The Johor army was left with corpses, shield carts, and shields all over the ground, leaving behind a large number of cold weapons, firearms, gunpowder, shield carts, and various wooden instruments.

It is just convenient for the Ming and Portuguese coalition forces to replenish equipment and strengthen the city defense.

There are three swords in every man, and there are plenty of muskets and gunpowder.

A lot of timber was seized, which was of great use to Singapore under construction, and it was hardwood, an excellent material for furniture.

The battleship Galen in the Netherlands was also not at full strength, and had been cruising around the battery these days.

Some people who do not understand naval warfare think that the enemy is afraid of the battery and does not dare to use battleships to fight the battery.

Liu Xiang and the Portuguese knew that this was a tentative tactic of the Western Navy.

The major naval powers, including the Netherlands, Ace Duck, England and Portugal, knew that the fleet should not fight hard with the batteries, but when it was really needed, there was a complete set of tactics.

First, use a small number of warships to test the number of guns, firing range, caliber, gun position and artillery level of the battery.

Then make a precise battle plan, concentrate the fleet to attack the weak position of the battery with more hits and fewer attacks, and obtain a partial victory.

The defenders were forced to move the artillery of other batteries, so that the fleet could maneuver and fight, and play a sea-to-land mobile warfare advantage.

The Dutch were good at this trick, but Liu Xiang and the Portuguese defenders knew each other's tactics.

When a few Dutch warships entered the maximum range of the battery and opened fire from a long distance, the defenders were strictly forbidden to open their guns to reveal the number and position.

It is better to be blinded by the enemy in front of the enemy than to let the enemy discover the artillery deployment of the defenders of Singapore and Malacca.

"There are two hits~"

Cohen shook his head, for three days in a row he didn't find the artillery placement of the two forts.

The Dutch were also a little anxious.

Half a month of fighting.

The Dutch have been trying at sea, but without success. The Marines remained on board, and morale was further eroded.

The Ming-Portuguese coalition forces have been on the defensive, and if they can return fire without firing at sea at sea, they will not expose the artillery position. In the face of the attack of the Kingdom of Johor on land, it poured out its firepower and beat the enemy severely.

The worst thing was that the Johor Malay army almost collapsed, with many casualties and plagues, and almost mutinied.

However, the long-distance shelling of the battleships has been held, and the battery cannot easily fight back, which also makes the physical strength of the Ming army and Portugal have been consumed and they are very tired.

Moreover, the Dutch people saw that if the Ming-Portuguese alliance army really had enough artillery, it was not necessary to hide, and it was enough to directly fire the battleships with intensive artillery fire.

Not daring to return fire in a large area shows that they do not have enough artillery.

A Galen battleship had 40-60 Hongyi cannon-class guns, and even on one side there were 20-30 guns.

40 Galen battleships, with 2,000 heavy naval guns, are 1,000 heavy guns even if they are fired on one side.

How many defenders were there?

Add up to more than 100 Hongyi cannons, even if you add Macao and Liangguang, there are more than 500 Hongyi cannons.

In addition to the Netherlands and Esbanya, including the Portuguese who lived in the guest house, there were more than 2,000 Hongyi cannons in the whole of Asia.

The fleet of the Dutch East India Company had the largest number of heavy guns in almost all of Asia, and its wealth can be imagined.

Therefore, the turret could not be easily opened to expose the arrangement.

After being exposed, the enemy can concentrate 1,000 guns to crush it, or look at the large number of artillery pieces and the strong forts, and drive directly to the other direction of the fortress.

In the final analysis, the number of heavy artillery is insufficient, and if the battery has 2,000 Hongyi cannons, it is just necessary not to let the enemy know which side is more and which side is less.

If there are 4,000 gates, then you need to be afraid of 40 enemy ships.

Now Singapore has deployed 80 Hongyi cannons, and the Portuguese army in Malacca has only 50 heavy artillery pieces because of their support for Singapore, which is really impossible to fight.

Cohen's side has always retained its strength, and although the fleet is slower, it is estimated that it is almost there.

He was ruthless and let 40 Galen warships concentrate on Singapore and start shelling.

1,000 Hongyi cannons on one side, when the roar covered the sky, the cannonballs rained down on the forts and fortresses, and the roar of impact was everywhere.

