After Li Xin returned to the team, he began to lead troops to clean the castle. Among the more than 4,600 Dutch people, only less than 4,000 corpses were found, and of course, there were also a bunch of broken limbs and arms, which could not be pieced together.

There were these four thousand corpses, including thousands of them, which were pieced together by the Ming soldiers after finally being pieced together, but they were disgusting to these Ming soldiers.

At this time, there were still a hundred or ten Dutch people remaining in the castle, surrounded by three rooms in the middle, and they were huddled inside and didn't know what they were waiting for.

Zeng Zeng did not give orders to eliminate them all, because Zeng Zeng wanted to catch the lively, and the battle had reached this point, so there was no need to kill everyone. A living strong man was a considerable fortune.

When he came, His Majesty had already instructed him in advance to try his best to capture the strong soldiers alive and provide excellent free labor for the Ming Dynasty.

As a result, Zeng Zeng wiped out the castle in one breath, and the remaining people had to leave some left.

And I also heard that one of them is the heir of the Count, who is from an old noble family in the Netherlands.

This made Zeng Zeng even more interested. If you seize the heir of this noble, you might even know some Europa's aristocratic secrets.

After three days in a row, they finally cleared out all the property in the castle.

To be honest, the number of reports from the staff is really surprising.

The finances found in this castle included more than 370,000 taels of gold and more than 2.100,000 silver. These two combined were almost five million taels of silver.

There are other things like pearl agate, porcelain, tea, etc.

This is just a small bridgehead in the Netherlands. I didn’t expect to capture such a rich harvest. How much money would you have to have if you were at the base of the Dutch East India Company?

Anyway, Zeng Zeng was a little shocked.

This capture alone was enough to consume their expeditionary fleet for a long time, and they would not have to worry about the military expenditure of their expeditionary fleet within three years.

Zeng Zeng didn’t know that this place was not a small Dutch bridgehead, but was built as an important place.

It can also be said to be prepared as an important node for attacking the Ming Dynasty.

These property were also stolen from the Ming Dynasty's maritime merchants. They were usually transported back to the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company once a half year. However, this time, they were blocked by the Ming army before they were shipped. As a result, they were all cheaper Zeng Zeng.

"Report! Your Majesty's telegram!"

Zhu Youxiao, who was far away in the capital, sent a telegram to Zeng. After years of hard work, many relay signal towers have been built in coastal areas.

This time, in order to support the expeditionary fleet, two signal relay ships were specially sent to connect with Zhejiang telegrams and signals, so Zeng Zeng could only receive telegrams from the capital.

The content on the telegram is very simple. First, congratulations on the victory of the Expeditionary Fleet and commendation of the entire Navy.

He also awarded Li Xin, who was the first to lead the battle and bravely entered the enemy camp as an undercover agent, once a second-class individual merit, and once a second-class collective merit for all the navy who entered the castle undercover agent.

Then Zeng Zeng asked to escort the capture back to the capital.

Finally, Zhu Youxiao made it clear that he would capture Hera alive, and he was very interested in this Dutch noble heir.

Zeng Zeng, who received the order, naturally did not dare to disobey, so he began to personally deploy the work of persuading surrender.

Inside the castle, Zeng Zeng held up a telescope and looked at the room in front. Through the window, he could see that the Dutch inside was closely guarding the window and ready to resist at any time.

"Commander, otherwise, we will just use cannons to knock them out." A irritable captain scratched his head with some distress at the stone-stacked house.

The superiors ordered to be captured alive.

But the people inside were fighting desperately. They had organized two strong attacks, but the enemies inside resisted very fiercely, so they failed.

But this cannot be blamed on the Marine Corps, because these three rooms are surrounded by open space and there is no cover. The most important thing is that the windows are not big, and the people inside can calmly open fire based on protection and knock down the attacking soldiers one by one.

Because he could not use heavy weapons to capture them alive, he was still in a stalemate here for a while.

"No, Your Majesty personally ordered to arrest him alive. As soldiers, we must obey the orders!!" Zeng Zeng said seriously.

"Yes!" Several Marine officers next to him could only scratch their heads and figure out how to do it.

"How about we throw the smoke bomb in and choke these people out?" someone suggested.

"Yes, I think so, I don't believe they can tolerate that smell."

Some agree but others object.

"I won't say that such a small window is not easy to throw in. The key is that you can throw it out at any time if you throw it in. Then we will waste our time."

"That's right."

"It's better to do this. We will directly prevent fire from smoking them out. If we put them outside, we can't kill them even if we want to kill them. Then we will see what they will do."

"Fireproofing is OK, I think so."

"No, no, what if the people inside are burned to death? Your Majesty wants to capture them alive. Besides, how can you get over this open space? If there is less wood, it is useless. If it is used too much, then our soldiers will become living targets in this open space."

"This is not OK, that is not OK, so use blasting. If you are afraid of casualties, I will go up and blow up the wall here, and you will rush up!" The ruthless officer was really annoyed.

As soon as he finished speaking, someone's eyes suddenly lit up. Good idea. If you go up and blast, you will destroy the people's support. Good idea is really a good idea.

So these people immediately agreed.

However, the officer with a bad temper turned dark. You are trying to force me to die.

However, this was rejected by Zeng Zeng. Who knows where the target is? If the target is killed, how can he explain to His Majesty?

The final discussion was that there was no result. The people inside were hungry if they stopped fighting. When they were almost hungry, they would come out to surrender obediently.

So the Ming army's siege began. There was still some food in the house a few days ago, but five days passed and the last piece of bread was eaten by the people inside.

Then I saw Ming Jun starting to bury the pot and make rice at the upper air outlet of the house.

The squad leader of the cooking squad, Lao Liu, was cooking with five cooks. They didn't know what the Dutch liked to eat, but they knew what they did. It tasted fragrant.

In addition, Lao Liu also ate a bite of the dry bread that the Dutch ate, but he vomited directly.

"My mother, this is also something for human food? I'm gonna!"

"Huh...... it's dry and hard. I've got my teeth cut off after one bite, and it's sour."
Chapter completed!