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The smooth operation of the Baizhen Brigade of the Fifth Division is not an isolated case, but a common situation. Therefore, after several other units of the Fifth Division launched an attack, they did not encounter any actual resistance.

Well, this impractical resistance is for the Chu army.

For the Aceh army, in fact, they have already worked hard. The Aceh army is not new to the world. It has been dealing with the Portuguese and the Dutch for more than 100 years. It is very important to the colonists and guns. Already familiar.

And their own army actually used a lot of guns, matchlock guns and so on are very common, even the early flintlock guns or yellow wheel flintlock guns.

Therefore, don't think that the armies of the indigenous countries in Southeast Asia are all still using cold weapons such as swords and spears, and are in an uncivilized state.

These uncivilized indigenous peoples exist, and there are many, but they do not include the countries of the Nanyang Peninsula and the countries along the coast of Malacca.

The four countries of Myanmar, Siam, Aceh, and Johor have been in frequent contact with Western civilization in the past 100 years. During this process, they naturally came into contact with and began to use guns.

It's just that their national strength is limited, even after they have access to advanced science and technology, it is difficult to develop and maintain, and they are eventually forced to become colonies.

The same is true for the Kingdom of Aceh. They have been in frequent contact with Western colonists for more than 100 years, and they have some knowledge. They also purchased some guns from the Portuguese or the Dutch.

But... facing the strong attack of Chu army like this, they were defeated!

The Aceh Army has deployed about 2 troops on the Malay Peninsula. The Beijia area facing the Chu Army's control is their key defensive zone, and most of the troops are used in this direction.

Including Kedah Port, a total of more than 5000 troops have been deployed.

This strength is actually equivalent to that of the Fifth Division.

And this 5000 troops were defeated after only holding on for half a month.

The reason why they were able to hold on for half a month was not because they fought against the attack of the Chu army for half a month, but because the Chu army spent half a month marching on the road...

The Malay Peninsula belongs to the tropical rainforest area, so it is not easy to march. In addition, it has just rained a while ago and the roads are relatively muddy. Therefore, although the distance is only about 100 kilometers, the Chu army actually walked for about ten days.

The real battle time is not much, just like the Baizhen Brigade in the Chu Army, they spent several days on the road to kill Jeddah Port, and then took more than an hour to take down Jeddah Port, but the follow-up cleanup Rebels, it took two days to collect prisoners of war.

It took half a month, and the three main fronts of the Fifth Division of the Chu Army, namely the North Road, the Middle Road, and the South Road, advanced more than 100 kilometers.

This distance is actually not important. The important thing is that the Fifth Division defeated all the more than 5000 defenders deployed by the Aceh Kingdom in this area.

Specifically, more than 3000 Aceh soldiers were killed, more than 6000 were captured, and more than 6000 were routed and fled.

The Chu army's own casualties are basically negligible, only a few dozen people.

In this battle, for the Chu army, the real trouble is not to fight the Aceh people, but to overcome the roads along the way to march and transport logistics supplies.

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For Chu Jun, this is more troublesome.

This is also why the division headquarters of the fifth division moved forward at the beginning, but later found that there was no big battle at all on the front line, and there was no need for an entire division headquarters to go to the front line to point fingers, the division headquarters of the fifth division simply dragged their feet. Tun advanced, and coordinated and directed the logistics transportation in the rear.

Half a month after the outbreak of the war, the divisional headquarters of the Fifth Division became the logistics headquarters of the Fifth Division... As for command operations, there were no decent battles to fight at all.

It was easier than the original Siam battle... In the original Siam kingdom, at least they organized tens of thousands of troops to intercept the battle, and the two sides fought a Thonburi battle in Thonburi.

As for the Kingdom of Aceh, their total force on the Malay Peninsula is only about 2. After the first 1 people were scattered and garrisoned and were defeated by the Chu army, they could no longer use their inherent strength on the Malay Peninsula. The troops organized defensive operations.

As for sending reinforcements from Sumatra, they seem like... But the Great Chu Empire Navy didn't give them this chance.

