The battle ended quickly, and the enemy warship that was on fire began to sink. All the French soldiers on board jumped into the sea and struggled.
Wang Hong, Zhang Yin and others asked for instructions to shoot the French Navy on the sea. Zhang Yanling didn't think there was anything inappropriate at all. These guys came all the way to the Ming Dynasty to go wild and kill so many Ming people. This
They are just a group of robbers, why should we be polite to them?
Furthermore, there is not much space on the ship to accommodate them. Water and food are very limited, so we cannot waste it on these people.
With Zhang Yanling's acquiescence, Wang Hong and others began to shoot the Folangji on the sea. But before they started, they were shocked by the strange sight on the sea.
Countless sea sharks swam in from the island's waterways at some point. The triangular fins slid on the sea surface like sails. This area is rich in fisheries and the water is warm, so there are many sharks. They smell the smell of blood and gather in groups.
The team swam in, ready to feast.
Soon, the scene on the sea became horrific. Hundreds of sharks rushed into the crowd on the sea and began a brutal massacre. They were very powerful and their hunting methods were also very strange. They would suddenly jump out of the water and kill them.
The person was thrown into the water heavily from the air, as if he was playing. In fact, he was trying to knock the person out and to death so that he could eat more easily.
The water was churning, blood was gushing, and screams were endless. There were more and more sharks. Hundreds of Franco soldiers were killed by sharks, and hundreds more were drowned. The rest swam hard and made their way to the island.
It has to be said that the swimming skills of the Franco soldiers at this moment are superb. Most people are exhausted after swimming a few hundred steps two or three miles away from the sea. However, because of the danger of shark attacks, they exerted their full potential and did not swim.
I swam for two or three miles without stopping.
This reminded Zhang Yanling of a joke: If you were to climb Mount Everest and there was a big tiger behind you, wouldn't anyone be able to climb it?
Hundreds of French soldiers climbed ashore and stumbled into the woods on the island. Chen Shiyi prepared to go ashore to pursue him, but was stopped by Zhang Yanling.
"How long can they last on such an island, which is short of water and food, and overrun with poisonous snakes? Without a boat, they can't go anywhere, so they wait to die on the island. Although the island is not big, let's go to the island to search
It will also take them a long time, and they might even hurt someone in their haste. The gain outweighs the loss. Just let them go."
Zhang Yanling is right. These islands look green and full of life, but they are actually mangroves. These mangroves do not require fresh water and can survive in seawater.
Such a primitive island, in a tropical land, with countless venomous snakes and insects, is extremely wild. Unless these people have strong survival skills, there is no way they can survive.
In fact, after Ya Xin and more than 400 people escaped to Lingding Island, they escaped pursuit and hid in the woods until the third day. Some people died due to lack of water. They went crazy in the woods.
They were searching for water, and not to mention, they actually found a mud puddle that had accumulated from the rain some time ago.
This group of people didn't care much. Although the water was black and smelly, they drank to their fill. That night, some people began to have diarrhea and severe stomach pain. The next morning, hundreds of people were unable to get up.
Yaxin was in good health. Although he had constant diarrhea, he managed to survive. He knew that he could not stay on the island, so he ordered boats to be made out of branches and trees to go to sea. They built several boats despite starvation. During this period, they were killed because of cutting down trees.
More than a dozen people were bitten by the ubiquitous blue poisonous snakes entangled in the trees, and more than a dozen people were stung by scorpions on the ground.
Since there is no cure, we can only watch them die.
With great difficulty, the remaining few people built the boat, and the remaining more than a hundred people took the boat out to sea. Soon the boat began to leak. In the end, Yaxin and others all died in the sea, and no one survived.
These are things for later and will not be mentioned for now.
At this moment, the battle was over, and the enemy warships sank one after another half an hour later. Six large ships sank to the bottom of the sea with whirlpools, and the bustle on the sea returned to calm. Except for floating broken limbs and broken legs, as well as some debris.
