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The Sinhala monarchs and ministers were hesitant and noisy as they could no longer wait. Four four-pound cannons outside the city had been pushed to the city gate. The artillerymen quickly followed the standard training procedures and dug four simple cannon pits in the ground. It took a few minutes to check the artillery, and then stuffed the powder bags and shells. *
With a solid bullet the size of a fist, there is no doubt that such a city defense cannot withstand the wooden door in front of it, which is not that heavy.
After seeing Zhu Ming¡¯s slight nod, the military order was passed down from level to level, and the artilleryman lit the match.
The roar started, and the targets were all at the city gate. This small city did not have an urn, and there was no passage behind the city gate. It can be said that once the city gate was opened, the entire city was as defenseless as if it had spread its legs. .
About two hundred and fifty steps, which is not a long distance, the artillery was so powerful that the impact on the city wall stirred up a piece of rubble, and even a corner of the city wall collapsed.
And the one that hit the city gate went straight through. Without a few shots to support it, the entire city gate collapsed with a bang.
It was quiet at the top of the city. Although the Ceylonese had seen relatively sharp foreign artillery on the barbarian ships, this was the first time they had been attacked by artillery so violently.
There are at least thousands of these indigenous soldiers guarding this city wall. At this moment, they all found a place where they thought it was a safe and thick city wall, and quietly hid behind it.
Until the city gate was blasted open, no one showed his head.
After the city gate was opened, the soldiers of Lan Ling Guard moved. There were only three hundred people walking in front.
These are 300 people who have been carefully selected. They are all strong men who can lift two hundred kilograms. At this moment, in addition to wearing the breastplates of the Black Water Ming Army, they are also covered with arm armor and leg armor. Holding a large shield as tall as a person in his hand, he moved forward with neat steps.
Zhu Ming had long had the idea of ??experimenting with heavy infantry. The Blackwater Ming Kingdom was located in Southeast Asia and did not have strong cavalry. Although it was very successful in developing firearms, no matter whether it was against nomadic cavalry or Western European feudal knights, it would be inadvertently defeated by the opponent's powerful cavalry. Under the pressure of the impact, the entire army is likely to be destroyed.
But it will be different if a powerful heavy infantry can be built. Although the offensive mobility is not good enough, especially against the cavalry and light cavalry, it can only be beaten passively. But as a support for the musketeers, such a heavy infantry essential.
In the early stage of fighting for hegemony in Southeast Asia, the cuirassiers alone were enough to make the opponent drink a pot. Therefore, Zhu Ming did not urgently develop heavy infantry, but recuperated and expanded territory after the war.
Now that we want to extend our tentacles to more distant overseas areas, such a heavy infantry is indispensable. This time it was a simple attempt, and even the soldiers' armor was improvised and pieced together.
The guards on the city saw such a steel monster charging forward. They were frightened and scolded by the officers. Taking advantage of their superiority, they took out their bows and started shooting.
Legend has it that the arrows fired by the English longbowmen can still break armor at a distance of three hundred paces, but the soldiers in the Sinhalese King's City obviously do not have this ability. The arrows they fired are weak and weak. Although they hit the shield, Many of them passed through the shields and shot at the soldiers of the Black Water Ming Army, but they had no impact on the entire team. The heavy infantry quickly approached the city gate.
Just as the defenders on the top of the city were preparing to boil water, roll rocks, wood and other defensive materials to pour down from above, the soldiers of the Blackwater Ming Army quickened their pace and launched a charge.
Although many soldiers were hit by stones thrown from the city because their equipment was too heavy, most of them rushed into the city, and the two battalions of soldiers who followed quickly followed up with the heavy battalion in front. infantry.
A group of musketeers also quickly approached the city. It was a cloudy day, so the musketeers could show off their skills.
If it is a bow and arrow, shooting upward is quite disadvantageous, and the range and power will be greatly reduced. However, this impact seems to be much smaller for muskets.
With the crisp sound of gunfire and the rising of thick green smoke, the momentum of the defenders on the top of the city immediately weakened a lot.
