Chapter 3: Java (11)
The three veterans silently placed the four grenades they were carrying in front of them, then unscrewed the lid of the grenade, held the bullet in their hand, put the pull ring on their tail fingers, and shouted: "Grenades! This is to prevent his comrades from infiltrating the chaos, and when they hear this sound, they can use tactical actions such as lying down to avoid damage. One roar after another, one after another smoke-emitting grenades flew out of their hands. The successive explosions blew up the chaotic army of several hundred men, and the remnants of the native soldiers quickly changed direction - even wild beasts were bound to turn after unbearable blows.
And at this time, the first rays of dawn on the horizon cut through the darkness, and in the fortifications on the coast, there was a rhythmic drum, and rows of soldiers jumped out of the trenches, lined up according to the sound of drums, and then raised their spears, their numbers were not too many, only four or five hundred, mainly soldiers from the Miyun avant-garde and the second division of the Ming Dynasty who had received queue training.
And there were two or three hundred steppe soldiers of the Duyin tribe, who followed behind, armed with long knives, and most of them had a bloodthirsty taste in their eyes. The sound of the drums is the sound of urging the earth soldiers of Majapahit, and the array of guns is indifferent and ruthless to stab down all the qiqi that stands in front of them, and the combat boots step on, and the native soldiers who are not dead will be mended by the steppe soldiers behind......
This not necessarily very clever phalanx of guns ran over like this, leaving behind the breath of death everywhere it passed.
Of course, if you can organize troops to attack the flanks, then there are two or three hundred steppe soldiers behind. It is not necessary that they can protect the flanks of the phalanx without horses; Or use stone throwers and archers to throw them, or you can shoot this improvised phalanx. So, it's just a phalanx that isn't necessarily very smart.
But it works. Because it is facing the local soldiers of the battalion, the arrival of the dawn has made these battalion soldiers gradually fade into madness, but it is simply unrealistic to organize any effective attack here. There are many warriors among them, and they gathered their companions around them, and it is not for nothing that a hundred and ten people rushed towards this phalanx of guns. However, to the beat of the drums, the soldiers of the Gun Forest phalanx completed a "turn to the right" or "turn left" according to the order, and then completed the "reserve gun...... Kill! "Put away the guns!" "Rulin's spear blade. easily pierced the opponent's bamboo armor and took away the lives of these brave people. In this way, the warriors in the native soldiers have been exhausted.
Fight without a little passion. Indifferent and mechanical movements. The monotonous drum beat gradually became the only main theme on this battlefield, in the crying, in the moaning, in the begging for mercy, it was strong and unyielding, just like that. Knocked out the newborn sun in the sky.
Li Yuncong originally planned to let a few soldiers with loud voices shout in Cantonese, "Abandon your weapons and kneel on the ground and don't kill." It didn't work at all, and not even the six veterans in the phalanx, who had served as sergeant majors, fired a single bullet or threw a grenade. Because after this gun forest phalanx has run over in such a circle, there are no standing native soldiers, either falling, or kneeling, when they find that throwing away the swords and guns in their hands and kneeling can avoid death, people's adaptability is infinite.
"The order went down, and one of our soldiers was killed, and ten enemy soldiers were killed; One of our soldiers was seriously wounded, killing five enemy soldiers. Li Yuncong gave the order to the herald.
The recruit, who had just been a herald for more than a day, hesitated: "But, didn't you say that you would soon study the "Prisoner of War Regulations"? ”
"Have you studied?"
"Nope."
"Execute the order." Li Yuncong said calmly, he didn't have Ding Yi's heart barrier.
"Yes." The heralds immediately ran down and gave orders to the various formations. Undoubtedly, this made the soldiers of the Duyin tribe excited, but they soon became depressed, because the entire gun forest phalanx did not even have a single comrade who had split his foot. It wasn't until they found Guo Jin's people that they were able to release the killing intent in their hearts.
And in the center of the position on the coast, Ding Yi stood up, there was endless silence on his body, Yang Shan was on the side, looking at Ding while stroking the long knife and whispering: "It's hard to kill people happily anymore......" Yang Shan couldn't help but shudder, this Ding Rujin, I am afraid that the reputation of killing people is not fake.
"Order, Li Yuncong, Menda, and Cao Jixiang handed over the command of their troops to Zhu Dong, and Du Ban's post-war affairs were handed over to Zhu Dong." Ding Yi gave this order to the guards around him, and the latter repeated it and immediately issued a herald.
When Li Yuncong finished handing over the command and came to report to Ding Yi, the latter nodded to him: "Yes, next, the battle of Majapahit will be commanded by you." ”
Li Yuncong withered when he heard this: "Sir, this can't be done, even if you give more than 10,000 recruits to students, at least let students train for a few months......" Of course, there are more than 5,000 soldiers in Majapahit, and there are more than 2,000 people in the seven battalions selected by Li Yuncong and others, which are basically the elite and daring warriors among the more than 10,000 recruits.
"The Second Marine Brigade attached to the Mediterranean Fleet, that is, the original Marine Corps of the West Sea Fleet, you will temporarily serve as the brigade commander."
