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Although General Zaranton believed that he would not repeat the lessons of his predecessor's defeat outside Batavia from the point of view of racial superiority, and although the total strength of the Dutch army in the battle was far greater than that of the Chinese coalition army, the battle of Coconut City, which broke out on April 18, the 16th year of the Chinese Wucheng Dynasty, was still one-sided.

Those hastily recruited native soldiers were completely vulnerable, and after the chaotic charge was hit by the Xia army's artillery and firearms, they collapsed before they even entered the stage of white-knuckle warfare, and only the original colonial army with German mercenaries as the core held out for a while, but under the pull and impact of their own defeated troops, they soon collapsed.

Liu Wenlai, who had expected it for a long time, immediately commanded the troops to chase and fight, and in front of the dragoons composed of more than 700 ranger sentinels, the Dutch and indigenous soldiers who were exposed to the Xia army were strewn all over the field, and the blood flowed like rivers. What made the Dutch army even more frightened was that they were fleeing, and they actually saw that the Xia army's blocking troops had been outflanked in advance and blocked their retreat.

The desperate General Zaranton, after receiving the promise of ensuring the safety of the Dutch officer's life and allowing him to redeem himself, had no choice but to surrender to the Xia army with the only intact remnant army group of more than 2,000 people, and thus the Battle of Coconut City was declared.

During the battle, the Chinese coalition forces killed, wounded and captured 27 Dutch officers, more than 1,700 German mercenaries, and more than 8,200 indigenous soldiers, and captured 15 8-pound and 9-pound field guns and more than 60 military horses. The only fly in the ointment was that about 400 German mercenaries and 1,100 native soldiers desperately broke through the Xia army's resistance and fled back to Batavia Castle, while more than 6,000 local soldiers who were very fast fled to the surrounding countryside and then fled to Java.6

Zaranton's defeat terrified the Dutch throughout Batavia, and the governor of Batavia, Anson Van Siss de Vanlendino, had no choice but to inform the Dutch fortresses throughout Java of the battle before the Xia army besieged the city, and sought out Vice Admiral Jan Sack Randson to find an opportunity to break through the Chinese navy and relieve Batavia.

As soon as the heralds of the governor of Van Lentino came out, the Xia army drove more than 8,000 captives to appear outside the castle of Batavia, and carried out eleven smashes in front of the Dutch soldiers and civilians all over the city. Subsequently, the Xia army envoys went to the city to persuade them to surrender, and made it clear that "those who refuse to surrender will be killed".

The Dutch tried to stall on the grounds that they needed a decision from the council, but the Xia army gave two days to consider it, and on the other hand, drove a group of prisoners to start digging trenches around the Batavia castle to prepare for the siege and attack.

There were enough food for five or six thousand people in the castle of Batavia, and there were more than 30 fortifications in the city, plus there was a fortress guarding the harbor as a corner, so the Dutch, who were lucky, finally chose to defend it.

Liu Wenlai then informed the sailors to knock out the harbor fort first, so as to put an end to the luck of the Dutch.

The Xia army cruisers were equipped with eighteen short guns and fifteen long guns, which were the sharpest weapons against fortresses, but it was not a cost-effective exchange to use a wooden-hulled cruiser to deal with a stone-built coastal defense fortress, so Chang Tianyuan took out a new weapon.

There are two types of so-called new weapons. One is the rocket that the Xia army has just begun to promote, this kind of rocket shines in the Battle of Anyang, and finally makes the Xia army take Zhangde Mansion City bloodlessly, so it was quickly adopted by the military department as the standard equipment of the 6th division of the water; The other is a large-caliber mortar gun. Both of these weapons were mounted on improvised sloops and could be fired at close range as far as the coastal guns were within range, and with today's artillery technology, the defenders could not even aim at such tall boats, let alone destroy them with precision and from a distance.

What the? Sloops cannot sail far. This was due to supply constraints, but there were more than 20 heavy military ships of more than 20,000 materials to transport supplies, and the sloops in a hurry naturally did not have to worry about not being able to cross the ocean for an expedition.

However, the use of these two new weapons by Chang Tianyuan is obviously not as good as imagined - although the large-caliber mortar cannon is not small, it will not be able to destroy the strong walls of the coastal defense fortress for a while and a half, and the new rocket will not be able to pose a fatal threat to the all-stone fortress - in this case, the attack from the 6th side will be changed from the auxiliary option to the main option.

The Batavia Port Fortress had 300 defenders in the standard bastion structure, but it was expanded to 800 men, and although it could not be compared with the main castle, it was enough to deal with the natives without guns and artillery and the colonists of the British, French, and Portuguese countries with limited strength. It was precisely because of the fortification of the castle and the abundance of the defenders that the Xia army still used the standard tactics against the fortress to dig the trenches. Looking at the approaching trench day by day, the defenders of the fortress were anxious, but the Xia army outside the city was too strong to break through, so the Dutch army had to sit back and wait for death, praying all day for the almost impossible arrival of European reinforcements as soon as possible.

However, neither the Dutch troops in the main castle of Batavia nor the harbor fortress expected that the Xia army outside the city was actually just bluffing.

