On the twenty-seventh day of the first month of the second year of Chongzhen. It is advisable to go on the expedition.

In Cam Ranh Bay, the flag of the Portuguese Restoration Army fluttered very aggrievedly in a few small boats, and around his fleet, more than 20 boats of all sizes on the left flank of the naval division of the South Central Army were majestic.

Zhang Xiaohu was very proud to place his golden tiger head logo on the Fubo, a ship that originally belonged to Shouhan, and this ship now belongs to him and will be used as the flagship of the southward Manraka this time.

Around the flagship, the newly launched five-brig gunboats stood out like the groom's officer, and the Kron's guns and mortars on board were wrapped in brand-new gun's clothing by the gunners, lest a little sea water wet the silent comrades. And the people on the boat are as excited and slightly nervous as grooms.

They're about to head south.

On the pier of Cam Ranh Bay, Shouhan was Colonel Gonzalez, commander of the Restoration Army, Zhang Xiaohu, commander of the southward fleet of the Nanzhong Army, and Ye Qiyang, who was in charge of the land war.

"Chasing the tide Ye Xianggong, he is so famous in the south of the Yangtze River, I don't know the Qinhuai Fengyue, the twenty-four bridge lights and shadows, have you ever lost your fighting spirit?"

Ye Qi rushed back from Jiangnan a few years ago, and originally planned to make a detailed plan for Chongzhen's business expansion plan for the second year, but when he heard that the troops were going south to fight the Portuguese, he was overjoyed to see the hunter for a while, and couldn't help but grind hard to Shouhan, and asked for this messenger who commanded five battalions.

Ye Qi's face was slightly red, the so-called chasing the tide Ye Xianggong was called out on the Qinhuai River. That year, watching the tide on the Qiantang River, Ye Qi saw the monstrous tide on the Qiantang River galloping like thousands of roaring war horses, and on a whim, a famous Qinhuai prostitute who came with him to watch the tide was hugged into a four-wheeled open-top carriage, and personally waved the long whip, and rode his horse on the river of Yanguan Town, Haining, parallel to the tide in the river. Pity the Qinhuai famous prostitute, in his ears is the thunderous roar of the tide in the river, and the wind mixed with the sea water mixed with the river water is blowing in his face, only frightened to the flower face, the powder face is full of tears, both hands just hold the railing of the car tightly, and wait until Ye Qi whips and chases the tide until the beauty dam of Zheshan Bay in Nanyang, Xiaoshan, and after appreciating the demeanor of the tide of the turnaround, he can get off the carriage tremblingly, and beat Ye Qi's chest with a pink fist, and cry bitterly while beating. When the later people caught up, the woman had been coaxed by Ye Qi to smile, and someone touched the wheel with his hand, and found that the wheel made of steel and covered with cork had become extremely hot! Since then, the name of chasing the tide of Ye Xianggong has been resounding on the Qinhuai River, and countless Qinhuai women are proud of being able to get on Ye Xianggong's carriage. Of course, my sister loves money more pretty, and it would be better if she had some more fame. Ye Qi is very unfortunate to have all of these.

"Shaoning has been running for the lord and Nanzhong in recent years, although he has won the false name of the Qinglou, but it is also very hard." Ye Qi's friend, Li Peilin, the chief historian and chief of the official office, couldn't bear to look at him embarrassed, and spoke out to defend him.

"I'm also worried that Shaoning has been too comfortable in the past few years, and his hips have come back to life, I don't know if he can fight immediately?" Shouhan winked at Ye Qi slyly.

In the cabin, several graduates of the academy put down their backpacks and bags, and without caring about tidying up, they opened all the tools in their hands and began to do testing. This group of trainees had just passed the graduation exam, and as students taught by Shouhan himself, they learned functions, logarithms and other subjects, and were assigned according to the test results, the first class became instructors, the second class went to the navy to measure the charts and routes with a sextant, the third class went to the arsenal or artillery ranging to calculate the trajectory, and the fourth class went to the new area to measure the land.

