The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 626 The Emperor Appears

The city of Banda Aceh is still very strong. With a history of more than 500 years, it has a particularly long history in Southeast Asia, especially in the Indonesian islands.

Thanks to its geographical location, Banda Aceh has always been a bridgehead for Southeast Asia to accept Western culture. Brahmanism began to spread from Aceh, and so did the later Muslim religion.

Therefore, Banda Aceh is also known as the gateway to the Holy Land (Mecca). Among all the regions in Southeast Asia, the Muslims here are the most stubborn and fanatical.

Historically, after the founding of Indonesia, the Acehnese even launched an armed rebellion because the Indonesian government and believers in other regions were not fundamentalist enough and refused to live according to the teachings of Islam.

They hope to establish an extremely conservative fundamentalist state in Southeast Asia.

As a bridgehead and gateway city belonging to a sect, the defense must be maximized. Therefore, most of the walls of Banda Aceh are made of cut stone slabs.

In an era with such backward technology, this was built entirely by manpower over hundreds of years of continuous repairs.

Historically, after the Dutch conquered Aceh, they spent a lot of effort to eradicate it, and there were even a few remains. It was not until the Aceh earthquake in 04 that it was completely collapsed.

Dong Jinfeng laughed heartily after seeing this. "Cai Louchuan will definitely be very happy to see this. If we repair it properly, it will become the home port of the Outer South China Sea Fleet in the future."

The Outer Nanyang mentioned by Dong Jinfeng refers to the Indian Ocean, and the meaning of Nanyang has not changed.

At that time, the Dayu Navy had only three fleets, namely the East China Sea Fleet with its home port in Keelung, the South China Sea Fleet with its home port in Qinzhou Bay, and the Nanji Fleet with its home port in Ha Tien.

At the same time, two fleets are under construction.

Among them, the North Sea Fleet, which plans to establish its home port in Jinzhou (Dalian) in the future, is almost completed.

The Outer South Seas Fleet was still in its initial stages of construction. The originally chosen home port was Daguang (Rangoon), but in recent years, a large number of Chinese people moved into Hanchuan Province (Lower Burma), and it became increasingly prosperous.

Daguang is the estuary of the Irrawaddy River and the economic center of the entire Hanchuan Province. The port handles a large number of cargo ships every day and is no longer suitable for stationing fleets.

In particular, the Hanchuan vassal state's Ava Shunyi King Meng Yun (Meng Yun, the Burmese King) still has 20,000 to 30,000 troops under his command, and hundreds of thousands of Burmese people near Ava have not completely surrendered. It is still somewhat dangerous to place the fleet's home port in Daguang.

Not only has Arakan not been completely occupied, it is also too close to British India.

As for Mawlamyine, it is not on the route of trade winds and ocean currents. Although steam engines have begun to mature, it is best not to locate the home port there.

So now it seems that the Port of Aceh, with its deep and wide harbor, high mountains on both sides for building artillery batteries, and backed by a strong city like Banda Aceh, is the most suitable home port for the Outer South China Sea Fleet.

"Taking this city has more significance than just this." Liu Taier, the governor of Nanji, who had just escorted the second batch of supplies, said:
"This city is the ancestral capital of the Muslim religion in Southeast Asia. If we take it, we can stop the Arabs from spreading their religion to Southeast Asia."

"Hahahaha, what Governor Liu said is right." Dong Jinfeng laughed, "I hate this kind of people the most in my life.

They are disrupting the defense of the northwest, inciting those who have forgotten their ancestors to change from Xia to barbarians. They are dignified Han men who are not worthy of being barbarians. Every family should be destroyed, and every one of them should be killed!"

Liu Taier looked at Dong Jinfeng in shock. This somewhat fat general who was good at suppressing bandits always had a kind look and loved his soldiers like his own sons.

It was the first time that Liu Taier had seen such hatred rising to the sky, emotions so violent, and a little extreme.

Well, if Liu Taier had also traveled through time, he would understand that Dong Jinfeng in front of him was a typical fanatical emperor.

These were the first group of Han Chinese who appeared on the Chinese mainland more than a hundred years after the Qing Dynasty ruled China, as Mo Zibu promoted nationalism.

Liu Taier didn't know what to say, so he could only bow his hands, indicating that he would go down to complete the handover of the supplies. However, Dong Jinfeng had already secretly made up her mind to carry out a major purge.

