At night, the torches were clear on Chinatown northwest of Malacca City, and groups of Javanese soldiers and Württemberg soldiers drove the Chinese out of their homes and ordered them to go to the castle. The Chinese in each family did not understand what was going on, and they were all afraid of death.

The crimes committed by the Dutch in Batavia fifty years ago touched the entire Southeast Asian Chinese. Many people in Malacca escaped that year. However, facing the black muzzle and sharp sword in the hands of soldiers, most people dared not resist.

Because Zeng Youliang's family was a big businessman and his father had made Kapitan, the Dutch were much more polite and asked Cai Shizhang, who accompanied him to explain. Unexpectedly, Cai Shizhang finished talking about the causes and consequences, and the young Zeng Youliang was so angry that he cursed.

"You traitor! The Dutch are going to use us as a shield! The gunships of the North Navy have hit their heads, and they still dare to bully us Chinese!"

No matter how much he scolds, people always bow their heads under the eaves. No one would think of giving it a try unless it was absolutely necessary. However, Zeng Youliang was still more cautious. When he took his family out, a short flintlock gun had been hidden in the bag on his shoulders...

Late at night, near Praudan Island, 18.4 kilometers southeast of Malacca City, three warships of the Second Squadron of the North Navy, South Ocean were anchoring here.

The moonlight shone on the dark sea, reflecting rippling waves. On the decks of each ship, the sailors at night were always paying attention to the surrounding ocean surface with the small searchlights on the side of the ship. No, it was too close to Malacca City, and no one knew whether the Dutch would jump over the wall and launch a sneak attack in the darkness.

In the captain's office of Beihai No. 2, Guo Xuexian was having a meeting with several people to discuss tomorrow's combat plan. Because Zhao Xin suddenly changed the plan, the second squadron led by Guo Xuexian stayed in Temasek for only three days. Before he had time to discuss the issue of leasing Temasek with Tianmeng Gong in Muar, he hurriedly left.

"Is it okay to have a high tide time?"

"A moment of Chen Zheng. Don't worry, sir, this villain runs seven or eight times a year, and the sea conditions are very familiar."

The person who replied was a shopkeeper who was stationed in Temasek in Temasek. The man's surname was Chen and he also came from Zhangzhou.

"Okay, that's it. At 6 o'clock tomorrow morning, the fleet will start. If the Dutch did not surrender, we will break the three suspension bridges connecting the castle, the city and the suburbs, and then shell the castle on the turret and knock off their teeth."

"What if the Dutch held on their shoulders and refused to surrender?"

"We don't have time to chat with them, so King Zhao gave us a day. Before sunset, the flag of the Northern Navy must be inserted into the Malacca Castle!"

"Will they threaten the Chinese in the city?"

Guo Xuexian showed a trace of disdain on his lips and said contemptuously: "If they dare to use Chinese as hostages, I will slaughter the Dutch in the city!"

Guo Xuexian said the murderous words indifferently, and immediately betrayed the shopkeeper Chen who was beside him and had a cold war.

In another time and space history, because the Netherlands surrendered to France, the British sent troops to surround the city of Malacca in 1795. At that time, Abraham Kuperus was also silly and delayed from August to December before surrendering. It was precisely because of this that Zhao Xin told Guo Xuexian in a previous telegram that the Dutch should not be delayed and the battle should be decided quickly.

The reason why he was so anxious to take down Malacca was because Pazayalai called and the British offensive against local governance had already been launched.

It is said that when Zhao Xin and his friends left Paris at the end of November last year, France had already declared war on Britain and the Netherlands. However, due to the extremely slow communication speed these years, the news of the declaration of war had to be transmitted to the East through the consulate in Alexandria, Egypt.

After a long six months, on June 11, 1793, the official notice arrived in Madras; nine days later, the Governor's Office of Kolkata also received the news.

Cornwallis, the governor of the British East India Company and Indian Admiral, had been preparing for a long time, and immediately issued instructions for operation against the French Indian colony. He then took the "Minerva" frigate to Trincomali in Dutch Ceylon, hoping to understand the progress of the Java war. There were also three "East Indian-class" fourth-class frigates, namely Triton, Wally and Royal Charlotte.

