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- Winter 1622
Located on an island in the middle of the tropical Caribbean Sea, Willemstad is being surrounded by the Song Empire fleet. They have been surrounded for seven days. These are seven difficult days that make people feel extremely desperate.
Boom! boom!
This is the fleet under Chelsea of ??the Song Empire, which is bombarding Willemstad.
?????? One after another, explosive bombs exploded above the city.
The shrapnel shot down and destroyed many buildings and roofs. Some unlucky guys met their God under such purposeless bombing. This luck is really not ordinary and tragic.
Thomas¡¯s old butler came to Willemstad the day before the Song Empire¡¯s fleet besieged the city, and early the next morning he found that the entire city was surrounded.
There are not many enemy warships, only more than thirty.
But just over thirty warships destroyed the Willemstad Port, where eight warships were originally docked.
At this point, Willemstad no longer has sea power. The city's administrator only needs to let the army enter the city and prepare to fight the enemy in the city.
It¡¯s a pity that the Song Empire¡¯s fleet did not want to enter the city at all. They just shelled the city continuously from the sea.
In fact, Chelsea¡¯s idea is very simple. He will not let his sailors and marines land to fight brutal street battles with the Dutch.
He would be at a huge disadvantage in that way.
Only a fool would choose which course to take, but Chelsea is obviously not a fool.
Therefore, he adopted the method of bombarding the city from the sea, hoping to make the guards in Willemstad surrender on their own.
In short, if the other party surrenders, the shelling at sea will not stop.
This is a great test of one¡¯s patience and the process of resisting fear.
The copycat Dutch warship, after modification, has three decks and a total of seventy-six cannons.
This kind of warship has become a frigate for heavy warships, and its firepower cannot be underestimated.
Thirty-six artillery shells were fired at a time, and all the shells fired were explosive shells. The damage caused by such explosive shells to the buildings in the city was not ordinary.
During these seven days, most of the buildings in Willemstad were baptized by explosive bombs.
This also gave people a new understanding of the weapons of the Song Empire.
The old housekeeper found the administrator in the city, but when he arrived at the administrator's mansion, he found that the administrator had unfortunately died under this shelling.
Therefore, the responsibility of defending the city fell on a small army officer.
When the old housekeeper reported his identity, the young military officer happily handed over this heavy responsibility to the old housekeeper, and he himself felt relaxed and happy.
You know, after the city was besieged, the entire city was in dire need of supplies.
There is only enough food in the city to feed the soldiers for two days.
At this time, the old housekeeper is willing to take over this responsibility, how could this young officer not be happy?
He has been worried about where to get the remaining food after the food is gone.
Now that someone is willing to accept it, he is eager to do so.
When the time comes, let the governor¡¯s butler take care of this troublesome matter. Anyway, it has nothing to do with him.
"When the soldiers make trouble, let this old man take the blame. Everyone looking for trouble will also look for him, and it has nothing to do with him."
In fact, how did this young officer know that the reason why the old housekeeper took over the management of the entire city had his own ideas.
First, he must complete the tasks assigned to him by the governor, otherwise he would not have come to this dangerous place.
So, if he wants to contact the people of the Song Empire, he must guarantee something now.
After taking over the management of the city, he first ordered the soldiers to be calm, and immediately sent people to the pier to erect a large wooden pole, and then raised a white flag made of white cloth.
What the old housekeeper has to do now is very simple, that is, let the Song Empire's fleet surrounding the city stop shelling first.
But the only thing that can make the opponent stop the bombardment is to raise the white flag.
Apart from that, there is really no other way.
"Are you going to surrender?"
When the young officer hung up the white flag at the pier, he found the old housekeeper and asked.
The old housekeeper shook his head and said to him: "No, I just used this method to temporarily stop the opponent's bombardment. For this reason, I can onlyUse the method of raising the white flag, otherwise do you have any better method? "
Facing the old housekeeper¡¯s question, the young officer thought for a while and then fell silent.
