Ruan Jiao naturally didn't have too many changes in her expression, with a formulaic smile on her face, she nodded slightly sideways towards Jacqueline, and then raised her glass and said, "It's nice to meet you, I'm Ruan Jiao." ”

Jacqueline hesitated, she didn't know how to deal with the other party, she didn't know the woman in front of her before, but in her identity as Princess Medeno, it was simply to the point of not dying, what did the Chinese mean by pulling her out now? Did you just find a play to ridicule yourself? Or did he deliberately pull this "mortal enemy" out to intimidate himself?

Xiao Jing obviously knew that Jacqueline had misunderstood what he meant, so he explained to her with a smile, "That's right, after Ms. Nguyen Ji withdrew from Hue City and came to Dongfang Port, King Annam also abdicated and gave up the throne to Ms. Nguyen Ji. She had come to see what the princess of Medenor was like, just curious. ”

As she spoke, Ruan Ji leaned a little closer and took a closer look at this foreign princess. Although she was full of anger and hatred in her heart for the Maidno people's brutal interference and even military aggression against Annan, the princess in front of her was still an out-and-out beauty, and she was even a little embarrassed to be angry at the other party when she saw such a slightly frightened face. But in the final analysis, this is a national hatred, if it weren't for the secret weapons and well-trained soldiers provided by the Senate, and the fact that she happened to have the tunnels she led to build in her early years, I am afraid that she and her father would have died together in the imperial city of Hue. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but restrain the smile on her face a little, and said in Mandarin, which was becoming more and more proficient, "The princess who can meet the old enemy here, I wonder what you are here to negotiate with us on this trip?" Is it to return Annan's ownership or to ask for forgiveness? ”

"Annan ownership?" After listening to Miro's translation on the side, Jacqueline couldn't help but be taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "Annan is Annan, China is China, we are now here to discuss the armistice agreement with the Chinese, what is there in Annan?" ”

"What's the matter with Annan?" Ruan Jiao's obvious expression on her face began to turn cold, "As the queen of Annan, I have asked the Chinese Senate to supervise Annan, which means that China and Annan are now one, if you ask for a truce with China, you must return Annan, otherwise there is no need for us to start discussions." ”

Xiao Jing on the side nodded thoughtfully, and then stood to the side in a deep voice, not speaking, just looking at Jacqueline and Ruan Jiao, arguing over the ownership of Annan. After a while, Gu Qingqian also came over and joined the debate, and the three parties were soon divided into two factions in this banquet hall, China and Maidno, and the voices of the three began to gradually rise, and there was a murderous aura between you and me, and the quarrel soon became white-hot around whether Annan should be added to the discussion, and for a while, Mandarin, Meidenuo mixed with Cantonese, and Annam became more and more lively, attracting the attention of the entire banquet hall here.

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"The princess is in danger, what should we do?" Mycenae rubbed the bridge of her nose with a little headache, and then rubbed her temples, "Now she is in the heart of the Oriental Port, even if she is now in the guest house in the port area, it is surrounded by enemies. ”

"Yes," said a staff adjutant on the side, spreading out a hastily drawn map of Oriental Port on the table, "The location of the Port District Guest House is in the southern port area of Oriental Harbor, not far from the port office, and the straight-line distance from the nearest pier is about two hundred and seventy feet. ”

"Two hundred and seventy feet, can we send marines to forcibly board the dock and snatch the princess out?" Another adjutant hurriedly asked, "You see, from the dock area to the port area, you only need to pass through the port building to get close to the guest house quickly, if you send a team of elite soldiers to disguise themselves and suddenly attack the guest house at the port office, will you be able to snatch the princess out?" ”

"It doesn't seem impossible to ......" A staff officer muttered to himself thoughtfully, but Mycenae shook his head, "Impossible, Chinese can still think about this idea if you don't know the true identity of the princess, but now that you know the true identity of the princess, you will definitely take precautions." And now they haven't restricted the princess's personal freedom, if we go to rob people now, it's okay if we succeed, but what if we don't? The princess will immediately be restricted in her freedom and transferred to places we don't know or are difficult to reach. If you don't have the certainty of victory, don't use the method of robbing people. ”

"So what to do?" A staff officer whispered, "How can you save someone who was afraid of wolves and tigers?" ”

"Who said that?" Mycenae couldn't help but slap the table in annoyance, and the conference room was suddenly quiet, and all the participants did not dare to come out. He was very angry now, and at first he didn't know that the princess had gone to Dongfang Harbor to participate in diplomatic peace talks, and if he knew, he would definitely oppose it. It wasn't until this afternoon that someone suddenly sent a message from Dongfang Port through a communication technique that the identity of the princess was discovered by the Chinese, and he knew that the princess was already in the hinterland of the enemy. According to the information from the teleportation technique, the Chinese strengthened the defense of the guest house, adding almost a hundred soldiers to defend it, and no one else was allowed to enter the entire guest house except for necessary personnel and negotiators.

Just now, a staff officer suggested a plan to use strange soldiers to approach and then launch a surprise attack and then rescue the princess, although Mycenae felt that such a plan had a certain feasibility, but he still did not dare to pin all his hopes on the possibility that the Chinese would not be prepared for a sneak attack, after all, the fleet sneak attack failed, and the variables of land operations were more complicated than sea operations. Surprise attacks can only be used once, and if one fails, it is absolutely impossible to succeed again.

He couldn't help but begin to envy the Chinese who were the enemy, this group of Chinese sea fleet combat skills are not strong, but the weapons are sharp, the lethality is strong, the army is even more amazing, but also in the army of tens of thousands of people to kidnap the barbarian staff officer Maidno staff officer to the successful example, if there can be an elite soldier who can take the head of the enemy among the ten thousand armies, he is really willing to exchange all the fleets at hand now, because now it is the need to burn eyebrows.

