Iron Dynasty

A gust of sea breeze blew from the sea mixed with a hint of salty and wet taste.

Ye Qingyun's words made Rhodes silent.

Whether to wait for six days was a difficult question, because he knew that six days would be enough time for reinforcements to arrive here.

And once the reinforcements arrive, it is impossible to predict whether the owner of this land chooses to talk or fight them.

It's just that there are not many options now. The artillery at the head of the city has proved the specialness of this place. He must know this place in time to formulate the next strategy.

So he said: Okay, we are willing to wait six days, I hope I can see King Qi in six days.

After speaking, Rhode waved his hand and instructed the Dutch army to retreat back.

Ambassador Rhodes, are we going to withdraw to the sea? Sakai asked puzzledly, looking at the Dutch soldiers who were starting to evacuate to the beach.

Yes, our purpose here is not to fight, but to figure out the problem of the arquebus, and the artillery at the head of the city proves that this place is very dangerous, and we can't take the risk to provoke an unknown enemy, said Rhodes.

Hearing this, Sakai shrugged, but muttered in his heart, Coward.

Although he was dissatisfied, Sakai retreated with the Dutchman's beach. Before leaving, he glanced at Dengzhou City unwillingly. If he seized this city and established a stronghold, Yamada Daimyo's plan would be easier to implement.

The army under the city withdrew to the sea, and Ye Qingyun breathed a sigh of relief. He immediately sent someone to the bay to inform King Qi of this incident.

The Dutch want to see the king?

Yang Chengye arrived at the bay with the scout.

Yes, Your Highness, we said that His Highness will arrive after four days, and the Dutch really evacuated. In the opinion of the official, the purpose of the Dutch is really not to fight us. Yang Chengye said.

Xiao Ming nodded and said, This is a wise choice. It seems that this group of Dutchmen is just trying to find out the truth of this king.

In Xiao Ming's view, it was precisely because of their weakness that the Dutch would rashly fight against the King of Chu to stop the King of Chu's military adventure. The King of Chu could not see through this, but he saw it very well.

Not to mention the era of sailing warships, even in the era of steam ships, it was extremely difficult to project troops across half the world.

Therefore, the Dutch know very well that they will not have reinforcements, and if they fail in East Asia, they will completely withdraw from this area.

Yang Chengye had no idea about the Dutch, or about the Netherlands at all, and he continued: Your Highness, no matter what the Dutch are thinking, as long as the Qingzhou Army arrives, we don't have to be afraid of them.

That's right, since we are waiting for the Qingzhou army to arrive at this king, we will go to meet the Dutch ambassador to see what they want. Xiao Ming said, the arrival of the Dutch is the first collision between him and a foreign civilization. .

Deciding to meet with the Dutch, Xiao Ming stayed in the bay and waited for reinforcements to arrive. The next day, twenty merchant ships loaded with artillery entered the military port. This was the first batch of artillery shipped from the military workshop.

When the artillery arrived, Yue Yun was very excited. He immediately transported the artillery and ammunition to the battleship and equipped it with the soldiers. Without the artillery, the Galen ship is just a toothless tiger. Now the artillery is on board. Tiger too.

This time, the first batch of naval guns was sent, with a total of more than 300 guns, and two batches of naval guns will arrive one after another.

But even these three hundred guns are enough to arm five or six small Galen ships, which is enough.

In the next few days, the artillery of the military workshop arrived in batches, and the twelve Galen ships were successively equipped with naval guns.

Niu Ben also led the Qingzhou army to the bay with the merchant ships.

His Royal Highness, we can go to war at any time.

After the naval gun was hoisted, Yue Yun said excitedly.

At this time, Niu Ben basically understood the source of the crisis, he said: Your Highness, this war and supply is the top priority, and now this Dutch expedition can't be our opponent, we only need to win the Ryukyu, this is The Dutch cut off supplies, and they were not far from defeat.

The Qingzhou Army with live ammunition arrived, Xiao Ming no longer worried about the safety of Dengzhou City, he said: Now is not the time to start a war, the Netherlands has come this far for money, they will not rashly go to war with us, this time the Dutch ambassador That's what this negotiation is about, just show the Dutch what we can do and they'll understand what choice to make.

His Royal Highness is preparing to subdue without fighting. Niu Ben laughed heartily, Your Highness is still thoughtful, as long as we can talk about it, why start a war.

Xiao Ming smiled and nodded, and said, Let's go, today is the day set, we'll go meet the Dutch ambassador.

After leaving the temporary residence in the military port, Xiao Ming and Niu Ben headed for Dengzhou City.

In the military port, 10,000 Qingzhou soldiers were assembling. They were lined up in pairs with their shiny flintlock guns on their backs. Niu Ben gave an order, and the soldiers followed Xiao Ming and his party to Dengzhou City.

And Yue Yun and other naval soldiers also boarded the battleship, ready to attack at any time.

As agreed, Rhode arrived outside Dengzhou City on time at this time. Unlike last time, this time he was allowed to enter Dengzhou City.

Entering Dengzhou City, Rhodes quickly showed contempt in his eyes. In his eyes, this city was much poorer than any city in the Netherlands.

However, his contempt soon turned into panic. When he arrived in the middle of the city, a large number of soldiers carrying muskets suddenly poured into the city wall from the west gate of the city towards the east gate.

God, this is a flintlock gun, how is this possible!

Rhode couldn't believe his eyes. He rubbed his eyes and looked again. There was no mistake. The firearms these soldiers carried were indeed flintlock guns.

At this moment, Rhode's heart sank. Although flintlock guns have long been popularized in the army in Europe, the appearance of flintlock guns in such a backward region is enough to shock him.

Just when he was surprised, there was a sudden sound of hoofs, and a group of people riding horses appeared in front of him.

Ambassador Rhodes, the person in front of you is our Royal Highness King Qi. Ye Qingyun said loudly.

Rhode looked at the young man at the head and couldn't believe it. Such a young man turned out to be the king of a piece of land.

He took off his hat and performed an aristocratic manner to Xiao Ming, and said, Dear His Royal Highness King Qi, I salute you on behalf of Count Claire.

Xiao Ming's eyes rolled around Rhodes. He was a typical European and dressed more elegantly. At this time, he got off his horse and said to Rhodes: Ambassador Rhodes, I heard that you want to see this king. , I don't know what you Dutch have to do with this king, do you want to sign an unequal treaty with you like this king and the king of Chu?