Yin Feng lay on the cannon on the bow of the ship, looking gloomily at Macau in the dusk. Two company warships were patrolling near the port. The fire on the gun mounts flashed, and a loud rumble spread across the harbor.

At this moment, Yin Feng's flagship Feilong is moored at the outer harbor in the southern part of the Macau Peninsula.

Yin Feng turned around and looked at Luo Aquan. Bernardo and others were standing behind him. Luo Aquan was looking down at the deck anxiously.

"Aquan, this matter has nothing to do with you. You have done a good job. Let's go and take a rest first." Yin Feng patted Luo Aquan on the shoulder. Luo Aquan raised his head and smiled bitterly at him: "Shipowner, this Miss Li... "

"Accident, this is an accident," Yin Feng shook his head and said, pushing him away.

Bernardo put his hand on his chest and bowed to Yin Feng: "Thank you for saving my life." His pale face was full of exhaustion. Yin Feng asked with concern: "Old friend, you'd better go down and have a rest. Bar,"

Bernardo shook his head: "I came here anxiously to persuade you to negotiate with the Macau authorities."

Yin Feng smiled: "I'm waiting for them to negotiate. I have no intention of driving the Portuguese out of Macau, and I don't want to kill anyone. I just want to safeguard my dignity and the interests of China Company,"

Bernardo was still troubled and said: "Do we need to fall out with the Portuguese? Most of my family members are still in Macau..."

"Don't worry, Colonel Coutre and Chen Zhongji are in Macau. He will protect your family. As for the Macau authorities, as long as they surrender to me, I will not embarrass them," Yin Feng said to Bernardo with a smile. Said: "So, what are you going to do? Do you still want to go back to Macau? Go back to Goa, or go back to Lisbon to become a hermit. You new Christians will always receive special care from the Inquisition. What are your plans in the future?" what to do,"

Bernardo sighed, did not answer Yin Feng's question, bowed to him, turned around and left.

The news of Li Lihua's disappearance still stimulated Yin Feng. He was restless and walked up and down the bow deck. Yan Siqi, Lin Yue and other personal guards stood far behind, watching him pacing.

It was getting dark, and only the China Company's patrol ships were lit with lights in the entire harbor. Macau was completely hidden in darkness. The Portuguese did not dare to light the lights because it was said that the China Company's fleet would fire at the lights.

The seventh day of the siege of Macau City is coming to an end.

Yin Feng stopped at the bow of the ship, pointed at Yan Siqi and said: "Get Magaro, fleet commander Ye Hua, infantry commander Zhao Tie, and that red-haired officer Fan Leighton, find them all." Yan Siqi was feeling bored. Hearing what Yin Feng said, he knew in his heart that Yin Feng had made a decision. He quickly jumped up and shouted: "Yes,"

"Wait a minute," Yin Feng stopped him and said, "Find Yu Anfu from the Military Intelligence Department as well."

Yin Feng looked at the dark Macau city and murmured: "Wait for me and I will rescue you soon."

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On the eighth day of the siege of Macau, Yin Feng lost patience with the Macau authorities who had not sent anyone to negotiate for a long time. In fact, the Macau authorities were in chaos and were completely unable to make any decisions or make any resolutions. It was useless; because the royal judges and the Inquisition resolutely refused to hand over the prisoners, the most basic conditions for negotiation between the two parties could not be met. Therefore, although the Macau City Hall wanted to make peace with Yin Feng, it was meaninglessly boring The dispute lasted seven days.

On this day, there was a serious shortage of food and drinking water in the city of Macau.

That morning, the Chinese United Company's warships all approached the coast of Macau. Hundreds of cannons fired salvos. The fortifications along the coast of Macau rained down bullets. The soldiers of the Municipal Guard were hungry and hid in the corner shivering.

The second fleet and the third fleet carried four sentries and a total of 500 escort infantry, and began to land in Macau City.

Wearing black uniforms, Spanish-style breastplates, and iron helmets, the infantrymen of the Chinese Company Guards fought outside the coast of Fujian for the first time. Under the unified command of the Conch, thousands of them were as one, uniformly organized. Climbing the rope ladder from the sailing ship to countless small boats and sampans, they carried flintlock muskets on their shoulders, hung bayonets with bayonet sockets that could be mounted on the muzzles of the guns at any time, and hung a long slip of equipment on their chests. Paper bandoliers with fixed ammunition.

