies who fled and smuggled were captured. Even if they fled to Pingpufan, they were escorted back by the leader who was fearful and friendly to Xue's army. Soon, a serious ship robbery incident completely angered Xue. Yun, more than 30 people took advantage of Xue's army's lax guarding of their compatriots to snatch a medium-sized sea-going ship that could carry a hundred people.

The sailors of the Xue Family Army who stayed on the ship fought back and killed seven coolies who robbed the ship on the spot. Two soldiers of the navy were killed and five were injured. After Xue Yun learned of this, he severely reprimanded Wang Erwa, changed Zhang Sanzhu to be in charge of imprisoning the remaining coolies, and beheaded all 18 captured for public display.

Zhang Sanzhu was born in the night, he is used to seeing people's life and death, he is a very cruel person, and he has not received Xue Yun's education of patriotism and love for the people. After pouring cold water on the stove and waiting, all these coolies became obedient, and a few disobedient ones were reported to Xue Yun by Zhang Sanzhu that they had died of sudden illness. It's fine to live with these coolies, after all, the less Daming who knows Taiwan's affairs across the sea, the better.

The chickens, ducks, pork, vegetables, fruits, livestock fodder, and beef cattle provided by Xue Jiajun to Promincia Castle were not ready until the day before New Year's Eve. Gao Wenlu, who was in charge of receiving the goods, lamented that the goods were still too small, and Wang Erwa was very dissatisfied. Patience, I said that you have to serve the enemy during the Chinese New Year. If you don’t want to be Dutch, just let it go. Gao Wenlu had no choice but to persuade him to complete the transaction.

When Gao Wenlu asked about the next transaction, Wang Erwa thought that Taiwan and the Ming Dynasty had the same customs, and everyone would celebrate the New Year, so it was really difficult to receive the goods, so Gao Wenlu asked Gao Wenlu to contact after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, but Gao Wenlu kept begging, Still, Lian Xiongwei on the side was soft-hearted, and promised that after the seventh day of the lunar new year, Xue Jiajun's year would be almost over, and he would find some goods for the Dutch. As for the length of time and the amount of goods, there was no guarantee.

After Mattisunk got the goods, except half for the army and company personnel, the rest were allocated to the Dutch in the castle. Although each person got very limited food, it was better because the food was fresh and the Ming Dynasty People will continue to provide food after the New Year. Now many Dutch people are not worried about being besieged by the Ming army and starving to death, but worried that there will be no gold and silver to sell food for the Ming army after a long time.

Matty Sun Ke looked at the two castles of Xue's army. "Pingnanguan" and "Weiyuan City" are singing and singing all night long. Sun Ke also announced a four-day holiday, from New Year's Eve to the third day of the first lunar month. However, due to safety considerations, the soldiers guarding the fort and the navy soldiers can only take the holiday in batches.

From the day of New Year's Eve, Promincia Castle also became abnormally prosperous, and the whole castle began to be lively, but it was not the street market that was lively, but the poor and widowed Dutch homes of the dead men. After surviving in the middle of the war, these women opened their doors to pick up customers for the sake of money, targeting those soldiers who received their salaries on vacation. For a while, the entire Promincia castle was filled with smog, and many anxious soldiers broke into innocent people's homes to seek whoring. There were many security incidents, but Promincia Castle finally gained some popularity.

Xue Yun held a year-end dinner on New Year's Eve. A large number of officers of the Xue family army spent New Year's Eve on the "Yangtze River" and "Yellow River". After noon on the first day of the new year, the officers of the Xue family army returned to their camp drunk and kept monitoring Xue's army. The Navy and Lei Ersheng who had been dismissed also breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that the Xue family army is unlikely to have any military operations in the past few days during the Chinese New Year.

The Dutch never imagined that Xue’s army’s New Year’s Eve dinner, a large number of officers and soldiers flowed, concealed a great secret. Xue’s army used public mobilization to gather all the marines of Wang Erwa and Luo Erwa to the “Pingnan” "Guan Guan" is close to the Dutch Navy, and the special forces organized by Peng Langjun are also on call at any time.

In order not to let Liya know that he was embarrassed by the Dutchman, Xue Yun summoned Peng Langjun in another cabin in the evening. In fact, the two separated only in the morning. Last night, they carried two bags of anesthetic powder containing cartilage. , stole four three-masted warships of the Dutch, and put a large amount of colorless and odorless "cartilage anesthesia powder" in the water storage tank of the Dutch Navy.

"Cartilage Anesthesia Powder" is the medical officer team of Peng Langjun and Doctor Lu. After several months of research, it is used to anesthetize the four three-masted warships captured by the Dutch navy. Will the four three-masted warships be successful? Winning it is closely related to Xue Yun's sea plan. As long as he has those four three-masted warships, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Zheng Zhilong would not dare to confront the Xue family's navy alone in the Daming sea area.

Peng Langjun, who has been buried in his head and has not shown up, is still studying the "Tenderness and Sweetness Smoke" that was changed from "Tenderness and Sweetness Pill". "After dispersing, it can make the enemy dizzy and cannot immediately lose combat effectiveness, but it also faces the problem of agreeing to one's own people.

So Peng Langjun, Doctor Lu and others tried many kinds of waking agents, but the effect was still very limited in general, but time was running out, and Xue Jiajun was still prepared to fight against the Dutch, so the odds of winning were still very high.

Xue Yun asked: "Mr. Peng, how long is the special force's ability to resist the "smoke of tenderness and sweetness"?"

Peng Langjun said: "General, according to your opinion, breathing with your mouth, combined with Xingnaoqingxin pills, you can stay fully awake for a stick of incense in the "Tenderness and Sweetness Smoke", and complete the task normally for half an hour."

Xue Yun thought for a while and said: "It should be ok. After all, on the enemy's ship, there are air leaks everywhere, and we won't be able to inhale a lot of "tenderness and sweetness smoke" like our experimental cabin, but we have to tell the special forces again and again, "Cartilage anesthesia The powder and the sweet smoke of tenderness are all auxiliary. Don’t put too much hope on the cartilage anesthesia powder and sweet smoke of tenderness. Once you board the ship, it must be finished within half an hour. fighting."

Peng Langjun said: "General, I understand that the other thing is that none of the sixty pirate ships or merchant ships will be left behind."

Xue Yun said: "Brother Peng, you can't eat too much. It is still unknown whether these four three-masted warships can be obtained. Like those pirate ships and merchant ships that can be built by themselves, it is not a pity to burn them. , that is, we can no longer leave it to the Dutch, and our goal is the four three-masted warships that Ming could not build by itself."

(End of this chapter)