Although the officers here are somewhat resistant to the orders from their superiors, as soldiers they can only obey orders.
So these people arranged for the troops to evacuate the coastal cities and set up defenses about 20 kilometers behind the cities.
As for the residents and expatriates in the city, they naturally began to retreat with the troops. As for the Chinese and local indigenous people, they were not notified at all.
Due to the evacuation of the army and management personnel, the Chinese and local indigenous people in the city quickly discovered that something was wrong.
Fortunately, this Chinese man has always been relatively honest, so even though he discovered something was wrong, nothing happened. He was just famous in the local area. Under the leadership of the old man, he began to form a stronghold to protect himself.
But the natives were completely different. After losing the British management, they immediately changed from sheep to hungry wolves. Each of these people armed with crude weapons began to smash, smash, and rob on the streets.
In the prosperous sections of various cities, all the shops were looted. In the end, these people were not satisfied and began to attack in groups like Chinese gathering areas.
Fortunately, the Chinese were already on guard, and without the favoritism of the foreigners, the indigenous people were really no match for the Han.
Therefore, although the number of Chinese was small, they still managed to maintain the safety of the Chinese gathering areas with their heroic spirit.
At this time, the Nanyang Fleet led by Liu Hai was almost approaching the strait. When it arrived here, Liu Hai's fleet had already begun to enter a state of alert in order to respond to attacks from all sides at any time.
When it comes to the Strait of Malacca, the two most important cities are the Lion City and Malacca City. As long as you control these two cities, the Strait of Malacca is in your own hands.
As for Liu Hai's fleet, the first target is the Lion City, which guards the entrance and exit of the strait.
The Lion City was discovered in 1819, purchased by the East India Company in 1824, and became an exclusive colony of the royal family in 1867.
At the beginning, this small place was just a small fishing village and had no value. However, with the opening of the canal and their control of the rich Malaysia, as an important place connecting the Malliu Strait and the Sui Canal, this small place
The fishing village quickly developed into a prosperous city.
Moreover, Geely attaches great importance to this city and built strong forts outside the city to deal with threats from the sea.
This time, after they got the news that Liu Hai was about to invade, they had already evacuated most of the infantry outside the city.
However, the Chief Secretary Alexander (isn't his name a bit strange? That's the name anyway) ordered the Marine Corps officers and soldiers defending the coastal forts not to retreat.
Alexander's intention was to teach the Qing people a lesson on the fort. If the Qing people saw that the offensive losses were too great, maybe they would not continue to advance inland.
To say that this fort was very advanced at the time, this fort named Siloso was built in 1879. The weapons deployed were the standard coastal guns at the time, three 7-inch front-loading guns and two
64 pounder cannon.
If an ordinary warship were to face such shells, it would be at an absolute disadvantage, especially two 64-pound cannons, which would be enough to give those ironclad warships a beating.
But if you want to use such a fort to fight against Liu Hai's fleet, it is simply a dream.
This was also a wrong measure taken by local officials who did not know the true strength of Liu Haijun.
When Liu Hai's Nanyang Navy arrived at the outskirts of the Lion City, the officers and soldiers on the fort felt their scalps go numb as they looked at the black smoke covering the sea and the warships passing back and forth.
They have never seen such a large fleet in the Far East, and even in Europe there are only one or two countries that can build such a huge maritime force.
After seeing such a fleet, the soldiers on the fort were completely disappointed, and then looked at their commander, Lieutenant Colonel Hawke, with their eyes.
The meaning is very obvious. Are we allowed to use these small cannons to fight hundreds of warships? This is not fighting at all, this is sending death.
Lieutenant Colonel Hawke was now looking at the warships on the other side that kept coming and going. In fact, he had already scolded the officials of the Chief Secretary in his heart.
These officials thought of meritorious service, but they ruined the lives of innocent soldiers like them here. These people should be pulled out and shot one by one.
Faced with this situation, Lieutenant Colonel Hawke felt that there was no need to fight anymore, so he ordered his soldiers to immediately raise the white flag.
As soon as Lieutenant Colonel Hawke issued the order, a soldier next to him immediately pulled out a white flag from his arms, then quickly came to the flagpole, lowered the flag, and then raised the white flag.
And Lieutenant Colonel Hawke, looking at the soldier's swift movements and the white flag he had prepared long ago, understood in his heart that these soldiers had no intention of fighting at all and were already ready to surrender.
At this time, Liu Hai was on the guided missile destroyer Nanchang, observing the fort with a telescope.
