"What?"

"How is this possible?"

Karui and Castro stood up almost at the same time, both with expressions of surprise and disbelief on their faces.

Slowly, a mood called panic took over Karui's heart.

"Those Ming soldiers...... Those Ming troops are coming for me, and they are here to avenge those Ming merchants. ”

After muttering a few words, Caru suddenly took a few steps forward and grabbed Castro's hand and pleaded: "Colonel Castro, the Ming people are menacing, you must help me, I can't stop those Ming ** team with my strength alone!" ”

Castro shook off Karui's hand in disgust and said lightly: "Your Royal Highness Prince Karui, we will never be stingy to lend a helping hand to our friends, so please rest assured that we will keep our promises."

But the premise is that you have to fight for yourself, don't talk about us for those cowards who give up on themselves, even if God comes, he can't save him."

Looking at Castro's indifferent gaze, Karui's heart was cold. He naturally understands the other party's words, even if the Spaniards are willing to help him, it must be that he shows his strength, otherwise they will not help a waste in vain.

Now, Karui also knew that he had no way to retreat now, and could only follow the Spaniards to the dark.

Taking a deep breath, Karui yelled outside, "Come on, gather all the troops at once!" ”

"Woo woo woo ......"

A sharp conch sounded, and in the midst of a burst of chickens and dogs, a soldier with a weapon began to assemble in the city.

Castro arrived outside the palace with two officers, and just in time to see a soldier named Luzon coming from all directions, most of these soldiers were wearing light green shirts and large gray trousers, and straw sandals on their feet, if it were not for the various weapons in their hands, these soldiers would be no different from ordinary Luzon people.

What the...... Armor?

No kidding, in addition to some equipment of the elite army under the king, there are only more than a hundred sets of guards directly under Prince Karui, and ordinary soldiers don't even think about it.

An officer wearing the rank of captain walked up to Castro and frowned, "Colonel, these soldiers of Luzon are almost no different from ordinary civilians. Are you sure you want to rely on these people to wipe out the army of the Ming Kingdom, you also heard it just now, but they are all cavalry! ”

"No ......"

Castro shook his head.

"I don't need them to wipe out the Ming army, our task is to observe the Ming ** team at close range, assess their combat effectiveness, and report everything they see to President Fidel."

"You mean to let them fight with the Ming ** team, regardless of whether they live or die?" The captain's face showed a look of surprise, his own colonel had just sworn that he would fulfill his promise.

Castro squinted at the young captain beside him, "Mitchell, you're still too young. You have to remember that keeping promises is a virtue, but it can only be applied to civilized people, and to speak of virtue to uncivilized savages is to invite ridicule, you know? ”

The Captain opened his mouth to say something, but then closed his mouth, the Colonel was right, making promises to these uncivilized natives was like telling promises to cattle and sheep, and there was no point in anything other than to invite ridicule.

It took half an hour for Prince Karui to gather his army, looking at these dense troops standing in front of the palace, Prince Karui, who was originally a little weak in his heart, suddenly felt that the courage that had disappeared had returned to him.

He turned to Castro who was standing behind him and said, "Colonel Castro, I have gathered all the troops, although I dare not say that I can defeat those Ming ** teams, but I think it should not be much of a problem to stop them outside the walls of Apari." ”

The corners of Castro's mouth twitched, and he said with a smile: "I also look forward to His Royal Highness the Prince to surprise me." ”

"As you can see, this time I will personally lead the team to defend the city, and you can wait for my good news."

Prince Karui said with confidence, and then led his army to begin to defend the wall.

In order to defend Apari, Prince Karui also ordered that every family must send a strong man to the city wall to assist in the defense, and anyone who dared not to go was punished as collaborator.

When Wu Keshan led the Mongolian cavalry to Apari in the afternoon, he saw a Luzon soldier standing on the city wall, either holding a longbow or a spear, steel knife and other weapons, and was nervously looking at Wu Keshan and his party who had just arrived.

Slowly, 3,000 Mongol cavalry began to assemble outside the western gate of Aparhi, and one of the cavalrymen began to form a formation and stood five hundred meters away from the city wall.

"Smack......

With a crisp sound, Beninho's back was marked with a bright red mark.

A soldier with a leather whip yelled at Beninho: "Hurry up, you slacker...... Hurry up and get to work, if you don't get all these stones on the walls before dark, you won't have anything to eat at night!" ”

Looking at this fierce soldier, Benigno only felt a sense of grievance, he had fled to Apari with great difficulty, hoping to escape for his life, if only Prince Karui could give him a little more reward for his sake.

But fate always likes to play tricks on people, and after reporting the news, not only did he not receive the reward, but was driven by these soldiers to defend the city with these soldiers, which also made Beninho want to cry without tears.

Looking at the more and more Ming cavalry outside the city, Beninho felt a burst of despair, could he not escape the pursuit of those Ming people after all?

In a corner of the city wall, Captain Mitchell frowned slightly, "Mr. Colonel, something seems to be wrong. According to the information we have obtained, this Ming army from afar is subordinate to a Ming army known as Jiang Ninghou.

The army was well-armed, with heavy weapons and muskets, including twenty-four-pounder guns, but the army outside the city was all cold-armed. And the armor style on their bodies is also very different from the armor of the Ming ** team that we know, is the information we got wrong? ”

Castro was also a little confused, he shook his head and said: "It's too early to say this, let's observe for a while, you have to remember, if the fight breaks out later, if the situation is not right, we have to find a way to leave here this morning and report this to Governor Fidel." ”

"Understood!" Mitchell and the officer next to him nodded at the same time.

And at this moment, from the cavalry outside the city ran out a man dressed in Luzon costume, who ran to a distance of more than a hundred meters from the city wall and shouted: "Your Royal Highness Prince Karui, this army behind me is a descendant of the great Genghis Khan. Their general asked me to tell you, give you half an hour to surrender. If they don't surrender in half an hour, they will immediately attack the city, and then they will bloodied Apari without chickens and dogs! ”