As the center of the British Empire's colonial rule in the Far East, Singapore's defense is undoubtedly highly valued, but compared with Gibraltar, Dover, Pearl Harbor (not yet) and even Port Arthur, some of which are built on natural cliffs and are truly impregnable (of course, limited to the face of naval attacks) coastal defense fortresses, the defense capability of Singapore Fortress without natural geographical advantages is inevitably limited by the level of science and technology at the time of construction, which is enough to deal with the ironclad ships of ten years ago. But in the face of the world's most advanced and powerful armored cruiser, the Haitian class, it is extremely powerless......

The caliber of the fortress cannon is very large, but when the armor-piercing shell hits the Haitian-class armor that is no more than 155mm thick, it always fails to penetrate because of the early explosion, Liu Buyun confirmed this and immediately made up his mind, and ordered six Haitian-class gunners to enter the harbor along the pilotage/mine-probe of the captured British warships (due to the Haitian-class gunning attracted battery fire, these British warships that were forced to drive in front unexpectedly sank). Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info), approaching the fortress battery and aiming at the shelling!

Compared with the caliber of the fortress gun, the Haitian-class main gun that cannot be installed in 210mm is too thin, but when the distance is approached to 1000 meters, or even within 500 meters, the extremely high muzzle velocity of no less than 800 m/s is completely advantageous, and the penetration depth of its armor-piercing projectiles is not much better than that of many large-caliber naval guns, even if it is a concrete fort several meters thick, it is as fragile as paper paste.

And after the distance is so close, the problem that the target of the battery is much smaller than that of the warship is no longer a problem, the Chinese naval gunners fully demonstrated their accurate artillery skills, almost every shell can hit the target, and then see the British batteries one after another burst out of the sky of smoke, and then completely dumb fire, and even two batteries may have been detonated ammunition depots, and were directly blown into the sky in the loud sound of sonic shocks, and some fragments even flew to the vicinity of the Haitian and splashed water columns, Frightened, Zhou Chunyu hurriedly ordered the sailors to drag Liu Buyun, who insisted on standing on the bridge to command, back to the command tower......

Due to the slow rate of fire of the old-fashioned cannons, almost every British fortress gun had only one chance to fire, and then what awaited them was the counterattack of the main guns of the sea and sky, and after one shot, or two guns, or at most three guns, the battery was completely reimbursed......

"Why is it that our artillery has no effect on it, and it hits our batteries so easily? How can this be fought? Such a disparity quickly demoralized the defenders of the battery, who either screamed and fled from their posts without permission, or raised the white flag in despair......

According to the rough statistics after the war, the British batteries destroyed by the bombardment of the Ocean Fleet accounted for less than a third of the total, and the remaining batteries all surrendered without a fight or gave up resistance because the defenders ran out.

As a result, the Marines, numbering only more than 2,000 people, completely controlled the British naval base and civilian docks in Singapore without firing a single shot, and the number of captured British troops was more than 5,000!

"Zhengqing's adventure is halfway there, and now we are invincible. If the Governor can be caught next, the gamble will be a complete success! Liu Buyun looked at the new flag of the Chinese Navy slowly raised at the Singapore Naval Base and said excitedly.

Zhou Chunyu remained calm as always, he poured a basin of cold water on his partner on the spot, and expressed his faint concern, "I'm afraid it's not so easy, the next thing is a street fight, we can't give full play to the range advantage of pointy guns, and the only ones we can rely on are grenades and heavy machine guns, I don't know if it's enough?" Moreover, the British Governor is more familiar with the streets of Singapore than we are, and as long as he does not foolishly hold on to it, it will be very difficult for us to catch him, and there are so few people that we cannot even annihilate the enemy army in Singapore, let alone search the whole city of Singapore. ”

"What then?" , Liu Buyun couldn't help frowning.

"Rather than scattering the forces to be used by the enemy, it is better to concentrate the forces, divide them into several routes, and use the 'through the wall' tactic proposed by the party leader to quickly penetrate the flanks and rear of the governor's palace to form an encirclement, and then he will be unable to fly." , Zhou Chunyu replied with a smile, although the biochemical soldiers have no innovation ability, they are very good at using various military techniques and tactics that they have mastered, like this kind of tactics that Li Hui once taught, Zhou Chunyu thought of it faster than Liu Buyun.

"By the way, I forgot about that, the British must have thought that we would attack along the streets and build barricades to block them, but if we go straight through the wall, they won't be able to defend against it." , Liu Buyun immediately applauded when he heard it, and he thought more carefully than Zhou Chunyu, "Under the attack of this tactic, the fixed telegraph line and telephone line are afraid that it will be difficult to effectively assume the heavy responsibility of communication, but fortunately, we are attacking this time......"

In this era, cement is still relatively expensive, even in a central city like Singapore, most of the houses are still brick and wood structures, and Miss 75 can easily blast it open, and soon the original intact streets and alleys are torn open one by one......

These gaps soon led to several shortcuts to the Doge's Palace, and the Marines rushed to the most important targets of the campaign with heavy machine guns, avoiding the grief, anger, and even resentment of the destruction of their homes......

The key to the success or failure of this operation is speed, every minute of time is precious, it is impossible for the Marines to patiently do the work for the local population, and after forcibly driving people out, they will start to tear down the wall, and it is impossible not to be hated.

However, Liu Buyun is well aware of the truth that "there can be no kindness of women in war", and he has long given his subordinates enough authorization, not to mention destroying some houses, even if they need to shoot at residents, the Marines will not be soft, even if those residents who do not listen to advice, insist on getting close to the Marines, or directly hinder their actions are Chinese compatriots.

This inevitably created a few grievances and aroused the resentment of some of the locals, but the deterrent effect was also very significant, whether it was Malays, Indians or Chinese, they all honestly and obediently hid in their houses, and no one dared to run out into the streets anymore.

Without the interference of the "ignorant masses", the Marines advanced at a frighteningly fast pace, and the British Governor's House in the Straits Settlements was already close at hand...... (To be continued.) )