Chapter 460 Night Attack on Mala Port

Author: Seven Years Period

Chapter 460 Night Attack on Mala Port

Night, Mara Port.

It was originally just a small supply point, with only one company of British troops stationed there. However, due to the sudden rise of Nanming, wars continued on the island.

In addition, Zhu Qiongying later rejected William Hawke's proposal and transferred three cruisers from the British Indian Navy fleet to blockade the port.

These are light cruisers built after the end of the Anti-French War, specifically used to combat pirates and block shipping routes. The largest one is only 370 tons.

However, the British have a very deep affection for this kind of ship, because its predecessor is a privateer ship. They are merchants on the sea, and they are also a nightmare for other merchants.

It can even be said that Britain's strength is due to these privateer owners, but now this kind of light cruiser, which was built decades ago and uses sail power, is outdated.

However, in Nanyang, a sea where armaments were still in the eighteenth century, they could still rule the roost.

Kalimantan has a tropical rainforest climate, which is hot and rainy, which is really unbearable for British people living in Northern Europe.

It was often difficult to fall asleep until late at night, so British sailors chose to kill time by playing poker, the most common game of this era.

Lieutenant Branson drank more and was very depressed because he kept losing at cards. He left the barracks angrily, intending to find a place to relieve himself.

Lieutenant Branson finally found a big tree and was about to take action when suddenly a mouse ran across his feet. He was so frightened that he had no intention of urinating.

Lieutenant Branson cursed a few times, but found that no one was patrolling the pier. He couldn't help but become even more angry, thinking to himself.

"These damn natives are sneaky and cunning. Tell the captain tomorrow and let him take care of these savages."

But in fact, there was no one guarding the pier, so I didn't think it was that strange. I just thought the natives were lazy.

At this time, Lieutenant Branson had an idea. He felt that there would definitely be no more mice jumping out of the water, so he decided to face the spring flowers blooming in the sea.

Lieutenant Branson suddenly stopped in the middle of the explanation. He seemed to hear some sounds in his daze, but at the seaside, the waves crashed on the shore, the insects chirped and the birds chirped, the wind blew the leaves, and the rain hit the plantains. There were sounds everywhere.

Lieutenant Branson, who was drunk, was about to take action again. Suddenly, a big hand covered his mouth, and then a sharp blade scratched his neck and blood flowed out.

Lieutenant Branson subconsciously covered his neck with both hands, but he could not make any sound because the knife wound was too deep. The body was carefully put into the water, and then tied to the logs under the trestle together with the bodies of other soldiers.

On the pile.

In fact, the soldiers of the Three Thousand Battalion had already landed ashore and boarded the ship one after another before, but the first batch of Water Ghost Battalion responsible for seizing the dock started this night swimming attack with only daggers, hand crossbows, and a bamboo tube for breathing.

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The power and range of crossbows are far less than that of firearms, but they are very suitable for such medium and close-range secret operations. After all, the sound of crossbows is much smaller than that of firearms.

After a long period of investigation, Nanming has figured out the deployment and action patterns of the British. They will rest two days a week, and the night of the first day of rest is also the time when the British are most relaxed.

Although the British army's barracks were located in the port close to the pier, the only people guarding the pier were Brunei soldiers, and these people deserted almost all the time.

In fact, it is not that there is no one on the British warships, but few people who live at sea all year round like to stay on the ship all the time. If they can rest on the shore, they will definitely go to the shore to relax.

There were only dozens of British sailors on the three ships, and this time the Three Thousand Battalion was dispatched collectively. As the name suggests, the Three Thousand Battalion really had three thousand people. Just imagine what a spectacular scene it would be for three thousand people to swim across the river in arms.

It's just that in the darkness, no one can see the whole scene, otherwise they will be scared to death.

Zhu Qiongying's primary purpose in this night attack was to seize all the ships in Mara Port and cut off the British's retreat and contact with the outside world.

Most of the three thousand battalions of soldiers who landed behind were carrying oil paper bags containing gunpowder and muskets. These people began to organize a defense line near the port.

