I want to be emperor

Chapter 729 The Pressure Comes to England
The fall of Colombo City and the defeat of the Dutch immediately set off a turbulent sea in the Indian Ocean, causing many people to discuss it.

The first to bear the brunt is naturally that the Dutch themselves were terrified!
Since the Dutch defeated the Portuguese a few years ago and captured the island of Ceylon and Portugal's large colony in India, they have claimed to be the largest colonial country in the Indian region with strong strength.

Even though they suffered a defeat in the East Indies just before, which caused the strength of the Dutch to decline, they are still powerful in the Indian Ocean, and the colonists of other European countries cannot compare with them at all.

As the saying goes, the Portuguese have declined, and they can only hide in Goa to survive. Although European countries such as Denmark, Sweden, and France have successively established the so-called East India Company, they are at most just a trading base and a small Just a colony.

On the contrary, England has developed relatively rapidly in India, occupying Mumbai early, and rapidly expanding its power in India based on Mumbai.

But even the British and Dutch cannot be compared with the Dutch at this time.

During this period, the Dutch were still very confident in the Indian region...but this was only limited to facing other European counterparts. When the Dutch faced the Great Chu Empire, their mentality was different.

Therefore, the Dutch in other colonies were extremely panicked when they heard that the Chu army had captured the city of Colombo... This made them think about the disastrous defeat in the East Indies a few years ago.

Back then, the Chu army captured the city of Batavia first, which directly led to the Dutch being forced to withdraw from the East Indies.

The Dutch East India Company that lost the city of Batavia also lost its rule over the East Indies. This does not mean that it will not quit if it wants to.

Not to mention the demeanor of a civilized person, even without declaring war...

Therefore, after the army is killed, it depends on the situation to submit an ultimatum or something, and this ultimatum is often the kind that makes the other party fully surrender...

In the end, these captured Portuguese East India Company executives were forced to sign the Chu-Portuguese-Goa Treaty.

At the same time, a ransom was paid in exchange for the safe return of more than 1000 captives and the evacuation of company executives.

The Dutch were very indignant at the fact that the Chu people attacked them again and went directly to the city of Colombo. Not a few years.As a result, it was torn up by the Chu people after changing hands.

But this kind of ultimatum is a bit nondescript, and it is not a very formal declaration of war.

Regardless of the fact that the Palk Strait is wider and more troublesome to block, more ships are needed.

Now the Great Chu Empire has captured Colombo, a strategically important place. You must know that the Dutch East India Company just moved its headquarters to Colombo City a few years ago, but the company headquarters was snatched by the Chu people again.

The declaration of war in the cognition of later generations is through formal diplomatic channels, such as an ultimatum or declaration of war submitted by an ambassador to the other country. The state of war is counted from the beginning of the official declaration of war!

What will happen next?
Almost all Dutch people can predict that the Great Chu Empire will take Colombo as the center, fully capture other Dutch colonies on Ceylon Island, and have a high probability of attacking many Dutch colonies on the Indian Peninsula.

It can't be said that after signing an armistice treaty, the two sides will not be able to go to war in the future: how can there be such a good thing in the world...

And let it go... the war preparations of the Great Chu Empire have never been secretive, and the huge fleet set off from the mainland all the way to the Indian peninsula.

This is what the Chu people did. After taking down Colombo, they landed in succession under the accusations and panic of the Dutch and took down several other coastal colonial cities of the Dutch on Ceylon.

So you Dutch people say that the people of Chu state are engaged in undeclared wars and shameless sneak attacks, but the people of Chu state will not recognize it.

Immediately afterwards, Denmark, Ruidan, France and other less powerful East India companies also announced their abandonment of Indian colonization, and signed a treaty with the Great Chu Empire to give up the sovereignty of the colonies and the subsequent continued trade in India. Promise, and then in exchange for his own life.

Because they soon discovered that the Chu people not only beat the Dutch, but also the Danes, Swedes, French and Portuguese.

By October, there were no European colonies left in the entire east coast of India. Instead, the dragon flags of the Great Chu Empire were flying over many colonial port cities.

Even the Dutch could not stop the attack of the Chu army, not to mention the colonists from other countries, one after another the colonies controlled by European colonists fell into the hands of Chu.

