The murder of the messenger angered Li Chengliang.

Although the Prince Changli is now at 80, he still has the power of the tiger. He has swept the whole country and is invincible. Now, a mere Shalian city dares to kill his envoy, which is completely seeking death.

So then 20,000 Ming troops rushed to Shalian to surround the small town, and even more than a dozen armed merchant ships from the Nanyang Company participated in the battle.

OK, that's the key.

Li Chengliang expelled the Portuguese of Shahlung because he reached an agreement with Li Dan. After expelling the Portuguese, the city handed over to the Nanyang Company. After the Nanyang Company controlled Shahlung, it became more convenient to trade with India. After Li Dan felt increasingly unbearable to the Portuguese control of India's trade, although the Portuguese actually bought goods from him at a high price in recent years.

but……

Such a high price is OK!

This means that the Portuguese earned more from India.

If that's the case, why not replace it?

After all, he has the new love of the Netherlands, and he is becoming more and more tired of the old love of the Portuguese.

In the past he needed the Portuguese.

Because his trading ability to go west is limited, after all, this kind of maritime trade is not enough to have a ship, it must have sea control, a trade network, and a supply port. The Portuguese have been operating in this area for a century. You should know that behind the Portuguese trade control, there is a population of more than 100,000 Goa, which is even comparable to their capital, Lisbon, and is a series of cities along the way, and even the Red Sea coast has their trading bases.

They even attacked Jeddah Port.

Li Dan was before that, east of the Strait of Malacca.

He can't compare with others.

But now it’s different after the Dutch loves this new love.

The latter also wanted to overthrow the Portuguese.

The latter also has a westward trade chain. The two companies cooperated to kill the Portuguese, and then the Dutch occupied European trade exclusively and Li Dan divided India trade, which can be said to be the perfect result.

This is how Shalian's siege began.

Brito led nearly a thousand Portuguese mercenaries under his command and more than 5,000 believers in the city, plus more than 2,000 believers under the letter cap, to fight desperately with the attacking 20,000 Ming troops in this city with a strong city wall. However, although it was the Ming army, there were only a few hundred real Han people, mainly generals and the supervising team, and the rest were all natives recruited by Li Chengliang. There were not many Han people on the armed merchant ships of the Nanyang Company, which totaled only five hundred, and the rest were also all natives from South China, even a small number of Japanese slaves.

Even black slaves.

In fact, the Ming army in Nanyang was basically in this situation at this time.

That's how His Majesty the Emperor designed it.

His purpose of managing Nanyang was to use Nanyang's wealth and population to make up for the disadvantage of a small area in the area he controlled.

All under the world is the king's land.

Is there a shore of the land that is the king's minister?

Since Nanyang is also his land and Nanyang is also his subject, it can of course be used to fight against Yang Feng directly. Therefore, now His Majesty the Emperor has all the Annan soldiers, Burmese soldiers, Java soldiers, and even black slaves and Japanese slaves in the southern army. Under the command of the Ming army generals and the supervisory team, these servants continue to expand their territory for His Majesty the Emperor. In the future, they will be transferred to the Ming Dynasty to resist Yang Feng when needed.

Before the last Nanyang people died, I, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, would never surrender.

However, since they are servants, it is impossible to have the combat effectiveness of the genuine Ming army. After all, what they need is that they are cheap enough, eat less, pay less, and equipment must be poor, and many of them are simply pure cold weapons. In this case, the attack was not smooth. Shalian is a real fortress, and Brito has several warships that can be used under his command. The guards are all believers. It can be said that they work together. Li Rubai, who commanded this battle, was also limited in level. In short, the two sides actually fought a continuous offensive and defensive battle.

In fact, it is mainly because the season is wrong.

At this time, Myanmar entered the rainy season, and Li Rubai's logistics were affected.

But this battle is not that simple...

Because the Portuguese are also very clear about the consequences of Shallian being taken away by the Nanyang Company.

They have lost trade in East Asia.

If they lose Indian trade again, then they will be able to establish their foundation in the East for a hundred years from Da Gama. India is their bottom line. It can even be said that Portugal's survival depends on India's trade line.

They can only fight.

Immediately afterwards, the governor of Goa sent reinforcements to Shalian under the banner of the Indians. After all, their use of their true identity would cause the emperor to be furious and then tribute to them. At the same time, the Portuguese in Malacca City also began to send their indigenous people and their subordinates, Japanese mercenaries, pretended to be pirates in the Strait of Malacca, and intercepted the Nanyang Company's reinforcements to Shalian...

