Liu Xiang has been building Sin Chew City with its port, forts, residences, and farms.

During this period, Liu Xiang was still doing business with the Dutch people, disguised as a pirate Congliang, at least for a long time without letting the enemy see that she was already a member of the Ming court.

When Cohen left Batavia with the First and Second Fleets, as well as 3,000 Marines, to support Putmans on the Treasure Island, Liu Xiang kept a low profile.

It wasn't until Cohen had been gone for half a month that she started to do it.

The blockade of the Straits of Malacca went ahead as scheduled, and Cohen began to do so almost 20 days after she left.

The thousands of Portuguese men in the South Seas were all assembled, Liu Xiang's 10,000 soldiers were also ready, and Liu Xiang and the Portuguese fleet and soldiers and horses controlled the Strait of Malacca and the Malay Peninsula in separate operations.

The Strait of Malacca quickly came under the control of Liu Xiang and the Portuguese, and merchant ships from other countries remained unimpeded, with only the Dutch and Japanese people forbidding passage.

Some Dutch pirate ships thought that overseas Chinese were easy to bully, and they also treated Liu Xiang as a pirate. They also wanted to avoid the Portuguese and deal exclusively with the Chinese.

Liu Xiang did not let in the slightest, and simply killed these Dutch pirates, more than 100 warships were all transferred, thousands of large and small cannons bombarded together, and nearly 10,000 soldiers were killed.

As a result, the Dutch pirates were defeated by Liu Xiang.

Although Liu Xiang's more than 100 warships are all old-style warships, some of the artillery are made in Portugal, and recently he has bought a lot from Dutch merchants, and even Hongyi cannons have dozens of them, and he is not afraid of lone Dutch pirates at all.

She is not a pirate now, but a female general who came to Nanyang to expand the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

For the time being, she can't play the banner of the Ming army, but she has already regarded herself as a female general of the Ming Dynasty, and her pirates have been almost transformed by her.

The Chinese are intelligent and capable, and are known for their hardships and hard work, but the Chinese have never enjoyed equal treatment in Nanyang, including during the Portuguese rule, but the Portuguese are more fair, not as clever as the Dutch people.

The Strait of Malacca has been closed to the Dutch, and the detour from the waters of the Sumatra archipelago south of the Strait of Malacca will be intercepted by the Esbanya.

The Dutch officials who stayed in Batavia were taken aback, and this was the three countries of Daming, Portugal, and Esbanya forming a cooperative posture to jointly deal with the Triple Alliance of the Netherlands, the Japanese State, and the Later Jin.

Only then did the Dutch people realize that the Ming war in the southeast of Fujian was to attract the attention of the Dutch East India Company, and the Malacca side was the focus of the Ming army and the Portuguese.

No wonder the Ming and Portugal acted together in Macau, but the Portuguese did not participate in Fujian and thought that they did not cooperate so much, and now it seems that Ace Banya also joined the Triple Alliance against the Netherlands.

However, the Cohen had already gone to sea, and it was not clear where they were at sea, and they sent men from Batavia to chase them, but they could not find them if they could not catch up.

Malacca immediately built forts, and Sin Chew was renamed Singapore, specifically to gather the Chinese of the South Seas and build forts at the same time.

Even Ace Duck began to cooperate, sending warships to intercept in Luzon and the Americas, giving the pirate captain a privateer warrant, specifically targeting the merchant ships of the Dutch.

On this day, a group of Chinese merchant ships came to Liu Xiang's naval base in Singapore and told Liu Xiang that there were more than a dozen Dutch warships and armed merchant ships that were staying in the sea southeast of Singapore.

These were Dutch warships and merchant ships that had fled from the south of Malacca by the battleship Esbanya, and had gathered more than a dozen ships in the past month to prepare to pass through the Strait of Malacca in the near future.

Liu Xiang immediately sent speedboats to reconnoiter and found the Dutch anchorage, and Liu Xiang's army set out at night along the northwest wind, taking the initiative to burn several of them and capture several merchant ships.

This is a picture of Liu Xiang's first night attack on the Dutch Navy, and half a month later, Wang Hongyu received a battle report from Liu Xiang in a merchant ship and a flying pigeon relay message:

"The family plan captured one hundred and fifty-three Niyi, beheaded thirty-eight Niyi, and burned one large Galen warship and one medium-sized warship; He seized one of the ships of the Galen and destroyed forty-six of the boats of the Niyi thieves.

Armor, swords, firearms, charts, and other items are all in existence. Seventeen merchant ships were captured, and the goods were full. and the front and rear cannons, the guns killed Niyi, the escape on the battleship, and the people who fell into the sea have not been able to cut off the heads; Niyi was shot and wounded.

There are more than 1,200 mercenaries in Niyi, all of whom are garrisoned in various parts of the South Seas, as well as the four major fleets and marines of Non-Niyi. Today, the colonies of Niyi are all old and weak guards, and our troops want to seize them after the war. ”

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On the other hand, the East India Company finally contacted Cohen.

Cohen's two fleets of more than 30 warships and 3,000 marines have arrived at the Treasure Island's Resha Barrage.

It was equivalent to arriving at their easternmost colony, only to learn that the Ming and Portuguese had blockaded Malacca, and the Dutch were imprisoned in East Asia.

The only way to take a detour from the south of Malacca, or a detour from the Americas, is to take some merchant ships. But this will also encounter the risk of waves, and there are also Ace plate ducks repeatedly intercepted.

Things are already a little bad, and Cohen confers with Putmans.

It is necessary to gather all the forces to fight Malacca, and even invite people from the Japanese country to go with them and beat Malacca with a thunderous force.

Of course, the Wa Shogunate was unwilling, but Sakai Tadashi, who had seen the strength of the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands, felt that without the Dutch people, the Wa Kingdom was not the opponent of the Ming Dynasty at all, and saving the Netherlands was to save himself.

He sent his henchmen to convince Tokugawa Iemitsu.

In the end, Sakai Tadashi sat on the north side of the island, and Putmans took 5 warships to stay in the city of Resha, guarding the north and south of the island against the Ming army.

The rest of the 40 warships and 3,000 marines in the Netherlands, as well as 30,000 people from the Wakuni Matsudaira Nobutsuna and the Shimazu family, went to fight Malacca together.

Cohen hurriedly concentrated all the forces of the East India Company and prepared to sweep the Strait of Malacca.

In addition to this large army around him, he also sent people to contact the English East India Company in every possible way, so that they could deal with the Ming Kingdom-Portugal and Ace Plate Duck together.

In addition, Malacca is the crossroads of Southeast Asia and a strategic artery from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean. Dutch trade in the East, especially with the Spice Islands, had to pass through here.

But the Portuguese also came 100 years ago, and they defeated the Johor Empire in the Malay Peninsula and built the city of Malacca and a number of large and small fortresses.

There are less than 10,000 Portuguese in Malacca and only a few tens of thousands of Chinese, but there are more Malays in Johor combined.

In addition, the Johor Empire had been planning to attack the Portuguese in the south.

So, Cohen simply went a little harder.

He sent his henchmen to contact the Johor Empire and decided to give them a large amount of money to promise that the Straits of Malacca would return to the Johor Empire. The Dutch people will not occupy it, and for the Ming Kingdom and the Chinese, the Netherlands and Johor will suppress and exploit together.