Da Ming started to ascend the throne

"Bang bang bang..."

Their way of fighting was not much different from suicide. A burst of gunshots rang out, and these brave native soldiers were all headshot by the Ming army.

Why does the Ming army like headshots?In fact, this is a deterrent, which is to break down the psychology of those indigenous people who are still alive.

Let them see for themselves the horrific sight of rebels blowing red and white as their heads explode.

Chapter 509

When the Zhu Cihong brothers and Huang Fei captured Wandan City.

Huangming Island has also been spied on by the Mataram Kingdom, a newly rising powerful force in Java and the overlord of Java Island.

Huangming Island is a new name given by Zhu Youjian. In fact, it is the original Batavia and the present Jakarta.

Since it is impossible to still use the original place name when occupying this place, Huangming Island was conceived.

On the ruins of Majapahit, the last great Hindu country, the Materan Sultanate of Islam rose.

After the hard work of the previous two sultans, it developed into an absolute hegemony in the hinterland of Java, and many coastal trading city-states expressed their submission to it.Recommended reading m.tv./.tv./

The third-generation Sultan Agong also made up his mind to completely wipe out the states of Java.

Unlike the trading city-states on the coastline, the Matalan Sultanate is a typical oriental centralized monarchy.

The foundation of hegemony does not rely on prosperous international trade, but a large number of farmers and endless fields, as well as the unruly territorial warriors supported by them.

Matalam was originally the main rice supplier of the Nanyang Islands, and the vast areas as far away as Malacca and as close as Banten depended on the people of Matalam to import food.

The capital of the kingdom, Kerta, is a typical metropolis of the monarchy. More than 4000 livestock need to be slaughtered every day to provide meat for the government and the people. There are thousands of butcher shops in the city.

There is also a bell tower for military use in the dead corner of the city. It only needs to ring the big bell to call 30 people from Kerta and surrounding villages and towns to serve as soldiers.

Of course, it is also difficult for such powers to rely on pure agricultural income to feed themselves. While encouraging rice exports, they will strictly limit the import of foreign food.

Special trade products such as sugar, onions, and cotton will be heavily taxed.

People's livelihood materials such as cotton cloth, pepper, and wax, which are completely dependent on imports, also have a high tax rate.

As for livestock of strategic significance such as cattle, horses, and buffaloes, they are not allowed to be exported unless ordered by the king.Even women living in the country are not allowed to go to the coastal city-states.

In addition, Mataram also relies on the tribute paid by the local states, which is quite a heavy burden according to the local productivity level.

In addition to paying taxes, the subjects also had to undertake military service.And they acted as free labor when building cities, fortresses, roads and bridges.

The poll tax ensures that the residents of the core area will pay the Sultan 10 guilders per person, and the price in the conquered areas will also rise to 50 guilders per person.

According to Sultan Agong's estimate, as long as his army captures Banten, he can obtain up to 23 rials of treasure from merchants from various countries, and he can also obtain the siege cannons that the Sultan of Banten paid a lot of money to hire Turkish craftsmen to cast.

For this reason, they began to contact the Dutch in Batavia. The two sides negotiated that the Dutch would provide ships, and Mataram dispatched the army to besiege Banten together, but failed.

Later they captured Madura, known for its wealth, and the entire Sulumayi area the following year.

Later, it captured the trading port of Surabaya, and its strength was further strengthened.He even tried to recruit the Sultan of Banten by diplomatic means, but was also sternly rejected.

Although Mataram is rampant on land, it is still free from dwarves at sea. When Sultan Agung succeeded to the throne, there were only 35 military ships in the country.

Now it is only by annexing many coastal ports that it has more surface power.

Without the support of powerful maritime forces, Mataram would not be able to completely block the external traffic of a coastal metropolis.

After growing stronger, Mataram set his sights on Batavia, which was controlled by the Dutch, and wanted to take this prosperous port in one fell swoop.

However, the Dutch have also carefully built Batavia as a local-level fortress, and dug a long trench on the east side of the city near Mataram.

It's just that the planned city wall with turrets can only be replaced by a straight canal due to lack of manpower, and a bridge is provided at the east end of the long moat.

Half-moon forts or corner forts were added to all the city gates and bridges. To solve the problem of inconvenient access to the swamps in the old blocks, a main road through the urban area was filled with excavated soil.

At the west end of the main road are the central institutions such as the city government, squares, and churches. The periphery is tightly protected by trenches. Most of the newly built houses in the city are made of stone to prevent fires in case of attack.

On the outskirts of the city, the Dutch also cleared a large number of trees and houses to ensure a wide view of the defenders.

But in the jungle a little further away, there are still many Javanese tribes active, and this has also become a blind spot for the Batavia defenders.

Matalan has long wanted to take action against Batavia. Once Batavia is captured, the Kingdom of Matalan will be able to unify the island of Java after the kingdom of Wandan is destroyed.

They are not worried about the muskets of the Dutch, and there are only more than 2000 red-haired fans in total, and their hundreds of thousands of troops can completely crush them.

However, the Matalan people have never found a solution to the fortifications of the Netherlands, and have never launched an attack on Batavia.

After receiving information about Ming's attack on Batavia, the Mataram Kingdom began to worry that Batavia would fall into the hands of the Ming army.

After some planning, they planned to give the Ming army a head-on blow while the Ming army did not gain a firm foothold, and then included Batavia into their own territory.

Sultan Argonne dispatched [-] troops and at the same time assigned eleven armed ships disguised as grain ships to enter the port of Batavia to cooperate with the army to eat Batavia.

Mata Lan Sultan Agung was very ambitious, he didn't pay attention to the Ming army at all. In his impression, Da Ming always used virtue to convince people.

When Zheng He sailed to the West, he was so powerful that he never annexed any overseas territory, let alone destroyed any country.

It's not that Zheng He's fleet didn't have that ability. At that time, the Ming's fleet was already the largest in the world, and Zheng He's policy was to be gentle, not powerful.

Before the army arrived at Huangming Island, Matalan's navy had already arrived at the port of Batavia and wanted to enter the port directly.

When the Matalan soldiers saw the Ming warship, they were immediately shocked by the giant ship in front of them, and they all prayed:

"God, please bless the Lord, there are still such huge ships in the world. Compared with the Ming battleship, our battleship is definitely nothing."

Ma Dalan's lieutenant general Schmidt led the eleven armed ships. He was so shocked that he wanted to capture a Ming warship in a whimsical way.

"Come here, give me an order to quietly approach the Ming army warships. While they are not paying attention, immediately board the Ming army warships. We will use the Ming warships to bombard the Ming army."

Schmidt gave an order, and eleven armed ships converted grain carriers immediately sailed to the port Dayu.

In fact, the armed ships led by Schmidt were discovered by the Ming army as soon as they entered the port. The Ming army also regarded them as grain transport ships and ignored them for the time being.

But as those grain ships entered the port, the Ming army found them approaching the Dayu quickly.

That's not bad, but His Majesty the Ming Emperor is riding on the flagship, and if any accident happens, they won't be able to keep their heads.

Chapter 510

The warships in Matalan are all small sailing ships, so they are called armed ships, and they are not called warships at all.

Communications were not developed at that time, and after the Ming army captured Batavia, some merchant ships still entered the port.

Zhu Youjian did not ask the Ming army to drive them away, but instead ordered the merchant ships to dock temporarily, and then discuss how to do business with them after the situation stabilized.