Yes, the next big target is Mumbai, but before Mumbai there was a city worth robbing, so Mumbai was at the back, in front of Mumbai was Kozhikode, which is called Guli in Chinese texts, and the eunuch Zheng He of the Three Treasures and the Portuguese navigator Da Gama both landed here to replenish fresh water and food.

With its privileged location on the Malabar coast, Kozhikode became an important maritime trade center in the world at that time. King Zamorin turned Kozhikode into a free port where any ship could anchor to replenish fresh water and food. This move has made Kozhikode the richest country on the Malabar coast. Pepper and ginger were the main exports of Kozhikode at that time. * Occupying the dominance of this country, by giving special care to the Arabs of the Malabar coast, the dominance of Kozhikode in maritime trade was ensured.

When more than a hundred pirate ships entered this free port, it did not cause any commotion, as if ordinary sea ships entered the port to replenish, there should be pirate ships that often come here for supplies, so no one feels any surprise, it is estimated that this is also a place where pirates sell their stolen goods, otherwise where did so many Arab pirates go with their stolen goods? Zhu Changhao thought that this place was worth a lot of money, so Zhu Changrun, Zhu Changying, and Zhu Yousong went to carry out the order with a sinister smile.

blocked the entrance and exit of the port, forty warships set up machine guns and began to wreak havoc in the port, all the wooden ships were beaten to a primitive state, whether it was a supply of passing ships, or local ships in the port, all of them were not spared, and even a merchant ship from the Ming Dynasty also suffered, this is a sea ship that rarely runs here, the Ming soldiers did not notice, but later found that there were Ming merchants, Zhu Yousong secretly compensated them for a robbed sea ship, and let them load a boat of spices casually.

In the face of more than 4,000 pirates armed with rifles, the 50,000 or 60,000 civilians in the city have no ability to resist, not to mention that they are only targeting hundreds of shops, and every shop is several times the number of pirates, and anyone who dares to resist is killed by one shot.

After robbing the shops, it is the big families in the city, directly tell them to take the money to save their lives, anyone who does not take out the money, directly kill, and one by one kills, did not kill the third family, the following began to obediently prepare the money, all a water of silver, robbed for a whole day, and evacuated immediately in the evening, in case these people start crazy, and they can't see clearly at night, which may cause losses.

But just as he was about to return to the ship, a local told him that a manor on the edge of the city was a pirate's den, containing countless treasures, gold and silver, and that his daughter had been taken captive, and asked the robbers to come and eat black to repay their hatred.

The news quickly spread to Zhu Yousong, and Zhu Yousong ordered 2,000 soldiers to be responsible for carrying the spoils, and the other 2,000 soldiers went straight to the manor on the edge of the city under the guidance of that person. I was a little dumbfounded when I got there, the manor was simply a solid castle, yes, it was indeed a castle, or the most famous pirate fort, it was a treasure warehouse for the pirates, the entire castle was made of huge stones, and there were a large number of artillery on the castle wall, which should have appeared as early as the Ming Dynasty "Franc machine" cannon, these pirates have built a lot at their expense, but it doesn't look too big, and it is estimated that the range will not exceed two hundred zhang. Looking at the strong fort wall, Zhu Yousong knew that it was impossible to take it down today, the warship could not get here, it was dark again, and the rifle in his hand was undoubtedly an act of seeking death, so he had to let the soldiers surround this small fort and transfer the cannon to try it tomorrow.

The next day, except for the 1,000 soldiers who were left to guard the ship, they came to this manor castle, and stopped to build a cannon position two miles away, for fear that the range of the artillery in the fort was too far, which was also the longer range of the cannon, and if it was farther, the power would be much smaller, and the soldiers also hid outside the two miles to avoid unnecessary casualties. After setting up five cannons, aiming at the gate of the castle and opening a cannon to debug it first, perhaps it was better luck that the first shot hit the gate directly, and it also blew the gate to pieces, it seems that this gate is wooden, not an iron gate. The pirates in the castle seem to have gone through many such attacks, and after the first shot of the Ming army, the artillery in the fort quickly fired here, fortunately, the artillery in the fort just hit seven or eight feet in front of the cannon position, but it seems that it can form a threat.

