Kouyong smiled and looked at the stunned bishop. His eyes narrowed into "Qi." The Duke of Rostov-on-Don on the side was full of flattery, carrying a top hat in his hand. He bowed and said, "This is the Bishop, and I heard that he was looking for him, so I immediately offered him."

The turner on the side relayed the words of the Duke of Rostov, Bai Chenghe ignored the duke, his eyes were still looking at the bishop, the bishop was empty, the cold sweat on his forehead continued, he squirmed his shriveled lips, and wanted to say something, but he still swallowed those flattering words into his stomach, who knows what the idea of this group of bandits is, what is the use of temporary sycophants?

It is said that your church has a place in Rostov where the pastors of the past generations are kept, and ordinary people are not allowed to enter, right? Bai Cheng began to ask.

The interpreter repeated Bai Cheng's words, and the bishop was relieved when he heard it, at least, it showed that this group of bandits would not harm him immediately, he nodded and said: "Yes, it is a forbidden place, no one is allowed to approach, only the successive great pastors can enter and leave freely, Your Excellency, you."

Ignoring the bishop's nonsense, the official had already nodded to Bai Cheng quickly, and Bai Cheng said, "Then." Take us there. ”

The bishop immediately turned into a bitter gourd face, it was a forbidden place, he took this group of bandits with him, not to mention the damage to the holy relics, his good days as a bishop were over, he hurriedly said: "I'm sorry." In fact, even I don't know where the forbidden land is. ”

After listening to the official's argument, Bai Cheng frowned: "Come."

Seven or eight soldiers stood up, and the shout startled the bishop, the duke, and the few assistant priests behind the bishop.

"Drag out a foreign monk. Bai Cheng couldn't see any expression on his face, and then said to the official of Tuo Ze: "Tell this Dayang monk, this is the first time you ask him, he doesn't answer, kill a foreign monk, and when I ask the second time, everyone in this one will be pulled out and cut."

The turner truthfully passed the words to a few Russians in the hall, and the wolf-like soldier also grabbed a priest's robe and dragged it away directly, and the helpless howl of the assistant priest silenced everyone.

Okay, I'll ask again, if you want to take us there?. Bai Cheng's face was wiped with a trace of cruelty, in fact, Bai Cheng, as the general of Mu Wangfu, originally did not have such a violent atmosphere, although he was harsh on people when he practiced on weekdays, but in life, he was still very gentle to people, but due to the entry of full people. The Han people suffered an unprecedented massacre, this kind of humiliation and pain, and only when the Mongols went south, there was no time, and now the Han people turned up, looked around blankly, summed up the experience of their predecessors, and felt that the non-our race was small and its heart must be different, Rong Qiu's ambition, not with the same reason as Hua is extremely correct, the original benevolence, broadcast benevolence and righteousness policy has become the object of verbal criticism, replaced by it. It is a strong army and a strong country, in order to deter the Quartet, and the only way to deal with the foreign Yi who do not want to belong is to coerce and slaughter, so that they are panicked.

This is also why after Zhu Jun implemented the harsh vassal policy, although there were only a few words of opposition in the court, but it was able to carry it out, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, because of the pain suffered by the Mongols, it was extremely tough on the outside world, so as to establish the idea of not ceding land, not making peace, not paying compensation, not paying tribute to the Son of Heaven to guard the country, and the king died in the society. However, for the vassal state, it is very advantageous, often the vassal country sends tribute, and the reward received is several times or even dozens or hundreds of times higher than the market value of the tribute, and gives the northern aliens the opportunity to trade with each other, but what do you get? The alien races in the north exchanged inferior horses for the goods of the Ming Dynasty during the mutual market, and if they disagreed, they saw each other, and the beacons were everywhere and plundered, and those feudal states that received huge rewards had a little mourning after the death of the Ming Dynasty? As soon as the Ming Dynasty died, the men and horses who gave the new master of the Qing Dynasty to pay tribute had been prepared, Yongli went into exile in Burma, and the king of Burma did not see him for several years, so that he settled outside the city, and repeatedly invaded Yunnan, which was one of the few in the Ming Dynasty at that time, trying to make a profit, and finally if it was not for Li Dingguo's anger and annihilation of 100,000 elephant soldiers, I am afraid it would have intensified.

The bloody facts, so that the Ming Dynasty and the opposition flooded with the hegemony to disobey the trend of thought, the original royal thought has long been thrown into the wastepaper basket, this kind of ideological change, by no means a pat on the head and generated, but decades of slaughter and bullying, decades of slavery and blood and tears cast, now commerce and trade is also rising in this period, the germ of capitalism has blossomed and borne fruit, under the impetus of capital, it has produced the idea of enslavement and exploitation of foreign races, this kind of thinking may be cruel, However, it is also the only good way to be in the stage of primitive capital accumulation, and it is much better to use the squeezing of Sichuan and tribes to alleviate internal contradictions than after the later generations enter the civilized society, there are no foreign races to squeeze only through the squeezing of their own people.

