Chapter 162: Shelling from the Sea
Seeing that the boss had already slipped away, the soldiers below naturally dispersed in a hurry, and the Predator soldiers quickly took control of the dock without much effort.
Seeing that the dock had been occupied by the Iron Army, Sun Xiaohu commanded two cruisers to attack the New Guinean warships in the port together with the battery.
The New Guinean sailors who had just climbed aboard their warships were soon attacked from the sea, and the New Guinean warships could no longer support them, so they had to raise the white flag and surrender.
Hearing the news of Colonel Sosca's escape, Governor Diallo angrily scolded, but it was useless to scold, the Iron Army had already pressed up from behind, and in the face of being surrounded, Governor Diallo had no choice but to abandon his troops and sneak away. Having lost their commander-in-chief and being attacked by the enemy on their backs, the soldiers of the New Guinean Army who attacked the batteries soon surrendered.
After three hours of fighting, when the sky was bright, the entire Kupang Port was already in the hands of the Chinese army. Listening to the gunshots outside, the residents of Kupang Port, who had been scared all night, did not dare to sleep for a long time. It was only in the morning that the gunfire had subsided, and some bold men had secretly opened the door and peeked out, only to find that the red flag of the Chinese Consulate had been flying on the roof of the Governor's Palace.
The battle for Kupang Port is over, and all that remains is for the Iron Army to garrison Kupang Harbor, reinforcing the city defenses and guarding the prisoners, while the Special Operations Division takes advantage of its expertise in jungle warfare and scatters across the island to capture escaped New Guinean soldiers. Although the fleeing New Guinean soldiers were very familiar with the terrain, they had no chance of encountering the well-trained elven special operators who lived in the jungle.
After seeing that the mission had been completed, Sun Xiaohu immediately gathered all four cruisers and secretly moved towards the island of New Guinea, and they wanted to make the next plan.
A few days later, in the evening, taking advantage of the darkness, the four cruisers led by Sun Xiaohu approached the laxly guarded port of Digur, and the sixteen 203-mm main guns of the four cruisers roared together.
Huge picric cannonballs bloomed all over the harbor, and the port of Digul, which was mostly made of wooden houses, was suddenly in flames.
Busdacole I was awakened from his sleep, and when he learned that it was the warships of the Chinese Territory that were shelling, he thought that the Chinese Territory had already reached the capital and that the opposing army was landing, so he was so frightened that he fled.
This night is destined to be an unquiet night, and there is another city that has also been shelled, and that is the Eastern Capital. The undeclared war of the Wa State gave Fang Xiaoyu the best excuse, and three battleships and six cruisers of the main fleet of the Chinese leader directly sailed to the coastline of the Wa State for artillery bombardment.
This time, Liu Junguo learned from the experience of the Chinese fleet last time, and he ordered the two cruisers that escorted the 'Tongshan' back to port, and when they returned to the fleet, they brought with them more than 20 supply ships to transport ammunition and coal.
With sufficient supplies, the Chinese fleet moved along the coastline of the Japanese kingdom and bombarded all worthy targets. The Japanese navy finally couldn't sit still, and the Diet was already very dissatisfied with their stupidity, and if they didn't go to war again, Navy Commander Ito would have no choice but to commit suicide to thank the world.
The two remaining ironclad ships "Matsushima" and "Itsukushima" and the cruiser "Kongo" were forced to leave the port to meet the battle.
Looking at the three lonely warships, Ito couldn't help but sigh, if it weren't for the fact that the country was heavily indebted due to the reparations from the last war, how could there be no funds to build new warships. If it weren't for the fact that his navy was too poor, he wouldn't have ventured to fish for the Chinese navy's supplies on Shrimp Island.
"Commander, discover the fleet of the Japanese Navy." The lookouts of the Chinese navy who used binoculars to guard the surroundings had an advantage over the other side who could observe with the naked eye, so the Japanese navy was discovered by them first.
"Set up a battle formation, first-level combat readiness." Liu Junguo gave an order, and the alarm bell of the entire main fleet of the Chinese leader sounded, and all the sailors quickly ran to their posts, and the ships began to reduce their speed and change formation.
When the Chinese Fleet was discovered by the Japanese Navy, the Chinese Fleet had already formed a two-column battle formation and was ready to meet it at full speed.
Finally came, Ito, who was standing on the bridge, knew very well what his possible fate would be, and his heart ached, but he had to do it again. Looking at the sailors who were busy, he clung to the railing with both hands until his knuckles turned white.
"This is the last battle of the Japanese Navy, a battle for honor." Ito slowly straightened up, straightened out the straight military uniform on his body, patted off the dust that didn't exist on it, and stared straight at the closer and closer China Leader battleship with his eyes.
The 330-millimeter front guns of the battleship "Far East," which was lined up at the front, opened fire first, and a shell rushed into the sea more than 100 meters from the port side of the "Matsushima."
The 'boom' was another calibration shell, and this shell was much closer, reaching 30 meters on the port side of the 'Matsushima', and a huge column of water rose into the sky, drenching the whole body of the Japanese sailors on the deck.