From the sailboat to the sampan, and then to the beach for landing, these tactical actions have been trained countless times. The vast majority of infantry soldiers have formed conditioned reflexes. When they hear the conch whistle of different lengths, they take action immediately. The efficiency is amazing. Preparations for landing in the highlands were completed.

The first people to land were not infantry but sailors. There were more than a dozen centipede boats and multi-oar rowing boats. Each boat carried 20 members of the Sailor Musketeers. A total of more than 200 people stormed the beach and landed successfully under the cover of artillery fire. They dragged the rowboats to the beach casually, turned the rowboats sideways and arranged them in a line on the beach, and the sailors stood behind with guns to guard, forming a temporary defense.

Then, more than 40 rowing boats and sampans rushed towards the beach along with the rising tide.

At this most critical moment, the Portuguese in Macau showed their indomitable courage and launched the only counterattack during the siege of Macau. A large number of armed slaves rushed out of the city and rushed towards the Chinese landing beach. A large number of white armed men followed and charged towards the beach. The armed slaves were brandishing a variety of miscellaneous weapons, from spears, water axes, Turkish scimitars to old matchlock guns. They were launching an attack. They drank a lot of strong alcohol beforehand, and the priests performed a prayer ceremony for them. The black slaves braved the artillery fire and rushed to the front. Among them, there were even female black slaves participating in the battle. They all shouted wildly and were not afraid of death.

The charge of the white armed men seemed more organized. After all, many of them were veteran soldiers. They lined up in three rows, trying their best to keep the team neat and marching forward at a steady speed. They were not like the black people. He fired the gun randomly while running, but lit the match and held the gun forward. From time to time, he stood at attention and fired the gun. After firing a round, he immediately loaded the ammunition, and then continued to move forward.

The sailor musketeers have already engaged the armed slaves. Among the sailor musketeers, the number of matchlocks and flintlock muskets is basically half and half. Yin Feng does not have enough money to replace all the soldiers with flintlock muskets. , even if there is money, according to the company's existing production technology capabilities, the production speed of this flintlock gun cannot keep up with the speed of replacement and maintenance.

However, the Sailor Musketeers were developed from Yin Feng's earliest group of Danfolk musketeers. Their shooting and combat training were as hard as their infantry brothers. Yin Feng basically trained them as Marine Corps, so the sailors' The battle was very organized and not chaotic at all. They were arranged in three rows behind the temporary "small boat defense line", using round-fire tactics, and fired bullets in an orderly manner. At the same time, the Feilong and Feihu were close to the beach, and there were Dozens of warships also tried their best to get as close to the beach as possible and used artillery fire to cover the landing of the infantry.

Although Zhonghua Company has been experimenting with explosive bombs, the shells used this time are all solid metal round shells. Since the shells are difficult to form a ricochet effect on the beach, their lethality to the enemy is very limited. However, this kind of hundreds of cannons can Boom, the sound of bullets raining down is indeed very scary. Those black slaves have never seen such a formation in their lives. Halfway through the charge, they have basically woken up from the wine they just drank. They are in the temporary camp of the Sailor Musketeers of the China Company. A slight hesitation in front of the fortifications resulted in rows of bullets knocking them down.

At this time, the soldiers of the infantry team had successfully landed. Four hundred fully armed soldiers were arranged in a line of one hundred people wide on the beach behind the sailors, four rows deep, and dozens of strong gunners were lifted from the sampans. Four small bronze cannons were found, equipped with two-wheeled movable mounts. This model imitated the French light field gun style. It was the latest product of the Ordnance Department of the Chinese Company and was used on the battlefield for the first time.

A long conch whistle sounded, and the Marine Musketeers immediately stopped shooting, moved the boats that formed the temporary defense line, and opened several channels. The infantry team quickly passed through the Marine Musketeers' array, lined up in front, and faced The armed slaves who swarmed in expressed their welcome with a volley of four hundred muskets fired simultaneously.

The warships on the sea stopped firing their artillery. Only the Fei Zi warship used cannons to fire at Guia Mountain in the distance from time to time. The infantry team quickly expanded into a shooting formation. The rate of fire of the fusiliers and the skillful reloading and shooting of the infantry team. Technology, coupled with the use of fixed ammunition, the firepower exerted by the four-row deep infantry team can basically maintain a continuous firing rate.

The armed black slaves were knocked down in pieces as if they had hit a wall of bullets; their morale quickly collapsed, and they abandoned their weapons and fled, exposing the white armed forces behind them.