If the Kingdom of Aceh wants to sneak around and arrange a few small boats to transport them in the dark, the Great Chu Empire Navy will not be able to find them, but if they want to transport them on a large scale... the officers and soldiers of the Great Chu Empire Navy’s Indian Ocean Fleet are not stupid. Patrol along the Straits of Malacca.

Once it is discovered that the Kingdom of Aceh has assembled a large number of ships at a certain port, it will definitely be the focus, and it may come up directly to bombard the port.

There are small-scale smuggling reinforcements, but they are not enough to relieve the huge pressure on the Aceh Army on the Malay Peninsula.

Large-scale transportation can't be done, so the current Aceh Kingdom is also particularly helpless...

It can only be hoped that the local defenders will continue to resist, and at the same time, they will continue to send envoys to contact the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the Kingdom of Johor, trying to persuade them to fight against the Great Chu Empire.

But these countries are not stupid. Now the Great Chu Empire is coming aggressively... Although the ambition is so huge that everyone knows it, but now the Great Chu Empire is only fighting against the Kingdom of Aceh, and has no control over the Kingdom of Johor or the Portuguese at all. Malacca, or areas controlled by the Netherlands, launched an attack.

Under such circumstances, although they also knew very well that the Great Chu Empire could not continue to expand in Nanyang, otherwise, sooner or later, they would be unlucky.

However, no one has the guts to provoke the Great Chu Empire at this time!
The huge navy of the Great Chu Empire is now in the South Seas. A few days ago, it ran to the eastern end of the Strait of Malacca, which is the border of the Kingdom of Johor...

After the Kingdom of Johor and the Dutch saw the huge fleet composed of dozens of warships, they dared to talk nonsense, and all of them stayed at home honestly.

If this provokes the Great Chu Empire, no one can stop such a huge fleet, not even the Dutch, the Kingdom of Johor and the Kingdom of Aceh combined.

As for the Portuguese, they only have a thousand ground troops in Malacca, let alone the fleet, which has long been suppressed by the Dutch.

Under such circumstances, no other country dared to intervene in the Great Chu Empire's attack on the Aceh Kingdom.

This made the high-level army and navy of the Great Chu Empire unexpected... You must know that the army and navy have planned to attack Malacca and the Kingdom of Johor directly after several other countries participate, and the navy directly lands in Lion City and the surrounding islands.

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However, if these countries dare not move...the Great Chu Empire will naturally not be in a hurry, take your time, and let the Aceh Kingdom get down first.

As a result, the plan to launch a war against the Kingdom of Johor in June and occupy the Lion City and surrounding islands was postponed.

The Navy's Third Marine Regiment, which had been prepared in advance, continued to conduct training in Bei Nian Port and waited for fighter planes, while the Navy's main fleet, the First Fleet specially organized for this war, was divided into three parts. Fleet, No.11 Squadron, No.12 Squadron, No.13 Squadron.

Squadron No.11 continued to conduct combat readiness patrols in the waters at the eastern end of the Strait of Malacca. On the one hand, it was to put continuous pressure on the Kingdom of Johor and the Dutch.

The No.12 Squadron directly crossed the Strait of Malacca, crossed the Strait of Lion City under the eyes of the Johorese, and then crossed the Strait of Malacca all the way and stationed in Kedah Port to reinforce the Indian Ocean Fleet.

The Indian Ocean Fleet sounds famous, but in fact there are only two Xiangyang-class second-class cruisers and four frigates, and it also lost a Ninghe frigate before, leaving only two Xiangyang-class cruisers and the entire Indian Ocean fleet. Three frigates.

At the same time, when the fleet carried out bombardment operations against the coastal ports of the Kingdom of Aceh, one of the cruisers, the second-class cruiser Nanyang, was damaged by the counterattack of the Kingdom of Aceh's coastal defenses and had to return to the port for repairs. Repairs will take at least a month or more.

As the strength of the movable warships of the Indian Ocean Fleet continued to decline, the task of the Great Chu Empire Navy to block the western end of Malacca became more difficult. For this reason, Admiral Wang Kuien, who was ordered to supervise the naval affairs of various parts of the Southeast Asia and the commander of the First Fleet, dispatched No.12 Squadron went to reinforce the Indian Ocean Fleet.

