And in Sumatra, the war is indeed developing smoothly, as Jin Kuo said.

If we talk about the past wars, the Ming Dynasty has no advantages compared with other ethnic groups, and even has some disadvantages.

For example, when facing the grassland peoples, they are often very passive, and can only rely on human lives and abundant resources to support the war.

But from the seamless steel pipe was made and applied to the musket. Moreover, after the flintlock device was developed, the large-scale application of muskets has turned war into an asymmetrical one-sided bullying model.

Whether it is the nomadic people in the vast grasslands or the alpine peoples in the mountains of the southwest, the war that originally required the Ming Dynasty to spend countless manpower and material resources has now become a kind of marching sweep.

No army was able to form an effective resistance to the muskets, let alone the Bengkuru, who relied on outdated weapons.

From the beginning of April, the Japanese camp took the lead in launching a war of harassment, and by mid-April, the main fleet of the Ming Dynasty arrived off the coast of Bengkulu, and a full-scale war broke out.

In just five days, the resistance movement organized by the Bengkulu tribe was like winter snow meeting sunshine, and the Ming army quickly collapsed wherever it went.

This new mode of warfare not only made the Bengkulu tribe unstoppable, but also terrified the envoys of other tribes and nations.

They found that if they didn't have muskets, they would only have the same fate in the face of the Ming army.

By April 21, the Ming army had relied on the capital of Bengkulu as the center, established a perfect command system and communication system, and coordinated all logistics and materials in place.

At this time, it is time for Armageddon.

In fact, it is not the moment of decisive battle, because the Bengkulu tribe is actually frightened. Most of the tribesmen surrendered to the Ming through various channels, and only Wan Mao and his supporters wanted to escape the pursuit of the Ming.

On April 22, the final pursuit officially began, and the base camp had been replaced by thousands of naval soldiers led by Zheng He, and 11,000 young troops, as well as half of the navy, all joined the battlefield.

Thousands of soldiers of the Navy drove the battleships, and they were responsible for the blockade of the coastal zone, while taking on the responsibility of material transfer and logistical support.

With their assistance, coupled with the intelligence network composed of hundreds of forest guard cadets, the 11,000 young army was provided with the most complete battlefield assistance.

The soldiers of the Young Army do not need to worry about logistics and intelligence at all, and can focus all their energy on pursuing and destroying the enemy.

Wan Mao led more than 20,000 tribesmen who remained loyal to him from the capital to the northeast of the Pengshi South Valley, where they had intended to flee north from Jurup.

However, the massacre set off by the 2,000 soldiers of the Japanese camp in Zhulupu made all the natives think that it had been guarded against by the Ming soldiers.

No one dared to face the inhumane Japanese people, because in the face of the Ming soldiers, they might be able to save their lives by surrendering.

But in the face of the Japanese people, all their men were killed, and their women were also killed after being humiliated. Wherever they passed, they cut down the grass and eradicated the roots, even the old and the young.

Although Wan Mao wanted to directly attack the camp of the Japanese people, his subordinates did not support this operation. For them, the preservation of vitality is the most important thing.

Wan Mao had no choice but to lead his people from the Pengshi South Valley back to the hilly areas outside the mountains, wanting to flee north from outside the mountains.

The south has been cut off by the Ming Dynasty, and the mountainous areas in the northeast do not even dare to enter rashly after the heavy rains.

Now there are not a few people, dozens of people, but more than 20,000 ethnic groups, including old and young women, children and women. The miasma in the mountains is raging, and if you enter the mountains after heavy rains, if you encounter the miasma, it will be the end of the entire race.

In three days, they circled from the Penshnan Valley to the southern foot of the Daun Volcano, hoping to make their way to the Ketawen tribe through the cover of the mountains and forests.

But they do not know that the mode of war is not just a change in weapons, even the mode of war has changed.

The purpose of the 500 trainees of Lin Weixue who entered the battlefield was definitely not only to provide assistance to the Japanese battalion, but their more important task was to establish a perfect intelligence network in the entire theater.

In the entire theater of operations, every movement of large forces could absolutely not hide their observations.

From the time they moved out of the Peng Shi Nan Valley, the information had already reached the Japanese camp.

More than 1,000 soldiers of the Japanese battalion traveled day and night, and with a distance of less than ten kilometers from them, they completed the transfer of the entire front and successfully reached their front.

The Bengkulu people carry the elderly and children, as well as women and family businesses. However, the Japanese did not have to bring anything, even the food was prepared for them at the destination, and this difference in the speed of the march caused the Japanese to arrive first, and they also had half a day of rest.

The main army of the Ming Dynasty was not in a hurry, they pursued slowly and methodically, accepting the surrender of various villages wherever they went, and counting the personnel.

