Chapter 443: Four Disputed Lands
The Donghu soldiers who attacked head-on, under the inspiration of Ji Lunhai, boldly straightened their waists and pounced on the position of the Ming army, and they were ready to enter the range of the flintlock pistol, and then lie on the ground and crawl forward.
"Bang,"
"Bang,"
"Bang."
……
Ji Lunhai was stunned, now it is still outside the range of the Ming army's flintlock guns, could it be that the Ming army ambushed the gunners underground? He clearly saw that the explosion was coming from underground.
"What's going on?"
"General, there's a flowering bomb underground." The soldier's words confirmed that Gyllen was not mistaken.
"Could it be that the Ming army buried the soldiers under the ground?" Ji Lunhai wanted to cry without tears, he found a phenomenon, as long as the soldiers stopped attacking, the flowering bombs would not explode, once the soldiers rushed forward, they would be blown to death, could it be that the Buddha asked us to stop attacking?
Ji Lunhai did not believe that the Buddha would help the Ming army!
The Ming army on the frontal battlefield was watching coldly, the terrifying effect of the mines on the Donghu army gave them a temporary rest, they were ready, once the Donghu army waded through the minefield, it was time for them to attack.
On the flank battlefield, the gunners of the Ming army, who were guarding the mountain artillery, had already exchanged fire with the Donghu army, and the Ming army took advantage of the advantage of numbers and range to eat and hold the Donghu army to the death
The 1,000 Donghu Army, after paying the price of 600 casualties, could not get even half a step close to the mountain artillery.
Attacked on both sides, blocked on both sides.
Ji Lunhai really couldn't see what he was wrong, but the situation on the battlefield was too unfavorable for him.
"General, we've already suffered more than half of the casualties."
"What? More than half of the casualties? Gylunhai was not surprised, he was stunned, in only two days, more than half of his soldiers were killed or wounded, and there were two more days...... It seems that the Ming army on the opposite side showed no signs of weakening at all.
This army is the capital that Jilunhai relied on to live after the demise of Donghu, and once the soldiers are exhausted, he will become an ordinary fugitive from Donghu, and anyone can trample him to death.
The mountain artillery is urging ghosts, and they are still harvesting the soldiers of Donghu.
Ji Lunhai looked up to the sky and sighed: Since I was born Ji Lunhai, why did I give birth to the Ming Army?
"Withdraw!" Ji Lunhai finally conceded defeat, ≌♀dǐng ≌ ♀diǎn ≌ ♀ small ≌ ♀ said, .2★3.o⌒s_(); The Ming army can afford to consume it, but he is a rootless ping, a dried fish, and he can't accompany the Ming army to consume it at all.
The Donghu soldiers, who had been ordered to retreat, turned around and fled, retreating to the Zhelai River.
Zheng Xing saw that the Donghu soldiers were retreating, and immediately issued an order to pursue, and the Ming army was like a hungry tiger, with its eyes fixed on the prey in front of it, shouting and rushing over.
The front of the Ming army was a minefield arranged by itself, and the soldiers could only go around from both sides, and the speed suddenly slowed down.
By the time the Ming army pursued to the banks of the Zhelai River, most of the Donghu soldiers had retreated to the north bank through the four pontoon bridges on the Guò River, and the Ming army only shot hundreds of Donghu soldiers on the south bank and the pontoon bridges.
"Master, do you want to chase it?"
"Chasing, the Donghu Army has already suffered more than half of the casualties, and it is impossible to lay an ambush halfway." Zheng Xing decided to cross the Zhelai River first in one go, maybe the Urumela Mountain could stop the Donghu army for a while.
When the Ming army stepped on the pontoon bridge, the Donghu army immediately divided a group of hundreds of soldiers to block the Ming army on the north bank.
Zheng Xing saw that the form was not right, so he let the Ming army scatter, there was no cover on the pontoon bridge, and there was no way to dodge the bows and arrows of the Donghu army.
The soldiers of the Marine Corps squatted, half-squatted, and stood on the pontoon bridge in groups of three, imitating three-stage shooting, but there were too many Donghu soldiers on the shore, and the casualties of the Marines were also very heavy, and the two sides were competing and attrition.
About half an hour later, the remnants of the Taungoo soldiers, having left behind most of their bodies, began to retreat towards the Urummela Mountains, and the Marines took the opportunity to attack and occupy the north bank of the Zhelai River.
However, Zheng Xing found that the Donghu army had crossed the Urummela Pass and headed north, and could no longer catch up.
He simply gave up the pursuit and began to naturalize the people near the Urummela Mountain, where the local people had basically been plagued by the Donghu soldiers, and now he saw with his own eyes that the Ming army had expelled the Donghu army, and there was a leader Su Midan mediating it, and the naturalization work was quite smooth.
Ji Lun Hai with 3,000 remnants of soldiers, on the west bank of the Battani River met the 58th Division Lu Yufeng Division, two anti-fierce battle for a day, Ji Lun Hai was defeated, most of the soldiers were killed and wounded, had to turn west, but the Malay Peninsula was too narrow here, the army could not dodge, was bitten by Lu Yukun to the death.
After Zheng Xing naturalized the local people, he went north again, under the guidance of Lu Yufeng's department, found the Jilun Sea in Danrang, one south and one north, the army and navy of the Ming army surrounded the rest of the Jilun Sea in this small village, after two days of fighting, Danrang was almost razed to the ground by the flowering bombs, and there were only a few hundred soldiers left in the Donghu army.
Seeing that there was no hope of breaking through, Ji Lunhai drew his sword and killed himself, and the rest surrendered to the Ming army.
After Zheng Xing and Lu Yufeng rested for a day, they returned to the army and naturalized the local people along the way.
