Xu Xinsu was still considering the possibility of the missionary's plan to purchase the city of San Salvador, and Guo Qing had already bluntly reprimanded: "Leave? Where can you go on the boat without our permission? Under the sea..."

After some righteous reprimands, Guo Qing asked the soldiers to drag the missionary, who wanted to say something, out and hurried back to the direction of the castle.

The incident happened suddenly, when the missionary was kicked out of the tent, Xu Xinsu reacted, he looked at Guo Qing quite unhappily and said: "Why be so impatient, I see that Western monk seems to have something to say." ”

After Guo Qing arched his hand at him, he said with a smile: "You don't have to listen to anything, these Western barbarians have reached the current situation, and they still want to treat adults and subordinates as wronged leaders, which is really ridiculous."

Paying money to buy a castle, isn't this tantamount to admitting what these Western barbarians say, Taiwan is not the land of our Ming Dynasty, otherwise how can anyone spend money to buy back their own land?

Furthermore, if these Spaniards were to be spared, what would the Dutch think? Don't they think I'm too cowardly?

If they think that there is no risk in attacking my Ming Dynasty even if it fails, then in the future, I will have peace in the Ming Dynasty? ”

Xu Xinsu was finally suppressed by Guo Qing's momentum, and he had just been forced to move out of Fujian, in fact, he urgently needed the emperor's support.

Although he knew that the emperor had ordered him to preside over the war against the Spaniards. But in this improvised patchwork army, there was nothing more trusted by the emperor than these cadets who had been transferred from the Army Military Academy to observe the war.

followed by Dong Weixian and his Sihai Battalion, and finally the Fujian Navy Division under his command.

After expelling the peace envoys sent by Spain, Xu Xinsu summoned the village elders who were still distributing the spoils of war, and after he explained the siege plan that Guo Qing had told him, the elders immediately quit.

When the two sides formed an alliance, it was agreed that after the war, the island would be returned to the aboriginal tribes living on the island, and these tribes also promised to prepare food for the Ming army.

Although the land of the chicken coop and the freshwater generation is fertile, the grain harvest is also good. However, it is still a hilly terrain covered with primeval forests. The food surplus in the various villages and communities was not abundant enough to support an army of several thousand men for a long time.

As Guo Qing had predicted, the elders, who were afraid that the Ming army would find an excuse to stay, took the initiative to take on the task of attacking the castle head-on, while the Ming army was responsible for fire support in the rear.

Although Guo Qing thought that the consumption of the number of aborigines would be conducive to the Ming Dynasty's entry into this place, he did not blatantly let the aborigines go to death.

In fact, with the defense of San Salvador, it was impossible to capture the castle by relying on the number of attackers alone, without a comprehensive attack plan.

In the previous battle, the Spaniards lost more than 200 people outside the city, including 87 Spanish soldiers.

With the support of the soldiers aboard the San Juan, the castle now has nearly 500 people, including more than 200 Spaniards. The number of aboriginal soldiers outside the city was no more than 2,500, less than five times.

Based on Guo Qing's conversations with the aboriginal soldiers of various villages and communities these days, he believes that the aborigines of the lower reaches of the Tamsui River, the Jilong area, and the three mink corners should belong to different village and community alliances, and they are also the main forces in Taipei.

To the south of Sanmink Corner, the aboriginal villages near Yilan belong to another large tribe. Generally speaking, the tribes in eastern Taiwan, which are relatively scarce in resources, tend to be more savage and aggressive than the tribes in western Taiwan, which are more abundant in resources.

Most of the aboriginal villages that came to participate in the war this time came from the area between the chicken coop and the three sable horns, and the population of these villages was enough to organize an army of nearly 10,000 people. In that case, even Da Ming will have to look at it with his eyes.

However, there are often contradictions of one kind or another between these village communities, the most important of which is the battle over the hunting grounds.

For the aborigines of the western plains of Taiwan, due to their exchanges with the Han people and the introduction of some new agricultural tools and agricultural techniques, the original life of hunting has begun to become a farming people like the Han people.

But for the aborigines of northern Taiwan, especially eastern Taiwan, the size of the hunting grounds means the survival ability of the tribe. The reproduction of animals in nature is obviously not as fast as the rate of human population reproduction.

Therefore, as the population of the village grows, it is inevitable to expand the range of their own hunting, and once they invade the boundaries of other people's hunting grounds, it will inevitably lead to conflicts.

This also makes Taiwan's aboriginal village community many, but it has never developed a unified tribal alliance, because each village community is a feud in the eyes of others.

However, what amazed Guo Qing was that the Spaniards had only been here for two years, and nearly half of the nearby villages had put aside their contradictions and rushed over to find trouble with the Spaniards.

Although the village elders took on the task of attacking head-on, these elders could only command their own soldiers, and the others were not willing to listen to the orders of another village elder.

The first is that they are in their inherent values, and the other is that these village elders can't even take out a ** wine except for orders, even the children of their own clan are not very willing to obey orders.

In the first battle under the personal command of the elders, he was defeated and retreated without even touching the side of the city wall.

After two or three times, these elders finally returned the command power to Guo Qing with a red face, and asked for the help of General Mingguo.

