Logically speaking, since Shalian is a prosperous harbor town, it must be very lively. There should be ships coming and going on the river coastline.

Then, when the Ming Navy came all the way, there was no trace of the ship at all, and there were no people on the shore.

This situation is absolutely abnormal!

"Sir, can the Dongwu rebels know that we are here?" Someone couldn't figure it out and immediately asked Zheng Chenggong in confusion.

When Zheng Chenggong heard this, he didn't think about it and immediately rejected it: "How is it possible? Dongwu's rebels can't calculate, even if there are people who inform you, it's impossible to be faster than us!"

"It's really impossible!" Although Zhang Delu, the director of the Jinyiwei, did not care about military affairs, this reason was obvious, so he nodded in agreement with Zheng Chenggong's opinion.

Just as he finished speaking, he suddenly saw a forward ship returning quickly on the river channel ahead. It was obvious that he found something was ahead and returned to report.

Zheng Chenggong saw it strangely because the outpost ship did not warn, which means there was no enemy situation.

So what is the situation?

As they were approaching, a Ye Bukou on the outpost ship clasped his fists and raised his head, and loudly reported: "Sir, Sha Lian is already a dead city in front of him. It seems that he has been robbed by someone and left many rotten corpses. It seems that it was a month ago."

When Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Delu couldn't help but look at each other, and they were both very surprised: What's going on?

"Let's explore again!" After Zheng Chenggong issued the military order, the fleet continued to move forward, while he asked the guide in confusion: "Are you familiar with the situation in Togo South? Do you know who will do it?"

The guide was also puzzled there. When he heard Zheng Chenggong's question, he scratched the back of his head and replied, "I don't know. Logically speaking, only Siam is possible around him. However, I haven't heard of Siam attacking Dongwu!"

"Can it be the Dutch done it?" At this moment, I suddenly heard Zhang Delu say with a puzzled look, "If it was just a month ago, the time would not be right. They should have passed by here a few months ago!"

After hearing this, Zheng Chenggong nodded. In the end, no one thought about what force would rob Sha Lian?

I can't figure it out anymore, so I'll go first.

The forward quickly occupied Shalian and the surrounding area, sending back a safe message.

The fleet went directly to Shalian, and the transport ships transporting the army behind also docked, and the Ming soldiers began to land on a large scale.

As the outpost ship reported, Shalian's city can see the prosperity of the past, but now it has been destroyed and someone deliberately burned it.

There are broken walls everywhere, and rotten corpses can be seen in many places. It can be roughly seen that there are men, women, young and old.

The Ming army soldiers began to clean up the rebuilding of Shalian, and at the same time continued to send night to the surrounding area to investigate the situation.

A day later, the night he had been scattered was not taken away, and finally brought back the news, which made Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Delu look at each other. Unexpectedly, this was the case!

It turns out that Zhang Delu was really right. All this was done by the Dutch. However, there are some twists and turns in the specific details.

When the Dutch were expelled by the Ming army, they had to leave the Batavia they had spent a lot of effort to build and leave the Far East in shame.

When he returned along the coastline, he was warmly welcomed by the Togo rebels when he passed by. His king Pingdali also sent his most trusted minister to Shalian to discuss with the Dutch people, and the offer was very high.

The Dutch Governor Anthony was really moved after hearing this.

The Far East can be said to be in a loss of underwear. If you go back like this, Anthony will most likely be thrown into prison. But if some of the losses in the Far East can be compensated, he will be able to lose his merits.

Therefore, when Anthony heard that the natives of Donggo had offered very high prices to hire them to fight the war, he agreed without hesitation.

The troops under his command could squeeze out at least 5,000 people. According to each person's monthly salary of ten taels of silver, a month would be 50,000 taels, which is considered the basic salary. Dongwu also agreed that the seized spoils would not be paid, and they would belong to the Dutch, which was performance.

Anthony believed that there were 5,000 Dutch mercenaries who were fighting the indigenous people in the Far East, which was easy to win.

Therefore, the atmosphere of cooperation between the two sides is very warm and friendly.

But who knew that after negotiating a contract and everything was ready, Anthony asked the target of the battle, which never expected that it was the Ming Empire.

Moreover, half of Donggo's side was captured by the Ming army, and Donggo's army was beaten so hard that it was not enough to fight back. This was the case, so King Donggo would offer a high price to hire so many foreign mercenaries.

Anthony had a very deep understanding of the strength of the Ming army. If it weren't for helplessness and there was no way, how could he give up Batavia and go back in shame?

