Compared with the detailed information obtained by Cheng Dapeng and others in Batavia, the information that the Haihan military has obtained so far is very sketchy. Sister-in-law Suo Ke Er said the Internet, look at the most terrible Yan Qing girl Er said Bayi Chinese w?w?w?.?81zw.com these news are basically provided by the Daming maritime merchants who returned to the north, and the military and the Ministry of Security spent a lot of effort to slowly piece together these fragmented news into useful intelligence.

According to the summary and analysis of various information obtained, in the end, the military believes that the size of the army sent by the Mataran State to attack Batavia is about 40,000 to 60,000 people, and the reason why the margin of error is so large is mainly because it cannot obtain first-hand information, and can only be inferred from the size of the fleet described by others and the deployment of troops in a certain place. In addition, in order to cooperate with this battle, the country also recruited 30,000 men to participate in the war, and the number of participants in the war alone has already exceeded the manpower invested in the country's last war against Batavia.

The fact that the Mataran State was able to wage such a war on such a scale within a few days of the death of the Dutch governor Cohen was indeed a great surprise to the Haihan Executive Committee. The Executive Committee has always regarded the Dutch East India Company as the biggest obstacle to the southward expansion of the Haihan Dynasty, but it has ignored the existence of these local regimes in the South Seas, and the vast majority of travelers believe that the environment of the South Seas is difficult to give birth to an empire with strong war power, but the Mada Blue Kingdom is undoubtedly an alternative existence.

Because this regime is only a phenomenal existence in history, and the glorious time is only a few decades, and then it went downhill until it was finally ruled by the Dutch, the Haihan Executive Committee has never taken it too seriously, but it is precisely the current period when the strength of the Mada Blue State is the strongest, and its war mobilization ability expressed in this war is also to make the Executive Committee look sideways - to mobilize tens of thousands of troops in a few days and achieve cross-sea operations, not to mention Annam, In countries such as Champong, it is difficult to do so even under the conditions of the Ming Dynasty.

And the Mataran Kingdom's attack on Batavia this time is no longer in the historical records, in other words, this is actually one of the butterfly effects brought by the crossing group to this time and space. In the original history, the offensive launched by the Mataran Kingdom in 1629 was the last attack on the city of Batavia, and the Dutch Governor Cohen died of illness during that war, but due to the appearance of Haihan, the Governor Cohen successfully continued his life, and the Mataran Kingdom did not stop there, and waited until three years later to start the third Mata-Dutch War. For the outcome of this war, there is no ready-made historical data to refer to, even if Haihan has more black technology in his hands, it is difficult to predict who will die this time, and this is one of the reasons why Haihan is particularly concerned about this war on Java Island in the South China Sea.

However, due to the current sphere of influence and maritime strength of Haihan, it is impossible to send personnel to the front line to watch the battle, so it is impossible to get accurate information on the scale of the troops participating in the battle, the way of engagement, the dynamics of the battlefield, the progress of the battle situation, etc. Haihan's side was anxious, and could only wait patiently for further news.

Of course, in terms of the diplomatic relations established by Haihan at present, it is not that there is no news at all. After the news of the war broke back to Sanya, the Executive Committee immediately authorized Roger of the Ambuna Islands to negotiate with foreign ships passing by and purchase relevant information. Sister-in-law Suo Ke Er said the Internet, and the most suspicious Yan Qing girl said

At this juncture, the only ones who have the ability and the courage to go to the local area to watch the battle are the Portuguese who have no taboos. The closest Portuguese colony to Batavia is in the Strait of Malacca, although the two places are also thousands of nautical miles apart, and the southbound voyage of the Ambuna Islands is similar, but the Portuguese have an advantage that they also have commercial relations with the Matalan country, so their ships can dock in the port of the Matalan country for replenishment, of course, they can also take this opportunity to inquire about some news that it is inconvenient for the Haihan side to come forward to inquire.

