With a sound of a gun, the flag army raised hundreds of bird guns in front of the formation, and the small flag arrows on the big shield were also erected, and the torches were raised.

Scares a lot of people.

Zhou Xing struggled to push away the soldiers who were holding him, pulled Chen Mu and said anxiously and quickly: "Take care as the most important, the court wants you and me to shock Fanyi, not let you kill them all!" If you kill them all, no one will pay your taxes! ”

Needless to say, the Australian guards were frightened as early as the time of the sabre-rattling.

The one who was really frightened was Pereira.

He knew the Ming Dynasty very well, and had witnessed several Portuguese captains negotiating with Ming officials, and had personally negotiated with Ming officials and persuaded them.

In his impression, the officials of the Ming Dynasty paid attention to peace, more things were better than less, and the powerful state made the generals and officials greatly restricted, making them afraid of war.

This is fundamentally different from the position of the Portuguese soldiers, who are far from their homeland and are able to wage war at will, in terms of war and negotiation.

When they are at sea, they only need a gunboat to negotiate with Ming officials, and as long as they raise the bargaining chip of war, most of them can be invincible.

Even Wu Guifang, the former governor of Liangguang, suffered the loss of Pereira's negotiations.

A few years ago, during the Guangzhou Rebellion, the imperial court had used Haojing's local troops to garrison Guangzhou, and afterwards Wu Guifang awarded the golden medals to the leaders of the army, Pereira and Demeru, who thought that this was far from their demands, so they threatened to attack the Guangzhou Prefecture, and finally got a promise to exempt Haojing's commercial tax for one year.

In Pereira's consciousness, when negotiating with Ming officials, as long as he proposed to threaten him with war, he could be invincible in negotiations.

In fact, it was the coercion of the Portuguese when there were no soldiers available in Guangzhou that made Wu Guifang firm in his heart to vigorously rectify Haojing, so he borrowed the authority of being promoted to the military department to promote Chen Zongqi, who had the first three meritorious contributions and one miraculous merit in the battle to pacify Li Yayuan, to be a thousand households in Xiangshan.

Pereira knew that there was a word in the Ming Dynasty called it difficult to ride a tiger, and now he feels that way.

The most embarrassing thing is that I just said it casually, but you took it seriously.

Pereira froze on the spot, constantly weighing the combat strength of his own corps and the Ming army formation outside the sixty or seventy Tuoaz.

These Portuguese conquistadors did not have the power to go to war at will, at least not in Ho Kyong O and the Ming Dynasty.

This is especially true of wars that may not be won.

Ho Kiang O is home to the wealth of the whole of East Asia, and there are no words to describe the annual transport of goods from Lisbon through the Straits of Malacca.

If this thing is broken, he is a sinner of the state.

Pereira didn't care if he was a national sinner, and he was more worried that he would lose the battle, because the enemy was not only outnumbered but also not inferior in quality.

When he felt isolated, he seemed to have the confidence to win the war from the fort near the Senta, which contained four long bronze cannons from the Bugarao Foundry, with a powerful cannon that covered the entire settlement and could inflict divine punishment on the pagan army on the opposite side at the beginning of the battle.

The muzzle of the gun sticking out of the turret was still strong, and Pereira gritted her teeth and ripped off the cape from her shoulder as a decoration, revealing the cross with the red hilt painted on her breastplate, the emblem of the Order of Santiago.

Although the knightly system has declined, and the glory, estate, and grange of the ancestors have been wiped out, as a descendant of knights, Pereira still maintains the habit of shouting the protector 'Santiago' in battle.

He drew his sword from his waist, his cloak shook off in the wind and stained the loess, and tapped his breastplate with his left hand and shouted, "Santia...... Damn, what's that! ”

The dark muzzle of the gun on the fort slowly retracted, and the gap in the fort revealed the face of a young Ming army.

The guards looked at the old warriors of Fanyi who were dancing on the battlefield like a nervous spirit on the opposite side, and saw their little eighth master leaning out of the gap in the fort, holding a dagger and slowly chiseling in front of everyone on the outer wall of the large granite wall of the fort.

Once, again, again.

Then he clumsily and with great difficulty took out a dragon red sun flag from the fort and stuck it on the wall crookedly, the triangular dragon flag was waving in the wind but could not stand on the wall, the granite was too hard.

The little eighth master glanced down and found that many people in the council square were looking at him, which seemed to make him a little embarrassed and irritable, so he simply took out the flag and waved it a few times in the direction where Chen Mu was, and then took his body back.

The swarthy muzzle of the cannon was slowly pushed out, swaying from side to side, sometimes towards the Xiangshan Banner Army, sometimes pointing to the site of the church that had just been built out of the stone steps, and sometimes towards the church primary school in the distance, and finally accurately rushed towards the Portuguese adventurers' array.

As if asking Pereira: What did you just shout 'Santia'?

The dead child of Xiangshan Qianhusho easily destroyed all the extravagant hopes of an old soldier to win the battle.

Unsheathed and raised above his head, the long sword was inserted on the ground, Pereira waved his hand behind him, picked up his cloak and patted it slowly, shrugged his shoulders and shouted to the militants from the Ming Dynasty opposite: "You won, I don't want to fight you, can we have a good talk?" ”

Du Beiwei let out a long breath, wiped the sweat on his forehead and translated this sentence to Chen Mu, and a group of new uninvited guests were ushered in in the meeting square.

A dozen or so ragged beggars dragged a Portuguese man in plate armor like a dead pig and ran towards the Congress Square, and as he ran, someone shouted that the whole procession suddenly stopped.

To their left were hundreds of Portuguese lined up the phalanx of adventurers, and closest to them was a group of bearded archers from India.

To their right were hundreds of Ming Dynasty guards who listed Chen's Mandarin Duck Array, and the closest to them were the banner army of Deng Qianhu's subordinates holding fast guns.

Like hyenas trying to protect food in the face of fierce predators in the African savannah, they slowly retreated by the hands and feet of Portuguese merchants, and the leader of the regiment led by them shouted tentatively into the Ming army.

"Chen, Chen Qianhu? Don't fight, we're Li Ye's people! ”

Damn, my son said that my son, return Master Li!

Chen Mu beckoned: "Come here!" ”

The leader of the beggar group was overjoyed when he heard this, and waved his hand with his head held high, "Go, go." We've talked to Senho-sama too! ”

"Master Qianhu, this is the Portuguese Yi that Master Li asked us to bring, what is it called." The closer he got to Chen Mu, the more the spine of the head of the group bent, and finally nodded and asked, "What are we going to do with Fanyi?" Kill him! ”

"That's it?"

Chen Mu raised his foot and kicked it, bowed slightly towards the group leader, and said, "Okay, let's get the back and tie it up first, I can't spare him - Du Beiwei!" ”

"You go and tell Fanyi, give him a moment to bring the troops into the camp, and wait for Chen to sit down and talk after finishing his business; If he doesn't enter the camp, Chen will defeat them and throw them into the sea to do business, and let the big fish talk to him! ”

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The tuise is the unit of measurement used by the Portuguese in this era, it is not only a unit of length, but also a unit of volume, or a unit of area, I don't understand what the principle is, but when used as a unit of length, a tuise ≈ 1.94 meters.

In the Ming Dynasty, one step was one step for each of the left and right feet, five feet together, and one foot was 34.5 centimeters = 1.725 meters.

Sixty or seventy Tuoise ≈ 116.4 to 135 meters.