Because it happened to be a southeast wind, under the tailwind, Ho Bo's fleet rushed to Singapore quickly, and arrived outside the port of Singapore two days later. However, he was originally aggressive and ready for a big battle, but Hao Ran found that the entire port of Singapore was filled with gunsmoke, as if the entire port had been burned not long ago.

Worried that there were still Chinese troops in the harbor, he cautiously sent a frigate forward to inquire about the military situation. Soon, the sergeant brought back two Indian laborers who were hiding in the cracks of the quayside reef and wept and told him that the whole city of Singapore had been burned down by the Chinese.

It turned out that after the Chinese Imperial Army captured the city of Singapore, they knew the importance of the port of Singapore to the British, and they also knew that they could not hold it, so they completely abandoned the port of Singapore, burned down the entire business district and wharf of Singapore, blew up the castle, destroyed the aqueduct, and completely destroyed the entire Singapore, and then led a group of Chinese to leave Singapore, cross the Straits of Johor and go north into the territory of the Sultanate of Johor.

He Bo sent people to Xingapore Island to take a look, and it was really the originally prosperous Xingjiapo Port, which had completely turned into a scorched earth. Even the newly built Tianfu Palace, a gathering place for the Chinese, was completely burned down, and the embers left behind were still smoking. Originally with a population of 70,000, the once bustling commercial district of Singapore has now become a ruined wall, and everything is in ruins.

"What a ruthless method!" He Bo was so angry that he felt a tingling pain in his chest, and he almost vomited blood: "I can occupy this Xingkapo Port without much effort, but now that it looks like this, what's the use of taking it?" Damn the Orientals! ”

He Bo was really angry. Singapore was the most important British Empire stronghold in the East Indies and has grown to become the most prosperous entrepot of the three major ports in the Straits Settlements. Moreover, Governor Canning has already said that the British Empire is about to revoke the management of the East India Company, the British Empire will directly administer India and the Straits Settlements, and Singapore is about to usher in a more glorious moment, but I didn't expect that all of this was ruined by the hateful Chinese!

When He Bo was hesitating whether to lead the fleet to land, attack the Kingdom of Johor, and wipe out the hateful Chinese army one by one, the lookout came to report that a large group of warships were coming from the sea to the west.

Knowing that the port of Singapore was burned down by an infantry division of the Chinese Empire, the commander of the expeditionary force, Seymour, and the commander of the army, Ross, were both very indignant, especially Rus, who directly threatened to capture Guangzhou, Shanghai and the city of Nanjing, and burned down these three great cities in the east, thinking that they would retaliate!

Seymour was quite calm, saying that Singapore had burned down and could not be restored in a short time, and the other two ports of the Straits Settlements, Penang and Malacca, must be guarded, and the Chinese army lurking in the Sultanate of Johor could no longer be captured and destroyed. He suggested that Ross send an army force of 8,000 men to directly encircle and suppress the Sultanate of Johor, force the Sultan of Johor to deal with the Chinese army, defeat this Chinese army as soon as possible, and clear the threat from the rear of the expeditionary force.

After all, once the expeditionary force left the East Indies and sailed to the Far East, it was not a matter of a day or a month, it needed a steady supply of supplies, and a stable rear base was necessary to transport war materials from Ceylon and India to the Far East through the Straits Settlements. Although Seymour and Ross discussed the idea of capturing Hong Kong first and opening up Hong Kong Island as a forward base for the expeditionary force, it was not always comfortable to have an enemy force harassing the Straits Settlements in the middle of the way. For the sake of face, it is also necessary to defeat this enemy force as soon as possible, and by the way, conquer the Sultanate of Johor, which has been hiding in Tibet.

Of course, the army sent a force of 8,000 men to attack the Sultanate of Johor and the Chinese army that destroyed Singapore, and the navy could not be idle, Seymour ordered that he personally lead the expeditionary fleet to the south to attack Batavia, the largest city in the East Indies that had been occupied by the Chinese Empire, and Ho Bo led the vanguard of the fleet to attack the nearby ports of Pontianak and Kuching, which dealt a serious blow to the Chinese forces in the East Indies.

Seymour and Ross still believed that it was necessary to rush to the mainland of the Chinese Empire as soon as possible and launch an attack on the important cities of Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Nanjing, without giving the enemy much time to prepare. Therefore, the elimination of the Chinese army hiding in Johor and the sweep of several major port cities in the East Indies must be completed within half a month.

He Bo's fleet, which went out again and rushed to Pontianak Port, found that the five warships left behind had captured the batteries in Pontianak Port, but one gunboat and one frigate were sunk by the batteries on the pier, and the other battleship and two cruisers were also greatly damaged.

According to the captain of the battleship, on the night when the fort in Pontianak Port was about to be lost, the Chinese soldiers guarding the city abandoned Pontianak without any resistance, and led the Chinese miners, traders, and growers in Pontianak to premeditately enter the rainforest upstream along the Banda River. It just so happened that the only three remaining warships did not have much land force themselves, because they were afraid that there would be an ambush in Pontianak City, and after waiting for a day to find out that the entire Pontianak City was empty, they landed with confidence, occupied Pontianak City, strengthened their vigilance, and waited until the arrival of Hober's fleet.

