The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 848 The End of the War and the Disposal of the Prisoners of War (seeking monthly ticket for subscription)

General El was going to take advantage of the Ming army's reinforcements still at sea, before landing in time.

And the defenders in the bastion will relax because of the arrival of reinforcements.

Even if you pay a certain price, you must first lay down the San Francisco Fortress if you grit your teeth.

Use this to fight for a chance of survival for them!
When everyone heard the words, they were all lost in thought, but in the end they agreed and nodded.

"Everything is at the command of Your Excellency the General!"

"Your Excellency, General, is wise!"

General El heard the words and began to arrange the siege.

On the one hand, he sent people to prepare to bombard the San Francisco bastion with all his strength, making preparations for his own infantry to storm the bastion.

On the one hand, they sent people to set up positions on the beach, preparing to block the landing of the Ming army on the beach.

Buy more time for your side to capture the San Francisco Bastion!
Under the tremendous pressure of dying, these Spaniards who had been hungry for a long time burst out with great potential.

Very quickly, they were ready to attack the bastion!
After making all the preparations, the Spaniards did not hesitate up and down, and then attacked towards the bastion non-stop.

Under the arrangement of General El, more than 4 Spanish soldiers set aside part of their troops to block the landing of the Ming army.

The rest of the people all flocked to Daming's bastion in black.

In order to apportion the firepower of the Ming army and bring out the superiority of his own troops, General El used the storm tactics of pressing the whole army and besieging from all sides.

Boom!Boom!
The Spaniard's artillery began to fire with all its strength, pouring out firepower to its heart's content.

The gunpowder smoke filled the air, the flames suddenly appeared, and rounds of solid shells rolled and twirled, heading towards the bastion.

A shell hit the wall of the bastion, and the wall of the bastion began to tremble slightly.

Facing the Spanish raid, the Ming army was caught off guard at first.

From the perspective of the Ming army in the bastion, Lao Tzu's reinforcements have come, and they have defeated your Spaniards' fleet on the sea.

It's fine if the Spaniards outside the city don't just surrender and beg for mercy, how dare they attack the bastion?

Therefore, the Ming army was unprepared.

When the battle started, the Ming army was caught off guard for the first time.

But when the Ming army reacted, the battle turned into a unilateral massacre again.

The artillery in the bastion and on the fort of the Ming army ignored the Spanish shelling at all.

Just fight, anyway, the Spanish cannons can't shake the bastions of the Ming army.

The Spaniard's cannon was just a sound to them.

However, if the Ming army aimed its cannons at the dense Spanish infantry array and fired, it would be almost the same as a unilateral massacre.

The artillery of the Ming army began to use all shotgun shells and flowering shells, pouring firepower on the Spanish infantry array.

Boom!Boom!
The sound of shelling continued.

Dense scattershots flew in the air, blasting gaps in the dense crowd in the blink of an eye.

Countless shotguns swept across everything, leaving blood and broken limbs all over the ground...

San Francisco's moat was already stained red with blood in the blink of an eye.

Countless limbs and arms, soaked and whitish corpses just floated on the water surface of the moat.

Boom!Boom!
Accompanied by waves of more and more violent shelling, the Spanish offensive troops suffered heavy losses.

But under the persecution of the supervising team, he had to continue to grit his teeth and move forward.

Countless people fell to the ground, but more people were forced to charge forward one after another.

In order to prevent the offensive troops from retreating, General El even arranged for a supervisory team to supervise the battle.

As long as someone dares to turn around and retreat, he will be killed directly.

Da da!Da da da da!
As the Spaniards rushed under the bastion with huge casualties, they were about to climb up the sloping city wall.

The rattling sound like a devil's roar sounded again.

A rotary machine gun protruded the muzzle out of the shooting hole, quickly pulled the trigger, and continuously poured firepower at the Spanish soldiers below.

Da da!Da da da!

The dense chain of ammunition swept across everything, and where the bullets passed, countless people fell to the ground, blood flowing, and turned into cold corpses.