However, even if the Portuguese merchant ships received the news at the port of Ambuna and went directly south from the local area to Batavia, this back and forth would be a voyage of 2,000 nautical miles, and they would not be able to return at all for a while and a half, and even if they collected information, there was not much timeliness at all. Roger originally wanted to take a Portuguese merchant ship to make a personal trip so that he could report to Sanya on the front line by telegram. However, after thinking about it, the executive committee decided that this move was too risky, and if Luo Zhuo did anything wrong, it would become an irreparable loss. And at present, there are still many development and infrastructure projects in the Anbuna Islands, and Roger, as the local military and political leader, must not leave the matter at hand at will, even if he wants to move the place, he must wait for the base camp to send someone to hand over the work.

This went back and forth, and the time soon came to the end of July. Haihan still has no more definite information, only that the Mata Blues have been blockading the port of Batavia, and as for the battle on the 6th, they do not know anything. Haihan's side can only judge from the movements of the Mata Blue Army, Batavia should not have fallen at this time, but it is difficult to have a clear result of which is weaker and which is stronger.

On August 5, a merchant ship returning to Daming from a port in the eastern part of Java brought new news. It is said that a sizable Dutch armed fleet had breached the local port of Sulumayi, which later became known to the Chinese as the port of Surabaya a few days earlier.

As an important trading port in the eastern part of Java Island, Surabaya Port has already had Chinese set foot in the local area as early as the beginning of the 13th century, Zhao Rushi of the Song Dynasty wrote "Zhufan Zhi", called it "Chongjialu", and Wang Dayuan of the Yuan Dynasty wrote "Daoyi Zhiluo" called "Chongjialuo", all of which are transliterations of the local ancient name Junga1a. In the early 15th century, Ma Huan's "Yingya Shenglan" referred to the local area as "Sulu Mayi", and later this name was also continued, and in the early 17th century, the Ming people's "East and West Yang Kao" also used this place name, which described the local "forest and woods, more than a thousand families, and half a strong Chinese." There are tens of thousands of gibbon monkeys. It can also be seen that the Chinese have long had a certain influence in the local area, and the Chinese maritime merchants who went south in the Ming Dynasty often traded spices with the indigenous people in the local ports.

The port of Sulu Mayi was one of the important trading ports of the Mataran Kingdom, but due to the outbreak of war, most of the local maritime forces and the 6 upper armies were transferred to Batavia to fight, and the local defenses were very empty, and the Dutch fleet entered the port almost effortlessly, destroying all the official institutions set up by Mataram in the area, and plundering a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry. However, the angry Dutch did not completely lose their minds, and they only drove away the foreign ships anchored in the harbor, rather than indiscriminately grabbing them all together—after all, they had to count on these merchant ships to trade in Batavia in the future, and if they caught pirates here, they would only smash their own signboards.

The merchant ship returning to Daming happened to witness the entire process of the Dutch fleet's capture of the port of Surumayi, and according to the description of the ship's personnel, the Dutch fleet had at least 30 armed sailing ships equipped with a large number of guns. Extrapolating from the size of the ship, this fleet is about two or three thousand people.

Under Roger's repeated questioning, the captain of the merchant ship revealed another very important information. His ship had asked the Dutch for fresh water before leaving the port, and it was during this brief encounter that he heard from a Dutch crew member that they would burn the war all over the ports of Mataran. While this may sound like a slogan, Roger thinks it may be a sign that the Dutch are not confined to the port of Surumayi. In other words, the Dutch would probably take advantage of the emptiness of the Mataran defenses and destroy the main ports in their territory.

The territory of Mataran from east to west, including Sumatra, Java, and most of the Timor Islands, spans 3,000 kilometers from east to west, and 1,000 kilometers from north to south. Therefore, Roger believed that the Dutch fleet would probably not only appear in the port of Surumayi, but would carry out similar attacks in many places, and then counterattack Batavia together.