Although the sound of sailing battleships and wooden merchant ships setting sail is not as loud as that of steam-powered ships, the British army is not all fools. These people have been wandering at sea all year round. If they want to steal their ships without the other party noticing, it is simply impossible.

It's just a fool's dream.

After all, many armies have secret sentinels, but the information about these people is often confidential, and the soldiers have no way of knowing it.

Sure enough, after the sails were deployed, someone notified Colonel Haddock Chris immediately. In fact, the secret sentry was far away from the port, so he escaped the attack. However, he could only see the port in the dark night.

There seems to be a shadow moving nearby, but the actual situation cannot be confirmed.

So we still gave Nanming some time. By the time Colonel Hardek Chris took out his telescope to observe, it was already too late.

Suddenly, alarm bells rang loudly in Mara Port, and the British soldiers who had just fallen asleep and the soldiers who had been sleeping soundly for a long time were immediately woken up.

A large group of people rushed towards the dock with torches, but what greeted them were rows of bullets. The British and Turkish soldiers holding torches were as conspicuous as targets in the dark night.

With the sound of crisp sounds, the soldiers continued to fall in a pool of blood. In fact, this was not because the Nanming soldiers' marksmanship was so good, but because the people on the other side were crowded together, and the bullets flew over and missed everyone.

It's difficult.

The British quickly discovered this and extinguished all the torches. But they soon discovered that there was a problem. The other party could no longer see their position, but they could not see the other party's position either. They continued to stalemate on the dock.

All the boats will be sailed away.

So Colonel Hardek Chris ordered the native soldiers to charge. These Brunei natives were not willing to die, but they had no choice but to rush in front of the cold light of the bayonets.

The charge of these cannon fodders was completely vulnerable to modern firearms. In the dark night, there were constant sounds of bullets piercing human bodies and the sound of people falling to the ground after being shot.

In fact, Colonel Hardy Kreese's idea was to let these natives rush in front of the attackers, and while the two sides were fighting hand-to-hand, the British soldiers would then attack.

The idea was good, but the natives didn't want to sacrifice their lives for the British Empire at all. After rushing out, they fled in all directions, directly letting out the British troops who were following them.

The Nanming army on the other side didn't know whether they were the native soldiers or the British troops who were rushing up. In short, they were fighting at the same time. With the fire of volleys and guns, the British troops rushing in front were knocked down, and many British troops were also knocked down in the night.

I didn't know where to rush, so I just ran with people.

Then a dramatic scene occurred. At least one-third of the British troops followed the natives and ran into the woods, while the remaining British troops had to face the repeated shooting of thousands of Nanming soldiers. Naturally, they suffered heavy losses.

However, this night had just begun for the British. The periphery of the port suddenly burst into flames, and the Fifth Army Battalion also launched an attack.

Capturing the British fleet was only the lowest goal of the campaign, and the goal of the Nanming army was to completely annihilate the British forces in Mala Port.

There were shouts of killing everywhere, and Colonel Hardek Kris didn't know exactly how many enemies there were. He had no choice but to give up the attack on the dock and ordered to organize a defense.

The east and south gates of Mara Port were quickly breached. The native soldiers stationed there did not want to or dared to resist, because the Nanming army had never lost in battles with the natives, and every time they killed those who resisted to the end.

After all, over time, no natives dared to make trouble with the soldiers and civilians of Nanming.

The battle at the west city gate was the most brutal. At this time, the Sequoia Army's combat effectiveness was still very high. Although the city gate was blown up by Liu Dadao, the general of the Fifth Army Camp, with landmines, they still built barricades on the streets and continued to resist.

The so-called landmines at that time were explosives similar to barrels of black powder, and unlike the usage in later generations, they were mainly used to attack cities.

Liu Dadao sent people to attack the British barricade several times without success. At one point, both sides even entered into hand-to-hand combat, but in the end they were driven back by the British army.

Liu Dadao, whose real name is Liu Sanyuan, was a bodyguard in the capital. He once thought that he could make a career in the capital with his own skills and a big sword in his hand.

