The fortress of Zangmaxi is about to be completed...... But that's not all!

It is said that the fortress is about to be completed, because after losing the loyalty of the Indian Asan, the white-skinned British soldiers of Viscount Bellsford really have no way to maintain the defense area. In the early morning of March 11, after a day and a night of not fierce "fierce fighting", 92,000 of the 100,000 British and Indian troops on the island were either killed by shells, bombs, and bullets, or bravely raised their hands and surrendered to the Great Tomorrow soldiers and the Japanese devil soldiers.

According to the statistics of the Ming army and the Japanese army, they captured a total of about 75,000 Indian third brothers in this day, which is really a lot! There was no time to transport the many of them, and there was not enough food to supply them, so they had to give each of them a handful of white rabbit toffee (all kinds of toffee and chocolate are very suitable for emergency military rations because of their high calorie and easy to preserve) and a compressed biscuit, and let him sit in the embankment of the Straits of Johor while eating sugar and biscuits to satisfy his hunger, while waiting for the transfer after dawn...... I have to say that the Ming Dynasty in this year is really "Celestial Empire".

The reason why the fortress was not over is because Viscount Bellsford finally succeeded in gathering about 5,000 British soldiers and 7,000 soldiers into the core area of the fortress built on the Bukit Timah Hill - abandoning the Johor Strait defense line and all coastal batteries.

However, the reason why the fortress is not finished for the time being is not the defeat of more than 10,000 remnants of the army and the seemingly strong core area of the fortress - the core area of the fortress began to be built in a hundred years and took twenty or thirty years to complete, which is very powerful by the standards of seventy or eighty years ago. But now the Ming army has in its hands the "Island" class shallow water heavy gunboats equipped with 320 mm naval guns. After the loss of the coastal defense fortress on the southern shore of the island, these gunboats can drive to the shore of the island and bombard the core fort of the fortress with 320 mm cannons. How could a fortified fortress seventy or eighty years ago withstand the bombardment of 320-mm cannons?

Therefore, the real reason why the fortress is not finished is that the command of the Nanyang Army and the command of the Nanyang Fleet received orders from the War Department and the Navy Department at the same time - to suspend the attack, surround but not fight!

As for the purpose of the War Department and the Admiralty issuing this order, Zhuge Weidao on the King of Shuzhong could also think of it with his heels that it must be the Ming Dynasty in Beijing who wanted to give the British Empire a chance to admit defeat with dignity...... At the same time, he also used the opportunity of the negotiations to set a trap for Britain in order to create favorable conditions for the next military action.

As a matter of fact, as to how long and where the war that is currently going on should be fought, the old men in Beijing also have three strategies: upper, middle, and lower.

Of course, the best strategy is to make a quick decision and accept it when you see it...... As long as the British Empire could "retreat honorably" from Malacca, Oceania, and western Oregon, and persuade the Dutch to retreat from the Dutch East Indies, the Spaniards from South Luzon, and the Portuguese from Timor. The Great Ming Dynasty allowed Emperor Wilhelm to continue to rule the Indian Empire.

In fact, the Great Ming Dynasty did not want India, which had a large population and little money (gold and silver), and had particularly complicated internal problems. The Ming Dynasty favored territories with small populations and a lot of money, such as Oceania, which had the new gold mountains (which had not yet been discovered), Oregon on the west coast of the Americas, and of course, southern Africa. Of course, the oil-producing area of the Persian Gulf, Daming is also very fond of it!

So if Emperor Wilhelm admits defeat now, then it will be nothing for the Indian emperor to let him stay.

And the middle strategy, of course, is to conquer Oceania and Oregon and other places, and then to fight a very annoying India...... This printing does not seem to be difficult, but the question is what to do after typing?

Liberate it...... It's too much trouble! Abolishing castes, equalizing land, and running education are all thankless tasks!

If you don't liberate it, it's too unheavenly. If the Ming Dynasty takes India and does not engage in the set of "abolishing castes and equalizing the land", it will be the same as the United States on another timeline that does not export the M master after taking something, and the Ming Dynasty always feels that it is wrong to do this......

In addition, there is not much market in India at the moment, she just has a lot of people, not many gold and silver reserves, and no oil. At present, the world is still engaged in convertible currency, that is, the gold and silver standard. If there is no gold, silver, or high-value commodities like oil, then there is no market, and it can't be given for nothing, right?

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The next strategy, of course, is to fight all the way to the Atlantic, drive the guns into the Thames, bombard London and capture Victoria alive!

This is protracted, and it may not be completed in ten or twenty years!

And what to do after the defeat of Britain?

Is it to establish Britain as a clear part of Britain, or to create a British overseas province? Or did he arrange for a Ming prince to marry Victoria and establish a small Ming dynasty in England? It doesn't seem to fit, does it?

So that's the next step!

And to pursue the best strategy, then the Ming should give Kaiser Wilhelm a chance to "surrender and lose half", and by the way, adopt some tricks to mislead Kaiser Wilhelm and the British Empire authorities.

And Zhuge Weidao's speculation was confirmed on March 12 - on the morning of that day, he received a secret telegram from the Navy General Staff, and this secret telegram was sent in the name of Zhuge Weiyi, the chief of staff of the Navy.

Zhuge Weiyi ordered Zhuge Weidao and Zheng Guoxian to preside over the persuasion of the surrender of the fortress, and at the same time tried to talk to Emperor Wilhelm of India about the "glorious retreat" and "land reparation".

And Colonel Humphrey, who has become "Daming's own person", of course, has become the best candidate to go back and forth between the two armies.

"Colonel Humphrey, I didn't expect you to be alive...... That's great!"

In the office of the commander in the core fortress of the fortress of Shanmarsek, Viscount Bellsford, who was already in a hurry, gave him a very warm greeting as soon as he saw Humphrey.

Humphrey smiled bitterly and said, "Viscount, to be honest, you and I are not in a good situation at the moment!"

Viscount Bellsford smiled bitterly, "Yes, you're right...... It is indeed very bad, we have lost, and the fortress that the Empire has painstakingly managed for a hundred years is about to be lost to us!"

"And that's not the worst of it." Humpher said.

"Yes, yes, there's worse!" When Viscount Bellsford thought that he would be captured and might even die honorably, and if he did not die, he might go to court-martials in the future.

He sighed again and asked, "Colonel, what do they mean?" Are you trying to persuade me to surrender?"

"Surrender?" Humphrey shook his head as he took out a handwritten letter from Zhuge Weidao and handed it over with both hands, "Viscount, you don't have to surrender in humiliation, you can also retreat with honor."

"A glorious retreat?" Viscount Bellsford reached out to take the letter, and looked at Humphrey in surprise, "What does this mean? Do the Chinese want me to hand over the fort and flee back to India with the remnants of the defeated army?"

Humphrey shook his head and said, "The glorious retreat means, of course, the glorious withdrawal of the British Empire from India and Malaya......

"What? And to withdraw from India?" Viscount Bellsford immediately shook his head, "No, it can't be! Humphrey, you know, India is the jewel in the crown of the British Empire, and the British Empire will never give up India!"