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In the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, the East India Companies of England, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Denmark, after their armed merchant ships saw their prey, they thought there was an opportunity to change their flags and immediately turned into pirates...

Of course, the trading companies of the Great Chu Empire also did such things, and the Nanyang Trading Company was the leader among them!
This situation itself is the norm in the age of great voyages. Going to sea is either robbing people or being robbed...

This is also the reason why the Great Chu Empire Navy vigorously attacked the pirates in the South Seas, and sent naval warships to conduct fixed cruises to maintain the safety of fixed routes.

It is because if the piracy is too rampant, the scale of overseas trade will be reduced, and the scale of overseas trade of the Great Chu Empire will be impressed.

What the Great Chu Empire wanted was not Li Lan on the route, nor did it care about Li Lan who robbed a few merchant ships. What the Great Chu Empire wanted was the market and raw materials.

Therefore, the Great Chu Empire is different from other countries. The Great Chu Empire always tries to maintain maritime security as much as possible. For this reason, it does not hesitate to send a large number of warships to maintain maritime security in the South China Sea and fight against pirates.

And a large number of frigates are the key force used by the Great Chu Empire Navy to maintain maritime law and order.

Because the number is large enough, it is possible to conduct regular patrols on multiple routes to deter those pirates, and potential pirates to put away their little thoughts.

Because a patrol fleet of two or three frigates led by a cruiser is enough to put great pressure on any pirate ship or armed merchant ship, forcing them not to act rashly.

This is also why the Great Chu Empire built so many frigates that seemed useless in fleet decisive battles, mainly for escorting and maintaining maritime law and order.

As for fighting the main fleet of the enemy's navy... that is the mission of battleships, even hi cruisers have to stand aside!

A small body like a frigate rushed up to play against the enemy's battleship, and it was a thing that sank with a round of guns!

And based on these realities, it is also the reason why the Great Chu Empire Navy simply canceled a small number of 130mm naval guns on the frigates...Early equipped with 130mm naval guns, it was because they planned to use these frigates and the Zheng Zhilong Fleet, the Dongqiao Fleet and even the Netherlands Fleets of men go to war.

After the later battleships and a large number of cruisers are in service, frigates do not need to undertake the main combat missions, so these 130mm naval guns are simply replaced and replaced by 115mm naval guns.

Anyway, for fighting pirates, arming merchant ships and so on, using 115mm naval guns is already sufficient.

The large number of battleships in the First Fleet can be regarded as the concentration of most of the strength of the Great Chu Empire Navy. If so, the Great Chu Empire Navy is not at ease, so a large number of armed merchant ships are recruited to serve as assistants.

These are all for the purpose of covering the landing fleet, defeating the Johor Kingdom in one go and then directly controlling the Strait of Malacca. It is also to intercept possible subsequent counterattacks by the Dutch, completely block the Strait of Malacca, and deter the indigenous maritime forces of other Southeast Asian countries.

Well, by the way, this operation is also a large-scale live ammunition training for ocean combat.

After all, conducting such large-scale ocean-going training usually costs a lot of money. Now, in the name of the war, the military expenditure is borne by the cabinet. Naturally, the navy wants to take the opportunity to engage in some ocean-going training subjects that are usually reluctant to give up.

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And the Great Chu Empire organized such a huge fleet operation, it is naturally impossible to hide the news!

After all, the Nanyang Sea is not the inland sea of ​​the Great Chu Empire, and there are still a large number of ships from various countries sailing, especially Guangzhou, which is the main foreign trading port of the Great Chu Empire, has a large number of foreign ships entering and leaving.

Of course, the merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company are indispensable!
When they found out that the Great Chu Empire had gathered a large number of ships to sail southward, they were also shocked. Unfortunately, there were no wireless telegrams these days.

Even if these Dutch ships at sea discovered the changes in the Great Chu Empire's navy, they would not be able to report the news to Batavia in a timely manner.

And when these Dutch ships returned to Batavia and reported the news to the colonial authorities of the Dutch East India Company, it is estimated that the landing fleet of the Great Chu Empire Navy had already reached the Malay Peninsula and began to land.

The delay in the transmission of news brought a lot of troubles to the expeditionary fleet of the Great Chu Empire, but it also brought a lot of benefits. At least there is no need to worry that the enemy will make preparations in advance...

In March of the 15th year of Chengshun, the main fleet of the First Fleet of the Chu Empire Navy arrived at the Cam Ranh Bay military base, and took a rest and replenishment. It also joined the ready-made Navy Third Marine Regiment at the Cam Ranh Bay base.

After the 15rd Marine Regiment joined the fleet, the [-]st Fleet set sail from Cam Ranh Bay on March [-], [-] and continued southward.

