The Sun Never Sets Great China

The Bruce and the Searle, together with the coordinated fleet, accounted for two-thirds of Batavia's current strength. In order to be able to deal with pirates and ensure the smooth flow of Japan's routes, Madbeer did spend a lot of money.

Paul also knew that it was impossible to take away Batavia's power for this pirate ship, so he saluted: "My lord governor, your servant must complete the task and take this despicable Spanish pirate warship or the British Find the pirate warship and destroy him completely."

Although Paul was allowed to mobilize three-quarters of the Dutch's strength in Batavia, he was still worried. Although this strength was enough, if he didn't know how to scare away the pirate ship who didn't know whether it was Spanish or British, he didn't know what to do. Yes, the British can say that their navy here is relatively weak, but if it is a Spanish warship, do they want to go to Luzon Island?Don't say that there is no evidence that the Spaniards did it, even if there is evidence, he can't do anything to the Spaniards.

After discussing with his generals, in order to prevent the opponent from escaping, Paul had no choice but to adopt a tactic to lure the enemy. All the Dutch warships were disguised as merchant ships, and then divided into three groups, sandwiched among the merchant ships, and headed towards Japan. They were all armed merchant ships. A group of Dutchmen spent several days calculating the combat power of the pirate ship. The disguised caravan was just enough for the pirate ship to eat, but it would not be easy to eat. Once the pirate ship was tempted, they would attack If so, Paul would try his best to lose the entire fleet, but also to entangle the pirate ship and wait for the other two fleets to come back for help. It would be best to capture this latest warship pretending to be a pirate ship.

A few days later, Paul, who had prepared everything, was depressed and found that the pirate ship did not appear at all. Not only did they successfully arrive in Japan, but they also returned to Batavia. The pretending was seen through, but the Dutch merchant ship was never attacked again, but it made Madbier, Paul and others completely puzzled.

This pirate ship, which caused heavy losses to the Dutch, disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared suddenly, as if it had never appeared on the sea. If it weren't for the previous losses, Madbil would have thought that there had never been Having passed such a strange ship, he could only blame the Spaniard, who was most likely the owner of the pirate ship.

He didn't know that after the Little Treasure attacked more than a dozen merchant ships in the Netherlands, he was about to continue playing this oily pirate, but he received Zhang Huahan's order to immediately stop the Little Treasure from all activities on the sea.

It was Zhang Huahan's decision to let Xiaobao pretend to be a pirate ship to attack the Dutch in order to test his ability and let him accumulate experience in actual combat.But now the Chinese Empire is in the period of construction. It needs a lot of foreign trade to earn money to speed up its own construction. Foreign trade relies more on the sea. If the Dutch find that the pirate ships come from the Chinese Empire, if the other party follows suit, they will also use warships to act Pirates attack the merchant ships of the Chinese Empire. Although the fleet and merchant fleet of the Chinese Empire are not afraid, the losses will certainly not be small, and there will be a lot of trouble. A merchant ship, after earning as much as one million taels of silver, let him come back immediately.

The dispatch of the fleet of Paul and others completely exposed the strength of the Dutch in Batavia. All the fleets of the Chinese Empire were overjoyed and began to consider whether to launch an attack on Batavia and expel the Dutch there. Allowing the Chinese Empire to occupy is just such a military action, even the commander-in-chief of the fleet and the commander-in-chief of the navy, Shi Lang, dare not make any claims. He had no choice but to send a request for war to the country's chairman Zhang Huahan.

Due to Zhang Huahan's strict order, it took half a month for the three warships with only chimneys and steam engines to carry Samps and others from Batavia to Guangdong. Once Samps and others arrived in Guangdong , Zhai Dong's escort mission was completed. In order to hurry, Sampson abandoned his boat and rode a horse and headed for Hangzhou. However, his purpose of coming was driven by a navy ship at an accelerated speed of [-] miles. Go to Tianjin and use the airship to report to Zhang Huahan first, and Zhang Huahan got the news that night.

Zhang Huahan got the report of Shi Lang's battle and the news of Sampo's going north almost at the same time. From the combination of the two, he naturally knew why the Dutch's power in Batavia was weakened.

Under Zhang Huahan's strategic deployment, Batavia will definitely take back, but the time is set to free up hands to deal with Batavia after the army reaches the Indian border. What Zhang Huahan is worried about is not whether Batavia can take it down. , but to take it with as little loss as possible. If there is a war with the Dutch, the maritime trade will definitely be affected, and the Chinese Empire will definitely lose in maritime trade. If it drags on for a long time, the wealthy Jiangnan will lose Maritime trade, I don’t know how many people will go bankrupt. Sea battles are no better than land battles. Zhang Huahan is a layman to sea battles, so he must be careful in sea battles.

If the South Asian land is completely occupied, one will free up hundreds of thousands of troops to participate in naval landing operations, and the other is that the north-south railway has been completed at that time. Batavia won, and the railway transportation can make up for the loss of Jiangnan's poor sea transportation. The various products in Jiangnan can be filled by the huge domestic demand and the sea transportation to the north, and the national economy will not be affected much.

