Chapter 266: Siege
When a powerful alien invades a region, all the weaker powers in the area, out of jealousy of the powerful power that overrides them, immediately clings to the invading alien. Machiavelli's Monarch
The little interpreter looked bad, wanted to speak and stopped, didn't know how to speak, hesitated for a while, Li Xiangqian looked at it, and said, "Just say it." ”
"Yes, my lord, this red-haired thief said that we are unreasonable, and wants us to follow the rules and take us to meet the British, which is really funny, how can we have any British."
It seems that although the Anglo-Dutch war has not yet begun to really fight fiercely, it will be six years later, but even a small soldier has a deep hostility towards each other, which is also very easy to understand, cutting off people's money is like killing a mother, when your boss keeps telling you that because of someone, this year's salary is halved, and the bonus is not that kind of moment, not to mention beating someone, directly killing that person's heart.
As two pirate nations and leaders of the Age of Navigation, in the era of sea power, they collided fiercely with each other, and they drove each other's latest ships to fight a war that determined the fate of the human world.
Both sides have their own advantages in this kind of war, but the British rely on geographical advantages to gradually blockade the Dutch in the North Sea, and then little by little to shatter the hope of victory for the Dutch, and at the same time the Dutch themselves are not in tune, and the financial speculation of tulip fanaticism can appear, so to speak, looking for their own death.
However, in this day and age, the Dutch still have some advantages.
The British are making a revolution, although this revolution does not hurt their vitality, in fact, they have directly turned this capitalist tiger into an imperialist tiger, and they have really started the road of foreign aggression.
On the contrary, the Dutch at this time lost the goal of their own struggle, and it is no wonder that at this time, the Europeans colonized the whole world in a **, no one knew who the final winner was, they were all buried in development, and occasionally drank competitors to fight, and the Dutch paid too much attention to the Spaniards who had deep roots and occupied the fertile land of South America.
No one has an eye on the front and back, and no one knows that the British will win the final victory in the future, so the Dutch made the right choice, but at this time, even the intestines of the domestic fight are about to be beaten, but the British East India Company is like a vicious dog, relying on India to grab a lot of business with the Dutch.
This is the doctrine of the superiority of capitalism.
That is, even if there is chaos in the country, foreign robbery will not stop, and whether this system is good or not is a matter of opinion.
Li Xiangqian generally understood this, smiled, and said: "You tell him that there are no British here, this is the army of the Celestial Empire, and you can not die if you surrender." ”
There are no Geneva Conventions in this era, but due to the frequent wars of Europeans, and although there are fights between countries, there are not a few intermarriages between royal families, so there are not many things that really kill prisoners.
Although the Dutchman was surprised that the man with a powerful weapon in front of him was not an Englishman, he had an Oriental who could communicate, and he was barely dressed as a civilized person, and at this time the Europeans had not yet reached the afterlife, and there were countless experts who could argue the white-skinned superiority theory and the like, thinking that the destiny of heaven was clear, but in fact it was beginning to be finished.
They are the best robbers, it should be said that it is a typical example of the nationalization of the bandit group, although he was captured at this time, but he was very arrogant, he had heard countless rumors of barbarians, but he had a big ship and cannon on his own side, and he was naturally not afraid, however, it seemed that the other party's musket was a little different, Andrei thought of the nest that had just been shot, and looked at these people who seemed to have nothing vicious, so he became bold, and reached out to touch the gun.
This is naturally pushed away.
With a few pushes and scolding, Li Xiangqian asked, "What's the matter with him?" ”
"Back to my lord, this foreigner said that he wanted to see our firearms, and said that if we didn't have such a gun, there would definitely be nothing we could do about them."
"Huh."
Li glanced forward and said dissatisfiedly: "Is the guy in your hand a burning stick, he can't beat anyone." ”
"Yes, yes, beat someone, beat him to death!"
