There was no gunfire, no resistance, and some were just the orderly landing of the officers and men of the Qing Dynasty, which was much easier than the exercise, but Lin Wanlong, who went ashore with the second wave of landing soldiers, could not see a trace of a smile on his dark face, and he knew very well that this was just the beginning, and the difficult journey was still to come.

"Report, the Shadow Man is here. A sturdy Marine captain ran up to Lin Wanlong's side with excitement on his face, saluted the military, and reported in a loud voice.

Although Lin Wanlong is now a major general and can be regarded as a high-ranking official, he was originally from a "Honghu", so he naturally understands what is going on with the shadow, which is the most important part of the world, and he must not be neglected. Lin Wanlong walked a few steps closer to meet Chen Guozhong, who was being escorted by several Marine Corps officers and soldiers, and politely saluted first, and said with a smile: "Mr. has worked hard, the prince has an explanation before this official comes: The saint greets you." ”

Chen Guozhong has been away from the Qing Dynasty for sixteen years, and he only knows a little about the situation in the country, neither has seen the weapons and equipment and military uniforms of the Qing army at the moment, nor does he know what is going on with the military salute today, but Lin Wanlong's respect is still clear to him, at this time I heard that the saint has not forgotten them, a pair of eyes suddenly turned red, two lines of tears came out of the frame, and his lips trembled and he couldn't speak, after a long time, Chen Guozhong, who was a little less excited, knelt down to the north, kowtowed respectfully and said: "Thank you Lord Longen, the minister dare not have the emperor's trust, Repay the love of God with death. Although Lin Wanlong was anxious to know the situation of the road, he didn't dare to step forward to interrupt Chen Guozhong's gratitude at this time, so he had to stand aside silently and wait.

"General Lin, surnamed Chen, named Guozhong, was ordered to come to cooperate with General Lin's actions. Chen Guozhong, who had thanked the Holy Grace, got up and said calmly to Lin Wanlong.

"Mr. Chen. What are the road conditions like? When will our army be able to reach Johor Bahru, and besides, how many Dutch garrisons are there in Johor Bahru? Lin Wanlong was anxious, and he didn't be polite, and directly turned to the topic.

Chen Guozhong looked at the artillery on the small boat that was heading towards the shore not far away, squatted down, picked up a small wooden stick, and drew it on the ground. While gesturing, he explained: "General Lin, about eighty miles from here to Johor Bahru, it is all mountains and forests, and there is only one path, in which there are two rivers, more than a dozen streams, and two cliffs. If the gun carriage is with you, I am afraid that it will not be able to arrive in three or four days. There were only a hundred Dutch soldiers in Johor Bahru town, and the guards were very lax, and there was a battery in this position with about ten guns. Less than a hundred Dutch soldiers were guarding. ”

Artillery is a sharp weapon for attacking fortifications, and it is not a problem for the Marine Battalion to take Johor Bahru without artillery support, but it will not be easy to take Malacca, and once Johor Bahru starts. It must not be possible to hide the English garrison across a strait that is not too wide, and if the English army comes to attack immediately, without artillery, it is difficult to say whether it can hold Johor Bahru. When Lin Tianlong heard that it would take about four days for the artillery to arrive in Johor Bahru, his brows suddenly furrowed, and after thinking for a while, he asked, "Mr. Chen, what kind of artillery is the Johor Bahru Fort. Well, did the Dutch have a cannon that could be easily moved? ”

Chen Guozhong didn't even think about it, and replied: "The artillery on the ground of the battery is heavy artillery, which cannot be easily moved, and the muzzle can only be adjusted through the gun carriage. Not much, though. There are only two doors. ”

Two doors? Lin Wanlong's face suddenly darkened, not that he was afraid that the Johor Bahru garrison would not be able to take Johor Bahru because it had two cannons. What he was worried about was that even if these two guns were captured intact, it would be almost impossible to attack the well-fortified Malacca with these two guns, and of course, if the twelve guns of the Marine battalion could accompany them, the more than 600 Dutchmen in Malacca, Lin Wanlong, really didn't care about it. Time! There is no time, according to the scheduled battle plan, the second squadron at this time has begun to attack, according to the distance is about to enter the sea area of Tamberan, if the sun cannot be taken before sunset tomorrow, the overall battle plan of the Qing army will be exposed, once the main force of the English fleet slips away from the Strait of Malacca, Lin Wanlong has no other way but to commit suicide by going to the sea.

