Chapter 964: Australian Storm 2

Zheng Jing stood on the bow of the ship, his face was pale, inside the port of Darwin, outside the port, the ships seized by the various forces of the Japanese were engaged in a fierce naval battle, their unanimous target was the Darwin wharf in the port, the port and wharf guarded by the Han and Southeast Asians, nearly three or four hundred thousand Japanese on land were attacking his city with muskets and cannons in his storehouse, the Japanese in the port even had some Southeast Asian natives, some Han merchants were commanding soldiers and horses to besiege the forts and garrisons of the port, on the sea surface of the port, The ships of the various forces of the Japanese either fought each other or fought together against the Han ships left behind, and from time to time some people defected to the Han ships.

By this time he already knew something.

He had his expeditionary fleet attack the forces in the harbor at odds, while allowing the merchant ships to go ashore to help relieve the predicament of Darwin.

It took him two days to put down the rebellion in Darwin's port and lead his army into Darwin's port.

At this time his fleet and ships, shipyards, docks, and heavy losses in Darwin, and all sorts of trading posts were also burned to the ground.

After integrating troops and horses into the city, he executed all the family members of the Japanese servant army who participated in the rebellion in the city, and executed all the soldiers of the captured Japanese servant army and the Southeast Asian servant army, killing nearly 400,000 people in one fell swoop.

At once, the population base of his kingdom of Australia, because of the struggle between the Japanese forces and his counterinsurgency, was reduced by 10 percent, from close to 10 million to more than half of 6 million.

The most important thing is that his remaining sailors suffered heavy losses, and any ships that could fight were either driven away, sunk, or seriously wounded, and stopped in the harbor to burn.

The remnants of the South East Asian aborigines near Darwin were re-gathered, but they were only in the early 50,000s, and the people of Southeast Asia returned to the population of only 110,000.

It took a week to recover fifteen settlements and cities within a thousand miles of Darwin, and the enemy retreated to the east and west of Darwin Harbour.

Zheng Jing sent a fleet to lead the soldiers and horses to attack, while rectifying and restoring the soldiers and horses, this time he was mainly Han people, the Han militia who had been recruited to defend the city and the still loyal Nanyang natives, and the southeastern indigenous soldiers into the Han soldiers, the Japanese soldiers and horses were scattered into soldiers, incorporated into the new soldiers and horses, and sent counterinsurgency troops to both sides and inland in a row.

In order to find out the cause of this incident, he successively sent a number of soldiers and horses composed of family members and Zheng family members to interrogate the captured Japanese and the rebellious Southeast Asian indigenous soldiers and some Han merchants.

Ike knew that he couldn't turn his face with Zheng Jing at this time, they were a guest army, although the fleet was strong, but in other countries, he had to bow his head and admit his mistakes, and promised to help the Zheng family do more for the Zheng family in the future, and promised to help the Zheng family train craftsmen, build arsenals, shipyards, and improve the Zheng family's shipbuilding and cannon-making skills, which resolved Zheng Jing's anger.

In order to rely on the prestige of the Dutch and the British, Zheng Jing endured, not only the Dutch, but also the small movements of the British, he also peeped at it, and endured this, he asked the Dutch and British fleets to attack the islands of Papua New Guinea and destroy Hong Wenyi's fleet where.

The Dutch and the British were not stupid, but Zheng Jing promised them to share Australia in the future, and the west and east coasts that they had originally seized belonged to the Dutch, and the other to the British, and then they took the north and south coasts, the island of New Zealand, the east coast and the west coast to them, and the British and the Dutch were very happy and immediately sent some captured warships of the fleet and the merchant ships that followed them to carry soldiers and merchants to two places to capture their strongholds seized by the Xinlu country, and laughed, and a few days later the Dutch fleet sent troops to the island of Papua New Guinea according to the agreement, Fight with Hong Wenyi's fleet.

The Dutch sent fifty warships and eighty warships, and under the guidance of the remaining thirty hundred-ton warships summoned by Zheng Jing, they headed for the island of Papua New Guinea.

When crossing the strait, Hong Wenyi already knew that he had ambushed the fleet and waited here, and as soon as the enemy's ships were halfway through, fifty hundred-ton warships rushed out from the islands and reefs in the depths of the coast and the ocean to attract the enemy's attention, but there were fifty arsonist ships behind to attack with all their might, followed by the main fleet led by himself, and the fleet and armed merchant ships on the island behind to attack.

The Dutch were frightened, it was inconvenient to turn in the narrow strait, they were approached by armed merchant ships and warships and rushed into the ranks, the two sides scuffled, and when the arsonists came, they fought fiercely for two hours, and lost thirty armed merchant ships and warships.

The two sides fought in the strait, fierce fighting for two hours, after all, the Dutch had rich combat experience, were many years of old sailors, or regular troops, well-trained, defeated Hong Wenyi's main fleet, and followed all the way, the fleet behind was led away by the Xinlu warships, circled on the sea, the main fleet was besieged by arson ships and warships, armed merchant ships, heavy losses, only less than a dozen re-broke through the interception and returned to the port of Darwin.

The fleet commander of the Dutch governor with a fleet of less than fifty warships and warships pursued closely until he reached the port of the island of Papua New Guinea, where he was blocked by iron chains, and was burned by more than a dozen arsonist ships, and finally rushed into the port, sank most of Hong Wenyi's warships and warships, and was routed by the shore artillery of the port, and when he withdrew from the port, he left twenty warships, and fled with all his might, and when he encountered the returning fleet halfway, a dozen warships and several warships, he joined forces and attacked the port of Papua New Guinea reflexively. Hong Wenyi fled in the middle of the night, and the islands of Papua New Guinea were in chaos, and when the Dutch governor arrived with the remaining fleet of ships, he sent troops ashore, slaughtered 300,000 people, burned the port, and the islands of Papua New Guinea changed hands.

In this battle, the main fleet of the Dutch was lost by seventy, and the captured ships attached to it also lost most of them, and the strength of the Dutch fell to a valley again.

After Zheng Jing sent people to take over the island, the Dutch returned to the port of Darwin, although victorious, but very miserable, the main warships were less than fifty, the auxiliary ships and warships were less than forty, the Dutch no matter what, must go to their east coast colony to rest, at that time, the British did not know, they had already cooperated with their soldiers and horses to capture the west coast colony.

Those Japanese rebels could not resist them, 100,000 Japanese rebels were defeated by 5,000 British soldiers, most of which were Indian servants, but the British also lost 2,000 soldiers, hundreds of British soldiers and officers, the British were really annoyed, so they hunted down those rebellious Japanese, killed hundreds of thousands of people in one day, and then the fleet loaded 1,000 Indian soldiers to attack the island of New Zealand, with Zheng Jing's fleet.

Zheng Jing led 300 100-ton warships, more than 100 300-ton warships, 50 600-ton warships, 30 800-ton warships, 15 1,000-ton warships, and a 1,300-ton Huaxia warship, as well as 35 300-ton armed merchant ships donated by the Dutch, and three third-class battleships donated by the British. ’

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