The Prosperous Era of Longwan

"You should tell the truth, otherwise he never showed up when the Ming army attacked the city, which is absolutely unreasonable."

At this time, the most influential pirate leader here spoke up. He was the commander of the South Gate and naturally had his own judgment.

In fact, he had this idea a long time ago, but he dared not think or say it, fearing that the morale would be low and he would not be able to lead the soldiers.

The Ming army's shouting was just to confirm his guess.

"If you don't want to die, surrender. I don't want to delay the Ming army for that bastard and help him escape."

"If you surrender, even if you die, you have to take him with you."

"Yes, Lin Damazi is not a human being, and we can't let him have an easy time.

Even if the government army wants to punish him, they will first take Lin Damazi for execution. We have to survive and watch him beheaded."

The words of the commander of the South Gate made the other leaders boil like hot oil in a frying pan, and everyone talked about it.

Pirates don't have the idea of ​​being selfless. They are all selfish, which is actually normal.

When it does not involve their own interests, they can naturally speak some fair words in a sanctimonious manner, but as long as it involves themselves, they must consider the problem from the perspective of their own interests first.

Now, being abandoned by Lin Feng and becoming a discarded child, naturally no one is willing to fight to the death with the Ming army and let Lin Feng run away.

As some of them said, if they surrendered, it might be a capital crime, but Lin Feng must die before them.

Even if they were beheaded together, they must chop off Lin Feng's head first.

The big man heard what others said, glanced around, and then said: "It seems that there are many brothers who don't want to die here.

In this way, those who are willing to surrender stand on the left, and those who don't want to surrender and want to fight to the death with the Ming army stand on the right."

This is to see how everyone stands. Although he is the strongest among all the people here, he has to consider the opinions of others.

If most people disagree with him, he has to consider what to do.

After all, there is an old saying that a vicious tiger cannot stand up to a pack of wolves.

He has not expressed his opinion, but just expressed his guess, which is also the meaning.

Generally speaking, the top people will not easily express their opinions, because there will be no way out at that time.

"Think about it, everyone, the families of the brothers are now in the hands of the government troops.

It's because they don't have time to spare now, otherwise I'm afraid everyone's family members would have been taken to the city wall."

The general who escaped from the west gate spoke up.

The incident happened suddenly, and their families were all in the city at that time, and there was no time to send people to pick them up.

Now they must be controlled by the Ming army, but the Ming army doesn't seem to have thought of taking them as hostages.

At present, they can temporarily suppress the government troops with the concentrated copper cannons, but if they find their families from the crowd of civilians in the city and use them as shields, will the cannons be fired or not?

At that time, everyone will still have to surrender.

Instead of choosing to be captured at that time, it is better to take the initiative, perhaps in exchange for a glimmer of hope.

"It's all because of that bastard Lin Fengchun. He surrendered to the government but made us suffer."

Some people thought that the government troops had entered the city and had already controlled other places in the city, and they knew that what the man said was right.

The family must have been controlled by the Ming army. What choice should they make then?

As for why everyone is sure that Lin Fengchun and his group surrendered to the court, it is because someone once saw Xu Yingmei in the Ming army.

In addition, the government troops entered the city from the north gate, and there was no fierce battle there.

The east and west gates found something wrong or thought that the patrolling men on the city wall found that the government troops came from the north gate.

"Okay, everyone, stop talking. Now that things have come to this, it's better to think about which side to stand on."

The surviving leaders of the east and west gates have all arrived at the south gate, but after a fierce battle, their strength has been greatly reduced.

To be honest, although they are now numerous, they are not as tough as the leaders of the south gate.

In the world of pirates, the strong are respected.

Many of the leaders here were actually small pirates before. They had no choice but to turn to Lin Feng and keep each other warm in the hope of getting through the encirclement of the Ming army.

Everyone gathered together for the sake of profit. Although they were angry that Lin Feng abandoned them to escape alone, they were actually prepared.

Because if there was a chance, they would abandon Lin Feng without blinking.

As expected, no one wanted to die here. No one went to the right. Everyone gathered on the left consciously.

Including those who were once regarded as Lin Feng's confidants. They might hate Lin Feng more than others at this time.

"Okay, since everyone thinks so, there's nothing more to say. Let's discuss how to negotiate with the Ming army."

The chief general of the South Gate said to the leaders of the other two gates.

