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- Afterwards, Zhao Hao gave the senior executives some time to digest what he had instilled.
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These six sea passages are indeed extremely important!
Needless to say, the Strait of Malacca will still be the maritime lifeline of East Asian countries four hundred years later. Moreover, the long and narrow strait is extremely easy to control, and it was born to be the key to China¡¯s strategic planning in the South China Sea.
However, simply controlling the Strait of Malacca is not enough to protect Southeast Asia from outsiders. Without Zhao Hao, in another 15 years, the Dutch fleet would have sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and become a new player in the Age of Discovery.
In order to avoid the northern Indian Ocean coastal route controlled by the Portuguese, they crossed the Indian Ocean from Madagascar and inserted into the South Ocean through the Sunda Strait, the gap between Sumatra and Java. They set up a stronghold in Jakarta on Java Island and renamed it Bada. Via started the glorious history of the Dutch East India Company facing Southeast Asia.
And because the strong south equatorial warm current flows westward from the Timor Sea, in this era, after sailing ships from the west arrive at the Sunda Strait, it is difficult to continue upstream to the east to find the Lombok Strait on the other end of Java Island. Entered Nanyang. Not to mention the Timor Sea further east.
Therefore, guarding the Sunda Strait and the Malacca Strait is equivalent to guarding the Nanyang. At least that was the case in the days of sail.
Ceylon is known as the crossroads of the East and is located in the center of the Indian Ocean. It is a necessary transit station on the routes from Ming Dynasty's Nanyang to India, West Asia and North Africa. Naturally, it is a battleground for players in the Age of Discovery.
The Cape of Good Hope is the only passage for European sailing ships to the East. By controlling this place, European sailing ships can be firmly blocked from the Eastern world. Although the earth is round and they can circle it from America, I believe that after seeing the fate of the Spanish expeditionary fleet, no European navy will dare to cross the vast Pacific again.
The Strait of Hormuz and the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb were the two traditional Asia-Europe passages before the Age of Discovery.
Over the past thousand years, precious goods from the East have entered the Persian Gulf from the Strait of Hormuz, the Red Sea from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and then been transferred to Europe.
Seeing that Mediterranean merchants and the Ottoman Empire had joined forces to monopolize these two trade routes and made huge profits, the jealous Portuguese headed south along Africa before finally bypassing the Cape of Good Hope and finding a third shipping route.
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?That¡¯s why it is said that if you occupy these six important roads, you will rule the sea of ??Asia.
And half a century ago, the Portuguese occupied four of them! Moreover, they did not know that they could sail directly from Africa to the Sunda Strait, so they took it for granted that as long as they controlled Ceylon, there would be no need to disperse their forces to occupy the Sunda Strait, which allowed the Dutch to take advantage of the loophole.
¡°The only thing they really wanted was the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and it was this loophole that allowed them to monopolize the spice trade and frustrated the Venetian merchants¡¯ dream of fishing in the sea.
¡° However, to achieve such an achievement is already an unprecedented highlight moment in Portuguese history.
Someone may ask, isn¡¯t the Ottoman Empire at its peak? Can you tolerate the Portuguese being so arrogant?
First, because the Portuguese navy is indeed capable of fighting. For nearly a century, it has been beating the navies of the Ottomans and Indian princes, and it has always firmly controlled the sea power in the Indian Ocean.
Second, although the Ottoman Empire claimed to span three continents, it did not unify the Middle East.
To the east, the Persian Safavid dynasty blocked their eastward invasion. To the south, the tribes on the Arabian Peninsula were unruly, and the Ottoman Empire's center of gravity was in the west, so it only occupied one end of the Persian Gulf and stopped. We can only watch as the Portuguese firmly control the Strait of Hormuz at the other end.
Later, as the Ottomans moved the Eastern Fleet from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, they also completely gave up the fight for control of the Persian Gulf.
The situation of the Ottomans in the Red Sea was much better. In 1517 AD, they conquered Egypt, and then continued their efforts to completely capture the coastal areas on both sides of the Red Sea, blocking the Portuguese from the Red Sea.
