This surprise was that the British fleet, after discovering the Chinese fleet, did not engage the Chinese fleet, but turned around and retreated to Singapore.

This move of the British fleet surprised Qin Hui and Liu Daming, whether it is the dreadnought-class battleships or large cruisers in the British fleet, the speed is far higher than that of the hell-class submarines, once the British fleet retreats, the hell-class submarines will definitely not be able to catch up, that is to say, the annihilation of the British fleet can only rely on the Dynasty-class battleships and the Emperor-class cruisers.

While previous battles have proven that the rockets of the Dynasty-class battleships have the power to take out the Dreadnought-class battleships, without the Hell-class submarines, this battle would not have been so easy.

Liu Daming pondered for a moment, and immediately made a decision, deciding to rely on the Dynasty-class battleships and the Emperor-class cruisers alone to conduct a decisive battle with the British fleet, and he decisively instructed the Hell-class submarines to immediately turn around and withdraw from the battle.

The reason why Liu Daming issued such an order was that he was worried that once the decisive battle of the fleet started in a while, the Dynasty-class battleships and the Emperor-class cruisers would rush to the front of the Hell-class submarines, and the tactics that Qin Hui had prepared before were - the Hell-class submarines did not float into the periscope state, only used sonar to determine the target position, and then launched torpedoes to attack.

The sonar of the hell-class submarine, but there is no way to distinguish who is the Chinese Empire warship and who is the British battleship, Qin Hui received Liu Daming's order, although he was unwilling, but he was helpless, and immediately ordered the hell-class submarine to withdraw from the battle.

Liu Daming immediately ordered the Huaxia fleet to form a linear formation and approach the British fleet, but the British fleet had no intention of fighting at all, and retreated straight to Singapore.

British warships generally used steam turbines, so the speed was faster than the Huaxia warships, and the Huaxia warships could not catch up with the British warships at all, Liu Daming saw this, so he could only order a retreat, there are many islands south of Singapore, and these islands are the temporary anchorages of the Huaxia fleet.

The Huaxia fleet originally wanted to fight a strategic decisive battle of sea power, but it didn't expect the British fleet to retreat to Singapore, and Liu Daming immediately sent a message to Lin Fei.

Lin Fei immediately analyzed the strategic intentions of the British fleet, and Lin Fei believed that the reason why the British fleet did this was to stay in Singapore for a long time.

After a period of construction, Singapore's ability to guard against submarine sneak attacks has become very strong, and it is difficult for Lin Fei's submarines to enter the port waterways for sneak attacks, and after the British fleet enters Singapore, it will definitely stay in Singapore for a long time, and regard Singapore as an important base for attacking the Chinese Empire.

The side of the couch does not allow others to snore, not to mention that Singapore is not on the edge of Lin Fei's couch, but in Lin Fei's couch, it turns out that Singapore does not have a British fleet, and there is no threat to Lin Fei, and now Singapore has a powerful fleet stationed in Singapore, with six dreadnought-class battleships and eight large cruisers, Lin Fei can no longer sit idly by.

More dangerously, Singapore's British fleet was not isolated, Singapore was located at the southernmost tip of the Indochina Peninsula, which stretched out like an arm into the sea, with the sea on the east and west sides, of which Burma was on the west.

There is one country here, Malaya, which is a British colony, and the British army in Burma can send supplies and supplies to Malaya, and then send them to Singapore by land.

Lin Fei must not allow the British fleet to remain in Singapore, the threat to the Chinese Empire is too great.

If the British fleet hid in Singapore and didn't come out, Lin Fei basically had nothing to do with it, so Lin Fei decided to directly attack Singapore and Malaya, where Singapore was located, and completely destroy the nest of the British fleet.

Lin Fei immediately issued an order to the Sumatra Military Region and the Pontianak Military Region, asking them to send troops to the rear of Singapore and launch a landing operation to encircle Singapore.

Lin Fei ordered the troops of the two military regions at the same time, after landing, to expand to the whole territory of Malaya, Malaya is a lot of Chinese, these Chinese are also oppressed on weekdays, when Lin Fei swept the Dutch and Spaniards, he looked forward to Lin Fei, but at that time Lin Fei did not want to overstimulate the British, so he did not attack Malaya, now the time is ripe, there is no need to wait, relying on these Chinese, Lin Fei can completely rule Malaya.

The Sumatra Military Region sent about 100,000 troops to attack Malaya from the eastern side of Singapore, and the Pontianak Military Region dispatched 150,000 troops to attack Malaya from the western side of Singapore.

The British defenders of Malaya, all of whom were pieced together by the British among the local natives, were not strong in combat, and they were crushed at the touch of a touch in the face of the strong infantry of the Chinese Empire.

It is worth mentioning that many of the troops of the Sumatra Military Region and the Pontianak Military Region are composed of Indonesians, and Lin Fei recruited a large number of Indonesians into the troops.

