Chapter 1864： Sun Juren's Fools

Braga and Viseu fled the firepower of the Weiyuan Battery, and leaned towards the flagship Prince Enrique where Dagama was located. The two captains angrily came to the flagship in a small boat and complained loudly to Dhama.

"Sir, those smugglers from the Ming Dynasty deceived us! At first, they said that the Ming army in the Pearl River estuary was unprepared, and there were only a few ordinary small warships without artillery. But what about now? This artillery fortress alone took us two The ship was injured! "Captain Pereira complained.

The most unlucky Captain Braga, Ruoang, frowned:

"Sir Dagama, the Braga sideboard was injured by a deadly shell. If you do not carry out major repairs, once you get into the deep sea and encounter heavy winds and waves, it is easy to sink the ship! Please help me find a way, cloth The Raja must undergo a major overhaul on the sideboard! "

Dagama is also very helpless:

"How to overhaul? We don't have a port in the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming's port won't let us call. This makes it impossible. If you return to the port of Malacca, you might be afraid that the Braga will sink midway ..."

And Captain Pereira chimed in:

"I want to know now, how many artillery fortresses are there in the Ming Dynasty? If they are everywhere, we can't attack at all! I just looked at it. There seems to be a similar artillery fortress on the west bank of the estuary. How about firepower ... "

Dagama thought for a while and said:

"Then I sent several warships to test the firepower of the artillery fortress in the west ..."

Then, three Portuguese warships leaned towards the Dingyuan Battery on the West Bank and fired a test. However, out of prudence, the three ships did not stop sailing, but fired guns while sailing to avoid the shelling.

Thousands of households Liu Feng were commanded by the West Bank Battery, and the soldiers who also commanded the battery counterattacked-the Portuguese tested it out, also 10 large-caliber artillery ... And, in this test, despite the mobile evasion, go to the test The battleship Setubal was also damaged by iron ball shells on the side and needed maintenance.

"Where is the large caliber artillery from Ming Dynasty? I have to figure it out!" Dagama frowned. What worries him most is that there are many artillery fortresses like Mingguo, so that the Portuguese fleet dare not go deep into the Pearl River estuary and enter the port of Guangzhou.

"Sir, we might as well go to the beach to catch a local nobility to interrogate and ask about the situation over Guangzhou?"

Dagama did not believe the news provided by the Ming State smugglers over the port of Malacca at this time, so he also approved this method. In his view, the local nobles must have known some inside information.

Then, the Portuguese fleet retreated and stopped at a seaside fishing port in Nanlang Town, Xiangshan County (later Zhongshan City) on the west coast, and sent people to go ashore to surround the house of a large family in the local Cuiheng Village.

"This is the Sun family, your most powerful big family here? He knows the news from Guangzhou?" Benado, a translator who understands Chinese, asked Wu Ren, a restaurant man who had been caught from the town.

The cowardly restaurant man Wu Ren nodded and said:

"Yes, Master Yi, this grandfather of the Sun family, Sun Wei, that's the grandfather of that person. He went to Guangzhou City to take exams many times, and often to attend cultural meetings. So, the locals who know Guangzhou best are probably Grandpa Sun."

"Okay, come here, rush in and arrest the old grandson Sun!" Bernardo waved his hand. Hundreds of Portuguese sailors moved a large stone and smashed the door of the Sun's family, grabbing all the stubborn son Sun Wei's family. Tied up.

After Bernardo grabbed six of the family of Sun Juren, and ordered someone to put the knife on the neck of other people, he asked Sun Wei directly:

"Mr. Sun, tell us what you know about Guangzhou. Otherwise, my hands will shake, and your family will go to **** ..."

Sun Wei is about 35 years old and has a good looks. He is one of the only people in Nanlang Town. However, another person from Nanlang Township has moved to Xiangshan County. Only he still stays in Cuiheng Village. Unfortunately, he was caught by the Portuguese.

Sun Wei was a bit worried when he saw the sword on his eldest son Sun Bin's neck. As a scholar, he was not very afraid of himself, and it was a big deal. However, if the whole family of six fell into the hands of the enemy, there would be a problem.

Ancient scholars pay attention to "the homeland and the world", among which, the home should be ranked in front of the country. Guang Zong Yaozu, a scholar, said it was for the sake of home. If his only son, Sun Bin, died, he would die, and he would be dead ...