While the First Fleet was resting in Cam Ranh Bay, the United Transport Fleet, that is, a joint transport fleet composed of armed merchant ships from various trading companies and some naval warships escorting ships, directly crossed Cam Ranh Bay to the Beijia area. Dock at Bei Nian Port.

More than 14 soldiers of the No.1 Division, as well as a large amount of weapons and equipment, ammunition, food, and other combat materials began to unload.

This time, the United Transport Fleet not only brought the No. 14 division's personnel, livestock, and weapons and equipment, but also brought various materials that were sufficient for 4 to [-] people to sustain operations for more than half a year.

From weapons and equipment, tents and clothes, medicines and even building materials, etc., everything was brought.

The arrival of these supplies is enough for the Fifth Division and the No.14 Division for half a year!

The reason why I brought so much is because the speed of sea voyages is too slow these days. It takes several months to go from Guangzhou to Nanyang and back.

This is not a little more, so if there is a shortage of supplies on the front line and the corresponding supplies cannot be collected locally, then the trouble will be big.

The distance and the difficulty of navigation all led the Great Chu Empire to launch a large-scale cross-sea landing operation, and could only transport all the troops and materials needed for the first few months in one go.

This is also the reason why the Great Chu Empire recruited armed merchant ships on a large scale.

Such a huge transportation volume cannot be achieved by relying on the navy's own warships and transportation fleet alone.

The United Transport Fleet arrived in Bei Nian... No, to be precise, it has already caused a shock in Nanyang as soon as it entered the Gulf of Siam!

This is a huge fleet of hundreds of ships, and they are still operating together...

This is definitely not a normal merchant fleet. Any fool who saw it would know what kind of large-scale military operation the Chu army is engaged in, just like the landing in the Kingdom of Siam a few years ago.

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At that time, the Great Chu Empire also sent hundreds of ships in one go, and directly robbed the capital of the Kingdom of Siam!
Now, what do these big Chu people want to do?

All the indigenous countries of Nanyang, as well as the Dutch and Portuguese who had heard the news were extremely panicked.

And the next actions of the Great Chu Empire made these people even more worried!
After the joint transport fleet arrived in Beinian and unloaded its personnel and supplies, it did not return directly, but went to several ports for evacuation.

The scope of evacuation is huge!
Including the Kingdom of Johor, the Kingdom of Aceh, the city of Malacca, Batavia controlled by the Dutch and other areas.

In fact, these evacuations are not officially led, but the spontaneous behavior of those trading companies, and they asked the navy for cooperation and permission.

Because these trading companies have set up offices of various names, commercial stations and the like in many port cities in the above-mentioned areas, and have dispatched personnel to station them all year round.

Now the Great Chu Empire is going to start filming in the above-mentioned areas, and one dozen is preparing for a big one. The scope of the battlefield may spread from the Malay Peninsula to a large number of Indonesian archipelago and even other regions.

These trading companies naturally want to bring their own families back from these places.

As for business, it’s not too late to continue after the war is over. Now there’s no need to stay where you are and take risks... Not to mention the trivial matter of people dying, but the large amount of money and goods stored locally cannot be lost.

If there was a fight, these natives or the Dutch would get mad and start a large-scale confiscation of assets, wouldn't they cry blind!

Ever since, they have to withdraw their personnel and money from the war zone when the military officially launches military operations.

And such a large-scale evacuation of overseas Chinese and capital has made countries panic even more.

The Dutch sent envoys to take a fast boat to Bei Nian Port, trying to learn more about the situation from the plenipotentiary representative of the Great Chu Empire in the Nanyang region, that is, the governor of Nanyang, or simply want to ask the Great Chu Empire, what do you want? What are you doing, do you want to start a war?

It is a pity that the envoy of the Dutch East India Company did not even see the governor of Nanyang, only an official under the Nanyang patrol office.

The official of the Great Chu Empire told them, don't think too much about it, we don't have any plans to provoke a war. It seems that there are many actions in the near future, but that is just a large-scale exercise we are conducting.

Why evacuate overseas Chinese?

Because the content of the drill includes rescue and evacuation of natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis.

Because our domestic scientists said that there are many earthquakes and tsunamis in the Nanyang region, and various natural disasters are more prone to occur. In order to prevent these natural disasters, we held this meeting in an attitude of being responsible for the lives and property safety of our nationals. evacuation drills.

In short, it is serious nonsense!
As for the effect?

Of course no one would believe it!
Everyone is not stupid. When they saw the more than 100 ships carrying more than 1 soldiers and an innumerable amount of supplies arriving at Beinian Port, they all knew that the Great Chu Empire was going to play a big game.

The only question now is, who is the Great Chu Empire going to do?
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On April 15, 26th year of Chengshun, Java Island under Indian control, Batavia Port.

Several Dutch people watched the merchant ships in the distant port preparing to leave a large number of Chu people, and their faces were very ugly.

