Daming: I help my wife be the empress

"The envoy of the Lord of Mumbai?" Hou Runfa smiled, "Probably because he knew we had recovered the city and came to ask for it. Let him come here."

"Yes."

Soon, Haman's messenger came to Hou Runfa.

The envoy himself was an interpreter who knew Chinese. When he saw Hou Runfa, he said directly in Chinese: "You entered the city with armed forces and killed many people in Bombay. The city lord was very angry. However, since the two countries are friendly, as long as you leave the city tomorrow, the city lord will not leave the city." Pursue more."

Regarding the matter after recovering the city of Mumbai, Hou Runfa had discussed with Chen Huan and other big businessmen before coming here.

Hearing this at this time, he said: "Let us withdraw from the city is fine, but before you closed down our factories and shops for no reason and caused riots, not only caused us heavy losses, but also caused many compatriots to die. statement."

The envoy frowned and said, "It's His Majesty's order to drive you away, and our city lord is just following orders. As for the riot, it was purely accidental, so why ask us for an explanation?

You entered the city armed and killed so many people, do you need to give us an explanation?
After all, Mumbai is the city of our Mughals. If you want to be sensible, you should withdraw tonight.If you are not willing to hand over the city, the city lord Haman will send an army to attack tomorrow, and it will be difficult for you to leave by then! "

"Scaring me?" Hou Runfa stood up, "My Western Navy of the Ming Dynasty will arrive in Mumbai in two days! If you want to fight against me, please try! Throw this man out and block the east gate!"

The latter sentence was addressed to the Chamber of Commerce armed forces below.

After Haman's messenger was literally thrown out and the city gate was blocked, a merchant who was the captain of the team came to inquire.

"Boss Hou, are we really going to fight Haman's army?"

"Why, are you afraid?" Hou Runfa asked with a smile.

The man hesitated and said: "After all, he is a regular army, and there are thousands of people."

Hou Runfa put away his smile, and said, "We can't decide this kind of thing, let's send someone to the pier and tell the bosses of the chamber of commerce."

"understood."

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Mumbai port.

After Chen Huan and other big merchants learned that Harman had handed over the city, they discussed——

"Although Harman is useless, he has thousands of regular troops under his command. Our armed forces only have more than 800 people. It is impossible to defend the city of Mumbai."

"You mean to hand over the city to them for nothing like this? What about our loss? Do you want those factories in the city?"

"The most important thing is the Mughal emperor's decree to expel us, can it be revoked?"

"You want the Mughal emperor to revoke the decree for a mere city, you are thinking too much."

"···"

After arguing, everyone couldn't make up their minds.

They want to recover the lost money and keep their property; but they don't want to confront the regular Mughal army.

Seeing this, Chen Huan, the chairman of the Mingren Chamber of Commerce in Mumbai, could only sigh, helpless.

At this moment, a person came in, went to Chen Huan's side, and said excitedly: "President, we have contacted the Western Navy!"

"Oh? What did they say? Are you willing to send troops to Mumbai?" Chen Huan was a little nervous while being excited.

He knew that the imperial court attached great importance to overseas people, but he also knew that if Ming Dynasty sent troops to Mumbai, it would be tantamount to confronting the Mughals, and even trigger a war between the two countries.

The relationship is so important, it is really hard to say whether the generals of the Western Navy will dare to send troops.

"They asked us to assemble our own armed forces and first rescue the compatriots trapped in the city. They will be able to arrive in Mumbai tomorrow, and they will not come with a few warships, but the entire Western Navy and the Third Fleet of the Nanyang Navy!"

"There are so many people here?" Chen Huan was shocked when he heard that, "Could it be that the imperial court wants to attack Mughal?"

"The captain we contacted didn't say anything, and I don't know."

Chen Huan stood up and said, "It doesn't matter why the imperial army came to Mumbai. With them, we don't need to be afraid of the thousands of troops under Harman's command."

