Lesbian devised a good route for his fleet, preparing to cross the South China Sea and then flee all the way to Australia under the cover of the Filipino Spaniards. This is not only the most realistic way to survive, but also allows the poorly equipped Far Eastern Fleet to escape from the maelstrom of the East Asian War. It is a pity that Li Shibis's luck is not very good, as soon as he goes to sea, he encounters the main force of the Manchurian Army that rushed to Vietnam to land, and more than ten main warships of the Nanyang Fleet escorting him, and immediately rushed up.

"Baya, Triumph, and Victory, stay behind to block the enemy ships, and the other ships release smoke and rush to the open sea at full speed!" Li Shibis didn't want to fight at all, the South Sea Fleet now has four battleships, and the tonnage is more than the sum of his entire fleet, and the Far East Fleet is looking for death if he fights back now. Li Shibis made a quick decision, leaving three of them to die, and the others slipped away at full speed.

Li Shibis thought that he could hold out for several hours at the expense of three cruisers with large tonnage, but he did not think that in less than twenty minutes, the three cruisers with high hopes would sink to the bottom of the sea. More than twenty Manchurian warships of various classes began to round them up with all their might. In desperation, Li Shibis could only rush to the Xisha Islands, Zhongsha Islands and other islands and reefs, and take advantage of the complex hydrological situation in the area to play hide and seek with the Manchurian army. Li Shibis played very slippery, but his speed was really a little worse, although the main force was not caught, but it was still caught by three wooden-hulled warships by Manchurian destroyers, and then there was a brutal group fight.

However, Li Shibis's lifeline is still very long, and God saved his life. That night a storm fell in this sea area, and the Manchurian fleet was blocked by the wind and rain, and did not continue to search for them in a large area. The next day, the main force of the Manchurian fleet was withdrawn, and the main business of the people was landing, who would care about the defeat of their group of remnants. Thanking God, Lesbian fled like a wind to the Philippines and then directly to Australia. The journey was quite smooth, except for the waters near Dingfuzhou, which was sunk by the Manchurian Pacific Fleet and two ships, the others were still very safe.

Lisis and the remnants of his Far East Fleet were very happy, but the Southeast Asian situation made France very unhappy. Eight hours after Pourier began to withdraw, the Manchurian Army launched a landing operation on the coast of Vietnam, and the French and Vietnamese puppet armies behind the palace were immediately defeated, and the Manchurian Army completed the landing very easily and quickly occupied the entire territory of Vietnam. But when the dust settled, the French almost lost their breath, and it was not the main force of the Manchurian Army that occupied Vietnam at all, but the Qing army with the cooperation of a small number of Manchurian troops.

The main force that fought all the way from Saigon to Hue was actually the new army of the Qing Dynasty, Rong Lu. The 11th Light Infantry Division of the Manchurian Army only showed its face when it landed, and then the whole division entered Cambodia and went all the way north to pursue the main force of Boriyah. The northern line went south from Xuanguang and Taiyuan all the way to Hue and Ronglu, and it was also Feng Zicai and He Huan of the Qing army. The 31st Division of the Manchurian Army, which had been cooperating with the Qing army before, only showed its face in Taiyuan, and then directly entered the territory of the three states of Laos, chasing the Boriyah headquarters all the way to the Burmese border.

On the seventh day of the fourth month of the 11th year of the reign of Chiang Kai-shek, King Nguyen Phuc Minh of Vietnam announced the abrogation of all treaties with France, the expulsion of all French in Vietnam, and the Kingdom of Vietnam officially returned to the embrace of China. Then something happened that made Changchun very depressed, the Qing Dynasty actually began to withdraw troops from Vietnam and return Vietnam to the Nguyen Dynasty. Guoxing Adu is going crazy, did Daqing take the wrong medicine? I worked hard to help the Vietnamese fight a war, and I haven't taken any actual benefits yet! People call a few big brothers, perform a show of gratitude, and you will withdraw the army, isn't this a neurosis? Such a righteous big brother in the Qing Dynasty is really a wonder in human history.

Of course, the imperial court also has the bitterness of the imperial court, they really want to get some benefits from Vietnam, but they don't know where to start, and they can't wipe their face and ask for money directly. I don't know how to get benefits, and I can't let Vietnam pay cash, why did the Qing army stay in Vietnam? Helping the Vietnamese people in post-war reconstruction? Although the financial situation of the Qing Dynasty is not bad now, there is no need to waste money by sending an expatriate army! Vietnam has its own king of Vietnam, let them toss themselves.

The Manchurian Army stationed in Cambodia and Laos was not so polite. Cambodia changed from a French protectorate to a Manchuria protectorate, and Laos was forcibly turned into a country according to the Goxinga idea, and it was no longer called Laos, but the Lancang Kingdom. Thailand is a little uncomfortable with the establishment of the Lancang Kingdom, which is their territory after all! Fortunately, Changchun also left Zheng Long with some sweetness, and the four Southeast Asian countries officially became the Southeast Asian Alliance, and Zheng Long became the leader of the alliance appointed by Guoxinga. The big and small affairs of the Lancang Kingdom, Thailand can also follow suit, Changchun just wants interests, who has the final say in this broken place, they don't care. The establishment of the Association of Southeast Asia officially marked the official establishment of the four Southeast Asian countries as vassals of Manchuria, and all interests were guided by Changchun's decision.

