The smooth operation of the Bai Zhen Brigade of the Fifth Division was not an exception, but a common situation. Therefore, after several other units of the Fifth Division launched their attacks, they did not encounter any actual resistance.
Well, this unrealistic resistance is for the Chu army.
As for the Aceh Army, they have actually fought for their lives. The Aceh Army is not new to the world. It has been dealing with the Portuguese and the Dutch for more than a hundred years, and it has dealt with colonists and guns. These are already very familiar.
And their own army actually uses a lot of guns. Matchlocks and the like are very common, as well as early flintlocks or yellow-wheeled flintlocks.
Therefore, don't think that the armies of the indigenous countries in Southeast Asia are all still using cold weapons such as swords and spears and are in an uncivilized state.
These uncivilized indigenous people do exist, and there are many of them, but they do not include the countries in the Southeast Asian Peninsula and several countries along the coast of Malacca.
The four countries of Myanmar, Siam, Aceh, and Johor have had very frequent contact with Western civilization in the past hundred years. In the process, they naturally came into contact with and began to use guns.
It's just that their national strength is limited, and even after being exposed to advanced science and technology, it is difficult to develop and maintain, and they are eventually forced to become colonies.
The same is true for the Kingdom of Aceh. They have had frequent contact with Western colonists for more than a hundred years. They have some knowledge and have purchased some guns and cannons from the Portuguese or the Dutch.
But... faced with the strong attack of the Chu army, they were completely defeated!
The Aceh Army deployed about 20,000 troops on the Malay Peninsula. The Beijia area facing the control of the Chu Army was their key defense zone, and most of their troops were used in this direction.
Including Kedah Port, a total of more than 15,000 troops have been deployed.
This strength is actually equivalent to that of the Fifth Division.
However, these 15,000 troops only held out for half a month before they were all defeated.
The reason they were able to hold on for half a month was not because they endured the Chu army's attack for half a month, but because the Chu army spent half a month marching on the road...
The Malay Peninsula is a tropical rainforest area, so marching is not easy. In addition, it rained recently and the roads are muddy. Therefore, although the distance is only about a hundred kilometers, the Chu army actually walked for almost ten days. .
The real combat time was not much. Just like the Bai Zhen Brigade in the Chu Army, they spent several days on the road to reach Jeddah Port, and then took more than an hour to capture Jeddah Port. However, they followed up with a clearing. It took two days for the die-hards to collect prisoners of war and so on.
In half a month, the three main fronts of the Chu Army's Fifth Division, namely the North Road, the Middle Road, and the South Road, advanced for more than 100 kilometers.
This distance is actually not important. What is important is that the Fifth Division defeated more than 15,000 defenders deployed by the Kingdom of Aceh in this area.
Specifically, more than 3,000 Acehnese troops were killed and injured, more than 6,000 were captured, and more than 6,000 others fled.
The Chu army's own casualties were basically negligible, only a few dozen people.
In this battle, the real trouble for the Chu army was not to fight the Acehnese, but to overcome the roads along the way to march and transport logistics supplies.
For the Chu army, this is more troublesome.
At the beginning, the headquarters of the Fifth Division moved forward. However, after discovering that there was no big battle on the front line and there was no need for an entire division headquarters to rush to the front line to point fingers, the headquarters of the Fifth Division simply moved back. After Tun's advance, he coordinated and directed the logistics and transportation from the rear.
Half a month after the war broke out, the Fifth Division's headquarters became the Fifth Division's Logistics Headquarters... As for commanding operations, there was no decent battle to fight.
It was even easier than the original Battle of Siam... In the original Kingdom of Siam, they organized tens of thousands of troops to intercept and fight. The two sides fought a Battle of Thonburi in Thonburi.
As for the Kingdom of Aceh, their total strength on the Malay Peninsula is only about 20,000. After the first 10,000 people were dispersed and garrisoned separately and defeated by the Chu army, they were no longer able to take advantage of their inherent strength on the Malay Peninsula. The troops were organized for defensive operations.
As for sending reinforcements from Sumatra Island, they are like... But the Dachu Empire Navy did not give them this opportunity.