The heavy infantry who rushed into the city faced the defenders blocking the city gate. Under the scolding of the supervising general behind them, they had to raise their weapons and squeeze forward.
The simple heavy infantry of the Black Water Ming Army did not use long spears. Instead, each person carried a simple sword on his back. The handle of the sword was almost half a meter long. At this moment, everyone was holding a sword in their hands. Except for the soldiers in the first row, the soldiers behind them He also put down his shield.
Although there are a large number of enemies pressing against them, the weapons in their hands are difficult to affect the fully armed army on the opposite side. They are like a group of local dogs trying to block the advancement of elephants. Although the Sinhalese soldiersThere were many sights, but as soon as they were hit by the heavy infantry that rushed in, they immediately began to melt like white snow meeting the sun.
The Pu Dao of the Black Water Ming Army is thick and heavy. After killing several people, the Yan Ling Dao's blade begins to curl, making it more and more difficult to cut into the human body. Although the Pu Dao can still curl its edge, it has enough weight. , hitting the human body will cause all the bones and muscles to break.
No matter how the officers behind them screamed, the Sinhala soldiers still couldn't resist. These soldiers on the front line were all members of the king's tribe, and they usually enjoyed the best land and the best hunting grounds. People, their loyalty to the Sinhalese King is unquestionable, but no matter how strong their fighting spirit and belief are, they can't withstand the cutting steel knife.
After hundreds of corpses were quickly laid down, the Sinhalese soldiers began to cower.
When the follow-up soldiers of the Blackwater Ming Army rushed up and expanded the area of ????frontal contact, the morale of the Sinhalese soldiers who lost their depth advantage plummeted.
Although the Sinhalese King Yalie Kuner woke up later, he promptly sent more than 300 elite guardsmen to join the battle at the gate of the city.
But it was already a drop in the bucket. Under the command of Zhu Ming, two thousand Blackwater Ming troops had already entered the battle. On the narrow terrain at the city gate, two thousand people were enough to exert the maximum and optimal effect.
After the battle was in a stalemate for more than half an hour, when all the elite soldiers of the King's Guard were killed, the Sinhalese soldiers finally collapsed.
The iron cans on the opposite side are too difficult to deal with. Even for those soldiers who only wear breastplates, the more effective ones can only damage their limbs, but this will often cause them to suffer the last counterattack before being injured. The attacking monks The Garo soldiers would lose their lives instead.
This is really an asymmetrical battle. The opponent dares to hit you with a spear and chop you to death. Just before you die, you take a look and see that the shot you just thrust out was actually blocked by his breastplate
It was such an unjust death. This was the last thought of many Sinhalese soldiers before they died. There is absolutely no possibility of confrontation.
The soldiers who were at the back dropped their weapons and ran back quickly while the leaders were not paying attention.
Without anyone¡¯s orders, more and more Sinhala soldiers began to abandon their weapons and run away. After the officers could not stop them, many people also joined the fleeing team.
The team on the opposite side was too strong. Who would be a submissive person under their command? The Sinhalese people lost their will to resist and fled one after another because they did not want to lose their lives here.
"Come into the palace," Zhu Ming ordered loudly as he swept through the formation behind the team.
With two thousand people in the lead and a thousand reserve troops behind, the team grabbed the captives leading the way and headed directly along the avenue towards the palace.
Although the casualties were minor, there were so many ants that they killed an elephant. Zhu Ming had to take advantage of the opportunity to catch the opponent off guard and quickly capture the palace and capture the opponent's king. Only then would the overall situation be settled.
More than 300 guards have been sent to the palace just now, and the defense force is much weaker. The king's elite men are less than a thousand, and half of them are not stationed in the palace at the moment. When the soldiers of the Blackwater Ming Army arrive, It was too late to even escape.
¡°I really didn¡¯t expect the enemy to come so quickly, so Ariel Kunel could only smartly tie his hands, and obediently led his ministers out to surrender.
