The sudden thunderous sound of Xiangshan Aoli woke up the Portuguese who had already been entrenched.

Governor Schpaul ascended to the castle without a clairvoyant mirror, and had already seen a sea of fire in Xiangshan Oli, and in the constant flashing artillery fire, he saw that the warships flying the Portuguese flag were surrounded by groups, some had sunk, some were docked by countless small boats, and many soldiers had boarded the ships to slash and slash.

The desperate Portuguese fleet was surrounded by numerous warships, many Chinese galleons, but also some very striking galleons, especially a few that were clearly the most advanced in the West.

He even saw a battleship with three full gun decks in the light of that cannon fire.

And when he saw from the firelight that the battleship was actually flying the sun and moon flags, Schpaul was speechless. He finally remembered the information he had received earlier, a righteous son of the Ming Emperor, a newly emerged commander of the empire in recent years, who was extremely capable of fighting, in less than a year, the young marquis who had exterminated more than a dozen rebels on the battlefield of the Central Plains of the empire was inspecting the southeast coast of the empire, and Zheng Zhilong, a naval general who had also risen in the Ming Empire in recent years, led a fleet to listen to his dispatch.

The young marquis and the pirate-born young Qinghai army general had recovered Taiwan, Spain surrendered, and the Netherlands were defeated.

"That's the Batavia, the Dutchman's Batavia!" A naval officer's fingers trembled as he pointed to the giant ship in the bay with nine heads and strange snakes.

The giant battleships with three full gun decks, even in the navies of the whole of Europe, are quite famous, and their number is limited. In the East Indies, there would have been no more than ten such battleships, and this ship, for the officer who had seen the Batavia, was naturally recognizable at a glance.

Although the Batavia has changed ships. But the intricate and beautiful carvings on the bow of the ship have not been replaced. These carvings are also the habit of various countries today, the larger the warship, the more intricate and beautiful and expensive decoration, and basically these famous ships, each ship decoration is unique.

But now this famous warship of the Dutch East India Company has been painted with nine heads and a strange snake ship, and it is still flying the flag of the Ming Dynasty.

"Our battleship is out, can we save them?" SchPaul asked.

The naval officer shook his head helplessly, "Don't talk about going to the fleet now, it's our ships in the harbor." Also blocked. If the Ming army takes advantage of the situation to bombard the port, our ship will not be able to escape sinking. ”

These words were like a cannonball falling on his heart, and Sch Paul's heart ached.

"Oh no, no." A soldier ran up and shouted.

"The Ming army, the Ming army of the brigade appeared in the north, at least thousands of people, and they also carried many cannons. Cannons are already being erected, and it looks like they are going to bombard the city. ”

Sderot hurriedly ran to the north of the city wall. Looking from afar, sure enough, there was also a fire in the north.

The Trench Mirror is not really an island, but a peninsula. To the north is connected to Xiangshan County in Guangdong, and even the moat mirror is actually a part of Xiangshan County.

Right now. Over there, it was a field of torches, and thousands of soldiers and horses suddenly appeared.

Rows and rows of artillery are being erected.

To the south, a powerful naval division attacked and annihilated their fleet of reinforcements and blocked their harbors. And now, there is another army in the north blocking them, and so many cannons are being pushed.

"Send someone to negotiate with the Ming officials. We paid them rent, we signed an agreement! They can't do that! ”

With a loud bang, a cannonball flew into the sky with dazzling sparks, and then fell towards the city like a dazzling meteor.

With a loud bang, the cannonball fell into the city, and then exploded, and the cannonball exploded when it was still more than a foot above the ground, and it didn't cause much damage, but the huge popping sound and the splattered lead bullet also shattered the roof tiles of a nearby house countless times.

"It's a flowering bomb!"

"Hit so far!"

Several officers shouted in shock.

"Blossom shells, siege artillery." Schpaul muttered, his face blank, and he had calculated that the shell had hit at least a thousand yards away. What a siege mortar it would have to be to throw such a large flowering shell into the castle.

"Shoot back, aim their artillery!" SchPaul shouted.

"Wait." The Macau Chief Justice stopped, "Your Excellency the Governor, you can't fight." ”

"Don't fight?"

