Early on the fifth morning, a large island finally appeared in front of the left side of the fleet.

The coastline can't be seen at all.

This big island should be Borneo, where the Boni Kingdom is located, and later it was called Sumatra Island.

In the southwest sea, the Boni Kingdom went to Java for four or five days, the Three Buddhas and Four days, and the Champa and Manta three days, all of which were planned to be as smooth as possible. The country used the Pan as the city, and more than 10,000 people lived in the city, and the fourteen states were governed by it.

This is a record of the Boni Kingdom in historical materials of the previous dynasty.

In the sixth year of Yongle, Boni King Manaragana led the queen, younger brothers and sisters, children, and civil and military officials to come to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute. In October of the same year, he unfortunately died of illness in the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Yongle of Chengzu buried him with the rituals of kings and was posthumously named King Gongshun.

This Boni Kingdom was originally a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. Zheng He stopped here many times when he voyage to the West. There are naturally detailed records of this place in the historical materials of the Ming Dynasty.

Unfortunately, the capital of Boni Country recorded was gone, and the port where Zheng He's fleet was docked was gone, and there was no one near the coastline!

This Boni Kingdom was probably destroyed by the colonists, but I don’t know whether it was destroyed by the Spanish colonists or by the Dutch colonists.

Taichang sighed slightly and immediately ordered the fleet to continue heading south.

The historical materials of the previous dynasty said that it took four or five days to go to Java, which refers to sailing ships, and naturally there was no need for four or five days. That night, the Ming Navy fleet had already arrived in the south of Boni, less than five hundred miles from Batavia.

Early on the sixth day, the fleet continued to set off and headed straight for Batavia.

As a result, less than three hours of sailing, more than ten giant ships appeared in the waters ahead.

Looking at the unique spinnaker, it is clearly the Dutch fleet.

Of course, it was not that the Dutch knew they were coming and sent to block their fleet.

These more than ten giant ships are armed merchant ships. If such a few armed merchant ships come to block them, it would be a pity to die!

They probably just left Batavia and were about to go somewhere else.

These more than ten armed merchant ships did not expect that such a huge fleet would suddenly appear on the sea.

These days, it is not a good thing to encounter an unknown fleet at sea. People will probably have the idea of ​​being a pirate when they see you as a merchant ship!

So when they saw the Ming Navy fleet, they were frightened and turned around and ran away.

These Dutch armed merchant ships were really frightened.

They have never encountered such a terrifying fleet!

Dozens of giant ships were carrying more than ten warships like four feet. They were like giant monsters on the sea, and looked terrible.

On the flagship, Sun Chuanting looked carefully with a telescope, and then asked: "Master, these armed merchant ships do not have much combat effectiveness. Should we send a wolf-toothed warship to intercept or sink it?"

Taichang thought for a while, then shook his head slightly and said, "Forget it, don't fire it first, let them go back.

After all, these are big merchant ships, and the goods on them are all counted at 100,000 pounds.

We have to drive to Batavia ourselves after intercepting it. If it sinks, the goods will sink into the sea. A ship may be hundreds of thousands of kilograms of goods. Wouldn't we lose a lot?

The command is to slow down all ships, follow them and let them guide us."

Well, these goods are all ours, so it’s better not to do it, so as to save time and trouble.

Upon hearing this, Sun Chuanting couldn't help but nodded repeatedly and said, "The Emperor is wise."

The Ming Navy Fleet followed more than ten armed merchant ships and slowly drove southward. In less than half an hour, a black line appeared in front of it.

Java Island has finally arrived!

The more than ten armed merchant ships rushed back desperately, and took them straight to Batavia, saving them the time to search along the coastline.

Not long after, a huge port appeared in the telescope, and two double-layered castles stood on both sides of the port!

This is Batavia.

This Batavia is really strange. Not to mention that there is a double-layered bastion on both sides of the port, there is a river channel in the middle that leads directly to the middle of the city behind.

The cannon telescope can see the turret on the turret, which proves that the fleet is only more than ten miles away from the turret.

Seeing this, Taichang quickly ordered: "Send the order, the fleet stops advancing, the ships disintegrate, and the wolf-fanged warships spread out, surrounding the entire port."

