Belitung was once owned by a sultanate in central Sumatra, but after the Dutch settled in Batavia, they cleared the area by armed sailing ships in order to establish a safe route to Northeast Asia, and seven years ago established a colony on the island's south coast to grow pepper for income. However www.biquge.info the East India Company's ability to build and develop this kind of island colony was really limited, and by the time the Haihan launched a move on Ambuna Island in 1631, the population of this colony, which was the same supply point port in the South China Sea, still did not exceed 1,000 people, and the scale of development was not even comparable to that of Ambuna Island at the same time.

It was not until after the change of ownership of Ambuna Island that the East India Company began to accelerate the dispatch of immigrants and armed men to the island in order to prevent Haehan from continuing to move south to seize Belitung Island. So far, the population of the colony on the southern side of the island is about 3,000, of which only a tenth are Dutch, and the rest of the population is made up of other nationalities such as Europeans, Malays, and Han Chinese, and its ethnic complexity is not much different from that of Ambuna.

Of course, it is obviously not enough to rely on such a small population to fully control an island with an area of nearly 5,000 square kilometers, so although the East India Company unilaterally incorporated this island under its rule, in fact, there are at least seven or eight thousand natives scattered on the island, which belong to the autonomy of various tribes, and it can be said that most of the island is still in a state of anarchy.

Geographically, Belitung Island is located about 400 nautical miles south of Ambuna Island and about 200 nautical miles from Batavia further south, making it the only way for the Java region to travel north into the South China Sea. If Haihan wants to suppress Batavia and control the Sunda Strait, this is obviously a better choice. The purpose of the Combined Fleet's trip to Belitung Island was to investigate the actual situation here, collect the necessary information, and then the General Staff of the military would assess whether it was necessary to seize the area, whether the conditions were ripe, the amount of military strength that would need to be invested in the future, and the defensive pressure that might be faced.

Because the memorandum of understanding had already been initialled with the East India Company, at the initiative of Yan Chujie, Van Dimen also sent a group of people to go north with the fleet, on the one hand, to inform the colony of Belitung Island of the news of peace by the way, so that they could provide supplies for the combined fleet, and on the other hand, go to Ambuna Island in advance, where they will make a prelude for next month's negotiations.

Taking advantage of the time to get supplies in the port, Yan Chujie asked people to conduct a simple survey of the local terrain and sea conditions on the ship. The conditions in this place were very simple, and there were no decent coastal fortifications at all, and Yan Chujie and others believed that as long as two or three companies of land forces were put in, plus a few warships arrived close to the coast to provide fire cover, it would be enough to seize control of the port here. However, Haihan's real interest was not here, so the Combined Fleet did not stay in the local port for too long, and immediately continued along the coastline to the northwest after completing its supplies.

Immediately after leaving this small port, the galleons carrying the Dutch envoys headed north to the island of Ambuna, and the rest of the fleet's journey was a military secret, so that the adversary could not be informed of the information.

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Belitung was once owned by a sultanate in central Sumatra, but after the Dutch settled in Batavia, they cleared the area by armed sailing ships in order to establish a safe route to Northeast Asia, and seven years ago established a colony on the island's south coast to grow pepper for income. However, the East India Company's ability to construct and develop such island colonies was really limited, and by the time the Haihan launched their attack on Ambuna Island in 1631, the population of this colony, which was the same supply point port in the South China Sea, still did not exceed 1,000 people, and the scale of development was not even comparable to that of Ambuna Island at the same time.

It was not until after the change of ownership of Ambuna Island that the East India Company began to accelerate the dispatch of immigrants and armed men to the island in order to prevent Haehan from continuing to move south to seize Belitung Island. So far, the population of the colony on the southern side of the island is about 3,000, of which only a tenth are Dutch, and the rest of the population is made up of other nationalities such as Europeans, Malays, and Han Chinese, and its ethnic complexity is not much different from that of Ambuna.