"Order: All officers and men of the Guangdong Marine Battalion should go ashore immediately with their personal weapons, no longer need to care about artillery, bring enough **, ropes and mines, and immediately reorganize their troops and prepare to set off after going ashore; The artillery was handed over to the First Fleet Marine Battalion, and Commander Liu was asked to send people to assist the First Fleet Marine Battalion and to rush to Johor Bahru before 4 May to take over the defense of Johor Bahru. Lin Wanlong gave an order with a calm face, and the signal soldier who followed him immediately waved the signal flag in his hand and transmitted Lin Wanlong's order to all ships.

At three o'clock in the morning, the sun had already set in the west, and after more than two hours of busyness, the 3,200 men and horses of the Guangdong Marine Battalion finally landed ashore, and Lin Wanlong could not wait for the assembly of the First Fleet Marine Battalion, so he ordered the Guangdong Marine Battalion, which had been in order, to set off immediately and rush to the direction of Johor Bahru overnight......

Kota Ting is only 40 kilometers away from Johor Bahru in a straight line, but how is this 40 kilometers 40 kilometers, the road? There is no road, if it is really a road, it is actually a place where the vegetation is relatively sparse, and the straight-line distance of 40 kilometers is actually more than doubled when walking. In the mountains of this tropical rainforest, covered with endless primeval forests, cliffs, rivers and streams are everywhere, not to mention mosquitoes and insects, tigers roaring apes, giant pythons and poisonous snakes can be seen everywhere, if it is not for the guides who are familiar with the road and have made road signs in advance, anyone who walks into this vast mountain, even if he can come out alive, he will have to shed a few layers of skin if he does not die.

The Guangdong Marine Battalion is one of the most elite units in the Qing Army series, and all the officers and men are carefully selected men, who can go up the mountains and down to the sea, and all the officers and men have received strict training in jungle warfare, and all of them are agile people, but in this way, after walking out of the 40-kilometer mountain road, the whole team is still inevitably missing - dozens of officers and soldiers fell forever on the land of a foreign land.

At the moment of the first day of May in the eighth year of Yuanzhuo, the officers and men of the Guangdong Marine Battalion of the Qing Dynasty finally reached the edge of the dense woodland, and they could already see the not-so-high wall of Xinshan Town with the naked eye. Not to mention taking advantage of the situation to attack, this made Lin Wanlong, who was bent on completing the task of taking New Bahru on time, anxious and helpless.

"The herald ordered all the departments to seize the time to rest and act as soon as it got dark. Lin Wanlong held a monocular and observed the town of Johor Bahru in the distance, and did not find anything wrong in the town, and gave orders to the officers at all levels gathered behind him without looking back, and then looked at Chen Guozhong who was standing beside him and said, "Mr. Chen, thank you for your help along the way, um." Can Mr. Chen take his subordinates into the town to reconnoiter the movements of the Dutch, oh, this is just a suggestion, if not, forget it. ”

Although Chen Guozhong has been walking in the rainforest all year round, he has long been accustomed to walking mountain roads, but in the past few days, he has been running back and forth, and by this time he is already at the end of his crossbow, and his already dark and thin face is full of exhaustion. But in the face of Lin Wanlong's request, he couldn't refuse, and thought about it: "There are also many Chinese in Johor Bahru Town, well, most of them are Fujianese. If there are Fujianese officers and soldiers under the general, you can try it in the next place, but I am afraid that the hairstyles of our soldiers and soldiers will not be hidden, so this is good. Just take a few of your men down and take a look. ”

"Oh, that's great, there's Mr. Law. Lin Wanlong naturally understood what Chen Guozhong was talking about about the hairstyle, and said with a wry smile. Chen Guozhong nodded and stopped talking, walked to the side, talked to the group of Shadow Land personnel in Malay, led the two out of the dense forest, and swaggered towards the distant town of Johor Bahru.

Unitary time genuine. The sun that had raged all day finally set below the sea level, and the last trace of afterglow dyed the sea in the west into a dark red, and the smoke rose faintly from Johor Bahru Town, just when Lin Wanlong was waiting anxiously, Chen Guozhong's figure shook out of the Johor Bahru Town in the distance, looking like a walk after dinner, and slowly walked into the edge of the dense woodland.

"Mr. Chen, how's the situation?" Lin Wanlong saw Chen Guozhong as soon as he saw him. Don't wait for it to catch its breath. Anxiously asked.

