Chapter 304: Sneak Attack (Part II)
The road to colonization has always been paved with corpses, and the colonists are all full of blood, no matter how beautified they are in later generations, when this beautiful coat is removed, it will be found that there is nothing else under the coat except corpses and blood.
Portugal as the first generation of colonial empire, their hands are stained with blood, Africa, India and the South Seas and other places, the death of these colonists and other places, even a considerable part of the old and weak women and children, even without exaggeration, the Portuguese in this period are actually a group of beasts, with their expansion, countless innocent people fell under their minions, it can be said that every step forward, they stepped on the corpses of countless slaughtered.
According to the original history, after Alfonso captured the city of Malacca, he would slaughter the city according to the custom, and let the soldiers loot, more than 100,000 people in the entire city of Malacca were slaughtered, and the city was also destroyed by the war, and later the Portuguese had to rebuild a fortress here, making Malacca develop into a bridgehead for the Portuguese to invade the South Seas.
However, at the same time that Alfonso led the army into Malacca, Chang Xiao and Qu Lie had already led a fleet each and rushed towards the port of Malacca at the fastest speed, and the people left behind on the Portuguese warships were paying attention to the battle on land, so it was not until Chang Xiao and they were about to rush into the port that the fourteen warships parked in the port discovered these two fleets of unknown origin, which made the Portuguese on the ship frightened, chanting and preparing for battle.
But it's a pity that it's too late at this time, Chang Xiao and Qu Lie took a long and narrow clipper in order to sneak attack. This kind of ship did not carry many soldiers, though. And it's also easy to capsize. But there is an advantage, that is, "fast", especially when the sail in the bow is opened, and the soldiers on the ship row together, the speed is like a sprint at sea, and in the blink of an eye, it rushed in front of the fourteen Portuguese warships, and many soldiers were ready to grab the ship.
Wu Fang stood at the bow of the ship and looked at the Portuguese warship that was getting closer and closer, and a fiery look flashed in his eyes. When he was in Ninghaiwei, he and Qu Lie had the same illness and sympathy, and they both belonged to the kind of people who were excluded by Cheng Quan, and they were still a deputy Qianhu, but later after the Admiral took over Dinghaiwei, he immediately removed Cheng Quan and appointed Qu Lie as the commander, which also made him stained, and the original Qianhu was removed because he was Cheng Quan's person, and he, the deputy Qianhu, was finally corrected.
Wu Fang and Qu Lie can also be regarded as friends in distress. In addition, he has strict military training, and his soldiers are the first in Dinghaiwei. Therefore, in this sneak attack on the Portuguese warship, his subordinates were ranked at the front, and it can be said that he was the first to fight with the Portuguese.
"Boom, boom~" The Portuguese battleship fired, and many shells fell around the speedboat, splashing a large amount of seawater, and Wu Fang was covered in the face by a wave split, making him stand unsteady and almost fall into the sea.
However, Wu Fang didn't care at all, stretched out his hand to wipe the sea water on his face and laughed a few times, and then shouted to the soldiers behind: "Brothers, work hard, as long as they rush under the other party's boat, they won't be able to fire!" ”
Seeing that Lord Qianhu was so calm, the soldiers behind him were also shocked, the so-called general is the courage of the soldiers, and the leading role of the generals on the battlefield cannot be ignored, especially the sailors like Zhou Chong's subordinates who really went to the battlefield for the first time, their performance can be said to have a lot to do with the performance of the generals, and now the performance of Wu Fang is what a qualified general should do.
Although the guns on the Portuguese battleships kept ringing, most of them fell into the sea, and the very few shells that hit the target only injured a few clippers, and although some people were injured, no one died. This was mainly due to the fact that the Portuguese on the ship fired their cannons in a hurry, and there was no time to aim, and there was an extreme shortage of manpower, so although the artillery was constantly ringing, it was actually not dense and the lethality was extremely limited.
Wu Fang's clipper rowed fast, the first to rush to the largest Portuguese warship, because the clipper is relatively short, so it is still a little difficult to get on the other party's ship, but Wu Fang They have already prepared, a long bamboo pole with a hook stretched up, and after hooking the side of the ship, Wu Fang these people grabbed steel knives, and climbed up the bamboo pole.
Of course, the Portuguese above will naturally not let the people below climb, only to see many Portuguese soldiers rushed to the deck, raised the weapons in their hands and cut them, hoping to cut off the bamboo poles, but these bamboo poles are processed, very tough, and it is difficult to cut off more than a dozen times with ordinary weapons, which is why they use bamboo poles instead of ropes.
