Win the Ding 1617

() "The situation in Manlaga is different from that in Nanzhong. These people have lived here for a long time, and their influence is intricate. Some people have money, maybe they have guns. What's more troublesome is that they have contacts with the Portuguese. If it is too big, it is impossible to do something like drive fish for the deep and drive the sparrows for the bushes. Once these people go to the Portuguese, they will be a little confused, use the family in-laws to hire and many other relationships, this will add dozens of people everywhere. Tens of millions of Chinese, I am afraid they will help the Portuguese deal with us, that would be terrible!"

Zhang Xiaohu didn't take Ye Qi's words seriously, but it seemed to make sense.

"Do you mean to hit a snake and hit seven inches? Kill these Portuguese first, and then slowly process these people?"

"This is what my lord told me. I just acted according to my lord's arrangement. Also, I came up with the idea of ​​exempting Dingyin. This Dingyin is not only for my Chinese family. I issued a notice to If the Chinese are exempted, the Chinese will immediately support us. Compared with the natives, their status will rise sharply. After that, I will slowly implement the [-] clauses. It will be impossible to use all the tricks of the officials and gentry to pay the grain and pay taxes. take it out!"

"I don't understand what you said, but I know one thing. If we want to implement these systems, it depends on the cannons and muskets in the hands of our brothers! If the Portuguese castle cannot be captured for a long time, I am afraid that this group of guys will also do the same." The Portuguese in the castle are on both sides of the mouse, hedging the bet!"

Hearing Zhang Xiaohu's half-literate words, Ye Qi couldn't laugh or cry, he pointed at this guy with his finger, "You, you! You always talk in a nonchalant way without paying attention, and it's easy to say something polite, and in a blink of an eye Bring out your terminology on the Pai Gow table again, why bet on both sides?! However, it is also appropriate, these big families, for the sake of incense and family interests, often place multiple bets, maybe at this moment, Some people went to the Portuguese stronghold to pay money to show their loyalty!"

"Then what shall we do? Attack the city after dawn?"

"No! Brothers have come from far away to work hard. The brothers in the Concession Battalion and the Artillery Battalion should take a rest and hurry up to build fortifications and barracks. We will attack the city in three days, and we must break the city in one battle!"

"Your sailor has to work hard these few days, cruising around, don't let others steal our way!"

Three days passed quickly.

It is said that it is a rest, but it is just that there is no combat mission.

A large number of soldiers were sent out to assist the household officials who came with the team to register the population of the Chinese in the Malaga area and distribute silver dollars and household stickers.Encouraged by silver dollars, exemption from poll tax, and greatly improved political and social status, countless young Chinese came to help the South Central Army build camps and artillery positions. Soon, fortifications around the San Diego fortress were built.

During this period, Xu Meizhen, who considered herself to be a bridge between the South China Army and the Chinese in the Managa area, brought several Chinese Qiyue to visit Ye Qi, and thanked the South China Army for its benevolent governance on behalf of the Chinese people in the Managa area.During this period, the elders also gave Ye Qi advice on how to attack the San Diego Fortress.

An old man suggested to Ye Qi to build a long wall, dig trenches, and blockade the fortress of San Diego. If he is trapped without food and water in the city, he can defeat others without fighting.

"There is no water source or well in the city. The daily drinking water of Folangji people is delivered by Indian slaves and Banten soldiers. If the army cuts off his water source, he can go down to the city without a fight!"

"Thank you for your reminder, old man. However, our Nanzhong Army has always been convincing people with virtue, and we pay attention to the majestic and upright banner. After three days, after our army has finished resting, we can break the city in one fell swoop."

"Besides, the common people and soldiers in the city, many people from the Portuguese country, were all coerced by the rebels. After the city was broken, Colonel Wang Gang took great pains to recruit them and put them into the recovery group, so as to restore the country."

At the same time, Gonzales, who was meeting these old men with Ye Qi, nodded hurriedly and said yes, it is always good to have more Portuguese in the army.

Seeing a Portuguese officer acting as a subordinate under their own general, the group of old men became more confident in the strength of the Chinese army.

