Chapter 848 The End of the War and the Disposal of Prisoners of War
General El planned to take advantage of the fact that the Ming army's reinforcements were still at sea and had not had time to land.
And the defenders in the bastion will relax due to the arrival of reinforcements.
Even if you have to pay a certain price, you must grit your teeth and capture the San Francisco Fortress first.
Use this to fight for a chance of survival for them!
After everyone heard this, they all fell into deep thought, but in the end they agreed and nodded.
"Everyone listens to His Majesty the General!"
"Your Excellency, General, is wise!"
After General El heard this, he began to arrange the siege.
On the one hand, he sent people to prepare for an all-out bombardment of the San Francisco Bastion and to prepare for his own infantry to storm the Bastion.
On the one hand, they sent people to prepare to set up positions on the beach and prepare to block the Ming army's landing on the beach.
Buy more time for your side to capture the San Francisco Bastion!
Under the huge pressure of victory or death, these Spaniards, who had been hungry for a long time, burst out with great potential.
Very quickly, preparations were made to attack the bastion!
After making all preparations, the Spaniards did not hesitate and immediately attacked the bastion non-stop.
Under the arrangement of General El, some of the more than 40,000 Spanish soldiers were used to block the Ming army's landing.
The rest of the people all rushed towards Ming's bastion in a dark mass.
In order to share the firepower of the Ming army and take advantage of his own strength, General El used the offensive tactic of pressing the entire army and besieging him on all sides.
Boom! Boom!
The Spanish artillery began to fire with full force, pouring out firepower at will.
The smoke was thick, and the fire suddenly appeared, and round solid cannonballs rolled and spun, heading towards the bastion.
Cannonballs hit the wall of the bastion one after another, and the walls of the bastion began to tremble slightly.
Facing the Spanish raid, the Ming army was indeed caught off guard at first.
From the perspective of the Ming army in the fortress, my reinforcements have arrived and defeated your Spanish fleet on the sea.
It would be fine if the Spaniards outside the city didn't surrender directly and beg for mercy. How could they dare to attack the bastion?
Therefore, the entire Ming army was unprepared.
When the battle began, the Ming army was caught off guard for the first time.
But when the Ming army reacted, the war once again turned into a one-sided massacre.
The artillery in the Ming army's bastion and fort did not pay any attention to the Spanish shelling.
Just fight, because the Spanish cannons can't hit the Ming army's bastion anyway.
The Spanish cannons were just a blast to them.
But if the Ming army aimed its artillery at the dense Spanish infantry array and fired, it would be almost the same as a unilateral massacre.
The Ming army's artillery began to use shotgun shells and explosive shells, pouring firepower on the Spanish infantry array.
Boom! Boom!
The sound of shelling continued.
Thousands of shotguns flew, creating gaps in the dense crowd in the blink of an eye.
Countless bullets swept across everything, leaving blood and broken limbs all over the ground...
San Francisco's moat was already stained red with blood in just the blink of an eye.
Countless mutilated limbs, broken arms, and white-soaked corpses were just floating on the water of the moat.
Boom! Boom!
Accompanied by bursts of increasingly fierce shelling, the Spanish attacking troops suffered heavy losses.
But under the pressure of the supervising team, he had to grit his teeth and move forward.
Countless people fell to the ground, but more people were forced to charge forward one after another.
In order to prevent the attacking troops from retreating, General El even arranged for a war team to supervise the battle.
Anyone who dares to turn around and retreat will be killed directly.
Ta-ta! Ta-ta-ta-ta!
As the Spanish rushed to the bottom of the bastion with huge casualties, they were about to climb up the sloping wall.
The clicking sound like a demon's roar sounded again.
A rotary machine gun extended its muzzle out of the firing hole, and quickly pulled the trigger, pouring firepower towards the Spanish soldiers below.
Ta da! Ta da da!
The dense bullet chain swept across everything. Wherever the bullets passed, countless people fell to the ground, their hot blood flowed, and they turned into cold corpses.
Corpses were piled up one after another, layer upon layer.
