Chapter 100 Please place your bet
It was quiet in the city of Malacca late at night. Only the waves are like the snoring of the earth, beating rhythmically.
A group of more than forty people walked on the long street, their footsteps stepping on the sandy soil, and there was a slight dragging sound.
It's only a mile or two and we'll be there soon.
The place where the Javanese envoy lived should be the courtyard of a nobleman. However, in Yang Yu's opinion, it was extremely vulgar. This vulgarity is not just about the aesthetics of the design. In fact, dozens of stilted wooden buildings. Scattered among them, there is even a slow stream passing through the yard and going straight into the sea. Put all the filth of daily life into it. Life is also very convenient.
Aesthetically, it is also very interesting.
However, the defense power is very little.
There is just a bamboo wall. Because of the climate in Southeast Asia, using wooden walls may cause the wood to come back to life, which will only cause more trouble. Use rammed earth, use stones. It’s also very labor intensive. How many people are there in the whole of Malacca? I don’t know if there are one million people in the whole of Malacca.
Moreover, they do not have the habit of using civil engineering for construction.
The city wall of Malacca was replaced with stone only after the Portuguese came.
This moment gave Yang Yu and the others great convenience.
Chen Baihu directly broke open the door and rushed in. They all wear white scarves on their heads, and they can be seen even in the dark. Anyone who doesn’t have a white scarf on his head. All are enemies. Kill everyone on sight.
At first, the Javanese mission was not discovered at all. It wasn't until a loud shout woke up the Javanese.
The Javanese immediately began to resist.
However, it was all in vain.
First, prepared to attack or unprepared, Ming's side had the upper hand.
Secondly, the weapons are completely different from each other.
Java produces iron, and Javanese iron is even sold well in Southeast Asia, which is one of the reasons why Java is a powerful country in Southeast Asia.
However, Javanese iron cannot be compared with Ming Dynasty iron at all. Both in quantity and quality. It can't even compare to the Ming Dynasty before He Xi came, let alone the reforms He Xi carried out in the Ming Iron and Steel Industry.
Javanese weapons are still at the craftsman level. Almost every weapon is different, and there are many strange weapons. Curved long knives, twisted snake swords, etc. There is also a palm-sized knife that makes many Javanese warriors unpredictable. It's like magic.
It's just an inch short and an inch dangerous. But the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty all wore chain armor. Naturally, it is impossible to resist a spear or a hard crossbow. But there is no problem at all against a knife as big as a palm.
Most of the Javanese warriors are naked. Of course, they don't have time to wear armor. More importantly, Javanese have at most some leather armor. Armor made of rhino skin and crocodile skin. But it’s not a lot in quantity. Therefore, Javanese warriors often do not wear armor.
With the advantage of this weapon alone, the Javanese warriors may not be able to win in a day-to-day confrontation, and this is even more true now.
But after a while, the long knife in Yang Yu's hand was not stained with blood at all. The situation was over, and two of the more than forty soldiers were dead. After all, in the dark, it is inevitable to encounter a surprise attack. The Javanese are not incompetent at all.
Chen Baihu carried a corpse in front of Yang Yu and said, "This is the Javanese envoy. As for the name, it's hard to remember because of the mumbling."
Yang Yu said: "You don't need to remember it. Because there is no need for it."
Yang Yu swung the long knife in his hand and slashed the envoy on the neck. However, Yang Yu couldn't use the knife and the long knife got stuck in his neck.
Chen Baihu said; "I'll do it."
Yang Yu said: "No, I'll do it." Yang Yu chopped off the head several times before cutting off the head, but the wounds were so terrible that they were all rolled up. Yang Yu was also splattered with blood, even some on his face.
People who didn't know it thought Yang Yu had experienced a bloody battle.
Yang Yu held the head.
In Nanyang before Christianity and Islam came, people actually had long hair. Men, especially men of high status, rarely cut their hair throughout their lives. As for the short hair of later generations of Nanyang people, that was a later matter.
Yang Yu said: "Light the fire. I want to light up the whole Malacca."
Yang Yu felt that instead of asking him to find King Mancijia, it would be better to let King Mancijia come to him.