Immediately, Chen Huan told the news to other big businessmen who were still arguing.

Everyone was shocked at first, and then couldn't help cheering——

"Since the imperial army will arrive tomorrow, why should we be afraid of Haman?"

"You want us to hand over the city for nothing? Good idea!"

"Let's defend this city first, and when the imperial army arrives tomorrow, maybe they can give us credit."

"Yes, our factories and shops are all in the city, we must not just hand over the city!"

"···"

Hou Runfa was also excited when he received the news from the chamber of commerce.

He discussed with Chen Que, and immediately re-armed according to the goal of defending the city for one day.

Early the next morning, the Chamber of Commerce organized another 300 people to come to support. Although there were not enough guns, there was no shortage of cold weapons.Even if these people can't go to the front line to fight, it is possible to take care of the logistics and suppress the Indian people in the city.

On Haman's side, they waited until the sun was high before sending troops to attack the east gate.

There was also artillery in Haman's army, but only a few old Fran cannons.This kind of artillery is okay for naval battles, city defenses, and field battles, but it's not so interesting for sieges.

The [-] light infantry under Harman's command were not weak, they were brought from the north, and they participated in Aurangzeb's battle for the throne, so they were considered elite, with nearly [-]% of the army equipped with firearms.

However, they lacked siege equipment and only had some simple ladders. When they came to the city wall, the dozens of tigers gathered by Hou Runfa retreated after a bombardment.

During this period, Haman's [-] cavalry tried to go around to the west and raid the west gate or the dock, but they also failed.

Although there were only more than 100 members of the Chamber of Commerce guarding the west gate, their firepower was not bad. Haman's [-] cavalry lacked siege equipment and could not climb the city wall at all.

In the afternoon, Haman mobilized thousands of soldiers from the surrounding towns to serve as cannon fodder, and the intensity of the siege at the East City Gate only increased.

Relying on the large number of people, although Haman's side attacked the city with ants, they still attacked the city wall for a while.

Seeing that the west city gate could not be defended, Hou Runfa and Chen Que discussed whether to retreat - after all, they were only the armed forces of the chamber of commerce, and Mumbai was not a city of Ming Dynasty, so there was no need to stick to it.

The armed forces of the Chamber of Commerce are doing well, but now they are frustrated and their morale has dropped very fast. It is estimated that they will not last long.

Just when the two were about to retreat, a fast horse came from the pier, carrying a red flag, shouting all the way——

"The imperial army has arrived! The imperial army has arrived!"

Hearing this, Hou Runfa, Chen Que and others felt as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

Hou Runfa stood on a cannonball box and said loudly: "My compatriots! The imperial army has arrived at the pier and will come to help soon. As long as we guard the east gate, it will be a great achievement!"

Hearing Hou Runfa's call, the chamber of commerce's armed forces, who were afraid of death, suddenly became brave, and beat down the Mughal soldiers who had climbed the city wall several times in a row.

After holding on for nearly an hour, they finally arrived with a thousand-strong Ming Dynasty Marine Corps.

With the joining of the marines, the crowd not only repelled another attack by the Mughal army, but also opened the east gate and attacked Haman's camp.

Haman's confidence was frustrated because he failed to capture the city in one day. Now when he saw thousands of Ming troops appearing, he was frightened out of his wits. He forgot to order a retreat and fled with a few guards.

That day, more than 8000 Mughal troops attacked the city of Mumbai for a long time, but they were counterattacked by the Ming army at sunset, and they were defeated for more than ten miles!
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Two days later.

Nanjing, the Hall of Martial Arts in the Forbidden City.

Snapped!
Auntie Zhu threw the telegram on the table and said angrily, "This Aurangzeb really doesn't care about my Ming Dynasty! Without saying hello, he suddenly issued a decree to expel our merchants and goods from Daming, causing riots in many places , I don’t know how many overseas Chinese in Ming Dynasty have died!”