After the calibration was completed, the "Far East" and "Khingan" in the front line began to bombard one after another, and the huge water column began to splash around the Japanese warship, and Commander Ito, who was standing on the bridge of the "Matsushima", was cold in his heart as he watched the more and more accurate shelling of the other side.
Finally, it was about to reach the three-kilometer range, which was within the effective range of the Japanese navy, and the passionate Ito was ready to fight back to the death.
At this moment, Liu Junguo ordered: "The whole fleet turns 90 degrees to the left, and the speed remains the same." With a quick turn, the Chinese leader aimed its starboard side at the Japanese navy.
Although the target on the side of the battleship is larger and easier to hit, Liu Junguo is very confident in the thickness of the armor of his own warship, not to mention that the side side can fully exert the firepower of the warship against the enemy, so that the warship can be sunk faster.
The Japanese navy was still charging rapidly, and when it came within three kilometers, Ito gave the order, and the Japanese navy began to fire with its front main guns. However, the pitiful number of the front main guns of each of the warships of the Japanese State was more self-comforting than an attack, and the firepower of the Chinese Navy could already be used at full strength.
A large number of guns began to fire intensively, and the "Itsukushima" was the first to be hit, a 330 mm caliber shell hit its bow, and the huge momentum and explosive force slowed down the speed of the "Itsukushima", and then the sea water poured into the breach, and the hull flowed.
The large amount of water ingress caused the speed of the Itsukushima to drop sharply, and it lost the opportunity to evade the enemy's shelling, and soon three or four second-class main gun shells hit the Itsukushima in succession, making it completely lose its salvage value.
The 'King Kong', which followed up, was soon hit by several shells, detonating the ammunition depot in the bow, and the warship was blown up directly into the sky.
"Full speed ahead." Seeing that in an instant, there was only one flagship left in the Japanese fleet, Ito, whose eyes were red, began to charge to the death. It is a pity that the concentrated attack of dozens of cannons left the 'Matsushima' without any chance, and the 'Matsushima' was unwilling to sink into the sea after being defeated by a dense rain of bullets.
"Keep going." In the face of the many Japanese soldiers who fell into the water, Liu Junguo had no intention of helping, the hatred between them, who was born in the Second Fleet of the Empire, and the Japanese State was too great, and what awaited those Japanese soldiers would be drowned.
The Chinese Led Fleet, which no longer had any threat, sailed into Dongdu Bay at night, and only then did the scene of the previous shelling of Dongdu occur. Heavy shelling, combined with the special use of incendiary bombs, turned the eastern capital into a large fire field.
That night happened to be the victory of the east wind, the wind borrowed the fire, and the fire helped the wind might, and by dawn, most of the entire eastern capital had been burned to ashes. Not only did the Dongdu suffer nearly 50,000 casualties, but the industrial area near the Dongdu was also devastated, which made the already difficult Japanese industry even worse.
After withstanding one blow after another, the Wa Kingdom and the Kingdom of New Guinea, which could no longer hold on, had to turn to the Saar Empire and the Lanfang Empire respectively, and under the joint mediation of the two countries, the Chinese leaders finally agreed to sit down and negotiate. In this negotiation, Fang Xiaoyu did not personally participate in it, but let East China Bank preside over it.
Okuma Shigetomo and the envoy of the Kingdom of New Guinea, Gudia, separately negotiated with Huadongxing, but at the strong demands of the Chinese lords, representatives of the Saar Empire and the Lanfang Empire did not participate in the negotiations.
Without the constraints of other countries, these two small countries, which were already weakened and abnormally weak, had no hope of bargaining, and Huadong Xing was very tough in negotiations with the Kingdom of New Guinea, and even threatened to send the main fleet to the Kingdom of New Guinea.
The government of the Kingdom of New Guinea was already corrupt and incompetent, and this war exposed the corruption and weakness of their army. Under the coercion of East China, the last had to agree to the humiliating conditions.
The Kingdom of New Guinea agreed to cede the Maluku and Banda Islands, as well as Dhahran Island.
Originally, Huadong Bank asked the Kingdom of New Guinea to pay 100 million Lanfang coins as war reparations, but the Kingdom of New Guinea, which was already very poor, really couldn't come up with so much money, so in the end it had to use other islands in the Nusa Tenggara archipelago except Dhalan Island to settle the account, and this archipelago was leased to the Chinese Territory for 99 years.
Once this treaty was signed, Fang Xiaoyu finally initially built a solid island defense line for the Wild Continent at sea, but despite this, Fang Xiaoyu felt that the shipping lanes of the Wild Continent were really a big weakness, which not only restricted the stationing of the fleet, but also formed an increasing obstacle to the rapid development of the Wild Continent's economy.
After all, shipping is also a very important economic growth point, if you use a small wind to transport will suppress the development of their own shipping companies, which is very unwise.
In view of this, Fang Xiaoyu decided to ask the navy to send some sailors who were good at diving to form the first frogman unit under the Chinese leadership, and let them be responsible for using explosives to widen the shipping lanes of the wild continent.