However, the pawn that Zhang Huahan arranged a few years ago finally worked, and now he has a very good opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. At that time, the Chinese Empire would be able to gain greater benefits and obtain better results by competing with the snipe and the clam for the fisherman's profit. For a while, Zhang Huahan wanted to simply eat into a fat man and take Malacca and Batavia together. The pawn cost me 10 taels of silver. That was all my dividends from the sanitary napkin, toilet paper and toilet paper manufacturer that I co-founded with the widow Zhao Xinyue and the underwear and underwear manufacturer that the Ling family co-founded. The finances will be in deficit at once, and it is all spent in my own personal pockets. No matter what, I have to get back some interest, right?

It had already been half a month when Samps rushed to Beijing, and Zhang Huahan had already made preparations in the military headquarters. And the supernumerary ship Xiaobao was also temporarily transferred to the jurisdiction of the Navy's main fleet. The army was preparing to attack the Dutch in Malacca. Zhang Huahan had made a decision to hold Malacca in his hands first. As for Batavia, which is farther away, wait for the Chinese Empire Free up your hands to talk.

Malacca is the gateway to the entire Southeast Asia, the junction area connecting the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Mastering Malacca is equivalent to controlling half of the gate to the entire Southeast Asia. If you can close the other gate, the Jakarta Strait, the entire Southeast Asia will really become the Chinese Empire. The bathtub, and Malacca is far more important than Jakarta. As for Batavia, it will not run away. For the time being, it is far away from the current Chinese Empire. After all, it is separated by so many countries and the colonies of Western countries. It's not easy to reach out, but Zhang Huahan will take him down sooner or later, so there is no need to rush to attack now.

As soon as Samps came to the capital, Zhang Huahan had a secret meeting with him for more than two hours, and even had a meal with him. Samps felt that Zhang Huahan attached great importance to him, and he was very happy, feeling that he had not gone to the wrong person .

There is no need to sign a treaty. Malacca will only be the land of the Chinese Empire, and Raphael and Samps are basically Zhang Huahan's people. Although Zhang Huahan is also anxious about the war in Malacca, haste makes waste. In a few years Before that, Rafael would rather Malacca fall into the hands of the Ming Zheng family or Chinese revolutionary soldiers than the Dutch. Otherwise, when trading with China and Asia, Portuguese merchant ships would have to detour and go farther. Not only will the range increase, but it will also be less safe.

As for now, with Zhang Huahan's promise of high-ranking officials and rich salary, Rafael and Samps have long since turned their backs on Portugal. Anyway, the interests of Westerners are paramount, and they have money and power. Naturally, they want to give themselves a better The treated Chinese Empire and Zhang Huahan worked hard, and arranged Samps wood and his party to work in China as language translators, naval education and other officials, and they paid a special increase in salary, and they brought their families with them when they came, so Zhang Huahan They also bought real estate for them out of their own pockets for them to live in.

Zhang Huahan has already sent people to inform Shi Lang that the three fleets are starting to head towards Malacca, and even Priango's Sixth Fleet is preparing to mobilize half of its strength to form a huge fleet group with the three fleets to rush towards Malacca. In this battle, the Imperial Chinese Navy must take Malacca.

Now the Chinese Empire has fought several wars with the Dutch. Although the two sides continue to trade in order to make money, the First Battle of the Yangtze River caused heavy losses to the Chinese Revolutionary Army Navy, the predecessor of the Imperial Chinese Navy. This time, Malacca must be taken back from the Dutch. In his hands, the trade route leading to the west is the safest in his own hands.

The current Malacca is still rumbling. The Portuguese have been attacking here for two months. The outlying strongholds of the mountain city in the Netherlands have been wiped out by the Portuguese warships. Thousands of Portuguese have already started to land. Fighting, fighting to the death with the Dutch, the entire mountain city occupied by the Dutch is covered with blood under the walls, looking down from the city, there are gunpowder smoke and broken arms and limbs everywhere.

The Portuguese commander Raphael ordered the army to charge to the death. According to him, the less ships lost, the better, and the more people lost, the better.

However, with the arrival of a fleet composed of more than 100 Dutch reinforcement warships, the Portuguese began to attack strategically and then started strategic defense. Most of the Portuguese warships were destroyed, and a large number of Dutch reinforcements arrived and landed. Thousands of Portuguese troops were besieged by tens of thousands of Dutch troops. Rafael shouted: "Don't worry, we still have a lot of Chinese reinforcements. Persist in a few days and we will be able to take Malacca, Malacca belongs to our Portuguese, long live Portugal! Kill it." Seeing the Dutch rushing up, he raised the morale of the soldiers loudly, and waited for the Dutch to enter the range, he He waved his hand vigorously: "Order, the front direction, start shelling."

The sound of "rumbling" sounded from the position ten miles outside the city, and a puff of thick smoke suddenly rose in front of it. Dozens of shells fell into the middle of the advancing Dutch, splashing a cloud of flames and gunpowder smoke. Mushrooms, stumps and other sundries are flying everywhere. If you stand not far away, a section of human intestines may fall. A Dutch soldier was hit on the head by a section of falling intestines, making it a mess. His head was full of yellow, white and blood red things.

