Kampong home.
Tonight is very dark, not only there is no moonlight, but also the stars do not come to join in the fun. Perhaps it is because of the unusual atmosphere of the Ming army fighting the Portuguese army. The fishermen no longer come to play around. They are already asleep. There were dozens of people stationed in the village. The Portuguese soldiers have been ordered to Malacca City to prevent the Ming army from landing in the waterway.
In the open sea of Kampong Benya, more than 20 ships and transport ships of the Ming army were quietly undulating with the wind and waves. Suddenly, a bunch of bonfires lit up on the shore and then extinguished. This was repeated three times, bonfires. See you again.
The lights on the ship also turned on three times, then went out, returning to the original darkness.
Blowing by the east wind, the ship slowly sailed to the shore. Except for the sailsman and the helmsman, the rest of the soldiers were motionless and seemed to be completely asleep. Behind these ships were a large number of transport ships.
The sea breeze and waves cover up all subtle movements.
When approaching the shore, the Fu ship swung horizontally to the left, facing the port cannon to the embankment, and the transport ship following it moved forward at full speed and sailed directly onto the beach.
The soldiers boarded the beach cautiously, and some soldiers carried small mountain guns on their shoulders.
They were too careful. The village is surprisingly quiet now. The villagers have already fallen asleep. It was the heaviest sleep in the night, and the Portuguese soldiers evacuated in the afternoon in order to defend the city of Melaka.
Even the dog didn't notice the abnormality on the shore.
The Marine Corps soldiers who were the first to log in began to mount mountain cannons behind the hard rocks on the shore to establish a preliminary defensive formation. The soldiers behind continued to flood ashore, and the defensive formation became larger and larger, until all the Marines were on. To the shore.
The soldiers didn't disturb the fishermen in the village. They bypassed the village and set up simple camps on the back of the sea.
Zheng Xing was very excited. So far, the action of "attacking Malacca in the dark and ascending to Kampong Village" has been surprisingly smooth. As long as he gets on land, he doesn't know who else can stop him.
He didn't plan to attack at night, he had already landed on land, and he had to wait until dawn to fight the Portuguese with a real sword.
It was the Fourth Marine Division that landed at the Kampong Benya. Zheng Xing arranged the patrols of the bright post, the secret post and the periphery, and he climbed into the camp and went to sleep. Now it is more than an hour before dawn. Get a good rest. Once dawn enters a state of war, let alone sleep, I am afraid that there will be no time to eat.
The sky was light, Liang Yong awoke the soldiers of the 10th Brigade.
It's time for breakfast. As the vanguard, his soldiers must set off half an hour ahead of time and march towards Malacca City along the Johor waterway.
The soldiers were awakened in their sleep, but they did not complain. They landed on the beach last night, and they already understood today's combat mission.
After eating sooner or later, more than 3,000 soldiers of the 10th Marine Brigade of Liang Yong set off. In order to speed up the march, they did not expand the search width, but lined up in columns and ran forward. As for the hidden villages and forts on both sides The Portuguese soldiers were left to the follow-up troops to clean up.
When the Tenth Traveling Army arrived in Baru, the sky was already bright. Liang used his original plan to bypass Baru, but the Portuguese soldiers who got up early found them from the city, and they sounded the alarm bell at the city.
Baru originally had 200 defenders. Yesterday, the South China Sea Fleet tried to land from Malacca City. The Portuguese governor Manotti was very nervous. He concentrated most of the nearby soldiers in Malacca City. Now Baru has only 40 soldiers left. soldier.
Baru guards the waterways of Johor. It was originally to block the Ming army wading from Temasek. Now that the Ming army has landed, Baru has lost its strategic significance.
The Portuguese soldiers just woke up, and forty soldiers, along with 60 local servants armed with swords and spears, did not resist the city, but all left the city of Baru.
They made a desperate move to block the Ming army’s advancement. They either defeated the Ming army and prevented the Ming army from attacking the city of Malacca, or they were wiped out by the Ming army. The Ming army had already broken through the waterway of Johor. Penalty.
Liang Yong discovered that the muskets held by the Portuguese soldiers were similar to the flintlocks of the Ming army. He didn't want the Marines to be killed in vain. "Stop the advance and prepare for the mountain artillery."
The mountain gun is easy to use, not only small in size and light in weight, but also very convenient to launch. One soldier can transport ammunition and reload, and one soldier can calibrate it to complete the launch task.
Soon, the gunner reported and completed all preparations before launch.
"Prepare to launch. Once the shelling stops, immediately advance at full speed. The enemy must all be wiped out." There were only nearly a hundred soldiers in front, and Liang Yong wanted a complete wipeout.
"Boom... Long..."
"Boom... Long..."
"Boom... Long..."
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In the first wave of shelling, although the shooting point was not precise enough, the huge explosion still stunned the Portuguese soldiers and their servants. They would never have dreamed that the Ming army still had this kind of portable artillery.
The accuracy of the second wave of shelling was greatly improved. Ten of the bombs, seven of which fell on the temporary positions formed by the Portuguese soldiers, had never seen the artillery servants, in the loud noises and the screams of the casualties. , Already shivering with fright, do not know who raised their heads, they dispersed in a rush, and fled behind the battle.
The Portuguese soldiers were furious, and the battle had just begun. These natives were in disarray. It happened that the Ming army was still far away from their range. They turned their guns at their guns and aimed them at the fleeing servants.
