Chapter 213: Unexpected Results

The Dutch in Malacca had actually been aware of the actions of the Great and Chinese Koreans in advance, and in the past year, the ships of the Great and Chinese Koreas have often appeared in the Strait of Malacca, and these ships are not the ships of the maritime trade group of the Great China and North Korea, but look more like some reconnaissance ships.

In addition, they also received news that the Great and Medium Dynasties suddenly built a castle on Batam Island half a year ago, and also built a large pier and more than a dozen large trestle bridges in the port of Batam.

In addition, there is also news that the Great Chinese Dynasty has controlled the two bays of Toulon and Cam Ranh in Vietnam, and has built castles and docks, all kinds of signs indicate that the Great Chinese Dynasty is no longer satisfied with capturing Manila, and their next target is likely to be their Dutch Batavia, and the appetite of these Chinese natives is also too great!

The people at the Asian headquarters of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia began to get nervous, and they had thoroughly seen the awakening of an oriental giant country through the battle of Taiwan, and at the same time saw the strength of the Chinese.

After the establishment of this great China and Korea, the Chinese rose to prominence at sea with such speed that they were a little dizzy for the Dutch, who called themselves sea coachmen.

They Chinese began to pay attention to the sea again at a flying speed, and quickly learned shipbuilding technology and artillery technology from their West, not only in the quality of firearms suddenly surpassed them Westerners, but also in shipbuilding technology, they also began to catch up, and have caught up with their shipbuilding technology.

This is not the most terrifying, this giant country in the East really contains a huge amount of energy, once they realize the importance of the sea, the energy that bursts out is not comparable to them in Western countries.

This rich country has an inexhaustible supply of human resources, and once they mobilize these human resources, they will display a terrifying power that they in the West cannot match.

In just a few years, the Chinese, who were still despised by them, no longer could only operate backward Kron ships and fight at sea, but began to have a large number of ships that could be the same as the Galen ships they were proud of, crisscrossing the sea.

If the Chinese attacked the island of Taiwan, they could also send ships to the coast of China to retaliate, but now they Dutch found that they could no longer do this, and the Great China and North Korea had taught them a lesson on the island of Taiwan, and taught the Spaniards a hard lesson, kicking the Spaniards out of the Philippines, where they had been operating for hundreds of years, and now it seems that the Chinese want to kick them away from Batavia and completely turn this South China Sea into their bath.

But are the Dutch willing to go like this? Obviously, they don't want to, this is the spice kingdom, the spices produced here are lucrative commodities for them, and the silk, raw silk, fine ceramics, and those magical tea leaves of the Chinese are all things that they Westerners need, and it is impossible to give up here.

So the Dutch had recently begun to increase their forces from India and to Batavia, and had brought in more ships to prepare for the attack of the Korean armies.

But what they didn't expect was that the Great and Medium Dynasties were not currently fixing their eyes on Batavia, which they regarded as a forbidden country, but on Malacca, which they had just occupied!

When the Chinese fleet appeared in the Strait of Malacca, the Dutch realized that they were wrong, but it was too late to make adjustments at this time.

In the city of Malacca, the Dutch had only a total strength of more than 1,000 men, and only a few small patrol boats, which could not stop the landing of the large and medium fleet.

In just three days, the Dutch defenders of Malacca City raised a white flag and announced their surrender under the overwhelming artillery fire of the Great and Chinese Koreans, and the Great and Chinese Korean troops quickly took control of the city of Malacca, and immediately began to land on the island of Langsan on the other side of Malacca, and quickly began to build a castle and set up a fort.

At this time, the Dutch understood that the Great and Chinese Koreas did not intend to attack their Batavia headquarters immediately, but set their sights on the Strait of Malacca, the golden waterway in Asia.

The Great and Chinese Dynasties obviously realized the importance of the Strait of Malacca to the Chinese, as long as they controlled the Strait of Malacca, then it was equivalent to locking the door of Asia, and in the future, all ships going to China must pass under their guns, so no matter who in the future will have to deal with the Chinese, they must listen to the orders of the Chinese.