One of the bearded men asked, "Do you want to force us to stay here?"

"They didn't just leave, but also brought a lot of money and goods. If we force them to stay, we can confiscate at least 200 million Chu Yuan!"

But another person said: "Don't be stupid, force them to stay, this is tantamount to directly declaring war on those Chu people!"

"Whether to declare war or not is not up to you and me to decide. This needs to be decided by the company's senior management, or even the domestic senior management!"

"Chu people are not those uncivilized natives!"

"Before we make the most determined determination, we must not easily go to war with them!"

"Moreover, we judge that the target of these Chu people should not be our Batavia, but the Malay Peninsula!"

"It's just that they don't know whether they are targeting the Kingdom of Aceh or the Kingdom of Siam."

"Neither the Kingdom of Siam nor the Kingdom of Aceh is our territory. The people of Chu invade these places and have no direct conflict of interest with us!"

"But even so, it's still very worrying. These Chu people are too ambitious. They just suppressed Beijia a few years ago, and it hasn't been long. They want to eat more places, so they are not afraid of dying." !"

These Dutchmen spoke with concern.

On the other side of the Kingdom of Johor, there are similar discussions, but these people in the Kingdom of Johor think that the people of the Great Chu Empire want to attack the Kingdom of Aceh or even Malacca.

In this case, they feel that it is even possible to cooperate with the Great Chu Empire to take the city of Malacca together, and then divide the spoils of the territories belonging to the Portuguese and the Kingdom of Aceh in the eastern part of the Malay Peninsula.

Since the Kingdom of Johor lost the city of Malacca, generations of people have dreamed of returning to Malacca and taking back their old capital. This is why they have had a close relationship with the Dutch in the past few years. They want to use the power of the Dutch to take back Malacca. city.

It is a pity that when the Kingdom of Johor sent people to contact the diplomats of the Great Chu Empire, they still got the same answer.

The empire is just doing regular training, don't think too much about it...

Such an answer also worried the Johor Kingdom.

Damn Xipi, this is not agreeing to join forces with me, is it because you want to monopolize it?
As for the Kingdom of Aceh, it's even more tense... The place where the joint landing fleet landed is Bei Nian Port next to them.

The reason why so many troops and supplies were transported was to expel and suppress the aborigines in the Beijia area. How could those aborigines be able to mobilize the Great Chu Empire? The militias and armed patrols alone were enough.

Therefore, the Kingdom of Aceh quickly prepared for war.

No matter what the Great Chu Empire wants to do, it is always right to prepare in advance!

But the preparation of Aceh Kingdom is still too late!
On May 15th, [-]th year of Chengshun, taking advantage of the improved local weather, the Fifth Division of the Great Chu Empire officially launched a full-scale attack on the territory of the Aceh Kingdom in the Malay Peninsula!

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At this time, the Kingdom of Aceh had not even had time to send the first batch of reinforcements to the Malay Peninsula.

At the same time, a fleet sent by the Great Chu Empire on the west coast of Beijia, that is, Xiyin Port near the Indian Ocean, also entered the Strait of Malacca, and began to blockade the western end of the Strait of Malacca, trying to block and intercept the Kingdom of Aceh from sending troops to Malacca. Reinforcement ships for the peninsula.

This fleet is a subordinate fleet of the Indian Ocean Fleet, and its strength is not strong. There are only two Xiangyang-class cruisers and six Daye-class frigates, and there are four armed merchant ships of the Nanyang Trading Company temporarily recruited.

Although this kind of fleet is not good in the navy of the Great Chu Empire, and it is not enough to meet the fleet of European colonists, it is still relatively reliable to deal with the indigenous kingdom of Aceh Kingdom, a modern naval power.

After the Indian Ocean Fleet entered the Strait of Malacca, it took only a few days to sink six Aceh Kingdom ships.

However, war is something that sometimes you really can't say well.

However, the Kingdom of Aceh can survive for so many years under the eyes of the Dutch and Portuguese. There are still two brushes.

On May 15th, 24th year of Chengshun, the frigate Ninghe in the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Chu Army was on a blockade mission. When chasing a transport ship of the Kingdom of Aceh, it ventured close to the coastline of the Kingdom of Aceh and ran aground due to unfamiliarity with hydrology. Immediately afterwards, it was attacked by at least 30 galleys from the Kingdom of Aceh!
These galleys are the main sea power of the navies of the indigenous countries in Southeast Asia. They are not good in the depths of the ocean, but they are quite reliable in the strait and offshore.

Using the high maneuverability of the galleys and their sheer numbers, they risked their lives to break through the interception of the Chu army's warships, and finally directly attached the Chu army's Ninghe frigate, and boarded the ship to start hand-to-hand combat.

