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James. After William's final consultation with Major General Siegel, the sixth commander of the Allied Army, and others, the two rifle regiments belonging to the Dutch Army remained to occupy the port of Batavia and restore order after the war, but everyone knew that this was nonsense, and the port of Batavia had been burned to the ground by the Dutch and British who were trying to cover up their crimes. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

James. William & Plimpton. Both Arthur and Arthur understood the cause of the tragedy in the port of Batavia, and it was precisely because the allied fleet was so consumed that it could not be delayed for a long time, so they wanted to have a decisive battle with the navy of the Chinese Empire. William's Allied fleet, with fifty-nine armored cruisers, did not make the low-level mistake of dividing forces to lure the enemy, so the Chinese Empire had been trying to avoid war and look for opportunities.

James. William once thought of shelling Shanghai and Guangzhou, but there were a lot of British people in the two places, especially after the relationship between the two sides deteriorated extremely, most of the British in Hong Kong were detained in Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places. William was worried that his shelling of Guangzhou would trigger a large-scale retaliation from the other party, and if Lin Haijiang opened a killing spree, then the first one would definitely be himself, which would be tantamount to forcing the other party to kill the British.

So the tragedy of the port of Batavia was in James. William seems to be an opportunity, an opportunity to stop Lin Haijiang from being a shrinking turtle!

Wang Dongxu in the dense forest after learning the results of the reconnaissance, he was annoyed and immediately pulled out a gun and tried to commit suicide, but was forcibly stopped by his subordinates, Wang Dongxu regretted that he did not make up his mind to forcibly clear the wall, he was really reluctant to the prosperous Batavia Port, after all, all his efforts over the years have been on the construction, and he underestimated the beast surname of the coalition army.

Wang Dongxu, whose lips were bleeding, divided the 30 soldiers of an armed gendarmerie special forces commando under his command into three groups, and ordered that exterminating revenge be carried out against the Dutch, British, Indians, and the countries to which the coalition belonged, regardless of men, women, and children, especially those in military uniforms.

Wang Dongxu led the defenders of the two battalions that had been withdrawn and decided to harass the Dutch 24 hours a day and create an opportunity for the armed special forces to attack.

Three days later, the details of the Batavia Port tragedy were reported to the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy, which had been wandering in the waters near Hainan Province.

Li Haibo and the others stood behind Lin Haijiang and did not dare to say much, they were afraid of interfering with the strategic decision-making of the Führer, the defenders of Batavia Port lost more than 300 people, and the people were killed and wounded more than 10,000 people, which can be said to be the biggest loss after the establishment of the empire! The loss is not only a part of the southeastern provinces, but also makes the empire lose face, and also makes Lin Haijiang outside the door of the enemy become an empty word, Lin Haijiang's original meaning refers to the mainland itself, but the tragedy of the Southeast Asian provinces made the entire Southeast Asian provinces military and political officials and even the imperial head difficult to escape the blame.

Lin Haijiang wrote an obituary to the whole empire and to Prussia, Switzerland, Vatican and other countries in Europe, condemning this atrocity, and solemnly stating that all invading enemies will be executed, and the people and soldiers of the allied countries will be regarded as hostile personnel until death! Some of the gentry who were originally about whether to resolutely resist in the overseas provinces, for fear of causing the enemy to massacre the city, this was a powerful slap in the face, the resistance of the port of Batavia can be said to be not fierce, the garrison commander Wang Dongxu had only half a brigade in his hands, because there were still a large number of people in the city who were unwilling to give up their shops and hide in the jungle, so the resistance of the defenders was also symbolic, and the result was still a large-scale massacre and atrocities.

