Chapter 757
Li Mingda ordered not to attack, and then sent two sampans to check the people on the boat, and then took them to his flagship.
After Maier expressed his purpose and translated it into Chinese by the translator, Li Mingda calmly said, "You have no choice but to surrender unconditionally, and have no other choice. Our Tiance Army has always been compassionate and never kills prisoners, which can guarantee your lives. But for the stubborn enemy, we have always completely eliminated them. Like Debaoer, I can give you two incense sticks of time to consider, and I hope you can think clearly about how to make a decision."
As he said that, Li Mingda asked someone to bring a wooden box and hand it to Mail, saying, "Also, bring this to Putmans, this is my gift to him!"
Maire did not continue to argue. He could not decide whether to agree or not, and he could see that Li Mingda looked indifferent, as if killing them was as easy as killing an ants, which meant that he was very confident.
So Miel took the box directly and returned to the flagship on a small boat.
"Governor General, I'm sorry I was unable to complete the mission! The commander of the Ming people said that we only have one way to surrender unconditionally. They only give us two incense sticks of time to consider, as long as the businessman's time."
“What if we disagree?”
"He didn't say it, but I gave you this!" As he said that, Miel handed the box to Putmans.
Putmans took the box and he had a premonition that what was inside the box was, and when people opened it, they guessed it right, it was Debao's head, and his eyes were still open.
There is no doubt that the Ming people were warning themselves that they gave Debaoer two incense sticks of time to consider. Debaoer chose to resist, and now his head was in this box.
Now I have given myself two incense sticks of time to consider. If I do not agree to surrender unconditionally, my mind will be the same as Debaoer.
After thinking for a moment, Putmans closed his eyes and said calmly, "Send the order and give up resistance, we surrender to the Ming people!"
Maier was still a little hesitant, "Governor, have we really given up like that?"
"Yes, what else can we do besides giving up? Since these Ming people have the confidence to go to war with us and Zheng Zhilong at the same time, it means that they are fully prepared and will not let us leave easily. And you have also seen their artillery. Although the caliber is not as large as ours, the accuracy is much higher. Now we have severely reduced staff, all warships are scarred, and the city of Rhelanzha has been captured again, and we cannot escape Batavia at all!"
Afterwards, Maier took a boat again to Li Mingda and expressed that they were willing to surrender unconditionally to the Tiance army.
Li Mingda was also very happy about this result. Even if these ships were scarred, they could still be used after repairing them. What a pity that it would be a sank.
Then, Maire returned to the fleet with Li Mingda's request.
According to Li Mingda's request, all the artillery of the four Dutch warships were retracted back to the cabin, all the gun windows were closed, all the sails were lowered, and anchored and fixed. All the sailors and sailors went to the deck to concentrate, waiting for the Tiance Army to receive them.
Then the Tince Navy sent four sand ships, and the commando soldiers along with the ship boarded the four Dutch warships, controlled the Dutch soldiers, completed control of the four warships, and then drove the four warships to the port.
After docking, the Dutch soldiers on the boat were escorted to the shore at one time and were concentrated.
According to the count, the number of people on these four Dutch warships, including soldiers and officers, was only 545, less than half of the normal number. The Wenden rank of the Tiance Army was about the same tonnage as the four warships, and the number of soldiers in one warship was as high as 300. The loss of personnel from the Dutch fleet was enough to see how fierce the fierce battle was at that time.
From Putmans, Li Mingda and others also learned about the battle in the Luowan and felt relieved. Of course, Li Mingda admired Putmans, a capable man who could escape from his general, so he gave him some preferential treatment and waited for Kong Youde's arrangements.
After dealing with the issue of the Dutch fleet, Li Mingda, He Xing and Guo Huaiyi began to discuss the next combat deployment.
Now that the city of Gerlandzha has been captured, all the Dutch fugitives have been captured, and the city of Gerlandzha is located on the sandbank, so there is no need to worry about the indigenous attack for the time being. It can be said that there is no major war anymore.
According to the negotiation results, Li Mingda's Fourth Fleet and the three battalions of the army led by He Xing continued to stay in Relanzha City and intercept all ships passing by the sea, no matter which force it was.
