Borrow the day to change the day

Putmans decided to encircle and wipe out the most powerful army in the Ming Dynasty. If possible, it would be best to capture the Marquis alive.In this way, the Ming army had no last hope and could only submit.

So, he summoned all the pirates, big and small, to discuss the military situation overnight.

First of all, Putmans described a bright future to these people. As long as he wins this battle again and Ming Guo surrenders, the silver taels of compensation alone will be a huge sum of money.

Putmans promised these pirates again that half of the compensation will be distributed to these pirates.In addition, because the Dutch in the Far East are limited, the import and export trade of the Ming Dynasty will be made by these pirates as offline, doing things for the Dutch, and the profits will be divided into [-]%.

If the pirate still wants to clean up his crimes and become an official of the Ming Dynasty like Zheng Zhilong before, he can also fight for them.

What are pirates after?is wealth.Hearing Putmans' promise, the stupid ones among them couldn't figure out how much money they could share, anyway, it was estimated to be more than the sum of the money earned by their eight generations of ancestors.

What do you want to do when you have money?Homecoming of course!Putmans can still win them the treatment of officials of the Ming Dynasty, isn't this just a way to go back to his hometown to show off!

As a result, the pirates who were discussing the matter were all screaming with joy, wishing they could go and kill that Ming army immediately.

But after Putmans waited for these pirates to get excited, he said that this kind of treatment is only available to the bravest group of people in this battle.If you rush to the back and kill the fewest people in the Ming army, you will get much less treatment.

When the pirates heard this, it was okay, that is to say, they had to be braver than their companions and rush to the front.

Thinking about it this way, when the pirates looked at each other, they all wanted to eat their competitors with one bite.

In order to prevent the Ming army from escaping, Putmans decided to go out tomorrow night. During this period, he asked all the pirates to gather together and stop going out to steal chickens and dogs.Don't make small fights, win this battle, and everyone will benefit greatly.

A kind of excitement spread in Zhenjiang City following the dissolution of the meeting.One by one, with the dream of being promoted, getting rich and returning home, they began to prepare intensively.

Putmans was still very attentive to this battle. During the waiting period, he even sent his own people, led by the little pirate leader who first discovered the traces of the Ming army, to go to the north bank to reconnaissance again. Army movements.

Holland's own spies went back to report the results to Putmans, so that he let go of the last trace of doubt.

To sum up, it means that this Ming army is slightly stronger than the Ming army encountered before, and its weapons are slightly better.But judging by the aura of the sergeant and the patrol situation, there is no such elite and sturdy shadow at all.

Putmans was able to confirm this point, because the spies he sent had poisonous eyes.If the elite pretended to be a mediocre soldier, the spies would be able to spot it at a glance.

In order to prevent Ye Bushou from the Ming army from discovering his plan, he frightened the Ming army away.Putmans waited patiently until it was dark the next day before giving the order to set off.

These days are the days of the full moon, so there is no need to light torches, so it is a good time for a sneak attack.

All the pirates and Dutchmen boarded their ships one after another and marched mightily across the Yangtze River.

Big ships can't enter the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, so they stop at the intersection.

At this time, the troops were divided into two groups, and they continued to go up the canal in small boats all the way, preparing to cut off the retreat of the Ming army.

The other way is to disembark at the intersection and start by land.

Fortunately for the Dutch, the pirates were a little confused during such a large military operation, and they were scrambling to get out first.In the end, you wouldn't let me, and I wouldn't let you, and even once blocked the canal.

Putmans had no choice but to send an order to the pirate leaders to find out who blocked the road and affected the march. Even if they rushed to the front, they would not be able to get the biggest cake.

After tossing and tossing, until the sky was slightly brighter, the coalition forces of the pirates and the Dutch appeared near the camp of the Ming army.

The camp of the Ming army was set up on the east bank of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, backed by a small hill, which is Heita Ridge.To the south is the official road leading to Jiangdu, and to the east is a river twenty miles away, which of course leads to the Yangtze River.

All the way for the coalition forces was to go northward along the canal, detouring behind the Heita Ridge, and cutting off the Ming army's retreat.Then, with a pincer attack from the north to the south, the east and west directions of the Ming army were all rivers, and they could not escape, so they achieved the goal of annihilating the Ming army in one fell swoop.

The movement of the pirates was really not small, and the sky began to brighten again, which alarmed the Ming army.

Through the binoculars, Putmans found that the soldiers of the Ming army were really panicked, and they were all in a mess.

The pirates looked at the fat in front of them, and without waiting for the order of the general attack, they charged towards the camp of the Ming army.

Suddenly, the sound of shouting and howling resounded over the land.

Putmans looked a little helpless, but he could also understand that these were just pirates.It is unrealistic to expect them to strictly abide by military discipline and obey commands like our army.

But this is also good, let them test the depth of the Ming army first.

An army of two thousand Dutch devils lined up behind Putmans, watching the battlefield to the north together.

A few miles behind them, the boat that took them ashore was parked as a retreat in case they lost the fight.In any case, Putmans is more cunning.

After the pirates rushed towards the camp of the Ming army screaming, those Ming troops began to counterattack relying on the fortifications of the camp.

Through the telescope, Putmans found that the firearms of this Ming army were indeed better than those of the previous Ming army.

At least he can see how hard it is, and none of the muskets exploded.The quality of the Ming army is also not bad. Under the attack of the pirates, none of the Ming army threw their guns and escaped.Although his face was terrified and pale, he was still firing tenaciously.

There were even some small cannons that started to ring, and the rate of fire was not slow. Putmans recognized that they were the so-called Flang cannons of the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing this, he felt a little regretful that his battleship couldn't come over, otherwise, with the bombardment of naval guns, he would have taken over the camp of the Ming army.

It is not realistic to transport the naval guns, it is too heavy.But the real reason was that he didn't think it was necessary, otherwise he would find a way no matter how difficult it was.

Under the Ming army's desperate counterattack, the pirate's offensive was frustrated, and they couldn't rush into the Ming army's camp in one breath, and they were stalemate there.

Putmans has been observing with a telescope. He saw that the movements of the soldiers of the Ming army gradually slowed down. When even a small number of soldiers started to flee while the officers were not paying attention, he knew that the time was ripe. He ordered a general attack.

Two thousand Dutch devils lined up in a neat queue and began to advance with matchlock guns.

The Ming army in the past was a unit that could compete with the pirates. Under the momentum of the Dutch devils advancing in unison, after firing a few rows of guns, they collapsed.

Putmans has reason to believe that in this situation, he can open the gap by rushing up and firing a few shots with a little casualties.Then the pirates around him can rush in, and then there will be nothing to do with the Dutch army, but I don't know where the Marquis of the Ming Dynasty is, and whether they can be caught?