Chapter 439: The Fall of the Danmu Kingdom
Qu Lie was obviously a little too cautious. Jiri and these Muslim nobles are indeed sincere submission, after all, they have been frightened by what the Ming army has done in Nanyang, and they dare not have any other ideas, and they are bent on currying favor with the Ming in exchange for the promise of the Ming to preserve their wealth and status.
It is precisely because of this that Sunan. After assisting the Ming Dynasty in capturing the port of Sula, these Muslim nobles immediately suggested that Qu Lie send troops to assist them in entering the interior of Sura City, after all, the Danmu Kingdom has not reacted yet, and it is a good time to capture Sura in one fell swoop.
For Sunan. After careful consideration, Qu Lie finally nodded in agreement, and he sent all the 5,000 marines he had brought with him to the shore, while the guns of the battleships provided them with firepower, and then under the guidance of the religious army led by the Muslim nobles, he entered the city of Sura a few days later.
Sultan bin Laden of the Danmu Kingdom. Pata was also ready to fight to the death with the Ming Dynasty at this time, thirty years ago he single-handedly founded the Danmu Kingdom, after so many years of unremitting expansion, finally formed the current kingdom that rules the entire island of Java, which condenses bin Laden. Pattha has worked hard for most of his life, so he will not give up the capital of his kingdom to others under any circumstances, and he is even ready to die for his country.
Bin laden. Pata is the founding king of the Danmu Kingdom, and his army has been expanding outward over the years, fighting the enemy all the time, it can be said that the Danmu Kingdom is still in the rising period of a country, and the country's army still maintains a strong combat effectiveness.
However, this strength is only relative to the Nanyang countries, and the army of the Danmu Kingdom faces the religious army formed by those Muslim nobles. Nature is invincible. But when they re-assembled the Marines last week. But it was not an opponent at all, after all, the entire Marine Corps had completely become an all-firearms unit, and the musketeers were armed with new-style arquebuses, and under the three-stage shooting, those light-eyed troops with primitive weapons were defeated and had no power to fight back.
In addition, Qu Lie's battleships also provided strong fire support for the marines, and whenever the marines encountered strong resistance somewhere in the city of Sula, they would immediately send someone to notify the fleet. Then the marines retreated, and as a result, the fleet's artillery would soon cover the area, and the most important thing to do was send the religious army to clean up the mess.
It was also by relying on the advantage of firearms, coupled with advanced combat concepts, that the Ming army advanced extremely fast in the city of Sula, and soon cleared the city of the Danmu army, ten days later, the marines and religious troops surrounded the royal palace in the city of Sula, and according to reliable information received by the Muslim high-level, the Sultan bin Laden of the Danmu Kingdom. Pata did not run away. Instead, he remained in the palace, and there was no sign of surrender in the palace. It seems that he wants to fight to the death.
The palace is far away from the port, and it has exceeded the effective range of the battleship artillery, but it is not a difficult thing, only need to unload some of the guns on the battleship, and it is precisely with the artillery these siege weapons, so the strong and tall wall of the palace can not hinder the footsteps of the Ming army at all, the gate of the palace was blasted open, and the Ming army rushed in, although the guards in the palace resisted desperately, but it could only be a dying struggle, indifferent to Sultan Laden. Although Pata knew that his situation was over, he did not surrender, but chose to fight to the end, and finally died under the indiscriminate guns of the marines.
Bin laden. Pata's death in battle marked the official end of the Danmu Kingdom, and at the same time, Sura Harbor also fell into the hands of the Ming Dynasty. However, the remnants of the Danmu Kingdom did not give up resistance, and among them, bin Laden. Pata's son Yunus retreated to the western coast of Java with the navy of the Danmu Kingdom, while his other son, Trinjana, led the defeated army of Sura to retreat inland to the west, refusing to recognize the Ming rule over him.
For bin Laden. The tough attitude of Pata's two sons, Qu Lie naturally gave a serious blow, first he personally led the fleet to the west of Java, and after finding the navy led by Yunus, the two sides had the largest naval battle in the South Seas in the waters around Bird Harbor, that is, Jakarta in the future, hundreds of warships of the Javanese besieged the twenty-five warships of the Ming Dynasty, although the Javanese had a great advantage in numbers, but the navy has always been a technical and technical service, and the gap between navigation and weapon technology is not something that can be made up in quantity. The Ming fleet almost lost a single battleship, and defeated Yunus's Danmu navy, and after the last Yunus died in the army like his father, the warships of the Danmu navy sank and fled, and the war was destroyed.