He was a soldier and naturally understood that there were two reasons why the Ming Navy was so powerful, one was warships and the other was firearms. If this war was fought on land, the Ming army's firearms would definitely be better than the Dutch. Moreover, the Ming army had a strong military force. If the Dutch really became a mercenary of King Dongwu to fight the Ming army, they would probably be all lost here.

This means that the Dutch beat others without any problem, but it is absolutely necessary to fight the Ming army.

However, the contract has agreed that King Pingdali of Togo has also assembled his remaining army and is ready to go and recover the lost land.

At this time, if Anthony wanted to break the contract, Pingdali would definitely not be willing.

Since that's the case, Anthony simply did nothing and attacked Donggo's army directly.

Pingdali thought that the Dutch would suddenly turn against each other because all the forces on Donggo had the habit of hiring foreign mercenaries, and there was no such example of suddenly turning against each other. They were not prepared for a while and were defeated.

Of course, the Dutch knew the principle of capturing the king first. When they suddenly launched an attack, they targeted King Dongwu and his main ministers.

Originally, the Dutch wanted to capture Pin Dali alive, which was of higher value. However, the guns and cannons were blinded. In the chaos of war, Pin Dali was shot to death, and his main ministers also died.

Seeing this, the Dutch simply did not do anything and immediately plundered the capital of the Tou Dynasty, Bogu. In short, they burned, killed, plundered, and robbed everything they could, and burned them if they could not be moved away.

On the way back, the Dutch naturally did not let Shalian go, and robbed the place, killed it, burned it all, and then left.

This turmoil happened a month ago.

At this time, after listening to Ye Buguan’s report, Zheng Chenggong came back to his senses and could not hide his emotion and said, “This means that Dongwu’s rebel is over, and the Dutch have finished everything!”

"It's true!" Zhang Delu said with great emotion, "I really don't know if we expelled the Dutch. Is this good or bad?"

Well, the Dutch killed the Dongwu thief and saved them from taking action;

It’s hard to say that these Dutch people killed all of this place, burned them all, and snatched them all. The Ming Dynasty wants to restore the prosperity here and become a place where military supplies and logistics independently will be responsible for more financial and material resources!

Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Delu looked at each other and both smiled helplessly.

Things have happened, and it is actually meaningless to talk about whether the expel of the Dutch is worth or not.

So Zheng Chenggong smiled and said, "Since that's the case, we will send an army north to contact Governor Sun from Ava and control the entire Donggo!"

"I guess Governor Sun should also receive news!" Zhang Delu heard this and nodded, "Just contact us first, and then clean up the rest of Dongwu, and you can report to the court. Dongwu has already gone!"

Zheng Chenggong nodded after hearing this, and suddenly he thought of a possibility and hurriedly said: "When the Dutch returned, they probably wouldn't just rob this side, the coastal places and places where they could rob it, probably they would rob it! Should they notify Portugal?"

"We can't inform you that the Dutch people left here a month ago, and it's too late to go." Zhang Delu heard this and thought for a while, "Let's just do that. If we still want to move westward, we need to get the imperial decree!"

Zheng Chengyi heard that the Portuguese side had to rely on themselves first.

He had no objection to this.

So they sent troops around with Shalian as the center to control more places.

Unexpectedly, Sun Chuanting also received news that when he learned that King Pingdali of Dongwu died of the Dutch rebellion, he made a quick decision and immediately led his troops south.

A month later, the Ming and northern armies met in the south of Mitela.

When Sun Chuanting knew that the south had been occupied by the navy, he was overjoyed and immediately sent someone to return north to rush to Yunnan first, and then report to the capital about Togo via telephone and manpower.

And he himself continued to lead his troops south to Sha Lian, Zheng Chenggong and others met.

In the future, Shalian will be an important seaport in the Ming Dynasty, and naval bases will be built here, etc.

As for Donggo, all regions were too poor and backward, and the Ming Dynasty did not have so much energy to build, so it was necessary to choose key areas to build first and then drive the construction of other areas.

Yangon, which later generations were called Daguang at this time, was near Shalian, and was also the Irrawaddy Delta region.

This delta area has an area of ​​598 square kilometers, making it a worthwhile area to build.

Let’s talk about it for now, Sun Chuanting will be the general manager of Dongwu, who is in charge of military and political power.

On the one hand, he had to rule over the navy and army and be responsible for occupying the entire territory of Dongwu. On the other hand, he had to restore people's livelihood and carry out the construction of key projects.
Chapter completed!