In order to solve the problem once and for all, and the Ming Dynasty has actually been angry about Malacca for a long time, so this time the Ming army is not only as simple as defeating the Dutch and occupying Malacca, but also holding on to it.

The Dutch were based in Malacca, and their wealth was immeasurable by collecting taxes from merchant ships that came and went every year.

The maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty were dissatisfied with the behavior of the Dutch geese plucking and sitting to make money.

In such a good place as Malacca, Wang Yan has long coveted it, and it is a fact that the Netherlands broke the contract this time, which made the Ming Dynasty angry, but it also gave Wang Yan an excuse.

It happened that the Sultanate of Malacca also intervened in the war, so Wang Yan naturally would not be polite, and had already signaled Li Dingguo to destroy the country by the way, establish a pro-Ming vassal state here, and then cede the Malacca region to the Ming Dynasty.

In October, the Ming army entered the Malay Peninsula, the enemy forces along the way were almost crushed at the first touch, the Ming army divided into two routes, sweeping the cities on both sides of the peninsula, Li Dingguo led 20,000 men, marched along the east coast, and Chen Youlong marched along the west coast.

It is said to be a city, but in fact it is just some larger towns, many of which do not even have city walls, and the Ming army has simply broken all the way.

For most of the month, by November 10, the Ming army on the eastern route had been defeated, Kelantan, Jucha, Pahang and other places, and then crossed the peninsula to Muar about 100 miles southeast of Malacca to join the sailors.

The Western Route Army also progressed extremely smoothly, except for a slight resistance at Taiping, and the whole march was like a march.

After the fall of Wood, there were only about 1,000 Dutch in Malacca, plus more than 400 Dutchmen brought back by Constantine and Dante, just 1,500 men, but Moschel, president of the East India Company, transferred another 2,500 men from Batavia, and more than 1,000 more to come from India.

In this way, the Dutch in Malacca will reach more than 5,000 people, and almost all the forces of the Dutch East India Company in the South Seas will be concentrated in Malacca, and Moschel, the president of the East India Company, is very confident in guarding Malacca.

There are many hills around the port of Malacca, there are more than 40 armed merchant ships of the Dutch and the seized merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty in the port, the Ming army attacked at the same time by land and water, and the Dutch ships were covered by the batteries in the port, so the Ming army sailors wanted to attack the port of Malacca from the water, it was unlikely, but the land division of the Ming army would become the main threat to the Netherlands.

Seeing the defeat of Wood, the strength of the Ming army has been proven.

At this time, Moschel, who was sober, also remembered that the Dutch had never won the battle with the Ming army, and had always been defeated, so he had to put away the arrogance of the Caucasian race and seriously deploy in Malacca.

On the land defense, he will mainly take Malacca Fort, which he will personally sit, and then send troops to guard the three forts around the port to prevent the Ming army from approaching the port of Malacca.

The Ming army came to attack from afar, and he firmly believed that as long as he held on to Malacca for three months, the Ming army would be exhausted and the food and grass would run out, and then the Dutch reinforcements from India would be able to easily defeat the Ming army.

While Moschel was in full swing to defend itself, the Ming army also completed the assembly on the outskirts of Malacca.

In order to be able to attack Malacca with all his might, Li Dingguo decided to first sweep away the hostile forces on the peninsula, demarcate the area and let the men and horses of the three countries of Guangnan be responsible for clearing and suppressing, and handed over the area north of Malacca to them to help the Ming army collect grain and grass.

The dense forests of the Nanyang were all over the place, and the natives were scattered in the dense forests, and it was difficult for the Ming army to establish effective rule.

Besides, for the sake of three melons and two dates, it is not cost-effective to go deep into the dense forest to rule those villages.

Therefore, the Ming army temporarily handed over these undeveloped areas to the vassals who could adapt to the climate of the South Seas, and then supported the pro-Ming regime after the war was over, or learned from Xiyi to directly send governors to manage them like Champong.

In the south of Malacca, Liu Wenxiu led the army to attack the area of Forou, which was later Singapore, completely destroyed the Sultan Khanate, and then raised puppets and let the locals continue to farm, so as to reduce the pressure on the Ming army to transport grain and grass.

At the end of November, after sweeping the periphery, Malacca had become an isolated city, and the Ming army forward began to appear on the edge of Malacca.

The Ming cavalry soon discovered that this city was different from the cities attacked by the Ming army in the past, it did not have a city wall, but around the city, there were strong stone forts and forts built on the hills.

When the cavalry was about to get closer and take a closer look, Heyi's battery suddenly opened fire, and the shells hit more than four miles away, which surprised the Ming army to hurriedly pull the war horses and hurriedly return to report.

On the second day of December, it was a sunny day, because the sun shone on the southern hemisphere, so although it was close to the equator, it was not too hot.

The Ming army sent troops this time, although most of them were southern troops, but still some could not bear the climate of the South Seas, the hot and humid weather made the Ming army infected as many as 1,000 people, and the loss of troops was selected at the right time, otherwise the losses would be more serious.

