1890 King of Southeast Asia

The landing went smoothly, and the Dutch seemed to have given up the idea of ​​maintaining a military presence in Borneo. By the beginning of July, all the personnel of the Fifth Division had landed at several points.

The posture and development of the situation in Nanhua frightened the Japanese. The most uncomfortable thing was that after Japan approached Britain, Britain ignored it.

"We didn't allow it, nor did we expect it! Your army is such an army. The British Empire cannot intervene in this matter. You can only wish you good luck!"

This may be the most justified words that Britain said to sell out its teammates.

In Japan, the cabinet is holding an emergency meeting to discuss the current situation.

"Ministry of Foreign Affairs, let me inform you of the current situation first!" Ito Hirobumi said in a deep voice. No one called him by his name, only his position.

He is now in a headache. Under his leadership, Japan is accumulating strength to prepare for war against the Qing Dynasty. But inexplicably, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs got a lot of benefits, the Navy followed suit, and even pulled the Army in in the name of expanding territory...

"In June, the South China Army shamelessly launched dozens of sneak attacks on my heroic imperial army, causing negligible casualties to my army. I suggest that this behavior should be strongly condemned, and troops should be increased to capture the island of Kalimantan."

Foreign Minister Hosokawa Toshio paused and continued.

"Since my army landed in Kalimantan, we have seized gold and silver worth a total of one million pounds, a population of hundreds of thousands, and a territory of 100,000 square kilometers. The most prosperous part of Kalimantan is on the south coast..."

"Enough! Hosokawa Toshio, go back!" Ito Hirobumi couldn't help it. Did you ask me to talk about the international situation and the military situation?

"Prime Minister..." Hosokawa Toshio knelt and bowed.

"Forget it, Ito, he is also for the empire." At this time, the cabinet ushered in a newcomer.

"Yamagata! Are you going to protect this idiot? This idiot should commit seppuku, and I just told him to go back!" Ito said.

"Ito! The war has already begun!" Yamagata Aritomo said in a deep voice.

Ito Hirobumi took a deep breath, sat down again, and leaned on the chair.

"Sit down!" Ito Hirobumi said.

Yamagata Aritomo nodded and found a place to sit down.

"Let's talk about the Navy and Army's predictions for the war!" Ito Hirobumi said.

"Pre-war preparations are all prepared for the Qing Dynasty, so we can only quote the intelligence of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs." The Army looked at the Navy and stood up first.

"The total enemy strength is five divisions, more than 100,000 people, and we have seven divisions, also close to 100,000 people. The strength is equal."

"Weapons and equipment," he paused and looked around, especially the Ministry of Finance and the Navy.

"Nanhua's main equipment is Martini Henry Type V rifles, but according to the results reported from the front line, in addition to Henry Type V rifles, the Nanhua Army is also equipped with a large number of unknown shotguns, a large number of artillery, small manually thrown bombs, and so on."

"Is the Army looking for excuses for its failure?" The Navy spokesperson chuckled.

"You will not be able to laugh soon. Regarding the Nanhua Navy, the parameters of the four cruisers have been given to us by the British. They are on your table if you have read them in advance." The Army spokesperson said sarcastically.

The Navy spokesperson was really embarrassed. He really didn't read them.

"So what is the conclusion drawn by the Army?" Ito asked. He didn't believe that the Army was so simple.

"Reinforce troops!" said the Army spokesperson.

"First, replenish soldiers to keep our army in full strength. If Nanhua continues to increase troops, we need to send five divisions to Kalimantan Island." The Army spokesperson sat down after speaking.

"We only have seven divisions. Sending out five divisions, most of the Army's strength? Not appropriate!" Sure enough, there was a voice of opposition.

"Only five divisions can secure victory. Otherwise, expand the army?" The Minister of the Army said lightly, looking at the spokesperson with a smile.

"The Navy, please speak." Ito Hirobumi waved his hand and looked at the frowning Navy.

"If the intelligence just now is true, the Navy cannot win." The Navy spokesman stood up and said.

"The Empire spends so much money every year to raise a waste." The Army said indifferently.

"Shut up! Keep talking." Ito Hirobumi said.

