Chen Zilong also felt a sharp pain.

Because a thumb-thick four-edged heavy arrow had already penetrated his heart guard, fortunately, the distance of Jiannu's vest was a little far, so the arrow only penetrated Shan Wenjia's heart guard less than half an inch.

Otherwise, the arrow would have pierced his chest.

"Master Chen, are you alright?" Yang Ponu hurriedly ran over with the wooden card.

"Tuk Tuk!" There were three muffled sounds, and three more heavy arrows were shot on the wooden card, and one of the three-edged heavy arrows was two inches through the wooden card, almost piercing Yang Ponu's eye socket.

Yang Ponu was startled, and quickly pushed the wooden sign forward more than a foot.

Chen Zilong turned his waist sideways and cut off the arrow shaft inserted in the heart goggle with a click.

"Thieves, where did these slaves come from? Do you see how many people there are?"

"I don't see it." Yang Ponu shook his head and said, "My lord, let's hurry back to the walled fort, if we don't go back, we will really explain here today."

"You can't leave the greenhouse, women and children can't run fast." Chen Zilong shook his head and said.

Yang Ponu also hesitated, because there were also his women among the women and children inside.

"It's all my fault." Chen Zilong said with some annoyance, "I knew that I shouldn't have come out to repair the greenhouse at this time, and now we are trapped here."

"Lord Chen, why don't the villains rush out to report the news?"

Chen Zilong was also a little moved when he heard this, and now it seems that he can only take a risk.

However, at this moment, a faint trumpet suddenly sounded in the wilderness behind.

"Like a trumpet?" Yang Ponu listened attentively for a moment, and suddenly shouted, "It's the horn, reinforcements!" Our reinforcements have arrived, reinforcements have arrived!"

The probe looked south, and sure enough, he saw a group of town soldiers already lining up and coming over.

In front were the knife players, then three rows of musketeers, and finally six rows of spearmen.

Approaching, the second row of musketeers fired a volley and drove away the Jiannu on the opposite side.

It was also at this time that Chen Zilong and Yang Po found that there were only a dozen slaves.

A moment later, reinforcements arrived, and the leader of the troops was the governor of Xuzhou, Du Yinxi.

"Blocking the gates." Chen Zilong and Yang Ponu hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

"Chen advises, is it okay?" Plug Yinxi asked with concern.

"Thank you for your concern, the lower official is fine, but the skin hurts the ear."

"Are there any casualties among the women and children who helped you build the breeding greenhouse?"

"Fortunately, the military gate came in time, and there were no casualties among the women and children in the greenhouse."

Du Yinxi breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately sent out a team of town soldiers to escort the women and children back to the nearby walled fort.

At this moment, a puff of wolf smoke suddenly rose on the northern horizon and soared into the sky.

Yang Ponu put his hand on the canopy and looked at it for a moment, and reported to Du Yinxi: "Blocking the military gate, it's Chenjiabao!"

"Let's go, go to Chenjiabao!" Du Yinxi immediately led the town soldiers to support Chen Jiabao, and Chen Zilong also took Yang Ponu and dozens of other town soldiers to follow.

A moment later, reinforcements arrived at Chenjiabao.

I saw more than a dozen Jiannu waistcoats wandering in the wilderness outside the walled fort.

Seeing that Du Yinxi led a large group of town soldiers to kill, these dozen Jiannu vests immediately rode away on horseback.

The soldiers and soldiers in Chenjiabao opened the gate to welcome them out, and when they asked, they learned that two soldiers in Chenjiabao were hunted by Jiannu waistcoats when they went out to repair the canal. ….

"Blocking the military gate, I'm afraid this matter is not simple." Chen Zilong instantly realized the danger.

"Well, the official also found out." Du Yinxi said with a solemn expression, "This is the nineteenth walled fort that has been attacked in the past three days, and nearly a hundred of the town's soldiers have also been sacrificed."

"Have nineteen walled forts been attacked? Nearly 100 town soldiers were sacrificed?"

Chen Zilong, Yang Ponu and other town soldiers suddenly looked shocked when they heard this, and it seemed that the situation was quite serious.

Yang Ponu said worriedly: "Blocking the military gate, these are not good because Jiannu will not accept them at night!"

"It's a possibility." Plug Yin tin dotted

The head said to Chen Zilong again, "Chen Zhizhi, you have to send someone to Nanjing to explain the situation here to Chen Shengshang."

"The subordinate officer takes the order."

……

Two days later, Swallow Rock Pier.

A galleon from Guangzhou slowly docked.

The gangway was lowered, and a group of aliens with very different hair and eyes from the Chinese, all of whom had long, curly hair, a crisp chest lining, and a wheel-shaped crepe collar, disembarked.

There are more than 30 people of these different races, and their words are very different from the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty.

The porters who carried the work on the docks and the small vendors begging for a living outside the docks had never seen so many aliens, and they all cast curious glances at this side.

These aliens were also curious to look at everything inside and outside the Swallow Rock Pier.

