Zhu Youxiao wanted to send mercenaries not to trick others, but to create a Guards that could adapt to the local environment and play a role in future wars.
Wei Junru and Dai Bingyang's experiment in Mobei Khalkha proved to be successful, and Wusi Zang's situation was quite special.
If mercenaries could really be sent in, it would of course be of great benefit in the future.
There will be no major changes in the situation in the northwest for the time being, but Zhang Qianfang's expedition is about to officially begin.
Zhang Qianfang's expedition fleet consisted of ten combat ships, fifty sailing ships, fifty double-barreled ships, and one hundred three-masted gunboats, carrying a total of 18,000 navy personnel and 10,000 marines.
At this time, the situation in Southeast Asia was relatively complicated.
The most powerful country in the Malay Archipelago is the Sultanate of Aceh.
Sultan Iskandar Muda has been competing with the Portuguese for ownership of the Strait of Malacca for many years.
In addition to the Sultanate of Aceh, there is also the Kingdom of Johor, so in Malacca, there is now a situation of three parties.
To the south of the Sultanate of Aceh and the Kingdom of Johor, the Dutch occupied half of the island with Batavia as the center, and also stared at the Strait of Malacca.
Of course, the Ming army could not be so arrogant as to attack all directions at the same time, so the Ming Dynasty had already begun to deploy in this area three years ago.
The Dutch East India Company temporarily maintained superficial peace with the Ming Dynasty because they also had the intention to occupy the Strait of Malacca.
The Ming Dynasty first gave up the idea of uniting with the Netherlands.
Huang Kezuan believed that cooperation with the Dutch was tantamount to seeking skin from a tiger, but in order to avoid the Ming army In the danger of falling into multi-front war, in the eighth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands signed a non-aggression treaty, which was valid for ten years.
Because the actual control of the Strait of Malacca is now in the hands of the Portuguese, and they, the Sultanate of Aceh and the Kingdom of Johor, often have three-nation wars over the Malacca area.
After careful consideration, Ming chose the Kingdom of Johor.
The reason is simple.
Among the three parties, Johor is the weakest, so it is also the easiest to control after the war.
The current monarch of the Kingdom of Johor is Abdul Zalilaya Shah.
Before that, several humiliating incidents occurred in Johor, in which the capital was burned down by Aceh and the sultan was kidnapped.
Therefore, their hatred for the Aceh Sultanate is particularly strong. above the Portuguese.
The Ming Dynasty expressed its willingness to unite with them and eliminate the Aceh Kingdom first, which immediately won the favor of the Johor people.
After Abdul Zalilaya Shah expressed his willingness to become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, the cooperation between the two parties was formally established.
In the ninth year of the Apocalypse, Aceh launched another attack on Malacca, but was defeated by the combined fleets of Portugal, Johor and Pattani, and its maritime military power was greatly damaged.
So in May of the tenth year of the Apocalypse, Zhang Qianfang began the battle to capture Aceh.
The Kingdom of Aceh occupies a very large area.
After the Ming army gathered in Port Princess of Luzon, they headed southwest.
After arriving in Bo Ni, Gui Shuzhen landed here with 5,000 marines, while the fleet continued to move forward.
Bo Ni is a sultanate jointly formed by Malays and Chinese.
It has always been a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.
There is still the tomb of King Bo Ni in Nanjing.
Aceh also invaded Balni.
The Sultan of Balni once sent an envoy to appeal to the Ming Dynasty, so the Ming Dynasty sent troops to Balni this time.
The 5,000 marines led by Gui Suzhen quickly launched an attack on the Acehnese army here under the leadership of the Bo Ni people.
Under the firepower of the Ming army, the Acehnese were immediately defeated.
A large number of people surrendered and were then captured by the Boni people.
King Huang Can of Bali clearly noted that he was the king of Bali, not the Sultan, so he was naturally overjoyed when he saw how powerful the Ming army was.
He is a descendant of Huang Senping, the Balni king who was buried in Nanjing.
This line assisted the Sultan internally and was known to the Chinese as the Balni kings.
Although they were very powerful, as the Ming Dynasty gradually withdrew from Southeast Asia, their lives were not stable.
Not having a good time.
Now that the Ming army is coming to Bo Ni, it is of course an unexpected surprise for him.
The Ming army went all the way south and did not stop until it reached the area actually controlled by the Dutch.
Since we have signed a non-aggression pact, we cannot fight now.
The Ming army swept all the way from east to west until they reached Sarawak, the westernmost part of the island.
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At this time, Zhang Qianfang's fleet had already arrived in Johor.
The Johor Kingdom felt reassured when it saw such a tall ship from the Ming Army.
The two parties agreed that Johor would dispatch 200 warships and Ming Dynasty would dispatch One hundred warships jointly crossed the sea to attack Jinzhou, the hometown of Aceh.
Jinzhou is a large island.
Because it produces gold, the Chinese call it Jinzhou and the locals call it Sumatra Island.
The Ming Dynasty once established the Old Port Xuanwei Department here.
Although Johor dispatched two hundred warships, in the eyes of the Ming army, the combat effectiveness of these two hundred warships was roughly equivalent to the five three-masted gunboats of the Ming army.
Attacking still has its uses.
Johor has an alliance with the Portuguese, and the Ming Dynasty and the Portuguese have not yet fallen out, so the two parties jointly informed the Portuguese in the Strait of Malacca.
Of course the Portuguese would not stop them from attacking their old enemy Aceh, so they sent several officers to act as observers.
Zhang Qianfang did not take the Portuguese observers seriously.
He always believed in the words of His Majesty the Emperor: "In the face of absolute strength, conspiracy is just a child's play."
He had seen both the Portuguese and Dutch warships, so he naturally understood the gap in combat power between the Ming army and them.
Whether it was artillery or muskets, although the two sides were still on the same level, their power seemed to be on two different levels. .
At the doorstep of its own home, the Aceh Sultanate will naturally not be unable to retreat, so the Aceh Kingdom sailed all the warships it could muster out of the port, hoping to fight so that the Ming army would not dare to come again.
The weather was clear and the sea breeze was blowing gently.
More than 400 warships from the Aceh Sultanate came out and fiercely attacked the Johor and Ming army fleets.
The Johor fleet did not have a flag, so Zhang Qianfang planted the Ming Dynasty naval flag on the bow of Johor to prevent the enemy from being confused.
The first thing Aceh saw was the flag of the Ming army: on the basis of the sun and moon flag, there were three wavy blue stripes, representing the ocean.
The Ming army's fleet was at the front.
Looking at the tall fortune ship, the general of Aceh encouraged his men: "The bigger ones are not necessarily stronger.
Our Aceh warships are the most powerful."
The soldiers looked at the huge difference in the height of the ships and rushed forward.
The soldiers at the front took bows and arrows and started shooting at the enemy ships.
There was no other way.
It was completely impossible to jump to another country to fight.
The enemy ships were better than their own ships.
It's two stories high, so you can only attack it with a long-range weapon first
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