Chapter Eleven
Peking University has a strong navy, which is also the foundation for maintaining a relatively independent position on the complex Malay Peninsula. Peking University Navy has two warships, one is the Galvanized ship commonly used by the Sultanate of the South Ocean. Peking University Navy has large and small ships. The large displacement exceeds 300 tons and the small one is 150 tons, which is even larger than the United States' sailing fleet. After all, Peking University Navy is a maritime combat force, while the United States' sailing fleet focuses on inland river combat.
The Peking University Nian Navy has eight large-scale Pakatan Harbor ships, fifteen medium-sized ones, and the rest are small boats. The core of its combat power is a kind of flat-bottom ship from the East India region. This ship has a displacement of up to 600 tons, and its bulwarks are extremely tall, covered with gun doors and shooting holes. It is not so much a warship as a sea fortress. After the Portuguese came to the South China Sea, such warships were already on the verge of elimination.
The Chinese fleet consists of armed merchant ships such as Froth, Ahat and Rapid Transportation Ships. Warships without sailing power have at least eight or fourteen guns on each ship. The artillery is mainly six and nine pounds, which is enough to deal with the Gale ship. After all, the Gale ship only has bow and stern guns, and the largest Gale ship has only six, all small cannons.
The result is that when the sea goes outside, the Peking University Nian fleet is not the opponent of the Chinese fleet, and on the coast, the Chinese fleet cannot defeat the Peking University Nian Gallery Fleet, which is crowded with people. This situation is beneficial to the Chinese side. After all, they are delaying time and preventing the Peking University Nian fleet from landing. The Peking University Nian fleet does not have the ability to defend against the Chinese fleet while landing. There is a stalemate on the battlefield, and the only thing that can break the stalemate is the Johor fleet that rushed to hear the news.
The fleet has sixteen large galleys, which can completely prevent the Chinese fleet from harassing the landing area, but the question is whether they are determined to join the war.
In the captain's cabin of the Johor Fleet flagship, He Wenxi met a burly man with medium figure, wide chest, and thick limbs as thick as a tree trunk. A white silk robe with gold edges covered his body, and two Malays swords decorated with gems and gold hung on the side of his waist. This man was the commander of the fleet and the prince of Johor, Abalid.
The air was very wet, and the sound of whip waving from the bottom cabin, and the muffled groans of slave paddlers. They dared not shout. Even if they were beaten, if Prince Abalid was disturbed, they would be fed sharks. Abalid's face was shrouded in the shadow of the whale oil candle. He was fiddling with a delicate but extremely backward rotor ignition pistol in his hand. The captain's room was terrible.
He Wenxi knew that this was Abalid's warning for him. He didn't care at all. He was used to seeing high-ranking officials from various countries. How could a small indigenous prince take it seriously? After handing over the letter of the country, He Wenxi walked leisurely in the cabin, stopped beside the bookshelf, picked up a book, took a look, and found that it was a religious classic, and put it aside without any objection. This excessive disrespect made Abalid unable to help it!
"Greedy Pagan, do you want my fleet and the two thousand warriors to go for nothing?" Abalid, who smashed the papers on the table, shouted.
He Wenxi put his hands on his chest and leaned on the bookshelf, answering calmly: "Of course not. You not only want to travel in vain, but after you go back, you also have to ask your father to write an apology letter and bring gifts to Taiwan to express his apology to your consul for the Sultan of Peking University."
Abalid shouted, "Damn the pagan, so arrogant, how do you want to die, stoning or hanging?"
He Wenxi's face was still calm. He looked at the guards, clerks and female slaves in the cabin and said half-jokingly: "Stone, it's high participation, everyone here can join in!"
Abalid was stunned. He didn't understand that the young man with a bright future could look down on his life and death so lightly. He shouted, "Aren't you afraid of death?"
He Wenxi stepped on the floor and said, "If we, Lord Li Mingxun, maybe I, like the people below, gritted my teeth and endured it under the whip, now I have become the messenger of a strong country. What else can I feel dissatisfied? So what if you die? You will definitely die worse than me. And your country, I can tell you responsibly that our nation has a splendid culture, which is not only reflected in cooking, but also in punishment, stone, haha, it is too technical, lingchi, car cracks, five horses dismembered, cannons, wow, when our ancestors were playing torture methods, your ancestors were still using urine and mud in the jungle."
