Chapter 424: Java Declares War on the Ming Dynasty (Third Update)
A few months later, Java finally learned that its crown prince had been beheaded by the Ming Dynasty, as well as that other envoys of the country had been imprisoned. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
It is conceivable to what extent the wrath of the king of Java has reached, not to mention that there is only one crown prince in Java.
But in this case, the king of Java could not dare to raise a large army of the Ming Dynasty, so the king of Java could not do anything with the Ming for a while, when the fleet of the Buddha Lang Ji was entrusted by the Ming court to redeem other Javanese envoys with ransom, the king of Java could only take out the silver to redeem a powerful person in his country.
A total of about 100,000 silver dollars entered the Ming household, although it was only a drop in the bucket compared to the profits earned by the Ming in the entire foreign trade, but earning the 100,000 silver dollars at the cost of the personal freedom of the messenger of the Javanese state was undoubtedly the lowest cost transaction, and it was also the first atonement silver earned by the Ming Dynasty.
However, the state of Java is not willing to admit it, although the current state of Java is not yet able to take a military attack on the Ming Dynasty.
However, when the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao's remarks about proposing that Java was the territory of the Great Song Dynasty and that it was now the territory of the Ming Dynasty, it became known to the king of Java, which made Java even more angry, and directly declared war on the Ming Dynasty, and announced that the Ming Dynasty had killed the crown prince of Java and imprisoned his envoys for no reason to provoke the dignity of the Javanese state.
Of course, even though it was a declaration of war on the Ming Dynasty, the Java State did not really want to send a navy to fight directly against the Ming Dynasty, he did not have the courage yet, he was just looking for an excuse to attack the Han people in his own country.
In short, on the day of the declaration of war, the king of Java immediately issued an order to march, and tens of thousands of his native troops directly entered the Han Chinese settlement area in Java, and directly carried out massacres of Han immigrants who traded and lived in this area.
The unarmed Han immigrants did not expect this kind of incident to come so suddenly, many ordinary people were directly wiped out, and countless women were killed.
Fortunately, there are already Jinyiwei's undercover agents who have already established their own intelligence stationing points in Java, so when the king of Java declared war, Jinyiwei immediately rushed to Liangguang to inform Heiwa, the first brigade of the South China Sea Fleet stationed at Fiery Cross Reef in the Nansha Islands, and at the same time directly presented Gu Sanmazi, the chief officer of the South China Sea Fleet currently stationed in Hai'an, of course, after arriving in Hai'an, he would naturally report to the Governor of Liangguang and His Majesty the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao.
The reason why Heiwa, as the closest Ming navy to Java, has been stationed at Fiery Cross Reef is to be able to react quickly and respond immediately when he hears about the bloody massacre of Han people in Java or other South Seas countries.
For this reason, Zhu Youxiao had already issued an order before, but if the Ming navy stationed on Fiery Cross Reef encountered an emergency, it could fight first before notifying its superiors.
Therefore, without waiting for the orders of the imperial court and Gu San Mazi and others, Heiwa and the First Brigade of the Navy of the South China Sea Fleet immediately set sail towards Java after learning that Java had declared war on the Ming Dynasty and intended to set off a storm of slaughtering Han again.
The First Brigade of the South China Sea Fleet is now equipped with a steam-powered ironclad ship (only the surface of the ship is wrapped in iron sheets, not an ironclad ship in the strict sense) "Qi Jiguang", in addition to the Daming Shipbuilding Bureau's latest development of fast but small steam-powered wooden ships 15 small steamboats, plus 40 non-steam-powered large and small hard sailing ships in the Ming Dynasty, a total of 56 ships, the combat effectiveness formed is no less than the strength of the entire Ming Navy before.
In a place called Mushuo Village, which is now the northernmost part of the Indonesian archipelago, a Han Chinese settlement has been invaded by an indigenous army from the state of Java.
Because over the years, there have been repeated incidents of indigenous oppression and massacre of Han people, so the Han people also organized their self-defense forces, after the invasion of this indigenous army, the Han self-defense forces in Mushuo Village immediately entered the combat state, but after all, they were outnumbered, after holding on for three days, they began to rout, and the indigenous army rushed in, and when they saw a Han people, they directly shot arrows to attack, and one of the Han boys who did not have time to escape was directly stabbed more than a dozen times.
An old Han man who was still wearing a Confucian robe and seemed to have some knowledge was also forcibly hung from a tree, and under the hanging old master, a large number of indigenous troops gathered here, they cheered and jumped, and their greedy eyes swept the Mushuo village in front of them under the sanitation of wooden guns and hoes, and grinned, their smiles were very crazy.
At this time, the flagship of the First Brigade of the Daming South China Sea Fleet in front of the "Qi Jiguang" had already sailed over, and without waiting for these indigenous troops to react, hundreds of artillery pieces had already poked their heads out of the gunboats and began to aim at the indigenous army gathered under the old master.
Boom.
Countless shells with tongues of fire roared towards here, and the old master, who was about to be hanged, smiled, and couldn't help shouting in his heart: "Master Wang has arrived!" ”
Bang!
Bang!
The old master and the group of indigenous troops were directly blown to ashes, and even the banyan tree that the old master was hanging was also bombarded and fell.
The natives who were looting from house to house in Mushuo Village couldn't help but turn around, but at this moment, another round of rapid artillery shells came from the ground, and the entire Mushuo Village was surrounded by rumbling cannonballs.
After the shelling for half an hour, Heiwa waved her hand: "Stop the shelling, most of the enemy troops have dispersed into the village, and the shelling will hurt innocent Han people, the marines will immediately rush to the beach and land, all the ships are close to the coast, surround Mushuo Village, and once they find that there are enemy troops approaching, they will immediately strafe!" ”
As he spoke, Heiwa stretched out his hand and said, "Gun!" ”
Then, a personal guard handed over a rifled gun specially accompanied by an officer, and Heiwa pulled the bolt, and after confirming that the loading was intact, he immediately ordered: "Prepare to put the ship ashore!" ”
Because the bombardment just now basically frightened these indigenous troops who had no common sense of coastal defense into Mushuo Village, it took less than three quarters of an hour for more than 1,000 soldiers of the First Brigade of the South China Sea Fleet to successfully land on the beach at the cost of zero casualties, and directly rushed into Mushuo Village under the leadership of Heiwa, the staff general of the First Brigade.
"Take the team as a unit, disperse from the east, west, north and south directions to enter the village, and quickly destroy the lives of the natives when they encounter them, and if they can't be eliminated immediately, they must be driven out and left to the outer warriors to destroy!"
After Heiwa gave the order, the more than 1,000 marines dispersed, and Heiwa personally led a team directly from the east of the village to enter, and saw that an indigenous army was pulling a Han woman in a room, and Heiwa directly shot the aborigine's head.
At the same time, gunshots and fighting rang out all around.
These indigenous armies did not expect that there would be other armies at this moment, and they were a little confused for a while, and at first they habitually fought back for a while, and finally found that they could not fight against this kind of army with sharp firearms, so they scurried around like rats crossing the street.