When the Portuguese traveled across the world, their motto was "race and soul", and the Spanish's motto was "gold, glory and gospel". Basically, they all have the shadow of religious jihad. Now they have to fight for their souls. , but God is now partial to the Chinese. The Chinese Company has advantages in terms of military strength, equipment, tactics, and troop organization; the most obvious thing is that the time it takes for the Portuguese to fire a bullet with a matchlock gun has already been fired by the Chinese. After three rounds of bullets, no matter how much the Portuguese veterans insisted, after one-third of the members of the white team were knocked down by the opponent's bullets, coupled with the appearance of field artillery in the opponent's camp, and after a shot of shells, the white people's team The team, like the black people, completely collapsed.

At this point, in the face of the armed forces of the Chinese Company, the Macau Portuguese no longer had any organized resistance.

Yin Feng has been watching the battle on the Feilong. He is surrounded by a group of young student soldiers from the military academy, some of whom are only in their teens. Everyone is holding a pen and paper, observing the battle situation and recording it on paper. There is a A self-ringing clock was used as a timer, and the student soldiers relied on it to record the time spent in troop operations.

"Students, you must accurately record the time used for each tactical action of the army. After returning home, everyone must write detailed articles and discuss how to improve tactical steps..." Yin Feng works part-time as a temporary instructor and keeps making comments to the student soldiers. After explanations and instructions, most of the military academy was brought out during this attack on Macau. Yin Feng asked the student soldiers to learn in actual combat. However, at this time, Yin Feng was obviously a little absent-minded and kept looking at the battlefield.

During the shootout with the white troops just now, the soldiers of the Chinese Company were protected by breastplates and helmets. Only five people were killed and more than ten people were injured. When the infantry discovered that the white troops collapsed quickly, everyone felt very unsatisfied. Under the command of the deputy commander Zhao Tie, they fixed their bayonets and shouted: "Kill!". The soldiers launched a bayonet charge like wolves and tigers. Regardless of whether they were black or white, as long as they were overtaken by them, if they did not kneel down and surrender immediately, they would immediately Just stab him with a knife and show no mercy.

Of course, on the way to Macau, the soldiers of the Chinese Company improvised some Portuguese collectively: such as Surrender, Surrender, and short sentences such as "Aentregadearmas" (hand over weapons). At the end of the day, many soldiers could no longer remember those words and just shouted somewhere in Chinese. There were still a few Portuguese people who knew Chinese. They threw away their weapons in time, knelt down and surrendered, saving a small life.

Yin Feng watched from a distance as they began to charge with bayonets. Knowing that Zhao Tie was already red-eyed, he shook his head and said to Yan Siqi: "When you see our flags planted on Mount Guia, you sound the call to arms,"

Due to the design angle, the Portuguese temporary fort on Guia Mountain was unable to bombard the Chinese who had quickly advanced down the hillside. After a while, the blue flag was flying on Guia Mountain, and all the fortifications in Macau were completely destroyed. Occupied by the Chinese.

In this era, Macau had not yet established systematic defense fortifications. After the fall of Guia Mountain, the entire Macau was like a beautiful woman and a lamb, ready to be slaughtered.

When the conch trumpet sounded, the troops of the China United Company stopped their charge and stopped at the gate of the residential area. The whole Macau was in chaos. Countless Portuguese people fled to the church in panic: according to their religious habits, they He almost instinctively fled into the church, regardless of whether the invading enemy was a Catholic.

In the city hall, Sheriff Dias reported that the Chinese had entered the city. Suddenly everyone lost the ability to speak and think. The speaker sat blankly in his seat, making meaningless hums.

The church bells rang throughout the city of Macau again, this time the bells of despair.

St. Augustine's Church, where the priests of the Inquisition were based, could no longer keep the believers away. A large number of people came with their families, Portuguese merchants, sailors, craftsmen and other people who were rich in gold and silver. After swarming in, Colonel Coutre and several of his men also successfully mixed in with the crowd and entered the church. He had already found out that Li Lihua was here, but the church door was closed a few days ago and the priests guarded it very closely. , unable to enter, otherwise he would have rescued people long ago.

All Portuguese people in Macau are worried about how this group of Chinese pirates will treat them.

However, although the Chinese company's escort team had stripped away all the coverings in Macau, they took no further action. They stopped outside the city. They just continued to mobilize troops ashore, and a large number of ships also docked and gathered on the shore.
Chapter completed!