Chapter 495: The British Colonies That Swept Through the South Seas

Lin Daxin knew that the Eight-Nation Alliance couldn't stand it and wanted to negotiate with him, but he didn't order the troops to stop the attack, waiting for the negotiators of the Eight-Nation Alliance to arrive in Shenyang City, now it's time to grab territory, it's absolutely impossible to stop, and then whether it can be negotiated or not, after all, Lin Daxin's appetite is not small, and he still has some certainty in his hands.

According to Lin Daxin's conjecture, the Eight-Nation Alliance should automatically come to the door at this time, after all, naval battles, land battles, and the Eight-Nation Alliance have been abused, and in the face of dreadnought battleships and aircraft that are temporarily unsolvable, if the Eight-Nation Alliance still persists, the result will be more and more miserable, and sure enough, this is not coming.

Lin Daxin didn't want to keep fighting with the 8 world powers of the Eight-Nation Alliance, after all, if he forced people to be anxious, what would happen in the end, even Lin Daxin didn't know, don't look at the Northeast Navy and Dingbei Army under Lin Daxin's command to occupy the advantage in equipment, if the 8 countries and Lin Daxin really consumed, Lin Daxin would also have a headache.

The Military Intelligence Bureau has obtained information from Japan, and in order to resist the Northeast Navy and the Dingbei Army attacking their homeland, Japan has already expanded its army on a large scale, and has also set up a self-defense force equipped with millions or even tens of millions of cold weapons.

If the countries of the Eight-Nation Alliance were as crazy as the Japanese, Lin Daxin would have to get drunk.

The eight-nation alliance got the news that Lin Daxin was willing to negotiate, and was overjoyed, although he knew that Lin Daxin's conditions would be very harsh, but some negotiations were good, and negotiations had to be discussed. Maybe a talk about it can lower Lin Daxin's conditions a lot, and reach a level that is acceptable to the Eight-Nation Alliance.

Tsar Nicholas II was extremely reluctant to negotiate with Lin Daxin. But the other seven countries of the Eight-Nation Alliance had to talk, and Nicholas II had to pinch his nose and admit it. However, he gave a death order to the Russian negotiators, Russia will never give Lin Daxin another inch of land this time, that is, the land occupied by the Dingbei Army in this war must also be returned to Russia, and the world of Nicholas II cannot be understood by ordinary people, anyway, the Russian ministers do not understand, my tsar, you seem to have reversed, and now we are in an absolute weakness. Look at what you mean, it's like the Dingbei Army was beaten by us.

No matter what happens, the eight countries of the Eight-Nation Alliance have reached a consensus, and the negotiators they sent are the ministers of the eight countries in the Qing Dynasty, and these eight ministers are currently under house arrest in the legation in Beijing City, along with the staff of the legation, by the soldiers of the first town of the Wuwei Army. This is also the Manchu court itself to leave a way back, did not do things absolutely nothing, otherwise the personnel in the Beijing City Legations of 8 countries. Including the 8 ministers, they have long been taken prisoner.

However, it was not easy for these 8 envoys to go to Shenyang City, at least they had to let the 1st Town of the Wuwei Army go, so the 8 envoys told the Qing generals of the 1st Town that they were going to Shenyang City to negotiate. Ask the mighty army to let them go.

As soon as the Qing court heard that the Eight-Nation Alliance was going to give in, it did not dare to slack off, and immediately sent a telegram to Lin Daxin to confirm the matter. After receiving Lin Daxin's affirmative reply, the Qing court allowed Wuwei to let the eight envoys in the Qing Dynasty and their entourage leave Beijing. However, according to Lin Daxin's request, the mighty army sent 1 battalion of troops. Escort the negotiation delegation of the G-8 to Shenyang.

Lin Daxin is kind, you said that your eight-nation alliance is now at war with the Qing Dynasty, so that the entire Qing Dynasty up and down the group is excited, if the 8 countries in the Qing Dynasty envoy has some accidents on the way, it should be obvious that Lin Daxin and the Qing Dynasty are not particular, but the 8 countries in the Qing Dynasty are very dissatisfied with this kind of Wuwei Army's similar escort method, but people have to bow their heads under the eaves, and the 8 countries in the Qing Dynasty have a look of grievance under the escort of the Wuwei Army, oh, it is under protection, from Beijing City to Shenyang City.

By the time the envoys of the eight countries arrived in Shenyang, the time had already arrived on July 5, 1902. The first thing the envoys of the 8 countries to the Qing Dynasty did when they arrived in Shenyang City was to find Lin Daxin and ask Lin Daxin to stop the current offensive immediately.

It's a pity that the envoys of the 8 countries in the Qing Dynasty did not even see Lin Daxin's face, but only saw Wang Yan and Wu Peifu and others who were in charge of the negotiations, and the ministers of the 8 countries in the Qing Dynasty learned from Wang Yan and Wu Peifu that Lin Daxin said that only if the Eight-Nation Alliance signed an armistice agreement with him, the troops under his command would stop attacking, otherwise the Northeast Navy and the Dingbei Army under his command would continue to fight, and maybe they would go to Europe to make contributions!

