Zheng Zhilong said: "General Ben plans to attack Manchurka (Malacca) first, and then Batavia, what do you think?" ”

Li Weijing said: "As far as I know, there are more than 1,000 Dutch red hairs in Manraka, and there are no less than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Johor who are with them, but they are not a bone to gnaw on!" ”

"Johor? What kind of country is this? I've never heard of it! Zheng Zhilong crooked his mouth in Johor Country, at that time overseas Chinese were also called Hu Rongguo. In the sixth year of Zhengde (1511), the Portuguese occupied Manchuria. King Mahmud of Manraka? The Shah led the army and civilians to move to places such as Bargo and Johor to continue the fight against the Portuguese invasion. In 1528, Ala-Ude-Din succeeded to the throne and continued to resist the Portuguese in Johor. Peace with the Portuguese in 1536. Soon after, Ala-Udeddin officially established the Kingdom of Johor and chose old Johor as the capital. After the establishment of the Kingdom of Johor, it was constantly at war with the rising Kingdom of Aceh on the island of Sumatra, and on the other hand, it continued to be at war with the Portuguese colonists. This war, historically known as the "triangular battle", lasted about a century. In 1587, the Portuguese captured Old Johor. The kingdom moved its capital to Batu Sawa. At the beginning of the 17th century, Dutch and British forces invaded the Malay Peninsula. In the mid-17th century, the conflict between Portugal and the Dutch over the spice trade in Southeast Asia became increasingly acute, and the two sides fought fiercely to expand their respective spheres of influence. The Netherlands united with the Kingdom of Johor to defeat the Portuguese army in Malacca and clear the Portuguese invading forces in the Malay Peninsula, and the Kingdom of Johor became stronger for a time.

Li Weijing said: "Although Johor is a small barbarian country, he can provide food and manpower support for the Dutch red-haired people, so if you want to attack Manchuria, Johor is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed!" ”

Zheng Zhilong said: "But if we fight this Johor country first, won't it be a surprise to the snake?" ”

Li Weijing thought for a while and said: "The largest stronghold of the Dutch red-haired people in the South China Sea is Batavia on the island of Java, in my opinion, we can pretend to attack Manraka, and then lead the Dutch sailors from Batavia to come to the rescue, and we will intercept in the middle of the road!" ”

Zheng Zhilong thought for a while and asked, "How many ships are there in the Dutch Red Hair?" How many cannons? ”

Li Wei thought for a while and said: "There are two large ships, ten medium ships, and more than fifty small ships. Cannons, less than a hundred. I don't know how many warships the general brought? ”

Zheng Zhilong laughed and said, "The so-called biggest stronghold is nothing more than this little belongings? After that, he smiled and asked Shi Daxuan, Liu Guoxuan and others behind him, "Is this enough for you to eat?" ”

Shi Daxuan also laughed and said: "It's not enough for me to stuff my teeth!" ”

●●●●●● Dutch Governor Anthony? Fan? Dimon was now standing on the vantage point of Batavia overlooking the city. He was second only to the third Dutch Governor of Batavia, Yan? Petersson? Kun's Dutch expansionist colonizer of the Eastern Empire. During his tenure, Dutch canals, castles, town halls, Christ churches, Latin schools and market districts appeared. The Dutch East India Company was as savage as pirates, and in order to force the inhabitants of Moluccas, to sell spices to the company at low prices, they sent their armies to carry out bloody massacres, and in 1621, 15,000 inhabitants of Banda Island were almost wiped out, and the remaining 800 were taken prisoner to Batavia as slaves. The so-called civilization of Europeans, as soon as they crossed their own borders, immediately evolved into barbarism, and in order to enrich the population, the Dutch East India Company began to recruit Chinese in large numbers. In the eyes of Western colonizers, the Chinese were known for being "diligent", "peace-loving", and "cowardly" by nature (the sadness of the Chinese, which continues to this day). Therefore, the Dutch governor lured the Chinese of Banten with high salaries, imposed light taxes on Chinese merchants who moved to Batavia, and rewarded overseas Chinese for attracting their fellow villagers to Batavia. Of course, some unseemly measures have also been adopted, such as the abduction of "migrants" in China's coastal areas. This policy was so successful that Chinese galleons brought in a large number of Chinese immigrants, and once the Chinese acquired assets that enabled them to stand on their own, they settled in Bacheng and intermarried with Balinese women who were sent here as slaves. The overseas Chinese population continues to grow, and most of the overseas Chinese in Bacheng are engaged in commercial activities, from itinerant hawkers to permanent street vendors, to retailers and wholesalers, forming a complete business network.

Batavia is becoming more and more prosperous because of the "diligent", "peace-loving", and "cowardly" Chinese" by nature "These pigs~" Anthony looked at the Chinese who were repairing the city wall, and scolded disdainfully, "Report to the Governor!" A Dutch soldier straightened up and reported to Antony: "According to reliable information, the Chinese fleet left Borneo the night before yesterday and is heading towards Malacca!" ”

Anthony's face changed drastically: "Are you sure their direction is Malacca?" ”

"There will be no mistake, they passed through the Lion City last night and anchored near Johor, and if they set off early in the morning, they would have been in Malacca in another two or three hours."

"Hey!" Anthony sighed, "When did this vast and unresponsive empire of natives start caring so much about the ocean?" Anthony said, "Let Griffith lead the fleet to support Malacca!" ”

"Yes, Lord Governor!"

