Smuggling Daming

The city of Malacca is built by the sea, but its main city is several miles away from the sea. This is mainly to prevent the enemy from deploying defenses in front of the main city when they attack from the sea, so as to avoid causing too much damage to the city. .However, when Malacca City was built, one thing was overlooked, that is, the Malacca River next to it. When the sea tide rises, some large ships can take advantage of this opportunity to enter the river, and combined with the range of artillery, they can threaten the safety of Malacca City.

Alfonso discovered this weakness of Malacca City in the last test of the Central Plains, so in the second attack, he focused his attack on the Malacca River, and was not in a hurry to attack other parts of the port.

Alfonso first took advantage of the rising tide and commanded some of the warships to enter the channel of the Malacca River, and then advanced all the way with the help of artillery, and soon occupied the bridge on the river, which made the entire channel of the Malacca River completely fall. Although the people of Malacca organized several counter-offensives and even dispatched the ace troop, the Elephant Soldiers, their weapons were backward. Facing the sharp firearms of the Portuguese, they could only leave corpses all over the place. any effect.

After successfully occupying the Malacca River, Alfonso immediately organized the troops on board to disembark. Except for a few defenders, most of the troops were thrown into the banks of the Malacca River by him. They first advanced along the river and soon arrived at The Great Mosque opposite the river is the center of belief in the Kingdom of Malacca. Therefore, when Alfonso occupied it, he encountered resolute resistance from the people of Malacca, and he himself suffered hundreds of casualties.It took two days to fully occupy the mosque.

Alfonso did not expect that he would encounter such tenacious resistance, especially the hundreds of casualties in the mosque, which made him very distressed. After all, he only brought more than 500 soldiers this time, and lost 100 people To him, it was as if a piece of flesh had been gouged out.

But the heartache is heartache, Alfonso is a strong-willed person, he will not retreat because of this loss, and his own casualties will only make him more angry.Therefore, in the following war, he completely vented his anger on the Malaccans. As long as the Malaccans appeared in front of their army, they would kill all the soldiers and civilians, although doing so would make the Malaccans resist. Even more intense, but Alfonso believes in the face of his absolute strength.Malaccans have no chance of victory at all.

At the time when the Portuguese and the Malacca people were fighting for life and death in the imperial court, in the southeast direction of Malacca City, that is, on the north side of the exit at the eastern end of the Strait of Malacca, this is a sharp corner at the southernmost tip of the Malay Peninsula. Its location is probably the same as Singapore in later generations. Pretty much, except that it's just a wasteland right now.No one lives here at all.

But just a few days ago, the army led by Zhou Zhong rushed here from Daming.Then quietly stationed on this deserted beach, except for sending some disguised boats to go out to inquire about news, no one is allowed to leave here, and if any merchant ships come and go find their fleet, they will be detained immediately , at least before attacking the Portuguese, they were unable to leave.

On the wide deck of Nanyang.Zhou Zhong was lying on a bamboo chair with his upper body bare, with a big umbrella covering his head to block the sun.He was shaking the fan while drinking the cool fruit juice, but even so, he still felt extremely hot. After all, this is the equatorial area, and it happened to be summer, when the sun was directly on the equator. Zhou Zhong estimated that the outside world The temperature is at least over forty degrees, and may even be higher.

Originally, after the ship docked, Zhou Zhong wanted to camp and rest on the shore. After all, there are dense forests on the shore, which will always make people feel cooler, but he didn't realize until he actually camped on the shore, that the shore is even more uninhabited. Because this is a barren beach, there are poisonous insects and mosquitoes everywhere in the dense forest, especially those mosquitoes that drink blood, each of which is about an inch long. Drink them all.

It is also because of the harsh environment on the shore that Zhou Zhong would rather stay on the boat and bask in the sun than go to the shore to feed mosquitoes. After all, the sea breeze on the boat is relatively strong, and the mosquitoes on the shore cannot come up, but it is too hot , so Zhou Zhong usually doesn't care about his image. He is naked all day long like those big soldiers, and only wears a pair of big pants on his lower body. After a few days, his whole body is much darker, and he looks a little less frail. A lot of masculinity.

Compared with Zhou Zhong's leisure, the soldiers in the army have to suffer more, because even in this hot weather, they can't rest, but still have to practice, because Zhou Zhong needs them to adapt as soon as possible This kind of extreme weather, otherwise you can't even adapt to the weather, let alone fight. Therefore, after arriving here, Shen Ying, Chang Xiao and others have not relaxed their drills. Of course, in order to prevent the soldiers from heat stroke, the morning drill time A little earlier, and the practice time in the afternoon was pushed back a little, so that it just happened to stagger the hottest time at noon.

