Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Therefore, [-] Dutch soldiers guarding Malacca are quite a lot.

The commander of the navy of the Ming army who attacked Malacca was Zhang Huangyan, and the army was Li Dingguo and his Dragon Banner Army.

On the other hand, the chief commander of the navy is Huang Fei, and the army is the Daming Longteng Army led by Huang De.

Zhu Youjian sits in Huangming Island, Zheng Chenggong and Qi Jiguang accompany the emperor, Shi Lang has not returned from Anbo Mansion.

The Dutch in Malacca had long received news that the Ming army had captured Batavia.

Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible for the Ming army to take Batavia within ten days and half a month.

But what shocked them was that it only took a few hours for them to enter Batavia Castle without bloodshed.

This left the Dutch in Malacca with no chance to send troops to rescue, and they were really powerless about it.

The only thing they can do is to send the information about the fall of Batavia back to the Netherlands as soon as possible.

The Netherlands is thousands of miles away, and their sailing warships have to withstand the attacks of various natural weather.

It is estimated that it will take two months for the King of the Netherlands to receive the information and send troops to support him.

Malacca can only strengthen its defense now and carefully protect its own safety.

They believed that the reason why Batavia was captured by Ming Dynasty was the result of the governor's massacre of Chinese.

Although they thought that after Ming took Batavia, they should not attack Malacca for the time being, they were still very careful.

When Zhang Huang said that their fleet was still more than 30 nautical miles away from Malacca, Malacca got the information.

"Report to the governor, the Ming fleet is found [-] nautical miles from Malacca, and the direction is Malacca."

Botto, Governor of the Netherlands in Malacca, was taken aback:

"What? Daming is too dissatisfied, just took Batavia, and now they are attacking Malacca, their appetite is too big.

According to the governor's order, all the soldiers must gather urgently to prepare for battle. Malacca must be defended, and the Netherlands has no way out. "

"Yes"

The governor of Malacca, Botuo, immediately sent an order to enter the fighting state, and he would rely on the strong Santiago Castle to fight the Ming army to the death.

Santiago Castle, a Portuguese-style building in the early sixteenth century, was known as the largest and strongest castle in Southeast Asia at the time.

It is said that the stones for building the castle were collected from meteorites at the bottom of Java, and the stones were bonded with a paste made of cooked glutinous rice and lime.

In 1640, the Portuguese colonists made their final struggle here to resist the Spanish invasion.

The remnants hid in the castle and stood firm, but the Spanish artillery had no choice but to use iron barrel tactics to surround and never retreat. After a stalemate for a whole year, the Portuguese army ran out of ammunition and food before raising the white flag to surrender.

The castle was later destroyed by the English colonists in the early nineteenth century, and only the city gate survived.

Chapter 533 Heaven Has a Way You Don't Go

The Ming Fleet came to Malacca this time with five ironclad warships and ten sail transport ships.

Ironclad warships are responsible for attacking, while sailing warships are mainly responsible for transportation and supplies.

Of course, sailing warships are called warships because they are armed transport ships.

This hairstyle armed transport ship can not only transport a large number of soldiers, but also has two decks.

More than 20 naval guns are installed on each deck, which is equivalent to a third-level sailing battleship.

The sky was clear, and the visibility on the sponge was very high, and you could see far away at a glance.

Zhang Huangyan was discussing the tactics of attacking Malacca with Li Dingguo when a sentry came in and reported:

"Report to the governor, there are warships approaching about two nautical miles to the right."

One nautical mile is roughly equal to about 1.85 kilometers, which means that unknown warships can be clearly seen with the naked eye at sea.

Both Zhang Huangyan and Li Dingguo looked at the sentinel, but Li Dingguo didn't say anything, it's about the navy here.

Zhang Huangyan thought it was a patrol warship of the Dutch in Malacca, and hurriedly asked:

"Oh, warships of unknown nationality? How many ships are there?"

"Report to the governor, there is only one third-level sailing warship."

Zhang Huangyan got up and said:

"Understood, continue to observe without any mistakes!"

"Yes"

The sentinel turned and left.

Zhang Huangyan looked at Li Dingguo and said with a smile:

"Master Hou, let's go up and see if it was the Dutch warship that directly sank them."

Li Dingguo nodded:

"Captain, this is a matter for your navy. We can't help you at all, but we can watch the battle for you!"

The two Ming generals walked out of the combat command cabin while speaking, and went directly to the deck.

Five or six lieutenants followed them and stood on the deck of the Wendi together.

Sure enough, as the sentinel reported, a sailing warship was found in the right front of the Ming fleet.

"Captain, the unknown warship seems to have spotted us and is changing course."

Zhang Huangyan, Li Dingguo and others were just standing on the deck when the voices of observation post soldiers came from the intercom.

In order to see clearly who was on the battleship, Zhang Huangyan raised his binoculars.

It turned out that the warship did not fly the national flag, and Zhang Huangyan could not determine which country's warship it was.

In order not to let Malacca know the news of the arrival of the Ming Fleet prematurely, Zhang Huangyan sent an order without hesitation:

"The Zhengde and the Renzong listened to the order, and your two battleships quickly outflanked the battleship and left that battleship behind.

Let it go after the battle is over. If the unknown warships don't cooperate, let them feed the fish! "

"Yes"

Immediately after the Zhengde and Renzong received the order, the warships of unknown nationality rushed away.