It took nearly a year for the Taiping expeditionary fleet to annex and digest the prosperous areas along the coast of the Indian Peninsula, and establish a solid administrative rule here, which was directly under the central control of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

On top of that, the Taiping army established a stable and permanent supply point in the port cities along the coast of the Indian peninsula!

It became a stepping stone for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to continue its expansion into the Far East.

At the beginning of 1701, the mortuary expeditionary fleet, which had completed the construction of supply points along the coast of the Indian peninsula, sailed for the Strait of Malacca, supported by the new Taiping army, which was now occupied by the combined Spanish and Portuguese forces!

The Spanish-Portuguese coalition army learned the lesson of the French Bourbon Dynasty, did not take the weak fleet and the ironclad ships of the Taiping expeditionary fleet, and did not let the army soldiers prove the Taiping Army's supply ability with blood, the mainland of the Spanish-Portuguese coalition army was occupied by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the fear of Hong Tiancheng was no less than that of the French Bourbons!

Now they can only survive in the American colonies and Southeast Asian colonies, and naturally they dare not wrestle with the Taiping army.

Even, the government of the Spanish and Portuguese coalition forces has already set up a surrender plan, once the Taiping army really goes on an expedition to the Americas, the Spanish and Portuguese coalition forces will try their best to fight for preferential treatment and then surrender to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom......

The collapse of the anti-Han alliance has broken the backbone of the Spanish-Portuguese coalition army, so that it is no problem for them to bully the monkeys of Southeast Asia and the Native American tribes, let them fight with the Taiping army with flintlock pistols, whoever likes to go!

Therefore, after the Spanish-Portuguese coalition army, which was afraid of the Taiping army, found out the strength of the Taiping fleet near the Strait of Malacca, they resolutely retreated, and even the remaining fortress did not have time to blow up, leaving it intact to the Taiping army to take over......

The Taiping expeditionary force was limited, and only received the coastal port strongholds left by the Spanish and Portuguese coalition forces, and the colonies that penetrated deep into the archipelago did not intervene, and the Southeast Asian monkeys were once again given a brief freedom......

The Taiping army would not divide their forces to occupy an entire archipelago that had little strategic value, and all the Taiping army needed was a supply point.

Transoceanic operations are not about sailing directly to the destination, it is best to sail along the coastline, while supplying, if not, we will also set up supply points at each node of the route as much as possible, otherwise a ship will not be able to carry much material at all.

In this way, the expeditionary fleet of the Taiping Army went all the way to the east, and all the Spanish Portuguese colonists encountered along the way retreated, without giving the Taiping Army any meaning of contact, and the white population of the Spanish Portuguese colonists was not large, and they would not be sent to the Taiping Army to commit suicide.

Therefore, the voyage of the Taiping army on the islands of Southeast Asia did not fight much, and the original princely states in Southeast Asia were defeated by the Spanish and Portuguese coalition forces, and as soon as the Spanish and Portuguese coalition forces left, these territories fell into anarchy and were re-taken over by the locals, who became extremely honest and did not cause any trouble after being taught a lesson by the Taiping army with Makqin heavy machine guns.

The Taiping army even propped up several pro-Han princely states in the area, all of whom were descendants of Han Chinese who had immigrated from the mainland to Nanyang!

The descendants of the Han people in Nanyang never imagined that there would be such a powerful Han regime in the far west!

As the Taiping army established supply points all the way to approach the Manchu Empire, which was at the peak of the Kangxi Dynasty, the Manchu Empire, which was peaceful and peaceful, finally got the news from the Nanyang merchants!

A Han regime with Han people as the main body and under the banner of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is expanding to the mainland while preaching the slogan of destroying the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Han Dynasty!

The goal is clear!

And the Nanyang merchants saw with their own eyes that those Han soldiers of the Taiping Army looked exactly the same as the Han civilians on the mainland, with black hair, black eyes and yellow skin, and they were not Western colonists at all.

Not even more so the Semu (Turkic species)!

The Manchu Empire, which had been guarding against Han rebellions, and even did not hesitate to promulgate the enslavement policy of keeping one's head and not leaving one's hair, immediately attracted great attention when it learned that there was a Han country that had been killed.

This is different from those Westerners who look obviously different, no matter how awesome the Westerners are, it is impossible to gain the recognition of the people of the mainland, but the Han people are different countries, and the Ming Dynasty was not destroyed for a long time!

At the bottom of the Manchu Empire there are diehards who are nostalgic for the past!

The Kangxi Dynasty has just experienced several major wars, although the Eight Banners of the Manchu Empire have begun to decay, but the combat effectiveness of the main forces such as the local green battalion is still there, and the regular army of the Manchu Empire at this time is far less weak than the Qing army in the Daoguang period.

The Manchu Empire can be said to be at the peak of its integrity, and its efficiency is still quite high, even if the Taiping Expeditionary Fleet is still in the South Seas, the Manchu Empire has begun to send a large number of eyeliners disguised as merchants to probe the details of this Western Han army that suddenly appeared.

Moreover, the Qing army in the coastal areas also began to enter a state of combat readiness!

With the attention of the Manchu Empire, scattered Taiping Army materials were also introduced to the Manchu Empire, however, in the eyes of the Manchu Empire's high-level officials, these materials are pure absurd!

What kind of firearm can fire non-stop, a heavy artillery that can hit miles away with one shot, and a shell that can blow up a large crater......

How is this possible?

It's not that the Qing army hasn't played with firearms!

Kang Mazi is also an emperor who knows soldiers!

The war with Dzungar has not stopped!

Of course, because of the expansion of the Russian Empire in Central Asia, the attention of Dzungar has turned to the West, and the war with the Manchu Empire has long been less intense than it was at the beginning.

In the Kangxi era, the Manchu Empire did not give up firearms, and in order to pacify the three feudatories and attack Taiwan, the Manchu Empire developed a red-coat cannon with a theoretical range farther than the artillery at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the quality was better.

Of course, this is only because the firearms in the late Ming Dynasty were more scum......

Since the Taiping army fought only a few deterrent battles in Nanyang...... Oh no, slaughter to be exact, it's a bunny bombardment with naval guns and Makqin heavy machine guns......

This shocking bloody scene was naturally recorded in detail by the natives of Nanyang, and then became a favorable basis for the Taiping Army to become the overlord of Nanyang!

Naturally, it was quite easy for the Manchu Empire to get this information, and it was possible to inquire about it for a little money.

The main guns on the Zhenyuan and Dingyuan can naturally hit several miles away, the Makqin heavy machine guns can also fire continuously and uninterruptedly, and the main artillery shells are even more big holes!

In the eyes of the high-level leaders of the Manchu Empire, which has a limited level of science and technology, all this is naturally regarded as a fallacy and heresy!

It's just an exaggeration to say that the backward natives of the South Seas have never seen firearms.

Of course, this kind of thinking is inseparable from the arrogant posture that prevailed in the center of the Manchu Empire......