Chapter 161: Attack on the Sultan Moro Kingdom
In the early morning of July 13, 1909, before the sky was bright, a thin layer of mist rose on the surface of the sea, and the huge fleet was hidden in the mist, looming, like a fairyland. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info fleet soon on Davao Island in Davao Bay. The capital of the Sudanese Moro is located on the coast of Davao Bay, where the soil is fertile, the climate is pleasant, and the products are abundant, and the main population of the Sudanese Moro is concentrated around the Davao Gulf.
As long as the economy of the Sultan Moro is crops, rice, sugar cane, rubber, and gold and silver, the whole country is quite rich.
The Sultan Moro was an early feudal society, and its social structure consisted mainly of three classes: hereditary nobility (Dato), freemen, and slaves. The Sultan was both the supreme ruler of the world and the leader of religion. Before the Spanish invasion of the Philippines, Sulu was one of the more socio-economically developed countries in the region, with extensive political and economic ties with China and surrounding countries.
When the Spanish invaded in the 16th century, they called the people in the area "Moro" and "Morolan", which means "the place of the Moro". Later, due to the activities of Spanish missionaries, ****** were killed, and Mororan was reduced to what is now the southern Philippines.
In the 17th century, when the Qing Dynasty replaced the Ming Dynasty in China, the Sultanate was a descendant of the King of the East, who wanted to rely on China to defend itself against the encroachment of the Spaniards. In 1726 (the fourth year of the Yongzheng reign of the Qing Dynasty), the Sultan of Sulu sent a "tribute" to re-establish the "vassal" relationship with China; In 1731, the Sultan of Sulu personally "came to court" and paid homage to the tomb of King Sulu Dong; In 1733, the Sultan wrote to Yongzheng at the request of the descendants of the Eastern King who guarded the tomb in Dezhou, hoping to grant these people Chinese nationality, which was approved.
In 1753 (the eighteenth year of Qianlong), the "old sultan" of Sulu submitted a "Please Accept the Chart Text", requesting that his land and households be incorporated into the Chinese territory, because Sulu was bullied by Spain in every way, and he was invincible in strength and weakness, and hoped to rely on China to seek refuge. However, at this time, Qianlong was pursuing a policy of seclusion and seclusion, and Sulu's request to become "China's inherent territory" was finally politely declined, but the "vassal" relationship between the two sides was still maintained. In 1851, the Spanish occupied the ancient capital of Sulu, Ho Le, and the shipping route between Sulu and China was cut off.
As the fleet sailed into the island of Samar, the fleet continued its journey towards Horaku. At noon, the fleet was getting closer and closer to Lecheng, and along the way, the fleet cleared many small patrol boats of the Sultanate that wanted to escape.
The fleet of the Chinese Navy suddenly broke into this sea area, disturbing the peaceful life of the Moro fishermen at once. Several huge warships rampaged through the harbor, ramming many Moro fishing boats, and the Moro fishermen who fell into the water and struggled were blinded by the sudden and unknown fleet, and were even more frightened by the warships like small hills, and then, as they came to their senses, there was soon a shout of scolding.
Sun Hao, Yang Dingtian, Li Ruolan, Wang Xiaoshan, the commander of the guard battalion, and others who stood on the bow of the flagship ship of the Warrior, saw the scene of those Moro fishermen struggling in the sea, and they did not feel that they were embarrassed. In the eyes of several of them, these Moro people were like ants.
Although Yang Dingtian's family is not in Hele, but in Old Lanmian Island, Yang Dingtian knows these Moro people very well, and they are reading what kind of charity Allah is in their mouths, in fact, the male|thief|female|prostitute who secretly has a belly is not a good person at all, and the Chinese living in Hele are not less bullied by these Moro people. Now seeing the scene of these Moro people struggling in the water, Yang Dingtian's heart was full of happiness.
Wang Xiaoshan saw the Moros struggling in the water, so he gave the order to shoot them, and for these Moros, Wang Xiaoshan and the others felt that it was better to send them to Allah as soon as possible.
Bang! Bang! Bursts of gunfire were heard on the sea, and at the same time, the tranquility of the harbor was broken. When the sea was full of Moro corpses, blood stained the bay. When the Moro fishermen in the distance saw it, they all panicked and fled in a panic.
Sun Hao stood on the bow of the battleship Warrior and watched the Moro people being shot and killed by his own troops, and he didn't feel anything wrong at all. Originally, this era is the law of the forest of the weak and the strong, and if the Chinese nation wants to rise, it can only step on the bones of other nations and keep moving forward, and only in this way can the Chinese in Nanyang rise. Otherwise, the Chinese in Nanyang will never be able to change the situation of being oppressed by the colonizers and the local natives, and they will lead the Nanyang Chinese to step on the natives and the Moro people..... The corpses of Western colonizers rose up.
It is the largest city in the Moro Kingdom of Sudan and the capital of the Moro Kingdom of the Sudan, and the city is a city built on the seaside, with a population of about 200,000, and the population of this city is almost half the size of the Moro people.
In this era of extremely backward transportation, there are no railways, roads, only ships, so many countries like to build cities by the sea to facilitate the transportation and circulation of goods. In this backward era, it is much more convenient for the city to be built on water, but it is also convenient for the enemy's navy to attack, and in the absence of enough naval strength to resist the enemy, such a city is undoubtedly like a beautiful woman stripped naked, as if waiting for the invaders to ravage her.
And Hele City is like this, the entire city is basically within the range of the warships of the Chinese Navy. Although the city was the capital of the Sultan Moro, the walls were very low, like a fence surrounded by vegetable farmers, and such walls could not withstand the shelling of warships.
The architecture of the city has a strong western flavor, the buildings in the city, the rich live in the castle, and the poor civilians only live in low thatched huts, there are a large number of temples in the city, the whole city looks disorganized, without any planning and beauty.
Sun Hao saw the city through the telescope and felt very funny, such a city would not need to be bombed by naval artillery, and it would be completely possible to land and fight directly, so as not to waste shells. However, the commander-in-chief of this war was Long Wenshan, and Shen Jun and Wang Hongliang were only deputies to cooperate with the army's landing operations. Sun Hao is not easy to interfere with, in the face of such an opponent, as long as he is not a fool, he can successfully defeat this Sultan Moro country.
The 3rd Army's 200,000 men had already been divided into several groups, and the First Fleet escorted them to their respective targets. The attack was on the 20th Division of the Third Army, and the forces of the Sultan Moro could not withstand the attack of the 20th Division at all.
After Wang Hongliang received Long Wenshan's order to bombard Helecheng, he immediately issued a battle order. The guns of the Warrior's flagship, the Pioneer, began to adjust their upward direction, and the gunners began to get busy.
"Fire!" Wang Hongliang gave the order to open fire with an expressionless face.
One battleship, two battle cruisers' naval guns showed their hideous muzzles, boom! Rumble! Orange-red flames began to shine, and cannonballs smashed towards Hele City with a sharp tiger roar.
Rumble! Rumble! More than 10 shells smashed into Lehe City, and there was a violent explosion. Not a single living creature could be seen within a few tens of meters of the shell explosion, and the building was destroyed.