"Otherwise, I made up a lie to fool these barbarians?"

After making up his mind, Sun Wei arched:

"Respect driving, please raise your hand and let my family go, and you must know everything below."

Bernado saw him being so “sophisticated”, so he did n’t talk nonsense and asked directly:

"We want to know, like the two artillery fortresses at the left and right of the Pearl River, how many are near Guangzhou? How many artillery? Are there other artillery fortresses in other places?"

The spirit of Sun Wei was shocked. As an old man who often traveled between Guangzhou and Nanlang Town, he happened to know this situation. Because he had a staff member who just happened to be in the government office of Guangzhou in the same year and knew the inside story.

According to the same year he said, this time the court cast a total of 107 "flat capped cannons", of which 50 were transported to Guangzhou for preparation for urban defense. Among them, the court built two forts in Weiyuan and Dingyuan at the mouth of the Pearl River. Later, the court built two forts at Huangpu Port outside Guangzhou to protect Guangzhou. As for the other 57 gates, it seems that they were sent to Hu Jian's Quanzhou and Fuzhou to build forts.

It is just that the fort at Huangpu Port is still under construction. Therefore, only two forts at the Pearl River Mouth are actually built and put into use.

However, this does not prevent Sun Wei from fooling the Portuguese. So he arched his hands to Bernardo:

"Respect driving, this matter just happens to know the inside story ..."

"Hurry up!" Bernardo said happily.

"This is the case. In Guangzhou City, I heard that the court newly cast a" Pingru Cannon "that can fire 10 pounds of cannonballs. A total of 214 were cast ..." Sun Wei directly doubled the number. In order to frighten the Portuguese and prevent them from attacking Guangzhou.

"214 doors? God, so many?" Bernard was surprised.

"Yes, it is said that these 214 'flat prisoners' cannons were deployed in Guangdong and Hujian provinces for coastal defense. Among them, there are 107 on the Guangzhou side for the construction of 10 forts. In addition, 7 additional doors are deployed in Guangzhou City ... "

Bernardo's complexion changed-107 12-pound guns, the bit fleet of the entire fleet has 12 more main guns! Moreover, it is still deployed in 10 artillery fortresses ... this is terrible ...

So, Bernardo quickly reported to Dhama. Dagama was a little unbelieving, so he asked:

"This is serious? Don't he deceive you ..."

After learning about Dagama's suspicion from Bernardo, Sun Wei raised his hand with a straight face:

"My Sun Wei swears to heaven that if there is any lie, he will go to **** after death!"

"Swear to heaven?" Bernardo was also shocked. Bernardo is a Catholic. In his eyes, swearing to heaven is swearing to God. Such a solemn vow is definitely true. After all, in the eyes of Catholics, no one dares to joke about God ...

But where did he know, Sun Wei's activity at this time. As a child of Confucianism, the chief classic "The Analects of Confucius" has the saying that "the child does not speak strange powers" ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Although there were Confucians who believed in gods and Buddhas in ancient China, most Confucians did not believe in ghosts of. The so-called swearing swear is nothing more than a deception. Anyway, if you don't believe in ghosts and spirits, Sun Wei doesn't believe in hell, nor is she afraid of retribution. Therefore, he is also casually arbitrarily, first save his family's life and then ...

But I did not expect that the Portuguese are too respectful of God, and Bernardo mistakenly confuses God with God when learning Chinese. Therefore, he even believed Sun Wei's "Oath" so ...

Dagama did not doubt him, he also thought that no one dared to make fun of God. So, both of them believed Sun Wei's oath and thought that Guangzhou Port was well prepared ...

So, Dagama gave up his plan to forcibly rush over the embargo blockade and enter the Huangpu port for looting ...

Before leaving the town of Nanlang, Dhaka forced the local carpenter to find a lot of wood to repair the flank of the wounded warship. Before leaving, the Portuguese colonists also looted the gold, silver and food of many people on the shore, including the money and food of Sun Wei's family ...

But Sun Juren didn't care at all. More than half of the 800 acres of paddy fields in the entire Cuiheng Village were dedicated to him. As long as the people are still there, it will take less than a few years for the 400 acres of paddy field to make the Suns rich again. Besides, the 300 silver in the secret room of the family, these Fanyis have not been found yet ...

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