Chen Baihu obeyed the order, and within a moment, a fire lit up, lighting up the entire night sky.
There was no way that such a big movement would go unnoticed. But after a while, many people moved. However, the people who had just arrived here were people fighting the fire. When they saw people holding long knives and a pile of corpses on the ground, they naturally did not dare to come in.
After a while, Mancijia troops came.
An officer dared to ask.
Yang Yu gave Chen Baihu a look, and Chen Baihu understood. He took a few steps forward and said: "We are the envoys of the Ming Dynasty. We are going to kill the Javanese envoys here. You go directly to find someone who can make the decision. Don't Waste of our time."
The officer was shocked by Chen Baihu's murderous temperament.
Walked away in despair.
After a while, a minister from Mancijia came over. Yang Yu didn't know his name, but he knew that when Yang Yu met King Mancijia, this minister was the one standing by his side. He saluted Yang Yu respectfully and said, "Your Majesty, please come."
Yang Yu carried the head as if going to the market to buy vegetables, and said, "Let's go."
He strode towards the Mancajia Palace.
Under the illumination of torches, the heads and faces of the Javanese envoys flickered in and out of sight. Many Canadians were frightened and did not dare to look directly. And the look that looked at Yang Yu was filled with awe.
Yang Yu thought to himself: "The Ming Dynasty needs this kind of awe."
Daming is too far away from here.
So far away that many people forget that Javanese knives can kill people. Ming's sword can kill people. Yang Yu reminded the whole of Nanyang today. Is my sword bad?
King Mancijia was waiting for Yang Yu in his palace. Chen Baihu and others put down their weapons and waited outside the palace. After all, no matter how sophisticated their weapons are and how powerful their fighting power is, they are only a few dozen people, while King Mancijia can at least mobilize thousands of people immediately.
Therefore, their life and death does not depend on the sword in their hands, but on Yang Yu's tongue.
Countless torches illuminated the palace like daylight, but it was completely opposite to daylight.
Yang Yu strode forward without stopping or saluting. It seemed that he was the king here. He walked up to King Mansika and threw the heads in his hands to the ground. The heads of the Javanese envoys rolled several times on the ground. He was facing up to the sky, his dead fish-like eyes facing the Manchujia King.
It is not that King Mancijia has never seen dead people. But on this occasion, when he saw the head of the Javanese envoy, he was also surprised and was about to speak.
Yang Yu had already said sternly: "Today, Java has offended the Celestial Dynasty, and the Nanyang matter has to do with Java if it is not the Ming Dynasty. Man Cijia can only choose one of the two. Today, the king has only two choices. The first choice is to recognize the Javanese envoy. You were the one who killed me. From now on, I will sever my ties with Java and be loyal to the Ming Dynasty. The second option is to take off my head and kill everyone in my envoy. I will take more than 40 lives and send them to Java to make amends."
"However, you must think carefully before doing this. Ming Dynasty has already prepared its troops and is about to go to Nanyang. Everything you do today will affect how Ming Dynasty will treat you when the time comes."
King Mancijia smiled bitterly and said, "Isn't this just a big gamble?"
Gambling is extremely popular in Southeast Asia. Even the horse crane of later generations, many people say that Zheng He brought it from Nanyang. Of course, some say it was brought to Nanyang by Zheng He. Anyway, the gambling trend in Nanyang has not been eliminated in later generations.
Yang Yu said: "What the king said is absolutely true. Now please place your bet."
King Mancijia did not expect that what was originally a good situation would turn into this situation. Now that things have come to this, what else can he say? There was already a rift between him and Java. Even if the heads of Yang Yu and others were sent over today, Java might not be able to forgive them. But he offended Daming severely.
When the Ming Dynasty goes south, the first battle will be Malacca.
This is definitely not what King Mancijia wants.
King Mancijia thought for a moment and said, "When will the imperial army arrive?"
Yang Yu said: "March, it will arrive within March."
King Mancajia said: "Okay." Then he stood up, drew out his long knife, and slashed at the head of the Javanese envoy, revealing a deep scar visible to the bone. King Mancajia said: "I killed this man. "
When Yang Yu saw this, he breathed a sigh of relief, but he also had to admit that King Mancijia was a good person.