It even gradually turned into a hill of corpses, which was as high as the bastion wall.
The Spanish who followed stepped on the corpses of their companions and rushed to the bastion and rushed up the city wall.
Seeing this, the Ming army defending the city rushed forward without showing any timidity and engaged the Spaniards in hand-to-hand combat.
Phew! Phew!
One stab of the sharp bayonet made a bloody hole.
The breastplates worn by the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty once again played a great role.
Although some Spanish soldiers also wore breastplates, their quality was obviously not as good as the Ming Dynasty breastplates.
Boom! Boom!
The Ming army defending the city began to use grenades.
Hand grenades were thrown into the crowd one after another. After the explosion, limbs and broken arms were scattered everywhere.
The Spanish momentum was contained!
Several grenades were bundled together and then thrown.
After the rumbling explosion, the mountain of piled up corpses was also blown apart.
The Spaniards who rushed to the city wall became a lone army and were overwhelmed by the Ming army in the blink of an eye.
In addition, the Ming army's artillery also used explosive shells, aiming at the pile of corpses under the city wall and firing.
I want to use explosive bombs to blow up the pile of corpses!
At this moment, smoke and dust filled the air, and broken limbs were flying all over the sky.
Blood and minced meat were splashed everywhere.
The current scene under the city of San Francisco is simply like hell on earth.
Boom!
There was another roar.
But this time the roar was not the sound of cannons, but thunder.
A dark cloud appeared in the sky, and there were flashes of lightning in the dark cloud.
Not long after, huge raindrops poured down.
At this moment, it was like the Tianhe River stopped flowing, like the Milky Way leaking to the ground...
San Francisco has a typical Mediterranean climate. It is as warm as spring all year round, and even the lowest temperature every year is below zero.
Very livable!
Whether calculated according to the Western calendar or the lunar calendar, it should be winter in San Francisco today.
But it’s still raining!
A large amount of rain fell, as if to clean away all the sins in the world.
A large number of corpses were piled up under the San Francisco Bastion, and blood and soil were mixed into blood mud.
Under the wash of rainwater, the blood mud was diluted into a thick mud soup.
The red muddy soup mixed with the blood washed out from the pile of corpses and flowed toward the lowlands.
A lake of blood was even formed.
The scene is extremely horrifying!
In the heavy rain, the Spanish open-air artillery battery went out.
The muskets in the hands of their soldiers could no longer fire.
General El looked at the scene in front of him, stretched out his hand to wipe the rain from his face, and couldn't help laughing.
"Hahahaha, God bless Spain!"
"God bless Spain!"
"This heavy rain must be God's blessing. Thank God and praise my merciful Lord!"
In General El's opinion, such heavy rain could not possibly affect the Spanish's firearms.
The firearms of the Ming army will definitely be affected!
As long as the Ming army's firearms could not fire due to heavy rain, then the biggest threat to them from this bastion would be gone.
Next, even if they use a mass of people, they will definitely be able to take down the bastion.
It is really hard to tolerate General El not being excited and excited.
"Hahaha, send the order down and tell the boys that Akito's firearms are useless and let them attack with all their strength."
"Only by taking over the bastion in front of us is our only chance of survival now!"
"For the sake of Spain, for the sake of God, go for it!"
…
The heavy rain came suddenly, and it was impossible for the Ming army to say that it was not affected at all.
On the bastion, a large number of open-air gun emplacements were also shut down due to rain.
However, the artillery inside the fortifications can still continue to fire.
The same goes for those rotating machine guns.
Although the firearms placed in the fortifications were affected by the rain, they were not serious.
When the Ming army's bastions were first built, they were designed to be rainproof.
One Spanish soldier continued to wade through the muddy water, shouting loudly, and continued to rush forward.
From time to time, someone would accidentally slip in the muddy water, but the soldier who slipped would often have no time to get up before being trampled into a pulp by his comrades behind him.
However, as soon as they moved, the Ming army's bastion opened fire.
Boom! Boom!