Ariel Kunel's cleverness at least saved his life for the time being. Zhu Ming originally wanted to uproot him. Now seeing how sensible she was, it was not a good idea to take things too far and helped him up. The kneeling king said a few words of comfort, and Zhu Ming assigned a thousand soldiers to guard the palace. The rest went around the city searching for remnants of soldiers, and those who had weapons in hand were killed without mercy.
Then Zhu Ming ordered a few of the ministers he had just captured, and asked them, whether they were with their families, to immediately go around the city and shout that all civilians holding weapons or even knives should quickly throw their weapons to the roadside. , and then everyone will be collected together. If there is anyone hiding a weapon, the whole family will be killed.
With too few manpower, Zhu Ming had to adopt a high-pressure policy. Anyway, the work of calming the people's hearts should be left to the governor who was sent later, so that the subsequent ministers would have something to do and they would not have crooked thoughts in their minds.
After searching around the palace, the queens and concubines in the harem, Zhu Ming, were not interested at all. However, it was interesting to find a lot of gems. I dare not say that it would be enough to replenish military supplies, but it would be okay to enrich it a little.
Zhu Ming is now considered a professional in raiding palaces. He has confiscated four or five palaces, including countless tribal chiefs.
The original Sinhalese king and his family were all locked up in a house in the backyard. This royal family could not stay in Ceylon. This was different from the royal family in the Malay Peninsula. They were all under his nose. Zhu Ming I'm not afraid of how big a storm they will stir upCome, but since Ceylon is thousands of miles away, we always have to guard against their bad intentions. It is better to transport them away in one ship and deal with them as they wish.
Three days later, the dust settled, and everyone who dared to resist was killed. Every household in the street was searched, and no one dared to hide weapons. This was the first step to stabilize the situation in the city.
According to the map documents presented by the surrendered ministers, the Sinhalese country had 50,000 households and 300,000 people. Of course, it was only a rough count.
After seeing this number, Zhu Ming just shook his head, shaking his head desperately. When Tang Kai and others asked about the reason, Zhu Ming just said quietly: "No, the population is still too much." "
There are indeed too many. In Ceylon, it is difficult to migrate a large number of people to rule and dilute the proportion of local people. So the most appropriate way is to reduce the number of local people, or at least control their development.
"When the people in the city are strong, the fifth one will be moved to Bieloli to build the city, and then the fifth one will be incorporated into the reserve army, preparing to march south with our army.
The Sinhalese are in such a bad situation, presumably the Tamil Kingdom in the south is even weaker, but this time Zhu Ming will recruit the Sinhalese to attack the Tamil Kingdom.
Although the Sinhala and Tamil people are probably of the same race, they have different languages, and the two races have never been considered to be the same kind. This is a point worth taking advantage of.
Although Zhu Ming is generous and able to listen to advice, his authority also means that his orders will be implemented quickly as long as they are promulgated.
When the order to build the city in Belori and to march out the army was issued, the entire city of Sinhalese City was like boiling water. No matter who was assigned to build the city or march out the army, they were all crying and miserable.
Regardless of the protests and dissatisfaction of these civilians, after several heads were chopped off, no one dared to have a neck as hard as a knife. In order to prevent these laborers from escaping, a long string of people was strung together with ropes. , heading towards the port of Belori.
Although Chen Sanfu couldn't bear to receive so much labor, he was still happy. At least the city was repaired and a stable military camp was built in the city. The security of this lone army was greatly improved.
The people in Beloli City whose houses had been requisitioned were lucky. Zhu Ming showed great mercy and they did not need to be requisitioned. However, the civilians in the east of the city were not so lucky. They were also treated as ordinary civilians in the royal city and were requisitioned to build the city. Build cities and recruit armies.
The Sinhalese Kingdom was in turmoil for a while and was full of complaints, all lamenting the cruelty of the new ruler. Chen Sanfu naturally took all the blame, because the expeditionary force was nominally led by him, and all the orders issued were It was issued in his name. King Zhu Ming would not always interfere with the specific instructions of the general below.
With sufficient manpower, the march south soon began. Nearly 50,000 civilians were drafted, either carrying food on their shoulders or simply armed as a vanguard.