Mycenaeus sighed, stood up, and glanced at the group of staff officers in front of him, who were staring at the map. It would be nice if Myro was here, although he was not particularly familiar with Myro, but Myro was well-known in the Meideno intelligence department, he could often see the hidden things that many people could not see, and he could also speculate what most people couldn't guess, if Myro was here now, not to mention that he would definitely be able to find a way to rescue the princess, at least he could find a way to come out for everyone to discuss, how could it be better than the big bunch of staff officers in front of him to discuss here!

"Why don't we use the Marines to enter the Oriental Harbor and force them to let the princess out?" "Now it seems that there is only one way to go." ”

"Maybe that's the only way," "Yes, it's better to use the army to approach the port of Champong, and our fleet to the port of the East, and make a posture of not giving up until the princess is rescued, than to discuss it so blindly now!" ”

"Approaching the port of Cham with an army?" Mycenae scoffed, "Then please ask Russell how much army he can use to demonstrate against the Chinese?" ”

Russell has been extremely cool lately, his dragoons were originally the strongest force in the entire Medeno Marine Army, but they suffered heavy losses in the previous raid on Boundary Town, leaving only the size of a brigade, and now although there are enough weapons to expand, there are not enough horses and personnel. Originally, these things should have made him so worried that he couldn't sleep, but he didn't worry about it at all.

Ever since Miro got a batch of rifled versions of Senate rifles produced by the Senate, all the workshops in Yaning have gone crazy for it. A large number of craftsmen flocked to the place where the rifles were located to see the workmanship and design concept of these weapons, but Leibniz, the artisan of Yanin who had previously stood out, came up with a new method in the imitation production of rifles in the Senate - the production of parts and the assembly of the whole gun. Leibniz was a young craftsman with a lot of ideas, not to mention the smelting and crafting skills in his hands, otherwise he would not have been able to enter the seminar. Among the things he found from the Chinese, he saw several novelties, compasses, protractors, and triangular rulers, and he soon copied several of them, and then assigned the production tasks to several very famous musket factories through the chief craftsman.

The musket factories that got the order were very happy, but when the order arrived, they almost got their noses crooked, because the order given to them by the chief craftsman was not how many guns there were, but how many parts of a certain kind of parts were placed on them. They found the chief craftsman, but the chief craftsman could no longer listen to the opinion, so they had to choose to obey, and produced the corresponding variety of parts and quantities, and handed them over to the Leibniz factory in charge of acceptance.

Leibniz's workshop did not have a production task, but their entire task was to assemble the parts produced in these different factories and assemble them into a musket. When the first fifty replica Senate rifles for testing were delivered to the Medenors, all the workshops were shocked, because it would take at least sixty days for these fifty muskets to be made separately by so many factories, but according to this production method, it only took sixteen days to complete production.

According to Leibniz, the quality of the replicas was so bad that the craftsmen of the workshop were producing musket parts in this way for the first time, the tolerances were so high that the production and assembly time could have been reduced by at least eight days had it not been for the need to polish them. Almost all of these muskets had problems such as air leakage, slow firing, and uneven combustion of the propellant, but because of the use of Mini bullets and the rifling in the chamber, the accuracy reached a terrible 100 zhang.

Receiving such test results, the weapons procurement department of Medeno was very satisfied, and quickly placed an order for the production of 5,000 imitation rifles and 200,000 rounds of ammunition, although it was said that the bayonet of the Senate rifle could not be imitated because of the metal material, but it did not prevent them from adopting the most primitive method, directly loading the muzzle with a collar-type spear. Although the price of such an imitation rifle is twice as high as that of the direct purchase of the Senate rifle, its accuracy has far exceeded that of the foreign trade version of the Senate rifle. Compared with the Yaning musket, this price also reduces the production expenditure a lot because of the increased production efficiency.

The news of the new order of 5,000 imitation rifles reached Russell's ears, which made him feel a lot more comfortable, you must know that since seeing the performance of the rifle in Dongfang Port, he is simply restless, and the Chinese rifle is not only superior in the rate of fire, but also in accuracy, shattering his previous dream of being invincible in the world. Now there was an order for 5,000 new rifles, which gave him confidence in forming a new infantry battalion.

Another thing that filled him with confidence was that Shu Da and many traitors from Dongfang Harbor had joined him, which allowed him to make incredible strides from the old training methods he had made, and the stabbing training made these soldiers from Annam no longer afraid of white-knuckle combat. Although the new batch of 5,000 rifles has not yet been delivered, the morale of the soldiers has increased significantly, and one by one they are screaming to fight the enemy desperately, and he is now only worried that no one dares to fight directly with the Medeno people, even if he is directly face-to-face with the Chinese, he is not so unconfident.

At present, as many as 12 infantry battalions have been formed in the new military camp outside Wenshan Port, and in addition to the few infantry battalions that were originally in Wenshan Port, the combat strength of almost 1,500 people has increased at once. Russell now has soldiers on hand and sufficient food, so he is not worried that the troops will win or anything, and only hopes that when the five thousand rifles are delivered, he will have the opportunity to face the Chinese.

"Colonel, if we go to Russell now, he will be very happy." "That's right! Colonel, General Russell has long been planning to find the Chinese for a long time. "Yes, if we drive the navy outside the port of the East, we will definitely be able to scare them into not daring to move."

"Well," Mycenae snorted with some disdain, "do you think that the Chinese have the ability to single-handedly pick up so many of our capital ships with one destroyer, and they will be afraid of our fleet surrounding the port?" ”

"No!" A staff officer hurriedly stood up, "Colonel, with such a huge fleet piled up in their harbor, it is impossible for them to come out to fight." ”