Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 535 Soldiers Arrive in Malacca

A dozen Ming soldiers were left to guard the Spanish captives, while Baihu led another 100 people into the cabin of the Spanish warship.

This battleship has two decks and has about forty artillery pieces. Its main task is to escort the former Governor General, but it is not fully staffed.

Most of the battleships are sailors, and there are only about [-] artillerymen. This is one of the reasons why El Salvador dare not fire on the battleship.

In the cabin on the bottom floor, many daily necessities and wooden boxes were piled up. The wooden boxes were all nailed to death. Hundreds of households of the Ming army went to the wooden boxes and knocked on the wooden boxes.

"bang bang"

Judging from the sound made by the wooden box, it was very full inside. He bent down to move it, but the wooden box was very heavy, so he did not move it.

Baihu waved to the soldiers behind him:

"Come on, open the wooden box."

"Yes"

Two soldiers drew out their bayonets and quickly pried open a wooden box, and the contents of the wooden box were immediately exposed to everyone.

When everyone saw the things in the wooden box, they couldn't help exclaiming, the whole box was full of gold.

"Look, general, it's all gold!"

The soldiers who opened the wooden box immediately asked Baihu to watch. In fact, there was no need to call. When the wooden box was pried open, Baihu had already seen the gold in the box.

"Pry again, and all the wooden boxes will be opened."

Baihu was very excited, feeling that he had made a great contribution, so he immediately pointed to the other wooden boxes and asked the soldiers to pry them open.

Dozens of soldiers of the Ming army immediately started to move, and soon all ten wooden boxes were pried open.

"Kakkaka..."

"Wow wow wow..."

After all the wooden boxes were pried open by Ming soldiers, they found ten boxes full of gold, silver and jewels.

This was too surprising. The Ming army officers and soldiers present widened their eyes in surprise, and it took a long time to realize it.

With so much gold, silver and jewels, hundreds of households dare not make decisions, and immediately took out the walkie-talkie to report to the captain:

"Captain, this battleship is full of foreign devils, and ten boxes of gold, silver and jewelry were found, worth at least 200 million dragon coins. What should I do?"

Maybe the captain was a little confused, and it took a long time before the captain's voice came:

"There are so many gold, silver and jewels, please wait a moment, I will ask the governor."

"Yes"

Li Dingguo was still preparing to watch a good show, and was joking with Zhang Huangyan, when Zhang Huangyan's intercom suddenly heard a call from the captain of the Wendi:

"Report to the governor, the unknown warship is full of foreign devils, the specific nationality is unknown, the soldiers found almost 200 million gold, silver and jewels in the cabin, what should I do?"

"what?"

Zhang Huangyan was also a little confused. Li Dingguo was used to robbing houses, so he immediately smiled:

"Old Zhang, the foreign devils don't have a good bird, so quickly ask, if it is a warship from the Netherlands or Spain, His Majesty said that you can directly detain it."

Under Li Dingguo's reminder, Zhang Huangyan touched his nose and smiled:

"Da Ming hasn't gone to war with Spain yet. What if it's a Spanish warship? We are the Ming fleet and not pirates."

Li Dingguo smiled coldly:
"Old Zhang, do you think that after Ming took Malacca and Ceylon, the next step is to spare Spain, which colonized our vassal state?"

Zhang Huangyan was silent for a moment before speaking:
"Okay, Lord Marquis, let's do this. If it is a warship from the Netherlands or Spain, we will directly take it and hand it over to the Holy Majesty for disposal. What do you think?"

If in the past, Li Dingguo didn't care which country the warships belonged to, he would just kill them if he was indifferent to life and death, and he would kill them directly, how could he let the 200 million dragon coins go.

But no matter what Li Dingguo has done before, he is now the Marquis of Daming. When Zhang Huangyan said this, he immediately nodded:
"Okay, let's make a decision like this, let's try these foreign devils first."

After the two Ming generals discussed it, Zhang Huangyan immediately issued an order to Wendi:

"Luo Lin, bring those foreign fruits to the Ming warship, send sailors to take over that battleship, take Malacca, and hand it over to the Holy Majesty."

"Yes"

Just like that, wanting to flee back to Spain, Manila's just-retired Governor Salvador met the Ming Fleet in a daze.

Not only the entire battleship was detained by Zhang Huangyan and Li Dingguo, but the Ming army also locked up the entire battleship in the cold warehouse of the iron-clad battleship.

This is definitely God's punishment for El Salvador's design to kill Chinese.

"Don't treat us like this. It will cause international disputes. I have money. As long as you let us go, I will give you 50 taels of silver..."

When the Ming army imprisoned Salvador in the warehouse of the armored warship, this old fox who thought he was smart was still croaking non-stop.

Does he still have gold and silver?The gold and silver had already entered Daming's pocket and had nothing to do with him at all.

The soldiers of the Ming army couldn't understand what she was calling, so they ignored him at all, thinking that this foreign devil was farting.

After the fleet seized the Salvador warship, it sailed towards Malacca at full speed.

The voyage of [-] nautical miles is not far, and in about three hours, the soldiers can already see the appearance of Malacca.

Zhang Huangyan immediately issued an order to prepare for battle:
"All the warships are ready to fight, first destroy their warships, and then destroy all the coastal forts, so that the army can land safely."

"Yes"

The five ironclad warships immediately began to load shells, the gun doors of the artillery opened quickly, and black holes protruded from the gun doors.

In Malacca, the Dutch were also ready for battle. Six Dutch warships had lined up, ready to fight to the death with the Ming warship.

For the Dutch, they are not sure of winning this naval battle, and it mainly consumes the vital strength of the Ming Fleet.

Their real reliance was the Castle of Santiago. As long as they stood firm on this bastion, the Ming army would have nothing to do with them.

Without the ability to break through the bastion, the Ming army either besieged the city or retreated, and the Dutch were absolutely invincible for the time being.

The Netherlands is so confident because of their knowledge of Santiago Castle.

They clearly know that the bastion has not been breached by the enemy until now.

Neither the Dutch nor the Portuguese or the English ever breached the castle of Santiago.

When gunpowder weapons developed to a certain period, when cannons began to dominate the battlefield, traditional city defense faced huge challenges.

With the gradual improvement of cannon technology, people began to wonder about the role of the city wall.

With the development of modern mathematics and engineering, city defense finally ushered in the spring of development in the 15th century.

The prismatic city defense began to qualify in Italy in the middle of the 15th century.

Bastion/star fort began to be used as a general term for a large number of new forts, especially when combined with Raveling-style fortifications, and other external works, to form complex polygonal forts.

The design of a fort is usually composed of pentagonal or hexagonal turrets and the main fortress walls.

This eliminates the blind spots of general city wall protection, the so-called "city defense dead zone".

Their predecessors, the medieval fortresses, were usually placed on high hills, from where bow and arrow guns were fired at the enemy.

The higher the fort, the farther the range.The enemy's hope was either to knock down the gates or climb the walls with ladders and overcome the defenders.

For the attacking side, these fortifications proved difficult to overcome, so the fort occupied a key position in the war.

(End of this chapter)