The thick and broken gun barrels can be seen everywhere, and the smoke after the gunpowder barrels exploded filled the entire place.
As the Star Sea Fleet slowly sailed into the port, the merchant ships docked at the port immediately hoisted white flags.
On the contrary, the Malacca fleet, which was only a small number of more than 20 warships, gritted its teeth and launched a counterattack.
But as fixed targets, their fate was not much better than that of the previous forts.
Whenever the fleet's artillery gathers in one place and the cannonballs hit it, three or four warships will burst into flames, and in a blink of an eye they will break apart and run aground next to the port.
After sweeping away the Malacca fleet, the transport ship following the southward fleet sprayed white steam, docked at the port, and unloaded the infantry regiments one by one.
During this period, the Helan Fusiliers in the Malacca Castle launched many charges to recapture the port.
However, when they approached the port, they were bombarded by field artillery, and then shot by a burst of fire from the defending infantry. They were beaten and fled back to the castle.
In fact, from this moment on, the mission of the Star Sea Fleet changed from capturing the port to covering the infantry regiment and continuously shelling the castle.
Starting at eight o'clock every morning, the battleships of the Star Sea Fleet will take turns firing cannonballs at the castle.
Although the artillery deployed on the castle will launch counterattacks from time to time, not to mention that the range is a bit insufficient, it is just that once any gun position is exposed, it will be pinned to the ground and violently beaten by the Star Sea Fleet.
In just three days, the artillery deployed on the Malacca Castle was completely destroyed.
At this time, the Fifth Division of the Xinghai Kingdom immediately launched a tentative attack.
However, the defense of Malacca Castle was indeed well done, and the 5th Division of Xinghai Kingdom was unwilling to use human lives to defend it. Therefore, after a slight tentative charge, the 5th Division gave up the plan of storming and instead dug trenches.
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Well, trench tactics can be said to be the most ingenious siege tactics in later generations.
The Ministry of Military Affairs of the Star Sea State specially trained trench tactics before this battle.
It was probably the first time that the Helan people had seen trench tactics. Standing on the castle, they only saw the enemy digging trenches continuously.
Unconsciously, those trenches slowly extended to the bottom of the castle.
Although the Helan people stationed in the castle thought of various ways to deal with the trenches close to the castle, such as bombarding with artillery, shooting with muskets, and even sending out musketeers to attack frontally, etc.
But these methods are basically of no use.
Artillery shells are just like that when they hit the trench. It is impossible for them to bounce and explode with astonishing power like they do on flat ground.
The musketeers rushing out from the front will immediately be trained with rifles by the Xinghai infantry in the trench behind.
Once the trenches were dug below the Malacca Castle, several large holes were dug out late at night, and then hundreds of barrels of captured gunpowder were buried in them.
In any case, the Star Navy had no use for these gunpowders, so they simply reused them as waste. However, the innermost part of the gunpowder contained hundreds of kilograms of nitrocellulose.
In the early morning of the next day, shortly after the sun rose, the Helan people in the castle were preparing to have breakfast when they heard a deafening loud noise, and several walls or bastions of the Malacca Castle suddenly collapsed.
This loud noise was like an order to launch an attack. Immediately afterwards, the Star Sea Fleet continued to hurl artillery shells at them, so that the Helan soldiers did not even have a chance to raise their heads.
At this time, the Fifth Infantry Division finally launched a charge.
After taking a full week, the 5th Division of the Xinghai Kingdom finally entered the Malacca Castle.
Although there are still many Helan soldiers in the castle who are resisting, but with Governor Helan, Lieutenant General Wilster and other high-level officials being captured, there is no doubt that Malacca has fallen into the hands of the Star Sea Kingdom.
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As the Battle of Malacca came to an end, Xinghai Kingdom did not rush to extend its claws to Suilan Island. Instead, it invested a lot of manpower and material resources in Malacca, not only renovated the Malacca Castle, but also rebuilt the port fort.
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At this time, good news came from the Ministry of Agricultural Affairs. The rubber tree branches purchased from the Flemish people for a large sum of money came alive and sprouted smoothly!
Since the Strait of Malacca is more suitable for the growth of rubber trees, the Ministry of Agricultural Affairs specially dispatched a group of technicians and rubber tree branches to the Malacca Castle to prepare to open a new rubber tree plantation here.
Although plants like rubber trees generally need to grow for 7 years before they can be tapped, this also means that after seven years, Xinghai Kingdom will be able to obtain stable rubber resources.
You must know that according to Xinghai Kingdom’s technical route planning, there are too many projects that require rubber.
Once upon a time, Fang Xiaoyue wondered if she could find a way to get a Druid profession so that she could speed up the growth of plants.
Of course, this is just a thought, after all, he does not have a basic career scroll now.
However, because rubber trees can be propagated by cutting branches, the rubber plantation area can be expanded rapidly.
After several heavy purchases, Xinghai Kingdom obtained as many rubber branches as two ships from the Franji people.
This is not surprising. After their first heavy purchase, the few Francois businessmen felt that they had discovered a golden road to wealth.
In order to prevent the Francois from discovering the secret of the rubber tree, Xinghai Kingdom called the rubber tree the white paint tree, which means that we can use this thing to make white paint.
Of course, those few Franji merchants will not care what the Xinghai people do with the branches of this tree.
They only know that the people of Xinghai need this thing and are willing to pay a high price!
A white lacquered tree branch that is still alive when it reaches the shore can be sold to the people of Xinghai for a high price of 0.5 yuan!
This is simply more profitable than selling slaves and pepper!
You know, from the perspective of the Francois, this stuff is everywhere in the jungles of South America, and it’s just like picking up money!
Okay, it’s actually not that exaggerated, but as long as you find a wild rubber forest, is this branch still a big deal?
It was precisely because of this that during the second transaction, the few Franji merchants rented two merchant ships, ran a Pacific route, and hauled two full ships of rubber tree branches to the Xinghai City pier.
Before meeting the elder Chen Liuxiang, these Franconian businessmen were worried.
You need to know how much it costs to rent two merchant ships to run a single Pacific route?
If those broken branches cannot be sold, several Franji businessmen will not only go bankrupt, but at least lose their capital!
After Chen Liuxiang readily stated that these two ships of white lacquered tree branches were purchased directly and officially by the Xinghai Kingdom for 0.6 yuan each, several Franji businessmen suddenly fainted with excitement.