Chapter 340: Failing to Ambush
It not only has the largest natural port in the world, but also has more than 70 unique and excellent ports. In the 1870s, it was Australia's only foreign trade port, and the resources transported from here to the UK every year exceeded one million tons.`
As the Chinese Empire's Shen Ce Army occupied Ximian, General Chen Shaoyi issued a ransacking order, and the wealth of the entire Ximian city would be taken away and would not be left to the British, so that they could have the strength to fight the Chinese Empire.
In the 1870s, Australia's total population was about 8.70 million, basically living in coastal areas, with a highly concentrated population, while large cities like Shimiji all reached one million.
The fifth Yabo War broke out, and the British army attacking the Guam Fortress successively invested more than 200,000 people, most of which were recruited from Australia. Chen Shaoyi even planned to have several massacres, causing the British army to completely lose its source of troops, but was eventually rejected by the Chinese Emperor Li Weiguo.
Li Weiguo did not want the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire to become the infamous Nazi army. If it were in the ancient times without public opinion and telegram, no one would know that millions of civilians were massacred. For example, the Mongolian army massacred hundreds of millions of Song people and the Qing army massacred tens of millions of Ming people, which would soon be forgotten by the Chinese and the whole world. However, in modern times, all large-scale massacres would be remembered by the people of the world and nailed to the pillar of shame. Typical examples are Germany and Japan after World War II.
Therefore, when Li Weiguo saw Chen Shaoyi's telegram, he specifically reminded him not to carry out such a massacre.
However, in order to cut off the British army's source of troops, it is not just a way to kill people, but can we completely steal all the wealth and materials from the enemy's rear?
So, with the acquiescence of Li Weiguo, Chen Shaoyi immediately organized the officers and soldiers of the third and fourth 6th War Brigades to start sweeping and plundering the mud city.
Grabing things is something that every imperialist invader is doing, so it will not be angry with the public. Everyone is a virtue. The descendants cannot scold robbers of one of the countries alone.
The first step was to drive all the cluttered citizens to open areas, put on barbed wire, and circle them. Similar to the simple version of the concentration camp. More than one million cluttered citizens were a major project. If the two 6th battle brigades were relying solely on the Chinese Emperor, it would not be enough to rely on the two 6th battle brigades, so the smart Chinese Emperor began to capture the strong men and drive out more than 100,000 strong men to work. In less than a day, hundreds of concentration camps were built, and million cluttered the million cluttered citizens were banned.
The second step was that the Chinese Emperor soldiers drove trucks, smashed windows and doors from house to house, looted valuable things in every household, gold, silver, jewelry, and precious decorations first, and then grain and livestock were taken back to the pot to improve their lives.
Of course, ordinary residents are placed at the end. First, they choose rich families to loot. In addition, the city hall vaults, banks and shops in Sydney's cities are the key targets of looting. They often open a bank and get more than a dozen streets of income.
How much wealth will a large city with a population of one million have?
The Chinese Emperor didn't know if he didn't plunder, and he was shocked when he plundered.`
After five days of plunder, there were 10 tons of gold alone, more than 70 tons of silver, gold and silver jewelry, various jewelry watches, antiques, porcelain, etc., and 228 containers were directly filled with chickens, ducks, cattle, horses and sheep. There were 1030,000 yuan in grain, 154 million pounds, 20,000 yuan in paper money plundered from banks. The total value was roughly conservatively estimated to be 200 million pounds.
Of course, there are other messy things that cannot be counted and estimated. For example, Western oil paintings, which are worthless in the Chinese Empire. At first, they were almost torn to pieces by soldiers or used as toilet paper for rubbing their butts. Later, they were stopped and thousands of oil paintings were searched and placed in a container alone. The value was unestimated. There were also military supplies such as guns, ammunition and other weapons that were exclusively supplied to the British Navy 6th Army. There were still more than 100,000 tons.
In addition, more than one million livestock and more than one million kilograms of grain could not be taken away. The six officers and soldiers of the Chinese Emperor Sea feasted in big fish and meat every day, and their mouths were filled with oil. It was so pleasant.
Also, after the Chinese Emperor robbed the city, he naturally had to destroy the evidence, just like the British and French forces looting the Old Summer Palace, it would be impossible to count if it burned out.
The fire burned over the mud for three days and three nights, and then the Chinese Emperor released millions of mud people and let these people go home. But they had no home and were short of food. The Chinese Emperor deliberately left a small amount of food in some places, allowing these foreigners to fight for each other and kill each other.
That's right, it's just killing each other. The Chinese Emperor did not do it himself, but the charge of the previous butcher could make foreigners kill each other, and the purpose was achieved.
