Chapter 327: Run, the Japs are coming! (Please subscribe, please vote)

"Viscount, I'm afraid it will be difficult for our warriors to wipe out hundreds of thousands of Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers in Malaya."

Immediately, elite British officers who knew the situation on the front line and were very professional expressed different opinions.

Viscount Beresford still maintained his gentlemanly demeanor and asked with a smile: "Major, why do you say that?"

The British elite major smiled and said: "Because according to intelligence and investigation, there are two divisions of Japanese soldiers currently gathered in Songkhla, Siam, adjacent to Malaya, in Pattani. They are all short and thin. Look,

They look like children. Their equipment is very poor. They only have rifles, machine guns, light artillery, no cavalry, and lack of transport vehicles and draft horses. According to objective and cautious assessments, the combat effectiveness of these Japanese soldiers is only about one-third of that of Indian soldiers.

One, equivalent to one-tenth of the British soldiers, is simply vulnerable."

Hearing that his opponent was only the Japanese army with poor combat effectiveness, Viscount Beresford's last worry disappeared - before Japan was easily conquered by the Ming Dynasty, the British Empire had some hope for the combat effectiveness of the Japanese soldiers. But Nagasaki

The result of the battle was shocking. The Nagasaki rebel army, which seemed to have some combat effectiveness and had a large number of artillery, fell apart in just one day under the joint attack of the landing Ming army and the shogunate army who acted as lackeys for the Ming army.

Didn't show any fighting ability.

After this battle, the British Empire had a very low evaluation of Japanese soldiers, believing that their combat effectiveness was only equivalent to one-tenth of the ordinary British army. If the Ming Dynasty sent out its own elite soldiers, Viscount Beresford might still be a little worried.

, but what they dispatched was only Japanese troops with no combat effectiveness. It seems that the Ming Dynasty had no intention of attacking Malaya at all.

Maybe they just wanted to use a long naval blockade to make the British and Indian Army in Malaya surrender after they ran out of supplies?

Thinking of this, Viscount Beresford smiled and said: "It seems that the Battle of Malaya will be a protracted war. All troops must pay attention to saving ammunition and stockpiling supplies. Although we have enough supplies to last for 12 months, but

I hope we can persist in the Malay Peninsula for 18-24 months! Because a new generation of British Empire surface battleships that are more powerful and can defeat the strongest battleships currently in service in the Ming Dynasty will be put into use within 18-24 months.

!By then, the situation at sea will be completely reversed!"

His words were not nonsense, but something that Marquis Nelson personally assured him. And Marquis Nelson did not deceive him. The British Empire had indeed begun to intensify the design of a new generation of battleships. After 18-24 months, it will definitely

Can be put into use.

But it is hard to say whether the British and Indian troops in Malaya can survive until that time.

As soon as Viscount Beresford finished speaking, he saw a young British staff officer rushing in. After entering the map room, he even forgot to stand at attention and salute, and opened his throat and shouted: "Viscount

, we have just received urgent telegrams from Penang, Jitra, Kota Baruha, Kuala Terengganu and Bay of Aram. The defenders there have suffered fierce attacks from the Ming army from land, sea and air.

The all-out attack has begun!"

What?

Already started?

Viscount Beresford was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed: "They are just some Japanese soldiers. They don't have any combat effectiveness. Send the order to all the ministries to hold on and wait for an opportunity to launch a counterattack!" As he said that, he looked at the officers in the map room.

They laughed and said, "If the counterattack goes well, we might be able to invade the Kingdom of Siam! Who among you knows the situation in the Kingdom of Siam better?"

at the same time.

Dozens of small sampans have broken through the smoke on the sea near Penang Island, where Penang is located, and landed on a beach on the west coast of Penang Island with a roar.

On these sampans, there were all officers and soldiers of the White Tiger Brigade of the Kurokawa Brigade of the Kokusai Division of Japan, wearing black military uniforms and iron helmets, holding Pacific rifles with bayonets in their hands.

Everyone was as if they had been beaten to death. Before the sampan stopped, they were shouting slogans and jumping down. The first warrior of the White Tiger Brigade was probably an officer. He did not wear a helmet, but had a white cloth wrapped around his head, holding up his hands.

He was holding a sword and looked like he was crazy. After jumping on the beach, he screamed: "The old white tiger captain of the Aizu clan, Saigo Konyu, is here. Who dares to come and fight!"

This is another Xixiang!

However, Xixiang, which is translated as Satsuma, probably does not belong to the same family. Maybe the family lived in the western countryside, so Xixiang was used as the Miao character.

Saigo of the Aizu Domain had a high status. He was an old man and had a family salary of 1,500 koku. He was considered a very high-level samurai.

However, high-ranking samurai families usually have many relatives and retainers, so this 1,500 koku is a small sum of money for a large group of people.

Therefore, the life of the Aizu Saigo family is just a little easier than that of ordinary samurai. Regarding the opportunity to increase their family income, they are looking forward to the stars and the moon, and their eyes are red with anticipation.

It's a pity that Japan has been at peace for so long, and there is no chance for a while. And the Ming Dynasty and North Korea under the protection of the Ming Dynasty are simply not something Japan can challenge.

Just look at the battleships that bombarded Penang Island just now... four 20,000-ton ships, with a total of 32 300mm cannons firing at the British and Indian military positions on the island!

This power is really like a landslide!

It seems that Japan was right to serve as the lackey of Ming Dynasty... and before today's attack was launched, the lord of the feudal lord had already told him that after the Aizu clan moved to India, he would be rewarded with a salary of 10,000 stone!

10,000 koku! That’s enough for a famous name... All the retainers and relatives of the Saigo family have been saved now - with the help of this group of people, Matsudaira Yongkei distributed 10,000 koku to the Saigo family.

Only stone can suppress it.

Thinking of this, Mr. Xixiang became even more energetic.

Holding the sword, he was the first to rush towards the British and Indian army positions on the beach that had been bombarded by heavy artillery.

The samurai warriors of the Aizu White Tigers who came up with him were all as if they had taken gunpowder. They held up their rifles with bayonets and roared and rushed forward!

There seemed to be a few living people on the British-Indian army's position. At this time, they also set up rifles and machine guns and started shooting randomly.

Although the bullets from the opposite side came in waves.

However, Saigo and his men did not fight back at all, they just charged with their heads down.

Because they know that the position is still far away from them, and firing now is completely indiscriminate and a waste of precious bullets.

Although these infantrymen only charged and did not fight back, the destroyers that arrived near the coast to support them started to suppress the firepower on the shore with their 155mm cannons, and soon the British and Indian positions were once again transformed into a sea of ​​fire.

!

While the destroyer was bombarding, Saigo Minyu led his members of the White Tigers. They braved the enemy's bullets and risked being accidentally injured by their own artillery fire, and rushed into an Anglo-Indian trench.

There was a British officer and dozens of Indians in this trench. They had been stunned by the bombardment of naval guns.

Now I suddenly saw a large group of Japanese soldiers holding bayonets, rushing out of the fire from the naval guns despite their own firepower. They all panicked and didn't know who they were. Suddenly they shouted: "Run! Ming

The army is coming!"

Then the people in the entire trench began to retreat in chaos...
Chapter completed!