The corpses piled up one after another, layer upon layer.

Little by little, it even turned into a hill of corpses, which was at the same height as the wall of the bastion.

The following Spaniards stepped on the corpses of their companions and rushed to the bastion and rushed to the city wall.

Seeing this, the Ming army guarding the city went up to them without showing any timidity, and handed over the Spaniards.

Pfft!Pfft!
A stab with a sharp bayonet is a bloody hole.

The breastplates on the soldiers of the Ming army once again played a big role.

Although some Spanish soldiers also wore breastplates, their quality was obviously not as good as that of Ming Dynasty.

Boom!Boom!
The Ming army defending the city began to use grenades.

A grenade was thrown into the crowd, and after the explosion, there were broken limbs and arms everywhere.

The Spaniard's momentum was contained!

Several grenades were bundled together and thrown.

After the rumbling explosion, the mountain of corpses piled up was blown away.

Those Spaniards who rushed to the city wall became a lone army, and were overwhelmed by the Ming army in the blink of an eye.

In addition, the artillery of the Ming army also used flowering ammunition, aiming at the pile of corpses under the city wall and firing.

I want to use the flowering bomb to blow up the pile of corpses!
At this moment, smoke and dust filled the air, and stumps and broken arms were flying all over the sky.

Blood and minced meat were splattered everywhere.

The current scene in San Francisco is like hell on earth.

Rumble!
There was another roar.

It's just that the roar that sounded this time was not the sound of cannons, but thunder.

A dark cloud appeared in the sky, and there was a flash of thunder in the dark cloud.

Not long after, there were bean-sized raindrops pouring down.

At this moment, it was like the Milky Way stopped flowing, like the Milky Way leaking to the ground...

San Francisco has a typical Mediterranean climate. It is warm like spring all year round, even at the lowest temperature every year, it is not below zero.

Very livable!
Regardless of whether it is calculated according to the Western calendar or the lunar calendar, it should be winter in San Francisco today.

But it's still raining!

A lot of rain falls, as if to clean up all the sins of the world.

A large number of corpses piled up under the San Francisco bastion, blood and mud mixed into a bloody mud.

Under the washing of the rain, the blood mud was diluted into a thick mud soup.

The red mud soup mixed with the blood washed out from the pile of corpses and trickled down to the lowlands.

Even formed a blood lake.

The scene is horrifying!
In the heavy rain, the Spaniards' open-air artillery array went out.

The muskets in the hands of their soldiers could no longer fire.

General El looked at the scene in front of him, reached out and wiped the rain on his face, and couldn't help laughing.

"Hahahaha, God bless Spain!"

"God bless Spain!"

"This heavy rain must be God's favor, thank God, praise my merciful Lord!"

In General El's view, such heavy rain could not affect only the Spaniard's firearms.

The firearms of the Ming army will definitely be affected!

As long as the firearms of the Ming army were unable to fire due to the heavy rain, then the biggest threat to them from this bastion would be gone.

Next, even if they employ people, they will definitely be able to take down the bastion.

It is really intolerable that General El is not excited.

"Hahaha, send an order to tell the boys that Mingren's firearms are useless, let them attack with all their strength."

"Only taking down this bastion in front of me is our only chance of survival right now!"

"For the sake of Spain, for the sake of God, go!"

……

The heavy rain suddenly came all over the sky, and it is impossible for the Ming army to say that it was not affected at all.

On the bastion, a large number of open-air artillery positions were also turned off due to rain.

But the artillery in the fortification can still continue to fire.

The same goes for those rotary machine guns.

Although the firearms placed in the fortifications were affected by the rain, they were not large.

The bastion of the Ming army was designed to prevent rainwater at the beginning of its construction.

A Spanish soldier continued to wade through the muddy water, shouting loudly, and continued to rush forward.

From time to time, someone would accidentally slip into the muddy water, but the soldiers who slipped often had no time to get up, and they would be trampled into flesh by the comrades behind them.

However, as soon as they moved, the bastion of the Ming army opened fire.