With the addition of two battleships, two cruisers, and six frigates from the No.12 Squadron, the naval power of the Great Chu Empire at the western end of Malacca has increased by several levels. Not only can it continue to block the central and western ends of the Strait of Malacca, but it can also It can intensify the bombardment of the coastal cities of the Aceh Kingdom, further attacking and disintegrating the resistance confidence and strength of the Aceh Kingdom.

The last remaining No.13 Squadron stayed in Beinian for rest, and maintained the ships for subsequent rotation with No.11 Squadron.

It is impossible for a battleship to float on the sea all the time to perform combat missions. Even if the soldiers can bear it, the ship itself cannot withstand it.

When warships perform their missions, the supplies they carry, especially food and fresh water, are limited, which means that ships need to dock frequently for replenishment.

In addition, warships often encounter natural disasters such as storms, which will cause problems with masts, sails, and even hulls that need to be repaired. These problems may not be big, but they are very troublesome when they accumulate, so regular maintenance is required.

At the same time, the warship has been soaked in seawater for a long time, and the hull below the waterline will have a lot of adsorbents, such as various shells... These need to be cleaned regularly, otherwise it will lead to a decrease in speed and even decay of the hull and shorten the service life.

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All of these have led to the fact that after a warship has performed a period of missions at sea, it needs to return to the port for maintenance, replenish supplies by the way, and allow the sailors to rest for a period of time.

This has also led to the fact that it is impossible for the navy's warships to be sent out to perform combat missions at the same time. There will always be some ships undergoing maintenance, some ships are on their way to the theater, and some ships are returning to the base on the way...

There are always only a few warships that actually perform combat missions in the frontline theater.

Of course, this is limited to long-distance normalized dispatch operations, such as overseas operations.

If it is a defensive operation on the local coast, or an operation with a predetermined target, it is entirely possible to overhaul and maintain the warships in advance, and then concentrate on operations.

Just like when the First Fleet set off from China.

However, when the First Fleet arrives in the South China Sea and is expected to perform combat missions in this area for a long time, it must consider rotation to ensure the maintenance of the warships.

With the division of the First Fleet into three, the Great Chu Empire's navy has also opened the prelude to normalized operations in the Nanyang waters.

And this is huge bad news for the Dutch.

The Dutch are also experts in boating. Other European countries call them sea coachmen. Naturally, they are very clear about the impact of the Great Chu Empire Navy's rotation and dispatch: this means that the Great Chu Empire Navy is in Southeast Asia. In the sea area, large-scale patrol operations and even blockades in the waters of Malacca will become normalized.

The Great Chu Empire has not concealed its ambitions for Nanyang and the Strait of Malacca.

In this regard, the Dutch are extremely entangled.

Let's go to war, I don't have the guts.

But watching the Great Chu Empire occupy the Malay Peninsula and even control the Straits of Malacca, the Dutch are not reconciled.

In desperation, they can only adopt other methods, such as supporting the Kingdom of Johor and the Kingdom of Aceh.

Especially the Kingdom of Aceh, now they have been fought by the Great Chu Empire. Although they were beaten like shit and did not bring real harm to the Great Chu Empire, the Dutch still count on helping the Aceh Kingdom The way to slow down the expansion of the Great Chu Empire as much as possible.

For this reason, they had close contact with the Kingdom of Aceh, and began to provide guns, especially artillery, to the Kingdom of Aceh at a more favorable price.

Of course, just providing guns at a relatively favorable price is not a gift, not even a cost price.

Even if it is to aid the Kingdom of Aceh, their Dutch East India Company still has to make money...

The presence of Dutch power in Southeast Asia and even India is not the official power of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, but the Dutch East India Company.

This company is still a commercial company in essence, and they will never do anything that loses money.

In addition to increasing the supply of weapons to the Kingdom of Aceh, they also actively communicated with the Kingdom of Johor, and also provided a large number of guns to the Kingdom of Johor, and even sent people to help the Kingdom of Johor purchase bastion fortresses in coastal ports and build shorelines. Fire gun turrets and more.

