What happened was that after Arthur was shot and fell to the ground, Zhang Yanling urgently applied medicine and bandages on him and ordered people to carry him down the city wall for further treatment.
Zhang Yanling didn't care about the cardinal's life or death, but he still had something to ask Arthur. Ma Laoliu had searched every corner of the castle but couldn't find the artillery that was previously installed on the castle. This matter
It's really a bit strange.
Franji's castles usually have underground secret rooms. Ma Laoliu also found the secret room under the hall, but apart from basic supplies such as food and water, there were no artillery inside.
Zhang Yanling believed that things like artillery must be hidden in a separate place. The secret room under the hall may just be a well-known storage place for basic supplies. There may be other secret rooms, but the entrance has not been found.
Just like the secret room of Almeida's castle in Malacca, it is a secret room deep underground that most people don't know about. It is also a secret of the main officials or the owner of the castle.
The owner of this central castle is unknown, but the bishop, governor and some major officials all live here. It should be said that this is the place where the central office is located. The entrance to the secret chamber may only be known to a limited number of people. Bishop Arthur and
The dead governor must have been one of the people who knew the secret.
But not long ago, Zhang Yanling asked Arthur if he knew there were other secret rooms under the castle. But Arthur said he knew nothing about it. Of course, Zhang Yanling refused to believe it and decided to find an opportunity to continue asking.
At this critical moment, if we find those dozen artillery pieces and set them up on all levels of the castle to bombard the enemy from above, it will have a great shock and blow effect. Don't even think about getting close to the opponent's siege weapons and equipment. If there are explosive shells
If so, it can even kill a large number of enemies and have an absolute dominance over the battle situation.
Arthur said that he did not know the location of the secret room and swore to heaven that his words were conclusive, but Zhang Yanling did not believe a word of it. However, the enemy was about to attack at that time, and Zhang Yanling hoped that Arthur could persuade the Francois to give up the attack, but he did not
Force him to confess.
Who would have thought that Arthur was actually hit by the musketeers of the Francois. Of course Zhang Yanling wanted to save him. Even if Arthur was going to die, he had to find out the location of the secret room before he died.
Therefore, Zhang Yanling took several personal guards to personally escort Arthur to a safe location in the central castle, and gave him a combination of Babao Heart-protecting Pills and First Aid Powder for oral and external use. This was to ensure that Arthur would not die.
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Arthur was extremely moved. It was the Flemish people who killed him, but it was the Ming Dynasty people who saved him.
Arthur was even more angry at the Francois who were attacking outside. They dared to shoot their cardinal and kill him here. How despicable and vicious this was. The murder of himself was
How could the church tolerate such blasphemy against God? Arthur was going to make these people pay the price.
"Your Excellency, thank you for saving my life. God bless you. I didn't expect this result." Arthur sighed and thanked Zhang Yanling.
Zhang Yanling waved his hand and said with a smile: "Master Bishop, I'm sorry that this happened. It seems that those people outside want your life more than me. You are very lucky. I have the best healing medicine in Ming Dynasty, which can protect you."
One life. But I can only save you this time. People from outside will attack soon. Mr. Bishop, I am afraid you will still die. We may have to break out and evacuate soon."
Arthur said in panic: "You want to withdraw?"
"There are too many of them. We can't hold this battle. We have too few people, and our firearms are almost exhausted. We can't hold on. I don't want to die here. Naturally, I have to evacuate with my brothers."
." Zhang Yanling smacked her lips and said.
Arthur listened to the shouts of killing outside and the roar of firearms one after another. He knew that the battle was very fierce and the soldiers and horses outside were launching a fierce attack. It was indeed difficult to hold five or six thousand people against a few hundred people.
If it were before, Arthur would definitely be secretly happy, hoping that the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty would be defeated. But now, he doesn't think so. If the soldiers and horses from outside attack, he will definitely die. Since the soldiers outside have attacked him,
, how could he allow himself to live again, waiting for his revenge?
"Your Majesty Duke...can you...?"
"No..." Before Arthur could finish his words, he was interrupted by Zhang Yanling: "I know what you want to say. You want us to take you with us when we retreat. That is impossible. We cannot protect ourselves and cannot
I ask Lord Bishop Arthur to forgive me for bringing you this burden. Hey, although I really want to save people to the end, but I can't."
Arthur's eyes dimmed, his hope was completely shattered, he would die if he stayed, what should he do?
"Actually, we also want to defend here. After all, we worked hard to break in. Now if someone can give me a few artillery pieces, I can turn the situation around. Unfortunately, this is a delusion." Zhang Yanling sighed.
"Artillery?" Arthur muttered.
Zhang Yanling said: "Yes. Artillery can turn the situation around. But there will be no artillery here. I am just thinking wildly. Master Arthur, have a good rest. I have to go to the outer wall to join the battle. When we evacuate later,
I won’t come to say goodbye to you. Lord Arthur, take care of yourself. Maybe they will spare your life. After all,
You are all from the same country, and you are still a noble cardinal. If they offend you, they should kowtow to you and beg for mercy. Otherwise, they have offended you, the cardinal, and once you return to your country, you will report it to the Holy See and
Your king, if he launches revenge, they will all be hanged and burned to death. Hahaha, farewell."
