Horses can be said to be a more pretentious animal, especially those war horses, in order to keep the war horses full of physical fitness, they need to be given very good care of the war horses, eat well, and sleep well.

In contemporary maritime transportation, because the tonnage of ships is generally small, the bumps are very bumpy when sailing, even if it is the top 1,000-ton ship in contemporary times, in fact, it is not much better than those hundreds of tons.

This kind of sea transportation conditions are not comfortable even for creatures with very strong endurance, let alone delicate war horses.

Because of the difficulty of sea transportation, the Tang Army did not succeed in bringing too many war horses to Malacca, but the Portuguese on the opposite side were basically no better, don't expect them to have any large-scale cavalry troops or anything like that.

Without cavalry, we would have to rely on infantry for reconnaissance and rapid attacks!

The distance of two kilometers is nothing for the cavalry, but it is very far for the infantry, not to mention, there is no road at all in this broken place, the road conditions are very complicated, regardless of whether it is a large-scale troop passage or a small-scale troop attack, it is very troublesome!

The Portuguese went out of the city to attack, although this kind of thing did not happen, and it is estimated that it will not happen in the future, they all honestly hid in the city, but such a complicated road situation is also a trouble for the advancement of the Tang Army.

If nothing else, the besieging force had to build a bridge and transport a large number of artillery, especially the heavy siege artillery, to the city of Malacca.

Even before the landing force took this kind of trouble into account, so at the beginning of the army, it planned to ask the Datang Railway Corporation to help, carry enough rails and sleepers to lay ten kilometers long, and then bring a locomotive and carriages. In order to lay a simple military transport railway from the landing ground to the city of Malacca.

It was used to transport a large number of artillery and supplies to the city of Malacca.

However, this idea is still too whimsical, the locomotives and carriages are so heavy that they are not easy to transport, and it is also very troublesome to build a railway in a distant overseas area such as Malacca.

And most importantly, the Import and Export Committee strictly prohibits the export of all kinds of machinery and equipment, especially steam engines, even if it is an overseas territory or colony of the Tang Empire, let alone in Malacca.

So, if you want to build a railway in Malacca, even if it is a military railway, it is very troublesome.

In addition, the military also considered that although the transportation after the landing was more troublesome, it was only a trouble in the early stage, and it was not impossible to rely on manpower transportation, and finally gave up this idea.

Therefore, the follow-up landing force had to rely on the most primitive way to transport artillery and many materials to the city of Malacca: using manpower to carry it!

Of course, before that, we have to build a temporary large wharf.

Without the help of the dock, the unloading of a large number of heavy artillery and other artillery shells and other materials would be very troublesome, and even some siege artillery had to rely on the dock, otherwise there would be no way to move it off the ship.

After Ding Chenzhen led a group of generals to inspect the position of the 57th Infantry Regiment, he went to the position of the 5th Marine Regiment of the Navy, although it was said that this Marine Regiment belonged to the naval system.

However, in this landing operation, this marine regiment was temporarily under the command of Ding Chenzhen, of course, it was only limited to the landing operation in the early stage, and when the troops landed after the landing, this marine regiment would return to the jurisdiction of the navy, and the task of attacking Malacca did not have the share of this marine regiment.

The capture of Malacca City is the task of the Seventh Army of the Army, the Seventh Artillery Brigade and the 19th Infantry Division, and has nothing to do with the 5th Marine Regiment and the 2nd Regiment of the Guards Provisional Formation.

Therefore, Ding Chenzhen went to inspect the position of the Fifth Marine Regiment of the Navy, which was just a routine matter, and the contradiction between the army and the navy was too great, and he was unwilling to make any contradictions between Malacca and the navy for some trivial things, after all, the army's operations in the Nanyang region still had to rely on the navy for transportation and the maintenance of supply lines.

People have to bow their heads under the eaves!

After returning from the front-line inspection, Ding Chenzhen continued to command the troops to land on the landing field!

This is the second day of landing, and so far, the three infantry regiments under the jurisdiction of the Seventh Army and one cavalry regiment under the 19th Division have all landed, and the landing of the 19th Artillery Regiment and the 19th Baggage Regiment is currently underway.

In the process, through the two small temporary wharves that had just been successfully erected today, the troops began to transport some of the five-pound field guns ashore, and also began to transport some artillery shells, food, and other combat materials.

But more artillery, especially heavy artillery of more than nine catties, need to wait until tomorrow to be able to move off the ship, no way, the current temporary dock load-bearing capacity is too poor, the transport of five catties of field guns such a small artillery is crumbling, if the transport of nine catties of field artillery, I am afraid that it will directly crush the current small temporary docks.

