Chapter 188: Fourth-Class Slave
Morality? Knight thought for a moment and asked a question: "We don't have a supply port left, and we still have the support of the local natives on Java Island." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoIf we continue to go north, the wind is not in the right direction, our fleet can only take a zigzag route, and it will take a long time to reach the Ming Kingdom; And there is no supply port, so I don't know where to stay, so maybe I can only go to Japan to replenish. ”
Trop pointed to the location of Macau on the map: "This is our best supply port!" With the little strength of the Portuguese, where can we stop our fleet? ”
"What do you mean, old general, that we robbed the Portuguese?" Morality? Knight asked.
"Not exactly, is it?" Trop gestured to the location of Guangdong on the map, "Xiangshanao is such a small piece of land, how many things are worth grabbing in the hands of the Portuguese?" If we take this place, we will be able to trade with them, and we have an agreement with them that they must provide us with supplies. ”
Morality? Knight's face was ugly, and he was very unwilling in his heart: "We don't want Batavia?" We have been around for so long, but in the end we have to give up, we are really unwilling! ”
"Virtue? General Knight, you have also seen that the Ming people are stubbornly defending Batavia, can we take it? If the siege continues, I'm afraid that something will go wrong with our fleet! We don't have ammunition to supply, and the natives here don't have enough food to feed us. God knows how these natives are so lazy? So much wasteland refuses to grow more food? If we continue to consume it, we will end up with nothing to eat! Trop had no choice but to abandon Batavia.
"It's really unwilling not to retake Batavia! We came all the way to the East, but we didn't build anything, but we lost even Batavia! "Virtue? Knight sighed.
Tropp shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands: "What else can we do now?" There are many ways to spend a long time here! Although we are besieging them now, our consumption is far greater than theirs! We are a formidable fleet, and we can't find the enemy for naval battles, but we are besieging the city here, and this is not what we should do. As long as we defeat the fleet of the Ming people, do we still need to worry that the Ming people will not surrender? As long as they surrender, isn't Batavia ready to be taken back? ”
"If we leave here, what will happen to the natives here?" Morality? Knight asked, "After all, they're helping us." ”
"Indigenous?" Trop sneered, "Can we still take them with us?" Compared to our affairs, they can all be discarded. ”
The Dutch finally decided to leave Java and go to Macau to fight the Portuguese, capturing Macau and turning it into their own supply base. Once the Dutch took Macao, according to the agreement between the Dutch and the Qing court, the Qing army would open the port to the Dutch, so that the Dutch could receive a steady stream of supplies from the Qing court.
"We need to be supplied with food, so we can get some iron and firearms and exchange food with the local indigenous people." Trop said.
The Dutch brought out nails, knives, spears and arquebuses to exchange food with the local natives. Due to the poor smelting level of the indigenous people in Indonesia, these iron tools and weapons are very valuable in the local area, and a nail can be exchanged for several kilograms of food; A knife can be exchanged for gold worth several gold coins; An arquebus is even more expensive, and can be exchanged for a dozen taels of gold, or thousands of catties of grain.
After collecting enough food, the Dutch fleet reluctantly left Batavia and sailed for the South China Sea.
"The Dutchman is gone?" Finding out that the Dutch had left Batavia, Albert and other British people felt a little incredible, Batavia was the center of the Netherlands in Asia, and its position was as important as Manila to the Spaniards and Chennai was to the British.
"I wonder if the red-haired ghost is cheating? Are they going to trick us out and fight outside? Hu Dedi still felt a little uneasy.
In order to win the war, it is not an exaggeration to use any means.
"Let's let our people come out and have a look, our ninja clan is good at doing these things." Yagyu Felisa volunteered to spy on the enemy.
Emperor Hu glanced at Yanagi Felisa and swallowed a mouthful of saliva. This female ninja with strong martial arts was wearing a low-cut dress at this time, although she was not tall, but the Japanese seemed to be very big, a pair of bulging balls were about to tear the clothes, and a career line was particularly obvious, and the road was turbulent. If Wang Yu was present, he would definitely exclaim: "Oh my God! This is at least e's! ”
Although this widow is not tall, she is really big, and Emperor Hu Dedi is not the kind of scholar who likes small things. At that time, the scholars liked the classical beauties of the Chinese tradition, which were generally not big.
