Chapter 969

In the flicker of the torch light, Yue Yun looks at the map attentively.

Now the name of the area they are going to occupy is called "lion city" in Malay. It once belonged to the Sultan kingdom of Malacca. Thirty years ago, the British came here and occupied it, controlling the throat of the Asian route. At the same time, they gave the place a new name, XINJIAPO, also known as Xingcheng or Xingzhou.

"General, the Strait of Johor has been blocked by us. It has become an island, ready to attack." Liu Chen said.

In the north of XINJIAPO, there is a strait running through it, which completely separates Johor and XINJIAPO. Strictly speaking, XINJIAPO is an independent island on the sea. Before the attack, they analyzed the situation of XINJIAPO in detail and got some information from the Chinese here.

After comprehensive consideration, they decided to land from the South Bank of the Johor Strait, and fight from south to north to the new Jiapo Strait to completely control it, because probably out of self-confidence in Johor, the British deployed few shore defense guns on the Johor side.

"Attack, get here before daybreak."

Yue Yun said coldly that in order to control this important waterway, they crossed nearly 2000 kilometers and suffered enough at sea.

"Yes, general." Liu Chen answered.

With his command, the Marines rushed to the new Jiapo city in the middle of the island.

Similar to the state of Dayu, the dynasties around Nanyang also took cities as their settlements. The environment here was primitive, and there were many miasma, poisonous insects and wild animals. It was a very dangerous behavior to live in scattered places.

It was also because of this characteristic that the colonists could easily plunder and control the land here.

"Boom boom..."

The guns roared, and the marine field guns made a deafening and terrible sound in the dark. Then, the city walls of new Jiapo city sparked with bright sparks.

Under the heavy artillery bombardment, the gate of XINJIAPO city was first blasted open, and the soldiers of Dayu took the opportunity to rush in.

To their surprise, the new Jiapo city was so lax in its defense of the enemy that it did not seem to think it would be attacked at all.

New Jiapo governor's house.

Freon suddenly woke up from the bed and looked out the window at the light of the fire.

"What's the matter? Did the Frenchman call? "Felien asked himself in his heart, and then he shook his head to deny the possibility.

After all, France and Britain have the same interests in Asia.

Looking for a possible enemy in his mind, freon put on his clothes and went to the governor's house.

Because of the huge movement, the city is now in chaos, and the soldiers are running out of the barracks to gather.

"Governor freon, the enemy is coming from the north. I have mobilized my soldiers to deal with it." A British officer saluted Freon.

"Who's the enemy?" Freon asked in an urgent voice.

"I'm afraid they are soldiers of Dayu, because each of them has black hair and yellow skin. In Asia, only they have such ability." The officer said in a low voice.

"Damn it, when we were going to kill them, we didn't expect that they would kill us too!" feileon was furious. Originally, the defense of the new capo city would not be so weak. After all, they were wary of France before.

But the alliance with France has given them complete peace of mind, greatly relaxed, and this negligence is fatal tonight.

"How many of them?" Freon asked again.

"I don't know, but I'm sure there are more than us. We have only 4000 troops here." The officer worried.

Freon narrowed his eyes. "That's true, but we have 2000 soldiers with Downton guns. Let them go!"

"Yes, governor." The officer turned and left.

The Downton muskets mentioned by freon are new muskets imported from England. In the manufacturing process, steam engines are used to make rifling and conical bullets are used.

The combination of the two advantages greatly improves the range, power and accuracy of this kind of rifle. After equipping this kind of musket, he has experimented with its effect, which makes them very satisfied.

"Step on..."

Soon after the officer disappeared, a neat sound of footsteps came, and the red shirt soldiers carrying Downton guns trotted toward the city gate. Soon, the sound of intensive gunfire rang out in the city, and the sound of counter fire belonging to the red shirt soldiers rang out.

At this time, freon was relieved. For him, the fighting power of the red shirts was excellent, and the Downton muskets would be even more invincible.

He was confident that the army of Chongqing, which did not know from where, would soon be destroyed, just as they defeated other countries in Europe.

North City.

The Marines' flowing attack suffered a setback when they advanced to the middle of the north city. The unprepared Marines were beaten by the red shirts armed with Downton muskets, and the casualties of the soldiers in the frontal assault were not light.

"It's a cone!"Liu Chen solemnly picked up a bullet that hit the wall and fell. The shape of the bullet was not much different from the warhead in their paper shell bullet.

"Oops, it seems that the British are already partly equipped with rifles that are similar to those used in military rifles." Yu Yongliang follows Liu Chen to protect his safety.

Liu Chen nodded solemnly. They knew the performance of this kind of rifle very well. It can be said that this kind of rifle can't shoot in any position except for its slow loading speed. It's not too far behind the Falcon rifle in power, precision and range.

In the 300 meters of the target, they have the advantage, but the advantage will not show one-sided rolling.

"Let the soldiers stop the frontal charge, shoot with obstacles, march forward with the line of scattered soldiers, and pay attention to taking tactical actions to avoid danger."

Liu Chen decisively ordered to adopt a strategy suitable for Falcon rifles. Since they were equipped with Falcon rifles, the tactical movements against the use of such rifles have appeared in their training subjects.

Crawling forward, kneeling shooting and lying shooting are all shooting positions adapted to the emergence of breech rifles. By using these shooting positions, they will gain an advantage in the war.

Yu Yongliang answered and immediately took his soldiers to shuttle between the buildings. At the same time, he conveyed Liu Chen's orders one by one.

At the same time, as they moved, they began to fight the red shirts.

Because it was in the city, the red shirts could not launch a large column. They scattered the soldiers and fought them in groups of 50.

Knowing the weapons used by the red shirts, they would not be stupid enough to fight hard. They would shoot at the direction of the red shirts from time to time by using obstacles and gaps.

When some soldiers saw a group of red shirts coming, they directly looked for obstacles and lay down on the ground to shoot at them, which made the red shirts who were used to queuing up to be shot suddenly in chaos.

The balance of war leans to them again.

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