Zhu Cijing has been depressed these two days. He has been in charge of the army several times. He has never encountered a tough bone as hard as Relanzha City. In the past, he used to crush others with hot weapons. This time, when he encountered the Netherlands, which is also advanced in thermal weapons, he felt a little incapable of talking.

Gerlandcha is a typical "basket". This basket was a great invention of the European Renaissance. Its characteristic is that the city walls are extremely irregular, with edges and corners everywhere, with staggered heights, numerous firepower points, and many dead corners of muskets and artillery attacks. Unless your artillery range is two or three miles away from the enemy in the basket, and you can use dense shells to flatten the edges and corners of the basket, otherwise, it will be extremely difficult to break.

The artillery of the Ming Dynasty can naturally be farther away than that of the Later Jin Dynasty, but compared with the Dutch, it is still far behind that of the Dutch. The Dutch likes to build cannons with extremely long ranges. Compared with them, the Ming Dynasty's howitzers are not two or three miles away, but two or three miles away!

Of course, it is impossible to say that 150,000 people cannot capture the fortress guarded by 500 people. Even if these 500 Dutch people are hiding in reinforced concrete fortifications, they will be piled up to death.

Now Zhu Cijing is about to use people to pile up. What makes him depressed is not that the soldiers refuse to use their lives, but that he wants to use the lives of the soldiers to pile down a solid fortress. They are all elite guards who have followed him for several years. Thinking that he will lose at least a few thousand people this time, he feels so uncomfortable.

If the Dutchman had the ability to build forts was better than Sun Chengzong, the location chosen by Relanzha City was so poisonous, which just blocked the sea outlet of the Taijiang Inner Sea. If you want to attack from the front, you won’t know how many people they would kill by them just by catching the beach. Fortunately, with the waterway map provided by He Bin, the Ming fleet was able to enter the Taijiang Inner Sea from the abandoned Luermen Channel, so that the ground troops could go around from land to the side of Relanzha City, and the losses were reduced by more than twice. However, even so, if you want to attack hard, you will have to accompany at least a few thousand lives.

In order to minimize the losses, Zhu Cijing thought of solutions on the sea and on the land. On the sea, he planned to let the super battleships approach the city from the inland sea of ​​Taijiang, and bombard the city with the turrets in the city to distract them; by land, he tried to make as many siege equipment as possible, especially siege cars. Scatter-blasting attacks would not destroy siege cars. If it was live ammunition alone, it would only take dozens of shots to survive. As long as it was scattered, it would not hit a few of them in one round. He estimated that if he could build thousands of siege cars and rush up in batches, the Dutch could only knock out one third at most, and then they would not have it.

Just when Zhu Cijing ordered people to cut down trees everywhere to make siege equipment, Chen Zhang rushed to Putmans and more than a thousand Dutch prisoners. Zhu Cijing was very excited and immediately asked Chen Zhang to escort Putmans to meet.

Putmans is honest this time, because Chen Zhang kept warning him along the way that he would meet His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire this time. If he dares to be a little disrespectful, he will be executed directly!

He was no longer afraid of death, but he was still very afraid of Lingchi's execution. He had to cut at least three thousand swords and let him wail for three days and three nights. He was afraid of it! So, after seeing Zhu Cijing, he took the initiative to kneel down, without making noise or making a fuss, and then knelt there with his eyes closed and waiting for the death sentence.

Zhu Cijing hadn't thought about sent Putmans to death. He looked at the guy with interest and asked, "Will he persuade the defenders of Relanzha City to surrender?"

When Putmans heard this, he opened his eyes and looked at Zhu Cijiu in a daze, not knowing what the emperor was talking about.

Chen Zhang, who was kneeling beside him, quickly pressed his head down and whispered in Dutch words: "Idiot, don't stare at the emperor, this is very disrespectful."

After pressing Putmans' head down, Chen Zhang replied respectfully: "If you go back to the emperor, our Admiral has asked him. He is unwilling to persuade the defenders of Relanzha City to surrender and will not go to death."

Zhu Cijing was not discouraged, and he continued to say to Chen Zhang: "Tell him that if he is willing to persuade the defenders of Relanzha City, I will not only let him go back, but also reward him with 10,000 taels of silver."

Chen Zhang immediately translated it in a low voice, and Putmans was too lazy to speak, so he just shook his head.

Seeing this, Zhu Cijing increased his investment: "100,000 taels of silver."

Chen Zhang translated it again, but Putmans shook his head.

Zhu Cijing was a little impatient now. He said angrily: "One million taels, tell him that this is his last chance. If you don't agree, I will chop his head and bomb it into the city of Relanzha with cannons."

Chen Zhang translated it in a stern tone, and Putmans kept shook his head. No matter how much money he had, he would have to spend it. What's the use of going back? Not only would he die, but he would also be charged with betrayal of the country. Even his family would suffer. It would be better to die here and be a hero!

Zhu Cijiu couldn't help but feel a little angry and shouted: "Do you think I dare not kill you? Come on."

Immediately, two Jinyiwei walked in and knelt there and waited respectfully.

Seeing this, Chen Zhang hurriedly saluted and said, "Your Majesty, please calm down. When I came, our admiral asked me to give the emperor a little word. He said, if Putmans really was unwilling to persuade the defenders of Relanzha, then push all the captured Dutch people to the formation to be used as meat shields, and see if the Dutch in the city dared to fire!"

