In the 10th year of the Ming Dynasty's peace, on December 10th, Phuket Military Port.
The aircraft carrier battlecruiser Shu Zhongwang was leading a huge fleet, rolling up snow-white waves, following a small pilot boat and slowly sailing towards a temporary dock.
Just when the British were busy encircling the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea and the Su Yins Canal, they were busy leading the entire Western world to sanction the Ming Dynasty. Zhuge Weidao had completed his campaign in the Western Indian Ocean, quietly leading his first voyage, leaving Muscat on a dark and stormy night, once again bypassing the South Asian subcontinent, and passing through It passed through the Ten Degrees Strait, entered the Andaman Sea, and finally arrived at Phuket Naval Base, a naval base belonging to the Kingdom of Siam. This journey covered 6,000 kilometers and took eight and a half days.
Different from the publicity when he went back to Bombay to drop bombs, this time Zhuge Weidao was very careful to avoid the Indian subcontinent and the island of Ceylon. In addition, the Royal Navy of the Indian Empire focused its attention on the Gulf of Aden-Mumbai line, so when the first naval battle entered the Phuket naval port, William, the first emperor of India, probably didn't know anything about it!
As for the reason why the First Air War had to run so hurriedly and quietly from the Gulf of Oman back to Phuket Island in Siam, you don't need to ask to know that it must be related to the Malay War.
Not only the senior leaders of the First Air War could guess this, but even the non-commissioned officers and soldiers below could also imagine that the previous series of large-scale maneuvers and naval battles, as well as the bombings to incite hatred, in the final analysis were not all about taking Going down the Strait of Malacca, a place that blocked the New Ming Dynasty for more than a hundred years?
As for this choke point, there was no way to get it when sailing battleships were galloping across the ocean in the early years. But since the era of sailing, the middle and lower levels of the Ming Navy have been eager to get it! But the higher-ups kept blocking it, saying it hadn't come yet... This time, the time had finally come, right?
So when the fleet passed through the Shidu Strait, the non-commissioned officers, soldiers and junior officers below knew that the first aviation battle would probably be responsible for landing support tasks. After all, this aviation battle is the sharpest blade in the Ming Navy today!
When the fleet finally arrived at the Phuket naval port, the officers and sailors who were not on duty gathered on the deck. They all wanted to see which elite of the army could be worthy of escorting a naval battle?
Zhuge Weidao also stood on the bridge with his senior staff, holding up a telescope and looking at everything in front of him.
The Phuket Military Port was displayed in front of them!
With blue water, white sand, and whirling green trees, it was a famous tourist destination in another timeline. Now it is also a beautiful island. It’s just that there are more chilling scenes! Such as military ports, forts, airports, barracks and...Japanese!
At a glance, Zhuge Weidao saw groups of Japanese waving at him on the pier! All of them are short and short, wearing colorful kimonos, waving thin, white, lotus-like arms... Although their faces are not very pretty, they are all pink and tender. So young, she doesn’t even look over 20 years old!
"What's going on?" Zhuge Weidao put down the telescope and asked, "Isn't it a brigade of the Aizu Division? Why are they all women?"
Guo Xiaobao on the side quickly raised his head and pointed to another dock, "Junmen, the people from the Aizu Division are over there... What you see should be their prostitutes accompanying the army!"
It turns out to be a comfort or something! Zhuge Weidaoxin said: "The Japanese devils really can't change their bad habits!"
So he turned the telescope again and looked in the direction of Guo Xiaobao's finger. At first glance... it still didn't look good. He saw a pier full of people wearing black military uniforms and wearing Japanese ashigaru. The short man in the bamboo hat - turned out not to be a Japanese soldier wearing a khaki military uniform and a little fart hat.
Some of these little devils were holding flags, and they were not plaster flags, but the Tokugawa family's clover and some military flags with Chinese characters on them. There were flags with the word "会", flags with the word "青龙", and "green dragon" flags. The "White Tiger" flag, the "Xuanwu" flag, the "Suzaku" flag... look quite lively, but can they be fought?
