According to the original history, the Anglo-Dutch War had already begun, and the Dutch admiral de Knight was to attack the British stronghold in West Africa. However www.biquge.info because the conditions given by the Manchu Qing were too generous, the Dutch chose to help the Qing government in order to be able to open the Maritime Silk Road and import silk and ceramics from China with higher quality than Japan and Korea.

But the British went according to the original plan, captured New Amsterdam, and renamed it New York.

The Dutch admiral de Knight was not yet aware of the British attack on the Dutch colonies in the Americas, as communication was extremely difficult in those days. The Dutch also felt that the transfer of their fleet to the East had led to the weakening of their power in Europe, because the Dutch had formed an anti-British alliance with France and Denmark, and with the French and Danes helping the Dutch to contain the British, the Dutch could carry out their plans in the East.

The Qing government's seclusion and sea ban caused the prices of oriental ceramics and silk in the European market to soar, and real Chinese goods were still impossible to buy with money, and most of the goods that could be bought were counterfeit goods from Japan and Korea.

Japanese and Korean knockoffs are still knockoffs in the final analysis, although European aristocrats can't recognize China's original goods at a glance, but if you compare Japanese and Korean knockoffs with Chinese originals together, even a fool can tell the difference. So, the Dutch wanted to have exclusive control over the channels for importing ceramics and silk from China.

For the sake of greater profits, the Dutch felt that the East was more worthy of their risk than the Americas, and were even willing to withdraw a third of their naval strength to the East.

In fact, the British were more keen to rob Spanish ships laden with silver than to beat the Dutch, but the Dutch were too domineering, and in the Anglo-Spanish War of 1588, the British beat Spain badly, Spain was already a toothless tiger, and the Dutch rose to become the main enemy of the British. If Britain wants to dominate the seas, it must defeat the Dutch.

For Wang Xinyu's fleet, the key is to be able to hold back the Dutch, and if you can hold back, you will win.

The Ming army wanted to take Sumatra first, that is, Jinzhou. On this island, there is the city of Great Aceh, which belongs to the Sultan of Nanhuli, as well as cities such as the Old Port.

The old port was originally the location of the Ming Dynasty's old port propaganda envoy, and it was also a territory of the Ming Dynasty, but with the demise of the Three Buddhas Kingdom and the introduction of the Green Religion of Great Food (a river crab religion) into Jinzhou, the original belief in Buddhism of the Three Buddhas completely disappeared, and it became a Sultanate of the Green Religion.

Green Religion is not Buddhism, it is a religion that is propagated with a scimitar and fire, and there is a saying: You don't believe in religion and refuse to die, which makes me very embarrassed. The powerful army of the Great Food Empire originally wanted to invade the Tang Dynasty, but it was overwhelmed. Later, it was cleaned up by the Mongols and Turkey in turn, so it was not so arrogant.

However, when the indigenous people of Sumatra converted from Buddhism to the Green Religion, their personalities changed, and the kind and friendly Chinese could not suppress them, although they still came to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute, but their attitude was not so good. It wasn't until later that the Portuguese and Dutch took turns beating them with guns, and the place gradually came under the control of the Westerners.

In the beginning, the Portuguese were very powerful, controlling not only the southern part of Indochina on the opposite side, but also the island of Sumatra. But after the rise of the Dutch, the Portuguese were driven out of Sumatra by the Dutch.

Now Wang Xinyu sent people here to drive the Dutch out. However, Wang Xinyu is not a good man and a woman, in his eyes, Jinzhou was originally a vassal state of Huaxia, no, it should be directly included in his own territory! Now a large part of Luzon is already in his pocket. In the future, there should not be any countries such as the Philippines and Indonesia, which are all Chinese territory.

"Flotilla! Fleet! "Off the coast of Great Aceh, a local aborigines, who were fishing, suddenly spotted a large fleet approaching.

But after the natives screamed, they regained their composure, because this was not the first time they had seen soft-sail Western-style warships, but just a few Western-style warships, what was there to make a fuss about, anyway, they were all used to it, although the Westerners came to kill many locals, most of them survived, as long as they ran away in time, it would be fine.

The canoes scattered and fled and hid in the river. The natives knew that as long as they hid in the creek, the big boats of the Westerners would not be able to get in.

The fleet that arrived was a combined fleet of the Nanyang Navy and the Portuguese.

