Chapter 759: The Acehnese in Action II

Sumatra, no, the official name of Dongyong, is called Jinzhou. There are countless rivers that flow from south to north.

And the Baxi River is one of them.

At the mouth of the Baxi River is the capital of the Kingdom of Sumatra. The port, which had been visited by Zheng He several times, was now in a state of gunsmoke.

The sailors sold by the Acehnese from the Franco-Rang Mans directly sank all the ships of Sumatra, and a large number of Acehnese troops attacked the land.

The city of Sumatra was besieged on all sides.

The Sultan of Aceh, cheered by countless people, rode around the city of Sumatra on a war elephant, and countless people cheered and jumped everywhere he passed.

"Send someone to persuade him to surrender and tell the king of Sumatra that if he surrenders, I will treat him well according to Allah, and if he does not surrender, he will be treated with the strictest treatment from me."

The king of Sumatra received an ultimatum from Aceh. He immediately summoned the nobles of Sumatra, but Sumatra was not a great power in the first place.

The king of Sumatra hesitated for a while and said: "No, we can't but give in, His Royal Highness King Yong's soldiers and horses are in Malacca, we sent people to ask for help, and they will arrive in ten days, as long as we hold on for these ten days, we will win." ”

The nobles of Sumatra unanimously agreed with the king.

Of course, this is also why they all feel that Sumatra City can support for a period of time, and the Acehnese's ability to attack the city is not strong, although the Sumatran City is not much strong, but it is not a place where the Acehnese can easily take down.

After the Sultan of Aceh learned the news, he snorted coldly and said, "Then let you know the power of my cannon." ”

It was not the Acehnese who operated the cannon, but the Franco.

Artillery is also a technical job. The Acehnese were not trained to use the cannon well.

These cannons are not Francophone cannons, but cannons. It is also the so-called Hongyi cannon in later generations. The time when these cannons were introduced to the Ming Dynasty was decades later, but it was not that these cannons were made decades later.

After the defeat in the Battle of the South Seas. Franc summed up his own experience and was very mindful of the failure in firepower. sent a batch of the latest naval guns to the Far East from the mainland, and even built an artillery range in Goa to build these cannons.

The length of these guns is about three meters, the caliber is about 110 millimeters, and the weight is about two tons.

To tell the truth, the appearance of the Hongyi cannon and the bronze cannon supervised by Zhu Houhuang is not much different, both are a large pipe, the muzzle is thin after all, and the cannon body is relatively thick. There was also something on it that looked like a clamp.

It seems that the hero sees the same thing, but in fact, this Hongyi cannon is too well-known in China, there are photos in Zhu Houhuang's history books, and there are models for any patriotic naval education base.

Even thinking back to ancient artillery, Zhu Houhuang's impression should have been like this.

The Franc machine man was busy for several hours, and after a dozen cannons were completely ready, he only heard an order, and the feeling of shaking the mountains for a while. Dozens of shells smashed out.

The walls of Sumatra are as if they were papier-mâché. It was smashed into a large gap.

I have to say that the city wall of Sumatra City is not comparable to the city wall in the interior of the Central Plains, it seems to be a fence made of wood, and then thick soil is piled up on both sides, which looks very powerful, but it is the same thing on a dozen or so.

After a few rounds of artillery, a wall was knocked down.

The Sumatran soldiers were stunned, and many fell to their knees, muttering words as if praying for the protection of the gods.

"Kill." Under the orders of the Sultan of Aceh, numerous soldiers stormed into the city of Sumatra.

The soldiers were covered with white turbans around their heads, and most of them were armed with scimitars, and if they didn't look like Arabs, they seemed to have been copied by an Arab army.

In the gap in the city wall, the two sides confronted fiercely.

This confrontation did not last long, but only a few dozen minutes, and the Sumatran army could not hold out anymore, and was driven in like a duck.

Sumatra is a small country, and apart from this capital, there are hardly any major gathering points, all of which are subservient to their tribes.

Otherwise, a mere fisherman would have become a king. The country did not have a special army at all, it was nothing more than the guard of various nobles.

And the nobles are just the leaders of the tribes outside the city.

Unable to win, they did not hold out on to resistance.

"Meet the King." The king of Sumatra was tied with rope and only a pair of shorts, and he looked extremely embarrassed. "Ask the king to give him a way out."

Sultan of Aceh snorted coldly and said, "Haven't I already given it to you." It's that you don't want it. ”

The Sultan of Aceh waved his hand and said, "Slaughter the city." ”

The king of Sumatra was astonished and said, "If I offend the Sultan and kill me alone, why should I trouble the whole city?" ”

The Sultan of Aceh said: "Because you do not accept my persuasion to surrender, if I do not punish him severely, will I not be beaten one by one." ”

The Sultan of Aceh did not want to say anything to the king of Sumatra anymore. With a wave of his hand, countless people rushed in.

The massacre of the city was a feast for the occupying forces. Sumatra's decades-long wealth was quickly looted.

However, the Sumatrans will not rest on their laurels.

Those who had already surrendered began to fight again, but they had no weapons, so they could only deal with the Acehnese with their bare hands, and the fighting between the two sides lasted for a whole day.

In the end, the last remaining Sumatrans were driven under the bell and drum tower.

This bell and drum tower is a Chinese building, during the Yongle period, Chengzu gave Sumatran people a bell, this bell is on this bell and drum tower.

China's bell and drum towers are somewhat defensive in nature. And the Acehnese have been fed, and the entire city of Sumatra has been sacked.

They didn't want to rush up and fight hard, so they simply got good dry firewood, piled it under the bell and drum tower, and set it on fire.

There are a lot of wooden materials in the bell and drum towers, and in Chinese architecture, many places are filled with wood, which fuels the flames.

A man in the flames, laughing, as if crazy, struck the bell desperately. I heard only a sound, a hurried bell, as if it were the mourning of a person dying about death. With a loud bang, it seemed that the burning wood could not withstand the force of the bronze bell and smashed down. The entire bell and drum tower seemed to collapse in that instant.

The fires in Sumatra burned not only the last resistance of the Sumatran people, but also the resistance of many small countries.

On the island of Sumatra, there are many small countries, each of which is the same as Sumatra, and many small countries are simply a big tribe after all.

The fall of the state of Sumatra shook all the small nations seemingly overnight.

Under pressure from the Acehnese, all the small nations submitted to the Sultan of Aceh.

Because of the climate, there are only two large areas in the essence of Sumatra, one is centered on the old port, the east of Sumatra, and the other is centered on Aceh and Sumatra, and the northeast of Sumatra.

Under such cruel methods of Aceh, the northeastern part of Sumatra has fallen into the hands of Aceh, and the Acehnese army has gone south, encountering little resistance wherever they pass.

However, the Aceh march met no resistance, and it also encountered resistance from nature.

Most of Sumatra is native forest. There are never any roads, and there are plenty of rivers that flow from south to north into the sea. In this way, if you march by land, it will not take much to build a bridge, and the speed will not be faster, and the further inland you go, there is no value, because most of it is primeval forest, and only by the sea there are patches of land that have been carved out, and there are small countries here.

Therefore, it is better to march by land than to go south by boat along the coast.

In doing so, they had to face the blockade of the Straits of Malacca by the city of Malacca. A sea battle, imminent and imminent. ()

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