The fall of Colombo and the defeat of the Dutch immediately set off a storm in the Indian Ocean, causing many people to talk about it.
Naturally, the first to bear the brunt was the Dutch themselves who were greatly frightened!
Since the Dutch defeated the Portuguese a few years ago and seized the island of Ceylon and the large Portuguese colonies in India, they have prided themselves on being the largest colonial country in India with strong strength.
Even though they had just suffered a defeat in the East Indies, which caused the Dutch's strength to decline, they were still strong in the Indian Ocean. Colonists from other European countries simply could not compare with them.
As the saying goes, the Portuguese have declined and can only survive in Goa. Although European countries such as Denmark, Sweden and even France have successively established the so-called East India Company, they can only set up a trading stronghold or a small Just a colony.
On the other hand, England developed relatively rapidly in India. It occupied Bombay early and relied on Bombay to rapidly expand its power in India.
But even the British could not compare with the Dutch at this time.
During this period, the Dutch were still very confident in the Indian region...but this was only limited to facing other European counterparts. When the Dutch faced the Chu Empire, their mentality was different.
Therefore, the Dutch in other colonies were extremely panicked when they heard that the Chu army had captured the city of Colombo... This reminded them of the disastrous defeat in the East Indies a few years ago.
Back then, the Chu army captured the city of Batavia first, which directly led to the Dutch being forced to completely withdraw from the East Indies.
The Dutch East India Company, which lost the city of Batavia, also lost its rule over the East Indies. This does not mean that it will not withdraw if it wants to.
Now the Chu Empire has captured the strategic location of Colombo. You must know that the Dutch East India Company just moved its headquarters to Colombo a few years ago. As a result, the company headquarters was robbed by the Chu people again.
What happens next?
Almost all the Dutch can predict that the Chu Empire will take the city of Colombo as the center and fully capture the other Dutch colonies on the island of Ceylon, and will most likely attack many Dutch colonies on the Indian Peninsula.
In fact, the Dutch were right. The Chu army did exactly that. After taking the city of Colombo, they rested for two days and then began to attack other coastal colonies on Ceylon under the control of the Dutch.
The Dutch were very angry that the Chu people attacked them again and directly attacked the city of Colombo. They scolded the Chu people for not being trustworthy. You must know that the Batavia Armistice Treaty signed by the Dutch and the Chu Empire was still there. Not a few years away. As a result, it changed hands and was torn apart by the Chu people.
There is no manner of civilized people, and they actually go to war without declaring...
If the people of the Chu Empire knew what the Dutch were thinking, they would be too lazy to pay attention to these European barbarians.
The Batavia Armistice Treaty only targeted the East Indies War. According to the armistice treaty, the Chu Empire released Dutch prisoners of war and allowed East India Company executives and other personnel to evacuate with their personal belongings. In exchange, the Dutch completely gave up their war on the East Indies. ownership of the Indian Islands and a commitment not to enter the South China Sea and a series of conditions.
And none of these conditions are related to India.
As for the armistice... it was indeed an armistice at that time, but the current war is a new battlefield.
Therefore, strictly speaking, the Chu Empire did not violate the Batavia Armistice Treaty. On the contrary, it has always strictly abided by it and took full control of the East Indies in accordance with the treaty.
Therefore, it is pure nonsense for the Dutch to say that the Chu Empire tore up the Treaty of Batavia.
It cannot be said that after signing an armistice treaty, the two sides will not be able to go to war in the future: How can there be such a good thing in the world...
As for war without declaring it... it must be clear that the Chu Empire actually issued relevant declarations of war!
But this declaration of war was different from the declaration of war that would be familiar to later generations.
The declaration of war in the understanding of later generations is an ultimatum or declaration of war document submitted to the other country through formal diplomatic channels, such as an ambassador. The state of war starts from the official declaration of war!
But in the history of the Chu Empire, there has never been such a thing as a serious declaration of war being sent to the empire.
After all, they were ready to beat someone up, and they sent diplomats to risk being detained and killed to send a declaration of war to a hostile country. This kind of thing seemed a bit silly to the monarchs and ministers of the Chu Empire... It was stupid, so forget it. Fee diplomat.
