Two hundred and ninety-seven Shenwei-class warships, this is all the belongings of the Ming East China Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet.

The Strait of Malacca in the vicinity of Singapore Harbor is very narrow, only 18 kilometers wide, and the 297 warship groups of the two major fleets of the Ming Dynasty are almost all over the sea.

The warship group of the Ming fleet soon increased the width of the main strait of Malacca to a width of 37 kilometers, and this section of the 37-kilometer-wide strait of Malacca extended from the port of Singapore to the port of Kuala Lumpur in the middle of Malacca, and the width of the strait from the port of Kuala Lumpur to the west slowly expanded again.

About an hour later, the warship groups of the two major fleets of the Ming Dynasty sailed to the sea area only 100 miles from the port of Kuala Lumpur in central Malacca.

The combined fleet of the eight European powers is only about 50 or 60 miles away from the port of Kuala Lumpur in central Malacca, that is to say, the fleets of the two sides are currently about 1560 miles apart, and it is expected that in two more hours, the two fleets will meet.

The battleship group of the combined fleet of eight European countries bombarded the coastal cities of Daming encountered along the way.

"Boom Boom"

"Ah" a shell killed two innocent people, and many more innocent people and buildings were bombed, announcing the destruction of another Ming coastal city on the north bank of Malacca.

Although the news of the warning has already spread, and most of the Ming people in the coastal city have fled to hide outside the city, but in the process of the destruction of this city, more than 100 innocent people were still killed.

Compared with the 297 warship groups of the two major fleets of the Ming Dynasty, the warship group of the eight-nation combined fleet of the European Empire, which numbered more than 600 ships, is even more huge, and even in the section of the strait that is nearly 100 kilometers wide enough, the warships of the eight-nation combined fleet of the European countries are still scattered and sailing from north to south, and the momentum is much greater than that of the 297 warships of the two major fleets of the Ming Dynasty.

During the period when the two major fleets of the Ming Dynasty and the combined fleet of the eight European countries were about to meet and fight.

News of the arrival of the combined fleet of eight European countries has also been received in various parts of the Indonesian archipelago.

"It's coming, hahahaha, the Dutch are finally here!" Especially those aboriginal aristocratic forces who have been looking forward to rebelling against the Ming Dynasty and returning to Dutch rule, etc., are almost cheering, one by one impatiently connected with each other, and the intention to rebel is revealed, it seems that even if the Ming government appears, it can't stop them, they are too confident.

In fact, the reason why these aboriginal nobles are so confident is that they don't know the true strength of the Ming army at all.

When the Ming Dynasty drove out the Dutch ten years ago, it was the Fourth Army of the Yinglong Army that fought with the Dutch with flint guns and the first generation of field artillery Shenwu field artillery, and it seemed that the weapons of the Ming Dynasty were not much more advanced than the Dutch.

Moreover, the battlefields where the Ming and the Dutch fought were basically limited to a few important castle strongholds, and even in the wilderness, and those aboriginal nobles could not see the process of the battle at all.

After the Ming Dynasty conquered the Indonesian archipelago, they immediately immigrated on a large scale and established a large number of cities.

Garrisoned in these cities is only the garrison of the Ming Dynasty, equipped with cold weapons, and later after the regular army of the Ming Dynasty eliminated the flint, the garrison was assigned a small number of flints, and the same is true of the police in the police station, only a few flints and cold weapons.

As for the regular army, Daming did deploy a regular army unit in the Indonesian archipelago, which was the Eighth Army led by Huang Wei.

However, as a regular army, the Eighth Army did not participate in the defense of the city, and was only stationed in field camps in some important areas, which generally did not easily appear in front of ordinary people.

In general, whether it is the ordinary people who immigrated from the Central Plains of the Ming Dynasty, or the original aborigines of the Indonesian archipelago and those aboriginal nobles, etc., the only thing they can contact is the police and garrison troops of the Ming Dynasty, and many people don't even know what the regular army of the Ming Dynasty is all about, and they even think that the garrison of the Ming Dynasty is the regular army.

The garrison only has a few flint guns, and the rest are cold weapons, such equipment is not impossible to resist in the eyes of those aboriginal nobles who have always wanted to rebel. This is one of the main reasons why they naively believe that rebellion has a chance of victory.

"Lord Governor Zhao!" In Jakarta City, Chen Mingyu, deputy commander of Jinyiwei, personally came to cooperate with Indonesian Governor Zhao Dequan to deal with the rebellion of the aboriginal nobles.

"Deputy Commander Chen!" Zhao Dequan bowed his hand to Chen Mingyu.