"Well, go ahead, be careful! Don't let the red-haired ghost get caught! Hood Emperor said.
Yagyu Felisa leaves the castle with the ninja. After leaving the castle, all the ninjas dispersed. These ninjas are all high-level mountain scouts of this era, they are not only strong in martial arts, but also good at camouflage, concealment, and can better see through the disguise and ambush of their opponents.
The ninjas who scattered out did not find any targets, and the Dutch did go.
Three hours later, Yagyu Felisa and the others returned, reporting what they had seen: "The red-haired ghost is indeed gone, not a single boat on the seashore is gone, and there is no ambush of the red-haired ghost in the surrounding woods. ”
On the third day, the catamaran clipper, which had been sent out to reconnoitre, also returned.
"The red-haired ghosts are indeed gone, and their fleet is heading north." Tang Wei reported the news to Zhang Yukun.
Emperor Hu laughed: "Good! The red-haired ghost is gone, and we just came out to clean up these natives! ”
After days of hot-air balloon intimidation, the local indigenous population has long since lost their morale. After the Dutch left them behind, the natives ran back to their villages, hoping for a peaceful life. However, it was impossible for the Ming army to let the natives live a stable life, because the island of Java was included in the Nanyang Company, and there were only two ways in front of these natives: the first way was to surrender, and the second way was to be exterminated!
Early the next morning, the Ming army in Coconut City began to move, and out of the city were 100 marines, 200 company escorts, 200 Japanese samurai, 500 Japanese ashigaru, 200 Japanese iron gunners, and 100 Manchurian archers, as well as 100 artillery and 20 hot air balloonists, carrying ten three-pounder cannons and two hot air balloons.
The Ming army set out for the nearest indigenous village to Batavia, a large village of more than 3,000 people.
When the natives in the village saw the arrival of the Ming army, they were so frightened that they all hid in the village and closed the gate of the village, trying to block the attack of the Ming army with a thin wooden fence.
Ten three-pounder guns were mounted, and the muzzles of the black holes were aimed at the small village.
"Fire!" The artillery commander always roared.
Two three-pounder cannons spat out tongues of fire, and the shells smashed on the gate of the wall, like a huge hammer hitting the wooden railing, and smashed the gate to pieces in one fell swoop. Then two more three-pounder guns erupted fire, and the shells hit the wooden fence, where the sawdust flew sideways, and the wooden fence collapsed.
All the three-pounder guns took turns firing, and the ten guns took the method of firing two and two more, and the sound of the cannons continued incessantly, causing a flurry of sand and rocks to fly in the small village, and the wooden fences were shattered, and the houses were smashed open, and the earth and bricks were flying, and some houses were reduced to ruins by the whistling of shells.
"They fired! Rush out and kill them all! "There was an indigenous leader in the village shouting.
The Indonesian natives organized the young men in the village to launch a counterattack against the Ming army outside.
The company's convoys, marines and Japanese gunners raised their muskets, and the dense gunfire continued, and the Indonesian natives who rushed out were beaten into hornet's nests. The feathered arrows of the Manmeng archers and the darts of the Japanese samurai constituted supplementary firepower, and those fish that slipped through the net under the muzzle of the guns were either shot through by the feathered arrows or hit by darts.
One fifth of the Indonesian young men were killed or wounded, and the living no longer dared to rush out to die, and fled back to their villages. Because rushing outside is a dead end, hiding in the village, although you have to bear the shelling, but you will not be so unlucky, the shells can hit you so skillfully.
The shelling lasted about three minutes, with eight rounds fired from each gun, before the Ming military stopped shelling.
Now for the Nanyang Company and the Qiongzhou Army, what is missing is the population. It is easy to kill all the local Indonesians, but if you kill them, there will be no slaves left. And these Indonesians will still be good cannon fodder in the future, which can drive them to launch a suicidal attack on the enemy.
The houses in the small village collapsed, the wooden fence was shattered, and the local natives suffered heavy casualties, many people were killed by bricks, crushed to death by collapsed houses, and killed by splashing pieces of wood, and some of the aborigines were directly hit by shells, some were smashed into pieces, some were in different places, some were broken in two, and all kinds of internal organs, bones and human flesh fragments, with a strong fishy smell, were scattered everywhere.
Outside the village, there were countless corpses of Indonesians, all of whom were young Indonesians who had just rushed out and tried to fight back desperately.