Boom!Boom!
Amidst the roar, countless Spanish soldiers fell into a pool of blood again.

Although the firepower density of the Ming army has decreased a lot with the naked eye, it is still very deadly to the Spaniards under the city.

Bodies are still piling up improperly!
General El stared at the direction of the bastion without blinking, his eyes full of disbelief.

"What's going on! What's going on here."

"Why can the firearms of the Ming army continue to fire in such a heavy rain?"

Seeing this scene, Lieutenant Colonel Rosen said.

"Maybe it's because the Ming army arranged fortifications at the top of the city!"

When speaking, Lieutenant Colonel Rosen's face was also full of despair.

That's horrible!
It's so miserable!

In order to conquer the bastion in front of them, 4 people besieged from multiple sides.

But apart from leaving corpses all over the ground, there is nothing to gain.

Only a few can climb the walls of the bastion.

Fear is constantly brewing in the hearts of Lieutenant Colonel Rosen and the others!

Most people are in a state of bewilderment.

However, at this moment, a messenger suddenly came to report.

"No...it's not good, the big thing is not good!"

"The reinforcements of the Ming army have landed!"

"Our blocking force was defeated, and the reinforcements of the Ming army have already landed."

……

pier!

After the Ming army finished the naval battle, they began to prepare for the landing.

Under the double cover of naval guns and their own turrets, the Ming army quickly repelled the Spanish blocking forces, seized the dock, and completed the landing.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with the lack of firm will of those Spanish soldiers to fight.

It was almost as soon as the artillery of the Ming army bombed, and then the infantry landed and charged, they collapsed.

But can the soldiers be blamed for this?
Obviously not!

In normal times, they skipped their meals and didn't even give them enough to eat. At critical moments, you still want them to work hard?
Isn't that bullshit?
Do you really take them all for fools?

Salary is the fighting power!

On the other side of the bastion, the reason why the fight was so fierce was that General El was personally in charge, and there was a team of supervisors suppressing it.

If there was no supervising team to press down, those troops attacking the bastion would probably have charged, and if they couldn't beat it, they would collapse.

After the Ming army successfully landed, they did not advance towards the bastion immediately, but camped in the direction of the pier first, preparing to repair it and wait for the rain to stop.

The rain is too heavy now. If you want to fight in the rain, most of the firearms of the Ming army will not be able to be used.

Although the Ming army used breech-loading guns, the bullets were still paper shell bullets.

Once the fixed cardboard bullet is soaked in water, it is almost useless.

Much the same with artillery!
If you want to complete the loading in heavy rain, the gunpowder will be soaked.

If they want to go into battle, they have to wait for the rain to stop first.

……

General El received the news that the Ming army had landed.

His complexion kept changing, and finally he spoke as if he had made up his mind.

"Send the order to withdraw the troops!"

"Suspend the offensive on the bastion, and repel the landing Ming army first!"

In order to prevent his side from being stabbed by the reinforcements of the Ming army when the attack on the bastion was in full swing, he could only stop the attack on the bastion temporarily, and then ordered his troops to turn around and prepare to deal with the Ming army.

After repelling the reinforcements of the Ming army, we will talk about attacking the bastion.

However, what General El did not expect was that just after he ordered the withdrawal of troops, the Spanish soldiers on the front line who were attacking the bastion retreated like a mountain of defeat.

The mountains and plains are full of Spanish soldiers scrambling to escape!

Muskets, bayonets, hats, boots, crosses... all kinds of sundries were thrown everywhere by the rout soldiers.

The heavy rain was still falling, and the entire plain outside San Francisco was densely packed with collapsed Spanish soldiers.

At the moment of the collapse, the supervising team couldn't hold back at all.

I could only watch those soldiers collapse, some fled back to the camp, and some simply fled east all the way back to Mexico City.

Prepare to show it on the road, what is survival in the wilderness!
There is chaos everywhere, and the army cannot be suppressed when the army is defeated.

