Eleven battleships were moored in the sea area ten miles away from the shore, and they could only look at the "ocean" and sigh in the face of land, because this area was a shallow sea, and battleships of more than 5,000 tons could not dock at all.

Next to the cockpit of "Zheng He No. 1" is the war room, where more than 10 naval staff officers are busy, the area of the war room is not large, but there is a large square table inside, and a nautical chart is spread out on the table.

Now, Gao Junshan is holding a military meeting here, and the meeting is attended by senior admirals of the navy.

On the opposite coast was Kuala Terengganu in Johor, and since the sail fleet of the Chinese Kingdom had not yet arrived, the Marine Brigade lacked transport ships to land, so it could only wait on the battleships.

Kuala Terengganu, the capital of the later Malaysian state of Terengganu, is located on a promontory in the South China Sea. As the capital of Malaysia's oil-producing states, it is also a land of abundance. It is for this reason that the Dutch East India Company has a base here.

Gao Junshan is holding a meeting, which is to let everyone come up with a way to get the Marine Brigade to board Kuala Terengganu.

At the meeting, the majority of the opinion was to choose another port of disembarkation, and Gao Junshan vetoed this suggestion, if transferred to another port, it would inevitably give the Dutch a chance to breathe, and if their reinforcements arrived, the battle would be prolonged, not to mention, and it would cost a lot of sacrifice.

Sun Dahai proposed that the fifteen speedboats on the battleship could be used to collect the wooden boats abandoned by the enemy on the sea and carry out simple repairs, which could be used to transport the marines.

Gao Junshan said: "Just follow Sun Dahai's method, and the extra wooden boats can be sent to those Dutch prisoners who are still in the sea." ”

As soon as the meeting ended, the action began.

All the speedboats on the three Zheng He-class battleships were launched, and they went to the shallow water to tow some of the wooden boats that were still relatively intact, and began to repair the damaged wooden boats, and by four o'clock in the afternoon, thirty-seven wooden boats had been repaired.

With boats, the Marine Brigade could land, and a brigade of 8,000 marines and 37 boats, an average of 50 men per boat, and at 10 o'clock in the evening, the 5th Marine Brigade was all ashore.

Thirty-seven wooden boats had finished transporting the Marines before they went to rescue the Dutch who had been soaked in the sea, and this dilapidated fleet salvaged nine hundred and seventy-three lives.

Gao Junshan had no intention of boarding Kuala Terengganu and collecting the Dutch on land, and it was enough to have the 5th Marine Brigade, and he was ready to wait for the arrival of the subsequent sail fleet before continuing south, crossing the Singapore Strait and entering Malacca.

The next day, Gao Junshan received a telegram from Makin from the Persian Gulf, and they made contact with the British, who had an armistice with the Netherlands, and the two sides signed an armistice treaty. Therefore, it was impossible for Huaxia to propose an alliance with Britain to deal with the Netherlands, but the British were very interested in the alliance proposed by Gao Junshan, and the British knew the strength of Huaxia's navy, and they were willing to establish an alliance with Huaxia and exchange trade.

The call also said that General Cromwell, the "Lord Protector" of Britain, was willing to meet Gao Junshan at an appropriate time.

Cao Wenzhao also sent a telegram to Gao Junshan about the movements of the British, saying that Britain had signed trade treaties with Sweden and Denmark in September. In addition, the Rakshasa sent envoys to Xichang, hoping to establish closer trade with China.

After Gao Junshan read Cao Wenzhao's telegram, he said to Tian Qiliang beside him: "The Rakshasa Kingdom is eager to establish closer cooperation with us, he is afraid that he will be marginalized!" ”

Tian Qiliang said: "We should agree to their request, so that we can fight for greater benefits." ”

Gao Junshan agreed: "You are right, we don't have much conflict of interest with the current Rakshasa Country, and we can agree to their request." ”

So, Gao Junshan called Cao Wenzhao back and told Cao Wenzhao that he could establish closer trade with the Rakshasa Kingdom.

Another day passed, and the sail fleet of the Huaxia Kingdom arrived, a huge fleet of two hundred warships and a thousand transports, most of which could sail into the harbor of Kuala Terengganu.

With the arrival of the sail fleet, which replenished the battleships with ammunition, food, fuel, and other necessities, Gao Junshan decided to continue the leader's fleet south.

Before the fleet set sail, a speedboat on a reconnaissance mission reported that a Dutch sailboat was approaching this direction, with a white flag on it, as if to surrender.

When Gao Junshan heard the report, he went to the command platform in the cockpit, looked at the sea with a telescope, and sure enough, he saw a sailboat with a white flag on its bow, anchored there far away.

Gao Junshan said to the captain Deng Shijie: "Send two speedboats over, bring an interpreter, and see what these Dutch people want to do?" ”

Soon, the two speedboats that accepted the task drove towards the sailboat moored here, and Gao Junshan clearly saw from the binoculars that there were two people on the sailboat, got on one of the speedboats, and drove back with the speedboat.

Gao Junshan said to Tian Qiliang beside him: "The Dutch sent two people over, you go to receive them and see what they want." ”

Tian Qiliang accepted the task, went down to the deck, and asked people to send the Dutch on the speedboat up.

The two people who came up, one was Dutch and the other was Chinese, and this Chinese was a Dutch translator.

Tian Qiliang asked, "Who are you?" ”

First, the Chinese translated the words, and the Dutchman replied: "I am James of the Batavia headquarters of the Dutch East India Company, and on behalf of the board of directors of the East India Company, I have come to negotiate with the Chinese country, hoping that our two countries can stop hostilities and end the war." ”

Tian Qiliang asked: "You are a small manager, can you represent your board of directors?" ”

James said: "I'm just in charge of coming over to liaison, if Huaxia Guo agrees to negotiate, the general manager of the Batavia headquarters is on the ship in front, you can send someone over." ”

Tian Qiliang said: "This matter is very important, we must study it before replying to you, you wait here for a while." ”

James said, "Listen to me." ”

Gao Junshan learned of the Dutch's intentions, and he agreed to negotiate a solution to the problem. After discussion, it was decided to send Tian Qiliang as a negotiator to follow the Xiangli named James to their ship for negotiations.

Gao Junshan's instructions to Tian Qiliang were that the state of war with the Dutch could be ended, provided that the Dutch must hand over control of the Straits of Malacca to Huaxia.