After the goatee man said that, he looked back slightly, and saw that the natives on the side were still messing around, and there was no queue at all, so he immediately frowned, and said to the short natives behind him: "Ada, you go and tell those barbarians, let them hurry up, the old man will see them attack within a quarter of an hour, otherwise don't blame the old man for picking up his burden and leaving directly!" ”

The short, sturdy native stepped forward and said in an awkward tone, "Yes! ”

Then he hurried towards the phalanx on the natives' side!

After that, the middle-aged man with a goatee muttered and complained: "These indigenous barbarians are really unreasonable, and such a simple thing has to be delayed for so long!" ”

The young Arab man on the side stepped forward and said in an awkward Chinese language: "Master, these barbarians are very stupid, and it is normal for it to take some time to make them charge in formation!" ”

But at this time, the white old man said: "What kind of array, just because they still want to line up, they can rush forward!" ”

However, this white man is old-fashioned, but he speaks Portuguese, and what is rare is that although he speaks Portuguese, he can understand the conversation of the people just now, and the Portuguese people on the side of this person can obviously understand it.

Immediately, the middle-aged man wearing a Hanfu robe and a goatee nodded slightly: "William is right, these natives are not yet civilized, and they can't expect too much, just let them rush up directly, as long as they can consume the ammunition of the puppet Tang thief army and buy enough time for our artillery!" ”

As he spoke, the short and sturdy native Ada also returned, and when he came back, he replied respectfully: "Master Hui, those Bazhang people said that if they give them some more time, they will soon be able to attack!" ”

The middle-aged man with a goatee nodded slightly, and then said, "Let the artillerymen take it easy, don't rush forward, wait for those natives to rush up and attract firepower before going up!" ”

After the order, the middle-aged man with a goatee squinted his eyes and continued to observe the Banten City in front of him with the monocular in his hand, and at the same time, his mind also came to mind about his wandering career in the last five or six years!

His surname is He Mingding, the word Qiyun, a person from Huguang and Changsha, is a scholarly family of the Eight Classics, an official eunuch, when the puppet Tang Dynasty thief army ravaged Huguang, he and other people with lofty ideals, in order to resist the tyranny and chaos of the puppet Tang Dynasty, still led the clan children and villagers to defect to Zhang Yue, and began his magnificent career in the army to resist thieves.

Although in the early years, Zhang Yue's department was defeated in successive battles, but He Ding's fighting talent still has some talent, relying on hundreds of children and soldiers composed of clan children and villagers, it can be regarded as a few small victories, and he was gradually promoted through meritorious service, and was once promoted to the commander of the guard, and there were nearly 1,000 soldiers under his command.

But the army fought against the thieves, and the pseudo-Tang thief army was discovered, and the results were naturally self-evident, the Tang Dynasty had always been soft on diehards, and the He family was directly exterminated, leaving only him He Ding with a few family children.

This kind of hatred of exterminating the clan will naturally not disappear, even if Zhang Yue's governor was completely defeated in Huguang back then, he did not choose to surrender like others, but chose to lead hundreds of remnants of soldiers to flee into Sichuan over the mountains and mountains.

Later, Sichuan was also captured by the puppet Tang thief army, he still did not choose to surrender, but fled south with hundreds of remnants of soldiers, and finally entered Burma, by the way, he also ransacked several Burmese villages and towns, and finally ran to the beach to set up camp.

After escaping to the Indian Ocean, in order to support the soldiers who fled to Myanmar with him from birth to death, he also tried his best, and finally saw that the pirates in the Indian Ocean were alive and well, so they directly captured a nearby pirate den, and after robbing two pirate ships, they turned into one of the many pirates in the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean.

Then gradually grew, after annexing several groups of pirates from all over the world, the group of pirates he led had swelled to more than 1,000 people, and he began to be dissatisfied with the hegemony in the Bay of Bengal, so like the pirates in the western Pacific and the Indian Ocean and even other seas, he began to run to the prosperous South Seas.

In this sea area, the maritime trade is prosperous, there are countless merchant ships that can be used to plunder, and there are many islands, just find an uninhabited island to hide, and the patrolling Datang Navy or the Portuguese fleet want to catch them, it is really not easy.

This has been a pirate for a long time, and by the eleventh year of Xuanping, He Ding has changed from a former Ming Juren, a supervising general, and a traditional gentry in China to a well-known pirate leader in the South Seas and the South Seas: "Commander"

He didn't expose his surname, let alone the fact that he was a prominent family member and a general in the past, he was not afraid of exposing these things that would lead to the pursuit of the Tang Empire, but he felt that he had tarnished the reputation of the family and the reputation of the governor.

He even completely discarded the previous superintendent number and chose a new name for his gang, a name that seemed very ordinary, but had a special meaning, called 'Fourth Fleet'.

