1890 King of Southeast Asia

On April 4, 1891, a strange fleet slowly entered Surabaya Port. This fleet had fifteen ships. The most striking was four cruisers outside the fleet. This is a patrol team of the Beiyang Fleet.

The reason why they arrived in Surabaya on April 4th was because of the 11 vessels around them. They were equipped with thousands of South China soldiers and some heavy equipment, and they came here from Badavia or Sanbao Romans.

"This! Is this Surabaya?" Deng Shichang was getting closer to Surabaya, and he was more surprised.

At this time, Surabaya is no longer the city that used the processing of business and agricultural products as the pillars. Because of the establishment of South China, the trade status of Surabaya has continued to decline, but the installation of a large number of industrial equipment, especially steel plants, chemical plants, power plants, and power plants A high chimney has been erected, and it has the taste of industrial cities. Greatly stimulated Deng Shichang.

"Yes, it is not as big as Badavia, so magnificent, but it is more Chinese." Liu Yiming said.

The fleet relied on Hong Kong, and Liu Yiming was the first, almost flying to the ship, because he saw a shadow, a petite figure ...

"Do you miss me?" Liu Yiming rushed up and hugged Zhang Kou, who was red, and asked with apologetic.

Zhang Pan didn't answer, but just hugged Liu Yiming tightly.

"Good, I have something to do, can I give me a little bit?" For a long time, Liu Yiming remembered that he had something to do and had to do it.

Zhang Yiyi reluctantly let go of Liu Yiming, and then looked up. Liu Yiming looked at his eyes red, and his nose was also red. Zhang Pomano, who felt distressed and wiped her tears.

"Wipe, and with me, I met a few new friends." Liu Yiming said.

"Don't, you just want to look at others ugly, ignore you." Who knew that Zhang Gan's brain circuit was like this, he stepped on Liu Yiming and ran back to the carriage.

Seeing Zhang Pan on the carriage, Liu Yiming had time to turn around to see a few people who were abandoned.

Fortunately, Deng Shichang and others fought with the officials of South China after getting off the ship. Well, in response to Liu Yiming's strong request, Chen Jiangtao, Liu Wanhua and other heads on the head of the president did not come forward, but waited anxiously in the government affairs department. This time, a crowd led by Zhang Wentao's intermediate official transformed by the owner of the plantation garden and businessman.

It can be seen that business touts are familiar with these old fritters ...

Liu Yiming went up and greeted everyone to go to the hotel. Well, the hotel where Charles once lived changed to a state -owned hotel, which was specially used to receive officials or guests who came to Surabaya.

It is worth mentioning that only Deng Shichang took two guards to the hotel. The tube belt of the other three ships returned to the ship after the wind banquet, and the sailor was not allowed to get off the ship.

After the guest of the guest was full of the wind banquet, the time had arrived at night, and Liu Yiming walked back.

"Everyone, what are you doing here? The weirdness at night is scary!" Liu Yiming just returned home and opened the courtyard door, but found that the people in the yard were in the yard and almost didn't call it out.

Take a closer look, Huo, all of them.

"Yiming, the telegram can't be clear, the big guy just wants to hear, what is this Die clear?" Liu Wanhua stood up from a small bench and asked Liu Yiming.

"Die Qing's idea is of course destroying South China." Liu Yiming said.

"What is going on? Let's have another port besiege? Let's leave a little more boat this time, and this sailor can also stay." The Minister of Civil Affairs Yang Wenjie compared with his hand with his hands and said two times.

"This ... that's DIE Qing!" Some people said worried.

"What is there? Who can know about the telegram and the port is so blocked?" Someone said.

"Okay, all of them are a little safe!" Liu Yiming listened more and more incorrectly. Is this plan?

"Die Qing wants to hit us, and has little relationship with Beiyang." Liu Yiming said.

"This ... Where does this start?" Chen Jiangtao asked in doubt.

"Die Qing wants to borrow the hands of Beiyang, destroy us, and use our hands to cut the vassal." Liu Yiming said.

"Okay, in short, I plan to have my own plan. You don't understand, let the young people do it." Liu Yiming drank wine, thinking of his wife, a little impatient.

A group of people wanted to get angry, but if they thought about it, they really couldn't understand, and then thought that there was a child who had a child who was committed to the heavy responsibility, extinguished the thoughts, and left.

Squeak ~

Liu Yiming pushed open the door and leaned into his head.

"Grapefruit ~ Xiaoguzu ~ Are you there?" Without seeing Zhang Kou, Liu Yiming shouted.

