New Shun 1730

Liu Yu's position as deputy envoy to the Privy Council is still there. The last time he fought against Japan, the Privy Council was just trying it for the first time and had not yet formed rules.

This time, there are already fixed procedures and rules.

After going home to rest for a few days, Liu Yu went to the Privy Council and took out the rough plan drawn up by the accompanying staff. The senior staff of the Privy Council revised and improved it. After it was finalized, the Privy Envoy and himself, the Deputy Privy Envoy, As well as a group of high-level staff officers, they presented themselves to His Majesty.

The emperor made the final decision and finalized the plan, and then distributed the plan to the six governments, civil servants of the army and navy, and the Tianyou Palace, and then mobilized grain and grass through formal procedures.

Although the emperor had been to the Privy Council several times, this was the first time that he formally participated in the Privy Council's presentation meeting after determining the rules.

A huge map of Nanyang was hung on the wall, and the second division of the Privy Council, who was in charge of the Strategic and Tactical Division, explained it in detail.

The first is the Strategic Intelligence Division, which includes maps obtained from the Military Government Office, as well as information about various countries and surrounding areas.

Ordinarily, they are not qualified to be the first department, but the situation in Dashun is really different. Strengthening the understanding of the outside world is the most important thing. Those responsible for formulating strategies and tactics can only have the turn of the second department.

This was the first time for the director of the second office to give an explanation in front of the emperor. He was so excited that his arms trembled slightly. It took him a long time to calm down his breath.

When I turned my eyes to the map and recalled the battle plans that colleagues from all over the Privy Council had worked hard to formulate, my heart gradually calmed down and my breath gradually became more confident and steady.

"Your Majesty, the plan is as follows."

"The rebels in Batavia moved in the winter months to besiege Cirebon."

He pointed his command whip to the long and narrow island of Java. Cirebon is at the junction of West Java and Central Java.

"Because the rebels have been operating near Bandung, Cirebon, which is at the strategic point, is very important to the Dutch. If it is lost, the road connection to Java will be cut off, and the Dutch will have to worry about a series of chain linkages. Reactions - such as the Sultanate of Mataram taking the opportunity to rebel against the Netherlands, etc. "

"So, once the rebels capture Cirebon, the Dutch must send a fleet to recapture Cirebon and open up land connections with Java."

"Our navy has great advantages. It should be better than the Netherlands in terms of weight, number of guns, and technology. But the Dutch are more familiar with the terrain of Southeast Asia."

"This is similar to fighting the grassland barbarians. The difficulty is not winning, but capturing their main force. Therefore, the task of the rebel army is to lure Batavia's fleet to gather off Cirebon."

"Our First Squadron will engage in a decisive battle with the main force of Batavia's fleet in Cirebon."

"Annihilate its navy and cut off the connections between its cities. The marines cooperate with the rebels and capture Batavia."

The emperor looked at this standard siege and reinforcement tactic, nodded approvingly and said: "It hits the mark. Since the rebel army is operating south of Cirebon, and Java is long and narrow, if Cirebon is captured, the Dutch will have to rescue them. It's just that. , I wonder if the Guiyi Army can capture Cirebon?”

This is under the control of the first department and belongs to intelligence.

The head of the first department stood up hurriedly and said: "Back to Your Majesty, Cirebon only has 200 Dutch soldiers and more than 400 Javanese soldiers and mercenaries. The total number is less than 700 soldiers. There is only one bastion and a few forts."

"The Rebel Army has purchased some cannons from the British in recent years, and there are many local slave laborers. If they use digging tactics against the Dutch bastion, it will not be a problem to capture it."

"In addition, the number of warships that Batavia can muster, including all kinds of armed merchant ships, is only eight at most. Because of the winter siege and the winds blowing in December, the merchant ships must return to the Netherlands: in any case, they are impossible Interrupting trade."

"Moreover, at the beginning of last year, the Netherlands transferred some warships. We didn't know what happened at first. After the whale returned, we figured out the reason."

"The coup in the Rakshasa Kingdom is likely to be pro-French, so the Netherlands will face war. The Dutch East India Company needs to provide support ships for the navy during wartime, so it transferred back some ships."

"None of the eight battleships that the Dutch can assemble is a battleship, and they only have 35 guns at most. As long as we catch them, annihilating them will not be a problem."

This information is very detailed. The first department of the Privy Council is dedicated to this. It has trained a lot of spies over the years. Java has a lot of Chinese people. It may be more troublesome to become a rebel leader, but if you want to collect information, you still have to do it. Easy as pie.

After listening to the words of the first director, the emperor had an inexplicable feeling of grandeur in his heart, feeling that the world... is really not that big.

In the distant Rakshasa Kingdom, Liu Yu staged a coup. In Java, which is tens of thousands of miles away, some warships will be transferred. This intuitive feeling seems to be telling the emperor: Look, the world is not as big or as far away as you think.

In addition, what made the emperor feel more comfortable was the efficiency of the Privy Council's various plans.

This belonged to the rebel army, and the emperor gave a total of three to fifty thousand taels of silver. If this were used internally, it wouldn't even make a splash.

If they really relied on Dashun's local army training and local logistics to storm Batavia, they would be unable to accomplish anything with only thirty to fifty thousand taels of silver.

But the Privy Council followed Liu Yu's instructions and used 350,000 to 50,000 taels of silver to make use of local conflicts to achieve at least 3 to 50,000 taels of silver.

