663 An agreement was reached, and the city of Anping fell

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"This Li Zixiao is really so generous, it won't be a lie!"

"That is, Li Zixiao's condition seems to be just to let his fleet enter the East China Sea without being obstructed by us, which is completely meaningless!

Everyone knows that the biggest oil and water on the sea is the southern sea, but he gave it up, and he didn't even want the toll tax, could it be that he Li Zixiao raised so many people and horses, and he was not short of money?

Moreover, he divided the sea areas to the west and the south, but only the sea areas to the east and the north, to be honest, the old man could not understand what this Count Li meant. ”

Shi Daxuan also shook his head and said.

This old man who followed Zheng Zhilong had made great contributions in the previous naval battles, and he was injured, coupled with his qualifications, his reputation in the Zheng group was very high at this time.

For the Zheng family, what they value most is mainly the merchant ships that can pass south from the East China Sea to the South Seas and collect 'protection fees', which is also one of the main financial revenues of the Zheng family.

Therefore, the Zheng family also attaches the most importance to this, so they have always excluded Li Zixiao's fleet from entering the East China Sea, they are worried that the entry of Li Zixiao's fleet will compete with them for this piece of fat.

But now, hearing Zheng Sen say this, Li Zixiao has completely given up this piece of fat, of course, the people of the Zheng Group can't figure it out.

In fact, this is entirely because the thinking of the two sides is not on the same channel, and Li Zixiao has no intention of grabbing the fat of the 'protection tax' from the Zheng family at all.

The fat in the eyes of the Zheng family is just chicken ribs in Li Zixiao's eyes, and Li Zixiao's eyes are aimed at the broader sea area in the south.

If Li Zixiao wants Lu Yuan's fleet to go south, he must get through the link of the Zheng family.

"Okay, don't make any noise, listen to Sen'er continue."

As soon as Zheng Zhilong spoke, no one dared to talk more, and honestly listened to Zheng Sen continue to speak.

"'Divide the Ryukyus equally, it's much simpler, Li Zixiao wants us to remove the men and horses from the chicken coop, and from now on, the north shore of the Ryukyus belongs to them, and the south belongs to us."

After Zheng Sen finished speaking, Zheng Zhilong and other Zheng family generals were silent.

It's really Li Zixiao's condition, which is too generous, and it doesn't meet Zheng Zhilong's evaluation of Li Zixiao's greed and black belly!

Among the conditions of 'equal division of the East China Sea', Li Zixiao did not touch the Zheng family's 'fat', which was acceptable to the Zheng family, and 'equal division of the Ryukyus' was not unacceptable for the Zheng family.

After all, in Zheng Zhilong's previous plan, he knew that Li Zixiao was going to meddle in the Ryukyus, and he had planned to give up the north shore of the Ryukyus.

"Big brother, how credible do you think these two conditions offered by Li Zixiao are? He's not fooling us, is he? ”

Zheng Zhibao was a little incredulous and asked Zheng Zhilong.

At this time, the generals of the Zheng family all looked at Zheng Zhilong one by one, and most of the generals had the same psychology as Zheng Zhibao.

"Although Count Li is dark and greedy, he is a man who keeps his promises, and at this time, he should focus more energy on dealing with Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.

According to the news I received before, some time ago he sent troops into Luzhou to encircle and suppress Zhang Xianzhong, even if this Count Li is too strong, it is impossible to start a war on multiple fronts.

Moreover, the conditions they prescribe are clearly showing goodwill to us, and they do not want to completely turn against us, there is nothing to doubt.

Sen'er, you go back and tell Lu Yuan, just say that I agreed to their conditions.

In the future, their fleet can enter and leave the East China Sea at will, and our Zheng family fleet will not obstruct it, and as long as it is a merchant ship flying the flag of Jiangbei, we will only collect 60% of the toll tax. ”

Zheng Zhilong also expressed his goodwill and took the initiative to reduce or exempt the taxes of a pair of Jiangbei merchant ships.

"Yes, father, I'll go see this General Lu again."

Immediately, Zheng Sen went to see Lu Yuan again, made Zheng Zhilong's intentions, and agreed to their request.

By the time Zheng Sen came back, Lu Yuan had already led the White Dragon Army fleet to retreat on his own initiative, and he also brought a team of White Dragon soldiers and horses, which were the mortar artillery units of the White Dragon Army.

"Father, this is Captain Lu Hai, he said that they have a way to help us conquer Anping Fort, so the child brought them."

Zheng Sen said respectfully to Zheng Zhilong.