Yes, if you want the enemies outside to stop shelling, there is really no better way than raising the white flag.
After all, as long as the white flag is raised, the enemies outside will definitely think that they are surrendering, so they will definitely stop the bombardment.
No matter what, this method is very effective.
"What are you going to do after the enemy stops shelling? We now have 600 troops stationed in the city, but most of them are cold soldiers. The army of the Song Empire is all musketeers, which is difficult to deal with."
In this young officer¡¯s view, the old man must have had his own plans by raising a white flag to get the enemy to stop shelling.
It sounded from his words at that time that the old man had no intention of surrendering yet.
If this is the case, then what is this old man going to do?
The young officer felt that he was a little confused.
"I plan to go talk to the Song Empire commanders outside. What they want is an intact city. Wouldn't it be a pity if it was destroyed like this.", the old housekeeper said to the young officer.
Really, if you want to talk to the other party, don¡¯t you still have to surrender?
Otherwise, what would you do if you went to meet the enemy's commander?
But the young officer didn¡¯t say anything about this. In fact, he didn¡¯t want to be beaten so passively.
To be honest, the Song Empire¡¯s fleet can attack itself at any time on the sea, but their people in the city cannot attack the Song Empire¡¯s fleet on the sea.
This is very unfair.
For seven days, they were passively bombarded from the sea in the city. They were beaten for seven days.
These seven days have been difficult.
"I'm going to prepare now, you can't relax here, organize the soldiers immediately. If the enemy thinks we are surrendering and wants to land, you must lead the soldiers to drive the enemy into the sea, you know."
Huh!
What does it mean?
The young officer was stunned for a moment after hearing what the old housekeeper said. It was obvious that he couldn't understand.
Since you want to talk to the people of the Song Empire, why would you attack the enemy if they land?
If you do this, the people of the Song Empire will be embarrassed and angry.
Seeing the puzzled look on the young officer's face, the old housekeeper explained to him: "Only if we beat them to pain can we have the right to talk. Raising the white flag is just a means to see if they will be fooled. We need to let them The enemy knows that it will not be easy for them to seize this city, and only in this way will we be valuable in their eyes, you know."
The young officer finally came to his senses.
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? This is to let the people of the Song Empire understand this.
¡°Actually, the young officer didn¡¯t know that the reason why the old housekeeper did this was just a temporary idea.
Originally, when he came to the administrator's residence, he just wanted the administrator to temporarily raise the white flag and create a ceasefire for him, so that he could go to the port to find a small boat to approach the Song Empire's warships and make contact with them.
But the death of the administrator gave the old housekeeper an opportunity.
He actually became the top official of the city.
In this way, the old housekeeper felt that he could make the noise louder, so that he could have more initiative in future negotiations.
By then, he will be able to fight for some more generous treatment for Governor Thomas.
But first, you have to let the people of the Song Empire know that they are not powerless to fight back.
Only in this way will the people of the Song Empire truly talk to themselves.
Otherwise, you can only go and begging for yourself.
Of course, after the white flag is raised, it is unclear whether the people of the Song Empire will be fooled or not.
¡°In short, everything now depends on luck.
"Remember, hide in the city and don't launch an attack until the enemy comes ashore. You have to wait until they enter the city. At the same time, we let the enemy continue to engage in street fighting. Don't tell the people in the city that it will be saved by then. Something uncontrollable happened."
The old guard explained to the young officer.
The young officer nodded, then turned around and went to prepare.
The old housekeeper let out a long sigh.
"My Lord Governor, you want to surrender?"?It¡¯s normal to want to get good treatment, but if you don¡¯t have anything to offer, why should others give it to you? "
The old housekeeper sat there talking to himself.
It turns out that after the old steward arrived in the city, that night he asked the fleet members and sailors who had retreated from the city about the Song Empire.
The conclusion he reached was not good.
The fleet of the Song Empire was very powerful, its soldiers were very brave, and its weapons were also very advanced.
No matter from any aspect, the colonies cannot compare with each other.
