The civil affairs department of the starting point city has sent personnel to Manila to guide the formation of the self-government.

The 1st Brigade of the Security Forces will leave a regiment as the remaining force in Manila, the port of Manila will also relocate the battery, the shore artillery used in the battery will be the Type 07 35-mm double-barreled self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, and the 2,500 troops of the Japanese mercenary Matsuura Ichiro will remain in Luzon and continue to be responsible for the work of clearing the indigenous forces.

According to the plan, the Chinese in Luzon will arm a militia of 5,000 people equipped with arquebuses, and they will be trained by the security forces in some necessary subjects in peacetime, serving as soldiers in peacetime and soldiers in wartime, as the security force in Luzon.

The naval fleet of the Tiance Army left two maritime surveillance warships stationed in the port of Manila, and the other two dock landing ships, two supply ships, four coast guard warships, two maritime surveillance warships, and eight passenger and cargo ro-ro ships, a total of 18 warships, set sail in two batches to the south, targeting the Dutch colony of Batavia.

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Having struggled to compete with their peers, the Dutch established their eastern commercial colonial empire on the island of Java in Southeast Asia. In 1619, Peterson, the third governor of the Dutch East India Company, led an armed fleet to defeat the Sultan of Banten and the local British, completely conquered Batavia, and used it as a base to establish the Eastern Empire of the Dutch East India Company.

In a letter to the board of directors of domestic companies, Peterson wrote: "...... In order to maintain a monopoly on the spice trade, we must have a firm grasp of all the items related to it. ”

Under this guiding ideology, which centered on supporting the monopoly of spice trade, the Dutch East India Company continued to upgrade and strengthen its maritime entrepot trade model, which was skillful in Europe, and force became the most frequently used method.

With its abundant capital and good colonial base, the Dutch East India Company had an almost complete monopoly on the spice industry and other commodities in Southeast Asia, with commercial routes as far west as Persia, India, and Sri Lanka, as far east as the Maluku Spice Islands, and as far north as Ming and Japan.

But in the early days of Batavia's existence, the environment was so harsh, with desolate marshlands, rainforests full of deadly elements, and lazy and savage Javanese natives who were eyeing each other.

In the course of Batavia's development, a large number of ethnic Chinese became the best builders and city operators that the Dutch East India Company could find. Either luring with high salaries or secretly abducting Chinese labor, it became one of the main policies of the Dutch East India Company after 1619.

The industrious and intelligent Chinese bear a lot of hardships during the pioneering period of Batavia, they are not only excellent farmers and craftsmen, but also suppliers of Ming goods, operators of urban functions, retail commerce and coastal trade, countless people died in the process, and made indelible historical contributions to the development of Batavia.

At this time, Batavia was filled with an atmosphere of despair, the revenge of the Ming Empire came too quickly, and Robben, the governor of Batavia, did not wait for the news of the first fleet, but waited for the fleet of the Ming Empire.

The first to arrive was the Nanyang Detachment led by Zhuang Suwen, and after the arrival of the Nanyang Detachment, it did not launch an attack on Batavia, but blocked the port of Batavia and intercepted all ships leaving the port.

Three days later, the entire fleet of the Tiance Navy arrived, and by this time five merchant ships that had gone to sea without heeding the advice had been sunk in the port of Batavia.

The Dutch army was even weaker than that of Spain, and the total strength of the army in Batavia was only fifteen or six hundred, and the Netherlands was still a small country after all, and the total population of the Dutch country at this time did not exceed two million.

The Dutch were strong at sea, so they were known as the "coachmen of the sea", and once they lost their superiority at sea, the Dutch's land military strength was not worth mentioning. Historically, the British defeated the Dutch and joined forces with France to invade the Netherlands by land.

Since 1636, when Robben became governor of Batavia, he has worked to build Batavia into a military fortress to withstand the blows of the war between the English and the Sultan of Banten, and it is now the most critical period of the Batavia project, and the fortress is designed to be very strong. The stone used in the fort was transported from the Coromandel of India.

Today, in the port area of Batavia, more than 2,000 laborers and craftsmen from the Ming Empire are busy inside and outside the vast military fortress that integrates colonial living and residential areas, trade areas, and military defense. Most of these people were "piglets" brought by Zheng Zhilong or the Portuguese, and some were even Chinese immigrants intercepted from other passing merchant ships.

Even if these are excellent workers with a fairly high degree of civilization. But the treatment they enjoyed was basically the same as that of slaves, and the harsh natural environment still led to an alarming mortality rate among Chinese Americans, and in order to keep the project progressing, Robben had to increase his efforts to smuggle piglets from the Ming Empire.

"Your Excellency the Governor, it's not a good thing!" A subordinate hurriedly walked into the governor's office and took off his hat to Peterson to salute, "The Ming people have come to reinforce the fleet again, and it seems that they may attack at any time." ”

Robben had been in a state of anxiety since the South Sea Detachment blocked the port of Batavia, and he had a premonition that he must be unlucky, and when he heard the report of his subordinates, the quill pen that was keeping a diary slipped from his hand .......

Before dusk, standing on a fort in a harbor, Robben's face turned pale. He was clutching a letter in his hand, and his knuckles were almost white.

This was a letter of surrender sent to him by a Dutch captive officer sent by Wang Yue, Batavia is different from Manila, due to the small population of the Dutch, Batavia is not only inhabited by Dutch, but also by a large number of Chinese.

In addition to the Chinese who had settled or done business in Batavia for a long time, there were also 2,000 Chinese laborers who built the Batavia fortress, and in order to reduce the accidental injury of these Chinese, Wang Yue still hoped that the Dutch would surrender honestly.

"Your Excellency the Governor, General Yi's fleet has been wiped out, the Spaniards in Manila are finished, Batavia can't stop the attack of the Ming people at all, surrender is the wise choice." The Dutch officer who delivered the letter said.

"But they demanded that all of us lay down our arms and surrender unconditionally." Robben turned his head and said with a frightened expression: "They completely ignore the dignity of our Dutchland, and I can't accept this insult. ”

"Your Excellency, you have never seen the power of the Ming people's artillery fire." The Dutch officer cried and said: "Their artillery has too long a range, and the guns of the Batavia battery are missing a pair of wings if they want to hit their battleship." ”