Nanyang 1931: From piglets to giants

Chapter 117 Simple and Brutal
When the powered delta wing was first developed, it was not intended to be equipped to the Air Force. It is purely army equipment and has a very short combat radius.

However, it is enough to attack Kedah. Its capital, Alor Setar, is a purely plain agricultural city. In fact, it is just a large farmers' market. It is not very big at all, and there are not many landmark buildings, and there is no air defense at all.

Li Xiaowei used the original army equipment as air force now. Relying on the fact that Alor Setar had no air defense, he changed to low-altitude flight after entering the city, and was within 30 meters from the ground.

The Malays in Alor Setar did not react at all. The so-called Sultan's Guards had only more than 2,000 people in total. They were not full-time soldiers and had not received any air defense training. Most of them had never seen an airplane in their lives.

Although the powered delta wing was not an airplane, it made little difference to them. After it flew in, most people didn't know what it was, and no one fired a shot into the sky. It was not until Li Xiaowei led his men to throw grenades from a high place that they realized it was the enemy.

"Run!"

For a moment, the entire Yaros was in chaos and could not be organized at all. There was not a single real air defense person and they all ran away.

Li Xiaowei had never been to Alor Setar and had not conducted any prior reconnaissance. Anyway, there were probably only a few decent buildings in the whole of Alor Setar, so he just blew them all up.

Although they used the most common grenades, which had only a modest effect on the building, throwing more than a hundred at once only blasted it to pieces, leaving not a single one shattered. However, this at least ensured that there would be no resistance inside.

Either they were blown away or killed.

They found an open space to park the car, got off the car, and then about two thousand people rushed back again with machine guns.

The Kedah state had fought a battle with Ho Shai-lai before and suffered heavy losses. Now it was suddenly attacked and was stunned for a moment. Even when it saw the people coming down, it still didn't dare to fight back or engage in close-range shooting with Li Xiaowei and others.

They fought so hard that they broke into the palace like a torrent of wind and rain without encountering any serious resistance.

It lasted for four hours, during which time Li Xiaowei and his men were allowed to run rampant in Alor Setar.

They would shoot or blow up anyone who looked like a rich person or had a better-built house, and then go around looting their money and valuables.

He himself didn't know who he had killed until he had killed and robbed to his heart's content. He then set fire to all the magnificent things, turned around and flew away, scattering the stolen change randomly when he flew over the slums. That was it.

The entire leadership framework of Kedah was paralyzed in one battle. When they returned to Penang, they were still as vigorous and high-spirited as ever. There was not a single casualty, and they won a complete victory.

The only flaw was that they had very limited knowledge of the situation in Alor Setar, and the battle was fought too hastily. Li Xiaowei's work was indeed a bit rough, and he failed to capture a single person alive.

I don’t know whether the Soda Royal Family has been wiped out or what the situation is with the administrative officials.

But in short, just after Li Xiaowei returned, the morale in Penang soared, and Ho Shai-lai led his troops towards Alor Setar the next day.

With morale soaring, major chambers of commerce, especially the old brothers of the Hongmen, responded one after another and volunteered to join the army to go to war.

In fact, the Chinese and Malays in Penang do not have professional armies. Although Zheng Yi set up a police force, it was not organized at all because of the short time. Similarly, the Malays do not have any formal army.

At this time, what is being compared is naturally who has higher morale. Whoever has higher morale can mobilize faster, and whoever mobilizes faster can naturally gain the initiative in the war.

In one day, Ho Shai-lai led more than 5,000 Penang soldiers armed with live ammunition to advance towards Alor Setar. These people were actually the same, with no military training at all, and they fought randomly, but they were surprisingly successful and successfully occupied Alor Setar completely.

Then, according to Zheng Yi's instructions, the granaries were opened to distribute grain. Officials, priests, merchants, and landlords were killed if they were encountered, while ordinary people were given money directly.

We really give Malaysian ringgit. Every household, as long as they are near the capital, will give 30 Malaysian ringgit first.

After Ma Jian defected, they took out the so-called household registration book and killed anyone who had money. After killing them, they rudely called on everyone to go to their house to rob things, set fire to them and leave.

It feels a bit like copying others, because this involves ethnic conflicts, and Zheng Yi does not expect to win the hearts of the Malays by doing so.

The purpose of distributing money is just to treat people differently and to reduce ethnic hatred as much as possible. As for the effect, he doesn't know.
Anyway, only a total of more than 5 million Malaysian ringgits were distributed in Kedah. This amount of money is just pocket money for Zheng Yi now, and he also got some things back, which is a small help.

