Seeing that the ships, docks and shopping malls of England were about to be engulfed by the fire, the Portuguese in Macau could not sit idly by.

Under the order of Governor Rotoni, his adjutant De Figo was anxious in the shortest time that more than 30 musketeers and nearly 300 black slave soldiers, carrying wooden tubs, wooden barrels, brooms to shoot fire, and axes to cut flammable wood. Then, he lined up and swaggered towards the smoke-filled pier, without any warning at all.

The Portuguese musketeers and black slave soldiers led by De Figo are a special form of military organization in the overseas colonies of Portugal. The "Portuguese musketeers" are somewhat similar to the noble knights, while the black slave soldiers are their slaves. A musketeer usually has about ten slave soldiers. The slave soldiers are the private slaves of the musketeers and are also his assistants or subordinates on the battlefield.

Usually, the "Portuguese Musketeers" wear armor on fire and use Spanish heavy musketeers or artillery placed in fortresses to fight. The slave soldiers serve as their assistants and guards. Some of them will protect the musketeers with swords or spears, while the other help the musketeers reload ammunition. One master and ten slaves work closely on the battlefield to form a team, and sometimes they can promote combat effectiveness.

In the Battle of Macau in 1622, the Portuguese musketeers relied on this strange military organization to defeat the invading Dutch East India Company's army and preserve the Macau colony.

However, in most cases, the Portuguese musketeers and black slave soldiers were no match for the Dutch. Therefore, the Portuguese almost robbed all the colonies in Southeast Asia and India, and only Goa and other few data points were left to survive.

In addition, the Portuguese colonists had the habit of slaughtering slaves, not only black slaves but also slaves of other skin colors, but also female slaves!

So every Portuguese colonist who lived in Eastern colonies for a long time usually lived a decadent life of three wives and four concubines, and left behind a lot of illegitimate children that Christian law does not recognize. Generally speaking, the Portuguese colonists of this era were some very decadent guys. They were more decadent than all other European colonists, including their Spanish neighbors!

Sometimes they are even more corrupt than the indigenous feudal rulers next door, and they are completely without the appearance of advanced civilization.

It is also for this reason that the world empire in Portugal was the first to lay flat. During the years when the Portuguese motherland was occupied by Spanish neighbors, many Portuguese colonies even broke away from the control of the empire, seeking independence or relying on powerful indigenous feudal monarchs.

In India, Southeast Asia and other places, every powerful feudal monarch will have some Portuguese ministers under his command, and these feudal monarchs will also obtain advanced Western military technology through these Portuguese to strengthen their own strength.

If the European neighbors of the Portuguese were not really powerful in history, their colonial empire would have been declining in all respects in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and most of the colonies would have been annexed by powerful feudal lords in the local area.

De Figo, who had just been sent to Macau from his motherland in Portugal, certainly liked the life of this decadent colonial master from the bottom of his heart, so he was extremely disgusted when he heard that he was going to Beijing to serve as a slave to Emperor Kangxi, but he did not agree with relying on Macau through pleading and bribery. The good thing he thought in his heart was to join forces with the Dutch, Spanish, and British in the East to control the Qing Dynasty to protect the interests of the Portuguese colonists.

So now he was very anxious when he saw his British friend being burned to death!

Ten cargo ships!

It must be filled with silk, porcelain, sugar and the Chaozhou rum produced in China!

This will be burned out in one fire, and the British East India Company may go bankrupt.

Without the support of the British East India Company, it would be difficult for the Portuguese to join forces with the Netherlands and Spain to build the Qing Dynasty together. Even if they can get the support of the Netherlands and Spain, it would be difficult for Macau to avoid being divided up in these two aspects afterwards!

Thinking of this, De Figo was a little anxious and kept urging the musketeers and black slave soldiers to move forward quickly.

You must arrive at the fire before the fire burned the British to bankruptcy!

Under Figo's urging, more than 330 Portuguese and black slave soldiers ran four or five miles in one breath, and finally arrived at the smoke-filled fire.

The fire was very smokey, but the temperature was not high, and I didn't see any flames. What's even more strange is that it didn't seem chaotic at all, nor did I find out what happened to the British who were busy putting out the fire? Where did everyone go?

Although De Figo was confused, he didn't expect that he had already entered a fatal trap, so he rushed into the smoke with people, and asked in "Old English" while rushing: "Where is the fire? Is anyone injured?"

As soon as he finished speaking, someone responded there.

“Hi Erpa, Hi Erpa”

It was a woman calling for help, her voice was very nice, sweet and greasy. She should be a beauty, but the pronunciation of this English is a bit inaccurate.

But De Figo is not a teacher who teaches English, and he doesn't care whether other people's English is good or not. As long as they look good, he immediately led the people and followed the woman's cry for help.

After walking through the fog for a while, he suddenly felt that the smoke was much thinner and he could see a group of spearmen and musketeers standing in front of him!

These spearmen and musketeers looked bad, and the spears were all laid forward. There was no fuse on the musketeers, and the formation of the musketeers was also very dense, so they should be flintlock spearmen.

What's going on? Where are the women?

When De Figo was still looking for the beauty who was calling for help, an elderly Portuguese soldier next to him suddenly exclaimed.

"The Qing soldiers are Qing soldiers!"

Qing soldiers?

De Figo was anxious when he heard this. This was Wu Sangui who sent them to arrest him to Beijing as a Portuguese bannerman!

"There are Qing soldiers behind, and there are also Qing soldiers behind!"

At this time, someone shouted again. De Figo looked back and saw that the brigade was wearing gray-blue Chinese cloth armor, a "gun helmet", holding a spear, a knife card and a musket, had already gone around behind him!

"There are musketeers in the mall!"

Then someone shouted again.

De Figo turned his head and looked again. Sure enough, the windows on the second floor of the East India Company's shopping mall building were pushed open, and heavy muskets stretched out from inside, and the black muzzles were facing him!

Is this surrounded?

De Figo's heart was almost broken. Although he was not a military expert, even a fool knew that he had fallen into the trap of the "Qing soldiers"!

It seems that this Eight Banner Grape Army Banner is determined! I don’t know if I can still believe in God after becoming a Banner?

When he was thinking about going to Beijing for the rest of his life to be a slave to Emperor Kangxi, something even more terrible happened.

Someone persuaded surrender in Portuguese.
Chapter completed!