In fact, at this time, the Chinese coalition forces besieging the Batavia harbor fortress were only three regiments of the Annan Army and the middle base regiment of the 6th Division of the Longxiang Army; The Chinese coalition army outside the main castle of Batavia was only more than 3,000 people, including three regiments of the Vietnamese Army, one regiment of the Second Division of the Long Xiang Army, and the artillery regiment of the Sixth Division of the Long Xiang Army; The main Xia army had already been transported to the periphery of Surabaya; As for the 10 regiments of the Shence Army that participated in the battle, they were divided into two routes, and under the guidance of the local expatriate, they attacked and advanced to Cirebon, Bogor and other places respectively.

The Dutch defenders of Surabaya had less than 600 men and eight small and medium-caliber guns, of which the coastal batteries only had two 12-pounder coastal guns, which could not cope with the Xia army's attack from the sea. Therefore, after the fifteen-minute guns of the three-deck cruisers of the Xia army destroyed the battery, the Dutch army in Surabaya quickly raised the white flag.

After accepting the surrender of the Dutch army in Surabaya, the Xia army immediately landed on the six islands of Bali, Tinga Islands, Lombok, and Sumbawa Island, and attacked the Dutch fortresses on various islands.

Xia Junbiao's strong strength gave hope to the indigenous lords of Java, who had suffered from the colonization of the Dutch, and sent people to contact them. Xia Jun took advantage of the situation to sign suzerainty treaties with Banten and Mataram, the two most important sultanates in Java, in order to promise to give up the tax rights imposed by the original Dutch colonists and replace them with relatively mild terms such as a small amount of tribute, protection of the territorial integrity of the two countries, and non-interference in the internal affairs of the two countries, inheriting most of the inheritance of the United Dutch East India Company and seizing sovereignty over the ports of Java such as Batavia, Semarang, Surabaya, and Ciraza and the entire East Nusa Tenggara archipelago.

In addition, according to the Huaxia Jianyì, the Mataram Sultanate and the Banten Sultanate reached an agreement on the demarcation of the border. The two countries will then be bounded by the Solo River, with the region of Java to the west belonging to the Banten Sultanate and the Mataran Sultanate to the east; In addition, the West Nusa Tenggara Islands such as Madura, Bali, Lombok, and Sumbawa are also under the jurisdiction of the Mataram Sultanate;

Almost at the same time, most of the Sulu sailors uprooted the Dutch strongholds in Deiradi, Ambon, and Banda Islands, and signed a suzerainty treaty with the Sultanate of Deiradi, stipulating each other's borders, and formally replacing the Dutch United East India Company in control of the entire Spice Islands and the Dutch Irian Jaya region.

On 12 May, with the help of the Xia army, the Goa Sultanate recaptured Makassar.

Soon, Goa Sultan Ed-Agung formally signed a suzerain-vassal treaty with the Chinese envoy Li Long, formally ceding all the islands in the Minahasa Peninsula and Tomini Bay to the Chinese. It was also agreed that on the Maluku Sea side, the Goa Sultanate would have the Manya Islands and the Huaxia would have the Sula Islands, and that the two countries would divide their territories along the median line between the two islands; In the southeastern direction of the Banda Sea, all islands except the Tukanbisi archipelago belong to Huaxia; In the direction of the Sea of Flores, the south of Zelaya Island is a Chinese territory; In the Makassar Strait to the west, the two countries are bounded by the median line of the strait, with the islands to the east belonging to Goa and the western part to the Chinese capital in Borneo.

Subsequently, Li Long signed a treaty with the Goa Sultanate on behalf of the Mataran Sultanate, stipulating that the waters south of the Ganian Islands, Tinga Islands, and Sabarana Islands belonged to the Mataran Sultanate, and the north was the territorial waters of the Goa Sultanate.

Upon learning that the Xia army had advanced near the Sumba Strait, the seemingly neutral Portuguese considered the total defeat of the United Dutch East India Company to be a foregone conclusion. Therefore, in order to prevent Huaxia from obtaining an excuse to tear up the Treaty of Lingyamen, the Timorese governors, who no longer rode the wall, expelled the Dutch fleet that was resting in Kupang Port in the name of neutrality.

Kupang was originally the territory of the Dutch, and it was originally transferred to the Portuguese as a weight to win over the other party. Now they have been expelled by their former allies, which makes the Dutch angry. However, if you turn your face with the Portuguese at this time, it will more or less bring some losses to the Javanese fleet, which the Dutch on the side of the enemy do not want to see, so Vice Admiral Landson and the Dutch captains still resisted the revenge ** and led the fleet out of port.

After leaving Kupang Port, there was an altercation at the top of the Javanese fleet. Some captains and commanders believed that they could no longer hide in Tibet, and that only a naval battle could change the current unfavorable situation; Other commanders believed that the strength of the Xia army was too large to be won by the Javanese fleet, which consisted mainly of armed merchant ships, and that they should immediately retreat to Sri Lanka and India in order to preserve their strength.

Speaking of which, the construction of the latter is correct, but in this era there is no so-called tactical discourse of "saving people and losing land, and people and land are both saved", so it was criticized by quite a lot of Dutch captains, and Vice Admiral Randson also objected, believing that once the East Indies were abandoned, the United East India Company would go bankrupt, and leaving Batavia alone would not be in line with the knightly code.

The opinion of Lieutenant General Landson overwhelmed the rhetoric of the retreating faction, since this is the case, then it can only be fought, but how should it be fought? Will it be to kill the Xia army sailors who will return to Java or attack the Spice Islands? Before a decision could be made, the Dutch troops floating in the Savu Sea collided with the Xia detachment escorting the 6th Division to attack Alor Island??????