Amidst bursts of roars, countless Spanish soldiers once again fell into a pool of blood.
Although the firepower density of the Ming army has been significantly reduced to the naked eye, it is still very deadly to the Spaniards under the city.
Bodies are still piling up improperly!
General El stared in the direction of the bastion without blinking, his eyes full of disbelief.
"What's going on! What's going on."
"Why can the Ming army's firearms continue to fire in such a heavy rain?"
Lieutenant Colonel Rosen on the side saw this scene and said.
"Maybe it's because the Ming army has fortifications at the top of the city!"
As he spoke, Lieutenant Colonel Rosen's face was also full of despair.
It's too awful!
It’s so miserable!
In order to conquer the fortress in front of them, they besieged it from all sides with 40,000 people.
But apart from leaving corpses all over the ground, there was nothing gained.
Only a few can climb the bastion wall.
The emotion of fear is constantly brewing in the hearts of Lieutenant Colonel Rosen and others!
Most people are in a state of confusion.
However, at this moment, a messenger suddenly came to report.
"No... it's not good, something serious is going to happen!"
"The Ming army's reinforcements have landed!"
"Our blocking force has been defeated, and Ming army reinforcements have completed the landing."
…
pier!
After the naval battle, the Ming army began to prepare for the landing.
Under the double cover of naval guns and its own forts, the Ming army quickly repelled the Spanish blocking troops, seized the dock, and completed the landing.
Of course, this has a lot to do with the fact that those Spanish soldiers were not determined to fight.
Almost as soon as the Ming army's artillery bombarded them, and then the infantry landed and charged, they collapsed.
But can you blame the soldiers?
Obviously not!
In normal times, you deprive them of food and don't even give them enough to eat, but you still want them to work hard at critical moments?
Isn't that nonsense?
Do you really think they are all fools?
Food and wages are the source of combat effectiveness!
The reason why the fighting on the bastion side was so fierce was entirely because General El was personally in charge and there was also a team of supervisors pressing down.
If there were no supervising troops to hold them down, the troops attacking the bastion would probably have rushed forward and found that they could not defeat them, so they would have collapsed.
After the Ming army successfully completed the landing, they did not immediately advance towards the bastion. Instead, they camped in the direction of the pier, preparing to repair and wait for the rain to stop.
The rain is really heavy now. If they want to fight in the rain, most of the Ming army's firearms will be unusable.
Although the Ming army used breech-loading guns, the bullets were still paper-cased bullets.
Once the paper-cased bullets are soaked in water, they are almost useless.
The same goes for artillery!
If you want to complete the reloading in heavy rain, the gunpowder will get soaked.
If they want to go into battle, they have to wait for the rain to stop.
…
General El received the news that the Ming army had completed its landing.
His expression kept changing, and finally he spoke as if he had made up his mind.
"Send the order and withdraw the troops!"
"Suspend the offensive against the bastion and repel the landing Ming troops first!"
In order to prevent his own side from being stabbed in the butt by the reinforcements of the Ming army when the attack on the bastion was intense, he could only temporarily stop the attack on the bastion, and then ordered his troops to turn around and prepare to deal with the Ming army.
After repelling the Ming reinforcements, we can talk about attacking the bastion.
However, what General El did not expect was that he had just ordered the withdrawal of troops, and the Spanish soldiers who were attacking the bastion on the front line retreated as if defeated.
The mountains and plains are full of Spanish soldiers scrambling to escape!
Muskets, bayonets, hats, boots, crosses...all kinds of sundries were thrown everywhere by the defeated soldiers.
The heavy rain was still falling, and the entire plain outside San Francisco was densely packed with collapsed Spanish soldiers.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At the moment of the collapse, the supervising team was unable to suppress it at all.
They could only watch helplessly as the soldiers collapsed. Some fled back to the camp, while others simply fled eastward back to Mexico City.
Get ready to demonstrate on the road what it means to survive in the wilderness!
There was chaos everywhere, and the army was unable to suppress the situation when the army was defeated.
