The Malay Peninsula, Penang, and now the state of Penang is still only Penang Island, because the province of Seberang Perai on the Malay Peninsula is still part of the Sultanate of Jeddah.

Gu Lihuan looked at the Bugis warships coming and going on the sea with a heavy face, and he also knew in his heart that he was gone!

Since he came here to build the city in June last year, he has resisted three attacks by the Bugis, but this time, the Bugis sent more than 40 warships and more than 6,000 soldiers, which seems to be an imperative for Penang, but it is a pity that the thousands of Tang people who came with him will probably die here with him!

"Gu! Consider my suggestion! Come back to India with me, I still have a brig that can take about 500 people with me if you squeeze it, and if it's any later, when the Bugis come up to the island and surround this little castle, you won't be able to go even if you want to! ”

A white-haired man in a red military uniform walked in, and he looked at Gu Lihuan and persuaded sincerely.

The man's name is Francis. Wright, captain of the British East India Company's Advance, was one of Penang's pioneers in history.

Historically, he and Koo Lihuan cooperated with each other to build this seaside island into a transportation hub in the South Seas, and once its status in the strait far surpassed that of Singapore.

In this time and space, due to the instigation of Ye Kai's butterfly wings, a powerful Chinese family, the Ye family, appeared in Pattani. Hastings retained his position as Governor of Fort William and made him the true Viceroy of India.

More because Ye Kai is mixed in Europe, so Warren. Hastings directly regarded the Ye family of Pattani as half of Britain's hand reaching into the South Seas.

When Ye Kai didn't come back, Warren. Hastings sent an officer corps composed of more than 30 officers to help the Ye family train the clan soldiers, and gave the Ye family preferential treatment in trade, and the relationship between the two sides heated up rapidly.

However, all this completely angered the Dutch colonial government in Batavia, which was very wary of the British, and when the Ye family continued to expand around, the Dutch and Bugis, who originally looked down on each other, quickly came together.

The Dutch ceded all the Bugis Johor territories they had occupied, except Manchuria, and sold a batch of flintlock pistols from the Batavian arsenal to the Bugis.

The Buggis, on the other hand, quickly targeted the Ye family after receiving a promise from the Dutch not to continue their expansion in the Malay Peninsula.

Since 1786, the year after Ye Kai's departure, the battle between the Bugis and the Ye family has intensified, and the attack on Penang is the most crucial battle planned by the Dutch and carried out by the Bugis.

Because the current Penang is the key point of contact between the Ye family and the Britons in India, pulling out the castle and port established by the Ye family in Penang can cut off the connection between the Ye family and the British.

Without the Britons supplying the Ye family with all kinds of military supplies, especially gunpowder and lead bullets, the Ye family would not be able to withstand the double attack of the Dutch and the Bugis!

Gu Lihuan exhaled a breath of turbidity, saying that he was not afraid of being captured by the Bugis, it must be false, these people who believed in the Heavenly Sect were the most murderous, and the Chinese fell into their hands, it was better to live than to die!

Captain Kwright can only take a maximum of 500 people, and there are more than 3,000 people in Penang Castle, including a large number of old and weak women and children, these people came to Penang because they trusted him Gu Lihuan, and they could not be left behind!

Thinking of Ye Kai's instructions and expectations for himself when he went to Europe, Gu Lihuan felt extremely uncomfortable.

Ye Kai repeatedly told him that as long as he kept the Ye family's basic situation in Pattani, it would be a victory to recruit more than 100,000 immigrants from the mainland.

But in fact, since the Britons sent a thousand brown bass guns, the entire Ye family began to be restless!

In 1786, just after the Chinese New Year, the Ye family soldiers, who had received several months of training from British officers, gave Abdul Maji, who had already proclaimed himself the Sultan of Pahang, on the Cameron Plateau, a cruel blow!

The 2,400 soldiers of the Ye family, who were trained in the Western style, easily defeated Abdul Maji's 6,000 troops, and once fought around Kuantan, the capital of Pahang, and returned to Pattani with satisfaction after plundering, and then won many battles with the Bugis and Malays!

Encouraged by these brilliant achievements, the entire Ye family regarded the Tianfang Sect natives on the Malay Peninsula as local chickens and dogs, and they attacked everywhere, and the land was not easy to plant, and the sugar was not easy to boil, because of these, how could there be a robbery that came quickly?

At the peak of this atmosphere, Gu Lihuan, who had always firmly followed Ye Kai's established strategy, was quickly excluded from the Ye family's decision-making circle.

Originally, he was an outsider, and his identity as Ye Kaiyi's brother, few of the Ye family members took it seriously, and in the end, he could only take the thousands of people who were willing to follow him away from Penang.

And the Ye family, after driving away the 'cowards' like Gu Lihuan, attacked from all sides, occupying fertile land everywhere and enslaving the Malays.

As a result, in August 1786, two months after Koo arrived in Penang, the Yip family fell into an elaborate trap designed by the Dutch and Buggis.

In the Second Battle of Cameron Highlands, the soldiers of the 3,000-ha family were encircled by 12,000 Bugis, and there was even a Dutch artillery company with 16 three-pounder field guns to attack in person.

In this battle, the Ye family lost more than 700 people, and even Ye Huan, the standard commander of Nanyang Town selected by Ye Kai, was seriously injured, and he lay on the bed for more than three months, and now it is said that he can get out of bed and move.

Originally, the Ye family plus the Chinese in Kuala Terengganu totaled nearly 200,000, and 50,000 or 60,000 people were recruited from the mainland in the past two years, which is a total of 250,000 people.

There are only more than 2,000 and less than 3,000 people who can really be called an army, and the loss of more than 700 elite soldiers at once is definitely something that a Chinese family like the Ye family cannot bear.

The place previously occupied was lost, most of the sugarcane fields were burned, and more importantly, Zhang Chaorong of Kualala Terengganu had the idea of self-preservation again.

He brought 60,000 or 70,000 Chinese to make an agreement with the Dutch in Terengganu City, that the Dutch would not attack them, and that they would get out of the way from Kuala Terengganu to Pattani.

This indirectly led to the fall of Taogong City, the second largest city under the Ye family, at the junction of Pattani and Kuala Terengganu, and Pattani has since opened the door!

Gu Lihuan estimated that as soon as he was finished here, the Dutch and Bugis would besiege Pattani.

There was a strong enemy attacking in front, and there were Siamese people watching the play in the back, Gu Lihuan closed his eyes in pain.

"Zhenwu! Go and choose five hundred men and women, and follow Captain Wright! Go to Tianzhu and wait for Shu Wu to come back and let him avenge us! ”

Surprisingly, Ye Zhenwu, the grandson of Ye Wenxin, the ninth uncle who eats inside and out, turned out to be Gu Lihuan's staunchest supporter, and the more than 3,000 people who came to Penang this time were basically from Ye Wenxin's Ye family's third room.

"Brother Gu, what about you? Come with me! Stay in the green mountains and don't be afraid of no firewood! ”

Eighteen-year-old Ye Zhenwu is tall, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, although the white cloth wrapped around his forehead is still oozing blood, but whoever sees it will praise a good man!

"Zhenwu, I can't go, I brought everyone here, I won't leave them, I didn't guard the Ye family for Shu Wu, even if I go to Tianzhu, what face do I have to see him?

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