Chapter 556: The East-West Seaside War
Chapter 556: The East-West Seaside War
Yogyakarta is a relatively unfamiliar name to the people of Daxia.
Located in the center of Java Island, facing the Indian Ocean to the south, it was the site of the Sultan's palace on Java Island before the Dutch controlled Java Island and Batavia prospered.
Nowadays, there are Chinese people everywhere here. When Shao Quanzhong came to inspect, he felt that apart from the hot spots, there was no difference between this place and the local area.
Shao Quanzhong's ship, the Luzhuang, is now in the English Channel and has been taken away by Wu Ziyi.
After becoming the Empress Dowager, she had much more free time, so much so that she had time to travel around with her 20-year-old Greek secretary.
Shao Quanzhong wanted to visit Southeast Asia, so his son Shao Jiming let his father ride on his ship. This was the sister ship of Luzhuang, the fourth ship of the Luzhuang-class light cruiser, "Panzhuang", which Shao Jiming obtained after he succeeded to the throne.
When Shao Quanzhong inspected Batavia, he was accompanied by Yuan Rong'an. When he arrived in Yogyakarta, he was greeted by an unexpected old acquaintance, the Tibetan general Wang Nima.
During the Qing Dynasty, Wang Nima was recommended by Shao Quanzhong to be the minister to Afghanistan. After Daxia was established, his title became "Commander of the Forces in Afghanistan", doing the same job.
He stayed in Afghanistan for more than ten years and rose to the rank of Lieutenant General. Then, he lost his job.
Last year, Afghanistan followed the example of the Kazakh Khanate and submitted to the country, changing its status from aboriginal to official.
According to Emil Hill's original intention, he was absolutely unwilling to submit, but the trend was unstoppable.
As a vassal state of Daxia, this place was passively industrialized, and railways were built. The lives of the people are getting better and better, and they are very satisfied.
However, the mine owners found that although their companies were all under the Daxia economic system, they had to pay more taxes.
This is not okay, this is all hard-earned money. Just because of the name of a vassal state, we are not allowed to take the money. Cutting off someone's financial resources is like killing their parents, Emir, do you understand?
Those mine owners were Hill's right-hand men and the foundation of his rule. If they were unhappy, the Emir might be replaced. Hill was definitely a smart man and immediately applied for annexation.
Because of his proactiveness, he did not go to the Chaobai River to be neighbors with Kokand Khan and Meiji, but is now a senior official in the newly established province, and his family businesses are spread throughout the province of A.
Holding shares does not require you to manage the enterprise. You can just hand it over to the Planning and Investment Committee and collect dividends. Your life is extremely comfortable.
After the province of A was annexed and incorporated into the unified system of police and garrisons of Daxia, Wang Nima lost his job. He did not transfer back to Tubo as assigned, but took the initiative to apply and led the Tubo tribe to develop Nanyang.
The colder and drier the place, the more people yearn for the tropical ocean. If you look at the people sunbathing and enjoying the sea breeze on the beaches of Southeast Asia, the majority of them are Russians. They just make up for what they lack.
Wang Nima was also tired of the Pamir Plateau and did not want to go back to another cold plateau. He came here to enjoy life and became a force on Java Island to balance Yuan Rong'an.
It’s no wonder that Wang Nima was really enjoying himself in Yogyakarta, and Shao Quanzhong soon realized it.
In the center of the lake in the center of Yogyakarta is the former Sultan's palace, called the Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace was built below the lake level, and you can see the scenery under the lake through the glass windows of the palace.
Isn’t this building classy? It was built in 1757. Can you believe it?
Now Java Island is theoretically a Dutch territory, but in reality there is not a single Dutch person there; they are all in London with Wilhelmina and Jacob.
Yuan Rong'an is now the uncrowned king of Batavia, and Wang Nima is the local emperor of Yogyakarta.
"General, what I like most about Yogyakarta is that the local girls here are very passionate and good at singing and dancing. Whether on the streets or on the corners, there are beautiful local girls singing everywhere."
Yes, it can be seen. Wang Nima led Shao Quanzhong on a private visit in Yogyakarta, and they would inadvertently meet young indigenous girls waving to them.
All the indigenous men have gone to fight in Britain, so the five million Chinese bachelors who have just immigrated here are becoming popular.
Wang Nima's subordinates, the Tibetans, were also popular. Wang Nima was two years older than Shao Quanzhong, and he had already taken away more than 20 girls he liked from the streets and brought them back to the Crystal Palace as concubines. Shao Quanzhong felt inferior to him.
"Which one did the Marshal take a fancy to? Why don't you take both?"
Shao Quanzhong shook his head like a rattle. He had never taken any concubines just because of lust. After years of hard work and restraint, he finally controlled the number of concubines to less than eight. He was getting older and definitely didn't want to increase the number.