Therefore, after the army kills them, they often submit an ultimatum or the like depending on the situation, and this kind of ultimatum is often the kind that makes the other party surrender completely...
It is better to say it is a declaration of war than a surrender letter.
For example, when they attacked the Fuso people, they sent an ultimatum in advance. For example, when they attacked several indigenous countries in Southeast Asia, they also issued ultimatums. They also issued an ultimatum when they attacked Batavia. .
But this kind of ultimatum is a bit nondescript and cannot be regarded as a very formal declaration of war.
As for the several times in the past when they targeted the Geer and even the Russians, let alone a declaration of war, the two sides did not even have formal diplomatic contact. They just started filming when they were ready... Who cares about the declaration of war?
Therefore, when it comes to whether to declare war to the outside world, the Dachu Empire actually has little experience. At most, it has issued a few ultimatums. Such ultimatums are often issued only when the troops are approaching the enemy's city.
However, internally, the Da Chu Empire will publish more formal crusade documents through the Da Chu Di newspaper. These crusade documents are all for its own people. As long as they beautify their motives for sending troops and enjoy a bright future, Let the public support the military's external expansion.
Specific to the Battle of Colombo, the Da Chu Empire had already released relevant news through the Da Chu Di newspaper in July, informing the public that the military would launch a large-scale battle in the Indian Ocean region.
As for whether the Dutch saw these notices, it has nothing to do with the Chu people.
In addition, when they approached Colombo, the Chu army also sent an ultimatum to the Dutch East India Company executives in Colombo, demanding that the Dutch immediately surrender completely and unconditionally.
So you Dutch people say that the Chu people engage in undeclared war and shameless sneak attacks, but the Chu people don't recognize it.
And let's put it bluntly... The Chu Empire's war preparations have never been secretive, and a huge fleet set off from the mainland all the way to the Indian Peninsula.
That's a total of several hundred ships... Especially when the Third Task Force came over, the entire fleet reached more than two hundred ships!
There was no hiding the fact that such a large fleet was on the sea, but any ship sailing the Indian Ocean route would basically know that the Chu people were going to fight.
When the 31st Squadron went south to Ceylon, nearly a hundred ships headed south in a swaggering manner, but there was never any sneak attack.
Therefore, in response to some accusations and shouts by the Dutch, the Chu people who heard them just smiled slightly and said at most: Complaining and accusing are the actions of incompetent people!
A real strong man would go right up and fuck him!
This is what the Chu people did. After capturing the city of Colombo, they landed in succession and captured several other Dutch coastal colonial cities on the island of Ceylon amid the accusations and panic of the Dutch.
In just a few months, all the Dutch territory on the island of Ceylon belonged to the Chu people!
The dragon flag of the Chu Empire replaced the red, white and blue flag of the Dutch and flew in various coastal port cities on the island of Ceylon.
With the flying of the dragon flag, the Chu army gradually occupied and controlled most of the coastal port cities in Ceylon, leaving only the inland areas of the island still under the control of the Kandy Dynasty.
Naturally, the Great Chu Empire did not intend to retain the Kandy Dynasty... The Great Chu Empire wanted to turn Ceylon Island directly into its direct territory and conduct large-scale immigration to ensure the comprehensive protection of this strategically important island. control.
Therefore, the indigenous people on the island cannot stay.
In fact, while the Chu army was clearing out the Dutch on the island, they also launched an attack on the indigenous people on the island. However, the combat effectiveness of the islands on Ceylon was too poor. They could not even defeat the Dutch before, let alone confront them. Now he is a native of Chu.
They reluctantly organized 20,000 people to fight against the Chu army, but they couldn't even make the Chu army change their original battle plan. The attacking force of about 3,000 people simply wiped out the main indigenous force. This also completely broke the foundation of the Kandy Dynasty!
Just five days later, the Kandy Dynasty sued for peace and tried to maintain its independent status by ceding territory... But the Chu Empire had never been patient with such small indigenous countries.
Not even bothering to talk, the army just looked over and completely wiped out this Kandy dynasty.
Facilitate subsequent immigration!
After the official influence of the Kandy dynasty is eliminated, the civil service system will naturally organize immigration and reclamation affairs in the future, without the military having to worry about it.
What the military has to do is to kill the local organized indigenous forces in advance.
