The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 867 Conquering Southeast Asia
Concubine Fan Hui listened quietly, then hesitated for a moment, and suddenly said: "Your Majesty, I have a request?"

"Tell me." Ding Yi said without hesitation.

"Can the emperor give the concubine a queen?"

"..." Ding Yihuo sat up suddenly.

Concubine Fan Hui's face remained unchanged, she lowered her head slowly and said, "I'm already old, I want to leave the palace in two or three years, and I hope to conceive a dragon seed, but don't worry, my majesty, I will only be an ordinary person for the rest of my life."

Concubine Fan Hui knows that she is getting older, now that Ding Yi rarely comes here, she still feels a little fresh, and after playing a lot in the future, she will find it boring, instead of staying in the palace forever and making Ding Yi's old face disgusting in the future, it is better to leave the palace, Give Ding Yi the best memory.

Ding Yi immediately understood what she meant.

"You are afraid that I will dislike you. I am not such a person." Ding Yi said it nicely, but he has to admit that if Concubine Fan Hui is over 40 years old, she will probably grow old very quickly.

The last time Xu entered the palace, Ding Yi already felt that she was obviously old.

"I just want to leave my best appearance for the emperor. After two or three years, I want to leave the palace." Concubine Fan Hui whispered.

Ding Yi was in a trance for a while, and finally heaved a long sigh.

Ding Yi was not in a good mood when he walked out of Jingyang Palace.

Once Concubine Fan Hui left, there was no one in the palace to confide in.

As for whether to keep the dragon species, this matter has to be carefully considered.
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In April of the fourth year of Rende, various resolutions of the imperial court this year were quickly transmitted to various places.

At the port of Annan Port (formerly Siha\Nuk Port) in Annan Province, a large number of ships are gathering.

In March of the second year of Rende, Dagan captured the Kingdom of Cambodia, and then began to frantically repair Annan Port, and immigrated to the Kingdom of Cambodia.

By April last year, there were already [-] people living near Annan Port, completely occupying this area.

After two years of expansion, Annan Port has become the largest port in Southeast Asia, surpassing Luzon Port.

The location of Annan Port is very important. If you go north, you can attack Siam, and if you go south, you can go to Malacca, controlling the commercial routes leading to Asia.

Of course, the hard work was quickly noticed by the Dutchman on the opposite side.

In September of the third year of Rende, the governor of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia, Cornelis van der Lien, immediately joined forces with the surrounding forces, including the Siamese, the Kingdom of Toungoo, the Kingdom of Johor, and the Dutch , as well as various forces near Malacca, Jambi, Bugis, Minangkabau and other ethnic groups formed an alliance in Johor, known as the Nine-Party Alliance in history, to fight against Dagan.

On the opposite side, Hong Xu has been standing still and actively preparing for the battle.

He has been in Southeast Asia for many years. While calming down the surrounding areas, his army has been learning the geography and climate of Southeast Asia, as well as the knowledge of various tribes. This was never done in the Ming Dynasty.

At the end of last year, the imperial court raised another [-] elites from Guangdong and senior officials for him.

So far, Annan already has a large number of soldiers and horses, nearly [-] in the land and water divisions.

In April this year, the imperial court decided to attack Southeast Asia, and Hong Xu immediately began to dispatch troops and supplies.

In mid-April, Xilaojing, the commander-in-chief of Saigon and Annan Navy, Ma Yue, the commander-in-chief of Thang Long, Yuan Youcai, the commander-in-chief of Hue, and three of the four Annan commanders arrived at Annan Port.

Xi Lao brought a total of twenty third-class battleships from all over the country allocated to him by the Dagan Navy.

Six of them were newly produced last year.

Dagan’s third-tier battleships are almost the strongest battleships of this era. The battleships participating in this battle include the Changsheng class (mainly transporting five ships), the Jeju class (mainly transporting people, ten ships), and the Dayuan class (mainly fighting, five)
So many battleships gathered in Annan Port. The tall hull and countless muzzles, like giant beasts with teeth and claws, made the whole Southeast Asia tremble.

Nellis van der Leyen on the opposite side has been stationed in Malacca for the past year and dare not return to Batavia at all. He already feels the fear of the coming rain.

After receiving the news that the third-class battleships of Dagan had gathered in Annan Port, they immediately sent people to notify the ministries and asked to gather together.

At the beginning of May, five Dayuan-class ships opened the way, and more than 1000 ships of various types, carrying [-] troops and various supplies, set off from Annan Port and Saigon Port one after another.

On the Annan Port side, led by Hong Xu himself, there are [-] Tier [-] battleships and [-] other ships.

They went downwind and arrived in Krabi (near Phuket Island) opposite in two days.

Dagan's ships were overwhelming, tall and terrifying, which shocked the nearby residents, and there was almost no local resistance.

An Nangang naval guerrilla Zhang Ding (the eldest son of Zhang Jing) took the lead in leading [-] infantry and [-] cavalry to land.

At this time, there are a lot of soldiers and horses, and all the infantry have firearms, except for flintlocks, they are 6-pound light artillery, and the cavalry has wheel-wheel guns and waist knives.

In addition, to prevent the rainy season here, the army has a large number of spears, waist knives, shields and other spares.

