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Chapter 716 Westerners Surrender

Explosions came and went, accompanied by splashing flames and billowing black smoke, the castle of Santiago fell into an unprecedented hard battle, and the walls of the castle were blackened by thick smoke.

Boom!There was another violent explosion at the bottom of the castle, causing the whole castle to tremble slightly.

"The Kyushu army is using a lot of gunpowder to blow up our city walls again!" The Franji soldiers hiding behind the fort wall turned pale and were full of fear.

"I swear to God, this is the most ferocious enemy I have ever seen in the Far East. They actually used gunpowder to blow up the city wall! And the power of the gunpowder explosion is much more powerful than the black powder we used!" A French soldier said on the side She made the sign of the cross on her chest and prayed, while shouting.

"Shut up! What's the use of making such an oath, let's ask God to allow us to survive this terrible war safely, I don't want to have my limbs cut off." Another Frangji soldier also prayed devoutly .

The governor of Malacca, Mascar Road, curled up behind the stone wall above the city wall, observing the actions of the soldiers of the Kyushu Army outside through the cracks in the stone wall.

There is a moat outside the castle of Santiago. In the past few days, a channel was forcibly filled in by the Kyushu military trench vehicles at a relatively tragic price. The blasters of the Kyushu army were sent below the castle for continuous blasting.

The artillery and muskets on the opposite side were roaring, suppressing the turret and arquebus gunners above the castle, and trying to cover the blasting personnel who were blasting.The power of the picric acid explosive is far higher than the ordinary black powder they have seen, and it is truly an explosive. The continuous blasting made this painstakingly managed bastion crumbling, and the flames produced by the gunpowder even burned the wall red .

The Castle of Santiago was a bastion used by the Franc robots to resist black powder and smoothbore guns decades ago, but it was unexpected that the Kyushu Army could mass-produce picric acid explosives!They have never seen picric acid explosives at all!

"What kind of gunpowder are they using that is so powerful?" Ma Shijialu's eyes flickered, and he was full of anxiety in surprise.

boom!There was another explosion, and the fire rushed up along the wall, and there were flames in the cracks of the stones, which scared Ma Shijialu away from his eyes.

For the first time, the Marine Corps outside the city made a difficult attack.Although the bastion set up by the Francobots is not large in scale, its strength exceeds the fortifications they usually see, causing the Marine Corps to be in a dilemma.

The detachment supporting the Malay-Overseas Chinese Coalition Army in the north went south to join the main force from Temasek. The Marine Brigade had about 1500 soldiers from the Kyushu Army.Besides the soldiers, there were also some servant Malays.

This was the 4th day of their attack on the fortress of Santiago, but they were unable to take it down, and some soldiers died just to fill the moat.

"Their walls are too thick, maybe more than ten meters, and the design is very exquisite, which can effectively resist the attack of solid bullets. The only thing that can threaten them is explosives." Lin Qi led the marines After arriving, there was nothing he could do about Fort San Diego.This kind of fortress cannot be attacked quickly with a large number of people.

"Continue to attack the city. It will be a matter of time before they are captured. It is better than encircling them. It will inevitably be delayed. I am afraid that they will not be able to consume all their food in a few months." Another Marine Corps officer said.

The three strongholds of the Westerners in Nanyang were all surrounded by the Kyushu Army, and the three Western fleets were also pursued or surrounded by the Kyushu Army fleet.

At the end of the first month of the Kyushu Army’s full-scale attack on the Western Ocean, the Netherlands, the most powerful of the three Western forces, was the first to be defeated. Cohen, the founder of the East India Company in the Far East, fled into the Eastern Pacific with the Dutch fleet. Going to return to Europe from Tierra del Fuego.

After the Victory chased to the Timor Sea, it also gave up chasing the Dutch.From the beginning to the end, the Dutch fleet dared not have a hard anal relationship with the huge Victory.For the Zhili Fleet, it is not important whether to destroy this Dutch fleet, and expelling them to the Spice Islands has already achieved its goal.

The port of Batavia was full of black smoke, and the Poseidon fleet dropped a marine detachment in Batavia. They fought street battles with Dutch colonial soldiers in the city of Batavia.

Gunshots sounded again in Batavia, and the native Javanese, bought by the Kyushu Army, rushed out of the small fortress surrounded by the Dutch with revolvers, and counterattacked the Dutch soldiers in the city with the Marine Corps.The revolvers in their hands are the best pistols that the Kyushu Army can produce now. Although they still use paper cartridges, they have far surpassed all existing pistols in terms of concealment and continuous firing.

The battle in Batavia did not last too long. After more than a dozen Dutch colonial soldiers were shot and killed, the leaderless Dutch soldiers surrendered to the Kyushu Army one after another.The top East India Company executives who were able to make decisions before all died in the assassination, and now they are made by some officers who lead the troops.

After the Zhili Fleet destroyed Batavia, it left the Marine Corps stationed in Batavia, and then went back to help the Nanyang Fleet on the Strait of Malacca.

Originally, it was difficult for the Kyushu Army to fight on three fronts at the same time, but when a breakthrough was made in one of the routes, the strength of that route could be used to support the offensive of the other two routes.

The Frangji Fleet that was dealing with the Nanyang Fleet on Malacca originally thought they could continue to consume them, but when the Constitution Fleet of the Zhili Fleet rushed over, they finally experienced the Dutch people being dominated by cruisers fear.

Their shipbuilding technology is not much better than that of the Dutch, and they simply can't outrun the Constitution fleet, which is known for its speed.After the Constitution fleet unexpectedly raided the Frangji fleet, the Frangji fleet was finally overtaken by the Nanyang Fleet.

The cannon roared, and iron hooks were thrown from the deck of the Daqin, hooking the opposite ship, leaving the opponent nowhere to escape.The hand-cranked machine gun was fixed in place with iron nails, and the machine gunner frantically shook the machine gun, shooting together with the musketeer, reaping the lives of the enemies on the opposite deck.

In the second month of the Kyushu Army's attack on Nanyang, only a few ships of the crippled Frangji fleet escaped from the battle and fled towards the Indian Ocean.

When the Frangji soldiers guarding Fort Santiago in Malacca saw that the flag on their fleet was captured by the Kyushu Army and planted in Fort Santiago, the Frangji soldiers in the Fort Santiago had a dispute, and finally the surrender faction prevailed. Raised the white flag to surrender to the Kyushu Army.

Sticking to the end, Manila, which didn't actually fight much, was the last to surrender.After Acuña learned that Batavia and Malacca had all fallen, he had no choice but to surrender to the Kyushu Army.This is already the beginning of the third month when the Kyushu Army attacked Nanyang.

(End of this chapter)