Pampering the sea

The army headed by Dutch Chief of Staff Schett was stationed in Zeelandia Castle.Zeelandia Castle is located on the small island of Yikunshen. There is a small strait between Yikunshen and Chicai on the main island of Taiwan. The widest point is about twice the range of a cannon.The castle is built on a very high sand dam and is square.The city wall is made of bricks mixed with sugar water, which is as strong as a rock.

Many outer forts were built outside the castle, with towering walls and fences built on them.On the enemy side, within a pistol's range of the outer fort, there is a higher sand dune, on which there is a huge stone fortress called the Utlitz Round Fort, equipped with a cannon and many soldiers. On the east side of the castle square, there are many Chinese settlers, forming a town, and the other three sides are surrounded by inland seas, and small boats can easily dock.

"Reload, fire salute!"

The night was low, the waves were churning, and suddenly there was a sound as cold as snow in the air. Immediately afterwards, the gunners filled the gun holes with harmless shells. With a bang, brilliant sparks burst into the dark sea.

"who!"

A large ship from the sea was slowly approaching, and the sailors were waving the dragon flag in their hands on the bow. As the distance advanced, the Dutch army gradually saw the signals sent by the people on board, and the leading soldier made gestures. Bian loudly said: "Let go!"

Inside the castle, the executive council had just finished, and members of the council walked out of the semicircular conference hall one after another.

Niu Laiwenlu, the chief business officer, was still very excited. At the meeting, he sang the opposite stage with Xue Te, the chief of staff. Now that the meeting was over, he still lingered by the door and did not go out, knocking on the door with his cane. floor, and said: "Your Excellencies who vote against me, you will regret your decision for the rest of your life. Even if Chu Zhiling has a life-and-death hatred with the Ming Dynasty court, he is still a Chinese. You trust him too much and wait for him to bite us back." You are the sinners of the East India Company!"

Chief Xue Te twisted his beard, and said without any haste: "My dear Mr. Commercial Chief, you have been too excited these days, maybe you should take some sedatives, oh, I forgot that there is no such thing here, maybe you can Take a boat and go out to see seabirds and go fishing, then your heart will be much calmer. Chu Zhiling is a pirate and a businessman who puts profit first. In his mind, what is the country? Maybe it’s not as good as mine "He took two puffs of cigarettes, exhaled a puff, and said with a smile, "He bit us back for the court, oh why? What is he trying to do? The emperor of China killed his whole family one by one, and one by one Let him kill hundreds of brothers, and he helped the court because he wanted the court to take a gun and punch a hole in his head? It is impossible for the court to promise him as much money as we do, ha ha."

"Your Excellency is very right. I understand the mentality of pirates like Chu Zhiling best. They have no sense of family and country, and their righteousness is beyond the sky. Where there are brothers, it is their country. Where there is freedom and benefits It is their soil, not to mention that Chu Zhiling promised us that as long as we help destroy the Ming Dynasty, he will continue to carry out the pirate mission of intercepting the Chinese sailing ships heading for Manila on the Taiwan Strait, and also promised that we can directly sell the goods to Japan sold it, and planted the Chu family's banner on Dutch ships in his waters to protect the company, and now Mingchao has rotted from the bottom of his bones, there are not many powerful generals, and they are all just a bunch of poor people." The chairman of the Siamese parliament on the side echoed plausibly.

"But can we destroy the Ming Dynasty?" Niu Lai Wenlu looked angrily, his beard raised, "There is an old saying in China that a lean camel is bigger than a horse, just relying on our army, a piece of land the size of a palm , can it destroy the Ming Dynasty with a vast territory? The officer has been eager to make some contributions to the company recently, but he seems to have overlooked many things."

Chief Xuete put down his bong, raised his head and said, "Mr. Niu Laiwen seems to have forgotten that in the north of China, there are still a group of wolf cubs who are eager to destroy Ming Dynasty. Your dear sir, I have not promised Chu Zhiling took over the task of destroying Ming Dynasty with full authority, let them fight, and we took advantage of the chaos to make a small contribution and seize the opportunity to occupy a large piece of Ming Dynasty's territory, isn't this a great idea?"

Niu Laiwenlu took off his top hat, leaned on his cane, and bowed to Chief Xuete: "Your Excellency, thank you for your explanation, but your easy trust in Chu Zhiling will definitely bring trouble to the company. The Chinese are not It's easy to play with applause. God bless you, sir."

At this moment, a figure passed through the bunkers one after another, ran over the winding spiral stairs, and crossed the wind turbine shafts one after another, and was quickly pushed away by the row after row of soldiers. The door of the conference hall.

"Report!"

"What's the matter?" Chief Xue Te asked with his head raised.

"My lord, the Mingchao peace talks army has arrived!"

Xue Te twirled his beard and smiled: "Shoot the salute, play ritual music, have a dinner, and receive guests!"

With one order, the sound of cannons rang out, and one door, two doors, and three doors of the castle were opened one by one. A young woman dressed in a dark blue military uniform with a sword in her waist led a hundred court soldiers striding forward. Xi, the clothes are hunting.

"This is Your Excellency the admiral who beat our army to pieces?" The Foreign Minister led a team to receive the negotiators from Ming Chao, and he couldn't help opening his mouth in surprise.

Her skin was as fair as a bright moon, her black eyebrows were slender, her black eyes shone like autumn water, and a tear mole at the corner of her eye was so pitiful, her figure was slender, as if she could fall down in a gust of wind.This is simply the daughter of a thousand gold who should be kept in a deep boudoir.

The young woman smiled faintly, stretched out a hand with a top hat, and said in Dutch fluently: "Your Excellency, Minister of Foreign Affairs, when we first met, you guessed it very well. I am the admiral of the Ming Dynasty, Xin Yue."

"Female...female?" Not only the foreign minister, but also a series of officials showed shocking expressions. Is this the admiral of the Ming Dynasty who guarded the sea area so that they could not move forward?This is the court chief who has strict military orders and is known to be cold-blooded and ruthless?Why is it a woman, and, besides, knows so many western etiquettes and speaks Dutch so fluently?What kind of monster is this?

No wonder they were surprised, because at that time, the common language of the sea was mostly Portuguese, and there were really few people who could speak Dutch, and very few people could speak Dutch so fluently.

"What's wrong with women? In the west, there should be many female pirates who are tougher than men." Xin Yue pursed his lips and smiled gracefully.