The Battle of Dalian Bay was actually a war won by both sides. Although the Far East Fleet suffered a bit of heavy losses, it completed the task of completely annihilating the remaining fleet of Lushun and achieved its strategic goal, and the casualties were only 300, far better than that of North Manchuria. The North Manchurian side suffered huge losses in personnel, but it took advantage of the sunken tonnage, and finally repelled the British army, which could not be regarded as a loss. However, for Guoxinga, none of this is important, and the Battle of Dalian Bay is the first big loss he has suffered since he crossed.

Four ships of the Lushun Fleet were sunk, three ships were seriously damaged and had no repair value, and at present, only one ship of the Cuiliu is available for the defense of the Bohai Sea. In terms of personnel, there were even heavy losses, more than 500 officers and soldiers were killed in battle, including two lieutenant colonels. So the general was very angry and threw his beloved itch - Yu Ruyi down.

There is another layer of Guoxinga's anger that cannot be told to outsiders, because he feels that the fiasco of Dalian Bay is all his responsibility. I like to reflect on my own Guoxinga, and I feel that I am very similar to Li Hongzhang decades later, after having an altar and a jar, I can't be reluctant, and I dare not offend the British, so I always want to avoid war and seek peace. It is precisely because of his own thinking that Dalian has been passive in defense as a whole, so that the Lushun left-behind fleet has always been passive. If he had been able to take the initiative, as soon as the Far Eastern Fleet showed up, he would have let the North Sea Fleet go south to annihilate them, and there would have been no today's tragedy.

Li Hongzhang cowered because the Qing Dynasty's family background was not good, but the current industry of North Manchuria was not weak, even if it was not as good as the world's No. 1 Britain, it may not be without the strength of a war. Guoxinga still has a large number of golden fingers, and he will definitely not suffer losses for ten or eight years on the battlefield, and there is no need to back down in front of the British. The great comrade said that all reactionaries are paper tigers, and they may not have the courage to really fight the British. For a while, he thinks about the issue of the recovery of Outer Manchuria, and for a while he thinks about the issue of the import of industrial products, it is completely Guo Xing'a himself to scare himself.

"Damn, I'd rather let Lao Maozi occupy Outer Manchuria for a few more years than let the British be arrogant. Mr. Huaiyuan, inform Pashali that in view of the British Empire's war against our North Manchuria, our North Manchurian Autonomous Government has officially severed diplomatic relations with Britain and declared war on Britain! "Guoxinga wants to open it, if it's a big deal, it's a big deal, it's a big deal, it's a big deal, it's a big deal, it's a big deal,

"General, you really want to fight!" Zou Degui was also annoyed, but the nature of a full-scale war is not the same as a skirmish.

"Everyone is knocking on the door, and there is no point in making compromises, let's fight! The prestige of the country is all played, and if you don't pay some dry goods, white people always feel that they are superior! "Guoxing Aren has endured it, and now there is nothing to scruple about, you can't fight in Dalian every day, and it's time to go out for activities.

"Let's fight! The British have always treated us as little brothers, pointing fingers at us everywhere, and it is time to teach them a lesson! But don't expel Pashali, leave a channel for peace talks, none of us can destroy anyone, and we'll talk when we've had enough! Pi Runmin also advocated war, but he was more mature than Goxinga's idea and wanted to reduce the scale of the war.

"Inform the shipyards and immediately start construction of eight new Sea Lion-class cruisers and sixteen Seawolf-class destroyers. The Bohai Fleet was renamed the Nanyang Fleet, and the original establishment was not changed. The original left-behind fleet was upgraded to the Yellow Sea Fleet, with Ding Shengping as the commander of the fleet, and all the newly built ships will be added to the Yellow Sea Fleet. At present, the defense of Dalian and other places is assisted by the North Sea Fleet, and Bian Changdi is asked to send a formation of 12 capital ships to Dalian. Bian Changdi's North Sea Fleet all went out of the port to search for British ships, and since war was declared, they were all destroyed, especially the Far East Fleet, as long as they were found, they would be annihilated on the spot! "The war against Britain was mainly a naval battle, and Goxinga, of course, had to arrange a navy first.

"General, Ding Shengping is also a general of the defeated army, do you think about Ma Erwei or Xu Hongxing, who performed better this time!" Tan Shaoguang, chief of the General Staff, felt that there were some minor flaws in the appointment of the commander of the Yellow Sea Fleet.

"The main responsibility for this defeat lies with me, and Ding Shengping's performance is still good. Ma Erwei and Xu Hongxing are also very good, but most of them are generals, only Ding Shengping can stabilize the Chinese army, and the fleet commander is not able to fight! Guo Xing'a shook his head, Ma Erwei and Xu Hongxing will also have arrangements in the future, but not now.

"That's right!" Tan Shaoguang nodded.

