Dragon Sea Empire

Belitung Island, together with Bangka Island in the west, was the main tin mining area in Southeast Asia during the Dutch colonial period in another time and space. A large number of Chinese "pigboys" were tricked, bought or robbed by the Dutch from the coast of China to mine here. In tin mines, a large number of people died in the harsh working environment. In the tin mining area like a concentration camp, the lives of Chinese people in Belitung tin mines are worth less than the ore waste they excavated.

Today, the Chinese have become the undisputed masters of Belitung Island. The infantry, professional artillery regiments, foreign mercenary regiments, and a large number of auxiliary soldiers composed of Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers - a total of 2 More than 8 people, plus the main ships of the two major fleets of Nanyang and Taiwan, also gathered in Tanjung Pandan Port on Belitung Island.

This port can only be regarded as a small fishing port. In any case, it cannot accommodate the main forces of the two fleets of the Chinese company. Moreover, in these days, nearly a thousand transport ships have arrived one after another. Ships, as well as merchant ships of major domestic merchants in the Ming Dynasty, merchant ships of Chinese companies and alliance companies, carried nearly 3 immigrants from Jingqu North China, Shandong, Fujian, and Guangdong.

Therefore, all the bays in the Gaspar Strait between Bangka Island and Belitung Island where boats can be parked and sheltered from the wind were all parked with Chinese ships for a while. The foreign mercenary corps of the Chinese Army landed on Bangka Island. A battalion of inferior Portuguese and Messodes of Portuguese and Burmese descent drove the Malays from their homes near the point of landing on the very day of the landing.

The reason why Yin Feng has been postponing the battle in Nanyang is to wait for these merchant fleets to arrive with immigrant fleets: he plans that once the Chinese army quickly wipes out all parts of Nanyang, those merchants who came with the Chinese army will immediately accept the Dutch, British, The business and land of the Javanese, and a large number of immigrants immediately went ashore to build settlements, completely consolidating the achievements of the Chinese army in Nanyang in terms of politics, economy, and culture in a short period of time.

The current population of Belitung Island is only [-], and most of them are Chinese. There is a Chinese company mining tin mines, called Shunxing Company, which is run by a group of Meizhou Hakkas. They also signed a major alliance with the Chinese company. According to the agreement, it can operate independently economically, and pay taxes to the Chinese company in exchange for the military protection of the Chinese army.

Nominally, Bangka and Belitung Islands are under the jurisdiction of the Sultan of Palembang on Sumatra Island. However, Palembang is now basically controlled by the Chinese. He pretended not to know anything in his own palace.

More than 200 warships, infantry and water troops totaling more than 6 people, an auxiliary fleet composed of nearly [-] ships, and [-] or [-] auxiliary troops, merchants, and immigrants. This fleet of unprecedented scale has surpassed It is the most powerful Chinese army that has appeared in this sea area since Kublai Khan's army expedition to Java in the Yuan Dynasty.

After the assembly of the whole army is completed, the troops will be divided into two groups on Belitung Island. The main force of the Nanyang Fleet and the first division of two regiments will head westward to the Strait of Malacca. The French and Aceh people were all wiped out; on the other side, the battleship Yuanzi of the Taiwan Fleet was used as the main force to cover the infantry going south to Java. 5000 troops from Taiwan, foreign mercenaries and other troops landed in Java, and the troops of the United Nanyang Brigade swept across the island with the momentum of Mount Tai.

Yin Feng was on the shore of the beautiful Belitung Island, looking at the blue sky and blue sea, and sighed in admiration.

It was the first time for this guy to go to Java. In his previous life, he had no money and no chance to travel to Bali Island. He planned to make a trip in this life.

However, in the coconut grove behind him, Li Lihua, who was wearing a Spanish lady's long dress, could tell that Yin Feng, who was walking by the beach, seemed to be worried about something, and would often stare at the south in a daze.

Lin Yue, captain of the personal guard and captain of the gendarmerie, suddenly appeared, and whispered to Li Lihua, "Ma'am, those people are here."

Li Lihua nodded: "Let them come over, I'll meet them right here,"

A group of Jews in European costumes bowed very respectfully in front of Li Lihua, and called Li Lihua in Spanish: "Dear General Madam..."