"Push the 42-pound mortar up there and knock down the cannons on the top of the city walls first."

"Huang Renyong, once the artillery on the city wall is destroyed, have your left guard shoot at the earthen wall and suppress the city wall."

"Lord Wanlong, after the city walls are suppressed, it's time for your provincial garrison troops, the vassal troops of the pro-vassal states, and the vassal troops of the garrison to launch the attack."

Dong Jinfeng's arrangements were very clear, which was also the consistent practice of the Dayu Dynasty. The garrison troops and the vassal troops were the cannon fodder for the first round of landing.

Although Banda Aceh City is strong, it is not high. This is limited by the construction materials. The stone slabs were cut manually by manpower and there was no lifting equipment. Naturally, it was impossible to build the city wall too high.

On the Chinese side, there are countless ways to deal with fortified cities.

Look, under the cover of Yang Wu’s army’s left guard sharpshooters, at the cost of more than 600 casualties, the Han army built two earthen walls over three meters high in the west of the city, which was just over one meter higher than the city wall of Banda Aceh.

Although time was short and artillery could not be placed on the earth wall, the rifles and Minié bullets equipped by the archers were not to be trifled with.

"Cannons, push the cannons over here quickly, we must kill those hunters on the earth wall!" Sheikh Abdul was knowledgeable. The hunting soldiers on the opposite side had much better archery skills and rifle range than his side, and they were more than one meter higher.

If they were allowed to make full use of the earth wall and snipe from above, the western wall would be completely untenable and would soon be lost.

However, the Acehnese people here pushed over the four-pound cannon cast by the English-supported arsenal. The observation post on the hot air balloon in the distance immediately discovered it and quickly conveyed the direction using flag signals.

The result was that the Acehnese four-pounder cannon had just extended its barrel out of the battlement of the city wall and had not yet had time to bombard the Yangwu Army sharpshooters on the earth wall, when the Yangwu Army artillerymen below had already pushed the artillery that had been deployed long ago into position.
On the city wall, a dozen Acehnese saw the Han army's artillery in the trench below and took out their muskets to fire.

The Aizu clan's death squad in the trenches immediately climbed out from the hidden trenches and fired a barrage of shots at the city walls. The Acehnese people immediately fell down with screams.

"Boom!" At this moment, the artillery moved much faster than the Acehnese. The Yangwu Army artillery opened fire first, and the huge solid bullet hit the barrel of the Acehnese artillery with a thud, as if it were divinely assisted.

Screams of terror were heard, and the Aceh artillery was smashed into the air and then fell heavily on the city wall, making several artillerymen cry for their parents. One of the wooden wheels even flew down from the city wall.

News kept coming down from the hot air balloon that the Yangwu Army's eleven field guns in the trenches used a two-on-one strategy to knock down two of the five Aceh artillery pieces.

But the danger still exists.

"Gentlemen, the time has come to demonstrate the loyalty of the Aizu samurai to His Majesty the Great Emperor. Let us be the first to ascend the battlefield and draw the attention of the Acehnese to the artillery!"

Under the city wall, the Aizu clan soldiers, inspired by Monotori (Matsu) Heishidagawa, put away their flintlock rifles, held their pistols in their left hands, and tied a katana with the blade facing upwards to their right waist.

In the process of Japan's return to China, the Aizu clan was an extremely special existence. They were the most resolute in resistance, but also the one who received the most praise from Mo Zibu.

Therefore, after the war, the Aizu clan was not only not abolished, but also received heavy rewards.

Mo Zibu conferred the title of Shunyi King on the successor lord of Aizu Domain, the highest authority in the domain, and also took in the five-year-old young lord (Matsu) Ping, bringing him into the imperial palace to be raised like his own son.

At the same time, Mo Zibu also specially allowed the Aizu clan soldiers to guard the imperial city when they were on duty at the two capitals of the north and south, which was equivalent to the Royal Guards.

Therefore, among the five eastern provinces today, the Aizu clan, which was once beaten by Dayu, is actually the most loyal.

"A warrior should be loyal to his country. We are determined to die and set an example for the world!"

"Long live His Majesty the Great Emperor!"

"Long live! Long live!" (Song) Pingdingchuan was the first to carry the wooden ladder, shouted loudly, and then took the lead in climbing up the city wall.

Seeing this, the Acehnese on the city wall had no time to care about anything else but to stick their heads out and shoot at the Aizu soldiers with their muskets.

