Pastor Pedro stood tremblingly in front of the only stone building in the town, and shouted with all his strength: "Swear in the name of God, the kind and kind gentleman of the East, the upright Army Captain Mr. Xie Hansan agreed to pardon your crimes, and he believed that you had faithfully fulfilled the obligations of soldiers and did not commit any war crimes during the war. As long as you surrender, Mr. Xie promised to give you decent treatment and not to charge you any ransom."

"Father Pedro, stop your meaningless advice. If you still have a little bit of shame, fight these despicable Tatan pagans in the name of God. The Kingdom Army will not surrender to the despicable Tatans, and will never!"

Xie Hansan walked around behind a house in annoyance. His three armies lined up two hours ago to completely control the small town. The surrendered Spanish town officials reached an agreement with the Travelers that their private property would be preserved after paying a pesos of ransom. Therefore, in the face of the absolute superior force of the Travelers, the local Spanish residents gave up meaningless resistance and chose to surrender with decent surrender.

Of course, the surrender process was not so smooth. Some Spanish Army that refused to surrender had a fierce conflict with the town government officials who advocated surrender and represented the interests of local residents. Two Spanish Army officers were even injured in the conflict. After the conflict, some Spanish Army that refused to surrender occupied the warehouses in the town and resisted stubbornly, while local Spanish officials opened the city gates to welcome the arrival of the conquerors.

After Xie Hansan entered the city, he learned that there was a group of Spanish soldiers occupying the warehouse and refused to surrender, so he immediately took two platoons of soldiers to the warehouse to prepare for the capture by force. However, when he arrived at the site, he found that the warehouse was actually made of stone and extremely strong. The wall of the warehouse was more than three meters high, and there were no other entrances and exits except for a wooden door wrapped in iron. Xie Hansan, who was surprised, immediately arrested the Spanish mayor and asked in detail. He learned that the warehouse was actually used to store silver bars transported from Valdivia City! This is amazing news!

It turned out that after collecting silver ore in some mining colonies in the inland areas of central and southern Chile, the Spanish transported them to Valdivia for preliminary processing and smelting. The finished products of smelting were silver bars and silver bars. The Spanish transported these silver bars here through the Valdivia River. Every month, the Governor of Peru would send a ship from Lima to this port town with full cargo, unloading the cargo and transporting the silver bars and other products in the warehouse. This transportation route has been going on for decades. A week ago, Valdivia's silver ship had just transported a batch of silver bars, which are currently stored in the warehouse. It is conservatively estimated that its value is tens of thousands of pesos.

After hearing the news, Xie Hansan immediately calmed down. After sending people to inform Xiao Bailang and others on Yunsheng No. 1, he immediately took two platoons of soldiers to watch the only exit of the warehouse. Then, while someone persuaded him to surrender, he organized people to carry cannons, preparing to open the door and forcefully attack when the enemy refused to surrender.

Now it seems that Father Pedero's persuasion of surrender was obviously a failure. These stubborn Spanish men planned to resist to the end! The cannon has not been transported yet, which made Xie Hansan a little annoyed. Father Pedero returned to Xie Hansan with a complicated expression and said in a vain: "Dear Your Excellency, these defenders refused to accept our advice on surrender. As you can see, they decided to continue the battle."

Xie Hansan was about to reply, but suddenly there was a rhythmic sound of trumpets from the street behind him. He turned around and saw some naval sailors in sky blue uniforms pulling people and pushing a cannon toward him. Lu Ming, the captain of the "East Coast Eagle", was among them. Xie Hansan did not have too obvious sea and land views. When he saw the navy pulling a cannon, he was overjoyed and immediately sent someone to help.

This is an 8-pound naval small naval gun. Several gunners pulled the guns to a close distance from the warehouse gate under the escort of a large number of musketeers, and then started to load ammunition. A gentle sea breeze blew across the street, and there was no other sound except the sound of the gunner loading. Everyone was waiting silently.

The warehouse was also silent, without any sound; the Spanish residents watching from afar on the street also looked here silently, and some people kept drawing crosses on their chests, as if they were praying for the brave and unyielding Spanish Army soldiers who had fought to the present.

"Change the cannon?" After the cannon was loaded, Xie Hansan solicited Lu Ming's opinion. After all, the gunners who were operating the cannon were all from his warships. Lu Ming nodded without saying a word, and directly picked up a burning torch and put it on the cannon fire door that had been aimed at.