Li Lihua is in full charge of matters related to the new Christians in the Iberian Peninsula and the European and American Jewish business groups. Although Yin Feng has some knowledge of Jewish history, when dealing with these people, he is always in a Spanish-style cultural environment. The older Li Lihua seemed more at ease.

"Rabbi Perez, have all the capable children you mentioned come here? Your people are the best friends of our Chinese company. It won't take long, at most half a year later, this vast Nanyang place will be It is completely open to you descendants of Israel, what kind of return will you give to General Yin Feng,”

Part of the financial industry in Malacca is run by Jews, while in the international port city of Banten, it is the Malays and Jining (Indians east of Cape Comorin) who run the financial industry and usury business, and they lend money And the pawn business of operating ships. At that time, many of the ship pawns in Banten Port were Ethiopian seafarers. During the hundreds of years of trade development in Southeast Asia, the Jews have not been able to enter the Southeast Asian market.

The leader of this group of Jewish businessmen is Perez Caderas, the chairman of the Taiwan Jewish Chamber of Commerce. The Jews are called the shopkeeper Caderas in Chinese. He is a relative of Bernardo. He knows Li Lihua's position in the Chinese company. , bowed again very respectfully: "My people are the people of you and General Yin. We have already discussed that our Jewish Chamber of Commerce will contribute 150 million Tarantos for the military expenses of this expedition, which is equivalent to More than 150 million taels of silver, in the future, when the Bank of China officially promotes the silver dollar currency, we Asian Jews will be the first to use it all over the world. We heard that Your Excellency the General will transfer the trade transshipment center of East Asia to Batavia, Banten and Malacca, our Jewish Chamber of Commerce hopes that by then the financial industry in Banten and Batavia will be run by us,"

"For this reason, on behalf of General Yin, I would like to thank you and your compatriots. I think that General Yin will be willing to discuss this matter with you. I will take you to see the general."

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On this day, the Haihun encountered the fast ships of the Third Fleet (South Sea Fleet) on the Java Sea twenty miles south of Belitung. At this time, the Haihun carried support troops and left the South Cliff of West Borneo State port, almost a month has passed.

That night, Yin Feng learned of the latest situation in Java Island, and the excitement brought about by the Jewish sponsorship of the expedition was immediately washed away by the news of Java Island.

Colonel Kutley, Zhao Tie, Li Xing, Luo Quanxiu, Xu Hongji from the staff department, Mai Xiaoliu and An Xiaosi from the intelligence department gathered overnight to study the situation.

Right now, the army has not yet assembled, and one-third of the infantry troops are sitting in slow-moving lucky boats, falling far away in the South China Sea, and it will take about three days to reach Belitung Island. The supply of supplies, the distribution of ammunition, and the follow-up ammunition transport fleet have not yet arrived. In fact, the speed of troop assembly has been several days behind the planned schedule. Although Yin Feng's staff team has been established several times It has been several years, but it is still inexperienced, especially when planning and directing such an expedition that spans thousands of miles of sea and dispatches more than a thousand ships at the same time, the plan of the staff department will never keep up with the actual changes.

The most important thing is to temporarily attack Java in advance, and the original division plan has to be changed again, and all the artillery equipment has not yet been transported to Belitung. If light troops attack Java, it will not be possible to overwhelm the Madalan army strategically and tactically. As a result... Yin Feng listened to the crowd all night, and finally made a decisive decision: three days later, the infantry and artillery will start when they are ready, the South Route Army to attack Java will go first, and the ammunition and equipment will be ready before starting.

After making a decision, Yin Feng looked at the blue sea at dawn and murmured to himself: "Yan Siqi, don't let me down, hold on, there are still ten days at most, you must hold on to the fortress."

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The Sea Soul left the port on the day Yin Feng and the fifth division set off from Nanyazhou.

The time was pushed forward to the moment when the Sea Soul landed in Cirebon, and it was almost a month since Yan Siqi landed in Cirebon.

After suppressing the rebellion of Prime Minister Cirebon, Yan Siqi took advantage of the swiftness and agility of the Sea Urchin to land on the coast north of the Zhonghua Commercial Hall at night, crossed the blockade of the Madalan people, entered the Chinese Commercial Hall, and sent hundreds of Thunderbolt rockets and More than a thousand catties of gunpowder were brought into the trading house. More importantly, the refugees he trapped in the trading house brought hope and boosted the morale of Wu Hao's defenders.

