Xia Jun's warning soon worked, and most of the residents did not want to become the ghost of Xia Jun's sword, so they hurriedly laid down their weapons, ran out of their respective hiding places, and surrendered to Xia Jun on the street.

Only a few people insisted on resisting, believing that the Xia army was tricking them into throwing themselves into the net and killing them unarmed, so they refused the order to surrender and continued to fight against the Xia army.

They carried out house-by-house investigations, and even bribed residents who voluntarily surrendered as leading the way, and killed all the locals with weapons in their sights.

For a time, there were gunshots everywhere in the city, which were mixed with the explosion of grenades and the screams and wails of people before death, and it took less than a day for the Xia army to wipe out the resistance forces in the city.

In the center of the city, the majestic and solemn governor's residence and the colonial parliament building were also occupied by the Xia army, and several line infantrymen climbed to the top of the building amid the cheers of their comrades, took off the fluttering Dutch flag and the East India Company flag and threw them downstairs, and together they raised the Xia army's dragon flag high and planted it in the original position of the Dutch flag.

The Dutch and East India Company flags slowly fell, and finally landed on the stairs leading to the gate of the residence, and the soldiers ignored the flag, which symbolized the defeated country, and trampled the flag under their feet, allowing it to be stained with filth.

The glory of the Haishan coachmen in the South Seas came to an end, and although the Dutch still held Malacca and Sri Lanka, they were powerless.

After the Xia army fully settled in Batavia City, it began to besiege the Batavia Castle in the north of the city, the Xia army directly transported the artillery into the city, erected it on the street to bombard the city wall, and at the same time the artillery outside the city also opened fire, the Xia army high-level did not have the confidence to take the castle immediately, but a tentative siege, wanting to see the defensive strength of the defenders.

The famous fortress proved to be easy to defend and difficult to attack, and despite the small number and low morale of the defenders, they were able to hold the castle under the siege of the Xia army, which failed to reap the advantage of several tentative sieges - when they tried to climb the city walls with ladders, they were fired at by defenders from multiple directions, even the battering rams that tried to break the gates.

After paying for dozens of lives, An Chujie and Liu Yang, the two brigade commanders, directly issued the order to retreat, they looked at the strange Western-style castle, just looking at it knew that the castle was not easy to attack, the two of them summed up, and decided to take the method of long-term siege, waiting for the defenders in the city to run out of ammunition and food to surrender voluntarily, or waiting for something to happen in the castle that could give them a chance.

After making this decision, the Xia army moved all the residents living around the castle and imposed a complete blockade on the castle, and at the same time, the Xia army also began to restore order to the city of Batavia and establish a rule in the city.

They recounted the number of residents in the city, and after three days of counting, in addition to the residents who fled to the castle, there were 5,568 people in Batavia, of which the Han population has changed from 39% to 59% today.

Since the population of the city had dropped sharply, the Xia army decided to move the Han people from outside the city to settle in the city, and they lifted the restrictions of the Dutch and Indian governments on the settlement of Han people in the city, allowing the Han people to settle in and out of the city at will, and at the same time appointed the highly respected people among the Han people and the Han people who had served as Chinese officials as the new batch of bureaucrats in Batavia City to assist the Xia army in governing Batavia.

The fact that the Xia army did not massacre the city as rumored had also reassured the residents of the other ethnic groups, and when they saw that the Han people had resumed their normal lives, they all had the courage to take to the streets to buy essential daily necessities.

For a time, the order and normal life of Batavia City was restored a lot, except for the military restricted area set up in the area near the castle in the north of the city, the rest of the city remained unchanged from before the war, and the residents quickly adapted to the current life.

The Xia army maintained its rule in the city of Batavia internally

Externally, exchanges with other indigenous kingdoms on the same island of Java have also begun.

