Chapter 316: Sulu IV

Just as Xu Dong despised the King of the West, Wang Yangming and Zhu Houhuang did not take it to heart.

Wang Yangming is how to tie the future King of Sulu to the ship of Daming. And Zhu Houhuang was on the boat watching how the fleet attacked Hele Island.

"Boom," an explosion sounded above the sea.

In Zhu Houhuang's sight, a small black dot quickly disappeared and smashed into the seawater, causing a wave of rushing water.

King Xi is not without any ability.

As soon as the fleet approached the island of Horaku, it was discovered. The King of the West immediately sent a ship to meet him.

Since he had already decided to destroy the King of the West, he didn't give him a chance to talk at all. As soon as it approached, it immediately fired. Sulu's ships were originally very rudimentary, there was no way to compare with the ships of the Ming Dynasty, and there was no way to compare with the ships of the Francophiles, although the cannons were fired from a distance, as if it was a demonstration, and dozens of cannons fired in unison, but several shells had already hit Sulu's ships.

Where did Sulu's ships withstand the onslaught of cannonballs, and a single cannon smashed the ships out of a large hole. The sea gurgled and poured in.

Where have the Sulu people seen such a situation, such firepower is also the first rate in the world, and Sulu, as a small country in the South Seas, simply cannot withstand such a fierce firepower bombardment.

The rumbling sound of cannons came from afar, like thunder, and this kind of power was enough to make those Nanyang natives who had never seen the world frightened their souls. Plus the unstoppable power of the shells. Immediately, I thought that the morale of the soldiers of the king of Sulu West had hit below zero.

Almost under three rounds of artillery fire, all of them turned around and fled in the direction of Hele Island.

Behind him, the Yongguo fleet lined up, like a city wall on the sea, heading west. The target is the port of Harmony Island, Harmony Town.

"What's going on?" The king of the west, who was dressed in a white robe, couldn't believe the situation in front of him.

In his memory, the envoys of the Ming Dynasty generally did not use force easily, unless it was those vassal states who really didn't know how to lift and had to kick their noses in the face.

King Xi recalled what he had done in Zamboanga, and said secretly in his heart: "I haven't done it to this point, besides, I'm not already soft, and besides, before the Ming Dynasty starts, won't he first read out the guilt and punish the Ming canon?" How could you play such a surprise attack? ”

There are too many things to think about, but King Xi also knows that now is not the time to think about this, and he must block the attack of the Ming people, so that he can have the opportunity to talk about the future, and have the opportunity to say something else.

"Order all the warriors of the tribe to assemble, and all the people on the ship to go ashore, all ashore." King Xi is also a very wise person, judging from the situation on the sea, they are definitely not the opponent of the Ming army in naval battles, so putting the Ming army on land to fight is the best and last choice.

King Xi secretly said in his heart: "The Ming army is only a dozen ships, although the ships are a little bigger, but it is not, the whole army will not exceed seven or eight thousand people, I will bring all the strong men of my West King Department here, I don't believe it, and I will crush you to death." ”

With the order of the king of the west, one by one the conch horns sounded, and the whining sound went down the wind in the sea breeze, and it came far and wide.

Bands of soldiers came rushing from all directions. But the soldiers' equipment was a little chilling. First of all, none of them had shoes, not even a single clog. The skin was dark, and several of them were dressed in large robes similar to those of Arabia, but most of them were draped in green leaves, and the patchwork of leaves was their Sulu-characteristic clothing.

Perhaps because Sulu is located in the tropics, the daily temperature is very high, so it is reasonable that people here are dressed coolly. But even more inconspicuous than their clothes are their weapons.

Their weapons were not iron, but bronze, and even bronze was not fully popular, and many of the soldiers simply held a long wooden stick in their hands, but their heads were sharpened.

The soldiers who abandoned the ship and went ashore, and the warriors gathered around them, huddled together in the open space in front of the Hele Wharf.

