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Chapter 132 Big Fish
With a sound of raising the blunderbuss, the flag army raised hundreds of blunderbusses in front of the formation, the small flags and arrows on the big shield were also set up, and the torches were fired.

Scares a lot of people.

Zhou Xing tried his best to push away the family soldiers who were supporting him, pulled Chen Mu and said anxiously and quickly: "The most important thing is to caress, the imperial court wants you and me to subdue the Fanyi, not to let Qianhu kill them all! Kill them all! Nobody pays taxes!"

Needless to say, the Australian guards, they were frightened as early as when the swords were on the verge of breaking out.

The one who was really terrified was Pereira.

He knew the Ming Dynasty very well. He had witnessed several Portuguese captains negotiating with Ming Dynasty officials, and he had personally negotiated with Ming Dynasty officials and persuaded them.

In his impression, officials of the Ming Dynasty valued peace as the most important thing, and that more things are worse than less things, and a strong country imposed great restrictions on soldiers, generals and officials, making them fearful of war.

This is fundamentally different from the status of Portuguese soldiers who are far away from the mainland and can launch wars at will in terms of war and negotiation.

When they were at sea, they only needed a gunboat to negotiate with Ming Dynasty officials. As long as they raised the bargaining chip to start a war, most of them would be successful.

Even Wu Guifang, the former governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, suffered from Pereira's negotiations.

A few years ago, during the war in Guangzhou, the imperial court used Haojing’s local troops to defend Guangzhou. Afterwards, Wu Guifang awarded the gold medal to the leader of the army, Pereira and Demeilu. The two thought that this was far from their request, so they attacked Guangzhou. The government threatened, and finally got a promise to exempt Haojing from the commercial tax for one year.

In Pereira's mind, negotiating with officials of the Ming Dynasty, as long as he proposes to threaten war, the negotiations will be all right.

In fact, it was the threat of the Portuguese when the Guangzhou government had no soldiers available, which made Wu Guifang firm in his determination to rectify Haojing, so he borrowed the power of being promoted to the Ministry of War to promote the three first contributions and one miracle in the battle of Li Yayuan. Chen Zongqi, who is the leader in meritorious service, came to be a thousand households in Xiangshan.

Pereira knew that there was a saying in the Ming Dynasty that riding a tiger is hard to get off, and he feels this way now.

The most embarrassing thing is that I just said it casually, but you took it seriously.

Pereira froze on the spot, constantly weighing the combat power of his own army and the Ming Dynasty army sixty or seventy tuises away.

These Portuguese conquerors did not have the right to go to war at will, at least in Haojingao and the Ming Dynasty, they did not have such power.

Especially wars that are not necessarily winnable.

Hao Jing Macao has passed the wealth of the entire East Asia. There is no word to describe the goods that are transported to Lisbon through the Strait of Malacca every year.

If this matter is broken, he is a national sinner.

Pereira didn't care whether he would become a sinner of the country. In comparison, he was more worried that he would lose this battle, because the enemies were not only more numerous than them, but their quality didn't seem weak at all.

When he felt isolated and helpless, it seemed that he could only rely on the fort near the meeting square to give him the confidence to win the war. There were four long bronze cannons from the Bugarau Cannon Foundry on the fort, and the amazing range of the cannon covered the entire settlement. , able to bring divine punishment to the opposing heathen army at the beginning of the battle.

The muzzle protruding from the turret was still strong, and Pereira gritted his teeth and tore off the decorative cloak on his shoulders, revealing the red sword-hilted cross painted on the breastplate, which was the symbol of the Santiago Knights.

Although the knight system has declined, and the glory, estates, and farms of the ancestors have all been wiped out, as a descendant of knights, Pereira still maintains the habit of shouting the patron saint 'Santiago' in battle.

He drew out the long sword at his waist, the cloak shook off in the wind and was stained with loess, he tapped the breastplate with his left hand and shouted: "Santia...dammit, what is that!"