All General El could do was to order to collect the defeated troops as much as possible, and then return to his own camp to repair.
Anyway, the current Spanish army is definitely unable to go to the dock to block Ming army reinforcements.
…
In the camp, General El took off his military uniform jacket that was soaked by the rain.
He was just leaning on the chair, and the silk lining on his body became even thinner because of the water.
The fat and black chest hair on his body were highlighted.
General El wiped his face feebly, and the coldness of the rain made his voice tremble as he asked.
"Tell me, what are the casualties of our army?"
In today's battle, whether it was a sea battle or a land battle, they were defeated miserably.
Because Pelos fled after the defeat, he did not know the extent of the losses in the naval battle.
But General El wanted to be well aware of the casualties in land battles.
Upon hearing this, Brigadier General Paril stood up and said.
"According to preliminary statistics, our army's casualties in the blocking battle on the beach should be around 300 people."
"But the casualties in the offensive battle of the bastion cannot be counted..."
"After His Excellency the General ordered the troops to retreat, the troops attacking the bastion collapsed."
"Some people fled back to the camp, while others simply fled and didn't know where they went, so the exact number of casualties cannot be determined."
"What we can know now is that there are about 26,000 people in the camp now."
General El gasped when he heard this.
The expression on his face was full of shock and disbelief.
The Spanish expedition mobilized a total of about 50,000 troops.
This is the final figure that takes into account the number of people in the army and navy fleet.
Excluding the fleet's sailors, the army's strength is about 43,000.
Excluding the more than a thousand people who took advantage of their first landing and storming of the bastion, as well as the casualties caused by the Ming army's scattered harassment.
Before today's battle, the Spanish Army had at least 41,500 troops.
But after today's battle, only 26,000 people were able to return to the camp!
In other words, in today's battle alone, their casualties reached an astonishing fifteen thousand people...
Of course, a large part of these 15,000 people were defeated soldiers who escaped from the battlefield, not all of them died under the bastion.
But even so, this number is astonishing enough!
To be honest, General El has never fought a war with such heavy casualties...
He really began to have a heartfelt fear of Daming.
After exhaling a heavy breath, General El spoke.
"Everyone, let's talk about what we should do next!"
When General El asked questions, his sinister eyes scanned the crowd, hoping to get an answer.
However, when faced with General El's questions, almost everyone bowed their heads and remained silent.
Many people's faces were full of despair and sadness.
Faced with the current situation, no one can think of a way to break it!
Suddenly, someone raised his head and said.
"If not, let's surrender!"
As soon as he said this, everyone around him looked over.
Come down!
What a tempting suggestion.
After all, judging from the current situation, they can't defeat the Ming army at all. Is there any other way if they don't surrender?
There are still more than 20,000 people here, so they can't risk their lives for the sake of face, right?
General El took a deep breath when he heard this, but still spoke.
"In order for the boys to survive, this general has no choice but to bear this infamy!"
General El was a little awkward when talking about surrendering to the Ming army.
But no matter how awkward it is, it is not a big deal in the face of life and death.
However, in order to look good on his face, he did not admit that he was greedy for life and feared death. Instead, he said that he surrendered to save the lives of the 26,000 people in the camp.
Although everyone was a little disdainful when they heard this, no one objected.
Since General El is willing to surrender, then they can all survive. There is no need to go looking for death, right?
The worst case scenario is to spend money to redeem yourself after the war!
Even the missionaries in the army spoke one after another.
"God will praise His Majesty the General for his kindness!"
"God teaches us that life is the most precious thing and should not be given up easily."
"..."
Logically speaking, for a country like the Ming Dynasty that strictly banned religion, these missionaries should have the strongest hostile stance.
However, in the face of life and death, faith seems to be nothing.
After all, there are only a few true fanatical believers who are not afraid of life and death.
General El was relieved when he saw no one objected.
Then he ordered people to negotiate with the Ming army to discuss surrender.
…
The next day, the sky was clear and clear!
The dark clouds in the sky disappeared, and a bright sun shone.