"Brother Tan, how is the current deployment of troops in Nanyang!" The attack was about to start fighting, and there was no British territory near Goxinga.

"The eleven main battleships of the Nanyang Fleet were all in Pontianak, and of the remaining twenty-five warships, eleven were in the port of Xin'an in northern New Guinea, and the others were also in Pontianak. On the army side, there is the 3rd Mixed Brigade of Huang Zhongmin stationed in the Republic of Lanfang, and the Marine Corps is stationed in the Republic of Lanfang except for one regiment stationed in Xin'an Port. The National Defense Force of the Republic of Lanfang has already completed the reorganization and training of five regiments, and the situation is similar to that of the Japanese mercenaries in Dalian in all aspects. Tan Shaoguang briefly introduced the distribution of troops in North Manchukuo in Nanyang, Guo Xing'a took care of all kinds of opportunities every day, and he couldn't remember too many things.

"How's New Guinea?" The New Guinea springboard resurfaced in Goshinga's mind.

"According to the information sent by the Sai people, the island of New Guinea is vast, but the local population is extremely barbaric and backward. And the local mountains and jungles are dense, and it is not easy to exterminate the chaos, and at present, except for the Northwest Former Dutch business area, other places can only be occupied by military and cannot be effectively built! Tan Shaoguang also knew that Guo Xing didn't like to hear it, but this was the truth.

"Ordered to the Minister of the South Seas, Zhiyuan, the Commander of the Navy, Botun, and the 3rd Mixed Brigade Huang Zhongmin, ordering them to recover the entire territory of Borneo, and to advance Malaya, Singapore and other places in due course, and to harass the coast of India! At the same time, let the North Sea Fleet Bian Changdi immediately go south to recover Hong Kong after clearing the remnants of the enemy in the inland sea! Drive the British out of the Pacific Ocean! "New Guinea's development can't keep up, and Goxinga naturally has no way to realize his dream, so he can only settle for the next best.

After receiving the telegram from Changchun, Zhiyuan of Pontianak could hardly believe his eyes, it was too irrational to start a war against the world's number one power. However, Huang Zhongmin, who was born in Bodun and Shandong soldiers, was extremely excited, without war, they could only follow Zhiyuan behind him, and only when the war broke out, their value could be reflected. However, there is someone who is more anxious than them, that is, Liu Asheng, the president of the Lanfang Republic.

Liu Asheng has been a puppet of the Dutch for a long time, and his popularity in Lanfang is very poor. But after he attracted Zhiyuan and became a puppet of the Manchurians, his popularity improved, and the Manchurians are also Chinese, and everyone is their own people! This time he was shocked to hear that North Manchuria had started a war against Britain, Liu Asheng didn't care that Britain was the world's most powerful country, the Manchurian government helped him train five regiments of new troops, and he had to behave well in front of Zhiyuan and all the people. Bolton and Huang Zhongmin were still discussing the plan to march into the army, and Liu Ah Sheng actually led his army of 10,000 to conquer Sarawak, Sabah, and Brunei.

Zhiyuan and others scolded Liu Asheng for being ugly and making a lot of trouble, but they could only quickly send troops to meet him, and the adverse impact of leaving the division was too bad. The 10,000 army of the Lanfang Republic, although the level of equipment and strength are very average, but it was also trained by Huang Zhongmin and others, so Liu Asheng lost everything, and it was also very painful. However, Liu Asheng, the overlord of the South Seas, did not change in vain, and when Huang Zhongmin arrived with his troops, the three states of North Borneo had already been pacified, and more than 200 British prisoners had been captured.

Of course, the victory in the first battle was not because Liu Asheng was a military genius, but because the British were too careless. After Napoleon the Great's rest, the hegemony of the British Empire had not been challenged for a long time, and some barbarian tribes in Southeast Asia could not be garrisoned by large armies, so the British defenders of the three continents of North Borneo totaled more than 200 people. The main forces of the troops in each place were local natives armed with front-loading muskets, bows, arrows, and spears. Liu Asheng rushed with more than 10,000 troops equipped with Schneider rifles, Gatling guns, and Armstrong field guns, and these natives naturally collapsed, and the 200 British troops chose to surrender rationally in the face of an enemy 50 times larger.

The British army had not yet fought with the Manchurian army in Southeast Asia, so Huang Zhongmin and others did not abuse the British prisoners of war, and picked a group of bamboo buildings in the local area and locked them up. Zhiyuan praised Liu Asheng's military talent in Bandar Seri Begawan, the former capital of Brunei, and affirmed the impressive results achieved by the Lan Fang army, and then seized the command of the Lan Fang government over the army, and resolutely did not give Liu Asheng a chance to add chaos again.