Fourth, this is the number of his former descendants, he used to lead as the deputy commander of the right guard of the former army, and directly governed the Fourth Infantry Thousand Households under his command, and now what infantry Thousand Households and the like are naturally not available, he just changed it to the Fourth Fleet.

Using the word fleet is also a statement that he wants to continue to maintain militarized management!

The Fourth Fleet, many pirate gangs in the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific, can be regarded as a well-known pirate gang, they pursue militarized management, they are ruthless, they rob the merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty, and they also rob the ships of the Portuguese, not to mention the merchant ships in the Indian Ocean, Arabs and other regions.

Even, even the pirate fellows, they robbed!

Basically, as long as they see it and feel that they have the strength to take it, then they will basically do it, and in addition to grabbing ships, they often go ashore to plunder.

According to the Portuguese report, last year, under the banner of the Fourth Fleet, a group of pirates landed directly at a Portuguese trading post on the coast of Burma, looting all the belongings of this trading post.

It can be said that the daimyo of the Fourth Fleet is still very loud in the Indian Ocean and the South Sea, and their size is estimated to not even rank in the top ten, but when it comes to ruthlessness, combat effectiveness under the same number, it must be ranked first!

And now, the defenders at the head of the city also saw the special flag erected behind He Ding, which was a red pennant, and at the same time, there was a big irregular hole in the middle of the pennant, this flag was actually his He Ding's former general flag, but there was still his surname in the middle of the previous flag: He Zi, but after becoming a pirate, he directly removed the He character in the middle, not only did there be no words, but even the area where the words were originally printed were directly cut off, and only a big hole flowed out!

This kind of flag is rare in the entire South China Sea and even the Indian Ocean, triangles are very common, red is also common, but there is a big hole in the middle of the flag, but it is the only one!

This also means that the more than 500 people under this banner should be the well-known pirate gang 'Fourth Fleet'.

The people who stayed in Banten Province had naturally heard of the reputation of this pirate gang, because this pirate gang was too notorious, not only the Tang Imperial Navy but also the Portuguese were all wanted to hunt down this pirate gang, and even other pirate gangs hated them to the core.

Because this pirate gang is so arrogant, he dares to rob anyone!

How did the pirates of the Fourth Fleet end up here?

Yang Hong can't understand it in the city, and there is no need to understand it!

It's just a group of pirates, and it doesn't matter to him what kind of gang these pirates are, the important thing is to kill them all and defend Banten City!

The pirate artillerymen stopped and began to walk slowly, but the indigenous infantry began to rush towards Banten City in a chaotic manner.

These natives are obviously also prepared, many of them are carrying long ladders, some of them are also equipped with arquebuses, and even some small-caliber shotguns, and many of them are wearing various armor, many of which are even plate armor.

Looking at those bright plate armor, Yang Hong knew that this must be the plate armor produced in China, looking at these, he couldn't help cursing those arms dealers in the country, what weapons, arquebuses, plate armor are all taken out, damn it, you must write a report when you turn around, and you must strictly review the export of ordnance, and you can't let these ordnance fall into the hands of the enemies of the empire.

His complaint is not without interest, because if the export of arquebuses still needs to be reviewed, then the cold weapons and ordnance of plate armor and swords are basically sold openly, and even the people in China can buy two sets of plate armor to wear if they like it.

Of course, this kind of civilian and export plate armor is all lightweight plate armor, and the materials used are ordinary steel, which is not a big problem to block cold weapons, especially bows and arrows, but if you want to block muskets, it is enough to choke!

The army of the Tang Dynasty was equipped with guns, and it still used flintlock guns, and after being equipped with medium-sized flintlock guns of 14 mm caliber on a large scale, they also began to install heavy muskets of 18 mm caliber.

Under the bullets fired by the eighteen-millimeter flintlock pistol, no armor, including the heavy plate armor of the Tang Army's own equipment, could be stopped!

Otherwise, why do you think the Tang Dynasty would sell plate armor everywhere, in addition to the high price and super high profits, but also because the strategic role of this thing has been greatly reduced, not to mention that they still sell light plate armor that can only resist cold weapons, and military model plate armor that has a certain protective effect against bullets will still not be exported.

Therefore, although Yang Hong cursed in his mouth, he didn't feel any threat to these natives who rushed up in his heart.

If these natives were able to break through Banten City by rushing up like this, then they would have been able to break through it half a month ago, and Banten City would not be able to hold on to it now!

"Free Shelling!" Since the enemy's artillery did not push the artillery up, then its own artillery naturally needs to divert the muzzle of the gun to intercept the enemy's infantry!

The enemy continued to charge under the shelling, and then soon came within range of the infantry muskets on the forts. The officers at the head of the city did not hesitate to give the order to fire: "The first row shoots!" ”

With the protrusion of the two fortresses, when the natives in the middle were shot, the natives under the city fell down in rows like wheat that had been cut!

At this time, they didn't even get close to the foot of the city wall, let alone erect a long ladder to climb to the top of the city!