"Nanhua's four newest warships can run at 22 knots, and our fastest warship can only run at 18 knots. In a naval battle, we can't get close to them, and they can attack us calmly. And it's difficult for us to cause them harm."

"The Navy has three warships equipped with 32mm cannons." The Minister of the Army said.

The Minister of the Navy and the Minister of the Army quarreled, calling each other a stag, which was very lively.

"Is there a way to guarantee the transportation line?" Ito Hirobumi ignored the two people who didn't understand the Navy and asked the spokesman.

"The latest warships ordered by the Empire can beat the opponent in a one-on-one match, but the opponent has four such warships."

"We can only use fleet escort to ensure transportation, and we must ensure that the number is suppressed!"

"Ministry of Finance, where is the funding?" Ito thought about it and asked.

The whole audience fell silent, waiting for the speech.

"The incident happened suddenly. The previous landing operation has already cost 4 million yen. We can only take out 10 million yen in a short time..."

"Only this little money? How to fight?"

"Are we going to give up the land we have worked so hard to conquer? Ask for peace?"

"It is impossible to ask for peace. Is Nanhua willing to make peace?"

When they heard that there was no money, they sighed.

"Activate the special funds!" Yamagata said.

"What?"

"What should I do if the war of Qing?"

"If this battle win, then we can ask for compensation to support the next battle."

"How much is the special expense?" Ito Bowen asked.

"80 million yen. Including shipbuilding expenses, changing costs, replacing equipment for shipyards, expanding thersenal, and so on."

"What about issuance of government bonds?"

"I really want to do what the Army has done for doing it. The national debt can no longer be sold in Europe! Domestic capacity raising funds is limited."

"Loan!" A sound suddenly inserted.

"His Royal Highness!"

"Your Majesty said, the Rongguang of the Emperor's Kingdom should be sprinkled to all the people." The prince left after speaking.

"Within a day, the navy and the navy gave me a feasible solution. In Tibetan Province, I interviewed major banks and discussed borrowing." Ito sighed and said.

"This is not that decaying country ..." Ito sighed. He is not optimistic about this war, changing the original plan wantonly, and also expected overseas, nearly three thousand nautical miles routes, how can it be maintained?

..............

The fifth division was divided into four directions and landed in Borneo. One camp of the ninth brigade landed on South Gariman, mainly accepting cities, organizing Chinese, and maintaining order.

The two battalions landed on Kundian. In addition to the richer here, it was mainly the concentration of the Chinese. After taking over the city, the Chinese training camp was also required to conduct military training.

The main force is east, and it is directly landing from East Gariman. The landing point is only thirty kilometers away from the nearest Japanese army.

After the escort fleet completed the task, he was stationed directly in Xingang, the previous Bangkir. And here is the first South China Marine School and the first naval college.

Teachers are concurrently served by the Navy officers and soldiers, and some foreign teachers are also available.

Due to the planning of logistics and attacking the Japanese economy, in July, South China did not have a large -scale battle with the Japanese army.

Nympho

Mianlan.

On June 26, the Navy returned to flight, and when Liu Yiming declared war.

"The Prime Minister asked the progress." Wang Yang stood in the headquarters and said to Zhao Jiaxing.

"Why do they have so many troops? This is unreasonable!" Zhao Jiaxing held a war report.

The South China Army occupied three streets and killed hundreds of people. The basic people on the front line were injured. If it was not for the unlimited supply of medicines, the number of deaths would definitely exceed 1,000.

"These are all true. Only one by one is clear before reporting." Wang Yang took the latest information given by the Secret Service.

"The results of more than 10,000 people are too exaggerated!"

"What?" Zhao Jiaxing looked at Wang Yang's intelligence.

"Now, Jiang Wang sent three batches of people to collect information, and the anti -Huahua forces of the entire Kalimandan Island were gathered to Mianlan." Wang Yang said with Leng Guang in his eyes.

Mianlan has gathered more than 20,000 natives, holding the fire rifle, and even blowing the arrows.

"When they are gathered, we will always attack again, saving us one by one to find one by one, and manpower manpower." Wang Yang said seriously.

"In case they counterattack?" Zhao Jiaxing looked at the figures displayed by the information, and the scalp was numb.

