In Malacca in August, the heat wave is rolling, if you stand on the beach, you can still have a little sea breeze, it doesn't feel so bad, if you stay away from the coast, it can simply heat people to death, hundreds of Portuguese defenders in Malacca are now gathered on the seaside, enjoying the gentle sea breeze and showing a cheerful smile.

Well, it looks like they're not here to blow the sea breeze, because each of them is dressed neatly!

Soon, a huge fleet appeared on the sea, with no less than 2,000 warships, large and small, and almost the entire strait was crowded with dense crowds!

The Portuguese army captain who led the team was about to pop out in shock, oh, the one who bought the cake, didn't he say that it was the advance fleet of the Ming Dynasty, this scale is still the advance fleet, if the main fleet must not crowd the entire strait!

It is indeed the advance fleet of the Ming Navy, but it is a mixed fleet, with 500 Fuchuan battleships and 1,000 small warships of the South China Sea Fleet, as well as 100 Fuchuan warships and 500 small warships of the Navy Reserve Fleet, as well as the flagships of Admirals Zheng Xing and Zheng Ming, two medium-sized treasure ships!

The small port of Malacca could not dock treasure ships at all, Zheng Xing and Zheng Ming had to change to the Fuchuan battleship to come to the port, and after a group of hundreds of people got off the ship, they did not immediately walk to the Portuguese soldiers not far away, but first formed a team in the port, put the sun and moon dragon flag high, and then walked towards the Portuguese soldiers on the opposite side with neat steps.

Seeing this, the Portuguese captain who led the team hurriedly stood upright and ordered loudly: "Attention, stand upright." “

Soon, the Ming naval phalanx came to them, and the two admirals with three golden flowers shining on their epaulettes walked up solemnly, and at the same time gave a standard military salute, one of the admirals said loudly in standard Portuguese: "Hello Your Excellency, Captain of the South China Sea Fleet, Admiral Zheng Xing, commander of the South China Sea Fleet of the Ming Navy, has been ordered to come to receive the defense of Malacca." “

The Portuguese captain hurriedly returned a standard military salute and said loudly: "Your Excellency, Hello, Captain Alex of the Portuguese Army. Andel has been ordered to hand over the defense of Malacca to you. “

The two sides gave a standard military salute at the same time, and Zheng Xing walked up to hold Alex. Andre smiled: "Captain Ander has worked hard, I have prepared ten Fuchuan warships to escort you to Goa, I wish you a smooth journey." “

Captain Ander said excitedly: "Thank you, Your Excellency, I wish you all the best." “

Just when the two sides shook hands, ten Fuchuan warships took turns to dock the port, and a group of soldiers ran down from above, and thousands of Ming soldiers were instantly gathered in the port.

Zheng Xing saw that it was almost over, so he waved his hand and said, "Your Excellency, please get on the boat." “

Captain Andel hurriedly saluted, said goodbye, and led his men to quickly get on the last Fuchuan battleship, watching the ten Fuchuan battleships go away, Zheng Xing smiled and said to Zheng Ming: "Such a military important place, they just gave us Daming, it's really ignorant!" “

Zheng Ming retorted with a smile: "It's not necessarily that they are ignorant, they can't resist the Dutch just come to a small fleet, why bother to hold on here, it's better to give us Daming as a personal favor." “

When Zheng Xing heard this, he thought about it, nodded and said, "Yes, forget it, let's go and build the Xingcheng Port base as soon as possible." “

After that, he took the lead and turned around and walked towards the Fuchuan battleship when he came, Zheng Ming hurriedly followed, and the hundreds of guards who came to disembark with him also followed, leaving only the Ming soldiers who had just disembarked standing there neatly, watching them go away.

Malacca, Zheng Xing and Zheng Ming didn't even look at it, leaving only a thousand soldiers stationed here, their main target is still the big island at the entrance of the strait, according to the emperor's will, to build a huge military base on the island, the islands and coasts on both sides of the island and the coast to build a lot of forts and fortresses according to the terrain, the whole base has a nice name, called Xingcheng Port Naval Base.

The entrance to the Strait of Malacca is not a prosperous place at this time, it is basically a deserted and populated place, I heard that there is a small country called Johor, but after being taught a few times by the Portuguese, I don't know where to hide, Zheng Xing and Zheng Ming are too lazy to care about these, they are not responsible for coming to the colony, but responsible for building a naval base.

This time, the South China Sea Fleet of the Ming Navy and the Reserve Corps of the Navy Division came with a total of about 150,000 people, and the materials brought were even more amazing, such as cement, steel bars, steel plates, and other materials of no less than thousands of tons, hoists, flat cars, shovels, trowels and other tools were also a boat, as long as you dig some stones and pull some sand, you can basically start construction.

Zheng Xing and Zheng Ming's experience in building ports is quite rich, not to mention that they have seen so much in the southeast defense line, when they were pirates, their large, medium and small ports were basically built by themselves, and they also participated in the command and construction of the batteries and fortresses of the southeast defense line.

They looked around the big island at the entrance and found that this island was indeed a good place to build a naval base, and the coastal structure on its south side was very suitable for building a port, the protruding parts on both sides were just enough to build fortresses and forts, and there was no problem in building a large city in the central and northern terrain, and the entire entrance was suitable for the passage of the waterway in front of the large island, and the rest of the place was either full of turns or reefs, which was not suitable for large warships to pass through, as long as a few batteries and forts were built, Even the boat doesn't want to go over.

Zheng Xing and Zheng Ming discussed it and decided to build the Xingcheng Port base first, as for the forts and fortresses in other places, they would wait for the base to be built, so the two of them ordered at the same time that 150,000 people would be busy together.

All kinds of building materials were loaded onto small boats and transported to designated places, all kinds of people worked together, digging stones, picking sand, mixing cement, fixing decks, and ......, everyone was busy in an orderly manner, one after another forts were rising from the ground, one by one wharves were showing rudiments, the fortresses were standing, the city walls were rising, Star City Harbor was slowly exposing the sea level at a speed visible to the naked eye, a huge naval base, and a solid fortress that was almost impregnable was slowly taking shape.

Zheng Xing and Zheng Ming supervised the construction of the base, and at the same time also sent people around to observe and map, a huge strait sand table model is also gradually taking shape, the Xingcheng Port base at the entrance is made according to the plan, and the forts and fortresses in various dangerous positions have also been gradually added, and an all-round defense system without dead ends has been formed on the sand table, and the actual construction will not take long to complete, because they are not short of personnel, materials, and money, everything is fully prepared, and the progress is naturally extremely fast.

In less than a month, ports, bases, forts, and batteries were formed one after another, and at this time, the North Sea Fleet also transported thousands of cannons over, and the cannons went to the forts, forts and city walls, an impregnable defense line choked the passage between the east and the west, and a brand-new Star City Port Naval Base appeared in front of the world.