When the cannonade stopped, someone who knew the indigenous language began to shout to the village: "We are the messengers of the true God!" The true god came into the world, created the way of heaven, expelled evil demons, swept away demons, killed the stubborn, and educated the world! If you wait for the natives, you will not take refuge in the true God as soon as possible, but when! ”
If it were just force and threat, it would be impossible for the natives in the village, who had been brainwashed by the River Crab Cult, to surrender, believing that they could go to heaven if they died fighting the infidels. So you also need to make a big move to get the locals to kneel.
"The true God has appeared! The ball of heaven has gone to the sky! "There were soldiers in the Ming army who knew the indigenous language and shouted.
Two hot air balloons inflate and slowly rise into the air.
The shouts of the Ming army just now were heard by the Indonesian natives in the village. At this time, they heard the apparition of the true god, and many natives came out of their houses and looked up at the sky.
"Oh my God! The true God has appeared! Someone exclaimed.
Two things that are so big in the sky are floating in the air, the object is very big, bigger than their own house, and such a big thing can fly into the sky, isn't that something that only a god can do?
There were Indonesians in the village who had participated in the assault on the Batavia Castle, and when they saw the hot air balloon rise into the sky, they exclaimed: "Oh my God! Isn't that the devil the other day? ”
"Don't talk nonsense!" An old man in the village angrily rebuked, "That's the messenger of the true God!" Not some kind of devil! Can the devil take to the skies in broad daylight? ”
Another native also said, "Yes, the devil is afraid of the sun, and under the sun's rays, the devil has long been wiped out, how can he fly into the sky?" Although the devil also has mana, the devil can only cast mana on the dark ones! They don't see the light at all! ”
"Why does the true God punish us?" An indigenous man looks desperately at a hot air balloon in the sky.
The old man said, "Because you are guilty!" You help the crusaders from the West! The Crusaders are our enemies! They burned down the Great Food Temple in Jerusalem, and they were no different from the devil! So Araho sent down the true God to punish you sinners! ”
Although most of the Indonesian indigenous people have never been to Arabia, they have heard the story of the European Crusades, the Crusaders burned down the Great River Crab Temple in Jerusalem and built a Western church on the ruins of the River Crab Temple. If you have helped the descendants of the Crusaders in battle, then when you die, your soul will fall into the endless hell and suffer endless torment.
All the Indonesians in the village are on their knees and praying.
But this does not mean that the Indonesians can honestly be slaves, and they have to give them another big move.
The local imams, who had previously been captured by the Ming army, spent some time in the Ming army's prisoner of war camp, and they were forced to raise pigs in the River Crab Temple. Under high pressure, some imams could only be loyal to the Ming army. When the Ming army received assurances of their allegiance, they did not let them abandon the River Crab Sect, but let them act as their own lobbyists.
That's when the imams came in handy: they came out and preached to the locals that an emissary of the true god Alahu had descended to earth, and Muhammad told the messenger that he wanted the Indonesians to convert to the Nanyang Company, which was protected by the true god.
Of course, after the Indonesian locals converted to the true god, they could only be third-class or fourth-class people in Nanyang.
Wang Xinyu is not a good man and a woman, he also has a hierarchy, and the hierarchy of the Yuan Dynasty was moved by him, but it was just changed. The hierarchy of the Nanyang Company was: Han Chinese of the first class, Yi people of the second class, Tu people of the third class, and untouchables and slaves of the fourth class.
Among the first-class Han people, there are not only Han people, but also the ethnic minorities in the south of the mainland who have returned to the Han people, as long as they regard themselves as Han people, they are first-class people! And those Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers who surrendered to the Ming army in the early days, as long as they made military achievements and regarded themselves as Han Chinese, they could also be promoted to first-class Han people.
The second-class Yi people include the Baiyi, the Wa, the Goryeo, the Manchu and Mongolian who surrendered, the Annam who took refuge in the Ming army, and the Mon people in Burma.
The third-class natives refer to the indigenous people of Nanyang, including the Burmese, the Luzon Sulu, etc., as well as the natives who were incorporated by Zheng Jing in the Americas, and the natives who were serfs and herdsmen in the Outer Khing'an Mountains.
The fourth-class people are mainly Kunlun slaves, but the great cannibals and Nanyang natives who believe in the River Crab Sect are also classified among the fourth-class people. (To be continued.) )