"Bang Bang ......"

A burst of gunfire rang out, and the rifled guns hit the target at a distance of four hundred meters, at which point the twelve Dutch soldiers put away their flintlock muskets. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

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

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

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

In Europe, a musket team of 10,000 musketeers could occupy a rich colony, and the King of Qi he was now facing did not know how many such troops there were.

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

Xiao Ming laughed, this Claire is really a human spirit, and he wants to draw oil and water from him, he asked casually, "So how much are you going to sell it?" ”

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

Xiao Ming smiled dumbly when he heard this, these three things are the best-selling luxury goods in Europe, as long as you can transport a shipload of such goods back, it is enough to make a fortune, and it is precisely for this reason that the Cao family and the King of Chu have accumulated huge wealth over the years.

In order to pay for these goods, the Dutch brought large quantities of silver from Europe in exchange for these goods, and it was precisely because of this that the Cao family was able to establish a money bank throughout the Great Chongqing Kingdom.

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

Looking at the fiefdom of the king of Chu in the northeast, Xiao Ming couldn't help drooling, when he docked in Ningzhou, Xiao Ming saw the prosperous scene on the dock, compared to Qingzhou, the current Chu is still a place where merchants gather, much stronger than Qingzhou, most of these merchants are maritime merchants who are running overseas.

However, because of the provocation of the King of Chu to the Dutch, now these merchants have lost their sea trade routes, and for Xiao Ming, after opening up the sea trade routes, these people are the first wave of fat sheep to be slaughtered.

"No need." After pondering for a long time, Xiao Ming gave Claire a disappointed answer, he bought military technology from Europe? It was a joke, but he made a note of the price Claire wanted, and it wouldn't be long before Claire begged him to buy a military weapon.

Claire's disappointment was beyond words, he believed that if he handed over the manufacturing technology of flintlock pistols to the Wa Kingdom, the Wa Kingdom would take out even ten million taels of silver, and Xiao Ming was not interested in this higher-grade firearm manufacturing technology.

Looking at Xiao Ming, who had an indifferent face, Claire's pleasure of winning just now also disappeared, because he began to suspect that Xiao Ming had mastered this technique.

Sighing, he said, "Okay, okay, let's start the artillery show." ”

Xiao Ming nodded, what was going to be done next was the shooting of field artillery, the same as the flintlock gun, the field artillery of the Qingzhou Army and the field artillery of the Dutch were half a catty.

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

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

After a brief competition, Xiao Ming and Claire discussed the placement of the soldiers, and according to the original agreement, he would leave 2,000 soldiers in the city of Geranza to maintain order with the Dutch soldiers.

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

Having decided on this matter, the two decided to repair it on the spot for two days.

On the third day, Xiao Ming and Claire's fleet began to blockade the main island of the Ryukyus, and at the same time, some warships began to cruise along the main island of the Ryukyu to prevent the pirates from continuing to reinforce the castle of Michira.

Their troops also began to land on the main island of the Ryukyus, and together with the Dutch army, there were a total of 12,000 musketeers and 72 field guns.

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

Claire was relaxed at this time, and in his opinion, if nothing else, the Japanese army would have to go out of the city to fight them after the food ran out.

"Stay vigilant to prevent a sneak attack by a rogue of pirates." Xiao Ming explained, in this era where observation can only be relied on, any defense has loopholes.

Although they are already cruising in the waters, there is no guarantee that there will be no fish that have slipped through the net.

And when Xiao Ming arranged the encirclement, Sakai in Michira's Castle was also observing everything on the island.

After a fleet entered the harbor of the city of Geranza, they realized that trouble was coming, and he did not expect that the Dutch had really invited reinforcements, and this reinforcement was also the king of Qi of the Great Yu Kingdom, because they had seen these warships in Dengzhou.

But he still didn't panic after seeing these warships, because the fortress of Michira City was not so easy to breach, especially since they also had tens of thousands of soldiers.

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

"Lord Sakai, the Dutch and the people of Dayu are trying to besiege us, so why don't we just keep waiting? There was not much food left in the castle to support us for long, and their fleet blocked the coastline, and we could not get supplies from the sea. A pirate leader said to Sakai.

Yamada Nobunaga's rise to prominence was bloody, and these pirates were his wandering samurai, who were sent to the seas to raid merchant ships to accumulate war capital for Yamada Nobunaga.

Now Yamada Nobunaga was able to defeat the other daimyo and unify the Wa Kingdom, and these pirates contributed a lot.

"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, let's go out of the city and kill these poor weaklings, our katana will cut them in half."

"That's right, for the sake of Yamada Daimyo, we can die without memorial, without scruples, without hesitation," said another samurai.

"Fight, fight!" The other samurai shouted as well.

Looking at the angry samurai, Sakai's eyes flashed with a hint of fierceness.