Guo Qing obviously couldn't stand it anymore, these aborigines fled too quickly, so the Spaniards' tactics were often not launched, and the opposite side had already turned around and ran away.

As a result, he failed to identify weaknesses in the Spanish defenses, and the natives suffered little damage.

After regaining command of this aboriginal force, Guo Qing did not rush to attack, but reorganized this force.

Originally based on the village community, small groups of different sizes are now divided into a team of 20 people, and each team appoints a small leader, whom Guo Qing calls a warrior.

These warriors were basically those who had a close relationship with the Ming army a few days ago and were willing to obey the command of the Ming army, and they were also the last people to flee during the battle.

The origins of these warriors are complex, and they are not limited to a certain village community, but they are basically the lower level of the original village community.

Then set up 100 households for every five squads, one sentry commander for every 300 households, and one battalion general for every three sentry posts. The sentry commander and battalion general were all selected from the Four Seas Battalion to serve as low-ranking military attachés.

These aborigines were divided into three discontented battalions, and Guo Qing publicly announced it to these aborigines. Starting tomorrow, each battalion will attack for an hour, and those who can obey the order to complete the task will be given a wine **.

Those who are slightly injured on the battlefield will be rewarded with 5** wine and a piece of cloth; Those who are seriously wounded on the battlefield will be rewarded with ten ** of wine and three horses of cloth; Twenty pieces of cloth were given to the war dead.

If the combat is not effective and refuses to obey the command, not only will they not be rewarded, but they will also be deprived of the title of soldier and used as logistics miscellaneous service.

For these aborigines, they are in the process of developing from primitive ** to primitive slavery. Each village community nominally retains a system of communal ownership of property, but in trade with the Han Chinese from the mainland, some of the village elders have begun to accumulate their own property.

For example, while most of the indigenous people were still wearing clothes made of deerskin, many elders were already wearing cloth or even silk clothing.

In the previous battle, in order to let these elders take out food and provide labor, Xu Xinsu took out a lot of materials as a reward, and in order to prepare for this battle, he also prepared a large number of materials.

Even if these natives don't provide food, he can support the war. But in order not to let the aborigines think that they can make demands on the Ming without any scruples.

Although there was no shortage of food, Xu Xinsu also regarded the provision of food as part of the covenant. Of course, Xu Xinsu was also thinking about seeing how much surplus food these village communities could provide, so as to roughly estimate their strength.

Of course, the remuneration given by Xu Xinsu was included in their own warehouses by these elders in the name of the village community. These aborigines, who were brought in to work and even fight for the Ming army, could only get some wine and food.

However, to Guo Qing's surprise, even with so little gain, those aborigines were more energetic and enthusiastic than the sergeants of the Sihai Battalion.

Therefore, he tried to see if he could turn these aborigines into soldiers who fought for the Ming Dynasty. Through understanding, Guo Qing found that apart from wine and cloth, gold and silver were meaningless to these aborigines.

This is good news for them, whether it is cloth from Daming or wine made from sugarcane residue in Chiayi County, Taiwan, it is not a scarce thing.

Although these aborigines have not yet developed their own civilization, the cowardly are still the object of despise in every village community.

Guo Qing inspired them with honor, rewarded their performance with wine and cloth, and appeased their worries about their families with wealth.

After only one day, the army of these aborigines was finally able to approach the castle without collapsing.

Although in the eyes of Waldes, these people are still no threatening cannon fodder. But the increase of 4 guns on the eastern hill became a nightmare for the defenders.

These guns were obviously well-made by the Dutch, not those crude Francophone cannons made by the Chinese.

In order to deal with the natives besieging the city below, the castle firepower point was quickly targeted by the opposing artillery, and the artillery on the castle was not enough to attack the top of the hill, which made the Spaniards the target of one-sided artillery bombardment.

Valdes could have sworn that there was at least one gunnery expert on the opposite hill, not just bad gunners with little training, otherwise there would have been more than half the hits.

It is precisely because of the accurate bombardment of the artillery on the opposite side that these aboriginal soldiers below can see the hope of victory, and they can still maintain the offensive posture despite the large number of casualties of the defenders.

After a day of fighting, Waldes found that the casualties of the defenders in the city and the opposing side would never exceed 1:3. Most of these casualties occurred when they concentrated the defense of the siege troops, and were fired by the enemy's artillery.

It seemed that the other party was intending to exchange the lives of the natives for the lives of the soldiers defending the city, and Waldes's suspicion was soon confirmed the next day.

The opponent did not use artillery to remove the defensive obstacles for the besieging troops, but used the attack of the besieging troops to mobilize the concentration of the defending troops, so that the artillery could inflict a large number of casualties.

Valdes immediately realized that he wanted to show the castle's defensive capabilities by killing and wounding a large number of attacking troops, forcing the other side to endure casualties and the illusion of peace talks had been shattered.

Valdes was not willing to trade his life for the lives of those ignorant natives, even if it was 1 to 100.

Moreover, the number of natives under the city is increasing day by day, and it is obvious that the natives of the nearby villages and communities have been recruited by the other side. If this continues, even if all the people in the castle are killed, all that will be shed will be the blood of the natives.

After cursing the other commander's devilish heart, Waldes finally ordered his subordinates to hoist a white flag and ask for surrender.