"Transportation machine guns, mines, iron wire mesh, have been launched from Surabaya."

"The two -line battle, the logistics pressure is too great, and there are so many troops. If most of the resistance forces are resolved at one time, the next action will be much easier, at least Mianlan will settle down." Wang Yang said.

"Thirty thousand people are coming, plus the remaining in the city, how can there be 70,000 to 80,000 people in the back? This batch of killings should not be much." Zhao Jiaxing thought about This theory.

"When do you act?"

"It's almost."

..............

At this time, until July 15th, more than 60,000 people in Sumatra's anti -Chinese forces in Sumatra were concentrated.

These people holding the earthy spear, under the call of a group of colonial soldiers, concentrated, forming a powerful force.

This is not difficult to understand. This place has a tribal country very early, and some even improve to the early feudal period. Unfortunately, because of various reasons, it failed to continue to develop until it was occupied.

"Commander Wang, it's almost the same. I didn't come later. Most of them played themselves." After waiting for nearly twenty days, the offense was very troublesome, but the defense was very simple. Broken.

"Then start, there is exactly action in the north next month. What about those Dutch people?" Wang Yang asked.

"What else can you do? I have been scared one by one, and I have already sent it back, otherwise I am afraid that I will be deducted. It will become like a Japanese?"

Thoughts go back to ten days ago.

On July 5th, shortly after the fifth division landed, Mianlan gathered more than 30,000.

In order to ensure that the front is not broken, Wang Yang is arranging iron wire mesh and heavy machine guns.

That night, the fire in the city of Mianlan was shouting and shouting.

"What's wrong? Where to shoot?" Wang Yang woke up from his dream and asked anxiously.

The sound of gunfire was wide, and Wang Yang thought that the Dutch launched a night attack.

"Inform the artillery and the Navy immigration number to prepare, support at any time, do the front line report the situation?"

Wang Yangguang held the telescope and asked the staff on duty.

"Report! The front line reported that the sound of gunfire came from the Mianlan, suspected to be the enemy's civil strife, and was investigating to ask if you needed to attack." The staff came back to God and stand upright.

"Hello! Frontline headquarters? This is the command post!" Wang Yang couldn't see clearly, so he simply picked up the phone and called.

"How is the situation at the front?"

Unlike the panic in the rear, in the frontline brigade command post, political commissar Li Ganghui held a large teapot and quietly watched the brigade commander talking on the phone, yes, yes, yes.

"What did Commander Wang say?" Li Ganghui asked lightly after taking a sip of tea.

"Stay alert and get information." The brigade commander grabbed the teapot and took a sip.

"Do you think this is a trap?" Li Ganghui ignored it and looked into the distance.

"We'll know when the scouts come back, but I don't think so. There are many enemies in the three barricades ahead." The brigade commander said.

"That's right, whether it's a trap or not, there's no need to attack. In a few days, there will be dead people here." Li Ganghui stretched.

"I'll go see if the little guys on the front line are in high spirits!" Li Ganghui said and walked to the front line.

After checking six or seven positions and punishing two people for washing socks, Li Ganghui was ready to go back.

Dongdongdongdong...

Suddenly, the sound of Maxim sounded!

The Dutch in Medan had never seen Maxim, and Li Ganghui immediately ran to the target position.

"What's the situation?" When he approached, the gunfire had stopped. He ran into the machine gun position, and there was smoke everywhere.

"Report! We caught some red-haired ghosts, I don't know what they are talking about!" A soldier answered.

When Li Ganghui saw these Dutch, he thought the soldiers had tortured them.

Dozens of people, covered in blood, hid at the end of the tunnel, trembling.

"What's wrong?" Li Ganghui knew at a glance that they were scared, and asked the person next to him.

"I don't know, a group of people suddenly rushed out, we thought it was a surprise attack, and shot and killed half of them, this is the remaining half." The machine gunner said.

"Hey, report your position, rank, and purpose!" Li Ganghui kicked a Dutchman and shouted.

"Rebellion..."

"Hell..."

The man suddenly got excited, and the rest of the people got excited too. The soldier saw that this was not going to work! He beat him with the butt of his rifle, and he became obedient.

"Send it to the headquarters, it might be useful." Li Ganghui glanced at the rear, and said with a guess in his mind.