All General El can do is to order to gather the rout as much as possible, and then return to his own camp to repair.

Anyway, based on the current Spanish army, it is definitely unable to go to the direction of the pier to stop the reinforcements of the Ming army.

……

In the camp, General El took off his rain-soaked military jacket.

Just leaning on the chair like that, the silk underwear on her body also looked even thinner because of the water.

It highlighted the fat on his body and the black chest hair.

General El wiped his face weakly, and asked in a trembling voice due to the coldness of the rain.

"Tell me, what is the casualty situation of our army?"

In today's battle, whether it was a naval battle or a land battle, they all suffered disastrous defeats.

Because Pelos fled after the defeat, he didn't know how the loss in the naval battle was.

However, General El wants to know the casualties of the land battle.

Brigadier General Parrier heard the words, stood up and said.

"According to preliminary statistics, the casualties of our army should be around 300 in the blocking battle on the beachhead."

"However, the casualties in the attack on the bastion cannot be counted..."

"After His Excellency the General ordered the troops to retreat, the troops attacking the bastion collapsed."

"Some people fled back to the camp, while others simply fled without knowing where they went, so the exact number of casualties cannot be determined."

"What we can know now is that there are still about 6000 people in the camp."

General El took a breath when he heard this.

The expression on his face was full of shock and disbelief.

The Spaniards mobilized a total of about 5 troops for this expedition.

This is the final figure that includes both the Army and Navy fleets.

Excluding the sailors of the fleet, the army's strength is around 3000.

Excluding the more than a thousand people who landed and stormed the bastion for the first time, as well as the casualties caused by the scattered raids of the Ming army.

Before today's battle, the Spanish Army had at least 500 troops.

But after today's battle, there are only 6000 people who can return to the camp!
In other words, in today's battle alone, their casualties reached an astonishing 5000 people...

Of course, a large part of the 5000 people were rout soldiers who escaped from the battlefield, not all of them died under the bastion.

But even so, this number is amazing enough!
To be honest, General El has never fought a war with such heavy casualties...

He really started to feel fear from the bottom of his heart towards Daming.

Exhaling heavily, General El spoke.

"Let's talk about it, what should we do next!"

When General El was asking questions, he scanned the crowd with dark eyes, hoping to get an answer.

However, in the face of General El's questioning, almost everyone bowed their heads and remained silent.

Many people's faces are full of despair and sadness.

Facing the current situation, no one really can think of a way to break the situation!

Suddenly, someone raised his head and said.

"No, let's surrender!"

As soon as the words came out, all the eyes in the surroundings looked over.

Come down!
What a tempting proposition.

After all, judging from the current situation, they can't beat the Ming army at all. Is there any other way not to surrender?
There are still more than 2 people here, so they can't be reconciled, and they don't even want their lives for the sake of face, right?

General El took a deep breath when he heard this, but he still spoke.

"In order for the boys to survive, this general has to bear this infamy!"

Speaking of surrendering to the Ming army, General El was a little awkward.

But no matter how awkward it is, it is not a big deal in the face of life and death.

But for the sake of looking good, he did not admit that he was greedy for life and afraid of death, but said that he surrendered to save the lives of the 6000 people in the camp.

Although everyone was a little disdainful when they heard the words, no one objected.

Since General Er is willing to surrender, they will all survive, there is no need to seek death, is there?

The big deal is to spend money to redeem yourself after the war!

Even the missionaries in the army spoke one after another.

"God will praise His Excellency General's kindness!"

"God taught us that life is the most precious thing and should not be given up lightly."

"..."

Logically speaking, for a country like Ming Dynasty that strictly banned religion, these missionaries should have the strongest hostile stance.

However, in the face of life and death, it seems that faith is nothing.

The true fanatics who are not afraid of life and death are only a minority after all.

Seeing that there was no objection, General El breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he ordered people to negotiate with the Ming army to discuss surrender.

……

On the second day, the sky is clear!

The dark clouds in the sky disappeared, and a round of bright sunshine shone.