He Bo was a little surprised that Pontianak City was so easy to occupy. On the way to Pontianak, he was most worried that he would fall for the plan of the Chinese Empire's Nanyang Fleet to divert the tiger from the mountain, and if he took advantage of his eagerness to return to Xingkapo to help, the enemy would make dumplings for the five warships he left behind to attack Pontianak Port, but he would regret it, but fortunately, such a thing did not happen. However, what made him a little distressed was that two small warships were sunk and the other three were damaged, which undoubtedly hinted that the next battle was not as easy as he imagined. Pontianak is not a big port, and it has only been a year or two since it fell into the hands of those Chinese, and I can't imagine that the forts built will have such great power. It seems that it must be a problem with the artillery on the battery, and it must be caused by the kind of sophisticated artillery called the Krupp cannon. For the first time, He Bo was a little worried.

He boarded the dock and came to the fort of Pontianak, only to find that the four guns on the fort had been deliberately dismantled, and judging from the remnants of the turrets, it was undoubtedly the Krupp rifled gun he had seen in Calcutta.

In Pontianak City, although there are still some figures, which are different from Singapore, they are chaotic and completely out of control.

Although it was not destroyed by fire, and only hundreds of local natives such as Malays and Dayaks remained in the entire city of Pontianak, because of the lack of suppression by ordinary Chinese leaders and local security of Chinese soldiers, the whole Pontianak was completely chaotic, and the natives fought among themselves everywhere, fighting for the property and houses that the Chinese merchants and miners had not had time to transport. The entire city of Pontianak was full of slashing and slaughter, and it was almost in ruins. Such a Pontianak city, even if it is occupied, what is the use?

It was not easy to stop the fighting of these natives, and called a few natives who had a little bit of duty to ask, only to know that as early as two days ago, thousands of Chinese in Pontianak City, under the leadership of the local Chinese chief, entered the inland rainforest along the Wanla River.

At this time, Uncle He had a headache. Will Pontianak City, which was captured at the cost of 2 warships, occupy it or give it up? If you want to occupy it, you must send soldiers to guard it, but now this Pontianak is completely ruin-like, without those Chinese miners, how can this group of natives alone prosper and develop? I'm afraid that Pontianak will degenerate into a primeval jungle. And to occupy Pontianak, how many soldiers should be sent to guard, less is easy to be attacked by Chinese armed forces like Singapore, more, not only is it expensive, but along the way, I am afraid that before it reaches the mainland of the Chinese Empire, there are not many soldiers around me, how can I fight? But if you don't occupy it, it seems that you will lose even more, you lost two warships in vain, and finally captured Pontianak, you didn't catch anything, and even the slightly valuable property was robbed and hidden by those natives, and the remaining Pontianak City, which was composed of stone houses, what is the effect of these soldiers?

It's a loss-making thing! However, no matter how much he lost money, He Bo finally chose to give up Pontianak. In any case, driving those Chinese into the mountains is a victory!

Immediately afterwards, Uncle Ho led the fleet north without the slightest drag, and under the guidance of the guide, killed several other Chinese strongholds in Borneo.

A few days later, along the way, he captured the port towns where the Chinese gathered, such as Yamaguchiyang and Sanfa, and it was surprisingly smooth.

According to the intelligence of the spies, these places were originally inhabited by tens of millions of Chinese laborers, after the Chinese Empire defeated the Dutch East India Fleet, the East Indies were occupied, although because Borneo and the Chinese Empire mainland are far away, but after two years of continuous immigration, now the entire East Indies, there have been as many as hundreds of thousands of Chinese to take root to make a living, and like Yamaguchiyang and Kuching, the northwest of Borneo was originally the area of the Lanfang Republic, which is the main scope of Chinese immigration activities. Yamaguchiyo and Sanfa are both large gathering places with a population of more than 10,000, and it is unthinkable that the Chinese are so cowardly that they would abandon the towns and ports that had been built for a long time, and hide directly in the mountains inland, just like Pontianak.

To Hobo's speechlessness, although Yamaguchi and Sanfa were easily captured, his fleet did not capture anything, only replenished with some fresh water and firewood, and even vegetables and coal. The damned group of Chinese had been preparing for a planned evacuation for a long time, and they didn't even have much food left except for the houses and simple furniture they didn't have enough to bring. This undoubtedly made Uncle He very depressed. He would rather that the Chinese resist, and fight directly and simply, than to fight in the open space like this, without the slightest benefit.

If it weren't for the fact that he had to wait for Seymour's main fleet, he would have wanted to ignore these Chinese ports and go directly to Hong Kong.

On this day, Ho Bo's fleet sailed into the mouth of the Sarawak River, and just when Ho Bo thought that the Kuching port in front of him would be like Yamaguchi Yang and Sam Fa, and the Chinese all fled, the news came from the sentinel ship in front that a small warship had been found in the port, and there seemed to be some Chinese troops at the dock.

Finally caught the enemy, He Bo immediately ordered to surround it, captured the enemy on the warship and tortured the whereabouts of the enemy's main force.

Seeing that it was surrounded by dozens of warships, the Chinese warship knew that it was definitely not an enemy, and did not raise its sails to meet the battle, but directly abandoned the frigate, and more than 40 naval soldiers fled to the dock. The city of Kuching was in chaos in the harbor, with hundreds of Chinese soldiers in light grey uniforms shouting and fleeing, and they did not even have time to pack up the other two merchant ships and the contents of the castle.

Worried about fraud, He sent two groups of outposts ashore to investigate, and learned that the Chinese soldiers stationed in Kuching City led a group of Chinese laborers to hide in the nearby mountains and forests, so he ordered to land and occupy Kuching City.