So the Dutch regretted it and quickly sent a fleet from Batavia to Malacca, trying to recover Malacca and drive away the Chinese who had just captured it.

However, when their fleet arrived in the waters around the Riau Islands, they once again encountered the fleet of the Great China and North Korea, which had been waiting here.

A large-scale naval battle immediately ensued, and the Dutch this time committed more than thirty warships and armed merchant ships, as well as dozens of small boats.

Although the Dutch were more experienced in naval warfare, the numerical disadvantage offset their advantage, and the sailors of the Royal Navy of the Great and Chinese and North Koreans and their young incredible captains were all very brave, and the range and power of the artillery of the Great and Chinese and North Koreans also had an advantage, first the two sides started an artillery battle, and then began to engage in a broadside battle, and the battle was very fierce.

After a day of fierce fighting, both sides had their own losses, but it was obvious that the Royal Navy of Dazhong-Korea had the initiative on the battlefield, and after a fierce battle, the Dutch lost nearly half of their warships and almost all of their boats, while Dazhong-Korea also sank five warships and a dozen small scouts.

In the end, the Dutch finally couldn't hold on and took the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield, and the navy of China and North Korea was unforgiving, and launched a pursuit of the Dutch, which lasted until late at night, and the Dutch lost four large armed merchant ships before they were able to break away from the navy and flee back to Batavia.

However, Zheng Sen, the young commander of the Chinese fleet, did not expect that after winning the naval battle, he did not lead the fleet back to Batam Port for rest, but ordered the more damaged ships to return to Batam Port first, and the rest of the ships, led by his flagship, actually chased them to Batavia Port.

Zheng Sen was so bold and reckless that without the permission of the imperial court, he brazenly led the fleet to arrive at the port of Batavia, and then commanded the fleet to line up, first violently shelling the docks of the port of Batavia, and the more than ten Dutch ships that had managed to escape back here were full of holes, and they all hoisted white flags to announce their surrender.

After that, Zheng Sen commanded the fleet to start shelling the forts on the shore, destroying several Dutch batteries on the shore one after another, and then bringing the fleet close to the coast, and began a heavy artillery bombardment of the city of Batavia for a day and night.

The city of Batavia could only tremble under the fire of the guns of the large and medium-sized warships, and the Dutch in the city were all terrified and terrified like lost dogs.

In the end, he could not withstand the fierce shelling of the large and medium fleet, and the governor of Batavia actually decided to surrender, sent people to the beach with a white flag, and asked for negotiations with the commander of the large and medium fleet.

Zheng Sen originally did not expect to capture Batavia, he led the fleet over, the main purpose was to punish the Dutch, so that they would not dare to touch the idea of the Strait of Malacca in the future, but he did not expect that the Dutch would be so unbearable to beat, and a white flag was raised after a bombardment.

At this time, the fleet led by Zheng Sen was actually a foreign powerhouse, they first carried out a large-scale naval battle, then shelled the dock and forts, and then shelled the city of Batavia, the ammunition carried on the ship was actually exhausted, Zheng Sen was ready to order a U-turn and return to Batam Port to replenish ammunition, but he didn't expect that at this time, the Dutch actually raised a white flag and surrendered!

Zheng Senke was overjoyed at this time, and immediately ordered the evacuation operation to be stopped, and sent ships back to Batam Port to call for the merchant ships there to immediately deliver ammunition supplies to Batavia Port, while he led the fleet to anchor outside the port and continued to put on a posture of continuing to shell without surrendering.

Zheng Sen then sent a small boat to bring the Governor of Batavia to his flagship, and a negotiation ensued, but the Governor of Batavia did not know that the young commander of the Chinese fleet had acted on his own, so he asked Zheng Sen to make a condition.

After thinking about it, Zheng Sen rashly proposed to order the Dutch to withdraw from Batavia, hand Batavia over to the Great Middle Kingdom, and make the Dutch recognize the status of the Kingdom of Malacca, and at the same time hand over Borneo, which the Dutch had taken from the Portuguese.