Killing the enemy is not the purpose of war, but establishing an effective ruling structure here.

When Zhuang Jing led more than 1,600 Japanese soldiers to the north bank of the Rass River, he saw that Pang Ying and 2,000 reinforcements had established a forward position there, and he almost cried with excitement.

He knew that he was about to face the most difficult time, and if he wanted to stop Wan Mao, who was already cornered, he was afraid that all of his more than 1,000 people would not be enough.

He couldn't figure out what Zhu Zhanji was thinking, and he was worried that Zhu Zhanji would sacrifice their Japanese camp as a burden.

Now that he saw the two thousand young soldiers carrying muskets, he could finally relax.

After all, His Highness still didn't give up on him, and still wanted to use him.

Each of the would-be robbers shared three catties of fried rice, and a few large pots were filled with smoked meat strips and broth cooked for them with wild vegetables.

They used plantain leaves as cooking bowls for soup, and everyone had a full meal before getting a good night's sleep in the woods.

However, the students of Yulin Weixue did not have time to rest, and at the moment when the big war was approaching, it was their busiest time.

They need to update the enemy situation at all times to the young army and the Japanese battalion responsible for interception.

According to their movements, Daming's side also needs to re-determine the most suitable interception location.

Five days earlier, Wan Mao had found himself abandoned, most of his people no longer believed in him, and most of the promises made to him by everyone had been nullified.

Even the envoys of the Majapahit Kingdom only promised that they would provide him with a channel to escape after he escaped from the pursuit of the Ming soldiers.

Leading his people who were still loyal to him to run around, he still seemed to be majestic, but he knew very well that he had no way out.

"Sultan, spies have found traces of Ming soldiers on the banks of the Rass River."

Wan Mao was not surprised by this result, and he knew that he would face the most difficult moment.

He can't choose his opponent, but he can choose where to fight.

Opening the simple map, he looked at the terrain in front of him, and the Ras River was like a long dragon, blocking in front of them.

Most of the forest is uninhabited, and there are many snakes, insects, ants and beasts in the forest. Wan Mao did not believe that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty could enter this area in large numbers.

They had to cross the blockade, and choosing a suitable spot to cross the river was crucial.

The Rass River is not a big river, and even in the rainy season, the water here is only a dozen meters wide and just over a meter deep.

His eyes hesitated on the map for a long time, and finally pointed to a river fork and said: "We cross the river from here, this river not only blocks our way, but can also become an obstacle to the pursuit of the Ming soldiers." ”

He didn't know that even before they arrived in this area, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty had already conducted many war simulations.

Because of the existence of this river fork, the Ming soldiers have guessed that the enemy will rely on this river fork as the main location for crossing the river according to the enemy's mentality.

In the process of half-crossing, they can find the direction of the main force of the Ming soldiers, and then choose to flee to the other side, at this time, the Russ River will also become a barrier to prevent the Ming soldiers from chasing.

So before the Bengkulu arrived, an improvised wooden plank bridge had been erected over a tributary of the Rass River.

For the sake of this improvised wooden bridge, one soldier was bitten to death by a crocodile in the river, and several soldiers were covered in blood-sucking leeches.

In the evening, the main force of the Bengkulu finally reached the woods on the south bank of the Rass River, and instead of rushing across the river, they began to recharge their batteries and fill their stomachs.

They are waiting for dark, and only when it is dark can they stop the pursuit of the Ming soldiers, and more people can escape.

But the Ming soldiers would never fulfill their wishes, and just when they relaxed their minds and wanted to fill their stomachs, fires lit in the forest.

Although it is difficult to form a large-scale fire in this kind of tropical rainforest, with some gunpowder, once ignited, it is not too easy to extinguish.

"Sultan, the Ming people are too vicious, they want to burn us."

Wan Mao looked at the quiet forest on the other side, and his heart was desolate. At this time, the only way to cross the Rass River was to be forced. I don't know how many clansmen can escape from the encirclement of the Ming people.

"Cross the river!"

When the dense Bengkuru people appeared by the river, they were waiting for them by rows of Ming soldiers, the black barrels of their guns emitting clouds of white smoke, and the roar made all kinds of animals in the woods flee in a panic.

Don't talk about the river, many natives have fallen under the guns of the Ming soldiers before they have even reached the river.

A distance of more than ten meters cannot be an obstacle at all, and even some natives who go down to the river become prey at gunpoint.

The river was quickly dyed red, and the smell of blood attracted countless crocodiles and vampires, and the red water churned and became a nightmare for the natives.