Yunus's navy was wiped out, but bin Laden. Although the navy of Qu Lie was strong, it could not sail to the island to destroy the enemy, and although the marines were relatively strong, they were all Han Chinese after all, and they were still not very accustomed to the climate of the South Sea rainforest, and they were not familiar with the terrain of Java, so it was impossible to chase them into the interior of Java to eliminate the remnants of the Tryengana.
But it doesn't matter, although Qu Lie can't directly send the Marines to attack Tringana, but he still has Sunan under him. The religious army in Giri, with the fall of the Danmu Kingdom, these religious armies are no longer useful, and may even bring new threats to Java, but it is not good to disband directly, and now it can just come in handy, let them clear the remnants of the Danmu army led by Teringana, anyway, they are all Javanese, and they will not suffer in terms of geographical advantages.
Sunan. After helping Qu Lie destroy the Danmu Kingdom, these Muslim nobles have been worried that the Ming army will not keep their promises, after all, the Han people in Nanyang have always been known for their shrewdness, otherwise they would not have accumulated such a large amount of agriculture, and now if the Ming generals turn their faces and deny people afterwards, then they will be miserable.
Fortunately, Qu Lie knew that he represented the imperial court, and he couldn't do such a thing, and he left Sunan behind. The Muslim aristocracy here in Jiri is also conducive to the stability of Java and facilitates the immigration of the Ming Dynasty in the future, so after he occupied Sula, he declared that Java became the territory of the Ming Dynasty, as long as the natives who are willing to accept the rule of the Ming Dynasty will be protected by the Ming Dynasty in the future, and this order also made those Muslim nobles finally put their minds at ease.
It is precisely because of their status and wealth that they have been guaranteed. These Muslim nobles also changed their previous attitude towards the Ming Dynasty as both cooperative and defensive, and began to fully assist Qu Lie in clearing the remnants of the Danmu Kingdom, after all, since they had destroyed the Danmu Kingdom, they must be completely eliminated, otherwise if the Danmu Kingdom revives one day, they will be the first to be liquidated.
The matter of clearing the remnants of the Danmu Kingdom was handed over to Sunan. After the departure of his fleet, Zhou Zhong quickly organized a group of officials to settle in Java, and even before these officials arrived, the governor's palace had already divided the states and counties on the island of Java, after all, the intelligence gathering some time ago was not done in vain.
In fact, at the moment when Sura Port was breached, Java Island had fallen into the clutches of Daming, whether it was Yunus who died in battle, or Trinjana who was still breathing, no matter what kind of efforts they made, it was impossible to affect the overall situation of Java, after all, now Daming is like a beast released by Zhou Chong's own hands, as long as it is the prey he sees, he will never escape his sharp minions, as long as he is bitten anywhere, then he will be eaten alive by the beast of Daming.
With the Ming officials in place in Java, the Ming immigrants also rushed to Java, this time the immigrants are different from the initial disaster immigrants, because they are all voluntary immigrants to Java, after all, compared to Jinzhou and Borneo are full of dense forests, Java is the most developed island in the South Seas, where there is not only a large number of fertile land, but also distributed a lot of mineral deposits, especially gold mines, not less than Jinzhou, and are all gold mines that are being mined, which is much stronger than those gold mines that have just been discovered, At the very least, the amount of money invested will be much less.
With the entry of these Ming immigrants, the rule of the Ming on Java Island has slowly stabilized, but because the number of natives on Java Island is too much, after preliminary estimates, at least between two million and four million, the reason why there is such a big error, it is because many natives live in the deep mountains and old forests, and the former Danmu Kingdom has not been able to completely rule the natives on Java Island, so the Ming want to figure out the number of natives on the island, it is simply an impossible task, It can only be estimated by other aspects of the imperial court.
With such a large number of natives, and because of the high level of civilization on the island of Java, most of these natives live very closely, so if a high-pressure policy is used, it is likely to cause a riot among the natives, and if millions of natives really riot, it will not be easy to suppress. However, with so many natives living together, it is likely to cause other chaos in the future, so the migration into the Ming Dynasty is one thing, and on the other hand, it is necessary to reduce the number of natives on Java Island.
Massacre is impossible, otherwise it will cause another turmoil in Java, so that only migration remains, anyway, the Nanyang place is so big, many islands are densely jungled, such as most of Borneo and Jinzhou, all need to be developed in the early stage to be suitable for human habitation, the natives on Java Island can just be used to do this, so under the means of coercion or inducement by Ming officials, the Javanese natives began a migration history that lasted for nearly a hundred years. (To be continued......)