If the Kingdom of Aceh wants to be sneaky and arrange a few small boats for transportation at night, the Da Chu Empire Navy will not be able to detect it, but if it wants to transport on a large scale... The officers and soldiers of the Da Chu Empire Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet are not stupid. They work every day On patrol along the Straits of Malacca.
Once it is discovered that the Kingdom of Aceh has gathered a large number of ships in a certain port, it will definitely pay close attention to it, and maybe it will directly launch a bombardment of the port.
There are small-scale sneak reinforcements, but they are not enough to relieve the huge pressure on the Aceh Army on the Malay Peninsula.
Large-scale transportation cannot be carried out, so the Kingdom of Aceh is now particularly helpless...
We can only hope that the local defenders will continue to resist, and at the same time continue to send envoys to contact the Portuguese and even the Dutch and the Kingdom of Johor, trying to persuade them to fight against the Chu Empire together.
But these countries are not stupid. Now the Great Chu Empire is coming fiercely... Although everyone knows its ambitions, the Great Chu Empire now only captures the Kingdom of Aceh and has no control over the Kingdom of Johor or the Portuguese. Malacca, or areas controlled by the Dutch, launched an attack.
Under such circumstances, even though they knew very well that they could not let the Chu Empire continue to expand in Nanyang, otherwise they would be in trouble sooner or later.
However, no one has the courage to provoke the Chu Empire at this time!
The huge navy of the Chu Empire is now in the Nanyang Sea. A few days ago, it even wandered around the eastern end of the Malacca Strait, which is the Kingdom of Johor...
After the Kingdom of Johor and the Dutch saw the huge fleet composed of dozens of warships, they dared to talk nonsense, and everyone huddled at home.
If this provokes the Chu Empire, no one can stop such a huge fleet, not even the Dutch, the Kingdom of Johor and the Kingdom of Aceh combined.
As for the Portuguese, they only have a thousand ground troops in Malacca. Not to mention the fleet, they have been suppressed by the Dutch for a long time.
Under such circumstances, no other country dared to intervene in the Chu Empire's attack on the Kingdom of Aceh.
This was something that even the top brass of the army and navy of the Great Chu Empire did not expect... You must know that the army and navy had already planned to attack Malacca and the Kingdom of Johor directly after several other countries also participated, and the navy directly landed in the Lion City and surrounding islands.
However, if these countries dare not move... the Chu Empire will naturally not be in a hurry. It will take its time and defeat the Aceh Kingdom first.
As a result, the plan to launch a war against the Kingdom of Johor and occupy the Lion City and surrounding islands in June was postponed.
The 3rd Marine Regiment of the Navy, which had been prepared in advance, continued to train at Bei Nian Port and waited for fighter planes. The main fleet of the Navy, the First Fleet specially organized for this war, was divided into three. The fleets are numbered as the 11th Squadron, the 12th Squadron, and the 13th Squadron.
The Eleventh Squadron continues to conduct combat readiness patrols in the waters at the eastern end of the Strait of Malacca. On the one hand, it is to put continuous pressure on the Kingdom of Johor and the Dutch, and on the other hand, it is also to prevent the Dutch from suddenly launching an attack and sending a fleet to join the war.
The Twelfth Squadron passed directly through the Strait of Malacca, passed through the Strait of Lion City under the noses of the Johoreans, and then passed all the way through the Strait of Malacca and stationed in Kedah Port to reinforce the Indian Ocean Fleet.
The Indian Ocean Fleet sounds like it has a great name, but in fact it only has two Xiangyang-class second-class cruisers and four frigates. Moreover, one frigate Ninghe was lost before. The entire Indian Ocean Fleet only has two Xiangyang-class cruisers and four frigates left. Three frigates.
At the same time, when the fleet was carrying out subsequent artillery operations against the coastal ports of the Kingdom of Aceh, one of the cruisers, the second-class cruiser Nanyang, was damaged by the counterattack of the coastal defense firepower of the Kingdom of Aceh and had to return to the port for repairs. Repairs will take at least a month.
As the strength of the available warships of the Indian Ocean Fleet continues to decline, the task of the Dachu Empire Navy to blockade the western end of Malacca has become difficult. To this end, Admiral Wang Kuien, who is responsible for the governor of naval military affairs in Southeast Asia and the commander of the First Fleet, dispatched Twelfth Squadron moved to reinforce the Indian Ocean Fleet.