The dark muzzle on the fort slowly retracted, revealing the face of a young Ming army in the gap of the fort.

The guards followed the eyes of the old Panyi warriors who were jumping like a god on the battlefield like a nervous god on the opposite side, and saw their little Baye leaning out half of his body from the gap in the fort, holding a dagger in his hand on the outside of the big granite wall of the fort. The wall was slowly chiseled in full view.

One, one, another.

Then, clumsily and with great difficulty, a red-sun flag inlaid with dragons was pulled out from the fort, and it was inserted crookedly on the wall. The triangular dragon flag fluttered in the wind but could not stand on the wall, because the granite was too hard.

Xiao Baye glanced down and found that many people in the meeting square were looking at him. This seemed to make him a little embarrassed and irritable, so he simply pulled out the flag and waved it in the direction of Chen Mu, and then retracted his body .

The muzzle of the dark muzzle is pushed out slowly, swinging from side to side, for a while, it is heading towards the Xiangshan Banner Army formation, for a while, it is pointing at the site of the church just built out of the stone steps, for a while, it is heading for the church primary school in the distance, and finally it is accurately rushing towards Portugal for adventure. Home big array.

As if asking Pereira: What did you call 'Santia' just now?
The dead children of the Xiangshan Thousand Households easily destroyed all the hopes of an old soldier to win the battle.

The long sword that was unsheathed and raised above his head was stuck on the ground beside him. Pereira waved his hand behind him, picked up his cloak and patted it slowly, shrugged his shoulders and shouted loudly to the militant from the Ming Dynasty: " You won, I don't want to fight with you, can we have a good talk?"

Du Beiwo let out a long breath, wiped the sweat from his forehead and translated this sentence to Chen Mu, a group of new uninvited guests ushered in the meeting square.

Twenty or so ragged beggars dragged a Portuguese man in plate armor like a dead pig and ran towards the meeting square. Someone yelled while running, and the whole team suddenly stopped.

To their left were hundreds of Portuguese forming a phalanx of adventurers, and the closest to them was a group of bearded archers from India.

On their right, there are hundreds of Ming Dynasty guards in the Chen family's mandarin duck formation, and the nearest to them is Deng Qianhu's subordinates holding the banner army with fast guns.

They were like hyenas trying to protect their food in the face of powerful predators on the African grasslands. They dragged the hands and feet of the Portuguese businessman and slowly retreated. The leader of the regiment led a tentative shout to the Ming army.

"Chen, Chen Qianhu? Don't fight, we belong to Master Li!"

Damn it, my son will just say my son and return Master Li!

Chen Mu waved: "Come here!"

The head of the beggar group was delighted to hear the words, and waved his hands with his head held high, "Go, go over. We have also spoken to Lord Qianhu!"

"Master Qianhu, this is the Puyi that Master Li asked us to bring, what is it called?" The closer he got to Chen Mu, the more his spine bent, and finally he nodded and bowed and asked: "We want to talk to Fanyi?" Make a big deal? Kill him!"

"The trafficker, the barbarian merchant, is that all?"

Chen Mu raised his foot and kicked, nodded slightly to the leader of the group, and said, "Okay, let's tie it up later, I can't spare him——Du Beiwo!"

"Go and tell Fanyi to allow him to lead the troops into the camp for a while, and sit down and talk with Chen after finishing his work; if he doesn't enter the camp, Chen will defeat them all and throw them into the sea before doing business, and let the big fish and him talk!"
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Toise is the measurement unit used by the Portuguese in this era. It is not only a unit of length, but also a unit of volume, or a unit of area. I don’t know what the principle is. I only converted it when it is used as a unit of length. One Toise ≈ 1.94 rice.

In the Ming Dynasty, one step is one step for the left and right feet, which is five feet together, and one foot is 34.5 centimeters = 1.725 meters.

Sixty to seventy tons ≈ 116.4 to 135 meters.

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