The Chinese Emperor retreated to the Garden Island Naval Base. Since it took at least one week for the main force of the British Royal Navy fleet to come for reinforcements, Chen Shaoyi sent the navy and 6 teams to attack several other nearby cities. After killing the British army, the focus was on robbing banks, shops, and then setting fires. All local factories were blown up and all machinery and equipment to prevent them from producing weapons and equipment for the British army.
On the eighth day, Chen Shaoyi ordered the "sweeping" to stop. The 6th Navy Army was concentrated at the Garden Island Naval Base. All the plundered gold, silver, treasures and materials were loaded on the ship. Most of the more than 600 large and medium-sized transport ships were stolen from the local ship owners. Under the custody of several teams of Chinese Emperor soldiers, they detoured the South Pacific and returned directly to Myanmar, and then found a way to transport them back to the country.
To this end, Chen Shaoyi specially sent twenty warships to escort, and notified the Imperial Navy Department by telegram, and dispatched a frigate from the Imperial Indian Ocean Fleet to respond along the way.
The Fourth Brigade of the 6th Battle was left at the Naval Base in Garden Island. Chen Shaoyi gave them the order "If the decisive battle at sea is won, come back to pick them up. If the naval battle is tied or defeated, then ignore them. They will fend for themselves and launch guerrilla warfare in Australia. Anyway, Australia is vast and sparsely populated, and some places will place 6ooo officers and soldiers of the Fourth Brigade of the 6th Battle. "
Chen Shaoyi also left all the food and livestock to the Fourth Brigade of the 6th War, so that they could eat and raise them well.
After settling down everything, Chen Shaoyi led the Pacific Fleet to quietly withdraw from the Garden Island Naval Base at night and set up an ambush in the waters of the Solomon Islands, preparing to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the British Empire Navy who came to rescue.
After the Pacific Fleet withdrew, the Garden Island Naval Base immediately blocked the news and imposed strict martial law on the surrounding areas.
At the same time, the Fourth Brigade of the 6th Battle took the initiative to attack the Australian city in depth, with the goal of opening up a line of transportation to enter the hinterland of Australia so that it can retreat from the Garden Island base at any time.
The actions of the Fourth Brigade of the 6th Battle immediately touched the nerves of the British army in Australia, making them have no time to worry about the movements of the Chinese Empire fleet on the coast.
In Guam, as the news of the Chinese fleet raiding the Sydney Garden Island Naval Base reached Matt's ears, the British Admiral immediately vomited blood.
You know, Matt always thought that the main fleet of the Imperial Navy was on the way to Guam. So he had already gathered the fleet and prepared for a decisive battle.
However, I couldn't wait left or right, and after a week, I had not received any news of the arrival of the main force of the Chinese Empire's navy.
Matt was very detailed and confused about 5's information. He believed that the Imperial Chinese Navy must be hiding in the waters not far from Guam to wait for an opportunity. So Matt ordered the fleet to start moving and actively searched and advanced towards the possible directions of the Imperial Chinese Navy, but he never found a target.
Matt struggled for several days, but after three days of communication ships that had left the Mian, he arrived in Guam, but found that Matt was not in Guam and had waited for a day but still didn't come back. He only asked the British ships near Guam to inform Matt. On the fifth day, Matt learned that the Imperial Chinese Navy did not come to Guam, but raided the Mian Garden Island Naval Base.
Damn this, I was cheated to death!
Matt was so angry that he hit the wall. He knew very well the importance of the Garden Island Naval Base, where there were hundreds of thousands of tons of military supplies. If it was destroyed by the Imperial Chinese Navy, what would his fleet eat? What would he drink? Would he drink the northwest wind when he was hungry? Without guns, ammunition, what would he do to fight!
Matt didn't even think about it and immediately gathered the fleet to return to rescue the mud.
"Will there be any conspiracy in this?"
As an admiral, Matt is not a fool, he is still capable, but the problem is. Even if the Chinese Navy has a conspiracy, won’t he go back to rescue?
Obviously it is impossible. Even if Matt is cruel to not rescue, the members of Downing Street will not agree. Therefore, rescue must be rescued.
"What if you are ambushed by the Chinese Empire's Navy? The Chinese are too cunning!"
Matt thought about it and began to formulate a counter-ambush plan.
Matt looked for many places on the chart, and he soon discovered the complex terrain of the Solomon Islands, which was so suitable for ambushing.
"If the Chinese Empire Navy ambushed us halfway, we would definitely choose the waters near the Solomon Islands, where there are many islands and bays, and we can't see them when they hide them."
"If you search for them separately, you will definitely be defeated by their conspiracy!"
