Seeing that the Ming warships on the inner sea of the Taijiang River had been assembled and were heading towards the city of Relanja, Kui Yi's men became anxious and said to him: "Your Majesty the Governor, if our warships are really gone, just
Everyone is really going to die here!"
These people are all colonists. In other words, they are desperadoes who dream of getting rich. They actually have psychological expectations about death.
However, their psychological expectations of death were those of storms, illness, heroic battles, etc. They never thought that one day they would be in a desperate situation where they would be beaten by a superior enemy and completely unable to fight back.
Therefore, at this time, many people are actually afraid. In other words, even these desperadoes will be afraid when they really have to face death.
In the original history, Kui Yiyi was unwilling to surrender to Zheng Chenggong at first, because he believed that relying on the strength of the city of Relandia and hoping that Batavia would send reinforcements, he had hope of winning.
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However, once the war progressed to a later stage, Batavia's reinforcements could not be reinforced, and when Fort Uretchi was captured by Zheng Chenggong's men, he surrendered the next day.
At this moment, after hearing his men's words, Kui Yi's forehead was covered with sweat. He suddenly said to his men: "Quickly, find the list of supplies in the castle and send it to the Ming army. Tell them that if we are allowed to surrender, let us go."
Let’s leave and we can leave these supplies to them, otherwise they will get nothing!”
Not to mention, this time, after Zheng Zhibao saw the list of supplies in Relanzhe City, even if he followed Zheng Zhilong, he had never seen so many supplies. There were five thousand flintlock guns alone.
In addition, there were also a lot of artillery, gunpowder and other supplies, as well as sulfur, silver and other items shipped from the Japanese country. A rough estimate is that they are worth at least one hundred thousand taels of gold.
Originally, there were not so many supplies in the city of Relanje. It happened that the goods traded by the Dutch and Jianlu also arrived in the city of Relanje, so there were so many supplies.
When Supervisor Lu Jiude saw it, his eyes lit up, and he immediately made a decision and said: "Our family agrees to let them surrender. After handing over the supplies, we will let them go after confirming that there are so many!"
He had been silent all this time, so of course Zheng Zhibao listened to him.
Therefore, after the Dutch envoy went back to talk, the answer he gave was that he wanted the Ming Dynasty to send important hostages to ensure that the Ming Dynasty would not regret it after they handed over the supplies.
When Lu Jiude heard this, he immediately cursed: "You Westerners don't know etiquette and are capricious. What if we send important hostages and you don't surrender?"
After hearing this, Zheng Zhibao said directly to the Dutch envoy: "Whether I want to surrender or not, if you want to be tough, just see the real seal under your hands!"
After saying this, he drove away the Dutch envoy.
In the original history, when Kui Yi and Zheng Chenggong were negotiating, they also took hostages. When they left, the hostages were returned. However, the surrender was conditional. Zheng Chenggong suffered heavy losses and did not want to spend any more money. Basically
The emperor agreed to the Dutch's request, took everything away, and paid back the remaining items. In short, the Dutch withdrew from Dongfan in a more dignified manner.
Another reason is that when the Dutch were dealing with Ming people, they were deceived several times, or they failed to fulfill their agreements. For example, when they negotiated peace with Fujian Province, they said they wanted to open up trade, but they ignored them at all.
When Kuiyi heard the reply from his subordinates, he immediately hesitated. He was really afraid that if the Ming Dynasty turned against them and refused to recognize them, they would lose their lives and wealth.
The Ming army saw that the agreed time for reply had passed, but this time there was still no movement from the Dutch side, so they did not wait.
The fleet assembled and took advantage of the range of the artillery on the ship. Without having to worry about the aim, the bombardment started outside the range of the Dutch.
"Boom boom boom..."
The iron bullets whizzed towards the inner harbor of Relanja City, splashing huge waves, but the distance was a bit far after all, so if one of the ten shells could hit it, it would be good.
However, this momentum is a bit scary, and it is foreseeable that if the fight continues like this, the ships parked in the inner harbor will definitely be destroyed.
On the Uratchi Fort side, the Ming army also began shelling the city of Relandje.
Taking advantage of the geographical advantage, iron bullets were dropped condescendingly into the city of Geranje, posing a greater threat to the Dutch.
"Boom boom boom..."
After less than a quarter of an hour of bombardment, a white flag was raised inside the city of Geranje, and the Dutch surrendered.
About half a day later, under the surveillance of the Ming army, the Dutch lined up and surrendered out of the city with weapons in hand. The gates of the city of Relanja were also opened wide, allowing the Ming army soldiers to enter and control the entire castle.
Looking at the Dutch men and women outside the city, Lu Jiude was in a very good mood. The alliance between the Dutch Empire and the Jianlu Empire sounded very powerful at first, but in the end it surrendered without a fight. After only two days of fighting, they surrendered.
Yes!
