Chapter 936: Madness

Singapore Port. ReadМ

A steamboat docked slowly on the shore.

Admiral Wesley walked down the gangway with a gloomy look on his face.

Also coming with him was Bolt, the governor of Tianzhu.

Three days ago, he got the news that Malfoy commanded the warships to withdraw to Malacca.

Naturally, he also learned the reason why the coalition fleet withdrew to Malacca.

At that time, the news shocked him and the generals in Tianzhu.

The coalition's hundreds of warships were actually repelled by Da Song's twelve warships and twelve sailing warships.

If this news is spread back to the West, the entire West will laugh at their incompetence.

"Malfoy, the spittle of the Franks, Sterdams, and Franks is about to wet my clothes. You'd better give me a reasonable explanation."

Malfoy was greeting him at the port, and Wesley launched into a rage as soon as he got off the ship.

This time Malfoy's retreat made the Franks and Sterdams very angry.

They even threatened to withdraw warships and soldiers.

It was he who repeatedly promised that this was a strategic retreat.

Eventually they would counterattack and they would quiet down.

As for the Franks, half of their Southeast China was east of Malacca.

Although they are also dissatisfied, they can still maintain their rationality.

Because Southeast China and Tianzhu are connected.

At the critical moment, they can retreat to Tianzhu.

"I also want a reasonable explanation. No one told me that Dasong's navy has so many steamships, and no one told me that all the guns on their battleships have such a huge range and power, damn it." Malfoy. I feel extremely bad at the moment.

As the commander of the coalition navy, he did not achieve any results, but lost more than ten warships including steamships. This was enough for him to suffer in humiliation.

"You..." Wesley blurted out almost like a "bastard".

But seeing Malfoy's bloodshot eyes, he calmed down again.

He had just been blinded by anger, but Malfoy was no idiot.

It must be necessary to retreat, so he made this decision.

"Okay, tell me what's going on in detail." Wesley patted Malfoy on the shoulder.

Malfoy exhaled and described the naval battle to him.

And Wesley's mouth opened wider and wider.

"You're right. In this case, the fleet will only be passively beaten, causing more casualties." Wesley frowned, "It's terrible. I didn't expect Da Song's battleship to be so excellent, damn it!"

"We should immediately ask for help from Langton and send more fleets to the Eastern Territory. One thing that is certain is that their number of warships is not large. Even if they continue to build ships, the number of warships in the next few years will not catch up with our existing warships in the Western Territory. , defeating the few with more, this is our only chance.”

After a pause, he said solemnly, "We should even jointly write a letter to Her Majesty the Queen and ask her to consider putting Britain, and even the entire Western Territory, into a state of war."

"Is this...is this necessary?" Wesley looked at Malfoy, who was a little crazy at this moment.

He felt that this failure must have made him lose his mind.

"Wesley, you have to trust my judgment. By the time Dasong's fleet besieges Tianzhu, it will be too late," Malfoy said.

While the two were talking, General Franji and General Stedam came over.

They came from Tianzhu with Wesley.

Just now, they learned the entire story of the naval battle from their general.

"I'm sorry, General Wesley, we wrongly blamed you. Under such circumstances, retreating was indeed a conscious choice." General Franco said, "I just ask you to go and don't give up on Luzon."

"Don't give up on Yaga either." General Stedam said, "You definitely don't want our eastern colony to be occupied by the pigs of Dasong, right?"

"Of course not." Wesley said firmly, "Please believe that we will win the final victory. Even the occasional setbacks are temporary."

General Franji and General Stedam nodded.

In fact, they were helpless and could only obey Wesley's command.

Because they knew that they would definitely not be able to deal with Da Song with their own strength.

Only the power of the coalition forces could preserve their colonies in the East.

In terms of overall strategy, it doesn't matter if they temporarily lose the colony.

As long as the war is won, they will take it back.

After receiving the assurance, Generals Stern and Franji left.

At this time, Wesley and Malfoy started talking again.

Bolt suddenly thought of something and said in surprise, "What about our Australia? Da Song's fleet will definitely discover this continent."

"When we evacuated to Malacca, I ordered a warship to leave and go to West South, Australia, to convey this critical situation to Oliver." Malfoy said, "Now it is time for these prisoners to serve Britain. , I suggest that Oliver promise his prisoners and their descendants to pardon their crimes and allow them to return to Britain as long as they participate in the victory over the Great Song."

"This decision is so right. We should send them a batch of weapons and ammunition now." Wesley's eyes narrowed.

After returning to Tianzhu, he prepared to send warships from the waters south of Jakarta, avoiding Malacca, to transport weapons to Australia.

He believed that these Australian felons would fight bravely to return to Britain.

After all, they were originally outlaws.

After talking about this, Wesley inspected the forts on both sides of Malacca.

The next day, he could not wait to return to Tianzhu, and urgently selected a batch of muskets and artillery to be shipped to Australia.

Although their navy retreated this time.

But this does not mean that they handed over the scope of Malacca East to Dasong.

If they want to take it, they must break a few teeth.

At the same time, he sent a steamer to Britain to send back the latest intelligence and request support.

After doing this, Wesley sent more than 30,000 soldiers to Malacca.

Before this, Britain had stationed 8,000 soldiers in Malacca, and Sterden also had more than 10,000 soldiers in Yaga.

This brought their troops near Malacca to 60,000.

This is only the troops of the Western Land, not including the indigenous troops they trained in Malay and Yaga.

He believed that such a large number of troops, combined with Malfoy's fleet, would be enough to stop the Dasong army in Malacca East.

"Shorten the training time of the native army and let them grow in the war. Now we need them to cause trouble for Dasong."

After redeploying, Wesley summoned the generals of various countries again.

At sea, Malfoy suffered a defeat, but he would not admit that the army had also failed.

On the contrary, he believed that the army could only be relied on to save the crisis in a short period of time.

This time, the Dasong Navy gave them a blow, and he would not swallow this breath.

He wanted to let the army tear Dasong apart in the hunt for Dasong.