The Portuguese officers in the castle of Santiago sensed the danger approaching before it fully dawned. On the position of the Ming army outside the city, people shouted and screamed. They were rolled out from the camp and pulled by horses into the newly built artillery fortress.

A sergeant spat down the castle with disdain, "Come on! Yellow-skinned monkey! See how many shells you can use to blast this castle!"

When he said it, it immediately struck a chord.This castle is more than 30 meters high and several feet thick. According to the standard construction of a bastion, for ordinary artillery to blast this castle, it is no less than seeing God himself.

There was that arrogant Portuguese soldier who even unbuttoned his trousers, took out his dick and started urinating towards the city, cursing dirtyly, although he couldn't understand what he was saying, he took out his dick to urinate, Believe that this move is not a good thing in any kind of cultural background.

A student holding a sextant and busy calculating the ballistic parameters for the artillery saw the scene clearly through the lens, "Dog! Don't be arrogant, wait a while, I will go into the city, first Skinned you!"

He said this with confidence!

On the sea not far away, his classmates are also measuring the shooting distance of the naval guns on the warship. More than two hundred artillery pieces, large and small, will baptize this fortress from the sea.

Below the city wall, several rocket cars were covered with straw mats woven from straw, blocking the view from above the castle.Two 200-pound caliber mortars opened their mouths wide and prepared to let out an earth-shattering roar. On the two wings of the mortars, six cron cannons that showed their prowess in the battle of Thang Long City were wiped clean by the gunners, ready to continue Carry forward their glorious record under Thang Long City.

Behind the artillery positions, two battalions of infantry lined up to attack after the artillery bombardment.How many times they have fought in coordination, they have full trust in their artillery comrades.

"Report! Reports on each artillery position have been measured. Can I ask for instructions to launch an attack?"

The captain of the artillery team hurried over to report his preparations to Ye Qi.

"Wait for the navy and see how they are doing."

Soon, a semaphore came from the seaside, "I've been ready for a long time, will you fire first or should we fire first?!" The semaphore full of Zhang Xiaohu's personal style made people feel courageous.

"The time is up, order people to go to the city and persuade them to surrender!"

A rehabilitated military officer held a white flag and walked to the foot of the San Diego Castle with extremely gentlemanly steps, doing his last act of persuading him to surrender.

What answered him was the firecracker on the castle.

"Okay, fire!"

Ye Qi's voice was very soft.

About dozens of steps behind him, a tall colorful shed was built with wood and bamboo. Behind a few tables, sat the Sultan of Sumatra, and several other kings, big and small, and even the Sultans of Aceh and Johor. It's all here too.

People were not interested in the various snacks and fruits on the table that were painstakingly made by the masters of Daoxiang Village, they just used the very rare binoculars to observe the siege battlefield with all their strength.

Through the clairvoyance provided by Ye Qi, the Sumatra Sultan clearly saw the battlefield not far away.

"There are no large-scale siege equipment, no siege vehicles as the Han people say, and there are not many ladders. It seems that the length of the ladders may not be enough. Is this commander really as rich as the Han people said? What's wrong with the outside? Is there a good skin?"

Turning the clairvoyance, Sudan saw the artillery that the Ming people regarded as a siege weapon.

"Hey! This cannon is too light?!"

What the Sultan saw were the two 200-pound mortars that were the main force in the siege.From the outside, as artillery, they are indeed unattractive. For their weight, two horses can pull them. Apart from the large caliber, there is almost nothing that can make people think that they will be weapons of mass destruction.

"Can such artillery be used to break through such a strong castle?"

Lord Sudan expressed his dislike for such weapons.

Those who were also not optimistic about this military operation were the Chinese Kapitans who were watching from the sidelines.

"There is a saying in the art of war, if you encircle ten times, you will attack. Although the Chinese army under the city is more numerous than the Portuguese in the city, it has not reached several times the strength, but how can it be broken? The Portuguese? As far as I know, the food, water, ammunition and other items in the city can be supplied for three years, except for the lack of water.”

Qiyue, a few Chinese, felt uneasy, turned their heads secretly, and looked at the dragon plaque enshrined in the middle of the colorful shed, on which were written the titles of emperors of the Ming Dynasty in gold letters.