"As long as we can survive, we don't dare to hope for anything else."

Pirates have some assets, but at this time, they are at the mercy of others. If they still want to get their assets back from the Ming army, it's probably a foolish dream.

They only had one thought now, that is to survive and watch Lin Feng being cut into pieces by the Ming army.

In fact, they also wanted to cut Lin Fengchun, Yan Youqian and others together, but unfortunately they couldn't do it.

Some people even envied those people in their hearts, how great would it be if they could switch positions with them?

Surrendering to the court is actually not impossible.

The court has always been both appeasing and appeasing pirates.

However, if it is an ordinary government official who is trying to persuade them, they have to consider the other party's character.

In short, it is not that these little pirates are unwilling to persuade and whitewash themselves, but they have not met the right person.

Think about it, Hu Zongxian, the governor of Jiangnan, can kill Xu Hai and Wang Zhi for merit, and these little pirates are still in control in the eyes of others.

And no one brought up this matter this time, in fact, there is no choice.

At this point, there is still a choice.

Outside the tower, Deng Zilong and Chen Lin stood behind the formation, staring at the South Gate Tower with sharp eyes.

"They won't fight to the death again, they haven't responded for so long."

Chen Lin said to Deng Zilong.

In front of them, several soldiers were still shouting loudly.

If someone's voice was hoarse, he would immediately replace someone else to continue shouting, and he would drink water to slow down. This is their mission.

Deng Zilong just frowned slightly, and after a while he said: "Wait and see, if they are still stubborn, we will send artillery to bombard them.

It's dawn now, it's time to end it."

"Sir, Lin Fengchun and Yan Youqian come to see you."

Just as the two were talking, the personal soldier beside them suddenly whispered.

Hearing this, the two looked back and saw Lin Fengchun, Yan Youqian and Wu Dacheng standing in the distance, and Xu Yingmei also walked out of the crowd and walked over there.

I don't know what the four people said, I only saw Xu Yingmei looking over here in surprise, and then turned back to continue talking to them.

But it is obvious that Xu Yingmei doesn't seem to agree with what they said among the four people.

But, there is no clear opposition.

This is just a judgment made by Deng Zilong and Chen Lin based on the changes in the expressions on the four people's faces. Although they are a little curious, they did not discuss it.

"Let them come."

Deng Zilong said.

Soon, the personal soldiers came over and called the four people to the front. Deng Zilong then asked: "What do you want to see us for?"

"Sir, we have a plan to help the government army easily take the north gate without spending a single soldier."

Before Lin Fengchun could speak, Yan Youqian spoke first.

His words shocked Deng Zilong and Chen Lin.

"What do you have in mind? Tell me quickly."

Chen Lin asked impatiently.

As Yan Youqian told the story, Deng Zilong and Chen Lin also understood.

"Use those people's families as hostages, this, spread out"

Understanding their plan, Deng Zilong and Chen Lin asked them to go down first, and the two began to discuss.

Chen Lin is from Guangdong. He has long followed Yu Dayou to suppress the Japanese, so his behavior habits are somewhat influenced by Yu Dayou, and he does not like to use hostages to solve the battle.

"However, their ideas are indeed very effective."

Deng Zilong is a general who has worked hard in the garrison. Although he once followed Yu Dayou to fight, the time was short after all, and the impact was limited.

At that time, Yu Dayou was urgently transferred from Guangxi to Jiangxi to serve as the general of Nangan. In just a few months, he sent troops to Fujian to suppress bandits.

After the war, Yu Dayou did not return to Jiangxi, but stayed in Fujian as the general officer.

If Wei Guangde had not brought people to him, Yu Dayou would have forgotten Deng Zilong.

So, Deng Zilong considered the gains and losses of the war more. As long as it was conducive to victory, even if the method was not so fair, it seemed to be of no concern.

The superiors only look at the results, not the process.

What's more, in Luzon, there are no annoying civil servants, so there is naturally no problem of impeachment by censors.

In fact, for Deng Zilong, even if he did it, what would happen if the censors knew about it? At most, he would be reprimanded and his official position could be removed.

He has someone above him.

Unlike Chen Lin, who could only rely on the relationship with Guangdong Dusi and his old boss Yu Dayou.

"But it's too."

Chen Lin was still a little hesitant, but at this moment, a soldier beside him suddenly whispered: "General, there is movement on the South Gate Tower."