Chinese New Year is still one month away. Yan Siqi thought that he should be able to drive the Madalan army away from Cirebon before the Chinese New Year. In the original combat plan, the Fifth Division was to attack Nanyang alone. After going to sea on the seventh day, you can reach Cirebon within ten days.

However, he didn't know that Yin Feng rushed to Nanya Prefecture, completely overturned his original battle plan, and expanded the Nanyang operation into a strategic offensive.

On the day when he expected the fifth division to land, the Chinese army's majestic fleet did not appear, only a slender clipper ship called Haihun with black canvas appeared.

On the day when the Haihun broke through a group of Malay small sailboats and sent 250 reinforcements to Cirebon, the Zhonghua Commercial Hall was almost captured.

The three generations of kings of Madalan, including the current Sultan Agung, were all militaristic monarchs, who had been exposed to constant battles for many years. Sultan Agung was on the battlefield from June to December every year. Mobilizing 6 people to engage in the war, the average annual loss of 12 to 30 troops, and the first half of the year when there is no war, is the time when His Majesty Sultan Agong is busy raising funds to prepare for the second half of the year.

Last year, the coalition forces of the states in East Java were defeated by the Madalan Army, Pasuruan was conquered, and Phalang, who had once again betrayed, was also captured. Most of the residents in this place were moved to Mataram to do labor for the construction of the new capital. The capital of Sultan Agong was thus abandoned, and Sultan Agung's prestige reached its peak at this moment, and his personal self-confidence was soaring. After capturing Semarang, he personally led troops to Cirebon, but found that there were still five or six Chinese strongholds in this area. holding on.

For the first time, he mobilized the guards to attack the Chinese business house. As a result, the elephant ran wild after being frightened, trampling countless people to death along the way, causing heavy losses to the guards. Sultan Agung was annoyed and sent the newly conquered feudal lords of East Java All the private soldiers pressed up, and used the tactics of crowds to storm the Zhonghua Merchant Hall again and again.

Yan Siqi and Luo Aquan led the troops. They were busy suppressing the rebellion as soon as they entered Cirebon. They only rested for a day. After sneaking across the blockade and entering the Zhonghua Commercial Hall, they encountered Madalan's army's frenzied attack before taking a breath.

Tens of thousands of Madalan troops, under the cover of a small number of firearms, headed towards the Zhonghua Merchant without thinking. Human lives became worthless under the walls of the Zhonghua Merchant, even worse than ants. Cannons, grenades, thunderbolt rockets, and musket bullets Gunpowder barrels, knives, bayonets, stones, fists and even teeth, the defenders of the Chinese Commercial House have to use all these weapons to repel the attack of the Madalans. The tall fortress walls are caught in hand-to-hand combat time and time again. Every time the Madalan army attacked, regardless of all casualties, they had to rush through the Chinese army's firepower net at a great cost, until the ladder was erected to attack the city, and the Chinese army had to fight them down in hand-to-hand combat.

Corpses are scattered all over the fortress, especially at the foot of the city wall. The corpses of the war dead are piled up like a mountain. After a few days, there are layers of corpses as high as two people. There are scattered human limbs everywhere in the moat, which is worthy of the name blood flow It formed a river, and soon the trench was filled with the corpses of the soldiers of the feudal lords of various land states, and the blood overflowed into the surrounding rivers. The earth could no longer absorb so much blood, and the Madalan soldiers had to step on the blood to attack.

This hellish scene and the stench of rotting corpses finally forced the Madalans to stop their suicidal siege after three days of frantic attacks.

Yan Siqi and others also lay down on the wall of the fortress exhausted. This kind of fighting is more like a massacre. For Yan Siqi and even the members of the special forces, it is really unacceptable for Yan Siqi and even the members of the special forces to fight in such a way that the soldiers' lives are not taken seriously. Yes, the Japanese warriors have a strong fighting spirit, but the Japanese in this era don't know the "Kamikaze Attack Team", and they won't be crazy to the point where they regard human life as nothing.

The nearly 6000 people who took refuge in the Zhonghua Commercial Hall, regardless of age or gender, were mobilized. In three days, nearly 500 people were killed and countless injured. Yan Siqi roughly estimated that there were more than 6000 corpses outside the commercial hall fortress. Tool,