The news that Shi Shifu sent back to Guangzhou did not elaborate on the cause and process of his battle with the Spanish fleet, but only briefly described that the fleet first provoked the South China Sea sailors led by him for no reason, and he had to fight with it for the sake of the face of the Celestial Empire.

However, there will be a time when things can be figured out.

That's why Spaniards like Wiggins feel wronged by losing.

Luzon is not very close to Temasek, but the Strait of Malacca is a sea artery. In the past, it was not that those colonizers did not fail to see the importance of Temasek, the key point is that their power in Southeast Asia is almost the same, who has the strength to seal it off? In that case, they will only attract a concerted attack from all sides. Moreover, for many years, the European continents have been regarded as the American continent and the African continent, where they have absolute superiority, and both continents have also sent huge sums of money to Europe every year, far from Southeast Asia and trade with the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, there is no need to stir up hostility between countries for the sake of a road to the East. Of course, the most important thing here is that Southeast Asia is just islands, and it cannot be compared with the status of the mainland.

And the relative insignificance of status naturally means that the fleets of various countries here do not have much strength. With a colony's small fleet pitting against the elite of one of the four great sailors of the Qing Dynasty, it's no wonder that Wiggins is depressed.

However, this is not the most uncomfortable thing for the Spaniards, what makes them most uncomfortable is that this unjust battle did not have to be fought.

The cause of the incident is as follows: after Shi Shiqiu took possession of Temasek, he sent someone to inform the King of Johor that he hoped to obtain the right to garrison troops and build a city in Temasek; On the one hand, he sent people to set up camp and set up a military camp, hoping to set up a dock and camp as soon as possible.

Originally, when he sent someone to explore the sea route to the south, Shi Shiji had already sent someone to negotiate with the King of Johor. Although the king of Johor has never seen the Qing Dynasty before, he only knows that the Qing Dynasty is a behemoth in the north that can not be bigger, and even the powerful countries of Annam and Siam in their eyes are far from comparable. So, without much consideration, the King of Johor agreed to Shi Shiji's request. The king even sent some people to help Shi Shifei build a camp.

However, the Kingdom of Johor is not without its differences. Over the years, the kingdom has been at war with the Dutch, the Portuguese, and a country called Aceh, and it is still at a disadvantage. So, when they heard that the Johoreites had started to build a fort in Temasek, the Dutch, who had been at war with them, got angry and immediately set out to sabotage them, and they were so arrogant that they only sailed on one warship. This time, these people hit the iron plate. Although Shi Shifat did not have a large warship like the Manchurian Naval Division, he still brought more than a dozen warships this time. So, when the ship he had sent to patrol outside was attacked by the Dutch and fled, he immediately led his team back to attack. Ten ships against one, Shi Shifu can't lose even if he farts. So, the Dutch were beaten away.

That's where things change.

If everything remained the same, it would have been the Dutch at most, and the Portuguese had some grudges against Shi Shiji, but the Dutch warship that had been beaten away had encountered the Spanish Luzon fleet that was being trained. When the leader of the Dutch saw the Luzon fleet, which consisted of five large ships, he asked the commander of the fleet to help him exterminate a group of "natives" at the cost of a bag of precious stones. In his opinion, five large warships were enough to wipe out the "pirate" fleet led by Shi Shiqiu. Taking people's money and eliminating disasters with people, the commander of the Luzon fleet was also very sincere, and after receiving the money from the Dutch leader, he immediately ordered the fleet to turn around and send troops to Temasek.

Originally, if the commander had been a little more careful, he would not have gotten things into such a bad situation. However, the truth is unfortunate. Perhaps it was arrogant that no one noticed the obvious difference between Shi Shiji's soldiers and the natives of the Johor Kingdom. You know, Luzon can't be far from following Chinese mainland, and the obvious difference between pirates and the Qing navy, the commander of this fleet is not unfamiliar, on the contrary, he should be able to recognize it clearly. But he didn't take it to heart. Of course, maybe he noticed, but the small ships of the Luzon fleet were not smaller than Shi Shifat's main warships, so they may have the intention of killing people. After all, in Luzon, the status of the Chinese is not high because they have no one to support them, and they have always been looked down upon by the Spaniards. In addition, Temasek follows the mainland far away, and Nanyang is mostly the territory of Westerners, so he is not afraid of leaking news.

However, the truth always makes people feel helpless. The arrogant Spanish fleet did not expect it, but the final result was that Shi Shiqi almost completely annihilated their Luzon fleet at the cost of losing half of their ships.

Why is this happening? The reason is very simple, that is, Shi Shiji's ship is small and the cannon is few!

