"Surrender, we surrender!" With the two armies of the Ming in front and on the flank, the Portuguese could no longer withstand it, shouting surrender one by one, and at the same time throwing the weapons in their hands on the ground, so that even if the Ming soldiers could not understand what they were saying, they could understand what they meant.

For these surrendered people, Zhou Zhong had already instructed Shen Ying to leave these prisoners of war behind, after all, he had captured so many Portuguese warships, and these soldiers needed to teach the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty how to drive these ships, and these Portuguese soldiers in addition to fighting, it is likely that they also know some other skills, even if they don't understand, they have a lot of strength, just now Shuangyu Port is at the peak of construction, there is a great demand for manpower, and these prisoners of war can just be used as free labor.

It is precisely because of Zhou's orders, so those Portuguese soldiers who surrendered were lucky to leave a life, you must know that the army of the Ming Dynasty has always been based on the head of the military merits, so the Ming army has never been in the habit of keeping prisoners, after all, the captives still have to consume food, and may resist, but after cutting off their heads, there will not be so much trouble.

Those Portuguese soldiers saw that the surrendered people were not slaughtered by the Ming army, which made many people also dispel the slightest concern, one by one threw down their weapons and squatted down to surrender, which made more and more people surrender, and the most in addition to those who died in battle, the others surrendered, after all, in a place like Malacca, they could not escape death if they escaped from Lu, it is better to surrender directly, maybe they can still leave a life.

As early as when he was caught between the two armies, Alfonso already knew that the defeat of the road was assured, so he did not make unnecessary resistance. When the army of the Great Ming rushed in front of him. Alfonso ordered his soldiers to lay down their arms and surrender. This also marked the complete defeat of the Portuguese army, as for the four battleships on the river, the last one also gave up resistance under Alfonso's orders, and Zhou Zhong immediately sent a naval division to take over the four battleships.

With the takeover of the last four warships, the whole war can be regarded as coming to an end, and Zhou Chong's preparations in the first half of the year were finally not in vain, and the entire sneak attack operation can be said to be extremely smooth, and what is even more rare is that. Not only did he take over all eighteen Portuguese warships, but he also wiped out all the Portuguese troops, which was the result he hoped for the most.

However, although the war is over, but the matter is far from over, the first is to clean up the battlefield, and count their own losses, although the previous capture of ships and the most rear-end land battle went very smoothly, but the Zhou side also suffered some losses, at least nearly 1,000 casualties, the specific number has to be counted before we can know the road. There are also the number of prisoners of war and the weapons captured. These also need to be accounted for one by one.

In addition to cleaning up the battlefield, there is another very important thing. That's what it's like to be in the city of Malacca. Originally, Alfonso had already led the army into the city, and also ordered the slaughter of the city, which led to countless casualties in the city, when Zhou Zhong and they entered the city, they saw corpses and blood everywhere, and the survivors also looked at them with horror, I wonder if this army in front of them will treat them like the Portuguese?

Zhou Zhong wanted to find the king of the Kingdom of Malacca, and then asked him to organize people to clean up the port and the dead bodies in the city, but when he rushed to the palace, he found that no one could be found at all, until he later found a wounded palace guard, and then learned from the other party that the king of Malacca fled from another city gate with the princess and children when Alfonso attacked the city, and now it is estimated that he has fled a hundred miles away.

In fact, this situation should have been thought of a long time ago, according to the original history, after Portugal occupied the city of Malacca, the then king of Malacca, the Sultan. Mahmud fled to Pagor and other places, and later his descendants also established the Kingdom of Johor to continue the monarchy of the Kingdom of Malacca.

The king of the Kingdom of Malacca was not there, and those ministers were also fleeing from death, and there was no one in charge of the affairs, so Zhou Zhong had no choice but to push out the messenger Baman, and let him pacify the inhabitants of the city while organizing people to clean up the battlefield, especially the port, and strive to restore the normal operation of the port of Malacca as soon as possible.

The statistical results of the war came out the next day, when Zhou Zhong saw the statistical results, his heart couldn't help but sink, because the beginning was the loss of his own side, the loss of those ships and weapons was a trivial matter, and it would be supplemented in the future, but the loss of the army soldiers made Zhou feel distressed, the war Ming army killed a total of 374 people, 27 missing, these missing people fell into the sea when they seized the ship, I am afraid that now it is more auspicious.

As for the injured, there are as many as 532 people, of which more than 60 are seriously injured, and among this batch of wounded, nearly 100 are physically disabled, that is to say, in the future, they will recover from their injuries, I am afraid that they will no longer be able to stay in the army, this incident also made Zhou Zhong very sad, and at the same time, he also made up his mind to arrange these disabled soldiers well.

