Throughout the night, Li Xiao and Zheng Zhilong stayed in the house to plan. The gap in strength was so obvious that no one thought they would win.

The Dutch had at least twenty ships, and even if each ship only had 200 people, that would be 4,000 people, while Li Xiao only had two ships. Excluding the sailors and various auxiliary personnel, the manpower was less than 400 people.

Whether it's a boat or a person, the ratio is ten to one.

Zheng Zhilong only has five or six hundred people in Macau, and these people are mixed. Whether there are any Dutch undercovers among them, only God knows.

If it were equipped like the Japanese pirates, Li Xiao would be confident that he could withstand even 8,000 men.

But the opponent is a Western army that has muskets and artillery, and their weapons have been completely firearms. Zheng Zhilong's pirates only have a small number of matchlocks, and most of them are still in the cold weapon age, so they can be completely ignored.

On the nautical chart drawn by Zheng Zhilong, Li Xiao made constant measurements with gestures.

At dawn, Li Xiao finally raised his head.

"Don't tell anyone what we discussed tonight, including your second and third masters. It's not that you don't believe them. If the news leaks out, we will be dead."

"I know, if they leak the news, things will be bad. This time, thanks to your plan, brother. I won't say more. From now on, the Zheng family will only follow your lead." Zheng Zhilong clasped his fists at Li Xiao.

"Ai Husheng will give you a batch of grenades later, remember. This thing can only be given to the most loyal men. In addition, I drew the drawings of the trebuchet. You have to find a carpenter to build it quickly. We only have one day and one night. Tomorrow is ours

When you are desperate.”

"knew!"

"In addition, we will get a ship tonight to send Zheng Sen, Tagawa Shichizaemon, and Nikolai's family to the mainland. We must work hard and leave them a way out."

"Okay!" Zheng Zhilong gritted his teeth. He had only met his son for so many years. He didn't expect that after just two days of reunion, he would be separated again. And this time, life or death was still uncertain. If he didn't get it right, he might be separated again.

Can't see it either.

The Zheng family is still very influential in Macau. It only took half a morning to find more than 200 carpenters. Based on Li Xiao's drawings, they began to mass-produce trebuchets.

At noon, Zheng Sen brought a surprise to Li Xiao. His uncle Zheng Zhihu bought a monocular telescope on the black market in Macau. Zheng Zhihu, who liked his nephew very much, gave the telescope to Zheng Sen.

Unexpectedly, Zheng Sen changed hands and gave the telescope to Li Xiao.

Holding the telescope, Li Xiao was very excited. The glass produced by Pidao always had bubbles, so it was easy to make some handicrafts to deceive people. There is no way to make a telescope.

I have long wanted to have a telescope, but I didn’t expect to actually get one on the eve of the war.

However, Li Xiao just played with it for a while, and then sent someone to deliver the telescope to Li Xiu on the ship. He needed this thing more than himself.

Everything was carried out according to Li Xiao's arrangement. Things are easier to do when there are more people. According to Li Xiao's division of labor, thirty-one trebuchets were made in one day. Inside the Zheng family's house, there were densely packed trebuchets everywhere.

The Zheng family had originally planned to expand the house and had a lot of blue bricks in reserve. These would all be ammunition for the trebuchet.

Everything went smoothly, only one thing happened unexpectedly.

"Tomorrow is very dangerous. You can't stay with me." Li Xiao spoke to Tokugawa Chiki as quietly as possible. He was afraid of scaring this timid woman.

"Husband!" Tokugawa Senhime, who was sitting on her knees, had not learned much Chinese and could only roughly understand what Li Xiao meant. It was still very difficult to communicate. She bowed and took out a stick from her back.

Come with a dagger as long as a foot.

With the dagger in front of her knees, Tokugawa Chihime bowed once again and spoke a long list of foreign languages!

Li Xiao couldn't understand the Japanese language, but seeing the determined look in Tokugawa Chiki's eyes, even a fool understood what this woman meant.

I felt so moved and a little bit depressed. I didn’t expect that the first woman who was willing to live and die with me was actually a Japanese woman.

"Eat! Be strong!" Opening the sliding door, Tokugawa Chiki brought out a rice plate. Her Chinese was very stilted, but her big eyes were smiling.

The meal is very simple, just a piece of fish and some shredded radish soaked in soy sauce. Li Xiao's food is very delicious because there is Tokugawa Chihime's little face opposite.

The dagger was placed in front of Tokugawa Senhime, and Li Xiao did not touch it. Tokugawa Senhime also did not touch it. After eating, after changing Li Xiao into clean clothes from the inside out,

Tokugawa Senhime knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Li Xiao respectfully.

The sliding door opened and Li Xiao walked out and came back.

"When I come back, I will marry you!" He kissed Tokugawa Chiki's red lips and felt the passionate response from the other person's tongue.

