A Ming cruiser that charged to the death brought disaster to the Crusaders. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Like a rhinoceros, it crashed into the bay's more than a hundred armed merchant ships, ignoring the cannonballs that rained at it like a storm, and frantically firing the flames from hell at the merchant ships laden with infantry, until it was blasted to pieces by cannon fire from all directions.

But before sinking, it sent ten armed merchant ships to the bottom of the sea.

And there were two thousand infantry on it.

In the end, less than two hundred were rescued, and more than three thousand, including sailors, made its funeral offerings.

Admiral Bank sighed helplessly.

"What about the cruiser that escaped?"

He asked with a gloomy face.

"Escaped, our frigate caught up with it, but it sank another one, and the rest did not dare to continue the pursuit, and the battleship could not catch up after it arrived."

A general beside him said.

"What kind of enemy are we facing?"

Admiral Bank muttered to himself.

In any case, he had no room to retreat, and the remaining merchant ships headed south and landed on a coast near Malacca, without the Ming army in the city coming out to block the beachhead.

Qin Yan is not stupid, the Ming army's defensive ability has been tested by the blood of hundreds of thousands of Qing soldiers, it can be said that as long as there are sufficient supplies, I am afraid that there is no army in this world that can break through the fortress defended by the Ming army, not to mention that the current Ming army has all been replaced with breech guns, and the arsenal in Malacca City is piled up with enough ammunition for him to fight for a year, so why run out of the city? Stay comfortable inside the walls and wait for the enemy to come to your door.

However, the landing Crusaders did not attack directly.

In fact, it is impossible for them to attack directly, such a landing is not a regular port landing, their artillery, ammunition, and all kinds of supplies have to be unloaded by docks, so the first thing the Crusaders who landed on the ground is to build barracks, build simple docks, and even build roads. All in all, the Five-Power Alliance, consisting of 13,000 Dutch, 2,000 Austrian, 2,000 Portuguese, 500 Savoy, and 500 Spanish, had to act as builders before destroyers.

Yet they don't know that every day they procrastinate here is building a ladder for themselves to hell.

Lin Hong's fleet was sailing north at full speed on the other side of Sumatra, six hundred miles away from them, ready to block their retreat and the road to transport supplies from Colombo. On the same day that the fleet arrived at the port of Padang, on the sea east of Mataram, the two battleships Dinghai and Zhenhai with three cruisers made a 180-degree turn, and then returned the same way to prepare to go north to the southern entrance of the Strait of Malacca, to block the crusaders' southward path. Almost on the same day, more than 3,000 miles away from the Strait of Malacca, Cam Ranh Bay, four cruisers urgently set sail and anchored and headed directly to the same destination as the Dinghai formation.

At the same time, two steam-powered patrol ships sailed out of the port, spitting billowing smoke and heading north at full speed at fourteen knots.

When the First Legion of the Crusaders ......

Well, that's just nice to hear, they really only have this one legion, and they only have two Dutch brigades and two regiments plus two battalions, which together are called one legion, but there is no second legion, although the Church does want the nations to form a second legion, but unfortunately the whole of Europe is busy fighting each other at this time. In Northern Europe, there was the Great Northern War between Charles XII and Russia and Saxony, and in the south there was the War for the Spanish Throne that swept the whole of Western Europe.

So there was only the First Legion of the Crusaders.

After another storm and a wait for a shipment of artillery from Colombo, the five-nation coalition launched a formal assault on the city of Malacca ten days after landing.

Just as they were pushing a cannon and marching in a neat column towards the city of Malacca, a patrol ship spewing billowing smoke, in a stunned gaze, almost brushed a merchant ship leaving the port, crashed into the port of Fuzhou, and before the ship could stop, an officer wearing a uniform with an urgent number jumped onto the dock, grabbed the horse of a nearby person and shouted an urgent military situation and went straight to the garrison.

Ten minutes later, in the special telegraph room of the garrison house, a female telegraph operator pressed the button of the transmitter.

The intermittent current passed through the special copper wires erected on poles together with the civilian lines, and crossed the three provinces in a very short time under the relay of the batteries of the telegraph rooms along the way, and then turned into perforated notes in the telegraph rooms of the General Staff, and then the telegraph operators translated them into text according to the special code book, and then sent them to the Intelligence Department, and then to the hands of Chen Lie, the chief of the General Staff, who did not hesitate to go straight to the palace after reading the contents.

"How dare the Dutch come?"

