Valley Emperor

Horses can be said to be relatively hypocritical animals, especially those war horses. In order to keep the war horses full of physical strength, they need to be very well cared for, eat well, and sleep well.

In contemporary maritime transportation, because the tonnage of ships is generally too small, the turbulence is very bumpy when sailing. Even the top thousand-ton ships of the contemporary era are actually no better than those with hundreds of tons.

This kind of sea transportation conditions is not easy for even a creature with very strong endurance, let alone a delicate warhorse.

Due to the difficulty of sea transportation, the Datang Army failed to successfully bring too many war horses to Malacca, but the Portuguese on the opposite side were basically no better there. Don't expect them to have any large-scale cavalry units or the like.

Without cavalry, we can only rely on infantry for reconnaissance and quick attacks!

A distance of two kilometers is nothing for cavalry, but it is very far for infantry. Besides, there is no road at all in this broken place, and the road conditions are very complicated, regardless of whether it is a large-scale army or a small scale. The attack of the troops is very troublesome!

The Portuguese attacked from the city. Although this kind of thing did not happen, and it is estimated that it will not happen in the future, they all hid in the city honestly, but such complicated road conditions were also troublesome for the advancement of the Datang Army.

If there is no accident, if the siege troops want to reach the city of Malacca, they must first open a road and build a bridge, and transport a large number of artillery, especially the heavy siege artillery, to the city of Malacca.

Even the landing troops had considered this kind of trouble before, so when the army first started, it planned to ask the Datang Railway Corporation for help, carrying rails that are enough to lay ten kilometers long, sleepers and technicians, and then bring a locomotive and carriages. . In order to lay a simple military transport railway from the landing site to the city of Malacca.

It is used to transport a large number of artillery and materials to the city of Malacca.

However, this idea is still too whimsical. The locomotive and carriages are so heavy that it is not easy to transport at all, and it is also very troublesome to build a railway in a remote overseas area such as Malacca to use train transportation.

And most importantly, the Import and Export Committee strictly prohibited the export of all kinds of machinery and equipment, especially steam engines. Even the overseas territories or colonies of the Tang Empire could not get approval, let alone in Malacca.

So, if you want to build a railway in Malacca, even if it is a military railway, it is very troublesome.

In addition, the military also considered that although transportation after landing is more troublesome, it is only a trouble in the early stage. It is not impossible to rely on human transportation. In the end, it gave up this idea.

Therefore, to transport artillery and many materials to the city of Malacca, the subsequent landing troops have to rely on the most primitive method: use manpower to transport!

Of course, before that, we have to build a temporary large dock first.

Without the assistance of the dock, the unloading of a large number of heavy artillery and other artillery shells would be very troublesome, and even some heavy siege artillery must rely on the dock, otherwise there is no way to remove them from the ship.

After Ding Chenzhen led a group of generals to inspect the position of the 57th Infantry Regiment, he went to the position of the 5th Marine Regiment of the Navy, although it was said that this Marine Regiment belonged to the naval system.

However, in this landing operation, the Marine Corps was temporarily under the command of Ding Chenzhen. Of course, it was limited to the early landing operations. When the troops landed, the Marine Corps would return to the jurisdiction of the Navy, and those who attacked Malacca would return to the navy. Mission, no part of this Marine Corps.

Conquering the city of Malacca is the task of the Seventh Army of the Army. It is the task of the Seventh Artillery Brigade and the Nineteenth Infantry Division. It has nothing to do with the Fifth Marine Regiment of the Navy and the Second Regiment of the Guards.

So Ding Chenzhen went to the position of the 5th Marine Corps to inspect the position. It was just a routine matter. The army and the navy had too many conflicts. He was also unwilling to make any conflicts with the navy in Malacca for some trivial matters. After all, the army is in the Southeast Asia region. In combat, the navy has to rely on the navy for transportation and maintenance of supply lines.

People have to bow their heads under the eaves!

After returning from the frontline inspection, Ding Chenzhen continued to command the troops to land on the landing site!

This is the second day of the landing. So far, the three infantry regiments under the Seventh Army and one cavalry regiment of the 19th Division have all completed the landing, and the 19th Artillery Regiment and the 10th Artillery Regiment are currently underway. The landing of the nine-carriage regiment.

During this process, after passing through the two small temporary piers that were successfully erected today, the troops began to transport part of the five-jin field artillery ashore, and also began to transport part of the artillery shells, food and other combat materials.

