Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 429 The Far East Is Already Invincible
The name Sumatra actually comes from Suventana.

Because there was a Suventana country here in the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty who sent envoys to Dadu to pay tribute, so this place has been called Suventana since the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty.

In fact, during the Tang and Song Dynasties, the Central Plains Dynasty generally called it Jinzhou.

This Jinzhou Island is really quite big. To be precise, its length from north to south is more than [-] miles, and its width from east to west is more than [-] miles.

However, the population of this island is not large, at least at the moment the population of the island is not large. Although its area is larger than the entire territory of Japan, the population here is not as high as [-]% of the population of Japan.

If it weren't for Liang Daoming's establishment of the new Sanfo Qi Temple here, so that a large number of Nanyang adherents gathered here, the population here is estimated to be hundreds of thousands at most!

As for the reason, it is probably because the forest here is too dense, and there are not many places suitable for farming.

It has to be said that the size of the world is full of wonders.

There is no cultivated land on this island, which is larger than the entire Japan!

On the flagship, Taichang kept turning the binoculars and scanned the huge Jinzhou Island. Except for the beach, it was almost covered with forests, and the dense virgin forest almost covered the entire island!
He has already learned about it in detail.

Although Jinzhou Island is large, it is difficult to develop.

Because here is not only densely forested, but there is no natural good port on the coast. Except for the old port, there is almost no way to build ports in other places.

As for the reason, it is said that the waves are too big, and the huge waves hit the coast all the year round, so that the coast here is almost all long sandy beaches, and there are almost no deep-water harbors.

Most of the remnants on the island live along the river, and they are scattered everywhere. It may take at least a month to gather together.

After all, this is a big island with a length of three to four thousand miles. In addition to the length of the river that goes deep into the island, it would take more than ten days for the Spike warship to sail to the gathering place of the survivors farthest from the old port.

Naturally, Taichang didn't have time to wait here.

Therefore, he directly left [-] Spike Warships to gather the remnants here, and left [-] Dragon Fang Warships and [-] Shenji Battalion infantry stationed in the old port, and then took the remaining ships and [-] The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion went straight to Mancijia's original royal city.

Mancijia is actually Malacca or Malacca, but it was generally called Mancijia in the Ming Dynasty.

Its royal city is on the northern shore of the central part of the Strait of Malacca.

However, their royal city had already been captured by the Portuguese, and now it was occupied by the Dutch and became a stronghold of the Dutch in the Far East.

As for the royal family of the Manchuka Kingdom, it is said that they were beaten by the Portuguese and the Dutch so that no one could be found.

This Manthorna actually turned to the strength of Persia and Dashi to destroy the real Sanfoqi, the real vassal state of Ming Dynasty. Naturally, Taichang would not care about the life and death of its royal family.

This time, he came to capture the stronghold of the Dutch, build a city fortress, and guard the Strait of Malacca.

The old port is still quite far from Malacca, more than [-] miles, and it is definitely not possible to reach it in a day.

Therefore, Taichang did not order the fleet to travel day and night.

On the first day, they just rushed to the densely-packed archipelago in front of the entrance of the Strait of Malacca, and then found a sheltered harbor to dock for one night.

Early the next morning, the fleet continued to set off, and soon passed through the archipelago to the entrance of the Strait of Malacca.

At this time, Taichang couldn't help but turned the telescope to the north, and swept towards the tip of the protruding peninsula.

In later generations, there was a well-known port city or country here.

As for why this place became a well-known port city, he just took a quick glance and understood.

Because the terrain here is particularly suitable for building large ports, at least it is more suitable for building large ports than the coast of Jinzhou Island.

However, the purpose of their trip is not here, their destination is the city of Malacca, which is still hundreds of miles away from the city of Malacca.

The fleet entered the Strait of Malacca and continued northward for about four hours, finally arriving at the city of Malacca.

This can be regarded as an important stronghold of the Dutch in the Far East, so the defense seems to be much stronger than the Old Port.

The Dutch built a bastion directly next to the port. Although the area is not as large as the two bastions in Batavia, the terrain is relatively high. Moreover, in addition to more than ten armed merchant ships, there are several ordinary warships in the port.

