Sanchez's reply is still relatively fast, the European part needs time to wait, but the problem of Portugal in Asia, he can decide that Spain has lost its largest colony in Asia, Luzon, and only some colonies in India, their fleet was inexplicably eaten by the Ming, and they can no longer send the fleet, and now they rely on Portugal and the Ming to give them a bite to eat, so they agreed quickly. But the Dutch hesitated, they were fighting with the English in Europe, forcing Spain to a scorching scar, and they had many more colonies in Asia than Spain, and in terms of interests, they were unwilling to keep in line with Spain and Portugal, and also considered that their shipbuilding industry was the most advanced in Europe, and the huge fleet was enough to protect themselves, and they were unwilling to accept Zhu Youxiao's suggestion.

Zhu Youxiao thought about it and said to Sanchez: "Since the Dutch are not willing to unite with us, then we will leave it alone for the time being, and wait for them to come to us in the future." Now we have two detachments in the Ming Dynasty, and I will let one of them form a joint fleet with you, and their goal is to expel the Ming and Portugal in Asia. All the powers except Spain, since the Dutch East India Company did not wish to unite with us, they also lost the opportunity to gain benefits, so that they would not be forced to unite with the English and the French, we let them go first, and first expel the forces of the latter two countries from the sphere of influence we have demarcated, so that they may at last voluntarily surrender the interests of this area to us. ”

Zhu Youxiao's approach was very simple, that is, the merchant ships with the Dutch were no longer protected and left to fend for themselves, and the Portuguese and Spanish merchant ships were not threatened east of the Cape of Good Hope, and at the same time, the Strait of Malacca was closed to the Dutch and their merchant ships were not allowed to pass.

In order to achieve the above goals, in addition to Chen Nanjiao's fleet staying on the Daming coastline to carry out patrol tasks, Xiao Hailong's fleet began to cooperate with Portugal and Spain to carry out the task of clearing out other forces' merchant ships after replacing the new warships, Xiao Hailong's fleet station also moved from Qingdao to the west coast of Zhenghe Island, which is not too far from the Strait of Malacca, and now Borneo is still under the control of the Dutch, but the fleet of the Dutch East India Company no longer dares to compete with the coalition fleet. The Combined Fleet does not interfere with their actions either, and is basically able to live in peace for now.

The Strait of Malacca, which was now under the control of the Portuguese, including the northwest side of Sumatra, was a Portuguese sphere of influence, and the coalition forces forbade the Dutch to pass through this strait, so the Dutch had to sail from Batavia directly into the Indian Ocean, then get supplies from the Chagos Archipelago, and then sail to the Cape of Good Hope and turn to Europe. However, it was a long voyage, which was very inconvenient, and the sea conditions in the middle were very bad, otherwise future generations would not have an important position in Malacca.

These things are the trouble of the Dutch, and Zhu Youxiao can't manage so much. Xiao Hailong's fleet now has nearly 100 new warships with a displacement of 1,000 tons, which are the kind of whale-shaped warships that combine Chinese and Western shapes, and they are all equipped with new steam engines, which are much better than the previous careful use of steam engines. After Xiao Hailong settled down in the fleet base, he began to work with Portugal and Spain to clear out the English and French merchant ships on the west coast of India.

Originally, Zhu Youxiao meant to let Zhu Yousong do this work, but now it seems that there is no need, the powerful combined fleet starts from the southernmost town of India, as long as it encounters merchant ships that are not from these three countries, they will all be detained, and then all the goods and merchant ships will be left, and the merchants on it will be imprisoned, and they will not be allowed to move freely, and then they will be sent directly to the island of Ceylon and let them do hard labor, both men and women, until this area is completely cleared.

Originally, the armed merchant ships led by Duanwang Zhu Changhao pretended to be pirates, and they robbed one side here, but they mainly robbed materials, gold and silver treasures, and did not kill many people, but this time it was different, not only confiscated all the property, but also took away the people, and the rest was only the local indigenous people, the indigenous Indians were not all poor, and there were many people like those soil kings and landlords, and the coalition army transported away the looted property, and those factories, land and other real estate were auctioned on the spot. Then he also promised that as long as they could make a qualified product, the Spanish and Portuguese caravans would continue to buy, but they would change the object of the transaction, which was not a big deal for the natives, so a large amount of wealth was put into the account.

