1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 143 Interpretation of the War
"Help Champa against the Annan Ruan clan?" When Cao Xiong arrived at Phu Quoc Island, Qi Dajiang had already taken the first few boats to rest for a day, and immediately sent the hungry people who had been recuperating here for more than a month. , loaded the ship, and departed for Batavia.

At present, only Luo Daqi's "Tuochan No. 1" and Luo Rucheng's "Tuochan No. 2" are docked at Phu Quoc Island.They had just returned from Chenla on the opposite bank with two shipments of grain and products.The food was reserved for more than 2000 hungry people on Fuguo Island, and the products purchased from Chenla were prepared to be traded in Guangzhou, and by the way, nearly 400 hungry people stranded in Guangzhou were brought back.

"Yes, Lord Cao!" Hu Pingjiang said: "We are only a few people, how dare we intervene in this kind of battle between countries.... Last time, I excused you not being here, so I evaded it. Unexpectedly, After seven or eight days, they came again. Wanting us to help them, they promised to give gold, silver, or even a piece of land. I made an excuse that you were not here, but they stayed here. ...look over there, they're coming."

Cao Xiong looked sideways and saw a few black and thin natives rushing over here.

"General, save me Champa!" He Liba imitated Ming's etiquette, cupped his hands, and bent down deeply, "Champa is about to perish!"

Cao Xiong looked at the Zhancheng envoy in official uniform in astonishment, and when he heard the message from the interpreter, he couldn't help but look at Luo Rucheng and Luo Daqi who rushed over.

He Liba was quite embarrassed at this time, he gave a deep salute, you should come and give me a hand, or in other words, your envoy is exempt!What do you mean by being so silent?
"We are not the Ming Dynasty's army, and we don't have many troops, so we may not be able to save you Zhancheng!" Cao Xiong replied after pondering for a moment.

"Ah?" He Liba took advantage of the situation and stood up straight. He expected that the opponent was not an officer.Because, the camp they stationed on the island did not have any flags of the Ming Dynasty's officers and soldiers at all, and the big ships that came did not have the flags of the Daming Navy.

However, after all, you have several thousand people here, and six or seven large ships, which can play a considerable role in resisting the Annan navy.

"Then... can this great king help me occupy the city and attack the Annan navy together. I will thank you for occupying the entire city!" He Liba thought that since you are not an official army of the Ming Dynasty, then you must be occupying the island and looting pirates.

Since they are pirates, then we in Champa will hire you to fight against the Annan Navy, it's okay.After He Liba finished speaking, he looked at Cao Xiong expectantly.

Cao Xiong shook his head, just now he had been thinking about it for a long time, after a little comparison, he couldn't fight at all.Our foundation is in Hanzhou, and we have traveled thousands of miles to occupy the city for you, and rashly got involved in the struggle with Annan. Although it is only half of the Annan regime, it is not something that my small body can provoke.

"Forgive me, your envoy. We really have more than enough energy, so we can't help you occupy the city." Cao Xiong clearly refused.

He Liba originally wanted to continue persuading him, but seeing Cao Xiong's decisive expression, he couldn't help but sighed.Zhancheng is now in a hurry to go to the doctor. As long as there is any influence that can be used, they all want to give it a try.Chenla in the west refused to save him, and Daming in the far north did not respond. Is Champa just waiting to die like this?
Now Annan is divided into two, the northern Zheng is the master, and the southern Ruan is the master.In order to fight against Lord Zheng in the north, the Ruan family could not spare more energy to fight the idea of ​​Champa, so that Champa could survive.However, the Ruan family continued to infiltrate and eat away at Champa's land. If it goes on for a long time, how far can Champa retreat to the south?
With deep disappointment, Heliba returned to Champa by boat, and did not take away the ivory, rhino horn, ebony and other gifts he brought.

Cao Xiong didn't pay much attention to Zhancheng's thoughts, he asked Hu Pingjiang to organize to ship a group of hungry people who had been recuperating for a long time on board, and asked him to guard the island.Except for the ships of the Dutch East India Company who can land on the island, no one is allowed to wait for the island.As for the transfer of immigrants, it is natural to abandon the island.

For Luo Rucheng and other personnel who returned to Guangzhou Bay to pick up the hungry people, they were told that after they transported the people to the island, they would speed up the transfer to Batavia.At that time, Cao Xiong's "Kai Kai" and Qi Dajiang's "Xing Han" will return to Hanzhou with the immigrants first.They will bring more than 200 armed men trained by Hanzhou to Batavia, and they will attack the Kingdom of Aceh with the Dutch East India Company.

While Cao Xiong and his party were rushing to transport the population, the Philippine Governor's Office in Manila was listening to a serious briefing.

"So, do you confirm that the ship that appeared in Jinghao is the Santa Cruz?" Luis Das Marina, the Spanish Governor in the Philippines, looked seriously at the commander of the Far East Fleet, Colonel Rorscheidt, and several naval officers behind him. officer.

