The name of Sumatra actually originated from the country of Suvanda.

Because during the Mongolian Yuan, there was a Suwendana country here that sent envoys to Dadu to pay tribute, so this place has been called Suwendana since the Mongolian Yuan.

In fact, during the Tang and Song dynasties, the Central Plains dynasties generally called this place Jinzhou.

This Jinzhou Island is really quite large. To be precise, its north-south length is more than 3,500 miles, and its east-west width is more than 800 miles.

However, the island has not a large population, at least the population on the island is not large at this time. Although its area is larger than the entire territory of Japan, the population here is not as large as that of Japan.

If it weren't for Liang Daoming's establishment of the New Three Buddhas here, which led to a large number of Nanyang residents gathering here, the population here would probably be at least hundreds of thousands!

As for the reason, it is roughly because the forest here is too dense and there are not many places suitable for farming.

I have to say that the world is so great that it is truly amazing.

There is no arable land on this island that is even larger than the entire Japan!

Above the flagship, Taichang kept turning his telescope and scanning the huge Jinzhou Island. In the eyes, except for the beach, there were almost all forests. The densely packed primeval forests almost covered the entire island!

He has learned in detail.

Although this Jinzhou Island is large, it is difficult to develop.

Because not only are there dense forests here, there are no natural ports on the coast, and there is almost no way to build ports in other places except the old port.

As for the reason, it is said that the waves are too big, and the huge layers of striking the coast all year round, making the coast here almost full of long sandy beaches and almost no deep water harbors.

Most of the remnants on the island live along the river, scattered everywhere, and it will take at least a month to gather.

After all, this place is a large island three or four thousand miles long, and with the length of the river channel deep into the island, it will probably take more than ten days for the gathering place of the remnants to be the farthest from the old port to drive it.

Taichang naturally has no time to wait here.

Therefore, he left four hundred wolf-fanged warships to gather the remains here, and twenty dragon-fanged warships and 20,000 Shenji Battalions infantry guards stationed in the old port. Then he took the remaining ships and 40,000 Shenji Battalions soldiers to the original royal city of Mansaka.

The sacred genus is actually Malacca or Malacca, but it was generally called the sacred genus in the Ming Dynasty.

Its royal city is on the north shore of the central Strait of Malacca.

However, their royal city had long been captured by the Portuguese, and now it was occupied by the Dutch and became a stronghold of the Dutch in the Far East.

As for the royal family of Mantaga, it is said that they were beaten by the Portuguese and the Dutch, so there was no sign of it.

The Mantaojia actually defected to the strength of Persia and Dashi, destroying the three true vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, Taichang naturally would not care about the life or death of his royal family.

This time, he came to seize the Dutch stronghold, build a city fortress, and guard the Strait of Malacca.

The old port is quite far from Malacca, more than 1,300 miles away, so it will definitely not be able to reach it in one day.

Therefore, Taichang did not order the fleet to travel day and night.

On the first day, they just rushed to the dense archipelago in front of the entrance to the Strait of Malacca, and then found a shelter to dock for one night.

The next morning, the fleet continued to set off, and soon passed through the archipelago and arrived at the entrance of the Strait of Malacca.

At this time, Taichang couldn't help but turn the telescope to the north and swept to the protruding tip of the peninsula.

Later generations there was a very famous port city or country.

As for why this place became a very famous port city, he just glanced roughly and understood.

Because the terrain here is particularly suitable for building large ports, it is at least more suitable for building large ports than along the coast of Jinzhou Island.

However, the purpose of their trip was not here. Their destination was Malacca City, which is hundreds of miles away from Malacca City.

The fleet entered the Strait of Malacca and continued northward for about four hours. Malacca City finally arrived.

This is also a relatively important stronghold for the Dutch in the Far East, so its defense seems to be much stronger than that of the old port.

The Dutch built a bastion directly next to the port. Although the area is not as large as the two bastions in Batavian, the terrain is relatively high. Moreover, in addition to more than ten armed merchant ships, there are several ordinary warships in the port.

