Chapter 18: Robbery is not a business, who bargains with you!
Bang bang bang......
The bow of the ship slammed into the shore with a pampong sound.
"Up, up, up...... Oh no, assault assault ......"
An officer with a ghostly mask on his face, brandishing a knife, ordered the soldiers to rush forward.
However, as soon as he shouted, he suddenly realized that he had made a mistake, and under the speechless expressions of the soldiers around him, he hurriedly corrected it.
"Onboard!"
The soldiers on board let out a cry of excitement and jumped to the shore brandishing their weapons.
"Puff ......"
With his feet on the ground, a disgusting sound sounded.
A soldier pulled his foot from the chest of a corpse, shook off the filth on it in disgust, reached out to cover his nose, blocked the smell of blood mixed with the stench, and followed his companion with a strange scream, and rushed to the dock on the shore.
"Shoot the arrows!"
The enemy did not give up.
The guards of the Manraka dock saw the pirates rushing up, and the general did not hesitate to order an attack.
"Whoosh Whoosh ......"
The sparse arrows flew out, perhaps out of fear or intimidated by the pirate's presence.
The arrows that flew out were soft and lying on their stomachs, as if they had not been lifted for many years.
Most of the arrows didn't even touch the Ming army, and they fell headlong to the ground.
Occasionally, there are a few powerful ones, which are also a joke in the eyes of the Ming army.
The lethality of this arrow is not as good as even the slaves of the Northern Yuan people.
As mentioned earlier, the soldiers who went to sea with Zheng He were all elites who had experienced a hundred battles.
More than eighty percent of the soldiers fought with Zhu Di in the Northern Yuan, and the remaining two percent also participated in the Battle of Jingnan.
All of them are veterans with rich combat experience, and the strength of Manraka's attack is no different from a joke in their eyes.
"Bell!"
An old soldier with a shield raised his hand to shoot an arrow, and then quickly flashed to the side, and the archers who followed closely behind him, only slightly aim, heard a whoosh, and a scream came from the opposite side.
No pride, no pride.
This kind of unchallenging battle, in the eyes of these veterans, has nothing to show off at all.
"Kill Ji and give it to ......"
The officer who rushed to the front waved the big sword in his hand, and the soldiers shouted in unison, and rushed in without any tactics.
It's not that they don't know how to use tactics, it's that this kind of garbage is not worth it at all.
The two sides scuffled, and flesh and blood flew sideways.
The poor Manraka soldiers, who didn't even hold out for a quarter of an hour, were killed by the Ming army and crushed.
On the side of the Ming army, except for a few unlucky guys who ran too fast and twisted their feet, they didn't even have a slight injury, so you can imagine how weak the combat effectiveness of the opposite side is.
"Phew!"
A sword and shield hand spat out a mouthful of blood splashed in his mouth, looking at the embarrassed fleeing and the corpse lying on the ground, his eyes full of disdain.
Just as he was about to open his mouth to disdain, the captain next to him kicked him in the ass.
"Baga, where are you working, don't hurry up and move things."
"Poof!"
Hearing the captain's strange language, the soldiers around him almost couldn't hold back their laughter.
The captain didn't care, but felt that what he said was very good, and glared.
"Hurry up!"
"Haha... Hi! ”
After a burst of laughter, the soldiers kicked open the doors around them in droves, rushed into the house and punched the merchants who tried to resist, and wept and pleaded to remove all the valuable things in the house.
There were even soldiers who felt that they were too tired to move, so they directly threatened the merchants and their subordinates with knives and asked them to carry their things out by themselves.
There was crying all over the dock.
The merchants carried their belongings and delivered goods to the ships designated by the pirates, and at the same time thanked the soldiers with tears on their faces for not killing.
While looting on the docks, the Manchurian soldiers who had been beaten away fled to their king.
"Your Majesty, they are definitely not pirates."
A general with a broken arm, clasping his bleeding shoulder, told King Mannagar about the battle.
"They have the skill to march, attack and defense in one, who defends, who attacks, who commands, and cooperates very closely, this is definitely not a pirate, it is definitely a regular army, and it is also a very elite regular army."