The Malay society is similar to the traditional ethnic groups in China, both have a pyramid structure.

Although religious elements have been added, the basic principles are the same: the rulers are all rich people, and only rich people can be rulers.

Zheng Yi's approach was equivalent to screening all the bureaucrats, landlords, and scholars in the entire state of Kedah. He even created a puppet army and tried to support a pro-China regime.

The Malays in this place grow rice, and the Chinese buy rice. This is the relationship between producers and customers. As long as there are no royal families or nobles acting as channels to take advantage of both sides, this relationship should not be bad.

Zheng Yi was even willing to let the Chinese pay a higher price when buying rice, leaving them a little more profit to ensure the smooth operation of this friendly regime. Not only that, after Li Xiaowei's aerial motorcycle team returned, he flew out again the next day and went to Perlis.
On the third day, in Perak, we spent nine days visiting the homes of the nine sultans and repeating the same tactics.

First blow up, then kill, and finally rob the palace. Leave without stopping.

However, this is the only so-called result of the battle.

He ultimately decided not to station troops in Kedah. Since they were ethnically different, further governance was difficult. Ho Shai-lai's army was lucky enough to show off its power in Kedah, but it didn't dare to go further.

Afraid of being dragged into the quagmire of the Quality and Safety Station.

Besides, Kedah is a plain area. If the Japanese come in a few years, he will not be able to fight the Japanese here, and he will not be able to defeat them.

In Penang, Zheng Yi was not idle either. A special guest came to Zheng Yi's office and was warmly received by Zheng Yi.

"Hello, Mr. Val, please take a seat. I am very happy that you took the initiative to come to Penang to see me."

The so-called Mr. Val looked a little timid, with dark skin. He was neither Malay nor Chinese, but clearly of Indian descent.

At this time, he smiled bitterly and said, "Professor Zheng, please understand that we Indians have never thought of helping the Malays to oppress you Chinese.
I know that we may have had some misunderstandings in the past, and that some Indians have indeed done things in Perlis that have hurt you Chinese. I want to sincerely apologize to you here."

Zheng Yi smiled and waved his hand: "It doesn't matter. Every nation has its scum and villains. I will not elevate a few individual cases to the level of national hatred.
Moreover, as far as I know, many Indians were also commanded or even enslaved by the Malays, right?"

Wal: "I appreciate your generosity. God will praise your judgment. You are truly a prophet of great wisdom."

Zheng Yi frowned, "Allah? Mr. Val, are you religious? Sunni? Or Hindu?"

Val was stunned for a moment, then immediately said in a very serious tone: "I studied in the UK. I am not a Hindu nor a Mumm. I am a servant of God."

As he spoke, Walter stared at Zheng Yi's expression nervously.

This Mr. Wal is naturally the leader temporarily chosen by the Indians in Perlis.

Historically, the earliest Indian political party in Malaysia, the Perak Progressive Party, was not established until after the 1950s. However, at this time, because of Zheng Yi, Indians in Perlis formed a group much earlier than in history and established corresponding political groups.

Seeing how fierce Zheng Yi was, he took action as soon as he said he would, and directly organized an army to attack the Malay Sultan, especially in Kedah, where he was so devastating and sweeping away the enemy, while the British seemed to be pretending to be dead.

You know, it was their Colonial Bureau that instigated those Malays and Chinese to do this in the beginning!

Without the British's encouragement, how could the Malays have obtained weapons, especially heavy artillery?

What is this? Are they just going to kill without burying them?

There are rumors that Zheng Yi even received cooperation from the Colonial Bureau on this trip. If it were not for the Colonial Bureau's help in luring out the nine sultans and then killing them all, causing the nine sultanates to be in a state of disarray, it would not have been possible for the Chinese to fight this war so smoothly.

Now, Val didn’t know how the Malays would react in the future, but now all these Indians were panicking.

Really panicked.

You know, the origin of all these disputes actually lies with the Indians.

Due to the bankruptcy of a large number of European and American plantations and mines, Indian workers in the plantations and mines lost their jobs.

A large number of Indians simply headed north from Perak and entered the territories of Kedah and Perlis, and then joined forces with the Malays. The Malays then stirred up trouble and supported the Indians in fighting the Chinese in Perlis to the death and snatch the resources from the Chinese.

And then there are so many follow-ups.

Now, the British have begun to play dead, the Chinese have started to develop industry, and the Chinese soldiers have been equipped with the latest model of submachine guns, and the Malays have been crippled.

What do you want these Indians to do?
Look, he took the initiative to come over and surrender.

(End of this chapter)