The governor of Batavia had no choice but to agree to Zheng Sen's request, but he proposed that they should leave, but asked the Great and Chinese Dynasties to allow them to keep a merchant house in Batavia as a place for their commercial trade in this area, and asked Zheng Sen to allow them to repair their ships before leaving here, otherwise they would not be able to sail back to their Galle in India on these broken ships.

Zheng Sen didn't expect the Dutch to agree so happily, so he immediately agreed to the Dutch's request and allowed the Dutch to repair the ship before evacuating Batavia.

At this point, the Dutch's East India Company, after the Battle of Taiwan, the Battle of Liaonei, and the Battle of Batavia, basically lost more than half of its more than 40 warships and more than 150 armed cargo ships, and was essentially on the verge of bankruptcy, and it was no longer able to confront the Great China and North Korea in the South China Sea.

At this time, although the Dutch were still very strong at sea, the Dutch and the British were competing for hegemony in the Atlantic Ocean during this time, and even if they knew about the East India Company, they could not afford to draw more warships to fight in Asia and Korea.

Therefore, Zheng Sen made a mistake and cleared the Dutch East India Company from the South Seas and drove it back to Galle in Ceylon, completely controlling the South China Sea.

But Zheng Sen did not act according to the original plan after all, although he won a big victory, but he did not have many troops on hand that could occupy Batavia, he could not transfer all the sailors on the ship to the land and occupy Batavia!

After the negotiations, he sent a third of the sailors to land in each ship to form a receiving army to take over the important location of Batavia, and at the same time hurriedly sent people to Malacca and Batam to transfer the land division defenders there to help receive Batavia.

In addition, he also remembered that this time he had made a big fuss, and the country did not know what was happening here, so he hurriedly sent a fast ship back to the country to inform the court of the situation here, and asked the court to immediately send reinforcements to take over the castle villages and towns in Borneo and Java by the Dutch and establish rule here.

When the news of Zheng Sen's capture of Batavia reached Beijing more than two months later, Xiao Tianjian was really surprised and delighted when he looked at the battle report submitted by Zheng Sen and the results of his negotiations with the Dutch.

Originally, he sent troops to attack Malacca this time, but he didn't think about it for the time being, and took the opportunity to immediately defeat Batavia and drive the Dutch away from the South Seas, but he didn't think that Zheng Sen was a guy, but he was bold enough to cover his body, and he was not satisfied with taking Malacca, and then led the fleet to Batavia without authorization to bombard Batavia City.

As a result, under the chaos of artillery, the Dutch governor in Batavia actually peed his pants on the spot and directly announced his surrender.

After the cabinet learned the news, they were also a little crying and laughing, and they didn't know whether to reward Zheng Sen, or to arrest this guy who was good at asserting himself and ask for guilt!

This sudden change caught everyone a little off guard, so the cabinet and Xiao Tianjian discussed the arrangements overnight, and immediately ordered to send additional ships to load an infantry division of the Southeast Military Region from Ningbo Mansion to Batavia to take over the local defense.

Xiao Tianjian did not reprimand Zheng Sen for his ultra vires actions, but on the contrary, he overrode public opinion and issued an order to commend Zheng Sen and the naval officers and men who participated in the war, and at the same time announced the establishment of the Nanyang Fleet on the basis of the fleet dispatched in the South China Sea War, and promoted Zheng Sen to the commander of the Nanyang Fleet, the fleet headquarters will be stationed in Batavia Port, and the fleet will be stationed in Malacca, Batam Port and Batavia respectively, responsible for the management and rule of the Nanyang waters, and awarded Zheng Sen the title of third-class Dinghaibo. As a reward for his command of the conquest of Malacca and Batavia.

(Today's special thanks to Skydiou friends for their tips!) In addition, I would like to tell you a sad news that the plan to upload a new book that was originally scheduled to end this book has been put on hold! The editor-in-chief of Zongheng once again proposed revisions to my new book, and I am afraid that it will be a lot of good things! I guess the bosses of Zongheng have too high expectations for me, so this new book is a bit difficult to deliver! However, I believe that after pondering again and again, the quality of the new book will not be too bad! Now the advice of the bosses is for me to start uploading new books at the end of the month! So I'm afraid I won't be able to finish the old book! )