Therefore, now that the Governor is rushing to surrender, it is estimated that he can only obtain immortality.
As for other conditions, don¡¯t even think about it, it¡¯s simply impossible.
But when I came out, the Governor-General told me that after sending the letter to the commander of the Song Empire, he must ensure his own interests in the colony when negotiating with him.
Governor Thomas had many properties in the Caribbean, including sugar cane fields, silver mines, and indigenous slaves, which he was unwilling to give up, so he placed his hope in negotiations between the old steward and the Song Empire fleet.
In his opinion, there are still so many Dutch colonies. As long as he is the governor and an agreement is reached, the Song Empire can also save a few soldiers, right?
For this reason, it shouldn¡¯t be too difficult to protect his property and interests.
Thomas¡¯s idea is very naive, this is the comment made by the old butler.
But he must complete the governor's commission.
I think he has been working in the governor's house since he was young, and he has been brought up with him since he was a child.
In the heart of the old housekeeper, he actually regarded Governor Thomas as his own child without knowing it.
Now that my 'child' has requirements, no matter how difficult it is, I have to satisfy him.
In this way, the old housekeeper made an impromptu decision and decided to create a condition so that he could gain some chips.
As for whether it would work or not, the old housekeeper himself had no idea. After all, he had heard about the massacres carried out by the Song Empire in the Spanish colonies.
Although the authenticity needs to be verified, he believes that there is absolutely no smoke without fire at this time.
Therefore, he was also prepared that his resistance would anger the Song people.
¡°Anyway, I have the governor¡¯s letter here. If nothing can be done, I can just take out the letter when the time comes.
Although it¡¯s a little embarrassing, it¡¯s better than dying.
In short, the old housekeeper¡¯s idea is very simple, which is to gamble with the lives of Willemstad¡¯s soldiers and the lives of the residents of the city.
He won¡¯t lose anything if he loses the bet.
But if he is lucky enough to win the bet, then he can fulfill Governor Thomas's instructions.
As for how many lives Willemstad will lose, that is not something he has to consider.
For him, the Governor's affairs are the most important.
¡°Well, we should continue to spread the rumor that Song people like massacres.
¡°In this way, in order to prevent the city from falling, if you are also massacred, then the whole city will be angry and resist, right?
The old housekeeper couldn¡¯t help but feel proud of himself when he thought about this matter¡ª¡ª
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"My lord, the white flag has been raised at Willemstad Pier. Are the Dutch about to surrender?"
A genetic officer hurried into the captain's room and reported to Chelsea the strange things on the Willemstad Pier.
Hearing this, Chelsea quickly walked out of the captain's room and came to the deck. She took the monocular from the adjutant's hand and looked over.
Sure enough, as reported, on a large wooden pole that had just been erected at the pier, a white flag stretched into the wind.
"It seems like the other side is really going to surrender and raise a white flag."
Chelsea said with a smile, while he looked around with the binoculars.
Something is wrong!
Suddenly, Chelsea noticed something was not right. Through the telescope, he saw some soldiers in the city hiding in a hurry, and there were many people hiding on the roofs.
None of this looks like surrender.
The old housekeeper in the city did not know at this time. He had forgotten for the most part that the warships of the Song Empire also had telescopes, and the power of their telescopes was much higher than that of European products of the same period.
"Big??, is there something wrong? "
The noncommissioned officers and adjutants who followed Chelsea all asked questions after hearing his whisper.
"See for yourselves."
Chelsea did not put down the telescope, but continued to observe with a serious face.
After listening to Chelsea¡¯s words, the geneticists around him also picked up their telescopes and began to observe carefully.
Ha, do they want to use surrender as a cover and then lead us into the city to ambush us?
A geneticist official observed for a while and expressed his guess.
And his guess was exactly the plan of those in the city.
Chelsea put down the telescope in her hand at this time and said calmly: "If they really want to use this method to confuse us and set up an ambush in the city, then I can only say that they are really retarded." (To be continued . Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!) - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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