Chapter 860: The British Army Surrenders

The penetration of the 032nd Brigade was very successful, and the British army in Kuantan instantly fell into a situation of being encircled. After three days of fierce fighting, the British army, which had run out of ammunition and food, had to surrender the city. After the occupation of Kuantan, the Manchurian army was a gathering area of British troops, and it could no longer complete the offensive by advancing on two fronts, and it was necessary to complete the attack on the British army in the middle of the peninsula. Li Zhi immediately adjusted the deployment according to the plan.

Tula's 11th Light Infantry Division swept west from Kuantan, directly to Kuala Lumpur and joined Zhou Hao's 10th Light Infantry Division. Doro's 14th Cavalry Division bypassed Kuala Lumpur and penetrated southeast, directly taking Longbin, an important town on the southern frontier of Malaya. Li Zhi directly led the 32nd Mixed Brigade to continue to advance and launched an attack on Beigen, the northern barrier of Longbin. This set of things can solve all the British troops along the way, completely smash the British defense line, prevent the British army from copying the back route of the dispatched army, and can also concentrate all the offensive forces on the Kuala Lumpur line.

After the dispatch army began to operate, except for Li Zhi in Beigen and Zhou Hao in Kuala Lumpur, who were fighting positional warfare, everyone else began a crazy roundabout interspersed operation. In the central part of the Malay Peninsula, a large number of British troops were gathered, including remnants of the defeated troops from the front line and reinforcements from the south. They built a large number of fortifications in an attempt to stabilize the central region, and Parsi seems to have the intention of establishing a base in the central region of the peninsula and persisting in the war of resistance. These men were not weak brigades, and they could not find any major problems in terms of equipment except for the lack of artillery, but the terrain of the Malay Peninsula had their defensive lines shattered. The two armies of Tula and Doro both had very good mobility capabilities, so they frequently used roundabout tactics to attack from behind the British, and soon broke down the British defenses. The remnants of the British army, which had lost ground in advance and retreat, had to continue to flee to the south.

After a month and a half of sudden advance, the Nanyang Dispatch Army once again achieved their strategic vision, Zhou Hao and Tula's Western Route Army captured Kuala Lumpur, and Li Zhi and Doro's Eastern Route Army also occupied Longbin by Chen Gong. At the same time, because the British army continued to draw troops on the northern front, resulting in the emptiness of the southern defense line, Huang Zhongmin also successfully broke through the defense line of the British army on the southern front and successfully joined forces with Li Zhi at Longbin. The remnants of the 100,000 British troops were all compressed to Negeri Sembilan and fell into the three-line encirclement of the Manchurian Army in Kuala Lumpur, Longbin and Malacca.

The living space of the British army was greatly compressed, and even if one and a half Australian divisions and one and a half British divisions still had a certain combat effectiveness, Partey still had to face the difficulty of being cut off from supplies. The British were trapped in Negeri Sembilan and reinforcements from India and Burma were the only thing they could comfort themselves with at the moment. London had learned of the war in Malaya, but William's cabinet in London was at a loss how to save the trapped Parcy.

The Manchurian Army's long-standing forbearance made William's cabinet have a wrong judgment, they felt that Goxinga would not take the initiative to attack, and the British army still held the initiative in the war. The sudden fire of war in Malaya caught everyone off guard, and their previous troop deployment was planning to launch an offensive in Southeast Asia, and they never thought that a fire would break out in the backyard of Malaya. William's cabinet, of course, could not let Malaya fall, and if Malaya was lost, the Strait of Malacca would completely fall under the control of the Manchurian Army, and the North Pacific would become the inland sea of the Manchurian Empire. As a result, not only will Hong Kong be completely isolated, the British army's follow-up offensive will not be able to be launched, and everything that France has in Southeast Asia will also become an outcast.

In order to save Parcy in Malaya, the British again dispatched the East India Fleet and carried two Indian divisions to reinforce Malaya across the sea. Moreover, the British military gave a very genius plan, they were ready to land these two Indian divisions in Penang, the rear of the Manchurian army, and launch an attack on the Manchurian army from the rear. When Doro's Western Route Army launched the first wave of the offensive, in order to speed up the march, it did not deal with Penang, which was currently a three-way area, and the British plan did have a good chance of success.

However, as soon as the East India Fleet approached the periphery of the Strait of Malacca, it was intercepted by the South Ocean Fleet of the Manchurian Navy. The East India Fleet has added a large number of ships in recent years, and its combat power has been greatly enhanced, but the battle sequence of the newly formed South Sea Fleet is even more luxurious, with 12 Sea Wolf-class destroyers and 8 Sea Tiger-class heavy cruisers, and the two main forces of the Far East Fleet, the Brute-Whale class battle cruisers, the Ape Sound and the Xiaomeng, are also all listed. Davis, the commander of the East India Fleet, wisely gave up his intention to engage in battle, and led the fleet to retreat and return at full speed. It's a pity that he forgot one thing, the Manchurian Navy's stunt to dominate the Pacific Ocean was not their huge tonnage, but their flying fish-like speed.

