Chapter 528 Awe in the Sound of Cannons (Second update, please subscribe)
"put!"
With a roar from the main turret, the gunner pulled the fuse at the breech block.
Amid the deafening roar of the guns, the "Tianlong" lying on the sea suddenly moved. At the moment of the twin 254mm naval guns firing, the 2,800-ton warship shifted several feet. The blast from the muzzle swept across the deck, even lifting the canvas covering the lifeboat. As for the sail ropes, they also made a crackling sound. The sea surface was also stirred up by the blast from the muzzle into huge ripples.
Red flames and rising smoke completely enveloped the deck.
The fleet opened fire!
The "Sky Dragon" was heading towards the Sultan's palace, while the "Blue Dragon" was heading towards the artillery position.
Bombardment!
The shocking sound of the cannon stunned everyone at that moment, including the crew members on the British merchant ship transporting tin in the port. They had never thought that they would witness such a scene.
"boom!"
Ten seconds later, the shells accurately hit the Sultan's palace. The explosion of the shells weighing hundreds of kilograms was like an earthquake, and even the Haishan Hall, which was hundreds of meters away, was shaken.
Zhao Yongfu's head was buzzing with shock, but he remained calm as he felt the earth-shaking sound of the cannon. He knew that with this sound, everything had changed!
"Really, really, the cannon has been fired! The cannon has been fired!"
Ye Yalai stared at everything in front of him with wide eyes. He opened his mouth, not even knowing what to say. He just stared in amazement at the direction where the artillery fire came from.
At this moment, he had completely forgotten all his calculations and plans. Just a moment ago, he was still thinking that if he fired the cannon, he would never be bullied by the natives again. He even thought about whether he could seek some benefits for himself by taking advantage of his suddenly improved status. Just like those Westerners, why do those Westerners act so arrogantly here, why do they act so arrogantly here, why don't they listen to the natives?
Isn't it because they have the support of the country behind them that their warships can fire?
But now when the sound of cannon fire came, for some reason, only one sound sounded in my ears.
"It's our guns! It's our cannons!"
When did we come to Nanyang?
It’s too early!
Even people like Yap Ah Loy had long since considered themselves a member of the Nanyang region, and they had long since integrated into this land. In fact, in the eyes of many people, they were no different from the natives here.
But have they really integrated into this land?
They have never integrated into this land, and no one has ever regarded him as the owner of this land.
Not only were they exploited, they were slaughtered.
In the 17th century, the Spanish killed Chinese in Manila.
The Dutch also killed people in the 18th century.
Hundreds of thousands of overseas Chinese were killed. This was the reward for their hard work. What did they get in return for their hard work and frugality?
It is the jealousy of foreigners. They are jealous of the wealth accumulated by overseas Chinese through frugality and are full of hostility towards the wealth of overseas Chinese. Westerners use overseas Chinese to create wealth and incite the natives to hate the overseas Chinese, thereby alleviating the natives' hostility towards being colonized.
Why can they oppress the overseas Chinese like this? Why do the overseas Chinese have to suffer all this?
It's because they are rootless and no one will support them!
Even the indigenous people bullied them. Just a few decades ago, right here, those people broke into the mine, killed Chinese workers, and stole their property. Why did everyone dare to kill them at will? Because they knew that the Chinese overseas were a group of "abandoned people of the Celestial Empire" who could be killed and taken at will.
"The Celestial Empire has abandoned its people, and they have left their ancestors' graves behind to seek profits abroad, and the imperial court has paid no heed to them!"
Why did the Chinese form secret societies? It was to protect themselves! Facing the butcher knives of outsiders, the Chinese who formed secret societies used their knives to speak. They fought back to the mines and took back their own property. From then on, secret societies became their way of protecting themselves.
All who join are brothers!
The purpose is to avoid being bullied by outsiders in a foreign country. The reason why outsiders bully them is because they have no one to rely on except themselves!
The guns sounded today!
The gunfire sounded!
At this moment, Ye Yalai suddenly burst into tears, he threw away his gun and started crying. Other people, whether they were strong men in their thirties or white-haired old men, they all started crying. For them who were in a foreign country, perhaps they seemed glamorous and seemed to have made friends with the local dignitaries, but only they themselves knew the sufferings and grievances they had endured.