With the addition of two battleships, two cruisers and six frigates from the Twelfth Squadron, the maritime power of the Dachu Empire Navy in the western end of Malacca has been improved by several levels. Not only can it continue to blockade the central and western end of the Malacca Strait, but it can also It can intensify the bombardment of coastal cities in the Kingdom of Aceh, further damaging and disintegrating the resistance confidence and strength of the Kingdom of Aceh.
The last remaining 13th Fleet stayed in Beinian to rest and repair the ships for subsequent rotation with the 11th Squadron.
It is impossible for a warship to float on the sea all the time to perform combat missions. Even if the soldiers can bear it, the ship itself cannot withstand it.
When warships perform missions, they carry limited supplies, especially food and water, which means that the ships need to frequently dock for replenishment.
In addition, warships often encounter natural disasters such as storms, which can cause problems with masts, sails and even hulls that require repair. These problems may not be major, but they are also very troublesome when accumulated, so regular maintenance is required.
At the same time, when a warship is soaked in seawater for a long time, the hull below the waterline will have a large amount of adsorbents, such as various shells... These need to be cleaned regularly, otherwise the speed will decrease or even the hull will rot and reduce its service life.
All of this leads to the fact that after a warship performs a mission at sea, it needs to return to the port for maintenance, replenish supplies, and allow the sailors to rest for a period of time.
As a result, it is impossible for the navy's warships to be sent out to perform combat missions at the same time. There will always be some ships undergoing maintenance, some ships on their way to the war zone, and some ships returning to the base. on the way...
There will always be only a portion of the warships that actually perform combat missions in the frontline theater.
Of course, this is only limited to long-distance regular dispatch operations, such as overseas operations.
If it is a defensive operation along the home coast, or an operation with a predetermined target, the warships can be inspected and maintained in advance, and then the operations can be concentrated together.
Just like when the First Fleet set out from the country.
However, when the First Fleet arrives in the South China Sea and is expected to perform combat missions in this area for a long time, it must consider rotation to ensure the maintenance of the warships.
With the First Fleet divided into three, the Da Chu Empire Navy has begun its regular operations in the Nanyang Sea.
And this is huge bad news for the Dutch.
The Dutch are also experts at playing with boats. Other countries in Europe call them sea coachmen. Naturally, they are very clear about the impact of the rotational dispatch of the Chu Imperial Navy: This means that the Chu Imperial Navy will be deployed in Nanyang. In sea areas, large-scale patrol operations and even blockades in the waters of Malacca will become normalized.
The Chu Empire has made no secret of its ambitions for Nanyang and the Strait of Malacca.
The Dutch are extremely confused about this.
Let's start a war. I don't have the guts.
But the Dutch would not be reconciled to seeing the Chu Empire occupying the Malay Peninsula and even controlling the Strait of Malacca.
In desperation, they can only use other methods, such as supporting the Kingdom of Johor and the Kingdom of Aceh.
Especially the Kingdom of Aceh. Now they have been at war with the Chu Empire. Although they were beaten like shit and did not cause real harm to the Chu Empire, the Dutch still hope to help the Kingdom of Aceh. In this way, the expansion of the Chu Empire was delayed as much as possible.
To this end, they maintained close contact with the Kingdom of Aceh and began to provide guns, especially artillery, to the Kingdom of Aceh at more favorable prices.
Of course, they only provide guns at a relatively favorable price, not as a gift, or even at cost price.
Even if it aids the Kingdom of Aceh, the Dutch East India Company still has to make money...
The presence of Dutch power in Southeast Asia and even India is not the official power of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, but the Dutch East India Company.
This company is essentially a commercial company, and they will never do anything to make a loss.
In addition to increasing the supply of weapons to the Kingdom of Aceh, they also actively contacted the Kingdom of Johor, also provided a large number of guns to the Kingdom of Johor, and even sent people to help the Kingdom of Johor purchase bastions and fortresses in coastal ports and build shores. Anti-fire artillery turrets, etc.