Although Zhao Dequan's official position as the governor is higher than Chen Mingyu, Chen Mingyu is the successor to the post of commander of Jinyiwei, and his real power is actually higher than that of him, the governor, and he does not dare to slack off.

"A total of sixty-four aboriginal nobles are in contact with each other, and there are nearly fifty thousand ordinary aborigines who are bewitched by them!" Chen Mingyu told Zhao Dequan the news found by Jinyiwei.

"Good! Inform Commander Huang Wei of the Eighth Army to get ready, just wait for those people to move, and immediately wipe them out! Zhao Dequan said with a smile.

The real strength of the Indonesian archipelago is the Eighth Army of the Ming Regular Army, as long as there is the Eighth Army, no matter how many aboriginal nobles and ordinary aborigines are rebellious, they are all a rabble like chickens and dogs, and they will be defeated!

Zhao Dequan has been the governor of Indonesia for nearly ten years, and a large number of Indonesian policies are implemented by him according to the orders of the imperial court.

Sometimes, Zhao Dequan really can't imagine that in less than ten years, so many ordinary aborigines have forgotten the slavery of the Dutch and have been bewitched by those aboriginal nobles, and they actually hope to restore Dutch rule.

The people of the Great Tomorrow Dynasty are unwilling to be, but they always want to restore the rule of the Netherlands and continue to be slaves of the Dutch, which is really a joke, and Zhao Dequan will never let go of such a brain-dead.

The forces of the Eighth Army had long been prepared and were stationed in major locations in the Indonesian archipelago.

In particular, Sumatra Island in the southern coast of Malacca was garrisoned on the island by 7,000 soldiers of the Eighth Army led by Huang Wei, the commander of the Eighth Army, and the indigenous aristocracy here was also the strongest.

Sumatra Island on the south coast of Malacca is the second largest island in the Indonesian archipelago, although it ranks second, but it is not much smaller than the first largest island, and more importantly, because it is located on the south coast of Malacca, and it is rich in its own products, and it is the first island ruled by the Dutch, and the number of aborigines is extremely large. Medan City is the largest city on the island of Sumatra, and it is also one of the oldest cities in Sumatra, having been established long before the Dutch.

In Medan City, most of the indigenous aristocratic forces of Sumatra are concentrated here, which also makes the anti-Ming forces here the most rampant.

"Hahahaha, another Daming city has been destroyed, and the European Combined Fleet is about to reach the middle of Malacca, and there is news that the Daming fleet in Singapore Port has also moved westward, and I believe that the two sides will soon fight in the middle of Malacca! The European Combined Fleet is strong, with more than 640 warships, and the Ming warships will definitely be defeated! Our opportunity is just around the corner! The head of the Du family, the largest aboriginal nobleman in Medan City, laughed.

The ancestors of the Du family were originally Han Chinese, who migrated to the Medan area of Sumatra during the Song Dynasty, and after hundreds of years of exhibition, they became the most powerful aboriginal aristocratic force in Sumatra.

"Quick, let everyone get ready, as long as the Ming fleet and the European Combined Fleet are engaged, we will also follow the incident, take Medan City in one fell swoop, and then take the entire island of Sumatra before the European Combined Fleet defeats the Ming Dynasty, and welcome the Dutch to the island!" The head of the Du family said.

"Yes, Master!"

The Combined European Fleet bombarded the coastal cities north and south of Malacca all the way, and no one had to deliberately explore it, and it knew where the European Combined Fleet sailed.

The bombardment of the European Combined Fleet along the way not only killed a large number of ordinary people from the Ming Dynasty, but also killed a small number of aboriginal aristocratic forces, but although Medan City is not far from the sea, it is not directly near the sea, so it was not bombarded by the European United Fleet.

It is really incomprehensible that in the face of the bombardment of the European Combined Fleet, these aboriginal aristocratic forces and ordinary aboriginal people were also bombed and slaughtered many people, showing the ferocity and bloodshed of the Europeans.

These aboriginal aristocratic forces yearn for the original privileges, and even if they are bombed, they will firmly rebel against the Ming Dynasty, but after those ordinary aborigines were bombed, they blamed the reason for the bombing on the Ming Dynasty, and they still followed the Du family and other aboriginal nobles to rebel against the Ming Dynasty, which is too incomprehensible.

Is it just jealousy? Do they really think that after helping the aristocratic forces restore Dutch rule and drive out the Ming immigrants, their lives will be better than they are now?

However, no matter what, the Ming court thought that it was good enough for the aborigines, and if they still followed the aristocratic forces to rebel against the Ming, then the Ming had nothing to say, and the suppression was the only result.

Sumatra moved in an instant, and the aristocratic forces continued to converge to the position they had already planned, and they were really on the road to start rebelling against the Ming Dynasty.