"The situation in Manraka is different from that in Nanzhong, these people have lived here for a long time, their forces are intertwined, some people have money, maybe there are guns, and what is even more troublesome is that they have dealings with the Portuguese, if we move too fast and too big, we will not be able to do something to drive the fish and birds for the abyss, once these people go to the side of the Portuguese, a little bewitched, and use the family in-laws and employment and many other relationships, this Manraka is full of hundreds of thousands of millions of Chinese, I am afraid that they will help the Portuguese deal with us, then it will be bad!"

Ye Qi's words made Zhang Xiaohu disagree, but it sounded a little reasonable.

"Do you mean to hit a snake and hit seven inches? Kill these Portuguese first, and then slowly concoct these people? ”

"This is the Lord's announcement, and I am only acting according to the Lord's deployment. Also, I came up with the idea of exempting the land from the silver on the spot. I issued a proclamation to remove the Chinese, and the Chinese would immediately support us, and their status would rise sharply compared with the natives, and then I would slowly implement the terms of the Ten Articles. Take out all the tricks of the officials and gentry to pay taxes in one piece! ”

"I don't understand what you're saying, I know one thing, and if you want to implement these systems, you have to look at the cannons and muskets in the hands of our brothers! If the Portuguese castle can't be attacked for a long time, I'm afraid that this group of guys will also bet on both sides with the Portuguese in the castle! ”

Listening to Zhang Xiaohu's half-literate words, Ye Qi couldn't cry or laugh, he pointed at this guy with his finger, "You, you!" Talking is always absurd and inattentive, and it is easy to say a sentence of literary crepe, and in the blink of an eye, you take out the terms you have on the pai gow table, what are the bets on both sides?! However, it is also appropriate that these big families, for the sake of incense and family interests, often bet in many places, perhaps, at this moment, someone will go to the Portuguese fortress to pay money to show their loyalty! ”

"So what do we do? Siege after dawn? ”

"Nope! The brothers have worked hard from afar, and the brothers of the concession battalion and the artillery battalion have rested, seize the time to build fortifications and barracks, and attack the city in three days, and be sure to break the city in one battle! ”

"Your sailor has to work hard these days, cruising everywhere, don't let others copy our back road!"

The three days passed quickly.

To say that it is a rest and recuperation is just that there is no combat mission.

A large number of soldiers were sent to assist the household officials who came with the team to register the population of the Chinese in the Manraka region and distribute silver dollars and household posts. Encouraged by the silver dollar, the exemption from poll tax, and the greatly improved social status of the government, countless young Chinese came to help the Nanzhong army build barracks and artillery positions, and soon the fortifications around the fortress of San Diego were built.

During this period, Xu Meizhen, who considered herself a bridge between the South China Army and the Chinese in the Manraka area, brought several Chinese Qiyue to visit Ye Qi and thanked the South China Army for its virtue and politics on behalf of the Chinese people in the Manchurian area. During this period, the old men also gave Ye Qi advice on how to attack the fortress of San Diego.

An old man built a long siege to Ye Qi, dug a trench, and blocked the fortress of Santiago, so that he could be defeated without a fight without food and water in the city.

"There is no water source in the city, there is no well, and the daily drinking water of the Franc Ji people is all transported by Indian slaves and Banten soldiers, and if the army cuts off his water source, he can go down the city without a fight!"

"Thank you for the reminder, but our Nanzhong Army has always been to convince people with virtue, and pay attention to the righteous banner of the dignified array, three days later, when our army has finished resting, we can break the city in one fell swoop."

"And the people in the city, many people from the Portuguese country, are all bewitched and coerced by the traitors, after the city is broken, Colonel Wanggang will take a lot of trouble to collect it, and integrate it into the restoration army as the power to restore the country."

At the same time, Gonzalez, who was with Ye Qi to meet these old men, nodded busily and said that it was always good to have more Portuguese in the army.

Seeing a Portuguese officer acting as a subordinate under his own general, this group of old men was even more confident in the strength of the Celestial Empire's army.

