Emperor Zhengde

Chapter 275 Revenge on the Portuguese
Just as Amer was about to give the order to form a row of more than 20 centipede warships to bombard the four Ming sailing battleships, the four Ming sailing battleships suddenly changed direction at this moment, and headed straight for the sides and center of the more than 20 centipede ships of the Portuguese like an arrow from a bow.

"What are the Ming troops going to do? Are they going to change their tactics? No more artillery fire?"

Amer was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly ordered his warships to form groups of five to besiege a Ming Dynasty sailing battleship.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty's sailing battleships were obviously moving very fast. Before Amel's centipede warships were fully assembled, a Ming Dynasty sailing battleship directly stuck to the side of a Portuguese centipede warship.

Moreover, as soon as the Ming warships closed the distance with these centipede warships, the divine fire crows immediately flew towards the sails of the Portuguese warships on the opposite side with blazing flames.

This firearm, which uses the reaction force generated when a rocket is ignited to make the Divine Fire Crow fly, can be said to be the ancestor of modern fighter jets. Once it hits a ship's sail, it can quickly ignite the sail, causing the Portuguese centipede warship to lose power.

"They are engaging in a boarding battle! They want to force a boarding at the cost of sacrificing their own warships! All ships immediately disperse, don't let them have a chance to board! Attack with artillery!"

Amel ordered loudly.

At this time, officers and soldiers from a Ming Dynasty fourth-level sailing battleship had already jumped onto a Portuguese centipede warship.

Because even if the Ming Dynasty's sailing battleships were level four, they were still much larger and taller than the Portuguese centipede warships. Once they came into contact with the Portuguese centipede warships, the Ming Dynasty's officers and soldiers could easily seize the Portuguese centipede warships.

However, the Portuguese officers and soldiers were still using matchlock guns at that time, which were complicated to operate and had a slow firing speed.

As soon as the Ming Dynasty's sailing battleships got close to the Portuguese centipede warships, the Portuguese officers and soldiers were completely unable to rely on firearms to immediately suppress the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers with sufficient firepower.

"put!"

When the Ming Dynasty's sailing battleship approached a Portuguese centipede warship, the commander of the Portuguese centipede warship immediately ordered his officers and soldiers to open fire. However, the Ming Dynasty's officers and soldiers were well prepared and hid directly on the inside of the iron-clad ship's side, avoiding most of the bullets.

As soon as these Portuguese officers and soldiers were about to light the fuse and fire, the Ming officers and soldiers immediately threw grenades at them.

Because the Portuguese officers and soldiers were still in the matchlock era, the most typical combat method of the army in the matchlock era was line-up shooting, that is, lining up in an array and using dense bullets to cause casualties. After all, the matchlock gun fired slowly and had low accuracy, and the deterrent effect caused by individual shooting was very small.

But this also gave the Ming soldiers the best opportunity to kill with grenades.

"cast!"

A Ming army commander shouted, and a row of grenades were thrown from high above with purpose at the Portuguese officers and soldiers who were busy loading ammunition and ignition cords.

boom!
boom!
boom!
Some of these Portuguese officers and soldiers were blown directly into the sky, some were blown into pieces, and some were blown directly into the sea.

Screaming again and again!

Howling!
The Ming officers and soldiers took advantage of this opportunity to immediately lower themselves down by ropes. Before the gunpowder smoke had dissipated and the remaining Portuguese officers and soldiers had not reacted in time, each officer and soldier wrapped in wet cloth immediately opened fire on these Portuguese officers and soldiers.

The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were armed with percussion rifles with sights and triggers that could be rotated to quickly load and shoot. Naturally, they could shoot these Portuguese officers and soldiers individually. At the same time, they could also use the bayonets that came with the percussion rifles to cut the ropes that bound the captured Ming officers and soldiers and civilians.

Of course, sometimes he would suddenly stab the Portuguese officers and soldiers who suddenly appeared in front of him.

In less than half a quarter of an hour, the centipede warship was captured by Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers.

Except for the Portuguese officers and soldiers who surrendered with their heads in their hands, no rebels were spared.

Immediately, the Ming officers and soldiers brought the prisoners and rescued compatriots back to the battleships, and then continued to erode the Portuguese warships in this way.

Four.

Eight ships.

Twelve ships.

Sixteen ships.

Amer began to panic when he saw this. He saw with his own eyes that his warships were seized one after another, but he could do nothing about it. He desperately ordered his warships to fire at the Ming warships.

The Ming warships were obviously very tough and agile, making it difficult for the Centipede warships, which were unable to fire continuously, to gain an advantage.

"Retreat! Retreat! Kill all the Orientals on the ship!"

Amer finally decided to abandon the city of Goa, but when he ordered the retreat, he also ordered the killing of the captured Ming officers and soldiers and civilians who were still under his control.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty's incineration ships had rushed over and directly crashed into the remaining Portuguese warships with flames, causing a huge fire on the Portuguese warships.

In addition, the Divine Fire Crows also flew over and directly ignited the sails of the remaining few Portuguese warships, greatly reducing their power, or even causing them to lose power directly, thus making these Portuguese warships lose the ability to escape.

Even though the Ming Dynasty does not have battleships, flintlock rifles, and advanced artillery, its naval warfare level is not behind that of the West in this era.

It is not only because there are various types of firearms such as the Divine Fire Flying Crow and the primitive mines, but also a complete set of naval warfare tactics. In addition to large warships, there are also assault warships, incineration warships and landing warships, which are quite similar to modern naval combat methods and emphasize professional division of labor.

Back to the topic.

