Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 557 Defeated or Victorious?

The entire water village is surrounded by a shallow bay with large trees, and the warships of the allies are stationed here. Later, the heavy battleships of the Qihuo Army are parked in the deep-water port further back. Every 60 meters on the fence, there is a watchtower a few meters high. Usually, soldiers paddle boats back and forth to change defenses here to warn the Dutch on the other side of the strait.

In addition, in a sea area, the Qihuo Army also deployed mines. The loud noise just now was the explosion sound of the Dutch warship hitting the mines.

But this time, the omnipotent sea mine did not play a big role. The mine had already approached the water fortress at a distance of more than 300 meters before it exploded. The heavy artillery replaced the light Francois machine guns on the original ship's position, and the West-Dutch coalition forces who were badly bombed learned a lesson. Before the fleet advanced, it first used small minesweepers to clear mines outside the port. It was estimated that it was mines just now. It was caused by a boat error.

This is the case, and it also caused chaos in the begging army. Under the beating of the gong, the begging army, navy, army and soldiers who were still on the boat and resting on the road all jumped up and down like chicken blood. out.

"Hurry up, Guardsmen, go to the beach to find the commander immediately! Hurry up!"

Not caring about sorting out the piles of documents piled up in the tent, Li Xiangjun rushed out in panic amidst the messy gong sirens, but before she could find Song Yongzhong or Xiaobao, a black shadow like an iron tower was Suddenly blocked in front of her.

"Don't make trouble, it's me!"

Under Li Xiangjun's astonished gaze, Song Qingshu came back at some point, and his incongruous beach outfit was replaced by a whole set of armor, with a strange expression on his face, a little sighed, a little regretted, Song Qingshu shook his head and shouted: "The boat is ready, hand it over to Xiaobao, pack up your things, and let's get on board!"

In just ten minutes, the entire barracks already had the feeling that Cao Cao’s company was burned. In the distance, the Dutch fleet, which had replaced heavy artillery, began to bombard the huge water village. After crossing the sky, the simple single-layer wooden boat of more than ten meters and twenty meters was finally blown to pieces.

Different from the begging army, these Turkish troops from all over the world have completely lost control at this time, some are rowing their boats and scattered backwards in horror, while others are bravely rushing towards the Dutch fleet , On the sea near the water village, thousands of ships collided with each other, holding spears, bows and arrows, and many native warships even rushed to the side of the Dutch fleet.

I have to say that some of these natives are brave enough, holding their shields, shooting bows and arrows at the Dutch warships that are a few meters higher than themselves, roaring and trying to climb up, but unfortunately, the weapons are too backward so that they are completely passive and beaten At this point, the Dutch on the deck only needed to hold the firecrackers and shoot down a volley. The roaring bullets passed by, and the soldiers from the Southeast Asian countries who were not covered by armor at all fell into the sea like cutting wheat.

After 70 minutes of bombardment, the main fleet composed of more than [-] Dutch warships roared towards the back of the camp. The results in front of them were brilliant, but the Ming army and the Spanish treasure ships were the most threatening to the Dutch. Only by defeating them can the crisis in the Batavia headquarters be resolved.

It's really crushing, even the Dutch didn't fire any more guns, they just fired guns down along the deck, and the sharp Galen galleon's prow cut like a knife, and the native boats in front seemed to be cutting It's as easy as butter to be cut in two.

However, the front battalion of the Navy of the Ming Alliance Army was about to pass through a sea of ​​flames, but unexpectedly, a burst of neat artillery fire landed in front of the Dutch warship. Shitiao, the soldiers who fell into the water were thumping in fear in the water, and the aggressive Dutch fleet was forced to stop by this burst of shelling.

Speaker Batavia, the commander of the Black Dutch Fleet, Van der Burgh Lummel, whose old eyelids were full of pimples, opened his eyes in astonishment, and quickly looked over with his long binoculars.

In the light of the fire, the main force of the 82 Ming army and the Spanish warships not only did not scatter in two directions as imagined, but appeared to be scattered. , and behind, three huge sea fishes, the transport ship Dragon King of the South China Sea also moved slowly, showing no signs of panic at all.

Moreover, this formation formed an unfavorable situation for the Dutch. If the Dutch fleet continued to attack, the warships of the Ming army with a long snake could completely outflank them backwards. Assaulting in the position, the Dutch warships were huddled together like a huge gemstone and inlaid inward. They would suffer a big loss in firepower and risked being cut off from the rear.

"Sir, shall we attack?"