A wave of order flags, the entire fleet slowly stopped. Then nearly a thousand wolf-fanged warships broke away from the Aegis and Dragon-fanged warships and spread to both sides.

At this time, the Port of Batavia was in chaos.

Dozens of armed merchant ships were desperately squeezing into the river channel in the middle of the port, while the remaining several tower ships, gunboats and ordinary warships turned around and shrank down the bastion. The whole scene was chaotic.

However, Taichang did not immediately order an attack.

Because there were too many turrets on the Dutch's ridge, the huge muzzle was really a bit cunning, and he didn't know how many shots he could catch on the ASCH.

At this moment, the twenty ASCH ships were filled with navy soldiers and elite soldiers of the Divine Machinery Camp. If the watermelon-sized shells broke through the armor and smashed them in, the consequences would be unimaginable.

What to do?

Although he was mentally prepared, he never thought that the Dutch would set up so many artillery on the bastion. The densely packed muzzles were afraid that there would be hundreds of artillery!

As soon as the fleet stopped, he turned his telescope and glanced carefully.

I have to say that the Dutch had a really good idea to build a bastion.

In history, the city of Relanzha they built was more than ten times more than Zheng Chenggong's troops for nearly ten months. In the end, they surrendered only after being encircled and exhausted from food, rather than being captured.

The terrifying defense is evident.

This Batavia is the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company, and the defense of the bastion they built is naturally even more terrifying.

They built a bastion on each side of the port, and the size of the two bastions and the number of turrets are not comparable to that of the city of Relan Cha.

If this brink has its drawbacks, the only drawback is that it is not high enough.

Because the first and second floors of the bastion look only as high as three or four people, this can be roughly judged based on the height of the defenders in the bastion.

In other words, the heights of the first and second floors of these two prisms may be less than two feet high.

However, this is not a disadvantage.

Because the bastion is surrounded by moats, there is no place to stay.

In other words, if you want to attack these two bastions, you either risk filling the surrounding moats, or drive a boat to attack.

Both attack methods seem to be difficult to achieve.

Because there are too many artillery on the bastion, let alone approaching the bastion, it is estimated that if the ships are five or six miles away, they will be smashed by huge shells.

Why are there so many artillery equipped on this castle?

This situation seems to be very different from what Gao Wenlu and the others told!

In fact, there were not so many artillery on these two prisms.

The Dutch probably guessed that the Ming Dynasty would come sooner or later, so they were desperately trying to strengthen Batavia's defense. Most of the artillery on the bastion was added in recent months.

With so many artillery and such huge two bastions, if you attack hard, you will probably suffer heavy casualties!

Taichang glanced with a telescope and his brows couldn't help but frown.

This Batavia is really a bit difficult to fight.

Not to mention the castles on both sides of the port, the entire Batavia city has walls and moats, even if the infantry lands, it is difficult to attack.

After all, people also have muskets and artillery, and with the barriers between the city walls and moats, they want to attack, so I don’t know how many guns and shells will be eaten!

What to do?

He frowned and pondered for a while, then asked, "Boya, Jiandou, do you have any suggestions?"

Lu Xiangsheng thought for a while, then said carefully: "Your Majesty, why not take the infantry to the shore first and go around to the south of Batavia City to try the firepower on their city walls. After all, the artillery on their bastions all head towards the port in the north, and it should be easier to attack the south."

This suggestion doesn't seem to be very good.

If there are many artillery pieces on the walls of the city, then running over to test will be a waste of death!

Taichang didn't say anything and looked directly at Sun Chuanting.

Sun Chuanting thought for a while, then pondered: "Weichen suggested that we use the wolf-tooth warship to transfer the infantry to the shore first, and then we will directly send twenty ASCH ships to try from both sides. Anyway, we don't have to break through the front, and it's the same for breaking through the flanks. The main defense direction of the Dutch is obviously in the front port, and it seems that there is no gun muzzle facing the flank sea."

This is a good idea.

They do not necessarily have to choose a frontal breakthrough. If the firepower on the flank is not strong, the same is true for breaking through the flank.
Chapter completed!