The task of these people in the cabin who accompanied them to sea this time was to be responsible for measuring the route, sea area, and position of the sea vessel, and providing the artillery with the firing distance and other items. "My lord said, this voyage will not be based on the islands along the way, but will be based on the astrological technique and the calculation results we provide.

A cadet fiddles with the sextant in his hand and looks up at the rising sun from the hatch of the cabin through the lens on the sextant. The main body of this sextant is a fan-shaped frame made of brass, and the arc of the fan-shaped fan is 60 degrees, that is, 1/6 of the circumference. The main components are a fixed semi-reflective glass (horizon mirror), a movable mirror (indicator mirror), a telescope, and a movable arm, which can accurately determine the angle between the celestial body and the horizon, that is, the angle between the height of the sun and the sea level at the moment, so as to calculate the geographical coordinates. Calculate the location.

"Do you remember the formula that the teacher taught?"

"Of course I do! cosz=sinφsinδ+cosφcosδcost”

The students asked and answered each other in a proud tone like a protégé of the Son of Heaven.

The supplies needed for the voyage were carried into the cargo hold by the coolies on their shoulders, including grain, water, wine, meat, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, fresh vegetables and fruits, as well as a large amount of gunpowder and cannonballs. The artillery of the ground camp was pushed into the bilge with great difficulty by the soldiers, and was held to the bilge with ropes as ballast.

On this expedition, the new type of ship brig and schooner, the latest equipment of the South China Army, also appeared in the queue of warships in high spirits. A captain was at the front of the fleet, showing off his ship's good handling and showing off his skills, and he proudly steered the ship in a U-turn.

As a latecomer to the schooner, the schooner with two masts, compared with the schooner with only one main mast, has stronger sailing ability, better handling, and requires relatively few manpower, the foremast is slightly smaller than the mainmast, from the bottom to the top of the foresail, the foremast mid-mast sail, the foremast top sail, between the foremast and the bow mast there is a rope sail, the bow spinnaker, forming a complex and powerful sail system, for this kind of hull is forty meters long, displacement of 500 tons, loaded with four Kronguns, The fire boat with two mortars provided an adequate power system.

By the way, the brig is a very famous pirate ship type, and the famous Pirates of the Caribbean have its outstanding performances. Because of its remarkable appearance, the British Navy even used it as a ship in the formation.

The sound of firecrackers sounded on the pier, and several pairs of lions began to shake their heads and tails, and all the gunboats saluted the Shouhan and his party on the pier in order. After that, according to the captains' orders, they slowly left their respective anchorages and sailed towards the sea off Cam Ranh Bay.

"I hope this trip is a good thing!"

"Brother Zong, don't worry! There are only a few hundred Portuguese people in the city of Manraka, and the number of artillery is less than a fraction of our army. ”

"It's naturally easy to capture Manraka, but if you capture the surrounding Johor, Aceh and other places, it will take a lot of effort."

"That's the matter of Ye Qi, Zhang Xiaoliuzi and others! I'm just going to give them the power to make decisions on the fly! ”

"Alas! I've never seen anyone like you! ”

Li Peilin sighed helplessly, expressing his dissatisfaction with Shouhan's behavior of acting as a hands-off shopkeeper.

"You say, 'What is the condition of this Manraka?' In the cabin of the flagship of the Three-Headed Tiger, Zhang Xiaohu, Ye Qi and other colleagues discussed the enemy situation and people's feelings in the area to be attacked.

"It should be said that this is the home of passers-by." Ye Qi drank the sugarcane wine in the cup.

From the Tang Dynasty, or even earlier, the people here have the tradition of going to Nanyang to make a living, the reason is that Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Xiamen, and neighboring Chaozhou and other places in southern Fujian have many mountains and little land, and the land for cultivation is precious. As the Song and Yuan wars progressed, the remnants of the anti-Yuan rebels had to retreat to Srivijaya, Java, Sumatra, Champa and other places; In the Yuan Dynasty, as a place for sailors and soldiers, a large number of people from Fujian, Guangdong and other places were recruited into the fleet, and came to this area with the conquest army and stayed. (This is true history, the Thaksin family in Thailand and the Aquino family in the Philippines are all descendants of Fujian immigrants, of course, forgetting their ancestors is also a specialty of many people, so we won't talk about it here.) ）