What are they swallowing when their teeth are knocked out? It is grievance, heartbreak, and more importantly, helplessness, because they have no other choice but to endure!
"Have you heard? This is our cannon, our cannon..."
There was a chorus of cries and shouts. For these overseas wanderers, today, they finally found their home! They found a home that was willing to be their master. They were no longer wandering ghosts!
"Grandpa, did you hear me? This is our own cannon, our own cannon..."
An old man with white braids cried and closed his eyes, tears streaming down his face. It seemed that at this moment, all the grievances were gone.
The natives outside the door, including Tengku Kuding Sultan, were frightened by the sound of artillery and explosions. They looked towards the port in confusion, where the sound of explosions was heard one after another.
Even from here they could see the smoke from the battery.
"What's going on?"
Just when Tengku Guding had not yet come to his senses, a light rumbling sound like a train whistle passed through the air.
The native soldiers even looked up when they heard the noise. They had no idea what the noise was.
At this moment, several loud noises came from the native settlement in the distance. In the violent explosions, it was as if several volcanoes erupted at the same time!
Two 254mm heavy explosive bombs fell on the natives' bamboo houses. The shells went straight through the roof and then exploded, blowing all the surrounding bamboo houses into the sky!
Straight into the sky!
Amidst the flames, steel fragments whizzed and flew everywhere, and the buildings and the indigenous people inside the explosion center were directly blown into a ball of blood mist in the explosion, and the flying shrapnel knocked countless indigenous people to the ground.
The moment the shell fell, blood and flesh flew everywhere.
The violent explosion made the heaven and earth tremble. Even the high temperature and smoke from the explosion made the air burn. The burning air shook the earth and people's hearts. The native soldiers who were originally surrounding Haishan Hall were stunned by the sound of the artillery and they stood there frozen.
Everyone's ears were buzzing from the shock, and they looked around blankly, at the Sultan.
"Your Majesty, the Ming, Ming fleet is firing..."
The first one to react was Haagen-Dazs. He felt as if he was about to be melted by the burning air!
"He, how dare they fire, they, they don't know,"
Don’t you know that the British support him? Don’t you know that the British are his backers?
...How dare they fire?
Don’t they have a saying that goes – When beating a dog, one should look at the owner first?
How could they not consider the British's face and dare to fire here?
While Tengku Guding was stunned and even looked around with a questioning look, in the Haishan Hall, Yap Yaa laughed out loud:
"Blow it up! Blow it up! Blow it up completely! As long as there are no bastards like these, even if we blow it all up, we can still build a new one within a year!"
As if in response to his wish, another row of artillery shells whizzed over, and their artillery fire accurately landed on the area where the indigenous people lived. In fact, it was very easy to distinguish - the expatriates lived along the port, while the indigenous people lived centered on the Sultan's Palace. The clearly defined residential areas also prevented the navy's artillery fire from accidentally hitting their compatriots.
In the violent explosion, there was a mess of blood and flesh everywhere. I don't know how many natives were directly blown into a ball of blood mist. In the fierce artillery fire, they only knew what awe was at this time!
All of a sudden, the natives who were originally surrounding Haishan Hall became chaotic. Faced with such an opportunity, Chen Ke naturally would not miss it. He shouted.
"Sailors, bayonets!"
The sailors immediately shouted "Kill", and then rushed out of Haishan Hall with bayonets in hand. The bayonets went straight into the chests of the natives. Those natives who could not escape in time were no match for them at all. Amid the deafening shouts, the sharp bayonets kept stabbing those people to the ground. With dozens of people against hundreds of people, they actually killed them so hard that they ran around crying for their parents.
But it only took them a face-off and they attacked the natives so hard that they couldn't fight back. The native soldiers had been frightened by the bombardment and had lost their normal judgment. When the sailors charged, facing these fierce sailors, they actually dropped their rifles, knelt on the ground, and begged for mercy in stiff Cantonese.
