Not only did the Dutch and the Portuguese retreat themselves, but the Dutch also took away the royal family members of the Bago Kingdom, and naturally took away the gold and silver treasures, and as a result, the prince got two empty cities.

Regarding the Dutch taking away the royal family members of the Bago Kingdom, the military advisor Wan Lian pointed out sharply: "Westerners are not good things, they just want to create a government in exile, plant a seed, maybe when they will counterattack us." This is a concern, but not a priority. ”

Prince Xiong was a little incredulous: "Even if the members of the Bago royal family escape, what can they do? They can't form their own army without their own people, what threat do they have to us?"

"The lord is wrong!" Wan Lian shook his head: "There is only one place in Myanmar that has not yet been pacified, and that is the Arakanese Kingdom in the west. The lord should have heard that the Arakan Kingdom fled when it could not win the battle against the Donghu Kingdom, and then borrowed troops from the King of Bengal to fight back to occupy the western coast. ”

"Everything needs a reason, and if a country wants to use troops against another country, it always needs a high-sounding reason to stand at the peak of morality. The members of the royal family who escaped are a gimmick, and they don't need to have their own army, someone will take the initiative to give him an army when the time comes. ”

Just after thinking about it for a while, Xiong Chu seemed indifferent: "Since they can't beat us today, I won't be afraid of them in the future." By the way, what is the next plan for the military advisor?"

Wan Lian smiled: "What else is there to arrange? The Portuguese came from the sea, and we just drove them into the sea." With the passage of the Strait of Malacca, our sailors can be divided into two and completely pacify the cities of Chenla, Ninam, and Thang Long. ”

"Generally speaking, the final strategic goal of our southern expedition is to finally seize the city of Malacca, completely control the Strait of Malacca, restore the posture of Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Treasures, when he went to the Western Ocean, and ensure that the South China Sea passage is in our own hands. ”

In order to achieve this goal, of course, you must not dig a well with a spade, and you must eat the rice one bite at a time, otherwise you will choke to death.

Because of this, Wan Lian's designated landing site for Zhong Guozhu is the estuary of the Perak River.

Controlling the Perak River Basin and taking Cestbon City is the first step that Zhong Guozhu's sailors want to complete.

The Britons were used to open the way in front, and then fifteen large merchant ships in their hands were mixed in the back, the main purpose of which was to send the Agrize's operation over.

This step-by-step "send-off" method is just enough to confuse the Dutch and Portuguese. Because when Zhong Guozhu's fleet came from the west, it was the merchant ships of the Britons who took the lead.

On the first night, Zhong Guozhu's sailors took the lead in anchoring in the Hays Islands, as if they were ready to camp on the spot and end the tracking.

The Portuguese fleet did not continue either, but anchored near the Minjin Islands to the south. The distance between them and Zhong Guozhu's sailors is more than fifty miles, and they can vaguely see each other's small black dots using clairvoyance mirrors.

The Dutch fleet did not stop, but continued southward, and soon disappeared completely.

This move by the Dutch should have aroused a high degree of vigilance among the Portuguese. Because Zhong Guozhu used a clairvoyant mirror to observe early the next morning, but he did not find the Portuguese fleet.

"It is about thirty miles from the archipelago to the east, to prevent the enemy from hiding behind the islands and sneaking up. Mao Mindang, closely observing the islands to the east, the fleet sailed south at full speed to see where the Portuguese had retreated. ”

The next morning, they chased out for 200 miles in one go, until they reached a place called Dan Island, but still no trace of the enemy was found.

Now that the situation is too weird, Zhong Guozhu decided to simply drop anchor on Dan Island and find out the situation nearby.

Unexpectedly, Zhong Guozhu saw three dhow warships approaching Dan Island in the clairvoyant mirror, and a few sailors just went ashore and quickly returned to the warship, and then Zhong Guozhu received a report:

"General, the island is overgrown with weeds, and it is full of crocodiles, and as soon as we go up to them, they are alarmed. Fortunately, I ran fast, otherwise I would have been in big trouble. There are no people living on it at all, and if you force a landing, I'm afraid it's very dangerous at night. ”

Zhong Guozhu finally understood that it was no wonder that the Portuguese and Dutch did not stay at all except for a limited number of islands. It turns out that people have long figured out the sea area in this area, and some islands are not for humans to stay.

Originally, he was worried that the enemy would hide in the island and make ghosts, but now there is no trace of the enemy around the island, so Zhong Guozhu is a lot more relieved.

On the third day, Zhong Guozhu ordered the lookouts to focus on the eastern islands, but the fleet was still moving at full speed, and still found nothing along the way.

It was not until noon on the fourth day that he arrived at this place in Phuket, and found no trace of the Portuguese, but saw the Dutch fleet.

However, the Dutch fleet did not pull anchor and set sail, and only a dhow met it.

Now Zhong Guozhu is not worried, Mao Min, as these Arakan Tu sailors, originally believed in Catholicism, and they could easily deal with Britain, the Netherlands, and Portugal, so they left it to them to deal with it.

It turned out that the Dutch had built a trading post in Phuket ten years earlier, along with a port.

"Tell them that we are now not hostile to the Dutch, and we are spying exclusively on the Portuguese. So we're going to move on and see if the Portuguese have completely withdrawn. ”

Zhong Guozhu had already heard from Wan Lian that there was an intrigue between the Dutch and the Portuguese, and they both wanted to occupy the city of Malacca alone, and then control the strait channel.