The Malay Peninsula and the province of Burma, in the pursuit of the Gyllen Sea, have become de facto connected.
After receiving the battle report sent back by Zheng Xing, Zheng Zhilong knew that the land had been decided, and he immediately called the guards around him: "Inform the messenger that I want to negotiate with Spex when I go to Batavia." ”
Spex was already ready, and he was worried that Zheng Zhilong would not negotiate! After receiving Zheng Zhilong's message, he immediately started to negotiate peace with Zheng Zhilong.
The two sides began their first peace talks in Penang on Bangka Island.
The Malacca waterway and the Sumudu Thorn Island and the Malay Peninsula on both sides of it have now been occupied by the Ming military and should belong to the land of the Ming Dynasty.
There is Batavia, the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company on the island of Java, and there are also many Dutch commercial bases, and the small countries on the island have all submitted to the Netherlands, and Java Island belongs to the Netherlands, Zheng Zhilong has no objection in principle, but Zheng Zhilong made it clear that if a peace agreement cannot be reached, the Ming Dynasty will not recognize that Java Island belongs to the Netherlands.
Zheng Zhilong's dispute with Spex is mainly over four parcels of land: Borneo, Sulawesi, the Spice Islands, and the southeastern islands east of Java.
Borneo is the third largest island in the world, located between the Malacca waterway and the Ming province of Luzon, and is separated from the Dutch-occupied island of Java by the Java Sea to the south.
Borneo has established many small countries, they have always been friendly with the Ming Dynasty, basically the Ming vassal state, the common Bo Ni country in the Ming classics, is located in Borneo.
With the great integration of the East and the West, Islam gradually took root on the island, and a number of Muslim kingdoms were established on the island, such as Machen, Sanfa, Sukkadana, Landak, etc., and after the advent of the Age of Discovery, Portugal and Spain successively established trading bases on the island.
Later, the Dutch came here, gradually replaced Portugal and Spain, and gained control of Borneo, and all independent kingdoms were dissolved.
The inhabitants of Borneo, in addition to the white and 100,000 Han Chinese, have a complex and diverse indigenous language and ethnicity, mainly the Dayak people in the south, the Malays in the southeast, the Gyada Shan Dushun people in the northwest, the Bayo people in the northeast, and the Maolu people in the center, the white people in Europe are mainly based in the north, and the Han people are mainly concentrated in Pontianak in the west, except for the sporadic distribution in the north.
Sulawesi Island is located in the east of Borneo, it is directly north of the Ming province of Luzon, southwest is the island of Java, due south is the southeast islands, the island's inhabitants have been transformed by the Dutch, there are mainly seven races: Toyara, Toracha, Phuket, Makassar, Minahasa, Mori, Grontalo, the Dutch have established a trading base in the south of Makassar Diǎn, and since the Ming Dynasty established the province in Luzon, the footprints of the Han people began to set foot in the northern Manado.
The Spice Islands are in the east of Sulawesi, southeast of Luzon Province of the Ming Dynasty, is the passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean, the island is named because of the abundance of spices, in addition to spices, the island also produces cloves, cardamom, pepper, fish and shrimp, pearls, etc., it is strikingly similar to the history of Sulawesi, first by Portugal, Spain, after the Dutch came to the South Seas, drove away Portugal, the Spaniards, monopolized the Spice Islands, after Luzon established Province, the Han began to set foot in the Spice Islands.
The southeastern archipelago, which is due east of Java, is now largely controlled by the Dutch.
The four disputed islands, including Borneo, Sulawesi, and the Spice Islands, are all across the sea from the Ming province of Luzon, and there are signs of Han Chinese activity, and Borneo separates the Ming province of Luzon from the Malacca waterway.
The Southeast Islands have little to do with the Ming Dynasty, and there are no Han people on the islands for the time being.
When Zheng Zhilong thinks about the problem, he will not think from the perspective of the Dutch, he really has to stand from the perspective of the other party, these four lands have the Dutch's base, and the Ming Dynasty does not have to fight.
"Commander Zheng, the southeast archipelago is to the east of Java Island and is almost connected to Java Island, and these islands naturally belong to the Netherlands." Spex, on the issue of land, he will not be polite to Zheng Zhilong at all.
"Haha, Your Excellency the Governor already has an idea?" Zheng Zhilong is not in a hurry, the Netherlands negotiated with the Ming Dynasty, not because of their benevolence, but because of the strength of the South China Sea Fleet, with the strength to back, he doesn't have to worry, if it can't be resolved at the negotiation table, then use ships to solve it, "I don't know what arrangements the governor makes for the other three islands?" ”
"Commander Zheng Mingjian, the Dutch have been operating on the Spice Islands for decades, and many islands are named after us Dutch, so it naturally belongs to the Netherlands." Spex, as if he was in his own home, did not care about Zheng Zhilong's dissatisfaction at all.
"Your Excellency the Governor continues!" Zheng Zhilong was not angry, but asked Spex to finish the one-man show.
"There are twenty-three Dutch trade bases on Borneo, and the small countries on the island were destroyed by the Dutch, in order to exterminate these small countries, the East India Company suffered a lot of human and economic losses, although there are some Han people on the island, but they are all laborers, and do not exercise the right to administer, so Borneo also belongs to the Netherlands." Seeing that Zheng Zhilong didn't interject, Spex thought that Zheng Zhilong basically agreed with him, and if Daming wanted some financial compensation, he could consider it, and he should have been robbed by pirates.
"In the opinion of His Excellency the Governor, then Sulawesi also belongs to the Netherlands, right? After all, the East India Company came here earlier than the Ming South China Sea Fleet. Zheng Zhilong waited for Spex to say fun, and then said coldly.