A few miles northwest of Colombo Port, in a mansion in the Franconian gathering area, a huge roar woke up a man covered in flesh and yellow hair on the big bed. He jumped up and huddled on the bed.
A petite girl in the corner was also awakened. She covered her naked chest with clothes and sat up, looking at him in horror.
"What happened outside?" The man listened to the movement outside the window in shock.
The girl stared and shook her head. She could not understand the words of the Folangji man at all. She was a local woman from Ceylon and did not understand the language of the Folangji country at all. She was just the man in front of her last night.
I just brought some sexual tools from the maid's room.
"Damn it. What happened? It wasn't thunder, it was more like the sound of artillery."
The man frowned and muttered to himself, while turning over and getting out of bed. His lower body was naked, as white as two pieces of dead pork under the candlelight. The girl quickly lowered her head, not daring to look directly, and hugged her chest and shivered.
The man quickly walked to the window and stretched out his hand to open the curtains. The glazed window was not transparent. Looking from the inside to the outside, it was just pitch black. He stretched out his hand to open the window, and a cold wind mixed with icy raindrops rushed in. The icy rain rushed in
It hit him on the body and face, causing him to tremble.
But at the same time, a huge roar in the distance also came in along with the rain and strong wind. The sound was extremely loud. It was also accompanied by flashing explosions of fire from time to time in the direction of the bay port.
"My God, what happened?" The man closed the window, turned around, picked up some clothes on the ground, and started to put them on. In a hurry, his legs fell into a pair of trousers, and he fell to the ground.
Like a stupid drunk pig.
The man cursed loudly in anger. Seeing the girl sitting on the bed with her head dazed, he yelled: "Don't come and help me, you dirty low-level person. Damn it."
The aboriginal girl looked at the man with panic on her face. She was confused and didn't know what to do. The man cursed while getting dressed. After finally putting on his pants and clothes, he heard rapid running footsteps outside.
Then, there was a loud knock on the door.
A man's urgent and panic voice came: "Commander Munilla, get up quickly, wake up quickly. Something serious is going to happen."
The man named Munilla quickly stepped forward and pulled the door open. Standing at the door was a panic-stricken Franco officer with a beard on his face.
"Santos, did something happen at the port? What happened?"
The officer named Santos said hastily: "The port has been attacked by the enemy. Our ships docked at the port are being attacked. The forts on the shore are also being destroyed. The opponent has strong firepower and is probably the fleet of the Ming Empire."
"What?" Munilla shouted in shock, looking at his men fiercely. His adjutant, Lieutenant Santos, had a face full of panic. Under the flickering candlelight, his face was half bright and half dark, with a ghastly look.
"Impossible, how could the Ming Dynasty's fleet arrive? According to yesterday's news, they are still one hundred and fifty miles away. This hurricane is so fierce, how could they appear here? Absolutely impossible." Munirya shouted loudly.
road.
"I also think it's unlikely, but... it's true. Dear Lord Munilla, listen to the sound of these cannons, are they firecrackers? I just observed the port from the observation tower, and it was already a sea of fire.
Already." Santos sighed.
Munilla was stunned and speechless for a long time.
A few months ago, Munilla was still the commander of a warship named 'Pony' under the flagship of the third flagship column of the Eastern Fleet, the Gem Flower. He was just a captain. But now his
His identity is astonishing.
He is the chief staff officer of Alfonso, Commander-in-Chief of the Eastern Fleet. He is the commander of the Second Flagship Column. He is the commander-in-chief of the all-powerful garrison army of the Kingdom of Ceylon. He is in charge of thirteen warships and 1,500 French land troops.
Horse, as well as the commander who has full authority to command and mobilize all the assembled naval forces of the Timothy Bandit and the State of Ceylon.
In other words, on the island of Ceylon, he was a higher-ranking emperor than King Mahagoya of Ceylon.
Yes, it's the Supreme Emperor. In the past few months, he has lived a life like a fairy here. Gold and silver treasures flowed into his pockets, and he could take any of the beautiful local girls and change one every day. He
In his luxurious residence, there are now sixteen local girls as servants. As long as he wants, he can do whatever he wants to them at any time. Such a life is not much different from being an emperor.
The secret of how to rise from a captain to the top is actually very simple, it is to betray his former commander Almeida without any moral integrity, and the seller seeks glory.
Munilla seized the opportunity to betray Alfonso at a critical moment and became a powerful helper for Alfonso to seize command. Munilla provided a list of Almeida's die-hard subordinates and successfully persuaded several key figures to rebel.
, after Alfonso was able to arrive at the port of Malacca, he quickly had a group of officers following him. He also accurately captured and imprisoned a group of Almeida's die-hard subordinates, which can be said to be indispensable.
Therefore, Munilla got what he wanted, and he became a powerful person around Alfonso.
