The entire city was filled with broken corpses, and wails and screams could be heard one after another.
After this round of shelling, soldiers of the Liberation Army once again jumped out of the trench and launched a charge towards the fortress!
The Portuguese continue to fight back!
But compared to the previous two counterattacks, their counterattack this time seemed a bit weak.
A few cannons are firing!
The sound of muskets is also sparse!
Hu Dinggao waved his hand and ordered.
"The heavy artillery extends the range of fire and opens the attack channel for the soldiers who ascend the city!"
Under the cover of heavy artillery fire, the Liberation Army launched an attack on the city.
A long ladder was set up at the top of the city, and the soldiers of the Liberation Army held up their shields and attacked upwards with quick hands and feet.
Bang! Bang!
The Portuguese are still fighting back.
The battlefield was filled with the sound of gunfire, and from time to time someone fell down the long ladder.
However, this cannot hinder the offensive of the Liberation Army!
After two-quarters of an hour of hard fighting, the Liberation Army finally reached the top of the city.
Grenades cleared the way, and the heavily armored Liberation Army began to fight hand-to-hand with the Portuguese.
The two sides were strangled together, and the casualties continued to increase!
However, as the Liberation Army poured into the city without hesitation, the battle line continued to advance.
At some point, the flag of the Kingdom of Portugal on the top of the Macau Fortress had been lowered.
What was replaced was the Ming Dynasty's twelve-pointed sun and moon flag, the red background black dragon flag of the Liberation Army, and... the British Union Jack flag!
Anyway, Zhu Hongyu is preparing to let me, Daying, take the blame!
…
As the Ming army invaded the fortress, the countdown to Macau's fall began.
The living space of the Portuguese was squeezed into the cathedral area.
A large number of Liberation Army soldiers surrounded the cathedral aggressively.
Not even a mouse can escape!
The cathedral was crowded with a large number of Portuguese civilians and dignitaries, and their faces were full of fear and fear.
Seeing that the situation was over, the Portuguese governor knew that there was no point in resisting, so he wanted to send someone to ask the Ming army to surrender.
"The fort and the fortress have been lost!"
"There is no point in continuing to resist like this. It will only be irresponsible for the safety of Portuguese citizens!"
The Governor spoke up.
"Sir, do you want to surrender?"
"But how can you guarantee that our lives will be safe after surrender?"
“Don’t forget what happened in Manila!”
"His Excellency Barossa, the Spanish Governor of Manila, was executed by Lingchi very cruelly after he surrendered!"
The commander offered different opinions.
The Governor sighed deeply and spoke.
"But besides surrendering, do we have any other choice?"
"The fort and the fortress have been lost, how can we continue to hold on?"
"Besides, Ming Dynasty is also a civilized country."
"The reason why the Spanish in Manila were retaliated against was because they were so mad that they massacred the Ming Dynasty twice."
"They deserve the revenge!"
"But we Portuguese have always maintained a relatively good relationship with the Ming Dynasty!"
"In the wars between the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the past few years, we provided a lot of help to the Ming Dynasty and sold them a lot of muskets and artillery."
"I believe that if we surrender, our lives will be safe!"
The governor's words convinced himself and others.
Faced with the overwhelming offensive of the Liberation Army, not many people had the courage to persevere.
A bastion-style fortress was captured by the Liberation Army in less than half a day. The speed of the Liberation Army's attack really frightened these poor Portuguese people.
In the eyes of all the Portuguese, if they continue to resist, they will definitely not be able to withstand it.
If they had waited until the Qing army arrived for reinforcements, those who persisted in resisting would have been killed by the Ming and British coalition forces long ago!
It is better to surrender early than to resist and be killed in the end.
Zhu Hongyu received the message that the Portuguese wanted to surrender, and nodded in agreement.
Send an order to the front line and allow them to accept prisoners!
Treating prisoners preferentially to a certain extent can give Portuguese senior officials a more decent treatment.
For the Portuguese, we certainly cannot do the same thing as the Spanish.
The reason why Zhu Hongyu beat all the Spaniards into hard labor.
That was because Spain massacred China and he wanted revenge.
It is the best choice to directly kill all the waste and turn them into hard labor.
However, Portugal had no enmity with the Ming Dynasty in the past!
Naturally, there is no need for him to attack the Portuguese!
He only plays Macau because he wants Macau, nothing more.
No need to take it out on the Portuguese!
The surrender of the Portuguese meant that Macau was completely recovered.
Ordinary Portuguese were ordered to return to their homes, hand over all weapons, and were not allowed to go out to gather for a short period of time.
The Portuguese soldiers also had their weapons confiscated and then placed under centralized custody.
After Zhu Hongyu took over control of Macau, the first thing he did was to order people to demolish the church.
What he saw and heard in Luzon made Zhu Hongyu realize how ugly Catholicism really is.
Even if the Catholics in Macau are relatively kind-hearted Catholics, Zhu Hongyu doesn't have a good impression of them.
Zhu Hongyu is magnanimous if he doesn't drag all the Catholics to work as coolies!
Do you really want to preach?
Take a shower and go to sleep!
Zheng Chenggong is also a Catholic, but his Catholicism is fake.
In other words, most Chinese Catholics are false believers.
Chinese people’s attitude towards religious belief has always been Buddhist!
Believe everything and believe nothing!
It’s okay if you ask them to casually recite a few words about God’s blessing and Buddha’s blessing. It’s okay to ask them to pray in front of the cross or kneel in front of the Buddha statue.
But if you want them to really go crazy for their religious beliefs, isn't that nonsense?
Zheng Chenggong was only slightly stunned when Zhu Hongyu wanted to demolish a Catholic church.
Then he didn't take it seriously.
He was in a hurry to arrange for the gunners at the Bugalao Cannon Foundry, but he had no time to pay attention to a church.
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Guangzhou, General Government Office of Guangdong and Guangxi.
At present, the Qing government has two mediators in Guangdong. One is the old traitor Pingnan King Shang Kexi, and the other is Jin Guangzu, the governor of Guangdong and Guangdong in the Qing government.
Today, Shang Kexi leads troops to encircle and suppress the anti-Qing rebels along the coast in Nan'ao.
The one who has the final say in Guangzhou City is Jin Guangzu.
Even the retainers of Prince Pingnan's vassal mansion, no one dared to stab him in front of Jin Guangzu.
After all, Jin Guangzu represents the Qing court!
On this day, Jin Guangzu was drinking tea in the flower hall, savoring the slightly bitter and sweet herbal tea.
Originally, he hated herbal tea!
But after staying in Guangdong for so many years, I have become accustomed to drinking it and can get some taste from it.
"Is there any news from King Pingnan? How is the war in Nan'ao going?"
Jin Guangzu was enjoying his afternoon leisure and asked.
His attendant answered.
"Returning to the master, the war situation on King Pingnan's side is still at a stalemate."
"The bandits are hiding on the islands along the coast, and the heavenly soldiers cannot attack them for a while."
"But, King Pingnan called people back again to ask for food and grass!"
Jin Guangzu couldn't help but frown when he heard this.
"Are you asking for food and grass again?"
Jin Guangzu was obviously unhappy. King Pingnan almost wiped out Guangdong's treasury in a single campaign against thieves.