Zhang Yanling's words were heartbreaking, saying that the other party would spare Arthur, but in fact, those were the reasons why the other party would kill Arthur without mercy.
Zhang Yanling turned around and walked out. Arthur called from behind: "I know where the artillery is. It's in the secret room under the central castle. It used to be defensive artillery set up outside the castle, but it was useless later and it took too many manpower to maintain.
So we took it down and sealed it in the underground secret room. Duke, with the artillery, you will be able to defend this place, right? You can stop them from withdrawing, right? If so, I will take you to open the secret room."
Zhang Yanling suppressed the ecstasy in his heart and said in a deep voice: "Are there really artillery? Why didn't you tell us earlier? By the way, you don't want us to win after all, which is understandable. With artillery, we can turn the situation around, and naturally we won't leave. Hurry up.
Take me to the secret room and have a look."
At this point, Arthur couldn't care about anything. He made two demands. One was that the matter must be kept secret and not allowed to be known to others. It was Arthur who revealed that there were artillery in the secret room. The other was that Zhang Yanling should swear an oath.
I will definitely let him go and not kill him afterwards.
Zhang Yanling, of course, agreed wholeheartedly. It would be beneficial for a person like Arthur to stay at the top of the Flemish Country. How could he kill him because he had the handle on him? He had no direct grudge against him, so there was no need to kill him.
As for the secret, no one knew about it except Mrs. Belen. Whether Mrs. Belen would tell it or not was beyond his control.
As expected, Arthur also thought of this and forced Mrs. Belen to swear an oath of secrecy in the name of God. How dare Mrs. Franco break it? She is just the wife of a clergyman, and she comes here with her husband. This kind of thing,
It was a matter of life and death, so she naturally understood the reason and immediately swore to keep it a secret.
As a result, two soldiers carried Arthur and followed Arthur's instructions to open the entrance to another secret room in a room on the west side of the central castle. It was a secret passage cut out of the stone wall. The mechanism was unknown.
If you do, you will never be able to retreat from that solid stone wall. The way to open it is to rotate the candlestick twice to retract the iron bolt behind the stone wall, and then push the stone wall to see the entrance to the secret room below.
It's not subtle, but it's very practical.
The secret room is not deep, with only two floors. The upper floor is filled with various combat supplies. Weapons, armor, bows and arrows, and Zhang Yanling wanted to get more than ten dusty artillery pieces.
However, the ecstasy was followed by great disappointment. Zhang Yanling checked the artillery and found that these artillery were no longer usable. Not to mention that these artillery were all early artillery with the simplest structure, the kind that could only fire solid shells.
Moreover, the barrel, body, and doors of the gun were already rusty. Zhang Yanling reached out and pulled the ring of a gun, and it fell off immediately. It was really frustrating.
Faced with this situation, Zhang Yanling was extremely disappointed. Except for artillery, everything here was of no use in defending the city wall and attacking the enemy. In other words, they were not suitable for Zhang Yanling's discernment. Zhang Yanling's subordinates were equipped with weapons, armor, bows and arrows.
It's the best, but I can't look down on these crappy things from the Folangji people.
These guys treat these things as treasures and hide them in a secret room. I really don't know what they think.
Of course Zhang Yanling did not give up. He went to the secret room on the second floor. The result surprised him greatly. The wooden shelves in the secret room on the second floor were filled with oak barrels and filled with the smell of wine. It turned out that this was a place to store wine.
I don’t know if the Folangji people are selling wine, or if they are just hiding the wine for drinking. It looks like they are storing alcohol supplies for the army and local officials. After all, wine is a very valuable thing these days. The Folangji people
He also likes to drink, so it is not impossible to reserve some as military supplies.
But these drinks seemed to be of no benefit to the battle at the moment. You can't use the wine to get the enemy drunk to death. Until Zhang Yanling suddenly realized that if there was strong alcohol in it, maybe this would be a powerful weapon that could make the Fo Langji people miserable.
The enemy's tactics were revealed, and he suddenly became pleasantly surprised.
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When Chen Shiyi heard Zhang Yanling's explanation, he was extremely surprised. It turned out that the Duke of Guo was so interested in Arthur because he wanted to get the whereabouts of the artillery from him. Although the artillery was useless, he actually found the Folang machine.
Liquor from a man's cellar. This is a real surprise.
"Sir, we can attack the outer wall, but why do we have to come to the inner wall? We have given up the outer wall in vain. We can withstand it," Chen Shi said.
Zhang Yanling smiled and said: "The spirits are limited, the inner wall is small, the terrain is narrower, and they are more concentrated, the effect will be better. Besides, it is also convenient to transport the wine barrels. Brother Chen, without further delay, quickly take people to transport those spirits
Bring it up and prepare to treat the Buddha to a drink. We are borrowing flowers to offer to the Buddha."