Because the ship was relatively small and the firepower was insufficient, Shi Shifei gave up the head-on duel with the Luzon fleet as soon as the battle began, but used the main warship to entangle the Luzon fleet with all his might, and then, using the "five-point plum blossom formation" to divide the "linear queue" of the Luzon fleet into several sections, after forming a local siege, he used a light clipper to set up artillery for stern shooting. This was exactly the tactics used by Zheng Chenggong to defeat the Dutch fleet with an absolute disadvantage. Shi Shifat's Laozi is Shi Lang, and he has the same lineage in tactics, so it is naturally impossible not to do this. However, the Luzon fleet has always used a linear queue, and only wants to rely on firepower to fire an artillery battle with Shi Shiji's sailors. So, they lost. Three of the five main warships were sunk, one was wounded, and one fled, and the rest of the smaller warships also fled or landed.

Originally, the five-point plum blossom strategy required a long-range cannon to be placed on a small boat as the main firepower, and Zheng Chenggong used a kind of "dragon cannon", which was said to have a range of seven miles, far exceeding the range of naval guns of the Dutch fleet at that time. However, although Shi Shiji did not have a good cannon with a range of seven miles, when the Nanhai Naval Division was first built, Kangxi still gave him more than 20 long-range artillery pieces manufactured by the Fengtian Artillery Factory. This time he went south, but he brought all these hearts and souls. As a result, it happened to be profitable.

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The defeat of the Luzon fleet irritated the Spanish governor in Luzon. From the soldiers who fled back, he learned that it was the Qing sailors who had defeated them, but the governor of Luzon was not in the least surprised by the origin of his opponent, but only angry. In his eyes, only a few sailors of flat-bottomed ships or old-fashioned warships were able to defeat the Spanish fleet. Although he had heard of pirates being defeated by a large fleet of unknown origin in Fujian Province during the Qing Dynasty, how could pirates compare to regular armies? Besides, those pirates have all hit the doorstep of the Qing Kingdom, so naturally there will be no good fruit to eat. But when you get to the sea, and you are far away from the Chinese mainland, what is there to fear? So, he decided to take revenge. So, he quickly organized a fleet of seven main ships, intending to take advantage of Shi Shilun's great loss of strength.

What the Governor did not expect, however, was that not long after he had left Luzon with this improvised fleet, another fleet of greater size had swooped down on his doorstep.

It's been four months.

Since receiving Wu Dan's quick horse report, Kangxi immediately ordered the Manchurian Naval Division to go south! After some personnel adjustments on the way, the leader has become the old man Wan Zhengse.

During this period of time, the Fujian Navy Division has been staring at Japan, and the South China Sea Navy Division has been under the leadership of Shi Shiqi to cut first and then play, and the fight is dripping, Wan Zhengse, the old man, has long been full of fire, and most of his subordinates are the Manchurian greedy group brought out by Yu Zhong, where will he be polite after hearing the news that Shi Shiji sent someone back? Immediately set off from Guangdong, with the momentum of a lion fighting a rabbit, and went straight to Luzon.

The scale of the Qing army's naval division going south this time is extremely large! Originally, because the South China Sea was vast, far exceeding the other seas, Isang'a didn't know how many troops to send for a while after receiving Kangxi's will. But time waits for no one, and he doesn't want to be charged with "delaying military aircraft" not long after he took office. Therefore, after seeing that the Manchurian naval division had completely controlled the situation in the surrounding seas, he simply attacked and sent forty ships of coastal defense and sea wolves at once! These warships, plus some supplemented by Wan Zhengse in the middle, the strength of the army alone has almost reached an astonishing 30,000! It is several percent more fierce than the time when Yu Zhong came out to fight Japan. Moreover, because the Manchurian sailors are from the Eight Banners lineage, their equipment far exceeds that of the other three major sailors. The accumulation of all kinds of artillery is almost 2,000 guns!

Such a huge formation of naval divisions did not need to fire artillery at all, and frightened the Spaniards who remained in Luzon to open the city and surrender. As for the new fleet that had not been away from home for a long time with the Governor-General, before it reached Temasek, it was caught up by Wan Zhengse, who was fiercely chasing from behind, and then it was wrapped in dumplings.

The Manchurian naval commanders, who had always adhered to the rules of conduct in China, had no intention of leaving since they occupied Luzon. Instead, they made it their home and started exterminating pirates! It's just that most of the pirates they exterminated were Western pirates. As for those pirates of the same species and origin as them, on the contrary, most of them have become officers and soldiers of the naval division, and have become their "tour guides" for patrolling the South China Sea!

In the end, Shi Shifat was promoted to the first class because of the victory of the ocean thousands of miles, and because he sent troops without authorization, he was dismissed by Kangxi from the post of commander of the South China Sea Navy and recalled to Beijing, and the South China Sea became Wan Zhengse's territory. And Wan Laotou, who had long been hooked by Yu Zhong and Lan Li, also led the invincible fleet that fought all over the South China Sea, and cooperated with the port fortress built by Temasek, almost completely turning Nanyang into a garden of the Qing court.