The golden sunlight shines on the ground and on the layers of corpses on the battlefield.
The scene is extremely horrifying!
The gates of the Spanish army's camp were wide open, and groups of Spanish soldiers took off their military uniforms and wore only their inner clothes. They raised their hands in the air and lined up to surrender according to different organizational systems.
The Ming army defenders in the bastion and the Ming army reinforcements in the direction of the dock received prisoners of war.
General El was brought to Wang Yong, Wei Wu and others.
Wei Wu looked at the red-haired man who had been surrounding him and others for such a long time, and his teeth itched with hatred.
But he still resisted the urge to kill.
This red hair is still useful, it would be a pity if he was killed like this.
Seeing that more than 20,000 Spaniards surrendered without a fight, the Ming army was filled with great joy.
A famous soldier laughed loudly, mocking the weakness of the Spaniards wantonly.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! If they were the ones in desperate situation, they would rather die in battle than anyone would surrender.
Compared with Westerners who like to surrender, most people in the East are ashamed of surrender.
After the immigrants and gold diggers in the bastion relieved the siege of the bastion, they rushed out of the city and headed towards the location of the gold mine.
The San Francisco Bastion was besieged for more than half a year, which wasted more than half a year of their time digging for gold.
Now that the siege of the fortress has been relieved, a group of people are rushing to go gold mining and regain more than half a year of wasted time.
Many farmers have also begun to clear land around San Francisco.
Most of the areas around San Francisco were farmland reclaimed by the Ming Dynasty, but unfortunately, they were abandoned due to the war.
Now that the war is over, they naturally have to sort out the fields again and prepare for farming next spring.
At the same time, the Ming army began to command the prisoners of war to clean up the battlefield.
The prisoners of war dug a large pit outside the bastion, and a large number of Spaniard corpses were thrown into the pit, poured with gasoline and prepared for cremation.
The billowing black smoke from the burning bodies curled into the sky, leaving a column of smoke in the sky.
The weird smell that the corpse left behind filled the air, making people sick to smell it.
The Spanish prisoners of war looked at the scene in front of them and couldn't help but prepare to pray.
However, as soon as they made a gesture of prayer, they were whipped by the Ming army overseer.
"What are you doing? Go to work!"
"Don't believe in those Lao Shizi cults, otherwise don't blame the grandpas for being bad with their swords!"
"..."
Seeing this, a surrendered missionary struggled to say something.
"You can't do this, he is God's people, please for God's sake..."
However, the missionary was only halfway through what he said when there was a snap.
Smoke curled up.
Li Shun blew away the smoke from the gun and said with a cold face.
"Whoever keeps talking nonsense about religion to me again, this is what will happen!"
"Don't hold back. Those who disobey these prisoners of war will be killed if they deserve it."
When the soldiers around him saw this scene, they all clasped their fists in response.
Li Shun was one of the land war generals who led troops to aid the New World this time. He was originally from Henan.
After Jiashen, his family moved to Luzon to escape the war.
Then after Zhu Hongyu captured Manila, Li Shun also joined the army.
In today's Ming army, they are considered to be a very senior group of people!
Now he has reached the rank of brigadier general, and he also has a viscount.
When he lived in Luzon, he was often bullied by red-haired men in his youth.
It is even more common to see red-haired people bullying their compatriots wantonly.
In this process, both Jesus Christ and missionaries played the role of accomplices.
Therefore, he really has no good impression of Christianity and missionaries at all.
In other words, not only he, but also the high-ranking Ming army generals from Luzon like him did not have a favorable impression of Christianity.
These high-level generals were the biggest supporters of Zhu Hongyu's strict ban on religion.
I dare not say 100% of the current Ming Dynasty’s senior officials, but at least 70% to 80% of them have a great dislike for Jesus Christ.
Now, seeing the noisy red-haired missionary, Li Shun thinks of his bullied youth.
He was so angry that he killed him!
When the others saw this, they naturally wouldn't say anything.
It's just a prisoner of war, so just kill him!
