1890 King of Southeast Asia

The more than three thousand naval Marines are the most elite troops in the British and French forces. They are all veterans. They mainly come from various fleets or colonial colonies. They have rich combat experience.

General Cardon sent these people to occupy a beach position in the first time so that the Army can land on.

They did not let the generals disappointed. A group of people scratched the famous small boats or the height of the height of height, boarding the beach head that was plowed over and over over and over again, and quickly occupied the beach head position.

After consolidating the position, the subsequent Army began to land.

The first army of the army on the battlefield was at a loss on the battlefield until they were arrested to consolidate the line of defense.

The ship's transportation is too slow, and a temporary terminal must be built, otherwise the heavy equipment and supplies will not be available.

The pride British and the French people directly build a temporary terminal based on small transport ships.

Because of the preparations, the dock was built very quickly. By noon, the two steel manufacturing bridges connected to the temporary pier and beach head, and the temporary dock was put into use.

Tens of thousands of soldiers at the beach quickly gathered, and General Hamilton arrived on the land.

"Who is responsible here and why not organize the troops." After General Hamilton went ashore, he grabbed a captain who ran around and asked his collar.

"Report General, Colonel Duncan is in charge. Colonel is trying to communicate with the Indians, but they do not understand the order." The captain fucks an authentic Australian New South Wales dialect, and Hamilton listened to it.

"You say slower, the captain, don't worry, don't be nervous." Hamilton helplessly let him say it again, the captain blushed, and repeated the text.

"Let your chief, come here immediately, and pass the news to the chiefs of other divisions. I want them to come here immediately, and I will issue a combat task." Hamilton's eyelids were pulled down.

It's too difficult. He didn't know how Joseph Franz persisted. He heard that he had to meet the spokespersons of twelve regions and nations from time to time, and to communicate with them proficiently.

(The Austro -Hungarian Empire does not have the main ethnic group, and the language is not universal. There are three common languages ​​in the Austro -Hungarian Empire, German, Hungarian, Croatian.)

After a while, two colonels, four generals, five major generals.

The British army compiles a standard infantry battalion of 1023 people. It is the most basic tactical unit.

The four battalions plus the brigade department became a brigade, a standard tour of 4119, and the brigade commander is a target.

The three brigades plus the direct troops such as artillery have become a division. One standard infantry division is 18073, and the division commander is a major general.

As for Colonel, because of the cancellation of the head of the regiment, the colonel is generally served as a staff or a deputy position, or the colonies.

"General, Mars, the chief commander of Australia, report to you."

"General, Donald, chief commander of New Zealand, reported to you."

"General, the 14th division of the British and India Legion report to you ..."

In this way, the five major generals made themselves. The head of the Australian and New Legion was called the chief commander and directed the battle of a division. Except for the title, there were no differences.

Then there were four prospective generals. Hamilton didn't want to hear them. After all, your superiors had already said, but before they had time to stop, they began to report their own houses.

"General, the 61st brigade of the British India Legion report to you."

"General, the eighth brigade of the Australian Empire reported to you ..."

After listening to them, Hamilton called a good guy.

"Sixty -one brigade, the troops of the twentieth division? The eighth brigade? The mixed brigade, aren't you the troops of the fourth division?"

Hamilton found that no brigade commander and a teacher were affiliated, there was a problem, but it didn't matter, he could solve it.

"Time is urgent, how much is your troops?" Hamilton asked.

"Report, a camp." The teacher stood out and said embarrassed.

"One camp?" Hamilton showed your expression, but looked at the teacher's expression and sighed.

"Okay, your camp, no, your teacher goes north, explores along the coastline to find a place suitable for establishing a pier." Hamilton sighed and gave a simple task.

The fleet is driving north. Even if a camp encounters danger, it can use artillery to defend on the coast.

"Then there is the Second Australian Division, Mars, how many people have you been ashore?" Hamilton asked expecting.

"At present, I only discovered the two companies on the same boat as me. I believe that others have also been ashore. I am sending someone to find it." Major Mars bowed his head ashamed.

"Two companies ... you continue to integrate the troops." Hamilton waved his hand, and did not plan to ask one by one.

"Who's the troops have you arrived?" Hamilton asked.

No, no one, the scene was silent.

"So, half? Isn't it half?" Hamilton's voice louder.

"Report, the Australian Imperial Army's Second Brigade has arrived in three battalions, but my brigade chief hasn't come up yet." Colonel Duncan stood out.

He is the deputy brigade commander of the fifth brigade, one of the two colonels, and Australians, who served in the British colonial army. After Australia became the autonomous leader, he joined the Australian army and promoted quickly.

