1825 My New Daming

Chapter 338 Indian warriors, rather surrender than retreat! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
It was the early hours of March 1831, 3, the darkest hour before dawn.On both sides of the Strait of Johor, there is silence.The loudspeaker on the north shore shut down on time around one o'clock.Afterwards, Nan'an fired machine guns for most of the night, and the whistles and bugles that sounded together with the machine guns were also silenced.The frontlines of the two armies became quiet in this way, and the frontline officers and soldiers on both sides could finally sleep for a while.

Starting from March 3, the ceasefire at 8 o'clock in the morning is a tacit understanding between the two sides of the Johor Strait-there are broadcasts and machine guns, and it is not easy to sleep!In the first few days, everyone was in good spirits, and they were not tired after "playing" all night.But after a week of suffering, both sides seemed to be a bit overwhelmed.So the Ming army and Japanese army on the north side of the Johor Strait "give way" first, and the loudspeakers were noisy until one o'clock in the morning and then turned off.

Once the loudspeaker is turned off, the machine gun will stop firing. Not only is it too noisy, but it is too wasteful!This is not one or two, but more than a dozen machine guns on the whole line firing at the big horns that are simply out of reach. The bullets alone cost a lot of money.Moreover, there is no arsenal on Temasek Island, so it can only consume inventory, so save as much as you can.

The people who could not fall asleep due to the noise from the loudspeakers and machine guns soon fell into the deepest sleep after the surroundings suddenly quieted down.Even the most conscientious and responsible Indian sentinels were yawning so sleepy that some of the sentry Ah San, who hadn't slept well during the day, squinted past them unknowingly.Even if they didn't squint, they lost their energy and just squatted in the trench in a daze.

Although this is the front line, everyone does not think that the Ming army and the Japanese army will forcefully cross the Johor Strait to kill them.

It's already "William is dead, Indy is divided", so why kill them here?Forcibly crossing the strait will kill people!Just sit across the strait until Queen Victoria sheds tears in India?When she loses the whole of India, Temasek will naturally raise her hands and surrender, so why fight?

This is not the opinion of two Indian soldiers, but the unanimous opinion of the three soldiers.Although many of them still have deep doubts about Ming Dynasty's "non-liberation policy" and are full of nostalgia for the "white master" of the British Empire, the rumors of "William's death and Indifen" are basically still believable.

Not only did they believe it, even many people who were in charge of them believed it. During these days, the white master's attitude was not as arrogant as in the past, and he didn't beat and scold Ah San very much.

Moreover, some white skins will get together to drink away their sorrows when they are free. Not only do they get drunk, they look very ungentlemanly, and there is even a white skin who is crazy about alcohol and shouts "Long live Your Majesty the Queen" ". This "Queen" is definitely not Kaiser William. Kaiser William is not a "female" at all, but a macho.

Therefore, this queen should be Queen Victoria!
This is Bai Pi uttering the truth after drinking!
And these "mantras after drinking" were spread among the Indian soldiers on Temasek Island in a short time-although this Indian did not have "great unity", he was very good at forming small groups. A large group of Indians seemed to outsiders There is no difference, but as soon as they divide themselves according to religion and language, groups emerge.Then, according to the caste, the superiority and superiority are divided, and it is very clear who is the boss and who is the younger brother.With small groups, the "drinking mantra" of white skins will spread faster. Basically, if one person knows it, a group of people will know it.

In addition, these front-line Ah Sans can also learn from the little brother who is in charge of serving the "big white skin" in the small group that Viscount Beresford has been contacting Mumbai with secret telegrams during this time, and they have also inquired about the route leading to Mumbai. Wired telegraphs had been cut, and the long-wave radio station on Temasek Island was intermittently up and down, and Mumbai was often out of reach.

