Chapter 372: Old Port

The Grand Imam agreed to the conditions put forward by Lu Lao, and there was less than half of the resistance to send troops to the old port, and Shen Ying was not good at objecting, so he sent ten warships at the moment, with a total of 1,500 sailors and soldiers, and another 1,000 Beijing battalions, who rushed to the old port by warship.

The old port is located in the southeast of Jinzhou, a big river called Muxi River passes through the old port city and flows into the sea not far away, which also makes the old port city dense with water network, and has the name of the water city. It is precisely because of the dense rivers in the old port city that if you want to attack the city, you must use water armies, otherwise those rivers alone will make it difficult for the attacking party to move an inch.

Qiu Ju stood on a big boat on the Muxi River in the south of the old port, frowning and looking at the Danmu water army docked by the river upstream, since the strength of the Danmu country has increased greatly, the Banten country that rules the old port has been defeated one after another, and even the army of the Danmu country has not yet arrived, the army of the Banden country has fled in fear, and the old port is no exception, now the Banden army in the entire city has run one-third, and the remaining two-thirds have not run, all of them are Han people here, after all, the old port is their home, and they have no escape.

Under these circumstances, the Han people of the old port were once again united, and under the call of religion and the pressure of life and death, the 100,000 Han people in the old port organized an army of tens of thousands, although most of them did not have special military training, but in order to protect their homeland, all the soldiers burst out with great courage and prepared to fight to the death against the army of the Danmu Kingdom on the Muxi River.

Qiu Ju is the commander of the army recommended by the Han people in the old port, the origin of their Qiu family is not simple, Shi Jinqing, who was canonized by the Ming Dynasty as the consolation envoy of the old port, has a daughter. That is, the famous lady Shi in Nanyang. And Mrs. Shi's husband is named Qiu Yancheng. This Qiu Yancheng is from the old Gangqiu family, Qiu Ju's father is the son-in-law of Qiu Yancheng and Shi Da Niang, Qiu Ju is Qiu Yancheng's eldest grandson, and he is also the patriarch of this generation of Qiu family.

At that time, Mrs. Shi saw that the old port was difficult to support alone, so she went to the Majapahit, which was in the prime of national power, and in order to show her sincerity, she moved out of the old port alone and lived on the east side of Java Kushima. In this way, tens of thousands of Han people in the old port were finally saved from the disaster of swords, and this incident also made the Han people in the old port grateful to Mrs. Shi, which also indirectly promoted the spread of Islam in the old port, after all, Mrs. Shi herself is a Muslim.

Although Mrs. Shi left the old port, her husband Qiu Yancheng and their children stayed in the old port, after all, the Qiu family has taken root in the old port, and Qiu Yancheng, as the patriarch of the Qiu family, cannot let go of his family. So the two husbands and wives had to be separated for many years, and they couldn't even be buried together after they died.

It is also the kindness left by Mrs. Shi. In addition, Qiu Yancheng and his brothers, as well as several sons are also a generation of heroes, so they quickly developed the Qiu family extremely vigorously, and now it has become the most powerful family in the old port, the great imam sent to Malacca to rescue is actually Qiu Ju's third grandfather, and among the civil and military officials in the old port before, there are many people from the Qiu family, such as Qiu Ju, who used to be an officer in the old port, and is also the deputy of the old port general, but everyone in the old port knows that the native general is just a puppet sent by the Banten Kingdom, The real power was all in the hands of the Han officers, after all, the Old Port was a city inhabited by Han Chinese, and the Kingdom of Banten had nominal rule over it, but in fact it was Han Chinese autonomy.

Now the army of the Danmu Kingdom is pressing, and the native officials and soldiers in the old port have all run away, anyway, their life here before was not easy, and the old port is not their hometown, so no one will be stupid enough to stay and die, but those natives can escape, but the Han people who gather them can't escape, and the last can only organize the strength of the whole city, ready to fight to the death with the army of the Danmu Kingdom, after all, this is not the first time they have done this kind of thing, Liang Daoming and his grandmother's father have already done it, Moreover, at that time, there were only a few thousand Han people in the old port, but now their number is 100,000 at the beginning, so Qiu Ju naturally can't let the Danmu Kingdom enter the old port.

Just when Qiu Ju had just organized the troops in the city to be deployed outside the city, the army of the Danmu Kingdom was killed nearby, and confronted Qiu Ju's army on the Musi River. Jiri studied the teachings while Sunan. Jiri is the adopted son of Mrs. Shi, and Qiu Ju has to go to Sunan. Giri is called an uncle, so he is also a contemporaneous with Corinan.