After getting the order, these men from the Zheng family were not ambiguous, and Ding Ling immediately began to beat up the Dutchman.
The spirit of the army.
Li Xiangqian shook his head, this bright sword spirit is not something that can be shaped in a day or two, the person sent by Zheng Zhilong may not be bad at fighting and fighting, but he is definitely a slave among slaves, and the thugs raised by the Zheng family can be said to be so numb that they will only obey the orders of the Zheng family to do evil.
However, to maintain subjective initiative, there is a gap, the reason why this Dutch is so bold, in fact, is also to test the bottom line of himself and others, to see how they will treat him, if he does not dare to do it, then he must be a little bit of a groping bottom line, these guys, all learn bad and good.
Emperor Taizu said that if you fight with one punch, lest you come with a hundred punches, this is simply the most perfect truth in the world, any attempt in human history to "generate electricity with love", to influence the enemy with love, to make the world so beautiful, but in the end, basically will go into the grave of history, and the final victor, such as who can organize the armed forces better, who can ignore morality to absorb the wealth of other nations, who can become the last support in the world.
Li Xiangqian can arm the soldiers of the Celestial Empire with the most perfect munitions, but he can't arm their brains, this is a difficult thing, wolf nature, or offense, this is not a task that can be achieved by spending money or getting people, like those, recruitment training can be achieved.
You have to train from a young age.
Just as Qi Jiguang favors Yiwu soldiers the most, especially the miners in Yiwu, it is that they are hard-working, disciplined, and coordinated with each other, these qualities may not be cared about in the classical era, but when it comes to the moment of industrialization and firearms, it is absolutely the most important.
In terms of the dog-legged style of beating people, the younger brother of Zheng Zhilong's faction is also majestic enough, Andre's nose and face are swollen after only a few hits, Li Xiangqian doesn't care about this goods, the situation in Relan Shacheng has already been figured out, and it is also expected that he can react, his mind is no longer in the military, but regrets that the people sent by Zheng Zhilong lack the subjective initiative he wants to see.
In ancient times, it was definitely not a nonsense, there was a lack of common teaching materials, a lack of specialized training departments, and there were absolutely very few qualified military generals, and in fact, in the ordinary army, the backbone officers at the bottom were more important than the generals, and with excellent backbone non-commissioned officers, then the army had a soul, and without excellent non-commissioned officers, those were almost a loose sand piled up with money.
For Li Xiangqian, this is not difficult to understand, he looked at Andre who was beaten, and he didn't care too much in his heart, just like taming beasts, in the Spring and Autumn Period of China, there were special fierce people who went to the wild to catch wild wolves and other fierce beasts, but did not kill, but beat them, so that they completely remembered the ferocity of human beings, and then released them into the wolf pack, so many times, those wolves completely remembered how fierce human beings are.
The problem of the Chinese to the outside world lies in this, it is too good for the wicked, too bad for the good, and once provoked, it is to directly destroy the wicked, but for outsiders, they cannot notice how ruthless the Chinese are, or continue to provoke.
The right thing to do is to teach the enemy a lesson that is deep to the bones, so that they will be so painful that they will dream of your hideous face, and they will pee their pants when they hear your voice.
Circus animal trainers, as soon as they pick up the whip, those lions and tigers are afraid, why? Because when the lion and tiger were very young, they began to use the whip violently, and in the memory of childhood, the whip in the hands of humans is simply the most terrifying existence in the world, and they naturally forget that they actually have the most powerful body and can eat the weak humans in front of them.
The Chinese are this lion.
But now, it seems that it is too late to redeem everything.
"Okay, according to the original plan, besiege the city, and call me."
Zheng Zhilong can be regarded as having made a capital this time, and secretly moved his younger brother to the outside of Gelansha City in advance by smuggling away, and after buying some locals with money in advance, both food and materials were prepared, although all kinds of things were primitive, but enough.