On the flagship Drake, Zhang Yukun pointed to the Great Aceh City in front and said to Li Dingguo: "Lord, that Great Aceh City was also once a big city of the Three Buddhas Kingdom, which used to belong to the territory of our Old Port Propaganda Envoy, and later the Great Food Sect was introduced here, the Three Buddhas Kingdom perished, and this became the Aceh Sultanate." Later, it was destroyed by the Franco. Now that the Franc has been defeated by the Dutch, this is the territory of the Red-Haired Devils. ”

Li Dingguo was surprised for a moment, and then asked: "I didn't expect that this was also our Ming territory!" We're here just to help our state defeat the red-haired ghosts, and let them come to pay tribute every year! Anyway, it is not far from the mouth of the Dajinsha River, and it is very fast to pay tribute. ”

"We can't eat them for the time being, and if we take this place, we have to give Francophone first. Now we need to unite with the Franc Robot to deal with the Red-Haired Ghost. Zhang Yukun replied.

The Portuguese officer Copelle standing on the side could not understand Chinese, and there was no one to translate for him, so he came up and asked curiously, "What are the two friends talking about?" ”

Zhang Yukun replied with a smile in Portuguese: "We are thinking about letting you occupy the castle here after taking here, after all, you came here first, and the Netherlands have robbed you of your territory." There are many opportunities for us to work together in the future, and you Portuguese are our friends. ”

"Yes!" Kopelle laughed, "We're friends!" ”

The fleet gradually approached the city of Great Aceh, where there was a Dutch castle, but it was not big, only a few dozen Dutch soldiers were stationed in it, and the rest were local indigenous soldiers and black soldiers, with a total strength of only more than two hundred people, and the cannons of the castle were not large, but some eight-pounder guns.

The combined fleet docked near the city of Great Aceh, and groups of Ming and Portuguese soldiers disembarked from small boats.

"An enemy is coming!" The Dutch inside the castle were shocked.

"Hurry up and take a boat to Batavia to report the news!" A Dutch officer ordered.

"Yes!" A Dutch second lieutenant officer left the castle with five Dutch soldiers and more than a dozen indigenous soldiers.

The Dutch officer took a telescope and watched the fleet on the sea. He saw the Ming Army flag and the Portuguese flag hoisted by the fleet, so he put down his binoculars and scolded angrily: "Damn Portugal!" They are in collusion with the Orientals to rob our colonies! ”

After saying that, the officer turned around and gave the order: "Get ready for battle!" We're going to let the enemy shed blood under our castle! Let them know that we Dutch people are not to be messed with! ”

The Dutch believed that their castle was a strong Western-style castle, and it would probably not be so easy for the opponent to capture the castle, as long as they held on to it for a while, the Dutch fleet arrived, and the opponent's broken ship was not worth mentioning at all.

The Dutchman, who had been sent to deliver the letter, got into the boat, and took advantage of the boat's shallow draft and speed, and slipped out of the small river on the other side, in an attempt to report the news to Batavia.

On the castle, the Dutch officer watched the boat sail out of the mouth of the small river, and at this time the other party's fleet was relatively far away, and it was impossible to catch up with the sloop, so the Dutch officer was relieved to put down the binoculars, but at this time, something happened that stunned him: he saw a strange ship suddenly rushing out of the combined fleet, and the ship was amazingly fast! In a short time, the distance to the Dutch boat was narrowed.

The hull of the strange ship is neither Chinese nor Western, but a very strange catamaran structure. Looking at the sail again, it is a bit like a Western-style white canvas sail, but the whole sail is very large, and it looks like a Chinese-style monolithic hard sail, but there are no horizontal stripes of Chinese-style sails, in short, it is very weird.

"Such a whole piece of sail is not the hard sail of the Junk ship; It's a soft sail, but the whole sail is so big, I really don't know how the Orientals made this kind of sail. The Dutch officer watched in amazement as the strange ship pursued the Dutch ship.

The Dutch boat used sails and oars at the same time, and more than a dozen indigenous soldiers rowed the oars desperately, and the boat ran as fast as flying, although the high speed brought by the oars could not last, but it could reach the high speed of fourteen or fifteen knots, and it could last for half an hour. But the speed of the boat behind was even more amazing, and the strange boat did not need to row, relying only on the sails, and the speed was much faster than that of the Dutch boat.