Wan Mao's heart was broken, he thought that it would be difficult for all of his people to survive, but he didn't expect that his people couldn't even cross the river at all.

Why did Da Ming have such a weapon? This is not war, this is slaughter!

The natives began to desperately flee to the periphery, and they had already seen that the Ming had few people, and it was impossible to intercept them all.

However, when they saw the Japanese people on the other side of the river, and thought of their cruel and unkind legends, they completely lost their fighting spirit and knelt on the ground.

And Wan Mao also woke up after seeing the Japanese people appear. Even if a few people can escape, in this dangerous primeval forest, they have lost the strength to fight.

Only surrender is their only way out.

But others can surrender, but he can't, because in the final analysis, this war is caused by their family, and only his death can eliminate the reason for Daming to continue the crusade.

He stood up from behind the tree where he was hiding and straightened his clothes. Looking at the clansmen who had been knocked to the ground one by one, his eyes were full of tears.

It's time for this to end.

He shouted loudly in the native language: "Don't cross the river again, live, you must live." ”

Many natives saw his movements, and they all felt an indescribable pain. They stopped crossing the river and watched Wanmao in amazement.

Wan Mao walked step by step to the river, to the muzzle of the Ming soldiers.

Although the Ming soldiers on the other side also saw the abnormality on the other side, the sky that had already darkened made them not see clearly that it was Wan Mao who was walking over.

A bullet from nowhere hit him directly in the chest, and his body thumped and froze in place.

Looking at the blood stains on his chest, a smile appeared on his face. "So this is the ...... of death"

When his not burly body fell heavily, almost all the natives knelt down, their tears unconsciously flowing, and their hands were raised.

The natives no longer run or cross the river, they seem to have resigned themselves to their fate and stayed where they were.

It was already dark, and the soldiers of Da Ming stopped shooting. The two sides are separated by a river, forming a state of silence to the point of eeriness.

They are all waiting for the dawn, waiting for tomorrow to come.

Tomorrow is still there, and hope is still there.

The forests in the south were spilled with blood, but in Star City, when night fell, it entered the most lively moment of celebration.

Since Zhu Zhanji arrived in Malaka in early April, he has publicized this competition among various countries, and has made it mandatory for all countries in the South Seas to send representatives to participate, and even welcomes them to participate in the competition directly.

Since mid-April, representatives of Nanyang countries have sent representatives to Star City to participate in this competition.

Although most of them won't participate in the competition, they also want to see what the Ming Empire wants to do.

With Star City as the center, Siam, Pahang, Bing Tong Long, Champang, Chenla, Bago, Luzon in the north. Sulu, Bo Ni, Maluku, Sarawak in the east, Majapahit, Lambali, Aceh in the south, and various tribes of the Old Port and the former Srivijaya kingdom.

In addition, some countries in the Western Ocean, including Punggar, Tashan, Ceylon, Kochi, Shariwani, and many other small countries on the Indian Peninsula, have sent representatives to Star City.

Because of Zhu Zhanji's arrival, most countries have sent princes even if they are not the lords of the country.

In the past half a month, Star City has become a lively diplomatic place, where people from all over the world negotiate trade and connect feelings.

The arrival of Yang Weixisha, the lord of the South Seas overlord Manjapahit, also stimulated this lively atmosphere to the highest.

No one thought that Yanwixisha would come here in person.

Although the Majapahit Kingdom is not the largest country in the South Seas in terms of area, they occupy the most fertile island of Java in the South Seas, and the population is also the largest among the countries in the South Seas.

Based on the island of Java, Majapahit slowly expanded its territory into Borneo, and Sumatra, if it weren't for the intervention of the Ming Dynasty, they would have occupied the entire island of Sumatra and Borneo by now.

Yanvi Sisha was originally named Vikra Mavardana, but after he pacified the Middle and Western Kings and unified the whole of Majapahit, he changed his name to Yang Wei Sisha, which means King of Kings.

This man was a man of outstanding ability and prestige among the countries of the South Seas, and under his leadership, Majapahit became a veritable overlord of the South Seas.

In the face of such a local snake, even Zhu Zhanji could not be sloppy, welcomed his arrival with the most solemn courtesy, and called the lords and princes of various countries over to accompany him.

This kind of diplomatic occasion has not been so interesting since ancient times, and at the banquet, everyone is insincere, deceitful, and uses various strategies to test other people's bottom lines and hide their own intentions.

Although Zhu Zhanji is young, he behaves very sophisticated on such occasions. His calm and unhurried momentum, which is different from ordinary people's figure, makes him the most eye-catching one on this occasion.

It was the first time he had seen a person of such height, not to mention the Ming people, even if it was a white man from the West, he had never seen such a majestic one.