"Damn it, shut up!" Abalid ran to He Wenxi angrily, grabbed his neck and said angrily, and saliva sprayed on He Wenxi's face.
He Wenxi took out his handkerchief and wiped it, complaining: "Obviously, you haven't evolved to the point of paying attention to oral hygiene. It's really terrible..."
Abalid roared and wanted to take action. A man in an official robe grabbed him and said a few words in Malay in his ear before calming Abalid down.
"I am Vizier (Prime Minister) of His Highness Sultan, and I can negotiate with you on behalf of the country of Johor." The official said.
"Retract troops immediately, apologize in writing, and pay a hundred thousand taels of compensation! This is the condition of our United States. You can choose to refuse or choose to kill me, but I need to tell you that at the latest ten days, an expeditionary fleet consisting of four main battleships and four cruise ships will arrive. There are thirty transport ships in the fleet, and there will be 10,000 soldiers who can fight well. This military force can destroy Peking University or Johor. The difference is only time, and the ending is exactly the same." He Wenxi said without leaving any room for anything. After a moment of pause, he said again: "I know you are allies of the Dutch, but this does not change our determination. The Dutch can abandon Peking University or Johor!"
"But we did not participate in the war!" Weizier defended.
He Wenxi said: "It is a fact that you obstruct our battle!"
Abalid shouted, "Don't promise him, he is bluffing, the Dutch are our allies, and they dare not destroy our country!"
He Wenxi said: "You are right. Prince Abalid, it is impossible to destroy the country, but we can destroy the fleet and army that you have accumulated over the past few decades, attack your royal cities and ports, plunder your people as slaves, take the wealth of your generations for yourself, and then retreat calmly and withdraw decently from the war, and then gracefully admit your mistakes to the Dutch, give one-third of your wealth to Mr. Vandimen, apologize sincerely, and characterize it as a misunderstanding. How will the Dutch make a choice in the face of our fleet and sincere attitude?
They will not go to war with us, but will accept our apology. We continue to be friends and business partners. The wealth accumulated by the poor Johor Sultanate in the past century has been destroyed. Oh, it’s miserable."
"You actually dare to intimidate us!" Abalid drew his sword in his hand.
Vizier grabbed him: "The fact he said is that the Dutch will not go to war with them for us."
Vizier knew very well that the Dutch formed an alliance with Johor to deal with the Portuguese in Malacca. Now that Malacca is in hand, the cooperation between the two sides is no longer so stable. Not to mention anything else, the Netherlands mandatory demands that Malacca trade go to Batavia, and occupying the tin mine on the Malay Peninsula caused Johor to suffer a lot. The fundamental interest of the Dutch is not the ally of Johor, but not allowing any power to be involved in the Strait of Malacca. As long as the United States does not occupy Johor, there will be no conditions that the Dutch cannot accept.
"Your Excellency, please do not do this. We hope to openly negotiate." Weizier said as sincerely as possible: "Please propose your conditions."
He Wenrui sat on the chair and said, "Retreat the troops immediately, apologize in writing, and pay a hundred thousand compensation."
"This is impossible!" Abalid roared.
Weizier said: "It is wrong for us to come to the Nian waters of Peking University. We can withdraw our troops so that we will not affect your fleet. In this way, there is no need to apologize and compensate, right?"
He Wenxi shook his head: "No, if it weren't for you, we would have blocked the Peking University Nian Navy at the Peking University Nian Port long ago. How could there be such a big trouble? This is your fault, and you need to make up for it!"
Vizier said: "Why are you so aggressive? There is a proverb in your country: Take a step back and the sky is wide open, isn't it?"
"Making up for mistakes is a human virtue, right? If you make up for it, there is no need to apologize or compensate." He Wenxi looked into Vizier's eyes and said seriously.
"Make up, make up..." Weizier sucked the word and suddenly understood. He said to He Wenxi: "Please go and have a rest. I will discuss with His Highness the Prince."