The Portuguese were also very smart, after seeing the bamboo poles, someone immediately lifted the debris on the ship to the Lu, and even a few people took muskets to shoot downward, resulting in a lot of casualties among Wu Fang's men, but the Portuguese counterattack did not last long, after all, their number was too small, and the ships on both sides of the ships on all sides had the Ming soldiers to climb up, they couldn't take care of it at all, and soon there were Ming soldiers rushing to the deck, and as a result, the two sides started hand-to-hand combat on the deck.
Wu Fang was also the first to rush to the deck, when he jumped up, he immediately saw a red-haired and green-eyed Portuguese holding a knife at him, as a result, Wu Fang dodged the opponent's knife with a short body, suddenly turned around and the knife turned, and slashed at the back of the opponent's head at once, as a result, the opponent's upper half of the head flew out, and white brains and red blood sprayed on the deck.
Seeing that the dignified thousand households were also so brave, those Ming soldiers were also like aphrodisiacs one by one, howling and rushing towards those Portuguese, there were not many Portuguese left on the ship, and there were only two or three hundred people on the fourteen ships together, and even fewer were distributed on each ship, and after the last these people either surrendered or were killed, and the fourteen warships fell into Zhou Chong's hands very easily.
Not long after Zhou Zhong and their sneak attack on the battleship, Alfonso, who rushed into Malacca City, received the news, which surprised him, he thought that the victory was in his hands, but he did not expect to be attacked by someone at the last moment, and after losing the battleship, they were likely to be wiped out by the other party.
It is precisely because of this that after receiving the news, Alfonso immediately rushed out of Malacca City with people in a hurry, but unfortunately it was too late at this time, and the fourteen battleships parked in the harbor had completely fallen into the hands of the sneak attackers, which made Alfonso jump up and scold the other party for being despicable, but helpless.
The battleship was lost, and Alfonso quickly calmed down, and after measuring the situation in front of him, he immediately made a decision, which was to escape. Although he didn't know who those who attacked his battleship in such a short period of time, the other party was able to control his battleship in such a short period of time, which was obviously much stronger than the army in Malacca, and in the sea in the distance, he had already faintly seen some tall warships, which made Alfonso also cold in his heart, knowing that the other party was prepared, and he might have been waiting for this opportunity to sneak attack for a long time.
Thinking of this, Alfonso immediately ordered the army to rush to the mouth of the river in Malacca to defend, although he wanted to immediately order the army to get on the boat and escape, but now is not the high tide season, the warships in the river cannot come out at all, so he can only wait until the high tide to run, and he is also worried about what tricks the other party is playing at the mouth of the river, so he let the army defend the estuary.
When Alfonso arrived at the mouth of the river with his army, he happened to see several boats with a very good draft paddling slowly to the mouth of the river, and then the boats dug a big hole in the bottom of the boat, and as a result, the boats slowly sank to the bottom of the water under Alfonso's nose, and only a few lone masts were left standing there on the river.
"Bastard!" Seeing several ships sinking in the water, Alfonso almost jumped up in anger again, this is good, his boat in the harbor was taken away by the other party, and the boats in the river will not be able to drive in a short time, unless they can clean up the sunken ships at the mouth of the river in a short time, but this is obviously impossible, and the other party will not let them clean up the wrecks safely. In other words, he and his army had been blocked by the other side in the city of Malacca.
Even the experienced Alfonso had no choice but to get the ship as far away from the estuary as possible so as not to be shelled by the warships in the harbor, but his army did not retreat, but remained at the estuary, because he wanted to see who had attacked him.
In the distance, Zhou Zhong heard that Chang Xiao and they had captured the Portuguese warship very smoothly, and he was also excited and almost jumped up, although he had six or seven percent of the certainty in advance, but before he succeeded, he was still very worried in his heart, and now he can finally put his mind at ease, and the Portuguese army is also blocked on the shore, and now they can't escape if they want to.
The first step of the plan is finally completed, and the next step is to implement the second step of the plan, that is, the moment when Shen Ying's 3,000 Beijing battalion shows its talents, after all, the Portuguese still have more than 1,000 soldiers and four warships, and they will definitely not surrender easily, and they are even likely to resist stubbornly, so the final solution is to use force.
"Will ...... General, those warships are written in Chinese characters, and the other party is likely to be the army of the Ming Dynasty! At this time, Alfonso's interpreter finally saw the ships of the sneak attackers, and the Chinese characters on the flag of the ships finally made him guess the origin of the other party.
"What? The army of the Ming Dynasty? Alfonso was also taken aback when he heard this, as the so-called fear of something, his biggest scruple in attacking Malacca was Daming's reaction, and for this reason, he even let Sun Pinghai and those Ming merchants go, but he didn't expect Daming to still make a move. It's just that Alfonso can't figure out that the Ming should be a considerable distance away from Malacca, how could their army appear here, and as if there was a premeditated sneak attack on their own fleet? (To be continued......)