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At 9 o'clock in the morning on April 8, 1862, on the foredeck of the Zhenyuan ship, the military band of the Chinese Empire was repeatedly playing the March of Honor of the Empire. How nice it would be if you could have a clean uniform? How nice would it be if the camera had been invented in this era?

However, Lin Haijiang still arranged for several officers and soldiers in the fleet who liked oil painting to copy a great surrender first, and then wait until they returned to Guangzhou to find professionals to create, oil painting has the advantage of oil painting, that is, the officers and men of the imperial navy in the painting are dressed in ceremonial dresses to participate in this ceremony that has a commemorative surname for the Chinese Empire and even the Chinese nation. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

According to Lin Haijiang's arrangement, under the barrel of the first forward main gun of the Zhenyuan ship, 12 representatives of the allied forces will accompany the commander-in-chief of the allied forces, the British Duke of Hanni, to sign the instrument of surrender, and confirm that the officers and soldiers of the allied forces who committed atrocities in the port of Batavia will be handed over to the Chinese Empire, and return Hong Kong Island, confirm the ownership of the Chinese Empire to Southeast Asia and the whole of Indochina, and recognize the Chinese Empire as the sole legitimate political axe of China.

It can be said that 80% of the documents that Duke Hanni will sign are actually illegal, Duke Hanni as a duke does not have the power to replace the British emperor and the domestic parliament, but he does not care too much about these Lin Haijiang, and Duke Hanni, as a signatory, does not dare not sign, just two hours ago, some of the Spaniards and Dutch who tried to resist and flee by boat at night were concentrated on four cargo ships, which became the target of the warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy!

Duke Hanny, dressed in a gown but with a depressed expression, led Princeton. Admiral Arthur, Vice Admiral Duraviev, and Rear Admiral Mitchell and a group of 12 people came to the signing table of the Zhenyuan ship, in order to commemorate the historic moment, Lin Haijiang deliberately arranged the venue of the surrender ceremony, including the chair leg of the Duke Hanni sat on a very short section of these details Lin Haijiang thought of one by one.

Duke Hanni, as the vanquished, does not seem to feel any shame? Because Duke Hanni believed that the naval power of the coalition had been destroyed before he arrived in the port of Batavia, as the so-called commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, he could not directly command the commander of the navy, James. William, also unable to directly command the commander of the army, the Russian Veredovsky, his presence was more of a coordinating role, and he, the titular commander-in-chief, did not bear any so-called responsibility for the defeat.

Lin Haijiang looked at Duke Hanni with a smile, even Duke Hanni, who didn't need to take any responsibility for the defeat, definitely didn't like the current attitude of being condescendingly scrutinized, you must know that Lin Haijiang is not a good man and a woman, the coalition army that attacked the Imperial Fortress of the Chinese Empire has laid down its weapons, and they have not received any supplies for two days, and they will put down their weapons under the fierce artillery fire of the fortress, even if there is no order from Duke Hanni, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, For several days, Anglo-Indian soldiers had already demonstrated the effectiveness of the universal machine gun of the Chinese Empire with the blood of corpses.

In the face of a rain of bullets and mortars with almost no dead ends, the more than 30,000 allied officers and soldiers who entered the Imperial Fortress realized that this was a trap at all, a trap that the Chinese Empire had dug for them, and they could occupy whatever place the enemy asked them to occupy, otherwise even if they piled up corpses, they would not want to occupy a house or a street, and the Imperial Fortress was not a city at all, but a fortress specially designed for street fighting.

When Duke Hanni sat on the chair, he suddenly realized that Lin Haijiang, who was on the other side of the other table, was much taller than himself, and no matter how he raised his head, he had to look up at the other party? Duke Hanni glanced at the delicate little chair under his buttocks, although he was angry, but Duke Hanni thought he was a very cultivated person, in the face of the famous murderer, Duke Hanni didn't think that he could be a hero if he said a few hard words to Lin Haijiang, a dead hero and a living bear, Duke Hanni would not hesitate to choose the latter, because life is meaningful only if it exists.

Pieces of parchment were handed over to Duke Hanni for signature, with a seal! Duke Hanni glanced at this pure gold seal of the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces with regret, which was made of gold looted from the Qing state in 1840, Duke Hanni used his power as commander-in-chief of the coalition forces for the first time today, but he did not expect it to be stamped on the instrument of surrender! Sign and seal! Duke Hanni also didn't pay attention to how many documents he had signed himself.

The only thing Duke Hanni noticed was that these documents were all composed of Chinese, French, English and other three languages, the majesty of the Empire seemed to have fallen to the West Mountain, a small country rising in the East actually relied on the purchased warships to defeat the world's first naval power three times, not only that, the European seven-nation alliance was also sunk in the East, Duke Hanni couldn't believe how this news could be transmitted back to Europe.

