Li Tianyang guessed the purpose of the Dutch, but he didn't guess the whole process, and by the time he received the latest news about the Dutch occupying Magong Island, it was already three days later.

Because of Li Tianyang's emphasis, Wu Shu and the others stayed behind to monitor the sea ships of the foreigners on Magong Island, and they could only observe the opponent's movements from a distance, and did not dare to approach the opponent's fleet. Otherwise, they should be able to see that there are traces of the battle on the opposing ship.

Li Tianyang has crossed over, and so far, although it may have had an impact on the life trajectories of people close to Li De and Wu Jie, this little change is not enough to become the butterfly that flapps its wings in the butterfly theory. Therefore, in the general trend, the impact on history has not yet reached the point of changing the trajectory of these events.

For example, the invasion of the Dutch in early July of the second year of the Apocalypse, in the era when Li Tianyang did not appear, he also happened like this.

The Dutch expeditionary fleet, which was joined by two British warships, had actually made a surprise attack on Macao long before it appeared on Magong Island in Penghu, teaching the Portuguese in Macao a terrible lesson.

However, the arrival of Li Tianyang still changed some things, such as the time of the Dutch Combined Fleet's attack on Macao, a week earlier than the original history, that is, in mid-June, more than 1,000 Dutch and British allied soldiers launched an attack on Macao.

At this time, the Macao garrison was several times more than the number of garrisons in the original history. From the original 50 soldiers in history to 200 fully armed soldiers, plus several members of the Macau Council and the sailors of the businessmen's own families, there are no less than 400 serviceable soldiers in the whole of Macao, as well as four Clark sail-armed merchant ships parked at the Macao wharf.

After the completion of the St. Paul's Fort, because of the attack last year, the fort is now filled with 20 or 30 thousands of pounds of copper cannons produced by the Macao Bugarao Cannon Foundry.

These changes are entirely due to the changes brought to the Portuguese in Macao by Li Tianyang after his surprise attack on a whim, which strengthened the entire military defense of the Portuguese in Macao.

However, there are good and bad things, and the Portuguese and Macao garrisons that strengthened other military defenses also lost the luck in the original history, although there were more artillery than in the original history, but their accuracy was much worse, and there was no more luck that a shell accidentally fired into the shell magazine of the Anglo-Dutch coalition army, which caused the tragedy of huge casualties to the Anglo-Dutch coalition army, and forced the Anglo-Dutch coalition to retreat.

Eventually, a fierce battle ensued between the two sides in the cramped city of Macau. The Anglo-Dutch forces, which had succeeded in seizing the beach, launched a fierce attack on the Portuguese in the city of Macao, supported by the powerful firepower of 14 warships at sea.

The laziness and slackness of the Portuguese when they were attacked by the Japanese and special operations battalions are long gone. Although the Anglo-Dutch army successfully grabbed the beach at night, the forts and castles they built in defiance of the protests of the Ming government became a solid line of defense at this time, crushing wave after wave of Anglo-Dutch troops under the city wall.

Not to be outdone, the Portuguese warriors were heavily armed and accompanied by merchant sailors who assisted them in battle, and the thunderous sound on the walls and forts never ceased. The four armed merchant ships of Clark docked at the pier left the port at the same time and attacked more than a dozen warships overseas, striving to interfere with the salvo of the enemy's artillery fire and share the pressure on the Macao garrison.

The Portuguese in the city of Macao also knew very well that if Macao was lost, then the thousands of Portuguese in the city, their families and servants, might not be able to escape from Macao with those four armed merchant ships. Therefore, the Portuguese fought more bravely than when they were attacked, and even the priests in St. Paul's Church rolled up their sleeves and followed the city walls and forts, wielding unfamiliar but familiar cannons, and began to fire back at the Anglo-Dutch army.

The Dutch, on the other hand, lived up to their reputation as "coachmen of the seas", and with their twelve warships cruising on the sea (the British merchants had two armed merchant ships), the artillery was even more powerful than the firepower in the fort at the head of Macao, and they were hard pressed by the Portuguese artillery.

Although it is not easy to aim at sea artillery, and the sea surface is undulating, the Westerner navy is also more inclined to attack at a slight angle of artillery at a distance of about a mile, or even in a straight line. However, after all, the scope of Macao City is there, but with the operation skills and level of the foreign gunners today, ten shells can always hit six or seven shells within the range of Macao City.

In addition, the guns equipped on several battleships of the Dutch were basically high-powered cannons, etc., and when they hit a house, the impact force alone, an average of more than 30 pounds of shells could blow a house apart on the spot.

Suddenly, a cry of mourning sounded inside and outside the city, and smoke rose from inside and outside the city, billowing thick smoke into the sky.

At this time, there were nearly 20,000 people living in and out of the city of Macao, together with the people of the Ming Dynasty. It's okay in the city, after all, the number of people in the Far East is not much, even if you add their families and servants, it is only a few thousand. But the people of the Ming Dynasty outside the city were unlucky, they were affected by the fire of the city gate, and they didn't know how to dodge the cannonballs that opened the mountain and split the rocks like pounding tofu, and they ran and wailed outside the city, from time to time or were trampled by others, or were injured by flying debris, and the blood flowed like an infusion.

The city was littered with rubble, smashed by a burst of cannonballs falling from the sky, and at its most dangerous, the Anglo-Dutch army almost took down a section of the wall. Fortunately, the Portuguese waited for their work, and at the critical moment, Major James personally led a team of muskets, against artillery fire and the enemy's arquebus, fighting bayonets while returning fire, and finally finally crushing the Anglo-Dutch ranks.

The entire battle of Macao lasted for nearly five days and four nights, during which the sea and castle where the two sides were located were constantly targeted by each other's artillery and muskets, and the soldiers of both sides did not dare to slack off in the slightest.

Even the Ming officers and soldiers who were originally placed on the islands around Macao by the Ming government as a monitor and guard against the Portuguese in Macao did not dare to make the slightest movement at this time, but just watched the continuous gunpowder smoke drifting in the sky in the distance from afar.

In the end, whether it was the Portuguese or the Anglo-Dutch army, the soldiers on both sides had suffered losses that were unacceptable to each other, and they had to die down and retreat.

When the two sides retreated and counted the battle damage, they were all gritting their teeth and resentful, quite like they had lost their wives and broken their troops.

On the Portuguese side, four armed merchant ships were all wiped out, and there were 200 sailors on board, and less than 100 people finally recovered Macao. The 400 soldiers in the city, together with the merchant sailors, suffered more than 200 casualties, and the merchants, their families, and servants also suffered more than 400 casualties.

On the Anglo-Dutch side, the losses of the warships were not large, except for a few warships that were unfortunately hit by shells and the decks were broken, there were no other major problems. However, nearly half of the nearly 1,000 soldiers who landed in the operation were lost, and including the lightly wounded, there were only about 500 fighters who could still move and fight!

(End of chapter)