Needless to say, the cavalry is the absolute main force, which is the Tatars' forte, basically in addition to the Tang Army, few countries' armies can resist the attack of their hundreds of thousands of cavalry in the field.

As for the siege of the city, they are now very set, their headquarters cavalry army is in the rear to supervise the battle, and in front of them are the infantry army recruited by various conquered peoples such as Tibet, Kazakhstan, and Yarkand.

Those infantry armies were equipped with guns, bombarded with artillery, and charged with hoplites equipped with plate armor and other armor, and the whole set of tactics was basically a copy of the siege tactics during the unified war of the Tang Army.

However, whether it was the previous Tibetans, Kazakhs, Yarkands, or the current Timurid Dynasty or even the Safavid Dynasty, it was actually difficult to resist this offensive.

The Tatars were able to obtain some technology from the Tang Empire, and the Portuguese, who had traded with the Tang Dynasty for more than ten years, were naturally able to obtain more.

Tang boats and grenades are two typical representatives!

And these things can bring a certain threat to the You Yang fleet, so the commander of the You Yang fleet, Admiral Chen Pengminghu, did not carelessly directly rush into the port of Malacca with the fleet and bombard the enemy's fleet and artillery.

He was waiting for the arrival of the rear landing fleet, and before that, he just had to make sure that the enemy's fleet was blocked in the harbor!

Admiral Chen Pengminghu did not intend to take unnecessary risks, although his fleet was far superior to the Portuguese fleet in the port of Malacca, he still did not intend to rush into the port and engage the enemy in an artillery battle.

After all, in addition to the fleet, the Portuguese also had a large number of land batteries with many large-caliber artillery guns.

Although his own fleet is really strong, there is no need to rush in and fight the Portuguese!

Pay for one's whistle!

As long as he continued to blockade the Portuguese fleet, then they blocked the port and did not let them affect the actions of the rear joint landing fleet, then it would be a strategic victory.

As long as the joint landing fleet arrives and the landing is carried out smoothly, it will be absolutely impossible to resist the attack of nearly 30,000 ground troops in the joint landing fleet with the 8,000 defenders in Malacca.

By the time the ground forces had conquered the city of Malacca and captured their batteries from the ground, the Portuguese fleet would be left with only two remains, either surrender or break out of the port.

Needless to say, if they break out of the port and break through, Chen Pengming is sure to completely block them and then annihilate them one by one.

No, in fact, the Portuguese have a third slure, such as sinking themselves directly in the port of Malacca!

Today's Datang Fox Youyang Fleet, with such a huge strategic advantage, can naturally stay in the sea off Malacca, blockading the port and blocking the entire Strait of Malacca.

But the Portuguese in the port of Malacca were as anxious as ants on a hot pot, and many aspects were brought out for discussion, but they were rejected one by one.

Stubborn?

No one thinks they can hold it!

Even if it can hold out for a while, the final fall of Malacca is inevitable, which is a conclusion that anyone who has a basic understanding of the military facts of the Tang Dynasty can draw.

Unless they, the Portuguese, can get reinforcements!

However, although they still have a large number of fleets and ground combat troops in the African region, the time required to come to Malacca is not as simple as a month or two months, or more than half a year, because the news is transmitted back to Africa and the reinforcements are assembled, and then the time required to cross the You Ocean is less than half a year.

Even if their reinforcements successfully enter the Strait of Malacca, whether they can successfully break through the blockade of the Tang Fox and enter the Port of Malacca is also a very low possibility.

Look at the huge fleet of Tang Foxes on the sea!

That's a huge fleet of more than seventy ships!

Of course, more than half of them are transport and supply ships, but there are also half of the battleships, and there are as many as nine battleships!

It's unreliable to stick to it, and it's also unreliable to expect reinforcements.

And the breakout is also considered unreliable by everyone.

At present, although the Portuguese fleet in Malacca has a large number of ships, and there are dozens of medium and large ships, there are only a dozen or so real warships, and some of the remaining are armed merchant ships, and more are just some types of coastal ships.

If there is a breakthrough, it is also unknown how many people will be able to run out smoothly.

And there is another point, if you don't fight this fight, you will directly give up the breakout of Malacca, even if the breakthrough is successful, I am afraid that the senior Portuguese generals and officials in Malacca will not be better off in the nest.

What's more, even the most optimistic Portuguese generals think that even if the breakthrough is smooth, it will be very good to be able to run away from ordinary people, after all, the Tang Fox fleet on the sea outside is not a decoration.

Under all kinds of arguments, the Portuguese in Malacca did not have a more feasible way at all, and in the end they could only continue to strengthen the city defense of Malacca while arguing.

In this case, the local natives living around Malacca are miserable, regardless of men, women and children, all of them are forcibly conscripted to build fortifications, and in order to be able to hold on longer, the Portuguese must save food and other weapons, so the Portuguese conscription the local natives to build fortifications, which is not food, and the natives have to bring their own.

Many natives were forced to work by the Portuguese because they did not bring enough food of their own, and finally starved to death and died of exhaustion on the construction site.

Days like this passed day by day, and Chen Pengming finally got the joint landing fleet in the rear!