"Cut, take Anping City, does he know how thick the walls of that castle are? What is there to do they to knock down. ”

There was immediately someone on the Zheng family's side, and he said in disbelief, but he was glared at by Zheng Zhilong, and the person took the initiative to shut up.

Lu Hai smiled slightly and said, "Everyone, do you know how long it took us to capture Fort Anthony in the north of the Ryukyus?" ”

"In one day, it took us only one day to lay down the fortified fort, killing six hundred red-haired ghosts and capturing more than two hundred.

Perhaps by the time I come with me, I will see the weapons I have brought, and you will understand why we were able to take Fort Anthony in one day. ”

Lu Hai's words made the Zheng family generals talk for a while, and many people expressed disbelief, and then followed Lu Hai to see the weapons he said.

The weapons that Lu Hai brought were nothing else, just twenty mortars.

And when Zheng Zhilong and other generals of the Zheng family were stunned when they saw the black but short mortars with muzzles larger than the mouth of the bowl.

"This is a general's cannon? But the muzzle of this cannon is too big! Someone exclaimed.

At this time, the people of the Ming Dynasty called the mortar cannon 'general cannon', and the Zheng family also had a mortar cannon, but their mortar cannon was only as big as the mouth of a bowl.

But now, in front of them, the muzzles of these twenty mortars are much larger than the mouths of bowls, and it is the first time they have seen such a large-caliber mortar.

It's not that the Zheng family doesn't want to cast a larger-caliber mortar, it's that they can't cast it.

Don't look at the twenty mortars of the White Dragon Army, they are just larger in caliber, but the difficulty of casting has increased a lot, and it is even more difficult to cast such a cannon body.

"Captain Lu, your weapon, it is these big generals' cannons, it turns out that you rely on these big generals' cannons to defeat the red-haired ghost in Tamsui City on the north shore of the Ryukyus!"

At this time, Zheng Zhilong also suddenly realized and said.

Of course, Zheng Zhilong also knows the power of these mortar cannons, although he doesn't have many mortar cannons, he also has them.

When Zheng Sen conquered Chichicheng before, he used the general's cannon in their hands to even blast open a section of the city wall of Chichicheng, but he could only do this.

And now, when Zheng Zhilong saw these mortars that were larger than the general cannons and the muzzles in their hands, he would not doubt the power of these black iron bumps at all.

"Yes, General Zheng, it was with these mortars that the red-haired ghost blasted away the red-haired ghost's Tamsui City, and the red-haired ghost without that layer of turtle shell is the tiger with its teeth extracted."

Lu Hai was happy to see the Zheng family generals, and at the same time they were surprised, and even proud, they were also full of contempt for them.

"Now, on the orders of my family commander, I have brought these twenty mortars to help you capture the red-haired ghost's Anping Fort." Lu Hai continued.

"Haha, the red-haired ghost in Anping Fort, the end is coming. With such a big cannon muzzle, the general's cannon is enough to blast open the turtle shell of the red-haired ghost. ”

At this time, Zheng Zhibao also shouted excitedly, leaned in front of these mortars, and held the cannon body with his hand, his eyes were hot.

For the Zheng family, warships were their favorite, and with the development of firearms, their role in naval warfare became more and more important.

This also made the Zheng family gradually fall in love with muskets and artillery.

At this time, Zheng Zhibao had even thought about finding a way to persuade his eldest brother Zheng Zhilong to leave these twenty artillery pieces behind.

"Haha, with Captain Lu bringing these general cannons, it is enough for us to capture the red-haired ghost's Anping City as soon as possible, here Zheng wants to thank General Lu for his kindness."

Zheng Zhilong was also very happy, and then immediately ordered: "Sen'er, gather the soldiers, attack the city tomorrow, and completely pull out the last stronghold of the red-haired ghost in the Ryukyus." ”

Thundered!

In the early morning of the second day, the cannon outside Anping Castle rang out, and Zheng Zhilong gathered 6,000 men and launched an attack on Anping Castle.

"What's going on? The Zheng family attacked? ”

Paul in Anping City, in the early hours of the morning, after being woken up by the sound of cannons outside the city, knew that this was the Zheng family's siege.

However, at this time, Paul did not panic at all, but continued to sleep with a white girl in his arms, without the slightest intention of getting up.

At this time, Paul thought to himself: these damn yellow pigs can't bear to attack the city after all.

But alas, with their bows and spears, they could not have penetrated.

The governor gave Byron the opportunity to teach the yellow-skinned monkey a good lesson.

Then, just as Paul was about to fall asleep again in a daze, there was a violent sound of cannons outside the house, this time much quieter than the previous cannons.

