Chapter 516: Fighting for Gunpowder

The official military parade kicked off when Zhu Neng appeared, and the military parade of hundreds of thousands of troops was a long process. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info started from the infantry to the ordinary fire commanders, flintlock pikemen, archers, and then the various arms of the army one by one. Zhu Di really intended to deter these envoys from afar.

In the process of the military parade, all the real methods were used, and when the envoys of various countries actually arrived in Daming early in the morning, Zhu Di had already ordered someone to take them to many places in Daming to do an in-depth understanding.

The number of envoys from more than 20 countries in Central and Western Asia reached more than 600, among which the envoys of Egypt were very disdainful of Zhu Di, and Zheng He's voyage fleet was intercepted in the Red Sea of Egypt. Egypt is reluctant to let ships from any Central Asian countries enter their Red Sea, and it is naturally quite disrespectful to Zhu Di at this moment.

At the time of the Hajj, the Egyptian envoy did not give Zhu Di the courtier's courtesy, but fortunately, Zhu Di did not care, he knew that in order to convince these people, he had to show real strength, and only in this way could he surrender to the Ming Dynasty from the heart.

This military parade was named 'hunted' by Zhu Di, and the hundreds of thousands of troops Tang Ming saw were actually only 100,000 in the eyes of envoys from various countries.

Zhu Di's carefully selected elites of the Ming Dynasty's "Five Army Battalions", "Three Thousand Battalions", and "Shenji Battalion" successively performed the Ming Army's cavalry outflanking, infantry assault, infantry and cavalry combined attack, and the "Coyote Soldiers" and white pole soldiers transferred from Guangxi, Yunnan, and Sichuan practiced military subjects such as infantry crossbow salvo fire and spear infantry assassination training.

"The military appearance is neat", "the pace is the same", "the armor is bright", nearly a year of drills have allowed these soldiers who participated in the military parade to show the strength of the Ming Dynasty in front of the envoys of various countries without flaws.

The envoys of the various countries were shocked after watching, especially the firearms drill of the "Shenji Battalion", which displayed many high-tech weapons such as "Tiger Cannon", "Fire Dragon Gun" (cavalry special musket), Annan Gun (carrying gun), "Swarm of Bees" (rocket artillery), "Fire Dragon Car" (flamethrower), etc., and naturally there were flintlock pistols invented by Tang Ming.

It would take a month for the hunting parade to be fully displayed, and Tang Ming was not allowed to watch the whole thing here. The spacecraft only had enough fuel to float over Beiping for two days, so after watching the military parade ahead, Tang Ming ordered to return.

At an altitude of more than 1,000 meters, even Zhu Di finally used the bed crossbow to shoot down Tang Ming's spaceship, but fortunately, this strange thing didn't seem to pose any threat to the people here. In the end, Zhu Di didn't care about him anymore and let him float in the sky.

Two days later, Tang Ming's spaceship left, and Zhu Di immediately sent someone to follow all the way, and a few days later, when the guards gave Tang Ming the strange thing that might have been obtained, Zhu Di was shocked.

Because in such a high altitude, Zhu Di couldn't hurt that thing even if he used the longest-range giant crossbow, think about Tang Ming using that thing to throw it at his imperial city from above, incendiary bombs or explosive bombs. Then he would not have the slightest way to resist, and his imperial city would also be directly exposed to Tang Ming's attack.

In the face of such a mysterious and terrifying thing, Zhu Di was also extremely worried for a while, and his mind to get rid of Tang Ming as soon as possible was also more determined.

The military parade was still going on, but Tang Ming had already returned to Jeju Island, and he began to prepare for war without stopping. The hot air balloons were delivered in batches to Ryukyu Island, where they were installed and tested.

He must be ready to deal with Zhu Di's biggest attack within two months, and Ryukyu Island will inevitably be the first target of Zhu Di's attack. Therefore, Tang Ming has also transformed Ryukyu Island into a strong fortress in the shortest possible time.

According to the current rate of hot air balloon construction, in two months, he will be able to have more than 1,000 hot air balloons and nearly 100 spaceships, which is enough to give Zhu Di's upcoming army a head-on blow.

But the hot air balloon alone is not enough, Tang Ming's most troublesome thing at the moment is that his gunpowder does not seem to be enough for this big battle. The minerals of gunpowder on Ryukyu Island and Jeju Island are limited, and now Tang Ming has purchased and stored all the gunpowder of the ancient dynasties, but even so, he still feels that it is far from enough.

In the end, when there was no other way, he had to go directly to Luzon, where he also bought some, but there was still some distance from his goal. However, under Yan Ruwei's reminder, Tang Ming decided to launch an attack on the island country.

finally said that Tang Ming and himself were moved to send troops to the island country, and Yan Ruwei was very happy. The two sides agreed to march east to the island nation together after three days of preparation.

When Tang Ming and Yan Ruwei came to the open sea of the island country with a fleet of nearly 1,000 ships, the Watanabe family, who received the news, was completely desperate.

The patriarch of Watanabe didn't care about the life and death of Watanabe Village, hoping to borrow Watanabe Village's previous relationship with Tang Ming to try to persuade Tang Ming to let them go.

Although Watanabe Village was very willing, the fate of the whole clan was at stake, so she had to take the risk. Unexpectedly, she didn't even have time to get close to Tang Ming's fleet, so she was directly sunk by Yan Ruwei's soldiers with cannons to sink her ship on the sea. Watanabe Village was also killed in the sea at the same time!

Tang Ming actually knew that Watanabe Village was on the boat for a long time, but he didn't have any opinion on Yan Ruwei's approach, and Watanabe Village he just had a good impression of it at first. There is nothing to talk about the love between men and women at all, because of the history of later generations, Tang Ming will never allow himself to take an island woman, even if he touches him, he feels that it is defiling himself.

The death of Watanabe Village made the Watanabe family completely dead to persuade Tang Ming, and in the face of the situation of certain death, they showed the spirit of the samurai of the island country. All the boats of the Watanabe family that could go to sea were used, and the whole clan, young and old, went to sea to meet the battle.

Seeing such a scene, Yan Ruwei, who has always been disgusted with the Watanabe family for a long time, his face changed color. Against the samurai or officers and soldiers of the Watanabe family, he can destroy his opponent by any means in a bloody and cruel way.

But when he saw the civilians who went out to sea in broken boats almost identical to wooden planks, armed with farm tools, he not only felt compassion. Looking back at Tang Ming, who had been indifferent from beginning to end, Yan Ruwei hesitated and didn't know what to do.

Tang Ming had a sneer on the corner of his mouth, got up and came to Yan Ruwei's side, looked at the Watanabe family army with a telescope for a moment with a mortal heart, and coldly ordered Fei Xin behind him: "Send out a hundred hot air balloons, now is the best time to test our ultimate weapon in actual combat!" (To be continued.) )