Chapter 354: Southern Expedition and Northern War Nineteen Sweeps (6)
In the last battle before nightfall, Yan Siqi led the team to charge, and was injured by the left hand when he rushed out of the city gate to chase the Madalan Guards.
The Fifth Division, the Nanyang Brigade, the sailors of the Third Fleet, and the Refugee Self-Defense Force all joined the ranks of going out of the city to hunt down. This was the first time the Chinese army went out of the city to fight the Madaran army, and it was defeated at the cost of more than 100 casualties. Siege of tens of thousands of Madarans.
Yan Siqi and others had to force themselves to clean up and down the fortress that night, collecting the bodies of Chinese and attackers. The bodies of Chinese were buried on the ruins of inns, which were already ruined, and the bodies of Madaran were fired outside the city wall. Burning, there are so many corpses. The trenches surrounding the Chinese mall were completely filled with corpses. Countless flies were flying. This piece of land could no longer absorb too much human blood. The red blood flowed into the sea a mile away. .
The Madarans also sent corpse collectors, and neither side wanted to be killed indiscriminately by the plague caused by the rotten corpse, and reached a certain default ceasefire state. For two consecutive days, the Chinese and Javanese were busy collecting the bodies and cremating them.
Inside and outside the Madaran camp, the music "Ganmeilang" played for funerals almost stopped. The drum sound used to guide the rhythm in Java Island's unique "Ganmeilang" accompanied by tortuous and whirlwind music, spread to the Chinese mall. Inside.
Yan Siqi turned all the warehouses upside down and distributed all the remaining ammunition, except for a bucket of granular gunpowder.
Yan Siqi gathered the Chinese soldiers in the mall and declared: "...We only have these ammunition now, and each person can fire five bullets; there are more than twenty grenades, and there are three flower grenades. Ours That's all the firearms. After we've finished fighting, we can only rely on hand-to-hand combat. The Mariners, how many triggers and crossbows are there?"
There were only more than ten sailors and marines left in the Third Fleet in the mall, one of whom replied: "There are five crossbow tools and about thirty crossbow arrows,"
Yan Siqi smiled bitterly and nodded: "Well, brothers, if the Madarans attacked like this the day before yesterday, it is hard to say whether we can still defend the fortress. What do you think of it?"
"What's there to say? Keep it to the end, hold it to the last shot..." Wu Hao shouted first.
Yan Siqi shook her head: "No, it's not OK for us to trap the lonely city like this and wait for the enemy to attack. My suggestion: Take the Madalans to re-arrange troops. Let's take a night attack. Uncle Luo's special battalion soldiers have already investigated clearly. : The red-haired cannon is in the Sudanese army camp in the southeast corner. We have a sneak attack there. It is best to destroy the cannon. If it fails, try to grab some gunpowder and try to kill a few red-haired cannoners."
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Yan Siqi finally found a way for himself and the brothers in the special camp to play their strengths. For three consecutive nights, he and Luo Aquan led a team to attack the Madaran camp. Not only did they kill several red-haired gunners, but they also drove the Madaran camp. It made people uneasy and all the plants were soldiers. Luo Aquan's men also blew up the gunpowder truck brought by the red gunner from Batavia.
In this way, the defenders of the Chinese Merchant House successfully delayed the preparations for the Madarans to launch another attack. When the communication ship Haihun arrived, on that day, His Majesty Madaran Sultan Agong collected Wanyumas from Central Java The new cannon fodder in the place launched another attack. Yan Siqi and others fought desperately, fought against the Javanese natives and persisted for a whole day. During this period, even dozens of Balinese and Japanese in the mall also came to the city. It is obvious that the fortress guards have reached this point. Once the castle is lost, the Madarans will definitely have a complete massacre. When both jade and stone are burned, the Balinese and Japanese will be ruined together, so these guys have to go up. Fighting.
In the evening, the Sea Soul broke through a group of small Malay sailboats and sent 250 reinforcements to Jingliwen Beach. 250 veterans from the First Division of the Chinese Army and the Fifth Division immediately broke through the beach with quick actions. Up the fence erected by the Madarans launched a sudden attack on the Madarans guarding the narrow area between the Chinese mall and the coastline. At this time, the Chinese mall was almost captured, and the Madarans had already captured the East Gate. At the Ximen Tower, Yan Siqi was already desperate and was planning to lead people out of the siege.
Some of the 250 Chinese soldiers were soldiers of the First Division adapted by Yiwu Bird Gunner, and some were veterans of the Guards who followed Yin Feng to fight the first Battle of Manila. They also had at least ten years of experience in firearm warfare, and Hong Mao Yi, Folang Jiren, La people, Luzon natives, Taiwanese aristocratic natives, South China Sea Malay natives, and the Ming Dynasty official troops in the mainland all fought wars. In this sudden night attack, the veterans of the Chinese army Discipline and combat experience gave them the upper hand everywhere. It was a piece of cake to deal with a large number of Javanese army that was still in the feudal era and was like a loose sand.
The Madaran army, which was suddenly attacked behind, lost order in an instant. The Chinese defended the castle to them greatly shocked them. The Chinese shopping malls failed to attack for a long time, which made the Madaran people depressed. A few days ago The attack also made them frightened birds, so the raid of only 250 Chinese troops collapsed the third general attack of the Madarans. The commander of this unit was Jin Mingyu. In the second Battle of Manila, he guarded the Bashi Hebei. The fortress's meritorious whistle captain.
