Zhu Youxiao wanted to send mercenaries not to scare others, but to create a guard army that could adapt to the local environment and play a role in future wars. Wei Junru and Dai Bingyang's experiments in Mobei Khalkha proved to be successful, while Wu Sizang's situation was relatively special, and if mercenaries could really be sent in, it would certainly be of great benefit to the future.

The situation in the northwest will not be major for the time being, and Zhang Qianfang's expedition will officially begin.

Zhang Qianfang's expeditionary fleet consisted of 10 battle ships, 50 canopy ships, 50 canopy boats, and 100 three-masted gunboats, carrying a total of 18,000 naval officers and 10,000 marines.

At this time, the situation in Southeast Asia is more complicated. The most powerful nation in the Malay Archipelago is the Sultanate of Aceh, where Sultan Iskandar Muda has been fighting the Portuguese for ownership of the Strait of Malacca for many years. In addition to the Sultanate of Aceh, there is also the Kingdom of Johor, so in this part of Malacca, it is now a three-way situation.

To the south of the Sultanate of Aceh and the Kingdom of Johor, the Dutch occupied half of the island, centered on Batavia, and also eyed the Strait of Malacca.

Of course, it is impossible for the Ming army to be arrogant enough to attack the Quartet at the same time, so the Ming Dynasty has begun to deploy in this area three years ago. The Dutch East India Company temporarily maintained a superficial peace with the Ming Dynasty, because they also had the intention of occupying the Strait of Malacca, the Ming Dynasty first gave up the idea of uniting with the Netherlands, Huang Kezhang believed that cooperation with the Dutch was tantamount to seeking skin with the tiger, but in order to avoid the danger of the Ming army falling into a multi-front war, in the eighth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming and the Netherlands signed the "Non-Aggression Pact", which was valid for ten years.

Because the actual control of the Straits of Malacca is now in the hands of the Portuguese, and they often fight with the Sultanate of Aceh and the Kingdom of Johor for the Malacca region. After full consideration, Da Ming chose the Kingdom of Johor. The reason is simple, among the three parties, Johor is the weakest, so it is also the easiest to control after the war.

The current monarch of the Kingdom of Johor is Abdul Chari Rayashah, and before that, there were several humiliating incidents in Johor where the capital was burned by Aceh and the Sultan was taken captive, so their hatred for the Sultanate of Aceh was especially high on the Portuguese. The Ming expressed his willingness to unite with them and destroy the Aceh state first, which immediately won the favor of the Johoreans, and after Abdul Chari Rayasha expressed his willingness to become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, the cooperation between the two sides was officially established.

In the ninth year of the Apocalypse, Aceh launched another attack on Malacca, but was defeated by the combined fleets of Portugal, Johor and Pattani, and the naval military power was greatly damaged. So in May of the tenth year of the Apocalypse, Zhang Qianfang began the battle to capture Aceh.

The Aceh Kingdom occupies a very large area, and after the Ming army assembled at Puerto Puerto Luzon, it came to the southwest. After arriving at Boni, Gui Shuzhen landed here with 5,000 marines, and the fleet continued to move forward.

Boni is a sultanate formed by the Malays and Chinese, and has always been a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and now there is still the tomb of the king of Humud in Nanjing. Aceh also invaded the Boni country, and the Boni Sultan once sent an envoy to appeal to the Ming Dynasty, so this time the Boni Daming can be regarded as a famous division.

The 5,000 marines led by Gui Shuzhen quickly launched an attack on the Aceh army here under the leadership of the Boniren. Under the fire of the Ming army, the Acehnese immediately collapsed, and a large number of people surrendered, and then were captured by the Boni people.

Huang Canming, the king of Boni (note, is the king of Boni, not the sultan), was naturally overjoyed when he saw that the Ming army was so powerful. He is a descendant of Huang Senping, the king of Boni buried in Nanjing, who assisted the sultan internally and called the Boni king to the Chinese, although he was very powerful, but as the Ming Dynasty gradually withdrew from Southeast Asia, their life was not easy. Now that the Ming army has come to Boni, it is of course a surprise for him.

The Ming army marched all the way south until it reached the area under the actual control of the Dutch. Now that we have signed a non-aggression pact, we can't fight it now. The Ming army swept all the way from east to west, until it reached Sarawak, the westernmost part of the island.

At this time, Zhang Qianfang's fleet had already come to Johor, and Johor was relieved when he saw such a tall ship of the Ming army. The two sides agreed that 200 warships would be dispatched by Johor, and the Ming would be dispatched

A hundred warships jointly crossed the sea to attack the old nest of Aceh - Jinzhou.

Jinzhou is a large island, because of the production of gold, so the Chinese call it Jinzhou, the local people call it Sumatra, the Ming Kingdom once set up the Old Port Propaganda Division here.

Although Johor dispatched 200 warships, in the eyes of the Ming army, the combat effectiveness of these 200 warships was about equivalent to the Ming army's five three-masted gunboats, but they were numerous, and if they were to carry out a ground attack at that time, they would still be of some use.

Johor has an alliance with the Portuguese, and the Ming and the Portuguese have not yet turned their backs, so the two sides jointly informed the Portuguese in the Straits of Malacca. The Portuguese, of course, would not deter them from attacking their old enemy, Aceh, so they sent several officers to act as observers.

Zhang Qianfang did not take the Portuguese observers seriously, and he always believed in the words of His Majesty the Emperor, "In the face of absolute strength, conspiracy is just child's play". He had seen the warships of the Portuguese and the Dutch, so he naturally understood the gap between the combat power of the Ming army and them, whether it was artillery or firearms, although the two sides were still on the same level, they seemed to be two different levels in terms of power.

At their own doorstep, the Sultanate of Aceh naturally would not shrink out, so the Aceh State sailed all the warships it could gather out of the port, and if it wanted to fight, the Ming army would not dare to come again.

The weather was clear, the sea breeze was gently blowing, and more than 400 warships of the Sultanate of Aceh poured out of their nests and swooped viciously at the fleets of the Johor and Ming armies. Originally, the fleet of Johor had no flag, so Zhang Qianfang planted the Ming navy flag on the bow of Johor, so as not to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy.

The first thing Aceh saw was the flag of the Ming army: on the basis of the sun and moon flag, there were three wavy blue stripes, representing the sea. The fleet of the Ming army was at the front, looking at the tall lucky ship, the general of the Aceh country encouraged his subordinates: "The big one is not necessarily the strong, and the warship of our Aceh country is the most powerful." ”

The soldiers looked at the disparity in the height of the ship, and rushed forward, the soldiers in front took bows and arrows and began to shoot at the enemy ship, there was no way, if you want to jump to fight, it is completely impossible, the enemy ship is two stories higher than your own ship, so you can only use long-range weapons to attack a wave first.