Gavina got carried away and laughed out loud, as if he had won a battle, he didn't understand it left and right, even if he guessed Chen Guide's thoughts, what could he do, wouldn't he be so happy?

It took a long time for Gavenna's laughter to stop, but he still smiled: "Don't you understand? I can tell you that Singapore is the lifeblood of the NLD army, and if he wants to annex Southeast Asia alone, he must occupy Singapore, but how can it be so easy?

If the coalition forces lose this battle, sooner or later the NLD forces will attack Singapore again, and with the strength of the Straits Settlements, they will not be able to hold it at all.

After all, Britain is too far away, and it takes at least two or three years to prepare for an expeditionary force from the mainland, and the Democratic Alliance army comes from Hong Kong, about 2,500 miles, if he rents a naval base in Lanfang, it will only be less than a thousand miles, with the rise of the Democratic Alliance, in the long run, Singapore will be lost sooner or later, so once the news of the defeat comes, we should make Singapore independent as soon as possible! ”

"Independence?" Everyone was a little puzzled.

"Yes, it's independence!" Gavinner nodded vigorously: "I heard that the Democratic Alliance has a very vivid name for the Chinese who defected to the British Empire, calling them banana people, hehe~~ Yellow skin and white heart, it is indeed a banana person."

We can support the banana people in Singapore to build a country, and the Democratic Alliance will also lose the legal basis for attacking Singapore, unless he ignores the reputation of overseas Chinese, he will never dare to use troops against Singapore, and the government of Singapore is controlled by the banana people, and it will definitely be close to our British Empire, so we can rent a military port from the Singapore government and continue to maintain a military presence, as long as our fleet is always stationed in Singapore. Don't want to monopolize the whole of Southeast Asia! ”

"Not bad! Good way! If you are a politician, there are so many ideas! There was a steady stream of cheers all around.

Gavinner smiled slightly: "I still need to present my plan to His Excellency the Prime Minister first." However, the top priority is to take advantage of the NLD forces to attack Manila. Deliver the news of the attack on Singapore to Mr. Raglan, and bring in some civilian ships from the vicinity. ”

"Yes!" Several soldiers hurried away, and Raglan's eyes reappeared with fighting spirit.

The handling of the Chinese in Singapore was indeed inappropriate for Boss Chen, which made Gavina guess Wang Feng's thoughts, but there was no way to do it, he said it himself, he was a rough man. It is not suitable to deal with old treacherous people, in case of being caught, it will cause more trouble.

As a matter of fact, what is most lacking in the current NLD army is not military talent, not technical backbone, or administrative talent, but diplomatic talent.

The cultivation of diplomatic talents is the most difficult, because it requires not only a full understanding of the world situation and keen insight, but also a negative or dual personality such as insidious and vicious, brazen, reversing right and wrong, and seeking mercy and causing trouble.

Why did the diplomacy of the Red Dynasty suffer so many losses?

First of all, with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not have a high status. There is a direct relationship between the seven big bosses who can manage and no one has to take responsibility, and the second is that the diplomats are too honest, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has become a club of good old people. Honest people suffer!

And why did American diplomacy succeed?

The first is that the secretary of state is second only to the president, and foreign affairs are accountable to Congress, and every foreign policy needs to be discussed repeatedly by Congress. Rather than being decided by a certain leader patting his head, the second is to see who is engaged in diplomacy in the United States.

Crazy, paranoid, orator, vicious old woman. This kind of person lies without blushing!

Of course, the first is fundamental. When it comes to the top-level design of the political system, it is difficult to form an institutionalized diplomatic system in a short period of time, but it is relatively easy to achieve the second one.

Originally, Wang Feng planned to let Wu Wenrong or Sheng Xuanhuai take on the burden of diplomacy, but one of these two people was too old and had limited energy, and the other was too young and inexperienced, so he was temporarily in charge of foreign affairs, but now he has found a suitable person, and he is completely relieved that this person will preside over foreign affairs.

Of course, Boss Chen did not know that he had put down the basket, and with joy, he sailed out of the port of Singapore with a rich spoils of war, and five days later, on December 6, a huge fleet of hundreds of ships arrived in Tuanjie City, the capital of Lan Fang.

Singapore has already been ransacked, and there is no need to hide the whereabouts, not far from Manila through Palawan, it is not convenient for the fleet to attack Manila with a large number of women's supplies, so it is temporarily stored in Lanfang.

Of course, this is the trophy of the Democratic Alliance, and Lan Fang is not a vassal country of China, but a country of equal exchange, so there is no need to take him to share, Boss Chen just gave thirty transport ships to Lan Fang out of friendship.

The next day, a fleet of seven battleships, one cruiser, seven frigates and seven gunboats, and fifty transports sailed out of the city.

Heading southwest along the coastline of Lan Fong, it crossed the waters off Palawan and entered Manila Bay, 2,000 kilometres away, on 16 October.

Manila Bay is a super-large bay closed on three sides, with a water depth of ten to fifty meters and an area of nearly two thousand kilometers, looking at the blue water, Xian Yunying smiled coldly: "Spain is a country that wants money and wants crazy, according to the news transmitted by the local Chinese to Lanfang, Spain transferred a battleship and two cruisers from Manila to join the joint fleet, thinking that it can make a big profit, and there are about fifteen ships still left in Manila.

Among them, the battleship Vittoria and the cruiser Girona are the leaders, the former has a displacement of 7,250 tons, mainly equipped with thirty 68-pounder guns, and nearly 100 guns of various types, the latter has a displacement of 3,980 tons, and is equipped with thirty-two smoothbore guns, and the rest of the ships are not worth mentioning, should we rush in directly and hit him by surprise? ”

Boss Chen looked left and right, shook his head and said, "Spanish warships are all old warships, what's the use of having a large tonnage?" His Achilles' heel is his slow rate of fire and inability to run fast, and the 2,000 square kilometers of sea in Manila Bay is enough for us to use.

But Spain has more than 20,000 troops in Manila, and no matter how caught off guard he is, when we approach Manila, he always has time to prepare, it is better to put the marines ashore first, let the soldiers have a meal, rest, and then advance to Manila, Commander Zhang, the marines are in charge of you. ”

"Good!" Zhang Tianxi nodded, and immediately rushed out of the cabin to direct the transport ship to land.

More than 300 Marines were killed or seriously wounded in the attack on Singapore, and now there are 8,600 more to fight, and although the Western Army is almost three times as numerous as the Marines, the soldiers are not afraid and methodically carry supplies and weapons to the shore.

In order to attack Manila, the Marines deliberately brought fifty 75 small mountain guns.

Today's Democratic Alliance Army, each arsenal has more than 2,000 lathes, more than 100,000 employees, and about 5,000 R&D personnel.

It will be some time before the personnel and materials go ashore, and the warships will be on their own alert, and the soldiers will also hurry up to eat. (To be continued......)

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