"Military Gate," Guo Xiaobao saw the doubts on Zhuge Weidao's face, so he came up to him with a smile, "the Aizu Division and the Sendai Division are said to be the two most capable divisions in Japan... They are basically samurai from the bitter cold land of Northeast Japan. Among them, the Kurokawa Brigade under the Aizu Division is an elite brigade based on the feudal lords of the Aizu Domain. It has four subordinate brigades: Blue Dragon, White Tiger, Genbu, and Suzaku. It is also known as Japan's strongest four-team soldiers.
In addition, the division commander of the Aizu Division, Matsudaira Yoshiaki, once studied at the Saint-Cyr Military Academy in France and is said to be the most talented young general in Japan. He should be at the Phuket military port now...According to the plan, he will personally lead the Kurokawa Brigade to land in Penang. "
The plan Guo Xiaobao mentioned was drawn up by Zhuge Weidao's two "accomplices", Mu Zhongjun and Zheng Guoxian. It was actually a plan of coordinated sea and land siege on five sides. The Japs from two divisions and one brigade totaled about 45,000 troops and were divided into five groups.
Among them, there were two land forces, one starting from Songkhla in Siam to attack Jitra, and then going south to Penang after winning; the other one starting from Pattani, taking Kota Baruha first, and then Kuala Terengganu.
There are three routes at sea, one landing in Penang, one landing in Kuala Terengganu, and one landing in Aram Bay. Among them, the troops landing in Penang and Kuala Terengganu will join forces with the troops coming overland, and then divide into two routes to go south. Then they will join forces with the troops landing in Aram Bay near Malacca City, and together they will capture Malacca City. After capturing the city of Malacca, we can attack Tan Masik together... If everything goes well, we should be able to capture the entire Malay Peninsula in two to three months.
Taking over the Malay Peninsula was only the first step in the Aizu Division's expedition to India... According to the agreement reached by General Tokugawa and Emperor Shizuko with the Ming Dynasty, after completing the Malay Peninsula Campaign, the Aizu Division and the Sendai Division The regiment will be the first batch to participate in the Indian Liberation War!
Liberate India...with commission!
With a 10% commission, if you free 10 million koku, you can get a commission of 1 million koku... There is hope for Aizu with a million koku!
Seeing the huge warships on the sea, Matsudaira Yoshiaki, the lord of the Aizu domain and the commander of the Aizu division, was so excited that tears filled his eyes. He even raised his arms and shouted: "The Ming Dynasty is mighty! The Ming Dynasty is victorious!" Japan…onboard!”
When he took the lead, the thousands of Japanese soldiers on the dock cheered together!
"The Ming Dynasty is mighty! The Ming Dynasty is victorious!"
"Japan...onboard!"
Hearing the cheers of the Japanese devils, Zhuge Weidao nodded and said to Guo Xiaobao next to him: "Haha, it really sounds like this, it's fun! Maybe we can capture Malacca in a month and a half!"
Guo Xiaobao was stunned, "One and a half months? I'm afraid this is a bit difficult, right? There are 150,000 British and Indian troops! I heard that there is also a famous British general who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. It's not easy to fight!"
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"Okay! There are 150,000 troops, hundreds of artillery pieces, thousands of machine guns, as well as the four fortresses of Penang, Kuantan, Malacca, and Tamashik, as well as dozens of solidly fortified strongholds... The entire road network of the Malay Peninsula is controlled by these strongholds! There are enough ammunition and supplies for 12 months of fighting! It seems that the Malay Peninsula will be the burial place of hundreds of thousands of Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers!"
At the headquarters of the Malayan Corps of the British-Indian Army on Tamasi Island, the famous British general who had just arrived by airship, Viscount William Carl Beresford, who had received the Portuguese Marshal's scepter during the Napoleonic Wars, looked at the horses on the map. When I came to the peninsula defense map, I finally showed a satisfied and confident smile.
The Malay Peninsula...can definitely hold on for a long time!