On August 28, 22 years of Xuanping, after a long voyage and a supply break on the way, the joint landing fleet finally arrived in Malacca.

At this time, Chen Pengming's fleet had been blockading Malacca for ten days!

From the official declaration of war on August 3 to the arrival of the landing fleet in Malacca, the Datang military spent a total of 25 days!

If you just look at this time, it is very fast, but you can't just look at the surface, because it doesn't include the preparation and assembly time!

In fact, the Tang Empire's war preparations for the Portuguese had already begun in the first half of the year, and the 19th Infantry Division's relevant adaptation exercises had already begun in March, and they focused on landing operations and attack operations.

The formation of the joint landing fleet began as early as June, headed by the Joint Maritime Transport Department, and began to recruit civilian merchant ships in July, so that the joint landing fleet could be dispatched to set sail as soon as the war was declared.

In May, Datang Fox dispatched various types of warships from various fleets on the mainland and overseas in the name of rest and maintenance.

In June, Admiral Chen Pengminghu was already officially appointed as the commander of the You Yang fleet!

In mid-July, the various detachments of the Youyang Fleet were reorganized, and a large number of warships from the First Fleet, the Second Fleet, and several sub-fleets, a total of more than 70 warships, formed the Youyang Fleet.

It was divided into five major formations, the main force of which was the decisive battle formation, including two battleship squadrons, one cruiser squadron, and two frigate squadrons.

Then there are three mobile formations composed of a mixture of cruisers and frigates, which are mainly responsible for the tasks of mobile reconnaissance, cover, and perimeter vigilance on both wings.

Then there is the logistics formation, which consists mainly of a small number of escort warships and all auxiliary supply ships.

The You Yang fleet composed of these five formations is also an attempt by the Tang Fox to form a fox formation during the war!

Because the system of Datang Fox is more special, that is, the First Fleet, the Second Fleet and the Third Fleet are not actually responsible for specific operations, but only responsible for administrative management and fox construction and other tasks.

On weekdays, it is the Fox detachment that is responsible for fighting in all directions.

Including the detachments of overseas territories, such as the Luzon squadron, the Banten squadron, and the Fuso squadron, they are all detachments that have been fighting the enemy overseas for a long time.

For example, the First Fleet, the Second Fleet, the Third Fleet, the Fourth Fleet, and the Fifth Fleet, which are directly under the jurisdiction of the First Fleet and the Second Fleet, are also responsible for daily territorial sea cruises, escorts, and combat tasks.

But what is interesting is that the command of the above-mentioned sub-fleets does not belong to the First Fleet, the Second Fleet, or the Third Fleet, but directly to the General Staff of the Fox Command.

However, the Fox Staff does not have the power to formulate strategic plans, and this power lies with the Fox Military Command Department!

The command structure of the Tang Fox is relatively complex, basically the Fox Command Department directly under the emperor's jurisdiction, and the Fox Command Department consists of the Military Command Department, the Staff Department, the Military Affairs Department, the Logistics Department, the Ship Administration Department and other departments.

Among them, the Military Command Department is responsible for formulating the battle plan, in other words, deciding whether to fight, where to fight, which fleet to fight, and so on, and controlling the strategic direction.

The General Staff Department is responsible for the specific implementation of the operational plan, the formulation of detailed operational plans, and the implementation of operational plans, so the General Staff Department is directly responsible for commanding the subordinate detachments, and all sub-fleets and even the Youyang Fleet are directly under the command of the General Staff.

Then came to the You Yang Fleet, the commander of the You Yang Fleet, but he had huge autonomy, before the battle broke out, the General Staff could also implement specific tactical guidance for it, but because of the distance and communication speed, so the Tang Fox in this era, like the army, gave the field troops great autonomy in tactics.

Chen Pengming, the commander of the You Yang fleet, although he is under the jurisdiction of the General Staff, once the fleet goes to sea, he can fight Malacca when and how to fight Malacca, and even whether to fight Malacca.

If Chen Pengming wants to deviate from the strategic plan drawn up by the General Staff, he will also be restricted by the above-mentioned people, and he will need to report and even explain his decision afterwards, and if there is a mistake in the decision, then his political future will basically come to an end.

This kind of command system of the Tang Fox is actually similar to that of the army, which is based on the premise of taking into account the current backwardness of communications and transportation, and the old ability to maintain the smooth command of the troops, but at the same time, it also takes into account the power not to be unbalanced, and the old ability to maintain a balance in all aspects.

However, although the Military Command Department and the General Staff Department are also awesome, in this Malacca, he Chen Pengming is the biggest, even if it is the joint landing fleet that has just arrived, it is also the return time moderation.

This is not because the joint landing fleet itself is under the jurisdiction of the You Yang fleet, nor is it that Chen Pengming, the commander of the You Yang fleet, has the right to wield this joint landing fleet, but because in addition to the identity of the commander of the You Yang fleet and the fox admiral, he also has another very special identity as a messenger, or dispatch: to supervise the military affairs of Nanyang You!

According to the dispatch granted to him by Li Xuan, he can control most of the combat troops and militia units in the Nanyang region and the You region, whether it is the army or the fox or the company fleet of the Tang Western Trading Company!

Well, except for the Guards!

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