Chapter 869 Fortress

In the year 4635 of the Yellow Emperor, on October 15 of the third year of Dingxin, that is, six months later than the Quanxu Plan, the expeditionary force of the Ming expedition to India finally appeared in the open sea of the Bay of Bengal.

Although this expedition can be said to be the most difficult of the large-scale operations of the Ming Dynasty, because of the storm, a lot of soldiers and materials were lost, but the overall strength is still there. Not only that, but they also easily took the strategically important Jaffna Peninsula on the island of Ceylon, which can be regarded as a blessing in disguise.

For the Ming Dynasty to occupy the Jaffna Peninsula, the Portuguese and the Dutch successively sent congratulatory ceremonies to congratulate the Ming on having an extra piece of territory. In the Age of Discovery, countries attached great importance to territory, and Great Britain said that although their territory was large, not an inch was superfluous.

In fact, this was true of the Dutch, it was true of the Portuguese, even the Spaniards, who had sold their land aggressively, and, of course, the Ming Dynasty.

The actual area of the Jaffna Peninsula is not large, of course, the Jaffna occupied by the Ming Dynasty includes the plains north of Amradhapur, and the actual control area is almost equivalent to more than 5,600 square kilometers.

The Portuguese, like the Dutch, had nothing to do about it. The whole of Sri Lanka, the Dutch and the Portuguese, combined, are not more than one-tenth of the Ming Dynasty.

The most important thing is that the Ming Dynasty is not those natives, they use more sophisticated weapons than the Dutch, and they are more well-trained, in fact, the Dutch colonial government army is just a group of indigenous servant army, even the Ming army in the Ming period of the Zhu family can't beat it, let alone the current Ming army.

According to the customary title, this became the Ceylon of the Ming Dynasty, and the original Jaffna City became the city of Ceylon, and Zhao Yunfeng even found the stone inscription left by Zheng He during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, which was used to prove that since ancient times, Ceylon was the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

In this expedition, Daming lost a lot of ships and manpower, of course, the materials did not matter to Daming, Daming did not miss this material. But the retaliation was immediately launched......

At this time, the Mughal Dynasty of India was already in decline, and its national strength was gradually declining, and the Netherlands, Portugal, Britain and other countries came one after another to establish colonial strongholds in the coastal areas of India, and even fought for colonial strongholds, and the Mughal Dynasty had no way to do this.

However, India should feel fortunate that the British navy is essentially just a group of merchants, a group of pirates, and it is not strong on the Asian side, and the Netherlands and Portugal have no ambition to become a great power, and they are very satisfied to occupy some important ports and establish colonial strongholds.

Conquer all of India? Hehe, they really occupied India with that little population, and they don't know who conquered whom!

Those who are ambitious have no strength, and those who have strength have no ambitions, so India can still happily farm, worship gods, dry dicks, and play with girls, and when the mood is good, they will dance and sing and dance a song I play mud in the Northeast, and I have a very happy life, completely unaware that the threat from the sea is gradually deepening, and the entire South Asian subcontinent is about to usher in a catastrophe.

No one knows where this black army came from, they drove hundreds of warships from Ceylon like storm-driven dark clouds, spread across the sea, appeared in the Bay of Bengal, and then indiscriminately launched fierce attacks on the merchant ships and warships of the Dutch, Portuguese, British and other countries entrenched in this place.

This is also a characteristic of the Age of Discovery, fighting like a volcanic eruption in overseas territories, how should Europe be, just like France, in South America and the Ming Dynasty almost without a war, but they should do business, still do business, the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty will not be treated harshly in France, and will even be protected by the French army.

Now that Daming is eyeing India, let's rely on their own abilities.

The 130 mm and 28 times diameter guns of the Ming Royal Navy spat out thunderous shells, and the sturdy battleships were vulnerable in front of them, and the fortresses were no different from paper paste in front of them.

In just a few days, all the warships and armed merchant ships of the Europeans in the Bay of Bengal were sent to the bottom of the sea, and the worst thing is that the Europeans still do not know who is beating them!

In fact, it is so cruel, the Ming Royal Navy will either not make a move, once it does, it will be beaten to death, and it is not that there are no prisoners, and the captured prisoners will neither let them come over to ransom them, nor let them go.

Instead, the captured Europa soldiers were sold as slaves to the kings of the Wolmore Empire, and after the sale, whether these Indian kings were used to make cattle and horses, or used for breeding, was the business of those kings, and the Ming Dynasty couldn't control it.

"Europa" slaves are very popular in India, and the kings of the land compete to buy, and even a white slave can be sold for ten taels of sands, even so, it is still in short supply, and the kings of the land are also competing with each other, no matter what, they have to buy a few to go back.

The Europa were not uncommon in seizing land and slaughtering tribes along the coast of the Wolmore Empire, and conflicts with the kings were commonplace.

