After Michi Yuanji said this, he began to issue orders: "I order the first division and the first to fourth divisions of the indigenous army to rest and recuperate immediately, meet at the dock three days later, and take a boat to attack Katan Island.
North."
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As the brigade commander of the second brigade, Kanjiro Nishi thought for a moment after listening to Yamachi Genji's words and then said: "Your Excellency, division commander, the south of Kalimantan is the place of the Honan people, and the Honan people are
As allies of the Geely people, if they take unfriendly actions against us, how should we respond?"
Sanchi Yuanji now feels that he has beaten the shit out of even the Geely people, and does not pay attention to these small Western countries at all.
"If these Honan people are sensible, don't take action against them for the time being. If they dare to interfere with our actions, attack immediately and occupy the entire Katan Island to add a piece of territory to the commander-in-chief."
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The generals below, after hearing Sanchi Yuanji's order, all stood up and bowed respectfully.
Next, the navy and army under Liu Hai near the strait began to get busy.
As the person in charge of the navy for this expedition, Liu Da summoned 4 Iowa-class battleships and two Sovereign-class battleships, plus other ironclads, armored cruisers, ordinary cruisers, and dozens of warships.
Left the pier and headed west.
And Sanji Genji also took the 1st Division and his servant army of nearly 100,000 people, took a navy transport ship, and sailed away from Katan Island under the escort of several light cruisers.
The first thing I want to talk about is the naval fleet led by Liu Da. This fleet is already second to none in the Far East in terms of displacement and number of ships.
They are prone to appear on the sea, so there is no way to hide such a large-scale fleet operation.
Therefore, the news of their journey to the west quickly reached Governor Asan through various channels.
The current Governor of Geely in Asan is Victor Bruce, the 9th Earl of Elgin. This person was able to compete among the nobles for the lucrative position of Governor of Asan, which shows that he is very powerful in the domestic political arena.
However, the current governor does not think that what he got is a good job. It used to be peaceful in Asan. Except for some resistance from the indigenous people, there were almost no big things. But it is different now. Liu Hai's fleet has already come towards Asan.
, as the governor, he has the unshirkable responsibility to resist Liu Hai's attack.
But now, although he has a very powerful land force, he is very lacking in the navy. He only has a few old ships. If he wants to compete with the Liu Hai Fleet, which is very feared by the local people, he is simply looking for death.
Victor Bruce thought about it and felt that he could not let his fleet fight Liu Hai's navy.
In order to preserve his strength, he ordered the fleet to start moving north and move the front of all large warships to the north.
At the same time, in order to ensure the security of the port, Victor Bruce immediately strengthened the defenses at the main ports.
All the forts are activated. As soon as Liu Hai's fleet arrives at the port, they will rely on the forts to engage in artillery battles with Liu Hai's ships at sea, forcing them to leave the main trading city.
However, Victor Bruce also focuses on ports, because in Asan, they mainly operate the Mumbai port, and other ports are mainly as supplements to Mumbai.
Therefore, the Governor concentrated all the main defense forces in Maibon, and before Liu Hai's navy arrived in Maimun, he ordered the army to raise steel and cement and seize the time to build several more forts outside Maimun Port.
Supplement for the Maimun Fort.
Not to mention that the dedicated governor was here to prepare for a battle with Liu Hai, but also that Liu Da led the fleet to the vicinity of the subcontinent.
Liu Da's fleet did not go directly to Mumbai Port, but along the coast, shelled all the ports in the subcontinent in sequence.
The problem Liu Da faced was that the subcontinent was too big, and these colonists came here to make a fortune, and it was impossible to spend money to run the entire coast of the subcontinent like a copper wall.
Therefore, these colonists can only take care of it, mainly operating the port of Mumbai, and other ports as supplements.
Because of this, other ports in the subcontinent were very poorly defended and had no decent forts at all. Therefore, it could be said that there was no way to fight back against Liu Da's attack.
Therefore, the dozen or so decent ports along the coast were bombarded by Liu Da's battleships. By the time they left, these ports had all turned into ruins.
These ports that have become ruins may no longer be usable without large-scale investment in reconstruction.
As for the army of these colonists in the subcontinent and their huge servant army, they can only look at Liu Da's fleet with dismay.
After all, your army is strong, and no matter how large the number is, you can't drive soldiers into the sea to fight battleships.