"The object of this expedition is Manraka, and there are many Chinese Miao descendants! At that time, the eunuchs of the Three Treasures went to the West, and they used it as a place to garrison and supply five times, although it is now occupied by the Portuguese Yi, but there is a system of Jiabidan, and the Jiabidan in the Manraka region is probably held by Chinese. ”

The Kapitan system is when the Portuguese occupied Malacca, that is, the establishment of the "Kapitan" system, the Kapitan is a borrowed word from the Portuguese, or the local dialect of Nanyang, there is no way to verify, the Portuguese adopted the method of "divide and rule" and "indirect rule", try to use the original traditional power structure to govern the colonial administration, and do not change the traditional customs as the principle of the "Kapitan system". The original local chiefs (such as landlords and nobles) were given power, and the colonial government recognized their status, and obtained the coercive power of the public to achieve political control and economic interests. In his book "The Revolutionary Army", Zou Rong compared the officials in the interior to Jiabidan, saying that they "still have Jiabidan in the interior, and the prison is glorious and towering, and the Manchu slaves are foreign slaves, and servility is passed into the brain." ”

It's a bit far, let's go back and talk about this era!

In this era, Kapitan mainly served as a bridge and liaison between the colonial regime and the local society, and was generally hereditary by Chinese elders or powerful Chinese families. In return, the colonial authorities gave back the rights to the Kapitan for commercial retailing, the right to contract for coastal trade, and the right to package taxes for industrial taxes. So, since ancient times!

"Therefore, the lord means that the affairs of the war are still handled by the Portuguese Restoration Army, and we only need to accept the territory and provide fire assistance, so as not to destroy the local social structure for the time being, so as not to do things that kill each other among our compatriots. However, if someone forgets their own bloodline and dares to resist our army, the lord has an order! And they sacrificed their blood to the flag! ”

As the commander of this expedition, Ye Qi's quiet and delicate face did not have the elegance of a literati and ink writer, but it was full of murderous energy.

The group walked to the deck, the oncoming sea breeze tore people's clothes, like a sail on a mast, and they looked into the distance, in the fleet, the Fu ship responsible for transporting troops and materials, the brig sailing ship for fire assault, the wind ship as the main combat ship, the plywood ship of the Portuguese Restoration Army, and the three-headed tiger as the flagship of the fourth-class ship, dozens of ships, large and small, almost completely covered the entire route.

"This is the sail like a cloud!"

After experiencing the wind and moon in the south of the Yangtze River, Ye Qi still likes this kind of life in his bones, crisscrossing the sea, and being happy with grievances, instead of drinking and chasing with those big-bellied officials and businessmen.

"Commander Ye, when I was begging for a living at sea, I also heard people talk about the Manraka incident, saying that there are a lot of ships passing here here, and the local area is quite rich!"

Zhang Xiaohu still looked like a bloodthirsty and greedy pirate, licking his chapped lips with his tongue, deliberately making a face that he had never seen money.

I don't care about you! Ye Qi scolded,

"Haven't you read the enemy briefing from the Business Intelligence Office? Wuzi is still pretending to be honest here! ”

Dodging Ye Qifei's kick, Zhang Xiaohu smiled and continued to tease Ye Qi, "I'm a rough person, I can't recognize a basket of big words, to be honest, I recognize the words on the enemy briefing, but it doesn't recognize me!" ”

"You thief!" Ye Qi hadn't been so hearty for a long time, and he compared his false fist and prosthetic legs with Zhang Xiaohu for a while, and simply sat on the deck, while curiously watching the group of students measure the angle between the sun and the sea level with a sextant, calculate their location, correct the route, and talk to Zhang Xiaohu about this Manchurian past.