The Dutch's idea is very simple. In the early stage when they cannot directly break out a war with the Chu Empire, they should strengthen the strength of the Kingdom of Aceh and the Kingdom of Johor as much as possible to let them resist the Chu Empire, even if they are allowed to support it for a few more years. OK
As for the effect, the Dutch don't know yet... but it really gave the Kingdom of Aceh and the Kingdom of Johor a lot of confidence.
Especially the Kingdom of Aceh, even though they fought so miserably on the Malay Peninsula, they still have not surrendered. They have been trying to find ways to use various small boats to transport troops and supplies to the Malay Peninsula to reinforce the local area. 's defenders.
It is a pity that this kind of trivial reinforcements will not help the situation on the Malay Peninsula at all.
After the 5th Infantry Division of the Chu Army tore through the first line of defense of the Kingdom of Aceh, defeated 15,000 defenders in front of them, killed thousands, and captured thousands, they rested for a few days.
Then a new round of attack was launched in early June!
The Northern Route Army of the Chu Army marched eastward and attacked Pahang; at the same time, the Southern Route Army, the Bai Zhen Brigade led by Brigadier General Bai Zhen, launched an attack towards the Perak area.
The territory occupied by the contemporary Kingdom of Aceh on the Malay Peninsula is roughly the four major areas of Kedah, Perak, Terengganu, and Pahang to the east of the Bekka area of the Chu Empire.
Among them, Kedah and Terengganu were captured by the Chu army in the first round of offensive. Now the Chu army's goals are the Perak and Pahang areas.
As long as these two large areas are captured, it can basically be declared that all the achievements of the Aceh Kingdom's decades of hard work on the Malay Peninsula have been captured by the Chu Empire.
The Kingdom of Aceh spent decades and launched many wars in order to seize these territories on the Malay Peninsula.
This series of wars is the triangular war that lasted for hundreds of years between the Kingdom of Aceh, the Portuguese Kingdom of Malacca, and the Kingdom of Johor.
However, everything that the Kingdom of Aceh had worked so hard to build on the Malay Peninsula was completely destroyed by the Chu Empire in just one month!
On June 8, the Bai Zhen Brigade of the Great Chu Empire captured the last Aceh Army stronghold in the Perak region and annihilated more than 2,000 local defenders.
On June 14, the Northern Route Army of the Fifth Division captured Pahang City, and then continued to pursue more than a thousand defeated Acehnese troops. Finally, they surrounded and annihilated the Acehnese army in a coastal wilderness near the control area of the Kingdom of Johor.
The more than a thousand Aceh troops who were surrounded and annihilated were also the last organized army of the Kingdom of Aceh on the Malay Peninsula!
After the collapse of this defeated army, the Kingdom of Aceh no longer had any organized fleet on the Malay Peninsula and no longer actually controlled any town.
The Kingdom of Aceh has actually lost all its territory on the Malay Peninsula!
On June 17, the Nanyang Governor's Yamen issued an administrative order. Among the above-mentioned newly occupied areas, the Kedah area was established as Kedah County and came under the jurisdiction of Bet Kafu. The remaining areas were established as Pahang County and Perak County and fell under the newly established Malacca. Under the jurisdiction of the government.
Malacca Prefecture, this is a prefecture with only two small counties for the time being, and even the government of the government has not been clearly defined... because the officials of the Nanyang Governor's Yamen plan to place the government directly in the city of Malacca...
The problem is that the city of Malacca is still in the hands of the Portuguese, and the current controlled area of the Chu Empire is not bordering the city of Malacca. There is also an area controlled by the Kingdom of Johor in the middle.
This means that if the Chu Empire wants to attack Malacca by land, it must first pass through the Kingdom of Johor.
It also means that if Malacca City and Bekka area are to be integrated into one area, a large area controlled by the Kingdom of Johor needs to be included.
If you add in the fact that the Chu Empire is bound to win the Lion City Island and the need to actually control the eastern end of the Malacca Strait.
This means that the war between the Chu Empire and the Kingdom of Johor is inevitable, and once it starts, it will be a war of national annihilation.
Who will destroy the country?
This shouldn’t require much asking, everyone knows it’s the Kingdom of Johor.