The Portuguese officers in the castle of Santiago sensed the danger of approaching before it was even dawn, and the men in the positions of the Ming army outside the city shouted and neighed, and the men carried torches and lanterns to push a cannon out of the camp and pull them with horses into the fort that had just been built.

One of the sergeants spat at the city with disdain, "Come on! Yellow-skinned monkey! See how many cannonballs you can blast this castle open! ”

When he said this, it immediately struck a chord. This castle, more than 30 meters high and several feet thick, is built according to the standard of a fortress, and for ordinary artillery, it is no less than seeing God himself to blast this castle.

There was the arrogant Portuguese soldier, who even unbuttoned his pants, took out the words and began to pee on the city, scolding in his mouth, although he didn't understand what he said, but he took out the guy to pee, I believe that this action is not a good thing in any cultural background.

A student who was busy calculating the ballistics for the artillery with a sextant in his hand saw this scene clearly through the camera, "Dog thing! Don't be arrogant, wait a while, Lao Tzu will enter the city and skin you first! ”

He has the confidence to say this!

Not far away, on the sea, his classmates are also measuring the firing distance of the naval guns on the warship, and nearly 200 guns of size will baptize the fortress from the sea.

Beneath the city walls, several rocket wagons were covered with straw mats woven from straw, obscuring the view from above the castle. Two 200-pound mortars were ready to let out an earth-shattering roar with their mouths open, and on the two flanks of the mortars, six of the dragon cannons that had shown their might in the battle of Thang Long were wiped clean by the gunners, ready to continue their glorious achievements under Thang Long.

Behind the artillery position, two battalions of infantry lined up there, ready to attack after the artillery bombardment. How many times they have coordinated operations, they have full trust in their artillery comrades.

"Report! The report of each gun position has been measured, can I ask if I can launch an attack? ”

The commander of the artillery team hurriedly ran to report his preparations to Ye Qi.

"Wait a minute, see how they're doing."

Soon, a flag came from the seaside, "Lao Tzu has been ready for a long time, will you fire first or will we fire first?!" It is full of Zhang Xiaohu's personal style of the flag, which makes people feel bold.

"When the time comes, order someone to go to the city and persuade you to surrender!"

An officer of the Restoration Army walked with a white flag and very gentlemanly steps to the castle of Santiago for one last persuasion.

The answer to him was the fire bell on the castle.

"Alright, let's shoot!"

Ye Qi's voice was very soft.

Behind him, about a dozen paces away, a large canopy made of wood and bamboo, and behind a few tables, sat the Sultan of Sumatra, and several other kings, large and small, and even the Sultans of Aceh and Johor.

People are not interested in the various sweets and fruits on gold plates on the table, which are carefully prepared by the masters of Daoxiang Village, but use the rare clairvoyant mirror to observe the siege battlefield with all their might.

Through the clairvoyance provided by Ye Qi for them, the Sultan of Sumatra clearly saw the battlefield situation not far away.

"There are no large-scale siege equipment, there are no siege vehicles as the Han people say, there are not even too many ladders, and it seems that the length of the ladders is not necessarily enough. Empty of a good skin? ”

Turning the clairvoyant angle, the Sultan saw the artillery that the Ming people regarded as a siege weapon.

"Phew! This cannon is too light, right?! ”

The Sultan saw the two 200-pounder mortars that were the main force of the siege. From the outside, as artillery, they are indeed not good-looking, and their weight can be towed by two horses, except for the large caliber, there is almost nothing that can make people think that they will be weapons of mass destruction.

"How can such artillery be used to break through such a strong castle?"

His Excellency the Sultan expressed his disapproval of such weapons.

Also not optimistic about this military operation are the Chinese Kapitan who are watching from the sidelines.

"There is a cloud in the art of war, and the double of ten sieges will attack it. Now the army of our Celestial Empire under the city, although the number is more than the Portuguese in the city, but it has not reached several times the strength, how can it break the Portuguese who rely on the fortified city to garrison? As far as I know, the food, water, ammunition and other items in the city, except for the less water, can be supplied for three years. ”

Several Chinese Qiyue, anxious in their hearts, secretly turned their heads to look at the dragon plaque enshrined high in the center of the color shed, which was written in gold with the words "the position of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty".