Yes, in Bai Cheng's eyes, all aliens are not people. However, one animal after another, life and death depend entirely on whether it is beneficial to Da Ming, if he wants to kill, he will definitely not frown.

The bishop was too frightened to speak. He looked at the eyes of the Oriental man opposite, in addition to cruelty in his eyes was downright indifference, looking at him, it was as if he was staring at a pile of hay, without a trace of emotional ripples, beside him, the Duke of Rostov was pulling at the hem of his robe, and the Duke of Rostov was also in a hurry, he was a noble duke, man. He deserves the sweetest wine. He deserves the most delicious of all: he has three lovers, and a large number of children whose names even he himself will interlac, he wears the most luxurious clothes, his gardener waters him every day with all kinds of flowers, and adorns his manor, he has seven maids, and more than eight hundred serfs, and he does not want to die, and even if God opens his arms and lets him into heaven, I am afraid that life there will not be better than here. Only then did Bai Cheng say that if the bishop didn't lead the way, everyone in this hall would die, and he didn't want to follow the bishop to accompany the funeral, he kept squeezing the bishop's eyes, but the bishop didn't realize it, as if he was weighing the benefits and disadvantages, and after a long while, the bishop said: "Okay, I know where the holy place is, then, please let me serve the general." ”

Duke Rostov breathed a sigh of relief, Bai Cheng finally put away his murderous eyes, and the bishop, his face was like ashes, staggering to lead the way, of course he understood what it would mean if he brought these bandits to the Holy Land, at least for him, his future in the Orthodox Church was over, not only that, he was likely to be imprisoned for the rest of his life, but now the most important thing is to save his life.

On the island of Piez, Admiral Bobby stared at the ships of the Union fleet salvaging wreckage on the surface of the sea. Ten days have passed, and in these ten days, the anti-Dutch alliance fleet has been taught, and no longer uses brute force to directly attack the beach, but calms down and slowly cleans up the wreckage on the sea, clearing the obstacles for the next attack, today is the eleventh day, the wreckage on the sea is getting less and less, Admiral Bobby estimates that in another three days, maybe the sea near the entire beach can be cleaned up, which makes him very anxious, once the anti-Dutch alliance sails into the offshore waters, then the guns on the battleships will blow up the island of Pies, I am afraid that all these fortifications that I have painstakingly built will be finished, and without the cover of the fortifications, if the anti-Dutch coalition army, which is ten times more numerous than the Portuguese army, lands, how long will the Portuguese army be able to resist?

In fact, the current Portuguese army has begun to be unstable, Bobby once said that reinforcements are about to arrive, but this reinforcement has been waiting for ten days, seeing that the enemy's fleet can be bullied off the coast, this reinforcement has not yet come, who still has confidence? On such isolated islands, in front of all four are the enemy's fleet. The muzzle of the gun peeked out from the ship's body, and there was not much food on the island, so I am afraid that no one had the determination to defend it.

Just three days ago, there was also a lieutenant colonel to Admiral Bobby about the surrender, although this era has not signed Geneva openly, but presumably there should be no problem to save his life, Admiral Bobby is a soldier with a great sense of honor, after hearing this, he was furious, and directly asked someone to lock him up, but Bobby also understood that this lieutenant colonel just represents the thoughts of most of the soldiers, and now the entire Pu army is trapped on an isolated island, there is no hope, and it makes sense to try his best to survive, Who wants to die defending something that is illusory?

"Why haven't you come yet?" Bobby couldn't help but start complaining to the Admiralty, don't these bureaucrats know that they are already in a desperate situation? If the fleet does not show up again, I am afraid that the Portuguese army on this island will be completely destroyed, and the damned anti-Dutch alliance fleet will be gone.

Admiral Bobby climbed to the sentry post on the hill every morning and looked northwest, like a resentful woman leaning on the door and hoping for her husband to come home.

That night, he wrote in his diary.

"Two ears and three, sunny. The adjutant came to report, and there was a medium fleet of ships coming from afar in the northwest sea. By the time they looked through the binoculars, they turned out to be a group of damned Turkish caravans, and there were no signs of shipwrecks on the sea, but the British and Spanish sailors did not rush into the fleet, because there were still many obstacles under the water, and they had now begun to speed up the salvage, God willing, I really shouldn't have put my hope in those damned Admiralty officers, it was their job to lie and be irresponsible. ”

"February 4th, fine. Damn, a group of soldiers from the battery actually secretly swam to the enemy ship and surrendered, this group of shameless fools, the hope is getting slimmer and slimmer, the people on the island know that as long as the enemy ship clears the obstacles, they can easily attack the island, everyone has no confidence, what should I do? I have done my best to fulfill the duties of a good commander, and I am afraid that only God can control what happens next

"February 4th, cloudy. There is a strong wind blowing on the sea, and there may be signs of heavy rain, God, you are always so generous, those damned, anti-Dutch flotilla stopped salvage, but in the afternoon, the clouds cleared, and the British and Spanish sailors could not wait to do it again, well, to be able to hold them back for seven hours, maybe it was luck, the reinforcements had not yet arrived, and the morale of the soldiers was getting lower and lower, what should I do? Do you really send my soldiers to their deaths? ”

"February 5th, fine.