At this time, in addition to the city of Batavia occupied by the Xia army, there were five other kingdoms on the island of Java, namely the Banten Sultanate to the west of Batavia, the Batavia Castle was built because of the war with the country, and the Sultanate of Cirebon in the east, the Sultanate of Mataram, the Kingdom of Bran Bangan and the Emirate of Bali, these countries were deeply influenced by the religion and often dealt with the Dutch, but the penetration rate of firearms was still not high.

After the Xia army conquered the city of Batavia, the Banten Sultanate, which was closest to Batavia, was the first to receive the news, and after some careful consideration, the sultan decided that there should not be a war with the Xia Dynasty, and was the first to send an envoy to Batavia to express his willingness to coexist peacefully to the Xia army.

The Xia army did not have the idea of taking the initiative to start a war with its neighbors until the imperial court ordered it, and the two Xia army commanders gladly accepted the kindness of the Banten Sultan, but they also put forward conditions requiring the Banten Sultan to send an envoy to Jiangning City to pay tribute.

Several other countries on the island of Java also received such requests, and the outstanding performance of the Xia army in the war to replace the Dutch made the natives of Java feel jealous, and in order to avoid being found by the Xia army, they sent missions one after another, carrying domestic specialties and gold to Batavia City, and embarked on the road to Jiangning City under the escort of the Xia army.

Half a month after the city of Batavia was occupied by the Xia army, the Xia army launched a military operation again.

This time the military operation was still directed against the Dutch, escorted by the East China Sea Division, which had completed the repair, and a target infantry sailed westward, and this fleet continued westward along the coastline, and the countries that passed along the way were alarmed to think that it was the Dutch warships coming, but they were relieved when they saw the dragon flag flying high.

The influence of the Xia Dynasty in the South Seas has long been in full swing, after the Xia army captured the Luzon Islands, a large number of Xia Dynasty merchant ships entered and exited the South Seas, and the countries of Sumatra Island also paid tribute to the Xia Dynasty.

More than half a month after departing from the port of Batavia, the Xia army's naval division appeared off the coast of Malacca, and the warships opened their gun windows one after another, stretched their guns out of the window, and aimed at the bustling port of Malacca.

Although the Dutch in Malacca learned the news of the capture of Batavia in advance, the Dutch army in Malacca did not have much military strength, the Dutch army desperately resisted in the port, and the Xia army started a war, after a fierce battle between the two sides, the Dutch army retreated to the Malacca fortress in a hurry, and the port was surrendered, and the Xia army captured the port.

Subsequently, the Xia army took advantage of the situation to pursue, and cooperated with the naval division to besiege the Malacca fortress by water, and the East China Sea division launched an indiscriminate bombardment of the fortress like a storm on the sea, and the solid bullets smashed into the city wall like raindrops, leaving deep pits on the city wall, and the Dutch soldiers could only curl up and hide in the tower in this terrible shelling, praying to God that the shelling would end quickly.

The Fort of Malacca was once a fortified fortress built by the Portuguese on the seafront after the capture of Malacca, the fort consisted of 8 defensive fortresses and towers as the fulcrum, connected by brick and stone walls, extremely strong, the Portuguese could not have imagined that the fortress they built could not stop the attack of the Dutch and the Sultanate of Johor, but became the Dutch's resistance to the Xia army.

Although the Xia army had fierce firepower, the infantry on land lacked artillery, so they had to cut down trees on the spot and build siege equipment, while sending Dutch-speaking envoys to loudly persuade the Dutch in the fortress to surrender, claiming that as long as the Dutch army took the initiative to surrender, they would ensure their personal safety and allow them to leave Malacca safely without retaining their weapons.

Perhaps it was the fall of the city of Batavia that hit the Dutch defenders here, or perhaps the artillery fire of the Xia army was too fierce, and after the envoy repeated the words of persuasion several times in a loud voice, the gate of the fortress was slowly opened, and the defenders raised the white flag and surrendered to the Xia army.

Malacca thus fell into the hands of the Xia army.

