Chapter 153: A Lot of Big Cattle
The next scene was like a reenactment of the Battle of the Yangtze River Estuary, except that at that time, the Ming battleships smashed the Qing battleships one after another with heavy guns, but this time it was the cruisers who used rifled guns to set the Portuguese and Dutch fleet on fire one after another. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
And each firework that rises represents the destruction of a battleship.
This kind of cannonball is a completely insoluble killing weapon for a wooden battleship, and the raging phosphorus fire will turn a battleship of hundreds or thousands of tons into a blazing torch in the shortest possible time, no matter where this cannonball hits, it will not change this result, as long as it explodes on the battleship, then the rest is destruction. The Portuguese-Dutch sailors on the ships were terrified to fight the seemingly faint flame with all the tools they could find, but could only watch in despair as it suddenly turned into a flames that rose into the sky like a demon being unleashed on the wood or canvas.
The hapless Mork, his mind blanked, stood on his flaming flagship, and around him, the sailors with the flames on their bodies were screaming and jumping into the sea like crazy, and the burning canvas above his head was constantly falling.
"It's inexplicable!"
The fleet commander said with a wry smile.
At the same time, a flaming sail fell, right over his head.
And in the rear, the helmsmen of the Portuguese-Dutch battleships were spinning their wheels like crazy, trying to escape from this desperate battlefield and from the terrifying enemy, even though until now only one Ming cruiser was actually attacking them.
But it is precisely because of this that they also lose the opportunity to escape.
The other Ming cruisers that were still lined up in the battle line had turned to disband their formations, passing through the burning Portuguese-Dutch battleships to pursue the fleeing battleships, the speed of these cruisers was faster than the Portuguese-Dutch battleships that were actually most armed merchant ships, even if they could escape from the battlefield now, it would be useless, sooner or later they would still be caught up by these cruisers, and some sober-minded captains were already very clever in raising the white flag.
"What a great animal to accept their surrender!"
Luo Zhang said lightly.
The last batch of captured Dutch sailors, these years can be said to have made a great contribution to the construction of the Ming Dynasty, more than one-third of the coal in the Keelung coal mine was dug by them, and now most of them have been ransomed by their families from Europe to take the money, and the rest is estimated to be no one willing to redeem them, and now it is time to add a new batch, otherwise the Keelung coal mine still lacks coolies to work, compared to the black slaves, the brown slaves in Southeast Asia, the work efficiency of these white slaves is much higher.
Of course, mainly because the other two were eunuchs.
"Lord Admiral, the white flag has been raised in the fort!"
At this time, the chief of staff beside him shouted.
In the direction of Macao, which turned into a sea of fire in the distance, a white flag was rising at St. Paul's Fort, and it was obvious that Skina could not hold on, so he could only choose to surrender, at this time, there were only a few thousand Portuguese in total, and there was only a small block in total, which could withstand the destruction of forty pounds of heavy artillery, and if he did not surrender, he would have to be bombed into slag, although surrendering was not necessarily a good thing, but it was much better than dying here.
"Stop the shelling and order the Marines to land!"
Luo Zhang said.
Immediately after the Ming ships stopped shelling, the accompanying troop carriers stepped forward, put down the boat on the channel in front of the A-Ma Battery, and landed on the shore full of fully armed Ming soldiers, the Portuguese guarding the fort had long been frightened by the ferocity of the Ming army at sea, and walked out in line one by one, and the leading officer handed over his sword to the commander of the Ming army who landed on the ground. The Ming army left a small number of soldiers to take over the fort and guard the prisoners, leaving a total of more than a battalion of soldiers to move forward, taking over the St. Paul's Fort and the Songshan Fort respectively, and then Yan Min re-set foot on Macao, which had been unrecognizable.
"Your Excellency the Governor, we meet again."
Yan Min said to Shi Keina with a smile.
"How are you going to deal with us?"
Shikina said.
"Just like those Dutch sailors back then, go to Keelung to dig coal, when someone redeems you, you will be released, if there is no one to redeem you, you will dig there for the rest of your life."
Yan Min said.
"I protest, we are not pirates, we are legal immigrants from the Kingdom of Portugal."
Shikina shouted.
"Your Excellency, here we are the law, we have the right to determine who is legal and who is illegal, you should be glad that you still have such a little value, if you don't even have this value, then it may be the most reasonable thing to find an island without fresh water and throw you down to die.
Yan Min said with a smile.
Schina quickly shut up, as a Portuguese whose ancestors had made a fortune in pirates, he knew very well that this kind of thing was too commonplace.