Officers such as Botun and Huang Zhongmin were in favor of confiscating the military power of the Lan Fang government and using the Lan Fang army to defend Borneo because they had discovered the warplane. The British may be very powerful, but their forces in Southeast Asia are mainly local natives, and their actual combat ability is very low. With a quick swipe on the map, Bolton found his target, the Strait of Malacca, the gateway between the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The amount of work to capture the entire Malay Peninsula is still huge, and whether it can be done depends on the situation in the future, but the navy and Huang Zhongmin's 3rd Brigade can occupy one of the key points first-Singapore.

Singapore's geographical location is very important, and there are many Chinese residents in the area, which is the ideal place for Boton to forge ahead. After the main force of the Bohai Fleet was assembled, the 3rd Mixed Brigade and the 1st Marine Brigade were loaded on the ships and went straight to the strategic point of Singapore. However, before landing, they still had to fight a naval battle, and the British Empire's East India Fleet had already crossed the Strait of Malacca and headed straight for Borneo.

The Battle of Malacca was the first brilliant victory of Botun, the naval commander, the British East Indies Fleet was sunk seven capital ships, almost lost all combat effectiveness, and the North Manchurian Army won the sea supremacy in Southeast Asia by virtue of this battle, but Boton did not have any sense of achievement. The Battle of Malacca was an orthodox British naval battle, in which the capital ships of both sides lined up to fight each other. The carburized armor of the eleven main battleships of North Manchuria, which was more than 200 millimeters thick, naturally ignored the shelling of the British army. Botun's flagship, the Xiaomeng, was hit by the British ship with more than 100 guns, except for creating a little tense atmosphere, the eggs were useless. However, the 248 mm main guns, 150 mm stern guns, 122 mm secondary guns, and even 88 mm secondary guns of the Manchurian battleships could easily penetrate the armor of the British ships, and the so-called battleship duel was simply a one-sided massacre.

Huang Zhongmin's campaign to seize Singapore did not have any waves. The 3rd Mixed Brigade is supported by naval artillery, and its strength is already far stronger than that of the British troops stationed in New Zealand, and it has a three-fold superiority in strength, so it is strange that it cannot be defeated. After a day of fierce fighting, the British again wisely chose to surrender, retaining the dignity of a gentleman. Huang Zhongmin did not see a good harvest, there was still a surplus of troops, and the British did not have many people in this generation, in order to achieve an advantage in the troops, Huang Zhongmin crossed the Johor Strait and occupied Johor Bahru. It is not a big problem to continue to develop northward, but the battle line is too long, and in case the British army counterattacks strongly, Huang Zhongmin will be in trouble. Therefore, after the occupation of Johor Bahru, the army did not develop, and they began to act as marmots in the vicinity of Singapore, frantically building permanent fortifications to protect the one-third of an acre of land they occupied.

Huang Zhongmin's judgment was really right, the British army in Malaysia launched a large-scale counteroffensive when he had just repaired the fortifications. The British even mobilized the troops stationed in India, and gathered an army of more than 80,000 people to launch a fierce attack on the Johor Bahru defensive line. However, out of contempt for the colonial people, the British commander, Lieutenant General Cole, was indifferent to the command of non-British troops and completely treated these colonial troops as expendables.

The long and narrow Malay Peninsula made the British army march very problematic, and the second-line army of the colonies reached 3,000 today and 500 tomorrow. But Lieutenant General Cole didn't care about this, as soon as the troops arrived, he couldn't wait to send people to the battlefield and force them to storm the Manchurian defenses. A good battle was turned into an oil war under the command of Cole, and a group of Indians and Malays fell in front of the positions of the Manchurian army, and then another group of people were sent to their deaths the next day. When Cole reflected on whether he had gone too far, the 80,000-strong army had already killed more than 30,000 people.

Kohl's plan to deplete the Manchurian army's ammunition reserves through the inferior races of the colonies also did not succeed, and the Manchurians all came from the cold north, and because of the climate, they had a habit of saving in their genes. Bo Dun ran to Nanyang for two years, as long as there is a fleet, he will bring him a boatload of ammunition and supplies, and the ammunition reserves of the Nanyang garrison in North Manchu are enough for Huang Zhongmin to play for a year.

The South China Sea made good progress, but the North Sea Fleet did not go to Hong Kong, because their task of pursuing and destroying the Far East Fleet had not yet been completed, and in the face of more than 20 ironclad ships, Gillet, who had broken his leg, wisely chose to hide in the Japanese port and not come out. Goko, who did not want to spread the stall too big, did not declare war on Japan, but only sent people to threaten the shogunate to hand over the Far Eastern Fleet. The authority of the Tokugawa shogun has been severely hit again, and it is difficult to be a man between the two powers! He didn't dare to offend the powerful neighbors of Manchuria, nor did he dare to bombard the Far Eastern Fleet, and he was aggrieved and ruined his last authority.

Of course, there is someone who is more depressed than General Tokugawa, that is, the British Prime Minister Derby, who could not understand how the situation could have developed like this.