Except, there is nothing left.
Zhang Yanling felt a little pain in her heart. Although the ship of the Fo Langji people could not be saved, there were still so many Folang machine guns and ammunition on board, but they were all abandoned because there was no time to save them. Those things are treasures.
Although he said that he had been able to forge tiger roaring cannons that were more powerful than the Folan cannon, those Folan cannons were also the first-class heavy-duty firearms in the world today and were worth a lot of money. Just watch them sink to the bottom of the sea with the ship.
, which is really distressing.
Fortunately, the strategy of this battle was correct, and the victory was clean and tidy. In the whole battle, only seven soldiers on the Liaodong ironclad ship that lured the enemy were injured. One person was injured by shrapnel in his stomach, and the other several soldiers were seriously injured.
Everyone was slightly injured. It can be said that this battle was a perfect victory.
The performance up and down was remarkable. During the battle, the gunners and oarsmen were calm, operated properly, and did not panic at all. The first official battle with the Fo Lang robots was like this, which already made Zhang Yanling very happy.
Satisfied.
"My lord, before the ship sank, the brothers on the Xuanfu rescued more than a dozen women from the cabin. Please tell me how to deal with it," Chen Shi reported.
Zhang Yanling was startled and rushed the ship to approach the iron-clad ship Xuanfu. Standing on the side of the ship, he saw a group of ragged women sitting around on the opposite deck. Zhang Yanling immediately understood what was going on.
"Feng Mazi, was this rescued by your people?" Zhang Yanling shouted from across the side of the ship.
"Yeah, I didn't expect that there were people in the cabin. Mo Jiang and his people were going to take the risk to grab some supplies, but they found that they were locked in the cabin. They rescued them. They said that they were all Guangdong people and were captured by Fo Lang.
The men were kidnapped and put on the ship...and suffered all kinds of humiliation. There were dozens of women on other ships too, what a pity." Feng Mazi shouted.
Zhang Yanling was silent. She cursed herself for not thinking carefully and should have sent people to check the enemy ships. It seems that there were also women who were kidnapped on several other ships, but they were not able to escape and sank together with the enemy ships.
Already.
Chen Shiyi cursed in a low voice from the side: "You son-of-a-bitch bastards from the Franji Kingdom, white-skinned pigs with wolf-like hearts and dog lungs, this is all their fault."
Zhang Yanling breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at Chen Shiyi. He knew that Chen Shiyi was trying to persuade him. Indeed, this debt must be settled on the head of Fo Langji.
"Ask them if they want to go home? We can send a boat to take them home." Zhang Yanling shouted loudly.
"No, no, we are not going home. How can we go home like this? How can we have the shame to go back? Master Jun, we might as well jump into the sea and die if we go back." When Feng Mazi asked, all the women cried.
Zhang Yanling knew this was the result. After the capture of Tuen Mun, the same was true for dozens of women on the island who were kidnapped. After they returned, they would be looked down upon and criticized, and they might even die.
"Just find a place to put them. Find an island to put them down." Chen Shi said.
Zhang Yanling shook his head and said: "No, they are all women and children. If we put them down on this small island in the outer sea, we will leave them to die. How about this, the supply ship just needs manpower. Just let them clean and take care of the supply ship. It doesn't matter.
Danger."
"This... let's go to war, how can we have a woman with us? And a dirty woman too." Wang Hong said hurriedly from the side.
Zhang Yanling frowned and glared at him: "Mr. Wang, what are you talking about? These are women who have been mutilated. They are victims. How could they be willing to do this? What dirty women? They are all women from good families who have suffered disasters.
That's why we ended up where we are today. If any of them were your sisters, what would you do?"
Wang Hong's face was red and his ears were red, and he said hurriedly: "My lord, please calm down. I said the wrong thing because of my humble position."