Chongqing.

"Your Majesty is really a wise lord!"

Yang Xiangguo said with a solemn expression as if he was a loyal minister.

His Majesty the Emperor sent a navy to Nanyang in the name of extermination of pirates, and issued an order to build a city at Longyamen Gate and set up a Nanyang Strategic Envoy.

The dragon teeth gate is stationed.

In fact, this is what the emperor has planned for a long time.

After all, he must control a crucial maritime channel like the Strait of Malacca. Li Chengliang's attack on Shalian was just an introduction, and his real purpose was Malacca City. However, the current Ming Navy's cross-sea expedition ability is still limited. It is not Manila, and the straight line from Guangzhou to Manila is less than 1,000 kilometers, and it is an ancient route that Guangzhou Maritime Merchants travels all year round.

An expedition is easy.

You can just say a command.

Even the ships were not specially prepared. During the Maritime Bureau, Guangzhou only issued a certificate to Luzon, and there were as many as hundreds of merchant ships in a year. This was not considered to be those who did not get a certificate at all.

May Malacca City is three times the distance from Guangzhou.

A large-scale cross-sea expedition, and it was a solid fortress operated by the Portuguese for many years.

This is unrealistic.

So you can only jump step by step.

After taking Annan, it is easy to establish a Saigon stronghold, and then jump to Longya Gate and attack Malacca City from Longya Gate.

If Li Chengliang captured Shalian, he could transport more soldiers south along the coast of the Isthmus of Kra, and finally the two armies met in Malacca City. At that time, no matter what solid fortress was, he could not resist the continuous attack of the Ming army. If Malacca took it, the entire Nanyang would be completely in the pocket of His Majesty the Emperor.

His Majesty the Emperor can achieve hegemony.

He has a huge profit from maritime trade, who owns the entire Southeast Asian region.

With countless backup cannon fodder in Southeast Asia.

Not to mention reorganizing the mountains and rivers, at least when Yang Feng tried to go south, he had the ability to stop him.

At this time, His Majesty the Emperor knew very well that he was facing a long struggle. Even if he died, he might not be able to see hope. But as long as the world is still in the Ming Dynasty, then after Yang Feng died, there will still be hope for reorganizing the mountains and rivers.

But first we must keep our final foundation.

"Your Majesty is the power of heaven after all."

A man wearing the official uniform of a third-rank military general next to Yang Feng was smiling.

"Is this the lady?"

Yang Feng then looked at a young woman walking over behind him.

The latter is a bit tall.

Although she was wearing the official uniform of a destiny woman, she could still see that she was very strong and had a good appearance. However, her figure was really oppressive. Even Yang Feng had to raise his head slightly to face it.

"Returning to the prime minister, it's Zhuo Jing."

Shi Zhuxuan comforted Ma Qiancheng and said quickly.

Then his oppressive wife also saluted Yang Xiangguo.

"No gift!"

Yang Feng said.

Qin Liangyu then straightened up, stood in front of her husband, and looked at the legendary genius with a vigilant look. However, their family is now on two boats. Although the couple is still a toast in Shizhu, her brothers have led Shizhu to fight for the king's army to follow Liu Jing.

Moreover, he has made great contributions in Annan and has now been awarded titles.

This is also the unanimous practice of the chieftains in East Sichuan.

Sichuan was assigned to Yang Feng, and they were also assigned to Yang Feng as chieftains to Sichuan.

But they were obviously more loyal to the emperor.

However, Yang Feng was invincible and they dared not fight each other. In this way, they stepped on two boats and sent the elites in the family to Guangzhou to serve the king. By the way, they earned money to support the family. They stayed on their territory as chieftains.

If Yang Feng wants to attack them, at most he can raise his clan to follow the emperor. If those clan members have established everything on the emperor's side, they can still guarantee a good life. If Yang Feng doesn't attack their territory, then continue to mix like this. After all, in this chaotic era, everyone has to think of their own ways to survive.

But what made them happy was that Yang Feng seemed to have forgotten that he still had such a piece of land.

I have been ignoring Sichuan for so many years.

Until now.

Yang Xiangguo inspected Sichuan.

Yang Feng continued to look at Qin Liangyu curiously, and the latter was quite unnatural.

"Mrs. Ma is so tall!"

He said.

"Zhuo Jing is indeed a bit high."

Ma Qiancheng said quickly.

Of course, he also knew that Yang Feng would definitely not think about his wife.

Then Yang Feng finally lost interest in Qin Liangyu.
To be continued...