Cornwalis waited for two days in Trincomali. At that time, the North Navy's ground counterattack had not yet been launched, and Zheng Wenxian's fleet had just moved south. After learning that the North Navy's giant iron ship was forced to stop in Bacheng Harbor, Cornwalis, who was slightly relieved, ordered the fleet to go locally to manage and put it under a sea blockade.

At the same time, the troops led by Colonel John Brathwaite, acting commander of Madras, also set off. This time the British used royal artillery, the 19th Regiment Dragoons, the 36th, 52, 71, 72, 73, 74th Infantry Regiment, and the total strength exceeded 10,000.

Cornwallis' plan was that ground forces first seize Virenno in the southwest and Arian Kubon in the south, cut off the support from the garrison and the city's hinterland, and then through ground surrounds and sea blockades, ultimately forcing the French, who were helpless inside and outside, to surrender.

If the British do this, Pazayalai, who is locally governing the southern part of Beihai Town, will definitely be involved in the war and will not be able to escape.

On the other hand, the French were not fools. As soon as the British in Madras were dispatched, they received a message from spies and immediately began to mobilize the whole city. However, the French were really short of troops, with only 650 regular soldiers, and even if all the local soldiers were counted as more than a thousand, the new Governor Clermont hurriedly sent people to the Northern Navy in Pazayalay south for help.

The problem is that the North Navy in Pazayaray has only 200 people in total, and the Mysore soldiers trained by them have just started to get on the right track of training after they have overcome the early language exchange. They have asked these guys to support local governance, except for riding horses and playing with big swords, at most they can put a few big rockets.

After receiving the telegram, Zhao Xin sent a company to support local governance in order to abide by the agreement between the two sides. In order to quickly transport the vassal troops of Bacheng to India to fight against the British, he sent a newspaper to Guo Xuexian, asking him to take down Malacca City as soon as possible and watch over the British in Penang.

As for the lack of troops on Java Island, he could only recruit soldiers among the local Chinese first, and also sent a report to Wang Yuanfang, and quickly transferred another 5,000 servants to go south, asking Ding Guofeng to come and help.

As soon as the telegram from "Prince Zhao" arrived, the staff and logistics department of the North Navy were immediately busy. Fortunately, Wang Yuanfang was guarding the house and was very strict in training. The second batch of servants composed of 5,000 Xiantai road construction workers had already received training for recruits. Now it is equivalent to not having to go to Ganlingao base for tropical adaptation training, just go to Bacheng to adapt!

Zhao Xin was busy dispatching troops, and the British were not idle either. For Cornwallis, there were too many people who wanted to get a share of the table on the South Asian subcontinent. If the EIC had to face Beihai Town, he had to stabilize the Qing Empire, which occupied Gurkha in the north, and he did not want to be attacked from both sides.

So when he returned to Madras with a captured French merchant ship to replenish supplies, he asked Major William Kirk Patrick, who was negotiating with the Qing Dynasty, to sign an agreement with the Qing Empire as soon as possible to stabilize the situation in the northern part of West Bengal.

However, to his surprise, the messenger carrying the order had just set off for a day and met Major Kirkpatrick who was eager to show his merits, and signed an agreement with the Qing court!

My Damn! Cornwallis was very surprised when he learned about it. When he saw Major Patrick who was dusty on the boat, he said anxiously: "William, in the report I received a month ago, you also stated that the empire's tough attitude was, and you probably had to make appropriate concessions. But the agreement was signed in a blink of an eye. What was going on?"

"Lord, I am about to report the whole process in detail to you. This fact is dramatic, and I am sure that God blesses our British Empire."

"Of course God bless us. Well, don't keep it aside, I don't have much time."

"This is how things happened..."

Speaking of which, at the end of August last year, Major Patrick was ordered to go to Patna in northern Kolkata to try to mediate the war between Qinggu. However, by the end of September, with the Qing army achieving a decisive victory in the "Paranggu Battle", Yang Putrajaya was then broken and Gurkha destroyed the country, and the so-called "mediation" of the East India Company was purely redundant.