The Dutch here seemed to have no intention of surrender. After the Ming Navy fleet drove into the port, they actually gathered all the armed merchant ships and warships near the bastion, and looked like they were guarding the battle!

Maybe it was because the Ming Navy fleet had nearly half of the ships, which was not scary enough. These guys actually wanted to rely on the bastion to resist?

Taichang just glanced slightly and ordered decisively: "Transfer the order, twenty ASCH ships approached the bastion from the front, and directly aimed at the first and second floors of the bastion to volleys of ten rounds."

There are not many artillery guns in the bastion here, and the muzzle is obviously not as big as the artillery guns in the bastion of Batavia.

It was clearly seen in the telescope that most of the artillery here were mainly twelve-pound cannons, and few twenty-four-pound cannons were seen.

This cannon should not be able to break through the defense of the ASCHS.

He was just about to try how strong the defense of the ASCHS was. These Dutchmen did not surrender, and just drove up and blew head-on!

A wave of flags, twenty Aegis ships like steel fortresses immediately emerged from the crowd and headed straight for the Dutch bastion.

This time, the ASCHS rushed up from the front, just within the range of the bombardment of other people's artillery, so they naturally would not be polite.

"Boom boom boom boom."

The Aegis ship was about five miles away from the opponent's brink of the brink of the brink of the brink of the brink of the brink of the brink of artillery.

There are about forty or fifty cannons in this castle, and the accuracy is not very good. After the shells hit, most of them landed on the sea around the ASCH, and only a few shells really hit the side of the ASCH.

It is obvious that these shells will definitely not be able to break the defense of the ASCHS.

"Boom boom boom boom."

Then a more violent roar of artillery sounded, and twenty ASCH ships, with one wave of side-side fired thousands of shells, all hitting the opposite castle.

At this moment, the Dutch bastion was splashing with gravel and flying corpses, and even some artillery were lifted off the fort and fell to the ground.

Taichang didn't react much when he saw this. He had seen all the firings of cannons, and he had also seen scenes of shells smashing into the enemy's formation. Such small scenes were naturally nothing to him.

Zhang Zhiji and the others were so excited that they all came to the telescope. When you looked at me, I looked at me, my face turned red and excited.

It seemed that this was the first time they saw the scene of artillery bombing, so they were naturally very excited.

In fact, this cannot be called artillery bombing.

Because the Dutch fired a round of shells and got into chaos.

They still load ammunition in the front chamber. After each firing, they have to clean the barrel, pour gunpowder in, compact it, load the shells in, and then connect the leads to fire again.

No matter how skillful or quick this process is, it will take at least about one minute.

Moreover, you cannot be attacked when loading ammunition. Once you are attacked, you will be in chaos.

The Thor cannons on the ASCHS are all loaded with breezes, and gunpowder, shells and leads are loaded in advance. Just open the gun door, exit the shell shell inside, push the loaded shells in, and then close the gun door and then open the fire.

The most important Aegis ship is protected by iron armor, and the enemy's shells cannot hit them at all. It is okay for them to load and fire continuously.

Therefore, the ASCHS kept roaring, and the shells were smashed one after another, while the Netherlands was so smashed that they could not load ammunition at all. They just fired a round of volleys and then became silent.

In this case, there is no need to fight.

The ASCHS fired ten rounds on the side of the side, and nearly 10,000 shells roared over, and the Dutch bastion was already smashed into pieces.

Not to mention how many gunners were killed, the forty or fifty guns were basically smashed and the ammunition was scattered everywhere, and some of the cannons were even smashed and destroyed.

This is completely a beating, and there is no point in resisting.

Soon, the Dutch waved the white flag.

This time, they probably didn't want to negotiate, but surrendered directly.

Seeing this, Taichang couldn't help but smile.

The Ming Dynasty was already invincible in the Far East, and it was only a matter of time before it could control the Southeast Asian region.
Chapter completed!