It is precisely because of this fear that they have spared no effort to strengthen the defense of Malacca City in the past ten years, but the Portuguese themselves do not trust the information brought back by the people in the Far East, and the Portuguese have begun to devote part of their energy to Brazil in recent years, trying to colonize Brazil completely.

Therefore, when the Portuguese in East Asia asked for more reinforcements from their homeland, they were sometimes even refused.

However, even if the Portuguese try their best, there is probably no hope of holding Malacca.

The Portuguese in Malacca were so pessimistic and even desperate that they even put their hopes on diplomatic representations to try to avoid war.

But they didn't expect that they hadn't waited for news from the diplomats, but they had waited for the main fleet of the Tang Empire first.

The Portuguese diplomats were expelled after receiving the declaration of war, and then they sailed south to Malacca!

What's even more interesting is that when they set off to return to Malacca, the main fleet of the Datang Navy also set off from Wusong Port two days later, and then joined another group of main fleets in Guangzhou to form a huge Indian Ocean Fleet and set off for the south.

After arriving off the coast of Malacca, this huge main fleet joined the detachment that had been carrying out surveillance missions off the coast of Malacca, and then officially carried out the blockade mission of Malacca, and at the same time completely blocked the Strait of Malacca.

At this time, in fact, the Portuguese diplomats were still on the way, because they did not find any good ships because of the urgency of the incident, so they could only return to Malacca on an old carat ship, not to mention the slow speed, and the coastal ports of the Tang Empire had refused to provide any supplies for the Portuguese diplomatic ship, so their return voyage was extremely difficult.

So much so that the main fleet of the Tang Dynasty, which set off two days later than them and delayed a lot of time on the way to join other ships and supplies, arrived in Malacca before them.

When the main fleet of the Navy arrived in Malacca and blockaded the port of Malacca and the Straits of Malacca.

In the rear, an equally large fleet is slowly moving towards Malacca, a combined landing fleet of army and navy and the Guards.

In order to carry out the Malacca operation smoothly this time, it is also to show the prestige of the navy to let the Chinese people see, so as to attract more young talents in the country to join the navy, and more importantly, to reflect the role of the navy, in order to strive for more naval military spending.

The Datang Navy can be said to have taken out desperate efforts, in addition to maintaining combat readiness on the mainland, and leaving the necessary forces in other directions, basically the capital ships that can be transferred are all drawn!

The blockade of Malacca, which was expected to lead a decisive battle with the main Portuguese fleet, consisted of nine battleships, six cruisers, twenty-four frigates, and eight patrol ships as auxiliaries.

The only pity is that the steel battleship Jiangnan has just been put into service and is still in the stage of trial preparation, because it is a new type of main battleship, which is also more troublesome to train, so it has not yet formed combat effectiveness.

In addition to the above-mentioned combat warships, there are also many auxiliary warships, including fast communication ships, supply ships, coal carriers, etc., a total of more than 20 ships.

The newly formed Indian Ocean Fleet has a total of nine battleships, six cruisers, 24 frigates, eight coastal patrol ships, and 26 auxiliary ships, with a total tonnage of more than 40,000 tons.

Whether in terms of tonnage or combat effectiveness, this is the largest ocean-going fleet formed by the Datang Navy.

The joint landing fleet in the rear is relatively poor, and at the same time it is more chaotic, because the ships of the joint landing fleet are more complicated, there are naval warships and transport ships, and there are also ships of the Guards fleet, and then the army's maritime transport division units also have them, but more of them are transport ships under the joint maritime transportation department, an independent organization jointly established by multiple services, and these transport ships are civilian merchant ships that are temporarily conscripted, and most of them are armed merchant ships of those trading companies. In addition, some of them are cargo ships and passenger ships of domestic shipping companies.

This mixed and large combined landing fleet carried a total of one army main infantry division, one army artillery brigade, in addition to a provisional Guards regiment and a marine regiment.

Among them, the main infantry division of the army is the 19th infantry division that has been stationed in the Pearl River Delta region for a long time, has many experience in coastal landing exercises, and has repeatedly sent troops to the islands of the South Ocean to carry out landing and sweeping operations, the predecessor of the division is the second mixed regiment, and later in the army's many reorganizations, it has been integrated or split with other units many times, and after the army has determined the fixed army level, the number of the unit is the 19th Infantry Division, which belongs to the Seventh Army.