The 7th Boat Bridge Regiment is now working hard, and they are carrying out their last and most important task, which is to build a real large temporary dock for those nine-pound field guns, and the fourteen-pound, eighteen-pound, and twenty-four-pound heavy guns to disembark.

In addition, it also needs to be used for a large number of supplies to disembark the ship, and now there are dozens of ships full of various materials floating in the sea, and the materials on these ships do not have large docks, but there is no way to carry them.

The landing went smoothly, there was no accident of a large-scale attack by the enemy, and at the same time, Ding Chenzhen knew yesterday that the navy had won a great victory in the port, and it could be said that the Portuguese fleet was annihilated in one fell swoop.

The only pity is that the wharf of the port of Malacca, close to the city of Malacca, is within the range of the fire of the shore defense guns on the head of the city of Malacca, and the navy made it clear that they can fight the batteries outside the port, but they can't fight the coastal defense batteries on the head of the city.

Because the fort at the head of the city is too high, the city of Malacca was originally built on the edge of the cliff on the shore, plus the height of the city wall, which adds up to a height of at least 100 meters.

And today's naval guns, the shooting elevation angle is generally relatively small, and the guns are mainly fired directly on weekdays, and you can let the naval guns in the fleet hit hundreds of meters high, but don't count on the accuracy.

This is not the most crucial, the most critical thing is that in order to hit the batteries in Malacca, you must go deep into the interior of the port, and the interior of the port is very small, and it cannot accommodate too many warships at the same time.

Reluctantly go to fight, not to mention that the effect is not good, and it may be used as a target by the shore defense cannon of the Portuguese!

Naturally, the Navy will not do such a thankless task!

So the Navy came with news yesterday that the Navy's mission has been completed, and the next thing to look at is the Army.

In the future, in addition to leaving a detachment in Malacca to support the army, the navy will also send a detachment to the islands of the South Seas to cooperate with the local marine forces and the Banten garrison regiment and other forces to conquer the Portuguese strongholds on some islands in the South Seas one by one.

The main fleet will cross the Strait of Malacca and enter the Indian Ocean.

The navy planned to burn the flames of war to the coast of the Indian Ocean, and to take advantage of the fact that the Portuguese on the Indian side were not fully prepared, to strike first, with the cooperation of the fleet of the Western Trading Company, to conquer the Portuguese colonial strongholds in Burma, India and other places, and to look for opportunities to destroy the main fleet of the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean.

To put it bluntly, the navy is already preparing to leave Malacca, and the rest will be left to your army.

As for the Navy's strategy, Ding Chen really knows and agrees.

Because this matter has actually been determined a long time ago, the war between the Tang Empire and the Portuguese was divided into two battlefields in the early stage, one is the South Ocean battlefield and the other is the Indian Ocean battlefield.

As long as the navy destroys the Portuguese fleet deployed in Malacca, and can ensure the transportation of the army and the subsequent supply lines, then there is basically nothing to do with the navy.

And the ground attack on Malacca, that's the army's business, and it has nothing to do with the navy!

In the follow-up Indian Ocean battlefield, the army will not intervene for a while and a half, at least until it takes Malacca, not because it doesn't want to, but because it is powerless.

Therefore, the Indian battlefield will be dominated by the navy and the corporate fleet of Western trading companies!

Even to a certain extent, the navy is only an auxiliary, and the main force is the company fleet of the Western Trading Company!

Don't be surprised, the fleet of the People's Company is indeed the main force in the battlefields of India and Africa, although their sea power is far inferior to the navy, there are no battleships, but the fleet of the People's Company also has two 800-ton cruisers, in addition to eight frigates and dozens of armed merchant ships.

Don't treat armed merchant ships as warships, armed merchant ships have always been an indispensable main force in large-scale naval operations in recent years, and in Datang's joint landing fleet, except for a few escort warships, all the others are armed merchant ships.

In addition to warships, the company's fleet also has a ground combat force with a size of tens of thousands of people!

This is not to say that the marines are deployed on ships or the like, but the ground combat units that are formed separately and stationed in various colonial strongholds on weekdays, and fight with the local indigenous princes and even the Portuguese when there is nothing to do.

In fact, the ground combat units of the company's fleet are scattered and deployed in various colonies, except for a mobile unit with a size of 3,000 men under the direct jurisdiction of the commander-in-chief of the company's fleet.