After the commissioning was completed, the five cannons opened fire together, and for a time the fort wall was filled with gunsmoke, and after three rounds of shelling, the shooting was stopped to observe the effect of the shelling. It's a pity that the artillery on the fort wall was blown up, but the fort wall did not move at all, it seems that the fort wall is too strong, and the current shells do not pose any threat to it. There was no other way but to continue to bombard along the fort wall with cannons, blowing up all the artillery on it, although a lot of shells were wasted, but it was much better than letting the soldiers attack hard.

Zhu Yousong commanded the artillery to slowly blow up the fort wall, and then ordered the soldiers to move slowly towards the fort gate, with the five hand-cranked machine guns erected on the small four-wheeled vehicles behind the soldiers to cover, he himself guarded the cannon and stared closely at the city gate tower with binoculars, once he found that there was movement, he would immediately open fire, but until the soldiers entered the fort gate, there was no movement. A large number of soldiers began to pour into the park, and the soldiers were very strict with the rules of battle, and no one dared to mess up the formation casually, because that would mean needless sacrifice.

There are not many resisting pirates in the manor, the most are corpses all over the ground, most of the living pirates are seriously injured, there is no other reason for this, Zhu Yousong is too cautious, he used a cannon to blow up the wall of this manor castle, at that time almost all the pirates were defending on the wall, they have not seen such a ferocious shelling, and they don't know how to dodge this kind of shell, just running around in the yard, the result is naturally tragic, with heavy casualties.

The soldiers who rushed into the fort did not encounter the resistance of the pirates, and successfully cleaned up the pirates who had not died in the garden, and then began to look for the pirates' warehouse, and after a short time, they found the warehouse, looking at the neat stacks of gold bars, silver nuggets, and whole boxes of jewelry, Zhu Yousong's smiling face blossomed, and ordered the soldiers to load these treasures on the ship immediately, and not to stay for a moment.

Watching boxes of gold, silver, and spices loaded onto the big ship, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were happy to close their mouths one by one, and the things they got here were much better than those of Cochin, with more than 200,000 taels of gold alone, and another 5 million taels of silver. Zhu Changhao was so happy in his heart, it seems that the emperor is really a genius, how much silver should be robbed if he robs like this! He seemed to have forgotten that this was not something that could be done every day, but that it was the savings of pirates and merchants for many years.

Continue to distribute the silver to the soldiers, continue to send ships home, continue to rob the next city, the small ones disdain to rob anymore, and the next step is to go straight to the biggest target - Mumbai. According to the emperor, this is the largest city, and there should be as many mountains of gold and silver.

Duanwang Zhu Changhao ordered the fleet to continue north, and the target was Mumbai, since the emperor said that it was a big city, he must rob it once. However, after only a day of walking, he encountered another incident, and did not sail north again. The clear sky of the Indian Ocean is refreshing, when the Ming army that has just finished the robbery is happily marching to the next target, a Portuguese armed merchant ship came in front, but it looks like it is scarred, chasing a dozen smaller pirate ships behind, it seems that they were robbed by pirates, and they are fleeing in panic, and when they see the Ming fleet in front, they think it is another wave of pirates, fortunately there are guides found on the ship, they shouted loudly to the merchant ship, which allowed them to sail towards the Ming fleet, The pirates behind saw the large group of armed merchant ships, and did not dare to move on, so they turned around and left.

The captain of the Portuguese armed merchant ship came to express his gratitude, but he knew the guide, Zhu Changhao asked him how far Mumbai was, whether it was very prosperous, and the captain said that there were several small islands connected together, and there were not many people, and it was a small town that the Portuguese bought to do business. Looking at Zhu Changhao's face full of doubts, he swore in the name of God, what he said was all true, and the guide also said that this captain was a very trustworthy person, thinking that Zhu Youxiao had done oolong in the place name of the Western Regions, and it seemed that this time he had done oolong. After discussion, they decided not to sail forward, but to turn west and head west to the coast of Africa.