Daming pirates

Sure enough, there was a small boat slowly approaching the shore. A man got out of the boat, waving a small white flag in his hand. This meant that he was not hostile and asked the Spaniards in the camp not to shoot.

Gerald ordered everyone not to fire, but to extinguish the match first, lest anyone get too nervous and accidentally set off the fire, which would cause big trouble.

Although he was very nervous, he also felt a sense of pleasure. When they were in dire straits, the pirates finally thought of sending people to contact them. As long as they could establish contact, things might turn around.

So he watched the man with the small white flag slowly walk outside the camp. Only then did they discover that this man was actually an interpreter they brought from Manila. He was also an expatriate from the Ming Dynasty, specifically serving them.

But by this time, this person should have been captured by the other party.

So he ordered the man to be put into the camp and immediately began to interrogate him.

"The leader of the Sea Wolf asked me to come and tell the distinguished commander! Now, Sir Anthony, is already on his way back to Manila! Please don't have any illusions about him!

In addition, the leader of the sea wolves already knows that you should have no food, and he told me that he does not want to kill you all, nor does he want to see you all starve to death here!

So he asked me to come and tell the commander, please lead everyone here immediately to put down their weapons, walk out of the camp, and surrender to them!

The leader of the Sea Wolf promises that he will save your lives and will never kill anyone casually, and will also provide treatment for the sick and wounded among you!" After the interpreter entered the camp, he immediately said to Gerald

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Gerald frowned and asked: "Did he only say these things? Didn't he put forward other conditions?"

The interpreter shook his head and said: "No! That's all the leader of the Sea Wolf said. He asked you to immediately put down your weapons and walk out of the camp to surrender before noon tomorrow. Otherwise, he will no longer accept your surrender!"

And he also said that he will not accept any conditions you put forward, and he only promises not to harm any of you after you surrender! As for you, you can't put forward any conditions! This is all he demands!"

"This is impossible! We have four hundred brave soldiers here. Even if he surrenders, he must agree to some conditions!

You go back and tell the pirate leader that we can surrender, but he must send a ship to take us back to Manila, and there can be no delay, otherwise we will not surrender!" Upon hearing this, Gerald said,

He said immediately.

But the interpreter smiled bitterly and shook his head and said: "Your Excellency, Commander, please don't ask for conditions. The leader of the Sea Wolf has made it very clear. He will not accept any conditions you propose. He only promises to ensure that after you surrender,

For your life safety, we will not accept anything else, and we will not continue to negotiate with you!

If you don't accept surrender, you can leave here now and go anywhere, but they will no longer accept surrender from any of you until you are all killed!

They said that this is their territory, and you can't leave here alive! That's all they said! Even if the Commander asks me to go back, it won't have any effect!

The time limit is before noon tomorrow. At noon tomorrow, they will bombard the camp here! And completely cut off the water source flowing into the camp!"

When Gerald heard this, his scalp went numb. No one knew their current situation better than him. Now it seemed that he still had 400 soldiers and more than 200 craftsman slaves on hand, as well as several light guns.

infantry artillery, and was also equipped with more than 300 matchlocks.

It seems that this force is considerable, but in fact it is far less powerful than it seems on the surface, because they have no food. It is already the seventh day, and their last bag of food has been eaten by them.

Next, unless they are willing to eat human flesh, there are still more than 200 half-starved slaves there who can be eaten by them for a while.

But these Spanish people have no interest in human flesh. No matter how hungry they are, they are unwilling to choose to eat human flesh, because most of them are Christians and believe that if they eat human flesh, they will never go to heaven.

So from now on, they will not have any food. An army without food, no matter how well-equipped it is, will not have any combat effectiveness. He knows this better than anyone.

What's more, among the infantry under his command, there are also some European scum. They are not all Spanish. They came to Manila to make a fortune and were later recruited as infantry. These people would not do it for the King of Spain.

dedicated.

