"Yu Dayou, Zheng Li, and Wang Yuan, the three of you will each gather your troops and follow my king to send troops to the port!"
Hearing Chu Yi's roll call, Yu Dayou, Zheng Li, and Wang Yuan suddenly stood up, with a bit of excitement on their faces. They clasped their fists and said in a deep voice: "The last general takes orders!"
Then Chu Yi pondered for a moment and said: "Li Degong, where is Pang Shiqi?"
The two generals also suddenly stood up amidst the envious gazes of the generals and looked at Chu Yi with burning eyes.
All I could hear was Chu Yi said: "You two immediately mobilize fifty ships to set off from Tokyo Port. You must rush to the sea outside Iwami Port in the shortest possible time to block the retreat of the Xiyi fleet!"
The two navy generals Li Degong and Pang Shiqi looked serious and solemnly said: "I will definitely live up to His Highness's expectations."
Chu Yi did not recruit too many men and horses for this time to support Shi Jian Port. He only had 5,000 men at full count. The 5,000 elite men and horses were lightly armed and moved very fast.
At this time, three days had passed since the Portuguese fleet broke into Iwami Port and a war broke out between the two sides.
Qi Jingtong could barely hold back the Portuguese fleet for a day on the first day by relying on the buildings on the port and his familiarity with the terrain. In the evening of the first day, Qi Jingtong saw the Portuguese fleet exerting all its strength and weighed
After considering the strength of the enemy and ourselves, Qi Jingtong decisively chose to withdraw from Iwami Port.
Since then, Iwami Port has fallen, and a large number of merchant ships have fallen into the hands of the Portuguese fleet. It can be said that these merchants are extremely shrewd. When they sensed something was wrong, they abandoned the big ships one by one and boarded small boats directly ashore.
Then fled far away.
However, most of the maritime merchants reacted quickly to avoid the fate of falling into the hands of the Portuguese fleet together with the merchant ships. However, there are all kinds of people, and there are also miser-like merchants who would rather fall into the hands of the Portuguese fleet together with the merchant ships.
Reluctant to leave behind his own goods and escape.
Fortunately, there are only a handful of people who want money rather than their lives, and there are only a few people in total.
As the fleet governor, Dalikisi has been under considerable pressure in the past few days. After all, the deaths of hundreds of his subordinates are definitely a stain on him. Once he returns to the country, he will inevitably be criticized by countless people.
Sharp weapon.
So in the past few days, Dalikis was frantically ordering his men to search for the wealth in the port. Of course, more importantly, Dalikis did not forget to send people to interrogate and torture the captured merchants and the port.
Those Japanese workers among them.
The Portuguese fleet has never suffered such a big loss, but this time it lost so many people at once. If they didn't figure out who exactly suffered the loss, wouldn't it make people laugh?
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Therefore, those maritime merchants and Japanese people who fell into the hands of Portugal were in bad luck. Even those merchants who had no backbone would tell all the news they knew as soon as they fell into the hands of Portuguese soldiers.
came out.
The key point is that the information they told was too shocking to the Portuguese soldiers who interrogated them. They were fighting against the Ming Dynasty's army, and such an army numbered hundreds of thousands. This was just for the conquest of Japan.
Just some people.
In addition, the news that the Ming Dynasty had thousands of ships, strong troops and horses, etc. made the Portuguese soldiers feel that all this was false.
What these maritime merchants said was all true. The key point was to hear it from the mouths of these Portuguese soldiers. Such exaggerated data was simply a lie. It was simply worse than a lie.
However, after several rounds of torture, even torturing two seafarers to death, and coupled with the information given by the Japanese workers, the Portuguese soldiers in charge of the interrogation had to believe that the information confessed by these people was true and false.
Imaginary.
However, these Portuguese soldiers still couldn't believe that the information they heard from the interrogation was true.
In the flagship, the governor-general Dalikis was sitting there reading the news presented by his officers. At this time, there was a rush of footsteps, and Dalikis, who was in a bad mood, suddenly looked up.
, I saw an officer walking quickly with a solemn expression.
When he saw the visitor, Dali Qisi's expression relaxed a bit. The visitor was one of his confidants in the fleet, Lawrence.
"Lawrence, is there any result in the interrogation? Who is our enemy?"
Lawrence took a deep breath and handed the confessions presented by his men to Dalikis. Dalikis noticed that something was wrong with Lawrence's expression and felt a little confused. When he glanced at the confessions, Lawrence couldn't help but
He opened his eyes wide, took a breath, looked up at Lawrence with horror, and said tremblingly: "Lawrence, are you sure those people under your command are not drunk and their heads are muddled? They interrogated them for two days,
Just get me these data that are just nonsense at first glance?”