The two looked over and saw a white flag raised on the North Gate Tower.

Just when the two were happy, they heard a voice from the opposite tower: "My leader is willing to surrender. Please ask the general on the opposite side to come to the front of the battle to talk to my leader."

"Haha, they still want to negotiate conditions."

Deng Zilong chuckled for a while, but still said to Chen Lin, "Let's go and talk to them. It would be best if we can avoid fighting.

If we can't reach an agreement at that time, we will talk about the idea proposed by Yan Youqian and threaten them to commit it."

"Okay."

Chen Lin agreed immediately.

Negotiations, putting pressure on the other party, naturally, no matter how ruthless, the purpose is to force the other party to accept the conditions they put forward.

As long as the goal is achieved, the rest is trivial and naturally does not matter.

On the tower of the south gate of Daimao City, Ming army commanders Deng Zilong and Chen Lin began to negotiate with the pirates, and at this time more than a dozen small boats had already entered the Pengaslan Bay downstream.

However, these small boats did not dare to take the wide channel in the center of the bay, but picked the shore and tried to slip out of the bay from the side.

Because in the center of the bay, seven or eight tall Yi people armed merchant ships were anchored there.

Although there was a dock built by Lin Feng in the bay, they were worried about being attacked by pirates at night, so the Spaniards did not moor the ship to the shore, but parked it directly in the bay.

Since Lin Feng had no ship, they were not afraid of the other party's sneak attack.

Even if the pirates are good at swimming and attack the ship, it is not so easy to fight.

And now, Lin Feng is taking this opportunity to get out of the bay before dawn, when the sea is wide and the fish can jump, and the sky is high and the birds can fly.

Is it safe to go out to sea in a small boat?

Of course it is not safe. Even large ships may capsize at sea, let alone small boats.

But there is no way. Now only small boats have the opportunity to escape from here.

Everyone on the boat stayed quiet and did not dare to make any sound, as if speaking would wake up the barbarians in the distance.

Most of the communication between the boatmen depends on experience and looking at each other's eyes and gestures.

Perhaps in order to avoid suspicion, the Spanish chose to anchor their ships far away from the estuary because they were worried that the Ming army would misunderstand them.

Anyway, this arrangement gave Lin Feng a chance.

Finally, the small fleet bypassed the Spanish fleet and approached the mouth of the bay.

There was no one around here. According to the pirates' observations, only a very small number of ships would leave the bay for a patrol every day. Now it was just dawn, and the Spanish ships would not be dispatched. It would take at least an hour for a ship to come out for patrol.

And an hour was enough for them to run far away.

When the fleet finally slipped out of the bay with suppressed excitement, what caught their eyes was not only the vast sea, but also a series of dense black dots in the distance.

Needless to say, just relying on experience, Lin Feng knew that it was a large fleet, but it seemed that it did not come here, but was anchored outside the bay.

Not only Lin Feng, but the people on the two boats in front were stunned by this scene.

And as other small boats sailed out, everyone was finally scared.

"Turn around and go south."

Lin Feng lowered his voice and ordered at this time.

The fleet was not far to the north of the exit of the bay. If the other side found them and sent a ship to chase them, they would not be able to outrun the big ship on the opposite side with only the sails and oars on their small boats.

Originally, they wanted to run directly north out of the bay and back to the Ming Dynasty, but now it is obviously not possible. They have to go south, make a circle and then turn north.

They successfully escaped from under the eyes of the Spaniards, but it does not mean that the god of luck will always favor them.

The fleet on the opposite side is the Ming Dynasty's South China Sea Navy, led by Vice Admiral Wang Zhao.

Although they received orders to wait until dawn before entering the bay and cannot act now, Wang Zhao did not do nothing, but asked the people on the first few ships to keep an eye on the direction of the bay.

In fact, they were not guarding against Lin Feng, but the Yi people's fleet.

If that fleet entered the sea, it would undoubtedly be a huge threat to the South China Sea Navy.

But if it was blocked in the bay, the opponent's combat power could not be fully exerted, and at most 50% of the combat power was still there.

The navy warships surrounded it with the advantage of numbers, and there was a chance to quickly resolve the battle.

So, when Lin Feng's ship came out, it was discovered by the sharp-eyed lookout.

Although there was no news from the shore, Wang Zhao's reaction was not slow.

Several speedboats received the order and quickly left the fleet and chased after Lin Feng's boat.