Among these aliens, there was an old friend in a black priest's attire, and he was Bumig.

"Father Kamig, is this the capital city of Nanjing?" One of them, a young man with curly brown hair, stretched out his hand and pointed to the Jinchuan Gate in front of him, and said, "This is really a majestic city."

"Bryce, I didn't lie to you, did I?" Bu Mige smiled and said, "Daming is much richer and more prosperous than France."

"I admit that the city of Nanking is indeed bigger and more majestic than Paris." The young man named Bryce nodded, and then changed his words to say, "But I don't see anything more prosperous than Paris."

"It's just ashore, and you haven't even entered the city yet." Bumig said with a smile.

At that moment, Bu Mige took more than 30 young people from Jinchuan Gate into Nanjing.

After entering the city gate, the bustling market suddenly rushed to the face, and more than 30 young people even looked straight at their eyes.

Most of these young people come from big cities such as Paris, Lisbon, Madrid and Rome, and they can be said to have seen the bustle of big cities.

Paris, in particular, has a population of more than 300,000.

But even Paris is nowhere near enough to compare with the city in front of you.

Bryce pointed to the rows of shops and the endless stream of people on the streets, and asked Bumige, "Father, is the whole of Nanking so prosperous?"

Kamig laughed.

"Dear Bryce, where is this?"

"When you turn back to Gongyuan Street, you will know what prosperity is."

"Oh God, God." More than 30 young people kept making crosses on their chests.

After entering the city from Jinchuan Gate, you only need to turn left from Gulou Street to reach Guozijian directly, but Bu Mige deliberately took a long detour in order to deepen the good impression of Bryce and others on Nanjing. ….

After all, whether these young students can stay in Daming or not directly affects his missionary plan.

Bu Mige led more than 30 young people through the drum tower to continue south, entering Sanshanmen Street.

Sanshanmen Street is the most densely populated area in Nanjing, and the pedestrians, cars and horses on the street are not endless, it is simply shoulder to shoulder.

More than 30 young people had to hold hands so that they were not scattered.

"Oh God!" Bryce exclaimed, "This is Gongyuan Street, and it's really bustling."

Bulge smiled when he heard this: "No, no, no, this is only Sanshanmen Street, not Gongyuan Street."

"Oh my God, isn't this Gongyuan Street?" Bryce exclaimed, "Gongyuan Street is still more prosperous?"

Another young man also said sincerely: "I thought that Amsterdam was already the most prosperous city in the world, but after I arrived in Paris, I realized that Amsterdam was just a small city, but after I arrived in Nanjing today, I realized that Paris is only a small city."

"Nanjing is a real big city."

"Father, how many people live in Nanjing?"

This can stump Bu Mige, and he doesn't know.

After a moment of silence, Bumige said, "When I left last year, there seemed to be a million people in Nanjing, but there were not as many people on the streets as they are now

It's crowded, it's estimated to be two million now."

"God, two million?!" Bryce and other young people were frightened all of a sudden, so many people live in one city, there really can't be a problem? How is sewage discharged? How is food supplied? And how to maintain law and order?

You know, even in the richest city of Paris in Europe, there are a large number of beggars on the streets.

Moreover, these beggars are also very bad, not only part-time thieves, but also openly robbed weak women and children.

But they don't seem to have encountered a single law and order incident since they entered the city? Nanjing's law and order is so good that people can't believe it, which is a miracle.

"Bryce, are you hungry?"

"I'll take you to taste the steamed cakes and rice cakes of the Ming Dynasty."

Pointing to a food shop on the corner in front of him, Bumige said that he was a little hungry himself.

After leaving Nanjing for so long, he really misses Nanjing's food, it seems that the entire Ming Dynasty's food is concentrated in Nanjing, and he has never eaten more delicious.

"Okay, okay, then try it."

Young people like Bryce are full of energy and want to try everything.

At that moment, Bu Mige led more than 30 young people into the restaurant, and said in fluent Daming official dialect: "Man, give us 37 baskets of steamed cakes and 37 bowls of rice cake soup."

"Okay, 37 steamed cakes and 37 bowls of rice cake soup, lobby on the first floor."

The man shouted loudly and left, and Bryce and the other young people sat down at the table of the five Eight Immortals, stretched out their hands to touch the east and west, and seemed to be full of curiosity about everything.

Bryce soon noticed that the three people at the next table were arguing.

Seeing that the three of them were arguing, Bryce was very curious, and immediately asked Bumige, "Father, what are they arguing about?" Can you translate it for me?"

After listening for a moment, Bu Mige said, "One person said that all things are composed of two elements, Qi is the origin of all things, and Li is the law of operation, and Li Qi is inseparable from each other."

Brighton was in awe, and this must have been a profound scholar.

He also said, "The other man said, 'The heart is reason, and all things are my heart, and my heart is all things.'"

"That's not right." Bryce said softly, "All things are all things, and the heart is the heart, how can they be simply equated? But this is certainly a very knowledgeable professor."

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Lonely Swordsman