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December 9, 1660, Xiangshan County, sunny.

Major Juniore sat in the county government office signing room, constantly flipping some documents in his hand. The documents were recorded in Chinese and Arabic numerals, compiled by the General Administration of Intelligence, and distributed to the Far East. Previously, these original copies of Portuguese intelligence had been placed in a corner of the Heishui Port archives room. Yantai and Ningbo each had a hand-written copy. This time, he led his army to fight at the Pearl River Estuary. Major Juniore, who was a Portuguese, borrowed the copy over and planned to get a good idea of ​​his enemies first.

Sitting beside him, the son of the Xintai Hou of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Hao Yaotong, the son of Chaozhou General Hao Shangjiu, was originally a battalion of guerrillas in Sanshui. As a result, the war broke out in Haojingao. Li Chengdong was worried about everything here, so he called Hao Yaotong back from Sanshui, and moved his troops to Xiangshan County and ordered him to (survey) the actions of the East Coast people. Well, so far, his main job was probably to help the East Coast people transport food and grass, which was promised by Duke Huiguo. On this day, the East Coast army supported the food and grass for one day. In addition, after the Macau Portuguese army launched an attack and defeated the East Coast people a while ago, Hao Yaotong did not ban the food trade between the gentry and merchants in Xiangshan County and the Portuguese - even some generals and servants in his army were reselling food, making a lot of money - but this is not worthy of being told by outsiders.

The reason why he was helpless was probably because the East Coast people occupied his county government, and the 5,000 soldiers who landed on the landed team "invited" their troops from the military camp to occupy the magpie's nest. It was the factor of occupying the magpie's nest - his grandmother, I, Hao Yao, was also a good player when I was suppressing bandits in Lianzhou in the past, and I followed everywhere I went. When would I have been so angry? If my father hadn't told me not to offend the arrogant yellow-clothed thief, I would have led my brothers to fight with them. Isn't it just that there were many bird guns and small cannons, and I thought there would be no one in my camp?

Of course, Hao Yaotong is just a fantasy with the "East Coast people". In fact, he himself knew that his subordinates could suppress the bandits in Lianzhou. If they were compared with the five thousand well-trained and murderous yellow-clothed soldiers, the gap would be much greater. Not to mention the equipment and tactics, the spirit would be completely different. If it were to be compared, perhaps the old camp of the King of Chuang was able to be more short of it. Of course, this is just from the spiritual perspective, and the equipment was still too far-fetched - Tiansha Huang

The clothes thief not only have muskets, bayonets, leather armor, kettles, military boots, waist knives, spears and other equipment, but they also have a lot of canned food, dried fish, and wait for a meal. Every once in a while, they can even send some sugar, tobacco, wine, etc., and even the straw paper that wipes the butt. This is the same as the old man as the soldier? With the wealth of the yellow thief, it is probably enough to raise thousands of people. It is probably the same as the team that Qi Shaobao brought in Zhejiang back then, but it is already quite powerful.

With these five thousand yellow-clad soldiers, Hao Yaotong wisely gave up Xiangshan County Government and mobilized the county gentry to send some pigs, sheep, rice wine to reward the army. He sat aside as an adviser to the East Coast people, and answered questions immediately. His life was indeed not very smooth.

What did Hao Yaotong think? Major Junior, a senior officer of the Blackwater Development Team, was too lazy to pay attention to it. What he cares about now is probably the strength of the Portuguese in Macau. Unfortunately, the last Ming Dynasty was very chaotic from top to bottom, and the level of officials was also very low. Asked many people, they couldn't tell how many people there were in Macau and how many Franchise civilians were. Fortunately, he still had information to check, and many of them were made by the Spanish in recent years - don't forget that the two countries of Spain and Portugal were merged for many years - the accuracy should be not low, and perhaps some clues could be found from it.

"Every year, at least two thousand people come to Asia via the Cape of Good Hope. Some years are even as high as 5,000, and on average there are 3,500 people a year. In this way, the Portuguese in the entire Asian region should be more than 25,000, which cannot be compared with the Atlantic Ocean, but it is also very considerable. After all, the Dutch East India Company has no more than 12,000 white employees in the Far East. Well, there is also a record here. In 1600, Brazil accounted for the vast majority of Portuguese citizens from overseas colonies.