"How do you fight now? The situation is already so obvious, now what we have to do is try not to anger the victorious Ming people. ”

SchPaul was stunned for a moment, then sighed. The chief justice was right, their reinforcement fleet was annihilated, and now that Macao was besieged, the strength of the Ming army was far beyond previous expectations, they had huge ships and cannons, and this battle could not be fought.

Several young officers said excitedly, "Are we going to surrender like this?" Are we going to hand over Macao like this? ”

"Don't be tempted, think of the thousands of civilians in the castle, your parents and your brothers and sisters." The chief justice said coldly.

Zhang Guowei, the governor of Guangdong and the governor of Guangdong, stood there, looking at the short-mouthed cannon like a copper needle, and easily threw a cannonball weighing more than 20 catties into the Trench Mirror City hundreds of steps away.

"What kind of cannon is this?" Zhang Guowei's excited lips were trembling.

"It's a Kamui cannon."

"This is also a new type of artillery from the Dutch in Taiwan?" Zhang Guowei asked.

Lu Fang shook his head and said with some pride, "Lord Hui, this Shenwei cannon was developed by our nine-headed bird ourselves, it can send more than 20 catties of flowering shells, the range can reach 700 steps away, and it is not afraid of the enemy's high walls and thick cities, it can be thrown directly into the city by curving over their city walls, and this cannonball is an explosive bomb, and it explodes a large area." ”

Zhang Guowei also led the army to participate in the suppression of bandits in the Central Plains, and he was also very familiar with the firearms of the Ming Dynasty, and he had also seen some mortars of the imperial court, which had never been so powerful, and it was simply not a weapon. So after he saw the power just now, he thought that he got it from the Westerners, but unexpectedly, this cannon was actually developed by the Chu army himself.

It's amazing, in his opinion, this cannon is no weaker than the siege cannon of the Westerners. It's even stronger, it can go around the city wall like a stone-throwing cart to hit the city, the only thing that is not as good as the cannon is that the range is shorter, but the distance of 700 steps is also quite amazing, not to mention the flowering shells fired by this Shenwei cannon, the foreigner's cannon can't shoot.

"It's terrible, if this cannon is captured, won't it be dangerous for my court to defend it in the future?" Zhang Guowei shouted, thinking of an important matter.

Lu Fang said disapprerovingly, "Don't be surprised, my lord." Even if the Tartars learn it, they are not afraid, we still have the city defense artillery fortress artillery, our new type of long cannon, of which the 32-pound cannon can hit 12 miles away, and the Tartar can not learn it. Even if he learns, he certainly won't be able to build as much as we do. There are only a few Tartars, all the soldiers and horses add up to only 60,000 people, and the entire Tartar clan is only 230,000 people. ”

Zhang Guowei turned around and looked at Lu Fang carefully, "So insightful." I can't imagine that the first artillery commander in the Chu army is also so knowledgeable, what military position are you now? ”

"Back to my lord, the younger one is the commander of the Third Artillery Company of the First Regiment of the Nine-headed Bird Artillery Brigade."

"What level of military attache is the commander of the artillery company, and what is the establishment of the brigade?"

"This is our artillery formation. This brigade company is actually a Westerner establishment, and the Hou Ye thinks it's good and uses it, and my company commander is equivalent to a general. ”

Zhang Guowei nodded, "Not bad." It is not easy to have such an insight. ”

"Your Excellency. You see, the white flag has been raised at the head of the Trench Mirror City, is this a surrender? Lu Fang suddenly shouted, Zhang Guowei hurriedly looked up, and sure enough, in the night, the waving white flag on the Trench Mirror Castle was so conspicuous.

Seeing the Portuguese raise the white flag and surrender, Zhang Guowei's heart was full of emotion.

In his opinion, the incomparably strong Trench Mirror Castle and the incomparably powerful Portuguese giant ship cannons were still only half a night before they were surrendered by the banner of the Marquis of Zhennan. In the past, he always heard how Zhennanhou was brave and able to fight, and he was resourceful, and he destroyed more than 100,000 bandits in half a year.

But at this time, he really admired Liu Jun.