By the time the coalition fleet arrived at Surat, the robbery had reached *, and there were more than 10,000 English and French living here, and they also had a fleet here, about fifty warships, most of which were sail battleships with a displacement of more than 1,200 tons, which looked much larger than the warships of the Ming fleet led by Xiao Hailong. In order to let the Portuguese and Spaniards see their strength, Xiao Hailong asked them to get out of the way, and he took fifty warships to meet him. In order to take them by surprise, Xiao Hailong's battleship also met them in a battle line like them, but Xiao Hailong lined up in two lines, and it looked like a herringbone was turned to one by one. The English and French fleets also thought that Xiao Hailong was preparing to attack on both sides, so they also lined up in two battle lines, but they didn't expect that as soon as they finished changing formations, the Ming army's formation became a semicircle and outflanked them. When the vanguard warships of England and France were one mile away from the Ming army, Xiao Hailong ordered the mortars on the fleet to start attacking, and the fleet was full of sailing speed, in this case, the warships of England and France, only a few fleets in front could barely attack the Ming fleet, and the rear could not reach it at all, there was no way, and the warships behind had to sail forward, but this caused them to only attack with the guns on the bow, and the artillery on both sides could not be formed. Soon the warships in front were overwhelmed by the mortars of the Ming army, and they could not advance at all, and the rear ones were piled up together with the front ones, and the warships on both sides of the Ming army were outflanked behind them, and the warships at the end were set on fire with mortars, and the warships of England and France completely became a phalanx, which was a formation with the least power of their artillery, and there was no way, this was forced to be like this.

The steam engine of the Ming warship had already started, but it used a relatively small power according to Xiao Hailong's instructions, and the warships of the Ming army surrounded the more than 30 warships in the middle, and there was mortar bombardment all around. England. The warships of France soon all caught fire, the sails, masts, and superstructures were burning, and it didn't take too long to see the white flag, and the entire more than 30 warships all surrendered, and not many sank, because Xiao Hailong did not use the cannons hidden in the deck line at all, all of them were mortar bombardment, these shells did more damage to people and sails, but there was not much damage to the main structure of the warship, most of them were a matter of repair, but the fire caused by this * was absolutely terrifying.

The naval battle ended very quickly, and I didn't want to line up and bombard in Europe round after round, and I couldn't cause fatal damage for a long time, this kind of * hit it was equivalent to releasing a fire, and the cloth sails and wooden superstructure would ignite when they touched, and what was even more terrifying was that there were some of them that put some gasoline on the combustion-fueled bombs, in this era of sail battleships, fires were the deadliest things.

The naval battle soon ended, the coalition fleet began to land, and the soldiers on the Portuguese and Spanish warships who did not participate in the naval battle sailed like a dock on the shore, losing the cover of the warship, and the batteries on the shore were directed towards the boxers who had lost their arms, and they were soon destroyed under the artillery attack of the warships, and the soldiers of the two countries quickly boarded the dock.

There are some English and French soldiers guarding Surat, but they are not the majority, the majority are Mughal Empire soldiers, under the blow of naval guns, these people have long been frightened, and the England and French fleets that usually show off their might are not opponents, and they are even more unable to resist, so they ran too fast and threw the few British and French soldiers directly to the position. Seeing that the general trend was gone, the soldiers no longer resisted, and obediently laid down their weapons one by one, and the coalition forces successfully occupied the port of Surat.

This Surat is indeed a center of international trade, not only inhabited by many foreigners, but also rich and confiscated the property of merchants from other European countries except Portuguese and Spanish merchants. In this place with a relatively large influence, Xiao Hailong and the others did not dare to come nonsense, so as not to make too many enemies, and register the confiscated property, all the confiscated property belonging to the Protestants, the confiscation of England and France belonging to the Catholics, the confiscation of all the personnel, the others were returned to them, and the real estate they grabbed was directly handed over to Portuguese and Spanish merchants. After some negotiations with the Mughal officials of Surat, it was decided that the Ming, Portuguese, and Spanish would continue to enjoy the treatment of the British and French, and that they would continue to trade here, and so far, the merchant forces of England and France along the coast of India had been completely expelled.