After that, Ottoman incorporated the territory on the south bank of the Red Sea into the Egyptian province for rule, so the Mamluk nobles could give Djibouti to the Jiangnan Group.
The reason why the Mamluk nobles are so generous is that building the Suez Canal is their dream. Once the canal is built, it will not only bring great benefits to Egypt, but also separate Egypt from the Ottoman mainland on land.
¡°But Djibouti was not theirs at all, but was snatched from Ethiopia by the Ottoman Empire in 1517. This Christian black country was robbed of its coastal areas, including Djibouti, by the Ottomans.Paris and was warmly welcomed by the Queen Mother of France. In order to get France to send troops to help him recover, he bribed the Queen Mother with a large sum of royal jewels and promised to transfer Brazil to France.
Although in another time and space, France failed to interfere with Spain and annex Portugal, and did not get Brazil. But now that Sebastian is not dead and will fight back to Europe with the colonial army and the powerful Coast Guard Volunteer Force, the result may be very different.
No matter whether France will settle the debt owed by Antonio with Sergio, it is always right to get the claim to Brazil first.
At the end of the meeting, Zhao Hao announced a series of military and political personnel appointments.
The Coast Guard will temporarily use the Cape of Good Hope as the boundary outside the Strait of Malacca and divide it into two theaters.
East of the Cape of Good Hope is the Indian Ocean Theater. The commander is concurrently served by Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Coast Guard Jin Ke and Police Commissioner Rong Sheng. The headquarters is in Ceylon.
West of the Cape of Good Hope is the Atlantic Theater. The commander is concurrently served by Ma Yinglong, Chief of the Coast Guard General Staff, and Haldi, the Police Commissioner. Headquarters are at the Cape of Good Hope.
Tamluo Garrison District and Taiwan Garrison District were merged into the Dongyang Theater, with Deputy Chief Police Commissioner Zhu Jue serving as the commander and He Erge as the police commissioner. The headquarters is located in Tamna.
The Luzon War Zone was expanded to the Nanyang War Zone, with Lin Feng as the commander and Xue Hua as the police commissioner. The headquarters is located in Xingzhou.
In addition, Liang Qin will serve as the CEO of the India region, Liu Zhengqi will serve as the CEO of the Middle East region, Tang Baolu will serve as the CEO of the West Africa region, and Yu Ben will serve as the CEO of the East Africa region.
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Ten days later, Sebastian took more than 10,000 Portuguese people in Malacca on fifty large and small sailing ships and set off from the city of Malacca.
At the same time, there were also 220 Coast Guard warships and a supply fleet of 100 ocean-going cargo ships that set off, stretching for 20 to 30 miles.
This huge fleet carried a total of 60,000 Ming men.
Sixty thousand men sailed to the Western Ocean, finally surpassing the size of Zheng He¡¯s fleet!
Among them, in addition to the 20,000 volunteer officers and soldiers who are going to fight in Europe, there are also 20,000 troops who are preparing to take over the ports, strongholds, and fortresses along the wayincluding 5,000 coast guard soldiers and 15,000 soldiers from Luzon and Taiwan. .
The 20,000 officers and soldiers are all the troops belonging to the two theaters.
In addition, there are 10,000 Royal Shipping and South China Sea shipping crews in the transport fleet. As well as 10,000 employees drawn from Jiangnan Group, Nanhai Group, Xishan Group and major overseas territories. Under the leadership of the four major presidents, they will be responsible for getting the port cities they took over to resume operations as soon as possible and provide the volunteer fleet with as much support as possible. Ensure it is nearby to reduce the terrible logistical pressure.
The remaining 80 warships will be divided into two fleets, stationed in the Strait of Malacca and the Strait of Sunda, and will be under the command of the Nanyang Theater.
In the end, the entire coast guard force was reduced to a few frigates, patrol boats and swordfish galleys, cruising in the thousands of miles of sea territory from Ainu Island in the north to Java Island in the south.
This operation of unprecedented scale, scope, and cost is called the "Whale Swallowing Plan"!
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