Colonel Rohrscheidt tilted his head and signaled Major Sergio Galarza to answer the question.

"Your Excellency Governor, we are very sure that that ship is our former Santa Cruz." Sergio Galarza said: "We followed them all the way to Guangzhou in the Ming Dynasty, and then from the Ming Dynasty to Guangzhou. Guangzhou followed to the waters near Annan...Unfortunately, at that time they had two powerful warships and drove away our follower."

"After we returned to Guangzhou, the Ming country, we found out that they seemed to be emigrating and transporting a large number of Ming people to Batavia. I guessed that they were serving the Dutch. Because one of the two ships that drove us away The ship, obviously an East India Company ship."

"The Dutch took in those vile pirates?" asked Governor Luis das Marina.

"We have reason to think so."

Governor Luis Dasmarina listened and fell silent for a while.

"Yes, those pirates are serving the Dutch. But I don't think they will stay in Batavia all the time. The merchants in the Netherlands don't allow too many villains to act recklessly in his territory. Maybe... , Those pirates have a foothold. In that case, we can easily catch them all!" Colonel Rohrscheidt said.

He knew that His Excellency the Governor was worried about how to punish those pirates from the territory of the powerful Dutch East India Company, or catch them all.

Sure enough, Governor Luis Dasmarina's eyes lit up when he heard what Colonel Rorscheit said, and he smiled at him with satisfaction.

"The great Kingdom of Spain is inviolable, and the thugs must be severely punished. No matter where they hide, they must be found out and hanged on the Municipal Plaza in Manila. To warn any thugs and villains who dare to provoke the kingdom!" Louis Governor Dasmarina said loudly.

"Now, I command you to find those despicable pirates by any means possible! Then, we go and capture them back. For the king!"

Including Governor Luis Dasmarina and his Filipino officials, they all believe that finding the hideouts of those pirates may be a bit difficult.As for finding them, it is an extremely simple matter. Send out warships and troops to capture them back, and everything will be complete.In the Far East, only the Dutch seem to be slightly afraid of them.

The huge Ming country and the many Nanyang states seem to be out of the corner of their eyes.At sea, Spain is invincible.

Batavia, Town Hall, evening.

A meeting to assess the military operation against Aceh in July has come to an end.

The new Governor of Batavia, Anthony Van Dyman, is finally listening to the report on military deployment by Colonel Aryan Van Dijk, Commander of the Batavia Fleet.

"The attack site is located in the northern coastal area of ​​the Kingdom of Aceh, and the place called Jishuiwan (now Simawi City, Indonesia) was initially selected by the locals. According to preliminary investigations, there are 1 to [-] residents in this place, stationed There are about [-] to [-] soldiers. There are simple walls made of rammed earth and wood, and at that time, it may be necessary to carry artillery ashore to attack."

"For the navy, five professional warships, six armed merchant ships, and two servant armed merchant ships will be dispatched, making a total of 800 warships. The army will dispatch a total of 250 people, and the Batavia garrison will dispatch three One hundred musketeers, 250 spearmen, the servants will dispatch about [-] people, no less than one hundred musketeers..."

"Sorry to interrupt." Anthony Van Daiman frowned and said, "What kind of weapon is this servant?"

"Oh, Your Excellency the Governor, I'm very sorry, I forgot to explain to you." Colonel Aryan Van Dijk said with a smile: "This servant was last year. The company's non-staff armed forces. They own an island, about 500 days' voyage from Batavia. It is reported that they manage nearly a thousand people, five ships, and four to five hundred sailors and armed personnel."

"In the past year or so, they have indeed done a lot of things for the company. Well, they are good friends. Considering the uncertainty of attacking the shore of the Kingdom of Aceh this time, we are going to let their armed personnel rush to the front .”

After Anthony van Daiman listened, he nodded towards Ludwild sideways.Armed servants, heh, the East Indies will really find ways to save the company's funds.Hmm, not a bad idea.

Most of the Batavian garrisons are mercenaries from Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, Sweden and other countries and regions. They were pulled from Europe for thousands of miles, and it would be extremely uneconomical to lose them accidentally.Since there is ready-made cannon fodder, why not use it more?

Hanzhou, Montenegro Fort.

Yu Fukun is watching more than 200 Marine Corps soldiers practicing the cooperative combat mode between Musketeers, Spearmen and Short Soldiers.

The target of the Marine Corps' exercise is several groups of rural soldiers who follow and capture the aborigines, with a number of more than [-].

Since it was impossible to shoot live ammunition, the number of rural soldiers hit by muskets could only be determined based on the distance and speed of the two sides.In the end, the two sides joined the formation, using wooden knives and wooden spears, to carry out handover of soldiers.

Although the number of marines is small, with months of high-intensity training, even with the use of cold weapons, the local soldiers were still beaten back step by step.

"With this appearance, you should be able to pull it out to meet Zhenzhang!?" Yu Fukun murmured.

(End of this chapter)