The black warship appeared within the sight of the defenders of the city of Jelanzha, causing a stir of riots immediately.

Everyone was asking themselves in their hearts, "Is Captain Lucius's words true? Has the Dutch fleet been wiped out?"

Lyerson quickly confirmed the fortifications in various places again.

On the other hand, Zheng Zhilong asked Li Wanqing to set up a forward position in the Shazhou, the north line.

The position at the end of the northern line is extremely important. The Ming Navy controls the waterway where the Ka-lord freely enters and exits the harbor, and can build fortifications to shell the city of Jelan Cha on the other side.

This place is very close to Gerlancha City and does not require a long range of cannons. The mortars carried in the land battle camp can exert enough power.

As a typical European modern fortress, in addition to the main structure of the prism and Half Moon Fortress, the Utrecht Fort, which stands on the outer dunes, can provide additional firepower.

However, such a design is still difficult to compare with the sound fortresses in the Netherlands.

Although there are bastions around here, there are no auxiliary facilities such as inclined dikes, ditches, fences, and low walls.

Even if there is occasional construction, it is mostly incomplete formalist works. Even the independent Utrecht Fort has become a bare artillery turret, and it is difficult to hold on for too long under the artillery fire of the Ming Land Battle Camp.

More than 5,000 soldiers from the Land War Battalion carrying a large number of artillery surrounded the city of Gelanzha, and Lyerson could not even send someone to send a letter to ask for help.

Looking at so many well-equipped Ming soldiers, Lyerson once thought he was dreaming.

Ming Kingdom, isn’t that a country that can’t even get a hundred mesh rope guns?

Zheng Zhilong did not waste time, and the fort was quickly constructed and the shelling of Utrecht Fort was directly started.

Due to the limited shooting angle, the defensive firepower of the city of Jelanzha could not provide support at all. They could only allow Utrecht Fort to bear the bombing of the new Ming artillery alone.

Half an hour later, Utrecht Fort became a ruin.

After losing the only peripheral support point, Jelan Cha is also more fragile than in the past.

And when the Dutchman who watched Utrecht Fort be smoothed out from the land, he was naturally panicked at this moment.

This artillery fire from the Ming army was too powerful and was not the Ming army they had known before.

Such powerful artillery fire could not last long.

At this time, a riot suddenly came.

Immediately afterwards, someone reported: "A large number of Chinese people gathered at the city gate and have seized the city gate!"

Lyerson was shocked when he heard this, and then said in a deep voice: "The Ming army's firepower is too strong, we can't resist. Now everyone will follow me to go down the city. I will surrender on behalf of Relanzha."

The gates were taken away, and it would be meaningless for him to resist like this.

On May 23, the second year of Chongzhen, Lyerson surrendered to the Ming South China Sea Navy represented by Zheng Zhilong, on behalf of the Dutch East India Company, and announced that the city of Raranzha belonged to the Ming Empire, and the Ming Empire recaptured the southern part of Tai Island.

Lyerson and others were detained as prisoners of war and sent to Quanzhou of the Ming Dynasty, waiting for His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to deal with it.

Immediately, Zheng Zhilong asked some people to resettle the Chinese here, and sent people to return to Quanzhou by boat, requiring more terrestrial victims to transport to Taiwan Island, expand the overall development of Taiwan Island, and better garrison the local area.

After resting in Jelancha City for a day, the fleet set out again and headed north.

In 1626, 12 Ming-style sailboats escorted by two large galleon warships set off from the Port of Manila. In addition to more than a hundred Spanish officers and soldiers and missionaries, most of the members of the expeditionary force were indigenous population of Luzon.

They successfully bypassed the cape northeast of Tai Island and discovered Jilong Island, an important port.

At the entrance of Keelung Port, they discovered a small island suitable for defense and named it Santisimma Trinidad. Soon they built a bastion fortress on the island and used it as a base for further development.

Just at the beginning of this year, the Spaniards discovered the Tamsui River, which is very suitable for entering the inland, along the northwest coast of Taiwan, and established a second fortress in Tamsui - the Santo Domingo Fortress.

Spanish soldiers and missionaries also started from Santo Domingo fortress as their starting point and went deep into the inland along the river. While preaching to indigenous tribes, they tried to expand their sphere of influence.

However, Spain's overseas colonial model has largely restricted the development of strongholds such as Tamsui.

They did not allow more Ming Dynasty refugees, Luzons or Fusang people to explore new territory, so that there are only a few people today.

At this time, the total number of Spanish officers and soldiers in Chicken and Santo Domingo Fortress was less than 300. In addition, there were more than 800 Luzon native expeditionary forces.

Zheng Zhilong led five cruisers to outside the Tamsui waters. As soon as he arrived, two Spanish warships and eight Ming-style sailboats were "welcoming". These were merchant ships and frigates preparing to leave the port to Manila to transport goods.

Pablo was the commander of this long voyage. He didn't actually feel safe, but he had only two warships. After all, at this time, Dutch pirates were extremely active in Southeast Asian waters and once plundered Spanish merchant ships.

He had thought of being attacked by the Dutch fleet or meeting the Portuguese fleet, but he never expected that he would be blocked by the Ming fleet to the "door" and they had not even left the port completely!

Looking at the five huge black warships, Pablo deeply realized that the Spanish warships are now out of date.

Not only can it be compared with Dutch warships, it also seems so weak in front of Ming warships.

"The Spanish fleet opposite is careful, dock immediately, lower the mast, and wait for disposal. After three warnings, there will be no action and will be attacked by force! This is the first warning!"

The one who called out was Lieutenant Colonel Rice.

Captain Lucius obtained the promise of Zheng Zhilong to give him a formal household registration status for foreign personnel in the Ming Dynasty through his performance in Gerlandzha.

And Lucius's words at the beginning also had a great impact on Les.

When he learned that their surrendered soldiers could not be released immediately and had to wait for the arbitration of His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, he decided to help Zheng Zhilong do something.

In exchange for a promise to ensure the safety of your life.

A language talent, Rice, not only understands the Ming Dynasty's Mandarin and Fusang dialect, but also allows for barrier-free communication with Spanish, Portuguese and British people.

Although Zheng Zhilong can also have some languages ​​in various countries, he is not as proficient as Rice.

This time in the battle against Spain, Zheng Zhilong asked him to follow the army as his own staff and translator.

Rice enjoys this job very much. After all, she is with Zheng Zhilong. She can listen to phonographs, play mahjong, and drink fine wine. It's so comfortable.

Even if he was a lieutenant colonel in the Netherlands before, he could not match his living conditions today.

Therefore, he was very concerned about the work arranged by Zheng Zhilong and worked very hard when shouting.
Chapter completed!