Xinshun 1730

Chapter 758 Performance Battle ([-])
"In fact..."

Valkner glanced at Liu Yu and asked for instructions, hoping to have a private talk with the Dutch officer.Some things, after all, are not easy to say in front of people.

Liu Yu was not afraid of their tricks either, because there were no tricks to play.It is impossible for these Dutch people to unite as one, break out of the encirclement, retreat into the tropical jungle of the Malay Peninsula to fight guerrillas, and finally gather into an indestructible iron stream, all the way to the few Dutch strongholds in India...

Apart from this magical possibility, there is no other way to go.

From Malacca and run away by boat at night?That's a dead end.Warships are blocking the strait.

Plotting a false surrender but ambushing the troops entering the city?Dashun wanted to fight a show war here, and it wasn't for the purpose of entering the city. They would blow up what should be bombed, dig what should be dug, and plant flags where there should be flags. They would fight like this regardless of whether there were Dutchmen or not.

With a generous wave of his hand, he signaled that they could talk in private, and then he and Li Yan continued to sit opposite each other and drink tea.

Valknier and the Dutch officer went to another camp under surveillance by soldiers, and directly and frankly explained Liu Yu's purpose.

The officer understood immediately.

"Your Excellency, that is to say, the goal of the Chinese is not to destroy us at all, not even the city of Malacca. It is just to use the city of Malacca to show those small countries the power of the new ruler."

"We are like the defeated Hector. The request before dying, I hope that my body will not be fed to the dogs. But Achilles will refuse anyway, even Achilles thinks that Hector Thor is the bravest of warriors..."

These words elevate the status of the Netherlands a bit high.

Valknir thought it was not bad to say so.The spice of Southeast Asia is the gorgeous Helen.But what is the golden apple that really controls all of this?

The Dutch army, like Hector who died in battle, was dragged to the dogs after death, just to show others.

Thinking about it again, Valkneer sighed, looking back at the past, and said bitterly: "The free Chinese indentured slaves shipped to Ceylon are the Trojan horses of China. I heard that during the battle in Ceylon, those Chinese Played an important role in the siege of Colombo."

"I never thought that the Trojan horse scheme would be used by the Chinese."

Only now did he use their cultural thinking to understand what the Ceylon incident was.

According to their culture, indeed, this is a Trojan horse trick.

A Trojan horse that uses cheap and excellent labor as bait.

Thinking of what he had learned about Dashun's situation in Dashun's barracks these days, Valkneer couldn't help sighing.

"This Lord Marquis, he is the invincible Achilles and the resourceful Odysseus."

However, the Dutch officer, as if giving a prophecy, casually said: "Achilles, who is invincible in the world, is only a mortal after all. The real sun, Apollo, will shoot his ankle with an arrow. The city of Troy is broken." On that day, Achilles is useless and damned."

Valknir didn't take this whispered curse seriously, thinking that it was just a kind of sustenance for the losers, just like witchcraft popular in Southeast Asia.

To lose is to lose.

Up to now, he has already been convinced.

As the former Great Speaker said, the occupation of Southeast Asia by the Republic of Seven Provinces was an accident in itself.Now, it's just back to normal.

How can you win if you challenge the normal by accident?
Valknir sighed, lamenting Dashun's various schemes to go to Nanyang, just like the ten-year Trojan War, which had been planned ten years ago until the day when the city was finally broken.

For a long time, Valknir made a poetic self-mockery.

"Beautiful Southeast Asia..."

"Helen, who eloped with Paris, finally knelt in Menelaus' tent and begged for forgiveness."

"If everything is normal, Southeast Asia should be theirs. Now, the Marquis, just let things go back to what they should have been."

"Helen, after all, doesn't belong to Paris."

The officer also mourned. It is really hard to lose what you have gained.

However, they did not expect at this time that the seemingly strong and powerful Menelaus could not give birth to children due to his own internal reasons.Even if Helen is taken back, Paris, a little boy, might have to help her to give birth to a baby.

In the future, the Dutch who surrendered, including Valkenier, actually have a bright future.It's just that they don't know it yet.

After Valkenier finished talking about Dashun's plan for Holland to continue to perform, the officer asked: "So, my lord governor, can we just retreat to St. Paul's Church and give up the direction of their attack?"

Valkneer warned: "This is the only chance to surrender. You know, when the Portuguese broke into Malacca, they routinely carried out massacres; we also launched a massacre when we broke into Malacca. If you don't want to turn into a If there is a massacre, the soldiers must be strictly restrained, and they must not shoot at the Dashun troops entering the city."

"If after our conversation, we still shoot back. I think the Marquis will make us all die like the soldiers of Fort San Diego."

The officer nodded solemnly and agreed, either to resist to the end and die for the company; or to surrender honestly.