From Yogyakarta, we headed south to the seaside and boarded the Panzhuang. Our next destination was Christmas Island. This was not Dutch territory, but Daxia territory, with 1439 people living there, % of whom were Chinese.
This is where phosphate is produced, and those Chinese are miners. This place was originally under the jurisdiction of Xingdao, but Victoria Lafayette just gave it to Daxia along with Xingdao.
The mining islands are not good-looking, but the next target, the Cocos Islands, is good-looking. This is a new territory obtained together with Christmas Island, consisting of 27 coral islands and a tourist destination.
The 20-year-old Yali prepared a very cool swimming suit, ready to show Shao Quanzhong her swimming skills that she had learned in the Aegean Sea. Shao Quanzhong was not convinced, and asked, "How can I compare my swimming skills with someone who was born in the water town of Suzhou?" So a battle at the beach was inevitable...
…………
A great coastal battle also began in the English Channel, but with as many as two million participants.
At the Port of Dover, various diesel machines are running back and forth.
The German army in Britain surrendered, but the fully mechanized equipment brought ashore by the first batch of Daxia Engineer Corps was not transported ashore in vain.
They immediately repaired the runway of the German airport that was damaged by their own dive bombers. Then, huge bulldozers quickly leveled the ground and built more temporary military airports.
Transport ships kept docking, and countless "Xi-4" bombers, Luji Feng-2 fighters, and Cheng-3 dive bombers produced in Yanliang, a suburb of Xi'an, were towed to temporary front-line airports to wait.
The attack on Britain was carried out by a detachment, the main combat force of which was Ivan's Katyusha tactical rocket force.
The main force of the attack on Germany, the main force of the Daxia First Army, did not even disembark from the transport ships. They were preparing to land directly on the European continent.
As soon as Dover's planes arrived on the battlefield, the air force of the US-China Allied Forces immediately surpassed the German army several times not only in quality but also in quantity.
This was intended to provide air cover for the landing across the Strait of Dover.
Of course, Daxia's Army Aviation Corps has now formed seven air assault brigades, all of which are under the command of the First Army Group. The helicopters of the air assault brigade have also landed and were assigned to a more rudimentary temporary helicopter airport.
Why was the First Army so well-armed and well-equipped? Because the commander of the army was Emperor Shao Jiming's fourth uncle, Shao Quanyi.
When Quanyi was fighting the Franco-Prussian War with Shao Quanzhong, he was the tank regiment commander under Tian Xing's 1st Tank Division of the Guangxi New Army.
Later, he went to the front line of the First World War and observed the Battle of the Somme as a military observer. He was the officer with the most experience in large-scale combat in the Daxia army.
He was appointed commander of the First Army, but it was a title he deserved, not because he was the emperor's uncle.
Of course, first of all, the reason why he was able to study in Germany and get promoted quickly after returning was because of his last name Shao...
When Quan Yilin was about to go to war, Shao Quanzhong did not treat him well. "Old Four, your equipment is far better than the Germans. If you can't take it down quickly, you will make the Shao family lose face."
"When we formed a coalition with the Federation, we said that each of us would send 3 million soldiers. These 1 million were just the vanguard. That was to be prepared for any eventuality and to avoid surprising our friends."
"I'll be honest with you. We only have one million troops and no backup. If we can't force the Germans to surrender, we'll have to ask Daxia to spend money to send follow-up troops. Come back and be prepared to kneel in the Shao Family Ancestral Hall for three days and three nights."
Therefore, the pressure on Quanyi was very great, and the task of taking over Britain was directly pushed to the Irish army and the militia formed by Britain itself. As soon as the Battle of Britain ended, there was no pause and the landing in France began immediately.
The landing in France was not a single location. Quan Yi directly chose to land in Calais, which is close to Dover and can get air support.
Of course, the German army was also the most fully prepared, with millions of German troops ready for battle across the strait.
Daxia was not afraid of tough challenges and prepared to attack Calais across the sea to attract the most German troops.
The federal army was preparing to storm the beaches in Normandy, where there were only 15 German divisions defending, making it an easy target.
Everything was ready. At the command of Commander-in-Chief Grant, the Daxia and federal troops took action simultaneously in Calais and Normandy.
On the Normandy coast, 1200 federal transport planes arrived from Portsmouth, and federal paratroopers dropped from the sky to occupy strategic points.
Under the cover of warship bombardment, 45 divisions of federal soldiers transferred from transport ships to more than 100 landing craft, landed on a large scale in an area kilometers wide, and immediately engaged in a firefight with the German army.
The Calais coast welcomed more than 4 Xi-3 bombers, more than 2 Cheng- dive bombers, and more than Feng- fighters for escort.
Behind them were seven air assault brigades and more than 800 helicopters flying densely across the strait.
Behind them are the tank divisions, armored divisions, heavy artillery divisions, mechanized infantry divisions, and tactical rocket divisions on the transport ships...
(End of this chapter)