The golden sunlight shone on the ground, shining on the layers of corpses in the battlefield.

The scene is extremely terrifying!
The gates of the Spanish army's barracks were wide open, and groups of Spanish soldiers took off their military uniforms and wore only an inner jacket. They raised their hands high and lined up to surrender according to different organizational systems.

The defenders of the Ming army in the bastion and the reinforcements of the Ming army in the direction of the pier received the prisoners of war together.

General El was brought before Wang Yong, Wei Wu and others.

Wei Wu looked at the red-haired man who had surrounded him and waited for so long, and his teeth itched with hatred.

But he still resisted the urge to kill.

This red hair is still useful, it would be a pity if it was just killed.

Seeing more than 2 Spaniards surrender without a fight, the Ming army fell into great joy and encouragement.

A well-known soldier laughed loudly, wantonly mocking the weakness of the Spaniards.

If they were the ones in desperation, they would rather all die in battle than anyone would surrender.

Compared with Westerners who like to surrender, most of the East are ashamed of surrendering.

After the immigrants and gold diggers in the bastion cleared the bastion, they rushed out of the city and headed for the gold mine.

The San Francisco bastion was besieged for more than half a year, wasting more than half a year of their gold panning time.

Now that the bastion has been rescued, a group of people are scrambling to go panning for gold and get back the wasted half a year.

Many farmers also began to clean up the land around San Francisco.

Most of the surrounding area of ​​San Francisco was originally farmland reclaimed by Ming Dynasty, but it was a pity that it was abandoned due to the war.

Now that the war is over, they naturally want to sort out the fields again and prepare to cultivate them in the spring of the coming year.

At the same time, the Ming army began to command prisoners of war to clean up the battlefield.

The prisoners of war dug a large pit outside the bastion, and a large number of Spanish corpses were thrown into the pit, poured with gasoline and prepared to be cremated.

Billows of black smoke from the burning of the bodies rose into the air, leaving a plume of smoke in the sky.

The air was filled with the strange smell left by the corpse, which made people want to vomit.

Looking at the scene in front of them, the Spanish prisoners of war couldn't help but prepare to pray.

However, as soon as they took the posture of prayer, they ate the whip of the Ming army supervisor.

"What is this doing? Go to work!"

"Don't believe in those Laoshizi cults, otherwise don't blame the grandpas for their bad swords!"

"..."

Seeing this, a surrendered missionary struggled to say something.

"You can't do this, he is a child of God, please look at it for God's sake..."

However, the missionary had just spoken halfway, followed by a snap.

Smoke curled up.

Li Shun blew away the gunpowder smoke and said with a cold face.

"Whoever fucking tells me religious nonsense, this is the end!"

"Don't keep your hands. For these prisoners of war, those who are disobedient should be killed."

Seeing this scene, the soldiers around clasped their fists in response.

Li Shun was one of the land generals who led troops to aid the New World this time, and his ancestral home was from Henan.

After Jiashen, his family moved to Luzon to escape the military disaster.

Then after Zhu Hongyu captured Manila, Li also joined the army by the way.

In today's Ming army, they can be regarded as a very old group of people!

Now he has reached the rank of brigadier general all the way, and he still has the title of viscount on him.

When he was living in Luzon, he was often bullied by red hair when he was a teenager.

It is often seen that the red hair willfully bully their compatriots.

In this process, both Jesus Christ and the missionaries played an accomplice role.

Therefore, he didn't really have a good opinion of Jesus and missionaries.

In other words, he is not the only one, but the high-ranking generals of the Ming army who were born in Luzon like him do not have a good impression of Jesus.

These high-level generals are the biggest supporters of Zhu Hongyu's strict prohibition policy.

The current high-ranking members of Ming Dynasty dare not say [-]%, but at least [-]% to [-]% of them have a great aversion to Jesusism.

Now, seeing the red-haired missionaries making noise, Li Shun thought of his bullied youth.

The anger in my heart surged and I killed him!
Seeing this, the rest naturally wouldn't say anything.