Otherwise, it is really a dead end.

"My lord, what will the Marquis of China do with us soldiers who surrendered? This is what we are most concerned about. You know, there have always been such rumors here that the soldiers who surrendered in Penghu were all killed by the Chinese. died. And some were sent to their capital to be killed."

Regarding this question, Valkner asked Liu Yu, and he can answer it now.

"Master Marquis has promised that there will be no massacre. A large number of soldiers will follow him back to the capital to participate in the prisoner offering ceremony."

"China is a nation that worships gods and worships idols. Their great emperors will sacrifice captives before the idols of their ancestors to prove their courage and victory to their ancestors who have become gods."

"And after offering prisoners, if anyone is willing to stay in China, they will be incorporated into some troops as a symbol of the emperor's victory over the Siyi. Even, at their important court festival balls, as Siyi actors , performing their court dance...Mr. Prips had seen such a performance in the Forbidden City before."

"Of course, three years of hard labor are required before being incorporated into the army. Mainly building forts in Malacca, Batavia or Ceylon."

This condition is also quite generous.

Three years of hard labor is not too much.For example, Batavia and other places targeted the Chinese for 20 years of hard labor, which is quite tolerant.

As colonial officials, they are the most clear about their policies against the Chinese.

It looks like it's a bit of a revenge, but in fact it's just for future cooperation with the Netherlands.

In the face of interests, some hatred can be pretended not to be mentioned for the time being.

However, if the talks between Dashun and the Netherlands collapsed, the fate of these prisoners of war would be much worse.At that time, it will be worthless, and he is an outsider, and he is full of hatred in Southeast Asia. He is simply a rare candidate for a slave worker, and he doesn't have to worry about escaping.

Considering the generous conditions, the Dutch officer readily agreed, and believed that the governor of the Malacca garrison in the city would definitely agree.

Let go of the city walls and towers, shrink to the church hill.After Dashun and Air Force "attacked" into the city of Malacca within two days, they threw their weapons on the mountain and surrendered.

After the private communication with Valknir, the officer went to the big tent again, discussed the details with Liu Yu, and made sure that this was what Liu Yu agreed to, and not his self-righteous wishful thinking.

Liu Yu didn't say yes or no, just said: "Now, I don't want to kill many people, and I don't want to capture Malacca immediately. I just want to let people know that the military power of the Celestial Dynasty is so powerful. win."

"You go back. Tell your Malacca governor that the trench will be dug in four days. The Chinese army will launch a general attack."

"By the way, tell him that to fight against this tactic, either there are enough cannons to destroy the siege artillery positions of the siege side; or, the grenadiers and elite infantry should be organized to counter-attack in the trenches and hinder the digging of the engineers."

"I'm waiting for his counterattack."

In a supercilious tone, he even explained how to solve the siege battle, clearly telling the Dutch that the city of Malacca will be settled in four days, and that Jesus will not be able to keep it when he comes.

As for whether the Dutch will use the tactics of going out of the city to counterattack, there is no need to say something clearly.If you dare to do this, after the city is broken, throw them all into the sea.

The Dutch officer, who understood Liu Yu's implication, recalled the shock of Fort Santiago being breached, and with a sense of luck that he escaped from death, he crossed the busy Dashun Camp and returned to Malacca City with a white flag. .

For the next four days, the Dutch did not go out of town to fight back.

Even, no one fired at Dashun's position.

During these four days, Dashun's artillery was really fighting the air.

First, they slammed the towers that had been knocked down by the cannons, and then began to pretend to "cover" the engineers digging in, and then these artillerymen panted and pushed the heavy cannons forward to the artillery positions at close range.

After breakfast at eight o'clock every morning, they began to shell the city wall.

It was too hot at noon, so I took a lunch break; at three o'clock in the afternoon, I continued the bombardment.

A large number of conscripted Baba and Nyonya people, under the command of the officers, used sacks and branches, and under the "suppression" of artillery and musketeers, they filled the trenches of the city of Malacca without casualties.

The engineers went out under the city wall, dug a hole and began to dig in, and very skillfully dug a tunnel under the crumbling city wall that had been bombarded in Malacca, leading to the location of the foundation.

A coffin full of gunpowder was stuffed into the tunnel.The sapper officer blocked the hole very skilfully, closing the space and leaving a long fuse.

During the whole process, no Dutch soldier fired a single shot outside the city; nor did any Dutch soldier dig tunnels in the city to destroy it.

If there is, at this time, if they are on the city wall and look at the fuse that is ignited below the city, these Dutch people will definitely say "Male Gobi" in a straight line.

It's not a curse, but they will miss the kid who urinated in Brussels and extinguished the fuse of the gunpowder magazine.

Manneken Pis, Mala Gobi.

(End of this chapter)