The Sun Never Sets Great China

After the army of the Chinese Empire and the Portuguese soldiers defeated the Johoreans, all the territory in Malacca was seized by the Chinese Empire. Dare to attack here again, Zhang Nianshan, the head of the Nanyang Intelligence Department, who received instructions from Zhang Huahanxin, came to Malacca Mountain City and had a secret talk with Rafael. Finally, the two signed a treaty between the two countries, which stated that Malacca was a part of the Chinese Empire. Land, however, the Portuguese have the priority of commerce and trade with the Chinese Empire. All the ports of the Chinese Empire can berth a small number of Portuguese merchant ships. The two thousand Portuguese finally boarded their only two remaining ships and the Chinese Revolutionary Army Fifteen Dutch warships captured from the Blue Army and given to them returned home. As for Raphael, who did not want to join Zhang Huahan, he also went back to his homeland, where he had his home, because of the trade with the Chinese Empire. Priority, although he will definitely be demoted when he goes back, he will never be dismissed, because he is named as a middleman in the treaty between the Portuguese and the Chinese Empire. He will not give up at all and will reuse him.

Shi Lang left a huge battleship with 72 cannons for the soldiers in Malacca, plus fifteen small and medium ships, it was enough to defend Malacca.

Shi Lang set off with the main force. This army still has a lot to do. The Dutch have branches in Batavia (Jakarta), Java, Ambon, Japan and other places. Now that they have defeated the Dutch The main force, naturally, should take this opportunity to seize all the strongholds of the Dutch in Nanyang.

When Shi Lang's army arrived in the Lion City, he fired a few shots and scared away the Johoreans in the Lion City. He then took the Lion City over and directly appointed Mr. Liu as the city guard of the Lion City, leaving him behind. He hired 100 people to assist the guards, and left behind a batch of weapons snatched from the Dutch. More than 20 warships from the Dutch surrendered. There were more than 3000 muskets on these ships. He sent out guns, allocated [-] muskets to Mr. Liu, and he organized trusted people to form troops to guard the Lion City.

Mr. Liu's previous adventures were rewarded handsomely. With these 500 muskets, he could form a musket guard of [-] people, and he might not lose against tens of thousands of people in Johor. His influence has long surpassed that of the city lord. In case Johor invades, he can recruit more troops.

The 100 people left by Shi Lang to Mr. Liu were only used as instructors. After all, they belonged to the navy soldiers and could not be under the command of Mr. Liu for a long time. If the mountain city of Malacca is the head of the Strait of Malacca, then the Lion City is the tail of the Strait of Malacca. The mountain city of Malacca was occupied by the Chinese Imperial Army, and now with the Lion City, the Chinese Empire has completely controlled the Strait of Malacca.

Shi Lang's next goal is Batavia, which he has been coveting for a long time. Batavia is the second gateway to Southeast Asia and the Chinese Empire except for the Strait of Malacca. If only the Strait of Malacca is controlled, the Chinese Empire cannot He said that treating the South China Sea as his own inland sea and not controlling Batavia is equivalent to leaving a back door for others. European bandits can come in at any time. After Zhang Huahan heard that Shi Lang defeated the Dutch in Malacca, he issued an order to let Shi Lang Take this opportunity to win Batavia in one fell swoop.

Batavia is the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company in Asia. Before the Dutch, it was once controlled by the Portuguese. However, the Portuguese did not control it for long. In 1527, the local Muslims defeated the Portuguese fleet. Recaptured Gongda Galaba and renamed it Jakarta, which is the origin of Jakarta.At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Dutch, a sea coachman, set foot on Java Island. In the Ming Dynasty, in order to strengthen the sea power, the Dutch built a Galen-type three-masted gunship and named it Batavia. Carrying more than 300 prisoners released from the prison, they traveled from the port of Amsterdam to the Far East, came to Java Island, stopped at the westernmost tip of Java Island, and named it Batavia after the name of the ship.

