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Chapter 705 Competing for Malacca
Boom!With a loud noise, the earth wall of the capital city of Johor collapsed inward, and the Johor soldiers hiding behind were instantly buried!The earth wall was blown up by explosives, and the leader of the army in Johor panicked and yelled at his native soldiers to move earth blocks to plug the gap.

Da da da!There was the sound of a hand-cranked machine gun outside the gap. The Kyushu Army used a hand-cranked machine gun to seal the gap and let the Johor soldiers who blocked them shoot one by one. The soil clods they carried fell on the ground, and the gap could not be blocked for a while!
"Kill!" The Kyushu Army soldiers charged with rifles in their hands. Some of them held rifles to suppress the bows and arrows above the earthen wall, making it impossible for the Johor soldiers to raise their heads, while others had put bayonets on their rifles and charged into the gap. .And the machine gun also turned the target into soldiers on the city wall, leaving bullet marks on the earth wall, and even clods of earth were blown away by the metal bullets!
The Sultan of Johor did not expect such an innocent disaster. When he came back to his senses, the marine troops of the Kyushu Army had already invaded the palace. Before he could escape with his concubine, he was blocked by the Kyushu Army live.

The battalion officer of the Marine Corps led dozens of soldiers into the palace and kicked open the wooden door. The palace guards inside trembled in fright, and the sabers in the hands of the timid palace guard soldiers fell to the ground.

The battalion officer stood at the door and looked at them in a condescending manner, so that the Johor palace guards did not dare to look at him.These palace guards originally wanted to make a final fight in the palace, but when the soldiers of the Kyushu Army actually appeared in front of them, they were too frightened to resist.

"Put down your weapons!" The soldiers of the Kyushu Army near the battalion officer pointed their muskets at the palace guards, signaling them to put down their weapons. It was not known whether the Johor palace guards could understand what they said.

The soldiers of the Royal Palace Guard had dealt with the Franc robots before, and they knew the power of muskets, and they also knew that muskets were threatening them, so they quickly let go of the weapons in their hands.

"Where is your king?!" The soldiers of the Kyushu Army continued to say to the palace guards.

This time the palace guards were blindsided, they couldn't understand Chinese.

"Don't ask them. If you ask them, they won't understand what we are talking about. Let's search by ourselves." The battalion officer said impatiently.

At this moment, a slightly clever soldier of the palace guard seemed to have guessed the intention of the Kyushu army, so he pointed to a side hall in the palace.

"A few people in the past." The battalion officer gestured to several soldiers.

A few Kyushu soldiers entered the side hall cautiously, and found the Sultan of Johor curled up in the bedroom and a group of concubines wearing gold and silver.

"Get out with us!" The soldiers of the Kyushu Army almost put their spears on the king's forehead, threatening him to go out.

They may be more polite when dealing with civilians, but for these untamed kings, only force can make them realize the absolute power gap between the two sides.

The Sultan of Johor came out of the bedroom with his concubine under the threat of the soldiers of the Kyushu Army, and looked at the soldiers of the Kyushu Army wearing uniforms they had never seen with fear from bottom to top.

"Sir, is this their king?" Several Kyushu soldiers who were escorting the Sultan of Johor said.

"It looks like it, but I don't rule out the possibility of being a substitute. If you want to prove it, there are ways." Under the instructions of the battalion officer, the soldiers of the Kyushu Army pointed their muskets at the concubines except the Sultan of Johor.

The Sultan of Johor was so frightened by the actions of the Kyushu Army that his face turned pale. He knelt on the ground and begged for mercy from the soldiers of the Kyushu Army. He was so anxious to cry.It's just that the soldiers of the Kyushu Army couldn't understand the words of the Sultan of Johor begging for mercy.

"Okay, this guy should be the real king." The battalion officer restrained the behavior of his subordinates, he couldn't really kill these unarmed concubines, it would be harmful but not beneficial.

"Seize their treasury, transport the gold, silver, grain and grass to the ship, and let them obey our orders, so that they can still hope to get some of the grain and grass back. Otherwise, all the gold and silver treasures in Johor will be ours."

The battalion officer of the Marine Brigade easily captured the capital of Johor, but he was not excited about it. In his opinion, this is a matter of course.Johor is a small country on the Malay Archipelago. It is different from big land countries like Siam and Annan. Even the city walls are relatively simple. The artillery and machine guns were still unable to hit him, so he was going to take off his head and apologize in front of Chu Yun, the commander of the Kyushu Army.

After this army broke through the capital of Johor, Johor fell into a brief period of chaos. The culprit who caused the chaos in Johor did not stay in Johor for too long. They hijacked the king and gold and silver treasures and transported them to the ship. Then cross the territory of Johor from land and besiege the city of Malacca.

When the blue dragon flag of the Marine Corps appeared under the city of Malacca, the Nanyang Fleet had already competed with the Frangji Fleet in the waters of the Strait of Malacca.

The fleet composed of more than a dozen Franji warships and Wushang fleet formed a longitudinal formation, as did the opposite Nanyang Fleet. The two sides were chasing each other like two parallel lines, pouring shells at each other!The shells fell into the water, causing splashes, but they were hurt and touching because of the swaying sea surface.

The long-distance artillery competition between the two sides only caused minor injuries to the two warships of Frangji, and more than a dozen sailors were killed. On the Nanyang Fleet, only one frigate was scratched.

"Today's weather is not very good. The wind and waves are more violent than usual. The hit rate of long-distance naval artillery shelling is not high. When the wind and waves are strong, whether you can hit them depends on luck." The sailor in charge of observing the wind direction and water conditions told Deng Qianlong Report.

The shelling between the two fleets continued, and occasionally a shell landed on the sea [-] meters away from the fleet.

Deng Qianlong was on the deck of the Daqin, his figure undulating with the shaky deck.Although the weather with strong winds and waves does not necessarily mean a storm, it has a great influence on long-distance shelling.

"This kind of competition might last for ten days and half a month." Deng Qianlong was a little helpless. The Frang Robot has a history of 200 years of fighting in the ocean, but they are a local fleet that has just been formed, and their The sailing battleship is built with the technology of this era plus some future ones. It is slightly more advanced than the warship of the Frang robot, but not too advanced.

Even if he is [-]% sure that he can finally destroy the permanent fleet of Francobots in the Far East, it will take time.

"When we gain the upper hand, the whole army will change from long-range bombardment to close-range attack, and use our big ship's artillery and the number of soldiers to destroy them." Deng Qianlong is ready to adjust his tactics.

(End of this chapter)