Just when Vanderbilt was fascinated by watching, a jerky Dutch voice behind him suddenly brought him back to his senses. He turned his head away, but it was an intern military officer who was also of noble origin. His nephew Caesar, listening to this question, sighed , the sophisticated Dutch governor shook his head helplessly.

"Order the fleet to stop!"

Immediately, the old guy's face turned into a weird smile again, like an old owl.

"It seems that our oriental gentleman also understands us very well!"

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Breaking through the Makassar Strait of the allied forces of the Ming Army, surprisingly, the Dutch fleet seemed satisfied with the results and did not pursue and kill them. After a short exchange of fire, they stayed in the Makassar Strait, allowing the main fleet of the Ming Army to retreat smoothly. At that time, the Ming army retreated fifty nautical miles, and arrived at the Old Port, the capital of the Kingdom of Denardy, which stretched into the sea like a snake.

Although the messy native soldiers below are scattered on both sides of the strait and in the entire huge water village, in terms of the luxury of life, it is still the luxurious high-end cabin of the newly launched Nanhai Dragon King, so most of the nobles of the Nanhai countries live There, when the Ming army retreated, they did not forget to take them with them.

And when they got there, the parasites, who failed to accomplish anything but failed to succeed, quarreled like a beehive. Everyone was shirking their responsibilities, and racial and religious conflicts also broke out. Believers in Brahmanism, Buddhism, and The aristocrats of a trace of Lanjiao accused those who believed in Western Catholicism for tipping off the news, while many Malays vented their anger on those short blacks, and the two sides quarreled happily.

"General Ming, why didn't you take our army with you when you retreated? You are simply letting Denardier's army be sacrificed in vain! How did you command? I want to sue the Emperor of Ming!"

Finally, someone still set the fire on the Ming army. In order to fight for the hegemony of Sulawesi, the Denardians almost recruited more than half of the males from middle school to 30 years old. This time, almost 3 people threw almost all I went to feed the sharks in the Makassar Strait. The old king was getting old and confused. This time, he was betting on the advantage of the middle school Daxiangsu. Originally, he wanted to seize the king's position by virtue of his military exploits with Da Ming. It was all ruined, and Su Li, who had a face as long as a octopus, was full of anger on Song Qingshu, knocked on the table, and roared angrily at him.

"Hmph, you're ashamed to say it! As early as the beginning of the war, General Song asked all countries to unify the command of the army in the hands of Daming. What about you? One by one, you are pushing three times and four times! Su Dili, your De Nadi's army has not yet waited. When the Great Tomorrow Army was dispatched, it was already disintegrated, and almost broke up the Great Tomorrow Army! I think you should be responsible first!"

Although Sulu's army also suffered heavy losses this time, the second prince of the family "studied" in Yingtian and was one-hearted with the beggar army. Already jumped out in a rage, and roared in front of Song Qingshu.

"Hmph, I think you Sulu are wearing a pair of pants with the Ming people, betraying the interests of our entire Nanyang countries. Otherwise, why are only your Sulu soldiers and horses coming back with the Ming army ship? I think the Ming people are going to take us Use it as cannon fodder, come and fight those western barbarians!"

His eyes were really red with anger, Su Dili was already speechless, and he roared loudly in Malay, and Magru was so angry that his forehead was bulging again, and he wanted to argue, but listening to Su Dili's yelling, He has also become the target of public criticism, and many other state leaders have also targeted him, and the abuse in various languages ​​has flooded the sky, almost drowning him.

But at this moment, the table split in two with a bang, and the gold wine vessels on it fell to the ground. Under the astonished gaze of a large group of nobles, Song Qingshu stood up with a gloomy face, and pointed Prime Minister Denardy said coldly.

"Su Deli, with evil intentions, slandering Daming, drag him out!"

"Dare you, this is the palace of Denardy, I am the Prime Minister, you dare to treat me like this, don't be afraid..."

Listening to the interpreter's translation, the old man Su Deli was going crazy, but before he could finish his rant, several beggar army soldiers who rushed in from outside dragged him by the arm and walked out, frightened and angry. It turned into panic, the old guy first yelled, then turned into begging, and finally turned into crying again, stunned, all the nobles from the Nanyang countries watched him being dragged out of the palace, and immediately stood in the palace square. He was suspended from a tree by a rope, and he kicked his legs and began to foam.

In his country's capital, he hanged his powerful prime minister like this!Almost all the Nanyang nobles showed expressions of disbelief, but seeing the soldiers in black armor of Ming Dynasty standing everywhere in the palace, these nobles became silent again.

Looking gloomy at the corpse hanging there, Song Qingshu's face was terribly cold, this Su Dili must die, because!He spoke the truth!

(End of this chapter)