Since Ding Guofeng went to Pazayalai, the shipping routes from Bacheng to Malacca to locally managed have become more busy.

First, the Jinglei traveled back and forth between local governments and Bacheng twice, bringing a large amount of food, medicine, cloth, weapons and ammunition, and even a large amount of Dutch shield copper coins and horse sword silver coins. More than half of these supplies were used to support the Mysore army.

The problem is that although the Jinglei shipment is large, its biggest weakness is that it can supply oil and can't run a few times. Although Beihai Town has built dock refueling points in Ganlingao and Bacheng, it cannot withstand the behemoth of Jinglei.

At present, Zhang Bo has sent 200 people to the oil-producing area in the southern part of Sumatra for early site selection. A large number of people travel south to wait until spring. Because it is located deep in the tropical rainforest and inconvenient transportation, coupled with many other issues such as accommodation, medical insurance, and safety, it is expected that production will not be put into operation until mid-1794.

In order to solve the problem of tight maritime transportation capacity, the Bacheng Military Control Commission issued a considerable rent. More than 50 large and medium-sized wide-sized ships were rented in Hoi'an, Sanfa, Pontianak, and Malacca, from 500 straits to 2,000 straits. After these merchant ships arrived at Bacheng Port, the Military Control Commission would first sign an agreement with the ship owner or bow and pay half the rent. When all ships are filled with cargo, they will be escorted by Zheng Wenxian's fleet, cross the Strait of Malacca, and go to local management.

It was from this moment that more and more Chinese businessmen extended their tentacles out of the Strait of Malacca, and at the same time expanded their maritime trade routes to the Indian Ocean and beyond.

Compared with Ding Guofeng's step-by-step and carefulness in India, He Xiwen's actions in Borneo have been much smoother and more unscrupulous.

On November 2, three battalions of about 900 people set off from Bacheng by boat and arrived at the new port, Nanbawa and Sanfa. The local Sultan learned that hundreds of North Sea soldiers had entered their territory, and was very worried and hurriedly sent his subordinates to inquire.

However, people from Lanfang Company or Dagang Company told Sudan officials that they should rest assured that these people came to help Chinese people apply for identity cards. It was easier to do things, so they left after they got it. After that, the officials were taken to the location of the identity card, and they were sure that they were sure.

Several Sudans were given reports from their subordinates and let down their guard. After all, their cooperation with the Chinese has not been a day or two. But what they didn't know was that Lanfang Company and Dagang Company had completely defected to Beihai Town.

At 4:00 a.m. on November 7, the three vassals operated in a unified manner, and rushed into the Sultan Palace with live ammunition, disarmed the guards, and arrested all royal members, clergy and government officials. During the operation, all those who tried to resist were shot dead on the spot, without explanation at all.

The panicked prisoners and their families were taken to the square in front of the palace to gather. Then the officers of the Servant Army took orders issued by Zhao Xin in advance and announced that their throne had been permanently deposed and that local affairs were taken over by Beihai Town. At 7 a.m., the prisoners were escorted onto the ship one after another, and left when they were full, and sent to the Beihai Army's base in Ganlingo.

The largest number of people here is the Alkadri family in Pontiande, where the 62-year-old Sultan has a large number of wives and concubines and has more than 60 children. The speed of creating villains is as good as Kangxi even though he is alive.

In fact, Gan Lingao is not their last destination. According to the plan previously planned by Zhao Xin and He Xiwen, all royal members and clergy will eventually be sent to Nanjiuzhou and handed over to the Sendai Fan for supervision. With the relationship between Chang and Beihai Town of Ida Village, the future tragic fate of these people can be imagined.

The rapid demise of the three sultanate countries caused an uproar among the local Dayak ethnic group. However, the main residents of the coastal areas of West Borneo are Chinese or second-generations with Chinese ancestry. In addition, Luo Fangbai and others have been fighting against the Pontianak Sultan over the years, and their prestige has long been established. Especially Jiangwu, the Dayak people were afraid of being killed by him. Besides, the people in Lanheying were not eating. Although there are fewer crocodiles in the Kajiang River, it is still easy to make someone with an opinion disappear...

After cleaning up the three Sudan regimes in the west, He Xiwen then swaggered onto "Nanhua No. 1" and headed for the new port. He stayed for several days, held a meeting with Luo Fangbai and others, and then continued northward. He was also Luo Fangbai's capable subordinates Jiang Wu and Wubailanheying Zhuangyong.

When he arrived at Yamaguchi, more than 2,000 vassals who set out from Bacheng arrived one after another. According to the plan, the North Navy would build a large troop station here as a bridgehead to attack the Sarawak region. This is the territory of the Dagang Company, and the 300 acres of land used to build the troop station and thousands of Chinese workers were also provided by them.