However, Patrick's trip was still responsible for determining the borders and trade between Gurkha and West Bengal. Although he had changed his master, the issue had to be discussed. So he went to Yangbu with gifts, to meet Fu Kang'an, the Fuyuan General of the Qing Dynasty, and to negotiate with He Lin, the Minister of Service in Tibet, and Chengde, the Sichuan Admiral. Fu Kang'an only met with the British mission, and then returned to Tibet to preside over the "After Constitution in Tibet".

He Lin only talked with Patrick twice, and then brought the captured Gurkha King Bahadur Shah to the capital to offer prisoners. His attitude was extremely tough and demanded that the EIC must hand over the successor of the Shah Kingdom, the fifteen-year-old prince Rana Bahadur Shah, who would live to see people and die to see the body. He even told Kirkpatrick that if the EIC did not give it, the Qing army would send troops to West Bengal and go to Patna to arrest people directly. For the Qing Dynasty, this was just like dealing with Amursana and Huojizhan back then, and he would never leave hope for the Gurkha people to restore their country.

Well, if Bahadur was handed over to the Qing Dynasty, he would most likely be made into the Gabala bowl by Qianlong. Of course, Major Patrick certainly did not understand this; he only knew one thing: if the British Empire could not even protect a prince of Gurkha, it would be a joke, and don't mess in India in the future.

In addition, Helin also severely warned Patrick that he ordered Britain not to interfere in the affairs of Tibet and Brookba (Bhutan). From now on, everything related to Tibet and the surrounding vassal states of the Qing Dynasty must be sent through the Qing court to the ministers of the Gurkha. You should know that the Qing Dynasty was far away from the Qing Dynasty and now the focus was shifted westward, so it was naturally extremely important to the two vassal states Brookba and Zhemengxiong.

It is said that since the beginning of the 18th century, Brookba went to war with the Kohbihar Turkish state in the south. In 1772, the Kohbihar Maharaja, who was surrounded by the British, sought help from the EIC, and the British immediately sent troops to invade Brookba.

The problem is that Brookba is a vassal of Tibet, and major issues will be directly asked for instructions from the Qing court's ministers in Tibet and the Dalai Lama. It was from this time that the EIC thought of reaching into Tibet. When the British army launched an attack, King Deb of Brookba asked for help from the Sixth Panchen Lama. In 1774, the Panchen Lama sent an envoy to bring gifts to the first EIC Governor Hastings to discuss peace.

After receiving this letter, Hastings believed that it was a good opportunity to enter Tibet. On the one hand, he signed a "peace treaty" with Brookba, took the initiative to cease war and repatriate peace, and returned the occupied land. On the other hand, he sent his confidant George Pogel to Tibet under the guise of "trading" and met the Panchen Lama privately.

In his conversation with the Panchen Lama, this Pogel used the previous method of dealing with the Indian kings and princes to induce the Panchen Lama to establish a private relationship with the East India Company. However, the Sixth Panchen Lama saw through the other party's intentions at a glance. He clearly stated that Tibet was a place under the rule of the Qing emperor, and he himself was just a lama who regarded peace as his main job, and then banned Pogel from entering Lhasa.

When Patrick heard the other party mentioning this, he secretly said something was wrong and quickly explained that it was done by the former Governor Hastings. Now he has been impeached for corruption and has been removed from his post as governor and has returned to China. The current Governor Cornwallis has no intention of interfering in Tibet.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! After a dismay in front of He Lin, Patrick was discouraged. Unexpectedly, after just one month, the negotiator was replaced, and the new Minister of Service in Gurkha, He Ning, arrived.

This person has nothing to do with Heshen brothers. He was from the Eledet family, a native of the Mongolian Border Yellow Banner, and a Jinshi in the 36th year of Qianlong. He Ning Wenmo was quite good, and he wrote many poems since he entered Tibet. However, this guy is a mediocre person in government affairs. To put it bluntly, he doesn't care about people. Because of this problem, he has experienced many ups and downs in the officialdom, and every time he is demoted for failing to supervise.

