Chapter 37: Scare

The entry of the Ming army into Australia brought great panic to the local Yi people.

In this land, which is usually dependent on self-government, it is not uncommon to see armed sailors crossing the border with dozens of men written on the scale of knives, as happens every time a fleet arrives at port.

But there have never been so many people, and it was the Ming army who drove straight into the meeting square with weapons in their hands as if preparing for war.

There is no false prosperity, this is a wild land.

The ronin from the Wa Kingdom leaned against the wall in twos and threes, holding their hands on the hilt of their knives and maintaining the movement of drawing their knives.

The bearded Ming pirates in the restaurant were holding pipes and looking at the neatly dressed Ming army with an unkind expression.

The Portuguese woman put down her things and led the doll to get out of the way, opening her mouth slightly and not daring to speak.

The Japanese craftsmen holding the iron chisel rubbed their eyes and whispered a few simple words in an exaggerated tone and a unique tone.

The missionary held the Bible in his hand as if he had not seen it, and still baptized the believers in silence.

As for the Francois men, they were neither like the Ming pirates who had nothing to do with themselves, nor like the Japanese ronins who were hired by all parties to fight their own battles, they had already received the news and ran out of the station, and a dozen or so gangs, thirty or so were led by a few nobles and captains wearing plate armor, and hundreds of people gathered in the council square, looking in the direction where the Ming Dynasty army was coming.

The language is not compatible, and they don't know the enemy or the enemy.

Like a great enemy.

If it weren't for Pereira, the leader of the Portuguese maritime merchants, and Father Peles, who stood together with the Australian officials, the two sides would probably have fought as soon as they met.

Chen Mu walked forward slowly, he didn't look back at his flag army, but he knew that the flag army that had not experienced the war should be unstable now, and no one had experienced such a battle.

He has never experienced it, so he can only prepare the confidence to fight with the Portuguese here.

But he couldn't panic, and he showed a calm demeanor with all his might.

The meaning of the so-called military formation, many times is that everyone is afraid of beating wolves with a hemp stick, but I think you are not afraid of the one on the left, and you think that I am not afraid of standing on the right, and two people who are afraid give each other courage.

And for officials, whether they are military officials or military attachés, many times it is not that they are not afraid, but that they cannot be afraid.

Zhou Xing didn't seem to know that he was afraid, and even after seeing the Portuguese army gathered together, he walked faster than Chen Mu, walked alone in the front and strutted forward, leading the Australian guard and a few Portuguese people to the open space of the discussion square step by step.

It's like I didn't see those vicious-faced Portuguese.

Chen Mu walked slower, he walked slower than the previous ones, but every step was very steady, and he said something to the hundreds of households behind him from time to time.

Especially when he saw the tall fort not far from the discussion square, he patted Wei Balang and said, "Xiaoba, you take a hundred households, take that fort, and wait for the flag army to gather before going." ”

The reason why Chen Mu was nervous was because his banner army was gathering in three streets towards the discussion square, and before anyone arrived, if Fanyi started a war, it would leave hundreds of households isolated and helpless.

But as spears poured down the streets, he had nothing to panic about.

Fanyi did not dare to act rashly because he was fighting for himself, and missed the best opportunity to repel him.

More than 600 banner troops stood in a formation similar to the Mandarin Duck Formation 100 paces away from the Portuguese army gathered on the discussion square, and each small flag officer stood next to the big shield hand, followed by two flag armies who untied the small flag arrows behind them and set up the big shield, and then the bird gunners and spearmen lined up.

Slowly spread out half of the council square in a semi-encircled form, and Wei Balang, who was on the edge of the edge, held a spear and took the opportunity of spreading out the formation to keep approaching the fort, and then surrounded it.

Before coming to Haojing, Chen Mu considered countless times how strong the troops were among the countries on the island, the Portuguese and Spanish merchants, and the hired ronin of the Japanese Kingdom, and even gave full imagination to the situation that the small flag arrow could not penetrate the plate armor.

Now that these small regiments composed of maritime merchants, Portuguese soldiers, and Manchurian and Indian sailors appeared in front of him, Chen Mu knew that he was thinking too much.

There weren't as many plates as he thought, and not as many firearms as he thought.

The bearded Indian soldier had long hair, wore a short sword, wore bracelets, shorts, and long shirts, and was eager to try his hand with a long bow at shoulder height; The sailors of South Asia were dark-skinned and thin, shirtless with sharp curved swords, and a slightly fearful look under a brown turban.

The exotic motley army made Chen Mu curious, but it simply seemed that their combat power was not worth mentioning.

But what attracted Chen Mu's attention the most was the typical Caucasian people in the opposite corps, compared to the slaves and servants after their conquest, those horsemen with long swords and plate armor at their waists, arquebuses or five-meter spears, and Portuguese soldiers wearing white shirts, infrared jackets, red pants, and boat shoes were more eye-catching.

This seems to have made Chen Mu find something unbelievable, some of the Portuguese have no arquebuses in their hands, and some have a large round thing on the guns, he can't see clearly, but he can be sure that there is no arquebus.

Like a flintlock pistol that fires with a wheel.

"Qianhu, a certain charge of Deng can defeat them!"

Deng Zilong was more eager than anyone else to try, this was a real fierce general, he had already ordered his subordinates to let the banner army load all the fast guns, just waiting to charge.

The spear length of the Portuguese is not short, and the spear of the five infantry in the east is not short!

Zhou Xing stopped, stood in the middle of the meeting square, scanned the surrounding Western-style buildings like a master, and then looked contemptuously at the gathered Yi army of various countries, and asked confidently: "You want to rebel?" ”

"The county commander asked, you want to rebel?"

The official who guarded Australia was sweating like rain, and he didn't stay or stay when he stood beside Zhou Xing, so he could only translate it in Yi language.

Chen Mu touched his nose behind him, and especially wanted to give Zhou Xing a thumbs up - hey, it's awesome!

Ask a bunch of foreigners, you want to rebel?

Maybe he can't cultivate such a wild mentality in his life, how complacent does the ruling class of a country have to be, so that it can rightfully ask such a thing to a group of fierce men with weapons in other countries?

How to say that, he has a face that is not bullied.

Chen Mu looked back at his flag army, most of them had bullied faces, this weird era.

The lower-class people, regardless of whether they see the officials of their own country or the people of other countries, have a bullied face; Regardless of whether they see the people of their own country or the officials of other countries, the upper-level officials are all in the style of a ruler.

The more he thought about it, the more unhappy he became.

Chen Mu marched and set up the formation here, and the little eighth master led the troops to touch the bottom of the fort and raised a spear to overturn the door.

Pereira on the other side was not idle, leaving the priest and Zhou Xing to negotiate, and a few military orders went down to list the formation of the miscellaneous army on both flanks, and the two horned musketeers in the middle of the spear array, and then turned back, raised his face and pointed at Chen Mu and said to Zhou Xing: "Let your soldiers withdraw, otherwise we will go to war!" ”

"Chen Qianhu, withdraw the troops, they said that if they don't withdraw the troops, they will start a war!"

"It's not good for you to start a war, if you don't have to take advantage of the tax, the court will have to blame it!"

Ouch, I'm going to you!

"What about scaring Lao Tzu? Take the Zhou County Order back! ”

Chen Mu sent his soldiers to set up Zhou Xing, raised his finger to point at Pereira from a long distance, and when he saw Zhou Xing being put in the middle of the formation, he raised his hand and ordered loudly: "The whole army listens to the order, raise the gun!" ”