Asia, secondly, Africa (mainly concentrated in the estates in the Zambezi River Basin) and the Atlantic Islands divided the rest; most of the Asian immigrants came from the Entri Duro-Minho region in the northwest (the place where they were bombarded by the East Coast escort fleet a while ago), and a few came from the back of the mountain, all of which were strong people…” Junior spent his youth in Lisbon, so he had some understanding of the inside story of the Portuguese Kingdom, which made him more and less effective when he looked at these information.

"It is worth mentioning that the proportion of these 25,000 people who are 'can use weapons to fight' is very high, because too many people are unmarried bachelors. Well, there is a detailed proportion here, including married colonists, soldiers, priests, officials, people who betray religious beliefs (what the hell is this?), criminals, gangsters\/Sailors, all major categories are very detailed. If you speculate so, then the population of Macau should be between 25,000 and 30,000, of which the number of white people should not exceed 5,000, and the descendants of mixed races should not exceed more than 25,000 people.

There are 15,000 people, and most of the remaining are Ming people, and there are a very small number of Malays and black servants. With such a population and structural ratio, it is not difficult to mobilize five thousand soldiers. Even if it is extreme mobilization, there should be more. This is very difficult to deal with. We alone are afraid that we can't defeat them, so we can only have a long-term siege?" After thinking about it, Major Juniore found that he was indeed only siege, with the lowest cost and the best effect, but it was a little slower to take effect, but there was nothing we could do about it.

If they hadn't fought with the Dutch and the British in the Far East over the past few decades and lost a lot of population, it would have been no surprise that the entire Portuguese Asian whites reached 40,000 to 50,000. These people, plus the more than 100,000 mixed-race descendants they gave birth to, would have been a huge force to arm themselves in time! Fortunately, none of this happened. The fierce battles between the Portuguese and the enemy in India, the East Indies, Malacca, Ceylon, the Middle East, Macau and even East Africa greatly damaged their population. Otherwise, these people might have really achieved much higher achievements than they are now.

After the plan was decided, Major Junior no longer hesitated. Anyway, the troops were led by Gao Cuihuan and Dong Dalang to the border of Macau City, preparing to rebuild fortifications and block the enemy city. With them, there were the newly established Yantai Artillery Company and more than 400 brothers from Yin County Artillery Company, carrying a total of 16 light artillery pieces, vowed to siege the Portuguese to death and trap the Portuguese!

The two brigades have 4,400 artillery personnel, and are currently led by the veteran Gao Cuihuan. This Jun was originally an official from Xiajin County appointed by Dashun and was in harmony with Pei Qin, the commander-in-chief of Qingdao Fort, who had been transferred back to the local area. When Marshal Mo first formed the forward team, he was the first batch of officers. He served as the squadron leader, deputy brigade leader, and brigade leader. He is currently the deputy brigade leader of the second brigade (the first brigade and the troops directly under the corps headquarters) in the preparations. After 16 or seventeen years of hard work, he has become a senior officer in the entire Blackwater Development Team system.

As for Dong Dalang, the captain of the Fifth Brigade, this guy is the nephew of Dong Xueli, the commander of the Fifth Division of the New Army (the territory is Penglai County, namely Dengzhou City). He is young and studious, knows advancement and retreat, and is also quite recognized by the East Coast system. After studying at Yantai Anti-Qing Military and Political University, he joined the forward team system, starting from the deputy squadron leader, and now he has also climbed to the position of acting brigade leader of the Fifth Brigade. This brigade is formed based on the German mercenaries captured by Cossacks. After years of reorganization, one-third of the soldiers are still German. The former German brigade leader died suddenly due to a serious illness half a year ago, so Dong Dalang got a bargain.

However, if he still wanted to remove the word "agent" on his head, he would have to perform well in this battle to siege Macau, otherwise he would be defeated back to his original form at any time and continue to be the unpleasant deputy captain. In addition, even considering his own future, he must seize this opportunity. His uncle Dong Xueli's family was originally in Ningxia. After joining the Qing Dynasty, he was killed by Niu Chenghu, the general general of the Ningxia in Dashun. Therefore, at that time, Dong Xueli was trained as his nephew Dong Dalang as his successor. Dong Dalang was also a famous "major general" in Dengzhou City. But who knew that luck was a mess. Dong Xueli, who had taken several concubines in Dengzhou, had a son again, and his attitude towards Dong Dalang became a little subtle, forcing Dong Dalang to have no choice but to go away from Yantai and work hard again, which was miserable.