A lead bullet flew past (Song) Pingdingchuan's scalp. The burning sensation made his whole body numb, but his legs continued to climb up as if numb.

Another Acehnese stuck his head out, and (Song) Pingdingchuan pulled the trigger first. With a flash of fire from the pistol, the Acehnese was shot, and his head was covered in blood.

However, before Song Pingdingchuan could catch his breath, the third Acehnese appeared. Song Pingdingchuan had no choice but to climb up faster with cold sweat all over his body.

The god of fate did not favor this direct descendant of the Aizu Matsudaira clan, and he was hit in the abdomen.

But Ping Dingchuan didn't feel much pain; adrenaline, working in tandem with his nervous system, absorbed most of the pain. The feeling of being shot, only a slight warmth, sent Ping Dingchuan into a frenzy, believing he had been blessed by the Emperor and was now invulnerable.

Therefore, after being shot, (Song) Ping Dingchuan moved even faster. He roared, drew out his katana with his backhand, and with a few leaps, he flew to the top of the city wall like a god descending to earth.

At the same time, more than a dozen Aizu clan soldiers were knocked down from the city walls, but more people, encouraged by (Matsu) Pinghei Sadakawa, rushed forward without regard for their lives.

A samurai sword is useless when it comes to armor, because the curvature of the blade makes it more suitable for chopping. Uh, no, it's actually most suitable for cutting.

Haha, cutting armor, even the lowest quality paper armor, is unlikely to have much effect.

However, since this thing is very sharp, it is too powerful against unarmored targets.

Often, it only takes a slight scratch, and the victim's aorta will be severed because the wound penetrates too deeply into the flesh, and the victim will lose his combat effectiveness in just a dozen seconds.

It just so happened that the Acehnese had little armor.

(Song) Pingdingchuan suddenly slashed from left to right, blood splattered, and a huge blood groove was cut on the neck of an Acehnese man, and he fell to the ground stiffly in an instant.

Then he twisted his body, drew a semicircle on the ground, and pulled hard, making a cutting motion.

With a "puff", a long cut was instantly opened on the black belly that came in hurriedly, and the white muscles, yellow fat and thin bra were directly cut through.

With a "kuji" sound, the large intestine and small intestine in the bulging belly rushed out directly from the broken hole.

The native let out a terrified scream, dropped the weapon in his hand with a clang, and tried to stuff his blue-black intestines back into his stomach.

The Acehnese soldiers behind were frightened by this, and dozens of them did not dare to move forward. Instead, (Song) Pingdingchuan laughed loudly and jumped into the crowd of dozens of people, hacking and slashing them, forcing them to retreat continuously.

After dozens of breaths, (Song) Pingdingchuan killed two more people and was covered in blood. The enemy had already fled in fear. He was about to chase them again, but he felt a sense of powerlessness, accompanied by severe pain in his lower abdomen.

(Song) Ping Dingchuan only then discovered that there was a huge bloody hole in his abdomen, and all the blood had drained out from there.

(Resurgence) Ping Dingchuan swayed twice and leaned back. He tried to put on a fighting posture, intimidating the opponent and guarding a ladder.

"It seems that even divine power has its limits, and I am about to die!" Until this moment, (Song) Ping Dingchuan still believed that his bravery just now was the emperor's blessing.

Thinking of this, he waved his bright red right hand towards the city and shouted with all his remaining strength: "Gentlemen, for His Majesty, for the Empire, Charge!"

"A true warrior! Although he is of Japanese origin, he is worthy of the title of Chinese."

Dong Jinfeng watched this scene through the telescope and couldn't help but sigh. He then ordered the military judges and the history officers: "Record this man's meritorious service. After the battle, I want to ask His Majesty for his merit on his behalf."

On the battlefield, inspired by Song Pingdingchuan, more soldiers spontaneously began to climb the city walls under the organization of grassroots officers.

In the trench under the city wall, the artillery, which was almost close to the base of the wall, bombarded the top of the city accurately without any pressure, and almost all of the Acehnese artillery was knocked down.

Without the four-pound cannon that could move on the city wall to threaten the earth wall, the archers were in a dominant position and used dense rain of miniature bullets to directly wash the entire western section of Banda Aceh's city wall, and also prevented reinforcements from other places from coming.

Sheikh Abdul was terrified. He never dreamed that after the real fighting, Banda Aceh would not be able to hold on for even a day.

