Dragon Sea Empire

When Jinghai Wang Yinfeng and the Chinese Army focused their attention on Liaodong.The Nanyang region, which has just been quiet for a few years, has once again set off a war.It was the Malay sultanates who took the lead.Including Aceh on the island of Sumatra.Johor and Pattani in the Malay Peninsula.The cause was that several small Malay sultans in Borneo were destroyed by the Chinese pioneer group in Sinya state, and the remnants of the original Madaram sultan on Java island rebelled in the name of Islamic jihad. .

The Chinese already had great influence in Borneo.Because there are gold mines there.Therefore, the Chinese pioneering groups came to this land of dense tropical rainforest one after another.The pioneer group will do anything for gold.Except Brunei Sultan, which has a good relationship with the Chinese United Corporation.As a result, many small sultan states were wiped out by the Chinese pioneering group.The first month of the second year of Tianqi.Among them, the prince of a small state ran to Aceh before destroying the country.It successfully aroused the anti-China sentiment of Aceh people.This is the direct reason why Aceh took the lead in attacking Malacca.

on the other hand.After the Second Battle of Java.That is, after the last Nanyang War.The Dutch were expelled and the state of Madalaland was destroyed.The city of Batavia of the Dutch East India Company was occupied by the Chinese Army.It was called Jakarta again.The Java tutelary government was formally established.Four counties including East, Central, South and South Java were established.The island has fertile land after volcanic ash and a climate suitable for rice and sugarcane cultivation.Attracted a large number of Chinese immigrants to come.The original Chinese families in Cirebon, Surabaya and other places all gave their allegiance to the Chinese Army.Some became magistrates.After a few years.Hundreds of thousands of Chinese arrived in batches.It will reach more than 20 within five years.Most of them are victims of disasters in the north of the Yangtze River and poor people in Fujian and other places.Businessmen from Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong also followed the immigrants to Java.Some salt merchants from Lianghuai and Zhejiang merchants came to Java Island with a lot of money.Great purchases of land.A large farm run by Chinese was opened.

The Malays on the island were originally divided into several states.There is no sense of national unity.Ordinary people are a mess.Therefore, a large area of ​​land in the north of Java Island was quickly confiscated by the Chinese army.The Malays offered little resistance.These fine lands were auctioned off to various Chinese merchants.Or establish an immigrant farm directly under the Chinese company.Or the Chinese Army military base.

soon.Some Quanzhou Hui businessmen also came to Jakarta.These people brought trouble to the Chinese army's rule of Java Island.Among the main director-level bosses within the China United Company.People from Quanzhou and surrounding areas of Quanzhou account for the majority.therefore.Huihui merchants in Quanzhou received strong support from the Java tutelary government and the Nanyang branch of the Chinese company.Soon, it occupied half of the wholesale trade of bulk goods in Cirebon, Surabaya, Banten and other places.

Hui businessmen from all over the south of the Yangtze River rushed to Java Island one after another.Many Chinese Muslim residential areas were built.Mosques with Chinese prayers appeared on the island of Java.

Actually.before the middle of the fifteenth century.The main Muslim preachers in Java Island are all Chinese Hui people from Yunnan and other places in the past.With the support of Zheng He's fleet in the Ming Dynasty.The non-Muslim Chinese armed forces were wiped out.Chinese Muslim groups were propped up.The Chinese Muslim community of the Hanafi sect has become the center for the spread of Islam in Java Island.Chinese Muslims became the mentors of all Malay believers.Local believers use Chinese when praying in the mosque.mixed with Arabic.After the voyage to the West stopped.The weakening of trade has led to the decline of the Hanafi Chinese Muslim communities in Southeast Asian countries.The mosques in the Chinese Muslim community have also gradually transformed into San Bao Gong Temple.There are fewer and fewer Chinese Muslims in Semarang, Angola and other places.at last.Those Islamic clerics gave up the practice of preaching in Chinese.Started preaching prayers in Javanese.Vigorously develop the local Muslim community.

Quanzhou Hui people came to Java.It was the return of Chinese Muslims to Java after nearly 150 years.New Chinese-Muslim communities built new Chinese-language mosques.Hui imams uphold the purpose of their ancestors.Also open to all Aboriginal Muslims.Quanzhou Hui merchants centered on mosques.Opened many factories and shops.Recruit natives to work for them.A large number of Javanese natives who lost their land became Chinese hired labor.He also started to pray in mosques that preach in Chinese.

This directly violated the interests of the top Islamic clerics on Java Island - their income was greatly reduced.

