Chapter 400: The range is a little farther

If Jiang Feng's naval army is in the sequence of the Jiang family's army, there are only two fleets, the Huazhou fleet and the Yizhou fleet, the naval command of the Huazhou fleet is Agaya, and the naval command of the Yizhou fleet is Lin Zhi.

The position of the command of the navy is equal to the deputy general regimental training, that is to say, Zhang Liang, Luo Yi, Yang Da, Yang Shishi, the status of these people is above the navy, and Liu Shisan's status is equal to that of Agaya. The regular army under Jiang Feng had more than 30,000 people at this time, which was not even comparable to the general army of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, people habitually compared according to the number of people, and some of them said that although Jiang Feng was known as the governor, Xu Da, Li Wenzhong and other governors were hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, and Jiang Feng's army was barely a general soldier, and he could be called a general.

As for the so-called four generals of Huazhou such as Zhang Liang and others, at best, they are officials such as staff generals and guerrillas, and as for the command of the naval army, it is the title of garrison, which is not counted.

However, the pirates on the sea, the merchants along the coast, the Japanese state, the merchants of the South Seas and the West never dared to think so, these two fleets take the Yangtze River as the boundary, the Huazhou fleet is in charge of the north, the Yizhou fleet is in charge of the south, the Huazhou fleet is five 600-ton ships, twelve are 400 tons, and the so-called 'armed merchant ships' in his fleet are also 300 tons and 200 tons.

The scale of the Yizhou fleet is even larger, and the sail warships of Huifeng and Shunfeng are also in the Yizhou fleet, in addition to eleven ships of about 500 tons, ten ships of 400 tons, and the rest of the ships are only a lot more than Huazhou. Under the protection of these two fleets, Jiang Jiajun's huge merchant fleet navigated the seas of Asia unimpeded.

The cost of maintaining such a large fleet is very high, all the military units of Jiang Feng, including foot soldiers, cavalry, and regimental training, have a large amount of money, among which looting is the largest, but the navy seems to be a bottomless pit, and a lot of the silver money earned by trade, illegal salt, and slaves every year is invested in the navy, but there is no output. When the navy was first established, the fleet often played the role of pirates once or twice in the open sea, but at this time, maritime trade needed a stable environment to prosper.

Naturally, it is necessary to change the image and become a force to maintain law and order, but to maintain law and order, such a great force is a bit of a knife to kill chickens, and the people who beg for a living at sea see such a big warship, towering sails, and the black muzzles on the ship, everyone is frightened as if they have seen a cat and mouse, and there is still a little bad intention.

Not to mention that Jiang Feng's merchant fleet was originally composed of famous pirates, and it was already thankful that these ships did not rob others at sea.

There is a common practice in the Yamen of Huazhou, that is, in the Ming Dynasty, the Wa Kingdom, and various places in the Nanyang, whenever there is a fleet traveling, you must pay a sum of silver every year, otherwise the Huazhou Navy will not guarantee his safety, in other words, even if it is safe, it will definitely make you unsafe.

Jiang Feng's requirement for the shipyard was to build a larger ship as fast as possible and with more guns, and as more and more Dutch people joined, in the autumn of the eighteenth year of Jiajing, the Huazhou, which had 800 tons, 130 guns, and 700 sailors, was launched, which was the flagship of the Jiang family's naval army.

The communication between Luzon and Yizhou, Yizhou and Huazhou relied on clippers, and after Yizhou got the news, Yang Shi and Lin Zhi of Yizhou summed it up, and decided to cut it first and then play it, no matter how to defeat the Spanish fleet first, if the news was transmitted by sea, it would be too late.

Originally, between Yizhou and Huazhou, can only rely on ships to come and go, Yang Shishi here has a great power to make decisions on the spot, and has been transferred to be in charge of Yizhou civil affairs Wang Qinian is also a strong support, Jiang Feng sent them here that day, and in the daily correspondence, the most common sentence is that Yizhou is the hub of our control of the South Seas, occupy this place, you have to guard this foundation for me, no matter who can put it in, this place belongs to the Jiang family's army.