Immediately afterwards, all the Portuguese in Macao were forced to board a transport ship under the bayonets of the Ming army and be sent directly to Keelung, as for all their property, this is a fine, as a fine for not paying land rent to the Ming Dynasty for more than 50 years, and Yang Wangye did not take the initiative to pay the fine after he came out. As for their families, if they marry Chinese women, then forget it, in fact, the vast majority of women who marry the Portuguese are Tan people, and it is impossible for the daughters of good families to marry these ghosts, only the daughters of these untouchables.
And the Ming Navy started by relying on the Tan people, and more than half of the officers in the Navy are still Tan families, of course, it is impossible to be too bad for these own people.
If it's a white wife, let's go to Keelung Coal Mine together!
Just when the Ming army cleaned up Macao, the Qing army in the former cottage abandoned the city and fled, although the strength of the Qing army was not weak, there were a total of 2,000 people stationed in Ma Bushui three armies, but after seeing the ferocity of the Ming army's artillery fire, the capital division still decided to take the best policy, saying that their small city of more than 10,000 square meters could not withstand a few 40 pound heavy artillery shells, at this time do not go and wait for the Ming army to do it, then it will not be able to go.
Luo Zhang did not pursue.
He took a total of two battalions of marines, and was not prepared to develop in depth at all, after taking over the former cottage, the Ming army quickly completed the defensive arrangement, and at the same time cleaned up Macao, which was just done, the Qing army from Guangzhou arrived, and there was also a deputy commander personally led the garrison of the Eight Banners. At this time, the Guangzhou general Lu Chongyao and the admiral Yin Huaxing were still on the front line in Zhejiang, and the governor Shi Lin who stayed in Guangdong was the son of Shi Tingzhu, who was the son of Shi Tingzhu in the white flag of the Han army, that is, Shi Wenbing's uncle who was beheaded by the Ming army for the first time in the Battle of Changguo.
As soon as he heard that the Ming army suddenly attacked Macao, Governor Shi was not good, but he knew very well that once these fierce gods and evil spirits took root in a certain place, they would immediately spread outward like a plague.
In order not to wake up from a nightmare at night, he pieced together all the troops he could mobilize as quickly as possible, and the Eight Banners, the Green Battalion, and the Yong Battalion were all packed and led by the remaining Dutong, with a total of 15,000 troops heading straight to Macao. Originally, it was planned that the Ming army would arrive before the attack, but because of the well-known efficiency problem, it was not until after Xiangshan that it encountered the defenders who retreated from the former cottage.
"Quick, go all out and recapture the former cottage!"
Lord Toto, who had never been on the battlefield, rode on a war horse and brandished his waist sword and roared heroically.
In front of him, the small, circular castle was close at hand.
The Qing soldiers who had never fought with the Ming army also rushed over like a tide with a ladder and muskets, just like the battle they imagined, carrying a ladder and carrying a musket, shouting and crashing into it, looking at the formation, it even made people wonder if this small castle would be overwhelmed by so many people at once, after all, it was too small, as small as those famous cities of the Warring States in the Wa Kingdom.
However, at this moment, there was a piercing roar in the sky, and then in the attacking Qing army, dozens of terrifying flames exploded, and the bodies of countless Qing soldiers were torn apart in the explosion and flew into the sky.
All the Qing troops almost subconsciously stopped, looking at the shocking craters with incredible eyes.
They didn't know that in the sky above their heads, a hot air balloon on the Ming army observer was using a signal flag to convey the new coordinates to the battleships on the sea, and on those battleships, an artilleryman was laboriously holding heavy heavy artillery shells into the barrel, and then one cannon after another was pushed out of the cannon door, and the next moment the blazing flames continued to spray out, and the shells of twenty-four or even forty-pound heavy guns whistled across the sky, once again hitting the attacking Qing army, and once again taking countless lives.
Suddenly, the Qing army collapsed.
I really can't blame them, after all, they are fighting these legendary enemies for the first time, and they are already very nervous, but they are very sad to hit the heavy guns of the battleship in the first battle, this thing is that those elite veterans of the Qing army can't stand it, not to mention their standard recruits.
All of a sudden, nearly 20,000 Qing troops herded sheep like that.
"Stop, go back, kill those who escape!"
Nadu Tong roared angrily, brandishing his waist knife and slashing at the defeated soldiers, and at this moment the third round of shells fell, and the explosion sound like the sky was cracking, and it was like a whip, driving those Qing soldiers back to the cannon without their lives. Just as he was about to cut down the next target, the fierce light flashed in the eyes of the regimental trainer with the word "brave" on his chest, and the spear in his hand slammed forward, which was piercing the neck of Dutong's horse, and the war horse stood up with a wail in pain, and Lord Nadutong threw it directly under the horse.
The defeated Qing army didn't look at it at all, and then a pair of big feet fell on Lord Dutong.
The man who had committed the rebellion threw his spear away like no one else, and then disappeared into the middle of the rout. (To be continued.) )