Lieutenant Colonel Raffles had his own thoughts about the threat from the Ming Kingdom. He said: "Of course, we will not provoke the Ming Navy. We are not their opponents, but it does not mean we will not act. We can send a team of dozens of people to investigate there, and build a few more small strongholds. When we return to the country and lobby for the parliament and His Majesty the King, I think they will definitely support our plan."

"What if the Ming Kingdom also sent people to discover our people?" Colonel Wright asked.

"We can say that they are some of our whaling ships. Anyway, our whaling ships are whaling in the waters all over the world. They are completely likely to float to the shore due to typhoons, or because they have no supplies, they need to go to the shore to purchase supplies." Lieutenant Colonel Raffles said.

"Well, let you take charge of this matter specifically! But you must not cause trouble for our British Empire! We do not have the ability to fight back against the Ming Kingdom now!" Colonel Wright agreed and said. But he was still very scared now, worried that the power of the Ming Kingdom would increase uncontrollably and would eventually hurt the British Empire.

"Don't worry, I will never cause trouble to you and the British Empire!" said Raffles.

"Well, go and do it!" said Colonel Wright.

Lieutenant Colonel Raffles did it as soon as he said he would not cause trouble, but he did not know the importance. Soon, he summoned fifty Marine soldiers, dressed as crew members of whaling ships, and drove a small boat. On March 29, 1782, he arrived outside the sea of ​​Singapore Island.

They landed on Singapore Island in the middle of night and found a nearby village where Chinese people lived. They lied that they encountered a typhoon on a whaling ship and were blown here. The hospitality Chinese recruited them to their homes and asked them to rest before sending them away. However, unexpectedly, that night, the British suddenly rose up and killed hundreds of people in the village. The British buried all the bodies in a stinky ditch, and then stepped up the time to demolish all the houses in the village, rebuilt them into fortifications and small houses for soldiers to live in, ready to resist possible attacks.

They then raised the British rice flag on the island, which was equivalent to claiming to turn the island into British territory.

Regarding all this, due to the backwardness of communication technology, the top military leaders such as Li Jifa "is not clear about it, and they are still preparing for the clearing and landing work here.

After many preparations, on April 5, 1782, the Royal Guard Division and the officers and soldiers of the 1st Division set off from Chengtian Prefecture under the escort of the Second Fleet, preparing to occupy Singapore Island and clear out the Malay Turkish country to the north.

These two armies have been conducting security operations on the Luzon Islands. After several months, they have basically completely eliminated all the natives on the Luzon Islands. Now they can carry out foreign combat missions.

On April 8, they arrived outside Singapore and prepared to log in.

The Royal Guard Division quickly completed the request to log in, but when they arrived on the island, they soon discovered an abnormality. There was a group of British people on the island at some point, and they even raised the British flag on the island. Do the British devils plan to invade Singapore at this time?

The Royal Guard Division immediately surrounded the British squad and ordered them to evacuate Singapore Island immediately, otherwise there would be only a dead end.

The commander of this squad is Lieutenant Colonel Raffles, but he is not here now. He just recruited a group of people to persist here and did not need to persist here in person.

This British squad lied that it was a whaling team and landed because the typhoon got lost here and did not mean to invade here.

Li Degong personally inspected these people and found no special features. It looked like a whaling team.

"You are limited to leaving within three days, otherwise you will have to die here." Li Degong said to them. The Ming Kingdom was not the former Ming Dynasty, and he was so kind to the foreigners who "took ashore to take refuge". The Ming Kingdom will not commit the lessons from Macau again.

The British team left here in shame three days later and informed the Ming army of landing to Penang.

"It seems that the Ming Dynasty has a good vision, and they also like this. Alas, it's so troublesome! How did they rise suddenly?" said Colonel Wright.

Lieutenant Colonel Raffles was very annoyed that the Ming Kingdom had once again blocked his plan. However, he also knew that strength determines everything. The small fleet he controlled now was no match for the Ming fleet. No matter how angry he was, it would be useless if he had no strength.

"His Colonel, it seems that my action has failed. But we can continue to look for opportunities. The Spanish fleet has now crossed the Cape of Good Hope and will arrive here soon. I think we can take this opportunity to get Singapore again." Raffles said unwillingly.

"Forget it, let's wait and see the result of the struggle between the two before talking about it! Our order to evacuate has reached my hands. We must leave here within a specified period and return to the British mainland." Colonel Wright said. He had received the order from London. Because of the loss of the Dutch East India Colony, this sneak attack fleet has no meaning to continue to exist.

The news that the Ming Kingdom conquered the Dutch East India colony again caused a stir at this time. European countries had gained a sense of psychological superiority to the East at this time. They believed that the Far East was a wilderness, that is, several ancient civilizations were relatively powerful, but they were not opponents of the European powers. Now it seems that this view is completely wrong. At this time, Europe did not have the deep-rooted pride and complacent mentality of later generations, and felt very attractive to the newly emerged things. Therefore, they all began to notice the new Ming Kingdom and inquire about its news through various channels.

"We are going back now? Alas, our trip to the Far East has really gained nothing!" Raffles sighed when he heard the news.

"Don't be discouraged! Believe me, London has also noticed the possible value of the South Ocean. We will definitely come back again! By then, the Ming Kingdom will no longer be our opponent! According to the information of a Dutch officer, we are about to explore imitating the Ming Kingdom's warships. With our strength, it is of course easy to imitate such warships!" Colonel Wright. The Dutch officer who provided them with warship information was the escaped Philip. He was lucky and could be captured by the British sneak attack fleet. During his detention, he heard about the surrender of the Dutch Governor, and he cried bitterly, so he told Colonel Wright what he saw with his own eyes and vowed to let the Ming Kingdom pay blood debts.

Although Colonel Wright and him were enemies, they had a common position in the face of the threat from the Chinese. Therefore, Colonel Wright immediately sent him to London with a speedboat to serve the United Kingdom.
Chapter completed!