The Northern Navy treats Chinese workers very well and never takes them away. He does not allow the elder brother of Dagang Company to pluck his hair. In addition to paying for cash every week, he also takes care of three meals a day and sends clothes and shoes. So people who come to work flock to it.

He Xiwen's next goal was to deal with the Ibandayaq pirates entrenched on the coast of Sarawak, and set up forts and supply points in Kuching and other coastal areas. His purpose of fighting pirates was not entirely for coastal security, but to use this as an excuse to attack the Brunei Sultanate; in fact, it was the nobles of the Brunei Sultanate who provided protection to these pirates that Iban pirates were rampant until now.

The northern coast of Borneo has become synonymous with pirates, slave owners and headhunters since the 17th century because it is adjacent to the busy South China Sea route. The river wetlands are everywhere, forming many estuaries and deltas, and there are many passages to the sea, which is very suitable for pirate fleets to hide and facilitate retreat. For more than a hundred years, the Ibans sailed on the sea in Prahu, just like the Arabs roaming the desert on the beach on horseback.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Speaking of which, this is all the evil committed by the Dutch man. Due to VOC's mercantilism and trade monopoly policy, they tried their best to prevent any form of hostile ships from conducting maritime trade in Southeast Asia. Therefore, the Ibans and Malays who are unwilling to be fishermen can only obtain greater economic benefits through piracy.

There is an old Malay proverb that the first Prahu was built for fishing, and the second was built for robbing the first.

"Prahu" is a single-bolt double-leg sailboat with a length of 27 meters, divided into two layers, driven by 60 to 80 oars, and can carry 80 to 100 people. It is equipped with a large musket or circumference gun at the bow; on the side of each boat, there are twenty to thirty muskets.

Above the entire hull, a shed made of bamboo, is covered with a layer of mattress. This is to protect the ammunition and supplies below from rain. At the same time, it can also serve as a combat platform during the battle of the shore, and quickly climb up from the deck to conduct a jumping gang battle.

He Xiwen heard Luo Fangbo say that both the Dutch and the British had suffered great losses at the hands of the Iban Pirates.

They will not provoke large fleets, and usually make a living by robbing and destroying small merchant ships. They usually lure targets into reef areas or shallow water areas, and when the ships strand and hit the reef, they will swarm. The so-called ants often bite the elephant to death, and the Iban's weapons are covered with juice from poisonous wood. As long as they are cut and blood is seen, they will be finished in minutes, and there is no antidote.

Even if the crew members do not resist, they will not end up much better. In addition to burning the ships, the Ibans also have the tradition of headhunting. The crew members who survived by chance will be sold as slaves. No matter whether white or yellow people are, they will not be spared.

In order to lure the snake out of the hole, He Xiwen sent two Frote sailboats seized and modified from the Dutch and entered the northern waters of Sarawak. This is a small cargo ship specially used for rapid transportation, with an average length of only a little over 24 meters. VOC was once made in large quantities for trans-ocean transportation. Because the boat is small and has few people, it is only equipped with 12 to 15 6-pound cannons at most, which is an easy target for the maritime zombies.

In order not to arouse the pirates' suspicion, the North Navy sailors and the soldiers of the Land War Battalion on the deck were wearing golden wigs and dressed up as Dutch. In addition, they were equipped with several Chinese translators who knew Malay. The names of the two ships were not changed. One was called "Madame Agatha" and was launched six years ago with a displacement of 900 tons; the other was called "Three Mountains", which was launched forty years ago with a displacement of 850 tons.

Oulang Kaya Beti, this man is a large chief in the Iban tribe, commanding forty long houses. Yes, the strength of the Dayak chief depends on how many long houses his subordinates are in charge of; it is dozens of meters short and more than one hundred meters long. Basically, a large family lives in a long house. Beti is in charge of forty families, and is considered a great force among the Iban pirates, so there are forty Prahu Clippers under his command.

In addition, the dark tattoos on Chief Beti's body also demonstrated his "great military achievements". Simply put, when the Ibans arrive at the coming-of-age ceremony, they must first tattoo their shoulders; after participating in the first headhunter, they will tattoo the back of their hands until they are completely black; after each hunting, they will stab one finger black again.

The Dutch were driven away by the Northern Navy, and the British merchants did not dare to come, which led to the fewer merchant ships going to Seribaga Bay recently through Sarawak, which made Beti very upset. He could not grab money or cut off his head. This life was really boring. So when he learned that two small Dutch cargo ships had arrived, he was immediately excited.

Dear warriors, please search the guys and go out and hunt the headhunter to grab things!

Thousands of Iban people held spears, bows and arrows, screaming like orangutans in the rain forest, excited at the upcoming headhunting feast.