The idea of ​​the Dutch is very simple. In the early stage when they cannot directly break out the war with the Great Chu Empire, they should strengthen the strength of the Aceh Kingdom and the Johor Kingdom as much as possible, and let them resist the Great Chu Empire, even if it is to let them support for a few more years. OK.

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As for the effect, the Dutch don't know yet...but it really gave the Kingdom of Aceh and the Kingdom of Johor a lot of confidence.

Especially on the side of the Aceh Kingdom, even though they fought so badly on the Malay Peninsula, they still haven’t surrendered. They have been trying to find ways to use various small boats to transport troops and supplies to the Malay Peninsula to reinforce the local area. defenders.

It is a pity that this kind of small-scale reinforcements is of no help to the situation on the Malay Peninsula.

After the Fifth Infantry Division of the Chu Army tore through the first line of defense of the Aceh Kingdom, defeated [-] defenders in front of them, killed and wounded thousands, and took thousands of prisoners, they rested for a few days.

Then a new round of attack was launched in early June!

The Northern Route Army of the Chu Army marched eastward all the way to Pahang; at the same time, the Southern Route Army, the Baizhen Brigade led by Brigadier General Bai Zhen, launched an attack towards the Perak area.

The territory occupied by the contemporary Aceh Kingdom on the Malay Peninsula, east of the Beijia region of the Great Chu Empire, is probably the four major areas of Kedah, Perak, Terengganu, and Pahang.

Among them, Kedah and Terengganu have been captured by the Chu army in the first round of the Chu army's offensive. Now the Chu army's target is the Perak area and the Pahang area.

As long as these two large areas are captured, it can basically be declared that all the achievements of the Aceh Kingdom in the Malay Peninsula for decades have been captured by the Great Chu Empire.

In order to seize these territories on the Malay Peninsula, the Kingdom of Aceh spent decades and launched many wars.

This series of wars is the triangular war between the Kingdom of Aceh, the Kingdom of Malacca in Portugal, and the Kingdom of Johor that lasted for hundreds of years.

However, everything that the Aceh Kingdom worked so hard to build on the Malay Peninsula was completely destroyed by the Great Chu Empire in just one month!
On June [-], the Baizhen Brigade of the Great Chu Empire captured the last stronghold of the Aceh Army in the Perak area and wiped out more than [-] local defenders.

On June 1000, the Northern Army of the Fifth Division captured Pahang City, and then continued to pursue more than [-] Aceh troops, and finally surrounded and annihilated the Aceh Army in a coastal field near the Johor Kingdom's control area.

The more than 1000 Aceh defeated army that was encircled and annihilated is also the last formed army of the Aceh Kingdom on the Malay Peninsula!
After the collapse of this defeated army, the Kingdom of Aceh no longer had any established fleet on the Malay Peninsula, and it no longer actually controlled any towns.

The Kingdom of Aceh has actually lost all its territory on the Malay Peninsula!
On June [-], the Nanyang Governor’s Yamen issued an administrative order. In the above-mentioned newly occupied areas, the Kedah area was established as Kedah County, which was under the jurisdiction of Pakka Prefecture, and the rest of the area was established as Pahang County and Perak County, which belonged to the newly established Malacca. under the jurisdiction of the government.

Malacca, this is a prefecture with only two small counties for the time being, and the government has not even been clarified...Because the officials of the Nanyang Governor's Yamen plan to put the government directly in the city of Malacca...

The problem is that the city of Malacca is still in the hands of the Portuguese, and the current control area of ​​the Great Chu Empire is not bordering on the city of Malacca, and there is a piece of control area of ​​the Kingdom of Johor in the middle.

This means that if the Great Chu Empire wants to attack Malacca by land, it must first pass through the Kingdom of Johor.

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It also means that if the city of Malacca and the Beijia area are to be integrated, a large area controlled by the Kingdom of Johor needs to be included in the bag.

If you add the Lion City Island that the Great Chu Empire is bound to win and the actual need to control the eastern end of the Strait of Malacca.

This means that the war between the Great Chu Empire and the Johor Kingdom is inevitable, and once it is fought, it will be a war of extermination.

Who destroys the country?
This shouldn't be too much to ask, everyone knows that it is the Kingdom of Johor.

