Seeing Wells leave, He Runqi couldn't wait to say to Zhou Xian: "General, today's great formation shocked these Portuguese. They came to find you as soon as possible and wanted to deal with the He Yi with the Ming Dynasty."

Zhou Xian was puzzled, "No matter how you look at it, this battle is not considered a victory! I didn't want to do it before, but now I am willing. Are these foreigners blind? "

He Runqi smiled and said, "General, what these Portuguese are concerned about is not the victory or defeat of this battle, but the strength of our Ming Dynasty. They have few people, and thousands of people are enough for them. How have they seen these big battles of tens of thousands of people? They used to think that the Ming Dynasty was just like the uncivilized barbarian countries they encountered, and it was not worth mentioning at all. But in this battle, the flintlock guns and artillery used in your army opened their eyes, and then they asked to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty."

Zhou Xian felt something, "That's it! Then you ask him to talk about this matter with Mr. Wan in detail and see how to cooperate. Then, a contract will be decided according to the rules of their Westerners."

After He Runqi translated Pilt, the latter was overjoyed and bowed to Zhou Xian like the Ming people.

Because Western medicine emphasizes direct effects, Wells rescued many soldiers and allowed many military Chinese medicine officials to experience completely different treatment methods from traditional Chinese medicine. Western medicine has the advantages of Western medicine, and traditional Chinese medicine has the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine. Zhou Xian was very happy to see the intersection of this medicine.

In his spare time, Zhou Xianzhao met Wells and found that he not only understood medicine, but also had some knowledge of astronomy, physics, and mathematics. Although Zhou Xian had no good impression of Christianity, he would never let such talents go. He finally convinced Pastor Wells to go to Jinan to teach the newly built academy.

Two new academies were also built in Jinan. One of them was named Qilu Academy by Zhou Xian, and the dean was Xie Sheng, and was preparing to build the first comprehensive academies in the Ming Dynasty. The other was the Jinan martial arts hall and the military academies. They temporarily found generals in Jinan to serve as instructors and taught for low-level generals. However, both academies were only built in prototypes. As for what they would look like in the future, even Zhou Xian couldn't explain it clearly. After all, advanced teaching may not be suitable for the Ming Dynasty, and everything can only be explored and moved forward.

The negotiations with the Portuguese achieved results. They agreed to hand over the charts of the Nanyang region to Zhou Xian and were willing to help the Ming navy train sailors and crew members. But the premise was that the Ming Dynasty admitted that it had occupied the colony. After defeating the Netherlands, the Portuguese colony that they seized within forty years was returned to Portugal.

At the same time, Portugal will help transport the Ming army to the South Ocean through merchant ships, so that they can enter the South Ocean secretly without attracting immediate counterattacks from the Dutch and the Spanish. They will provide them with temporary protection and allow them to operate in their colonies. Whether they can seize new territory from the local barbarians and other Western barbarians depends on their own abilities.

Because the resident officials in Macau are just middle and low-level generals of the Grapes, some things need to be submitted to the Portugal country. Therefore, in many aspects, a contract of intention has been drawn up for the time being and has not been officially signed and confirmed. However, some things that he can make decisions, such as training sailors and crew for the Ming Navy, and establishing caravans together, have begun to be implemented.

In terms of war, although Li Dingguo withdrew his main force back to Tancheng, the small-scale battle never stopped. Li Dingguo personally ran around Linyi for 5,000 cavalry, harassing the main force of the official army, sneaking out supplies, food and grass, and looting villages and towns. In short, he took all possible methods to prevent the official army from being at ease.

Although Zhou Xian had nearly 4,000 cavalry in Linyi, their number was not as large as that of Li Dingguo and their combat power was not as good as that of them. After several battles, they all won fewer victories and more defeats. Not only did they not stop Li Dingguo, but their own army also lost a lot. When the army was dispatched, Li Dingguo fled without a trace and did not fight with them at all.

Faced with such a situation, Zhou Xian had to order the cavalry not to attack again, so that Wu Zhiying could hurry up and continue to train the cavalry. At the same time, he spent countless efforts to build forts on several major roads and placed a certain number of musketeers on it to intercept Li Dingguo. And once they were found, they lit a bonfire to warn each other to minimize the losses.

But for some reason, even though many scouts were sent, Li Dingguo could still find a way to attack the Ming army. This made Zhou Xian very distressed, but he couldn't think of a way to deal with him. The only way was to dispatch a large army to attack Tancheng in order to seek a head-on decisive battle with Li Dingguo. However, the entire army was defeated and suffered a lot, which was not a good time.

Li Dingguo continued to send troops to provoke, but he could not send troops. Nearly 30,000 troops were tortured by 5,000 cavalrymen, and Zhou Xian had never been so depressed, but he could not send troops. He could only order the entire army to strengthen training in order to get the entire army back to the top as soon as possible and fight with him again.

Zhou Xian in Linyi has become a very rare stalemate. One side tries its best to avoid the war, while the other side continues to harass it. But both sides know that soon, a new round of war will begin again.

Liu Zeqing sent troops to attack Yucheng and Pingyuan at the same time. Zhou Xian had previously passed on the news that Li Yan intended to attack Linqing to Liu Zeqing, which delayed Liu Zeqing's attack to a certain extent. But not long after, he found that Li Yan had not taken action, so he thought it was Zhou Xian's delaying plan and strengthened the attack on the Pingyuan.

But Yan Yingyuan defended properly, and Liu Zeqing suffered numerous soldiers and attacked the city. Before, Liu Zeqing was defeated, most of his troops were lost, and his morale was volatile. He wanted to take advantage of Zhou Xian to lead the army to Linyi, but some of his forces were restrained by Li Yan in Qufu and sent troops to plunder several cities. On the one hand, he supplemented the losses of the previous defeat, and on the other hand, he also wanted to use this to establish his authority and consolidate his morale. However, he was not smooth and was blocked in front of the small plain city.

Liu Zeqing was anxious and angry, and vowed to flatten the Pingyuan City. He transferred most of the defenders of Linqing to the Pingyuan and attacked quickly. Although Yan Yingyuan was talented, his troops were too small. On several occasions, Liu's army had already rushed to the top of the city. Although he was finally driven down by the defenders, the situation was critical and he could break the city at any time.

The closest to the plain is the army stationed in Texas, with about 4,000 people, which is a new camp created by Bai Hu. Previously, Zhou Xian was angry that Bai Hu tried to divide the army and transferred the soldiers of the old camp from Dezhou. Except for Bai Hu's confidants, the soldiers in the new camp were all recruited by him and had limited combat power. But the good thing is that Zhou Xian provided him with enough weapons and equipment to give them full of power to fight.
Chapter completed!