Steel Dynasty - Chapter 484

[Chapter 484 Samurai]

“Bang bang…”

A burst of gunfire rang out, and the rifle hit the target four hundred meters away. At this time, the twelve Dutch soldiers put away their flintlock guns.

With pride in Claire’s eyes, he said to Xiao Ming: “Your Highness, it’s your turn now.”

“It’s really surprising. I have to say that we are slightly inferior in terms of guns. We have guns that can hit four hundred meters .”

No.” Xiao Ming said.

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

In Europe, a 10,000-person musketry team could completely occupy a rich colony, and the King of Qi he was facing now didn’t know how many such troops there were.

“Your Highness, there is no need to be discouraged. These rifled guns cannot offset the advantages of flintlock guns on the battlefield. Currently they can only be used as a surprise weapon. If your Highness needs it, I can sell you the manufacturing method of this rifled gun.” “Claire’s eyes shone with shrewdness.

Xiao Ming laughed. This Claire is really a man. Now he wants to take advantage of him. He asked casually: “Then how much are you going to sell it for?”

“According to the trading method of Great Chongqing. How about five million taels of silver? Of course, the silver can be replaced with tea leaves, porcelain, and raw silk.” Claire said.

Xiao Ming burst out laughing when he heard this. These three items were extremely popular luxury goods in Europe. As long as he could transport a ship of such goods back, he would be able to make a fortune. It was precisely for this reason that the Cao family and the King of Chu had accumulated a huge amount of money over the years. of wealth.

In order to pay for these commodities, the Dutch shipped a large amount of silver from Europe in exchange for these commodities. It is precisely because of this that the Cao family was able to establish a bank throughout the Great Yu Kingdom.

This bank was built on a large amount of silver.

Looking at the fiefdom of King 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 with Qingzhou, the current Chu land is still a place where merchants gather. Compared with Qingzhou, Too strong, most of these merchants are maritime merchants traveling overseas.

However, due to the provocation of the King of Chu against the Dutch, these merchants now lost their maritime trade routes. For Xiao Ming, after the maritime trade routes were opened, these people were the first wave of fat sheep to be slaughtered.

“No need.” After pondering for a long time, Xiao Ming gave Claire a disappointing answer. Is he buying military technology from Europe? It was a joke, but he took note of the price Claire wanted. Soon, Claire would be begging him to buy military weapons.

Claire’s disappointment was palpable. He believed that if the manufacturing technology of flintlock guns were handed over to the Japanese country, the Japanese country would provide even ten million taels of silver, but Xiao Ming was not interested in this higher-end firearm manufacturing technology.

Looking at Xiao Ming with an indifferent expression, Claire’s pleasure from winning just now disappeared because he began to suspect that Xiao Ming had mastered this technique.

Sighing, he said: “Okay, okay, let’s start the artillery show next.”

Xiao Ming nodded, and what was going to be next was the shooting of field artillery. Like the flintlock gun, the Qingzhou Army’s field battle The gun was about the same as the Dutch field artillery.

This gave both sides a clear understanding of each other’s weapons.

However, in Xiao Ming’s view, I am afraid that the weapons of the Netherlands cannot represent the highest level of Europe, because in the 18th century, the Netherlands had been in decline, and only the major European countries, Britain, France, Prussia and Austria, could represent the highest level of Europe now.

After a simple competition, Xiao Ming and Claire discussed the placement of soldiers. According to the original agreement, he would leave two thousand soldiers in the city of Relanja to work with the Dutch soldiers to maintain order in the city.

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

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

On the third day, the fleets of Xiao Ming and Claire began to blockade Ryukyu Island. At the same time, some warships began to cruise along Ryukyu Island to prevent Japanese pirates from continuing to reinforce Michila Castle.

Their troops also began to land on Ryukyu Island. Together with the Dutch troops, there were a total of 12,000 musketeers and 72 field guns on the island this time.

“Your Highness, our soldiers have completed the siege of Michila Castle.” Half a day after the soldiers landed on the island, Lu Fei came to report to Xiao Ming.

Claire looked relaxed at this time. In his opinion, if nothing unexpected happened, the Japanese army could only go out of the city to fight them after they ran out of food.

“Stay vigilant to prevent Japanese pirates from scurrying over to attack.” Xiao Ming explained that in this era where observation can only rely on sight, any defense has loopholes.

Although they have been swimming in this sea, there is no guarantee that no fish will slip through the net.

While Xiao Ming was setting up the encirclement, Sakai in Michila Castle was also observing everything on the island.

After a fleet entered the port of Relanje City, they realized that trouble was coming. He did not expect that the Dutch really invited reinforcements, and this reinforcement was the King of Qi from the Great Chongqing Kingdom, because these warships were in Dengzhou Saw it.

But after seeing these warships, he still didn’t panic, because the bastion of Michila City was not that easy to break, especially since they had tens of thousands of soldiers.

However, his confidence disappeared after the siege was completed, and he realized that he would face a long siege next.

“Master Sakai, the Dutch and the Chongqing people are going to besiege us. Should we just keep waiting like this? There is not much food in the castle and we cannot support us for too long. And their fleet has blocked the coastline, so we can’t Get supplies from the sea,” a pirate leader said to Sakai.

The rise of Yamada Nobunaga was full of blood. These pirates were his wandering samurai. These samurai were sent to the sea to rob merchant ships to accumulate war capital for Yamada Nobunaga.

Now Yamada Nobunaga is able to defeat other daimyo to unify Japan, and these pirates are indispensable.

“We samurai will not hide in the castle and starve to death. This will damage our honor. Mr. Sakai, for us samurai, we would rather die in battle than starve to death. Let us go out of the city and kill these poor weaklings. We The katana will cut them in half.”

“Yes, for the sake of Yamada Daimyo, we can die without any thought, without scruples, without hesitation,” another samurai said.

“Fight, fight!” other warriors also shouted.

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

(End of chapter)