Batavia was a famous seaport for exporting pepper and spices before. In another time and space where Zhang Huahan once lived, this name will be called for hundreds of years. It was not abolished until Indonesia became independent. Now the Dutch stay here For more than 30 years, it is facing the danger of being captured by the Chinese Empire.

The strength of the Dutch in Batavia is stronger than that of all South Asian strongholds. The maximum strength is more than 4, and there are more than 200 warships. Davia's Dutch army has less than [-] troops, and it is the weakest time.

The news of the defeat of the Dutch fleet in the Strait of Malacca against the Chinese Imperial Navy reached Batavia, which immediately caused chaos. There are still thousands of Dutch immigrants here. Now that the main force has been wiped out, all Dutch people are pessimistic Wake up, before the Chinese imperial army arrived, many people had already started fleeing in merchant ships.

It’s just that if there is no fleet escort, it is almost difficult to return to Europe alone. Tens of thousands of miles away, I don’t know how many pirates will be waiting on the road. He committed a crime and was sent here to make money for the country to make atonement.

So they can only flee to other branches of the Dutch East India Company. Ambon and New Guinea are good choices. However, Batavia was only in turmoil for a few days, and this kind of absconding was stopped because the Dutch garrison began Martial law was imposed on Batavia, and all the young and middle-aged men in the city were recruited to prepare to defend Batavia.

The Supreme Governor of the East India Company, Putt, left with the main force and never returned. The Governor of Batavia, Madbeer, and the remaining Supreme Commander, the Dutch Lieutenant Colonel Lambert Rigo, temporarily took over all the powers of Batavia. The two persuaded those Dutch who wanted to escape or surrender to agree to defend the city, and others did not agree, and Madbil held all the military power in his hands.

Madbier and Langbirigo never thought of running away or surrendering. Apart from the honor that Langbijirigo thought of themselves as soldiers, it was also because Madbier and Langbijirigo would not be guaranteed their lives even if they were afraid of surrendering. Both of them had the blood of the Han people and Taiwanese ethnic minorities on their hands.

In order to monopolize the trade, the former governor of Batavia, Kuhn, regarded Daming as an aborigine in Southeast Asia, and sent notes to the Ming Dynasty many times, demanding that the Ming Dynasty give the Dutch the sole right to trade.After being rejected, Lang Biji Rigo led nine large warships to harass the coast of China. They were repelled by the Ming army but were unwilling to fail, and attacked Chinese civilians and civilian ships everywhere.In a short period of time, 600 Chinese ships were robbed, more than 1500 strong men were robbed as slaves, and countless coastal people were killed.

Some of these slaves were captured in Taiwan to build a city, and some were sent to Batavia as coolies. Nearly 300 slaves were transported to Batavia, but only more than 120 people arrived alive.Several years have passed now, and there are only more than 40 slaves transported from the coast of China.

After the establishment of the Chinese Empire, Kuhn, whose head was kicked by a dog, also suggested sending troops to conquer the Chinese Empire. He completely ignored the battle on the Yangtze River. The Chinese Revolutionary Army Navy also caused huge losses to the Dutch fleet. When people are not crazy, they refuse to obey his orders to deal with the Chinese Empire, and directly reflect the strength of the Chinese Empire to the country. The Dutch already know that the navy of the Chinese Empire is not vegetarian. Under the suggestion of Derinsen de Knight, the King of the Netherlands personally ordered Kuhn to be transferred back immediately, and gave Kuhn a comment: "Although he is far-sighted, it is too whimsical."

After Kuhn left, Putt, who succeeded Kuhn, did not give up his attempt to monopolize trade, and only then did he capture the Portuguese mountain city. After taking down the Portuguese mountain city, both channels were in the hands of the Dutch, and they almost directly monopolized the trade. Trade throughout Southeast Asia also charges tolls for each vessel.