"Also, their weapons are similar to ours, they seem to be the standard weapons of the Ming army."
Speaking of this, a trace of panic flashed in the general's eyes, and he kept his voice to a minimum.
"The minister suspects that they are the Ming army, and the ships they drove over, as well as the artillery, are almost exactly the same as the Ming army's fleet some time ago."
The more he listened, the darker his face became, and at last he roared angrily, and threw everything he could touch to the ground.
"Bastard, damn Ming Jun, I have written down this hatred, let's see, sooner or later there will be a time when you will regret it."
After venting, King Manraka took a deep breath and asked the Minister of State next to him, "Mr. Liu hasn't come back yet?" ”
The Minister of State shook his head, sighed, and said, "The minister has asked several times, but they all say that they haven't come back yet." ”
"How's the dock going? What about our losses? ”
King Manraka's face had turned purple as he stared at the severed arm of the general and asked about the current situation at the docks.
The general, who was stared at by the king's eyes, bowed his head silently.
"The docks have all been occupied by them, and according to the spies, they are moving things."
"As for casualties......"
The general hesitated for a moment, and lowered his head even harder.
"Say!"
King Manraka clenched his fists tightly and let out an angry roar from his mouth.
"There are a total of 3,500 dock guards, and when we come back to count them, there are only more than 800 left, and the rest are either killed or captured, and we have little combat ability."
"Bastard!"
King Manraka, who was extremely depressed in his heart, could no longer hold back the anger in his heart when he learned that the loss was so great, roared angrily, stood up and ran a few steps forward, and kicked the general away.
The other ministers and officers hurriedly knelt on the ground, lying on the ground and not daring to move.
"Get out, get out of here, send someone to urge them again, let them ...... quickly"
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"Your Highness, it's almost enough, if you continue like this, it's not easy for the minister to explain!"
Zhu Gaoyu was on the boat, and Lord Liu persuaded Zhu Gaoyu, who was sitting opposite and enjoying the massage of these two maids, with a bitter face.
Zhu Gaoyu, who was sunbathing, opened his slightly squinted eyes and stretched out in satisfaction.
"How much have you gained?"
He asked the scribe next to him.
"Back to Your Highness, five ships have been loaded, and the rest are still being transported."
Zhu Gaoyu nodded, and said to Lord Liu: "You go back and tell Baili to let him prepare a protection fee of 1 million taels of silver every month, otherwise I will come once a month." ”
"1,000,000 taels! I also pay it once a month. ”
Lord Liu's eyes widened.
In Malacca, a broken place, they can't earn so much money in a year, and His Royal Highness wants 1 million a month, doesn't it cost them their lives.
"Your Highness, is this ......?"
Lord Liu wants to say that the asking price is a bit high, and the other party may not be able to take it.
However, Zhu Gaoyu didn't give him a chance to speak.
"It's a robbery, it's not a business, there's no room for bargaining."
"You go back and tell him like this, and I'll arrange it later."
As he spoke, he lay down again, closed his eyes and was just about to continue enjoying the daylight, when Zhu Gaoyu suddenly thought of something, and half-sat up and explained: "This time it is estimated that he is in a hurry, and he can't prepare so much, let him take 500,000 taels of silver first, otherwise he will ......"
Zhu Gaoyu's eyes narrowed, and a cold glint flashed under his eyes, "Chickens and dogs don't stay!" ”
The cold glint in Zhu Gaoyu's eyes made Lord Liu's hairs stand up in shock.
I wanted to say a few more words, but I was forced back by Zhu Gaoyu's indifferent eyes.
Swallowing a mouthful of saliva in fear, Lord Liu sighed in his heart, bowed and retreated.
Looking at the distant back, Zhu Gaoyu squinted his eyes thoughtfully, and after a while, he beckoned to Zuo Jun who was standing next to him, and whispered in his ear:
"Remember, after you go back, let the officials transfer him away and let him go to Yungui as a county magistrate!"
ps: I don't know what is written in the other one.,It's under review.,It's not clear when it's going to be released.,Wait and see.,If you can't release it, I'll rewrite it in the afternoon!