On December 13, the Portuguese army in Macau fought fiercely with the East Coast. This time, the skilled forward team did not give the Portuguese any chance. Both sides set up classic Spanish formations, spearmen, musketeers, and artillerymen, among which, the only ones missing were probably only some cavalry.

As a result, after an afternoon of fierce fighting, hundreds of people were killed and injured on both sides. The Portuguese colonial army was not as good as the forward team to fight in the north for many years. The fighting will was a little weak and lacked combat skills. Finally, it retreated back to Macau City, and then it no longer talked about leaving the city to fight. In this battle, Dong Dalang's army (the Fifth Battalion) faced the frontal impact of the Portuguese gentleman's regiment (i.e. the Whites regiment), but fired the highest firing rate of muskets during training, completely defeating the will of the enemy's opponent - the shooting was fast, dense, formation switching, and the transfer was not hindered. Dong Dalang's fifth battalion did hit a higher level than before, and it was a foregone conclusion that the person was properly promoted after the war.

The battle on December 13 also caused great shock to Xiangshan County. They originally thought that the 11th Division of the New Army was already good - at least they looked neat and looked neat - they might not be able to fight here, but such a unit was swept by the Portuguese in Macau, which made Li Chengdong's troops recognize their strength, and then remembered the hundreds of Franchis mercenaries in the field during the Battle of Guilin.

The past when the Three Feudals' superior infantry and cavalry and defeated them, I felt that the military of the Ming Dynasty was really out of date. But as a result, such a powerful army could not do anything to another yellow-clad army called "Straight Team". What kind of unit is this? They have no way of knowing it if they are not in Shandong, but they think they are troops similar to the Jieshuai Yashang and the Emperor's Personal Army. It's really terrifying and terrifying. Thinking about the fact that I had despised them before, I would never dare to have such an idea now. Just kidding!

This victory also brought another "bonus". Under the suggestion of Hao Yao and others, the number of gentry traders and gentry in the countryside decreased greatly. Now at night, there are a few "traitors" who rowed boats to Macau to trade on rivers. However, it is said that Xinning and Xinhui came to sell grain and water (the water in Macau is a little salty, and white men don't like to drink it very much). In addition, the gangsters living on the nearby water also took the opportunity to go to sell fishing, grain, and fruits (acting as second-hand dealers), which made a lot of money.

The East Coast people had no good idea about this situation, so they could only release four naval gunboats with the army and patrol the water surface. But how could this be completely cut off Macau's foreign trade? It was completely unrealistic. So Major Junior sent people to Guangzhou again, asking Li Chengdong to restrain the local area and prohibit trade with Franchi people from all over the country, and "no grain of rice can be left."

Li Chengdong was in a dilemma because the Ming court, both internal, local, and Yongli courts put huge pressure on him, and Li Chengdong had to weigh the consequences. However, after promising to give his troops three hundred muskets, one hundred pairs of iron armor, one thousand five hundred leather armor and a large number of bow and arrows, Li Chengdong's warlord nature once again overwhelmed the politician's attributes, and finally agreed to the request of the East Coast people, intending to send their confidant generals to lead their troops.

All over the place, the "traitors" who traded with Franchise people in the local area. At the same time, they turned a blind eye to the large number of gangs caught by the gunboats of the East Coast Navy. Anyway, they were all "bad" people, and they had never been convinced of the king's life and colluded with bandits. The soldiers of the East Coast Kingdom captured him, whether it was a cattle or a horse, what was the matter with him? Is it necessary to make a fuss or a horse? Is it necessary to make the East Coast people unhappy for these gangs without roots?

In this way, under the joint blockade of the East Coast people and the Duke of Huiguo of Nanming, the Portuguese's life in Macau suddenly became sad. Although there were still people who took risks in the local area who were willing to bring food and water to Macau for trade, but the number was small, which was not enough to cover the needs of tens of thousands of people in the city. Most of the time, they still had to rely on the stored grain in the warehouse, but this was not a long-term solution. After all, there would always be a day of consumption of stored grain. What should I do then?

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