Emperor Yang, who was wearing a white coat and lying in front of a microscope with a group of old Chinese medicine doctors, introducing schistosomiasis to them, was stunned for a moment.

Now he doesn't play with the breeding base, the palace has become a public health science base, especially the schistosomiasis problem is the top priority he is grasping now, he is not the emperor He has not been stimulated much, he only felt the power of this small insect after taking the two lakes, even if he is called a fairy, he has to admit that this thing is more powerful than the gods, and now the Ministry of Health of the Ming Dynasty is waging a full-scale war with this small insect, and Emperor Yang is promoting the snail as an evil thing in those temples that worship him through the Jinyi Wei system, Call on believers to launch a large-scale snail eradication operation.

It is said that he can't make praziquantel, so he can only take this way.

"Your Majesty, according to the information sent back from the South Seas, not only the Dutch, but also Spain and Portugal, there are also two flags, one of which is a black double-headed eagle, and the other is a red shield and a white cross with a crown."

Chen Lie said.

"Double-headed eagle? The Habsburgs? They actually came to this troubled water? Who is the other one? House Savoy? Why is there such a mess coming out? It seems that the Dutch are also out of the way for the sake of the Spice Islands, since they are here, don't go, it just so happens that we are short of big livestock here, so we order the Nanyang Fleet to go south immediately, and then let the Beiyang Fleet divide eight cruisers to also go south to support, isn't the navy two new sail warships? Let's drive over and train the soldiers together! ”

Yang Feng said.

"Your Honor."

Chen Lie hurriedly said.

"Also, Your Majesty, according to intelligence, there are four battleships in the fleet of the Dutch that are very new, and it can be said that they are not at all as if they had experienced a voyage of thousands of miles, but as if they had just been put into service."

Then he added.

"Well, it seems that our British friends also played a very disgraceful role in this war, in that case, then tell Luo Zhang, after defeating the Dutch, don't stop anymore, directly kill the Strait of Malacca, and take all the Dutch colonies in Tianzhu, since the British don't give us face, we don't have to give them face anymore!"

Yang Feng said with a sneer.

The four battleships of the Dutch do not need to be guessed to know that they must have been the four built by the British for themselves.

This is not surprising, the fisherman's profit is their most reasonable choice, in the past, the Netherlands was strong and weak at sea, and they sold their warships without pressure, but now it has become a strong Ming and the Netherlands is weak, then they naturally want to sell warships to the Dutch, and when the time comes, the snipe and mussels compete for their fishermen's profits. Unfortunately, this time it was not the sandpiper clam fighting, but a crocodile and a river mussel, and he would unceremoniously swallow the Dutch river mussel as an appetizer, and as for the next meal, it would have to be the British.

"It's time for our territory to be thoroughly cleaned up, and this is really a godsend!"

Emperor Yang finished speaking very casually, and then ran to continue to study schistosomiasis with those old Chinese medicine doctors.

"What a godsend!"

In the distant city of Shenyang, Yinzhen, or His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, was also saying in the same tone.

Standing in front of him was the Archbishop of the Diocese of China, Xu Risheng, who had come to inform him that the Crusaders of the European Brothers had begun to attack Malacca in time, and that they would be able to reach the coast of Canton in a month at most, and then this fleet would completely blockade the coast of the Ming Dynasty, send all the navy that Yang Feng relied on to the bottom of the sea, and at the same time go north to assist him in attacking wherever he wanted to attack.

Coastal places, of course.

Then let more eastern lands be completely bathed in the glory of the Lord, and even help him to counterattack and regain his country, avenge his dead father and brothers, and rescue his mother and brother who were being ravaged in Jiyuan, and of course, the main thing is to let the whole of China hear the gospel of the Lord.

"No, no, Your Excellency, with our current strength is not enough to do this in the short term, so we will not attack the Sekinai, but I think His Majesty the Pope must very much hope that the Gospel of the Lord can also be heard in another place."

Yin Zhen said.

Even if his brain is kicked by a donkey, he will not attack Beijing, he knows his strength very well, although it is not what it used to be, but with 40,000 new troops, it is a joke to want to counterattack and recapture Jiangshan, he can't open a Shanhaiguan alone, not to mention that now the size of the Ming army has expanded several times compared to the early years, and he may be able to try to compete with Yang Feng if he gives him an army of 400,000.

40,000 is still a province!

But you can't compete with Yang Feng, but you can take the opportunity to attack another place!

"Your Majesty, where are you talking about?"

Xu Risheng asked suspiciously.

"Here!"

Yin Zhen patted the map and said. (To be continued.) )