As soon as it was dark, Sonord awoke, and he pulled the rope at the head of the bed, and there was a crisp bell outside the door, and soon two maids came in and waited for him to dress and wash, and when he had finished washing, he hurriedly ate the breakfast brought by the maid and went up to the wall with a few guards.

It's just that when he just boarded the wall of Half Moon Castle, he was stunned by the scene in front of him, only to see that dozens of earthen platforms more than one meter high appeared about a mile away from them, and many people around the earthen platform were trying to pile up soil towards the earthen platform, and those earthen platforms were slowly increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A frightened Sonord dragged a soldier next to him and asked, "What the hell is going on, when did it start?" ”

The soldier said with some distraction: "Your Excellency, as soon as the day dawned, these Ming people began to fill in the earth outside the city wall, and it has been almost more than an hour now. ”

"More than an hour?" Sonod's heart sank, and then he asked angrily: "What about your chief, call your commander immediately!" ”

Soon, an officer trotted up to him, and before the officer could speak, Sonord asked angrily: "Second lieutenant, you are the commander of this section of the city wall, why don't you report to me when the Ming people fill in the soil here?" ”

The second lieutenant saw Sonod, who looked unhappy, and hurriedly said: "Your Excellency Governor, it was not dawn when the Ming people filled in the soil, and besides, I didn't know what the Ming people wanted to do at that time, so I didn't dare to disturb your rest. ”

"You...... All right. ”

Sonord couldn't help but be dumbfounded, what the second lieutenant said was not unreasonable, the situation on the battlefield is ever-changing, anything can happen, everything must be reported to him, Sonord simply don't sleep, stay on the city wall for 24 hours.

"Your Excellency the Governor, what happened?" At this time, Onkos also arrived.

Sonord pointed ahead and said angrily, "See for yourself." ”

Ankos couldn't help but be slightly surprised when he saw it: "Huh...... They actually filled in the soil to make an earthen platform? ”

Then there was a hint of panic on Angos' face, "It's not good, the Ming people are building a fort, we are in trouble."

Sonord glanced at Onkos with some surprise, it seemed that his adjutant's sensitivity to the battlefield had grown.

"Now that you know what the other party is going to do, do you have any good ideas?"

After thinking for a while, Angos shook his head and said, "Not for the time being, but I think we can let our artillery conduct a round of test firing on them and see how the other party reacts." ”

"That's a good idea." Sonod agreed to Oncos's suggestion: "You go and deliver my order, and the artillery on the two castles No. 1 and No. 2 will carry out a round of exploratory shelling of the Ming people's earthen platform." ”

"Understood!"

As soon as Onkos turned to leave, a second lieutenant next to him pointed ahead and shouted: "Your Excellency the Governor, someone from the Ming people is here!" ”

The Ming army did send someone, and it was a businessman who traveled between the Ming Dynasty and Taiwan all the year round.

The merchant who had been pressed up the city wall by two guards and came to Sonod bowed slightly to Sonod and said to Sonod in a somewhat rusty Dutch language: "Your Excellency the Governor, I have brought greetings to you from the Marquis of Jiangning of the Ming Kingdom, and I have sent you a letter from him!" ”

Sonod didn't take the letter, but looked at the other party with a calm face for a while before saying: "I know you, you used to travel back and forth between Geranza City, Bon Port and Ming Kingdom, you should have made a lot of money from us, but I didn't expect that now you have become a lobbyist for the Ming army, no wonder people often say that Chinese people are the most ungrateful." ”

In the face of Sonord's ridicule, the merchant did not have any unusual expression, but smiled faintly: "It's an honor that you can still remember me, I do often go back and forth between the city of Geranza and the Great Ming, but I don't think it has anything to do with me coming to deliver letters."

I'm just making what I'm supposed to be earning, and it has nothing to do with your 'bounty'. ”

"You are presumptuous!"

Ankos on the side was furious, and with a "poof" sound, he pulled out the short hammer on his waist and pointed at him and shouted: "You lowly yellow-skinned monkey, you don't know how to be grateful, and you dare to question our governor, believe it or not, I killed you here." ”

"Humble yellow-skinned monkey?"

Facing the muzzle of the black hole, the merchant's face turned slightly pale, but then he sneered: "If I remember correctly, you should be the lieutenant of His Excellency the Governor, as a soldier, you should not point the muzzle of the gun at the unarmed merchant, but at your enemy on the battlefield."

And I think if you really have the courage, why didn't you say this sentence to our Hou Ye in the Ming prisoner of war camp. ”

"Damn yellow-skinned monkey, I'll kill you!"

Ankos was furious, the experience of being captured by the Fujian sailors was the most humiliating stain in his life, and now it was said to the face by a merchant of the Ming Kingdom, which was no less than being slapped in the face.

In a fit of rage, he pulled the hammer on the short gun with his thumb, and then pressed his index finger on the trigger, looking ready to pull the trigger at any moment.

The merchant sneered: "I have to tell you, before I came, Lord Hou promised me that if I was killed by you, then after he captured the city of Geranza, he would kill a hundred people from the survivors of the city to bury me, if you really don't care about the lives of your compatriots, it would be better for you to shoot." ”

Ankos turned red with anger, "You ......"

"Enough!" Sonod on the side said lightly, "Oncos, we are a civilized person, this is the minimum etiquette that we will not kill the other party's envoy, do you still need me to teach you?" Well, merchant from the Ming Kingdom, you don't have to try to provoke my adjutant any more, hurry up and hand me the letter from His Excellency the Marquis. ”

"Of course!"

The merchant who had escaped death was a little glad in his heart, and at the same time took out the letter from his bosom and handed it to Sonord.

Sonod took the letter and read it at a glance, and then said to the merchant: "You go back and tell your marquis, let him die that heart, we will not surrender, and it is not impossible to take the city of Geranza, then let him use the corpses of the soldiers of the Ming Kingdom to pave the road to the city of Geranza!" ”

In the face of Sonord's refusal, the merchant was not disappointed, but continued: "Your Excellency the Governor, our lord said it. Your fleet has been completely annihilated, and you will not have any reinforcements for at least half a year, and if you resist stubbornly, you will only be self-defeating.

If you surrender now, he guarantees the safety of your life and that of these soldiers, and will give you the same treatment as your position! ”

"No need!" Sonod replied without thinking: "I would rather die here than surrender to the Ming people!" ”