After blockading Goa, Shen Zhou gave the Portuguese only one day to think about it, either to open the city and surrender the next morning, or to wait for him to bombard Goa City, but his strong order plunged the city into a desperate chaos, but fortunately Vasco da Gama sent the few thousand remaining soldiers in the city to suppress it, which did not plunge Goa into civil strife.

The night passed quickly, and Shen Zhou, who had rested hastily in the cabin for the night, woke up again, washed his face with cold water, and went to the deck again in good spirits. Now that the eastern sky had just turned white, and there was not much time left before dawn, Shen Zhou picked up a telescope and looked at the city of Goa not far away, and found that there was not the slightest sign of surrender on the city.

"General Summon's order, all battleships are ready for artillery bombardment!" Shen Zhou put down the binoculars and immediately ordered, he knew that the Portuguese would not surrender so easily, on the one hand, these Portuguese were unwilling to fail, on the other hand, because after the Portuguese were captured last time, those prisoners have not been released until now, so the Portuguese are worried that they will suffer the same consequences after being captured, so they are ready to resist to the end.

As Shen Zhou's order was conveyed by the flagbearer on the flagship, the twenty-four warships under him were quickly ready, one after another across the hull, and the guns on one side of the hull were all facing the direction of Goa City. At the same time, the marines to which the fleet belonged were also ready, and the small boats used for the charge were put down, and those marines with fierce expressions were full of murderous aura one by one, they had been holding back at sea for so long, and they had been able to watch the brothers in the navy perform, and now they finally met the opportunity to show their talents.

With the passage of time, the sun in the east finally rose slowly, and the Goa City in the distance still showed no sign of surrender, but there were many defensive soldiers on the city, which made Shen Zhou snort coldly, raised his right hand and put it down heavily: "Fire!" ”

"Boom ~ Boom ~ Boom ......" with Shen Zhou's order. Immediately there was a thunderous cannon roar on the sea, and rows of cannonballs shot out of the black muzzles with thick smoke, and in the blink of an eye they crashed into the fortified city walls, and for a time there were stone chips. Some of the shells fell directly on the city, and the splattered rubble caused casualties among the Portuguese soldiers on the city.

When the Portuguese built the city of Goa, in addition to considering commercial use, the most important thing was its protective performance, so the city walls were built extremely strong, which was also the last reliance of Vasco da Gama. It's just that the Portuguese didn't think that their navy would be defeated at all, so when they considered Goa's defensive performance, they mainly considered what to do if they encountered the enemy in land battles, so Goa City was extremely close to the sea, and even in consideration at that time. In case the enemy on land is too strong, then they can also provide fire support to Goa with Portuguese warships on the sea.

It cannot be said that there was a problem with the designers of Goa City, at that time all the Portuguese considered their country to be invincible in the navy, so when designing the defense of the city, naturally they rarely took into account the enemy's attack from the sea. It is precisely because of this that the fleet led by Shen Zhou can directly bombard the walls of Goa from the sea, and the defenders on the head of the city cannot raise their heads for a while.

The artillery at the head of the city of Goa counterattacked a few times at first, but every time the artillery at the head of the city was fired, it immediately attracted a concentrated bombardment by the Ming fleet until the artillery on the head of the city was blown up, and the result was less than an hour of fighting. There was very little artillery left in Goa City, and it could no longer pose a threat to the Ming fleet.

At the same time as the two sides were engaged in an artillery battle, the assault boat under the Ming warship had also begun to rush towards the barren beach next to the port of Goa, and the Portuguese only had a few thousand soldiers left, and the defense of Goa was a little insufficient, so they had no ability to send soldiers to block the landing of the Ming army.

Shen Zhou brought three thousand marines this time. Now that they have all landed, the artillery on the head of Goa City has been cleaned by the Ming warships, and there is almost nothing on the city to threaten their safety, and the small boats behind have also brought some siege equipment from the battleships, such as a kind of tortoiseshell car.

The so-called tortoiseshell car. As the name suggests, it is a cart similar to a turtle shell, the bottom is empty, so that the soldiers can hide, and when the siege is carried by the soldiers below, there is no need to worry about the bow and arrows and muskets on the head, and when the cart is pushed under the city wall or city gate, the soldiers under the car will make holes in the city wall, and then stuff gunpowder into it, ignite the fuse and then leave, which can be used to blow up the city wall and city gates.