The Tamils ??and Sinhalese in the south are already feuding. They just heard that the Sinhalese royal city has fallen and all the Sinhalese have become slaves of foreign races. The Tamils ??are not happy yet. The powerful one in the north is The enemy attacked.
The Tamil king Dopuronath was not a talented and strategist, otherwise he would not have been oppressed so miserably by his not-so-wise neighbor in the north. When he heard that his neighbor in the north had sent 50,000 troops to attack, he immediately panicked. .
"In fact, what he didn't understand was that the nominal 50,000 people among his northern neighbors were just soy sauce, and the only ones that really worked were the 2,000 Black Water Ming Army.
Because he didn¡¯t understand, the panicked Tamil King desperately tried to gather the numbers to fight against the powerful enemies from the north and south.
The Tamil Kingdom¡¯s national strength was not as strong as that of the north. In the end, it only gathered 30,000 people. Many of them could not even be armed, so they were sent away with a wooden stick.
Even the group training was not so miserable. When Commander Zhu Ming saw the miserable enemy soldiers in front of the formation, he felt a little unbearable. This was really a beggar fighting a beggar.
But in order to ensure smooth rule in the future, we had to harden our hearts and drive the more than 20,000 Sinhalese people in front of the formation to fight forward.
The two groups had a feud. Previously, they were oppressed by the supervising team behind them and fought together. Gradually, they became angry.
Although there are still only a few people on both sides who have relatives killed by the other side, according to the old man's word of mouth, the other side is a heinous devil.
When someone in the team died at the hands of the other party, this confrontation was aroused to the climax. Many people dropped their weakly lethal wooden sticks and directly hugged each other, pinching and biting. They were really exhausted. He used all his strength to fight like an enemy for ten lifetimes.
The wholeThe battlefield has turned into a killing ground for beasts. You can't see any traces of civilization from here. The sword and gun confrontation in the cold weapon era was already very bloody, but it developed into a naked hand-to-hand fight like this, which is even more animalistic.
In one hour or two hours, if the regular armies of both sides square off and fight swords and guns against guns, it would be easy to determine the winner. The soldiers on the disadvantaged side will soon realize that something is wrong, and then the team will be defeated, and the battle will be over. But if Today, the two sides are usually entangled together, forming a situation where one side is fighting to the death.
Zhu Ming saw that both sides were very exhausted, and there was no point in continuing to fight. With an order, the elite soldiers finally dispatched. From north to south, the places where the Blackwater Ming Army passed through were like sifting through a sieve. , the Sinhalese soldiers with a black scarf wrapped around their heads all escaped death, while the Tamil soldiers on the other side were killed one after another by the Blackwater Ming army.
The Sinhala soldiers who were very resistant to the Blackwater Ming Army the day before and almost led to a mutiny looked at the Blackwater Ming Army with a hint of gratitude in their eyes today. No wonder the battlefield is the best place to cultivate male friendship. Best location.
It was too late to retreat. The Tamil soldiers had exhausted all their strength, including the elite troops led by the Tamil king. They had already been engaged in this meat grinder-like fight, and every one of them was killed until their limbs were sore.
When the two sides met, although the Black Water Ming Army was also exhausted, the professional training still allowed both sides to judge.
But at this moment, the Tamils ??couldn't even escape. Even if they did, they could only run as far as they could without being overtaken and stabbed.
So the Tamils ??began to surrender, but the first ones to surrender were killed by the hateful Sinhalese people nearby, leaving these Tamils ??in a dilemma, whether to surrender or not, but if they don't surrender, they will also be waiting for death. .
As more and more people lost their will to resist and collapsed to the ground, and as the Sinhalese were killed until their hands were weak, Zhu Ming finally stopped this senseless massacre.
Everyone who was still alive was numb. In the battlefield that had stopped, everyone was speechless, sitting or standing, including Zhu Ming.
This is the first time he has experienced such a large-scale death. In the past, most of them were rout battles. Today, two armies that are not armies are fighting, and he has actually created the largest number of casualties since he joined the army.
Looking at the dead bodies everywhere, the setting sun is like blood.
Chapter 219 Tyrant of Ceylon
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