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Chapter 709 Three Fleets Attack
The Frangji who were trapped on the hillside raised the white flag three days later.The gray-headed Frangji soldiers dropped their matchlock guns one by one, and left the hillside under the escort of the soldiers of the Kyushu Army.

"I protest, you actually set fire to the mountain, which is not in line with the practice of war!"

Smothered by the black smoke, Officer Frangji shouted with a face like a black pot.

"Sun Tzu's Art of War includes fire attack. Fire attack is one of the common tactics used in warfare since ancient times. It does not conform to the practice of war." Lin Qi was in a good mood at this time.

His Marine Brigade detachment easily wiped out the Frangji troops in the northern part of the Malay Peninsula.

"You are not afraid of setting fire to the mountain and causing a fire that will affect the entire forest!" Officer Frangji still shouted.

"We heard from people here that there is a river behind this hillside, and the fire will only cover this side of the hillside. This is not the first time a mountain fire has occurred before." Lin Qi said, "Give them over to the Malay coalition guards. , we continue to advance south!"

After 500 Kyushu army soldiers helped the Malay coalition to defeat the front-line troops of Frangji and Perak, the remaining troops of Perak and the royal city were handed over to the Malay troops led by overseas Chinese to attack, and these [-] people continued to fight Go south to attack the city of Malacca.

According to the priority given by the military department, the top priority is to attack the Flang robot army in the Malay Peninsula, and the calculation of military merit is more than the elimination of ordinary indigenous troops.Attacking Perak and Johor is just a matter of convenience.

The Frangji people established Fort Santiago in the area of ​​Malacca City to maintain their local rule.The fortress wall is nearly ten meters thick, and there are towers built on the wall, and there are seven fort mounts around the city.The castle is surrounded by a moat, which is protected layer by layer.They have encountered several counterattacks from the local aborigines in the past 100 years, but the local aborigines were beaten badly under the fortified Fort Santiago.

The governor of Malacca, Mascarlo, paced anxiously at the stone gate of the fortress, as if he was waiting for news from someone.

When he saw two men wearing Frangji costumes galloping from the southeast on horseback, he immediately regained his spirits.

The two Frangji men got off their horses and said dryly, "Governor, it's unlucky. We were stopped by the ships of the Kyushu Army at Temasek when we went out to sea! And the Kyushu Army landed from Temasek and captured the king of Johor. , they are marching towards us in Malacca!"

Mascarlu's face turned pale, and he held on to the stone wall of the castle unsteadily.

"I didn't expect the situation to go in the worst direction...Why, why did the Kyushu Army choose to deal with us in Malacca first!" Ma Shijialu looked up to the sky and sighed.

In his opinion, even if the Kyushu Army wants to attack the Spice Islands, there is only one-third of the possibility of Malacca being selected as the target of the Kyushu Army's attack.He didn't expect that the Kyushu Army would be so crazy that they would attack Malacca, Batavia, and Manila at the same time.

A Frangji officer supported Mascarro: "My lord, the Dutch also came to attack us 30 years ago. Didn't we still block their attack with the Santiago Castle? We have operated the Santiago Castle for hundreds of years. , their Kyushu Army wants to take Malacca, how can it be so easy."

Mascarlo was not at all at ease because of the comfort of his subordinates, but said: "At that time when we found that the Netherlanders had arrived, we asked the Governor of India for reinforcements. The admiral led the fleet to reinforce and defeated the Netherlanders People. Now it is different from the past. Our fleet is not as influential in India as the British, and there is no spare power to rescue us. And even if we are really ready to rescue us, by the time the reinforcements arrive, we may have been wiped out by the Kyushu Army long ago. "

"Impossible. The walls of our Fort San Diego are nearly ten meters thick and have seven turrets. The opponent does not have an army of more than 2 people. It is impossible to take down our fort. They can only besiege the city, and the food and fresh water stored in our fortress, It is enough for us to hold on for more than half a year. Half a year is enough time for the European fleet to arrive." A French officer did not believe that the Kyushu Army could quickly capture Fort Santiago.

"There is a war in Europe, and the fleet is needed to maintain our interests in the Americas. If the king wants to choose, our Malacca is likely to be abandoned." This is what Mascaroo is very worried about.

Franz, who was the first to embark on a great voyage, has declined, and his own fleet is unable to organize crusades across the eastern and western hemispheres. The only powerful Spanish Armada was overthrown four times by the Britons. Although they still have maritime supremacy, the Britons With the rise of the Dutch fleet in Europe, the Armada needs to maintain a balance in Europe, which has led to the fact that the Far East basically relies on a few warships and armed merchant ships to maintain its strength.

"We can only pin our hopes on the headquarters of the East India Coalition Army established in Batavia. They should have received the information that the Kyushu Army fleet is attacking us now, and they are supporting us with the Spanish fleet in the Spice Islands." Mascar Lu thought naturally, "Our side is prepared for a long-term siege, and we will try our best to kill the Easterners."

"Yes, the Dutch have become more and more powerful recently, and they usually look arrogant. Although it is disgusting, we are on the same front as them in dealing with the Easterners. If they don't save us, the next target to be attacked will be Batavia."

The Francier officers also believed that the East Indian Allied Forces would come. Their seat representatives at the headquarters of the East Indian Allied Forces in Batavia would definitely negotiate with the Dutch when they heard the news of the siege of Malacca, asking the Dutch and the Spanish People formed a joint fleet to support Malacca.But they also didn't expect that the Dutch and Spaniards were struggling.

In the city of Manila, the Spanish fleet was blocked in the harbor, and the gates of Manila were closed.In the mountains and forests outside the city, the overseas Chinese guerrillas who had fled into the mountains and forests of Luzon Island appeared at this time with some Luzon Island natives, and even launched an anti-siege against the colonial army that usually surrounded and suppressed them.Outside the harbor, two fleets of the Atlante and the Monarch of the Zhili Fleet are bombarding the port of Manila.Acuña, the governor of Manila in Spain, arrested Chinese businessmen throughout the city, treating them as the last straw.

In the port of Batavia, the Dutch were the first to know the news of the dispatch of the Kyushu Army fleet, and immediately summoned the fleet, intending to join forces with the Frangji in Malacca, but their fleet sailed near the waters of Bangka Island At that time, he was captured by the main force of the Zhili fleet.The huge battleships Victory and Poseidon blot out the sky, and even the sailing destroyer Constitution is a 2000-ton giant ship with a length of 62 meters.In contrast, the flagship of the Dutch fleet was the Orange, which was only 700 tons.When the Dutch sailors saw the unprecedented huge warships, they were stunned. These were clearly three huge sea castles, and even their younger brothers were bigger than their Dutch main ship...

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