If the Dutch had adopted such a battle plan, it would have been quite difficult to implement. In this era of lack of long-distance means of communication, it is difficult to have multiple units work together in a vast geographical area, not to mention that this chessboard is still dominated by the sea, and it is indeed quite difficult to achieve synchronization of operations. However, in Roger's telegram to the Sanya headquarters, he still insisted that the Dutch, known as the "coachman of the sea", must have arranged a plan for counterattack operations when they went to the colonies of the South Seas to assemble their fleets, and would appear off the coast of Batavia at the same time as the agreed time to solve the siege of Batavia by the Madaran army from the sea.

After Roger's report was sent to the Military Commission, it also attracted the attention of the military's top brass. If Roger's reasoning is consistent with the facts, then it can be said that the Dutch have also been preparing for this outbreak for the past three years. They abandoned the coastal defense and let the Matar Blue Army besiege the city in the port of Batavia6, but gathered sea forces on the periphery and waited for the time to counterattack, such a battle plan is indeed crazy, but if it is realized, it will indeed inflict a heavy blow on the Mata Blue Country.

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It can also be seen that the Chinese have long had a certain influence in the local area, and the Chinese maritime merchants who went south in the Ming Dynasty often traded spices with the indigenous people in the local ports.

The port of Sulu Mayi was one of the important trading ports of the Mataran Kingdom, but due to the outbreak of war, most of the local maritime forces and the 6 upper armies were transferred to Batavia to fight, and the local defenses were very empty, and the Dutch fleet entered the port almost effortlessly, destroying all the official institutions set up by Mataram in the area, and plundering a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry. However, the angry Dutch did not completely lose their minds, and they only drove away the foreign ships anchored in the harbor, rather than indiscriminately grabbing them all together—after all, they had to count on these merchant ships to trade in Batavia in the future, and if they caught pirates here, they would only smash their own signboards.

The merchant ship returning to Daming happened to witness the entire process of the Dutch fleet's capture of the port of Surumayi, and according to the description of the ship's personnel, the Dutch fleet had at least 30 armed sailing ships equipped with a large number of guns. Extrapolating from the size of the ship, this fleet is about two or three thousand people.

Under Roger's repeated questioning, the captain of the merchant ship revealed another very important information. His ship had asked the Dutch for fresh water before leaving the port, and it was during this brief encounter that he heard from a Dutch crew member that they would burn the war all over the ports of Mataran. While this may sound like a slogan, Roger thinks it may be a sign that the Dutch are not confined to the port of Surumayi. In other words, the Dutch would probably take advantage of the emptiness of the Mataran defenses and destroy the main ports in their territory.

The territory of Mataran from east to west, including Sumatra, Java, and most of the Timor Islands, spans 3,000 kilometers from east to west, and 1,000 kilometers from north to south. Therefore, Roger believed that the Dutch fleet would probably not only appear in the port of Surumayi, but would carry out similar attacks in many places, and then counterattack Batavia together.

If the Dutch had adopted such a battle plan, it would have been quite difficult to implement. In this era of lack of long-distance means of communication, it is difficult to have multiple units work together in a vast geographical area, not to mention that this chessboard is still dominated by the sea, and it is indeed quite difficult to achieve synchronization of operations. However, in Roger's telegram to the Sanya headquarters, he still insisted that the Dutch, known as the "coachman of the sea", must have arranged a plan for counterattack operations when they went to the colonies of the South Seas to assemble their fleets, and would appear off the coast of Batavia at the same time as the agreed time to solve the siege of Batavia by the Madaran army from the sea.

After Roger's report was sent to the Military Commission, it also attracted the attention of the military's top brass. If Roger's reasoning is consistent with the facts, then it can be said that the Dutch have also been preparing for this outbreak for the past three years. They abandoned the coastal defense and let the Matar Blue Army besiege the city in the port of Batavia6, but gathered sea forces on the periphery and waited for the time to counterattack, such a battle plan is indeed crazy, but if it is realized, it will indeed inflict a heavy blow on the Mata Blue Country.