Suddenly I saw the national flag on the opposite side being lowered, and then a white flag was raised.
Liu Hai saw this situation and understood what the other party meant, but he was afraid that the other party was cheating, so Liu Hai did not relax his vigilance immediately. Instead, he ordered a squadron of slave country soldiers to take a transport ship to take over the fort.
After receiving Liu Hai's order, the commander of the First Division, Army Lieutenant General Sanchi Genji, wanted to show off his skills in front of the new master, so he sent his most elite guard troops to take over this fort.
These several hundred soldiers, armed with Murata's 18-year-old single-shot guns, rode on transport ships and quickly approached the fort.
At the beginning, these soldiers were quite nervous. After they got off the boat, some soldiers immediately looked for bunkers to cover the following troops.
After all the squadrons got off the transport ship, they immediately dispersed into skirmish lines and slowly approached the fort.
The fort guards led by Lieutenant Colonel Hawke looked at the Eastern soldiers below slowly approaching. They thought they were soldiers from the Qing Dynasty, so they did not offer any resistance.
After the soldiers from the slave country entered the fort, they saw that the enemy soldiers had no resistance at all, and they immediately felt confident. They quickly stepped forward to disarm the group, then drove them aside, and then sent
A dozen soldiers stood guard there with guns drawn.
The remaining people quickly occupied the entire fort, and then went to the flagpole to lower the white flag and raise the yellow dragon flag.
Liu Hai in the distance saw his own flag rising on the cannonballs, and then ordered the fleet to approach slowly.
A few hundred meters away from the port, the fleet stopped advancing and still followed the original procedure, sending soldiers from the slave country to the dock and quickly occupied the entire dock.
Next, some light and small warships docked at the Singapore Pier.
And Liu Hai continued to send out soldiers and began to take over the defense of the entire city.
After receiving the order, Sanchi Yuanji led the Japanese soldiers of the 1st Division and rushed into the city on a transport ship.
At this time, the city was in chaos. The indigenous people began to smash and loot everywhere, and attacked the Chinese community.
The current soldiers of the slave country consider themselves to be on Liu Hai's side, and naturally regard the Chinese as their own kind. Therefore, they have no mercy at all towards these indigenous people who attack the Chinese community.
They lined up with guns in hand. Once they spotted the natives, they did not get close enough to shoot them immediately.
As the soldiers of the slave country kept advancing, more and more indigenous people were killed and injured. In the end, these indigenous people realized that something was wrong, so they dispersed and hid in their homes, never daring to come out again.
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After a day like this, Liu Hai finally took control of the entire urban area. At the same time, he also discovered the defensive position of Geely Army soldiers outside the urban area.
Sanchi Yuanji immediately informed Liu Hai of the situation of the defenders.
Liu Hai felt that although he had occupied the urban area, there was still such an army active outside the city, which would be very detrimental to his future control of the city.
So he ordered Shansanchi Yuanji to launch an attack on it and completely eliminate this army.
After receiving the order, Sanchi Yuanji set up artillery positions outside the city.
Now their artillery is no longer the original front-loading cannon or bronze cannon, but all 122mm howitzers.
This batch of artillery was purchased by Liu Hai from the modern dimension, and is mainly used for brigade-level fire support of the Hunan Army and Japanese division-level fire support.
Following Yamasachi Motoji's order, 24 122 mm caliber howitzers began roaring.
Although the position on the opposite side had some light 75mm-caliber artillery, their range and power were far behind, so in the first round of shelling, all these artillery were destroyed.
Then the artillery of the 1st Division began to conduct continuous shelling on its defensive positions.
But now the soldiers on the opposite side were squatting in the trenches one by one, not daring to raise their heads, and kept cursing the officers in their hearts. This was not a defensive position, this was simply asking them to die.
Before these people could finish complaining, another whistling sound appeared in the sky. This time, the whistling sound was several times louder than before.
As soon as experienced officers heard the sound, they knew it was a large-caliber naval gun of the Navy.
But before it was too late, they reminded others that the shells had already fallen on the position.
The officer really guessed what the bombardment was about this time. It was on the coastline, and four Yihua-class battleships were bombarding one side.
Each of the Iowa-class battleships has nine 406mm-caliber cannons. In this salvo, 36 giant shells hit the position.
You must know that such a huge cannonball can create a crater of dozens of meters before it hits the ground, and there will be no living things within a radius of a hundred meters.
Therefore, the Iowa-class battleship only conducted one round of bombardment, causing all the soldiers on the position to collapse.