Li Shun turned around and left. The body of the shot missionary was also thrown into the cremation pit, and was engulfed in flames like other corpses.
The Ming army captured too many prisoners of war in this battle. In order to prevent the prisoners of war from rioting, it was quite necessary to take some out and kill Liwei.
The reason why Li Shun killed the missionary was precisely because of this.
…
Li Shun inspected the battlefield, and then led several personal guards into the bastion in San Francisco, preparing to attend the meeting.
After Li Shun arrived, the meeting officially began.
Several high-ranking generals of the Ming army gathered together, their eyes focused on Li Shun, and they nodded to him.
An Shengqiang, the governor, saw everyone gathered and said.
"Now that everyone is here, let's start!"
"The first thing we need to discuss and come up with is how to deal with those prisoners of war!"
The Ming army captured 20,000 to 30,000 prisoners of war in this battle. This number is really an exaggeration.
The total population of the Ming Dynasty in the New World, even including the army and immigrants who arrived with reinforcements, was less than 30,000.
With a total population of less than 30,000, it is not an easy task to control more than 20,000 and nearly 30,000 prisoners of war, and there may be some trouble.
And the more important problem is that the Spaniards have no food, and the Ming Dynasty does not have much food.
To send supplies to the expeditionary force, the Spaniards needed to pass through a narrow section of Panama and transport them by sea and land.
If the Ming Dynasty wanted to supply supplies to the New World, it had to take the sea route and cross the entire Pacific Ocean.
Originally, there were some farms near San Francisco, but after half a year of war, the farms were basically deserted.
The food and fodder currently in the San Francisco camp, plus the food and fodder carried by the support fleet with the army, is very difficult to sustain until the next supply fleet arrives.
If we have to raise so many prisoners of war, the logistics problem of food and fodder will become even more tense.
For example, if there were not these prisoners of war, each person in the Ming Dynasty could eat one steamed bun per meal.
As a result, after having these prisoners of war, the Ming Dynasty could only eat half a meal per person.
Who the hell can stand this?
Therefore, for Ming Dynasty, the disposal of these two to thirty thousand prisoners of war became a big problem.
If they were placed in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, let alone 20,000 or 30,000 prisoners of war, even if the number were doubled ten or a hundred times, there would still be many ways to deal with them.
But this is not the case in the New World. Ming's foundation in the New World is still too shallow.
Hearing this, Li Shun stood up and spoke.
“If it doesn’t work, it’s all a trap!”
"Twenty to thirty thousand people are too many. The Ming Dynasty does not have that much food to feed them."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Li Shun has no good impression of Hong Mao, and he has the most murderous intention.
Although the Ming Dynasty currently has a labor shortage problem in the New World, compared with the labor shortage problem, the food shortage problem is more serious.
Instead of waiting for food shortages in the future, these red-haired prisoners of war did not have enough to eat and made trouble.
It's better to kill them all now!
It can be considered as an end to future troubles!
Wei Wu also stood up and expressed his agreement.
"I agree with Brigadier General Li's suggestion. These red-haired men really deserve to be killed."
The attitudes of the two generals leading the army were very clear.
Of course, this is also related to their origins.
Like Li Shun, Wei Wu also joined the imperial family when he was in Luzon. He was also a Han Chinese who grew up in Luzon.
Affected by his childhood living environment, he has no good impression of Hong Mao at all.
After hearing this, An Shengqiang stood up and said.
"The two generals are wrong. Those prisoners of war are all laborers. It would be a waste to trap them directly."
Li Shun frowned when he heard this.
"Then how to solve the food and grass problem? We can't let our brothers starve and then feed the prisoners of war, right?"
When An Shengqiang heard this, he chuckled.
"We are indeed short of food, but some people are not short of food."
When Wei Wu heard this, he seemed to have thought of something, his eyes lit up and he said.
"Does the Governor mean Indians?"
An Shengqiang nodded.
"Yes, we can use these red-haired prisoners of war to exchange for a horse of grain and various supplies from the Indians to supplement the losses in the San Francisco camp."
