Chapter 624: Open Fight and Secret Battle
However, the Dutch are limited by population, and because they have good teeth and stomachs, they eat too much territory, and it is not easy to digest them.
The East India Company seemed to be powerful, but in fact it only had more than 150 thousand-ton merchant ships, more than 40 deck warships, more than 50,000 employees, and 10,000 troops.
It is true that the Dutch were sea coachmen with more than fifteen thousand ships, and their merchant ships exceeded the rest of Europe combined, but this was the level of the whole country, and the East India Company was a state agency, not the whole of the country.
The city of Batavia was the headquarters of the East India Company, and of course heavy troops were deployed, with thirty percent of the navy normally deployed nearby, and more than 2,000 troops stationed there.
Huang Sheng did not tear his face and hit the Dutch directly, but created some chaos for their headquarters, so that the East India Company and the natives would once again be inseparable.
Taking advantage of the situation was Huang Sheng's first choice for fighting with Xiyi, and the Dutch's Taiwanese governor, Peter Nuiz, would soon engage the Spanish army in a war for complete control of Taiwan.
If Peter Noiz does not do it in a short time, the Huang family's military intelligence department will immediately use the Ming Dynasty's willingness to send troops to deal with the increasingly arrogant Dutch as a temptation to instigate the Spaniards to act first.
Anyway, the Spaniards seized a foothold in the north of Taiwan a few years ago, and they had already made it clear that they would fight for this place with the Dutch, and they must have been mentally prepared for the Dutch to come and drive them away.
There is a war on the island of Taiwan in the Far East, and a large-scale indigenous uprising will break out on the island of Java, and it is impossible for the Dutch not to be weakened, let alone have time to worry about it.
Presumably, the large-scale invasion of the golden waterway of Malacca by the Ming fleet had been learned of by the Dutch governor Yan Peterlsson Kun.
The Dutch will definitely take action, but they will soon find that they have more than they can do.
Indeed, the East India Company had sensed the threat and was preparing for war, and their ships were already being assembled.
A part of the warships of the Huang family escorted the merchant ships loaded with immigrants and supplies loaded with Sumatran natives to Java Island to unload, and then went north to the "New Port" where the cavalry was ready to land in the Old Port.
The remaining warships began to cooperate with the army in a planned way to completely take the entire southeast of Sumatra first, so that there was basically no indigenous male who could leave a woman who did not resist.
Huang Sheng is more poisonous, and will always keep more than eighty percent of the Han people in the occupied area, and will not allow an indigenous male to become a hidden danger for long-term peace and stability.
There must be resistance, and the battles will take place every day in the following days, but the scale is not worth mentioning, and the resistance army organized by the enemy cannot even defeat a hundred general Huang family private soldiers.
Here, 5,000 cavalry took the lead in assaulting and occupying important areas, concentrating as many natives as possible in the plains to capture.
In just two months, the natives within a radius of 300 miles centered on the old port were completely wiped out, and the first batch of 300,000 Han Chinese immigrants landed on Sumatra Island one after another.
Suddenly, in two months, there were more than 300,000 people on the island of Java, who had no food but were organized, and many of them had all kinds of cold weapons.
Huang Sheng was more benevolent, and returned all the captured weapons to the captured natives when they were released from the ship, so that they would not be slaughtered by the natives of Java or the Dutch as soon as they landed.
People who have weapons, are organized, and are hungry may not become good citizens, and soon many thieves like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong will be born among these 300,000 people.
The next island of Java was more lively, a large number of proletarians were artificially created, and the army sent by the Dutch was caught in the sea of people's war.
The jihad was waged partly by the indigenous people of Sumatra who actively united to lose their homes, and partly by the indigenous people of Java who were passively involved in the entrapment.
The resistance was huge, and the Dutch took the initiative to attack and suffered several deflated battles before turning to passive defense, and were compressed in several fortresses that had been in operation for many years, but fortunately, the supply line at sea was not cut off, and the hot weapons troops guarded the fortress close to the sea for a short time.
The equipment, organization, and discipline of the natives were too poor to defeat the Dutch in time.
But the natives will receive a lot of reinforcements, because Huang Sheng is still capturing the natives of Sumatra and sending them to Java, and it is conservatively estimated that no less than a million people will eventually go to the jihad.
Huang Sheng was not in a hurry to seize the whole island because he gave the king of Aceh, Iskandar Muda, time to mobilize his troops and civilians, so that the biggest battle to seize the entire island could be carried out on his preset battlefield.
Although he won the battle, Huang Sheng still arranged in the best interests of his side, and the purpose was of course to minimize casualties.
The strength of the Ming army that landed in the Ming must have been reported to the rulers by the Acehnese soldiers who had fled back, and they would not give up resistance without a fight, and there should be no shortage of troops to recapture the old port, and it was very likely that a whole country would be mobilized to come to the holy war to expel the infidels.
Three hundred miles west of the old port, the Huang family's nine thousand general army and five thousand cavalry have already spread their nets, and the lookout posts, scouts, and troops shielding the battlefield will not let go of even a single native.
The artillery had already been deployed in place, just waiting for the enemy to throw itself into the net, and this time it was supposed to launch a war of annihilation, the tactical requirement of which was to deal as devastating a blow to the Aceh troops as possible.
In the future, when the Huang family's private troops advanced westward, they would never encounter large-scale resistance from the formation.
In the summer of the seventh year of Chongzhen, the former Joseon King's Palace in the "Xinjing" of the Houjin Dynasty, and now in the imperial study room of the Houjin Palace, Fan Wencheng, Ning Wan, and I talked very happily with the master Honggang.
Because Houjin has obtained accurate information, Huang Sheng has now become the king of Qiongya County, and now he should be at ease on the distant Hainan Island. The Liukou of the Ming Dynasty intensified, making a mess of Henan, the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.
The red gang discussed with a few traitors whether to send troops to the Ming Dynasty again, and they decided to choose a place far away from the sea to start, so that they could have enough time to retreat when they found that the "killing god" had made a move.
In the spring, the Red Gang was the royal driver to conquer Har, and once again beat the ambitious and talented Lin Dan Khan to run to Qinghai, and in the process of fleeing, Lin Dan Khan's troops broke away in large numbers, and many Tartars surrendered to the Red Gangster.
During this period, the Huang family's private soldiers chose to wait and see because the cavalry was not trained, and by the way, they would work with Qinggeltai to absorb or exterminate the nearby Chahar troops, and did not directly clash with the Houjin army.
After driving away Lin Dan Khan and conquering many Chahar tribes again, the Red Gangsters thought that the time was ripe to make a detour to attack the Ming Dynasty, and wanted to plunder the Ming Dynasty again to make some urgently needed supplies and population.
When he encounters a major event and needs to plan, he often does not consult with his brother or younger brother, but makes an appointment with Fan Wencheng, Bao Chengxian and other lackeys to help analyze the situation in the Ming Dynasty.