Iron Dynasty

Bang bang...

A burst of gunfire rang out, and the rifle hit the target at a distance of 400 meters. At this time, twelve Dutch soldiers put away their flintlocks.

With pride in his eyes, Claire said to Xiao Ming, Your Highness, it's your turn now.

It's really surprising. I have to say that we are slightly inferior in terms of guns. We don't have guns that can hit 400 meters. Xiao Ming said.

Out of sincerity, Xiao Ming asked Lu Fei to perform with the soldiers. The effect was no different from that of the Dutch soldiers, but this was enough to shock Claire.

In Europe, a musket team of ten thousand people can completely occupy a rich colony, and the King of Qi he is facing now does not know how many such troops there are.

Your Highness, don't be discouraged, these rifled guns cannot offset the advantages of flintlock guns on the battlefield. Currently, they can only be used as a surprise soldier. If Your Highness needs, I can sell the manufacturing method of this rifled gun to Your Highness. ' Claire's eyes flashed with shrewdness.

Xiao Ming laughed, this Claire is really a man, so he wanted to pump oil and water from him, he asked casually: Then how much are you going to sell?

According to the way of buying and selling in the Great Yu Kingdom, how about five million taels of silver? Of course, these silvers can be replaced by tea, porcelain, and raw silk. Claire said.

Xiao Ming laughed dumbfounded when he heard this. These three things are very popular luxury goods in Europe. As long as one ship of such goods can be transported back, it is enough to make a fortune. wealth.

In order to pay for these commodities, the Dutch brought a large amount of silver from Europe in exchange for these commodities. It is precisely because of this that the Cao family was able to establish a bank throughout the Great Yu Kingdom.

This bank was built on the basis of a large amount of silver.

Looking at the fief of the King of Chu in the northeast, Xiao Ming couldn't help drooling. When he was docked in Ningzhou, Xiao Ming saw the bustling scene on the wharf. Compared with Qingzhou, the current Chu land is still a place where merchants gather, more than Qingzhou. There are too many strong ones, and most of these merchants are sea merchants who travel overseas.

However, because of the provocation of the Dutch by the King of Chu, these merchants have now lost the sea trade route. For Xiao Ming, after the sea trade route is opened, these people are the first wave of fat sheep to be slaughtered.

No need. After pondering for a while, Xiao Ming gave Claire a disappointing answer. Did he buy military technology from Europe? It was a joke, but he wrote down the price Claire asked for, and it wouldn't be long before Claire begged him to buy military weapons.

Claire's disappointment was beyond words. He believed that if he handed over the manufacturing technology of the flintlock gun to the Japanese country, the Japanese country would take out even 10 million taels of silver, but Xiao Ming was not interested in this higher-grade firearm manufacturing technology.

Looking at Xiao Ming with an indifferent face, Claire's thrill of winning the victory just now disappeared, because he began to suspect that Xiao Ming had mastered this technique.

With a sigh, he said, Okay, okay, let's start the artillery show.

Xiao Ming nodded. The next thing to do is to shoot the field guns. Like the flintlock guns, the Qingzhou army's field guns and the Dutch field guns are half a pound.

This gave both sides a clear understanding of each other's weapons.

However, in Xiao Ming's view, I am afraid that the weapons of the Netherlands cannot represent the highest level in Europe, because in the 18th century, the Netherlands was already in decline, and only the major European countries, Britain, France, Prussia and Austria, can represent the highest level in Europe today.

After a simple test, Xiao Ming and Claire discussed the placement of the soldiers. According to the original agreement, he would leave 2,000 soldiers in the city of Geranja to maintain order with the Dutch soldiers in the city of Geranja.

And now Claire accepted this point calmly, and he decided to hand over the barracks on the west side of the city of Geranja to the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army.

After this matter was settled, the two decided to repair it on the spot for two days.

On the third day, Xiao Ming and Claire's fleet began to block the Ryukyu Island. At the same time, some warships began to cruise along the Ryukyu Island to prevent the Japanese pirates from continuing to reinforce Mikila Castle.

And their army also began to land on the island of Ryukyu. Together with the Dutch army, there were a total of 12,000 musketeers and 72 field guns on the island.

Your Highness, our soldiers have completed the siege of Mikila Castle. Half a day after the soldiers landed on the island, Lu Fei came to report to Xiao Ming.

Claire's expression was relaxed at this time. In his opinion, if nothing else happened, the Japanese army could only go out of the city to fight them after the food ran out.

Stay vigilant to prevent Japanese pirates from sneaking in and attacking. Xiao Ming explained, in this era where observation can only be done with the eyes, any defense has loopholes.

Although they have been cruising in this sea area, there is no guarantee that no fish will slip through the net.

While Xiao Ming was setting up the encirclement, Sakai in Mikila Castle was also observing everything on the island.

After a fleet entered the port of Relanja City, they realized that trouble was coming. He did not expect that the Dutch had really invited reinforcements, and this reinforcement was also King Qi of the Great Yu Kingdom, because these battleships were in Dengzhou. seen.

But after seeing these battleships, he still did not panic, because the bastion of Mikira City was not so easy to break, especially since they also had tens of thousands of soldiers.

However, his self-confidence disappeared after the encirclement was completed, and he realized that he would face a long siege next.

Lord Sakai, the Dutch and the people of Dayu are going to besiege us, are we going to wait like this? There is not much food in the castle, so we can't support us for too long, and their fleet has blocked the coastline, so we can't either. Get supplies from the sea. A pirate leader said to Sakai.

The road to Yamada Nobunaga's rise was full of blood. These pirates were his wandering samurai, who were sent to sea to loot merchant ships to accumulate war capital for Yamada Nobunaga.

Now Yamada Nobunaga is able to defeat other daimyo to unify the Japanese country, and these pirates have contributed greatly.

We samurai will not hide in the castle and starve to death, it will damage our honor, Sakai-sama, for us samurai, it is better to die in battle than to starve to death, let us go out of the city and kill these poor weaklings, we The katana will cut them in half.

That's right, for Yamada Daimyo, we can die without hesitation, without hesitation, without hesitation, said another samurai.

Fight, fight! the other warriors also shouted.

Looking at the indignant samurai, Sakai's eyes flashed fiercely.