Changchun's sweetness to Thailand is not only the title of an alliance leader, but also a large territory and a large population. After the Manchurian army occupied Malaya, there was a constant debate in Changchun about whether to turn it into Manchurian territory. After the Southern Han ceded all the territories into Manchuria, the argument that it should be incorporated into Manchuria became the mainstream, but the territory ceded by the Southern Han Dynasty was an empty land with no one, and Malaya had tens of millions of aborigines. Gohinga wanted this territory very much, and controlling the geographical location of the Strait of Malacca was only quite important, but he did not want the indigenous people of Malaya, and they did not want the residents of Singapore to have Chinese ancestry. However, the local population did not oppose the Manchurian army, and there was no reason for Goxinga to engage in ethnic cleansing.

After several struggles, Changchun came up with a way to get the best of both worlds, and the territory south of Penang to Kuantan was taken over Manchuria, after all, it was an important place to control the strait, and the local population was mostly Chinese. The territory from Penang to the north of Kuantan, Gohinga gave a large stroke of the pen to Thailand, and all the non-Chinese population south of Penang to Kuantan was relocated to the north. Changchun's opinion, firstly, is to reward Thailand for its contribution in this campaign, and secondly, it is also to add a little chaos to Thailand, so as to prevent Thailand from dominating Southeast Asia and getting out of control. There are many differences between the customs and culture of the Malayans and the Thais, and there are a large number of people who believe in the religion, so letting them join Thailand will definitely make Thailand happy for a while.

Things in Malaya and Southeast Asia are basically stable, and what Changchun wants to plan is what to do next! The Manchurian shipbuilding project after the end of the Battle of the Yellow Sea has already yielded preliminary results, and it is expected that in two or three months, the invincible fleet of the Manchurian Navy will be launched. Goxinga solves the problem of naval warfare, then there is no need to scruple too much, the next step must be to attack. But the offense also pays attention to skills, the first is that the Qing Chao who can get by can't escape, and the court must continue to fight this battle. The mood of the imperial court is particularly unstable, if they don't take them to war, they may all give Guo Xinga a knife in the back, so this ancestor must not be too cool on the side.

If the next war must be carried with the Qing Dynasty, then the more distant targets such as Canada and Australia cannot be considered, and they can only choose one target from Burma, India, and Russia. Russia has not yet announced its entry into the war, so there is no need to pull them in, and can only choose targets from the two in the south. India is definitely not suitable, because the borders between the Qing Dynasty and India are too remote, and it is too difficult for the Qing Dynasty to transfer troops to Tibet and Xinjiang, so the best target is Burma.

Before Gohinga could figure out how to attack Burma, the good news came that the British and Poriya, who had retreated to Burma from Vietnam, had joined forces to destroy the Burmese Gongbang Dynasty. Under the pretext of the Burmese Gongbang Dynasty's massacre of foreigners, the Anglo-French forces launched a surprise attack on the Burmese army, and captured the Burmese capital Mandalay two weeks later. Burma officially became a province of British India, and the Burmese king, Si Pao, was taken to Lednagiri, India, along with his queen and children. Britain and France destroyed the Gongbang Dynasty at this time, completely worried that Burma would turn against the water like Thailand, Cambodia and other countries, and give them a knife at a critical moment. But their move at this time is definitely good news for Goxinga. The Qing Dynasty could not sit idly by and watch the destruction of its vassals, and would inevitably send troops to retaliate, and the Burmese people would also have deeper hostility towards Britain and France at this moment.

After Tan Shaoguang made an appointment with Yi Yi and Li Hongzhang in Beijing and chatted for a long time, he soon made a plan to attack Burma, and the Manchurian Army and the Qing Army were divided into three parts. The first route was the Nanyang dispatch and garrison troops of Li Zhi and Huang Zhongmin, who were stationed in Malaya, who would go north into Thailand, and then set off again from Chumphon into Burma to take Yangon, an important port in Myanmar. The second route was Zheng Yong's 31st Division and Tula's 11th Light Infantry Division, as well as the Vietnamese Qing Army's Rong Lu and Feng Zicai, who would pass through the Lancang Kingdom and attack Burma directly from Bokeo to Naypyidaw, dividing Burma in two. The Manchurian Army was the 23rd Infantry Division and the only 19th Infantry Division that had ever been a rebel, while the Qing Army needed to transfer one of the Hunan Army, the Huai Army, and the Chu Army, as well as 7,000 Eight Banner soldiers who had just been reorganized. They will depart from Baoshan in Yunnan, China, and enter Burma to Mandalay, the capital of Burma, which has just been conquered by the British and French forces. and entrenched in Mandalay, cutting off the way for the Southern coalition to flee north, and at the same time defending against the southward reinforcements of the Indian British army.

Tan Shaoguang's idea of this advance is very clear, and the core town of the coalition army, Yangon, and the heavy army cluster are all solved by Li Zhi and others. Zheng Yong and others cooperated with the Qing army to complete the occupation of Burma, and at the same time completed the task of cutting off the back road and intercepting reinforcements. The plan was stable, there was no danger, and there were no obvious loopholes, and all the departments of the Manchurian Army and the Qing Army began to move according to the plan, preparing to completely defeat the British to India, but it was an accident that disrupted everyone's rhythm.