Chapter 314: The Bright Sword of the South China Sea

After returning to Pattaya for ten days to recuperate, he prepared to lead his fleet across the Gulf of Siam, then into the Strait of Malacca, along the coastline, visiting countries along the way, and finally arriving in Yangon.

Just the day before he was ready to leave, he finally waited for the information sent by the Admiralty, the intelligence of the Admiralty was ordered by Gao Junshan to collect it, and it was finally delivered before Gao Junshan set off, and he looked at more than a dozen reports about the navies of other countries in his private room.

The first thing to look at was the intelligence of the Ottoman Empire, which was in the Dardanelles at a standoff against the Tunisian navy, and it seemed that they had no time to take care of the Persian kingdom now;

The second piece of information is about the Netherlands, which is still in the position of maritime supremacy, their tricolor flag fluttering on the five oceans of the world, with 15,000 ships cruising on the seas, and the total number of ships cruising on the seas in the world is only 25,000, and the Dutch has three times as many ships at sea as China;

It is worth noting that the British navy is also on the rise, and after years of civil war, Admiral Cromwell, who appointed himself as the "Lord Protector", held a solemn "enthronement" ceremony in the Palace of Westminster and served as the protector of England, Scotland and Ireland. After taking office, he accelerated the development of the navy, built two hundred and seven warships in just three years, and established the Naval Council, which replaced the civil war-era system of the Admiral and the Navy Bureau, which was responsible for providing food and military pay, and established "bonuses" to encourage the capture or destruction of enemy ships.

The British Navy had the ambition to replace the Netherlands as the supremacy of the seas, and their warships began to blockade Dutch ships at sea.

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After reading all the information, Gao Junshan believed that it was impossible not to intervene in European affairs now, and that Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain, which were several maritime military powers, were expanding day by day, and had threatened the maritime security of Huaxia.

At present, the greatest threat to the Chinese state is the Netherlands, at this time the Dutch have been entrenched in Johor in the area of the Strait of Malacca, and his ships of the East India Company are very active in the Strait of Malacca, which is detrimental to the interests of the Chinese country, so the expulsion of the Dutch from the South Seas has become the top priority of Gao Junshan at present.

Gao Junshan believed that he could take advantage of the contradictions between Britain and the Netherlands and unite with Britain to jointly attack the Netherlands.

In order to adapt to the new strategic requirements, he decided to reorganize the six fleets of the Huaxia Kingdom.

On the battleship "Zheng He No. 1", he convened a meeting of senior staff members to study and analyze the reorganization of the fleet, and finally decided to divide the existing naval forces into three major fleets.

Sino-Polish Combined Fleet: Fleet Commander Ma Jin, the fleet has one Zhenghe-class giant steam engine battleship and two Wuchang-class large steam engine battleships, as well as thirty sail warships, plus hundreds of sail warships of the Persian Kingdom, whose mission is to protect the maritime trade in the Persian Gulf.

Southern Fleet: Fleet Commander Gao Chengjun, the fleet has one Zhenghe-class giant steam engine battleship and four Wuchang-class large steam engine battleships, as well as a hundred sail battleships, as well as the support of the North Korean fleet, whose mission is to monitor the island nation;

Siam Gulf Fleet: Gao Junshan left a Zheng He-class giant steam engine battleship and three Wuchang-class large battleships in Cam Ranh Bay as a maneuver, and transferred all the steam engine battleships (three Zheng He-class and nine Wuchang-class) to the waters of the Gulf of Siam, and at the same time transferred 300 sail warships and 1,000 sail transport ships to form a huge fleet, and he himself served as the commander of the Siam Bay Fleet.

The purpose of forming the Gulf of Siam Fleet was to control the Strait of Malacca and control Asia's access to the sea from Africa and Europe.

Gao Junshan also placed three army divisions and two marine brigades in the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula, which originally belonged to Siam and is now the territory of the Chinese state, with Phuket to the west, the Gulf of Siam to the east, and Johor to the south.

The three army divisions were the 1001st, 1003rd and 1005th divisions of Feng Shuangli's 10th Army, and the two marine brigades were the 1st and 2nd Marine Brigades.

The mission of the Malacca Regiment was to attack the Dutch from north to south from the Malay Peninsula with the cooperation of the navy.

After the decision was made, Gao Junshan sent a telegram to 11 military command organs, namely, the Military and Political Yuan in the capital, the Admiralty in Cam Ranh Bay, the Southern Fleet in the Ryukyus, the headquarters of the six major fleets of the Navy, and the headquarters of the 9th and 10th Army Corps.

This is the advantage of having a transmitter, and any decision, decision, and order can be issued to the relevant departments at the first time.

That night, Gao Junshan sat in the newspaper office, and all the newspaper operators in the newspaper office worked all night long, and the two transmitters kept transmitting the orders issued by Gao Junshan to the various departments, and it was not until dawn that all the telegrams were transmitted.

At the same time, Gao Junshan activated all channels of communication with the British and conveyed to the British his intention to seek cooperation.

The entire movement of land and sea took two months, and by the beginning of November 1654 all the troops had reached their appointed positions.

In this way, the Chinese Kingdom concentrated 12 steam engine battleships and more than 1,300 sail ships in the Gulf of Siam, the number of troops in the navy reached 120,000, and the army on the Malay Peninsula also had 25,000 men.

The main force of the Dutch in Johor was the mercenaries of the East India Company, 5,000 in number, 20 battleships, 20 battleships in the headquarters of the East India Company in Batavia (later Jakarta), 10,000 mercenaries, more than 100 merchant ships to fight, and 20,000 volunteers formed by merchants.

The battleships of the Dutch East India Company are all three-class, and the third-class battleships are two-thousand-tonnage battleships, with a crew of seven hundred, double-deck, equipped with fifty 42-pound or thirty-two-pounder guns, these large-caliber guns are configured for the first and second class large battleships in European countries, and the Netherlands relies on the power of large-caliber guns and the flexible navigation ability brought by small tonnage, especially in shallow waters, which is far better than the sail battleships of other countries. These Dutch battleships, which were far inferior in size and number of artillery to the third-class battleships of other countries, could not only completely suppress the cruisers and other ships of other countries' navies, but could even compete with the first- and second-class battleships of other countries' navies.