At this time, the voyage of ships could not always be on the vast sea, but still have to move along the edge of the land, so later known as the Indochina Peninsula Peninsula Peninsula tip of the peninsula Malacca, here was originally the ancient country of Southeast Asia Manchurka capital is located, the name of this island has a great name in geography and navigation - Malacca!

The hub of the Indian Ocean into the Pacific Ocean, for the Europeans of the Age of Discovery, it was like the flesh and blood that attracted wolves, in the Zhengde period, Malacca was occupied by the Portuguese, the Portuguese country is small, so only occupy those strategically important ports and cities, Malacca is also one of them.

Although there are also big countries such as Siam and Burma, many countries have tens of thousands of people, and thousands of people claim to be countries, and go to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute and cheat some silver in the name of a king and prince.

Manchuga was about the same, 600 Portuguese and six armed gunboats easily occupied the place, and the natives were requisitioned to build forts and fort the harbor.

The geographical location here is extremely advantageous, and the taxes and fees paid by ships are like a cornucopia, which brings endless wealth to the Portuguese, and the industrious Han people of the Ming Dynasty are all over the South Seas, and naturally there are many of them here in Malacca, as well as many places in the South Seas.

There are hundreds of Western colonists, but there are tens of thousands of Chinese, and it was different from the past, but now many have opened manor trading houses, and gradually become bigger, which makes the Portuguese very jealous.

The Portuguese have always been in Japan and the Ming Dynasty in Macao, not like the Spaniards have very close contact with the Ming, and in Malacca, the Jiang army's navy has never come, the Portuguese do not know the real situation, they often feel that the so-called Jiang's navy is powerful, it is just an exaggeration.

Therefore, even the fleet protected by the Jiang family's navy had to pay a high fee when passing through Malacca, and the slightest dissatisfaction would be troubled by the Portuguese.

The arrogance of the Portuguese was already rising, and they had written to the country that they could create countless gold mines for the king by sending a thousand troops, and in this respect they were very similar to the Spanish in their opinion, and they thought that they were already the strongest power in the world.

Although the people of Huazhou have begun to prepare cotton clothes for the winter, the weather in Malacca is unusually warm, and every day on the watchtower of the port, there are several Portuguese soldiers there to watch for any merchant ships, if they do not come to pay the fees, the armed gunboats in the port will immediately go out in pursuit.

"Ship, fleet!!"

Neither pirates nor natives of the South Seas would come to trouble the fierce Portuguese, so the port guard, which should have been patrolled by ships every day, was long gone.

The vigilant soldiers screamed from the watchtower, and at this time there was no such advanced device as a telescope, and everyone could only crane their necks to look at the ship getting closer and closer, and these people did not even take up arms until they could see what the ship was.

Gunboats, huge gunboats, the people on the shore are already in disarray, could it be the Spaniards, in the hearts of the Portuguese, only the Spaniards have such ships, and they even ignore the tiger-headed flag flying on the mast.

Everyone was cowering inside the fortress, which was still some distance from the sea, and the artillery of the small castle could control the entire port, but it was difficult for the naval guns to reach the fortress. The gunners and soldiers were nervously watching the sea, waiting for the ship to approach.

'Boom' the cannon rang out, but it was not the ships on the sea, they were still far away from the port, but the cannon rang out inland, in a completely unexpected direction.

For a fortress built of stones, such a bombardment is at most to smash a few stones, and there will be no threat at all in a short period of time, but this kind of psychological deterrence is extremely huge, and the most common reason for the collapse of the army's morale is the enemy on the back.

The Portuguese officers were lying on their stomachs in the cracks in the protective wall and looked out, and at some point in the original port warehouse area, a group of Hermes-Epitek erected two small cannons. Angles and reloading are being adjusted, and the guns inside the castle can be redirected, but the ships are getting closer, and the threat there is clearly greater.