"What's going on? The sound of the cannon ...... "Hearing such a loud cannon sound, Paul felt bad in his heart."

At this time, Paul, who was no longer sleepy, got up and put on his military uniform, ready to go out to supervise the battle and see what was going on.

"Byron, what's the matter?"

When Paul came to the wall, he asked Byron.

"Your Excellency the Governor, we are in big trouble, the Zheng family got twenty large-caliber mortars from somewhere, and bombarded our castle.

Those mortars were far more powerful than the ones they had used before, with shells over sixty-four pounds, you see. ”

Byron specially asked the red-haired ghost soldiers to collect a few mortar shells and bring them to Paul.

At this time, Paul was dumbfounded when he looked at the two red-haired ghost soldiers in front of him, two cannonballs the size of footballs.

"Hey, where did the Zheng family get such a large-caliber mortar cannon, what the hell!"

Paul looked at the two cannonballs and scolded his mother, knowing that with the power of such cannonballs, they would be enough to smash open their fortified castle.

Bang!

At this time, there was another loud noise outside the city, and then the city wall on their side was a roar, and even Paul felt the earth tremble.

There were a lot of huge cannonballs, because of the problem of accuracy, smashed into Anping Fort, and immediately destroyed and collapsed a series of buildings, and nothing could stop his advance.

"Byron, can you send a team out and kill that mortar, you can't let them continue to bombard like this." Paul looked at Byron and asked.

"Your Excellency the Governor, there are six thousand Zheng family soldiers outside the castle at this time, if we send someone out now, isn't it equivalent to going out to die?"

Byron said with a wry smile, but thought in his heart: Our soldiers are not fools, who is willing to go out now!

"What then? Why don't you just sit back and wait for death? ”

Paul was still unwilling to be defeated, but he could not think of a solution for a while, and the battle continued to drag on like this.

It was not until midnight (around ten o'clock) that the twelfth salvo bombardment was finally destroyed by the twenty mortars personally commanded by Lu Hai outside the city, and finally the walls of Anping Castle were bombarded.

The Zheng family launched a siege before seven o'clock in the morning, and more than an hour and a half passed, and they finally waited for the city wall to be broken.

Anping Castle was not destroyed in one place, but in three places, and basically the entire southern wall of the castle has all collapsed.

"Follow me in!"

Just outside the city, the soldiers of the Zheng family, all of them were excited, and when they were about to follow their generals into the castle, they saw a white flag raised in the castle.

That's right, the red-haired ghost surrendered.

The moment Paul saw the complete collapse of the southern wall, the defense line in his heart also collapsed, he didn't want to die, and his soldiers didn't want to die, they didn't want to fight.

At this time, Paul proposed to surrender to the Zheng family, and he immediately received the unanimous support of his generals.

"Captain Lu Hai, thank you so much this time. Tonight, I set up a banquet in the Anping Fort of the red-haired ghosts, and invited the soldiers brought by Captain Lu to thank them for their help. ”

After the war, Zheng Zhilong was very happy and held a banquet in Anping Castle to entertain more than 100 White Dragon Army gunners who came over from Lu Hai and his party.

During the banquet, Zheng Zhilong tested Lu Hai's tone, hoping to buy the twenty mortars he brought, and Lu Hai also agreed after hearing it.

This made Zheng Zhilong very happy, and he also listened to the pleading of his generals before opening this mouth to Lu Hai.

But to be honest, he can take a fancy to these twenty mortars, which are simply siege weapons!

If they had such twenty mortars in their hands before, how could they pay such a big price when attacking Chiji City!

This time, with the help of the mortar cannons of the land and sea, the Zheng family only suffered about 300 casualties, and then took Anping City, which was stronger than Chichicheng City.

Compared with Zheng Sen's previous defeat of Chiji City, the casualties of 1,500 people were much less.

The reason why Lu Hai was so relaxed agreed to Zheng Zhilong's request.

Because he had thought of this before he came, and asked Lu Yuan for instructions, Lu Yuan agreed to sell the mortar to the Zheng family, and Lu Yuan's authorization came from Li Zixiao.

For Li Zixiao, a small number of mortars fell into the hands of the Zheng family, and there was no threat to him at all, and it was impossible for the two sides to break out in a large-scale conflict in a short time.

Moreover, those mortars have been used frequently in two major battles, and there is not much left in their service life, and these mortars are damaged very quickly.

As long as the Zheng family doesn't master the casting technology of this mortar cannon, Li Zixiao is willing to sell it to them, and then take the silver from the sale, and then cast more new mortar cannons for himself, why not!

(End of chapter)