"If this is the case, I, the Ming Dynasty, will not have to kill people to dirty my hands, nor will I"
The Indians had a great demand for the Spaniards.
For many Indian tribes, it would be quite honorable if they could use a Spaniard as a sacrifice when worshiping their gods.
Wang Yong on the side also said with a smile.
"We can not only sell to the Indians, but also to the Spanish, and let the Spanish spend money to redeem their prisoners of war."
"Of course, the redemption of prisoners of war can only be done after peace talks between the two sides and the end of the war. Before that, the Spaniards must provide the Ming Dynasty with the food needs of those prisoners of war."
"Otherwise, if any prisoner of war starves to death, then you can't blame me, Daming!"
"My people have detected that the Spanish fleet did not leave too far after being defeated and retreating from the battlefield. It is still swimming in the southern waters. We can send people to contact them."
"..."
Based on the current strength of Ming Dynasty in the New World, it is enough to protect itself, but not enough to make progress.
In a short period of time, there was no way to attack the Spanish core areas of control, and there was no threat to the Red Hair's ruling order in the New World.
The situation was the same on Hongmao's side. In the Battle of San Francisco, the Ming Dynasty killed 50,000 people in one fell swoop.
At least half of their standing army in the New World was gone.
In a short period of time, it was also unable to threaten Ming's camp in the New World again.
Therefore, since both sides are now unable to do anything to each other, peace talks are a very necessary thing.
A prolonged state of war is too much for both sides.
Moreover, when the reinforcements left the Ming Dynasty, the emperor also gave instructions to Wang Yong and others. After they arrived in the New World, if the war was not over yet, peace talks could be held based on the specific war conditions at that time.
The emperor didn't say it clearly, but Wang Yong understood what the emperor meant.
That is, if the war is really not going well, then negotiate peace first to stabilize the Spaniards.
The worst that can happen is that the imperial court will continue to send more troops to the New World. Once it has enough troops, it can regain the lost ground.
Perhaps it was because the legal system obtained by Emperor Taizu's "expelling the Tartars and restoring China" was too orthodox.
Perhaps it was because the Ming Emperor's declaration that "the emperor guards the gates of the country, and the emperor dies for the country" was set too high.
So much so that the Ming Dynasty was somewhat coerced by public opinion, and could not tolerate even the slightest sign of weakness when dealing with the outside world.
I haven’t seen that the Manchu and Qing Dynasties entered the customs several times and fought all the way to the capital. But didn’t the Ming Dynasty give in?
Although Chongzhen wanted peace talks at the beginning, rejecting peace talks was not his original intention, but was blocked by the officials in the court.
He also let that unfortunate guy Chen Xinjia take the blame for him.
But Daming never gave up from the beginning to the end, right?
Therefore, it is impossible for Zhu Hongyu to say in public that he will give up if he cannot win, he can only hint.
But, more importantly, Zhu Hongyu's hint also gave Li Shun, Wang Yong and others the power to make decisions on the fly.
Now that the war is over and the Ming Dynasty has won a complete victory, Li Shun and others are preparing to talk to the Spaniards after considering the situation.
The Spanish have been operating in the New World for a long time and have a deep foundation. If the Ming Dynasty wants to gain a foothold in the New World, it must first get rid of the Spaniards.
Otherwise, if the war continues, Ming Dynasty's development of the New World will continue to be delayed.
This is unacceptable!
With this great victory in San Francisco and 20,000 to 30,000 prisoners of war as bargaining chips, Ming Dynasty will definitely be able to obtain more favorable terms during the peace talks.
…
Jia Yun sat in a small boat and boarded Pelos' ship under the protection of several Ming soldiers.
None of the Ming soldiers carried weapons, but facing the Spaniards holding weapons around them, they all held up their chests and looked proud.
Because, they are the winners!
The winner has the right to be proud in front of the loser!
With a gentle smile on his face, Jia Yun cupped his hands towards General Pelos who was sitting on a chair and said.