Like his ex-girl's attitude, He Ning also looked like he was indifferent to the situation. Patrick thought that this time he had been sprained! The fierce and fierce force of the Qing army to destroy Gurkha before shocked him. You must know that twenty-five years ago, the British also sent an expeditionary army to attack Gurkha, but they returned in a defeat.

In addition, what the British feared most was that the two sides had a quarrel. The Qing Empire would instigate the Hindus under their rule to go to the Hindu areas of West Bengal to cause trouble. Today, the people of Gurkha believe in Hinduism.

Later, due to the Western Christmas, the Chinese Spring Festival, and the members of the mission were not accustomed to the environment and returned to Bangladesh, the two sides had been in a row for half a year. In April 1793, Sichuan Admiral Cheng De received instructions from Fukang'an, ordering Yangbu's three thousand Qing troops to set off on the border and take the stance of moving south. The situation on both sides became increasingly tense.

Just when Major Patrick could not withstand the aggression of the Qing Dynasty and wrote a letter to Cornwallis to compromise, an unexpected occurrence occurred.

A Gurkha businessman who traveled between Yuyangbu and Patna found him and said bluntly that he knew a close friend of Hening's men. The businessman said that in order to protect Prince Bahadur, he was willing to mediate and provide help.

Patrick was not sure. With the idea of ​​having fish or not, he gave the merchant six hundred Spanish silver coins. Unexpectedly, after more than ten days, the merchant actually got the job done and brought back a lot of important information. Only then did Patrick realize that the Qing Empire was bluffing.

It turned out that the Soren soldiers brought by Fu Kang'an had suffered heavy casualties in previous battles across the Himalayas, and after defeating Yangbu, they were at the end of their strength. Now there are more than 300 people left. As for the vicious Jinchuan Tibetan soldiers who were fighting abroad for a long time, they were looking forward to going home and no longer want to fight again. The remaining one is the Sichuan Army, but these people are not accommodating to the local conditions and people fall ill every day. Before Chengde had thousands of soldiers on the border, just showing off to scare people.

Of course, Patrick had to try such important information. If the news was true, it would be like a sure victory. So when he met with Hening later, he said that if the Qing army wanted to send troops to Patna and invade West Bengal's territory, then the EIC, as the sect leader, would send heavy troops north to declare war with the Qing Empire, and at the same time help Bahadur restore the throne.

As soon as these words were said, He Ning and Chengde's face changed instantly, and then returned to normal, but Patrick knew that he had bet right!

The sudden change in the British attitude surprised He Ning. He believed that Cheng De's Sichuan army had a flaw, which made the British see. Cheng De was already angry because his subordinates fell ill one after another, so he would not take the blame. The two closed the door and had a big fight.

In order to destroy Gurkha this time, the Qing Dynasty invested four million taels of silver in order to destroy Gurkha this time. In addition to purchasing a large amount of military rations and materials in snowy areas, most of the money was invested in logistics transportation. In order to open up Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan, Tibet and Qinghai-Tibet, the Qing court set up military stations, set up grain stations, and sent troops to protect them, which cost a lot of money. If we really want to go to war with the British, let alone military spending, just transferring troops to transport grain is enough to drink a pot.

The trump card was touched by the British, but for the Qing officials, losing, not losing, face is more important than anything else. Even though He Ning and Chengde quarreled, no one dared to submit a memorial to apologize. The two finally sat together and discussed, and decided to send someone back to Beijing to deal with Heshen first, help fool him in front of Qianlong, and then signed an agreement with Patrick and stamped it with a big seal.

On the contrary, the Qing Dynasty would continue to ask for Bahadur, but the British side could not submit it, but this matter could not be promoted. In addition, He Ning promised on behalf of the Qing Dynasty that he would not incite the Hindus in Gurkha to go south to cause trouble. If the British side caught it, it would be possible to kill or cut it.
Chapter completed!