The setting sun hung diagonally at the end of the sea, and the chilling sun lazily sprinkled over the city of Geranza.

Sonod and a dozen officers sat on the balcony of the chief's office around a round table, with seven or eight bottles of wine and some refreshments in front of them.

Half a month ago, the Ming army suddenly stopped attacking the city of Geranza, which relieved the military and civilian chiefs in Sonod and the city of Geranza, who originally thought that they would be in danger.

Unkos sat with drunken eyes and looked at the sea in the distance, enjoying the feeling of drunkenness in his head, and let out a loud hiccup, and then sighed: "It would be nice to spend every day so peacefully." ”

"yes!"

An officer also laughed: "Half a month ago, since the first line of defense was broken by the Ming army, I thought that my life had entered the countdown, but I didn't expect them to give up the attack so easily, until now I thought it was a dream." ”

"yes, I'd love to know why!"

From the point of view of the soldiers, it is really incomprehensible that the side that has absolute superiority in both strength and firepower should take the initiative to give up the attack on the other side.

A handsome captain with blue eyes looked at Sonod and asked curiously, "Your Excellency the Governor, I heard that the reason why the Ming Kingdom stopped attacking us was all because of your merits, is that so?" ”

Looking at the eyes of everyone looking at him, Sonord was very proud, although he wanted to show it in his heart, but his status as a nobleman still made him wave his hand reservedly.

Seeing this, Ang Cos naturally understood his boss's mood of wanting to pretend to be 13 and being a little unspeakable. In this case, his subordinate naturally had to pick it up.

"You don't know, as early as a month ago, our governor sent more than a dozen people to the territory of the Ming Kingdom to lurk, once the Ming army showed signs of attacking the city of Geranza.

They immediately went ashore along the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the territory of the Ming State and rushed to the capital of the Ming State as soon as possible, and then protested to the Ming court against the Ming army's attack on the city of Gelansha for no reason. ”

Speaking of this, Onkos glanced at the officers and said, "According to what we know about the Ming Kingdom, what their ministers like to flaunt most is the coming of all nations, which will satisfy their vanity to the greatest extent.

Therefore, as soon as our envoys arrive in the capital, present them with credentials, and show their sincerity in submission, the ministers of the Ming Dynasty will definitely order their troops to cease fighting at the first time for the sake of face, so that we will get a precious respite.

Now look at you, aren't things going as our wise Lord Governor had envisioned? Sure enough, the Ming army could only obediently stop the attack. ”

Hearing this, everyone burst out laughing, and many officers showed expressions of admiration and sudden realization in their eyes.

Everyone did not hesitate to issue words of praise one after another, praising the wisdom of His Excellency the Governor.

Although Sonord looked reserved, the smug expression in his eyes could not be concealed no matter what.

To be honest, this idea was not something he came up with on his own, but the idea of Zheng Zhibao, who had left Fusang, but this did not prevent Sonod from taking this idea for himself.

Suddenly, a voice rang out: "Your Excellency the Governor, there are still almost four or five months before the reinforcements are asked, can we really delay the arrival of the reinforcements?" ”

The originally noisy voice suddenly stopped, and many annoyed eyes shot towards the one who made the noise. Your sister, can't you make Lao Tzu happy for a while?

Sonord was silent, and gave the captain a deep look before he said with a calm face: "Ladies and gentlemen, of course I hope that the city of Geranza will be able to support the day when reinforcements arrive, but we can't put all our expectations on it.

So I hope everyone can cheer up, don't let your guard down, if the Ming army really launches a new attack, everyone can have the spirit of sacrificing everything to fight for the Netherlands, for His Majesty the King! Do you get it? ”

"Got it!" There was a sparse sound of pulling around.

Seeing that the originally harmonious atmosphere suddenly became gloomy, it was obvious that everyone was no longer interested, Sonord waved his hand a little boringly, and all the officers stood up one after another when they saw this, and they began to disperse in twos and threes.

Oncos glared at the defeated captain in displeasure, and walked to Sonod's side to say something, when suddenly a low, panting voice like an old cow sounded in mid-air.

Before Oncos could speak, he reflexively pounced and threw Sonod to the ground, who was sitting in his chair.

Before Sonord could curse, he heard a loud bang not far away.

"Boom!"

A violent explosion was heard, and countless pieces of rubble and dirt from the shock wave flew everywhere, many of which even crackled and smashed into the bodies of Ankos and Soneod, and at the same time a thick cloud of black smoke rose up.

"It's a flowering bomb...... The Ming army's cannons! A frightened voice rang out.

Onkos quickly helped Sonod up, and the two looked towards the place of the explosion, and found that the explosion point was only a few dozen meters away from them, and there was a crater the size of a dinner table at the place of the explosion.

After seeing this crater, Sonod gritted his teeth and said, "It's actually a thirty-two-pound flowering bomb, is Akito crazy?" ”

Ankos was also silent, the price of flowering bullets in these years is much more expensive than solid bullets, especially large-caliber flowering bullets, like this thirty-two-pound flowering bullet alone costs at least five guilders, which is almost equivalent to a Dutch soldier's salary for nearly half a year.

Perhaps echoing the anger of Sonord, several more shells fell nearby, and the Dutch were caught off guard by the sudden shelling, and many terrible screams and exclamations continued to sound along with the sound of artillery.

The shelling lasted less than five minutes before it ended, but the damage was not small, and when the smoke cleared, Sonod looked at the beautiful and exquisite Governor's Office, which had been built like a little girl who had been brutalized by several strong men, full of ruined buildings and weeping and wailing people.

As the supreme commander, Sonod did not grieve the loss of the chief's office, but said loudly to Ankos: "You immediately go to the second line of defense and send someone to contact the spies lurking outside, see what happened, and then report to me immediately." ”

After a while, Ankos came back, and there was only one news he brought, Yang Feng, who had disappeared for half a month, returned, and this time he not only brought a large number of flowering bombs, but also wanted to relaunch the attack on the city of Geranza.

And there is only one motive for his shelling this time, that is, Yang Feng is informing Sonod in this way that I, Hu Hansan, are back.