"Oh my God! The strange ships of the Orientals have at least twenty knots! The Dutch officer exclaimed.

With a copper-clad hull and silk sails, if the speed of such an expensive clipper is not fast, wouldn't it be sorry for the high cost of this ship? The catamaran speedeer soon caught up with the Dutch boat. Although the firepower of the catamaran was very weak, there was also a small cannon on it, and the Dutchman's boat had no weapons except for the muskets they carried.

The catamaran kept chasing until it was still a hundred and fifty meters away from the Dutch boat, and the captain shouted: "Slow down, get ready to fire!" ”

The speed of the ship was reduced to a speed of fourteen knots about that of the Dutch boat, and the gunners on the deck of the ship pushed the three-pounder cannon with a four-wheel gun carriage, turned the muzzle, and aimed it at the Dutch boat. The shells were all loaded, the gunner aimed at the target and ignited the artillery, only to hear a "boom" and a shell flew out.

However, the shell did not hit the target, but landed in the sea water next to the Dutch boat, and a column of water rose into the sky.

"Hurry up and reload, keep calling me! I don't believe I can't sink that little wrecked ship! The captain shouted.

The gunners methodically cleaned the chamber, cleaned it with a mop, cooled the barrel, loaded it into a fixed charge pack, fed the shell into the chamber, pierced it through the fire door with an awl, punctured the pack, loaded the fuse, and then turned the muzzle, aimed at the Dutch boat, and fired another shell.

From the start of the first shot to the second shot, it took only 30 seconds.

It was a pity that the second shell did not hit again, and the shell fell in the sea water next to the Dutch boat.

Looking at the clipper boat parallel to him, the Dutchman on the boat broke out in a cold sweat. They had no artillery on board, only a few muskets that they carried with them. The musket hit a target more than a hundred meters away, and it didn't even want to hit it. And the opponent can reload the shells and hit himself again and again.

After a while, a third shell whistled out, this time hitting the Dutchman's boat, accurately hitting the Dutchman's boat. The shell smashed the plank, and an indigenous soldier who was rowing screamed and was hit in the shoulder by the broken plank, causing blood to flow profusely and the boat to be smashed open.

Within twenty minutes, the catamaran's three-pounder guns fired fifteen shells in one go, killing and wounding the Dutchman's boat.

"Stop fighting, let's surrender!" The Dutch boat flew a white flag.

The landed Ming army and the Portuguese army set up a formation, surrounded the small castle of the Dutch, and prepared the posture for the attack.

However, the Dutch officer in the castle did not lose his proportions, he knew that the castle he was in was very strong, and it would not be so easy for his opponent to take the castle. Western-style castles are very strong, and they all have diamond forts, and if the attacker is strong, I don't know how much it will cost to conquer.

The Ming army did not rush to attack, but dug trenches, arranged defensive positions, and waited for the siege mortars to be removed from the ship. Naturally, the people who dug the trenches and built the earthen platforms were the indigenous people of Sulu who came with the boats. Under the surveillance of the Ming army, those natives were sweating and digging trenches under the sun of the South Seas.

Seeing a large number of natives digging up dirt and piling up mounds, the Dutch officer understood: "Damn the Orientals want to build a fort!" Bombard me! ”

The cannon on the castle let out a deafening roar, and the condescending cannon fired cannonballs, which smashed into the positions of the Ming army, and many Sulu natives who were working were hit by the bouncing shells, and their flesh and blood flew immediately. Several natives were obviously frightened and turned around and were about to run back, when the Ming army unceremoniously stepped forward and cut off their heads.

"Keep digging! Those who escape from the battle will be killed! An Aboriginal interpreter yelled as he pointed to the headless corpse on the ground.

Seeing the beheaded man, the natives had no choice but to go back and dig trenches and build mounds of earth under the fire of the Dutch. Although shells hit the natives from time to time, the artillery of that era did not hit very well and did not kill too many natives. If you stop what you are doing and turn around and run away, the knives of the Ming army behind you will be very accurate one by one.

The mound of earth was slowly piled up, and some people brought sandbags over and raised them to the top of the mound.

Soon after, the artillery inside the Dutch castle lost most of its power, the cannonball smashed on the mound, most of the energy was absorbed by the mound, and it could not bounce, so it could not pose much of a threat. Unless a few unlucky guys happen to be hit by a cannonball. (To be continued.) )