"In this **** weather, I won't come even if I spend money to invite me to come here in the future. It's life-threatening!" Zhou Zhong drank the remaining juice in the glass in one gulp, then turned over and sat up to wipe it off. sweat.It’s just after noon, and it’s the hottest time of the day. After lunch, many of the soldiers on board took off their clothes and swam in the sea to cool down because they couldn’t bear the heat. From time to time, some people jumped directly into the sea from the deck. , splashing a large piece of white spray, which attracted the scolding of many people below.

Zhou Zhong looked at the soldiers swimming in the sea, his eyes were full of envy, he fell into the sea and drowned in his previous life, and now he has an inexplicable fear of sea water, and he has never been able to learn to swim, so No matter how hot the weather was, he didn't dare to go into the sea, at most he would go to the beach to wade in the water, but that couldn't cool down at all.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps on the deck, and then Zhou Zhong saw Wu Shan walking over to salute, "My lord, the Malacca envoy is clamoring to see you again, do you want to see him?"

Zhou Zhong couldn't help but feel a little headache when he heard the news.When they came, they met a tribute ship sent by the Kingdom of Malacca to Daming on the road. At that time, Shenying felt that they needed someone who was familiar with the terrain of Malacca port, so Zhou Zhong and the others stopped the ship and reported their own After taking office, he told about the Portuguese attack on Malacca. As a result, the young Baman envoy immediately agreed to come back with Zhou Zhong as a guide, and repeatedly prayed to Zhou Zhong to save the Kingdom of Malacca from fire and water. Zhou Zhong naturally agreed.

However, after bringing this envoy, Zhou Zhong and the others soon regretted it, because they soon encountered the fleet led by Sun Pinghai. There is no need for Baman to be a guide, and Baman cares about his country and relatives, and has been urging Zhou Zhong to help Malacca quickly, but Zhou Zhong has his own plans, so he has been reluctant to send troops. To bother him every day.

Originally, if it was someone else, Zhou Zhong would have locked him up long ago, but Barman is a tribute envoy, and Zhou Zhong didn't dare to do anything to him. Barman also knew this, so he clamored to see him every day. He, and he is also very smart, every time he sees Zhou Zhong, he will cry and pretend to be pitiful, and beg Zhou Zhong to send troops quickly. If Zhou Zhong chases him, he will not bother him, but he will continue to cry the next day, anyway. The stickiness of the skinny face is heavy.

Thinking of that Barman's crying skills, Zhou Zhong was angry and hated, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "No, let him stay cool!"

Hearing Zhou Zhong's order, Wu Shan gave a wry smile and said, "My lord, you'd better meet him, that Barman is a tough guy, because you didn't see him last time, he already jumped over the sea once, luckily he was caught by us." The people rescued, but they almost drowned, if they jump into the sea again this time, if they die in our army, it will be hard for the imperial court!"

If a country's envoy died in Zhou Zhong's army, even if he committed suicide, Zhou Zhong would have to bear certain responsibilities, and he might even be impeached by the imperial censor. People don't like him, a small mistake may be caught by people, not to mention the death of an envoy, so Zhou Zhong didn't dare to let Barman die in front of him.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhong had no choice but to sigh helplessly and said, "Okay then, let that Barman come on the deck!"

After hearing this, Wu Shan agreed, and immediately turned around to inform the Baman envoy. After a while, Wu Shan came over with a black and thin young man who just happened to pass by the Portuguese. Emissary of Barman.

When the Baman envoy saw Zhou Zhong, he immediately walked a few steps with red eyes, then knelt down in front of Zhou Zhong and cried loudly: "Help, Lord Admiral, the millions of subjects of my Kingdom of Malacca are all in a state of emergency. In dire straits, only the admiral can lead the army to catch those brutal Portuguese, and please send troops quickly to save our country from the fire and water!"

here we go again.Zhou Zhong sighed in his heart. Every time this Barman saw him, he would cry and make noise, and he always started with this passage. He can almost recite it now.However, even though he was impatient, he still had to put on a smile on his face and said: "Envoy Barman, please hurry up, this admiral came here with a large army to help your kingdom, but the time has not yet come." , so we can only wait for the opportunity here!"

Hearing that Zhou Zhong used the excuse that the time hadn't come yet, Barman couldn't help feeling annoyed, and immediately asked, "My lord, you always say that the time has not come yet, so when will you be able to send troops?"

In response to Baman's questioning, Zhou Zhong's face darkened immediately, and he just wanted to say that the timing of sending troops is up to him, and there is no need for outsiders to worry about it.But at this moment, there was another rush of footsteps, and then Shenying, who had white beard and hair, ran over excitedly and shouted: "My lord, the spies have sent us information. The opportunity we have been waiting for is finally here!" It's here!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)