In the early morning of the second day, the sky was bright, the peculiar mist of the South Seas shrouded the sky over Agoda, the quiet city was suddenly awakened by the sound of drums and trumpets, the military camp was full of people, hundreds of households and army commanders kept urging the soldiers to gather, the generals rode on tall horses, the large and small ships anchored in the harbor, sailors and sailors swarmed out of the hatches, put away the iron anchors, hoisted the sails and prepared to go to sea.

The Ming army was divided into four divisions, one by Wang Qiu led by a mixed formation of 5,000 battalions of Daying, Shenyong, Shenji, and Xinbing to advance by land, and by water, Liu Er and Liu Guoxuan each led their battalions to sweep the islands along the Java coast from the east and south, and the remaining part of the Ming army, the Spaniards and the local Tiandihui elements were ordered to guard Agoda.

The main military facilities in Java are built on the ports along the coast, and the inland cities do not pay attention to it, and even some small cities are not even garrisoned by Dutch mercenary groups, most of them are assisted by the local natives, so Wang Qiu's land action is the most rapid, only half a day's effort to reach the small city of Kannan, southeast of Agoda, before the attack was organized, the local natives have already surrendered out of the city, expressing their willingness to welcome the Ming army into the city.

After Wang Qiu left a small number of troops to garrison, he continued to stand upright without stopping, and in three days he had captured seven or eight towns in Java. Due to the letter of surrender jointly signed by the governor of Java and the directors of the East India Company, the Dutch mercenaries in some ports simply laid down their arms and walked out of the fort to express their compliance with the decision of the governor and the directors. Most of them were mercenaries from various European countries, who had come to work for the East India Company to make money. There is no way to confront the Ming army with powerful warships for this reason.

In the middle of January of the new year, the war report of Java quickly spread to Haidu, and the newspapers of various schools suddenly stopped being noisy. The canvas was full of articles about the Java island, and another victory made all the Nanyang Han people boil, who had lived here for years or even decades. The strength of the Dutch has long been heard, and the strong strength of the Ming navy to capture Java Province in one fell swoop made everyone in the land under the rule of the Southern Ming excitedly proud. For a time, the sales of the newspapers increased greatly, and some businessmen also saw the business opportunities, and bought the newspapers one after another, and then trafficked them to the other eight provinces for sale.

A Sumatran businessman had an idea and produced a batch of sun and moon flags of the Ming army in his textile workshop, and the words "Long live my emperor" were written on the bottom of the banner and sold them on the market, and they were sold out at once. A strange scene appeared in Haidu City. Someone will plant a sun and moon flag at the door of every house, and the wind will blow. It is full of colorful flags, which can be regarded as a scene in the city.

Wait until the end of the month. The news of the whole territory of Java was transmitted to the city of Haidu, and with it came the news that four or five small countries in Nanyang sent envoys to pay tribute, these small countries were originally bullied by the Dutch ruthlessly, and have been existing as vassals of the Dutch.

Zhu Jun has been anxious about the ministers fighting for the country these days, he originally promised to delay for half a year and wait for the completion of the construction of the road before considering, where do you know that this group of crazy courtiers got the letter, first the Ministry of Industry Shangshu asked to supervise the implementation of the projects in the provinces, this old guy was a little tougher, and within a month he rode a fast horse and came back in a circle, and the provincial political departments were all very seriously warned, if they could not speed up the construction period and dare to delay the construction of the project, it would be a bad attempt. Trying to sabotage the emperor's birth of the dragon son to establish the prince, the emperor spared you, the cabinet center of Haidu City, the six ministries and nine secretaries will not let you have a good time, then you wash your ass and prepare to wait for the impeachment of the Supervision Yuan and Dali Temple, and the Ministry of Officials will not let you go, this year's evaluation is definitely the worst, and the commander of the Beizhen Fu Division also released the rumors, at that time, you must be careful that your house is full of fans, you guy just shit and didn't wipe your ass clean to check it out for you, weigh it yourself, You just have to speed up the construction and work day and night, no matter how much additional silver you have to add, the head of the household has already released the word, how much is lacking to pay, as long as you can complete it quickly, it will be a great achievement.

Affect the career. The political envoys of the provinces naturally heard the voice of Lord Shangshu, which is nothing more than a serious warning that you dare to do it with him today, and you will be finished tomorrow, so the political envoys who were originally still leisurely and wandering rushed to the construction site, personally supervised, wantonly recruited the people of the province, split the mountains and built bridges, and built the prototype of the Chidao within half a year, and now what to do is to connect the Chidao of the provinces together to form a transportation network, and finally all lead to Haidu.

Zhu Jun released his words before, now it's time to make a promise, now that Java has won a big victory, and the day of the big wedding is becoming more and more urgent, what Zhu Jun is worried about now is the selection of the concubine.

