The thick broken barrels could be seen everywhere, and the smoke from the explosive barrels filled the whole place.
As the Star Sea Fleet slowly sailed into the port, the merchant ships docked at the port immediately hoisted white flags.
On the contrary, the Malacca fleet, which was only a small number of more than 20 warships, gritted its teeth and launched a counterattack.
But as fixed targets, their fate was not much better than that of the previous forts.
Whenever the fleet's artillery gathers in one place and the shells hit it, three or four warships will burst into flames, and in a blink of an eye they will break apart and run aground next to the port.
After sweeping away the Malacca fleet, the transport ship following the southward fleet sprayed white steam, docked at the port, and unloaded the infantry regiments one by one.
During this period, the Helan Fusiliers in the Malacca Castle launched many charges to recapture the port.
But when they approached the port, they were bombarded by field artillery, and then shot by the defending infantry. They were beaten and fled back to the castle.
In fact, from this moment on, the mission of the Star Sea Fleet changed from capturing the port to covering the infantry regiment and constantly bombarding the castle.
Starting at eight o'clock every morning, the warships of the Star Sea Fleet will take turns firing cannonballs at the castle.
Although the artillery deployed on the castle will launch counterattacks from time to time, not to mention that the range is a bit insufficient, it is just that once any gun position is exposed, it will be pressed to the ground and violently beaten by the Star Sea Fleet.
In just three days, the artillery deployed on the Malacca Castle was completely destroyed.
At this time, the Fifth Division of Xinghai Kingdom immediately launched a tentative attack.
However, the Malacca Castle did a good job in defense, and the 5th Division of Xinghai Kingdom was unwilling to use human lives to fill it. Therefore, after a slight tentative charge, the 5th Division gave up the plan of storming and instead dug trenches. .
Well, trench tactics can be said to be the most clever targeting tactics for sieges in later generations.
The Military Affairs Department of the Star Sea Kingdom specially trained trench tactics before this battle.
It was probably the first time that the Helan people had seen trench tactics. Standing on the castle, they only saw the enemy constantly digging trenches.
But before you knew it, those trenches slowly extended to the bottom of the castle.
Although the Helan people stationed in the castle have thought of various ways to deal with these trenches close to the castle, such as bombarding with artillery, shooting with muskets, and even sending out musketeers to attack frontally, etc.
But these methods are basically useless.
Artillery shells and bullets are just like that when they hit the trench. They can't bounce around like they do on flat ground and explode with astonishing power.
The musketeers who rushed out from the front would immediately be trained with rifles by the Xinghai infantry in the trench behind.
Once the trenches were dug below the Malacca Castle, several large holes were dug out late at night, and then hundreds of barrels of captured gunpowder were buried in them.
Anyway, the Star Navy has no use for these gunpowders, so they simply recycle them as waste. However, the innermost part of the gunpowder is hundreds of kilograms of nitrocellulose.
In the early morning of the next day, shortly after the sun rose, the Helan people in the castle were preparing to have breakfast, when they heard a deafening noise, and several walls or fortresses of the Malacca Castle suddenly collapsed.
This loud noise was like an order to launch an attack. Immediately afterwards, the Xinghai Fleet continued to hurl cannonballs at them, so that the Helan soldiers did not even have a chance to raise their heads.
At this time, the Fifth Infantry Division finally launched a charge.
After taking a full week, the fifth division of the Xinghai Kingdom finally entered the Malacca Castle.
Although there are still many Helan soldiers in the castle who are resisting, with Governor Helan, Lieutenant General Wilster and other high-level officials being captured, there is no doubt that Malacca has fallen into the hands of the Star Sea Kingdom. .
As the Battle of Malacca came to an end, Xinghai Kingdom did not rush to extend its claws to Suilan Island. Instead, it invested a lot of manpower and material resources in Malacca, not only renovated the Malacca Castle, but also rebuilt the port fort. architecture.
At this time, good news came from the Ministry of Agricultural Affairs. The rubber tree branches purchased from the Flemish people for a large sum of money came alive and sprouted smoothly!
Since the Strait of Malacca is more suitable for the growth of rubber trees, the Ministry of Agricultural Affairs specially dispatched a group of technicians and rubber tree branches to the Malacca Castle to prepare to open a new rubber tree plantation here.
Although rubber trees generally require several years of growth before rubber can be harvested, this means that after seven years, Xinghai Kingdom will be able to obtain stable rubber resources.
You know, according to Xinghai Kingdom’s technical route planning, there are too many projects that require rubber.
Once upon a time, Fang Xiaoyue wondered if she could find a way to get a druid profession so that she could speed up the growth of plants.
Of course, this is just a thought, after all, he does not have a basic professional scroll now.
However, because rubber trees can be multiplied by cuttings, the rubber plantation area can be expanded rapidly.
After several heavy purchases, Xinghai Kingdom obtained as many rubber branches as two ships from the Folangji people.
This is not surprising. After their first heavy purchase, the few Franji businessmen felt that they had discovered a golden road to wealth.
In order to prevent the Francois from discovering the secret of the rubber tree, Xinghai Kingdom called the rubber tree the white paint tree, which means that we can use this thing to make white paint.
Of course, those few Franji merchants would not care what the Xinghai people did with the branches of this tree.
They only know that the people of Xinghai need this thing and are willing to pay a high price!
A branch of a white lacquered tree that is still alive when it reaches the shore can be sold to the people of Xinghai for a high price of .
This is simply more profitable than selling slaves and pepper!
You know, in the eyes of the Francois, this thing is everywhere in the jungles of South America, and it's just like picking up money!
Well, it’s not actually that exaggerated, but as long as you find a wild rubber forest, is this branch still a thing?
It was precisely for this reason that during the second transaction, those Franconian merchants rented two merchant ships, took a trip to the Pacific route, and hauled two full ships of rubber tree branches to the Xinghai City dock.
Before meeting the elder Chen Liuxiang, these businessmen from Franji were worried.
You know, how much does it cost to rent two merchant ships to run a single Pacific route?
If they can't sell those broken branches, several Franji businessmen will not only go bankrupt, but at least lose money!
But after Chen Liuxiang readily stated that these two ships of white lacquered tree branches were directly and officially purchased by Xinghai Kingdom for .00 yuan each, several Franji businessmen suddenly fainted with excitement.