"Hey! I hope the gods of the ancestors will bless you!"

Boom!Boom!Three consecutive dull loud noises came from not far away. The huge vibration made the ground in the shed tremble slightly, and the cups and plates lined up on the long table collided with each other, making a slight crisp sound.

A few people didn't care to clean up their robes that were soaked in tea, and hurriedly used the clairvoyance in their hands to observe the artillery team in the distance. It turned out that the huge caliber 200-pound mortar was the first to speak. Under the action of gunpowder, the heavy shells It was easily thrown to the top of the city, smashing the bricks and stones on the top of the city into pieces, and several defenders at the top of the city were beaten to death by the flying bricks and stones.

Sudan stared at the very weird and even ugly cannon without blinking his eyes, "It looks a bit like a big toad! It has a big mouth and cannon ears on both sides. Unexpectedly, at such a short distance, it can Fire the shells to the top of the city!"

While the people who were "invited" to watch the battle were still amazed at Mortar's unexpected performance, Kronpao began to earn performance points for himself.

"Boom boom boom!" There were several consecutive roars, and the shells rushed straight towards the city wall.Huge pits were made on the city wall, and cracks appeared around the pits. The wide ones could fit a fist, and the narrow ones could fit an adult's finger. The interweaving effect quickly formed a huge spider web, as if a huge spider that was about to capture countless lives as its own food was about to descend!

The Portuguese defenders on the top of the city panicked when they saw the power of those unremarkable cannons. They pushed and shouted at each other, like a group of panicked ants on the city.

"Okay, listen first! Gonzales, send your people to persuade you to surrender! Tell them, if you surrender, you will be guaranteed the safety of your life and property, and the dignity of your family members will not be insulted. You can fight side by side for the restoration of your country .”

A Portuguese rebel was waving a white flag in his hand, raised his hands high, and kept shouting, "I am a Portuguese, a compatriot like you, and I am here to deliver a message to you! Don't open fire! "

There was silence on the top of the city for a while, and after a while, a thick rope was slowly hanging down from the city, and a voice shouted from the top of the city, "Tie yourself up, and pull the rope twice!"

Ye Qi and Gonzalez watched the messenger being dragged up to the top of the city by the defenders of the Fort San Diego, "I hope these guys know the times and won't resist so desperately!" Freshly baked Gonzalez Colonel Si is full of anticipation, hoping that the messenger will bring him good news.

"I don't think so!" Ye Qi sneered, then turned around and asked the people around her, "Can our rocket reach the top of the city?"

"If you go back to the general, there is no problem. We have adjusted the shooting angle and measured the distance. Although we can't point out where to hit, there is still no problem to hit one side!" The rocket controllers are full of confidence.

Ye Qi walked to the side of the rocket car, pointed to the towers on the high city wall, "Aim at the windows of the towers, and make sure it burns! Then, each car will find its own target and burn the city gates." , to fight in the city, you can fight as you like!"

A scream came from the city.

After a while, the messenger staggered back from the city, covering his ears.

It was an officer and a small nobleman in the fortress of San Diego. Li Shouhan's old acquaintance Alonso cut off one of the messenger's ears and asked him to bring back a sentence, "You bastard yellow monkeys who betrayed the emperor! If you think you are not afraid of death, just come here!"

This guy went to intimidate Li Shouhan back then, but was sunk by Shouhan's gunfire and almost died. After several twists and turns, he returned to Manga in embarrassment and became a laughing stock for a while, which made him very angry. After being embarrassed for a while, I was reluctant to go to public places such as balls and salons, and I lost a lot of opportunities to discuss life, art, philosophy, etc. with ladies and ladies. People came to persuade him to surrender, which just gave him a chance to show his courage and loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor!

"You bastards who betrayed Portugal, you are the real traitors!"

"Those who betrayed the emperor and the church, you will go to purgatory!"

For a while, all the Portuguese were yelling and cursing at each other.

After listening to the Portuguese scolding with interest for a while, people soon lost their interest in hearing it. This group of barbarians, cursing people are just those few words over and over again, and they don't have the courage of the earth lords at all!

