Chapter 431: Power intimidation

The sea breeze blew from the sea with a hint of salty wetness. ?W㈠W㈧W?. ㈧8?1㈠Ｚ?W?. ?Ｃ㈠ＯＭ
Ye Qingyun's words silenced Rod.
Whether to wait six days or not is a difficult question, because he knew that six days would be enough time for reinforcements to arrive here.
Once the reinforcements arrive, it is impossible to predict whether the owner of this land will choose to talk or fight them.
It's just that there are not many options now. The artillery at the head of the city has proved the special nature of this place. He must learn about this place in time to formulate the next strategy.
So he said: "Well, we are willing to wait six days, and hope that I can see King Qi in six days."
After speaking, Rod waved his hand and directed the Dutch army to retreat.
"Ambassador Rod, are we going to withdraw to the sea?" Sakai asked puzzledly looking at the Dutch soldiers who began to evacuate to the beach.
"Yes, our purpose here is not war, but to clarify the problem of matchlock guns, and the artillery at the head of the city proves that this place is very dangerous, we can't risk provoke an unknown enemy." Rod said.
Sakai shrugged when he heard the words, but mumbled "cowardly."
Although he was dissatisfied, Sakai still followed the Dutch beach to retreat. When he left, he looked at Denju Castle unwillingly. If the city was taken to establish a stronghold, Yamada Daimyo's plan would be easier to implement.
The army under the city withdrew to the sea, Ye Qingyun was relieved, and he immediately sent people to the bay to inform King Qi, to report this incident.
"The Dutch want to see this king?"
Yang Chengye followed the scout to the bay.
"Yes, Your Highness, we said that His Highness will not arrive until four days later, and the Dutch really evacuated. According to the officials, the purpose of the Dutch is really not to fight us." Yang Chengye said.
Xiao Ming nodded, and he said: "This is the wise choice. It seems that this group of Dutch people is only trying to figure out what the king is."
In Xiao Ming's view, it was precisely because of weakness that the Dutch rushed to war against the Chu King to stop the Chu King's military adventure. King Chu couldn't understand this, but he could see it thoroughly.
Not to mention the era of sailing warships, even in the era of steamships, it is extremely difficult to project troops across half of the earth.
Therefore, the Dutch know very well that they will not have reinforcements. Once they fail in East Asia, they will completely withdraw from this area.
Yang Chengye has no idea about the Dutch or the Netherlands at all. He then asked: "His Royal Highness, no matter what ideas these Dutchmen are making, we don't have to be afraid of them as long as the Qingzhou Army arrives."
"That's right, in that case, when the Qingzhou army arrives at the king, I will meet the Dutch ambassador to see what they want." Xiao Ming said, the arrival of the Dutch is the first time he and foreign civilizations collide. .
Deciding to meet with the Dutch, Xiao Ming stayed in the bay and waited for the reinforcements to arrive. On the next day, twenty merchant ships full of artillery entered the military port. This was the first batch of artillery shipped from the military workshop.
Seeing the artillery arrived, Yue Yun was very excited. He and the soldiers immediately transported the artillery and ammunition to the battleship to equip them. Without the artillery, the Galen ship is just a toothless tiger. The tiger is out.
This time, the first batch of naval guns were sent, with a total of more than 300 guns. In the future, two batches of naval guns will continue to arrive.
But even these three hundred naval guns are enough to arm five or six small Galen ships, which is enough.
In the next few days, artillery from the military workshop arrived one after another, and twelve Galen ships 6 were fitted with naval guns.
Niu Ben also led the Qingzhou Army and followed the merchant ship to the bay.
"Your Highness, we can go to war at any time."
After the naval gun was hoisted, Yue Yun said excitedly.
Niu Ben basically figured out the source of the crisis at this time. He said: "His Royal Highness, this war supplies is the top priority. Now this Dutch labor expedition cannot be our opponent. We only need to win Ryukyu. The Dutch stopped the supply and were not far from failure."
The Qingzhou army with live ammunition arrived. Xiao Ming no longer worried about the safety of Dengzhou City. He said:
It’s not time to go to war. The Netherlands has traveled so far here for money. They will not rush to war with us. This time the Dutch ambassador. This is the purpose of this discussion. We just need to show our strength to the Dutch and they will understand what choice to make."
"His Royal Highness is a soldier who is ready to defeat others without fighting." Niu Ben smiled heartily, "His Royal Highness is still thoughtful. As long as he can talk about it, why bother to fight."
Xiao Ming smiled and nodded, and said, "Let's go, today is the day set, we will meet the Dutch ambassador."
Leaving the temporary residence in the military port, Xiao Ming and Niu rushed towards Dengzhou City.
In the military port, 10,000 soldiers from Qingzhou are gathering. They are lined up in pairs with Liang Liang's flintlocks. Niu Ben gave an order and the soldiers followed Xiao Ming and his party towards Dengzhou City.
And Yue Yun and other navy soldiers also boarded the battleships, ready to attack at any time.
As agreed, Rod arrived outside Dengzhou City on time. Unlike last time, he was allowed to enter Dengzhou City this time.
Entering Dengzhou City, 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 into panic. When he arrived in the middle of the city, a large number of soldiers carrying muskets swarmed from the west gate of the city into the city wall towards the east gate.
"God, this is a flintlock, how is this possible!"
Rod couldn't believe his eyes. He rubbed his eyes and looked again ~EbookFREE.me~ That's right, the guns these soldiers carried were indeed flintlocks.
At this moment, Rod's heart sank. Although flintlocks had already been popular in the military in Europe, the appearance of flintlocks in such a backward area was enough to shock him.
Just as he was surprised, there was a sound of horseshoes, and a group of people appeared in front of him on horseback.
"Ambassador Rod, the person in front of you is our Royal Highness King Qi." Ye Qingyun said loudly.
The young man Luo Xiangwei could not believe was that such a young man turned out to be the king of a piece of land.
He took off his hat and performed a noble courtesy to Xiao Ming and said: "His Royal Highness Qi, I salute you on behalf of Earl Claire."
Xiao Ming's eyes rolled around Rod. This is a typical European, and he is well dressed. At this moment, he got off the horse and said to Rod, "Ambassador Rod, I heard that you want to see this king. , I don’t know if you Dutch people are looking for this king, do you want to sign an unequal treaty with you like you want this king and Chu king?"
(To be continued.)