Malacca City was originally the royal city of the Sudan Kingdom of Malacca. Later, Malacca City was occupied by the Portuguese, and the Portuguese were driven away by the Chinese.

The Nanyang Fleet imposes tariffs here to provide supplies to the ships coming and going.

Malacca, which guards the Pacific and Indian Ocean channels, also became a temporary gathering place for military use.

The 12th Corps gathered 2,000 soldiers in Malacca, of which 800 were recruited from the mainland and 1,200 were auxiliary soldiers on the Malay Peninsula.

Because of the special nature of the 12th Corps' conquest in the South China Sea, the infantry of this Corps is different from the other eleven infantry corps. They usually train mountain combat and rainforest combat to adapt to the complex tropical terrain of the South China Sea.

In addition to 2,000 imperial soldiers, there were 1,000 warriors and mercenaries from Japan, totaling 3,000.

Malacca gathered not only soldiers used to fight against Aceh Sudan, but also more than 20 large and small ships used to deploy this group of troops, as well as oil squads that explore oil fields.

This oil squad is a exploration squad dispatched from the first oil refinery in Borneo.

When Chu Yun started oil technology, he summoned a refinery of Royal Shell Oil in Borneo.

There is a complete set of early mining and oil extraction techniques, as well as corresponding geologists and oil talents.

In addition to mining the first batch of oil fields for the Jiuzhou Army in Borneo, the summoned oil refineries are also opening oil training classes to cultivate oil talents of this era.

Currently, Royal Shell Oil Company has trained the first graduate oil talents. Some of this group of talents have been sent to Malacca City to prepare to go to Sumatra to explore oil.

The Southeast Asian archipelago now has the biggest profits of spices, and plantations of various tropical cash crops are emerging. But no one can think that after the plantation, this place will still be an important oil output.

Sumatra, Java, and Borneo have huge oil reserves.

Occupying the oil field in advance and making arrangements for the upcoming fuel era - of course, this idea is only in the hands of Chu Yun, a few people. As for others, even Huang Degong, Lihua Zhongmao and others who are about to attack Aceh this time, they don’t know how important oil will be. Just like many people who plant rubber trees do not know where the rubber produced by rubber trees is used, they only know that the government is very precious to these things.

"The officers and soldiers of each team are already in place and can set out for Aceh!" The corps adviser of the 12th Corps reported to Huang Degong.

"This time, I brought a 12-pound cannon, two 6-pound cannons, and a hand-crank machine gun. As a backup, 300 muskets and two 3-pound cannons. However, if you want to go deep into the expected location this time, the movement of the cannons is probably a problem. Try to fight as close as possible to the coast. When landing, you will first send a team to sweep the coastal area and then build an artillery position." The staff member took the list of supplies given by the logistics department, pondered for a while, and suggested to Huang Degong.

"The battle is divided into three stages. The first stage is to occupy a small village called Medan, use this lowland to develop plantations for the city, and build our base on Sumatra, which will be the second Batavia."

"The second stage was to use Medan as a base to escort the oil team to a place where the locals pronounced Ponkaransusu, and find oil fields in the jungle, which is about 140 miles northwest of Medan. Because the distance is too far, it is not realistic to directly lead the oil near Ponkaransusu from land to Medan. Fortunately, the oil fields in the jungle are only 20 miles away from nearby rivers. An oil refinery can be established in a nearby port. The exploited oil is first transported to the refinery through pipelines, and then the refinery will transport the refined products back to the mainland by sea."

"The third phase was to build a battalion in Medan, build fortresses near oil fields and refineries, and send permanent garrisons to maintain roads and pipelines. Our enemies were mainly indigenous troops led by Queen Alan of Aceh and the nobles of the country. Although the purpose of our battle was not to destroy their main forces, Medan and Ponkaransusu were both within the control of the State of Aceh."

Huang Degong set three phases of combat goals based on the purpose of this combat.

Aceh was the most powerful Sudan country on Sumatra, and surrendered to the Ottoman Empire. He also once challenged the Portuguese stationed in Malacca.

After the Kyushu army replaced the Portuguese, Aceh still wanted to control the Strait of Malacca, but was defeated by the 12th Corps. The king of Aceh failed and was captured while fighting the 12th Corps, and was then ordered to be executed by Huang Degong. The queen was pushed to the throne by the nobles and was called Queen Alan by Aceh. She led her army to continue to resist the infiltration of the Kyushu army into Sumatra.

"Does our mercenaries have additional firearms?" Tachibana came from Japan to assist the 12th Corps, and asked Huang Degong for a batch of firearms with shamelessness.

"District 100 muskets to the mercenaries from the spare firearm, a 3-pound cannon." Huang Degong said to the logistics officer of the logistics department.

"Thank you very much!" Tachihua Zhongmao had long wanted to command an army as elite as the Jiuzhou Army. When he saw Huang Degong, he was very excited to send him a batch of firearms.

Since the recruitment came to warriors who had been on the battlefield, Tadashi Takahara easily selected 100 samurai who were good at using muskets from the samurai they hired, and more than a dozen samurai with experience in operating artillery were responsible for the three-pound artillery.

The three-pound cannon may not be very powerful in the empires where artillery was widely used, but it was relatively light in weight and was sufficient to deal with the Aceh state. This was just a spare cannon. Huang Degong saw that Li Hua Zhongmao planned to strengthen the combat capabilities of the mercenaries, so he handed a 3-pound field cannon to Li Hua Zhongmao.

"There are many places on Sumatra Island in jungles, rainforests, and mountains. Once it rains, firearms are even more difficult to use, so your mercenaries should pay special attention to hand-to-hand combat. I will allocate this batch of firearms to you just to make your troops more combative. Never rely too much on firearms and exert your hand-to-hand combat capabilities. This is the purpose of your recruitment here." Huang Degong reminded.

"Hi!" Tadashi Tadashi Tadashi said solemnly.

This mixed force composed of Chinese soldiers, Japanese warriors and Malay auxiliary soldiers crossed the Strait of Malacca with the help of the Nanyang Fleet's troop transport ships and landed in Bela Bay near Medan Village.

The wind was calm and they did not encounter obstacles from the Aceh fleet on the sea. The reason was very simple. The indigenous fleet of Aceh had long been completely sunk by the gunships of the South China Fleet, and the Strait of Malacca and the nearby waters were completely shrouded under the control of the South China Fleet.
Chapter completed!