Chapter 174: Assassin status

As soon as she heard the emperor's question, the princess was overjoyed. www.biquge.info She has been influenced by her father since she was a child, and she has a supreme vision of being able to gallop across the battlefield with a horizontal sword, but because she is a daughter, she has never had the opportunity to lead the army to fight.

But at this time, he and his subordinates were only fifteen people, and they won two games in a row under the condition of absolute disadvantage, which is definitely a brilliant result worth showing off and even going down in history in the future.

So Princess Ji immediately began to talk to Ruan Fuyuan endlessly. "The biggest disadvantage of this rifle is that it is slow to reload, but it is superior to the extremely long distance, and it can hit a human-sized target within 200 steps."

Ruan Fuyuan nodded, and the princess pointed to the thin flue of gunpowder that was blown up by the breeze, "There is also the smoke of gunpowder when it is launched, it will indeed cover the battlefield, which is really inconvenient. ”

"Is there a solution to this matter of gunsmoke? Slow reloading can be practiced diligently to increase speed, and this gunsmoke is inevitably too big, which will definitely affect the soldier's vision. "Ruan Phuc Yuan attaches great importance to the situation that was covered by the gunpowder smoke just now, he is a Rongma emperor, commanding a large army on the battlefield, what he pays attention to is to be familiar with the changes in the situation on the battlefield, if his vision is obscured, what else can he talk about commanding the battle?

"This," the princess was a little embarrassed, "the propellant used in these rifles is produced in the port of Champa, and the propellant smoke in the port of the east is much smaller. ”

Dongfang Port, it is Dongfang Port again, this thought suddenly flashed through Ruan Fuyuan's mind, and he hurriedly asked, "Where is this Dongfang Port?" ”

Speaking of this, the princess's chatterbox opened up at once, and she began to talk to Ruan Phuc Yuan about this group of overseas visitors full of mystery.

Ruan Phuc Yuan felt that his brain was wide open when he heard this, he came from overseas in a huge steel ship, without sails and oars, and there were giant birds that could fly in the air, a slightly smaller iron clipper that could gallop at will at sea, and even an iron boat that could open the bow and go ashore by himself. It's all like a myth, but now the daughter swears that it's true.

What followed was even more unbelievable, on the day of landing, a vacant land of a few acres was carved out of the jungle that could not be pedestrianized, and the city was built within a few days, and the roads were built to the south and south, and it was only a few months later, which had already connected Anyun to the west and Champa to the south. Moreover, they built factories at the same time as building roads, mass-producing fabrics, medicines and other massive products, and built a number of trestles and stone wharves, and in just about four months, they have already jumped from a beacon tower to the largest port in the South China Sea. Ruan Phuc Yuan suddenly remembered that there was indeed a recital a few months ago, which was reported from Wenshan Port, saying that a fisherman had reported that a port had suddenly appeared in the territory of the Wu Dynasty more than 40 miles north of Zhancheng Port. It seems that Hideyoshi Hatano didn't write about those steel giants and iron clippers when he was in the last chapter, and he couldn't help but smile when he thought of this, if it wasn't for his own daughter, he was afraid that he would have regarded it as crazy talk, how could steel float on the water? Not to mention that there are those who can fly in the sky.

"And where did these people from Oriental Harbor come from?"

"Listening to what Mr. Qian said, they are all descendants of China, and they are from a place called the United States overseas, but when they return to their homeland with their hearts to Huaxia, they are all vague when they ask where the United States is."

"Then ......," Ruan Fuyuan was stunned, "what do these Chinese mean by coming here?" It's not here to support Champang, is it? ”

The princess also smiled, thought about it for a while, and began to talk to Ruan Fuyuan endlessly. Since the first contact between the Chinese and her, she has not taken advantage of the port of Champa, whether it is through the large number of materials sold and purchased in the port of Champa, the massive grain purchase orders, so that the port of Champa quickly gathered a huge amount of money in a short period of time, and at the same time, the port of Champa has become an export port of industrial products comparable to those trading ports in Yaning in the South China Sea. Then these Chinese began to build roads from Champa Port to the south, connecting Champong Port, exporting a large number of weapons, and sending officers to train her new army, although the training methods of these new troops made her feel quite strange, but in the subsequent battles they played an incredible combat power.

