8-61 When a thief encounters a pirate
Temasek is Singapore, a small island located at the southernmost tip of the Malay Peninsula, with a very important location and is bordered by the Straits of Johor to the north and Malaya to the south.
Located at the entrance and exit of the Strait of Malacca, the main shipping route of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, merchant ships coming from Xiniuhe Prefecture must pass through here to reach the Ming Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, otherwise they will have to detour twice the sea route, so this is called the crossroads of the world.
Five hundred years ago, the prince of Sumatra's kingdom of Sri Buddha, Panna, arrived on the island by boat and saw a black beast, which the locals told was a lion
Known as the "Lion City". And Sanskrit
The homonym of "Lion City" is the three words Singapore, so the locals and the surrounding princely states call this island Singapore, and only the Song and Ming people call it Temasek, as for what allusion is no longer known.
Temasek is home to about 3,000 Malays, and these 3,000 make up a small princely state called Majadora, with countless royal families marrying into each other in Malaya, Sumatra and Java.
The inhabitants of Majiadola depend on fishing and farming for their livelihood, and their standard of living is low to average in this area.
However, with the increase of Westerner merchant ships, Temasek's position gradually became important, first the natives targeted those merchant ships carrying rich goods, and relied on their familiarity with the sea conditions to become pirates. Raffles, Sir of England, had the discernment to believe that Temasek was an excellent overseas trading point, so he offered a sum of gold and silver to the king, bought a port, set up a free trade port, and within a year, maritime merchants from the East and West were attracted, Temasek was unprecedentedly prosperous, although there were no taxes, the locals could still rely on the consumption of merchants and sailors to achieve a well-off standard of living, and the royal family members could also show off a few exquisite imported goods when they visited relatives in Sumatra.
The population of the princely state is too small, and the army is limited to about 100 people, not even as many as the armed sailors in the port, but the sailors come from many countries, and the power of the country has formed a delicate balance, and no one wants to break this balance and dominates Temasek.
But now it is different, Temasek is about to have its most vicious enemy, and the raiding fleet led by the pirate empress of the Song and the husband of the Ming Kingdom is sailing on the waves.
Who would have thought that a white luxury yacht and an inconspicuous cargo ship of 3,000 materials hide an army armed to the teeth.
Zhao Wen was very arrogant, never took those small countries and Western merchant ships in his eyes, Liu Ziguang was a half-hanger who liked to take dangerous roads, and the two were a perfect match.
Climb 6 to see the literature network together, support the genuine Iron Age, and more wonderful works are waiting for you. The sea route from Song Dynasty to Temasek is very long, the climate in the South China Sea is hot, the soldiers can't stay in the cabin for a long time, Liu Ziguang simply let them all go to the deck to practice marksmanship, and the bilge has a large amount of gunpowder and lead from Zhao Wen to support, the two battles are enough, in addition to shooting training, but also found a small uninhabited island to practice, grab the beach, climb the 6th Beijing Division, lecture martial arts hall is the 6th Army junior school, and did not open a course for sailors Buyong, just take this opportunity to make up for it.
Hua was speechless, found a recliner and continued to pretend to be wounded, he said that he jumped in front of Duncan that day, which affected the wound and could not be practiced with the cadets.
Meng Zhiqiang and the others had no choice but to disperse and be assigned to other small flags to train, and after training, they had to wait for Brother Hua to ask him why his injuries were not healed, and he had to follow him on the expedition.
There is no language for this treacherous and greedy big brother, and the students have no words. The White Swan is the royal yacht of the Empress Luzon, which is a well-known thing, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Zhao Wen asked the hull to be repainted with black paint, and the luxurious decoration of the superstructure was also taken off and disguised as an ordinary three-masted merchant ship, and the troop carrier behind it was originally an inconspicuous cargo ship, so there was no need to camouflage.
The sailors sat happily on the wooden planks hanging from the rope, and soon painted the white swans into black swans, and after the makeover, the small formation of the two ships entered the business route, headed towards Temasek, and hoisted a Spanish flag in a mysterious way, occasionally encountering merchant ships coming from the opposite side, and also played a salute according to the rules of seafarers, looking like two very ordinary Spanish merchant ships loaded with goods from the East.
The group gradually approached the destination of the trip along the island of Kalimantan, where the waterways had become narrower and merchant ships were denser, but the sea was the sea after all, and there was not a single ship in a quarter of an hour.
The wind and waves in the strait were much lighter, and the verdant peaks of Sumatra could be seen from afar, sailing on the sea for so long, and the first time they saw the six places, the soldiers couldn't help but cheer.
