After the Xia Empire landed on the Malay Peninsula, wars broke out elsewhere, and telegrams for help and related information were collected in the hands of Sir Anderson, Governor of the Straits Settlements, and Lieutenant General Hamilton, Commander of the Army. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The Malay states had been occupied by the Xia Empire's forces before Singapore was besieged.

The British colonies on Kalimantan and Brunei were all occupied by the Xia Empire, where the Xia Empire declared the establishment of North Kalimantan Province, with the capital of Kuching City. The officers and men of the three Anglo-Indian divisions stationed there were either killed or surrendered; The Xia Empire only sent 1 division from West Kalimantan Province and East Kalimantan Province to attack from Sabah and Sarawak respectively, but 3 not big battles wiped out 3 divisions of the British Army, and by the way, Brunei was destroyed.

Other areas of fighting were the French colony of Indochina, the Australian Commonwealth, and Burma, which were attacked by the Xia Empire at about the same time, and Singapore was already an isolated island that could neither go out to aid the fighting in other theaters nor receive any outside assistance.

Lieutenant General Hamilton had fought so many battles, and this was his most desperate, leaving him with no hope of victory, or even the confidence to hold on to Singapore.

Originally, the fear was that the Xia Empire attacked Singapore from the sea, and the fortress guns and shore defense guns on the 2 batteries were all aimed at the target at sea, and the rotation range of the turret was very small, and now the Xia Empire came from the land to guard the Forou Strait, the fortress artillery lost its effect, the strength was obviously insufficient, and the time was in a hurry, and there was no permanent fortification along the Forou Strait, and the casualties of the British army would definitely be very large at that time.

India and Burma are separated by the Rakhine Mountains, only the Dong Ge Mountain Pass can be passed, and now it has been occupied by the Xia Imperial Army, the reinforcements on land cannot come, the reinforcements from the sea do not dare to come, and the British Far East Fleet is cowering in the port of Mumbai, not daring to take a step out of the port.

The land was surrounded by nearly 100,000 officers and soldiers of the Xia Empire, and the sea was even blocked by the warships of the Xia Empire, and now it is impossible to even break through.

Lieutenant General Hamilton rearmed the fleeing Anglo-Indian troops and used them as a reserve together with the 4th Anglo-Indian Division.

Governor Sir Anderson's heart is cold, he has already been captured by the Xia Empire once, should he be captured again?

I originally thought that there were so many troops in Singapore, and the empire sent Lieutenant General Hamilton, a general with rich combat experience, to guard Singapore, it should be foolproof, but I didn't expect that the strength of the Xia Empire's army was stronger than I thought, and if I knew this, I should have applied for transfer from this ghost place.

The commander of the 7th Army of the Xia Empire did not order the troops to attack, but built fortifications outside the range of British artillery fire.

This not only confused the officers and soldiers of the Xia Empire, but even the British Lieutenant General Hamilton didn't know that the Xia Empire was playing, did he want to trap the British army to death? Obviously, it is impossible, the British army has hoarded a large amount of food, medicine, ammunition and other baggage in Singapore, and they will not be afraid of the siege for a year and a half.

On the 15th, the simple fortifications were almost completed, and all the civil fortifications were built with local materials.

After lunch, Commander Lee Chi Ho ordered the airships to begin bombing Singapore's military installations.

According to the latest layout map of the British army sent by spies, the first bombing of the airship was the heavy artillery brigade stationed in the Tima Heights, because it was temporarily dispatched, the heavy artillery brigade did not have time to build permanent fortifications at all, all of them were civil fortifications built like the Xia Empire.

The grenade selected this time is a large-charge bomb (SB), the wall of the bomb body is thin, 75% of the inside of the bomb body is explosive, two types of short-delay fuse and instantaneous fuse are used, and the weight of the grenade is 250 kg.

Originally, Li Zihao still wanted to use incendiary bombs, but Zhang Wei considered that he did not want to fight the British army this time, so he ordered that the use of incendiary bombs should be banned in the war against Britain and France, and only high-explosive bombs could be used.

The bomb fell from the airship at an altitude of 3,000 meters and exploded on the Tima Heights, overturning the nearby civil fortifications, and a large number of explosive fragments harvested the lives of British officers and soldiers; Bombs that fall around the heavy howitzers will blow up the British artillery into parts, and the barrels will be distorted and deformed; The bombs that fell on the ground would blow up deep pits ranging from 4 to 8 meters, and the smoke and dust that rose into the sky alone reached a height of dozens of meters.

The cries and groans of the British troops on the positions were drowned out by the explosion of shells.

Dense shells rained down from the sky, leaving the British troops on the high ground with nowhere to hide and resigned themselves to their fate; The sound of a huge explosion could be heard throughout the city of Singapore, and the dense explosion destroyed their young minds; The British troops guarding the southern shore of the Forjo Strait were also stunned by this kind of bombardment, they had never experienced this kind of artillery fire before, and even the veterans had never seen this kind of formation, and the morale of the British troops suddenly dropped below freezing.