Now that the Portuguese have built a Famosa Castle at the southern end of the strait, the Dutch are not to be outdone, making a trading post in Phuket and building a dock as a matter of course.

"It's really dog-eat-dog-hairy and ignores them. Let's move on!"

Zhong Guozhu was not worried about the Dutch cutting off his rear route, on the one hand, because he had hostages in his hands, and on the other hand, because he had no back route at all, and the purpose was to land at the front.

It is precisely because Zhong Guozhu is not worried about the Dutch cutting off the back road, but instead creates an illusion for the Dutch: the Ming army has no hostility towards him!

On the afternoon of the fifth day, Zhong Guozhu's first destination finally arrived: Longya Bodhi Island (now Lingjiawei Island).

Longya Bodhi Island was named by Wang Dayuan, a navigator of the previous dynasty (Yuan Dynasty), who stayed on this island for a long time.

Later, after Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Treasures, went to the West to stay, he ordered it to be named "Dragon Tooth Chair Island", which became famous in the Ming Dynasty.

However, Zhong Guozhu's fleet came here to put a part of the camp of Ah Cuo Ze Dangkou.

According to the order of the military advisor Wan Lian, a 1,000-strong assault team was formed to join up with Xiong Kaishan's headquarters in the east, completely cutting off the connection between the Kingdom of Perak and the Kingdom of Siam.

According to the military advisor Wan Lian, Xiong Kaishan led Sima Cheng's trapping camp and Chige's shooting battalion should have occupied the Kelantan line in the east.

Kelantan is the place with the largest number of Ming people, and all of them are Fujianese.

Zhou Laosi's scout camp had already infiltrated here to investigate, and the Fujianese had formed a total of seven or eight city-states here, including Panpan, Wolf Yaxiu, Wolf Xijia, and Xigang.

More than 30,000 Fujianese are basically the masters here, and the so-called city-states are of different sizes, calling each other the state, but there is no regular army.

These city-states also served as a buffer zone between the Kingdom of Perak to the south and the Kingdom of Siam to the north, so they were able to gain a foothold in the slits.

However, Wan Lian Junshi believes that now this has become the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the city-state that dominates one side is absolutely not allowed to exist, and must accept unified reorganization and reorganization.

Phuket is the narrowest place between the east and west of Johor Island (present-day Malay Peninsula), with a straight-line distance of less than 150 miles, so it is the best place to meet between east and west.

Johor Island is surrounded by mountains in the middle of the island, and human activities are concentrated in the eastern and western coastlines.

The first task of the assault team after landing was to go south along the coastline and clear the coastal residents all the way to Penang.

Penang Island is the name of an island that Zheng He officially used Chinese characters to name when he went to the West, and has been handed down to this day.

The military advisor Wan Lian ordered Zhong Guozhu to establish a naval division base in Penang, so he had no way out. From now on, he is going to take root here, and then use it as a starting point for the attack to attack south.

Completely driving the Portuguese into the sea, seizing Famosha Castle in the southern section, and then officially hoisting the banner of the "Daming Naval Division Malacca Fleet" and controlling the entire Strait of Malacca is the only goal of Zhong Guozhu's southern expedition.

This is a top-secret mission, and the Dutch and Portuguese must not be known in advance, otherwise the two families will join forces again and things will become complicated.

Famosa Castle, Famosa, is said to be the name of the patron deity of Portugal.

The castle was built by the Portuguese after they conquered Malacca 120 years ago to protect their subjects and the spice trade from the remnants of the Malacca dynasty.

The Portuguese used slave labor to build the almost square castle around the hill of Malacca with materials used to demolish the royal palace, the imperial mausoleum and the Muslim church.

The pentagonal wall was made of meteorites from the bottom of Java, and was as thick as three feet and two feet, with four gates with towers and watchtowers, two watchtowers as high as 12 feet, and 36 batteries built along the city walls, with a total of 150 five-inch guns.

After the construction of the Famosa Castle was completed, the Portuguese commander at the time, Alfonso de Albuquerque, once arrogantly declared to the outside world: "This Famosa Castle, built at the foot of St. Paul's Mountain, is the largest and strongest fortress in Southeast Asia, and no one can attack it." ”

It is extremely rare to surround a circular hill with a huge city and thus turn it into a fortress.

Because the castle stands in the sea at the southwestern tip of Johor Island, it is strategically positioned to defend the Straits of Malacca from three directions: north, west and south.

The military advisor Wan Lian ordered Xiong Kaishan, the deputy general of the Central Route Army, to personally lead the team south to Johor Island, and then commanded the final battle in a unified manner.

Famosha Castle is so strong that it looks like a giant hedgehog that can't get its mouth down. The best way to attack is to launch a surprise attack from the land to the east to minimize casualties.

Because the Dutch were also eyeing this place, if they found out that Zhong Guozhu's sailor fleet was going to seize the Strait of Malacca, the problem would be complicated, and in the end it might end up with serious consequences that outweighed the losses.

Zhong Guozhu's naval division had completely attracted the attention of the Dutch and the Portuguese, and the hope for success lay in the hope of success for the assault troops under the unified command of Xiong Kaishan, and how fast the assault troops under the unified command of Xiong Kaishan could be, so that the enemy could complete the campaign objectives while still sleepwalking.

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