In this way, Liu Da marched and bombarded all the way, and soon arrived at the port of Maimon in the west.
However, when Liu Da and others arrived, they encountered a fort that was well prepared.
Today's Maimun not only has the original perfect fort defense, but also during this period, the governor strengthened defenses for the newly established forts. It can be said that the port is now like a hedgehog.
Liu Da led the warships to the outside of Maimeng Port, and Xi'an City blocked traffic inside and outside the port, prohibiting any ships from entering.
Then Liu Da ordered the warship to move forward slowly, and at the same time, he had the light cruiser in front move quickly outside the harbor, hoping to lure the opponent's artillery to fire, so that he could understand the firepower layout of the harbor fort.
The current port is under the control of Governor Victor Bruce himself.
Not only did he equip Bombay with a large number of artillery, but he also deployed a large number of land forces at Bombay Port. There were 20,000 regular troops alone and 120,000 other servant troops.
Because Victor Bruce knew the status of this port in his heart. If it was really destroyed by Liu Hai or a war order, it would be a heavy blow to the economy of the entire subcontinent.
This time, it was a Cossack-class light cruiser that lured the fort into a bombardment mission.
This class of cruiser was the first light cruiser ordered by Liu Hai, and was later produced by the Shanghai Shipyard after it gained scale.
Because Liu Hai's Shanghai shipyard has a lot of modern technology, it made certain improvements when replicating this light cruiser.
The biggest improvement is the replacement of its armor, replacing the old-fashioned armor steel originally used in the UK with modern new marine steel. This allows this light cruiser to have greater defense than before without increasing its weight.
Doubled.
Another improvement is the improvement of its boiler and other systems. This is because its speed has been increased from the original maximum of 20 knots to 28 knots.
This increase in speed can be said to be revolutionary at the time. In this era, no warship has been able to increase the speed to 28 knots. Therefore, this cruiser will not be outdated even if it is used for another 20 years.
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This time's testing is exactly the strength of this cruiser.
The person responsible for this mission was an improved Cossack-class light cruiser, the Yancheng. Under the leadership of the commander Gao Yunlian (a biochemical man), it left the large force and began to approach the port at full speed.
At this time, Victor Bruce, who was presiding at the port, also saw the rapid approach of enemy warships through his telescope.
Victor Bruce himself was not a soldier, but he had a group of very capable staff members around him.
When these soldiers saw an enemy light cruiser break away from the fleet and quickly approach the port, they already understood what Liu Da was planning.
So I immediately suggested to the Governor, "Your Excellency, the enemy sent a cruiser to approach to test our firepower. Therefore, I suggest that the fort remain stationary for the time being. Wait until the opponent's large force attacks, and then show off its fangs."
Victor Bruce is not a professional, but one good thing about him is that he can listen to what others say.
Now that the staff officer said this, the other party was testing him, so he naturally followed suit and ordered the fort not to fire.
This side has died down, but Gao Yunlian on the other side does not want to give up halfway.
When he saw that the other party was not fooled, he murmured in his heart that if he just went back like this, it would be difficult to explain to Liu Da.
So Gao Yunlian ordered the cruiser Yancheng to continue approaching the port. When it entered the range of the cruiser Yancheng's guns, he immediately ordered the naval guns to fire at the suspicious target.
However, the forts he faced were all reinforced concrete buildings. The Yancheng's several rounds of artillery fire could not do anything to these forts. Therefore, after several rounds, Gao Yong saw that there was no effect, so he gave up shelling these round forts.
He understood this time that the artillery of your own light cruiser had no effect on these forts, so he focused his attention on the buildings in Bombay Port.
This time, the Port of Mumbai suffered a disaster. Although the artillery of the cruiser Yancheng had no effect on the fort, it was their natural nemesis against the ordinary buildings in the Port of Mumbai.
With the continuous roar of the cruiser Yancheng's artillery, the dock area of Mumbai Port has turned into a sea of fire.
Many goods piled on the dock are now covered by raging fires, and although many merchants have fled far away, they are crying bitterly in the distance as they see their goods being blown to pieces.
Just like that, many of them may go bankrupt.
If the damage was just to the cargo, it would be acceptable, but as the shelling continued, the dock also suffered damage.
At this time, Governor Victor Bruce couldn't accept it anymore. If these cruisers were allowed to continue to destroy the docks, causing large-scale damage to the docks, by the time the expedition fleet arrived, there would probably be no port to berth in.