On October [-]th, Goa, the last Portuguese colony in the Indian Peninsula, was captured by the Chu army. None of the senior officials of the Portuguese East India Company in Goa was spared. They either died in the war or were captured.

I don't even bother to talk about it, so the army looked over and completely wiped out this Kandyan dynasty.

In this way, only the Dutch and the English are still struggling!
However, they couldn't hold on for too long, because after the Chu army captured Goa, they continued to march northward, and the fleet went all the way to Mumbai, destroying several Dutch and English colonies on the way.

Therefore, strictly speaking, the Great Chu Empire did not violate the Batavia Armistice Treaty, on the contrary, it has been strictly abiding by it, and fully controlled the East Indies according to the treaty.

They reluctantly organized 2 people to fight against the Chu army, but they couldn't even make the Chu army change their original battle plan. The attacking force of about 3000 people simply killed the main force of the indigenous people. It also completely broke the backbone of the Kandy dynasty!

Therefore, in the case of whether to declare war to the outside world, the Great Chu Empire actually has no experience. At most, it has issued a few ultimatums. This kind of ultimatum is often issued only when soldiers approach the city and kill the enemy.

It is more like a declaration of war than a letter of surrender.

After the official power of the Kandyan dynasty is wiped out, there will naturally be a civil service system to organize immigration and reclamation affairs in the future, without the military worrying about it.

However, internally, the Great Chu Empire will issue more formal crusade documents through the Dachu Mansion newspaper. These crusade documents are all for their own people. Let the people support the military's external expansion.

The Batavia Armistice Treaty was only aimed at the East Indies War. According to the Armistice Treaty, the Great Chu Empire released the Dutch prisoners of war and allowed the senior staff of the East India Company to evacuate with their personal belongings. Ownership of the Indian Islands, and a series of conditions such as promise not to enter the South China Sea.

The war will always stop. After the war is over, the business must continue, so Colombo will play a big role at that time.

The point of not declaring war... It must be clear that the Great Chu Empire actually issued relevant documents to declare war!

Therefore, the natives on the island cannot stay either.

Convenience for follow-up immigration!

But this declaration of war is not the same as the declaration of war familiar to later generations.

Therefore, the Dutch say that the Great Chu Empire tore up the Batavia Treaty is pure nonsense.

But in the history of the Great Chu Empire, there has never been such a thing as sending a declaration of war to the empire in a serious manner.
After all, they were ready to beat up people, and even sent diplomats to send war declarations to hostile countries at the risk of being detained or killed. This kind of thing seems a bit silly to the monarchs and ministers of the Great Chu Empire... It’s okay to be stupid, but still fee diplomat.

As for the truce... It was indeed a truce at the time, but the current war is a new battlefield.

The reason is the same as the original blockade of the Strait of Malacca and the Sunda Strait.

It's just that in the future, you can only go to Colombo on the island of Ceylon for trade.

Just five days later, the Kandy Dynasty sued for peace and tried to maintain its independent status by ceding territory... But the Great Chu Empire has always been impatient with such small indigenous countries.

In fact, while the Chu army wiped out the Dutch on the island, they also launched an attack on the natives on the island at the same time. However, the combat effectiveness of the island on Ceylon Island is too poor. They could not even beat the Dutch before, let alone the upper Now the Chu people.

The colonies of various countries on the east coast of the Indian Peninsula, no matter how big or small, were all attacked by the Chu army one after another.

The indigenous forces on the island of Ceylon did not affect the Chu army's series of operations in India.

But the problem is not too big. The engineering troops of the Great Chu Empire Navy have already carried out emergency construction in Colombo Port to add more berths, and at the same time build coal warehouses, supply warehouses, maintenance docks and other naval base facilities.

And issued a brand-new western trade regulations, requiring that the trade between ships in the area west of Paoke Strait and the Great Chu Empire can only be carried out in the port of Colombo on the island of Ceylon.

The series of actions of the Chu army not only made the Dutch panic, but also made the colonists of other European countries extremely panic.

The Port of Colombo replaced the former Port of Malacca and became the only trading port facing the west of the Great Chu Empire.

As for the previous fights against Zhungeer and even the Russians, let alone the declaration of war documents, the two sides did not even have a formal diplomatic relationship, and they just started filming when they were ready... Who cares about the declaration of war.