"Alas! I hope the ancestral gods will bless you! ”

Boom! Knock knock! Three dull loud noises came from not far away, and the huge vibration made the ground in the shed tremble slightly, and the cups and plates on the long table hit each other, making a slight crisp sound.

A few people didn't care about cleaning up their clothes that were soaked with tea, and hurriedly used the clairvoyance in their hands to observe the artillery team in the distance, it turned out that the huge caliber of the 200-pounder mortar was the first to speak, under the effect of gunpowder, the heavy cannonball was easily thrown to the city, and the masonry on the city head was splashed into pieces, and several defenders at the head of the city were hit by the flying masonry fragments.

The Sultan stared at the strange-looking, even ugly cannon, "It looks a bit like a big toad!" With a large mouth and cannon ears on both sides, I can't imagine that at such a close distance, I can actually fire cannonballs at the head of the city! ”

The people who were "invited" to watch the battle were still amazed by the unexpected performance of the mortar cannon, and the dragon cannon began to earn points for himself.

"Knock knock!" Several roars in succession rushed the cannonballs straight towards the city wall. Huge pits were punched in the city wall, and around the pits, cracks appeared, wide enough to fit into a fist, and narrow enough to fit into an adult's fingers, and the cracks intertwined with each other on the city wall, quickly forming a huge spider web, as if a huge spider that was about to capture countless lives as their own food was about to descend!

The Portuguese defenders at the head of the city were also panicked when they saw that those inconspicuous cannons were so powerful, pushing and scolding each other, like a group of panicked ants on the city.

"Alright, listen first! Gonzalez, send your men to persuade you to surrender! Sue them, if you surrender to you, you will be guaranteed the safety of life and property, and the dignity of your dependents will not be insulted. Together, you can fight side by side for the restoration of your country. ”

A Portuguese Restoration Army, waving a white flag in his hand, raised his hands in the air, and kept shouting, "I am Portuguese, a compatriot like you, and I am here to deliver a letter to you!" Don't fire! ”

There was silence on the city for a while, and after a while a thick rope slowly hung down from the city, and a voice shouted from the city, "Tie yourself up and pull the rope twice!" ”

Ye Qi and Gonzalez watched as the messenger was dragged up to the city by the defenders of the San Diego Fortress, "I hope this group of guys knows the times and won't resist so desperately!" "Freshly baked Colonel Gonzalez was full of anticipation, hoping that the messenger would bring him good news.

"I don't think so!" Ye Qi sneered, turned his head and asked the people around him, "Can our rocket hit the city?" ”

"Back to the general, no problem, we have adjusted the shooting angle, and also measured the distance, although we can't point where to hit, but there is no problem in hitting a face!" The pilots are confident.

Ye Qi walked to the side of the rocket car and pointed to the towers on the high city wall, "Hit the windows of the towers for me, and make sure it burns!" Then, each car will find its own target, burn the city gate, and fight in the city, you can fight as much as you want! ”

A scream came from the city.

After a while, the messenger stumbled back from the city with his ears covered.

It was an officer and petty nobleman in the fortress of Santiago, and Alonso, an old acquaintance of Li Shouhan, cut off one of the messenger's ears and asked him to bring back a sentence, "You damned yellow-skinned monkeys, betrayed the emperor, think you are not afraid of death, just come!" ”

This guy went to intimidate Li Shouhan, but was sunk by Shouhan's artillery fire, and almost lost his life, and after several tosses and turns, he returned to Manraka and became a laughing stock for a while, which made him very embarrassed for a while, and he was reluctant to go to any public places such as balls and salons, and there were many opportunities to discuss life, art, philosophy, and so on with ladies and ladies. This gave him a chance to show courage and loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor!

"You dogs who betrayed Portugal, you are the real traitors!"

"Those who betray the emperor and the church, you will go to purgatory!"

For a while, up and down the city, the Portuguese were scolding each other.

After listening to the scolding between the Portuguese with interest for a while, people soon heard it tastelessly, this group of barbarians, the scolding is just a few words that are repeated over and over, without the slightest courage of the earth owner!