Puffs of thick smoke also rose from the nearest battleship of the Dutch, and the artillery shells roared and hit the Portuguese positions. These days, the large-caliber artillery shells in the Dutch city were not enough, and they were powerless to fight against the Portuguese. The Portuguese positions were sprayed with fire, and the Dutch warships, which also suffered heavy losses, could only be used as pioneers to shoot artillery fire at the Portuguese positions in the distance. Fortunately, Raphael was very familiar with the Malacca area, and Raphael led the Portuguese The positions arranged on favorable terrain are also very strong, and finally withstood the artillery fire of the Dutch warships.

"Shoot! Shoot!" Raphael shouted loudly when he saw the Dutch soldiers charging towards the Portuguese positions.The soldiers who retreated to the trenches to avoid the Dutch artillery saw that the commander gave an order, so they got up from the trenches and picked up their muskets, and shot "bang, bang" at the Dutch below the front slope. The condescending geographical advantage of the position made the Portuguese shoot a lot of results, and a large number of Dutch soldiers who were attacking the Portuguese position fell down.

The Portuguese army position that Rafael chose was built on a slope, and the bottom was full of hard rocks. Even if there was no one to stop it, climbing this slope of hundreds of meters alone would make people breathless, not to mention climbing up the slope. Facing the two-meter-high civil wall, seeing the grape men on the wall poking their heads out and shooting one after another, the Dutch soldiers charging below immediately began to retreat in a panic.

The artillery on the Dutch battleship began to shoot violently again, and the shells roared and exploded on the position. The shooting Portuguese soldiers quickly crouched down to hide in the trenches, avoiding the flying shrapnel.

The Dutch commander was very clear that the Portuguese army had a limited number of people, and as long as they exhausted their vital forces, they would not be afraid that they would not surrender or retreat.

Colonel Mara is the military commander of the Dutch army. Unlike Governor Raphael who retreated to the rear of the position when the guns sounded, he has been directing the battle at the front line. He shook his head dizzy from the shells.A shell exploded not far from him just now, and a soldier desperately pressed him down. At this moment, the sound of the explosion had stopped, and he quickly pushed the body of the guard who was pressing on him behind him: "Get up, get up."

The Portuguese guard was motionless, and there was a sticky thing coming from his hand. Mara quickly retracted his hand and saw that his hand was full of bright red blood. He quickly turned around and put his guard down gently. It was the second guard who died to protect him. Colonel Malacca's eyes were a little wet. He was never more eager than now to see the reinforcements from the Chinese Empire from the east. Your Excellency Governor is right, Malacca is Falling into the hands of the Chinese Empire is far better than being captured by the Dutch.

When the battle was at a disadvantage, Raphael told Marat that he had sent someone to contact the Chinese Empire's army to support here, but the price was that the Chinese Empire might occupy Malacca, and Marat was not willing to let the Chinese Empire occupy it at first. This Malacca.

Colonel Marat couldn't help but think of the scene when Rafael persuaded himself that the Dutch reinforcements came before the Portuguese army captured the mountain city of Malacca. Their huge support warships completely destroyed almost all the Portuguese warships, and began After landing to fight with the Portuguese army, Raphael looked at the countless Dutch troops disembarking from the battleship in front, and said to Mara: "Colonel Marat, we have been surrounded by Dutch reinforcements, but our army is still there." We did not capture the mountain city of Malacca, although our position is solid and our soldiers are brave, but after all the enemy has too many reinforcements, see if we can hold our position against the Dutch attack this time." Mara squeaked suddenly Although the topography of the position is dominant, the rocky slope in front of the position is solid, and the camp is well-defended, but if the Dutch attack for three months, the Portuguese army has only three months of supplies from the beginning of its attack on Malacca to the present. up. "My lord governor, don't worry, the terrain of our position is superior and our defense is strong, and our subordinates are fully confident that we can hold it for more than three months."

There was no joy on Rafael's face, a sly gleam appeared in his eyes, and he said, "What about in three months?" Colonel Marat said, "It's not that the officials are incompetent, it's just that there are many enemies. All materials will be consumed, and there will be no food, no ammunition, and no matter how strong the fortification is, it will only be a decoration." "Then, Colonel, we need reinforcements, and we need a large number of powerful reinforcements." Raphael said this His face was a little red because of guilty conscience, but now Colonel Marat, who has been tortured by the Dutch reinforcements and is very haggard, didn't notice his special behavior when he said this sentence.

Colonel Marat smiled wryly. Of course he knew that the current Portuguese army needed reinforcements, but now that the Strait of Malacca had been blocked by the Dutch reinforcement fleet, the Portuguese had no stronghold in Asia. If they wanted to wait for domestic reinforcements, I'm afraid it may not be possible to wait for a year, so he could only remind sadly: "Your Excellency, we have no reinforcements."

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