In August of the second year of Tianqi, Zheng Zhilong's Chinese army and Chinese militia totaled more than 6,000 people. After a month of fighting, which was actually burning, killing and destroying all the way, they finally reunited with the Nanyang Fleet and the Nanyang Detachment of the Taiwan Fleet on the coast of Pattani. At this time, there were a total of two three-masted battleships of the Chinese Navy, more than ten schooner battleships, more than ten Fuchuan gunboats, and nearly a hundred various auxiliary ships on the sea.
The Queen of Pattani was escorted all the way north, and saw with her own eyes that Malay villages and towns along the way were burned to the ground, countless indigenous people were killed, and countless indigenous people were made prisoners. On both sides of the Chinese army's march northward, within a few dozen miles It was almost turned into a no man's land by the Chinese militia.
In Johor, Sultan Mahvisa II of Johor organized his few remaining troops to resist. As a result, they were attacked by Zheng Zhilong's troops and the Mai Hai naval fleet in the South China Sea.
The history of the Johor Sultanate is closely related to the Chinese. It is the direct descendant of the Malacca Sultanate that was founded with the support of Zheng He. After Malacca was occupied by the Portuguese in 1511, Sultan Mahmoud Shah fled to Johor Bintan Island and established the Johor Dynasty. , Sultan Mahmud Shah attempted to recapture Malacca from the Portuguese. The Portuguese finally sent a fleet from Goa, India, to attack and destroy Bintan Island in 1526. Sultan Mahmud Shah fled in panic to Kampar, Sumatra and in 1528 After his death at the age of 18, his eldest son Sultan Alauddin II (uddin Riayat Shah II) inherited the will and founded the Johor dynasty with the royal lineage of Malacca (there are also historical records that Sultan Mahmoud Shah was the founder of the Johor dynasty), with the capital in old Johor (Malay: Johor Lama), implemented a theocratic government based on Islamic teachings; his brother Sultan Muzaffar Shah went to Perak to establish a new dynasty.
In addition to dealing with Portugal, the Johor Dynasty also had to deal with Aceh, the powerful enemy in northern Sumatra.
The three parties attacked each other, and the Johor dynasty mostly had the upper hand. In 1564, the Acehnese attacked Johor, and the Johor country was plundered. Sultan Alauddin II was also kidnapped, and was subsequently killed in Aceh. Fifty years later During the year, several humiliating incidents occurred in Johor, in which the capital was burned down by Aceh and the Sultan was kidnapped. Johor once controlled Johor, Riau and part of Sumatra. After the Second Nanyang War, when the Chinese army captured Malacca, the Sultan of Johor It can only govern the southernmost piece of land on the Malay Peninsula.
This time, the Sultanate of Johor, following Aceh's anti-China campaign, ushered in another robbery. This time, the royal family members of the Johor dynasty could not escape. Sultan Mahvisa II personally led troops to resist the Chinese army and was captured outside the city of Johor. The Chinese fleet was killed by artillery fire; the eldest prince Yi Praxing was captured on the last day of the siege of Malacca, and the second prince was killed when the Taiwanese Marines in Mai Dahai bombarded the palace with thunderbolts.
Zheng Zhilong's troops hated the betrayal of the Johor people very much, because many soldiers of the Malacca garrison bought houses locally, and their property losses were great. The biggest culprit was the bandit-like Johor army. Therefore, Zheng Zhilong used it as a mission to track down the fleeing Johor Prime Minister. For this reason, after ordering a thorough search of Johor, his troops and militiamen carried out a thorough looting and massacre of Johor, a large-scale ethnic cleansing. They broke into the homes of indigenous residents at will, burned, killed and looted, or attacked local Chinese people. Leading the way, they broke into the homes of noble lords and ransacked their properties. When encountering resistance from the landowners and nobles, the soldiers of the Malacca Garrison used cannons to blast the people and houses into pieces. Only those Johor businessmen who had good relations with the Chinese and overseas Chinese were able to escape. Hiding among those wealthy Chinese merchants, or hiding in Chinese merchant houses.
During this Malay anti-Chinese rebellion, the Chinese in Johor suffered property losses, and the Chinese business building was looted by the Johor Sultanate's Guards. However, the personal safety of the Chinese was not violated, and basically no one was killed. Therefore, When Zheng Zhilong's troops began to loot the entire city, some Johoreans were protected by the Chinese and survived.
After a long period of massacre, in the middle of the night, the militiamen first began to find it troublesome - shooting, bayoneting, and macheting these unresisting people was too troublesome. Some Chinese militia groups (the main members of which were former pirates) The militiamen tied a large group of indigenous people, regardless of gender, old or young, together into a long human chain. After being forced to the beach, the militiamen lit large bundles of grenades and threw them into the crowd, blasting the crowd alive into a bloody mess. Piles of corpses.
The fire burned all night long in Johor City. The bodies of the killed Johor natives were dumped on the roadside. The blood of tens of thousands of corpses dyed the Johor beach red in the morning sun.
Part of the fleet commanded by Mai Dahai comes from the Taiwan Fleet and part belongs to the Nanyang Fleet. It has only been a year since Malacca became the main base of the Nanyang Fleet. They were originally stationed in Jakarta and Manila. Therefore, the Chinese Navy has no personal grudges against Johor. They defend Malacca The behavior of the regiment and the militiamen was very surprised. Mai Dahai sent people ashore overnight and finally found Zheng Zhilong in the Johor Royal Palace amid a sea of swords and blood. He warned Zheng Zhilong that many indigenous businessmen in Johor had trade relations with Chinese companies. Zheng Yiguan If you want to take revenge, that's fine, but don't harm the company's interests.
At this time, the news that Zheng Zhilong's uncle Huang Qian was implicated in the imperial court rape case had not yet reached Malacca.