Will Her Majesty Queen Victoria still send troops to the East? Can Parliament agree to involve the British Empire in a protracted war? A war with nothing to be gained but attrition? Duke Hanni felt as if he was in a dream, and at the end of the ceremony, he solemnly handed Lin Haijiang a command knife with a white gold handle inlaid with emeralds given to him by Queen Victoria before departure.

Lin Haijiang took a deep breath, paused slightly for a few seconds, stretched out his hand, grabbed the command knife, and turned around to hold up the Chinese Imperial Administration and officers who were watching the ceremony behind him!

Long live the Empire! Long live the Führer! Long live the Führer! Amid the earth-shattering cheers, the Dingyuan ship on the side of the cruise began to fire a salute to celebrate.

The officers and men of the Imperial Chinese Navy began to smoothly receive the Allied ships in Hong Kong, especially the heavy cruiser Ark Royal, with a standard displacement of 8,700 tons, and the Allied prisoners were held in the original prisons and the newly built temporary detention center in Batavia.

It is said that the so-called temporary detention center is actually an open space surrounded by wooden stakes, fenced with barbed wire, and some more machine-gun towers are built outside, and then the prisoners of the coalition forces are temporarily held in it.

The three Anglo-Indian divisions that surrendered in the Imperial Fortress, except for the 10th Division that was transported back to the port of Batavia, the remaining two Anglo-Indian divisions escorted all the British Army officers back to the port of Batavia, and the Indian soldiers were escorted to the mines to begin labor reform, and repair the various facilities of the Imperial Fortress damaged in the battle, if the lazy Indian soldiers failed to complete the job, then the execution team would execute the entire team, Lin Haijiang's purpose was very simple, not to let a coalition officer and soldier easily go back alive, Those who return will inevitably spread the terror.

The Anglo-Indian 10th Infantry Division, the Dutch Free Infantry Regiment, and the Spanish Volunteer Brigade, which committed heinous crimes in Batavia, were all executed in Batavia, from officers to soldiers.

However, these are trivial things, since the main force of the coalition navy that brought the greatest threat to Lin Haijiang has been annihilated, Lin Haijiang can be regarded as a long sigh of relief, after all, the coalition forces are not at the same level as the Chinese Empire in terms of land warfare, and now there is no country in the world where the firepower of the army has reached or approached half of the level of the Chinese Imperial Army, and if the Chinese Imperial Army is on the defensive, there is no precedent for being broken through from the front.

It can be said that after this series of wars, Lin Haijiang did suffer some losses, but compared to the losses, it is very rich, the coalition forces from India and other places to the port of Batavia a large number of material reserves have been captured and captured 27 3,200 tons to 8,700 tons of standard displacement of the coalition armored protection cruisers, can be said to be Lin Haijiang's biggest gain, almost all the shipyards of the Chinese Empire have become busy, because the heavy task of repairing warships has been issued, In order to get the battleship back into battle as soon as possible, almost all shipyards are working overtime!

Previously, Lin Haijiang had planned to use the fortress artillery of the Imperial Fortress to set up an ambush to severely damage the coalition fleet, but then Lin Haijiang changed his mind, after all, the fortress cannon is dead, but the battleship is alive, and the hit rate of the fortress cannon is relatively low, and the firing interval is also long, even if the coalition fleet hits the scale into the range of the main gun of the Imperial Fortress, it is not easy to achieve results, on the contrary, after exposing all its strength, the coalition forces are likely to give up the tactics of landing and occupying the Imperial Fortress.

Lin Haijiang's main army force is all concentrated on the first line of the two lakes, including the defense of Guangzhou is very empty, if the coalition forces use warships to cover these tens of thousands of troops to forcibly land in Guangzhou and other places, then they will very likely fall into a comprehensive passivity, once the coalition army lands from Guangzhou, as the rear of the two provinces of Guangzhou, once there is chaos, the main army force arranged in the two lakes will be attacked by the coalition forces, so Lin Haijiang hesitated again and again, or decided to use the imperial fortress to attract the coalition forces with the fleet expedition of the army force, Firmly absorb the strength of the coalition army, and constantly consume its vital force, making it a dilemma.

Lin Haijiang's attention has always been focused on the sea, Zeng Guofan's Beiyang New Army of 80,000 main forces once again followed the landing from Tianjin and the main force of the Russian army from Heilongjiang to the south, but the coalition army can be said to be almost swept along the way, the remnants of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom have collapsed, at this moment the army of Seng Lingqin put on the defensive in Wuhan, and Zeng Guofan's Beiyang New Army is with the commander of the coalition army, the 200,000 troops commanded by the Russian army General Veldovsky are attacking Hong Xiuquan's Tianjing, In Lin Haijiang's opinion, Hong Xiuquan is probably more than lucky this time!

(To be continued)