After the Chinese Imperial Army entered Malaya, it expanded very rapidly, almost like a fire burning through the arid grassland, and the territory of Malaya, which was more than 100 kilometers north of Singapore, was occupied by the Chinese Imperial Army within ten days, and the British forces above were almost swept away.

The reason why the Chinese Imperial Army was able to break through was also very much related to the defense strategy of the British, who were to hold on to Singapore and thus neglect the protection of the surrounding areas of Singapore.

Separated from the territory of Malaya by the Straits of Johor, the British built tight fortifications, stockpiled large quantities of food and ammunition, and made a stubborn stance.

In Singapore, the Governor of Singapore and the Commander of the British Fleet had a heated quarrel.

The name of the governor of Singapore is "Frank 61 Rui Tianxian", because he has the title of knight, so others call him "Sir Rui Tianxian", he is Lin Fei's old rival, in Lin Fei's era, he is also a famous colonial leader.

The commander of the British fleet was named "John 61 Abbasnot 61 Fisher", one of the most outstanding reformers and administrators in the history of the British Navy.

Commander Fisher said to Sir Shit Timham, "Mr. Governor, I don't think our fleet should hold on to Singapore, and we should withdraw to Burma at once. ”

Sir Rui Tianxian clearly refused, "Your Excellency, your fleet is the hope of Singapore, if you retreat, Singapore will definitely not be able to hold it, Singapore is the last stronghold of the empire in the South Seas, we must not give it to Lin Fei." ”

"Singapore is already surrounded by Lin Fei, and it is impossible to hold it!"

"As long as our fleet is still there, with Singapore's strong fortresses, there is nothing that cannot be defended."

Commander Fisher wanted to retreat, but Sir Tetraham wanted to defend to the death, and a rift appeared within the Singapore defenders.

Although Lin Fei did not know the internal situation of the Singapore defenders, Lin Fei knew that what he had to do now was to put pressure on the Singapore defenders as much as possible, as long as the pressure was strong enough, the Singapore defenders would not be able to hold on sooner or later, and the way to put pressure on them was to continue to attack Malaya, the Singapore defenders had always regarded Malaya as a backup ground, and if Malaya was completely occupied by Lin Fei, then the Singapore defenders would not be far from collapse.

Lin Fei instructed the troops of the Sumatra Military Region and the Pontianak Military Region to develop Chinese troops in Malaya and use Chinese troops to continue the offensive.

Under Lin Fei's instructions, countless local Chinese in Malaya came forward to join the army to assist the Chinese Imperial Army.

With the assistance of the local Chinese, the Chinese Imperial army was on the offensive, and the British army and the extremely servant army were annihilated one after another.

On February 15, 1902, the territory of Malaya, more than 300 kilometers north of Singapore, had been controlled by the Chinese Empire troops, and the remnants of British power could only hide in the Siamese Empire and seek political asylum.

These British troops frightened Chulalongkorn, and the psychological shadow that Lin Fei brought to Chulalongkorn has not dissipated to this day, so Chulalongkorn asked Lin Fei for instructions on how to deal with these British troops.

Lin Fei told Chulalongkorn to disarm all these British troops and send them to Burma, and Chulalongkorn did as he was told.

Another half a month passed, and the time came to March 1902, Malaya had been completely occupied by Lin Fei, during the period when Lin Fei occupied Malaya, the Chinese fleet completed the encirclement of Singapore, and the British fleet wanted to break out of the encirclement, and had to fight to the death.

Within the Singapore defenders, the differences between Sir Rayham and Commander Fisher were also gradually increasing, and the two sides even disregarded their manners and quarreled in front of many subordinates, which made the defenders disheartened.

As for the British reinforcements, it is far away, if Lin Fei did not conquer Malaya, they can still sail the supply ship to Malaya, and then transport supplies from Malaya, but Malaya is already in Lin Fei's bag, and the British can't come at all.

If the British reinforcements wanted to come over, they could only risk breaking through the Strait of Malacca, and the Strait of Malacca was completely controlled by Lin Fei, and no one could get by.

Under these circumstances, Commander Fisher decided not to listen to Sir Shweh Timham's orders and lead the LinkedIn fleet to break through the siege and withdraw to Burma.

Commander Fisher knew very well that if he put on a single-ship breakthrough formation, he would be completely annihilated by the Huaxia fleet in one fell swoop, so Fisher decided to use a decisive battle of the main fleet to defeat the Huaxia fleet, and then take the opportunity to break through.

The British fleet set up the formation of the main decisive battle, and on the side of the Huaxia fleet, the fighting style was still the same as before, with the Hell-class submarines attacking first, and then finishing up by the Dynasty-class battleships. (Canghai shared the writing story on the WeChat public platform, please search on WeChat - qietingcanghai, that is, listen to Canghai's pinyin, reply 2 to watch)