When Zhu Cijing heard this, his eyes lit up and he nodded and praised: "Yes, this idea is good, so let's take him down first."

Putmans thought he would die, but he didn't expect that the Ming general who escorted him would plead for him. He didn't know what he said, but His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty actually asked the general to escort him out again. Although he knew that there was little hope of survival this time, if he could survive, how many people would go to seek death. Therefore, he was still very grateful to the Ming general.

However, he couldn't be grateful the next day, because the next morning he was taken by the Ming general and all the captured subordinates to the formation of the siege army. Looking at the familiar city of Gerlandzha in the distance, Putmans asked in annoyance: "Didn't I say I won't persuade me to surrender? Why are you hiring us here?"

Chen Zhang was too lazy to reply, so he led his men to escort more than a thousand Dutch prisoners to the front siege car, and then ordered loudly: "Tie them all, tie them up with five or six on each siege car."

Chen Zhang's men immediately dispersed, and Putmans was also taken to the front siege car. At this time, two Ming soldiers had already stood on the siege car. The two soldiers escorted him directly carried him up and threw him up. The two soldiers in the siege immediately put him in a stance facing the sky, then took out the rope and tied it up.

Putmans finally knew what the Ming army was going to do, and he shouted: "You are torture and killing prisoners. You savages, let me go quickly..."

The defenders of the city of Relanzha naturally saw such a big noise. At this time, the two lieutenants under Putmans were responsible for defending the city. Although they could not see the specific appearance of the person tied to the siege car in the telescope, they could see the clothes, which were the same as they were wearing!

Wei Ke, the Ming army was so shameless and used prisoners as flesh shields. Now they were confused. Can they fire the gun? If they fire, one shot may not necessarily destroy a siege car, but the people tied up on it will definitely be blown up by blood. They are all their colleagues!

One of the tall lieutenants counted the Ming army's siege cars and said with some hope: "Their siege cars are only 200, and even if they squeeze ten people down there, there are only 2,000 people. If they only use siege cars to attack the city, we don't need to fire at all. They always have to come out to climb the city wall and shoot at them when the time comes. At such a close distance, I can kill all 2,000 of them with just 300 people. I just don't know if they will follow the siege cars."

The Ming army did not give them much time to consider, so the prisoners here tied up the siege cars, and ten super battleships on the sea over there were slowly forcing towards Relanzha City.

Another short lieutenant saw this and hurriedly said, "Okay, leave you three hundred people, and I will take another two hundred people to fire the fire. If they just attack with that kind of siege car, I won't fire the fire here. If there are other people following me, I can only try my best to fire the fire at the others, hoping not to hurt the people above."

The tall lieutenant nodded and said, "Okay, that's it. I hope they only use that kind of siege car to attack, and we still have the hope of saving the captain and the others."

They had just discussed that the warships on the sea had entered the range of some turrets. The short lieutenant hurried to the turret and ordered loudly: "Tubes 1 to 10 are ignited and fire the gun."

After a while, there was a roar of "boom boom boom" and more than twenty shells flew towards the Ming army's warships. The number 10 cannons are the farthest thirty-two-pound cannons. The damage of about thirty kilograms of shells is very terrifying. As long as the Ming army warships are hit by the bombardment, all wood chips fly across the ship's side and gun door. If the ship's side and gun door are hit, it will be a big hole. If the deck is hit, a large pit will be smashed. However, there are less than thirty thirty-two-pound cannons in total, and they can only hit a few. The Ming army's warships are not much damaged and are still moving closer to the city of Relanzha.

The Ming army's warships had just entered the attack range of the eighteen-pound cannons and immediately began to turn the rudder and cross. The Dutch cannons had just ignited the fire, and the Ming army's warships had already roared, "Boom boom boom" a splash hit the city of Relanzha like raindrops. The Dutch soldiers in the city immediately began to dodge. This is the case with the bastion. There are edges and corners everywhere. When you attack from any angle, the soldiers guarding the city can find the corresponding dead corner to avoid it. Therefore, the Ming army's artillery did not hit anyone in this round of artillery attacks. Instead, more than 20 roaring 18-pound cannons were then heard, which made several large holes on the Ming army's warships.

The short lieutenant ran out of the hidden place proudly and was about to call on the artillery to continue loading the shells, the Ming army warship opposite suddenly remembered the roar again, "Boom boom boom", and another scattered missile flew over, scared the lieutenant quickly ran back to the hidden place and cursed: "Oh, fire, how could it be possible? Why did they load ammunition so quickly!"

The Ming army's artillery fire was so fast, almost every ten seconds, and more than that. The ten battleships in the front had just fired ten rounds and left, and ten ships immediately emerged from behind. Only a few minutes apart were separated by the middle. Seeing this, the short lieutenant had to name all the artillery soldiers to run to the turrets at the dead end of the shooting to load shells and fight back. In this way, the number of shells they fired was more than doubled.

The artillery battle here has just begun, and the Ming army on the side has begun to attack the city. They have actually only pushed about two hundred siege cars and rushed over with human shields!

Seeing this, the two lieutenants in the city of Relanzha couldn't help but show a surprise expression at the same time. There were only two thousand people, so there was no need to fire the gun. When they climbed the city wall, they directly shot with guns and stabbed with bayonets. It was impossible for them to attack. At that time, it would be possible to rescue all their captured colleagues back!

Did these two thousand people attack Xiarelanzha City? Are they really here to return the prisoners? The answer is revealed in the next chapter.
Chapter completed!