Lin Haijiang was hesitating, was this a strategic act of the coalition forces to force themselves to fight a decisive battle at sea? After hesitating for a long time, Lin Haijiang said: "Order the Majiang Third Squadron to continue to carry out the plan to lure the enemy, and the main force of the fleet has been sent to the waters near Dahuangyu Island by the first and sixth squadrons of torpedo boats, ready for a decisive battle in the South China Sea!" ”

It can be said that Lin Haijiang's decisive battle plan was extremely crazy, taking advantage of the large number of islands near Dahuangyu Island and the fact that torpedo boats were easy to hide, he first used the main fleet to create false information and appeared on the Indochina Peninsula, and used heavy money and his wife and daughter as bargaining chips, so that the French spy Roberts in the Indochina Peninsula sent back a false information, which made the coalition forces think that Lin Haijiang had transferred all the main ships to the Indochina Peninsula to avoid the war in order to preserve his strength, leaving only some ships to make a sabotage strategy, and using the Majiang Third Fleet as bait. Take the initiative to break the transportation line between the port of Batavia and the Imperial Fortress of the Allied fleet, deliberately expose the secret supply base of the Imperial Navy set up on the Big Yellow Croaker Island, and induce the Allied Navy to take the initiative to attack, and then the main force of the Imperial Navy will take advantage of the favorable terrain near the Big Yellow Croaker Island and the convenient conditions of being familiar with the shipping lanes to fight a decisive battle with the Allied fleet, and use torpedo boats to carry out a counterattack in the evening before the opponent retreats.

Lin Haijiang knew that James. William, he would never give up the opportunity to annihilate one of his own fleets. William is an experienced admiral, and Lin Haijiang has been waiting for the coalition forces that are eager to fight to create fighters for themselves, but now it seems that James . William doesn't seem ready to give himself that chance, James. William's armored protection cruiser fleet has never carried out a single second-class dispatch, as a whole, fifty-nine armored protection cruisers of more than 4,000 tons to more than 7,000 tons, this is definitely a force to be underestimated, exaggerated to say that this is a sea force that can launch a war of annihilation.

In view of this situation, Lin Haijiang decided to take the risk of fighting again, and Lin Haijiang's two dependences were the first of the two giant ships surnamed Zhenyuan and Dingyuan, which were capable of outstanding firepower, and the fleet was replaced with new sighting equipment in a timely manner, and the second was the torpedo boats on which he had high hopes.

Lin Haijiang knew that once Ma Jiang's third squadron was exposed, it would definitely be exposed by James. The coalition fleet commanded by William bit to death, James. William was not afraid of any ambush at all, because even if he used good tactics, Lin Haijiang's twenty-eight warships still could not become fifty-nine. William had nothing to fear.

On March 10, 1862, the coalition forces began a full-scale attack on the Imperial fortress, which was dominated by the British, Dutch, and Spanish armies, and the British army invested the Anglo-Indian 10th, 15th, and 17th Infantry Divisions, the 2nd Rifle Regiment, the 5th Rifle Regiment and other troops. William concentrated all fifty-nine armored cruisers as mobile cover on the sea to suppress firepower.

Because this is an expeditionary operation, the supply of large-caliber shells for the main guns of the battleships has to be continuously transported from the European mainland to Southeast Asia, and the caliber of the main guns of the battleships in various countries is not the same, so it has brought huge pressure to the supply, and the fleet is not endlessly shelling the entire city of the Imperial Fortress, and the fortress city of this scale is not directly destroyed by artillery fire, so it can only use the sail battleship to force the port to cooperate with the clipper to grab the shore to attract the other party to expose the firepower point, Then the fifty-nine warships of the navy were divided into ten artillery groups and shelled according to the demarcated area.

The 7,000 officers and men of the Anglo-Indian 10th Division, who did everything bad in Batavia, were divided into five echelons, and their task was to seize the port and provide support for the subsequent transportation of artillery troops and the transportation of soldiers and materials. The pretending to be deaf and dumb on the part of the coalition forces has made everyone see the opportunities that this war has brought them!

Lu Wei, as the commander of the imperial gendarmerie, was ordered to defend the imperial fortress in danger, and the news of the tragedy in the port of Batavia a few days ago had reached the imperial fortress, and all the officers and soldiers had been waiting for several days, it can be said that almost every day he was looking forward to the coalition army attacking the imperial fortress, and Lu Wei hoped that the Anglo-Indian 10th Division could be found in the offensive sequence of the coalition forces.

