Water Margin people

"This thing is too flimsy. I should have brought one from Central Plains earlier!"

Xin Qiji looked at the broken feather fan in his hand and realized that the moment of showing off that he had prepared for so long had ended in a mess.

"Humph!"

Xin Qiji angrily threw away the broken feather fan and went to find Richard I with a spear.

"Tell us everything you know!"

Xin Qiji shouted at Richard I and others.

Richard I did not say anything, but the knights had already given up resistance and told him everything they knew.

"What about you? Aren't you the King of England?"

Xin Qiji looked at Richard I and said.

"I am the king, you should not humiliate me!"

Richard I looked at Yue Fei and shouted, he realized that Yue Fei was the leader of this team.

"You guy..."

Xin Qiji was furious when he was ignored. How could a prisoner dare to ignore him?

Yue Fei didn't even look at Richard I. He just stared at the battlefield in the distance that had been washed away by artillery fire. It was a mess with countless shell craters, mud, stones, and turf flying everywhere, and broken limbs mixed in.

"Purgatory on earth!"

On the coast, the Doge of Venice was completely frozen. He didn't dare to move, for fear that any movement would anger the State of Qi.

"These...are artillery?"

Baldwin IV looked at the battlefield in front of him in disbelief. He had never seen such a war before, and it had overturned his cognition.

"Too scary! This... the power of the gods is only this much!"

William said tremblingly. He had no idea at all now. They were definitely no match for Qi State, and even all of them combined were not enough.

"The power of the gods!"

The same thought arose in everyone's mind.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

The whistle sounded, and everyone on the coast turned to look at the sea. They saw a large black steel ship slowly approaching. The ship had shining iron armor, towering chimneys, and black gun barrels.

"What a big boat!"

“Is this made of steel?”

"too frightening!"

"A ship from Qi? How did it get here?"

"Impossible, a ship this big can't possibly come here!"

The merchants' faces were full of disbelief. Venetian merchants had been to Qi, but they also had to change ships at the Red Sea. No one could handle the hundreds of miles of land, and it was impossible for them to have the power to transport the ships over.

"The canal isn't open yet!"

Baldwin IV's face looked even uglier. The appearance of the giant ship shocked him more than the artillery fire.

"It's over, it's even more troublesome, it's a bit out of control!"

Baldwin IV felt cold in his heart. He originally planned to slow down for a while, find an opportunity to send people to Qi to study, and then look for ways to strengthen himself.

But the appearance of the Qi fleet disrupted all his plans. The arrival of the giant ships indicated that Qi might have completely controlled the West and had absolute military deterrence.

"What will happen next?"

Baldwin IV began to think of countermeasures. The arrival of Qi's ships in Venice meant that Qi's navy would be able to reach any sea area in the entire West in the future, and Qi could also land and fight from any point. There might be no safe place except in the mountains.

"Your Majesty, how did they get here? Those merchants don't know the route! Did they fly here?"

William asked Baldwin IV in a low voice. He really couldn't understand how these steel behemoths got here. Not to mention such a huge ship, even a small boat couldn't reach the Red Sea from the Mediterranean. "They must have found another way! Didn't the adventurer search from the west all the way south before?"

Baldwin IV said that the adventurers on their side have been looking for new routes, and the most likely one should be in the ocean to the west.

"The western ocean? There's no result! We can't find it, but they can?

The Doge of Venice shook his head and said that in order to find that waterway, Venice had funded many adventure teams, but they all ended in failure. The ocean to the west is very large, and it is almost impossible to find the end along the coast all the way south.

"Isn't this what I found?"

Baldwin IV pointed at the huge ships on the sea. Hundreds of huge ships were no joke.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

The governor and a group of merchants still insisted on their own opinions. How could the people of Qi find the route that they had been searching for for hundreds of years?

"Impossible? Then do you think these flew over? Even though they are only a few hundred miles away!"

Baldwin IV looked at the men and asked.

Everyone was speechless. It would be better to say that they found the sea route than to say that these huge ships flew over.

"It would be even better if we found it. We can finally get rid of the obstacles of that continent and our ships can go directly to Qi!"

Several businessmen said excitedly that they had forgotten their fear and their greedy business nature was exposed again.

"Haha, we made the wisest choice!"

"Get rich! Get rich!"

"We truly believe in His Majesty the Emperor of Qi!"

……

The merchants were delighted and were glad that they were on the side of Qi.

Baldwin IV shook his head slightly when he saw that those businessmen only cared about money.

"These people have no idea what's coming to them!"

Baldwin IV whispered.

"What will happen?"

William asked in a low voice.

"Qi State used to rely on these people to do business. After all, all goods had to be transported by land from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea by sea, and subsequent sales had to rely on these merchants!"

"But now it's different. Qi's warships have reached the Mediterranean, Qi's merchant ships can also reach the Mediterranean, Qi's merchants can also come here, what do you think is their value?"

Baldwin IV said that everything was driven by interests, and people without value would soon be abandoned by the State of Qi.

"What about us?"

William looked at Baldwin IV and asked, now that the Qi army has arrived, it seems that they, the missionaries, have no value anymore.

"We? We might become Qi's gun against the church!"

Baldwin IV spoke.

"Deal with the Church!"

William looked back at the messy battlefield. Why should he pay more? Wasn't it already destroyed?

"It's not that easy. It's impossible for all 200,000 Crusaders to die. The Pope and his men must have fled. They don't dare to return to Rome. They may go directly to the Alps, where they can still fight!"

Baldwin IV said that Qi was a naval state after all, and it was not easy to fight deep inland, especially in complex mountain warfare.

"So we should stick with the original plan?"

William looked at Baldwin IV and asked, their idea was to learn from Qi's strengths in order to defeat Qi, but now the situation has become complicated and this plan has become more difficult to implement.

"If Qi wants this land, it can't refuse our request! If they don't accept the people of this land, how can they rule this land?"

Baldwin IV said that Qi did not carry out massacres. What they wanted was to completely rule this place. The prerequisite was to give the people here the opportunity to integrate into Qi. (End of this chapter)