Chapter 289 Sir, times have changed
The Dutch have a serious lack of understanding of Aceh. A mere 100,000 people dare to divide their troops into three groups, and they really treat Aceh like a loser.
Yangkov's strategy is very clear. Aceh and Lansha contain the East Indian troops, and the main force counterattacks from Jambi to the Old Port. There is no need to attack the Old Port. As long as Jambi is captured, the East Indian troops All must be withdrawn.
Not withdrawing?
It would be dangerous if we don’t evacuate Batavia!
This is not because the Dutch are arrogant, but because they don’t understand Aceh’s style of play at all.
After the last Aceh War, the Sultanate of Aceh spent a lot of effort to rebuild Aceh and Lansha. This gave the Dutch the illusion that the Sultanate of Aceh had nothing to do with the Netherlands in Aceh and Lansha. People are dying.
If the situation really develops according to the Dutch's prediction, then the Dutch's strategy must be correct.
What the Dutch did not expect was that Aceh and Lansha, which had spent a lot of effort to rebuild, would be directly abandoned by the Aceh Sultanate again.
The Acehnese did not even entangle with the Dutch in Aceh and Lansha, but instead besieged Jambi with heavy troops, which completely disrupted the Dutch's deployment.
What the Dutch didn't even know was that the artillery used by the Acehnese was not a traditional artillery at all, but an 80mm mortar produced in Vladivostok.
Compared with wheeled artillery, mortars have many advantages, especially in tropical jungles like Aceh where transportation is inconvenient.
Although the range and power of mortars are not as good as field guns, the East India Army lacks artillery even more. The Jambi defenders only have a total of 12 76mm field guns produced by German Krupp, and their propellants are even Black powder, in terms of range and power, is no better than a mortar.
The rifles used by the East Indian troops were also single-shot rifles based on black powder.
Although the rifles used by the Aceh army are also single-shot rifles, the bullets have been replaced with pointed bullets based on smokeless powder.
Yankov does not only fight guerrillas, he is also unstoppable in tough battles.
The Oak Regiment fought guerrillas in the Rivne exercise because the Oak Regiment had few people and could not afford the human sea tactic.
If we really want to use the human sea tactic, the Russian Empire will not be afraid of anyone.
In the army of the Aceh Sultanate, most of the soldiers are Acehnese natives, and only the officers are Cossacks.
So Yankov used the human sea tactic without any psychological burden.
The Aceh Sultanate's attack was not a line-up to kill, but a more advanced skirmish line tactic.
Before the ground troops attacked, Yankov had ordered artillery to bombard Jambi for 5 minutes. The defensive positions built by the Jambi defenders suffered heavy losses.
Don’t think 5 minutes is too short. For 12 80mm mortars, 5 minutes is long enough.
The battle was far easier than Yankov imagined.
The East Indian troops had no fighting will at all. When the mortar shells fell on the Jambi defenders' position, the Jambi defenders began to collapse.
It was not the soldiers who fled, but the officers who led the escape.
In the East India Army, the officers serving as officers were also Dutch.
Everyone is equal under the cannonball, and officers will not be bypassed just because they are Dutch.
The Dutch came to serve in the East Indies, not to bleed and die for the East Indies.
It only took 5 days for Germany to attack the Netherlands during World War II.
The Dutch are not even willing to protect the Dutch mainland. Will they fight to the end for East Indies?
Stop being so funny!
During the capture of Jambi, almost all the East Indian troops collapsed at the first touch. Only one Gurkha troop from India showed a slightly stronger will to fight.
The Gurkhas did not want to fight to the end, but took the initiative to send people to contact Yangkov, hoping that Yangkov would let them live and allow them to leave on their own.
“Have the British lost their minds?”
Yankov burst into laughter. The British probably regarded Aceh as the Siberian Fleet.
The Siberian Fleet is actually not cowardly. When the British occupied Juwen Island, the strength of the Russian Empire in the Far East was indeed far inferior to that of the British, so the Siberian Fleet had to compromise.
For George, Aceh is not even a colony, it is just a testing ground. Even if the entire East India is completely destroyed, George will not feel bad.
George's purpose is to combat Britain's global hegemony.
This cannot be blamed on George, who allowed Britain to pursue and intercept the Russian Empire everywhere.
"It's time for them to feel what true barbarism is."
Yankov hates the British as much as George.
The British consider themselves civilized people and define Russians as "barbaric".
Civilized people exchanged glass beads for precious stones when they were weak. When they became strong, they left no land or people behind. They claimed to have brought modern industrial civilization to the world. In fact, the world sucked blood and turned London into a financial center.
You are so civilized!
Coincidentally, the East Indian definition of Aceh is also a barbarian.
Then show barbarism to civilized people.
Everywhere the Acehnese army went there was no grass, let alone the white officers in the colonial servant army, even the white people doing business in East India -
No, there were no white people in East India at all.
Those white people ran away before the war came.