At the same time, they will also carry out preliminary restoration work on four Dutch warships and Jelancha City, and conduct preliminary investigations on the situation in Dongfan Island, especially the Spanish in the north, laying the foundation for future expansion.
Guo Huaiyi, along with the Fifth Fleet and three medium-sized Garen ships captured by the port, rushed to the Liaoluo Bay waters and took down the Penghu Islands.
At the same time, Kong Youde's general attack on Zhong Zuo Suo has just begun.
Yesterday afternoon, Putmans fled to Relanzha City with four warships, and Liu Xiang also ran away with the pirate ship. Han Song took four warships to chase Liu Xiang. Kong Youde also freed up his hands and stopped dealing with Zheng Zhilong.
Zheng Zhilong is not a fool. This group of enemies even beat Red Hair and pursue Liu Xiang relentlessly. Their identity is naturally about to emerge and they will never let him go easily, but the problem is that he can't beat him at all now.
Even though there were seventy or eighty warships in his hand, from the early morning battle to the present, not only did he suffer a lot of losses, but the soldiers and sailors were exhausted. The enemy had just joined the battle and defeated the fleet led by his third brother Zheng Zhibao. They were all energetic and highly motivated.
To deal with Putmans, they were almost defeated by more than 100 fire ships, successfully burning two Dutch warships and burning the other two. At the same time, their formations were divided so that they could defeat them one by one.
Now there is no fire ship at hand, and there is no need to fight against the Tiance Army, which has more warships and more powerful firepower.
So, Zheng Zhilong did not hesitate at all and ran away.
There are three red-haired warships in the east, those pirate ships of Li Guozhu, and some of the warships of their Zheng family and the Fujian Navy. Kong Youde can't have all used them to chase him.
However, his idea was good, but the actual situation was beyond expectations.
Kong Youde took all the warships to kill him without any hesitation. At this time, Zheng Zhilong's mood was the same as Liu Xiang. Did I play with your daughter or sleep with your mother? I didn't chase her but didn't chase her, but I just wanted to chase her.
However, when he was about to escape to Zhaishan, he looked back and found that a huge fleet appeared near the Liaoluotou. The leader was one big, two small, and three plywood ships, followed by dozens of lucky ships, sand ships, and broad ships.
After these warships appeared, they decisively launched an attack on three large red-haired plywoods and Li Guozhu's pirate ships.
Zheng Zhilong understood, no wonder the Tiance Army was so arrogant. It turned out that there was a subsequent fleet. He even suspected that Putmans would not have too little ending, and he might be intercepted halfway.
But these are not what he should worry about. What he needs to worry about is how to safely arrive at Zhongzuo under the pursuit of eleven large plywoods of the enemy.
As for the waters near Liuluoto, these newly emerging warships were of course the subsequent fleet led by Zhang Hua. In order to pretend to be Dutch reinforcements, Kong Youde brought the Garen ships of the First and Third Fleets, the other warships under the two fleets, and the entire Second Fleet, were all in the hands of Zhang Hua.
They have been following the first echelon for more than twenty miles, so they have arrived at the battlefield now.
I have to say that Kong Youde's arrangement is still very wise, and the opportunity for the second echelon to appear is also very good.
At this time, Koenice and Li Guozhu had just taken over the remnants of Wang Shangzhong and Zheng Zhibao with the momentum brought by the "reinforcement" and Zheng Zhibao, and were ready to bring the captured warships to join the "reinforcement" and Putmans, and wipe out Zheng Zhilong's army and avenge him. However, they found that the "reinforcement" suddenly launched an attack on Putmans, and the latter also sent a flag verb saying that this "reinforcement" was pretended by the enemy, so that he could retreat quickly and not fight.
Koenis was also in shock. No wonder these "reinforcements" looked wrong and did not reply to their own flag words. It turned out that they were not their own people at all. If they had turned around and attacked him after defeating Zheng Zhibao before, their three damaged warships would definitely be easily killed by the enemy.
Therefore, under his command, the fleet that was originally traveling west turned around and turned southeast.