The defenders' artillery was well hidden before, not hit by the enemy's first round of shelling, and could return fire with all their might at a critical moment.

"Report to the Governor, find enemy artillery emplacements, between 70 and 90 guns!"

"70 to 90? It's a lot~"

"Governor, we have a thousand cannons, and we can destroy them with less than a hundred."

"No, no, no~ After all, the fort has stone, cement, and asphalt as the cornerstone, and the fortress is unloaded with sand, and there are waves on the sea, after all, there is no accuracy on the road, and it is not the best way to hit hard."

Cohen looked at the Portuguese fortress of Malacca.

"Tell the Kingdom of Johor that they must have seen the power of our fleet, and they will do their best to fight Malacca Portugal together!"

"Yes!"

The battery was very strong, and it also damaged more than a dozen enemy ships, but the guns were too few, and it was difficult to seriously damage and sink the enemy.

3,000 marines suddenly landed from the middle of Malacca and Singapore to block Liu Xiang from supporting Malacca.

The Portuguese could only hold on, and Liu Xiang was also difficult to support.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Japanese arrived.

But it's the remnants of the defeated army!

It turned out that Cai Fuyi, the governor of Guangdong, and Cao Xibin, the chief soldier, led the Guangdong Navy Division to attack and chased the Anzhai boat of the Wa State from behind.

The warships, artillery, and sailors of the Ming army were far superior to the Japanese state, and there were already more than a dozen new warships, each of which was equipped with more than 10 Hongyi cannon-level guns in addition to the Ming artillery.

It is a completely crushing existence for the Wa State.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna and the Shimazu family were chased to Malacca, and along the way, the Japanese were like lost dogs, and every time the boat was broken, it would be sunk by the Ming army, and the Japanese would take the method of escaping with a broken tail.

Cohen hurriedly led the fleet to the rescue, he had 40 warships, although some of the battleships were damaged by the counterattack of the defenders' batteries, but one was sunk, and he was confident that he could deal with a dozen new ships of the Ming Kingdom and dozens of old ships.

This time, when the Ming army saw the Netherlands, they immediately retreated, and the warships sent out were all faster.

The Dutch people can catch up in the South China Sea or Guangdong. But then Malacca will be completely Ming and Portuguese.

It took several days to toss like this.

The defenders readjusted the gun positions and repaired the batteries as soon as possible, and the strength was restored to more than ninety percent of the previous strength.

Cohen had no choice but to abandon the pursuit.

Let's go back and settle Malacca first.

This time, he also knew that if it was consumed, there would be more and more reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty, and even Portugal would send a fleet from Goa.

He forced Matsudaira Nobutsuna to land with the remaining 20,000 Japanese troops and attack the Portuguese fortress of Malacca. Originally, there were 30,000, but now there are 20,000 left, and those 10,000 were annihilated by the Ming army.

But the 20,000 Japanese army is still a force to be reckoned with.

Cohen also gave the Johor Malays their last breath, and his fleet was also close to Malacca for shelling.

This time it poses a great threat to Malacca.

The fleet's artillery fire instantly suppressed less than one-tenth of the battery's fire on one side of the fleet.

The Japanese army also landed quickly and, according to the orders of Cohen and Matsudaira Nobutsuna, attacked the Malacca fortress with all its might.

The tide of the battle has taken a turn for the worse.

Within 2 days, the Portuguese army could not control the outer layer of the fortress and had to retreat to the inner layer for defense.

The Dutch marines prevented Liu Xiang from supporting Malacca by land.

The Japanese army was outnumbered and outnumbered.

Although all the people have been mobilized to defend their hometown, the situation in Singapore is dangerous, and the Malacca fortress is even more dangerous, and it will be broken by the combined forces of the Netherlands, the Wa Kingdom and Johor at any time!

At the critical moment, Liu Xiang led 2,000 people to support Malacca from Singapore in small boats at night, saving the fortress from a critical situation.

The increase of 2,000 people is still too small compared to the Japanese army.

"Where are the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty? We can't stand it anymore. Liu Xiang muttered to herself on the watchtower, staring at the sea to the east, looking forward to it.