Of course, it is obviously not enough to rely on such a small population to fully control an island with an area of nearly 5,000 square kilometers, so although the East India Company unilaterally incorporated this island under its rule, in fact, there are at least seven or eight thousand natives scattered on the island, which belong to the autonomy of various tribes, and it can be said that most of the island is still in a state of anarchy.

Geographically, Belitung Island is located about 400 nautical miles south of Ambuna Island and about 200 nautical miles from Batavia further south, making it the only way for the Java region to travel north into the South China Sea. If Haihan wants to suppress Batavia and control the Sunda Strait, this is obviously a better choice. The purpose of the Combined Fleet's trip to Belitung Island was to investigate the actual situation here, collect the necessary information, and then the General Staff of the military would assess whether it was necessary to seize the area, whether the conditions were ripe, the amount of military strength that would need to be invested in the future, and the defensive pressure that might be faced.

Because the memorandum of understanding had already been initialled with the East India Company, at the initiative of Yan Chujie, Van Dimen also sent a group of people to go north with the fleet, on the one hand, to inform the colony of Belitung Island of the news of peace by the way, so that they could provide supplies for the combined fleet, and on the other hand, go to Ambuna Island in advance, where they will make a prelude for next month's negotiations.

Taking advantage of the time to get supplies in the port, Yan Chujie asked people to conduct a simple survey of the local terrain and sea conditions on the ship. The conditions in this place were very simple, and there were no decent coastal fortifications at all, and Yan Chujie and others believed that as long as two or three companies of land forces were put in, plus a few warships arrived close to the coast to provide fire cover, it would be enough to seize control of the port here. However, Haihan's real interest was not here, so the Combined Fleet did not stay in the local port for too long, and immediately continued along the coastline to the northwest after completing its supplies.

Immediately after leaving this small port, the galleons carrying the Dutch envoys headed north to the island of Ambuna, and the rest of the fleet's journey was a military secret, so that the adversary could not be informed of the information. Belitung was once owned by a sultanate in central Sumatra, but after the Dutch settled in Batavia, they cleared the area by armed sailing ships in order to establish a safe route to Northeast Asia, and seven years ago established a colony on the island's south coast to grow pepper for income. However, the East India Company's ability to construct and develop such island colonies was really limited, and by the time the Haihan launched their attack on Ambuna Island in 1631, the population of this colony, which was the same supply point port in the South China Sea, still did not exceed 1,000 people, and the scale of development was not even comparable to that of Ambuna Island at the same time.

It was not until after the change of ownership of Ambuna Island that the East India Company began to accelerate the dispatch of immigrants and armed men to the island in order to prevent Haehan from continuing to move south to seize Belitung Island. So far, the population of the colony on the southern side of the island is about 3,000, of which only a tenth are Dutch, and the rest of the population is made up of other nationalities such as Europeans, Malays, and Han Chinese, and its ethnic complexity is not much different from that of Ambuna.

Of course, it is obviously not enough to rely on such a small population to fully control an island with an area of nearly 5,000 square kilometers, so although the East India Company unilaterally incorporated this island under its rule, in fact, there are at least seven or eight thousand natives scattered on the island, which belong to the autonomy of various tribes, and it can be said that most of the island is still in a state of anarchy.

Geographically, Belitung Island is located about 400 nautical miles south of Ambuna Island and about 200 nautical miles from Batavia further south, making it the only way for the Java region to travel north into the South China Sea. If Haihan wants to suppress Batavia and control the Sunda Strait, this is obviously a better choice. The purpose of the Combined Fleet's trip to Belitung Island was to investigate the actual situation here, collect the necessary information, and then the General Staff of the military would assess whether it was necessary to seize the area, whether the conditions were ripe, the amount of military strength that would need to be invested in the future, and the defensive pressure that might be faced.