Kui Yi took the command knife and led his men, under the supervision of the Ming army officers and soldiers, to the Ming army commander's side to surrender.
"Your Ming Dynasty is a kingdom of heaven and a country of etiquette. I hope you will abide by the agreement and let us go!" Kui Yi asked helplessly.
After hearing what the translator conveyed, Zheng Zhibao turned to look at Lu Jiude. He had no control over this matter.
After hearing this, Lu Jiude turned his back again and sneered: "The others can be let go, but you officials must stay and be taken to the capital for trial!"
"Why?" When Kui Yi and his men heard this, they were immediately shocked. The thing they were most worried about happened, and they immediately asked, "Are you Ming people so dishonest? Are you still in heaven?"
After hearing this, Lu Jiude was not ashamed at all. He just sneered and asked: "We made a promise at that time, but you didn't agree. Why don't we keep our promises?"
"..." When Kui Yi and others heard this, they were immediately dumbfounded.
If you really want to say that, it seems to be true!
But... but...
Of course Kui Yi and others could not agree, so they argued: "You came to attack us in this war. If you say this is your place, I... we don't know. Since you want it, I will give it back to you."
, why do you still need to take us to trial? What kind of logic is this?"
To be honest, when he said this, he actually didn't agree with it. He felt that Dongfan was the territory of the Dutch. But now that the situation was stronger than others and their fists were big, he had no choice but to admit it. However,
To be honest, he found it impossible to understand and accept the fact that they had to be taken to trial.
Seeing that he had softened, Lu Jiude immediately sneered and reminded: "Have you forgotten that you have rebelled against me and coveted my Ming Dynasty? Such things are also crimes committed by the imperial court, and you will naturally be escorted to the capital for trial.
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"..." Kui Yiyi was a little dumbfounded when he heard this. He had forgotten this before.
If this kind of thing is true, there is really no going back, so he quickly argued: "No, no, no, we are not allied with the Qing Empire, we are just doing business with them. Really, it's just business. .”
At this point, when he saw Zheng Zhibao, he immediately thought of something and said quickly: "The Zheng family also does business with the Japanese and the Qing Empire, isn't it okay? We are just doing business with them, we really don't covet them. The meaning of the Ming Dynasty."
As soon as Zheng Zhibao heard this, he started to sweat.
No one here knew that Zheng Zhilong was undercover as an undercover agent. No one here knew about doing business with Jianlu, but doing business with Japan was a well-known thing.
These Dutch people are really bad. They want to drag the Zheng family into trouble. Damn it!
Fortunately, Lu Jiude was originally the eunuch guarding Nanjing and was considered one of Emperor Chongzhen's confidants. As a eunuch, one of his basic skills is to figure out the current emperor's intentions.
Previously, the emperor suddenly changed into a different person, which caught Lu Jiude off guard, and he was almost always out of sight of the current emperor.
The rectification of local affairs in Nanjing also shocked Lu Jiude. Therefore, he stepped up his analysis of what the emperor had done in the past few years and kept guessing the emperor's thoughts.
At this time, although he didn't know Zheng Zhilong's true situation, he was actually doing what he wanted from the emperor. However, he could guess that the emperor probably didn't mind, otherwise he wouldn't have allowed everyone in the Zheng family to hold such important official positions. .
Whether it is Zheng Zhilong's Denglai Navy Commander-in-Chief, Zheng Zhibao's Expeditionary Force Commander-in-Chief, or Zheng Sen's Jinyiwei Commander-in-Chief, they must be trusted by the emperor.
As for the affairs of the Zheng family, would the emperor not know about it? Obviously impossible!
Thinking like this, he glanced at Zheng Zhibao and saw that he was sweating, so he turned his head and said lightly: "How can you Western Yi people compare with the Zheng family? This time our Ming Dynasty expedition to Luzon, long live your Majesty By ordering Marshal Zheng, you are trusting him. Don’t sow discord here, lest you get punished!"
When Zheng Zhibao heard this, it seemed that it was really the case. He couldn't help but wipe his sweat secretly, and at the same time looked at Lu Jiude, feeling very grateful in his heart.
Before, he actually had no affection for this eunuch. In other words, no matter whether he was a civil servant or a military general, he would not have a good impression of the eunuch. But this time, his idea changed.
When Kui heard what Lu Jiude said, he was dumbfounded and stammered: "What? You... you are not here to attack my city of Relanzhe. In fact... you are actually going to attack Luzon?"
"That's right!" Lu Jiude listened and said calmly, "The Spaniards in Luzon massacred our Ming people several times. Lord Long Live was so angry that he sent us to form an expeditionary force to attack the Western Barbarians in Luzon. They will definitely regret it!"
Of course Kuiyi had heard about the massacre of the Ming people by the Spaniards in Luzon, but he also heard that the Spaniards in Luzon had been fine. Unexpectedly, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty actually sent a large army.
But... But, what does it mean to attack my city of Relanja? This is simply an unnecessary disaster?