Nguyen Phuc Nguyen nodded, he still clearly remembered the giant beasts and hundreds of barbarian heads sent by the princess that time, and these seizures caused a sensation in the whole of Hue at that time. As an Emperor Rongma, he has always had a headache for Southern Annan being invaded by the Southern Barbarians every year, how could he not know that there are not only the black hands of North Annan, but even the black hands of the Medeno people, at least, such a large army is impossible to cross the sea to Annan without the scale of the Meideno people's sea transportation.

But what can he do? Although Annam produces a lot of grain in the right season, there are several typhoons that hit it every year, and each time there are heavy casualties and huge losses, and the tax revenue of the state treasury is not even comparable to the amount of disaster relief, so that he has to allocate money from the inner treasury every year to go out for disaster relief. Due to the lack of early warning of typhoons in Annan, it is often only known when the typhoon comes, so every time it is a heavy loss, disaster prevention and relief can almost only rely on the people themselves, so the efficiency is low, and the officials are greedy for disaster relief money is also commonplace, a large number of people are displaced, and they die on the way to flee, plus in recent years, the southern barbarians have been committing crimes in the north every year, so the population of Annam has not been able to rise.

Although the combat effectiveness of the South Annan army is a little higher than that of North Annan, it is at best just a group of rabble, and it is okay to fight a smooth pursuit of victory, but this kind of real knife and real gun down the flesh and blood can not be done, often the opponent shoots a round of arrows, only six or seven fell here, and the hundred-man team collapsed, and finally surrounded them, and there was another round of arrows over there, and they had to collect the troops like driving sheep. In this way, if you meet a general who is afraid of death, I am afraid that you will run faster than the rout. Therefore, except for one or two battles in which Annan won more and fewer battles in the first battle between the South and the North, he was defeated by a one-sided blow later. In the past two years, there will be no organized Annam army that dares to fight with the Nanban, and they are all huddled in the city and defended by the city wall, waiting for the Nanban to retreat by himself.

The Nanban was still a little fierce at the beginning, but in recent years, they seem to have become more and more proficient in this kind of movement and plundering warfare, surrounding cities that cannot be captured, besieging without water and food, and directly surging through the army in places like villages. Now in the Annan army, when it comes to the Nanban, which one is not two wars with a pale face?

But the princess's new army was able to go against the Nanban on a scale of less than two hundred people at that time, and also defeated a thousand-man team of the Nanban in the field, which was simply an impossible feat, and it was no wonder that those people in the six departments above the court did not believe it, if Ruan Phuc Yuan hadn't seen with his own eyes twelve or thirteen soldiers of the New Army actually standing like this and destroying dozens of attackers, he couldn't believe that the combat power of the New Army would be so strong.

Nguyen Phuc Yuan was a rather calm emperor, "These Chinese in this Eastern Port have no requirements for Champa Port?" He assisted Zhancheng Port to form a new army, not so that you can defend your home and country, right? Although there is no such thing as the theory of "there are only permanent interests between countries" in this era, as a monarch who has been in charge of a country for so many years, he knows that there is no such thing as generational friendship between countries, and he is quite skeptical about the motives of these Chinese who almost unconditionally support Champanggang.

The guards in front of them had already gathered the prisoners they had just captured, and the assassins were kneeling by the pond one by one in frustration, especially the next wave of captured archers, most of whom were captured after being shot, and many of the wounds on their bodies were still bleeding out. However, the guards could not care about the preferential treatment of the prisoners, and gathered the wounded together, whether they lived or died was a matter of destiny.

"Long live the emperor, the sinners were entrusted by the household department to assassinate the princess." A prisoner who was not injured hurriedly shouted. For him, his assassination operation has been a complete failure, and the end of not saying anything is definitely a dead end, the emperor just said that as long as he is honest, he can still be blamed for the past, so he impatiently sold his employer.

Ruan Fuyuan was stunned, the household department? How dare Tobe be? Dare to assassinate the princess? I couldn't help but come over and asked: "The household department is the lifeblood of my Annan country, and the household officials are also the pillars of the Annan country, how can they do such a daring thing?" Don't you think that you can get away with talking nonsense, you can have evidence and physical evidence? ”

The assassin bowed his head and remained silent, he was indeed sent by Tobe to assassinate the princess, but how could Tobe leave the evidence and give it to others? Naturally, no evidence will be left.

"Search!" Ruan Phuc Yuan yelled at them, and several guards immediately went up and began to search each captive.