"My lord, should we start firing? It's no fun listening to these red-haired barbarians cursing! Don't miss the hour!"

"Rocket, ignite!"

The rocketmen received the order to ignite, and one by one excitedly touched the torches in their hands to the lead wire connected into a thick line. Soon, dozens of sparks quickly burned to the bottom of the rocket along the lead wire wrapped in gunpowder. .

Hearing the peculiar sound of the rocket tearing the air passing overhead, the officers and soldiers of the Portuguese Rehabilitation who were greeting each other with the most cordial and sincere language with their compatriots on the Fortress of Santiago, without exception, all They had the same physiological reaction: first, the chrysanthemum tightened, and then the sphincter of the urethra suddenly loosened. It seemed that a large amount of human waste was about to be excreted out of the body uncontrollably. However, a thought flashed across his mind like lightning It also illuminates the dark sea of ​​consciousness: Although we are now a rebel, we have long been a part of the South China Army. Even if we are a rehabilitator, we are also an ally of the South China Army. Those guys!It's not about hitting us!

The rehabilitated people began to hold all kinds of weapons and began to watch the scene of the rocket shooting towards the city with an admiring eye and angle.

The rockets streaked through the air like meteors, leaving obvious tracks in the air, which were the marks left by the rapid heating of the surrounding air during the flight.This trace was clearly left on the retinas of the sultans and Kapitan who watched the battle.

"Bang!" A rocket made contact with a hard stone at the top of the city and exploded.A ball of fire exploded on the city wall.There was a sudden exclamation from the top of the city, and someone shouted and ordered the natives to fetch water, brooms and other items in an attempt to extinguish and beat the flames.

However, things turned out to be contrary to expectations. As the clear water was poured down, the scope of the flames became wider and wider, and tools such as brooms used to beat the fireballs also became accomplices in arson.

The first rocket burned at the top of the city, and the second and third rockets shot into the tower window at the corner of the fortress.It simply and neatly turned the tower into a huge torch. If it was at night, it would be a lighthouse that illuminates the channel for passing ships, but now it is a purgatory that takes human lives.

The soldiers on the tower couldn't escape the encirclement of the flames for a while, and those who were in a hurry simply jumped from the window of the tower, and with a long scream, they turned into a ball of mud on the ground of the castle.

A dozen or so rockets in the back crossed the 30-meter-high city wall, playing the welcome role of arsonist from a distance inside the fortress. More than ten fire heads quickly rose up in the fortress. become confused.

"Reduce the launch angle! Damn it! Everything in the city is our property, the more it is destroyed, the greater the loss for brothers!" The commander of the rocket launch vehicle waved the command flag in his hand and cursed in a low voice.

According to the regulations of the South Central Army, everything captured and returned to the public will be rewarded with at least [-]% of the share according to the performance of each unit. In the eyes of the veterans, this group of young people who do not know the heights of the sky and the earth are simply a group of young people who do not know how to farm. Tough prodigal kid!Wouldn't it be a pity that there were so many good things in the city that they were all set on fire? !

The rockets with adjusted shooting angles exploded on the top of the city one after another, igniting clusters of fire. The defenders on the city could not stay in the thick smoke and fire, so they had to rush down the city wall one after another, hoping that after the fire was extinguished, they would come back again. Go up the city to resist.

"Aim at the city gate and fire!"

Ye Qi gave the last order to the gunner in charge of the several Kron guns, and turned back to the color shed.

"Attention all battalions, after the artillery team opened the breach, the battalions swarmed into the city! According to the pre-division of labor, do the assault action to split the city, and the small group of resistance ignores him. Just move forward."

In the colorful shed, the Sultan, Jiabidan and others had already stood there respectfully waiting for Ye Qi's return.Seeing him appearing at the door of the color shed, before anyone could sing, the Sultan of Sumatra knelt down on the ground and praised loudly: "My humble minister, Sultan Sumatra, has met the General of the Celestial Dynasty! I wish you all victories in every battle!"

Amidst the rumbling sound of Kron cannons, the voices of this group of people still echoed in the booth: "We wish the South China Army every victory and regain lost ground!"

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