The 19 th Infantry Division, which is a combat-ready unit, is fully equipped all year round, has a large amount of training, and conducts frequent exercises, so its combat capability is naturally not bad.

Among them, the army artillery brigade is the army's seventh artillery brigade, which belongs to the jurisdiction of the seventh army, and the army's artillery brigade units, from the early days, are generally under the command of army-level troops, and at the same time, the Privy Council will also directly govern a number of independent artillery brigade units, even if the army has undergone many changes in the establishment and the like, but the changes in the artillery units have not been large.

The artillery brigade has a total of 72 artillery pieces, the smallest caliber of which is a 9-kilogram field gun, but the main artillery of the brigade is a 14-kilogram heavy cannon and a 48-kilogram short-barreled howitzer.

Such an artillery brigade, in the vision of the Tang Army, is used as the main force of siege artillery in wartime, and if it is an offensive and defensive operation in the field, it needs to provide fire support for an entire army.

So there are not only a large number of artillery, but all large-caliber artillery.

Needless to say, the nine-pound field gun is just a nine-pound field gun equipped with a large number of weapons in the Datang Army, while the fourteen-pound cannon is developed by the navy's fourteen-pound naval gun as the prototype, and it has been lightened, but the range and power have not been reduced much, and it is the main heavy cannon model of the current army.

And the forty-eight-pound short-barreled howitzer, this thing sounds like the same as a large number of short-barreled howitzers equipped in the early years, but it is actually two different things, the short-barreled howitzers in the early years, which were used to fire early external fuse shells, although the power is not small, but the range is short, and the most important thing is that it is too dangerous to explode at every turn.

However, the short-barreled howitzer now equipped with it is specially developed for the new type of built-in fuse grenade, which has a longer range and higher accuracy, and of course, the weight is heavier than before.

This kind of 48-pound grenade can have a range of 450 meters, and it can also have greater accuracy, and the overall range and accuracy are similar to those of a nine-pound field gun, but the power is much!

A grenade of this kind of forty-eight pounds, falling on the enemy's dense phalanx, can reimburse the opponent's company with one piece!

However, because the shells are too heavy, it is very troublesome to reload, and at the same time, the gun body is heavy, and it is also more troublesome to reset the gun after firing, and many factors add up to the slow rate of fire.

The firepower of this artillery brigade can basically be compared with the firepower of two battleships, because when battleships are fighting, they can often only use one of the guns on the side side, so although there are a lot of guns, when fighting, it still needs the firepower of two battleships to be able to compare with this artillery brigade.

In addition to the two army units mentioned above, there is also a Marine Regiment of the Navy and a Provisional Regiment of the Guards.

The main task of this marine regiment of the Navy is not to attack Malacca together with the army, but to take the lead in landing and controlling the beachhead when the fleet lands, and then to take over the landing of the main force of the army.

As for the completion of the landing, this marine regiment will be drawn to perform other tasks, well, mainly to enter the large ships of the Indian Ocean Fleet to strengthen the fleet's ability to engage in continuous warfare.

In this year's naval battles, broadside warfare is still an important part, even if the Datang Navy has been developing technology, but with the current performance of warships, especially the performance of naval guns, it is actually difficult to completely sink enemy ships in a short period of time, not to mention the average maneuverability during the battle, and it is very possible to be approached by the enemy in the melee and then engage in broadside battles.

As for the task of attacking Malacca and priing open the turtle shell of the Malacca fortress, that is the task of the Army, to be precise, the 19th Infantry Division and the 7th Artillery Brigade under the Seventh Army of the Army.

Even if it is a temporary regiment of the Guards, it is unlikely to become the main force in this battle.

No way, the Guards are so special, every time they fight, they will send troops to fight, but every time they have independent command and combat power, although they will sometimes nominally belong to a certain army unit, but only nominally.

Army generals do not have the authority to command the Guards troops, and can only ask the Guards to fight in various names such as suggestions and coordinated operations.

The temporary formation of the Guards Regiment is just to accumulate war experience and gain some combat exploits this time, so if there are no special circumstances, the Guards will not carry out this kind of tough battle with huge casualties.

However, this means that there are no special circumstances, and if the war situation is in crisis, the Guards will also go up.

But the Battle of Malacca, obviously, such a special situation could not have happened.

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