It was only at dawn that the Dutch in Chizhan City realized that their bastion had been taken over in one night. This was almost impossible. In Spain, such a bastion blocked the French for three months.

You know, it was a battle between a few hundred Spaniards and 18,000 French soldiers.

The other party captured it in one night. How did they do it? Could it be that the Ming Dynasty sent a large number of troops? Impossible? There is no way that such a large-scale military gathering could not receive news.

I don't know how, but Halsey knew that he needed to recapture the bastion as soon as possible.

The bastion and Chican City are horns to each other, and now half of the horn is broken. Chican City cannot stand alone. Although Chican City has more troops, it has lost sea supplies. If someone adopts a siege strategy, the Netherlands is far away.

Thousands of mountains and rivers away, there is not even a person to deliver the message, and he has to starve to death.

There were no more warships, and a dozen small boats gathered in a hurry. They wanted to take advantage of the dawn to sneak over and have a fight. Who would have thought that the artillery of the opposite bastion roared.

Although the destructive power of solid projectiles was relatively small, they could not withstand the twenty artillery pieces on the bastion. After a violent bombardment, three of the dozens of small boats were killed, and the remaining ones hurriedly ran back.

My escape skills were pretty good. I was chased and killed two ships. The rest of the ships managed to escape intact. Poor Dutch soldiers who were fully armed, even if they could swim, were weighed down by their heavy equipment, and many of them couldn't make it in time.

After taking off the equipment, I was dragged into the seabed by the equipment I carried with me.

Halsey had no choice at this time. The warship had been killed and there was really no ship. He could go around by land...!

It's just a damn island, and you have to swim across it when the tide is low. Do you expect soldiers to swim across with guns on their shoulders? Are all the people in the fortress blind?

The sky was overcast, and there was no sun in the sky. Dark clouds covered the entire sky, and Halsey's mood was even gloomier due to the sky.

The enemy in the opposite bastion seemed to be very patient, and did not take advantage of the victory to attack Chijian City, and did not know what their plans were. Halsey now had no idea what the other party was doing. He couldn't even figure it out.

, who is your enemy?

"Mr. Zheng, do you think there won't be a typhoon tonight?" Li Xiao asked Zheng Zhiyuan worriedly as he watched the soldiers drive the Dutch prisoners of war into the cellar.

If this buddy makes a mistake, God knows how many days the typhoon will blow. I am in a hurry to return to Liaodong, so I have no time to hang out with the Dutch.

"It will definitely rain, but there will definitely not be a typhoon. After staying on the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang for so many years, I can guarantee it with my head!" Seeing Li Xiao questioning his prediction, Zheng Zhiyuan became a little anxious.

Pirates live their lives watching the face of the Dragon King at sea. If they don't know the weather well, they will be blown to the bottom of the sea by the typhoon without the enemy causing trouble.

"Raining?" Li Xiao's eyes lit up. Raining is a good thing.

"Let's rest during the day and launch an attack at night."

"At night? Sir, if you don't pursue victory during the day, how can you fight in the dark at night? If it rains, it will be too dark to light the torch." Zheng Zhiyuan was a little anxious. How could he not work during the day and wait until night to do it?

"Yes, brother, if we don't take advantage of the clear weather, we can attack in the rain at night, and the guns won't fire." Li Hu yelled at the side.

"What I want is that the gun can't fire." Li Xiao said and let out a long yawn. He didn't sleep last night. He was very sleepy this early in the morning!

"It won't work?" Li Hu still scratched his head and didn't understand.

"You idiot, what does the red-haired ghost rely on? Isn't it a sharp firearm? It's raining, so our firecrackers can't fire. Their firecrackers can't fucking fire either. Besides, it rains.

It won't affect our grenades and mortars. After all, fighting them on a rainy day will bring us a lot of benefits." Li Xiu slapped Li Hu, and then walked away with his hands behind his back, looking like a disgusting master.

appearance.

Facts have proved that Zheng Zhiyuan's activities along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang over the past few years have not been in vain.

Just after noon, it started to rain. At first it was just a sporadic drizzle, but after noon it turned into a downpour. At this time, the sea was like hell, with turbulent waves and purple thunder and lightning that kept hitting the sea.

Above, plumes of white smoke rose, and heavy rain poured down.

Raindrops as big as soybeans hit the sea, and the huge sound of the waves could not cover up the sound of the raindrops colliding with the sea. The world seemed to have entered a silent movie, and the sound of the wind was all in my ears.

The ship lowered its sails early, and I was happy when I saw the five-masted ship drifting in Luermen Harbor. I finally have a ship that can be called a warship, but it was a little scary when I took out the corpse from the warehouse this morning.

The pirates all treated the corpses in the same way, stretching their legs and throwing them into the sea. You can still see corpses drifting in the sea.

The waves pushed the body and threw it high up. Then it pressed hard on the rocks. The oysters on the rocks were as sharp as knives. At first, there were just holes on the body, and after a while, broken bones were exposed.

The entire corpse will probably disappear before nightfall.

Li Xiao swore that he would never eat those crabs on the beach again, as well as the oysters and locusts that are said to be very good for men. Eating those things is no different from eating human flesh.

Although he didn't have a good impression of the red-haired ghost, Li Xiao was still disgusted by eating human flesh.

My previous impression of the Dutch was still limited to the legal red light district, the legal Ajax, and the windmills in the fields.

But after the fortress was finally laid, Li Xiao's impression completely changed. Zheng Zhiyuan's men found a box. When he opened the box, Li Xiao saw that it was full of human hands. There were adults' hands and children's hands.

They are all calluses, and some are only one finger long.