Obviously, Dalikis was also swayed by the information provided by those businessmen and Japanese workers. There were hundreds of thousands of troops and thousands of ships at every turn. This was simply unimaginable to Dalikis.
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Although Portugal can gather more than 100,000 troops and thousands of ships with all its efforts, they are a powerful naval power. Portugal can do just that with all its efforts. But now someone told him that there is actually a country in the east.
With such strength, how could this not make Dali Qisi unbelievable!
Lawrence was not surprised at all by Daliki's reaction. You must know that when he saw these data, he was just like Daliki. Even after Lawrence personally interrogated the merchants, he had to be convinced of what they had obtained.
The news was not wrong, so he came to see Dali Qisi.
Looking at Lawrence's expression, Dali Qisi gradually calmed down, and said with a bit of solemnity in his expression: "Lawrence, are you sure this news is correct?"
Lawrence took a deep breath, looked at Daliki and thought: "General, if we are facing only ordinary indigenous people, then these news are naturally false, but if the other party is really as recorded by Marco Polo,
In the Golden Kingdom, it is not impossible for the other party to have such strength!"
Hearing what Lawrence said, Daliki couldn't help but recall the records about China recorded in Marco Polo's travels.
"Is there really such a powerful country in this world?"
Lawrence said slowly: "General, I'm afraid things are going to be troublesome this time. According to the accounts of those we captured, this place is called Japan, and the one we are fighting against is the overlord of the East, the Ming Empire. At this moment, a part of the Ming Dynasty
King Wu is leading an army of hundreds of thousands to attack Japan."
Dalikis rubbed his forehead and looked at Lawrence and said, "So, have we hit a brick wall?"
Lawrence said with a bit of pride in his eyes: "That's not necessarily true. Our Portuguese Empire is very powerful. Although the Ming Dynasty is strong, it may not be stronger than us. Could it be that the general is afraid?"
As a close confidant of Dalikis, Lawrence is also a nobleman, so when talking to Dalikis, he just says whatever he wants without worrying that he will dislike Dalikis because of it. After all, he really gives up.
If he were to hold a military position, Lawrence's aristocratic status would be even higher than that of Darius.
Hearing Lawrence's words, a bright light flashed in the eyes of Dalikisi, who was originally overwhelmed by the Ming's military power, and he seemed to encourage himself and said: "Yes, even if the Ming has many soldiers and horses, it doesn't matter, we are not without them.
I have seen the fighting power of those indigenous people. Even tens of thousands of people are no match for a few hundred of us."
It seemed that they had forgotten that they had killed hundreds of people in just one fight with Qi Jingtong, and they also seemed to have lost their memory and forgot about the advanced technology and shipbuilding displayed by the Changping and Changning that amazed them all.
ability.
With such powerful battleships, no matter how bad the army is, how bad can it be?
However, neither Lawrence nor Darius were willing to admit the power of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, Portugal had been almost invincible in its foreign campaigns, which naturally made them more arrogant and arrogant.
Come.
While he was talking, an officer walked in with an unkind expression. When he saw Dali Qisi and Lawrence, the man threw his hat on the table, sat down, and cursed angrily.
Said: "Damn it, these natives are courageous bandits, they don't even dare to fight with us, even the ground rats are ten thousand times stronger than them!"
Lawrence glanced at the man and said, "Cold, take a look at these first."
While speaking, Lawrence handed the interrogation results on the table to Cold. Cold took it with some confusion and just glanced at it. Cold, who was sitting there, suddenly jumped.
He stood up, opened his eyes wide and shouted, "This is impossible!"
Obviously Cold was also frightened by the above data, but Qi Jingtong's mere hundreds of people were already so overwhelmed that he couldn't do anything. Now Lawrence told him that there were more than a dozen soldiers like this.
There were so many that Cold was almost frightened and went crazy.
Seeing Corde's reaction, Lawrence patted Corde and said: "Colde, don't forget, we are the invincible Portugal..."
Compared to Lawrence, Dalikis was very confident, but Cold was much calmer. Cold yelled at Lawrence immediately: "Fuck Invincible, tell me, we are not the same."
With two thousand people, how are we going to face an army of hundreds of thousands? Even if hundreds of thousands of pigs go crazy, they can trample us to death!"
Wrinkling his head, Dalikis said to Cold: "Cold, pay attention to your words. I, Portugal, have never failed across the ocean. I have never failed before, and I will never fail in the future."