"In the third year of Zhengde, Manraka added envoys Duan Yazhi and others paid tribute. His general Ya Liu, Xiao Mingju, a native of Wan'an, Jiangxi, fled into his country with a crime, bribed Wang Yong, and Zhang Zi, a general officer, to seek to go to the mud to ask for treasure. And Hou Yong, the official of the Ministry of Rites, was also bribed, pretending to be a sigil and disturbing the postal transmission. Returning to Guangdong, Mingju argued with Duanya Zhi, so he and his colleague Peng Wanchun robbed and killed him, and took all his property. Thing, arrested in Beijing. Ming Ju Ling Chi, Wan Chun and others, Wang Yong reduced the death penalty of 300 stones, and Zhang Zi, Hou Yong and the side, Shangshu Bai Yue and the following are all punished. ”

After the Fu Lang was strong, he raised troops to invade his land, and Wang Su Duan's mother ran away and sent an envoy to tell him about the trouble. When the heir of the emperor was in power, he blamed the Buddha Langji and ordered him to return to his homeland. The kings of Siam were told to help their neighbors with relief, but when they did not respond, Manraka was destroyed. Shi Fu Lang also sent a tribute to ask for a seal, arrived in Guangdong, and the vassals were not listed in the "Wang Hui" with their country, and they were detained to hear about it. The direct repatriation of the edict to the party"

"In other words, since the Zhengde period, this is not the land of my Great Ming?" Zhang Xiaohu narrowed his little eyes that were red by the sea breeze, and said such a sentence coldly.

"Not bad!"

"Lose that horse! There is an argument with the emperor Lao Tzu about this, blocking that, building a few more big gunboats, going south along the coast, and snatching back the territory from the hands of the Franco, isn't it fucking better than anything else?! ”

"That's it! It is also a pleasure to use these big ships to compete with the Portuguese, Dutch, and English in this sea and sky! ”

"Gan Yi Niang! Don't rely on artillery or soldiers, but count on an edict on a broken piece of paper, and plan to let the Francophone give up the territory? Did this group of people in the court have their heads soaked in seawater?! ”

"That's it! Also issued an edict ordering Siam to send troops? Can Siam handle such a thing? ”

In the sound of the waves on the sea, the people loudly scolded the princes of the court and the central government for misleading the country.

According to the battle plan and division of labor, after the fleet has crossed the South China Sea, when it enters the Manraka Strait, it will make a division of troops, with one battalion and three brigs remaining at the mouth of the strait to capture the islands at the exit of the strait, while the other battalion and two rocket boats will respond to it across the sea and attack the Tan Bahru area on the other side of the strait.

Looking at the subordinates who were constantly landing in small boats with clairnvoy, and the natives who were curious to watch along the coast and the Chinese people who were looking at this Celestial Empire army with a little eagerness and a little trepidation, Ye Qi and Zhang Xiaohu both felt that the lord was so excited this time, with thousands of men and horses, and dozens of ships going south, was there some cattle knives to kill chickens? Such a desolate island is said to be a battalion of soldiers, and it can be easily pacified by a team of soldiers.

With a few whining, the fleet continued westward.

An anchorage was found on the island of Makali, opposite the city of Manraka, and the fleet dropped anchor. Prepare for a head-to-head battle with the Portuguese across the sea.

Because of the competition for survival with the Manchurian army on the other side, after learning of the intention of the Celestial Empire's army, the Sultanate of Sumatra, on the other side of the strait, sent a guide to introduce the military situation to the army.

Ye Qi, Zhang Xiaohu and others, as commanders, accompanied by Gonzalez, boarded a brig and crossed the strait to observe the city of Manraka at close range.

At this time, the population of Manraka was only a few thousand, and the old royal city was built on a prominent hillside near the harbor; At the foot of the hill and on the opposite bank of the Malacca River, which meanders through the city, are clusters of grass-roofed elevated wooden houses. The bridge across the river connected the residential areas on both sides and served as a bazaar, providing supplies for residents and the burgeoning overseas trade. Pù, a small shop opened by Chinese tourists from Fujian and other places, is engaged in the purchase and retail of pepper and other spices in this area.

On the hillside, the Santiago Bunker was built by the Portuguese. This 30-meter-high fortress was built by the first Portuguese to defend against the counterattack of the defeated Manraka army.

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