By July 5, 1902, the whole situation of the war had become increasingly unfavorable for the Eight-Nation Alliance, starting with the three important port cities of Singapore, Penang and Malacca in the British Straits Settlements, which had fallen under the attack of the Northeast Navy and the Dingbei Army.

It is an exaggeration to say that it was an attack, because the British adopted a contraction strategy in Asia according to the war situation, so that the fleets and most of the army forces in the three port cities of the Straits Settlements were withdrawn to India, so that only some weaker servant troops were left to defend the three important ports.

There is no way to do this, and the British do not want to give up these three important ports that hold the Strait of Malacca, but the 13 dreadnought battleships of the Northeast Navy make the defense of the three ports seem to be a void, and there are a lot of shore defense guns in the three ports, but none of them can reach the ultra-long range of the dreadnought battleships of the Northeast Navy, and they are only beaten.

Among the three ports, Singapore guards the entrance and exit of the Strait of Malacca, the main shipping route between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and its special geographical location makes it a battleground for soldiers, and it is also the first port to be attacked by the Northeast Navy and the Dingbei Army.

Singapore's British servant army is quite heroic, under the leadership of its British officers, in the face of the Northeast Navy's 7 super dreadnought battleships still dare to resist, the Northeast Navy's order to let them surrender unconditionally turned a deaf ear, Singapore's shore defense artillery is still ahead of the Northeast Navy, of course, it can only be heard one sound, the warships of the Northeast Navy are 30,000 meters away, the farthest range of Singapore's coastal defense guns is only more than 20,000 meters, if it is a dragon-class dreadnought battleship, they can still fight, 7 super dreadnought battleships are here, Singapore's shore defense artillery can only hehe.

The number of Singapore's British servants, who numbered only 15,000, and their heroic fighting spirit was wasted after 7 super dreadnought battleships used 406 mm main guns in a row to bombard the batteries in several ports.

As soon as the British officers saw the situation and discussed it for a while, they decided to stop resisting, anyway, the order given to them was to resist, and they did not say how long they resisted, and they could be regarded as resisting now, it was better to be wise for the sake of a small life, they were equivalent to abandoned British officers, and it was not worth it to take a small life under such circumstances.

As the remaining forts in the port of Singapore raised the white flag one after another, the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Guards of the Dingbei Army, which came with the Northeast Navy, began to land at the port, received the surrender of the British army, and soon took over the entire city, Singapore, the seventh largest port in the world, fell into Lin Daxin's bag lightly.

After all, there are nearly 300,000 Chinese in Singapore's 350,000 population, so it is no wonder that the Dingbei Army is not welcomed!

Subsequently, the officers and men of the Northeast Navy and the Third Guards of the Dingbei Army rushed along the Strait of Malacca to the other two port cities of the British Straits Settlements.

The British Army in the two port cities of Penang and Malacca combined is less than 7,000 people, and they are all servant troops with extremely weak combat effectiveness, and only a small number of British officers are leading, but these British officers are more wise, and as soon as the warships of the Northeast Navy and the transport ships of the Dingbei Army come, they immediately raised the white flag, so the two port cities of Penang and Malacca surrendered without a fight, so that the super dreadnought battleships even saved the artillery shells for demonstration.

The 3rd Guards landed in Penang had 2 brigades, and the 3rd Guards landed in Malacca also had 2 brigades, and each of these two troops left 1 regiment to guard the 2 port cities, and then the remaining troops attacked Malaysia in the west of the British from 2 directions.

Malaysia is divided into two main parts, separated by the South China Sea, West Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula, bordered by Thailand to the north, the Strait of Johor to the south, and East Malaysia, located in the north of the island of Borneo.

The East Malaysian Dingbei Army did not let go either, and directly the troops in Lan Phong Province, which is connected to East Malaysia, crossed the border line and launched an attack on East Malaysia, and the troops attacking East Malaysia from Lan Fong Province were a combined force consisting of one division of marines and one division of Lan Fong Provincial Garrison.

Most of the British garrisons in Malaysia have been withdrawn to India, and the rest are servant armies composed of locals, and there is no need to imagine the combat effectiveness, many of these servant armies are also equipped with cold weapons, although these servant armies, which are mostly composed of Malays, do not want the Chinese to be their masters, but the shape is stronger than people, and even the original masters, the British, have run away, what can they do with these servant armies that are not strong in combat, and the prestige of the Dingbei Army, these Malays have long heard of it, It's better to know the times as Junjie!

The march of the Dingbei Army in Malaysia can be described as overwhelming, the Malay servant army almost surrendered, and the Dingbei Army, which was basically responsible for capturing Malaysia, did not fight, but only walked around Malaysia, and by July 5, the whole of Malaysia had fallen under the control of the Dingbei Army. (To be continued......)

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