When Corlinan sent troops, he once received a message from his teacher Sunan. Jiri's letter, let him take care of the Han people in the old port, after all, it is the hometown of Mrs. Shi, and her children have also settled there, in southern Jiangsu. It seemed to Giri that those were his brothers and sisters, which is why he pleaded with Klinan.

Corinam also attached great importance to the teacher's plea, so when his army reached the Musi River in the south of the old port, he did not rush into the army, but sent an envoy to contact the city, and promised that as long as the old port promised to surrender to the kingdom of Danmu, and then provide his army with military rations and property, disband the army in the city, and allow his army to settle in, then he could ensure the safety of the old port city, at least not be destroyed by his soldiers like other cities.

In Kolinan's opinion, the conditions he put forward for the old port were already very generous, after all, in their previous campaigns, every time they captured a city, they had always indulged the soldiers to plunder, until the local people did not surrender at all, this would pounce on the next city, and now he only needs the Han people in the old port to surrender to him, and did not let the soldiers loot on a large scale, which is already very rare.

But for the Han people in the old port, it is nothing for Corinan to propose to surrender to the Danmu Kingdom, anyway, the old port was not very loyal to the Banten Kingdom before, and it is not impossible to even provide some food and property, but the latter one disbands the army and allows the army of the Danmu Kingdom to settle in is too much, after all, all the people of the old Hong Kong know that whether it is the Danmu Kingdom or the Banten Kingdom, the natives of these two kingdoms have always been cruel and easy to kill, and they are lustful and lewd, if they are allowed to settle in, I am afraid that not only their safety can not be guaranteed, Even their wives and daughters are insulted.

It is also known that the Han people in the old port will naturally not agree to the request of Kelinan, but put forward their own surrender conditions, that is, the old port is still from the Han as before, but nominally belongs to the Danmu Kingdom, and the Danmu Kingdom can also send officials to manage it, and the annual tax will also be sent to the treasury according to the invitation, but the garrison and disbandment of the army are absolutely not.

Kelinan never thought that he would be rejected by the Han people in the old port for a rare kindness, which made him very angry and could no longer care about his teacher Sunan. Jiri's previous plea immediately commanded the army to attack the old port, but what he didn't expect was that the Han people in the old port had lived here for a long time, and they were not only very familiar with the terrain of the waterway, but also very proficient in water warfare.

It was also the last battle that made Corinan no longer dare to despise the Han people in the old port, and began to send people to explore the surrounding terrain while actively preparing for war, Qiu Ju did not have many troops in his hands, so he did not dare to attack easily, so the two sides entered the confrontation for a while, but everyone knew that this confrontation would not be too long, and when the two armies fought again, it would be an endless situation.

Thinking of this, Qiu Ju, who stood on the bow of the ship and observed the opposite Kolinan army, sighed, although he claimed to have 10,000 troops in his hands, but most of the 10,000 troops were ordinary people who were improvised and put together, and the army that could really be used for a head-to-head confrontation was less than 2,000 people, and the last time he fought with the Kolinan army, it was the elite of those 2,000 people who repelled the opponent's army, but if the other party had ordered the whole army to charge at that time, I am afraid that the old port would have already fallen.

"I don't know what happened to the Grand Imam of Lu Dao, if the Ming army doesn't come again, I'm afraid we can only let the Han people in the whole city relocate, but in the chaos of the army, I don't know how many people in Lu Dao can escape safely?" Qiu Ju looked at the hot Corinnan army on the opposite side and muttered to himself.

Corinan on the opposite side led an army of 100,000 men, and there were artillery and muskets in the army, which was not at all something that his improvised patchwork army could resist. Speaking of which, the reason why the Tammu Kingdom was able to defeat the Banten Kingdom this time was mainly by relying on those muskets and artillery, although the power of the Qiu Juzhi Dao muskets and artillery was not as powerful as those natives rumored, and even the lethality of the cannons and muskets was actually not strong, but these two weapons became the wrath of Allah in the rumors of the natives, so whenever there was a battle, as soon as the Tammu Kingdom fired, those natives would immediately collapse.

In order to prevent this from happening in his army, Qiu Ju explained to the soldiers the power of muskets and artillery before the battle, but unfortunately he couldn't get artillery or muskets, otherwise it would be more convincing.

"The hateful Portuguese, who suffered such a big loss in Malacca last time, are still not giving up and have reached out to the island of Java, if they hadn't sold muskets and artillery to the Danmu Kingdom, we wouldn't have fallen to such a point!" Qiu Ju slammed the side of the ship hard, originally he didn't know where the cannons and muskets of the Danmu Kingdom got it, but in the last battle, they captured a nobleman of the Danmu Kingdom, and then he knew that the Danmu Kingdom was actually involved with the Portuguese. (To be continued......)