Nogi Nogi naturally had no doubts about his old boss's orders.
Therefore, Yamachi Genji wrote a report in the open air, and then ordered people to quickly go to the dock.
Now Liu Hai has led the navy forward a few kilometers and anchored a few hundred meters outside the pier.
Therefore, Yamachi Genji's letter was quickly delivered to Liu Hai's hands.
After receiving the information, Liu Hai looked at it carefully and did not make any comment. Instead, he sent the letter in his hand to Liu Wei's hand.
"You should also take a look and tell us your opinions after reading it."
Liu Wei did not dare to neglect, took the letter from Liu Hai with both hands, and then read it carefully.
After reading the letter, Liu Wei closed his eyes and thought for a while, and finally said: "Commander, all the enemy's command headquarters have been destroyed. Now that they can regroup, it seems that the enemy has re-elected a new commander."
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Liu Hai nodded after hearing this, and then said: "The enemy has now re-prepared for war in the city center and set up some barricades. It seems that they want to fight us to the death. What do you think? Should we order Yamachi Genji to launch an attack immediately?
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"Commander, I read from the intelligence that there are almost no Qing people in the hands of the British now. Since this is the case, if we attack by force, our soldiers will lose a lot, so we might as well use the range of naval guns.
With the advantage of being far away and powerful, we can carry out covering strikes on them. After several rounds of strikes, even the expeditionary force and the survivors may have no fighting spirit. Letting the army attack at that time can also reduce our own casualties.
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Liu Hai's eyes lit up when he heard this. This is a good idea. Don't use appointments to solve problems that can be solved with cannonballs. This is the only reason Liu Hai, a modern person, can still retain after learning bad things.
"Okay, immediately give the order to Yamachi Motoharu and ask him to move the encirclement back 200 meters."
Liu Hai's order was quickly re-delivered to Yamachi Genji through the messenger.
Yamachi Genji held Liu Hai's order, frowning and wondering what Liu Hai meant. Nogi Nogi, who was standing aside, saw Yamachi Genji holding the order without saying a word, so he hurriedly asked: "Division Commander"
Sir, are you in any trouble? Is it because of the Commander-in-Chief’s order that there are some difficulties?”
Yamachi Genji didn't say anything, he just sent the order from Bangs in front of Nogi Nogi's eyes, and then said: "Look at what our lord means?"
Nogi Nogi took Liu Hai's order and frowned after reading it again. It was asking their troops to retreat 200 meters.
Could it be that the Lord wanted to persuade the enemy troops in the encirclement to surrender, so he gave them some buffer space?
The two of them are here, look at me, I see you still don't understand what the bangs mean.
At this time, Nishi Kanjiro, who was organizing the attack on the front line, hurriedly entered the headquarters. He first saluted Yamachi Motoharu, and then said: "Your Excellency, division commander, my troops are ready for the final attack.
.Can launch a fatal blow to the enemy at any time."
Yamachi Motoharu let out a wry smile when he heard this, and then winked at Nogi Nogi.
So Nogi Nogi handed the order in Nishi Kanjiro's hand, "You should also take a look. This is the order just sent by the lord. Neither the division commander nor I understand what the lord means?"
After Kanjiro Nishi took the order in his hand, he looked at it and was stunned for a moment. Then he closed his eyes and thought for a while. Then he suddenly opened his eyes, and there was a burst of light.
Standing opposite him, Yamachi Motoharu knew that his subordinate might have understood what his lord meant when he saw this situation?
"Tell me what you have in mind."
Kanjiro Nishi thought for a while and then said: "If I am not wrong, my lord probably wants to end the war quickly. He is thinking of using the navy's heavy artillery to bombard this area indiscriminately."
As soon as Kanjiro Nishi finished speaking, both Yamachi Genji and Nogi Nogi showed expressions of sudden realization.
Yamachi Yuanji then said with a smile: "It seems that I am really old and my brain is a little sluggish. I didn't guess such an obvious thing."
Next, Yamachi Genji immediately issued an order to Nogi Nogi and Nishi Kanjiro, "You two organize your own troops and move the front 200 meters back. Pay attention to defense when retreating, and don't let the other side take advantage of it."
Nogi Nogi and Kanjiro Nishi stood at attention and saluted together, then turned around and prepared to go out to execute the order.
Just when they were about to step out of the headquarters, they were called back by Yamachi Motoharu, "Wait a minute, I have something to explain."
The two men quickly came back to Yamachi Yuanji and stood respectfully waiting for his instructions.
"If the enemy launches a counterattack while retreating, you can send the indigenous troops to stop it. All you two need to do is provide fire support."