When the coalition forces began to seize the dock, Lu Wei according to the initial tactical arrangement of luring the enemy into depth, all more than 120 75 mm guns began to fire frequently, 75 mm grenades in the sea in vain to raise waves, the small column of water let James . William felt ridiculous, James. William knew that the Orientals had always been accustomed to exaggeration, and such artillery and defense might be impregnable in the East, but for the huge fleet under his command, it was simply insignificant.

When the allied fleet anchored in the sea began to carry out a suppressive artillery bombardment, Lu Wei immediately ordered more than half of the bunkers to close their firing ports and slow down the rate of fire, giving the enemy the illusion that their artillery fire was exerting great power.

To the cheers of the Anglo-Indian 10th Infantry Division, the 2nd Sail Battleship HMW acted as a transport ship, forcing it to land and slightly damaging the port side, once the proud port side of the Royal Navy.

The telescope Lu Wei held in his hand couldn't see the number number of the pattern on the flag, so Lu Wei sent someone to confirm that it was really the British and Indian 10th Infantry Division? Lu Wei felt that he seemed to be a lucky person, what did he really want?

Lu Wei decided to put all the enemy into the second line of defense, cede one-third of the city to the coalition forces, and then start a counterattack, Lu Wei ordered all the cannons with a caliber of more than nine inches to target all the warships flying the Dutch and British flags, and give priority to the Dutch and British!

James. William lit a cigar for himself, six of the ten battleships of the first column were British, three Dutch, and one Spanish, and the first and second columns began to approach artillery support as previously arranged after the attack of the troops was blocked, and the strong fortresses and cannons of the Chinese Empire have become a legendary story.

At 15 o'clock in the afternoon, the attacking Anglo-Indian 10th Division ran into an iron plate after occupying less than half of the city, and the follow-up Anglo-Indian 15th and 17th Infantry Divisions, the 2nd Rifle Regiment and the 5th Rifle Regiment of the Army, as well as the two Dutch regiments and the two Spanish infantry regiments, totaling more than 39,000 people, all successfully completed the landing. The smooth landing contrasted sharply with the heavy casualties suffered by the Anglo-Indian 10th Division in the offensive? The Indian soldiers of the Anglo-Indian 10th Division in front ran into the dense line of machine guns, field artillery, and mortars of the defenders of the Chinese Empire almost without any preparation.

The blood splattered red the bluestone slabs, and the piles of corpses showed the panic encountered by the Anglo-Indian 10th Division during the attack, and the Indian soldiers did not even know which direction the bullets that shot them were coming from. After giving the order to attack, the British hundred officers often waved their pistols and relied on the non-commissioned officers and non-commissioned officers of the Indian soldiers to lead the soldiers into battle.

However, Lu Wei, who was rotating the large telescope in the imperial firmament, paid attention to the location of the allied warships, although Lu Wei was not a navy, but he also knew very well that being able to sink one at this moment would reduce the danger for the imperial navy, and if he could damage one, he would be able to share a pressure for the imperial navy.

When the first and second columns of the coalition forces entered the equidistance of the best shooting of the shore defense artillery of the Imperial Fortress, Lu Wei took a deep breath and patiently waited for the opponent's battleship to stop and start shelling, Lu Wei issued an order for the artillery of the entire fortress to concentrate on the attack and open fire freely!

Rumble! Boom! In the first round of Zhuyuan correction salvo, two unlucky British ships were hit, the Weimar and the Golden Lily with a standard displacement of 5,600 tons were concentrated on the foredeck and bridge of the 13-inch and 40 times the barrel caliber heavy guns respectively, and the bridge superstructure of the Golden Lily was almost completely destroyed, and the raging fire was engulfing the twisted and deformed bridge.

