East Factory Governor

Chapter 800 Chapter 790

The warships of the Ming army entered the Strait of Malacca swaggeringly, as if entering the land of no one.

In the narrow place, on the Portuguese fort seven or eight miles away, you can clearly see the Ming army fleet passing by, but the guns cannot reach it, so you can only stare blankly.

Inside the strait, merchant ships and some escorting warships from many other countries were blocked inside. When they saw the endless Ming army fleet approaching, they were frightened and hurriedly avoided.

Almost everyone on board was dumbfounded when they saw the battleships of the Ming army.

God, what is that monster like a hill?
One, two, three...

hell!I can't see the end at all!How many of these behemoths do these Ming people own?

All the merchant ships hid aside in fright, and those warships hurriedly put their cannons in their cabins, for fear of causing any misunderstanding.

But not all the ships were afraid. Not only were a few merchant ships not afraid, but they dared to approach them boldly. All the crew members even stood on the deck and yelled at the Ming warships.

This kind of courage shocked the merchant ships and warships from all over the world.

Are these people not afraid of death?

However, when they took a closer look with a telescope, they finally understood.

Those ships were all flying golden and red-edged pennant flags, and the flags were waving in the wind, and one could see the words "square" on it.

Anyone who has been in the Far East knows that the characters on it are Chinese characters - "Ming"!
And this huge and creepy fleet is also flying the same flag!
The crew members of several Ming merchant ships were all as excited as if they had been pumped with chicken blood. They shouted, cheered, and waved their hands to extend their warmest and most noble greetings to their warships.

Since the opening of the sea ban, countless Ming merchant ships went to sea, but after they went to sea, they discovered that the current ocean has been divided by others, and they have to pay for the road every time they go to a sphere of influence.

This is not bad, the most feared are those who don't even give the chance to pay, and just come up to grab it.

There is no place to reason when encountering such a thing, so I can only admit it to myself.

What makes them even more breathless is that even if they don't encounter warships from other countries, they have to be careful when they encounter merchant ships from other countries.

For example, when you collect things at the port, if you dare to accept things that merchants from other countries fancy, then you just wait, their warships will come to trouble you sooner or later.

People have warships that run wild on the ocean, do you have one?

Except for a few sea areas such as the southern Fujian sea area, which are covered by Zheng Zhilong's old ministry, there are really no other places.

But now, they have!
Not only did it exist, but it was also the kind of fleet that looked scary.

How can such a fleet, who can shake it?
It's like a child who has been bullied for a long time suddenly sees his own adults approaching.

A sense of security, this is the real sense of security.

Several old sea merchants couldn't help crying and murmuring incessantly.

"Prosperity, prosperity!"

At this moment, everyone believed that the prosperous age had really come.

And the Ming army sailors on the warship saw this scene, and they couldn't feel their blood boiling.

……

The fleet sailed unhurriedly, and when it was almost evening, the whole fleet turned to the north and approached the east coast of Temasek.

From the map, they were approaching a small port called Bedok.

This place is a small fishing village on the east coast of Temasek, but it will be a good tourist attraction in the future.

But this is not important, the important thing is that after landing from here, go northwest for more than [-] miles, and you will find the Portuguese Governor's Palace in Managa.

Here, the Portuguese set up twelve coastal defense guns, in the form of east and west horns.

But the Ming army only used [-] battleships to easily eliminate them.

I have to say, why do future generations regard large battleships as the gods of the sea?It is because the firepower and armor of this kind of battleship are too terrible - and this batch of battleships of Ming Dynasty may be the only batch of battleships in this world that can truly be called battleships.

Of course, Qin Shuhuai would not have imagined that if he did this, there would be a frenzy of building battleships in the world in the next few years.

After destroying the coastal defense artillery, a large number of Ming troops landed on the shore in small boats.

At this time, the seven hundred mercenaries stationed here scattered without firing a single shot.

They are also considered smart, otherwise with the support of naval guns, their strength may not even be left with scum.

And when the Ming army was logging in, many passing ships saw this scene.

They were all stunned.

Everyone could see that the Ming Dynasty was going to reoccupy this place and bring it under their control.

Among the passing ships, many Westerners who came to the Far East for the first time could not help but exclaim after seeing this scene.

"My God, where is this fleet, are they crazy? They are trying to challenge the Portuguese!"

"It's the Orientals! It's the Orientals! They must be crazy, they're attacking the Portuguese!"

No wonder these Westerners exclaimed, because Portugal at that time was still one of the Big Three in the Age of Discovery, and almost no one in Europe dared to mess with it.

Although their existence in the Far East is not as strong as the Dutch, but after they occupied Managa, the Dutch did not dare to have the slightest covetous heart, and they still had to pay taxes to the Portuguese when they passed here.

So when they saw that Managa, which the Portuguese had worked hard for decades, was attacked, all the Westerners from Europe were dumbfounded.

However, when they saw the subsequent huge warships appearing from the horizon one after another, they completely retracted what they just said.

"Oh my God, what did I see! What kind of fleet is this, and where did these behemoths come from?"

"Damn! Did I come to the wrong place? Is there such a strong fleet in the Far East?"

"What happens if this fleet sails to Europe? How about sailing to the Mediterranean?"

The landing of the Ming army was very smooth, and they occupied the beachhead almost without bloodshed.

Qin Shuhuai appointed Zhang Xiao to take full command of the landing operation, and Meng Hu, Lai San'er, and Chen Jing were three other generals.

A total of 8000 Demon Sect soldiers, [-] Wulin Allied Forces, and [-] Guanning Army participated in the landing operation, totaling [-] people.

Why not send more misfits ashore?

Qin Shuhuai felt that the opponent's strength was only eight or nine thousand, so there was no need to spend a lot of trouble.

That's right, the Portuguese's firearms are really awesome, especially the matchlock gun is more advanced than Daming's imitation bird gun.

But don't forget, this is just an arquebus.

No matter how awesome you are, where can you go?
Just relying on the rate of fire of more than one minute, and relying on forming a dense square array to focus fire to improve the accuracy of the aiming head, how awesome can it be?

The blunderbusses equipped by the Ming army were shot every minute or so, and the accuracy was not high, but when everyone was bad, how bad could it be?
More importantly, these Ming troops were armed to the teeth.

Shields, armor, crossbows, bows and arrows, artillery, and thunderbolts are all available. Even if the bird gun is slightly inferior to the Portuguese arquebus, it can definitely make up for that little gap.

Also, don't forget that this is the world of martial arts.

It is not ruled out that Westerners can also martial arts, but judging from the records of Westerners since the Jiajing year, it has not been mentioned that the opponent's martial arts are very powerful.

That means the Central Plains Wushu is superior to Westerners.

In addition, among the opponent's [-] troops, there are only [-] pure Portuguese regular troops, and the remaining [-] are just indigenous troops recruited locally, so there is no need to be afraid.

Soon, all eight thousand Ming troops landed.

(End of this chapter)