Chapter 797: An Unexpected Surprise
A gust of wind blew, and the smoke gradually dissipated.
The bodies of the Portuguese soldiers were lying all over the battlefield, and the dust was dyed red by blood.
After detaining some of the surrendered Portuguese soldiers in one place, Pan Chang came to Zhao Xu and said, "Your Highness, after interrogation, the Portuguese surrender was indeed a conspiracy. They buried a large number of gunpowder barrels under the city gates and roads in the city, waiting for us to enter the city and detonate them!"
"Damn it, these Westerners can't be trusted. Fortunately, the Fourth Court also has spies in Yizhou, otherwise we would all die here. We shouldn't have saved this bastard!" Zhou Yi cursed when he heard it.
Although the Portuguese conspiracy failed, he was still scared out of his wits.
If the King of Yan had any problems here, he would be skinned alive when he returned.
Zhao Xu was also in a state of fear. He smiled bitterly, "I have already assumed their best intentions, but even so, I still thought too well of them. They are really a group of beastly robbers."
After a pause, he continued, "However, you don't have to blame yourself for saving him. This is a different time. At that time, we needed Feiwen's intelligence to divide the maritime alliance of Japan. Now we are fighting for each other."
With another sigh, he said, "This incident is also a reminder for us. When facing the Westerners, we don't have to treat them with the mentality of a benevolent gentleman. They are just barbarians in a civilized coat. After all, they are afraid of power but not virtue. Even so, we only need to reason with them with guns and cannons."
"Your Highness is right. These bastards deserve to be dealt with." Pan Chang clenched his fists and looked at the bodies of the Portuguese. He felt relieved.
In the past two hundred years, countless Dasong people have died in their hands.
This time, the King of Yan was calm and asked them to withdraw from Yizhou with dignity, but they didn't want it.
On the contrary, it is so vicious that they want to kill the King of Yan, which is simply unforgivable.
After figuring out the conspiracy of the Portuguese, Zhao Xu and others will naturally not fall into the trap again.
Pan Chang ordered a team of soldiers to climb the wall of Marka City with a ladder and enter the city to avoid the location where the Portuguese buried gunpowder barrels.
According to the prisoners, there are still hundreds of soldiers in the city responsible for detonating gunpowder barrels.
Not long after, bursts of gunfire and grenade explosions were heard in Marka City.
About half an hour later, the gunfire stopped, and Pan Chang ordered another team of soldiers to enter from the main gate, dig out gunpowder barrels, and clear hidden dangers.
"Your Highness, you can enter the city." After another half an hour, Pan Chang ran to Zhao Xu in small steps.
Zhao Xu nodded and walked slowly into Marka City with Zhou Yi.
Before entering the city, he glanced at Fei Wen's body.
When the Marines threw grenades, he was blown to death.
Feiwen wanted to kill him, but he never thought that he and his soldiers would be wiped out.
If they defended the city, the Marines might have to work hard to take down Marka City.
After entering Marka City, Zhao Xu went straight to Feiwen's Governor's Office.
There were a large number of documents here. Looking at an open diary on the table, he picked it up and flipped through it.
After reading only a few pages, a surge of anger rushed from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.
Throwing the diary hard on the table, he said, "Humph, one day, I will trample your arrogance hard under my feet."
Feiwen's diary was full of contemptuous names for the Dasong people and overseas Dasong people, such as piglets and yellow monkeys.
Between the lines, it was full of arrogance unique to the Westerners.
The diary also recorded the meeting between him, Governor Sterdam, Governor Britain, and Governor Frank in Calcutta.
He said, "I am very eager to join the East Earth Alliance, but the yellow-skinned monkey king Yan Wang is too cruel, so I can only succumb to his tyranny for the time being, but my heart belongs to the West Earth world..."
In addition, the log also revealed the purpose of this meeting.
British Governor Bolt is trying to win over the countries with interests in the East Earth to form an alliance and destroy him together.
He even sent people from Tianzhu to Tubo to meet with the Beidi and Ross people, which can be said to be deliberate.
While planning the East Earth, Bolt has asked the parliament to send troops to Tianzhu to shift the focus of Britain to the East Earth.
"You Westerners have been double-standard since ancient times. Since you say that this king is cruel, then this king will show you how cruel he is." Zhao Xu was furious, "Pan Chang, erect wooden stakes on the coast and hang all the bodies of the Portuguese on them."
Dong An came back from the southern sea area and said that the colonists in the southern area would kill the people of Dasong who escaped from the farm and hang them on wooden stakes for public display.
He will fight back!
"Yes, Your Highness." Pan Chang glanced at the diary. The words on it were like tadpoles. They didn't recognize them at all.
How did the King of Yan understand it and get so angry?
It was not clear what the book said.
After Pan Chang left, Zhao Xu looked through other documents. At this time, a document attracted his attention.
The document mentioned that five days ago, a merchant ship full of rubber seeds arrived at the port of Marka City, preparing to plant rubber trees in Nanyizhou.
The document also mentioned that due to the emergence of rubber in the West and its increasing prosperity in recent years, the natural rubber forests in the New World will gradually become insufficient.
The British have already planted rubber trees in the colony near Malacca.
In addition, the Sterdans also planted them in Yaga and the islands on the sea under their control.
They, the Portuguese, are not willing to lag behind and are preparing to cultivate rubber forests in Manila and Marka City.
"It's really a pain to find something after searching everywhere." Zhao Xu murmured.
At present, Yanzhou's industry actually has a demand for rubber, such as cables.
It's just that because there is no rubber, he can only wrap it with oilcloth.
As industry continues to advance, more and more places will need rubber.
At that time, rubber will become a strategic resource that is a bottleneck.
Now, with this ship of rubber tree seeds, he can have his own rubber plantation in Yizhou.
Rubber trees can generally be tapped within five or six years after they are planted.
This time is a bit long, but according to the document, the rubber plantations in the southern region of the East Land were planted by the British and Sterdan people in the early years, and they can already provide a stable supply of rubber juice.
Since the Western Land world has torn its face with him and wants to destroy him as soon as possible, he naturally wants to take over the rubber plantation here.
However, his main focus now is still on Jiangnan.
The war should not be spread too wide.
In order to avoid too much dispersion of troops and a heavy setback at a certain point.
The results of the war should be consolidated.
Therefore, he would not let the navy continue to move south for the time being.
Moreover, compared to Marka City, the southern region of the East Land is the old nest of the colonists that has been operating for two or three hundred years, and they will also face the experienced Western Land army.
If the navy and the marines go there, they will inevitably be dragged there for a while.
Of course, the most important thing is that he needs the cooperation of the navy ships and the royal palace troops.
Crossing Jiujiang needs to prevent the attack of the Wu navy, so the fleet escort is naturally needed.
Jiangnan has many mountains and rivers. Some strategic places can be conveniently traveled by water, and they also need the assistance of the navy.