The more than 100 crew members of the Ninghe, whether they were sailors or members of the Marine Corps, fought hard to resist, relying on excellent flintlock guns and armor to resist.

The natives of the Aceh kingdom tried to board the ship again and again, but they were all defeated because of the gap in equipment and combat effectiveness!

However, the Ninghe was unable to evacuate the battlefield because it was stranded, and the natives were determined to take down the Ninghe to give the Great Chu Empire a good look, or try to prove that they are not easy to bully!
Therefore, they failed again and again, but they also fought tenaciously again and again!
This battle lasted for more than three hours, from the morning to the afternoon.

The soldiers of the Ninghe, from sticking to the deck to retreating to the cabin!
The natives of the Yaning Kingdom continued to attack, and they wanted to completely capture this huge warship in their opinion!

The dead and wounded bodies of the indigenous soldiers of the Aceh kingdom stained the surrounding sea red and stained the deck with countless blood!

But even though the surrounding seawater was dyed red, these natives still did not give up!
The crew of the Ninghe were outnumbered, and had no choice but to retreat to the cabin, and finally persisted until the arrival of the frigate Lin Guang!

With the arrival of the frigate Lin Guang, they used naval guns to destroy a large number of galleys of the Kingdom of Aceh, which forced the Kingdom of Aceh to give up the siege of the frigate Ninghe. However, before they retreated, they set fire to the Ninghe, and Ninghe The Hehao was finally burned down badly.

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In this battle, more than half of the crew of Ninghe were killed or injured, 57 were killed/seriously injured, and 27 were slightly injured. The ship was severely burned, and the surviving officers and soldiers could only be transferred to the frigate Lin Guang.

And the Aceh Kingdom, which caused more than 80 casualties to the Great Chu Empire Navy and lost a frigate.

They lost more than 500 men and more than 20 galleys in this battle.

They suffered so many casualties mainly because they saw the Ninghe stranded and tried to capture the frigate intact before the arrival of the frigate Lin Guang of the Chu Army.

This is how such brutal hand-to-hand combat took place.

Otherwise, the Kingdom of Aceh could have set fire to it early.

The high-level officials of the Aceh Kingdom also want to play a big game, trying to boost domestic morale and confidence by capturing the Ninghe intact and annihilating the crew of the Ninghe!
And demonstrate their own force to neighboring countries or forces, and even further demonstrate their strength and determination to the Great Chu Empire, forcing the Great Chu Empire to give up their plans to annex their territories.

How should I put it, they tried to tell the invading Great Chu Empire through this cruel battle: Don't come and beat me, or I will really fight with your life, even if I die, it won't make you feel better!
Probably, that's what it means!
And battles with political intentions are often very cruel!

In order to seize the Ninghe, the Kingdom of Aceh, with poor equipment and poor combat effectiveness, sent batch after batch of soldiers to attack, and then batch after batch of soldiers died...

Well, in this typical war of attrition, the Aceh Kingdom is not willing to fill it with the few elites!
Set up sailing boats and other small boats to besiege the Ninghe, if you don't use fire attack... It's basically the same as besieging a fortress on land, there is basically no other way except to fill it with your life.

In order to replenish their troops, the natives of Aceh even used small boats to continuously transport spare troops from the shore.

The sea water around the Ninghe was dyed red, and there were densely packed corpses... In order to gain room for combat, the Acehnese even had to suspend their attack for a while, just to clean up the corpses of their own soldiers floating on the sea surface so that there would be room for attack. space!
Under such a suicide attack, many soldiers in the Kingdom of Aceh went from excitement to fear, then despair, and finally numbness.

At the end of the fight, the soldiers in charge of the attack in the Kingdom of Aceh just went to die mechanically and numbly, in order to consume a single bullet or the physical energy of the Chu army sailors to swing their weapons!

In this battle, more than [-] people were killed or injured in the Kingdom of Aceh!
In the end, they failed to get what they wanted, neither wiped out the crew of the Chu Army Ninghe, nor captured the frigate Ninghe, and failed to get the political points they wanted most.

Even if more than 80 casualties were caused to the Chu army, this is even the largest casualty in the previous battles of the Great Chu Empire Navy in the Nanyang region!

They did not capture the Ninghe, nor did they completely wipe out the crew of the Ninghe, but their failure to do this meant that they had nothing to gain in this battle.

Even in the end, in order to prevent the broken hull of the frigate Ninghe from being used by the enemy, the Chu army set fire to the Ninghe for the second time after the personnel evacuated, leaving no residue to the Kingdom of Aceh. !
The Battle of Ninghe was a battle that was regarded as a failure for both sides, but this failed battle also made the war between the Great Chu Empire and the Kingdom of Aceh become difficult from the very beginning. Bloody and brutal!
It's not just that the navy's follow-up combat power has become bloodier, and the ground battle has become bloodier!
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