Zheng Zhilong still had to take care of the face of the ship owner's brother-in-law. He himself felt that this purge was a bit too much. After all, with the troops he had on hand, it was impossible to clear out all the natives. After the matter was settled, These natives were still the labor force of Chinese estates and factories, and would also be the tax targets of the Malacca Governorate. Zheng Zhilong suddenly felt that he might have made a mistake, and quickly ordered an end to the large-scale manhunt in Johor.
However, at this moment, the murderous Chinese militiamen could no longer suppress their desires. Even some units of the Malacca Garrison Corps of the Chinese Army participated in large-scale massacres and looting operations. Military Supervision Department personnel sent out to announce orders and reiterate military discipline even Participated in robberies and massacres.
Zheng Zhilong spent two full days to clean up the situation.
Relying on the personnel of the Military Supervision Department of the Navy and the 500 marines sent by Mai Dahai from the fleet, Zheng Zhilong finally restored order in Johor City and surrounding areas. He executed several small leaders of the pioneer militia and publicly beat them. However, Zheng Zhilong used wartime needs as an excuse to prevent military judges from investigating the Chinese army officers who participated in the robbery and massacre. No one in the Malacca garrison was punished by military law.
After staying in Johor for five days, Zheng Zhilong's troops began to move northward. Mai Dahai's naval fleet had unmoored and set sail northward to the coast of Pattani the day before.
The legendary founding monarch of Pattani was a queen. From then on, queens often appeared in this small country with a majority of Muslims. Starting from the 13th century, Pattani surrendered to the Siamese Russell Kothai dynasty, and then to the Ayutthaya dynasty. In addition to paying tribute, the internal affairs were still independent. It once paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty called it Dadi. In the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, Dadi was a vassal state of Siam and belonged to the grandsons, so it did not take it seriously. During the Jiajing and Longqing years Many Chinese pirates could not survive in the country, so they came to Pattani from the dock. For example, the famous pirate Zeng Benben came to Pattani. After converting to Islam, he became the local customs chief and even cast cannons for the Queen of Pattani. , this time the Nanyang Malays rebelled against China, a few of these cannons were used to attack the city of Malacca where the Chinese were stationed.
Because there are many Chinese in the country to help, whenever Siam is weak, Pattani will try to stand on its own.
Pattani is the hub of the east-west voyage. In the Song Dynasty, there were trade relations with China and India. There were many Chinese immigrants. Before the 16th century, Chinese sailing ships carried goods such as ceramics and silk, textiles from India, and Pattani over long distances. Pepper, gold and other local products from nearby countries gathered here and were exchanged with each other. Local merchants transported the goods to Java, Sumatra and Makassar in Sulawesi and other places.
The trade between the West and Pattani was pioneered by the Portuguese, followed by Dutch and British merchants. In 1601, the Dutch United East India Company established its first commercial office here. In 1612, the British East India Company's merchant ships also came here to trade and set up a commercial office. , after the Second Nanyang War, the Chinese army forcibly drove the Portuguese and British merchant houses out of Pattani. In recent years, Chinese companies have become dominant in Southeast Asia and monopolized trade between the East and the West. The people of Pattani were therefore jealous of the Chinese. This time in Nanyang When the Malay rebellion first started, Pattani was already ready to take action.
Siam, the nominal sovereign state of Pattani, never thought of fighting the Chinese company a few years ago. Before the Second Nanyang War, the Portuguese, Dutch and British business houses stood side by side with the Chinese business houses in Ayutthaya. Trade prospered and taxes increased year by year. At this time, the Chinese company did not have the strength to completely control the Gulf of Thailand.
In the past few years, the Chinese Company has controlled the Strait of Malacca. Only the Portuguese can enter the area east of the Strait of Malacca for trade. Therefore, the Dutch and British in Ayutthaya were driven away by the Chinese, and all overseas trade was conducted by the Chinese. Due to the monopoly of the merchant houses and the Portuguese, the Siamese were forced to suppress the prices of goods and suffered a lot. Now, Siam can only visit the northwest tip of the Malay Peninsula, the Indian Ocean side of the Strait of Malacca, which is the tourist destination of Pudong in another time and space. The coastal area of Ji Dao does some business with Western white people. Since this place is thousands of miles away from Ayutthaya and transportation is inconvenient, the trade situation is not ideal.
During the same period, Siam's mortal enemy, Myanmar, faced the Indian Ocean and Chinese companies were not yet able to monopolize maritime trade in the Indian Ocean. Therefore, the Kingdom of Myanmar became a golden treasure land in the eyes of Europeans. A large number of Europeans entered the coast of Myanmar, and Myanmar became a hub for entrepot trade. The biggest gainer.
The Siamese were so jealous that they took advantage of the Malays to cause trouble in Southeast Asia and provided money and weapons to encourage the Pattani people to attack Malacca.
Instigated by the boss of the suzerain country behind her, Pattani was instigated by the boss of the suzerain country behind the loss of interests, jealousy and hatred, and immediately raised the banner of anti-Chinese companies. After the news of Aceh's troops in Malacca came, the Queen of Pattani immediately sent troops to attack the local Chinese businessmen. The Chinese business building in Pattani was caught off guard and was immediately captured. Dozens of members of the business guard were killed. All the Chinese businessmen in the business building were arrested and all their belongings were looted.
Then, Queen Pattani received a reward from the Kingdom of Siam, a batch of matchlock guns and ammunition produced in Siam. Then, Queen Pattani personally led a team and set off south to attack the city of Malacca.
Finally, the Queen of Pattani surrendered to the Chinese with her entire army. She herself was taken as a prisoner and was trapped in a prison cart pulled by a donkey along the way back to Pattani.