Of course, Wan Zhengse was remotely controlled by Beijing. Due to the complexity of the distribution of forces in Nanyang, Kangxi adopted the method of Old Man Fei and adopted the strategy of dividing and controlling. First, he drove out most of the power of the Spaniards and the Dutch, who were the most powerful in Southeast Asia, from the South Seas, and cut off trade with the two countries, but adopted a relatively moderate attitude towards the other countries; Second, it contacted the indigenous kingdoms of Southeast Asia, so that they recognized the Celestial Empire, considered themselves to be vassals of China, and accepted the canonization of the Qing court, so as to fundamentally seize the power base of European countries in Southeast Asia.

This strategy quickly paid off. Due to the huge geographical and military superiority, coupled with the surprise of those Europeans, except for some Dutch in Indonesia, the rest of Southeast Asia was quickly trodden by Wan Zhengse, and the power of the Spaniards and the Dutch was greatly hit. And it was not only Wan Zhengse who was more interested in this kind of activity, the Dutch had a good relationship with the Japanese shogunate and had a lot of influence in Japan, and as a result, this became an excuse for Nian Qianyao and Lan Li to move troops, and after waiting for nearly two years, they officially used force against the Satsuma Domain and began to extend their hands into Kyushu Island. The operation to subdue the countries of Southeast Asia has also been carried out very smoothly. The Europeans did not do much good in the South Seas, so they were naturally not treated well by the locals. The king of Sulu even took the initiative to report to Kangxi, asking the land and Ding households of Sulu to be included in the Chinese edition (this is a historical fact, it happened in 1754, but Qianlong's idiot refused).

Wan Zhengse was happily working there, but those European countries were all delicious. Especially Spain and the Netherlands. However, the Qing government sent 3,000 troops to defend Temasek, and with the strong support of the Kingdom of Johor, it was able to completely control the gateway to the Straits of Malacca. Even if they want to take revenge, they have no way, not to mention, where do they dare to start a war with the Chinese fleet at the gates of China? So, in the end, the matter had to be settled.

That's not all, though.

Less than a year after the occupation of Temasek, Chinese merchant ships began to arrive in India. This finally caused panic among the British, who were still gloating over what had happened to the Spaniards and the Dutch.

India is a sparkling gem in the eyes of the British! It's just that this gem doesn't quite belong to them yet. Many years ago, the Portuguese established a foothold along the coast of India. Not so long ago, they were engaged in a fierce battle with France for land. France has always been very strong, Britain only occupies the sea advantage, now, it is rare that Louis XIV went crazy and led France to war with almost the whole of Europe, so that France's power in India has been repeatedly attacked by Britain, seeing that Britain is about to become the biggest winner in India, and then it can take advantage of India's division and disunity, through division, division, razing and other methods, it will not take much time to completely control it. But at this time, the Chinese came!

The almost frantic expansion of the Chinese in the South Seas has made the British a little numb all the time!

No matter how strong they are, can they still be stronger than the world's number one power? Especially since the distance between China and India is so close...... And not only at sea. On land, China and India are also closely linked. The most hateful thing is that China is far from being comparable to India, this country has an extremely strong centralized power, although it is still quite open, but at the same time the country is still extremely conservative! None of the various European forces has ever been able to really penetrate the country. Even Catholicism, which had been thrown out of the country by the Chinese emperor a few years ago because of his excessive arrogance, did not cause even the slightest religious strife, which is unthinkable in the West. Now, if China also begins to fight India's idea, then, what will Britain do? And what makes the British hate the most is that even if they have never been afraid of any powerful force, the possibility of using force with the Chinese is still infinitely close to zero!

In the end, after much consideration by the British government, Richard was sent to the East.

The British government's task for Richard was to find out the Qing state's attitude towards India, and then feed it back to Britain itself, and the British government would consider what to do. And if all goes well, the British also hope to replace the Spaniards and the Dutch in Southeast Asia and expand trade with the Qing state! Of course, if both of these things can be achieved, the British government also wants Richard to propose to the Qing government the "desire" of allowing British merchants to enter the Qing mainland for "investigations......

Richard has a lot of responsibility, so along the way he is constantly studying China, studying the Chinese, and thinking about which negotiation strategy to choose! Fortunately, many years ago, a high-ranking official of the Qing State went to Europe, so Europe's understanding of the Chinese is not as empty as before, at least it is still well founded.

Because Temasek was blockaded by the Qing Dynasty, the British warships escorting Richard could not pass, and the British merchant ships could not be touched for a while, so Richard had to hire Wiggins. However, Richard's chosen landing location was Shanghai! An up-and-coming commercial port! Originally, he thought that Shanghai was almost in the center of the north and south directions of the Qing Dynasty, and if he was summoned by Kangxi, he could quickly reach Beijing, and besides, it was connected to all parts of China, and the news was unimpeded, so that he could easily learn about the news from all sides. However, he didn't know that here, he would first have to face one person, and that was the governor of Jiangnan...... Mader!

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