"Grandpa, it's so strange. What kind of warship is that? Whose does it belong to?"
Of course, Su Quanquan also saw what was happening on the sea and discovered that there was a strange warship chasing the Dutch warship towards the Batavia port.
I was very surprised to see who this was, so I immediately asked his grandfather.
When Su Minggang was asked this question, he immediately came to his senses and said excitedly: "Silly boy, that is the flag of the Ming Dynasty, of course it is the imperial navy!"
"That's not right, Grandpa!" Su Quanquan listened, but instead questioned, "This is not a lucky ship, there is a big chimney emitting smoke on the ship. Wow... Grandpa, look, that ship is so big!"
Su Qingquan was born overseas and had never seen the imperial flag, so of course he didn't recognize it. However, Su Minggang knew it. Even though the ship looked like a lucky ship, it was not necessarily a lucky ship, but the flag on the ship showed that it was a warship of the Ming Navy.
Therefore, while Su Quanquan was excited to see a huge ship, he was excited to see a warship of the Imperial Navy in Batavia.
Not only them, but also other Ming people, slowly realized that the person who had been bullied to the door of Batavia turned out to be the imperial navy, and everyone was extremely surprised.
Seeing this scene, no matter how stupid they were, they had already woken up. It turned out that the rumors were true!
While they were getting excited, they suddenly heard the Dutch behind them yelling at them, and even the natives with knives pushed them and pushed them to the battlements near the sea.
For a moment, these Ming people lost their excitement and immediately returned to the panic in the current environment. The cries of children and women rang out again.
Su Minggang was also pushed. He turned around and wanted to ask what they were doing by asking them to go up to the city. When he saw the natives behind them, they put knives on their necks and shouted at them, turning to face sea.
The elderly, women, and children were no exception. They all had bright knives on their necks.
Feeling the coldness of the blade, many people were frightened and did not even dare to cry anymore, for fear of annoying the natives and Dutch behind them and dying if they exerted too much force on their hands.
Su had the right but did not dare to move, but his mouth could speak, so he said loudly: "Grandpa, what do they want to do?"
"Isn't this obvious!" Su Minggang's voice was full of bitterness, "They are using us as shields to threaten the imperial army from attacking the city!"
After hearing this, everyone around them also woke up, it turned out to be this! No wonder even the elderly, children and women were pushed to the top of the city!
"Brother Su, will we be okay?" Someone shouted to Su Minggang with a trembling voice, wanting to ask for peace of mind.
After hearing this, Su Minggang smiled silently and bitterly. After a while, he replied: "When you ask this question, I'm afraid you already have the answer in your heart!"
As soon as these words were spoken, there was suddenly no sound from the other side.
Su Qingquan saw this, but he became anxious and asked quickly: "Grandpa, will anything happen to us?"
"Yes, Mr. Su, are we not going to die?" Others also asked, wanting to know what the answer is.
After hearing this, Su Minggang sighed and said, "Do you know how many times the Ming people of Luzon were massacred by the Spaniards, and how the court responded?"
Without answering, he went on to tell the answer: "Those who have lived in Luzon for a long time are merchants and fugitives, and do not belong to the people of the Ming Dynasty. It is not easy to find out who is responsible for overseas disputes. What happened is completely It is your own fault, the court did not blame the Spaniards at all."
Having said this, he sighed heavily, and then said: "What is the difference between us and those Ming people who were killed in Luzon? In the eyes of the imperial court, we are all fugitives. The imperial army will care about us." What?"
Hearing this, everyone fell silent. There is a kind of sadness on everyone's face.
One can all imagine what their outcome will be.
Because they couldn't refute what Su Minggang said. The imperial court treated hermits and fugitives as criminal prisoners. Therefore, how could the imperial navy give up a good situation and not attack Batavia for the criminal prisoners!
After a while, Su Quanquan suddenly said loudly: "Look at how embarrassed these Dutch people are! I feel so happy to see you! It's worth it for me to be buried with them!"
From another perspective, it seems that things are not so depressing.
After hearing this, the young Mingren started to echo loudly.
"Yes, with a Dutchman buried with him, his life was not in vain!"
"Come on, let's fire, deal with these Dutchmen hard, and bury some with us!"
"..."
Listening to these shouts, Su Minggang turned his head and looked at his grandson next to him, with sadness in his eyes.
The Su family is about to be cut off!