Seeing this box of manpower, Li Xiao immediately forgave Zheng Zhiyuan for his cruelty in suffocating people to death. In fact, Li Xiao felt that he was not cruel enough to them. Maybe he would feel better if he tortured the prisoners of war in the cellar.

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Since there is blood on your hands, how can you do it without paying the price?

"Isn't this fucking rain a little too heavy?" Li Xiao, who had slept all morning, stood on the top of the bastion. The rain curtain in front of him blocked his sight. He couldn't even see Chihkan City opposite the inner harbor.

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"It's okay, brother! Even if the mortar can't be used, the grenade is still fine. What you said about kicking the door open and throwing a grenade in is amazing. The shrapnel flew sideways, and there was nothing in the whole room.

A blind spot. As long as there is an explosion, there is no need to check." Li Hu happily chewed a large piece of ham.

The ham made by this red-haired ghost is very good and chewy, but the sweet steamed buns are not so good. I ate a lot at noon, and I felt hungry again after a while.

"It's raining and we can no longer use fire guns, so the advantage of Master Zheng's men is revealed. Brother, should we also practice fighting or something like that? Our soldiers were beaten like meatbags in close combat with others. Hand over.

It's so embarrassing." Li Xiu has been hanging out with Zheng Zhiyuan and the others for a long time in the past few days, and he is very envious of the good skills of the Zheng family's men.

"I have practiced it by robbing families and homes at sea for many years. A good kung fu is the ability to eat. Those who cannot practice kung fu will end up in the bellies of fish and shrimps. How do you practice? Let people go to sea to become pirates?"

"Uh...!" Li Xiu was speechless. Although he envied his good skills, he still didn't want to be a pirate.

"I know that there is a place called Cangzhou in North Zhili. People there have been practicing kung fu since they were young. There are many masters among the people. When I returned, I went to Shanhaiguan to work. I can recruit one or two thousand people in Cangzhou. There is no problem. All of them are used.

Our money and the face of Cui Chengxiu should still be given to me.

If you want soldiers who know kung fu, it's easy to find. Then you can go to Cangzhou and recruit them yourself!" Li Xiao sat on the chair, tore off a banana and peeled it.

"Really!" Li Hu immediately threw down his big elbow.

"Sure, I'll recruit troops then." Li Xiu was very happy. Every general would want to have a group of highly skilled subordinates.

"I'm going too! I'm going too!" Li Hu swallowed a large piece of elbow with difficulty, choking and rolling his eyes.

After glancing at Li Hu, Li Xiao started eating bananas happily.

There is still a rain break in this war!

The pirates under Zheng Zhiyuan expressed full understanding. After all, they also made a living at sea. They knew that the weather was not suitable for traveling. Although they were engaged in life-threatening business, navigation safety still had to be guaranteed.

The bastion did not grab any special benefits. Fortunately, Li Xiao promised to give Zheng Zhiyuan two cannons and more than a hundred Dutch flintlock guns. Zheng Zhiyuan, who had just lost a little, immediately stopped losing.

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Although gold and silver are real, weapons are even more real. Ten taels of silver can buy food for a year, but if you buy a firecracker, you can last a lifetime.

Zheng Zhiyuan, who has been fighting for a long time since he was a child, of course knows all about it. He likes those cannons when he sees them!

There were not only men among the prisoners, but also women. There were hundreds of big men, and suddenly a few blond women appeared. No one knew what they were doing.

Since the Dutch can use it in common, there is no problem in sharing it with others. Drive all the Dutch girls to the house outside the bastion and let them have fun. After all, people also need to vent their tension.

As for his soldiers, Li Xiao placed them on the dock.

They are all brothers, so we can't trick them. Li Xiao knows that bayberry scab came from the West, and it is absolutely imported. These ladies have never had a physical examination. Only the devil knows if there are other problems.

It would be terrible if it was transmitted to one's own soldiers.

The pirates were very grateful for Master Li's friendship. They came out of the house with their pants in hand. They patted their chests and said that they would go and capture the red-haired city at night. Capture all the red-haired women there. Master Li can choose first.

It's a bit of respect from the brothers.

What a simple person!

With their minds full of robbing money, food, and women, Li Xiao felt that they were a group of people who lived the purest lives. The word robbing ran through their entire lives!

If you have no money, go and rob. If you have no food to eat, go and rob. If you want to sleep with a woman, just go and rob. With your head in your belt, you will live and die. Today is the best, and you never think about tomorrow. The future is nothing.

Son, I'm too lazy to think about it.

So Li Xiao found that the pirates were all happy. They ate meat and drank wine. They never considered anything other than today and lived every day as if it were the last day of their lives. Not everyone can have this awareness.

After playing like a Dutch girl, we drank all the wine in the cellar, ate all the bread and sausages, and had a long sleep. Sneak attack? In this kind of weather, big ships can't go out to sea. If a small boat wants to paddle across the bay, that's it.

seek death!

The pirates who woke up regained their fighting strength, because they felt that since they were full of food and drink, they would be sorry to God if they did not rob.

The wind and waves on the sea have finally subsided a little. Who knows what time it is now. Anyway, the sea is very dark, and the sky is also very dark. The Chizhan City in the distance is also very dark, and the only light is like the eyes of a giant beast.

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Although the eyes of this giant beast look a bit small!

Then use acne instead. The lights in the distance are like the acne on a girl's face.

The two ships did not dare to open their sails and relied on human power to row forward. Finally, they reached the pier and found that there was no one at the small pier.

Nervous Li Xiu looked around with a telescope, but he couldn't see anyone. Zheng Zhiyuan swung off the boat like a civet cat, and led the people to fumble in the dark for a long time. He came to the conclusion that this could only be stopped.

The small pier for two or three boats has been abandoned.
To be continued...