The Dutch here seem to have no intention of surrendering. After the Ming Navy fleet entered the port, they even gathered all the armed merchant ships and warships near the bastion, putting on a strict guard!

It may be that the number of ships in the Daming Navy fleet has decreased by nearly half, and it is not scary enough. These guys still want to rely on the bastion to resist?

Taichang just glanced around and ordered decisively: "Order, twenty Aegis ships approach the bastion from the front, and shoot ten rounds directly at the first and second floors of the bastion."

The bastion here doesn't have many cannons, and the muzzle is obviously not as big as the artillery in the Batavia's bastion.

It can be clearly seen through the telescope that the artillery here is mostly twelve-pound guns, and there are not many 24-pound guns.

This bit of artillery should not be able to break through the defense of the Aegis ship.

He was just about to test how strong the defense of the Aegis ship was. These Dutchmen didn't surrender, so they just drove up and blasted head-on!
After waving the flag, twenty steel fortress-like Aegis ships immediately rushed out, heading straight for the Dutch bastion.

This time, the Aegis ship rushed up from the front, and it happened to be within the bombardment range of their artillery, so they would naturally not be polite.

"Boom boom boom."

The Aegis ship had only approached the opponent's bastion for about five miles, and had just started to turn horizontally, when the artillery fired from the opponent's bastion.

There are only forty or fifty artillery pieces in this bastion, and the accuracy is not very good. After the shells hit, most of them landed on the sea around the Aegis ship. Only a few shells actually hit the Aegis ship. side.

Obviously, these shells must not be able to break through the defense of the Aegis ship.

"Boom boom boom."

Immediately afterwards, there was a more intense roar of artillery, and twenty Aegis ships fired thousands of shells in a broadside salvo, all of which smashed into the opposite bastion.

This time, the inside of the Dutch bastion was literally splashed with rubble and flying corpses, and even some artillery pieces were lifted off the fort and fell to the ground.

Taichang didn't react when he saw this, he had seen thousands of cannons fired, he had also seen the scene where the shells smashed into the densely packed enemy formation, this kind of small scene was naturally nothing to him.

Zhang Zhiji and the others were too excited. The four of them put their heads in front of the telescope. You looked at it, and I looked at it. Their faces were flushed with excitement.

It seems that this is the first time they have seen the scene of artillery bombardment, so they are naturally very excited.

In fact, this cannot be called artillery confrontation.

Because the Dutch also fired a round of shells and messed up.

They were still breechloaded, and after each shot they had to clean out the barrel, pour powder, compact it, load it with shells, connect the fuses, and then fire again.

This process, no matter how proficient and quick it is, it will take at least 1 minute.

Moreover, it cannot be attacked while loading ammunition. Once it is attacked, it will be messed up.

The Thor cannons on the Aegis ship are all breech-loaded, and the gunpowder, shells and fuses have been loaded in advance. You only need to open the gun door, withdraw the shell casings inside, and then push the loaded shells in. Close the cannon door to fire.

The most important Aegis ship is protected by iron armor, and the enemy's shells can't hit them at all. It's no problem for them to continuously load shells and fire.

Therefore, the Aegis ship continued to roar, and the shells were smashed in waves one after another, while the Netherlands was so smashed that it could not be loaded with ammunition at all, and it just misfired after a round of salvo.

In this case, there is no need to fight at all.

The side of the Aegis ship fired ten rounds of salvo, and nearly ten thousand shells whizzed past, and the inside of the Dutch bastion was already smashed into a mess.

Not to mention how many gunners were smashed to death, the forty or fifty cannons were basically smashed to one side, ammunition was scattered everywhere, and some forts were even destroyed.

This is completely being beaten, and there is no point in resisting it.

Soon, the Dutch waved the white flag.

This time, they probably didn't want to negotiate, but surrendered directly.

Seeing this, Taichang couldn't help smiling.

Daming is already invincible in the Far East, and it is only a matter of time before it takes control of Nanyang.

As for the so-called great powers in Europe, take your time.

(End of this chapter)