Although the patriarch of the teachings of the indigenous Muslims in Java is indeed the Chinese Hui imam.But at this moment, most of the native regimes on Java Island have declined and collapsed.The only thing that can maintain the unified relationship of the original ruling class of Java Island is Islam.Those indigenous Muslim clerics are the link to maintain the indigenous high-level.Their dissatisfaction resonated with the ruling classes of the original sultanates.Therefore, when the Chinese Army's Northern Expedition to Jurchen Eight Banners started.Religious riots broke out in Java.Under the leadership of indigenous Muslim priests.Use sectarian disputes as an excuse.The aborigines intercepted locals who went to worship in Chinese mosques.Then attack the Hui mosque.Then there is the burning and killing of the Chinese Muslim community and all Chinese areas.

First up is Semarang.Then there is Surabaya.Riots in the name of religion spread to Cirebon, Jakarta, and Banten within a few days.throughout the entire Java Island.Chinese militias from all over the country, including the Zhuang Ding team, the security team, and the pioneering group organized resistance.All of a sudden wars were raging all over the island of Java again.

A prince of the former Madalan Sultan of Java took advantage of the chaos and fled to the Kingdom of Aceh in Sumatra.Ask Aceh for help.Aceh people are planning to attack Malacca.No time to go to Java to help.He encouraged the Sultan of Old Port, which was allied against China, to send troops to help the Javanese.

The coalition forces of the various sultanates in southern Sumatra began to gather in Palembang.Attack the Chinese district in Palembang.at the same time.The Palembang army crossed the sea to attack Banten and Jakarta.

The first month of the second year of Apocalypse.When the Liaodong War was temporarily over.The anti-Chinese riots of the Malays in various parts of Southeast Asia officially escalated into a war against the Chinese King Jinghai.

Wu Hao, the guardian envoy of the Java tutelary government.It was originally the captain of Li Lihua's guard.The hero of the last Nanyang War in the defense of the Cirebon Commercial Hall.Zu Guangxian, commander of the Java Brigade of the Chinese Army based in Jakarta.During the last South Seas War.He was originally a sentry commander of the Nanyang Brigade stationed in the city of Cirebon.

These few have been stationed in Java for a long time.He is the commander who is most familiar with the situation in Java in the Chinese Army.They know very well the actual situation of the scattered people in Java.Although this time the anti-China riots in Java were linked by religion.However, there are still Javanese feudal lords in East Java, such as Pasuruan and Pachang, who stand on the side of the Chinese.These Javanese feudal lords were originally feuds of the Madalan Sultan family.After receiving the weapon assistance from the Surabaya Chinese family.When Madalan rebels attacked Surabaya they raided their rear.Help the Chinese defend the city of Surabaya.

Wu Hao, Zu Guangxian, etc. did not pay much attention to the aboriginal riots within their jurisdiction at the beginning.But after things went wrong.Immediately contact those Javanese feudal lords who usually make good friends with Chinese.The anti-China rebels, mainly former Madalan people, made every move.Basically, the Chinese Army got the news.The Chinese Army and various militias adjusted their deployment in time.With a small force, stick to the solid fortresses of farms and immigrant villages in various places.The main force of the Nanyang Brigade is stationed in major cities.Important cities and ports such as Surabaya, Semarang, Cirebon, Jakarta, and Banten.It is also a major Chinese business center.Both withstood the first wave of attacks by the Javanese insurgents.

With the arrival of Nanyang Fleet reinforcements.And the Chinese pioneering group formed by the Chinese in Surabaya, the East Javanese, and the Balinese allied forces began to attack.The situation in Java began to turn around in March of the second year of Tianqi.With the help of the Chinese armed forces and indigenous allies in various parts of Java, the Marine Corps of the Nanyang Fleet.Turned from defense to offense one after another.

Malacca is the main base of the Nanyang Fleet.In the first year of the apocalypse.The main part of the Nanyang Fleet followed Zheng Zhilong, the chief of the fortress, to attack Ceylon Island.One will return to Guangdong and other places to support the Taiwan Fleet whose main force went northward to Liaodong.therefore.At the beginning of the Malay rebellion in various parts of Nanyang.Only one battleship and a dozen brigantine gunboats of the Nanyang Fleet were stationed in the Malacca Fortress.And two battalions of 1000 infantry from the Malacca Fortress Garrison Regiment.The main force of the garrison followed Zheng Zhilong to Ceylon Island to fight the Dutch.in addition.There are also Johor, Malacca Chinese Entrepreneurship Missions, and regiments training militias from Chinese farms in various places in Malacca.The total number of militia armed with various weapons is about 2000.

Due to lack of troops.In the first month of the second year of the Apocalypse, Malays rebelled in various parts of Southeast Asia starting from Java Island.For the Chinese Army in Malacca City.A little caught off guard.In the early days, it was just rebellions in Java and southern Sumatra.The Malacca Chinese Army dispatched troops and rushed to Java Island first.