After that, he walked back to the front command post quickly and called Wang Yang.

"Commander Wang, I suspect that there was a battle between the Dutch and the natives, and the Dutch may have failed..." Li Ganghui reported what he saw and guessed.

It took two days to get the full picture. On July 5, the natives raided the Dutch arsenal, military camp, command post, settlement, etc.

A fierce battle broke out between the two sides, and finally the Dutch surrendered, thinking that they could get treatment that matched their status.

As a result, about 200 people climbed out of the heavy encirclement of the natives. Climb is an adjective, most of them crawled out, and the rest are said to be gone.

A total of more than 20,000 people should have died, and the Dutch colonial army was completely wiped out. The governor and the commander did not escape.

After that, they gathered these prisoners and provided them with basic humanitarian assistance. To put it bluntly, it was a show. Liu Yiming did it himself, mainly to make a comparison with the Japanese.

On the evening of July 15, at 7:30, Medan was filled with low pressure and was dull.

The wind was northeasterly, with a force of 2-3.

In the northeast of Medan City, a group of soldiers wearing rubber protective clothing and gas masks were quietly preparing.

"Open the valve!" With an order, the soldiers opened a large number of high-pressure sealed cylinders.

Swish~

A large amount of yellow-green gas was released by high pressure. Since it was slightly heavier than air, it formed air masses and was slowly blown towards Medan by the wind.

Thirty minutes later, a large amount of gas had invaded Medan, and Wang Yang looked at his watch.

"Fire!" At Wang Yang's order, the Immigration launched two rounds of rockets at the maximum launch angle.

After the rocket fell, there was no explosion. The special rocket had very little charge, and its main function was to increase the temperature and accelerate the evaporation of the gas.

…

The next day was cloudy. Wang Yang saw that the rain was not coming down yet. For safety reasons, he did not agree to let the troops enter the city.

So Nanhua’s troops re-entered the city on the third day…

“Prime Minister, Commander Wang’s latest battle report, Medan has been taken, and more than 70,000 bodies of unearthed people have been counted, including more than 20,000 white people.” Secretary Yang reported to Liu Yiming softly.

“I know, let Wang Yang clean up Medan. It will not be used as a naval base. The bodies of white people, with specific identity information, record their identity information, and then burn them. When the time comes, hand them over to the Dutch with great fanfare.” Liu Yiming said.

“Intelligence shows that the second batch of Japanese dispatched troops, escorted by six warships, left the port and is expected to arrive in Borneo within twelve to fifteen days.”

“Order the navy to prepare for an attack.” Liu Yiming raised his head when he heard this.

“Intercept midway?” Secretary Yang asked.

“No, let them go ashore normally and set off when the fleet returns.” Liu Yiming turned out the battle plan that had been prepared long ago.

"Leave it to Xu Sunming."

"Yes!"

...

"What does the Prime Minister mean? Instead of attacking warships, we will mainly attack transport ships?" Qianjin asked in confusion.

"Yes, fleet decisive battle, I am confident that we can win!" After a short period of running-in, Zhang Fengping has become inflated after knowing the parameters of the Prairie Wolf class.

Indeed, with the powerful rapid-fire firepower of the Jiaolong class, high speed, sometimes close and sometimes far, pulling others.

When manpower was over-consumed and rapid-fire firepower was weak, torpedo boats were dispatched at super-high speeds, and the Jiaolong class also approached and fired. With similar size, no fleet could resist, not even the British Navy!

"Let me ask you, what is the most important thing for Britain?" Xu Sunming asked after understanding Liu Yiming's approach at a glance.

"India!"

"Wrong! It's the Royal Navy!"

"Wrong! It's trade!"

"You are all right, these are the most important, but what connects them together is merchant ships..."

"Can we use this trick against Britain?" Qianjin said surprisingly.

Fortunately, it was an internal meeting, and no one cared too much.

Everyone present had received a complete naval education, and each of them had some thoughts about this tactic...

[Author's digression]: A 5,000-word chapter,

When I was writing this chapter, the takeaway was stolen. It was so cold, I was wearing slippers, and I was numb. Why did they steal the takeaway! The school is not so poor that they can't afford to eat, right?