It is conceivable that when Liu Jun recovered Taiwan, he must have defeated the Dutch and the British as the ship today, and finally they surrendered.

This Liu Jun is a natural god of war.

"The Portuguese raised their flag and surrendered." Zheng Zhilong reported to Liu Jun with a smile, and he also brought good news that the reinforcement fleet of the Portuguese had been captured by them, and even the two ships that were high-fived were towed away by them before they sank.

The two warships in the harbor, as well as the merchant ships, had also surrendered with the city's flag, and lowered their sails and raised the white flag.

"This time it was a big deal, seven four-masted double-decked seventy-four-gun battleships, nine armed merchant ships, twenty-one two-masted clippers, and more than fifty other small sailing ships. One of them had a merchant ship and a warship hit, but it could be repaired, and the Portuguese had a shipyard in the trenches, and they also had a cannon foundry, which was a big gain. ”

"This time, you and I each have three warships, the remaining one is for the Yangtze River Naval Division, and the other nine armed merchant ships, you and I have three each with the Yangtze River Naval Division, and the two brigs and we have nine each, three for the Yangtze River Naval Division, and the other small boats are divided between you and the Yangtze River Naval Division, how about it?"

Zheng Zhilong thought for a while, "The Yangtze River Naval Division is an inland river fleet, so it doesn't need a big warship, right?" ”

"You have to give them a flagship, don't you say?" Liu Jun said with a smile. He did not divide the four fleets equally, but divided the Beiyang and Zheng families, and the Zheng family's Nanyang and Dongyang were counted as one family. Although Zheng Zhilong was a little deficient in his heart, he didn't dare to put forward different opinions.

And on the other hand, in fact, his gains are also huge. If it weren't for cooperating with Liu Jun, Zheng Zhilong wouldn't dare to imagine that he could achieve such a result alone. Since following Liu Jun to sea, he has also obtained four large warships, nine armed merchant ships, and a lot of brigs and fast sailing ships, each of which is far more than his past three-masted gunboats, and in private, Zheng Zhilong doesn't know how many times he secretly laughed.

"The cannon foundry and shipyard belong to the imperial court, the cannon casting craftsmen belong to me, and the shipbuilders belong to you, how about it?" Liu Jun smiled and made a more tempting suggestion.

"I listen to Master Hou." Zheng Zhilong's heart was extremely excited. He had known that the Portuguese had a shipyard, and although they were only ordinary merchant ships, the shipbuilders in it were all from Europe. Although the scale of this shipyard is not too large, it is far from the Netherlands, which has the most developed shipbuilding industry at this time, it is said that the Dutch shipyard is already quite developed, and the shipyard can build a merchant ship in a day, I can't believe it. But consider that the Netherlands, a small country with just over 2 million people, had more than 16,000 large merchant ships. You can see how developed the shipbuilding industry in the Netherlands is.

With the European shipwrights in the trench mirror, the Zheng family can also build large merchant ships by themselves, and even build large warships.

Trench mirror, returned.

The infantry army in the north of the city took the lead in entering the city, and took over the city gate, city defense artillery, and various warehouses at the first time, and then the fleet entered the port, and Liu Jun, Zheng Zhilong, and Xiong Wencan, the three naval commanders, boarded the dock and entered the entrenchment city.

With the sunrise in the east, the sky also changed in the entrenchment mirror city.

The streets are full of people. Among the trench mirrors who came to greet Liu Jun and other officials. It's not all voluntary. Many people are even apprehensive, some of the grape people have lived here for generations, some Portuguese people are born and raised in the Trench Mirror, and some Chinese women have married the Trench Mirror Portuguese. These people used to think they were Portuguese, and some were called Australian children, in short, they were not pure Chinese.

But now, when the Portuguese consider themselves to be an autonomous city, it has been 'captured' by the Ming army. They don't know what fate awaits them.

Among the welcoming people were many Ming merchants who were doing business in the Trench Mirror, who were closely related to the port of Trench Mirror, and were worried that the imperial court would drive out the Portuguese and close this prosperous foreign trade port after recovering the Trench Mirror.

After Liu Jun entered the city. Zhang Guowei came to pay a visit.