Batavia was not very important to Dashun, it was a chicken rib. But to the Netherlands, it was the "capital" of the East India Company. As long as Batavia was captured and the Dutch fleet was annihilated, it would be equivalent to all the Dutch colonies east of Java being in a solitary battle.

At that time, they could be defeated one by one.

The emperor had thought of this step, and the Privy Council's plan of gathering everyone's strength also thought of this step.

The head of the second department continued, "By then, if we capture Batavia and Cirebon, the Javanese Sultan will certainly be willing to pay tribute, and will most likely turn against the Netherlands."

"After our army occupies Batavia, we will not move eastward for the time being."

"The first squadron, with troops on board, will attack Malacca directly after completing supply repairs in Batavia."

"Once Malacca is captured, the matter east of Malacca can be settled."

"Even if the Dutch know about it, it will take at least two years for the news to be passed back to the Netherlands and then send troops."

"In two years, places such as Semarang, Sulawesi, and Ambon will all be in our hands."

The emperor nodded in conviction. It was indeed true. The Dutch forces were scattered, and the navy connected the cities together, making them seem scattered, but in fact they controlled the sea power and could be mobilized at any time, so those states were unable to fight back.

And as long as the Dutch fleet was annihilated, the original unity of the Dutch would be completely shattered.

The remaining cities each had three to five hundred soldiers, unable to gather in one place and fighting on their own. This was a piece of cake for Dashun, especially for the engineering team that learned the siege tactics from the French in the Dutch bastion tactics after the military reform.

The head of the second department pointed the command whip at Ceylon and said: "The Whale Marquis has discussed with the French Governor of India. At that time, in the name of friendly visits, the second squadron will be sent to Pondicherry, India in the near future."

"This is a plan to attack the west while making a feint to the east and attack the Guo while passing through."

"Before the Whale Marquis went to Europe, he once admonished the British fleet commander in Lingdingyang and said that he supported the restoration of King Yingsun. In Europe, he also had close contacts with France."

"In addition, the former, the arsenal of the Guiyi Army , all from the British East India Company. There were many conflicts between Britain and the Netherlands in Guangdong, Songjiang and other places, with intrigues, mutual price-raising and bribery. In Southeast Asia, the conflicts between the two were even worse. "

"In this way, the strategy of attacking Guo by pretending to be a passer-by and making a feint to the east and attacking the west can all be accomplished. The second fleet can not only pass through Malacca openly, but also inform the Netherlands in advance. The Dutch will not only not refuse, but will welcome it. "

The emperor heard this and praised: "Excellent! Excellent!"

After saying that, he looked at Liu Yu and smiled, "My dear, this plan is really great. In the past, Duke Xian of Jin wanted to borrow the road from Yu to attack Guo, and at the same time sent BMWs and valuable gifts to Yu. The king of Yu was greedy for money, and eventually the country was destroyed."

"The Dutch are the same. Because of the great benefits of Southeast Asia, they are blinded by the benefits and are eager for our dynasty to compete with the British. Now that the British have occupied Luzon and "supported" the Javanese rebels, in the eyes of the Dutch, isn't it Sima Zhao's intention known to everyone? The Dutch think so too Like an ant on a hot pot. "

"At this time, our army made a big fanfare and told the Dutch that they were going to India. We could even deliberately inform them so that they could request supplies in the Dutch port when they encountered a storm, to show that our dynasty had no intention of attacking the Netherlands. "

"The Dutch thought that our dynasty had reached a secret agreement with France to fight against Britain in India, so they were very happy. But they didn't know that taking India was fake and attacking the Netherlands was real. "

Liu Yu smiled and accepted the emperor's praise, but thought in his heart that there was a big pit in this.

I sent the fleet to India with a lot of fanfare, and there was no open treaty with Louis XV. I had shown extreme disgust for Britain before. The British must have thought that Dashun was going to join France to attack Britain's India. Even if they had a bigger imagination, they probably thought of dividing India equally between China and France.

At that time, all the surrounding fleets were withdrawn to protect the property of the East India Company. And I turned around to fight the Netherlands, and then told Britain that Dashun remained absolutely neutral in the Anglo-French war. Wouldn't this trap France to death?

With the fleet of Dashun, the Sino-French joint fleet and the British fleet, they can balance or scare the British into not acting rashly.

But once the fleet of Dashun left, the fleets of Luzon and India saw that they were already here, so why not attack France quickly? Taking advantage of the fleet advantage, they could capture several colonial cities in France?

France would definitely have an advantage in Europe, but Liu Yu did not want France to have too much advantage. Once the advantage was too great, the King of France would probably forget all the things he had warned.

It had an advantage in Europe, but was at a disadvantage in Asia and America. At that time, it could only trade with Hanover and the Austrian Netherlands.

But France's power in India was already weak. If it could be cheated again, Europe would be empty in the future when it exchanged colonies for France, and it would not be able to form an advantage over Britain at all. It would also make France realize clearly that France was unable to defend India.

This set of strategies was really vicious.

If it is said that the feint to the east and the attack to the west, or the fake passage to attack Guo, that is all against the enemy, the Netherlands, and it is normal to be deceitful.

But for France, this is a fairly standard set of "stealing the beams and replacing the pillars", which is almost the most shameless among the Thirty-Six Stratagems.

Frequently change their formation, withdraw their elite troops, wait for them to defeat themselves, and then take advantage of them and drag their wheels... The "they" here refers to the friendly army.

Stealing the beams and replacing the pillars is to pit the friendly army.