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When Heipi stepped onto the land, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief. At this moment, he had fully understood what Lord Tang said. In future wars, whether a country is strong or not depends largely on its navy. A country without a navy, no matter how powerful it is, is just a tiger without claws and cannot threaten others.
Heipi now knew the feeling of being chased by others and running around everywhere. Although it was to preserve strength, the bigger reason was that he did not have a strong navy. Heipi blinked and looked at the Dutch fleet chasing from a distance, wondering how to lure these Western devils to the land.
After 1,300 of Hei Pi's men, 800 Japanese auxiliaries armed with muskets and 1,000 Japanese auxiliaries armed with broadswords went ashore, the rest of the Daikoku crew and Japanese auxiliaries drove their warships into two groups and guarded both sides of the Strait of Malacca.
For Heipi, he was not afraid of losing warships, nor was he afraid of losing the Japanese auxiliary army. As long as his 1,300 men did not suffer too much loss, it was enough. You must know that these 1,300 men were not only his confidence, but also the most important bargaining chip in the hands of Lord Tang. Heipi knew this very well in his heart. So after Heipi led these most important men ashore, he was no longer afraid of letting the warships in his hands fight to the death with the enemy.
The commanders of the six Dutch warships were hesitant when they saw the Dutch army landed. On the one hand, he wanted to sink all of the Dutch warships. On the other hand, he knew that the Dutch army had landed here probably to attack the Dutch colonial government here.
The Strait of Malacca is a vital location both militarily and commercially, guarding the border between the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Therefore, the Dutch chose the Malay Peninsula as their colonial political center and military base. Once the Dutch attacked this place, not only would the military base, which was undermanned, fall into the hands of the British. More importantly, if the British occupied this place and built a shore artillery group along the strait, the Dutch fleet in the South China Sea would have to take a long detour to return to Europe, which would be very disadvantageous from both military and commercial perspectives.
Liu Yiming took 300 soldiers and 1,800 Japanese auxiliaries to attack the Dutch military base, while Heipi stayed behind to wait for the Dutch to come ashore. Anyway, there were only a few hundred people on the six Dutch ships, which was not enough to be killed by Heipi's 1,000 men on land.
After hesitating for a while, the Dutch commander decided to sink the British fleet first. Because in terms of naval warfare, the Dutch felt that they were the strongest, but as for the British army, they were afraid. In the previous battles, the Dutch were really scared, and the Dutch commander was also afraid.
As far as Heipi and Tang Chaosan were concerned, the water conditions of the battle were actually very ordinary, and they didn't have much strategy at all. Seeing that the other side didn't come ashore, the two rough guys were disappointed and couldn't think of any good solution.
At this time, Rejoice finally left the battlefield at the cost of five sunk and five damaged. The Spanish also sank four warships, and the other six were also seriously damaged. The Spanish fleet, which had a slight advantage, did not pursue, but headed towards Sumatra, intending to build a Spanish maritime supply base there. As for the results of the battle between the British and the Dutch, it now had little to do with the Spanish. The Spanish commander was not too worried about the Dutch counterattack, because he knew that with the British's powerful muskets, the Dutch would never get much advantage, and with the British's powerful attack on land, he believed that the Dutch's main opponent was no longer the Spanish.
When Rejoice arrived at the entrance of the Strait of Malacca, the battle between Black Pi's fleet and the Dutch was over. Although Black Pi's fleet sank four ships, they were not the three battleships captured from the Dutch. Those three battleships were basically intact. Unfortunately, the Dutch also sank two ships, and their strength was damaged more than Black Pi's. In this situation, the remaining four Dutch ships wisely chose to withdraw from the battlefield and meet up with Rejoice who came later.
Rejoice was afraid that the Spaniards behind would come and cut off their retreat, so he led the remaining fleet out of the entrance of the Strait of Malacca and went around to the Malay Peninsula in another direction. He arrived at the Dutch Governor's Palace almost at the same time as Liu Yiming's team. Faced with the sharp muskets of the Dutch, Rejoice had no choice but to close the city gates and hold his ground.
