Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 223 Use the Sword of Ming Dynasty to Kill the Portuguese Tenant of Qing Dynasty (Subscribe!)
As soon as Simon and the others rushed into the smoke, they lost their direction. Slowly, he suddenly felt that the smoke had faded a lot, and there seemed to be many figures in front of him!

Bang bang bang!
Lasing Minie bombs spewed out, and countless black soldiers fell down in response. They had no protection on their bodies, nor any weapons. At this time, they could only be mermaids.

As the smoke dwindled, Simon finally saw his opponent clearly.

He looked up and saw a group of soldiers in red military uniforms, bright breastplates and helmets shooting wildly at them with their guns raised.

Those soldiers were tall, and the guns in their hands looked more sophisticated than the flintlock guns used by the Portuguese European troops, so they were not easy to mess with.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Go get the weapon!"

Luckily, Simon was not shot, so he quickly ordered the command.

Unfortunately, they have already been ambushed.

"British store, there are enemies in the store!"

Then someone yelled again.

Simon turned around and looked around.

Sure enough, the windows on the second floor of the nearby East India Company's commercial building were pushed open, and sophisticated muskets protruded from the inside, and the black muzzles were pointing at their side!

Is this completely surrounded?

Simon's mentality is a bit broken. Although he is not a military expert, but at this point, even a fool knows that he has been ambushed by the enemy!
Where did these bastards come from!

Could it be that the Qing Dynasty is finally going to take back Macau?

No, he had seen the army of the Qing Dynasty before, they were very crotchless, if these people were soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, he would wash their hair upside down in the front of the mountain and water.

The black soldiers on the scene fell one by one, and the battle did not last long. With the protection of smoke, the gunners of the St. Paul's Fort a few miles away did not notice the abnormality here.

In order to quickly resolve the battle, the British sailors of Ming Dynasty persuaded them to surrender in Portuguese:
"Listen up, you perfidious Portuguese who still owe rent in Macau, you have been surrounded by my soldiers, kneel down and surrender immediately, or you will be shot!"

Ming dynasty?owe rent?what happened?
Simon is not a cultural person. He just came to live in Macau, so how could he know the historical relationship between Daming and Portugal.

As for Daming, he only knows that Ming's rum and sugar are very good, and he doesn't know anything else.

"Put down your weapons and surrender immediately, or you will be shot to death!" the Ming British sailor over there yelled again.

"I'll count to ten, and if I don't surrender I'm going to fire! One, two, three"

"Vote, vote!" Simon directly took the lead in surrendering, he didn't dare to fight against the Ming soldiers on the opposite side.

Most of his people were unarmed, only wooden basins, barrels and brooms, and a few had pistols and sabers, but it was impossible to fight these heavily armed enemies, and the number of enemies was obviously more than them.

There is no shame in surrendering in this situation.

Although he knelt down and surrendered tactfully, he muttered in his heart: We Portuguese are obviously paying rent to the Qing Dynasty!

If he knew the history of Daming and Portugal, he would definitely say: You are clearly the Portuguese tenants who used Daming's sword to kill the Qing Dynasty!
In order to understand, he turned around and asked another kneeling Portuguese veteran, "Brother, what does Ming Dynasty have to do with our Portugal?"

The Portuguese veteran had a look of nostalgia on his face: "In the past, we fought against the Qing Dynasty with Daming! It turns out that the Ming country in Nanyang is really Daming."

"Although Daming had perished when I came here, my grandfather told me that despite the prestige of Qing now, they killed many Qing troops in the northern border of Daming." The Portuguese veteran continued to explain.

It's still true!
In November 1628, in order to express their friendship with the Ming emperor, the Portuguese in Macau sent a force to help Ming attack Houjin.

This army is small in scale, but it has 10 artillery pieces and 30 arquebus guns. This army first went to Guangzhou to rest and reorganize. In March of the following year, 3 Portuguese continued northward and arrived in Zhuozhou, Hebei.

At this time, Huang Taiji's Eight Banners Army had just withdrawn from the northern border of Daming. After Huang Taiji returned to China, he sent heavy troops to guard the four cities near Shuntianfu, including Zunhua and Luanzhou, and prepared to attack the capital again next year.

It can be said that the Portuguese came at the right time.

After arriving in Shuntian Prefecture, the Portuguese soldiers immediately went into battle. They skillfully used artillery to defeat the Eight Banners Army in Zunhua, Luanzhou and other four cities.

Portuguese literature also emphasizes that it was the power of the artillery it carried that made the enemy fearful.

After seeing the strength of the Portuguese army, Xu Guangqi had the idea of ​​letting the Portuguese train the new army of the Ming Dynasty and forge new weapons in Shuntianfu.

His plan is that Portugal will provide instructors to train the new army of the Ming Dynasty. These new troops will be fully equipped with European matchlock guns, eagle guns, and Western cannons, and will eliminate all the original firearms of the Ming army.

After negotiation, the Portuguese will recruit 460 Portuguese, Chinese-Portuguese and African soldiers from Macau.All are equipped with a full set of breastplates and weapons, and more than 500 servants are equipped to serve as logistics. All the logistics supplies are provided for them along the Ming Dynasty.

Although many officials and scholar-bureaucrats strongly opposed it, thinking that it was changing the summer with barbarians.As the saying goes: "Those who are dignified and proficient in firearms and who can learn from the biography of the former minister Qi Jiguang also have their own people. If there is anything to attract foreign barbarians, they will worry about the interior and let them see my reality."

And I think that the 6 taels of silver paid by these Portuguese is too high.

Finally, in 1631, all the Portuguese mercenaries who had advanced to Jiangxi were returned to Macau.

Dozens of Portuguese soldiers already in Shuntianfu began to teach the Ming army firearms, tactics and offensive and defensive techniques, and one of the best students was Sun Yuanhua.

In June 1631, while fighting on Phi Island, the Portuguese encountered the Eight Banners Army again. The Portuguese instructor commanded cannons on the warship to violently bombard the fortifications of the Houjin army.

It was recorded at that time: Western cannons were used to fight against Houjin's troops, and they used artifacts nineteen times, killing about six or seven hundred officers and soldiers.

However, in 1632, the new army that Sun Yuanhua and Putaoren were training in Dengzhou suddenly rebelled.

More than 2 Kong Youde rebels rebelled, and the Portuguese instructors resisted desperately. In the end, more than 20 Portuguese were outnumbered, some were captured, and some died in battle.

Although the Portuguese instructors were foreigners, they fulfilled their duties, trained soldiers and taught artillery, charged into battle, and finally did not surrender in the face of 2 rebels.

The past has become smoke, the Ming Dynasty in the past is dead, and Portugal is also in ruins now.

The veteran thought to himself, they surrendered so quickly, the contrast with his grandparents was a bit stark!

The grandfather of this veteran was the Portuguese instructor who was captured in that battle. He always thought that the so-called Ming country in Nanyang should be that small country that copied Daming's name. Unexpectedly, Daming Daming was resurrected again.

"Then we and Daming are allies, why did they attack us!" Simon asked puzzled.

"I don't understand either, maybe it's because we are paying rent to the Qing Dynasty?" the Portuguese veteran replied casually.

(End of this chapter)