But Liu Ziguang inexplicably felt a kind of danger, it seemed that someone was staring at him maliciously on the peak, he raised the clairvoyant mirror and looked at the 6 ground, the emerald green rainforest was endless and uninhabited, and suddenly a bright spot was fleeting, this subtlety did not escape Liu Ziguang's sharp gaze, with years of experience, he believed that this was the sunlight reflected by the lens of the clairvoyant mirror, and someone was monitoring the fleet!
"Prepare for battle!" Liu Dashuai shouted the order, and the order was quickly conveyed to every corner of the Black Swan, and the troop carriers not far away also received the flag, and the soldiers were quickly armed, and there was a loud noise in the cabin, wearing helmets and sorting out firearms, because it was a water battle, and the heavy iron armor was strictly forbidden to wear, and the students just put on an iron helmet and a cork life jacket on their bodies, which could not only resist the killing of weapons, but also provide buoyancy in case they fell into the water so as not to drown.
The officers whispered the order: "Reload with bayonets." The cadets took out the medicine pot and lead from the mouth of the gun, and then tamped it with a stick, and then screwed the bayonet to the right side of the barrel of the gun, so that the use of the bar under the barrel would not be affected.
After a while, the two hundred cadets were armed, waiting quietly in the cabin, this was their first actual battle, the young men couldn't help but be a little nervous, most of them had serious faces, closed their lips tightly and did not speak.
The veteran oil Zihua was speechless, and also got up from the recliner, lazily filled his short gun, hung the waist knife on the leather plate belt, and stood next to the cadets with a look of indifference, his eyes swept and saw Xie Long beside him, his face was stiff, his lips trembled, as if his teeth were chattering, and he smiled: "Why are you afraid?" It's like this for the first time. It's good to kill a few people. ”
"My brother can't swim in the water, it's over if you fall into the sea, if it's on 6 places, we're not afraid." Xie Hu was very dissatisfied and defended his brother.
"Don't be afraid, I'll have an old brother, just hide behind me when the time comes." Hua was speechless, smiled, lit a paper cigarette, took a puff, and then stuffed it into Xie Long's mouth: "Just take a sip, this thing can calm down." Xie Long took a deep puff of cigarette, but he was choked and coughed, causing a group of veterans to laugh, and a veteran laughed: "Xie Long, Lao Hua, this is to teach you to smoke, so that you can save yourself money to buy cigarettes after you learn to smoke." Then the group laughed wildly, not paying attention to the upcoming battle, and the soldiers were infected by the fearless spirit of the veteran, and the fingers holding the fire hammer gradually relaxed, and the corners of their mouths also smiled.
On the Black Swan, Liu Ziguang and Zhao Wen stood side by side on the bridge, scanning the waters in front of them with a clairvoyant scope, and Zhao Wen attached great importance to Liu Ziguang's early warning, because she had heard from the sailors that piracy in the Temasek Strait was extremely rampant.
The Black Swan was now dressed like a Spanish mail ship full of rich guests and treasures, and a cargo ship with a deep draft behind it, and on the face of it neither ship was armed, so it was no wonder that such a fat sheep was not targeted by pirates.
Sure enough, two sailing ships appeared in front of them, with tattered hulls, patched sails, and a black skull flag fluttering on the mast, all indicating their identity - indigenous pirates active in the Straits of Malacca and Temasek!
The pirates were out of Sumatra, and when they sailed out, they held just the right amount of prey, and it was impossible for them to escape or retreat, because there were also two pirate ships behind them, a total of four small-tonnage clippers blocked the black swan formation, and the pirates climbed up the mast and brandished bright steel knives, howling loudly, looking very excited.
From the clairvoyant mirror, you can see that the monkey-like pirates on the other ship's ship are wrapped in flower cloth on their heads, shirtless, wearing only a pair of homespun pants, holding knives and axes in their hands, and they are very arrogant.
"Why are these people so stumbling?" Liu Ziguang asked Zhao Wen very curiously.
"These Javanese monkeys originally grew up with this virtue, they are the shame of pirates, according to the law of piracy, as long as the other party surrenders, they can no longer kill people, they can only put the captives on the nearest island, and give fresh water and food to ensure that the other party can live, this is the normal pirate practice, but these monkeys have always killed, burned and robbed, even women and children are not spared, they are simply beasts." Zhao Wen reprimanded indignantly, at this moment, she was also wrapped in the same flower cloth, blindfolded, but she seriously accused other people's piracy, which made Liu Ziguang feel a little weird.
Now that the pirates have arrived, let's treat them well, and the Black Swan quietly opened the holes on both sides, and a hundred cannons revealed the muzzles of the black holes, but the Javanese Tutiao did not know the power of this new weapon, and still rushed over.