It's just a prisoner of war, so if you kill it, you will kill it!
Li Shun turned and left. The body of the shot missionary was also thrown into the cremation pit, engulfed in flames like the other bodies.

The Ming army captured too many prisoners of war in this battle. In order to prevent the prisoners from rioting, it was quite necessary to take out some and kill Liwei.

The reason why Li Shun killed the missionary was precisely because of this.

……

Li Shun patrolled the battlefield, and then entered the bastion of San Francisco with a few personal guards, preparing to attend a meeting.

After Li Shun arrived, the meeting officially started.

Several high-ranking generals of the Ming army gathered together, their eyes focused on Li Shun, and they all nodded to him.

An Shengqiang, the governor, saw that everyone was present, and said.

"Now that everyone is here, let's start!"

"The first thing I'm going to discuss is how to deal with those prisoners of war!"

The Ming army captured [-] to [-] prisoners of war in one go in this battle. This number is really exaggerated.

The total population of the Ming Dynasty in the New World, even including the army and the immigrants who arrived with the reinforcements, was less than 3 in total.

With a total population of less than 2, it is not an easy task to control more than [-] and nearly [-] prisoners of war, and there may be some troubles.

And the more important problem is that the Spaniards have no food, and there is not much food in Ming Dynasty.

The Spaniards needed to pass through the narrow section of Panama to send supplies to the expeditionary force, and they had to use land and sea for transportation.

If Ming wanted to resupply to the New World, it had to go by sea and cross the entire Pacific Ocean.

Originally, there were some farming fields near San Francisco, but after half a year of fighting, the farming fields were basically deserted.

The current food and grass in the San Francisco camp, together with the food and grass carried by the support fleet with the army, will not be enough to support the arrival of the next supply fleet.

If there are so many prisoners of war to be raised, the problem of food and grass logistics will become even more tense.

For example, if there were no prisoners of war, each person in Daming would be able to eat one steamed bun per meal.

As a result, after having these prisoners of war, Da Ming can only eat half a meal per person.

Who the hell can stand this?
Therefore, for Daming, it became a big problem to deal with the [-] to [-] prisoners of war in this way.

If it was placed in the mainland of Ming Dynasty, let alone [-] to [-] prisoners of war, even if the number was doubled by ten or a hundred times, there would still be more ways to deal with them.

But the New World is not good, the foundation of Da Ming in the New World is still too shallow.

Hearing this, Li Shun stood up and spoke.

"If you can't, it's all in the hole!"

"Twenty to thirty thousand people are too many, and Daming doesn't have that much food to feed them."

Li Shun didn't like the red hair, and he had the most murderous intent.

Although there is currently a shortage of labor in the New World in Ming Dynasty, the problem of food shortage is more serious than the problem of labor shortage.

Instead of waiting for food shortages in the future, these red-haired prisoners of war were not full and made trouble.

Why not kill them all now!

It can be regarded as never-ending trouble!
Wei Wu also stood up and agreed.

"I agree with Brigadier General Li's proposal, these red hairs really deserve to be killed."

The attitude of the two leading generals was very clear.

Of course, this is also related to the origin of the two.

Like Li Shun, Wei Wu also started his career as a dragon in Luzon, and he was also a Han Chinese who grew up in Luzon.

Affected by his living environment since he was a child, he didn't have a good impression of Hongmao at all.

An Shengqiang heard this, stood up and said.

"The words of the two generals are wrong. Those prisoners of war are all laborers. It would be too wasteful to directly cheat them."

Li Shun frowned upon hearing this.

"How to solve the problem of food and grass? We can't let our brothers go hungry and then feed the prisoners of war, right?"

An Shengqiang heard the words, but said with a chuckle.

"We are indeed short of food, but some people are not short of food."

Hearing this, Wei Wu seemed to think of something, his eyes lit up and he said.

"Your Excellency, do you mean the Indians?"

An Shengqiang nodded.

"Yes, we can use these red-haired prisoners of war to exchange a horse of grain and various supplies with the Indians to supplement the losses of the San Francisco camp."