When the Ming Dynasty fought with the north, it generally chose to send troops in the spring, so that the more it fought, the warmer it became, and the cold winter in the north could be avoided, while this time the troops were sent to the South Seas, they chose to send troops in the autumn, and the more they fought, the colder it became, avoiding the scorching heat of the South Seas.

This time, many soldiers who went south have been sent back to Zhancheng or died in the army because of problems such as water and soil adaptation, humid and hot weather, etc., if the season is not right, more people are afraid of dying of disease.

At this time, on a fort outside the port of Malacca, the second brother Gao and more than a dozen companions, with leg cuffs, were busy carrying stones, gunpowder and other materials under the supervision of the Dutch.

"Second brother, are the officers and soldiers really going to fight?" Gao Yiyan slowly leaned a stone on the wall, looked around, and asked in a low voice.

The second brother is fat and sweaty, and he has lost a lot of weight recently, he gasped, "No, you see that these red-haired ghosts are in a hurry, forcing us to strengthen the fort day and night, you know that the official army must be coming." ”

After Gao Yiyan heard this, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, "The official army is here, we will be saved!" ”

The second brother lifted another stone and sighed, "That's not for sure, those red-haired ghosts are ruthless, they don't treat us as human beings, and they will kill us if they say they will kill us." Maybe they killed us in order to vent their anger before the officers and soldiers could call. ”

The second brother Gao now has an awareness in his heart, every time he holds hope and expectation, God always ruthlessly gives him a blow to the head and smashes him from the clouds to the ground, so he thinks about the worst first in everything now, and lowers his expectations, maybe there will be unexpected surprises.

"Really!" Gao Yiyan on the side listened to his words but his face turned pale with fright, thinking of the tragic death of the shopkeeper Zheng and the brother who was killed a few days ago, he forgot to move for a while, and a Dutch soldier next to him immediately whipped him.

With a "snap" sound, Gao Yiyan suddenly felt a hot pain on his face, he covered half of his face and fell to the ground, and let out a scream in his mouth, but the Dutch soldier didn't intend to let him go, and cursed a Dutch word in his mouth, probably a word like "yellow-skinned monkey", and stepped forward to whip again.

Seeing this, the second brother Gao hurriedly lost the stone in his hand, hurriedly went to protect Gao Yi, and left his back to the Dutch, but the Dutch soldier's whip did not fall.

After waiting for a while, the second brother who noticed something strange couldn't help but raise his head and look at the red-haired ghost, but found that he was looking out of the fort in a daze.

He couldn't help but hurriedly pick up Gao Yiqi, and then looked out, and saw a few miles away, a crowd of people appeared at some point, slowly moving forward.

The fiery red armor, the pieces of saucer helmets, and the familiar blue background sun and moon flags fluttered in the wind in the ranks, immediately attracting his gaze, and he could no longer take his eyes off.

The second brother couldn't help but have a sour nose when he saw this scene, and his eyes were instantly moist, but Gao Yiyan, who was whipped next to him and could only open one eye, cried as if he had encountered something sad, his voice was hoarse, and it seemed that he was extremely sad, but the people around him knew that he was actually so happy that he didn't know how to express his inner emotions.

Just when the eyes of the Ming people on the fort were wet, the Dutch suddenly screamed in horror, and a team of Dutch people hurriedly escorted the Ming people above, and more Dutch hurried up to the fort to prepare for the battle.

Because the cavalry had been sent to investigate before, they knew that the Dutch were shelling far away, so the Ming army stopped from a distance.

Li Dingguo was neatly dressed, rode a war horse and led dozens of horsemen away from the army, ran to a hillside, and took out a clairvoyant mirror to see the Dutch's defense system from a distance.

On the top of the highest hill there was a castle, made of stones, which should be very strong, and on the hill around the port, there were three forts, also made of stones, on the contrary, the city below the castle had no defense.

The purpose of building a city in the Ming Dynasty was not the same, the city of the Ming Dynasty was to enclose the people, so it was ten miles in circumference without moving, the purpose was to protect the people in the city, while the West was to enclose the king or feudal lord.

Their castles were generally smaller than those of the Ming Dynasty, and housed only the king and the king's bodyguards to defend the king and his property.

Li Dingguo looked at it for a while, handed the clairvoyant mirror to Liu Wenxiu, and waited for him to look at it for a while before asking, "How is it?" ”

Liu Wenxiu put down the clairvoyant mirror and shook his head, "I'm afraid it's not easy to fight!" ”

Li Dingguo bowed slightly, obviously he also thought so, "These Xiyi forts really have a set, and they actually built the fortress on the mountain!" ”

"Yes! Xiyi's artillery is already powerful, it hits very far, and the fortress is seen on the top of the mountain, our siege equipment is almost useless, and we can only carry ladders to climb the mountain to attack the city, but the mountain is so high, the soldiers are afraid that they will be bored if they rush to the half-waist. Liu Wenxiu pointed to the castle and continued: "And although this castle is small, it is also convenient to defend, and it doesn't need too many people to guard, plus there are no civilians in the castle, and the food consumption is slow, so it's really hard to deal with!" ”

Li Dingguo frowned, "Let Wood go back and persuade him to surrender first." If the Dutch are willing to surrender, then everything is well said, if not, then we have to be prepared for a tough battle! ”

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