Under the bombardment of this kind of bomb, not to mention this kind of temporary civil fortifications, even the permanent fortifications built of reinforced concrete cannot be resisted, not to mention the fear of ordinary British troops, even Lieutenant General Hamilton feels hopeless, in the face of this weapon of war, human beings seem so small.

By the time the bombardment had passed, and before Lieutenant General Hamilton had given the order to retreat, the few surviving British officers and soldiers on the Tima Heights had begun to rush towards the city of Singapore, and the wounded and disabled on the positions were not cared for.

Lieutenant General Hamilton could only sigh helplessly in his heart, and could not punish the British officers and soldiers who fled, even if he himself was on the battlefield, his performance was not necessarily much better than those ordinary officers and soldiers.

After destroying the British heavy artillery brigade, Commander Li Zihao ordered the heavy artillery brigade under his jurisdiction to start shelling the British troops on the other side of the Foreu Strait, although the explosive power of the M howitzer is not as perverted as the grenade dropped from the airship, but because of the short distance, the hit rate is higher, the number of artillery is large, and it can carry out accurate strikes against the enemy.

Those civil fortifications could not withstand the bombardment of heavy howitzers, and the entire forward position was blown up in a mess, and those who were killed on the spot were considered lucky, and some were blown up stupidly, standing there dumbfounded; Some were injured and disabled, and could only moan weakly without being treated; Some were buried under the fortifications, and some were blown up with their limbs splattered and flesh scattered; Some people are lying in the craters and praying silently, while others are running around the positions, and there are explosions everywhere, and there is nowhere to hide, and for the officers and soldiers in it, it is the end of the world.

Lieutenant General Hamilton had no choice but to order the British troops to retreat as quickly as possible to a safe area outside the range of howitzers.

This retreat was equivalent to the loss of the beachhead, and Li Zihao ordered the latent Praetorian Guard Division to land from the shrubs and marshes west of the causeway, and the heavy artillery brigade and 1 Anglo-Indian division on the Tima Heights were in charge of guarding this side, and they had already fled under the bombardment of airships.

After the landing of the Praetorian Division, it quickly seized the beachhead, built fortifications on the spot, and waited for the arrival of the follow-up troops.

On the afternoon of the 16th, the Guards Division occupied the Tima Heights and set up the division's artillery positions first, while the rest of the officers and men were building temporary fortifications in the direction of Singapore City to protect the follow-up troops across the Phorou Strait.

By the afternoon of the 17th, the 7th Army had all crossed the Phorous Strait and entered the territory of Singapore.

On the morning of the 18th, the 7th Army began to expand its total attack on Singapore, encircling the city of Singapore from three directions and gradually narrowing the encirclement.

Moreover, the airship stayed in the sky over Singapore, and wherever there was a British artillery position, the airship would violently bombard the British artillery position, causing the artillery of the British division to be dumbfired.

Although the British army carried out a fierce counterattack, there was no artillery cover, and the simple infantry was not the opponent of the Xia Imperial Army at all; In close combat, the Xia Imperial army was equipped with a large number of semi-automatic rifles and mortars, even the number of light and heavy machine guns was more than that of the British army, coupled with the low morale of the British army, it was simply unable to resist the attack of the Xia Imperial army, and was defeated and retreated.

By the 19th, the British army had basically retreated to the edge of Singapore, and all the outlying positions had been lost, and the total number of British officers and soldiers was less than 40,000.

Lieutenant General Hamilton felt that the war was really dead, without the assistance of artillery, the British army was beaten without the power to fight back, and the loss of so many officers and soldiers caused to the Xia Empire was negligible; If you can only be beaten passively, and you can't hit the enemy, no one will feel good.

Since there was no time limit, the goal of the 7th Army was to occupy Singapore, so Li Zihao did not ask the troops to attack fiercely after encircling the British army, and the airship troops were on duty in the air as usual, but only assumed the role of monitoring the British artillery, and did not ask them to bomb the British Army.

The mercenaries did not reap the merits of the first landing in Singapore, and they were very aggrieved in their hearts, of course, this grievance was not the same as that of Lieutenant General Hamilton; The mercenaries vented all their inner anger on the British army, and the British army complained bitterly.

Slowing down the attack, the mercenaries began to practice marksmanship, which was originally very accurate, but now has a higher hit rate, and almost everyone has become a sharpshooter.

The Wehrmacht is also slowly growing, not only honing their marksmanship in battle, exercising mutual cooperation and cover, etc., but also training their tactics and tactics, and the mutual cooperation and use of different weapons.

By the 23rd, all the British troops had been compressed to the Zhangyi Naval Base, and they had reached the point where there was no way to retreat.

Several old destroyers and cruisers in the harbor had long since been sunk by airships, and the British had no means of counterattack.

Governor Anderson and Lieutenant General Hamilton announced their surrender to the Xia Empire, and the British officers and men, who were less than 30,000 men, laid down their arms and walked out of the naval base.

The Battle of Singapore was the first head-to-head battle between the Xia Empire's army and the British army, and it was also the longest battle, and the Xia Empire's fierce artillery fire and mercenary accurate marksmanship were deeply engraved in the minds of the British survivors. (To be continued.) )