"If that's the case, I, Da Ming, don't have to dirty my hands with murder, nor do I have to"

Indians are in great demand for Spaniards.

For many Indian tribes, it would be quite a face-saving thing if they could take a Spaniard as a sacrifice when they worshiped the gods.

Wang Yong on the side also said with a smile.

"We can sell not only to the Indians, but also to the Spaniards, and let the Spaniards spend money to redeem their prisoners of war."

"Of course, the redemption of the prisoners of war can only be done after the two sides have negotiated peace and the war is over. Before that, the Spaniards must provide me with food for those prisoners of war."

"Otherwise, if a prisoner of war starves to death, then you can't blame me, Daming!"

"My people detected that the Spaniard's fleet did not leave too far after being defeated and retreated from the battlefield. It is still swimming in the southern waters. We can send someone to contact them."

"..."

Based on the current strength of Ming Dynasty in the New World, it is completely self-preserving, but not aggressive enough.

In a short period of time, there is no way to attack the core area ruled by the Spaniards, and it will not be able to threaten the ruling order of the red hair in the New World.

And the situation on the red hair side is also the same, in the Battle of San Francisco, 5 people were killed by Daming in one fell swoop.

At least half of their standing army in the New World is gone.

In a short period of time, they were also powerless to threaten Da Ming's camp on the New World again.

Therefore, since both sides can't help each other now, peace talks are a very necessary thing.

The prolonged state of war is unbearable for both sides.

Moreover, when the reinforcements left Daming, the emperor also instructed Wang Yong and others that after they arrived in the New World, if the war was not over yet, they could conduct peace talks depending on the specific battle situation at that time.

The emperor didn't say it clearly, but Wang Yong understood what the emperor meant.

That is, if the war is really not going well, then make peace talks first to stabilize the Spaniards.

The big deal is to wait for the court to follow up before continuing to increase troops to the New Continent. When there are enough troops, we will find the lost places.

Perhaps it was because the legal system obtained by Emperor Taizu's "expelling the Tartars and restoring China" was too orthodox.

Perhaps it was because the Ming emperor's declaration of "the son of heaven guards the gate of the country, and the king dies in the country" was too high-pitched.

As a result, Daming was a little coerced by public opinion, and he couldn't tolerate showing weakness in the slightest when facing the outside world.

I didn't see that the Manchu Qing entered the customs several times back then, and they all reached the capital, but did Daming not hesitate?

Although Chongzhen wanted peace talks at the beginning, it was not his original intention to refuse peace talks, but was blocked by the officials in the court.

And let that unlucky Chen Xinjia take the blame for him.

But Daming didn't give in from the beginning to the end, did he?

So, it is impossible for Zhu Hongyu to say in public that he will admit defeat if he can't beat him, he can only hint.

But, more importantly, Zhu Hongyu's hint also gave Li Shun, Wang Yong and others the power to make decisions on the fly.

Now that the war is over and Ming has won a complete victory, after thinking about the situation, Li Shun and the others are also planning to have peace talks with the Spaniards.

The Spaniards have been operating in the New World for a long time and have a deep foundation. If Ming wants to gain a firm foothold in the New World, he must first deal with the Spaniards.

Otherwise, if the war continues, the progress of Ming Dynasty's development of the New World will continue to be delayed.

This is unacceptable!
With this big victory in San Francisco and [-] to [-] prisoners of war as bargaining chips, Da Ming will definitely be able to secure more favorable terms in the peace talks.

……

Jia Yun boarded Pelos' ship in a small boat under the protection of several Ming soldiers.

None of the soldiers of the Ming army carried weapons, but facing the Spaniards with weapons all around them, they all puffed up their chests and looked proud.

Because, they are winners!
Winners are entitled to be proud in front of losers!
With a gentle smile on Jia Yun's face, he said to General Pelos who was sitting on a chair.

"On behalf of Brigadier General Wang Yong, Commander of the Ming New Continent Fleet, I would like to extend my greetings to General Pelos."