"You are back!" The surprised voice sounded from behind Liu Yiming.

Liu Yiming looked back, Zhang Kou was also holding tea in his hand, and there were several little girls next to him, all of them were tea, and wanted to give those elders.

"Where's Dad and Uncle and Uncle?" Zhang Pan asked in surprise.

"Oh, they have something to do, go home, elbow to enter the house with me." Liu Yiming took the tea and pulled Zhang Pomelo to drill into the room.

"Don't make trouble, there are still people!" Zhang Pan said as shy when he pushed halfway.

Inside the room, Liu Yiming sat on the bed, hugged Zhang Pomious on his leg, looked at her eyes, and joked.

"I have gone for so long, do you miss me?"

Zhang Yu was held by Liu Yiming, his eyes turned around, and he dared not look at Liu Yiming's eyes.

"No, who would miss you ..."

"Really?"

"Really! It's really better than pearls!" Zhang Pomanto raised his head, "Actually, there is a little bit, just a little bit."

Liu Yiming looked at Zhang You, whose neck was red, and teased.

"But I miss you..."

"What do you miss about me?" Zhang You asked with a look of "I don't want to hear it, I don't want to hear it".

"I miss your smell, your voice, especially the sound of your cat meowing~" Liu Yiming said with a sly smile.

"Hate, hate..." Zhang You jumped away and wanted to get into the quilt. But Liu Yiming grabbed her and held her in his arms again, but now she was lying on her side.

"Hubby~ Can you be gentler..." Zhang You was confused by Liu Yiming's breathing, and her last stubbornness made her say.

"I still like your unruly look." Liu Yiming teased.

At this time, it was spring and flowers were blooming. Although there was no spring in the equatorial region, the flowers still came...

In the next few days, Liu Yiming accompanied Zhang You to make up for the debt of going out on a long journey just after the wedding. Of course, it was inevitable to talk about business. Liu Yiming could still control it, but Zhang You, who had tasted the marrow and tasted the taste, was at a good age.

"I've been hurt by alcohol and sex, and I'm so haggard. From today on, I'll quit drinking!" Liu Yiming looked at himself in the mirror and recited Lu Bu's famous quote.

"Have a good rest, I'm leaving first." Early in the morning, Liu Yiming said to the dazed Zhang You, who snorted to show that he understood.

It's been three days, and it's not that they haven't done anything in these three days. In fact, Wang Yang and Deng Shichang are in direct contact, and Zhao Dabao is in charge of the familiarization training.

The most important task is to familiarize yourself with the joint land and sea operations, which is the first time in the world. The simplest version is Liu Yiming's excerpt from the manual. Liu Yiming diluted part of the idea of ​​joint infantry and artillery operations into steps and distributed them to the captains of the four warships. The Zhiyuan ship was managed by the first mate, and Deng Shichang and Liu Yiming jointly commanded.

"Let's go!" Liu Yiming was calm.

Deng Shichang was excited to give orders, because all the losses in this actual combat exercise were provided by Liu Yiming, including shells and gun barrels.

Shells, the arsenals in Surabaya and Batavia are already able to produce them by themselves, and the gap in 210mm guns is not big. For Nanhua, it is just a trivial matter. It can increase Beiyang's combat power by one point. As for Beiyang's victory? Impossible, Beiyang is already rotten.

"Yiming, what is your purpose?" Deng Shichang asked after the fleet set sail and more than a dozen ships rushed to the east. ps Liu Yiming, Deng Shichang and Charles have a good relationship, and Liu Yiming directly calls Deng Shichang his elder brother.

"Train sailors!" What did Liu Yiming and Deng Shichang want to ask, but what could he say? You come to me, I will give you the position of deputy division commander?

"Only fifty people are arranged for a warship, a total of 200 people. This trip, coal, shells, gunpowder, supplies, and maintenance of the warships, plus the 200,000 taels you promised. The purpose is these 200 people, I don't believe it." Deng Shichang said.

"This is cooperation, I can't let you suffer a loss, big brother." Liu Yiming thought for a while, "However, big brother is strict in military management, I still have something to say."

"What?" Deng Shichang thought Liu Yiming was going to reveal something.

"The Han people have been closed for hundreds of years, it is not easy to have a navy. If you encounter an extraordinary situation, I hope that big brother will remain useful. If you save people and lose land, both people and land will be saved. If you save land and lose people, both people and land will be lost." Liu Yiming said.

Deng Shichang chewed on Liu Yiming's words repeatedly, "Yiming still doesn't think highly of us... But, a man is upright, how can he live in disgrace?" Deng Shichang thought silently in his heart. Along the way, the two did not talk.