This time he was ordered to be stationed in the port of Colombo on the Island of Ceylon. Alfonso gave him the command of a flagship column and a garrison of 1,500 men in the harbor. At Munilla's request, he gave him the Timothy gang.
Command power. Allowing him to take full charge of the combat command of Ceylon Island is to hope that Munirya can block the attack of the Ming Dynasty Armada on Ceylon Island.
To put it bluntly, Munilla needs to do more for everything he gets. Even if he is used as cannon fodder, he must severely damage the Ming fleet so that Alfonso can defeat or repel his opponents in subsequent battles.
Of course, Munilla understood this, and he could not refuse. But how smart he was, he asked for the command of the Timothy gang, and put pressure on the king of Ceylon, so that the country of Ceylon could gather together a large and small group of people.
More than a hundred naval vessels and a large number of manpower came out for his command.
Alfonso asked him to be cannon fodder, so he wanted to let the local indigenous soldiers and horses be used as cannon fodder. He used the excuse that besieging the port of Kulumbo was to besiege the Kingdom of Ceylon, and forced King Alek of the Kingdom of Ceylon to agree to his request. The Kingdom of Ceylon
The king actually had no choice, because they had a grudge against the Ming Dynasty, and they must not let the Ming Dynasty occupy Ceylon again this time, otherwise his throne would not be guaranteed.
In this way, Munilla mobilized troops from various parties, and also sent warships to attack the Ming Dynasty fleet while it was damaged and had not yet recovered its combat power. However, the coastal defense artillery in the Malacca harbor deterred them.
After careful consideration, Munilla formulated a detailed battle plan, which was to let the Timothy gang, who was unwilling to completely obey his orders, sneak attack the Managa harbor after the Ming fleet set off, seize the opponent's lair, and disturb the opponent's military morale.
.Then
Set up a fire attack formation near the Port of Colombo on the Island of Ceylon. Because Munilla knew that the Ming Dynasty's armored warships were really powerful. Using a suicidal fire attack strategy and using Ceylon's ships and lives to attack might be the only way to do so.
Ways to defeat them.
When the hurricane hit yesterday, Munilla originally led the fleet to set up a posture on the sea, waiting for the Ming fleet to arrive, and then engage in a battle. However, a hurricane disrupted the plan, and he had to order the warships to return to port to take shelter.
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Munilla was sure that when the hurricane hit, the Ming Dynasty's ships would find a place to take shelter, or anchor underground and wait for the hurricane to pass. They could not attack at such a time, unless they wanted to die in the sea and feed the fish.
But who would have thought that they would actually arrive here despite the hurricane and have already launched an attack.
Munilla rushed up to the observation tower and looked into the bay port with a telescope. His heart went cold. The fire in the port was soaring into the sky, and the opponent's firepower was extremely fierce. There were only a few anchored warships.
Guarding the troops, it was impossible to fight back. It was even impossible to sail out and escape. Thirteen of his warships and eight or nine large Ceylon warships were destroyed. There was absolutely no way to save them.
"Mr. Munilla, what should we do now? Our ship is destroyed, what should we do?" Santos asked tremblingly from the side.
"What should I do? I haven't given the order yet. Gather all the soldiers and horses and wait for them on the shore. By the way, order people to inform the Lord of Ceylon and have their soldiers and horses gather at the cross street above the port. I will command the ship.
No more, but if they want to occupy this place, they have to go ashore.
Otherwise, they can never take Colombo away from me. They don’t have many people, and as soon as they land, we will have the advantage. Colombo is not Managa, and I am not Alfonso. He will attack me and I will be helpless.
"Munilla said gushingly.
Santos nodded repeatedly and thought to himself, it turns out that you are so disdainful of Commander-in-Chief Alfonso. Could it be that you still want to be Commander-in-Chief?
"Why are you still standing there? Go quickly, go quickly! Damn it." Munilla suddenly yelled at Santos, waving his hands and shouting.
Santos responded quickly and hurried to deliver the order.
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On the harbor bay, shelling continued round after round. Until all the ships began to sink, all the surrounding forts on the shore and any position that could be used as a high-level attack site were bombarded to pieces.
Order to stop the bombardment.
Seven armored warships moved closer to the middle of the bay, and three supply ships also slowly entered the bay and entered the position between the seven warships. The supply channel was quickly built. The rope sliding channel in the air and the springboard between the ships were already in place.
Through, a large number of manpower began to quickly replenish the ammunition that had been consumed.
At this moment, the storm subsided and dawn broke in the east. The people in the entire Colombo Port also already knew the news of the Ming army's attack.
In the streets and houses above the layered port, there are countless figures peering into the port. They all think about whether it is a disaster or a blessing with sad faces.
On a long street far away from the port, more than 6,000 soldiers and horses have gathered in a dark crowd. This includes more than 2,000 Francois navy and port army who lost their ships. The rest are
More than 4,000 Ceylon Guards and soldiers.
They were ready to start a desperate street battle with the Ming Dynasty soldiers and horses.