Compared with Zhou Chong's heavy mood, Shen Ying said very excitedly: "My lord, this battle is very smooth, especially the sneak attack in front, it is just the same as our plan, so the casualties are very small, but later in the land battle, many soldiers were killed and wounded, but compared to the past, this casualty ratio is already very small, and it can even be called a big victory!" ”

Shen Ying has been fighting on the battlefield for half his life, and he has long looked down on life and death, and the casualties of hundreds of people are nothing at all in his opinion, but Zhou Zhong is the first brother on the battlefield, thinking that the hundreds of lives that came with him are gone, which makes him feel like he is blocking a piece of something, until he sees the following statistical results, which makes him feel a little better.

Although there were losses on their side, the results were very brilliant, of which the Portuguese had a total of 1,500 men, all but 400 of whom had been killed in battle, all of whom had surrendered, and were now imprisoned in makeshift prisoner of war camps on the beach, and eighteen warships were used as trophies, and the guns, food, and weapons on board were well preserved, which alone was a large amount of income.

However, compared to the Portuguese warships, the bigger gain is still to come, and that is the city of Malacca. After the king of Malacca fled, Zhou Zhong represented the Ming Dynasty, that is, the suzerainty of the Kingdom of Malacca, and took over the city of Malacca, what he didn't expect was that the warehouses in the city and the warehouses in the palace were full of grain, gold and silver property, especially the king's private treasury found in the palace, it was like a treasure pile, full of all kinds of property, and even Shen Ying They also found a few valuable calligraphy and paintings from it, and it was also a famous work of the former Song Dynasty, which is estimated to be sold for a lot of money.

Malacca City was originally the capital of the Kingdom of Malacca, and it was also a sea communication artery, and ships had to pay taxes to the port, so Malacca City was naturally very wealthy, and it was not surprising that Zhou Chong found so many possessions in the city, but in this way, it also strengthened Zhou Chong's determination to control Malacca City.

In addition to the statistics of the army and property, the Baman envoy also quickly counted the losses of Malacca City in this war, including the loss of those goods and ships, even if it is not counted, the key is that the entire Malacca City had a population of 100,000 before the war, but when the war ended, there were only more than 30,000 people left in the entire city, of course, many people took advantage of the war to escape from the city, but the population who died in the war was not a few, and there were 20,000 or 30,000 buried corpses in the last half, in addition to the army that died in the war, Most of the rest were civilians massacred by the Portuguese.

The surviving Malaccans resented the Portuguese atrocities, and the Malaccans in the prisoner of war camp by the beach tried to kill the prisoners of war every day with knives to avenge them, but unfortunately they were stopped by the Ming soldiers.

In the prisoner of war camp, Zhou Zhong was accompanied by Chang Xiao to meet the Portuguese commander Alfonso. However, to Zhou Chong's surprise, even if Alfonso was captured, he still maintained a neat appearance, his face was also clean, and although the military uniform on his body was somewhat torn, it was very neatly organized, except that he had no weapons, it was hard to believe that the other party was a captured general.

"Your Excellency Admiral Daming, in my capacity as the Viceroy of India, on behalf of the Kingdom of Portugal, I lodge a serious protest to your Daming!" Just as Zhou Zhong was looking at the other party, he didn't expect Alfonso to suddenly step forward and protest to him with a serious face.

Zhou Zhong smiled dumbly when he heard this, and immediately glanced at him with interest and said, "General Alfonso, I don't know what you want to propose to Admiral Ben on behalf of your kingdom?" ”

"Your Excellency Admiral, you Ming Dynasty used despicable means to sneak attack our warships without declaring war in advance, and later when we put forward the conditions for surrender, you started the war without any reply, which is immoral, so I protest to you on behalf of the Kingdom of Portugal, and ask you to release the prisoners of war as soon as possible, otherwise our Kingdom of Portugal reserves all means of retaliation!" Alfonso protested again with a righteous face, this was not the first time he had been captured in his many years of war, so Alfonso was not nervous at all, and even hoped to use the deterrent power of his kingdom to let the Admiral of the Ming Dynasty let him go.

In response to Alfonso's protest again, Zhou Zhong sneered and said: "General Alfonso, please remember that this is not Europe, and the Ming Dynasty is not those small countries in Europe, so I advise you to put away your European set for me, in the South Seas and Asia, our Ming is the boss here, and the rules here are also up to us!" ”

Zhou Zhong took a long breath when he said this, and then sneered again: "Tens of thousands of unjust souls in Malacca City are still wandering around us, all of them died at the hands of you beasts, with your bloody and brutal methods, you still have the face to talk to me about morality, are you Portuguese so shameless?" (To be continued......)