Liu Yiming and Heipi who came later had no siege artillery, while the enemy had ten artillery pieces defending the city. After attacking the city several times and losing some Japanese collaborators, Heipi and his men had to stop the siege.
It is said that Putmans was shocked when he received the order from Rejoice. He realized that he was very aware of how powerful the big man was. He knew that it would be useless if he went back with so few people. So he used the bait of sharing the benefits of Southeast Asia and promised to provide Zheng Zhilong with a large number of Western artillery and muskets to pull Zheng Zhilong along.
For this lucrative reward, Zheng Zhilong brought out all his ships and 15,000 men. However, he did not know that on the Taiwan Sea, less than 400 nautical miles away from them, there was also a fleet heading towards Taiwan Island.
This fleet was under Tang Tong's command. It had a thousand soldiers, ten thousand Japanese auxiliary troops, and three thousand young and strong Korean laborers. This almost sent out all the ships that Tang Tong could sail on the sea. The reason for this team was that Tang Tong saw that the Dutch had suffered a great loss in strength after taking Taiwan. The Dutch only had two warships and three hundred people left. Tang Tong wanted to counterattack and take Taiwan back.
Unexpectedly, after the team arrived in Taiwan, they found that there were only dozens of Dutch people left in Taiwan. The team leader Zhao Yapeng, on the one hand, captured the Fort Zeelandia built by the Dutch and renamed it Tangjiacheng. On the other hand, after interrogating the surrendered Dutch, Zhao Yapeng learned about the actions of Putmans and Zheng Zhilong. He immediately sent a messenger to Tangtong and left only one thousand Japanese auxiliary troops to guard Tangjiacheng. The rest were taken to Southeast Asia by Zhao Yapeng.
After receiving Zhao Yapeng's letter, Tang Tong was also a little surprised. It seemed that the Dutch and the Zheng family were both going to Southeast Asia. It was obvious that the Dutch's dominant position in Southeast Asia was threatened. The biggest reason was probably that Heipi and his people threatened the Dutch's position in Southeast Asia.
Tang Tongzhi could not retreat to Nanyang at this time, so he asked Zhang Yiheng to send 2,000 soldiers with ammunition to the south, one thousand of whom were to take over Taiwan, and the other one thousand were to go to Nanyang with ammunition to support Heipi and others.
Hei Pi and his men besieged the city for about a month, and captured many local natives to attack the city. However, Reyoz and his men had plenty of ammunition in the city. Even though tens of thousands of local natives died, they still couldn't use up all the Dutch's ammunition. This made Hei Pi and Liu Yiming very depressed. After Zheng Zhilong and Putmans were defeated, although Hei Pi did not retreat, he turned to the defensive. What was more troublesome was that in order to keep the remaining warships under his command and obtain the Spanish support at sea, Hei Pi had to agree to some of the demands put forward by the Spanish.
One of them was to give some South Seas areas that had been divided from Australia to the Spanish, and the other was the colonies of Australia, which Blackie also gave up. The Spanish also wanted the technology to manufacture muskets, but Blackie refused to agree to anything. After the treaty was signed, Blackie couldn't help but secretly curse these Western devils for being too greedy.
Just as Heipi thought, after receiving reinforcements from Zheng Zhilong, Leioz did not launch an attack on land immediately. Instead, he wanted to destroy all the fleets in Heipi's hands and trap Heipi and his men on land.
Heipi didn't expect that he could get reinforcements so quickly, and Leioz also didn't expect that the Da'an side could get reinforcements so quickly. Two days after Zheng Zhilong and his men arrived at the Malay Peninsula, Zhao Yapeng also arrived with a fleet of nearly 700 ships and 10,000 people. Although these ships were basically just some ships equipped with small copper cannons and did not pose much threat to the Dutch warships, these small copper cannons were good for siege after being unloaded from the ships.
Before the naval battle started, about 200 small bronze cannons roared towards the Dutch Governor's Palace.
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