Not to mention that, the Navy of the Great Chu Empire immediately blocked the Paoke Strait, prohibiting the passage of all ships from other countries.

And none of these conditions has anything to do with India.

With the flying of the dragon flag, the Chu army also gradually completed the occupation and control of most of the coastal port cities of Ceylon Island, leaving only the inland area of ​​the island still belonging to the Kandy Dynasty.

As for whether the Dutch have seen these notices, it has nothing to do with the Chu people.

Therefore, for some accusations and yelling from the Dutch, the Chu people who heard it just smiled slightly, and at most said one sentence: Complaining and accusing are the work of incompetent people!
The real strong will go straight up and fuck him!

The dragon flag of the Great Chu Empire replaced the red, white and blue flags of the Dutch, flying over the various coastal port cities of Ceylon.

In fact, the Dutch did not expect it wrong. The Chu army really did this. After taking the city of Colombo, they took a brief rest for two days and then began to attack other coastal colonies of Ceylon under the control of the Dutch.

In addition, when the troops approached Colombo, the Chu army also sent an ultimatum to the top executives of the Dutch East India Company in Colombo, demanding that the Dutch surrender immediately and unconditionally.

By this time, in fact, the Dutch colony in the Indian Peninsula has basically been completely lost... This is a very sad thing to say.

In just a few months, the territory of the Dutch on the island of Ceylon has become the Chu people's!

That's hundreds of ships in total... Especially when the third task force came over, the entire fleet reached more than 200 ships!
Such a large fleet is on the sea, and it has not been concealed, but all ships sailing the Indian Ocean route can basically know that the Chu people are going to fight.

Blocking the Paoke Strait is an established policy of the Great Chu Empire's Indian strategy, which is to completely prohibit and prevent subsequent infiltration and invasion by Western forces.

For this Kandy Dynasty, the Great Chu Empire naturally does not intend to keep it... The Great Chu Empire wants to directly turn Ceylon Island into a territory directly under it, and carry out large-scale immigration to ensure the comprehensiveness of this strategically important island. control.

When the 31st Squadron went south to Ceylon Island, nearly a hundred ships swaggered and went directly south, but they never played any sneak attack.

Of course, it is still during the war, and the ships of the East India Company from various European countries will not go to the city of Colombo on the island of Ceylon for trade at this time, but... what about in the future?

Looking at it now, the effect is quite good!

For example, when fighting the Fusang people, they sent an ultimatum to the Fusang people in advance. For example, when fighting several indigenous countries in Southeast Asia, they also issued an ultimatum. When fighting Batavia, they also issued an ultimatum. .

According to the treaty, the Portuguese East India Company completely abandoned the colonial activities in the Indian Peninsula and West Asia, and handed over the sovereignty of all the colonies in the above-mentioned areas to the Great Chu Empire.

Specifically, in the Battle of Colombo, the Great Chu Empire had released related news through the Great Chu Dibao in July, informing the public that the military would launch a large-scale battle in the Indian Ocean region.

If the people of the Great Chu Empire knew what the Dutch thought, they wouldn't bother to talk to these European barbarians.

It is not a big problem to support the follow-up blockade combat missions!
When the Paoke Strait was blocked, the various military operations of the Chu army still did not stop!
After capturing the east coast of India, the army and navy of the Chu army cooperated with each other, using dozens of ships and a medium-sized landing fleet ranging from 3000 to [-] people on the ground, to land one by one and capture the colonies of European countries on the west coast of India. .

In addition, the trading partners of the Great Chu Empire are not only European countries, but also some West Asian countries and Indian indigenous people. These indigenous people used to sail to Malacca and the Great Chu Empire to trade with primitive and backward ships.

What the military has to do is to kill the local organized indigenous forces in advance.

Under the invasion of the Chu people, after the Dutch lost the East Indies, they lost India and the colonies on the island of Ceylon... Today's Dutch East India Company, although there are still people with ships, there are also many in Africa. Colonial, but already misnamed.

Because they no longer have any colonies in India, Southeast Asia and other places, and they can't even get through by ships.

Such an East India Company naturally does not live up to its name.

The Dutch are screwed, now the pressure is on England in Mumbai!

(End of this chapter)