"Go to the Royal City, go to the Royal City!" someone shouted loudly in Arabic. The Royal City is the inner city of Banda Aceh, a very classical fortress. Although it is not big, it can still hold out for a while.

"Why go to the royal city? These are soldiers of the Great Empire who are more powerful than the Russian army. We can't resist them." Sheikh Abdul really knew what he was talking about and directly rejected the suggestion of retreating to the royal city.

"Let's go, call everyone we can, rush to the port, grab a boat and go out to sea. If we're too late, we won't be able to escape!"

It was very decisive, but unfortunately the opponent was too strong!

By the time Sheikh Abdul arrived at the port with more than 600 people, the opportunity was already lost.

There was black smoke on the sea surface, and huge warships without sails were getting closer and closer. As they got closer, orange-red flames kept flickering.

The port artillery, barges and other objects were smashed to pieces. The port of Banda Aceh, which originally focused on land and sea defense, was bombarded by the navy's huge artillery and turned into a hell on earth.

"Oh God, are we going to die here?" Sheikh Abdul wailed and then pointed to a small hill west of the port.

"Go there, hide there. I hope the Qin people are not targeting us."

The wind was blowing gloomy and the battle lasted until the evening. With a huge rumbling sound coming from the city of Aceh, this rather classical fortress palace was also captured.

Yamagami Toru led his soldiers and strode into the royal city. He killed any man he saw with his sword, no matter how big or small.

The woman was knocked to the ground and then tied up with ropes like animals.

All the shiny or valuable items in the royal city were looted and waited to be handed over to the official in the ratio of 70% public and 30% private after the war, that is, 70% was handed over to the emperor and 30% was kept for himself.

In the backyard of the royal city, in a tiny stone fort, flintlock rifles continued to fire outwards.

'There must be a big fish in there!'

This was what everyone thought, and the crowd became even more crazy.

The Gwangju, Tosa, and Hiroshima clan soldiers who were guarding the clan charged three times but were finally driven out.

Afterwards, the Songcheng, Jinshi, and Taogong vassal soldiers of the Nanyang vassal states rushed in together. For a moment, there were loud gunshots and explosions like thunder.

After a while, six or seven people came out happily, pulling a young man with a big beard. The man had a dignified appearance, but at this moment, his standard square face was full of fear.

He was just about to say something when a soldier came up and slapped him five times, knocking even his teeth to the ground.

"You bastard, you're blind. I let you be the Shunzhi King, but you're not happy. You're even rebelling. Bah, why don't you take a piss and look in the mirror!"

There was no need to identify it, because at the grand event when Mozibu truly became the Great Emperor of the Eastern World, the Sultanate of Aceh even sent envoys to Mulan Paddock, making it a formal vassal state.

Sultan of Aceh Alauddin Muhammad Sayyid also holds the title of Shunzhi King, the third rank of the Zhenfan clan, so many people know him.

"General Dong has ordered that death be preferred to life. Once the identity is verified, execution will be immediate!"

A military judge from the Embroidered Uniform Guard ran over quickly and personally verified the identity of the person.

Well, to avoid any more trouble, it also shows the determination of Dayu. Even if he is the monarch of hundreds of thousands of people, he will not show any mercy.

"On the mountain, on the mountain, on the mountain!" Everyone shouted in unison. Shan Shangche heard the sound and appeared from the dense crowd. Then he pulled out his magic gun from his waist with great care.

"Mmmm! Mmmm!" Seeing Yamagami Toru take out the pistol, Sultan of Aceh Muhammad Sayyah, whose mouth was swollen and wrapped with cloth, tried hard to make vague sounds.

Shan Shangche put the muzzle of his gun to the forehead of the Sultan of Aceh and shouted solemnly: "All land under heaven belongs to the king, and all the people in the world are his subjects!

In the Eastern world, there is only one true Holy King, and that is His Majesty the Great Emperor of China!
Since you have surrendered, you must be loyal to the emperor and never betray him even if you have to go through fire and water.

But you, a dog slave, not only did you not show your loyalty, you even dared to act rashly. Today is the day you die!"

After saying that, Yamagami Che suddenly pulled the trigger. With a bang, the Sultan of Aceh's head shook violently and he lost his life instantly.

Almost at the same time, everyone rushed forward, punching and kicking him hard, and soon only a pool of flesh was left on the ground.

(End of this chapter)