It was only a short while, and sure enough, some strange things were found, and several prisoners had a small wooden plaque on their bodies, which read "The Staff of the United States Privy Council", and some were "The United States Military Department is in the office", and most of them found some shiny silver and copper coins, which were obviously not made by the workmanship of Annan.

Nguyen Phuc Nguyen took these things and looked at the weapons that the assassins had thrown on the ground, wooden bows and arrows in addition to knives and guns. The wooden plaques carried by the Assassins looked relatively new, and the carvings on them were not exquisite, and they looked like they were made in a rough and hasty manner, and they could never be real.

The princess also took the wooden card curiously, and when she saw it, she was startled, drenched in cold sweat, and quickly defended Ruan Fuyuan: "Father Emperor, these people are definitely not sent by the Chinese. Please also ask my father to see the emperor. ”

"Tell me, why not?" Ruan Fuyuan stroked his beard and chuckled, of course he knew that these were used to frame him, but he also wanted to hear his daughter's opinion.

"First, the Chinese in Dongfang Port only called themselves Americans at the beginning, but since two months ago, all external channels have claimed to be Chinese, and even the country name has been changed to the Republic of China, although they carry identity tags, but most of them are bamboo cards, and the carvings are exquisite, and there are portraits of individuals on them, lifelike, by no means comparable to such inferior products at present; Second, as far as their daughter's understanding of the Chinese is concerned, they do not have a military department or a privy council, which must be made up by people who do not understand the Chinese. ”

The princess said, walked to the side and picked up a wooden bow, "Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if these people are really Chinese, can they not know the weapons used by this new army?" As she spoke, she shook the wooden bow in her hand and threw it to the ground, "If the daughter wants to assassinate others, she must let her subordinates carry those revolvers, and my father has just experienced that the range and firepower of revolvers are far above these bows and arrows." If these assassins had come to assassinate their daughter, how could they have left such a thing that could prove their identity on them? Not to mention that they don't know the power of these Chinese-made firearms at all, and they only know how to rush and beat indiscriminately, or stand stupidly within the range and get beaten. Therefore, the daughter can conclude that these assassins must not have been sent by the Chinese. ”

"What if it's a suspicious tactic?" Ruan Phuc Yuan pretended to be surprised and asked, "If the Chinese hire them to perform such a bitter meat trick, it is not impossible. ”

"Definitely not, when my daughter was in the port of Zhancheng, she once defeated the siege of tens of thousands of troops in the Southern Barbarians, although we rely on sharp firepower, but if there is no assistance from the special investigation team of the Chinese Senate, I am afraid that it will also fall."

"Is there such a thing?" Ruan Fuyuan couldn't help but feel a little depressed in his heart, the princess must have mentioned this in the concerto, but it was burned by a fire.

The princess also knew that her recital must not have reached her father's hands, so she began to tell the story of the defense of the port of Zhancheng.

"This special investigation team is the most powerful army under the command of the Senate, and its number is still a mystery, and most of them are Chinese veterans who have crossed the ocean."

"What is a patriarch? Is the patriarch old? Nguyen Phuc Nguyen soon showed a keen interest in the words that appeared more and more.

"The patriarch is a kind of identity, which is roughly equivalent to the aristocratic status of my Annam, there were only more than 500 people at the beginning of the landing of Dongfang Port, all of them are veterans, all of them are veterans, and they have the right to speak on national affairs, and they can also vote for the leader of the country......"

Nguyen Phuc Yuan was amazed when he heard this, how could the leader of the country still be elected? But he didn't pay attention to this at this time, "So is the veteran of the special reconnaissance team commanding the battle or charging ahead?" ”

"It was the charge ahead, when tens of thousands of people from the Nanban advanced towards our Zhancheng Port, several detachments of the special reconnaissance team went south from the Zhancheng Port and attacked these Nanban troops."

"What's the use of just attacking and harassing tens of thousands of barbarian troops?" Ruan Fuyuan couldn't help but scoff.

"Hehe," the princess laughed, "Father must know that snakes can't be headless, and the main targets of these special investigation teams are not Nanban soldiers, as can be seen from the records and information, in the three days before the Nanban began to assemble north and arrived at the port of Champong, the special investigation team killed more than 100 Nanban centurions, at least 300 heralds, six tribal leaders, seven Maideno staff officers, and captured two Maideno staff officers. And in the battle to defend the port of Zhancheng, the veteran sniper team and the special reconnaissance team also killed hundreds of the leaders of the barbarian army, so that the barbarian army was defeated before it reached the city wall. ”