After Zhang Ding's 1 people went ashore immediately, another [-] auxiliary soldiers went ashore, bringing trebuchets, [-] armors and a lot of supplies.

Dagan's current soldiers and horses hardly use iron armor, because it is too heavy, which affects movement and performance.

They can already use weapons to attack the enemy.

There were 5000 of them along the way.

After Hong Xu threw these people off the ship, some of the empty ships would return to Annan Port to continue loading supplies. He took more than 100 ships and continued to "pull" to Singapore.

Singapore was originally called Temasek. At the end of the 14th century, it was renamed Singapore La (Lion City). Later, everyone called Singapore, and the word La was missing.

In 1613, the Portuguese burned down the stronghold at the mouth of the river.There is no historical record of Singapore for the next two centuries.

But this time Ding Yi's soldiers are coming.

Hong Xu and Sai Lao, which departed from Sai Kung, met at the port of Singapore on May [-].

When the two sides converged, they found that there were hundreds of ships lined up on the opposite side. The Dutch and the Nine Alliances were already waiting.

However, when Cornelis van der Leyen saw the massive warships and soldiers, his face turned pale.

"God, these devils from the east?" He couldn't believe that there were so many third-tier battleships and huge warships on the opposite side.

The smallest ships on the opposite side are even bigger than the big ships of other tribes.

Except for all the main ships of the Dutch East India Company in Asia at the scene, the ships of the other ministries are small and broken, and they cannot be compared with the big ones.

The Siamese, the Toungoo Kingdom, and the Johor Kingdom had boats at the scene, while the other small forces, the Jambi, Bugis, and Minangkabau people, did not have boats.

When many people saw so many large ships for the first time, their expressions were horrified.

The current king of the Kingdom of Johor is Abdul Chalisha. He is currently on board the only third-tier battleship of the Dutch with Cornelis van der Leyen. nice.

"How to fight?" Abdul Chalisa felt that he couldn't fight at all, because there were too many boats on the opposite side.

"If you can't fight, you have to fight." Cornelis van der Leyen said in a deep voice, "You either surrender or fight. If you surrender, your Johor and us will all be finished, and you will become a prisoner of the Orientals." , was moved to the far east, and the Kingdom of Cambodia is a lesson of blood."

Abdul Chalisa's expression became serious, Cornelis van der Leen was right, the King of Cambodia was a lesson.

It is impossible to surrender, and no one is willing to give up the throne.

This damned Dagan is even more shameless than Xiyi.

The Netherlands and the Portuguese have fought in Malacca for many times, but even if they win, they will not take away their king and occupy their country, but dry people, successively occupied Annan, Cambodia and other places, and removed all the royal family and officials , and then emigrate, how can people live with this?
"Fight with dry people." Abdul Chalisa raised his hands and screamed.

"Fight." The army of the Johor Kingdom roared.

But they soon learned that courage is not enough in the face of powerful generational differences.

Hong Xu's five Dayuan-class ships on the opposite side rushed to the forefront, and they were still one mile away from them, and began to turn around.

"The man is going to fire, go up." Cornelis van der Leyen, as a naval commander, immediately saw Hong Xu's plan.

The ships of the nine coalition forces moved forward one after another.

This is tantamount to death.

Hong Xu's five large-scale warships quickly turned into a horizontal formation, and then hundreds of black holed muzzles were exposed above them.

There are nearly two hundred doors on one side of the five ships.

Boom, amidst the earth-shattering bang, Dagan's artillery was fired first.

The two sides are still a little far away from this time, but the fleets of both sides are relatively dense. Cornelis van der Leyen blocked the fleet between Singapore and Batam in the south.

This is the entrance into Malacca, and he did it because in the past year, he built forts on both sides.

He wanted to lure the Xiuqian army ships closer, and then use shore artillery to severely damage their warships.

But the result of this is that hundreds of their boats are gathered in this narrow passage, and it is difficult to form a formation.

Such a dense formation is easy to be hit.

Bang bang bang, a large number of artillery from Hong Xu's side blasted over, and then fell into their dense fleet.

Naval battles in this era depend on luck, Hong Xu's hit rate is not high, but Ding Yi's shells will explode.

Only one shot hit, boom, a ship exploded directly from the middle.

The explosions kept ringing. In the first round of nearly [-] shells, only six hit. The hit rate was extremely low.

But the six ships on the opposite side exploded, and the crew members fled in panic, but where can they escape at sea?
Soon the ships were ignited and sank one by one.

Cornelis van der Leyen remained calm, and let the fleet move forward, facing the gunfire of the dry army.

The second round was even worse. Eight ships were knocked out.

The two sides were getting closer and closer. After the third round, Cornelis van der Leyen suddenly ordered to retreat and run towards Malacca.

Gan Jun's warship immediately caught up.

Cornelis van der Leyen had a smug look on his face. The hateful Oriental is falling into his trap step by step. My shore gun will teach you how to behave.

At this time, the coalition forces fled westward and entered Malacca through Singapore, while Hong Xu's warship was chasing forward step by step.

Three miles, two miles, one mile and five.

Cornelis van der Leyen saw Hong Xu's third-tier battleship getting closer and was about to call to fire.

Suddenly, he found that Hong Xu's warship started to turn and sail towards the middle.

(End of this chapter)