Yan Siqi and the others finally got Yin Feng's exact order: hold on for another seven days, the Chinese army will sweep across Java Island, and the battle will determine the overall situation in Java. Yan Siqi and others' mission will still restrain the main force of the Madaran army and attract Sultan Agong. In Cialibn.
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On Belitung Island, more and more Chinese people gathered, and ships continued to come to this island, and a large number of supplies were transported here, and countless people were also gathered here. This beautiful tropical island was completely Chineseized. , all the Chinese people who come and go are speaking Chinese dialects.
Of course, there are also many non-Chinese people here. In addition to more than 1,000 foreign mercenaries, there are also a large number of Jewish merchants. Financingists are gathering here. They are responsible for the task of developing the financial market of Chinese companies; a large number of Portugals The merchants also came, preparing to fight the British, French and Dutch people away, and grab some business under the hands of the Chinese.
There are also thousands of Japanese Catholic exiles. They have undertaken the hardest and most tiring work as coolie husbands in the army. This group of Japanese Catholics are Nagasaki believers who have just been driven out of the Tokugawa Shogunate recently, due to Yoon Feng's mobilization. After the Battle of Kyushu Satsuma, the Japanese Catholic Missionary Church participated in the attack on Taiwan. Therefore, under the influence of such an incident, the Tokugawa Shogunate's ban on religion was even more severe than recorded in another time and space historical facts, and it began in Nagasaki a few years in advance. "Planting" ceremony.
Xu Xinsu sent a report to Yin Feng in Nagasaki that in 1618 there were already 30,000 Catholics, but this year, the Nagasaki people no longer dare to claim that they are believers. The shogunate envoys ran rampant in Nagasaki and would not want to convert the religion. In order to save time for interrogation, the prosecutor of Nagasaki later tested Japanese Catholics by trampling on the cross. The prosecutor placed the cross on the ground and let everyone trample on it. Anyone who did not want to trample on it was considered a Catholic and arrested immediately. Children cannot be exempted from the test. If they are too young to walk, they must be supported by their mother and step on the cross with their little feet.
A large number of Nagasaki believers went into exile to Ryukyu and were then sent to Penghu concentration camp. At present, the East Asian waters south of Japan are controlled by the Chinese military, so all these believers fell into Yin Feng's hands. In order to prevent the Japanese from getting along with Lu again. The Song natives jointly rebelled and decided to take advantage of the development of the Nanyang strategy to disperse all the Japanese believers to all parts of Nanyang.
In addition to this group of Japanese coolies, a large number of Luzon natives were conscripted as coolies. The Chinese army paid extremely attention to logistics, so there were a lot of work for these coolies.
On this day, Tanjung Pandan, the port on the west coast of Belitung Island, was extremely lively.
The Zhilutuke River where this port is located is a river that fluctuates regularly. A river channel that is more than 20 miles long downstream can be navigated. There are many beaches and swamps on the coast of Belitung Island, mixed with rocks and coral reefs, and several places can be stopped. The port is already full of ships from the Chinese Army's South Ocean Expeditionary Force. In just one place in Tanjung Pandan, there are nearly 500 large and small ships docked. Even the temporary mooring site has been opened to Mendanau Island west of the port. By half a month, the few trees around Tanjung Pandan had been cut down and turned into a pier and pier.
Today is the day when the army sets off. Yin Feng boarded his flagship Dingyuan four-masted battleship early. Dingyuan anchored and docked on the north side of the Zhilu Tuke River, heading west and deep into the south of the beach of the sea. The coastline of Tanjung Pandan is only fifty steps away. Yin Feng stood at the bow of the boat, watching with confidence as the ships emerged from the estuary, or set sail from the anchorage in the harbor. His heart was filled with the ambition and pride of sweeping the world and scattering all over the world.
The current scene was created by him. With all his efforts and more than ten years of hard work, Yin Feng has finally reached a state where he can dominate the world.
The fleet's warships and the sailing ships of the transport fleet began to form a fleet in the Java Sea west of Tanjung Pandan. The vast ships launched a vast formation, and the third fleet arrived from the island of Banga a hundred miles away. When the battleship Flying Tiger passed by Dingyuan, it first began to sing a salute to pay tribute to Yin Feng.
The captain of the Flying Tiger Xu Ming is a member of the original Lu Stone Pirates. He has worked in business with Portugal and Malay pirates. He knows the etiquette of Westerners in making cannons. He sets the first precedent for the cannons outside the port of Tanjung Pandan. Since then, paying tribute to the President of the Chinese Army and shouting cannons has become a practice for the Chinese Army's naval fleet.
At present, many warships from the Taiwan Fleet and the Nanyang Fleet have followed suit, each with a bow cannon fired three times.
The sailors stood on the side of the ship. When they passed by the Dingyuan, they saluted Yin Feng in front of their chests amid the sound of cannons. The rumbling cannons seemed to shake the entire Java Sea.
The infantry soldiers of the brigade were boarding a ship and going out to sea near the estuary.
Countless soldiers in black were alarmed by the sound of salutes and their eyes were turned to the sea. The first ones they saw were the Dingyuan with the Yin flag hanging and Yin Feng on the bow of the ship.
"Long live the ship owner,"
I don't know who shouted out first, and then the roar of "Long live," swept across the entire Tanjung Pandan port.