The highest officer in the whole of Malacca, a lieutenant colonel, pondered it for a while, and finally made up his mind, he called his lieutenant and ordered him to take two hundred men and kill him from that direction, and be sure to clear the two guns in the warehouse area, otherwise the situation of the fortress would be dangerous.

The two guns in the warehouse area are not operated by professional personnel at first glance, except for the first two guns that hit the position, the rest are deviated. The lieutenant who led the assault team was very confident that he would be able to kill all these rioters, and if he didn't do so, he could even capture two guns.

Sure enough, as soon as they came out of the fortress, the people who controlled the artillery over there immediately panicked, and now the Western army is a combination of musketeers and spears, and there are also people with big swords and shields, which is enough for those in Southeast Asia who do not have a little armor to cover them.

The 200 Portuguese soldiers quickly lined up, and when the artillery fire was not accurate, they rushed towards this side, and those Han people, who usually looked like sheep, saw the fierce soldiers chasing and killed, and quickly turned around and ran away.

The officer who led the team grinned when he saw these scattered and fleeing people on the way, but then he couldn't laugh anymore, although the Hermes-epitek ran away, the horses pulled four larger caliber guns, and placed them there, the Portuguese soldiers reacted a little confused, at this time, whether to take advantage of the fact that the artillery was not unloaded to speed up the pace and rush up, or run back.

Several of the artillerymen who were sitting on the gun carriage jumped down, and shouted there to unload the gun carriage and drive the horses away, and it would take time for such heavy artillery to be placed, and the officer leading the team quickly made a decision, and shouted there:

"Rush forward, it's too late to go back now!"

Although the formation of the soldiers has been chaotic, but they still bravely charged forward, the Europeans of this era, there is a spirit that Asians can't match, that is, the single-like outlaw, but many times, the outlaw can't solve the problem.

Although the heavy gunners were professional, no matter how you look at it, it was impossible to load the artillery when the Portuguese rushed to them, and the pace of the Portuguese soldiers quickened even more, and suddenly, in the warehouse area, another loud slogan sounded, and a group of well-dressed soldiers ran out in formation.

The Portuguese soldiers who charged quickly did not know each other's attire, but their hearts sank, and they knew the arquebuses in each other's hands.

The ammunition had already been loaded, and the trigger was moved, and the fire rope ignited the primer of the medicine pool, and there was a loud bang, and the Portuguese soldiers who ran into the firing range suddenly fell more than twenty, and the rest of the people hurriedly stopped and prepared to shoot, but before they could do anything, the second round of shooting came again.

After five rounds of shooting, the soldiers of the Portuguese commando only fired six shots, and the crux of the problem is that in the past, according to the experience of the European battlefield, not too many people will fall, because the trajectory of this arquebus is relatively deviated, and the two sides are at a distance of about 100 paces, and there is no accuracy at all, but the range of the opponent's arquebus seems to be much farther than common sense.

Looking at his companions beside him, he was pierced by lead pellets and screamed, and the blood splashed out of the poof, the movements of the Portuguese soldiers who had been holding their guns for a long time were already deformed, even the arquebuses that were fired were out of direction, the lieutenant colonel in the small castle had already ordered the door to be closed, and they had already decided to defend it, and the more than 200 people outside were already determined to give up, and the artillery inside the castle also moved to the direction of the warehouse area.

The soldiers in the first row had already rotated up to fight for the second time, and the Portuguese on that side finally couldn't hold on and fled in all directions, leaving nearly a hundred corpses on the scene.

The Portuguese officers who were observing this direction inside the castle were extremely nervous, and according to estimates, the heavy artillery that had just been pulled up would have to move forward if it wanted to reach the castle, and as soon as it reached the range of the castle artillery, they would immediately fire it.

The four guns, which looked to be at least six pounds, did not move forward, and after a slight correction by the gunner, the four guns were fired at the same time, and the people in the castle wanted to laugh at the yellow people who had no experience with firearms.

In an instant, the ground shook, and the side facing the castle collapsed in half.

Malacca is a delicious piece of flesh and blood, attracting not only jackals, but also tigers and lions......