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Ye Qingyun's words silenced Rod.

It was a difficult question whether to wait six days, for he knew that six days would be enough for reinforcements to arrive.

And once the reinforcements arrive, it is impossible to predict whether the owners of the land will choose to negotiate or fight them.

It's just that there aren't many options now, and the artillery at the head of the city has proven that this place is special, and he must know this place in time to formulate the next strategy.

So he said, "Okay, we are willing to wait for six days, and I hope that after six days I will be able to see King Qi." ”

After saying that, Rhodes waved his hand and directed the Dutch army to retreat back.

"Ambassador Rhodes, are we going to withdraw to the sea?" Sakai asked puzzled as he looked at the Dutch soldiers who were beginning to evacuate towards the beach.

"Yes, we are not here for war, but to get to the bottom of the arquebus, and the artillery at the head of the city proves that this place is dangerous, and we cannot risk provoking an unknown enemy." Rod said.

Sakai shrugged his shoulders when he heard this, but muttered in his heart, "Coward." ”

Although he was dissatisfied, Sakai retreated with the Dutch beach, and as he left, he looked at the castle of Noboru unwillingly, and if he took the castle and established a stronghold, Yamada's plan would be easier to implement.

The army under the city withdrew to the sea, Ye Qingyun breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and he immediately sent someone to the bay to inform the king of Qi and explain the matter this time.

"The Dutch want to see the king?"

Yang Chengye followed the scout to the bay.

"That's right, Your Highness, we said that His Highness would arrive in four days, and the Dutch really evacuated, in the opinion of the lower officials, the purpose of the Dutch is really not to start a war with us." Yang Chengye said.

Xiao Ming nodded, and he said: "This is a wise choice, it seems that this group of Dutch people is just trying to find out the truth of this king." ”

In Xiao Ming's view, it was precisely because of weakness that the Dutch would rashly start a war against the king of Chu to stop the king of Chu's military adventure, which the king of Chu could not see, but he saw it very thoroughly.

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

Therefore, the Dutch knew very well that they would not have reinforcements, and in the event of defeat in East Asia, they would completely withdraw from the region.

Yang Chengye had no concept of the Dutch, or the Netherlands, at all, and then asked: "Your Highness, no matter what these Dutch are thinking, as long as the Qingzhou army arrives, we don't have to be afraid of them. ”

"That's right, since this is the case, when the Qingzhou army arrives at this king, I will go to meet this Dutch ambassador and see what they really want." Xiao Ming said that the arrival of the Dutch was the first collision between him and foreign civilizations.

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

Seeing the arrival of the artillery, Yue Yun was excited, he immediately transported the artillery and ammunition to the battleship with the soldiers and equipped it, without the naval gun, the Galen ship is just a toothless tiger, and now the naval guns are on the ship, it is a real tiger.

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

But even these three hundred naval guns were enough to arm five or six small Galen ships, and that would be enough.

Over the next few days, the guns of the military workshop arrived one after another, and twelve Galen ships were loaded with naval guns.

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

"Your Highness, we can go to war at any time."

After the ship's guns were hoisted, Yue Yun said excitedly.

Niu Ben basically figured out the source of this crisis at this time, and he said: "Your Highness, this war supply is the top priority, and now this Dutchman labor expedition cannot be our opponent, just need to take the Ryukyus, this Dutch will cut off supplies, and it will not be far from failure." ”

The Qingzhou army with loaded guns arrived, Xiao Ming was no longer worried about the safety of Dengzhou City, he said: "It's not the time to go to war yet, the Netherlands came so far here for money, they won't rush to war with us, this time the Dutch ambassador proposed this negotiation for the purpose of this, just need to show the Dutch our strength, they will understand what choice to make." ”

"Your Highness, this is a soldier who is ready to surrender without a fight." Niu Ben smiled heartily, "Your Highness is still thoughtful, as long as you can talk about it, why start a war." ”

Xiao Ming nodded with a smile and said, "Let's go, today is the set day, we will meet this Dutch ambassador." ”

Leaving the temporary residence of the military port, Xiao Ming and Niu Ben marched towards Dengzhou City.

In the military port, 10,000 Qingzhou soldiers were gathering, they were lined up in pairs with shiny flintlock pistols, 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 one after another, ready to attack at any time.

As agreed, at this time, Rhodes arrived outside Dengzhou City on time, and unlike last time, this time he was allowed to enter Dengzhou City.

Entering the city of Dengzhou, Rod's eyes quickly showed contempt, in his eyes, this city was much poorer than any city in the Netherlands.

However, his contempt soon turned to horror, and when he reached the middle of the city, a large number of soldiers with muskets on their backs poured from the west gate of the city into the walls that rushed to the east gate.

"God, this is a flintlock pistol, how is this possible!"

Rod couldn't believe his eyes, he rubbed his eyes and looked again, yes, the guns these soldiers were carrying were indeed flintlock pistols.

At this moment, Rod's heart sank, although flintlock pistols had long been popularized in the army in Europe, the appearance of flintlock pistols in such a backward region was enough to shock him.

Just as he was startled, suddenly there was a sound of horses' hooves, and a group of people appeared in front of him on horseback.

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

Rod looked at a young man at the head with some disbelief, such a young man turned out to be the king of a piece of land.

He took off his hat and made a noble salute to Xiao Ming, and said, "Dear His Royal Highness King Qi, I salute you on behalf of Count Clare. ”

Xiao Ming's eyes turned around Rhodes, this is a typical European, and he is dressed more elegantly, at this time he got off his horse and said to Rhodes: "Ambassador Rhodes, I heard that you are going to see this king, I don't know what you Dutch are looking for this king, do you want to sign an unequal treaty with you like this king and the king of Chu?" ”

(To be continued.) )