Chapter 525: The Battle of the South Seas (4)

Σ(°△°|||) _Sweat! The brothers of all families are so resentful! Two days ago, I returned to the Banna project site from my hometown, and I couldn't stop the change after a tiring journey, and I will make up for it later! It's just that after the National Day is the time to rush the construction period, and the chapter update can only guarantee one chapter! Thank you for your understanding!

"This group of defeated troops still has the courage to attack our Xingzhou base! Brothers, send these guys to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish! Yu Hao, a water rat, looked at the large group of warships in the distance, and pointed out to the soldiers around him with an excited face.

After a series of naval battles, Sri Buddha's navy was almost completely wiped out, and the navy of Chenla also suffered a great degree of losses, so the two navy armies no longer fought head-on with the Second Fleet during this time, but constantly attacked the Xia merchant ships in the surrounding seas.

As a result, there were fewer merchant ships in the Xia Kingdom, and the Second Fleet was unable to find the main force of the coalition fleet, and this situation between the two sides lasted for three months.

After wasting a lot of time, the Second Fleet saw that they could not find the enemy's main force, and they had to sail back to Xingzhou to replenish and recuperate, after all, the geographical location of Xingzhou here in the South Seas is the most important.

Just when they had just finished the renovation work and had not had time to sail again, the sentinels in the open sea accidentally discovered the combined fleet that was trying to sneak attack Xingzhou.

The Xia army has been very thorough in controlling Xingzhou over the years, they have not only established a complete military garrison system in Xingzhou, but also established early warning facilities on the surrounding islands, and before the coalition fleet approached Xingzhou, it was already discovered by the Xia army's sentinels.

Since Qu Liulang was divided into Kunlun Continent to establish his own Hou State, the Second Fleet was led by Qu Xu, Yue Haichao, and Yu Hao, Yu Hao was stationed in Xingzhou, Qu Xu was stationed in Luhan County, and Yue Haichao was stationed in Borneo, and the three were each responsible for a sea area.

If it were the naval army that only had Yu Hao here in Xingzhou in normal times, it would be possible to suffer a big loss in the face of the union of the Zhenla Kingdom and the Sri Buddha Lost Kingdom.

However, this time, because the equipment of the refurbished ships of Sin Chew was the most perfect, the Second Fleet all came here for repairs, and as a result, when the coalition forces of the Kingdom of Chenla and the Kingdom of Sri Buddha came to attack, they were once again attacked by the second fleet after resting.

After resting and replenishing, the rocket weapons, fire oil bombs and other naval weapons carried by the warships of the Second Fleet were replenished again, because the waters around Xingzhou were relatively narrow, and in the face of the large-scale attack of the Xia army, the coalition forces could not dodge at all.

With Yu Hao's excited shouting, the sky seemed to be ignited with fire clouds, and the coalition naval warships that could not be avoided were ignited one by one, and the coalition soldiers on board jumped off the ship to escape.

Luckily, it's not too far from the surrounding coast, and if these unlucky people are good swimmers and can avoid the saltwater crocodiles on the surrounding sea, they can still escape with their lives, or they will have to die in the sea to be used as fish food.

Although their faces were roasted by the blazing ship, Yu Hao, Qu Xu, and Yue Haichao were smiling, thinking that it would take several naval battles to completely wipe out the naval armies of the Zhenla Kingdom and the Lost Kingdom of Sri Buddha, but they didn't expect that this time they would succeed in one battle.

After the elimination of this joint naval army, even if the three major powers have not been eliminated, the merchant ships of the Xia Kingdom can safely pass through this sea route, it can be said that the route of the South Ocean section of the eastern and western sea routes has been opened up again, and as for the shipping route in the Western Ocean, it will take some time.

Anyway, after this news reached the Xia Kingdom, most of the citizens in the Xia Kingdom were relieved, although not all of them participated in the maritime trade, at least everyone was more or less affected by the maritime trade.

Yu Hao and the others didn't know that just when they were destroying the coalition water army, there was a group of people on the opposite coast who were frightened, and these people were Kunda and the others who also tried to sneak attack Xingzhou.

Kunda followed his allegiance to the new king all the way north, and led an army of nearly 20,000 men to walk hundreds of miles to get here, which took a lot of time.

The dense mangrove forest on the beach opposite Sin Chew allows this indigenous army not to worry about being spotted by the Xia army, and the abundant shellfish, fish and shrimp and other seafood in the mangrove forest can also provide them with a lot of food.

Here they used a large number of trees and bark to make nearly a thousand small boats, although these small boats are not good for sailing to the sea, but there is no problem to row to the opposite side of the Xingzhou, not to mention that the Xingzhou is located in the equatorial windless zone, which is very suitable for these small boats.

Kunda and the others were about to launch an attack on Xingzhou that night, but at this time, they accidentally discovered that the only remaining fleet of their country and the combined fleet of Zhenla Kingdom had launched an attack on Xingzhou, so they were ready to take advantage of the fight between the two sides to kill Xingzhou from behind.

Who knew that before the combined fleet could enter the combat state, it was completely wiped out by the Han fleet moored in Xingzhou, which made Kunda and others, who originally wanted to sneak attack Xingzhou, heartbroken.

The strength of the Han people in Xingzhou is stronger than that of the Han people in Bolin State and Sumatra, and there is no phenomenon that the army is weak due to the attack on the Charentra Kingdom, how can they attack such a powerful Xingzhou?

