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Chapter 1215 Invasion of Sumatra Island

The city of Malacca was originally the royal city of the Sultanate of Malacca. Later, the city of Malacca was occupied by the Portuguese, and the Portuguese were driven away by the Chinese.

The Nanyang Fleet collects tariffs here and provides supplies for ships passing by.

Malacca, which guards the passages of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, has also become a temporary gathering place for troops.

The No.12 Corps concentrated 2000 soldiers in Malacca, of which 800 were soldiers recruited from the mainland, and 1200 were auxiliary soldiers on the Malay Peninsula.

Because of the particularity of the No.12 Corps' campaign in Nanyang, the infantry of this regiment is different from the other eleven infantry regiments. They usually train in mountain combat and rainforest combat to adapt to the complex tropical terrain of Nanyang.

In addition to the 2000 imperial soldiers, there were also 1000 samurai mercenaries from Japan, totaling 3000 people.

Malacca gathered not only soldiers for fighting against the Sultan of Aceh, but also more than 20 large and small ships used to launch these troops, as well as oil teams exploring oil fields.

This oil team is an exploration team dispatched from the first oil refinery in Borneo.

When Chu Yun turned on the oil technology, what he summoned was an oil refinery of Royal Shell Petroleum Company in Borneo.

There is a whole set of early oil mining and refining technologies, as well as corresponding geologists and oil talents.

In addition to exploiting the first batch of oil fields for the Kyushu Army in Borneo, the summoned refinery is also holding oil training courses to train oil talents of this era.

At present, Royal Shell Petroleum Company has trained the first batch of oil talents who graduated.Some of these talents were sent to Malacca City, ready to go to Sumatra Island to explore for oil.

In the Southeast Asian archipelago, spices are the most profitable now, and plantations of various tropical cash crops are emerging.But no one could have imagined that after the plantations, here is still an important oil production place.

Sumatra, Java, and Borneo have huge oil reserves.

Occupying the oil fields ahead of time and planning for the coming fuel age - of course, this kind of idea is only in the hands of a few people like Chu Yun. As for other people, even Huang Degong, who is about to attack Aceh this time, Tadashi Tachibana and others don't know how important oil will be, just like many people who grow rubber trees don't know where the rubber produced by rubber trees is used. They only know that the government is very precious.

"The officers and soldiers of each team are already in place, and they can set off for Aceh!" The staff officer of the No.12 Corps reported to Huang Degong.

"This time I carried a 12-pound cannon, two 6-pound cannons, a hand-cranked machine gun, 300 firearms as backup, and two 3-pound cannons. It is a difficult problem. Try to fight as close to the coast as possible, and when you land, send a team to sweep the coastal area first, and then build an artillery position." The staff took the list of materials given by the logistics department, pondered for a while, and suggested to Huang Degong.

"This operation is divided into three stages. The first stage is to occupy a small village called Medan, use the lowland as a city to develop plantations, and establish our base on Sumatra Island. This will be the second Bada Via."

"The second stage is based on Medan, escorting the oil team to a place where the locals pronounce it as Pangkalan Susu, and found an oil field in the jungle. This place is about 140 miles northwest of Medan. Due to the distance, It is not realistic to directly lead the oil near Pangkalan Susu from the land to Medan. Fortunately, the oil field in the jungle is only 20 miles away from the nearby river, and an oil refinery can be built in the nearby port, and the oil extracted first passes through the pipeline to the refinery, and the refinery then ships the refined product back to the mainland by sea.”

"The third stage is to build bastions in Medan, build forts near oil fields and refineries, and send permanent troops to maintain roads and pipelines. Our enemies are mainly the indigenous forces led by Queen Alan of Aceh and the nobles of the country .Although the purpose of our operation is not to destroy their main forces, both Medan and Pangkalan Susu are within the control of Aceh.”

According to the purpose of this operation, Huang Degong formulated three stages of combat objectives.

Aceh is the most powerful sultan in Sumatra, and it surrendered to the Ottoman Empire, and once challenged the Portuguese stationed in Malacca.

After the Kyushu Army replaced the Portuguese, Aceh still wanted to control the Strait of Malacca, but was repelled by the No.12 Corps.The king of Aceh was captured when he failed in the battle with the No.12 Corps, and was then executed by Huang Degong.The queen was pushed to the throne by the nobles, and was called Queen Alan by Aceh, and led the army to continue to resist the Kyushu army's infiltration of Sumatra.

"Do our mercenaries have any extra firearms?" Tadamo Tachibana made a special trip from Dongying to assist the No.12 Corps, and asked Huang Degong for a batch of firearms with the cheek.

"From the spare firearms, allocate 100 muskets and a 3-pound cannon to the mercenaries." Huang Degong said to the logistics officer of the logistics department.

"Thank you very much!" Tachibana Tadamo had wanted to command a unit as elite as the Kyushu Army for a long time, and he was very excited when he saw Huang Degong allocated a batch of firearms to himself.

Since the recruits were samurai who had been on the battlefield, Tachibana Tadamo easily selected 100 samurai who were good at using firearms from among the hired samurai, and more than a dozen samurai with experience in operating artillery were in charge of the three-pound artillery.

The three-pound artillery may not be very powerful in an empire that has widely used artillery, but it is relatively light in weight, and it is enough to deal with Aceh.This is just a spare artillery. Huang Degong saw that Tachibana Tadamo planned to strengthen the combat capabilities of the mercenaries, so he handed over a 3-pound field gun to Tachibana Tadamo.

"Many places on Sumatra Island are in jungles, rainforests, and mountains. Once it rains, firearms are even more difficult to use, so you mercenaries must pay special attention to hand-to-hand combat. I allocated this batch of firearms to you just to let your troops More combat effectiveness. Don't rely too much on firearms and give full play to your hand-to-hand combat ability, this is the purpose of your recruitment here." Huang Degong reminded.

"Hi!" Tachibana Tadamo said solemnly.

This mixed force composed of Chinese soldiers, Dongying warriors, and Malay auxiliary soldiers crossed the Strait of Malacca with the help of the troop carrier of the Nanyang Fleet and landed in Belawan near the village of Medan.

The weather was calm, and they were not blocked by the Aceh fleet on the sea. The reason is also very simple. The indigenous fleet of Aceh was completely sunk by the gunboats of the Nanyang Fleet. The Strait of Malacca and the surrounding waters were completely destroyed. Under the control of the Nanyang Fleet.

(End of this chapter)