Chapter 182 182 Connecting the East and West Strategy

When the air route to Kuala Lumpur was opened, more Chinese soldiers came all the way to Malaysia from the mainland. This gave Zhu Tonghua, the commander of the theater who was extremely short of troops, a great relief.

More troops means being able to do more, and after the heavily mechanized troops were in the hands of Zhu Tonghua, Zhu Tonghua had already determined that he had gained a foothold in Kuala Lumpur, and the Malays could no longer hinder him.

A battalion of lightly armed airborne troops then boarded a truck and headed straight for the National Palace on Jalan de la Ambassador, northwest of Kuala Lumpur. In fact, Zhu Tonghua didn't have much hope, after all, they had been in Kuala Lumpur for more than a day, and the Malay monkey heads who were a little eye-catching should have run away. But I don't know if it was because the current supreme head of Malaysia last night, the Sultan of Johor, His Majesty Iskandar violated the rules last night and drank too much, or indulged excessively or something, the airborne troops attacked the national palace, among the national symbols, the disgraceful Sultan His Majesty has not yet left.

Qi Yiming, who got the news, was also very excited, such a feat of capturing the head of a country is an absolute great achievement in all dynasties and every country, although the Monkey King of the Malay monkey does not have much gold content, but it is also a bargaining chip in his hand.

His Majesty Iskandar is quite controversial, and if you are a monarch, it is definitely a tyrant of the first rank. What he has done is incomprehensible and funny and angry in modern society, and Qi Yiming had heard of the sultan's name before he crossed over. Malaysia's supreme head of state is not the Queen of England, but the hereditary sultans of the nine states of the Malay Peninsula who take turns to take over.

What Iskandar has done is unthinkable in contemporary terms. In 1972, before he became the head of state, he attacked two people with sticks because they overtook him on the road, and this happened many times, because he thought a young couple had offended him, so he and his bodyguards attacked the couple with sticks and chemicals. Five years later, the sultan shot him dead when he approached his private helicopter, which he said he believed was a smuggler and was only traced to manslaughter. A few years later, he shot someone to death because of a confrontation in a nightclub. Neither of these murders landed him in prison, and his father, the previous Sultan of Johor, was quick to intervene and pardon him.

In 1987, when he was playing golf in Iskandar, because he had hit a bad ball, the caddie next to him smiled comfortingly, and in anger, he beat him to death with a golf club in front of his caddie's brother, and still escaped justice. Such attacks, whether fatal or maiming, known or unknown, have occurred many times.

Eventually, in the 90s, this unreliable attack on a hockey coach caused a sensation in Malaysia, and many legislative and political moves were made, but in the end, the Sultan still did not receive any legal sanctions, and after the incident, he swaggered to demand that the Johoreans continue to show their loyalty to him and restore their image.

Such a strange character, even in the Chinese officialdom or elite circle, which has been quite unreliable in later generations, is sensational, and it is from Iskandar that Qi Yiming realized what kind of existence Malaysia is beyond the world.

It is said that if this sultan is Qi Yiming's native countryman, Qi Yiming must have chopped him alive, but he is a Malay monkey king, then Qi Yiming is not willing to waste such a good scourge in vain, his plan is long-term, and this monkey king can continue to help him scourge Malaysia in the future.

After the Chinese army began to increase and the Royal Armored Corps was completely annihilated, Mahathir continued to stay in Kuala Lumpur to seek death, and immediately fled to Johor Bahru, which is very close to Singapore, with officials and parliamentarians.

On Qi Yiming's desk is a map of the Malay Peninsula, which is marked with many diagrams, which is actually a tactical deployment map. Kuala Lumpur is the first important node in his plan, and the second important node is Kuantan, an important city on the eastern side of the peninsula and bordering the South China Sea.

The Airborne Forces and the Army were already in charge of the Kuala Lumpur attack, while Kuantan was left to the Navy.

Kuantan is Malaysia's most important seaport and logistics destination on the east coast, and although the throughput is not large, it is already very impressive compared to the whole country. In addition, the port here is wide and deep, which is very suitable for large ships to moor, Qi Yiming has even begun to plan to build this place into an important naval base after the founding of the Chinese People's Republic of China, and face each other from afar with the PLA Navy, completely clamping down on the South China Sea, of course, it is also a good deterrent for Vietnam in the north.

If Kuantan is taken by the navy, then the most important shipping line will be completely opened, from Kuantan to Kuala Lumpur there is a relatively strong national highway, if the military progress is smooth, the north and south Malay Peninsula is opened, and the supply line is established and unimpeded, then there is no problem at all in controlling West Malaysia. There are 200 kilometers between the two places, and there are mountains and jungles in between, and it is more troublesome to encounter the Malays engaging in guerrilla warfare, of course, Qi Yiming has also prepared various methods to deal with them.