The cable telegraph can't be contacted, most likely the cable has been cut, but the long-wave radio station is also difficult to contact Mumbai, so what does it mean?Is there chaos in Mumbai?
Sentinels on duty, thinking about these things, the night passed peacefully
The morning light of dawn has already shot out from the eastern skyline, and the sky and the earth are gradually brightening up.The few Asan sentries who were still asleep looked north, stomping their feet while waiting for the arrival of the shift change time.Suddenly, Ah San's sentries in the trench opened their eyes wide as if they saw the silver rupee.Because on the north shore of the Johor Strait, in the darkness that has not completely faded, suddenly there is a flash of light like a storm!Along the north shore of the Johor Strait, hundreds of flashes were like lightning, dispelling the last darkness before dawn, followed by the earth trembling violently, and there was a roar like thunder!

"The shelling begins!"

Following the order of Lieutenant General Mu Zhongjun, the admiral of the Nanyang Army, a military artillery brigade of the Ming Army, three division artillery regiments, two artillery regiments of the Japanese devils, and an independent artillery brigade and other artillery units It has 24 210mm heavy howitzers, 108 155mm field heavy howitzers, 198 120mm medium field howitzers, and a total of 330 large and medium caliber howitzers.At 1831:3 in the morning on March 10, 4, there was a roar!

Although the army of the Ming Dynasty was not as fierce and fearless as the Japanese devils, nor was it as strong and brave as the Golden Banners.But it is impossible for their tactical thinking to be outdated. How can it be outdated because of the "direction from the heavenly book"?Although there is an internal combustion engine now, mechanization and motorization are still early, and it is the right time to bombard him with N.

Therefore, the Ming Army is the route of the artillery, which is the "late stage of insufficient firepower phobia". It is an exaggeration to the extreme that the artillery units of the army have such a "big killer" as the 210mm heavy howitzer.

In addition to the large caliber and large number of artillery, the artillery shells of the Ming Army Artillery are also full!
Daming has a synthetic ammonia production line. It doesn't need the saltpeter mines in South America, and it can provide enough shells for the cannons of the Daming Navy and Army!

However, it is not easy to transport sufficient shells to the front. After all, there are no trucks, and there are no railways on the Malay Peninsula.Therefore, the Ming army could only transport the shells to Phang Nga Mansion on the edge of Phuket Island, and then transport them by sea to the port of Malacca, and then pull them forward with a carriage after arriving in Malacca.

In the past few days, the reason why the Ming army did not launch an attack was that they were waiting for the shells to arrive, except that the strategy of "printing songs on all sides" would work.Now I have finally collected enough 10,000+ rounds of shells, and I can play hard.

The huge roar has been connected together, and it feels like the earth is shaking and the mountains are shaking on the south bank of the Johor Strait.The ground trembled violently, and bursts of explosive flames suddenly rose from the positions of the Indian Imperial Army.Hundreds of hundreds of explosion points appear at the same time.Large and small flashes of light erupted back and forth on the interruption of the Johor Strait defense line, as if a sleeping volcano underground suddenly began to erupt!
The entire position of the Indian warriors has been swept and covered!Civil blockhouses were blasted into the sky, and the barbed wire fences that Indian Asan worked so hard to lay out, as well as the anti-landing deer villages and horse refusals, were all torn to pieces by the powerful artillery fire.In the trenches at the front, people's limbs and arms were flying around, and weapons were blown into parts!The artillery shells of the Ming army plowed over and over again on the Indian army's position, shrapnel whistling and flying in all directions, and the shadow of death shrouded the Indian Ah San's head!

In the place where the Ming army's artillery fire was the most violent, the scene was almost like hell.

But the warriors of the Indian Empire were also unambiguous. They just refused to take half a step back. They would rather huddle in the trenches and grit their teeth, rather than retreat along the traffic trenches because the machine guns of the white-skinned British army supervisors were not making noise. For play!Although they are a bit sluggish these days, the residual power is still there, and there are many of them, none of them rushed to test Baipi's determination to kill him.

Ah San can only stick to Ning Jiang and never retreat!

(End of this chapter)