I just didn’t expect that the Portuguese would really dare to come and take back Malacca, and the Chinese Imperial Army also intervened. The powerful Chinese Imperial Navy made the Dutch reinforcements a complete failure. It’s just that the Dutch have been operating in Batavia for more than ten years. After building a solid city, there are [-] regular troops. In Europe, such a force is already very large. This is why Madbeer is confident to stick to it. Besides, he does not believe that the huge fleet led by Putt will defeat the entire army. Destroyed, maybe it was just a temporary retreat, and it won't be long before it will come back again.

Shi Lang led the fleet to anchor in Palembang for one night, and then launched an attack on Batavia. The warships captured by Shi Lang from the Dutch remained in Lion City for the time being. He still had more than 430 warships in his hands. There are more than 9000 people, and it can be said that the regular army with only 1000 recruits in Batavia's company can be said to be a sledgehammer, and the Chinese Imperial Navy has just defeated the main force of the Dutch. They were defeated like chickens and dogs. The navy officers and soldiers were somewhat careless. They didn't pay attention to the strong city of Batavia. Take Batavia.

The Dutch have solid fortifications in Batavia, and they have a lot of artillery. Lambert Rigo removed all the artillery from the dozens of battleships left in Batavia, and even Batavia The Ya number was not spared, and more than 850 naval artillery pieces were placed on the Batavia city wall. There are not only thousands of artillery pieces on the Batavia city wall, but also [-] giant shore artillery pieces. It is the latest weapon for the Dutch to deal with the enemy navy on the shore. Its range and power are farther than the artillery on the ship with the longest range, and its power is extremely powerful. Ship firepower has become the world's first.

The Imperial Chinese Navy didn't know that the Dutch's artillery fire was so powerful when it first attacked, and it immediately suffered a big loss. The artillery fire on the high stone-built city wall of Batavia was overwhelming. Although the total number of artillery pieces of the Imperial Chinese fleet is many times greater than that of Batavia, those ships can only fire upwards at sea, while the Dutch's artillery is condescending on the high city wall of Batavia. With the advantage of a city wall more than ten meters thick, shells rained down on the fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy. After several rounds of bombardment, two small ships in the Chinese Navy fleet were hit by more than ten shells and several giant shore artillery pieces. The cannonballs were sunk, and even the iron armor on the deck was penetrated and completely distorted or even melted. The power of that giant cannon is really terrifying.

Seeing this situation, Shi Lang felt that something was wrong. The Dutch’s artillery fire was still fierce. He hurriedly ordered the troops to retreat. After checking, they found that more than 200 naval soldiers were killed and injured after their shelling just now, almost comparable to the losses in the Malacca naval battle. Well, one more ship sank than in the Malacca naval battle. Fortunately, the two destroyed warships were two small boats with only ten cannons and dozens of people, and half of the crew were rescued.

The Chinese Empire's attack on Batavia was actually the same as the Portuguese's attack on the Dutch's Malacca. The strength of the two sides was very different, but one side had a strong city, and the Portuguese used [-] troops to attack [-] troops. It took more than half a month for the Dutch mountain city of Malacca to fail to take it down. Instead, it was surrounded by reinforcements quickly mobilized by the Dutch. Now the Chinese Empire is facing fiercer firepower, stronger walls, more troops, and greater strength. How could the powerful Batavia conquer it as soon as it came.

The victory of the first battle made the Dutch in the city cheer, but Lang Biji Lige was not excited. He knew that the next time would be the real hard time, and the governor of Batavia who was about to escape when the city was broken Madbeer and Vice-Governor Paul also cheered. As long as they successfully defend the city, the Dutch reinforcements will naturally come in a steady stream. Unlike their ideas, Rambijirigo believes that it is impossible for the Dutch reinforcements to come. Because all the troops in the Dutch strongholds in Southeast Asia have been withdrawn, where are there reinforcements to send, and domestic reinforcements?Wait, it will probably come after a year, and he may not know who Batavia belongs to by then.

