Arakan, Myaoo City.

Outside the palace gates, King Tatama of Arakan, the monk of Arakan, fell in love again. The short, short, dark-skinned, shaved king, who is in his forties and has a well-known amorous caste, has a collection of beauties from all over the world in his harem. There were white-skinned and black-skinned slave girls sold by Ottoman merchants, Indian beauties from Chittagong, beauties from the snowy plateaus, women from Burma and Siam, and women of Japanese descent from Myauu (there were also many Japanese mercenaries in the Arakan Kingdom at this time), but there were no beauties from the Northern Celestial Empire...... So the Sangha Dutama King has always had some regrets, how could he, such a rich, handsome (he was recognized as a handsome man in Arakan), and a very brave and wise king, not have a Chinese princess?

For this, he also asked the Almighty Buddha to ...... I didn't expect it to work!

There really is a Chinese princess who is so beautiful that she has come to the palace of Miaowu...... Hey, who is that hateful-looking bearded man who came with the princess?

"Your Majesty, this is Princess Li Anna from China......" Bruce introduced Anna Yamada, who had changed her name to Anna Li, to the drooling king in Portuguese (there are many Portuguese people in the Arakan country, and this king can also speak Portuguese), and then glanced at Li Jicheng, who was as strong as a cow and as fierce as a tiger—this is not like a brother and sister! The emperor's grandson is too strong, right? This princess is too petite...... If this is a brother and sister, then the crown prince of Dashun must be wearing a green hat!

Bruce stiffened his head and said: "This is the brother of Her Royal Highness the Princess, Her Royal Highness the Grand Shun Emperor!" ”

"Brother......" The monk Du Tanma King looked at Li Jicheng, who looked like a Dharma Protector Vajra, and was also a little incredulous.

With this appearance, it is almost the same as Aurangzeb's brother, how can it be the brother of the little beauty?

"Your Majesty," the little beauty spoke, also in Portugal (her mother is Portuguese), and her voice was particularly convincing, "Brother Taisun and I were not born to the same mother, but we are both sons and daughters of Prince Dashun, brothers and sisters, in fact, we still look very similar." ”

It's kind of like ......

When the little beauty said this, the monk Du Tanma King took a closer look at Li Jicheng and found that he and Anna were really a bit alike.

Both of them have very white skin, big eyes, straight noses, and dark hair, so they must be brothers and sisters!

"It's like, it's like!" The king finally believed that Li Jicheng and Li Anna were brothers and sisters, so he hurriedly invited Li Jicheng, Li Anna, Bruce and others into the palatial palace, and there was no problem with singing, dancing, drinking and feasting.

After three rounds of wine, five flavors of food, the guests and hosts were happy, and the greetings and polite words were almost said, Bruce, who was the matchmaker between Arakan and Li Jicheng, pulled the conversation into the topic - this matter has to be hurried, saving soldiers is like fighting fire!

"Your Majesty, the situation in Malacca is very critical now, and the Ming army in the north may move south at any time, although Johor, Perak, Aceh, Pattani and other countries have formed a coalition army, and the Sultan of Kedah is also interested in joining. However, even if the Five Sudans Coalition Army was formed, it would be difficult to fight against the Ming State. And the only one who can fight against Qiang Ming is the Dashun Empire. But the Dashun Empire and the Malacca Peninsula do not border, and our Dutch fleet is to be concentrated east of the Strait of Malacca...... Therefore, I could only ask the Arakanese fleet for help to transport the Dashun army of Salian to the Malacca Peninsula. ”

Bruce. Fan. Diemen didn't tell the whole truth - how could the Dutch profiteers, of course, be cunning, honestly put their fleet east of the Malacca Peninsula to resist the Ming fleet?

Besides, that's not how the Navy works.

The sea is boundless, and you can still build a line of defense with ships?

Moreover, the ancestor of the Dutch Navy's naval surprise warfare, in the second Anglo-Dutch war in history, the Dutch also rushed into the Thames and attacked London!

