The city of Malacca was built on the sea, but its main city was located several miles from the sea, mainly to prevent the enemy from attacking from the sea, so that they could lay defenses in front of the main city and avoid causing the city too much damage. However, Malacca City was built to ignore one point, that is, the Malacca River next to it, when the tide rises, some large ships can take advantage of this opportunity to enter the river, and with the range of artillery, it can threaten the safety of Malacca City.

Alfonso had discovered this weakness in the city of Malacca during his last attempt, so in the second attack, he focused his attack on the Malacca River and did not rush to attack the rest of the port.

Alfonso first took advantage of the rising tide to command a part of the warships into the course of the Malacca River, and then relied on the advantage of artillery to move forward, and soon occupied the bridge over the river, which made the entire course of the Malacca River completely fall into his hands, although the Malacca people organized several counterattacks, and even sent the ace troops elephant soldiers, but their weapons were backward, in front of the sharp firearms of the Portuguese, the last could only leave a corpse, no effect at all.

After successfully occupying the Malacca River, Alfonso immediately organized the troops on the ship to disembark, except for a few defenders, most of the troops were thrown into both sides of the Malacca River, they first advanced along the river, and soon reached the Great Mosque opposite the river, which is the center of faith of the Kingdom of Malacca, so when Alfonso occupied this place, he met the resolute resistance of the Malacca people, and he himself suffered hundreds of casualties, and it took two days to completely occupy the mosque.

Alfonso did not expect to encounter such stubborn resistance. In particular, hundreds of casualties in mosques. It made him feel very distressed. After all, he only brought more than 1,500 soldiers this time, and the loss of 100 people was like someone having a piece of flesh cut off for him.

Alfonso was a strong-willed man, and his own casualties only made him angrier, so in the next war, he completely vented this anger on the Malacca. As long as the Malaccans appeared in front of their army, both soldiers and civilians would be killed by them, although doing so would make the Malaccan resistance more fierce, Alfonso believed that in the face of his absolute strength, the Malaccans had no chance of victory.

At the time of the life-and-death battle between the Portuguese and the Malacca, in the southeast of the city of Malacca, that is, on the north side of the exit from the eastern end of the Straits of Malacca, this is the southernmost point of the Malay Peninsula, and the location is probably similar to that of Singapore in later generations, but it is still only a wasteland. There is simply no one living here at all.

However, just a few days ago, the army led by Zhou Zhong personally arrived here from Daming. Then they were quietly stationed on this deserted beach, and no one was allowed to leave the place except to send some disguised boats out to inquire about the news, and if any passing merchant ships discovered their fleet, they would be seized immediately, at least until they attacked the Portuguese.

On the wide deck of the Nanyang, Zhou Zhong was lying on a bamboo chair bare-chested, with a large umbrella on his head to block the sun, and he was shaking his fan while drinking cool juice, but even so, he still felt extremely hot, after all, this is the equatorial region, and it happened to be summer, when the sun was directly shining on the equator, Zhou Zhong estimated that the outside temperature was at least forty degrees or more, and it might even be higher.

Originally, after the ship docked, Zhou Chong wanted to camp on the shore to rest, after all, there is a dense forest on the shore, which will always make people feel cooler, but after he really camped on the shore, he found that the shore is not a place for people to live, because this is a barren beach, and the dense forest is full of poisonous insects and mosquitoes and flies, especially those mosquitoes that drink blood, each of which is an inch long, if there is no protection at night, it can simply drink the blood of the whole body.

It is also the harsh environment on the shore, Zhou Chong would rather stay on the boat to bask in the sun, than go to the shore to feed the mosquitoes, after all, the sea breeze on the ship is relatively strong, and the mosquitoes on the shore can't come up, but it's too hot, so Zhou Chong usually doesn't care about any image, and he is naked all day long like those big-headed soldiers, and only wears a pair of big pants on the lower body.

Compared with Zhou Chong's leisure, the soldiers in the army have to suffer more, because even in this hot weather, they can't rest, but still have to practice, because Zhou Zhong needs them to adapt to this extreme weather as soon as possible, otherwise they can't even adapt to the weather, let alone fight, so after arriving here, Shen Ying and Chang Xiao and others have not relaxed their drills, of course, in order to prevent the soldiers from suffering from heat stroke, the morning drill time was advanced, and the afternoon drill time was postponed. This staggers the hottest time of day.

"The weather on this dog day, even if I spend money to invite me in the future, I won't come, it's just a life!" Zhou Zhong drank the remaining juice in the cup in one gulp, then turned over and sat up to wipe his sweat. Now just after noon, it is the hottest time of the day, the soldiers on the ship after lunch, many people because of the heat can not stand it, have stripped off their clothes and swim in the sea to cool down, from time to time someone jumped directly from the deck into the sea, splashing a large white spray, attracting many people below to scold.