After Shi Lang saw the powerful firepower of the Dutch in the city, he gave up his plan for a quick battle, and honestly sent the marines to land on Java Island, cut off Batavia's connection with the outside world, and surrounded Batavia. Dig trenches and set up positions for a long-term siege.

Seeing the troops of the Chinese Empire digging trenches, even though Langbijirigo knew that going on like this would be detrimental to the defense of the city, there was nothing he could do about it. Batavia only occupied a small part of Java Island, and he had no troops to prevent the troops of the Chinese Empire from landing. Now he can only hold on and wait for the arrival of domestic reinforcements to be able to break through, but when will the Dutch reinforcements come?The flowers that won't wait don't come when they bloom and thank you.

Every day, Shi Lang sent several ironclad ships with the longest range to shoot artillery shells at the city to consume the ammunition in the opponent's city. Anyway, the Chinese Empire has a strong supply capacity. As long as the ammunition in the city is exhausted, it will be easy to capture Batavia. Facing the bombardment of the Chinese Empire, the city had to respond. If the gunboats of the Chinese Empire continued to bombard, no matter how strong the city wall was, it would collapse. Therefore, the firepower of the Chinese Empire's gunboats must be suppressed. Batavia is full of gunfire, and black invitations of death are flying in the sky.

With the Battle of Batavia, the Strait of Malacca became busy again. The Chinese Empire began to set up checkpoints in the Lion City and issue ship guides. All ships passing through the Strait of Malacca needed ship guides issued by the Ministry of Finance of the Chinese Empire to enter and exit. Obtaining ship guides is a must. Pay a certain tax according to the value of the goods shipped.

And the Portuguese ships are also due to the treaty. As long as their ships are issued with the certificate of the Portuguese country, the Chinese Empire will issue the ship guides for free. The Chinese Empire also collects taxes on human ships, and if they don’t charge them now, they won’t be able to collect them in the future.

The Imperial Chinese Navy also announced that Malacca would be set as a free port, and no repeated fees would be charged. For these merchant ships, when Malacca was in the hands of the Portuguese, they still had to pay silver, and they could only enter and exit the Strait of Malacca after getting the boat lead. Now it is only a place to pay. It's nothing serious to change from Malacca to Lion City, but for the Chinese Empire, Chuanyin's income is considered a huge sum.

After all the merchant ships were moored in the Lion City, the Lion City became prosperous at a visible speed, and the shipping tax collected here was more than enough to support the Chinese Imperial Navy's long-term siege of Batavia.

The siege of Batavia by the Chinese Imperial Navy aroused the idea of ​​the Spaniards. Spain is an old colonial power that once monopolized the maritime trade. Portugal, the Netherlands, and many other countries that are now maritime powers were once his vassal states. , Later, the Dutch formed the land and sea "beggar army" to resist the Spaniards to supply themselves. Although the Netherlands has declared independence, Spain has not recognized it.

Of course, the Dutch and the Spaniards were hostile. The Dutch followed the British closely. They had robbed Spanish merchant ships many times, and they also robbed the colonies that originally belonged to Spain in Asia. For this reason, Spain was not to be outdone. Manila, Spain (Luzon Island) The governor once wanted to compete with the Dutch for Taiwan. Until the Zheng family's army occupied Taiwan, the two navies had fought several times.

It’s just that Manila’s merchant ships still have to return to Europe through Batavia or the Strait of Malacca. If the Strait of Malacca is in the hands of the Portuguese, Portugal is still a vassal state of the Spanish. Later, this vassal state was suddenly defeated by the Dutch and the Dutch occupied it. Batavia or the Strait of Malacca is already making the Spaniards uncomfortable. If the Strait of Malacca and Batavia fall into the hands of the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire can cut off the connection between the Malani colony and the mainland at any time, which means that the lifeblood is at stake. They would rather be in the hands of the Dutch than let the Chinese Empire control their lifeline.

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