Jia Yun's attitude is humble and polite, very calm.

But if you put it together with the glaring expressions of the Spaniards around you, it seems that his attitude is not so comfortable.

Others are glaring at you, but you are really humble and polite.

This is completely ignoring the Spaniards around.

This attitude is more than arrogant!
But his arrogance is indeed hidden in his bones, and his gentleness and politeness on the surface make it impossible to find fault at all.

It made the other side feel aggrieved even more!

The most annoying thing in this world is not the insult of the enemy, but the ignorance of the enemy.

Pelos snorted coldly, narrowed his eyes and said.

"What did your general send you to me for?"

Pelos admitted that he lost the naval battle off San Francisco.

However, if Mingren wanted him to surrender, that would be impossible.

He Pelos is not a cowardly bastard like Al!

When Jia Yun heard this, he still spoke very politely.

"I came here this time because I want the general to provide us with a batch of food as soon as possible."

Jia Yun stated his purpose, but what greeted him was Pelos' anger.

"Damn Mingren, do you want to listen to what you are talking about?!"

"We are the enemy. We actually want this general to provide you with food. Are you deceiving people too much?"

Angrily, Pelos threw the pipe in his hand at Jia Yun's feet.

The pipe was shattered, showing how much effort it used, but Jia Yun remained expressionless, showing no sign of fear.

Pelos said through gritted teeth.

"Aren't you afraid of death when you humiliate this general like this?!"

Jia Yun's expression remained unchanged, and he spoke calmly.

"Of course I'm afraid. Who in this world is not afraid of death?"

"But before I set off, my general said that if something happens to me when I am on an envoy to your side."

"Then twenty-nine thousand Spanish soldiers will be buried with me."

"I think Your Excellency the General is unwilling to see such a thing happen."

The 9000 people Jia Yun mentioned was the total number of prisoners captured by the Ming army in this battle.

Originally, there were only 6000 Spaniards who surrendered, but after the war ended, many Spaniards who felt that their wilderness survival skills were not good enough returned to the battlefield and obediently became prisoners of the Ming army.

Then, the total number of prisoners captured by Daming in this battle became 9000!
When Pelos heard this, his eyes went dark and he almost fainted.

He knew that the Ming army probably captured many prisoners of war in this battle, but he did not expect the number to be so huge.

Twenty-one thousand people.

That's 9000 people!
Pelos took a deep breath, suppressed his temper, and said.

"Hehe, Your Excellency has finished humiliating this general, so it can be said that this visit is for the purpose."

For the 9000 prisoners of war, Pelos felt that it was okay to suffer some grievances.

Jia Yun nodded and continued.

"I am here for two main purposes!"

"The first is to ask for a batch of food from you!"

"I have captured too many prisoners in this battle, and there is not enough food. You must be responsible for the food needed by those prisoners."

"If you can't provide Da Ming with food, then I, Da Ming, can't guarantee how many prisoners of war will starve to death."

When Pelos heard this, he took a deep breath.

With 9000 captives, how much food would be needed!

But he couldn't refuse, otherwise, he couldn't judge what Mingren would do to those [-] prisoners of war.

In case the [-] prisoners of war were starved to death because of his refusal, Pelos felt that he might be sent to the gallows and hanged.

This matter has too much to do with it, let alone him, even Governor Pizarro might not be able to handle it.

Can only compromise!

"Okay, the general agreed to this matter!"

But after Peros agreed to the matter, he still pretended to be calm with no expression on his face.

"What about the second purpose?"

Upon hearing this, Jia Yun knew that the other party was showing weakness, so he said with a smile.

"That is to discuss peace talks with you!"

"The New World is too big for Da Ming and your country to develop it together, for the bright future of the New World, for the precious lives of those brave soldiers, and for the rare peace."

"This official believes that you and I should put aside the dispute for the time being in order to jointly develop the New World."

"This is the choice that best agrees with the interests of both you and me!"

(End of this chapter)