Lin Shuisheng, deputy chief of the Nanyang Fleet and captain of the Nanyang Sailor Marine Corps who stayed at the fortress in Malacca, did not expect the Malay rebellion to sweep across Nanyang at first.After he received urgent news from Java.He personally led most of the ships of the Nanyang Fleet staying in Malacca to attack Java.Only the battleship Flying Eagle and several brigantine Fuchuan gunboats were left to garrison at the mouth of the Malacca River.He also took away more than a hundred artillerymen from some of the Malacca garrison regiment.

In February, the South China Sea blows northerly winds.Due to the war in Java.A large number of Chinese merchant ships are headed for Malacca.Merchant ships from Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and other countries also avoided the ports of Banten and Jakarta. .Gathered in the Straits of Malacca.

Just when merchant ships gathered in Malacca.When businessmen from all over the world do business.Aceh, together with Pattani and other small Malay states, launched an attack together.Attack on Malacca.

If it weren't for Zhao Xuanming's sixth division stationed in Xinyazhou, West Borneo, just came to Malacca.Bring a regiment from the Sixth Division.Merchants from various countries in Malacca are likely to suffer heavy losses.At that time, the commander of the Malacca Fortress of the Chinese Army was Major Zhang Wei of the Infantry Army.Ten years ago, he was a post chief of Zhao Xuanming's "Iron Wall Group".Participated in the war against Japan's Satsuma domain.

The Aceh people had sent hundreds of people disguised as aboriginal businessmen to sneak into Malacca in advance.

The fortress of Malacca is indeed well-defended.Dozens of people from Aceh who suddenly launched riots in the city of Malacca and the estuary trade market took advantage of the chaos and rushed into the castle.Almost took over the whole city.Zhang Wei is currently inspecting the south gate.He led his guards and rushed directly up.At the narrow gate of the fortress, the Aceh people who rushed into the gate of the fort were hacked to death one by one.subsequently.He sent out an emergency firework signal.The first shot of the defense of the fortress was fired on the top of the fortress hill.

The Malacca fortress was expanded on the basis of the A Famosa castle left by the original Portuguese.This A Famosa (meaning "famous") castle was built after the Portuguese captured Malacca in 1511.After the fall of Malacca.Portuguese general ALFONSOD ALBUQUERQUE immediately forced labor and prisoners to build a temporary blockhouse to defend against Malay attacks.At the same time they began to build the main castle.This is the castle that came to be known as "A Famosa" and officially "The Fortaleza de Malaca" (Fortress of Malacca).

It took five months to build A Famosa.period.Because of the hot weather and lack of food.Many workers died here.The raw materials for the construction of the castle came from the demolished Malay tombstones and mosques and other buildings.The completed castle has four bastions.The city wall is 2.4 meters thick.By 1583.Malacca has become a well-defended city.There are 70 cannons facing in different directions.It was once known as "the strongest fortress in Southeast Asia".It has also become a symbol of fear among the locals.

on the basis of.The Portuguese continued to expand A Famosa around. When A Famosa was the largest, it included the southern half of Malacca City in the hands of the Chinese.The Portuguese also turned the castle into a Christian city.They built five churches inside.a chapel.a monastery.A hospital and the palace of bishops and officials.

After the Chinese United Company occupied Malacca.The fort defense system has been expanded.French and Italian engineers hired from Western Europe, as well as countless Malay and Chinese laborers, built the new city of Malacca.Extended its walls and rebuilt the strongest estuary castle at the mouth of the estuary.

The first day of the defense of Malacca.It is the eight cannons on the estuary castle that fire fifty catties of iron bullets and cannonballs.Cooperating with the Flying Eagle battleship of the Nanyang Fleet, they repelled the hundreds of burning ships that the Aceh people attacked the Strait of Malacca.Hundreds of merchant ships from various countries took the opportunity to flee in all directions.

The commanding height of Malacca is Sanbaoshan, which is a Chinese cemetery.and St. Paul's Hill, where St. Paul's Church is located.St. Paul's Hill was originally called "Malacca Hill".After the Portuguese occupied Malacca.The mountain was renamed "Mount of the Virgin Mary".St. Paul's Church was originally a chapel.It is called "Our Lady's Chapel" by the grape people in Malacca.Because with its condescending strategic position, it can prevent enemy forces from attacking from the South China Sea.Therefore, it is also known as the "Chapel of Our Lady on the Hill".This is the oldest Catholic church in Malacca.

After the first day's attack failed.The Aceh army crossed the strait by night.Meet up with the Johorese.Plus the Pattani army who came later.The four-month siege of Malacca began.