This is the era of sail battleships, not the era of flying planes to drop bombs, and with the width of the Thames, they can come and go freely, and no one has the ability to do this.

And the masters who were good at sneak attacks were usually masters of sneak attacks, so it was impossible for the Dutch to place their fleet between the impregnable bays and islands east of the Strait of Malacca.

Therefore, Rear Admiral Trop had already led his fleet out of Batavia (the entrance to the port in Batavia was too wide and too shallow to defend at all), and then quietly entered the Indian Ocean through Sunda, bypassing Sumatra from the south, and arriving at the mouth of the Klang River on the west coast of the Malacca Peninsula - there were several large sandbanks outside the mouth of the Klang River, which protected the estuary layer by layer, and Rear Admiral Troppe's fleet was hiding there and it was difficult to spot.

In addition, because the fleet led by Trop deliberately avoided the common routes of merchant ships during the voyage, and also avoided the east entrance of the Strait of Malacca, where the spy ships of the Ming Dynasty were intensively frequented, the Ming Dynasty did not know the whereabouts of the Trop fleet.

Of course, the Dutch also did not know the whereabouts of the main fleet of the Ming Dynasty. Although the Ming side chose the Makassar Strait for a decisive battle, no one knows whether the Ming Dynasty navy will fulfill the contract...... So Governor Matsolko and Major General Troppe developed a plan for amphibious warfare on land and sea that seemed to them to be particularly reliable.

According to this plan, 10,000 to 20,000 Dashun officers and soldiers would be transported to Penang, and then they would build a castle on the land of the Malacca Peninsula opposite Penang - for the Ming army on the Malacca Peninsula, the castle of Dashun was undoubtedly a thorn in the side, and if it was not removed, how could the Ming army dare to go south?

Therefore, the Dashun army that appeared near Penang will definitely attract the main force of the Ming army!

At the same time, once the Dutch spy ships in the Makassar Strait discovered the main Ming fleet, then the Dutch fleet at the mouth of the Klang River would immediately sail to Johor City, load a Johor, Aceh, Perak and Pattani combined forces concentrated there onto the ship, and then send them to Pattani to land and raid the flank of the Ming army......

The plan should be very good, but whether it can be realized depends on whether Dashun's elite soldiers can reach the Malacca Peninsula in time.

"Mr. Dimon," King Arakan glanced at the tender and delicious "Princess Anna", took a breath, and finally made up his mind, "If it is only to transport the army of the Great Shun Kingdom, our Arakanese fleet can help." Just don't know how many boats you need? How many people are you going to transport? ”

The Arakan Kingdom was actually founded on a naval army, and if there was no naval army to cut off the logistics line of the Donghu army, the Arakan Kingdom would have ceased to exist a long time ago......

The king's question was translated into Chinese by Bruce, and Li Jicheng said with a smile after listening to it: "I have 50,000 troops in Salian, and if I want to transport them all to the Malacca Peninsula, I need at least 500 big ships, do you have so many ships?" ”

"It takes so many ships...... "King Arakan seemed to hesitate.

"Your Majesty," Bruce assured him at this point, "I don't think you need to worry about any threat from the sea, for the Indian Ocean is now entirely under the rule of our Dutch East India Company Navy...... The Mughal Empire to the west simply did not have a navy that could confront us, so an invasion was impossible. ”

This is also true, the Mughal navy is not worth mentioning, and although the British and Portuguese maritime forces are stronger than the Mughals, the relationship between these two countries and Arakan is very good, and they should not take advantage of the departure of the Arakan navy to launch an attack.

Besides, the land forces of these two countries in the Indian Ocean are very limited, and they cannot defeat Myaou Castle at all.

King Arakan nodded, "Okay...... I can lend the fleet, but I don't have 500 ships, only 300 ships, and I need a mortgage! ”

As he spoke, the king glanced at Princess Anna and said with a smile, "I hope that Her Royal Highness can stay in Myaowu City as a guest!" ”