As for where he went, the Aceh Sultanate doesn't know.
Maybe he went to Africa or South America.
Yankov was still very civilized and ordered the Gurkha troops to surrender within half an hour.
Half an hour later, the artillery fired the infantry charge, and the battle ended.
While Jambi was besieged by the Acehnese army, the Australian army in Xiangfei City was sniped by the Justice Company.
Britain's control over the Malay Peninsula is stronger than the Dutch's control over the East Indies.
After the Australian army landed at Xiangfei City, they advanced along the Ma River towards the interior of the Malay Peninsula.
The discipline of the Australian army is worse than that of the East Indian army. When the British promoted the Australian and New Zealand coalition, they only said that Australia, with a population of only 5.5 million, sent 500,000 troops to participate in the world war. They never mentioned the military discipline of the Australian and New Zealand coalition.
There are at least records of Americans massacred Indians.
The Australians killed all the Tasmanians and made specimens of the Tasmanian corpses, which were not known to the outside world at all.
Australia, like Siberia, was to the Russian Empire, a place of British exile.
What discipline can you expect from the offspring of thieves and robbers.
So when the Australian army advanced into the interior of the Malay Peninsula, the Malay villages and towns along the way suffered completely.
The behavior of the Australian army was as bad as that of the British army during the Boer War. All villages and towns along the way were raided.
So it is true that Germany and Japan are not the only ones who are cruel, the British are the same, but the British are the victors, so no one discusses the evil deeds of the British army.
Both the British army and the Australian army in the 21st century have poor military discipline. It is a joke to expect the British army and the Australian army in the 19th century to have strict discipline.
Let’s put it this way, of all the countries in the world, there is only one army that helps people carry water.
The traffic in the Malay Peninsula was as bad as that in East India. The Australian army advanced slowly and had to set up supply points along the way, making the battle line longer and longer.
Captain Vinson from Canberra was unlucky. He was infected with severe malaria and had to stay at Supply Point No. 4 for treatment.
Across the Malay Peninsula, there are more than 1,700 Australian soldiers and soldiers infected with malaria like him.
There were less than 30,000 Australian troops who landed in Xiangfei City.
In just one week, more than 1,700 people have been infected with malaria, which fully proves how poor the Australian army's hygiene habits and medical standards are.
There are drugs to treat malaria, but their production is scarce and ordinary soldiers are not qualified to use them. Therefore, more and more soldiers are dying from malaria.
The No. 4 supply point used to be a village, with about 100 people living there.
These more than 100 people were thrown into the Ma River to feed the fish.
When it comes to destroying corpses and removing traces, Australians are experts.
There is a company stationed at the No. 4 supply point, with about 200 people including the sick.
Captain Vincent is currently recovering from taking quinine.
Many Australian soldiers did not take medicine and endured the torture of the disease alone.
A soldier was in a trance due to his severe illness and yelled in a tented ward. Captain Victor ordered him to be tied up to avoid more serious consequences.
"Revenge, this is revenge, I saw a lot of ghosts, everywhere -"
The soldier struggled desperately, shouting.
“Stop his mouth!”
Victor’s face was livid. This was not revenge, but retribution.
"It's so bad, why do we come to this damn place!"
Victor was angry, more worried.
The threat posed by disease to the Australian army is limited.
The real threat is the Justice Corporation.
In the past, it was too easy for the British to launch wars in Asia. As long as they sent warships to bombard the Sudanese royal city, Sudan would immediately surrender and the war would end.
The Justice Company has no fixed base.
Maybe there is, but the British don’t know where it is, so they can only look for it aimlessly in the Malay Peninsula.
Although the Malay Peninsula is not big, it covers more than 200,000 square kilometers. We hope that the 30,000 Australian troops will find Justice Company, so take your time.
"If it weren't for the damn Justice Company threatening the Lion City, we wouldn't be here."
Captain Vinson understands the situation.
"Why can't we negotiate with Justice Company?"
Victor doesn't quite understand British foreign policy.
British foreign policy is very flexible.
The British would not negotiate with their opponents if they could completely eliminate them.
Did the Americans negotiate with the Indians?
Have Australians and Tasmanians talked?
No, never.
Britain will negotiate with its opponents only when the war fails to achieve its goals.
That’s why war is not the last bottom line, but the first choice.
The war became Britain's last bottom line after its strength weakened.
If it had not been beaten to a pulp by the Boers in the Second Boer War, Britain would not have adopted the policy of appeasement.
For the same reason, if it had not suffered heavy losses in the Ninth Russo-Turkish War and the gains outweighed the gains, Britain would not have stood idly by in the Tenth Russo-Turkish War.
“Then we have to find Justice Company——”
Vinson had a wry smile on his face.
At this moment, Vincent and Victor suddenly heard some strange sounds.
It seemed like something was flying over from the sky.
Danger——
As soon as this realization came to Captain Vincent's mind, his whole body was torn into pieces.
(End of this chapter)