Using the strongest perseverance, he pushed Tokugawa Chiki's body away. Li Xiao walked towards the door without looking back!

Tokugawa Chiki looked at Li Xiao who was walking away, with a gentle smile on her face and tears in her eyes. She smoothed her slightly messy hair with one hand, and grabbed the dagger with the other hand and put it in her arms.

When the Zheng family began to recruit carpenters, John and Bobby immediately became nervous. When news came from inside, the carpenters were making primitive trebuchets. The two of them were stunned for a while, and then they laughed wildly at the same time.

Trebuchets, trebuchets are still used in these days. Now they are still using medieval things to fight. These people in the Ming Dynasty are really stupid.

It was already dark, and John and Bobby were so excited that they couldn't sleep at all. Tomorrow is the day when Kui Yi comes, and they can use sharp weapons to kill the leader of the Chinese pirate gang in Nanhai before Zheng Zhilong has time to gather his men.

Ladle handle.

When Kui came to the South China Sea, Zheng Zhilong was the only one who could be called his opponent. His power was very powerful, and it was not difficult for Xiao to gather ten or twenty thousand subordinates in half a month.

But now! Zheng Zhilong is trapped on Macau Island, with only five or six hundred people around him at most. If he doesn't take this opportunity to kill him, God will not let him go.

As for the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty, if you really don't want to interfere in this operation, just let him go as a favor. If he dares to interfere, then kill him too. Anyway, he is not a person with a background in the Ming Dynasty.

There was only one night, and no matter what, Zheng Zhilong could not summon a large number of men. John and Bobby were busy building high walls to seal themselves in the strong East India Company. They did not want to be attacked by the enemy on the eve of victory.

And die.

As for who leaked the secret, they no longer care. If they want to investigate, they will do so after the war. Preventing Zheng Zhilong's possible sneak attack is now the top priority.

On the eve of the war, Macau experienced unprecedented tranquility. Zheng Zhilong was strengthening his defense, fearing a sneak attack by the red-haired ghost. The East India Company was also strengthening its defense, fearing a possible sneak attack by Zheng Zhilong.

In the middle of the night, Nikolaeva's family was picked up by Zheng Zhiyuan from the place where the red-haired ghost lived.

"This son of a bitch, they must have leaked the news." John and Bobby stood on the roof of the East India Company, and now it was clear who leaked the news.

"Are you going to go out and catch them?" John stared at Nikolaeva's back fiercely.

"Forget it! Don't be ambushed by the insidious Ming people. You will still have a chance in the future. How can an Austrian family live well in the Ming Dynasty? Just rely on that old scholar Nikolai? Forget it! One day,

That little slut will be crawling at your feet, begging you." Bobby patted John on the shoulder and comforted his companion.

"Hmph!" John snorted and continued to use the telescope to observe the situation on Macau Island.

There are many watchtowers in Macau, and people with similar wealth have to build one of these things. The public security in this place is really chaotic. If the watchtowers are not repaired, the whole family may be dead tomorrow.

However, these watchtowers are also divided by status. The two largest and tallest watchtowers belong to the East India Company and the Zheng family respectively. These two watchtowers are the two commanding heights of Macau. Standing on the watchtowers, you can have a bird's eye view of the entire Macau Harbor.

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After Nikolaeva's family and Zheng Sen all boarded the ship, Li Xiu escorted the two ships and left Macau Port. In these days, few people sailed at night.

When Bobby and John saw Li Xiu's ship leaving Macau Harbor, smiles immediately appeared on their faces. The Ming Dynasty's chief military officer was still scared. At the last moment before the battle, he ran away like a coward.

This would be better, as they don't have to worry about offending the people of the Ming Dynasty. Although they don't care much about offending the Ming Dynasty now, they will still have to do business with the Ming Dynasty in the future, so it's better not to offend them.

In this world, the only thing that can rival the wind is gossip. Sometimes, gossip can even blow faster than the wind.

Zheng Zhilong's last bit of assistance was gone, and he saw Li Xiu leaving with the battleship. Some well-known and powerful guys in Macau sent people to the East India Company one after another to express their loyalty to the East India Company. Some shameless ones even said that they could help.

Kill Zheng Zhilong. As long as there is time, just get a share of the pie.

John and Bobby were naturally happy like this. Who would have too much free cannon fodder? They said casually when they wanted to seal an official and make a wish. Before dawn, half of Guangdong was sealed off by them. Anyway, it was not their own property.

It's just a matter of talking freely to fool these fools into working hard.

The people who were deceived were not fools, but they were just talking openly about sending troops to help the East India Company, but in fact everyone put their best manpower on the towers for defense.

Those who speak the most truthful words have already begun arresting civilians and beggars. We will really start fighting tomorrow to drive these guys away. At most, each person will be given a wooden stick. Anyway, it can be regarded as my sending troops!
Chapter completed!