Reinforcements still haven't arrived, and I'm already so disappointed in the damn reinforcements, these damn guys, are they watching their allies die? Where the hell are they? Is it not out of Hong Kong yet? Or in the Strait of Gibraltar? Perhaps already in southern Italy? The thug battleship, but only blocked the enemy ship for 14 days, and a few soldiers took advantage of the warlord's inattention to jump into the sea and swim to the enemy ship. This group of selfish villains, they have abandoned their dignity, they have abandoned everything they have. Even if you can survive, don't you feel a little guilty? ”

"On the 6th of February, fine, according to the adjutant's report, the enemy ships on the sea have basically cleared all the obstacles, and by this time, it is already evening, and those fools of the anti-Dutch alliance do not seem to be in a hurry, I am afraid that they have decided to rest for the night, and by the morning of tomorrow, I am afraid that it will be time to attack, I gave the order to hold on, but did not go to inspect the soldiers, of course I understand that those soldiers who are greedy for life and afraid of death will not be able to fight according to my will, perhaps the enemy is on the beachhead, and they are so frightened that they raise their hands, Tonight there is no moon or stars in the sky, and the whole island of Pierce is wrapped in darkness, as if we have no hope, and tomorrow is the time for a showdown, what should I do? May God keep the knot.

"February 7th. Qing, I have done my best, the fleet of the anti-Dutch coalition is approaching the coast, hundreds of artillery shells have bombarded the coast with twenty pounds of explosives, the left and right sides and the two sand barricades in front have all been blown up, they have begun to land in groups, countless people have landed on the beach with no end in sight, and have attacked us, my soldiers are obviously not as bad as I originally thought, they still proved their worth with their bravery, we held on to the third line of defense, and held out for three hours, Only then did he reluctantly retreat to the mountain, the enemy had already controlled more than half of the island, but God estimated that it was already dark, and my soldiers had sacrificed two thousand two hundred and thirty, and although the other party's data was not counted, according to my estimate, it should be around two thousand, but everyone understood that maybe this was our last night, and tomorrow, where else could we retreat? If you retreat, I'm afraid you'll fall into the sea to feed the fish, Susan, and my children, and I confess to you here as a husband and father, that I have not done my duty.

"On the eighth of February, O God, what words shall I use to describe my excitement and gratitude to you, for before noon we relied on the peaks of the mountains to fiercely return fire on the advancing enemy, and at twelve o'clock, when we had lost hope, I was even ready to surrender at the persuasion of my adjutant, and at last appeared on the sea, and our fleet appeared, and we took off our top hats and cheered on the mountainside and on the top of the mountain, and my soldiers cheered up, and showed the greatest courage, And the group of fools down the hill also seemed to see our reinforcements, and their attack slowed down, and I even took my soldiers with the courage to carry out a counter-assault on the hill, and also, the group of anti-Dutch fleet that stopped on the coast realized something, but they were finished, their fleet probably had the most advanced ships, and they had sharp artillery, but they were in a hurry, and many ships were even stranded on the shore, they had no good sailors and gunners, their helmsmen were sluggish, and our fleet surrounded them, And the shelling was launched, they didn't even have a chance to escape, our fleet blocked the way out of the bay, the indiscriminate bombardment, the roar of the artillery, and the arc of the whistling shells left in mid-air, how beautiful and beautiful, thank God, thank you to the admiralty fools, well, I shouldn't have called them that, they are still respectable, although they are late, but there is still time to correct their mistakes, cheer, we are victorious, the great Portuguese Empire will still exist, The great Portuguese soldiers are still brave and good at fighting, we still have everything",

On the coast, the fire was everywhere, the artillery was still whistling, the smoke was filled, there were screams and wails everywhere, the poor Union fleet was blocked by the Dutch fleet and the Portuguese fleet, and just then, unprepared, it was beaten to the ground, and the advanced warships that had spent a lot of effort to buy from the Ming Dynasty were sunk, the sails were on fire, the deck was full of craters, the soldiers began to jump into the sea to escape, and the marines who attacked the island also began to retreat to the beach.

The fleets of the Dutch and the Portuguese shelled the warships in an orderly manner, both countries were maritime powers, and the definition of a strong country was not just the body of the warship, but the first-class sailors, skilled gunners, and flexible helmsmen, they understood all the principles of naval warfare, and were often able to find the best place to avoid the enemy ship's guns without damaging the battleship's vital points, and they could shoot the guns accurately at the enemy ship, and they could even make a series of reactions based on experience and intuition without the commander's orders, they know which enemy ship is the most threatening, they know which battleship to strike at first, and all this is definitely not something that the personnel on board of the alliance fleet can have.

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