So as long as there is no food supply, these people will definitely not fight for him or for honor. In the eyes of these scum, honor is nothing like shit. All they care about is how many silver coins they can earn.

, if there were no silver coins or food, they would surrender to the enemy without hesitation.

What's more, even if he has food, his condition is not much better. There is too much rain here and the air is too humid. After a few days, the large amount of gunpowder they carried has begun to get damp, and the match ropes on their soldiers have also become damp.

Being soaked by the rain, it became difficult to ignite. With this, they had no chance of winning against the well-equipped pirates.

What's more, they have no intention of fighting them at all. They only need to sail the gunboats to the shore, aim at their camp and bombard them day and night. It is estimated that not many people in this camp can escape alive.

People.

It turned out that Gerald wanted to use the strength at hand to negotiate with these pirates and win some benefits for them, but now it seems that this idea is a delusion.

The pirates have already seen through them and will not engage in any fair negotiations or transactions with them. They just force them to unconditionally lay down their weapons and walk out of the camp to surrender tomorrow morning.

Overnight, the Spanish camp was like a boiling pot. They were arguing about what to do. Some people were unwilling to surrender to these Chinese pirates. Their little remaining self-esteem did not allow them to surrender to these dirty Chinese pirates.

, so they proposed to rush out of the camp, rush into the jungle, fight a bloody road, and escape from here.

But the vast majority of people were not interested in the proposals of these few fanatics. They already felt their stomachs were empty at this moment and were protesting against them. They rushed out with empty stomachs and ran into the jungle without any trace of food at all.

They were sent here not to commit suicide but to make a fortune.

Therefore, more people are still willing to accept the demand for surrender, at least to save their lives first. The Spaniards do not have the proverb of leaving green hills without worrying about having firewood, but they also understand this truth. As long as they are alive, at least there is hope, but

If they die, then there will be no hope. Most of them do not want to be called by God and go to heaven to serve God.

When the daylight brightened again, sea wolf warships began to appear on the sea outside their camp. They slowly began to approach the shore, formed a horizontal line, turned around, and began to clear the black holes.

The muzzle of the gun slowly pointed at the Spanish camp.

In addition, about three hundred pirates took small boats and began to approach the shore, and began to land on the shore. They formed a neat team and stopped silently in the distance, waiting for the order of the next attack.

What worries the Spaniards in the camp even more is that there has been no movement in the jungle behind them these days, but today, in the jungle, signs of human activity began to appear, and figures kept flashing in the jungle.

, obviously, they have surrounded the Spanish camp, and they are just waiting for the time limit to expire. If the Spanish are unwilling to accept the demand for unconditional surrender, then they will launch an attack on the Spanish.

Time passed slowly by minute by second, and Sea Wolf did not rush him, but just waited quietly. However, the more this happened, the more pressure the Spaniards in the camp felt doubled.

The final time limit was getting closer and closer, and the pressure was getting bigger and bigger. Gerald still refused to give up, and sent two people, with the interpreter, out of the camp, trying to get to the Sea Wolf tribe's disembarked people.

Make one last effort to gain some favorable conditions for their surrender.

But before they could get close to the Sea Wolf tribe, they heard someone among the Sea Wolf tribe shouting an order: "Everyone, stand up! Raise your guns! ... Those who came over were not allowed to move forward after hearing this.

If you take one step forward, stop immediately and return to your camp. We will not accept any conditions you propose! If you dare to take another step forward, we will shoot!"

As a result, the two Spanish officers who were sent out were immediately driven back to the camp in despair.

As the time was getting closer and closer to noon, Gerald finally collapsed. He knew that the Sea Wolf would no longer be able to accept any conditions they proposed, and there was no point in continuing to wait.

So he could only lament and order the team to assemble.

Four hundred Spanish soldiers immediately formed a queue, followed by more than two hundred slaves who were almost starving to death. They began to file out of the camp and came to the open area on the shore.

The Sea Wolf tribesmen on the shore immediately began to gather together and formed a small square formation, ready for battle.