Goa faces the sea on one side and the Zua River on the other, because they did not consider the enemy coming from the sea before, so the other two sides dug moats, but the two sides did not dig a moat under the city walls, so that the soldiers of the Marine Corps could directly push the tortoiseshell cart under the city wall and calmly bury the gunpowder.

"Boom Boom Boom~" With the departure of several tortoiseshell cars, a series of explosions occurred under the walls of Goa, although the walls of Goa were built very strongly, but the soldiers of the Marine Corps filled with more gunpowder, so the walls of Goa City were blown out of a large pit one person high, but this pit was relatively shallow and did not hurt the main body of the city wall.

However, the Marines did not expect to blow the walls apart in a single attempt, so they pushed the tortoiseshell cart forward again and repeated the previous action. Although the Portuguese soldiers at the head of the city wanted to stop the Ming soldiers below from blowing up the city wall, they had no choice but to keep firing their guns on the sea, suppressing them on the top of the city and unable to raise their heads, and they didn't even have time to shoot their muskets downward, let alone throw boulders down to smash tortoiseshell cars.

After nearly ten days of continuous blasting, finally a section of the city wall could not hold on, and collapsed in an explosion, resulting in a collapse several feet long, as for the original defenders on it, they have been buried in the mound of earth and rock, and very few people can survive.

Seeing that the gap was opened, the marines did not rush into it in one go, but retreated again, and as a result, the battleships on the sea fired a salp of thousands of cannons at the gap, and countless shells were all concentrated near the gap, which made the gap widen again, and at the same time allowed the surrounding Portuguese soldiers to flee farther.

It wasn't until the intensive shelling on the battleship stopped that the soldiers of the Marines let out a scream, and then rushed into Goa City through the gap with their muskets, as long as they encountered any creature standing on their feet, they would be fired with their muskets, after all, there is no mercy in war, and for the Marines who rush into the city, any creature in the city can be their enemy, so there must be no mercy.

There were not many troops in Goa, and they needed to defend the city wall before, but they were all scattered, and now the city wall was blown up, and the Portuguese soldiers on the city could not gather for a while, so they could only gather some soldiers nearby to resist, but unfortunately the marines they encountered were the elite of the Ming Dynasty, not only with sharp muskets, but also with very strong melee combat ability, so those small groups of Portuguese soldiers could not hold out for long when resisting.

After the marines rushed into Goa, Shen Zhou also immediately organized the naval landing in the fleet, although the marines were elite, but after all, the number was too small, and it was no problem to open the gap, but if they wanted to completely occupy Goa, they would definitely not be able to rely on their few men, and they had to use the manpower in the navy.

The soldiers of the navy are not only capable of flying guns on ships, but also elite soldiers when they pick up muskets. Zhou Zhong spent so much manpower, material and financial resources to build the Nanyang Fleet, in order to create a world-class navy, this navy can not only compete with the enemy on the sea, but also be able to go ashore, after all, the navy at this time is actually synonymous with robbers, if you can't go ashore, then how to rob the wealth of the world?

With Shen Zhou's order, soon a part of the naval soldiers were divided on each warship, and these soldiers, under the leadership of various generals, rushed to Goa City again in small boats, and when they gathered on the beach, they immediately followed the footsteps of the marines into Goa, and as a result, the addition of their new force made the Portuguese who were already at a disadvantage finally rob the will to resist, and many Portuguese soldiers began to lay down their arms and surrender.

As more and more Portuguese soldiers surrendered, the resistance of Goa City became weaker and weaker, and in the end, except for a few soldiers who resisted stubbornly and were killed, most of the other soldiers chose to surrender.

For the ordinary Portuguese residents, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty did not bother to pay attention to them, after all, they had only breached the city walls now, but there was still a strong fortress in the city of Goa that had not been breached, and that was the lord's mansion where da Gama lived.

Speaking of Europeans, they were at war all year round, so almost all the cities they lived in were in the service of war, and this habit was deeply ingrained in their bones, and it was not until the first industrial revolution that they got rid of this problem, and urban planning became arbitrary.

However, the current Goa city is still a kind of traditional European fortress, in addition to the outer city wall, the city lord's mansion in the city is also a small war fortress, in the city lord's mansion not only has a separate garrison, but also an armory, grain warehouse, and even a separate water source, so even if the peripheral city falls into the hands of the enemy, as long as the city lord's mansion is not breached, then the whole city has a chance to turn defeat into victory.