This time, Australia formed an imperial army to participate in World War I, and he was also sent out to become the deputy brigade commander. When the Australian Corps expands further, he will become the brigade commander.

As long as you make some contributions, you will be promoted to general and cross the class. It is no longer a dream.

"Very good! Colonel, tell me your name." Hamilton was in high spirits.

"Duncan John Dill, General." Duncan puffed out his chest and shouted loudly.

"Very good, do you see that artillery? They are yours now. Your troops will immediately launch a tentative attack to the east and take some prisoners if possible." Hamilton saw several cannons and did not ask who they belonged to. He pointed at them casually and assigned them to Duncan.

"Yes! General! There is another question, General." Duncan said softly after answering.

"Please speak, Colonel." Hamilton narrowed his eyes.

"General, there is a battalion of Indians in our brigade. It is difficult for my soldiers to communicate with them. Their accent is really... I need someone to act as an interpreter." Duncan said helplessly.

"It's easy. I believe the 14th Division of the British Indian Army has enough translators." Hamilton turned to look at the commander of the 14th Division.

"Yes, General!" The commander saluted and said he understood.

"Please follow me to take over." The commander said to Duncan.

"Yes!"

The handover process was not troublesome. You only need to find a few British officers serving in the British Indian Army.

Soon, Duncan led more than 3,000 people and two six-gun artillery companies from different infantry divisions to search eastward.

The First Division where Duncan was originally supposed to be a pure Australian force, but because there were many new Australian recruits and their combat effectiveness was relatively weak (the British regarded them as second-line local troops), the British filled them with some combat-capable cannon fodder.

Not only that, as the Australian Imperial Army, a brigade is actually not four battalions, but five, with an extra miscellaneous battalion, mainly for coolies.

Fortunately, this battalion has not yet landed, and Duncan has two Australian battalions, one Indian battalion, and two artillery companies.

Soon, the three thousand people marched eastward for about five kilometers and encountered the first mountain.

The mountain was not high, only about a hundred meters, but it was a commanding height. It could be seen that the mountain had been bombed, proving that there were Ottoman fortifications here.

As a rigorous former British colonial officer, Duncan played his tradition perfectly.

"Send people to scout both sides to see if there are any enemies nearby."

"Let the Indians rush up and seize the position at the foot of the mountain." Duncan did not make any tentative attacks at all, but gave orders directly.

The British may have to consider the feelings of the Indians, but Duncan is an Australian.

More than a thousand Indian troops were forced to rush to the foot of the mountain without any formation.

Not surprisingly, they suffered a blow.

It was a machine gun, several heavy machine guns formed cross fire, and fired at the Indians.

In just a few minutes, the Indians lost two hundred people and ran back.

"Artillery, aim at the enemy's firepower point position, and bombard it hard for me." Duncan gave the order in high spirits.

"Yes, sir." The artillery company commander saluted and hurried back to make arrangements.

Boom!

Boom!

The 18-pound field gun roared. The 18-pound field gun has a caliber of 84 mm. It was developed by the United Kingdom in 1904 and equipped in 1909 as the standard field gun of the British Army.

During World War I, more than 10,000 guns of this type were produced. During World War I, Britain produced 99.3 million 18-pound 84 mm field gun shells.

boom... boom...

The rate of fire of the 18-pound field gun can reach 6 to 30 rounds per minute. Twelve guns fired at the same time, and the fire on the mountain never stopped.

After shelling for a few minutes, Duncan felt that it was almost time. He had to occupy this support point as soon as possible before the Ottomans reacted.

"Charge, rush up, and drive away those Ottomans." Duncan said to his subordinates.

This time, it was not the Indian brother who was acting alone, but a thousand or several hundred people. The main force of the infantry in Duncan's hands was charging, and more than half of the troops were dispatched at one time to attack in several routes.

The remaining battalion in Duncan's hands was used to rush up and expand the results after the charging troops opened the gap.

The Australian army adopted a dense charging formation. The advantage of this formation is that the assault force is strong and the advance is fast. The Indian army is as scattered as ever.

Boom, boom, boom...

This time, dense machine gun sounds rang out. The Ottoman Empire deployed fourteen machine guns on this mountain, eight of which fired at the British.

Just when Duncan was shocked that the artillery bombardment failed to destroy the Ottoman machine guns, a violent explosion sounded in his ears.

boom!

boom!

"Sir, the artillery position was bombarded by the local artillery. We suffered heavy losses and requested to retreat." The artillery company commander ran over with a dusty face, and blood was still oozing from his arm.

"How many artillery have we lost?" Duncan grabbed him and asked.

"All!" the artillery commander said firmly.

In fact, he didn't know how much he had lost. When the explosion sounded, everyone scattered and ran for their lives.