Kinmen Island.

In smooth water. The tide slowly washes onto the beach, gently lapping against the shore. Since the Dutch expeditionary fleet was at odds with the Manchus. They were expelled by the Taiwanese Qing army to the islands of Kinmen and Xiamen as temporary bases. Harassment of Taiwan and the southeast coast. In order to coerce the Manchu government into submission. Abide by the agreements they reached with Shang Kexi and Geng Jingzhong in the past.

The Dutch fleet was capable of ground and naval warfare. But the level of land warfare was low. And the Qing army rode the army in one foot. Therefore. The Dutch could only harass the coast of Taiwan and other places. But they did not dare to land and fight. The war entered a stalemate. The Dutch had nothing to do with the Manchus. But he didn't dare to be fooled by the Qing court. Therefore. This war of mutual attrition, which will never be won, has not subsided.

The fleet commander, Vice Admiral Lane, looked pale at the new report. After watching it several times in a row. He had to accept the facts of the report.

Inside the command module. At the long table sat seven or eight captains. They sat upright and motionless. Blue eyes slammed into their bosses.

As early as two or three days ago. Various versions of the Java rumor spread to Kinmen Island. For such messages. The officers scoffed. There were five or six warships in the port of Argoda. There are also numerous fortifications and batteries along the coast. Four thousand mercenaries and nearly 10,000 natives were garrisoned there. They don't believe it. The Akito was able to capture it in a single day.

"Gentlemen." Major General Lane stuffed the report into his pocket. It took a long time to squeeze out a sentence. He frantically avoided the eyes that were projected at him. With all his strength, he said, "Here." I have a piece of news to announce. ”

The officers looked at each other with a sense of foreboding.

"Just half a month ago, our government of Yagoda fell, and His Excellency Hatlin, the governor of Java, Mr. Mohan, the director of the company, and the officials and senior executives of the company were all captured by the Ming army, in addition, we also had nearly 3,000 Dutch soldiers and 27,000 expatriates from the European continent were in the hands of the Ming army, and His Excellency Hartlin and Mr. Mohan have jointly signed a declaration of surrender, urging us to lay down our arms and surrender to the Ming army."

"What?" There were many suspicious voices in the command cabin at once, and a lieutenant colonel had already stood up and said, "Your Excellency, is this news reliable?" I thought, maybe this is a conspiracy of the enemy? I'm going to arrest the guy who delivered the letter and interrogate him to see who is at his disposal. ”

"No need." Lieutenant General Ryan sat down in his chair and waved his hand gloomily: "I know the handwriting of His Excellency the Governor, this letter was written to me by His Excellency the Governor, and he asked us to lay down our arms. ”

The command cabin fell silent all of a sudden, and everyone could only feel their hearts beating non-stop.

Surrender? Just kidding, the fleet has twenty-three warships, and also has dozens of armed merchant ships of various sizes, the entire expeditionary corps has nearly 10,000 combatants, and the other sailors and helmsmen also have 5,000, such a powerful and comparable fleet surrendered to the Ming people like this? This is simply nonsense.

What's next? The governor and the directors of the company fell into the hands of the Ming army, as well as the European expatriates on the island, most of the mercenary corps of the East India Company was composed of mercenaries from various countries, many of them worked overseas for the company, and if their relatives, wives and children did not mix well in Europe, they would also bring their relatives and friends here, and among the more than 20,000 expatriates, at least one-third of the families were related to the officers and men of the fleet. Will the fleet be able to see death without saving?

Even if the fleet was going to return to their homeland, to Holland, regardless of the safety of their boss and governor, as well as their relatives and friends, how could they go back? The fleet that has lost its base means that it has lost its due supplies, and if it wants to return to Europe, it will have to cross the South Sea, cross the Strait of Malacca, and then enter the Atlantic, and such a long voyage will take at least two months, what should the fleet do?

Moreover, Nanyang has been controlled by the Ming army, and they have also controlled Malacca, if the fleet wants to go back, can it be guaranteed not to be discovered by the enemy? Now the fleet has insufficient gunpowder and medical equipment, and the fleet had sent a supply message to Java a few days ago, hoping that the Javanese authorities would be able to transport several ships of supplies to solve the urgent need, but now, it is no longer possible.

"Gentlemen, do you have anything to say?" Ryan looked at his men, and he felt his back soaked with cold sweat.

"I will never lay down my arms to the despicable Orientals, let alone give in to these yellow-skinned monkeys." A colonel stood up with a fist waving.

The rest of the officers nodded in agreement, and one officer was pale and tried to speak, but swallowed it back in his stomach, his mind always coiling around his wife and two lovely daughters.

"So, how should we deal with the dilemma at hand?" After reaching a preliminary consensus, Major General Ryan restrained his complicated feelings and asked everyone.