After dropping more than 20 corpses, the servants managed to run clean after all.
Liang Yongke ignored the current mood of the Portuguese, and the shots were shot in two waves, almost ploughing the opposite position. The Portuguese soldiers suffered heavy casualties, but they were not given the order to retreat. The soldiers with no casualties were still lying behind the gentle slope.
Liang Yong saw that there were not many Portuguese soldiers left, and that it would be a waste to fire bombs, so he ordered the gunner to stop the artillery and let soldiers charge instead.
In front of the Portuguese soldiers, the Ming army’s flintlock may not have the advantage, but the Ming army has a huge advantage in numbers.
In order to avoid the flintlocks of the Ming army, the Portuguese soldiers shrank their bodies under the gentle slope, revealing only half of their heads.
The Ming army lined up a long line of dozens of people, with three rows of soldiers advancing alternately.
The two sides began to exchange fire. They were all muskets and needed to be continuously loaded with ammunition. The casualties were small.
After a quarter of an hour, the exchange of fire continued, and the beam used fire. There were only a few Portuguese soldiers that actually blocked the three thousand Ming army. They stepped on them with their feet. This time they should be trampled to death. Go up."
The Ming army in the front row attacked, and the Ming army in the back also pressed on. The Portuguese position was finally broken. Forty Portuguese soldiers and nearly 30 casualties. The remaining ten soldiers were about to turn around and escape. They were also attacked by the Ming army. 'S chaotic gun shot to death.
Liang Yong didn't enter the city, and it had been delayed for two quarters of an hour. Zheng Xing's army was about to arrive later. He just split a company of soldiers to capture the city of Baru, and ran all the way to the city of Malacca.
By the time Punjaran, it was almost noon, and Punjaran’s defenders were also transferred to Malacca City. There were only a hundred Portuguese defenders in the city. Seeing the densely packed Ming soldiers outside the city, they could only hold on to the city. , Never dare to go out of the city to fight.
Liang Yong did not have heavy artillery and could not blow up the city wall. He left 300 soldiers to contain the defenders in the city. He led the army all the way forward. He had only one goal in his mind: the city of Malacca. Now the Ming army's canton is still there. The city of Melaka confronts the Portuguese army.
The scattered Portuguese soldiers encountered along the way were all resolved by Liang Yong because of the protection of the strong city. If it was a strong city, it was difficult to break through at the moment, he would leave a small number of soldiers to contain them, and the army continued to break through in the middle.
There was a rumble of cannons ahead. Liang Yong estimated that Guangzhou Shipbuilding and Portuguese shore artillery were fighting fiercely. He accelerated the pace of the march. "Quickly, the commander is fighting fiercely with the Portuguese. We hurried over and took their shore. gun."
The Portuguese shore artillery is in the front, under Liang Yong's nose, there are many Portuguese soldiers around the fort, but the two sides are fighting fiercely, and the Portuguese are focused on the waterway.
Liang Yong observed for a while and found that the shore artillery was fixed and the muzzle could only be aimed at the Malacca waterway. He was ready to take advantage of the mountain artillery.
"Boom... Long..."
"Boom... Long..."
"Boom... Long..."
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The target of the Marine Corps’ mountain artillery is the shore artillery, and now there are Portuguese soldiers everywhere near the shore artillery. Any drop of a blooming shell will cause casualties to some Portuguese soldiers, but Liang Yong still sets the target on the shore artillery. As long as the shore artillery is misfired, The Ming army soldiers on the ship can land in large numbers.
Most of the second wave of bombs fell near the shore artillery. Although it failed to destroy the shore artillery, it caused heavy casualties to its gunners.
In front of the blooming bullets, they had no protection, only the ones who were beaten.
The Cantonese ship in the Malacca waterway, in response to the mountain artillery, poured more blooming shells on the Portuguese position. After half an hour of the battle, all the Portuguese shore artillery fired, but the shore artillery was not damaged, but there was no gunner. It's-the gunner didn't die under the blooming bullet, he was fleeing.
Liang Yong asked the gunner to adjust the drop point of the bombardment. Since the shore artillery had been misfired, the bombardment bombs fired at the place where the Portuguese soldiers were dense.
The Portuguese soldiers couldn't support it, and gradually retreated to the city of Malacca.
Liang Yong saw that the Marine Corps soldiers on the transport ship began to land, and then launched a general attack on the Portuguese soldiers. Three thousand Marine Corps soldiers armed with flintlocks and machetes on their waists rushed towards the Portuguese soldiers desperately, even stepping over their companions. Corpses, they did not hesitate.
The Portuguese soldiers were finally defeated. Under the personal command of Manotti, the soldiers gradually retreated to the city of Malacca.
The shore artillery finally fell into Liang's hand. Seeing that there were still several Portuguese ships in the port, the Marine Corps gunners took over the artillery and aimed their muzzles at these ships.
The Cantonese ship in the Malacca waterway took the opportunity to throw a large number of blooming bombs to the Portuguese ships in the port.
There are shore artillery on the land and naval guns in the waterways. The remaining Portuguese ships have been surrounded by the Ming army, but the Portuguese soldiers who responded to them have retreated to the city of Malacca. In desperation, these ships Raise the white flag and surrender to the Ming army.