It would certainly be possible to have the navy resupply Kuala Lumpur's troops from the west coast bypassing the Singapore Strait, but Qi Yiming still prefers a two-pronged approach.

At this time, the South China Sea Fleet is majestic, and the super fleet composed of dozens of ships is like the ruler of this sea area, which is formidable. The natural core of the fleet is, of course, the amphibious assault ship incarnated as a slow version of the aircraft carrier, the Shangri-La. To provide maximum aerial fire support to friendly forces, the Shangri-La carried 18 J-8V VTOL fighters and carried a large number of ground-attack missiles and bombs. In addition, 4 Z-20s are engaged in the transportation of personnel.

The main combat ships of the escort include three Type 052A destroyers Guangzhou, Zhanjiang and Shenzhen, four Type 054A frigates, four Type 056 corvettes, and three Type 039A conventionally powered submarines. The reason for sending such a large fleet of combat ships, which had almost no land offensive capabilities, was mainly due to the strength of the Royal Malaysian Navy. Although the Malaysian Army was crippled, it had not yet been mobilized and the Air Force itself had little combat power, and the only F-5s were bombed by the F-14s and JH-7Bs before they could be attacked.

So in the current view, the Royal Malaysian Navy has become the most complete force force at the moment. The two Kasuri-class frigates (1,900 tons) are a bit combat-powerful, and then there are some old World War II-era obsolete ships. Naturally, these things are not worth the South China Sea Fleet's almost everything, dispatching 15 main combat ships, or ships that are generally several levels stronger than the ships of the Royal Malaysian Navy.

The navy considers that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for actual combat, and it is naturally a good thing to be able to send more people to experience the actual combat experience, even if we can't shoot artillery or missiles, it's good to experience the atmosphere of actual combat with the regiment, not to mention that our family really has no shortage of ships. Moreover, the lion fights the rabbit with all his strength, although the two German-made frigates are to add a little entertainment to the South China Sea Fleet, and don't let them relax too much.

In addition to the main battle ships, a larger number of them are the landing fleets that follow. Two Type 071 dock landing ships can carry nearly 50 armored units of various kinds, carry a battalion of soldiers, plus the capacity of three 3,000-ton relatively old Type 072 tank landing ships, and five ships alone can lead two mechanized battalions to storm and land on the beach. They also carried the main force of the Marine Corps operation this time. These horses alone are certainly not enough, and the lack of landing force is also the reality of the PLA Navy now, before the Red Police dockyard was mainly manufacturing combat ships, and the landing ships were built less. So the Navy had to build some large ro-ro freighters to transport troops and vehicles.

The landing fleet sent by the Navy this time is a total of six battalions, all but two of which are lightly armed, but there should be no problem in considering dealing with Malaysia's role.

Zheng Zhantu, the commander-in-chief of the fleet and the deputy commander of the South China Sea Fleet, looked at the electronic chart and frowned: "Because of the previous actions against the islands and reefs in the South China Sea, the main fleet of the Malaysian Navy is now on North Kalimantan, and the naval base in Kuantan in front of us is relatively empty in defense, and it is impossible for them to send support from their home port so quickly." It's just that we are now attacking Kuantan directly, and if the Malay Navy is brave enough, it is also very unpleasant to attack us from behind. ”

Mai He, the captain of the Shangri-La, didn't care at all, and said with a smile: "Our radar detection ability is much stronger than theirs, even if they want to attack the landing fleet that we are pressed behind, they will be discovered by us before the attack, and then the warships we escort will kill all of them if they pick out any one, there is nothing to worry about, commander, you are too worried." ”

Zheng Zhantu smiled and said, "What you said, can I not know the way?" I'm making excuses for dedicating a unit to destroy the Malaysian Navy in Sabah! ”

Mai He followed Ha Lu and laughed, and said: "I see, but in short, it is already more energetic, you just fight, what reason do you have to think of, it hurts your mind." ”

Zheng Zhantu was stunned for a moment, and could only admit: "You really have a point." ”

Mai He came up with an idea: "Let the air force send an early warning plane from Hainan, and then send a frigate with two light frigates and a submarine to touch into their military port, and directly sink their warships, so that they can't get out, Malaysia has no air power, and we don't have to worry about being hit by shore-based aviation." ”

"That's right, it's just that I think their little broken boats are too thin to feed us!"