After the Dutch surrendered, Xia Jun began to interrogate them, wanting to torture about the reinforcements - Xia Jun naturally knew about the Dutch

The people sent people to ask for help before the siege of Batavia, but a month has passed since the siege began, and the Dutch reinforcements have not been seen, which makes them wonder and can't help but want to find out the truth behind it.

Upon interrogation of the Dutch, the surrendered Dutch defenders answered this question by telling the Xia army that the Batavian side had indeed sent emissaries for help, but that Malacca's military strength was too weak to send troops to support the city of Batavia.

Therefore, the envoy had to sail to Sri Lanka in desperation to seek Indian support, but it was not impossible for the envoy's ship to be shipwrecked on the way after entering the Indian Ocean from Malacca to the west, and piracy was rampant.

After listening to the explanation of the surrendered troops, although the Xia army was still a little puzzled, they could only believe it suspiciously, and then they confiscated the weapons of the Dutch soldiers according to the agreement, leaving them only enough food and fresh water, and sent them on the ship to Sri Lanka.

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With the fall of Malacca to the Xia army, except for the Batavia Castle, which was still in a trap of beasts, all the Dutch strongholds in the South Seas were uprooted by the Xia army, even if the Dutch could project all their local military power into East Asia, they may not be able to recover the defeat.

When the good news of Nanyang reached Jiangning City, it was already January of the 14th year of Wu'an (1667 AD), and the good news of the defeat of the Dutch undoubtedly gave the Xia Dynasty monarchs and ministers who were preparing to welcome the New Year a double happiness.

In addition, the DPRK and China began to debate again on how to govern the newly occupied overseas territories of the South Seas, because the overseas territories were scattered and the population was small, and the various ethnic groups were mixed, making it difficult to carry out unified and effective management, and if there was a case of the siege of Batavia, it would be extremely unfavorable to the foundation of the authorities' rule.

Considering that Batavia City was the most prosperous and most populous area in the newly occupied area of Nanyang, the imperial court decided to set up a new administrative structure in Batavia City, and changed Batavia City back to its original name Jakarta, and included Jakarta, Malacca, Timor Island and other former Dutch East India Company territories into the newly established Java Prefecture, with Jakarta as the residence of the Metropolitan Division, and sent experienced officials from the country to serve as the governor of Java as the supreme ruler.

Not only that, but the imperial court also approved An Chujie's request to select officers and soldiers from among the Han coolies who rebelled against the Dutch in the port, and form a Jakarta garrison to defend the city of Jakarta and guard against the *** religion in the east and west directions.

After discussing the establishment of the Javanese Metropolitan Division, the imperial court also began to put the issue of war or peace on the agenda - now the Dutch power in the South Seas has almost been wiped out, only the remnants of the Batavia Castle are still resisting, and the goal of the Xia army has been achieved.

In the eyes of those who advocated peace, the goal had been achieved, the Dutch forces had almost been completely driven out of the South Seas, and continuing the war would only increase losses in vain.

Those who advocated the continuation of the war believed that the Dutch had other territories west of Malacca, and that they should take advantage of the victory and continue to expand the results until the Dutch took the initiative to sue for peace.

The ministers of the DPRK and China were divided into two factions and quarreled, and Su Yan also fell into thinking, he had the intention to continue to expand westward and take Sri Lanka from the Dutch, but the road from Malacca to Sri Lanka was long, the sea conditions were complicated, and piracy was rampant.

Moreover, the Xia Dynasty was now consuming a lot of resources in many places, whether it was the war with the Tokugawa shogunate in the east or the development of the islands in the southeast, a lot of manpower and material resources had to be invested.

After thinking about it for a while, Su Yan decided to stop the war first, digest the results obtained now, and mainly build a transfer station to the Jedao Island, so as to lay a good foundation for the subsequent large-scale development of the Jedao Island.

As the last link of several transit stations ordered by Su Yanqin, the island of Timor Island already has the infrastructure foundation of the Portuguese and Dutch, and Xia Jun only needs to expand on this infrastructure to be able to take on the transfer station

This is an important task.