At this time, the state of Java was also known as the Majapahit Dynasty, and for the sake of easy reading, it was directly referred to as the state of Java, which was originally regarded as a large country in the South Seas that occupied the entire territory from the East Indies to Bali. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

But later, with the advent of the Red Devil, it was after the Dutch colonizers entered the east of the Indian Ocean.

Sumatra and much of the west of Java had been occupied by Dutch colonists, and the Javanese town of Jajagarda had fallen into the hands of the Red Pang, who established the Dutch East India Company here.

At this time, the suraba industry was still under the control of the state of Java, and it was also the current capital of the state of Java.

At this time, the Mushuo village that the Ming army arrived at was still a long way away from this Surabaya.

The nearest important town in Java is Cirebon, which is the first gateway to the east into the capital of Java, Surabaya.

The area from Musho village to Cirebon is a tall tropical jungle where miasma is the deadliest weapon in an era when antibiotics are scarce.

Because of this, the Western colonizers did not expand into Cirebon, and only the local indigenous army could enter this death zone.

After being routed by the Fourth Army, the 50,000 native Javanese troops gathered in an attempt to annihilate the First Brigade of the South China Sea Fleet immediately retreated into the jungle, and according to their previous experience against the Western Ocean, as long as they retreated into the jungle, they would be able to gain the upper hand and counterattack the enemy like a fish in water.

However, for the Fourth Army of the Ming Praetorian Guard at this time, it is not too difficult.

Because from the beginning, most of the backbone of the Fourth Army of the Praetorian Guard were people recruited in tropical or subtropical regions such as Yunnan, Guizhou and Liangguang and were accustomed to jungle life since childhood.

Therefore, for this steamer-like jungle world, most officers and soldiers can still adapt to it.

What's more, the Fourth Army had been preparing for jungle operations in Japan from the very beginning, so it had conducted jungle training in Yunnan for half a year before that.

Lu Xiangyu did not divide his troops to occupy the vast majority of the territory of Java as quickly as possible by attacking from multiple directions, but directly led the entire Fourth Army to march to Cirebon, and made every effort to break through the various strongholds on the road to Surabaya, so as to achieve the goal of destroying the enemy's living forces to the greatest extent in the shortest possible time, and to occupy the capital of Java Surabaya first, so as to make it lose its center.

Of course, the coastal strongholds still had to be occupied by the navy, and the task of the South China Sea Fleet was to blockade the coastline and guard against the Red Pangies in the west and the Franco-Rang in the northeast Luzon to prevent them from participating in the military war between the Ming and Java.

Now that it was the rainy season, and the island of Java was full of rain, the soldiers of the Fourth Army marching through the jungle did not wear dry clothes for a day, and even took off their military shoes and replaced them with pre-prepared straw sandals, which were more convenient than military shoes in the dense bushes, and at least did not have swollen feet due to water accumulation in the shoes.

The most important thing to watch out for in the jungle is the guerrilla warfare of these indigenous armies of Javan, who will appear like ghosts and shoot venom-coated arrows or darts at you, leaving you unprepared or setting traps.

On the side of the Fourth Army's response, the officers and soldiers of Yunnan and Guizhou, who are good at groping for traps, will form various detachments to explore the way ahead, and at the same time use telescopes to conduct reconnaissance, once they find the figure of the indigenous army, they will shoot first, and when they encounter traps, they will immediately make signs.

Even, Lu Xiangyu, the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Army, specially issued an order that if the reconnaissance encounters a large number of indigenous troops, they will come back immediately to report that they do not need to be eliminated, and the Ming army will bypass them and strive to reach Cirebon City as quickly as possible.

The Fourth Army had a large number of soldiers born in the Yunnan-Guichuan area, and although most of them were thin and short, they had a great talent for reconnaissance, and most of them were as sharp as apes in the mountains, and with the help of advanced instruments such as telescopes and rifled short-handled muskets (prototype pistols), they had an advantage over the indigenous armies in the jungle.

As a result, the Fourth Army was able to cross the jungle in just four or five days and reach the city of Cirebon at the cost of no more than a dozen casualties.

Except for two of the dozen or so people who were accidentally attacked by the natives, the other eight were all sick due to miasma.

However, even so, when the Fourth Army reached Cirebon, it still made the defenders of the Javanese state of Cirebon feel stunned, they did not expect the speed of the Ming army to be so fast.

As a result, the defenders were caught off guard, and after a round of shelling, the walls of Cirebon collapsed, and the Fourth Army easily occupied the first gateway known as Surabaya.

The king of Java was shocked and angry at the news that Cirebon had been lost in just ten days, and for the safety of the national capital, Surabaya, he had to strictly order the indigenous army to immediately seize it back to Cirebon.

This fell into the hands of Lu Xiangyu, the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Army, who, after learning that a large group of indigenous troops had gathered in front of Cirebon, did not immediately retreat to Cirebon, and continued to march towards Surabaya, but ordered Cirebons to be held strictly for three days.

During these three days, Lu Xiangyu wanted to kill these indigenous troops with firearms.

However, in fact, after less than a day of fierce fighting, the assembled indigenous army did not take the initiative to attack Cirebon, but retreated to Pumigado despite the king's orders.

The king of Java was also helpless, and he had to continue to urge his army to defend the second point of the kingdom of Surabaya, east of Cirebon.

However, at this time, the Fourth Army was not in a hurry to attack Pumigado, and Lu Xiangyu was carrying out a decree of Zhu Youxiao, that is, without occupying a prosperous place in Java, it was necessary to exterminate the natives of this place to only a quarter of them.

Lu Xiangyu is doing this now, in a cruel way, but it can also be regarded as a punishment for these criminals who once massacred the Han people.

According to Lu Xiangyu's plan, one day of slaughter would leave less than a quarter of the remaining indigenous people in Cirebon, but in fact, within a day, blood would already be shed.

These arrogant natives never imagined that one day they would be so brutally killed.

Although the soldiers of the Fourth Army are good at jungle warfare, most of them are not wild enough, and now forcing them to train most of the natives to kill can also add some blood to the soldiers of the Fourth Army.

News of the massacre of most of the indigenous people of Cirebon also reached Bhumigaya.

As a result, the defenders of Pumigaya had to defend the city with all their might, but even if they did defend the city with all their might, it was nothing in front of the Fourth Army of the Praetorian Guard.

When attacking Pumigaya, the Fourth Army of the Praetorian Guard directly surrounded Pumigaya, and the roots did not adopt the method of encircling three without one, what they wanted was that these natives could fight to the death.

But what Lu Xiangsheng didn't expect was that as soon as the artillery fired the first base shell, a white flag was hung in the city.