Zhu Zhanji, who had a short beard, had a calm face, and his eyes burst out with a terrifying edge from time to time, and even Yang Weixisha had to avoid three points.

He also saw the long guns and short guns equipped by the Ming soldiers at the venue, which can hurt people from a distance of tens of meters, or even more than a hundred meters, which made Yanvisisha very itchy.

But when they first met, it was difficult for him to directly mention that he wanted to watch it.

In fact, if he wanted to see it, Zhu Zhanji would not fail to show them. This musket is not something that can be imitated at a glance.

This kind of seamless barrel polishing is an experience of comprehensive technical ability, and it is impossible for them to imitate it when they hold it in their hands and look at it.

At the meeting, no one talked about the topic of Bengkulu, and at this time, everyone was still waiting for the final news to arrive.

Although everyone knows that the Ming Dynasty will win, what kind of battle record it can achieve will become an important basis for everyone to evaluate the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the Ming Dynasty was invincible in the Nanyang region, from the very beginning of the extermination of the pirate king Chen Zuyi, to the destruction of the entire monarch of the mountain country of Ceylon. The last time he went to the Western Ocean, Zheng He destroyed the Lambali Kingdom on the island of Sumatra and captured the lord of the country, Suganra.

The prestige of the Ming Dynasty in Nanyang was all shot with a knife.

However, the combat effectiveness shown by the warriors of the Ming Dynasty did not reach a level of invincibility in the world. In every battle, the Ming Dynasty relied on the strength of the people to win, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty was not stronger than that of their natives.

Only this time, the Ming soldiers actually threw away their sharp iron weapons and replaced them with this musket. And the power of the musket has not been tested yet, and the Bengkulu tribe is a litmus test.

On the second day, under the pretext of visiting the shooting competition practice, Yanwisa wanted to see the power of the Daming musket.

Regarding this application, Zhu Zhanji just smiled and agreed.

Janvisisa finally got the musket of his dreams, and when he saw the enchanting luster of the dark barrel, his heart was filled with fear.

Because he simply could not imagine how such a barrel was made.

The barrel of the musket in the Ming Dynasty can still be seen to be hammered out by the blacksmith with a hammer, but now, the well-proportioned pipe wall and smooth inner and outer diameters make him unable to think of what method was used to create it.

He also deliberately opened a pack of gunpowder bags of Ming soldiers, and found that the gunpowder of Daming had also changed, no longer in the form of powders in the past, but in the form of crystals and granules.

This change is also the reason why the Daming musket has a longer firing range. But he also didn't know how this granular gunpowder was made.

Daming ...... This amazing country, he would love to see it with his own eyes now.

Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can there be the possibility of wrestling with Daming.

Before that, he decided not to clash with Da Ming head-on.

On the third day of Yanvissa's arrival in Star City, news came from the Bengkulu tribe. The Ming army blocked Wan Mao's party on the banks of the Ras River, less than 4,000 people, and the Bengkuru people could not move an inch, and none of them could cross the Ras River.

Wan Mao was killed on the spot, and his people killed his family, and then all surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

The entire Bengkulu tribe was killed by more than 20,000 people in more than half a month, nearly half of the young and strong died, and the entire tribe was almost crippled.

Today's Bengkulu tribe not only does not have the ability to wrestle with Shi Jinqing in the old port, but also relies on the protection of the Chinese to avoid the entire nation being swallowed up by other tribes.

What surprised everyone even more was that in this battle of the Ming Dynasty, there were less than 400 people killed in total, and more than 300 of them were Japanese people, and there were less than ten real Ming people.

And most of them were not killed on the battlefield, but died in the miasma and the poisonous snakes and poisonous insects of the forest.

The outcome of such a battle shocked everyone, even Janvisita felt fear.

Just when everyone was panicking, the Daming Criminal Department, in front of the envoys of all countries, tried Ha San and Iskandar Shah, as well as other accomplices.

In addition to Hasan and Iskandarsha, Daming also directly executed eleven princes of various tribes, and more than 200 of their subordinates. On the execution ground by the dock, the heads of the people killed were rolling.

Bairi Missoula did everything possible to save her son's life, and even preferred to exchange the throne for it.

But Zhu Zhanji did not give him any hope, and Iskandarsha was the first to be beheaded. And the mastermind Ha San, after everyone was executed, the last one was sent to the guillotine.

Daming used the most cruel means to show his toughness to the countries of Nanyang, which is also telling everyone that in the future, Nanyang will be in line with the Ming Dynasty and against the Ming Dynasty!

Even Yang Weixisha didn't dare to show toughness at this time, and they could only endure it until they found a way to deal with Da Ming's musket.

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