Relatively speaking, the Kingdom of Aceh is actually doing better. The Chu Empire's territorial demand for the Kingdom of Aceh is only for their new occupation area in the Malay Peninsula, but it has no interest in the Kingdom of Aceh's territory in western Sumatra. .
At least I’m not interested now, let’s talk about it later!
Under such circumstances, the Kingdom of Aceh actually has a chance to end the war with the Chu Empire, as long as they are willing to give up their territory on the Malay Peninsula and make some compensation to the Chu Empire. Not too aggressive either.
What a chance to give them a peace!
But the Kingdom of Johor...it is impossible to achieve peace!
It’s not because they have any grudge against the Chu Empire, or the Chu people hate them, it’s just that they are blocking the way of the Chu Empire…
Although their territory happens to be at the eastern end of the Malay Peninsula and the Li Nei Islands... If the Chu Empire wants to control the Strait of Malacca and ensure the safety of entry and exit from the eastern end of the Strait of Malacca, it must control the above-mentioned areas.
It is not the control of colonial rule, but the rule of preparing to relocate a large number of immigrants, complete localization, and completely incorporate this place into imperial rule.
Luo Zhixue wants to ensure that even if something unexpected happens decades later, such as an independent rebellion by the indigenous people in the colony, there will be no problems in the Strait of Malacca.
Ordinary colonial rule is extremely risky. The only solution is to directly bring this place under local rule and replace the local indigenous people with the subjects of the empire. This is a once and for all solution.
This also means that the Kingdom of Johor must perish!
This is a life-and-death war to destroy the country, and there is no possibility of compromise, even if the Kingdom of Johor is willing to compromise and cede part of its territory.
Because the Great Chu Empire wanted to completely destroy them, and it also wanted to eradicate them to completely eliminate future troubles!
As for this, the people within the Kingdom of Johor are actually not aware of this yet!
They guessed that the Chu Empire might launch a war against them, and they also knew that the Chu Empire wanted to control the Strait of Malacca. However, they estimated that the worst case scenario would be that the Chu Empire captured the lands along the strait such as Lion City. If the Kingdom of Johor takes the initiative to seek peace, it should be able to retain most of its territory.
How to put it, after all, they are not Chinese and cannot understand the importance of eradicating the roots.
In late June, after the Great Chu Empire completely took over all the territories of the Kingdom of Aceh in the Malay Peninsula, the Great Chu Empire did not even bother to negotiate with the Kingdom of Aceh and sign a contract to formally cede these territories.
The 5th Infantry Division has waged war again!
The Southern Route Army led by Brigadier General Bai Zhen went directly from the Perak area into the actual control area of the Kingdom of Johor in the east, and then went straight to the Portuguese-controlled city of Malacca.
In this battle, the Kingdom of Johor will fight, and so will the Portuguese...
In short, the Chu Empire planned to push all the way across from the beginning, whether it was the Kingdom of Aceh, the Kingdom of Johor, or the Portuguese, they would all fight...
The Chu Empire wanted to comprehensively and completely control the entire Malay Peninsula.
There is no need for other countries or forces of any nature to exist on the Malay Peninsula in the future.
There can only be people from Da Chu here!
Ever since... many people were dumbfounded, especially the Dutch. They expected that the Chu Empire would attack the Kingdom of Johor, and also expected that after the Chu Empire defeated the Kingdom of Johor, it would most likely attack the Portuguese city of Malacca...
However, the Dutch really didn't expect that the Chu Empire would attack them at the same time...
If the former Kingdom of Aceh is included, this means that the Chu Empire went to war against the Kingdom of Aceh, the Kingdom of Johor, and the Portuguese East India Company at the same time!
This kind of courage makes the Dutch’s legs weak after seeing it...
Then the Dutch in Batavia had to carefully consider a new question: With the current expansion rate and huge ambition of the Chu Empire, when will the army of the Chu Empire land in Batavia?
Yes, the Dutch have begun to worry that the Chu Empire will attack Batavia.
Because looking at the expansion momentum of the Chu people in Southeast Asia, it is not for the monopoly trade of a certain place or a certain commodity.
These damn Chu barbarians are most likely rushing to conquer the entire Nanyang region.