"Yes! Mr! Li Yuncong suddenly felt like he had been beaten with chicken blood, and the whole person became excited.
Ding Yi stroked the short beard on his chin and said to him, "Settle the injured squad and get on the boat." ”
The fleet set off for Majapahit, but Ding Yi did not send any more recruits to battle, nor did he send the 2nd Marine Brigade.
Because there was no need, when the eight first-class sail battleships took turns to fire a salvo, the god of war beyond the times, hundreds of shells showed irresistible power, and the lord of Majapahit couldn't even afford the idea of abandoning the city and fleeing, because he didn't know that the cannon had a range, he thought that the Ming people had summoned the heavenly thunder, which made him lose the last trace of resistance, and honestly bound himself, kneeling on the coast with civil and military forces and waiting for the turning point of his fate.
"The port of Tanjung Prudentok in Surumayi will be used as the seat of the old port propaganda department." Ding Yilian and Yang Shan did not send off the ship to accept the surrender of Manbo Zheyi, but sent someone to pick up Zhu Dong from Du Ban with the Lightning, and said to him, "Li Yuncong has taken two battalions of the Second Marine Brigade and escorted by four destroyers to Sulu Mayi, if there is no accident, there should be news in the past two days, and you have to send someone to take over." ”
"Yes, sir."
"Remember, the old port is the Ming Dynasty."
"Yes, the Old Port Xuanwei Division is an inherent territory of China since ancient times, and it is sacred and inviolable!"
Ding nodded and said to Zhu Dong: "Those who mobilize the people to try to split the territory of the Ming Dynasty are always a handful of careerists. Okay, let's go on an errand, and when we return home, I hope to see at least a few academies in the Old Port Propaganda Division...... You'll have to use these seven battalions, and I'll draw another company from the Blade Brigade for you...... You'll have to hold out until around August, when the reconstituted West Sea Fleet can come and rebuild. ”
"Disciple understands." Zhu Dong couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, this is to hand over such a large territory as the old port to him to take care of.
"Rujin, this Javanese pepper business, how can I let the old man also participate!" Yang Shan was not polite, he proposed to divide the fruits after the war, and he couldn't blame him for being in a hurry, the incident of seizing the door was a lesson, he didn't want to wait and pass like this, "The little benefit of the elder brother sharing the profit, Yu Rujin is also beneficial, this overseas benefit, you have to teach the gentry of China to see it with their own eyes......"
Ding Yi cut off his words and said very simply: "You will monopolize the pepper in Java, and you can go back to teach people to take over the work...... The fleet will go all the way, and the benefits will not be less than yours, brother, but at this time next year, I will watch the gentry's fleet go to sea. ”
"But the court forbids the sea!" Yang Shan cried out bitterly.
Ding Yi glared at him: "There are still many things forbidden by the imperial court, so to speak, the gentry are all law-abiding people on weekdays?" The Metropolitan Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas will give them a qualification assessment of the sea, and those who are qualified will issue a plunder certificate, brother, this matter will be handed over to you, when you return to the sea, you can't see the civil fleet going to sea, so don't mention anything to me. ”
To develop maritime power, we absolutely cannot rely on a fleet like Ding Yi alone.
"Why don't you go ashore and have a look?" Cao Jixiang was amusing on the side, but he said to Ding Yi, "One anger destroys the human country, ancient and modern heroes, nothing more than this...... It's just that the young master laid down this Java, and he left like this, why is he dressed in brocade and walking at night...... "This one is thinking about it, and he began to chant about what "male master" is beside Ding Yi, and Wen Fatzi also echoed on the side.
Empress Dowager Sun's worries were not groundless, and there were some things that Ding didn't want to do, so his subordinates might not be so honest. If Ding Yi is a simple civil servant, he still has his own military strength and territory, which means that in fact, he has the strength of a feudal town, and if he goes further, it is nothing more than to replace him.
Ding Yi is not a saint, and when Cao said this, he felt that it was indeed a good thing to go ashore as a conqueror, but he immediately said to Cao Jixiang: "Old Cao, there is one thing I have to tell you first, don't mention anything like the hero in the future, I have a lot to do in this life, and I don't have time to tinker with your thoughts." ”
"The old slave obeys." Cao understood the meaning of the warning in Ding's words, and he immediately responded honestly.
In fact, the reason why Ding Yi felt that he wanted to go ashore to see it was because he had conquered it now, even if Li Yuncong took those two battalions to take down the Tanjung Priok Port in Sulu Mayi, it was basically only the coastline of the South China Sea, and there were still many places in the whole of Java that the Ming army did not control, and he thought about it carefully, and asked Zhu to use those seven battalions to control the whole of Java, and the fact was not very stable, so he decided to stay in Java for a few days, in case the backyard fire would not be beautiful.
And the next fact made Ding Yi secretly rejoice in his decision at this time, if Java was handed over to Zhu Dong like this, maybe by the time Ding Yi returned, there would only be news of the martyrdom of the soldiers of the seven battalions. (To be continued......)
PS: It's the sixth, and it's more than the last day left to double, and our monthly pass is not good this month, ask for a ticket, ask for a ticket!