When the shelling rang out, James. William's cigar caught in his finger slipped to the ground unconsciously. William picked up the telescope and witnessed the explosions on the Weimar and Golden Lily!

"These damned cunning Orientals! O my God! Pull the first and second columns down! "James. William yelled hysterically as if God didn't hear? In the ensuing five rounds of artillery bombardment, the shore defense guns with limited hit rate still hit two warships, one was the Dutch Liberty and the Spanish Meniscus, both of which were lost at very close range at the stern, and the tail rudder was damaged and forced to run aground on the beach not far from the pier!

Twenty-six minutes later, the Weimar, which had been hit by a bullet and flooded on the foredeck and caused the hull to deviate by nine degrees, also ran aground, and the Golden Lily became a pile of expensive bonfires that had lost their command, pilot, and power system. William looked at the four battleships that were hit by the first column, and the second column was scattered because of the late entry and the fact that they were scattered and escaped from the effective firing range of the heavy artillery of the Imperial Fortress, so there were no major losses, and the four battleships that were hit were all belonging to the first column.

Immediately the second round of fortress artillery fire began to fall on the battleship or transport ship loading and unloading soldiers and supplies on the dock, the unfortunate Mountain Dew was directly hit by a thirteen-inch caliber heavy artillery high-explosive grenade, with a muffled huge explosion, the air seemed to vibrate and spread outward, the body of the Indian soldier and body parts suddenly flew all over the sky, the towering pillar of smoke soared into the sky a hundred meters high, four or five seconds later, the pieces of the corpse fell like rain, and the internal organs fell to the ground with a gruesome pop.

As the pride of the British Royal Navy, the Mountain Fluxus was also broken into two and sunk into the sea, and in the history of the navy, it is claimed that it has never been sunk by oil, and only the burned sail second class battleship Mountain Fluxus was torn apart after only one shot, and there were hundreds of British and Indian soldiers who were torn apart along with it.

Due to the loss of naval support, the offensive of the landing force was stalled for the time being. William looked at the entire fortress city built on the mountain and couldn't help but fight a cold war, what kind of madman built such a fortress city? How could such a density of artillery be installed on a fortress? It is important to know that although the density of artillery is directly related to firepower, if the artillery is too dense per unit area, it is a great waste.

For this kind of fortress, James. William has several ways to take it easily, but at the moment he doesn't have that much time to spend on it, between the threat of the opponent's powerful fortress fire, James. William could only change the all-weather delivery of troops and supplies to the night, because he was worried that the defenders' artillery would cover corrective fire, so the warships loading and unloading the troops and supplies would use small boats to pick up soldiers and wounded back and forth on the nearby beach to reduce the damage caused by the enemy's shelling.

Follow James. William's inference and prediction that the offensive and defensive battle of the Imperial Fortress would last about two weeks. William referred to the relevant information received from the French side yesterday that the main force of the Chinese Imperial Navy was avoiding war in the Indochina Peninsula, and that it was only a detachment of troops operating in Southeast Asia.

James. William once carefully analyzed the rise of the Chinese Empire in combination with Chinese inherent characteristics of the surname. William believes that Lin Haijiang has the possibility of avoiding war, and losing the pawn to protect the car can be said to be a common trick used by the Chinese!

The most let James. William was very happy that the relevant intelligence officers obtained information from Guangzhou that the Chinese Empire had a secret port supply center on the Big Yellow Fish Island. William could even be sure that the island was the secret supply base for the Imperial Chinese Navy fleet operating in Southeast Asia.

James. William clearly marked the location of the Great Yellow Croaker Island on the chart with a pen, and this information made James, who had just lost four warships. William was in a good mood, after all, Lin Haijiang made a very low-level mistake, that is, dividing the troops, using a part of the originally small number of warships as a bait to delay the enemy's army, which was undoubtedly a waste of luxury. William believes that Lin Haijiang must have miscalculated the confidence and determination of the coalition forces, as the so-called fault of one son, he lost everything!

(To be continued)