Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 36 Landing in Java
When the Ming Navy warship left at a high speed of 15 knots, the Dutch were completely dumbfounded.

"How can there be a ship in this world that is faster than our Dutch sailing ship? This is unrealistic!" Dutch naval commander Bot, standing on a 40-gun battleship, shouted in horror.

Nanming's clipper boats are not only conducive to high speed in terms of ship shape, but they are also different in terms of sail rigging.The sail area of ​​Nanming's flying shear sailboat is large, and the shape of the sail is actually calculated by modern fluid mechanics formulas.Nanming warships used bow jibs, mizzen gaffsails, and several masts were also cleverly designed with different sail types. This made Nanming's sailing ships inherently more advanced and faster than the Dutch sailing ships.

When the Nanming clipper sailing ship traveled at high speed, Bot didn't even dare to pursue it and continued to perform his surveillance mission.Because if it turns out that the speed of Chinese warships is so high, and they are large ships themselves, even if he has twice the number of ships, Bert is worried that he will not be able to win, but will lose precious warships.

On the 74-gun battleship, Captain Meng Hui said with a smile, "Sure enough, as Your Highness expected, the Dutch dare not chase after them."

Bai Mingxiu smiled. This was a basic logical problem. He found that he was at a huge disadvantage. If he went too far and escaped the protection of shore batteries and fortresses, the Dutch fleet might be attacked. Of course, the Dutch were not willing to take risks.

He could have slowed his ship so fast, lured the Dutch over, and defeated the Dutch fleet in the open sea.But on the one hand, some sails on his side will still be noticed by the Dutch, on the other hand, Bai Mingxiu is not obsessed with a naval battle.

At this time, Bai Mingxiu ordered: "Start surveying and mapping along the coast of Batavia. Find a suitable terrain for landing, and don't go too far away."

Although the Dutch have been operating Batavia since the beginning of the 17th century, in fact, except for Batavia, the Dutch have no control over most of the land in Java, and there are still local indigenous people to establish Tribal and feudal sultanate control.One of the contributions of the then Governor-General Masuik was to organize a Dutch exploration team to explore the interior of Java.

By the way, Bai Mingxiu also named several warships that he had never cared about.The reason why he is not so concerned about this matter is that the real warships in his eyes are at least those giant steel ships after World War I, and the sailboats made of wood, although they are very elegant from certain angles, still feel that they are not enough. Strength.

Bai Mingxiu still decided to name these sailing warships in a relatively traditional way:

Two 74-gun third-class ships were named Ninghai and Pinghai respectively.

Four 50-gun fourth-class ships were named Zhendong, Zhenxi, Zhennan, and Zhenbei respectively.

The four 36-gun frigates are named Yongjin, Yongsheng, Yongan and Yongkui respectively.

Each ship type is named after the first ship, so there are Ninghai class, Zhendong class and Yongjin class.

Bai Mingxiu planned to use elements such as place names to name his warships after he truly entered the era of ironclad ships.

On the second day, the Nanming Fleet arrived at the deep-water port of Pozzonikara.

Before that, Bai Mingxiu was not familiar with the situation in Indonesia, nor did he know that there was a deep-water port with good conditions near Jakarta.At this time, there were only a few scattered villages near the port. This land belonged to Mataram, the Sultanate of Central Java, but at this time the locals had not yet built a city here.

Bai Mingxiu's troops landed here easily without encountering resistance from the locals.The Ming army set up camp here, and Bai Mingxiu also began to plan to attack Batavia.

"Theoretically, these sultans in Java have deeper hatred against the Dutch and are relatively friendly to the Chinese. But if they really contact these forces to capture Batavia, how will the spoils be divided?" Bai Mingxiu thought to himself.

Although he does not have many troops, the total number of marines on several ships is about 200.In the naval warships of the sail era, all warships must have a certain proportion of marines, using muskets and cold weapons for shooting and hand-to-hand combat during boarding battles, and warships themselves often have landing operations in colonization, which also requires Some land combat forces, so the marines are always on board.

There are not many marines, but Bai Mingxiu is a big hanger.

He just defeated Wu Sangui in Burma and got a lot of gold finger coins. Although he spent a lot of money lavishly later, his family is still rich.

The system updates various exchange lists every week. Bai Mingxiu took a look at it and thought it was almost suitable, so he bought it without specifically trying to save his own consumption.Although Bai Mingxiu may appear to be single now, he actually has several troops in his mercenary warehouse.

"Now is the time for you to come in handy!" Bai Mingxiu was still gearing up excitedly.

"Napoleon Total War" private company, 4 teams with a total of 480 people.

"Civilization 6" rangers, a team of 1 people.

"Cossack 3" Cossack cavalry company, 2 teams with a total of 200 people.

"Ultimate General: Civil War" artillery battalion, 1 team of 280 people.

These troops are all selected by Bai Mingxiu from the list. There will still be some troops similar to "Invincible Heroes" and "Warcraft" in his list, but the recruitment price is astonishing and limited by the conditions of this world. He had a world view and couldn't use magic, so he passed them all.As for the troops with cold weapons, they were all ignored.

These troops cost him a lot of gold finger coins, but at least they gave him a very strong strength.

None of the Nanming people got off the boat, and they didn't know that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was calling the wind and rain on the shore and brought thousands of soldiers.Bai Mingxiu originally wanted to see if there was a general in the list of special talents, but he was not so lucky. There was no one he could use in the random list this time.

"It seems I can only direct it myself." Bai Mingxiu was not timid, but rather excited.

Bai Mingxiu said to Meng Hui, the captain of the Ninghai: "Captain Meng, I have decided to launch an attack on Batavia tonight. Batavia must have been tense last night. Today is calm and the sea should be relaxed. Some. I need you to bombard Batavia at night. I can give you some flares. Once you find out the location, just bomb them. Your main target is not the buildings on the shore, but the Dutch in the port. Warships. As for me, I will lead my troops to attack Batavia by land. When their attention is drawn to the situation at sea, the Dutch will inevitably relax their defenses on land. At that time, I will directly attack Enter Batavia.”

(End of this chapter)