Yan Zheng and his group, this time they returned, they came to seek revenge with full fighting spirit, and wanted to take back what they had lost from the Hongmen people.

After Yan Zheng was defeated and fled, they were not displaced and impoverished as Li Tian raised them.

Relying on the relationship that Zheng Zhilong had worked the sea, as well as the relationship network inherited from Li Dan, the lord of the sea, even when they fled, he still gave them too much help.

The reason why Li Tianyang and the others have not been able to inquire about the news of Yan and Zheng is because after Yan and Zheng and the others have really seen the strength and potential of Hongmen in the battle with Hongmen, they already know that if they did not win Hongmen at the most glorious time, then the Flying Dragon Gang, which is now a remnant of the defeated army, is not the opponent of Hongmen.

All the way south, in order to avoid being chased and killed by the Hongmen, Yan Zheng and the others took their henchmen to bypass the territory controlled by the Shark Gang Li De and others, and went southwest until they reached the more distant Java area.

Java's status in the Ming officialdom and the people is not obvious, and even the Ming maritime merchants, who have always liked to trek through mountains and rivers, mostly stay at the border of Luzon, and rarely continue to go south.

Therefore, among the Ming officialdom and the people, there has not been much information about the state of Java, and the Western forces that control Java and control Luzon, Xiangshanao and other regions are intertwined and hostile to each other, which brings great risks to the ocean trade of Daming seamen, so everyone is reluctant to come to this remote place.

However, in fact, the Javanese colony controlled by the Dutch East India Company was no less prosperous than the Luzon Spaniard's Manila Castle, and even because of its geographical proximity to Dashi and India, it was faintly more prosperous than Luzon.

When Li Dan took control of the Wa Kingdom and other places, he had an inextricable relationship with the Dutch who came to open up their strongholds in the Far East, and as a newly emerging Western maritime power, the Dutch were more open and easier to communicate with than other Westerners such as the Spaniards and Portuguese.

The Dutch wanted to gain a foothold in the Japanese country, and Li Dan coveted all kinds of novelties and Western jewelry unique to the Westerners, and they also had close cooperation with each other.

And the righteous son of Li Dan, Zheng Zhilong, who was the right-hand man of Li Dan's seat, formed an indissoluble bond with the Dutch, if it was developed according to the original history, it was not until several years later that Zheng Zhilong was recruited by the Ming Dynasty to really break with the Dutch.

In desperation, after Yan Zheng and his group came to the Dutch colony of Java, Zheng Zhilong began to work around and started a relationship with the Dutch.

They are also forces that have suffered big losses in the hands of Hongmen, although the relationship between the Dutch and Li Tianyang Hongmen is still quite close, relying on the open market of Keelung Town, Hongmen, it also allowed the Dutch to open the market of the Ming Dynasty.

However, in private, the Dutch are not without complaints and dark thoughts about Hongmen, as one of the Western European countries, on the surface the Dutch appear to be more open, but the natural high-minded way of thinking in European benevolence will not change in general.

Compared to the fact that they could only trade under the supervision and control of the Hongmen, accept the prices set by them, and at the same time pay a lot of taxes and fees to the Hongmen, it would be a bit false to say that the Dutch were willing.

It's just that there is no way, the Dutch Kingdom of the Netherlands is too far away, and its own national foundation is still very shallow, even if Beihongmen is defeated once and becomes the laughing stock of other kingdoms, and they want to get back to the field, but their strength in the Far East is really not strong enough, at least they are not 100% sure of defeating a rapidly growing and powerful maritime overlord - Hongmen.

Therefore, on the surface, the Dutch governor of Java and the Dutch merchants have always maintained friendly relations with Hongmen, but in their hearts they always think that they can weaken the power of Hongmenzi in the Far East.

A strong Far East maritime team is not in line with the interests of Westerners, which should be said to be the consensus of all Westerners, but at the beginning, Hongmen was not strong enough to make all Western countries feel threatened, so everyone did not think of joining forces to deal with Hongmen together.

But the defeated Dutch were the first to come to their senses and began to sense the threat that Hongmen would pose to everyone's interests in the Far East in the future, so they also began to find ways to cause problems for Hongmen.

Now there is a sick Daming gang to ask for help, in the past, I am afraid that the Dutch will not pay much attention, as a businessman-based team, the Dutch first consider the benefits that the other party can bring is rich enough.

But now it is different, although the Flying Dragon Gang was defeated by Hongmen and lost most of its strength, but the emaciated camel is bigger than a horse, as a powerful gang that dared to challenge Hongmen, although it is down, its strength is still enough to make the Dutch look sideways.

In addition to their families and the elderly, the Wyverns who fled to Java still numbered more than 4,000 able-bodied sailors, which alone was much larger than the number of people living in Java in the Dutch.

Of course, the difference in numbers does not fully represent the difference in strength, and the Dutch sea fleet has gradually replenished over the years, and in the face of the fleet of thousands of dragons, they still have a strong confidence to defeat and defeat it.

However, on the premise of thinking that everyone had a common enemy, and the network of connections that Zheng Zhilong had accumulated by dealing with the Dutch, he finally shouted that the Dutch accepted their existence and allowed them to live and settle in the waters around Java.

The Dutch accepted the Wyverns, which meant that the Wyverns no longer had to be displaced, and there was no longer a stable nest, and when they once again picked up their swords and began to trade with their usual skill, the Dutch naturally gave them the task of dealing with other hostile forces, such as the Spanish merchant ships, as a condition for Zheng Zhilong's survival in Java.

In such a situation, the two sides cooperated to achieve a temporary balance of mutual benefit and reciprocity, and secretly signed a contract of alliance with the aim of dealing with the increasingly powerful Hongmen.

For this reason, the Dutch did not hesitate to sell their eliminated Western-style sea ships, as well as the Western artillery they had trafficked from Europe, to arm them with the Wyvern Gang and strengthen their strength.

This is also the reason why the Flying Dragon Gang, who were originally on the run and should have fallen down, are now showing their usual artillery strength in front of the Hongmen fleet, and even a few points stronger than before.

(End of chapter)