Zhang Yanling said solemnly: "I don't want to reprimand you, I just want to compare my feelings with others. Everything we do is to protect the people of the Ming Dynasty. They were killed by the thieves of the Folangji Kingdom. That was actually the court's dereliction of duty and our dereliction of duty."
.If we think about this clearly, we should be ashamed of ourselves. They are not wrong."
Wang Hong bowed and said, "I know I'm wrong because of my humble position."
Zhang Yanling let him go. These days, women's status is extremely low. Wang Hong's idea is even more common. Zhang Yanling actually knows that a few words he says cannot change Wang Hong's mind, nor can he change the current situation. But
, I just want to say this kind of thing in front of myself.
Feng Mazi asked the women for their opinions, and they were all willing to work on the supply ship. At this time, as long as they were not allowed to go home, they would rather follow the soldiers and horses to float on the sea.
In the afternoon, the fleet assembled ten miles south of Lingding Island and began to sail into the depths of the sea in a straight vertical formation.
The next target is the new port of the Champa Kingdom. This is the closest seaport base for the Folangji people to the Ming Dynasty. Zhang Yanling wants to capture this place as the first stop on the Ming Dynasty's sea trade route.
Regarding the Champa Kingdom, Zhang Yanling consulted a lot of information and asked many ministers before setting off.
The Champa State, like Annam to the north, was actually a vassal state that bowed its head to the Ming Dynasty and paid tribute. It was in a north-south confrontation with the Annan dynasty of the Nguyen family in the north.
The kings of the Champa Kingdom were all conferred kings by Emperor Chenghua of the Ming Dynasty in the 20th year of Chenghua. The Ming Dynasty had soldiers and horses stationed in the Champa Kingdom. Later, the Li family usurped the throne, seized the throne, and drove out the Ming soldiers and horses.
The Ming Dynasty once prepared to send troops to attack, but the Li family quickly surrendered and was willing to become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty and restore the vassal relationship, but gave up this time.
Today's Champa State is the Hou Le Dynasty under the reign of the Le family.
Xingang is a port belonging to the Champa Kingdom at the junction of the Champa Kingdom and the Annan Kingdom. A few years ago, Yaxin, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eastern Fleet of the Frangji Kingdom, led his army to attack Champa City. The Champa Kingdom could not resist, so
They had to give them a new port as their settlement and allowed them to control the maritime trade business in the Champa Kingdom.
The Champa Kingdom also reported this matter to the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty had too much time to take care of itself. Besides, it had not sent any envoys for many years, so the Ming Dynasty had actually turned a blind eye to the situation in the Champa Kingdom.
In the documents of the Hanlin Academy, Zhang Yanling read a basic summary description of the Champa Kingdom and Annan, which he thought was extremely essential.
This is what the record says. Try to record it in full. The text says:
There is no frost or snow in this country, it is like summer all year round, and the vegetation is evergreen. The people rely on fishing as their occupation, and there is no wheat. There are few who are able to do it, so the harvest is small.
People in the country eat betel nuts and keep them in their mouths all day long. They don’t understand the lunar calendar, but they regard the birth of the moon as the beginning and the end of the moon, without intervening leaps. Day and night are divided into ten shifts. If you don’t get up in the middle of the day, don’t lie down except in the middle of the night, you will drink alcohol when you see the moon.
, singing and dancing for fun.
There is no paper or pen, so I use a sheepskin mallet to thin it and blacken it, and use thin bamboo dipped in white ash to make characters, which look like earthworms. There are soldiers in the city, and the human nature is ruthless and cunning, and the trade is often unfair.
Houses all face north, and the houses are all covered with thatched eaves, no higher than three feet. The areas are divided into different areas, and the height of the door is also limited. The food is dirty, fish will not be eaten unless it is rotten, and the wine will not produce maggots, which is not beautiful. The body is dark, male
Her hair is unkempt, her vertebrae are knotted, and her feet are bare.
…
Zhang Yanling burst out laughing after seeing these words. This record cannot be said to be unrealistic or expressive.