After listening to Yamachi Genji's words, Nogi Nogi and Nishi Kanjiro thought about it silently and made up his mind.
This is Yamaji Motoharu. He is afraid that the opponent's commander may have some abilities and see him suddenly retreating, and then launch a counterattack, trying to make himself and the opponent's position interlock. If this is the case, he will not be able to achieve it during the naval bombardment.
This was the purpose, so Yamachi Motoharu sent his servant army to resist the British counterattack. When the time came, the artillery began to shell, and in the end, Yamachi Motoharu did not care how much he lost.
Next, Shanchi Yuanji began to deploy in an orderly manner here.
First, the servant army was sent forward to take over the position of the 1st Division, and then the 1st Division was ordered to retreat 200 meters to rest and recuperate.
While Yamachi Motoji was changing rooms, some chaos did occur. If an experienced commander discovered this flaw, he would definitely launch a counterattack. Even if he could not eliminate the opponent, he would still cause a lot of casualties to Yamachi Motoharu's side.
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But Lieutenant Colonel James, who had just taken over the British army, was busy smoothing out his chain of command and had no time to pay attention to the front line. Therefore, he missed the last opportunity to reduce casualties.
On Yamachi Motoharu's side, the 1st Division withdrew to 200 meters away, and then ordered the servant army to also begin to retreat.
After all these arrangements were completed, Yamachi Motoharu immediately followed Liu Hai's order and launched three red flares into the sky.
On Liu Hai's side, after seeing the red signal flare rising in the sky, he immediately ordered Liu Da to lead the battleship to launch an artillery attack on the designated target.
At this time, Liu Da had already led four Iowa-class battleships and two Sovereign-class battleships to form a battle line.
After receiving Liu Hai's order, he immediately ordered six giant ships to launch artillery attacks on the designated targets.
Following Liu Da's order, the 406mm-caliber cannons on the Yihua-class battleships began firing one after another.
Because the caliber of these giant guns is so large, each salvo will push the huge Ahua-class battleship back several meters. This shows how powerful these giant guns are.
The Sovereign-class battleship next to the Iowa battleship was somewhat insignificant compared to them.
But even so, the power of the 305mm-caliber cannon on the Sovereign-class battleship cannot be underestimated.
In this way, the entire artillery fleet of 6 warships can fire 44 giant artillery shells every time.
Let’s talk about the British defensive position in the city center at this time. Lieutenant Colonel James finally smoothed out the command chain and began to arrange the next defensive results. Before his order could be passed on, a "swish" sound came from the sky.
Whoosh" sound.
After Lieutenant Colonel James heard the sound, he immediately realized that something was wrong. This was a signal that a large-caliber cannon was about to attack.
So the lieutenant colonel didn't care about the other people in the headquarters. He took three steps and two steps at a time to rush out of the headquarters.
But how could his speed compare to the speed of flying cannonballs.
Before the lieutenant colonel could step out of his headquarters, naval artillery shells had already landed in the city center near his headquarters.
As the shells continued to fall, nearly dozens of meters around each shell were reduced to rubble.
Their headquarters was very unlucky this time and was hit by a 406 mm caliber cannon.
This time, including Lieutenant Colonel James, the chain of command he had just organized was suddenly destroyed.
As the shells continued to fall, the British Army in the city center began to scurry around like headless flies.
However, their running around increased casualties. As the second and third rounds of artillery shells continued to fall, the expeditionary force began to suffer a large-scale attrition.
After 12 rounds of shelling, the enemy's defensive positions in the center of Singapore have now turned into craters.
At this time, the soldiers of the expeditionary force no longer had any will to fight.
After the bombardment ended, Yamachi Motoharu commanded his 1st Division and the indigenous army and began to enter the enemy's position in the city center, but they did not encounter any resistance.
The soldiers of the current expeditionary force have almost lost any hope of continuing to fight. They stay in their own positions like wooden chickens, like puppets, waiting for the enemy soldiers to take care of them.
In this way, that night, Yamachi Motoharu finally occupied the remaining enemy positions in the city center, and the entire Lion City Battle was considered over.
Liu Hai finally breathed a sigh of relief after knowing that the urban area had been reoccupied. This war was really full of twists and turns.
If it hadn't been for our own side's epoch-making advancement in weapons and the opponent's combat qualities, we would have been completely defeated by now.
Even now, Liu Hai still felt frightened when he thought about it, thinking that the other party was so cunning that he bypassed his main fleet and attacked Lion City and Rokko Strait.
If he had followed the Qing Dynasty's combat level, he would have been trapped in the Indian Ocean with no ammunition or food.
This time, the auspicious man taught Liu Hai a lesson, which made him lose a lot of his original pride and made him never dare to look down on the ancients again.