"Boom!" The 8-pound iron projectile rushed out of the barrel and crashed into the iron gate dozens of meters ahead. The powerful kinetic shell directly penetrated the entire gate, and then flew into the warehouse, causing a burst of exclamation from the Spaniards in the warehouse.

"Please raise your gun! Be careful of the Spanish's counterattack!" Xie Hansan ordered loudly. Under his command, two platoons of army soldiers aimed the muzzles at the front and at the top of the wall respectively to prevent the Spanish from jumping over the wall.

After a round of shells, the gunners immediately picked up the equipment at hand and began to clean the barrel, load the medicine, and load the bullets. Soon, the cannon roared again, and the 8-pound shells rushed towards the gate, directly knocking down a large piece of wooden boards and iron sheets, and a large gap was exposed on the gate. Several figures walked around behind the gap, as if trying to block the gap.

"Aim at the gap, prepare... let it go!" With Xie Hansan's order, nearly thirty muskets fired a round of gunfires at the gap, and a few screams were made behind the door, and then no one appeared again.

Next, the artillery fired two rounds, and the gate was almost broken and poured onto the ground. Xie Hansan no longer hesitated and organized the soldiers to form a sparse formation and carefully advanced slowly into the warehouse. Their movements were very slow, almost moving forward step by step. As long as the Spaniards appeared in their field of vision, they would alternate gunfire. The Spaniards, who had poor firepower, suffered heavy losses in this confrontation, and few messile gunmen were almost completely removed. Of course, there were no casualties on the crossing crowd. Four soldiers were shot in such bloody and cruel close-range muskets, which exceeded the number of casualties they had when they captured the fort last night.

After clearing the Spanish musketeers, the remaining army soldiers simply rushed in and shot at the remaining Spanish soldiers holding spears and light swords. This almost one-sided massacre battle ended quickly within ten minutes. Xie Hansan and Lu Ming stepped into the warehouse with the strong smoke of gunpowder that filled the entire space. There were only two rooms in the warehouse, one big and one small. The doors of the room had been opened, and many Spanish corpses were lying on the door and inside the room. The ground was almost covered with blood, and the scene was extremely bloody and unpleasant.

"How are the casualties?" Xie Hansan asked.

"When we broke into the warehouse just now, a soldier died under the other party's spear, and one was injured. Including the previous battle casualties, we killed five people in the entire battle, and one person was slightly injured. A total of twenty-nine Spanish defenders were achieved."

"The injured brothers quickly find someone to treat them. In addition, you all go to the city to suppress the Spanish. I am worried that some Spanish people would have some bad thoughts when a gun battle just now. By the way, some people will be left to start counting the inventory in the warehouse." Xie Hansan ordered and opened a wooden box at his feet.

"Hiss!" Even though Xie Hansan had high concentration, he couldn't help but feel dizzy when he saw the things in the wooden box. It turned out that there were large numbers of neatly stacked silver bars in the box under his feet, shining in the sun with an intoxicating light.

"I posted this time! I really posted it!" Xie Hansan murmured.

At noon, Xiao Bailang brought a group of sailors into the city. At this time, the statistics of the materials in the warehouse were almost made. According to Xie Hansan's report, dozens of boxes of silver bars were stored in the warehouse, with a total value of more than 35,000 pesos; in addition, there were more than 500 furs of various animals and more than 100 wool blankets prepared.

"I'm really here this time!" Xiao Bailang smiled at the spoils piled up in the warehouse. It's not in vain that the bloody battle in the warehouse just now. "It seems that this place is really rich. I heard that the city of Valdivia in the upper reaches is much more prosperous than this. If you have the chance, you really want to see and have a big vote! Alas, but probably there is probably no chance. There is such a big noise here, how could no one go there to inform us? The Spanish there are probably already waiting for the battle."

At noon, more sailors boarded the shore. Some Chaluans went to the door to collect ransoms with sabers, each with one pesos, and those who could not afford it had to pay were paid for items of value. A group of people worked hard for a whole day, and it was not until the evening that they were settled. The ransom was collected, plus the property of the Spanish officers and soldiers who were confiscating the warehouse and the resistance of the Spanish officers and soldiers. A total of more than 36,000 pesos of cash and silver were harvested, 520 high-quality furs, 160 blankets, 4 pigs, 4 cattle, 12 sheep, 2,500 kilograms of grain, 200 barrels of gunpowder, and 10 tons of copper...

Just as everyone was smiling and checking for the harvest, news came from Yunsheng No. 1, which was alert to the outside world: Spaniards were found on the sea!
Chapter completed!