Looking at it now, the effect is quite good!
The indigenous forces on the island of Ceylon did not affect the Chu army's series of actions in the Indian region.
This series of actions by the Chu army not only panicked the Dutch, but also panicked the colonists of other European countries.
Because they soon discovered that the Chu people not only attacked the Dutch, but also the Danes, Swedes, French and Portuguese.
All the colonies on the east coast of the Indian Peninsula, no matter how big or small, were attacked by the Chu army one after another.
Not even the Dutch could stop the Chu army's attack, not to mention the colonists from other countries. One after another, colonies controlled by European colonists fell into the hands of Chu.
By October, there were no European colonies left on the entire east coast of India. Instead, the dragon flag of the Chu Empire was flying over many colonial port cities.
Not to mention this, the Chu Empire's navy forcefully blocked the Palk Strait, prohibiting all ships from other countries from passing through.
And issued a new Western Trade Regulations, requiring that trade between ships in the area west of the Palk Strait and the Chu Empire can only be conducted in the Port of Colombo on the Island of Ceylon.
The Port of Colombo replaced the former Port of Malacca and became the only trading port facing the west of the Chu Empire.
Of course, it is still during the war, and the East India Company ships from various European countries will not go to Colombo, Ceylon, to trade at this time, but... what about the future?
The war will always stop, and business will have to continue after the war is over, so Colombo will play a greater role at that time.
In addition, the trading partners of the Da Chu Empire were not only European countries, but also some countries in West Asia and Indian indigenous people. These indigenous people used to sail to Malacca and the Da Chu Empire in primitive and backward ships to trade.
But in the future, they can only trade with Colombo on the island of Ceylon.
Blocking the Palk Strait is an established policy of the Chu Empire's Indian strategy, which is to completely prohibit and prevent subsequent infiltration and invasion by Western forces.
The reason is the same as the original blockade of the Malacca Strait and the Sunda Strait.
Regardless of the fact that the Palk Strait is wider and more troublesome to blockade, more ships are needed.
But the problem is not big. The engineering troops of the Da Chu Empire Navy have carried out emergency construction at the Port of Colombo to add more berths, and at the same time build various naval base facilities such as coal warehouses, supply warehouses, and maintenance docks.
Supporting subsequent blockade combat missions is not a big problem!
When the Palk Strait was blocked, the Chu army's military operations still did not stop!
After capturing the east coast of India, the Chu army's army and navy cooperated with each other to land and capture the European countries' positions on the west coast of India one by one with dozens of ships and a medium-sized landing fleet with ground forces ranging from 1,000 to 3,000 people. colony.
On October 17, Goa, the last Portuguese colony in the Indian peninsula, was captured by the Chu army. All the senior officials of the Portuguese East India Company in Goa were spared. They either died in the war or were taken prisoner.
In the end, these captured Portuguese East India Company executives were forced to sign the Treaty of Chu-Portugal-Goa.
According to the treaty, the Portuguese East India Company completely gave up its colonial activities in the Indian Peninsula and West Asia, and handed over all colonial sovereignty in the above-mentioned areas to the Chu Empire.
At the same time, a ransom was paid in exchange for the safe return of more than a thousand captives and the evacuation of the company's top executives.
Immediately afterwards, several East India companies with little strength, such as Denmark, Redan, and France, also successively announced that they would give up the colonization of India, and instead signed a treaty with the Dachu Empire to give up the sovereignty of the colony and the subsequent continued trade in the Indian region. Promise, and then exchange for your own life.
In this way, only the Dutch and English are still hanging on!
However, they could not hold out for too long, because after the Chu army captured Goa, they continued to move north. The fleet fought all the way to Bombay, destroying several Dutch and English colonies along the way.
By this time, the Dutch colonies in the Indian peninsula had basically been completely lost... This has to be said to be a very sad thing.
Under the attack of the Chu people, the Dutch lost the East Indies, then India and the colonies on Ceylon... Today's Dutch East India Company, although there are still people with ships, there are also many in Africa Colony, but no longer lives up to its name.
Because they no longer have any colonies in places such as India and Southeast Asia, and they can't even get through by ship.
Such an East India Company naturally did not live up to its name.
The Dutch are finished and now the pressure is on England in Mumbai!