Li Xiangqian sat on a rattan chair, but did not lie down without an image, but looked down at the map, and said: "Okay, the next thing is to surround the city first, the range of the cannons in the city of Gelansha is less than 800 meters, so prepare it 1000 meters away, as for the farther away, there is no need to care." ”
"Hey, hey, hey."
Hundreds of people came over with a tall wooden shelf, which was at least twenty meters high, and it was difficult to hide it well, so it was being pushed over little by little.
Li glanced forward, and several of the special marksmen who had followed him from the north nodded and began to climb upward, because the distance had been calculated in advance, the single-shot rifles in their hands could suppress the city of Geranza.
"Only the gunners, not the gunners."
This is Li Xiangqian's rule.
The first one was completely frightened and confused.
The fear lies in the fact that the squad around the most brave one of the usually fighting and killing was beaten back in less than ten minutes, and only a few people came back, they said that the muskets in the hands of the natives were stronger than them, and they laughed at first, but one person desperately dragged the corpse of his relative back, only to find that the wound was simply a direct dismemberment of the body, and the bouncing damage caused by the round-headed bullet was not comparable to the sand of this era.
But the doubts are not anything else, in this era, the Dutch, the sea coachman, is in full swing, although there is also competition from the British, Portuguese, and Spaniards, but they are already very comfortable and complacent.
For them, this comfort actually cost the Dutch their lives, and made them depressed, but in this Asian land, the Dutch are absolutely an unstoppable force, relying on the business of Japan and the output of the New World, and the nearby countries dare to attack them when they eat too much?
If nothing else, this Geranza is the most important transit point for trade with Japan, and once it is defeated, the company will not easily stop revenge.
With a blushing face, he said, "Gather everyone, the men in the city, whether soldiers or merchants, are armed, and there is an enemy coming!" ”
This order was not executed well, and after waiting for a while, he found that something was wrong: "What? They refuse? ”
"Yes."
"Take me to see what's going on."
He found that there were businessmen in the past, all of whom were blushing and refused to transfer their sailors to obey him, but he had the ability to confront him.
"Why did you refuse the company's orders?"
He has been a high-ranking businessman and the director of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, but he is really not a weak governor.
"Mr. Governor, we are not from the East India Company, and we have heard that it is because of the brutal rule of your men that the local natives rebelled, and as a result, you have conscripted us hard-working merchants as cannon fodder, and I protest against this behavior."
"Don't you know that the enemy is a team with powerful firearms, and our people can't hold their heads up when they are beaten, and you are still here to take care of yourself?" ”
"Haha, the joke isn't funny. How could the natives have muskets......"
As soon as the words fell, there was a buzzing sound in the distance, these people have been running the sea all year round, and they have shot not a thousand but a hundred, and they are angry: "Who gave the order to open the cannon!" ”
The cannon of this era belongs to the pit dad of the pit dads, after firing the first cannon, it is necessary to slowly clean up the gunpowder slag, and wait until the gun chamber is cooled before the second cannon can be fired, which is not so easy, so the cannon needs to go through a lot of commanders, which is why the fleet that expresses peace, before entering the port, must fire the cannon to show that it is harmless.
But the next moment, they noticed that the cannon was coming towards the city!
"Boom!"
The sound of the explosion stunned everyone, but immediately thought of something, enemy attack, powerful enemy!
"How did you become a governor like you, transported outside the city by such a cannon, and you didn't even know such an enemy?"
"Hey, that's a good fight."
This time, all kinds of technical troops, basically all of them were trained in the Kailuan military camp, although it is very troublesome for mortars to calculate the trajectory, but after all, after knowing the way, they can practice slowly, for the elders, for mortars, something that cannot endanger their rule, it is not a bad thing to export some.
A few shells kept smashing into the city of Geranza, but Li Xiangqian looked disappointed, this accuracy can be said to be boundless, basically hit in not very important places, I believe that it will be almost a few months to wait until the city wall is opened by mortars.