Xu Dong sneered and said, "Move forward, fire." ”

Because of the high-quality geographical environment of Hele Port, these dozen ships docked one after another, the cannons roared, and one by one, like a small black dot, quickly shrank from Zhu Houhuang's eyes, and at the same time, in the eyes of the Xiwang soldiers on the shore, the cannonballs quickly exaggerated from a small black dot.

It seems to be very slow, but it is actually very fast, and it hits the sand in an instant.

The soft sand ground absorbed the kinetic energy of the shells, and most of the shells smashed a crater in the sand, and did not form a ricochet. However, there were also a lot of shells, hitting the crowd, and in an instant, a flesh alley opened.

The sound of panicked shouts rang out in an instant, and countless sounds were mixed together, like the sound of waves crashing against rocks. In the midst of these panicked shouts, the people who were hit by the artillery in front wanted to retreat, and the people behind did not know what was going on, and wanted to rush forward.

The biggest advantage of the Franc cannon is its fast rate of fire, which is brought into full play at this moment, but in just a short time, ten rounds were fired in a row, and all the subsystems were knocked out again.

Such a rapid fire fired hundreds of shells, although the power of the solid shells was not great, and because of the sand, it could not be shaped into a ricochet, and the possibility of secondary damage was extremely low. Generally speaking, in Zhu Houhuang's opinion, the lethality is unsatisfactory, but the department of the West King, to say that it is the private soldiers of the West King, to say that it is not good, it is the wild man on the desert island, where has he seen such a scene of a hundred cannons firing at once, and the flesh and blood alleys that have been beaten out, it is even more unbearable.

One screamed and fled, and the rest of the people turned into a chain reaction, and the whole formation began to avalanche.

They didn't have to land, they were all clean.

Xu Dong sneered: "Dealing with such an enemy, it's really invincible, go forward, let the jumping helper go down first and clean up the dock." Then bring the boat up. ”

It's not that Xu Dong underestimates them, he doesn't even have the most basic common sense, he really doesn't know if it's stupidity or courage to fight under his cannon, just run away, don't even destroy the dock, keep the enemy, and I don't know what kind of thinking he has in his heart.

The jumping helpers on more than a dozen ships can raise about one or two thousand people, but most of these two thousand people are short-term soldiers, and they go ashore, some of them go out to guard, and the other part is on the ship, and the other part is on the ship, and the Franco's machine guns are brought down.

Fortunately, Zhu Houhuang had already shot the artillery car, otherwise he wouldn't know how to get these guns in.

Just when the Yongguo sailor was slowly preparing to fire on the dock, the king of the west was furious.

The king of the west can always press the king of the east to fight, and he is also a capable person, at least the king of the east cannot gather more than 10,000 strong men to fight in a hurry, and this ability to act is enough for him to defeat the king of the east.

King Xi is invincible in the small quagmire of Sulu, and he has already developed an arrogance in his heart, and when he encounters today's defeat, he is afraid of the strength of the Ming army while being unwilling.

He first asked everyone to retreat and repair, and after a major rout, without a day or two of repairing, these people simply did not have the courage to go to the battlefield again.

He called a man over and ordered: "Go to the west and give an order, let everyone go out to sea, go around the coastline to the docks, and kill them in the middle of the night." ”

"Yes." Immediately I went to deliver the message.

The king of the West stood on a high place and looked down on the harbor, but found that ropes were tied to the gun carriage, which was firmly fixed, and then put on the trestle little by little, and it took a while to put down a cannon.

King Xi breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and said secretly: "Look at them like this, before dark today, you can't transport the artillery down, and the chance of victory or defeat is tonight." ”

As soon as King Xi thought of this, a cold light burst out in his eyes, he turned around and went down, and began to appease all the soldiers, to sort out these routs as soon as possible, if it is okay to sneak attack around the sea tonight, then there will also be cooperation here, and give the Ming army a flank attack inside and outside.