The ball continued, the band played cheerful music, and the well-dressed officers and the dozens of businessmen who had been invited were either cuddling their dance partners and eating tofu, whispering or even laughing, as if they had long forgotten the threat from outside the city.

But no one knew that their Governor had disappeared without a trace, and with him was the dancing partner, who did not reappear on the lawn until more than twenty minutes later.

Seeing Field's reappearance, Mitchell, who didn't speak and just drank with his head down, showed a smile on the corner of his mouth.

He could see that His Excellency the Governor, who still looked dignified, still had half an unwiped lip print on his neck, and that the face of the lady who had taken his arm was full of smiles that could not be concealed.

"Is this a promise from the Governor?" Mitchell had no malice in his heart, and he looked around again, and saw that the lady's merchant husband did not seem to see all this, but talked and laughed with a young lady next to him, and made the young lady who was not deeply involved in the world laugh from time to time.

"Tut-tut......"

Mitchell shook his head, and couldn't help but smile bitterly and said to a lieutenant next to him: "Dougla, I didn't understand why people like us could only be junior officers, but now I finally understand. The thinking of those big people is something we will never understand. ”

"Why do you want to figure it out?" The lieutenant named Dougla said nonchalantly: "I remember that you and I came together, and the service period will be more than four months away, and when the service period is over, I will retire and return home."

I calculated that I would receive at least three hundred Doblonns in retirement money, and when I returned to my hometown, I would use the money to buy a small dhow, take my brother with me, marry my dear Ephrly, and have a few children, and I will have no regrets in my life. ”

Mitchell hit mercilessly: "Come on, you better think about how to drive away the Ming army outside the city first, otherwise let alone marry your Avrey, you won't even get a retirement pension!" And your childhood sweetheart neighbor can only marry someone else. ”

"Oh my God, Mitchell, can't you say something nice, such a happy day, and you just say such a bad thing." Douglas was a little upset, and no one liked to hear such unlucky words.

"I'm just telling the truth." Mitchell shrugged his shoulders, "Since you don't want to hear it, I'd better drink my wine." ”

With that, he walked over to the waiter next to him and reached out for a glass of red wine.

"Poor fellow, why are you always unwilling, people like us will never be able to become high-ranking officers." Douglas naturally knew why Mitchell was unhappy, in fact, according to Mitchell's ability and the merits he had made over the years, he should have been promoted to a colonel officer a long time ago, but because he touched the ceiling, he had to stumble on the rank of captain for several years.

"Whatever, since he still doesn't give up, let reality educate him." Douglas shrugged his shoulders and ignored him......

It was dark and bright, and most of the people in Fort San Petro were still asleep, and Governor Field, who had drunk too much last night, lay asleep on his soft bed, with a smile on his lips, and seemed to be reminiscing about the joy that his dancing partner had brought him last night, until he was awakened by a sharp knock on the door.

Opened his eyes with difficulty, Field's eyes turned from confusion to anger, and he pushed open the door with only a pair of pants and roared angrily: "Damn, if you don't give me a satisfactory explanation, I will definitely let you go to the barracks to clean the toilet for a month, I can be sure of this!" ”

Standing outside the door was Field's orderly, a nineteen-year-old young man from Madrid, who looked at the angry Field and said tremblingly, "Your Excellency the Governor, the people of the Ming Kingdom...... The Ming people began to assemble again. Colonel Castro asked me to inform you and they will ...... soon"

"Oh...... Oh, God! ”

Before the orderly could finish speaking, Field had already rushed into the room at a speed that did not match his warning, and three minutes later, Field, who had finished dressing, rushed out of the room and jumped on the horse that had been prepared.

As Field spurted toward the walls, he could faintly hear the shrill trumpets and drums coming from outside the city.

"Knock knock...... Knock knock knock ......"

Amid the rapid sound of drums, a Ming sergeant in a green uniform began to form a phalanx, and under the command of the officers, they began to move towards Fort San Petro with neat steps.

Field, who hurried up the city wall, looked at the Ming soldiers outside the city, his face was a little pale, he looked around, and found that Castro was talking to more than a dozen officers behind a battlement.

"You go and call Castro...... Forget it, I'll go over by myself. ”

When Castro and other officers spotted Field approaching, they had to salute him one by one.

Field stopped them: "Okay, don't pay so much attention to the battlefield, now you tell me, how is the situation?" ”

"I'm afraid it's not very good, Your Excellency the Governor." A tall captain said: "This time the Ming army is probably out of the nest, we have estimated, at least more than 20,000 people have been dispatched. ”

"More than 20,000 people, so possible?" Castro's heart trembled, now there are only more than 10,000 old and weak women and children in the entire San Petro Fort, and now the Ming army alone has more than twice as many troops as them.

"In fact, the number of Ming troops is very easy to count." The captain continued: "One phalanx of the Ming people is five hundred, and now they have set up forty phalanxes outside our four city gates, that is, 20,000 people, plus their artillery, cavalry and other arms, I think the Ming army has dispatched at least 25,000 to 28,000 men. ”

Field looked at Castro and found that his most trusted henchman also nodded silently, obviously the captain was not wrong.

After taking several deep breaths in a row, Field calmed down his trembling body, and asked calmly, "If I'm not mistaken, your name is Mitchell, right?" You've been here with Colonel Castro for so long, have you come up with any countermeasures? ”

"No, Your Excellency."

Mitchell smiled bitterly: "Obviously, in this week, the Ming army has transferred a large number of supplies and troops from the mainland, and they are bound to take Fort San Petro. There is no other way but to resolutely resist. ”

"I just want to know if we can hold it!" Field almost roared out the words in a roaring voice.

"Only God knows!" Mitchell's voice carried a hint of helplessness and despair that anyone could hear.

"Oh God...... Quick look...... What is that? Just as Mitchell spoke, a frightened voice sounded next to him.

Somehow, several huge balls had risen around Fort San Petro, and they were so large that they frightened many of the Spanish soldiers on the walls.