But more artillery, especially the heavy artillery of more than 9 catties, will need to wait until tomorrow to be moved off the ship. There is no way. The current temporary wharf is too poor to carry small artillery such as field artillery of 5 catties. Transporting nine catties of field artillery, I am afraid it will directly overwhelm these small temporary docks.

The Seventh Boat Bridge Regiment is now working hard, and they are working on their last and most important task, which is to build a real large temporary pier for those nine catties of field guns, and fourteen catties or even ten Eight catties, twenty-four catties of heavy artillery used for disembarking.

In addition, a large amount of supplies need to be provided for disembarkation. There are dozens of ships full of various supplies floating on the sea in Shanghai. The supplies on these ships do not have large docks, but they cannot be transported.

The landing went smoothly, and there was no large-scale attack by the enemy. At the same time, Ding Chenzhen knew yesterday that the navy won a big victory at the port, which can be said to have wiped out the Portuguese fleet in one fell swoop.

The only pity is that the pier of the port of Malacca is close to the city of Malacca, and is within the firepower of the shore fire cannons on the head of the city of Malacca, and the navy clearly stated that they can attack the fort outside the port, but the shore on the head of the city. Anti-turret, they can't fight.

Because the fort is on the top of the city, the location is too high. The city of Malacca was originally built on the edge of the cliff on the shore, plus the height of the city wall, which adds up to a height of at least 100 meters.

Today's naval guns generally have a relatively small shooting elevation angle, and usually direct fire is the main way to shoot the guns in the fleet.

This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that to fight the fort on the city of Malacca, you must go deep into the port, and the port is very small, and it cannot accommodate too many warships fighting at the same time.

Reluctantly to fight, the effect is not good, and it may be used as a target by the Portuguese shore fire cannon!

Naturally, the Navy would not do such a thankless thing!

Therefore, the navy received news yesterday that the navy's mission has been completed, and the next step is to look at the army's.

In the follow-up, the Navy will not only leave a squadron in Malacca to support the army operations, but also send a squadron to the islands of the South China Sea to cooperate with the local marines and the Banten garrison to defeat the Portuguese one by one. A stronghold on some islands in the South China Sea.

The main fleet will cross the Strait of Malacca and enter the Indian Ocean.

The navy is planning to burn the war to the coast of the Indian Ocean, and taking advantage of the fact that the Portuguese on the Indian side are not fully prepared, it is better to strike first. Colonial strongholds in other places, and looking for opportunities to eliminate the Portuguese main fleet in the Indian Ocean waters.

To put it bluntly, the navy is already preparing to leave from Malacca, and the rest will be left to your army.

Ding Chen really knew and agreed with the Navy's strategy.

Because this matter has already been determined, the war between the Tang Empire and the Portuguese was divided into two battlefields in the early stage, one is the South Ocean battlefield and the other is the Indian Ocean battlefield.

In the Nanyang battlefield, the core is the Battle of Malacca. As long as the navy destroys the fleet deployed by the Portuguese in Malacca and can ensure the transportation of the army and the security of the subsequent supply lines, then basically there is nothing for the navy.

As for the ground attack on Malacca, that's the Army's business, and has nothing to do with the Navy!

In the follow-up Indian Ocean battlefield, the Army will not intervene for a while, at least not until Malacca is won.

Therefore, the Indian battlefield will be dominated by the navy and the corporate fleet of the Western Trading Company!

Even to a certain extent, the navy is only an auxiliary, and the main force is the company fleet of the Western Trading Company!

Don't be surprised, the company's fleet is indeed the main force on the Indian and African battlefields. Although their sea power is far inferior to the navy~www.wuxiaspot.com~ There are no battleships, but the company's fleet also has two 800-ton cruisers. , in addition to eight frigates and dozens of armed merchant ships.

Don't think of armed merchant ships as warships. Armed merchant ships have always been the indispensable main force in large-scale maritime operations these days. In Datang's joint landing fleet, except for a few **** warships, all the others are armed merchant ships.

In addition to battleships, the company fleet also has a ground combat force with a scale of tens of thousands!

This is not to say that the Marine Corps is deployed on ships or the like, but it is a separate ground combat force that is stationed in various colonial strongholds on weekdays, and fights with the local native princes and even the Portuguese when there is something wrong.

The ground combat troops of the company fleet are also quite special. They are not the same as the army. They are all field troops. In fact, the ground combat troops in the company fleet, except for a 3,000-strong mobile force directly under the direct control of the company fleet commander. In addition, the others are scattered in various colonies.

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