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- ?It takes about 30 to 45 days to sail from Tainan to Batavia one way, depending on luck.
Good luck, smooth sailing, it will arrive in a month.
If you are unlucky, you may never get there in your life.
The Taiwan rescue ship in the Netherlands was lucky and arrived in Batavia in less than 40 days.
"Thousands of people attacked Zeelandia?" Van der Lin was so startled that he almost jumped up.
The messenger said: "Your Excellency, there are really thousands of people."
Taiwan is the trade transshipment center of the Netherlands in the Far East, especially after the abolition of the Vietnam trade station, it has become the only transit point for Japan-Netherlands trade.
If Taiwan is lost, the governor, Van der Lin, will 100% be dismissed.
Van der Lin quickly asked: "Why did the Chinese emperor suddenly send troops?"
The messenger said: "The Tang people there refused to obey the management and have always been prone to riots. Over the years, there have been sporadic riots several times. Maybe the Chinese emperor had long intended to attack Zeelandia, so he sent troops to station in the north of Zeelandia. More than a month ago, more than 10,000 Chinese rioted and were defeated by our heroic Dutch army But on the third day of the riot, the Chinese army appeared."
Van der Lin asked for some more details, then dismissed the messenger and ordered a company general meeting.
There is nothing to discuss, if you don't fight, you have to fight.
Otherwise, not only the governor, Van der Lin, will get out, but most of the congressmen will also be held accountable.
The focus of their discussion was how many reinforcements should be sent over.
It is impossible to dispatch all of Batavia's Dutch fleet, and the army has to leave some defenders. Because the Netherlands had enemies in Java, the British and the Bantenes were eyeing them. Once Batavia is empty, maybe they will jointly declare war on the Netherlands, and Batavia may be lost on the spot.
After repeated quarrels, the size of the Dutch reinforcements was as follows: 18 warships and 1,600 army soldiers.
This is already the limit of what the Netherlands can dispatch. If they want to send more, then Batavia can declare that they don't want it.
Dutch Reinforcements - The Admiral of the Navy is Van der Laan, and he knows that he is an aristocrat when he hears his name.
The capital ship is called "Stubborn John". Like the "Hector", it is an armed merchant ship with a displacement of 650 tons. Both of these two battleships were built in recent years. There was not even one over 500 tons before. , the crew even killed each other to grab food after landing).
The army is obviously unpopular. The commander-in-chief of the army is named Adorp. The veterans at the bottom of the colony are promoted, and they have nothing to do with nobles.
When he was in Holland, he was just a bankrupt blacksmith.
Peter, the former commander of the Dutch Army, once joined forces with the Datong Army to attack Manila. This person has already been transferred to India. If he is still in Batavia, he must firmly oppose sending reinforcements. He knew the terror of the Datong Army, which actually captured the city in a typhoon, and its fighting power crushed the Dutch Army.
Zhao Han in Nanjing had already received the news before Batavia Governor Van der Lin sent troops.
Calling Gu Jianshan, the captain of the navy, Zhao Han asked, "When is the earliest time a battleship made of oak wood can be launched?"
Gu Jianshan replied: "Next summer at the earliest, winter next year at the latest."
"I can't wait," Zhao Han said, "Guangzhou and Fuzhou fleets will immediately reinforce Taiwan. I think the Dutch will send reinforcements. Taiwan is extremely important, and the Dutch are reluctant to lose it. They will fight a war even if they don't care about the consequences. Also, let us Fujian and Guangdong sea merchants,
Send news to Britain, Spain and Southeast Asian countries. Let¡¯s just say that in the war between China and the Netherlands, Batavia¡¯s troops were empty, and those who wanted to find trouble quickly took the opportunity to do it. "
"I obey the order!" Gu Jianshan clapped his hands and said.
Just this year, the King of England was executed and Lord Protector Cromwell assumed power.
Cromwell has already set his sights on the Netherlands. Although he is in control of the country, there are a large number of opposition groups in the country, and he must rely on war to transfer internal conflicts.
And the Netherlands is the primary enemy of Britain.
The Netherlands first controlled trade in the North Sea (northeast Atlantic Ocean), which led to a sharp drop in the profits of British maritime merchants. A few years ago, they took advantage of the British Civil War to borrow money to make money, and forced the British aristocrats who could not repay their debts to hand over all kinds of business privileges in their hands. Even when the Netherlands expanded in the Americas, it went to Britain's North American colonies to make trouble.
Not long ago, he even bullied the British at their doorstep.
Dutch businessmen fished in British offshore fishing grounds, expelled British fishermen by force, and monopolized fishing rights in several fishing grounds. As a result, the British fishing price rose, and the Dutch merchants took the opportunity to sell the fish caught in the British fishing grounds to the British at a high price.: "Advance at full speed, go to Busuanga Island to rest. Then use Busuanga Island as a base, first go to explore the situation on Luzon Island, and be ready to fight the Chinese in Luzon at any time!"
This Sino-Dutch war is different from Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan in history.
Zheng Chenggong moved to Taiwan with his troops because he had no foothold in the mainland. As for Zhao Han, he not only won Vietnam,
Moreover, there are troops stationed in Luzon, and there are two vassal states of Brunei and Sulu in the middle.
Therefore, the reinforcements sent by the Netherlands did not dare to go directly to Taiwan. Their default battlefield was the waters of Luzon Island.
The Dutch fleet speeded up and sailed into the northeast bay of Busuanga Island, with the earth castle of the Dutch colonists on the shore.
Adopu himself climbed up to the watchtower and observed carefully with a telescope. Suddenly he shouted in horror: "Quickly withdraw from the bay, our castle has been bombarded, the Chinese must have occupied this place!"
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