"On behalf of Brigadier General Wang Yong, commander of the Ming Dynasty's New World Fleet, I would like to express my greetings to General Pelos."
Jia Yun's attitude was humble, polite and very calm.
But if you look at it together with the angry expressions of the Spaniards around him, it seems that his attitude is not so comfortable.
Others are glaring at you, but you are being humble and polite.
This is completely ignoring the Spaniards around him.
This attitude is more than arrogant!
But his arrogance is indeed hidden in his bones, and his gentleness and politeness on the surface make it impossible to fault him.
It makes the other person feel even more frustrated!
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Perlos snorted coldly and narrowed his eyes.
"What did your general want to do when he sent you to me?"
Pelos admitted that he lost the naval battle off San Francisco.
However, if Akito wanted him to surrender, that would be impossible.
He, Pelos, is not the cowardly bastard El!
When Jia Yun heard this, he still said in a very polite manner.
"I came here this time because I want the general to provide us with a batch of food as soon as possible."
Jia Yun stated his purpose, but what greeted him was Peros's anger.
"Damn Akito, do you want to listen to what you are saying?!"
"We are enemies, and you actually want me to provide you with food. Are you going too far?"
Pelos angrily smashed the pipe in his hand at Jia Yun's feet.
The pipe was smashed into pieces, which showed how much force he used, but Jia Yun remained expressionless and showed no fear.
Pelos said through gritted teeth.
"Aren't you afraid of death when you humiliate me like this?"
Jia Yun's expression remained unchanged and he spoke calmly.
"Of course you are afraid. Who in this world is not afraid of death?"
"But before I set off, my general told me that if anything happens to me while I'm on my mission to your side, I'll do it."
"Then, there will be 29,000 Spanish soldiers buried with me."
"I think Your Majesty the General doesn't want to see something like this happen."
The 29,000 people Jia Yun mentioned was the total number of prisoners of war captured by the Ming army in this battle.
Originally, only 26,000 Spaniards surrendered, but after the war, many Spaniards who felt that their wilderness survival skills were not up to par returned to the battlefield and became prisoners of the Ming army.
Then, the total number of prisoners captured by the Ming Dynasty in this battle became 29,000!
When Peros heard this, his vision went dark and he almost fainted.
He knew that the Ming army probably captured many prisoners of war in this battle, but he did not expect that the number would be so huge.
Twenty-nine thousand people.
That’s twenty-nine thousand people!
Pelos took a deep breath, suppressed his temper, and spoke.
"Haha, your Excellency has finished humiliating me. Now you can tell me the purpose of your visit."
For the sake of the 29,000 prisoners of war, Pelos felt that it was okay to suffer some injustice.
Jia Yun nodded and continued.
"I am here for two main purposes!"
"First, I want to ask you for a batch of grain!"
"My Ming Dynasty has captured too many prisoners in this battle and there is not enough food. You must be responsible for the food needed by those prisoners of war."
"If you cannot provide food to Ming Dynasty, then Ming Dynasty cannot guarantee how many prisoners of war will starve to death."
When Peros heard this, he gasped.
Twenty-nine thousand prisoners would require a large amount of food!
But he couldn't refuse, otherwise, he couldn't tell what Akito would do to those 29,000 prisoners of war.
If all the 29,000 prisoners of war starved to death because of his refusal, Pelos felt that he might be hanged on the gallows.
The stakes in this matter are too great, let alone him, even Governor Pizarro might not be able to handle it.
You can only compromise!
"Okay, this general agrees to this!"
But after Peros agreed to the matter, he still pretended to be calm and expressionless.
"What about the second purpose?"
When Jia Yun heard this, he knew that the other party was showing weakness, so he smiled and said.
"Then I'm here to discuss peace talks with you!"
"The New World is too big to allow Ming Dynasty and your country to develop it together, for the bright future of the New World, for the precious lives of those brave soldiers, and for the rare peace."
"I believe that you and I should put aside our disputes for the time being in order to jointly develop the New World."
"This is the choice that best suits the interests of both you and me!"