Zhou Zhong looked at the soldiers swimming around in the sea, his eyes were full of envy, in his previous life he fell into the sea and drowned, until now he has an inexplicable fear of the sea, and he has never been able to learn to swim, so no matter how hot the weather is, he does not dare to go to the sea, at most he wades on the beach, but it can't cool down at all.

At this moment, suddenly there was a sound of footsteps on the deck, and then Zhou Zhong saw Wu Shan coming over and said, "My lord, that Malacca envoy is clamoring to see you again, do you want to see him?" ”

Zhou Chongyi couldn't help but have a headache when he heard the news. When they came, they happened to meet the tribute ship sent by the Kingdom of Malacca to Daming on the road, and Shen Ying felt that they needed someone who was familiar with the terrain of the port of Malacca, so Zhou Chong stopped the ship, and after reporting his official position, he told the story of the Portuguese attack on Malacca, and the young Baman envoy immediately agreed to come back with Zhou Chong as a guide, and repeatedly prayed that Zhou Chong must save the Kingdom of Malacca from fire and water, to which Zhou Chong naturally agreed.

However, after taking this envoy, Zhou Chong and they quickly regretted it, because they soon met the fleet led by Sun Pinghai, Sun Pinghai and they had just left the port of Malacca, and they were very familiar with the terrain and situation there, so they didn't need Baman as a guide at all, and Baman cared about his country and relatives, and kept urging Zhou Chong to help Malacca quickly, but Zhou Chong had his own plans, so he had been reluctant to send troops, and as a result, Baman came to annoy him every day.

Originally, if it was someone else, Zhou Chong would have locked up the other party a long time ago, but Baman was a tributary messenger, and Zhou Chong didn't dare to do anything with him, Baman also knew this, so he clamored to see him every day, and he was also very smart, every time he saw Zhou Chong, he cried and pretended to be pitiful, begging Zhou Chong to send troops quickly, if Zhou Chong chased him, he would not be entangled, but he would continue to cry the next day, anyway, it was Zhou Chong's dead skin and face sticky.

Thinking of that Baman's crying skills, Zhou Chong was angry and hateful, and gritted his teeth and said, "No, let him stay cool!" ”

Wu Shan heard Zhou Chong's order but said with a wry smile: "My lord, you should see him, that Baman is a hard bone, last time because you didn't see him, he had already jumped over the sea once, fortunately he was rescued by our people, but he almost drowned, if he jumped into the sea again this time, in case he died in our army, it would be difficult to explain to the court!" ”

If the envoy of a country dies in Zhou Chong's army, even if it is suicide, Zhou Chong will have to bear a certain responsibility, and he may even be impeached by the imperial history, after all, he is a young man, and many people in the court and the central government do not like him, and a small mistake may be caught, not to mention such a major event as the death of the envoy, so Zhou Chong does not dare to really let Baman die in front of him.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhong had to sigh helplessly and said, "Okay, let that Baman come to the deck!" ”

After hearing this, Wu Shan agreed, and immediately turned around to inform the Baman envoy, and after a while, he saw Wu Shan coming over with a dark and thin young man, who was the Baman envoy who happened to pass by the Portuguese.

When the Baman envoy saw Zhou Chong, he immediately walked a few steps with red eyes, and then suddenly knelt down in front of Zhou Chong and cried: "Lord Admiral, save your life, millions of subjects of my Kingdom of Malacca are now in dire straits, only Lord Admiral can lead the army to catch up with those brutal Portuguese, and please send troops quickly to save our country from fire and water!" ”

Not again. Zhou Zhong sighed in his heart, every time this Baman saw him, he cried and made trouble, and he started with this paragraph, and he almost recited it now. However, although he was impatient in his heart, he still had to put on a smile on his face and said: "Baman envoy please hurry up, this admiral has brought a large army here to aid your kingdom, but the time has not yet come, so I can only wait here for the opportunity!" ”

Hearing that Zhou Zhong was prevaricating himself with the excuse that the time had not yet arrived, Baman couldn't help but feel annoyed, and blurted out at the moment and asked: "My lord, you always say that the time has not come, so when will you be able to send troops?" ”

For Baman's questioning, Zhou Chong's face immediately sank, and he just wanted to say that he had the final say on the timing of the troops, and he didn't need outsiders to worry about it. But at this moment, there was suddenly another rush of footsteps, and then Shen Ying, who saw her beard and white hair, ran over and shouted excitedly: "My lord, the spies have sent information, and the time we have been waiting for has finally arrived!" (To be continued......)