But at this moment, Su Quanquan suddenly became excited and shouted loudly: "Look, look, it seems that the imperial navy's ship is no longer chasing! What does this mean? Could it be that he is really worried about us being caught?" The Dutch are using him as a shield, right?"
When other young people saw it, they all became excited and immediately shouted: "It seems that the boat has really stopped and there is no more pursuit! Haha, look, look, look..."
Compared with these young people, the older ones, such as Su Minggang and the others, all had wry smiles on their faces and were not optimistic at all.
Most of them had escaped from the Ming Dynasty and knew the virtues of the imperial court. Although the imperial navy is no longer chasing them now, it does not mean that they are not chasing them because they are worried about being caught by the Dutch. It is probably because of other things.
Su Minggang didn't speak, but some old people didn't want to hear these young people shouting so excitedly, so they said, "Don't put any hope in the court. You still don't understand that we are fugitives. Why would the court care about us?" Fugitives!”
Young people in Batavia were either born overseas or came out with their families when they were very young. I don't have much idea about what the imperial court is like.
However, no matter how ignorant they are, they also know that no matter which force it is, it will never take prisoners seriously. Some may even wish they had been imprisoned to death.
Therefore, under the reminder of the old man, the excitement of the young people slowly dissipated and was replaced by depression.
In the end, they all just looked at the sea quietly, without any movement at all.
………………
Antony, the Dutch governor in Batavia, was in a very depressed mood. The naval battle did not surprise him and was a complete defeat. If he had not ordered a retreat in advance before the battle was decided, the Dutch fleet would have suffered even greater losses.
But even so, at least ten Dutch warships or armed merchant ships were sunk or destroyed by the Ming Navy, and most of them were due to the "Big Mac".
For these colonists who came from afar, they knew very well what a failure in the naval battle meant to them.
But now, Anthony had no time to think about anything else. Instead, he wanted to prevent the Ming Navy's attack and reduce further losses to the Dutch fleet. Therefore, he took the idea of these wise people in Batavia.
At the beginning, he saw that these Ming people were very excited after seeing the Ming navy. After thinking about it, he was a little lucky and felt that he had made the right bet.
Unexpectedly, after a while, each of these Batavia celebrities became very depressed. Even if the Ming Navy stopped the pursuit and salvaged the Dutch who were struggling to survive at sea, as well as the Dutch on the damaged battleships or the slowly sinking battleships, none of these Batavia Ming people would be dead. A hint of joy.
This made his heart skip a beat, so he walked behind the nearby Suming Gang, signaled the native with the knife to go down, and asked: "Your country's navy is here, why are you not happy?"
It was difficult for him to communicate with other people, but Su Minggang could speak Dutch and there was no communication barrier. Therefore, he came to Su Minggang for questioning.
Su Minggang slowly turned his head, faced the Dutch Governor, and showed a rare hint of ridicule, and then replied: "Because we are fugitives and criminal prisoners in the eyes of the court, does the Governor think the court navy will care about us? ? You really failed to live up to the expectations of His Excellency the Governor, your wishful thinking did not work!"
Upon hearing this, Anthony was a little confused and immediately said: "No, your Ming emperor said before that the overseas Ming people are also his subjects. The Spaniards killed so many Ming people, so he sent people there Destroy the Spaniards.”
Upon hearing this, Su Minggang couldn't help but be stunned. He even suspected that he had heard it wrong. Would the Ming Emperor say that? Will he say that Ming people overseas are also his people, and will he send troops overseas to avenge his people? ,
Seeing him like this, Anthony suddenly realized that even though he had blocked the news, these people didn't know what was going on outside, so he briefly talked about what was going on in Luzon.
After hearing this, Su Minggang showed an expression of disbelief, because this was so incredible to him!
After coming back to his senses, he suddenly calmed down and said to Anthony: "Is it possible that the Governor made up such a story because he doesn't know our Ming Dynasty? The Emperor of Ming Dynasty has always been not interested in overseas countries, or even Let's go to sea. How can we send troops for the sake of the refugees overseas because our attitude has suddenly changed? Not to mention, it's not like I haven't gone back before. There is still war in the Ming Dynasty, so how can we send troops..."
Having said this, he suddenly froze, and then immediately turned his head to look at the sea.
If it is impossible to send troops, then what happened to the imperial navy at sea?
These imperial naval forces in front of us really exist and have defeated the huge Dutch fleet. Does that mean that the Ming Dynasty is already very powerful now? Does this mean that what the Dutch Governor said is true?
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