"My lord, shouldn't we open fire? It's not interesting to listen to this group of red-haired people scolding the street! Don't miss the hour! ”

"Rocket, ignition!"

The rocketeers received the order to ignite, and one by one they excitedly touched the torches in their hands to the lead connected into a thick wire, and soon, dozens of sparks quickly burned to the bottom of the rocket along the lead wrapped in gunpowder.

Hearing the strange sound of the rocket's peculiar tearing air overhead, the officers and soldiers of the Portuguese Restoration Army, who were greeting each other in the most cordial and sincere language with their compatriots under the city and on the fortress of Santiago, without exception, all made the same physiological reaction: first the chrysanthemum tightened, followed by the sphincter of the urethra suddenly loosened, and it seemed that a large amount of human waste was to be discharged from the body uncontrollably, but a thought quickly crossed in his mind, Like lightning, it illuminates the dark sea of consciousness: although we are now talking about the Restoration Army, we have long been a part of the South Central Army, even if it is the Restoration Army, it is also the ally of the South Central Army, and this rocket is the group of guys in the city! Not to hit us!

The people of the Restoration Army began to hold all kinds of weapons in their hands, and began to watch the scene of rockets fired at the head of the city with an appreciative eye and angle.

Rockets streaked through the air like meteors, leaving a clear trail in the air, which was left by the rapid heating of the surrounding air during flight. This trace was also clearly left on the retina of the Sultan and Kapitan who watched the battle.

"Bang!" A rocket came into contact with a hard stone at the head of the city and exploded. A fireball exploded on the city walls. There was a sudden cry of surprise from the top of the city, and some people shouted and ordered the natives to fetch water, brooms and other items to try to extinguish and beat the flames.

However, it backfired, and as the water was splashed down, the range of the flames became larger and larger, and the tools such as the brooms that beat the fire also became accomplices in arson.

The first rocket burned at the head of the city, and the second and third rockets entered the tower window in the corner of the fortress. The tower was neatly transformed into a giant torch, which if at night was a lighthouse that illuminated the course for passing ships, but now it was a purgatory that demanded human lives.

The soldiers on the tower could not escape from the fire for a while, and some of them jumped from the windows of the tower, and with a long scream, they turned into a cloud of mud on the ground of the castle.

A dozen rockets from behind crossed the 30-meter-high city wall, and played the pleasing role of arsonists in the fortress from afar, and more than a dozen fires quickly rose in the fortress, and with the rise of the fires, the city began to become chaotic.

"Lower the launch angle! Damn it! Everything in the city is our property, and the more we destroy, the greater the loss of our brothers! The commander of the rocket launcher waved the command flag in his hand and scolded in a low voice.

According to the regulations of the Southern Chinese Army, if a qiē is captured and returned to the public, it will be rewarded with at least forty percent of the share according to the table of each unit, in the eyes of the veterans, this group of young people who don't know the height of the sky is simply a group of loser bear children who don't know how to harvest crops! Wouldn't it be a pity that there are so many good things in the city, and all of them were burned in one fire?!

The rockets that had adjusted the firing angle exploded on the top of the city, igniting a large fire, and the defenders in the city could not stay in the smoke and flames, so they had to run down the city wall one after another, hoping that after the flames were extinguished, they would go up to the city to resist.

"Aim at the gates and fire!"

Ye Qi gave the last order to the cannon commander who commanded the dragon cannons, and turned back to the color shed.

"Attention battalions, after the artillery team opened the breach, the battalions swarmed into the city! According to the pre-division of labor, he did the assault action of dividing the city, and the resistance of the small group ignored him. Just move forward. ”

In the colorful shed, the Sultan, Jiapitan and others were already standing there respectfully waiting for Ye Qi's return. Seeing him appear at the door of the colorful shed, before anyone could sing, the Sultan of Sumatra fell to his knees and praised loudly: "The Sultan of Sumatra has seen the general of the Celestial Empire!" I wish you all the best in every battle! ”

In the rumbling sound of the Crane cannon, the voices of this group of people still echoed in the color shed: "We wish the Nanzhong Army a hundred victories in a hundred battles and regain the lost territory!" ”

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