As soon as the sky was dawn, Sonod woke up. He pulled the rope at the head of the bed. A crisp ringtone rang outside the door. Soon two maids walked in and served him to dress and wash. After washing, he hurriedly finished the breakfast brought by the maid and took several guards to the city wall.

But when he just climbed the wall of Banyue Castle, he was stunned by the scene in front of him. He saw dozens of earth platforms more than one meter high appeared about one mile away. Many people around the earth platforms were trying to pile up soil towards the earth platforms, and those earth platforms were slowly increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The shocked Sonod pulled a soldier next to him and asked, "What the hell is going on? When did it start?"

The soldier said indifferently: "Governor General, these Ming people started to fill soil outside the city wall just as dawn. It has been almost an hour since then."

"More than an hour?" Sonod's heart sank, and then asked angrily: "Where is your sir, call your sir!"

Soon, an officer trotted to him. Before the officer could speak, Sonod asked angrily: "Lieutenant, you are the commander of this section of the city wall. Why don't you report to me if you are the Ming people filling the soil here?"

The second lieutenant saw Sonod with an unpleasant face and quickly said, "Governor General, it was not dawn when the Ming people filled the soil. Besides, I didn't know what the Ming people wanted to do at that time, so I didn't dare to disturb you to rest rashly."

"You...well."

Sonod couldn't help but feel silent. What the lieutenant said was not unreasonable. The situation on the battlefield was ever-changing and anything could happen. As usual, everything had to be reported to him. Sonod should stop sleeping and stay on the city wall for 24 hours.

"Governor General, what happened?" At this time, Encos also arrived.

Sonod pointed ahead and said angrily: "You can take a look at it yourself."

Encos couldn't help but be slightly surprised: "Huh... they actually filled the soil and made a dirt platform?"

Then Encos showed a hint of panic on his face, "No, the Ming people are building a fort, we are in trouble."

Sonod looked at Encos unexpectedly, and it seemed that his adjutant had improved his sensitivity to the battlefield.

"Since you know the other party's plans, do you have any good ideas?"

After thinking for a while, Encos shook his head and said, "No, but I think our artillery can conduct a round of test firing on them and see how the other party reacts."

"This idea is good." Sonod agreed with Encos' suggestion: "You go and convey my order, and the artillery on the two castles No. 1 and No. 2 carry out a tentative round of shelling the Ming people's earth platform."

"clear!"

Encos turned and left, and a second lieutenant next to him pointed ahead and shouted: "Governor General, someone is coming from the Ming people!"

The Ming army did send people here, a businessman who had been in the Ming Dynasty and Taiwan for many years.

The merchant who came to Sonod, who was pressed onto the city wall by two guards, bowed slightly to Sonod and said to Sonod in a somewhat unfamiliar Dutch language: "Dear Governor, I brought you the greetings from the Marquis of Jiangning, the Kingdom of Ming Dynasty, and sent you a letter from him!"

Sonod did not accept the letter, but looked at the other party with a calm face for a while before saying, "I know you. You used to travel between Relanzha City, between Bongang and Ming Kingdom. You should have made a lot of money from us. Unexpectedly, you have transformed into a lobbyist of the Ming army. No wonder people often say that the Chinese people are the least grateful."

Faced with Sonod's ridicule, the merchant did not look strange, but smiled faintly: "I'm honored that you can still remember me. I do often travel between Relanzha City and Daming, but I don't think this has anything to do with me coming to deliver letters.

I just made the money I should make, and it has nothing to do with your ‘gift’.”

"You are presumptuous!"

Encore, who was standing beside him, was furious, pulled out the short gun from his waist and pointed it at him and shouted: "You lowly yellow-skinned monkey, it's fine if you don't know how to be grateful, but you dare to question our governor. If you believe it or not, I will kill you here."

"The lowly yellow-skinned monkey?"

Facing the black muzzle, the merchant's face turned pale, but then he sneered: "If I remember correctly, you should be the adjutant of the Governor. As a soldier, you should not point the gun at the unarmed merchant, but at your enemy on the battlefield.

And I think if you really have the courage, why didn’t you say this to our Marquis in the prisoner-of-war camp in the Ming Dynasty?”

"Damn yellow-skinned monkey, I'll kill you!"

Encore was furious and was the experience of being captured by the Fujian Navy. He was the most shameful stain in his life. Now he was told by a businessman from Ming Dynasty in person, which was no less than being slapped in the face.

In a hurry, he pulled the hammer on the short gun with his thumb, and then pressed his index finger on the trigger, as he was about to pull the trigger at any time.

The merchant sneered, "I have to tell you that before I came, the Marquis promised me that if I was killed by you, then after he captured the city of Relanzha, he would kill a hundred people from the survivors of Relanzha to bury me. If you really don't care about the lives of your compatriots, you'd better shoot it."

Encos's face turned red with anger, "You..."

"Enough!" Sonod, who was standing beside him, said lightly, "Encos, we are a civilized man and will not kill the other party's messenger. This is the minimum etiquette. Do you still need me to teach you? Well, merchants from Ming Dynasty, you don't have to try to anger my adjutant anymore. Hurry up and hand me the letter from the Marquis."

"certainly!"

The businessman who escaped from death was a little grateful, and he took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Sonod.

Sonod took the letter and read it at a glance, then said to the merchant: "Go back and tell your marquis to let him die of his heart. We will not surrender. It is not impossible to take down the city of Relanzha. Then let him use the bodies of Ming soldiers to cover the road to Relanzha!"

Faced with Sonod's rejection, the merchant was not disappointed, but continued: "Governor General, our Marquis said. Your fleet has been completely wiped out. You have no reinforcements for at least half a year. If you resist stubbornly, you can only destroy yourself.

If you surrender now, he guarantees the lives of you and these soldiers and will give you equal treatment to your post!"
Chapter completed!