Tengku Guding, who was originally riding on his horse, fell off the horse at some point. Looking at the sailors rushing towards him, he was very single. He threw away the Kris knife at his waist and knelt on the ground shouting.
"I surrender, don't kill me, don't kill me..."
The natives surrendered!
The bombardment lasted only a few minutes before the natives surrendered.
Facing the natives kneeling on the ground, Zhao Fuyong's heart was calm at this moment. He looked at Ye Yalai and others. They looked at him and the sailors with awe in their eyes.
"Ye Yalai!"
"The common people are here!"
Ye Yalai quickly ran forward and clasped his fists.
"What do you want, my Lord?"
“What does it feel like now!”
Zhao Fuyong looked at him with a smile.
“Comfortable!”
Ye Yalai answered loudly that he had never felt so comfortable in his life. This comfort was more of a release of the dissatisfaction and grievances that had been suppressed in his heart for many years.
After being released, I felt relieved. All the grievances deep in my heart disappeared without a trace in the moment with the rumbling of cannons and explosions.
“It’s really enjoyable!”
The special envoy's words made Ye Yalai reply a little excitedly.
"It's so enjoyable! I've never felt so comfortable and so enjoyable in my life!"
"Haha, you will be able to live a peaceful life from now on!"
Zhao Fuyong laughed.
"From now on, the fleet and naval guns of the Ming Dynasty will be your backing. From now on, anyone who dares to bully you will have to ask our naval guns first!"
"grown ups!"
Ye Yalai knelt down quickly, and everyone else knelt down as well. He spoke solemnly.
"For so many years, we have been looking forward to it day and dreaming at night. What we look forward to is that one day we will have someone to support us like the Westerners do. We don't want anything else, and we have never thought about bullying others. We just don't want others to shit on our necks!"
When they say this, perhaps only they themselves know the pain in their hearts. After all, for people who are in a foreign country, they will inevitably be subjected to various forms of oppression. Is it easy to survive in a foreign country?
"It's more than just being ridden on and shitted on by others! We've been bullied to the point where we can't even find the hole in the pot..."
"In their eyes, what are we? We are just fat meat, and everyone wants to take a bite. They not only want to eat our flesh, but also drink our blood, dig out our hearts, and squeeze our oil. From top to bottom, there is not a single good person among us!"
"After all these years, who has ever treated us as human beings?"
"Human? What is a human? I don't even know if I am still a human or not!"
"That's right, if a person can be bullied to that extent, should he still put on a smiling face? Are we that despicable?"
For a moment, there were cries all around. Amid the sound of artillery fire, they seemed to have found their home. They were like children who had suffered a lot of injustice outside and when they saw their mother, they would always cry about the hardships they had suffered.
Only a mother would care about what they have suffered.
At this moment they know that they are home. They know that this home will shelter them from the wind and rain, and will stand up to protect them when they are wronged.
Sound of cannon!
The deafening sound of artillery fire woke up the entire city, causing compatriots who had been hiding at home under pressure to come out amid the sound of artillery fire.
The sound of the cannon startled them all at first, and then they realized that it was their cannon. Suddenly, cheers broke out everywhere!
"It's our gun! It's our gun! Yes, it's our gun!"
Chinese shops at the port carefully took down a door and poked their heads out. People looked around, and then, these people with happy faces opened the doors and walked out of the shops regardless of everything.
Although these people were of different ages, different places of origin, and even had different accents, and some of them might even be hostile to each other because of their hometowns, now they all came out and walked silently towards Haishan Hall. They had been watching the small team through the crack in the door before.
That's their team!
From now on, they are no longer as lonely as they were in the past. From now on, no one will dare to bully them wantonly. In the distance, those terrified natives just stared at them blankly, their eyes full of awe.
Hatred?
hostility?
Maybe there would be, but at the moment when the ship's guns roared, none of this mattered anymore.
Everyone understood one thing - no one could bully them anymore!
Once upon a time, those who always cowered in fear with ingratiating smiles on their faces raised their heads. When they looked at the natives, they no longer had the awe they had in the past, but only pride from the bottom of their hearts!
Listen! This is our cannon!
Look! This is what happened to you!
(End of this chapter)
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