"But if you don't search them, how can you lead them out?"
Matt racked his brains and was anxious for a large group of staff to study specific combat plans.
Finally, after careful consideration, Matt decided to divide the fleet into six teams, one team carefully passed through the waters where the Solomon Islands might be ambushed, 20 nautical miles apart. Once something happened, the ambushed team immediately stood guard and waited for assistance. The other five teams could support at any time and surrounded the Imperial Chinese Navy. At that time, if the Imperial Chinese Navy really set up an ambush there, if they attacked, they would be able to attack a team of British ships, and they would be surrounded soon. If they did not attack, they could only watch the British fleet pass through in groups and the ambush failed.
Matt was very cautious. After arriving in the waters of the Solomon Islands, he did not enter immediately. Instead, he continued to send fast warships to inquire about the news. He soon learned that the movements of the main fleet of the Chinese Empire's Navy did not appear in the waters near Ximian.
"Sure enough, there's something wrong!"
Matt snorted coldly, and he was almost certain that the Imperial Chinese Navy was in the waters of the Solomon Islands, preparing to ambush the British Empire Navy fleet.
"Notify all squadrons that the main force of the Chinese Empire's naval forces are nearby, and let them act as planned, go to the enemy's submarines and fish radial boats, and the frigate is fully alert."
Matt dared not be careless. He knew that the Chinese Empire Navy had submarines, but the British Navy won the huge number, with more than 200 frigates, scattered like casting nets, searching carefully to advance, protecting the main ship from being attacked.
In the Rodia Bay of the East Solomon Islands, the main fleet of the Chinese Empire's naval forces were secretly hidden here, and Chen Shaoyi soon received news about the British naval fleet.
"This Matt is indeed not a good man. He is so careful that we have no chance to ambush him. Instead, we will be ambushed by the British Navy."
Thinking of this, Chen Shaoyi smiled slightly and played conspiracies. You British people are far from being the opponent of the Chinese.
"Order, the fleets will give up the ambush and immediately change the Shulpeng Trench, and we will go to Guam!"
If you cannot ambush the British fleet, then change your tactics. Rescuing Guam is the real task of the Imperial Navy. Since the main force of the British fleet returns to Australia, the British fleet on Guam will at most be three or two kittens, and it is no match for the main fleet of the Imperial Navy. At the same time, there must be tens of thousands of British troops fighting on Guam. Chen Shaoyi decided to send the 6th Battle Third Brigade to Guam first, after all, Guam cannot be missed.
Therefore, the original ambush did not start and became a tactic of luring the tiger away from the mountain.
Chen Shaoyi led the Pacific Fleet to reinforce Guam, and Matt swayed in the waters near the Solomon Islands for two days but was not attacked. He received urging from the Australian Governor, so he hurried to the Mie.
When he arrived at the mud, he saw a ruined city, especially the Garden Island Naval Base was completely occupied by the Chinese Imperial Team, and hundreds of thousands of tons of supplies were gone. Matt was immediately vomited three liters of blood.
"Fire the gun and kill the bastards on the opposite side!"
Matt roared, hundreds of British warships fired together, and fiercely attacked the Garden Island Naval Base.
In an instant, the bomb was like rain, and the entire Garden Island Naval Base was filled with a sea of fire.
The Fourth Brigade of the 6th Battle of the Chinese Empire retreated an hour ago. All the food and livestock that could not be taken away were burned. A large amount of ground radium was buried in the base, all of which were random. It only took a few minutes to bury these ground radium, but it was extremely difficult to dig it out. In the future, the British army entered the Garden Island Naval Base, which made them suffer.
Before leaving, he had to cheat the British army, which was very consistent with the style of Emperor Chinese.
The Fourth Brigade of the 6th Battle avoided the coastline and avoided being bombarded by British ships. This made Matt crazy and his head turned pale overnight. He wanted to take revenge, but he could only face the air force. His head was not so angry that it was completely unreasonable.
The Fourth Brigade of the 6th Battle was very arrogant. The British army on the ground could not defeat them at all. They watched them evacuate the Garden Island Naval Base and enter Australia 6.
The plague gods did not leave, which made the British Australian troops stunned. This was the rhythm of staying in Australia and staying at the same time!
"Report, within a radius of hundreds of nautical miles, there is no movement of the Chinese Empire's Navy. We suspect that the Chinese Empire's Navy has left, and their target is probably..."
"I'm afraid what it is?"
"I'm afraid it's Guam!"
"Search hat? Oh no, Fark!"
Matt woke up instantly. He was so embarrassed that he had been trapped by others. The 30,000 British troops in Guam were going to be sad!
Ah pud...
Matt fell again!
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Chapter completed!