Zhang Guowei is the governor of Liangguang and the governor of Guangdong, while Liu Jun is the governor of Huguang, but he also holds the title of Qincha of the military affairs of the southeast of the city. Naturally, he has to be inspected by Liu Jun.

As soon as they met, Zhang Guowei also asked Liu Jun the question that everyone was concerned about.

"What is the Hou Ye going to do with the Portuguese in the trench mirror?"

Liu Jun looked at the Governor's Palace in Macau and said with a smile. "In fact, it is very easy to deal with, the imperial court has previously decreed to fully open the sea ban and open trade and mutual markets with other countries. The Portuguese were also foreigners, and of course they could trade with the imperial court. ”

"But." Liu Jun's words changed. "Trade belongs to trade, and everything still has to be done according to the rules of the imperial court. The Dutch so-called lease of the moat, but in fact they built a castle here, stationed troops, and also stationed the governor, the prefect of Macao, the chief justice, the bishop, and elected the city council themselves, secretly regarded this place as an autonomous city, this is a country within a country, and we don't take the Ming Dynasty in their eyes at all. ”

"This kind of behavior is absolutely not allowed."

Zhang Guowei nodded, as soon as he took office, he immediately summoned the Portuguese in the trench mirror to meet, but they did not come at all.

"Then what does Master Hou plan to do? Now many people are watching the outcome of the imperial court's disposition, and some people are worried. ”

"What is there to be afraid of, but some profiteers who are in collusion with the interests of the Portuguese, ignore them. As for the Portuguese, the governors, magistrates, justices, bishops, councillors, and other officials of the so-called autonomous cities, all of whom were guilty of violating the laws of our Ming dynasty, were to be imprisoned and imprisoned, and all the Portuguese soldiers were to be held as prisoners of war. ”

"As for the rest of the Portuguese, especially those who grew up here, they can choose to stay or leave, but they will have to accept the laws of the Ming Dynasty in the future."

Liu Jun's meaning is very clear, one yard is one yard, and the Trench Mirror City must be recovered, but it is not necessary to drive the Portuguese away, and it is not necessary to cut off trade with them.

"In the future, the trench mirror was under the jurisdiction of the officials stationed in the imperial court and guarded by the imperial court garrison. Portuguese merchants were allowed to trade and their merchant ships were allowed to enter the port, but when they entered the port, the guns of the ships had to be closed, and the people on board were not allowed to carry weapons. They can rent the houses and warehouses of the Ming Dynasty, but they are not allowed to build their own houses, let alone build forts and fortresses. In short, the pattern of the past is impossible to happen again. ”

"In addition, businessmen from all over the world must also take the initiative to pay all tariffs in accordance with the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and there must be no evasion of tariffs."

Liu Jun said many things in a row, Zhang Guowei was surprised when he heard it, he didn't expect Liu Jun to be so tough on foreigners.

"I have sent people to Nanyang to inform Spain, the Netherlands, England and other countries to come to negotiate a trade exchange, and when they come, we will carefully negotiate a trade agreement, before that. If there are foreign merchants who come to trade, as long as they follow our rules, we can trade with them, and if there is any violation of the laws of the Ming Dynasty, they will be dealt with in accordance with the laws of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Liu Jun's words were quickly compiled into a detailed official notice, which was notified to the Portuguese in the trench mirror, as well as to the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, and quickly announced to other places along the coast.

With the publicity of the notice, the news that Liu Jun and Zheng Zhilong led the naval fleet to defeat the Spanish, Dutch, British, and Portuguese one after another also spread.

At the same time, many merchants of the Ming Dynasty also heard Liu Jun's official opinion on trade matters. After knowing that although the imperial court was at war with the Yiren, it was not to ban sea trade, but to fully open up commerce, the merchants breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, those maritime merchants were also secretly amazed by the strength of the imperial court's sailors, and they began to apply for permits from the imperial court's municipal shipping departments in various places, and no one dared to plan smuggling anymore.

With such a powerful fleet of sailors at sea, where to smuggle? Even the Zheng family's fleet became the imperial court's South and Eastern fleets. (To be continued......)

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