"General Lin, everything is normal. Chen Guozhong squatted down. He drew a sketch on the ground with a thin branch, and explained as he painted: "General, please see, this is the gate of the town, the town gate will be closed after nine o'clock, oh, it will be closed when the time comes, and there are generally only seven or eight Dutch soldiers on the city wall, and when I enter the town gate, I go straight along this road, and there is a Dutch church, and less than a hundred steps to the right from the church is where the Dutch garrison is, where there are about one hundred and twenty Dutch soldiers, and the guards are very loose, and there are only two gates; The Dutch fort was on this hill in front of the town, there were no dwellings on it, and it was impossible to approach the fort below, but it was understood that most of the Dutch troops there slipped into the town at night to fool around, and few people generally stayed behind to guard the fort; There is a bar in this part of the town, where most of the soldiers drink and have fun late into the night. ”

"Oh. Lin Wanlong replied casually, stared at the sketch on the ground without raising his head, thought nervously for a long time, suddenly got up, waved his hand to call the officers at all levels under him, pointed to the sketch on the ground, and issued a series of combat orders: "He Qian, you take a company to bypass outside the town, be sure to take the fort after the battle starts, and be sure to ensure that the artillery and ammunition are intact." Wang Hao, your spy company must quietly take the main gate, do not alarm the Dutch army in the town, Liu Chenghong, your battalion is responsible for attacking the Dutch barracks and this bar, and the rest of the troops are ready to reinforce everywhere with their own officers as reserves. Do you understand everything? ”

"Yes, General!" The officers and men of the Marine Battalion, who had been resting for more than an hour, immediately took action, packed their bags, fed and drank enough to prepare for battle.

It was already dark, but the moonlight was very bright, and the soft moonlight dyed the earth into a silvery white, and the sea breeze brought a burst of military horns, and with the sound of this military horn, the gate of Johor Bahru Town, which was not too thick, was slowly closed, and the lights in the town gradually went out, but the faint sound of singing and dancing could be heard from the direction of the center of the town, and another beautiful night came.

"Action!" Seeing that the time was almost up, Lin Wanlong waved his hand violently, and Wang Hao, the commander of the spy company who had been waiting anxiously, grinned, waved his hand, and led more than a dozen carefully selected soldiers to quickly rush out of the dense forest, sneaking all the way, and quickly approaching the wall outside the town, more than 100 meters away from the wall, these dozen officers and soldiers immediately crawled on the ground, crawling all the way forward, like wriggling snakes to the root of the wall. Wang Hao made a gesture, and all the officers and soldiers immediately climbed the originally low wall like geckos climbing the wall, and along the wall, they crossed cover and touched in the direction of the town gate......

At that moment, a torch was lit at the top of the wall of Johor Bahru Town, and three circles were drawn in succession. Lin Wanlong's originally serious face immediately showed a hint of a smile - the town gate has been successful!

"The second company of the first battalion and the second battalion are in action!" Lin Wanlong's voice was full of excitement, and the soldiers of the Marine Battalion who had received the order to attack rushed out of the dense forest like sharp swords, and divided into two ways to kill Johor Bahru Town - the second company of the first battalion rushed directly to the hill at the east end along the wall of Johor Bahru Town, and the second battalion smashed into Johor Bahru Town along the gate that had already been opened.

The gunfire first rang out at the fort outside the town, and then the gunfire in the town also rang out, and the Dutch troops who were looking for fun in the town were caught off guard by the sudden attack of the Qing army, and the Qing officers and soldiers, who were already superior in numbers, unceremoniously smashed bullets and grenades at the Dutch troops in the chaos, and a one-sided massacre was staged wildly in Johor Bahru Town.

At two o'clock, the fort was taken, and ten artillery pieces fell into the hands of the Qing army along with ammunition; At three o'clock, most of the resistance of the Dutch army in the town was wiped out, and the remnants of the Dutch army hid in the barracks to resist desperately, but under the powerful offensive of the Qing army, in less than a pillar of incense, these recalcitrant Dutch officers and soldiers were all cleared, so far, the town of Johor Bahru has fallen into the hands of the Qing army, and the Qing army only suffered ten casualties in the whole operation, which can be regarded as a complete victory, but Lin Wanlong is a little unhappy - it is a trivial matter to take Johor Bahru two hours later than planned, and a small group of Dutch cavalry broke through the Qing army's interception, fled to Malacca.

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