Of course, those earth kings could only grit their teeth when the Europa people were strong, but now that they have been defeated and become captives, the earth kings naturally have revenge for injustice, revenge for revenge, and get these guys back to be sacrificed to comfort the souls of the people who died tragically at the hands of the Europa!

Of course, there are also more discerning ones. The somewhat ignorant but somewhat clever king of the earth thought that the Europa people were so good at fighting that the offspring they gave birth to must be also very good.

So buy them back and breed them with the women of their own tribe, hoping to give birth to a group of brave warriors like these Europa soldiers, and when they encounter this kind of discerning king of the continent, the Europa captives will really wake up laughing in their dreams, not only saving their lives, but also living a life of sexual happiness with three or four women serving every night!

After these captives are sold, they can make a small amount of money, but this small amount of money is only a drop in the bucket compared to the losses caused by the storm, and it is still far from enough to turn losses into profits.

After the Royal Navy of the Ming Empire destroyed all the warships of the Europaans in the Bay of Bengal, this fleet stormed the harbor and forced a landing.

A large number of soldiers dressed in black and wearing black steel helmets landed and launched a fierce attack on the Europa stronghold.

The first to be attacked were the Dutch, who built a large fortress at the mouth of the Ganges with huge stones, and stationed 700 men in it, and the Mughals sent more than 40,000 people to besiege it, and they gnawed for eight months without moving, so they had to withdraw.

For this reason, this fortress is also known as the "fortress that never falls". Once again, the fortress that will never fall faces a great threat, and the black-clad army has already slain it.

At this time, the "fortress that never falls" is staging a brilliant offensive and defensive battle. The besieging side has only three or four hundred people, while the defending side has a thousand people, and there are strong city walls as a battle, and the three to one forces are the absolute advantage of the defending side.

However, at this time, the side with the absolute advantage was cowering behind the city wall and did not dare to show its face, and the side with the absolute disadvantage was swaggering to attack.

The Ming army on the attacking side was too small to encircle the city, so it only attacked the port in one direction, and three 130 mm 28 times the naval guns were dismantled from the Exocet battleship, and four flying thunder guns were also arranged.

The Dutch first sent two or three hundred men out of the fortress to engage the opponent, and they set up fortifications outside the fortress according to the drill rules, preparing to use the fortifications to deal with the opponent, and then launch a charge when the opponent showed a flaw, and crushed the opponent in one fell swoop.

However, they did not have such an opportunity, and as soon as they entered the fortifications, there was a sudden scream, and it was the flying thunder cannon that fired first.

Flying thunder guns were not used in naval battles, this type of artillery had many disadvantages, short range, poor accuracy, and the need to be used on the ground in a floppy, although very restrictive.

However, the power is not small.

With a dull sound, four shells, that is, four explosive packs, flew over, and I don't know what happened to the Dutch, none of the four explosives bags missed, fell into the fortifications, and blew the Dutch soldiers to the grounds.

Before the battle was officially engaged, the Dutch lost more than 100 men and had no choice but to leave the fortifications and flee back to the fortress.

At this time, the opponent's muskets rang out, and the rifles came one after another, knocking down the Dutch soldiers in pieces, and the corpses lay on the ground at a short distance of two hundred meters to the gate of the fortress, which was unbearable to see.

The rifle used by the Ming Royal Army has a very high shooting accuracy, and it can be used as a sniper rifle with a scope, and it has a certain accuracy for shooting at five hundred and six meters, let alone two or three hundred meters?

The Dutch thought they would be safe if they fled into the city, but they thought too much, and then the 130-millimeter guns opened fire, and the 130-millimeter shells pulled out of the high parabola, crossed the city walls and fell into the city, and exploded, the blast wave of the explosion lifted the panicked crowd and threw it in all directions, and the sharp shrapnel and rubble of the cannonballs splattered in all directions at a rapid rate, cutting through the flesh and releasing large streams of blood.

The defenders and civilians of the city had never been bombarded by high-explosive shells, and they were all frightened by the bloody scene, and the screams and screams of horror came one after another, and the men, women, and children ran wildly, trampling on each other, and the number of dead and wounded was more than ten times greater than that killed or wounded by the shelling!

Immediately after a round of naval guns, it began to move forward.

I know that this kind of naval cannon is a stupid guy, and it only takes more than 100 people to serve just three guns, and there is no way to push it if there are fewer people. Fortunately, the Daming artillery has rich experience, and it is not too slow to directly use simple steel pipes to lay a track, and push the artillery on the track.

The 130-millimeter naval guns were pushed to a distance of 600 meters and bombarded the fortress, and the shells hit the walls of the fortress and exploded, the flames rushed out, the rubble flew sideways, and the entire fortress shook and cracked, and many Dutch people were shocked to death.