Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 615
After reading Gao Hongtu's memorial, the imperial generals present also remained silent at first.

The atmosphere in the whole hall seemed very dull.

"His Majesty!"

A thunderous shout made Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian and the imperial officials raise their heads.

suddenly.

Zhu Youjian saw Zhou Yuji walking in front of him, and knelt down on one knee: "Foreigners have no way, kill my compatriots, my servant, please lead the army to Nanyang immediately, and kill all the Western thieves!"

"My minister also asks for orders. How can we, the Han people, allow them to slaughter like this. If we don't avenge this revenge, I will have trouble sleeping and eating. Please make an order from your majesty!"

Liu Fangliang also knelt down on one knee and said indignantly.

Even Liu Kongzhao was not to be outdone, and stepped forward vigorously: "As long as your majesty says a word, I will immediately lead the navy to destroy his Batavia city, and chop up those western plants and feed them to the dogs!"

And Li Yan, who had been silent all this time, stepped forward at this time, put his hands together above his head, and saluted Zhu Youjian: "Your Majesty, what I have to say is that we have set a strategy at the beginning of the year. The strategy of first going north and then south is still implemented. Now the main force of the army is basically concentrated in the northeast and Shandong, and the navy is also concentrated in Songjiang. The main energy of Jinyiwei is also in Japan and North Korea. Is it possible that our war plan to fight Japan should be shelved, although The people in Nanyang are very popular, but it is really inappropriate for us to change the imperial strategy, please think twice before deciding, Your Majesty."

Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian admitted that what Li Yan said was right. The military strategy he had just formulated for the Ming Empire was to first go north and then go south. First conquer the Wa Kingdom, then North Korea, and consolidate Daming’s control over the north of Taiwan. Nanyang.

Generally speaking, changing the established strategy will inevitably lead to the waste of previous preparations.

But now the Dutch are massacring the Han people in Nanyang. Zhu Youjian doesn't know if the Han people in Nanyang will be slaughtered if he delays for a moment.

In that case, not only will these Dutch people consolidate their occupation of these colonies, but it will even make it more difficult for Ming Dynasty to take these colonies later, and it will even lead to the fact that there will not be many Han people who can rule after Ming Dynasty occupies the colonies.

Regardless of whether it is based on the feelings of compatriots or the long-term interests of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youjian cannot just sit back and watch the Dutch and local aborigines massacre the Han people at will.

"There are unpredictable things, the world situation is changing, and even the established strategy will also change. Now if we let these Westerners slaughter our Han people, in the future when we occupy these areas in the Ming Dynasty, there will be no people to rule, and our Han people have always been The most industrious and courteous, generous to others, but now often slaughtered by foreign captives, I intend to reproduce the glory of our Han family, just like what Chen Tang said in the Han Dynasty: "Whoever commits a strong Han will be punished even if he is far away!" Now Since there are foreigners who are not afraid of my great power and dare to slaughter our Han people, if I don’t kill all the thieves, how can I have the face to be the emperor of the Han family! Don’t say any more, I have made up my mind!”

Zhu Youjian gave a cold drink.

Li Yan and others had no choice but to bow their hands: "The ministers and others obey the order!"

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It was just after dawn that the imperial generals began to leave the Forbidden City, and Zhu Youjian just took a nap on the soft bed.

But this was only the beginning, and then the state machinery of the empire began to enter a busy period of operation.

Zhu Youjian also issued a war mobilization order to the cabinet that day, and decided that Ma Shiying would be re-elected as the chief assistant to avoid chaos in the imperial administrative system caused by the replacement of the chief assistant.

As a result, Ma Shiying took the entire cabinet system to quickly prepare logistical support for the Nanyang War.

At the same time, the Grand Marshal's Mansion officially issued an order to declare war on the Netherlands on behalf of the Ming Emperor. The Netherlands naturally refers to the Netherlands, and the reasons for the declaration of war need not be elaborated. They have already raised the butcher knife against the Han people. There is reason to declare war on it.

In the end, it was Liu Fangliang who was in command. Zhou Yuji was more familiar with the Northeast and Monan, and it was more suitable to stay behind the capital. This time, the navy was dispatched with almost the entire army. Liu Kongzhao led the two armies of Gu Sanmazi and Zheng Chenggong to the south.

Li Mingrui, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, was appointed governor of Nanyang, responsible for the logistics of the entire army.

At the same time, Zhu Youjian also issued a decree to the Zheng Group, ordering it to also send ships to assist the court in eradicating the Hongmaofan.

The East China Sea Fleet, led by Gu Sanmazi, marched west along the coastline of Fujian and Zhejiang all the way to Guangdong, and then went south to Sumatra Island.

The South China Sea Fleet, led by Zheng Chenggong, went directly south, preparing to arrive at Jinzhou first to launch an offensive against the Dutch.

The Eighth Army of the Guards Army undertook the land combat mission for this campaign. Liu Fangliang took the lead to go overland to Guangzhou, and then went to sea, and the East China Sea Fleet undertook the transportation task to land in Jinzhou and Batavia.

In other words, it was the South China Sea Fleet of the Navy that was mainly responsible for saving the Han people in Jinzhou and Batavia in the early stage.

Although today's Ming Dynasty has not yet built steam ironclad ships, thanks to the powerful industrial production capacity of the empire, the number of sailing warships is already quite large. Even the South Sea Fleet, which was formed at the latest and the weakest, now has ten first-class warships. There are more than 3 second-class warships and more than [-] third-class warships. There are no fewer than a hundred other large and small warships, and there are no fewer than [-] officers and soldiers participating in the battle.

With such a fleet strength, even though the Dutch have taken root in Batavia for decades, the total strength of the Dutch East India Company is no longer comparable to that of the Ming South Sea Fleet.

But the Dutch East India Company didn't know that their actions had completely angered the Ming Emperor Zhu Youjian, causing the Ming Empire to change the existing plan and dispatch the whole country to conquer them.

The South China Sea Fleet arrived at Jinzhou first.

At this time, under the instigation of the Dutch, the natives of Jinzhou had rioted and began to kill the Han people, and Jinzhou Hou Gao Hongtu could only defend Jinzhou City. Even the navy outside Jinzhou City had been attacked by the fleet of the Dutch East India Company.

Now as soon as the South China Sea Fleet appeared, it launched an attack on the Dutch East India Company fleet in Jinzhou.

The fleet of the Dutch East India Company naturally did not dare to confront the Ming South Sea Fleet, and retreated back to Batavia City like a tortoise before firing.

The South China Sea Fleet successfully boarded and disembarked at Jinzhou.

The marines began to shoot wildly at these aborigines outside Jinzhou City with new-style pull-bolt rifles. These aborigines who were about to attack Jinzhou City with the muskets provided by the Dutch naturally couldn't resist the attack of the Ming Marine Corps.

After a round of salvos, these natives who tried to resist were beaten to pieces and ran away.

As a result, the siege of Jinzhou was resolved. Apart from leaving some marines to guard Jinzhou and sweep up the natives around Jinzhou City, the main force of the South China Sea Fleet continued to march towards Batavia City.

Although the massacre of the Han people by the Dutch and the local aborigines is coming to an end, this does not mean that Ming does not need to retaliate. There will always be Han people who survived and need to be rescued by Ming's army.

More than [-] warships came towards Batavia like the sun was covering the sky, and all [-] Ming Navy soldiers were waiting. In order to retaliate against these Dutchmen, the South China Sea Fleet deployed a net Way to come towards the city of Batavia, in order to achieve the purpose of surrounding the Dutch East India Company and destroying them all.

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