When He Wenxi walked out, Abalid asked, "What does he mean by making up for it?"
Weizier said: "He means we will help them deal with the Peking University Nian Navy!"
"This is impossible. My father gave me the order to carry the Sultan family of Peking University on board after massacre of the Chinese, and to "take" the Peking University University Navy to Johor Port together! This is also what the Dutch meant, isn't it?" Abalid said.
Vizier said: "But His Highness Sultan and the Dutch thought that the Chinese would be as cowardly and arrogant as we thought, and would make up for everything they planned. But the people of the United States are different from those of the Chinese. They are very strong. You can see that He Wenxi was crazy and didn't even care about his life!"
Abalid shook his head: "But we will annoy the Dutch if we do this!"
Vizier said: "So what? We didn't dare to annoy them before, because we had the enemy of Portugal, but the Dutch were uncontrollable. Now it's different. The United States of China is a force no less than the Dutch. In front of a lion, we have no choice, but among the two lions, sheep can yawn comfortably!"
"Well, you are such a wise man. I hope my father won't blame me." Abalid softened his attitude. He thought for a while and said, "We need a reason to attack our allies."
"Go to start first and find a reason. I think that He Wenxi will cooperate with us to find a reason, a reason to satisfy you, His Majesty the Sultan and the Dutch." Weizier smiled.
A day later, the Johor fleet turned and approached the coastline to meet the Queen's Guard who asked for help from them. However, the group of Akmos raided the Johor fleet, set fire to burn a Gare ship, stabbed the Johor Sultan Abalid, Abalid and Vizier expressed dissatisfaction with the rebellious behavior of Peking University Sultan's ungratefulness and revenge, and raided the Peking University Fleet to prevent this already "rebellious" fleet from falling into the hands of the United States of China.
In the night, Nongji Port was already in chaos. Like all the fleets that were raided, the Peking University Nian Navy lost the organization after the first cannon was fired. They jumped onto their own warships, raised anchors, raised sails, and whipped slaves, trying to leave the coast. However, because of landing, all the warships were crowded together at the dock and the shore, with long oars and sails connected together, like a huge spider web. This complex network requires order to be unlocked, but what they lacked the most at the moment. In desperation, the Peking University Nian navy chose to use tough methods.
The sword cut off the ropes and anchor chains, pushed the companion's ship aside, and seized the cabin of his comrades, but Abalid would not give his opponent such a chance. His Gare ship leaned over and bombed the Beida Nian's fleet with solid red shells. The burning bullet dragged its long tail and smashed it hard between the dock and the warship, causing balls of flames, which directly caused the Beida Nian's navy to collapse.
The beaches and the pier were filled with fireworks, and people screamed and screamed. Many people jumped into the sea in despair, but the slaves who were snatched could only watch it sinking to the bottom of the water. A few ships broke through the shackles and fought back the culprit, but were directly hit and sunk by the Gare ship in Johor...
Goto, who was standing on the shore watching the formation, widened his eyes and murmured: "Is this the power of the Central Kingdom's sway? A three-inch tongue is stronger than a million soldiers. It's probably like this grand occasion."
Li Weijing and others were also stunned. Everyone was busy for a few days, catching arrows and stones, and ignoring their bodies, so that they could achieve the size of their size. He Wenxi walked into the demon cave but walked leisurely in the garden. A few words made the navy fight in the internal battle and the army withdrew its troops, which was more than everyone.
On Abalid's flagship, He Wenxi looked at the battle situation at the dock and said to Abalid: "Let your gunner aim at the shops on the shore, remember that it is a shop rather than a warehouse. If you want to do a few more shots, you must destroy that commercial street."
"Evil pagan, you are such a devil. Let me bear the infamy for you. Humph, what kind of devil is there in your heart, even if you plot against your own people!" Abalid said, going to convey the order.
He Wenxi disagreed. He said to himself: "Maybe no one can stop Li Weijing from taking charge of Peking University, but he must not let him dominate the country. The Senate would not want to see a private port that surpassed Peking University. A Chief Executive District could only have one economic center, which belongs to the economic center of all citizens and the Senate!"
Chapter completed!