The East India Fleet retreated, but the South Ocean Fleet was not ready to let them go, and the two countries had already started a war and had nothing to scruple about. The newly appointed commander of the Nanyang Fleet, Kuang Guangren, was not a person who liked to be tolerant, and immediately issued an order for the whole army to pursue. The speed of the ships of the South Sea Fleet was half as fast as that of the East India Fleet and there was a turn, how could the East India Fleet escape, so after an hour and a half, they were easily caught up, and then had to start a fierce battle. It took four hours of fierce fighting between the two sides for the East Indian Fleet to get rid of the enemy, but they had already sunk three cruisers and seven transports. David took the fleet out for a walk, and when he returned home, he was crippled, and of the two divisions he took out, only three brigades returned, and the rest were all killed.

After driving out the East India Fleet, the South Sea Fleet did not rush home, but returned to the battlefield just now and scooped up some floating objects, such as the battle flags of the British army, equipment, and some lucky people with good fortune. After fishing, the Nanyang Fleet returned to its home port of Singapore. As soon as the warship entered the port, Kwong Guangren immediately arranged for people to express all the sea drifters he had fished up to Li Zhi, Huang Minzhong and others, who were besieging Negeri Sembilan.

"Navy brothers, what a great help!" Seeing the loot and prisoners of war sent by Kuang Guangren, Li Zhi and all the generals under his command were very happy, and their weapons for attacking the heart and mind had arrived.

The next day, Li Zhi arranged for the prisoners of war to carry the capture of the navy and cross the British line with a white flag, and he was impatient to let Palsy share his joy. Of course, Li Zhi's joy could only be Palsi's pain, and after receiving these released prisoners of war, Parti knew that he was finished. The East Indian fleet was defeated, and it was impossible for him to receive any more aid in a short time, and the British army in Malaya was already a lone army.

Even though the facts are already in front of us and the morale of the British army has fluctuated greatly, Parcy is still ready to insist that the motherland will definitely send reinforcements again. The stubborn resistance of the British did play a role, and the Manchurians launched numerous attacks on their lines over seven days, all of which held out, and Palsy seemed to see a ray of hope again. Negeri Sembilan was small in size, but it also allowed the British to concentrate their forces, and their defensive line was very strong, and the British could still hold on.

"Get the tank on top! Gnaw away their defenses for Lao Tzu! "Li Zhi has become an ant on a hot pot, the Malayan campaign has reached the final moment, but the Manchurian army has been unable to take the British army for a long time, Li Zhi, we may not be in a hurry.

"Commander, the general has repeatedly ordered that high-tech weapons cannot be used unless absolutely necessary, should we think of other ways!" Zhou Hao, Doro, Tula and others hurriedly persuaded that Li Zhi was too eager for quick success.

"It's already a trench battle, how can the infantry arch up, even if there is some effect on individual points, the progress is too slow! We must do it quickly, and we can't delay it any longer, or their trench fortifications will certainly be further improved. It's really at that time, and it's even more troublesome to want to take them down! "Li Zhi is worried! The duration of trench warfare was measured in years, and he could not afford to wear it for such a long time.

"The British army has been cut off from foreign aid, and we have surrounded and killed them. Even if they can hold on to their ammunition, the food won't last long, and if they endure it any longer, they will be trapped to death! Everyone still insisted that Li Zhi endure it any longer, Guo Xing'a really wanted to save the tank for the last before playing.

"If you want to starve them to death, it will take at least a month or two, and by that time, our plans to go north to Myanmar and Vietnam will be affected, and we must not wait any longer! I immediately sent a telegram to Changchun and asked the general directly for instructions! Li Zhi saw that his subordinates had concerns, and directly chose to go to the top leader to ask for special approval, he believed that with his position in Guoxinga's heart and the assistance of the inner court, Guoxinga would definitely approve him to use tanks.

The telegram communication was very fast, and Li Zhi got a reply from Guo Xing'a on the same day, which was very simple and only two words: not allowed. However, Goxinga also gave him some face, promising to send an air force to assist him in the fight in three days. Li Zhi wondered, the air force's secrecy is much stricter than that of tanks, so why can planes be dispatched but tanks cannot be used? Three days later, the air force's support arrived, and Li Zhi understood why. The Air Force didn't send a single modern fighter, they sent a full 500 airships.

After various types of fighters joined the Air Force sequence, airships became obsolete and useless, that is, occasionally came out to carry out reconnaissance missions. The newly established airlines of the Manchurian Empire have begun to use airships for civil aviation, and the military value of these treasures can be imagined. The kind of secrecy maniac in Goxinga will definitely not allow the military's classified equipment to enter the civilian population. Li Zhi looked at the five hundred airships, and was a little speechless for a while, Cao Meng sent all the airships that the Air Force had eliminated to the Malayan Peninsula.

Although airships were a bit outdated within the Manchurian Army, they were still very practical when applied to the battlefield, and 500 airships threw 3,000 tons of aviation bombs on the heads of the British army at one time, and instantly transformed the British army's defense line. Li Zhi was originally going to bomb him for three days before letting the ground forces attack, but the next day the British army made a move. A little old man walked out of the British line with three soldiers, they carried a rice flag and two white flags, and the commander-in-chief of the British army in Malaya, Lieutenant General Parcy, led 90,000 British troops to surrender.