Lisbon at night, a nondescript fishing port. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

A group of Crucidian priests, surrounded by a group of heavily armed knights, stood guard on the docks with serious faces. Everyone didn't say a word, the whole fishing port seemed to be asleep, there were no irrelevant people, and even some civilians in the vicinity were driven away from their homes.

On the surface of the sea, a layer of mist was shrouded, and several small piloted boats were parked on the sea, hung with lanterns.

Two three-masted Galen ships slowly sailed out of the thick fog.

The knights, dressed in full steel armor, tensed their muscles, and the air seemed to be imprisoned.

The two boats silently docked.

A group of tired sailors appeared on the deck and began to get busy.

Immediately afterward, one after another huge wooden boxes were hoisted off the side of the ship, and soon they were piled up on the ground.

The priests stepped forward, took a book, read a word to the wooden box, and splashed some water on it.

Everyone looked nervous, but nothing strange happened.

The priests gathered together and chatted for a few words, and one of them came out and said to the crowd behind him:

"This is what you say, a weapon that may have been cursed by the infidels? We have examined it carefully, there is no mystical power, there is no breath of hell, and the holy water does not react to it. You can rest assured, these things should be fine, as long as you don't mess around with it. ”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and some people laughed softly, looking happy.

Several people walked up and opened the box with a crowbar. The mysterious cargo reveals its true face: it is a black cannon that is just one person high, with a smooth black barrel, which should be cast in pig iron. On the smooth gun body, there are no carvings and coats of arms, only a few muzzle hoops at the front end to strengthen the structure.

The kobold's first batch of ten twelve-pounder cannons arrived safely at their destination.

Next, the sailors began to hoist the wooden gun wagons and put them to the priests and craftsmen for inspection.

The unloading lasted all night, and by the time the star rose, the dock was empty again, as if nothing had happened.

The army was very satisfied with the cannon in this transaction, the price was cheap and the quantity was sufficient! And the experiment showed that the service life of this cannon was close to that of the bronze cannon!

The Portuguese's thirst for artillery was endless, after all, it was also a maritime power, with countless fleets, and no amount of artillery could satisfy their huge appetite. And as a sea power country, the status of the army can be imagined, lack of artillery!

What's worse is that his cannon casting skills are also very average. Although the Portuguese invented the 'Franky cannon', it was only suitable for abusive dishes, and European countries did not play this at all, and the larger cannons could only be made of bronze.

A few years ago, there was a news from the Far East that the Portuguese East India Company had hired some Ming craftsmen, and as a result, they had developed the technology of casting pig iron cannons, which surprised the locals, and they took the trouble to send letters asking the other party to introduce technology, which shows the dilemma of the Portuguese in the production of artillery. (Author: The introduction of cast iron cannons from the Ming Dynasty is a historical fact.) And the Dutch cast-iron cannon technology seems to have come from Japan. ）

At present, the highest level of bronze artillery is in Spain next door, but fortunately, their main product is ship cannons, otherwise they would be scared to death. France is not bad, after all, it was the first country to use artillery.

Britain, a traditional ally, is good at iron artillery, and technical secrecy is also very strict, but in recent years, because of 'being a horse boy for Spain', the relationship between the two countries has cooled down greatly, and it is not necessary to buy artillery.

After receiving the 'Demon Cannon', João IV immediately said: "This cannon is exactly what we need, and it is what the enemy has prevented us from obtaining." Inform Governor Francisco that you must find out what kind of weapons those demons have, and it is best to get a way to make them!"

With the deepening of the exchanges between the two sides, the Portuguese are also panicked and excited about the 'terrifying' power of the kobold - although the other party is a 'demon', there are also huge possibilities in it, you know, the glory of the Kingdom of Portugal is due to the emergence of a group of great adventurers!

In the matter of supporting the new king against Spain, several big nobles who had quarrels also began to ease, and everyone began to think about how to use this small force that joined the war.

Now South America has been lost, and although Africa is still there, the Far East is still fighting with the Dutch, and no one knows what the war is like now.

Looking at the intertwined forces on the map, these people began to silently calculate.

Dusty Agadir, houses demolished, ditches dug, busy crowds everywhere.

Not only Xu Ping'an, who was engaged in agriculture in the Susi Plain in the east, was very busy, but several other traversers were also not idle.

Tesfil spends all his time with all sorts of strange pets, playthings.

Brother Long noticed the fish-people who had been ignored before, as well as the more than a dozen guys who read as ogres and wrote rice buckets, and were doing an investigation.

Speaking of which, these fish-people are also characters whose mud can't hold up the wall. Although these waste timber are amphibious, they swim like turtles in the water and tortoises on the shore, and the technology is still stuck in the Stone Age, and they can't even breed. If it weren't for a lot of powerful pets, I'm afraid they would have been eliminated naturally.

Now that they've been co-opted by the dogheads, these guys are completely unenterprising, and they seem to have brought in the role of 'pet fish' very well.

Those ogres are more mentally minded, and seem to have brought themselves into the form of livestock, or the kind of meat - eating and sleeping every day.

Guan Renxiu is very diligent in his magic cultivation, and he can be a teacher for Heluo and them casually.

Liu Jingtian looks like a big grin all day long, but in fact, there is a lot of pressure these days. He squatted on a hill, silently supervising the construction sites everywhere, counting the chips in his hand.

After a secret reconciliation with Portugal, the warehouses are now empty enough to run horses.

There is no way, those things plundered from the Portuguese always have to be returned, and some things are lost as land rent, although these are all looted from Agadir, but it is still very distressing to spit out, and now there is only some grain left.

In addition, ten cannons were given away for free, which can be regarded as a sample of compensation and trading. In fact, after counting all the paid items, there is still a large amount of artillery owed - the cost of more than 1,000 mercenaries alone is not a small amount.

However, these arrears are also a willingness to fight, a willingness to suffer, Liu Jingtian lacks people to work, lacks time to develop, and pays some artillery whose technology has begun to fall behind, which is not a loss.

The other good news was that the Governor, sent by the Portuguese, had begun to restore the operation of the port.