After receiving the order from the governor, Captain Griffith did not dare to slack off, and immediately led the two capital battleships Amsterdam and St. Mary's anchored in the harbor to leave the port. After a day and night of sailing, it finally passed through the Karimata Strait in the early hours of the next morning.

Suddenly, the sentry on the top of the mast shouted: "Colonel, enemy ship, it's an enemy ship!" ”

"Ring the alarm!" Griffith decisively ordered the bell to go off ~~ The alarm bell woke up many sleeping Dutch sailors, and the sudden enemy attack made them a little scrambling. Before all the Dutch sailors were in place, the Ming sailors had already included them in the range of the cannons.

The North Sea Fleet, which had already seized the upper hand, lined up in a "D" battle formation, and the gun doors on the side of the ship were all open. The Dutch saw white smoke coming out of the side of the Ming warship in the distance, and then the cannonballs whistling in front of them. The cannonballs that hit the Dutch warship shot out a lot of wood chips, and the cannonballs that fell into the sea stirred up a column of water that rushed to the sky The Dutch officers and soldiers on the Amsterdam suddenly felt that their feet were shaking, and countless cannonballs fell like raindrops, and the sea of cannonballs swooped down on the Amsterdam fiercely, Griffith had already seen several unlucky soldiers on the deck being swallowed up by the Lang flowers, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye, Griffith himself was also unsteady on his feet, but fortunately he grabbed the barrage in time, was not swept away by Lang head.

When the whistling of the shells stopped, Griffith looked at the Amsterdam as if it had experienced a baptism of storm, and the entire deck was in shambles, and at least a dozen shells hit the hull of the Amsterdam, but almost all of them flew by the deck or mast, and did not cause much damage to the hull "This is a miracle!" Griffith stabilized himself and hurriedly shouted, "What are the gunners doing?" Shoot back, shoot back quickly. ”

The roar of the cannons came from the Amsterdam, which had just adjusted its orientation and aimed its side at the Ming fleet, and a total of eighteen guns roared in front.

After the Amsterdam opened fire, the large and small battleships that followed behind also heard the sound of artillery firing, and the gunners of the Dutch Navy did not care to see how effective the shooting was, and immediately nervously cleaned the gun chambers and began to load the shells to prepare for the next round of attacks.

On the vast waters of the Karimata Strait, a great battle between the Ming Navy and the Dutch Colonial Navy has begun.

Zheng Zhilong divided his fleet into three teams, and the task of the first team, the North Sea Fleet, was to take advantage of the huge advantage of the hull as much as possible to break through to the middle of the enemy fleet, and then fire the guns on both sides together to achieve the tactical purpose of flowering in the middle. Therefore, the Dingyuan, the flagship of the North Sea Fleet where Gu San Mazi was located, bore the brunt, and the Zhenyuan and other cruisers behind followed closely behind.

The Dutchman's reaction was also a little faster than Zheng Zhilong expected. The Dutch's right flank fleet was already prepared, and although the guns were not ready, the Dutch warship St. Mary's made a left turn and blocked the Dingyuan's continued forward momentum with a not too small hull.

By this time, the other ships had successfully broken into the Dutch naval fleet, cutting the Dutch ship into three pieces.

"Fire!"

As Gu San Mazi's order was issued, the gunners who had already been ready quickly opened fire to attack the enemy ships on both wings.

Boom ~ Boom ~ Dingyuan fired first, or the port and port sides fired at the same time. The hot shells instantly burst out with a whimpering whine, and two Dutch galleons less than 200 meters apart on both sides were hit one after another, and almost all of the more than 60 shells hit the target. At such a close distance, the shells easily tore through the hull of the Dutch warship and fired into the ship.

Due to the use of flowering shells, the first to suffer was the Dutch battleship Nafti, which was on the right flank of the Dingyuan. The ship was hit by twenty-two shells, bullet holes were all over the right side of the battleship. The flowering shells that entered the hull exploded, the hull was crumpled in an instant, and a huge fire burst out, and then the flames rushed up more than ten meters high with the air flow of the explosion, igniting the high sails and cables. In an instant, the entire warship was from beginning to end. From top to bottom, caught in a sea of fire.

The same was true of the Dingyuan, which was flanders, the deputy commander of the Dutch fleet, Rear Admiral Kotlin. Because of its long hull, the ship was hit more by more shells, a total of 27 shells, and Major Kotnin was killed on the spot. A barrage of flowering shells exploded, tearing the port side of the ship to pieces. A violent shock wave enveloped in debris and flames, mercilessly harvesting nearby lives. The fire spread rapidly through the air of debris and consumed the entire ship in the blink of an eye. The Flanders began to lean to the left helplessly, and the Dutch sailors on board jumped into the sea to flee for their lives.

Almost at the same time as the Dingyuan opened fire, the ships Zhenyuan, Laiyuan, Jingyuan, Zhiyuan, Jingyuan, Jiyuan, Pingyuan, Chaoyong, Yangwei, Zhendong, Zhenxi, Zhennan, Zhenbei, Zhenzhong, and Zhenbian also opened fire left and right. Suddenly the cannon roared and deafened, muffling the wails of the enemy all over the field. The fire was blazing, and the dull sky was illuminated.

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