But twenty years later, Liu Dadao has always been conscientious, and he went all out for every business, and all the Jianghu people on the street were frightened when they heard his name.

But in the capital, Liu Dadao was still just a little person who couldn't even be called a slave. In the end, he was kicked out of the capital because he offended the janitor slave of an adult's family.

When Liu Dadao took the package and was about to leave the capital, no one came to deliver it, so he drank in a small wine shop.

He used wine to drown his sorrows, and his sorrows became worse. For a while, he became more and more angry, and finally, with the strength of wine, Liu Dadao jumped into the adult's house with his 100-pound sword.

One of the nursing staff found him and just about to shout, Liu Dadao chopped off one of his arms. Before the nursing staff could scream in agony, he was cut off and his head flew into the sky.

Liu Dadao picked up the severed arm on the ground and used it as a door bolt to insert into the door. Then he killed twenty-three members of the family of the man who had driven him out of the capital.

The janitor slave was chopped into pieces, and Liu Dadao fled all the way to Nanyang. When he arrived in Nanyang, he finally made a name for himself and became the eighth leader of the Zhongyi Hall with his own skills and fierceness.

Although it is called Zhongyi Tang, what it does is just reselling people and providing them to opium dens, brothels, and casinos.

Liu Dadao thought he would spend his whole life in such a miserable state, until one day the Nanming army captured Shanghou City, and Duan Youde, the general manager of the Zhongyi Hall, took 100,000 taels of silver to reward the three armies and buy a future.

But by chance, an old woman with a basket of sesame cakes came to reward the three troops that day, and the two happened to be sworn enemies.

Although Duan Youde did not know this old woman, she had always wanted to cut him into pieces for twenty years.

Because it was Duan Youde who fell in love with her daughter-in-law twenty years ago, and then had her family's fishing boat sunk. Her husband was so angry that he couldn't afford it, and his son was so angry that he wanted to seek justice, but he was raped before he even saw Duan Youde.

Ding was beaten to death and even the corpse was fed to the crocodiles.

With a basket of sesame cakes, one hundred thousand taels of silver, two thousand men and women at the entrance, and hundreds of years of business in the Shanghou area, Zhu Qiongying chose the former without hesitation, and dragged Duan You to the market entrance, held him under the knife, and executed him.

The rights were given to the old woman.

Afterwards, the senior officials of Zhongyi Hall discussed to avenge the big boss, and then voted for the Dutch to be Kapitan. After hearing this, Liu Dadao drew out his big sword and killed all the main hall of Zhongyi Hall with one sword.

When the door opened again, thick blood had flowed all over the bluestone paved ground. Then he went out and hired a carriage, and the carriage was filled with heads.

"I, Liu Dadao, would like to ask for a job."

Zhu Qiongying looked at the car full of heads and the thick blood still dripping down the cracks on the ground. She didn't show any surprise or surprise, she just said lightly.

"The braids have been cut."

The army of the Southern Ming Dynasty asked for changes in customs. If you want to be a soldier or an official, you must not keep the pig tail. This is the first meeting between Liu Dadao and Zhu Qiongying. The former has committed murder without calculation in his life and is unruly, even if he is a high-ranking official in the court.

, the gang leader did not dare to look at him.

But Liu Dadao didn't see any fear in Zhu Qiongying's eyes, and the fear was mutual. In the end, the former became frightened.

After all, Zhu Qiongying had seen something more terrifying than this on Franz's ship, strong ships and cannons, elite soldiers from hundreds of battles, foreign barbarians, and him.

Franz was almost omnipotent in Zhu Qiongying's eyes, and even his encounter with the former made the latter feel unreal, like a legendary knife loaner.

Zhu Qiongying didn't know why she had such an idea, let alone what the other party meant by drawing straight characters. But she always felt that she should complete her mission quickly, and there seemed to be not much time left for her.

It is precisely because of Zhu Qiongying's own sense of urgency that the entire Nanming leadership is very nervous. They don't know what the queen is thinking, but they must do something.

Liu Dadao looked at the stalemate situation and patted the captain who was organizing the attack.
To be continued...