The Xia Kingdom also had a combined population of 200,000 Han people in Manchuria, Penang, and Sin Chau, and was an important garrison for the Second Fleet and the Nanyang Garrison.

"What should I do!?" The second prince, who had just become king and was expelled, trembled with anger, "Isn't it possible that our kingdom blessed by the Buddha court can't defeat these Han people?" Do we just watch the land where our ancestors lived fall into the hands of the Han Chinese? "The egg hurts

"Your Majesty, there is a Han settlement two hundred miles to the north!" One of the generals said, "There are currently less than 10,000 Han Chinese, and there are only more than 3,000 young and strong, and our nearly 20,000 people can completely defeat them now!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Kunda also said, "Although we can't continue to attack in Sumatra and Bolimbang, there are at least five small Han settlements on the coast that are not very strong, and even if we can't conquer these settlements, we can use this to harass the Han people and make them unable to farm with peace of mind!" ”

Kunda saw very clearly that as an agricultural civilization of the Han people, no matter how they participated in the maritime trade, they had a deep agricultural gene in their bones, no matter how the Han people's thirst for land was the first, and no matter how much the sea trade could earn wealth, it was not as important as agriculture.

Regardless of the settlement, large tracts of farmland will be created to grow food crops and other cash crops, not only to relieve the pressure on food transportation, but also to provide food security for local settlements in case of unexpected food shortages.

If Sri Buddha continues to harass the area around the settlement, destroying these food crops and attacking the Han farmers, the attractiveness of the place to the Han people will continue to decline over time, and the number of Han Chinese will gradually decrease and move to a more stable environment.

After the plan was decided, the only remaining 20,000 troops of the rebels of Sri Buddha marched northward, and some people fled in despair along the way, and some other natives who had enmity with the Han people joined in, and when the nearest Han settlement was only ten miles away, they had an army of 30,000 men.

Sri Buddha died after all, the Nanyang natives, very suitable for activities in the jungle, although there are also a few soldiers because of poisonous snakes and other poisonous insects died, but the loss is relatively small after all, if the Han army into these jungles, it is good to be able to come out alive one-tenth.

Soon the Han settlements were presented to the deceased Sri Buddha, which were not the Han settlements of Bolimbang and Sumatra, which were specifically developed by maritime trade, but more settlements based on agricultural expansion, but only played a certain role in providing supplies for merchant ships, and the proportion of agriculture was still relatively large.

By the sea, by a river, large villages are gathered together, walls made of trees and earth block the beasts and enemies that may come around, and beyond are large areas of cultivated land within a radius of more than ten miles, and there are some small houses made of straw in the cultivated land.

These small houses are temporary places to live during the harvest of the crops, when the rice has just been planted, and there must be no one in it.

Kunda was cautious and accustomed to it, and he still sent scouts to reconnoiter these small houses, and after confirming that there was no one, the army of Sri Buddha launched an attack on the village in front of him, and tens of thousands of people besieged it in one go.

Some of the deceased Sri Buddha even began to light torches, preparing to set a fire in the village and burn all these Han people to death.

When Sri Buddha was only more than ten meters away from the village of Storm Island, thousands of young men and women suddenly stood up from behind the wall, not all of them were weapons, many women were holding a kind of iron pipe in their hands, and there was a trace of green smoke.

Before the deceased Sri Buddha rushed to him, accompanied by crossbow arrows and thunderbolts, a series of sounds like fried beans sounded, and a large number of Sri Buddha's deceased people fell down in the crackling sound.

This weapon is, of course, the second-generation musket developed by the Xia Kingdom.

When the Turks attacked the Xia State on a large scale, almost half of the young and strong people of the Xia State were mobilized to the battlefield, and the empty hinterland forced Wang Ze to make this immature musket and provide it for women, old and young who did not have much strength.

Not to mention, this kind of toy-like musket actually wiped out thousands of Turkic cavalry who entered the hinterland of the Xia Kingdom, so that the Turks no longer dared to break into the interior of the Xia Kingdom.

With the full support of the results, the craftsmen of the Xia Kingdom Sword City had a great increase in confidence, so after all these years of continuous research, they have been researched into the second generation of muskets.

The shot is enough to pierce the body of a leather-armored soldier at a distance of thirty paces, and can pierce the body of an unarmored soldier at a distance of fifty paces.

Therefore, at this time, the muskets have already had a good actual combat effect, although they are not as good as the range and accuracy of the current crossbow arrows of the Xia Kingdom, but these muskets are a good help to the ordinary people of the Xia Kingdom who are opening up outside.

In this way, even if there are less than 10,000 people in this village, after all the young men and women plus the old people go into battle, there are still six or seven thousand warriors who can fight.

Coupled with the fact that each settlement had dozens of retired soldiers under its command, the village quickly beat the dead Sri Buddha to the ground.

The first village failed, the second still failed, and after being defeated by the third village, Kunda and the others finally admitted in frustration that the Han people were no longer the great enemies they could defeat, and then they began to regret that if they did not attack the Han people, they could still be puppets in peace.

However, the new king's character was still unwilling to admit defeat, and he continued to lead Kunda and a group of generals who hated the Han people extremely into the dense forest, causing a lot of trouble to the Han people for more than 20 years.