More than an hour later, two "Dutch ships" were tricked into a shallow water area by several Iban people riding small boats in the name of doing business and finding women, and then they were stranded. If they wanted to withdraw, they had to wait until the sea water rose at night.

This trick was not uncommon for them in the past. The Sarawak area is rich in bird's nest, pepper, and Eucommia ulmoide. Moreover, Dayak women can choose men at will before marriage, and there is no moral constraint, so they can't do it after marriage.

Standing at the bow of the boat, Beti learned that the target had fallen into a trap, so he raised his knife and waved it. Including his own boat, forty Prahus came out from two river estuaries. The two sides were only more than 500 meters apart and could be attached in a blink of an eye.

However, what he unexpectedly expected was that these two "Dutch ships" had no cargo, they were loaded with people, weapons and ammunition, and the soldiers of the North Marine Battalion of two companies were waiting for his arrival.

As soon as the pirates came out, the soldiers of the Land Battle Battalion took their weapons and hid behind the sandbag walls inside the sides of the ship. Several sailors dressed as Dutchmen looked panicked, waved their hands and shouted on the deck, running around.

When forty pirate ships formed a circle and entered a distance of fifty meters from the two ships, the Iban pirates suddenly heard a sharp and harsh whistle sound from the two ships, and then they saw dense muzzles emerging from behind the ship's side.

"Oh no! I'm fooled!"

Beti was stunned at first, but he decided to fight. In the past six months, he had a little tribute to Sarawak Raja, and the other party had already expressed dissatisfaction. With his understanding of Dutch weapons, the other party could fight at most one round, and his subordinates could rush to the deck and chop it. However, when the bullets that were as dense as rain spurted out at the Iban pirates, Beti realized that he was very wrong.

Several Chinese translators and Dayaks recruited from Yamaguchi Yo were originally scared to death by a large group of pirates, thinking that they might have to die here if they were not doing well today. But the next scene will be unforgettable for them. They finally understood why the Dutch could not defeat the North Navy.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! As soon as the Land War Battalion opened fire, the Iban pirates who rushed to the front suffered major casualties. The guys who gathered on the top of the upper deck were ready to jump into the pool of blood. The red blood fell into the lower cabin through the gaps in the boat board, causing the sailors who were rowing loudly exclaimed.

Bethi's ship was farther back, so he was lucky to dodge the bullet. However, he soon noticed that several guys stood up on the "Dutch Merchant Ship", all carrying a thick wooden stick to the sea with a forearm; what surprised him was that the head of the "wooden stick" was like a spindle.

"What's this?"

Before Bettido could think, a stream of white smoke mixed with fire suddenly shot out from the tail of the "wooden stick" on the other party's shoulder. With a roar like thunder, the spindle-like thing also turned into a bright red light and shadow, roaring towards the several boats behind him. Then a huge explosion sounded from the sea, and the two Prahus were immediately blown up to pieces.

The stunned Bei became furious when he mentioned it, and he immediately issued an order to retreat. However, at this time the sea surface was like a pot, gunshots, explosions, and screams mixed together, and the thick smoke caused by the explosion also disturbed people's sight.

More than an hour later, Beti, who had escaped back to the inland river, cried directly after counting the number of his men. There were more than a dozen boats, but only more than 400 were left in alive men, and many of them were shot and injured. He really couldn't figure out why the "Dutch people" on these two boats were so powerful. It was obviously not like this before!

Stop talking, hurry up and withdraw back to the old nest.

However, what Beti didn't know was that this matter was not over yet! As soon as the next day, more than a dozen assault boats carrying soldiers from the landing camp came straight to Beti's nest under the guidance of the Dayaks.

Brooke, the British man in later generations, had a famous saying that the only one who could deal with the Dayaks was the Dayaks. Therefore, the Northern Navy followed the winding river and found Beth's nest in just half a day. After some drone reconnaissance, it immediately launched an attack.

The village wall surrounded by heavy logs and stones could not stop the attack of the Northern Navy. After several consecutive explosions, the huge wooden door fell to the ground, and the doomsday of the Iban pirates came.

Most of the adult men were beaten to death. Seeing that the situation was over, Beti had to kneel down and surrender with his women and children and become prisoners. When the people from the Land Battle Camp searched, they were shocked to find that the beams of the second floor of the long house were covered with dry heads of all sizes, which made them disgusting. In order to completely clear the pirate nest, they burned all forty long houses when they retreated, and the fire burned for a day and a night before extinguishing.

After interrogation, Beti quickly admitted that he had a cooperative relationship with Sarawak Raja appointed by the Sultan of Brunei. The other party not only helped him sell stolen money, but also provided weapons.

It's OK! This is what He Xiwen is waiting for. In fact, it doesn't matter whether he can catch Beti or not. The key is that there are pirates and prisoners.
Chapter completed!