Relatively speaking, the Aceh Kingdom is actually better. The Great Chu Empire’s territorial demand for the Aceh Kingdom is only their new occupied area in the Malay Peninsula, and they have little interest in the Aceh Kingdom’s territory in the western part of Sumatra. .

At least right now I'm not interested, let's talk about it in the future!

Under such circumstances, in fact, the Aceh Kingdom has a chance to end the war with the Great Chu Empire, as long as they are willing to give up the territory on the Malay Peninsula and make some compensation to the Great Chu Empire, the Great Chu Empire Not overly aggressive either.

What a chance to give them a peace!

But the Kingdom of Johor...it is impossible to obtain peace!
It's not because they have hatred with the Great Chu Empire, nor is it because the Chu people hate them, it's simply that they are blocking the way of the Great Chu Empire...

Although their territory is just at the eastern end of the Malay Peninsula and the Liao Nei Islands... If the Great Chu Empire wants to control the Strait of Malacca and ensure the safety of entry and exit at the eastern end of the Strait of Malacca, it must control the above-mentioned areas.

It is not the kind of control of colonial rule, but the rule of preparing to move a large number of immigrants, complete the localization locally, and completely bring this place into the rule of the empire.

Luo Zhixue wanted to ensure that even if there were any accidents decades later, such as the independence rebellion by the aborigines in the colonies, there would be no problems in the Straits of Malacca.

Ordinary colonial rule is extremely risky, and the only solution is to bring this place directly under local rule and replace the local aborigines with the people of the empire.

This also means that the Kingdom of Johor must perish!
This is a life-and-death battle to destroy the country, and there is no possibility of any compromise, even if the Kingdom of Johor is willing to compromise and cede part of its territory.

Because the Great Chu Empire wanted to wipe them out completely, and also cut the grass and roots to completely prevent future troubles!
And this point, the Johor Kingdom has not realized it yet!

They guessed that the Great Chu Empire might launch a war against them, and they also knew that the Great Chu Empire wanted to control the Straits of Malacca. If the Kingdom of Johor takes the initiative to seek peace, it should be able to retain most of its land.

How should I put it, they are not Chinese after all, and they cannot understand the importance of cutting grass and roots.

In late June, after the Great Chu Empire completely took over all the territories of the Aceh Kingdom in the Malay Peninsula, the Great Chu Empire did not even bother to engage in any peace talks with the Aceh Kingdom, and signed a contract to formally cede these territories.

The [-]th Infantry Division has waged war once again!

The Southern Route Army led by Brigadier General Bai Zhen directly entered the actual control area of ​​the Johor Kingdom in the east from the Perak area, and then went straight to the city of Malacca controlled by the Portuguese.

In this battle, the Kingdom of Johor will fight, and the Portuguese will also fight...

In short, the Great Chu Empire planned to push it all the way from the very beginning, whether it was the Kingdom of Aceh, the Kingdom of Johor, or the Portuguese, all of them would fight...

The Great Chu Empire wants to fully and thoroughly control the entire Malay Peninsula.

In the future Malay Peninsula, there is no need for other countries or forces of any nature.

Here, there can only be Dachu people!
So... Many people were dumbfounded, especially the Dutch. They expected that the Great Chu Empire would attack the Kingdom of Johor, and they also expected that after the Great Chu Empire defeated the Kingdom of Johor, it was very likely that they would attack the Portuguese city of Malacca...

However, the Dutch really did not expect that the Great Chu Empire would attack them at the same time...

If you count the former Aceh Kingdom, this means that the Great Chu Empire is at war with the Aceh Kingdom, the Johor Kingdom and the Portuguese East India Company at the same time!
This boldness made the Dutch feel their legs go weak...

Then the Dutch in Batavia had to seriously consider a new question: With the current expansion speed and huge ambitions of the Great Chu Empire, when will the troops of the Great Chu Empire land in Batavia?

That's right, the Dutch have already begun to worry that the Great Chu Empire will attack Batavia.

Because looking at the expansion momentum of the Chu people in Nanyang, it is not for the monopoly trade of a certain commodity in a certain place.

These damned Chu barbarians are most likely rushing to conquer the entire Nanyang region.

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