When the last few centipede warships of the Portuguese lost power, the assault warships had already blocked their way. At the same time, the four Ming battleships immediately approached. When these Portuguese officers and soldiers were still in shock and had no time to massacre the captured Ming officers and soldiers and civilians on the ships, they were accurately eliminated by the Ming officers and soldiers using grenades and percussion guns. At the same time, while the last few Portuguese warships were under attack, the Ming landing warships had already begun to land.

"Their firearms and warships are more advanced than ours, and their tactics are also more advanced than ours. Let's surrender!"

Amer couldn't help but sigh in the end. He didn't expect that the Ming army would rather risk their warships being bombarded to engage in a boarding battle. He also didn't expect that the Ming army would have such an advantage in firearms once they boarded the ship, forcing him to make the decision to surrender and order the white flag to be raised.

The Ming army jumped onto Amer's main ship and surrounded Amer and other Portuguese officers and soldiers. At the same time, the captured Ming officers and soldiers and civilians were also rescued.

However, the Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi, Wang Hong, did not come to see Amer, nor did he let Amer come to see him. As the Governor-General of the Ming Dynasty, in his opinion, it was not a good idea to see a barbarian Governor who attempted to kidnap Han people as hostages to deal with him.

After the Ming landing ship successfully landed, Wang Hong went ashore. Looking at the Goa city with a strong Western European style, Wang Hong could imagine how long the Portuguese had been operating here. But at this time, Deputy General Dai Dabin ran over and said, "General, we found these!"

As he said this, Dai Dabin ordered people to carry some corpses over.

Wang Hong and other accompanying officials were all horrified when they saw that these were the bodies of Han people.

At this time, Zhang Chun suddenly knelt in front of Wang Hong and said, "Sir, they were all exhausted or beaten to death by these Portuguese. Some of them were children!"

After hearing this, Wang Hong suddenly turned around and left, ordering: "Pass the order down, raise the dragon flag in three days. Before the dragon flag is raised, this place is not the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Any behavior of yours here does not violate any law of the Ming Dynasty. In three days, I will go down the ship and declare this place the territory of the Ming Dynasty!"

Dai Dabin and other military generals understood Wang Hong's meaning. They knew that he wanted the Ming officials and soldiers to take revenge on these Portuguese and Indian natives. Within three days, burning, killing and looting would not be considered a crime!
Therefore, Dai Dabin and other generals hurriedly replied: "I understand!"

"Wait!"

But at this time, Han Wen suddenly stood up and shouted loudly, and then questioned Wang Hong: "General Wang! What are you doing! How can you let my Celestial Empire's royal army do such a cruel thing as those barbarians? Your benevolence and righteousness are there, and you are also a well-read person!"

"Your Majesty has said that barbarians must be treated in a barbaric way. These Portuguese have harmed the people of the Ming Dynasty. I have the responsibility to uphold the dignity of the people of the Ming Dynasty. I have the right to impose the most severe punishment on these barbarians!" Wang Hong replied.

"But they are also human beings," Han Wen replied loudly.

"They are not human, they are robbers, they are bandits, they are barbarians. Since they believe in God and believe in so-called love, they should not be so cruel to the people of our Ming Dynasty! Since they did not do this, they are not worthy of being human! Come, drag Mr. Han away!"

Wang Hong ordered.

Seeing this, Han Wen could not help but scold: "Wang Hong, you can't do this, otherwise, I, Han, will report you to His Majesty!"

"You are just a commoner now, you have no right to control me!"

While Wang Hong was speaking, the officers and soldiers had already dragged Han Wen away.

As for the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, they naturally supported Wang Hong. After all, they now wanted to kill all the Portuguese and Indian natives who bullied their brothers and compatriots!
Therefore, apart from some literati like Han Wen, no one else opposed it.

Wang Hong returned to the boat and did not order the dragon flag to be raised.

At this time, most of the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers rushed ashore and began their revenge.

Even the officers, soldiers and civilians who were captured in the past were given weapons by Wang Hong, allowing them to avenge their humiliation on their own!
The Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers rushed into Goa City and hacked at anyone they saw. Suddenly, there was endless crying and screaming.

The once high-ranking Portuguese people completely became lambs to be slaughtered by the Ming army and civilians.

The alloy steel knife cut through, cutting the Portuguese in half like cutting tofu.

Sometimes, they would simply pierce the Portuguese man's throat with a gun and twist it hard, causing his head to bleed to pieces.

In addition, the Indian natives were not spared either.

Zhang Chun came to Budosi, the Portuguese who had beaten him in the past, and knelt on the ground begging Zhang Chun to forgive him: "Please forgive me, I was wrong, I was wrong, I really shouldn't have humiliated you!"

Zhang Chun killed Budosi with one knife, and his blood was immediately spilled on the place where he had whipped Zhang Chun in the past.

Zhang Chun saw the Indians who had urinated on him at that time. These Indians were also kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy, but Zhang Chun had no intention of letting them go and killed them one by one.

……

When Amer saw his compatriots being slaughtered and humiliated, he became extremely angry and shook the iron railings in the cabin angrily: "Let them go, you are slaughtering, you lowly yellow dogs, how dare you treat our noble race like this, you are going against God!"

"Oh my God, why do you treat us Portuguese like this!"

"I'm going to kill these despicable Orientals!"

The other captured Portuguese officers and soldiers were all furious. They had now experienced the pain of seeing their compatriots being slaughtered, and each of them was furious.

Amer then shouted to the Ming officers and soldiers guarding them, and this time he used the official language of the Ming Dynasty: "I want to see your governor, let me see your governor!"

(End of this chapter)