Although he was far away from the fleet led by Kong Youde, he plunged into Zhang Hua's arms. Zhang Hua naturally led dozens of warships to pounce on him without saying a word.
Zhang Hua was not even too lazy to fight artillery battles. Anyway, the distance was so close, and going up was just a gang fight. This was not only the strong demands of the boys from the commando team, but also in line with the current battlefield situation.
Then, the commandos who were already ready to jump onto three Dutch warships, Li Guozhu's pirate ships, and those warships they captured.
This hand-to-hand combat is too easy for the commandos. Half of them have practical experience. Even if they don’t have it, they have been trained for at least half a year and are very skilled in jumping gang battles. Moreover, the cooperation between the groups is quite tacit, and they can quickly gain a foothold after jumping onto the enemy ship.
The enemy had already experienced hand-to-hand combat with the Ming army and Zheng army, and the number of personnel was severely reduced. Now there were many prisoners of warships, and the guards were distributed a lot. Seeing the Tiance army jumping to deal with them, some of the imprisoned prisoners also took the opportunity to resist and stabbed them from behind.
This time Kong Youde led six battalions of commando teams, one battalion followed Li Mingda to Relanzha City, the other battalion was on Kong Youde's own side, the two battalions were in Bai Yunlong's hands, and the rest was all in Zhang Hua.
The commando of 4,000 people, and the pirates and the Dutch, were not enough for 2,000. They were all exhausted after the war, and many of them were even injured. There was no suspense in this gang jump battle.
The selected sharpshooters were arranged on the watchtower to snipe the enemy's musket soldiers and cover the comrades in the Jump Gang.
Whether it is the Ming army, Zheng army, pirates or Dutch, as long as they dare to resist, they will be killed, while those who surrender will be temporarily tied up and concentrated on the deck, and several soldiers will be assigned to guard them.
As time went by, enemy ships were controlled by the commandos, especially after the three Dutch warships were occupied by the commandos, the remaining pirate ships also lost the courage to resist. After all, they had always relied on the Dutch, and the Dutch were defeated. How could they beat the enemy?
Subsequently, pirate ships continued to choose to surrender, and according to the command of the commando soldiers, they concentrated on the deck and waited for disposal.
In this way, in less than two incense sticks, the battle of jumping gangs was coming to an end. In addition to sporadic gunshots, all the warships on the sea of Liuluo Bay fell into the control of the Tiance Army.
Kong Youde ate about twenty warships of Zheng Zhilong and retreated.
It’s not that he didn’t want to kill Zheng Zhilong in one go, but that he couldn’t do it. Zheng Zhilong and the others had already fled into the inland sea, and the waters in the inland sea were relatively complicated. The Tiance army was just a new arrival and the intelligence personnel were unable to obtain the hydrological situation, so they were passive.
After a Weihai-class ship almost sank, Kong Youde ordered a retreat to avoid more similar accidents and unnecessary losses.
Anyway, Zheng Zhilong was blocking the seaways on both sides of Kinmen Island, so it would be too late to get rid of them.
However, Kong Youde still planned to surrender Zheng Zhilong, the sea dragon.
Regardless of whether he was willing to surrender, the Tiance Army would be the only overlord in the Ming Dynasty. After the small fish and shrimp were completely cleared out, the Tiance Navy's combat center began to turn to the South China Sea to deal with the Spaniards, Dutch, and British.
Zheng Zhilong had the ability to climb from a sailor at the bottom to a hegemon in just over ten years. He naturally had the ability. Moreover, he was more clear about the Dutch and the Western forces entering the South China Sea, and was more familiar with the sea area. If he could take it to his own use, it would be better.
There is not much hatred between the two sides. Unlike Liu Xiang, who fought for several years, the success rate of recruitment is indeed quite high.
The Tiance Army's surrender was also very conflicted for Zheng Zhilong. On the one hand, he really couldn't defeat the Tiance Army. If he hadn't fought with the Red Maiden first, he might have the power to fight, but the Tiance Army suddenly came out while they were in full swing.
On the other hand, he was not very happy to surrender to the Tiance Army. After all, he was also ambitious. How could a person who could become a overlord in one area be willing to surrender?
Chapter completed!