Brighton, the patriarch of the Burning Ash Tribe, didn't stay here for long, and after a few simple conversations, he took his young people and left Cape Town by boat. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

He was one of the few wise men among the dwarves, a patriarch with political wisdom, so he knew how to make trade-offs, or rather, how to compromise.

Standing on the wall of the southern district, Levi's eyes narrowed slightly, and the three merchant ships on the wooden pier were also slowly leaving the shore, carrying the more than fifty dwarves above towards the south with the sea breeze and waves, preparing to return to their gray fog city, which was their home tribe.

"Just let them leave like that?"

At this time, Gaskell was also standing behind Levi with Green, staring at the three merchant ships that were gradually getting smaller in the distance, and he couldn't help but let out a cold snort in his nose: "Their provocation has seriously affected our reputation. ”

As the Minister of Justice, his character is meticulous and serious, and Li Wei also expressed his understanding of this, and slowly exhaled a long breath, but the corner of his mouth was smiling: "No, this is not a provocation." ”

"Not a provocation?"

Bowing his head slightly, Gaskell was a little confused, frowned and looked at Green standing next to him suspiciously, and asked, "If this is not a provocation, then what is it?" ”

"It's a surprise delivered to your door."

Even Green shook his head with a smile, he was not far behind Levi, of course, he also heard the exchange between the two, and he had already understood that the agreement made by the two sides in the exchange, although it was not explicitly stated, but as the communication between the two sides had begun, it was a good thing.

They were not afraid of the Burning Ash Tribe's remorse, because in its current form, Levi and the Governor were balanced, a situation of incomparable strength, and even a faint line higher.

Even if the dwarves produced a large number of dwarven muskets and equipped them with the governor's troops of Grey Mist City, as well as the private armies of the nobles, in fact, they only added a few dangers to the modern forces of Cape Town, and were not even a threat.

"Alright, let's go back."

With a smile on his face, Levi stretched out his hand and beckoned the air in front of him, as if waving goodbye, but it was also a sign of psychological confidence, at least his own Cape Town had already given him confidence.

Not far away, two sloops were slowly moving in front of the sea, their two warships were the backbone of the wooden dock, and any change on the dock would cause the two sloops to approach, and at the same time reveal the guns on the side gun emplacements.

This was a warning to the merchants, and it was also the basis for reassuring them, because in the coastal waters of the east coast, there were at least five dhows cruising to protect the safety of the route.

This is also one of Levi's confidences.

Whether it is the navy, or the army, or even the social structure, productivity, industrial output, personnel morale, and national quality, Cape Town is unique and strongest.

That's right, it's the strongest, this is the crushing result of the times, and there is no moisture.

The fact that the world, which was around the early and middle Middle Ages in the previous world, could not compare to the modernized Spanish Empire, was the result of a straightforward comparison, if not the slightest comparison.

Perhaps, the only shortcoming of Levi's Spanish Empire in this world is that the number of personnel is very small, so that at the current stage, it is still less than 10,000 people.

It is not as good as Grey Mist City, which has a population of 40,000 or 50,000, and it is not as good as Samar City, which has a population of 20,000 or 30,000.

Even compared to the town of Barr on the Silver Coast, and the many pit villages around the town of Bar, which are dependent on the ore veins, the number of people is far inferior, which is the only drawback.

If Li Wei can summon 20,000 troops, as long as the logistics and supplies can keep up, let alone Gray Mist City, even the entire Great Silver Pan Island, and even the entire North Trumming Sea, have already been under Li Wei's control, because this is his combat effectiveness, his confidence, and the source of his self-confidence!

"The gap of four centuries is not so easy to chase!"

Li Wei also whispered, he knew the level of science and technology in this world, and he also knew the real situation of this world, although he could not get in touch with the real secrets in two or three years, but just looking at how the world was, he could guess it.

Even if the dwarves made muskets and cannons for Grey Mist, they were not so terrible, because traditional thinking still constrained them, and they could not make real musket craftsmanship.

In particular, the body structure of dwarves, although similar to humans, is different after all, and belongs to two races.

Dwarves are thick and fat, powerful, and have thick arms, while humans are more slender and thin, and even the strongest people are not as good as dwarves, and this is the biggest difference.

Eventually, it also led to the fact that the weapons of the dwarves could not be used with humans at all.

Just like the two-handed battle axes of the dwarf clan before, in the eyes of humans, it is like a heavy one-handed battle axe with a trombone, which is very awkward to use, not to mention the two kinds of armor worn by those young dwarves, lined with chain mail, hanging scale armor, plus weapons, the weight of this body is pressed on the body of human warriors, and it is estimated that it is difficult to walk.

The most typical, there is also the dwarven musket, which is made of bronze throughout, widened and thickened, almost the size of the 3-pounder cavalry cannon in the game in Levy's impression.

But this musket was a short firing tube, with a hole in the tail as a fire door for ignition, and the butt was completely absent, only a strong wooden stick was used as a support, slightly flattened and easy to clip under the armpit.

In Levi's opinion, this is tantamount to ridiculous!

If it really seems to be lined up in a similar line and shoot at Levi's musketeers, it is estimated that it is not as good as using a bow and crossbow, because the conclusion drawn from the musket in military history is that it is a kind of close-range firepower supplement, rather than a weapon that can play a role like arquebuses and flintlock muskets, or even eliminate other arms!

As for those artillery, even the casting process is extremely primitive, it is completely the simplest inverted mold pouring method, and the artillery produced is, in a fundamental sense, also a stone cannon, not a cannon in the real sense!

However, once gunpowder technology begins to develop, it will spread rapidly, and once it comes into contact with Levi's muskets and artillery, perhaps with the shrewdness of those dwarves, it can also be successfully imitated, which increases the danger of Levi's troops and narrows the ratio of scientific and technological superiority between the two sides.

At least Levi thinks that after this sea area is completely controlled, there is no need to worry about the loss of flintlock pistols and artillery, as well as imitations by other forces.