Because the memorandum of understanding had already been initialled with the East India Company, at the initiative of Yan Chujie, Van Dimen also sent a group of people to go north with the fleet, on the one hand, to inform the colony of Belitung Island of the news of peace by the way, so that they could provide supplies for the combined fleet, and on the other hand, go to Ambuna Island in advance, where they will make a prelude for next month's negotiations.

Taking advantage of the time to get supplies in the port, Yan Chujie asked people to conduct a simple survey of the local terrain and sea conditions on the ship. The conditions in this place were very simple, and there were no decent coastal fortifications at all, and Yan Chujie and others believed that as long as two or three companies of land forces were put in, plus a few warships arrived close to the coast to provide fire cover, it would be enough to seize control of the port here. However, Haihan's real interest was not here, so the Combined Fleet did not stay in the local port for too long, and immediately continued along the coastline to the northwest after completing its supplies.

Immediately after leaving this small port, the galleons carrying the Dutch envoys headed north to the island of Ambuna, and the rest of the fleet's journey was a military secret, so that the adversary could not be informed of the information. Belitung was once owned by a sultanate in central Sumatra, but after the Dutch settled in Batavia, they cleared the area by armed sailing ships in order to establish a safe route to Northeast Asia, and seven years ago established a colony on the island's south coast to grow pepper for income. However, the East India Company's ability to construct and develop such island colonies was really limited, and by the time the Haihan launched their attack on Ambuna Island in 1631, the population of this colony, which was the same supply point port in the South China Sea, still did not exceed 1,000 people, and the scale of development was not even comparable to that of Ambuna Island at the same time.

It was not until after the change of ownership of Ambuna Island that the East India Company began to accelerate the dispatch of immigrants and armed men to the island in order to prevent Haehan from continuing to move south to seize Belitung Island. So far, the population of the colony on the southern side of the island is about 3,000, of which only a tenth are Dutch, and the rest of the population is made up of other nationalities such as Europeans, Malays, and Han Chinese, and its ethnic complexity is not much different from that of Ambuna.

Of course, it is obviously not enough to rely on such a small population to fully control an island with an area of nearly 5,000 square kilometers, so although the East India Company unilaterally incorporated this island under its rule, in fact, there are at least seven or eight thousand natives scattered on the island, which belong to the autonomy of various tribes, and it can be said that most of the island is still in a state of anarchy.

Geographically, Belitung Island is located about 400 nautical miles south of Ambuna Island and about 200 nautical miles from Batavia further south, making it the only way for the Java region to travel north into the South China Sea. If Haihan wants to suppress Batavia and control the Sunda Strait, this is obviously a better choice. The purpose of the Combined Fleet's trip to Belitung Island was to investigate the actual situation here, collect the necessary information, and then the General Staff of the military would assess whether it was necessary to seize the area, whether the conditions were ripe, the amount of military strength that would need to be invested in the future, and the defensive pressure that might be faced.

Because the memorandum of understanding had already been initialled with the East India Company, at the initiative of Yan Chujie, Van Dimen also sent a group of people to go north with the fleet, on the one hand, to inform the colony of Belitung Island of the news of peace by the way, so that they could provide supplies for the combined fleet, and on the other hand, go to Ambuna Island in advance, where they will make a prelude for next month's negotiations.

Taking advantage of the time to get supplies in the port, Yan Chujie asked people to conduct a simple survey of the local terrain and sea conditions on the ship. The conditions in this place were very simple, and there were no decent coastal fortifications at all, and Yan Chujie and others believed that as long as two or three companies of land forces were put in, plus a few warships arrived close to the coast to provide fire cover, it would be enough to seize control of the port here. However, Haihan's real interest was not here, so the Combined Fleet did not stay in the local port for too long, and immediately continued along the coastline to the northwest after completing its supplies.

Immediately after leaving this small port, the galleons carrying the Dutch envoys headed north to the island of Ambuna, and the rest of the fleet's journey was a military secret, so that the adversary could not be informed of the information. (To be continued.) )