"We're here! It's in front. By the way, the scenery of this island is nice. I want to build a villa here in the future." Charles didn't rush into the command tower until he approached Bali. He was usually on the deck. In his words, he was a grassroots officer and his battlefield was at the grassroots.

"Joint operations, start!" Liu Yiming glanced at Deng Shichang, who nodded easily and acquiesced to Liu Yiming's command. Just kidding, he's the sponsor.

Signal flares, signal flags, all kinds of things, passed between the fleets.

The four ships of Zhijing Jinglai and two gunboats and a heavy frigate of Nanhua went forward. On the merchant ship, the small boat was put down, and the soldiers were lightly equipped, paddling desperately, rushing to the shore.

"That's it?" Deng Shichang looked at the so-called enemy with a telescope.

The breast wall made of mud, a simple diamond fort, looked like there were only a hundred people.

"It's mainly for training soldiers. The lowest intensity of war is more useful than the strongest intensity of training." Liu Yiming said with a smile.

"You come to give the order!" Deng Shichang sighed and went to chew on Liu Yiming's words again. This Liu Yiming always speaks shockingly, but sometimes he seems to have never read a book.

"Fire the other side to cover the landing troops." The messenger immediately converted Liu Yiming's order into flag signals, and the cannons of the seven warships began to aim.

The front main gun of the Zhiyuan ship was a twin-mounted 210 Krupp cannon.

"Ready, fire!"

Boom! The two guns made a loud noise at the same time!

Bomm! Two explosions were heard.

"Left + 3 high and low minus 1, reload!" The gunner stood next to the main gun and shouted.

"Ready, fire!"

Boom!

Before that, the 210mm 35-caliber main guns of Jingyuan, Jingyuan, and Laiyuan roared one after another, and the 140-kilogram shrapnel shells hit the heads of the Bali defenders. The poor Dutch did not consider the problem of the South China Navy at all. They only had two 80-pound muzzle-loading rifled guns that were urgently allocated, and they didn't have time to fire a single shot.

"Boris, what's going on outside?" Inside the burg, the lieutenant deputy company commander asked the company commander who had just run in.

"The Chinese are coming!" Boris threw his hat and looked for the white flag everywhere.

"Harry, have you seen my white flag? I remember I put it in the ammunition box!" Boris looked for it twice but couldn't find it.

"Is it that serious, Boris? At least resist a bit?" Harry climbed up the burg with a disdainful look and observed the enemy situation.

"Oh, God's ass! How can the Chinese have so many warships?" Harry said in surprise.

Before he finished sighing, six 210mm grenades flew in his direction.

boom*6

Two of them hit the burg directly, and the dilapidated burg collapsed more than half immediately. Harry and Boris's dispute could only continue with Satan.

"Report! The Jingyuan ship asked, the target has been destroyed, should we continue to fire?" The messenger ran to the command tower and asked.

"Small and medium caliber guns continue, save the eight-inch guns, there are still many places to hit later." Liu Yiming wanted to continue the bombardment, but Deng Shichang interrupted. He was embarrassed, one shell cost hundreds of taels of silver!

"Also, tell Shen Weiyong that I appreciate his hard work this time. Next time, if you can't hit the first shot in this situation, go to the boiler room to burn the boiler!" Deng Shichang knew that it was not easy to hit the first shot, but others could do it, but you couldn't, so you couldn't.

150 and 75 and smaller caliber naval guns are still continuing. 150 guns are not cheap either, and the cost of one shell is close to 80 taels. However, Sishui has a cluster industry, and with low material and labor costs, the total cost of one shell is only 40 taels.

"It's over." Liu Yiming watched the landing troops reach the landing point and climbed onto the shallows with rifles on his back. The sound of artillery also stopped at this time.

An hour later, the cleanup was completed, and a transport ship docked, dropping off a battalion of the South China Army and taking back the landing troops. This battalion was stationed and clearing Bali, so only Bali would have people stationed there. Other islands were too far away, and there would be no garrison before the navy returned.

"Rest for a night, and continue tomorrow?" Liu Yiming asked Deng Shichang.

Deng Shichang picked up the map, calculated the distance, and said to Liu Yiming: "Speed ​​is the essence of war. After a short rest, we will set off and reach the next target in the early morning of tomorrow. If we move quickly, we can complete two targets tomorrow."

"Do as the eldest brother said, but there is no need to be so anxious. The Dutch dare not speak." Liu Yiming smiled.