After the KPA captured the merchant ship, under the leadership of Captain Jackson, the crew of the ship was very cooperative with the KPA requirements, not only handed over all the information of the merchant ship, but also opened all the warehouses on the ship.

The merchant ship intercepted by the Interriver is called Tbilisi, which is a British trading ship with a displacement of 8,850 tons, a cargo capacity of 4,000 tons, and a crew of 63 people, mainly for freight trade between South America and Asia. This time, there were more than 20 kinds of goods.

Under Zhao Ping's orders, the Tbilisi followed the Hejian, and the rest of the crew was closed in several compartments except for the captain and the crew who operated and piloted it. Captain Jackson took Zhao Ping to inspect the ship's warehouse, and after inspecting the goods loaded on the Tbilisi, Zhao Ping ordered one of the goods to be thrown into the sea.

Originally, before the attack, the navy had detailed regulations on the goods loaded in the intercepted merchant ships, and drew up a detailed list of more than 120 items, and all the goods marked on the list should be retained, and the others were thrown into the sea, and what was left behind was, of course, the materials needed by the East China government, such as grain, medicine, timber, cloth, and various ores. In the end, nearly half of the cargo was thrown into the sea, and after dealing with these things, Zhao Ping returned to the Hejian with 20 soldiers.

Captain Jackson, for his part, was silent about all KPA actions and demanded that all be complied with, and thanks to Captain Jackson's cooperation, he was allowed to remain in the ship's wheelhouse, and was allowed to visit the detained crew. After all, it was certainly better for the captain to personally command the merchant ships, and the KPA was not worried about what tricks Jackson would play, and he would be able to escape there in the middle of the sea.

After Zhao Ping left, Captain Jackson appeased the crew again, asking them not to act rashly and save their lives first, because the other party is a regular government army, as long as the crew is safe and obedient, there will be basically no danger to life, and other matters can be handed over to the British Empire, because the British Empire will never sit idly by and watch its merchant ships be detained. plunder, and the British fleet should almost reach the Far East, as long as the British fleet can defeat the fleet of the East China government, then going home and getting compensation is just around the corner.

After Captain Jackson calmed the crew, he returned to the wheelhouse, looked ahead, and saw that on the sea in the distance, there was a large and a small, two ship shadows, and after driving closer, Captain Jackson saw clearly that the small one was a warship, and the flag should also be the fleet of the East China government, and the big one was a merchant ship, which looked similar to his own ship, and it seemed that it was also hijacked by the East China government.

If the East China Government only hijacked its own merchant ship, the British Government might not be able to know about it, and even if it did, it might not have spent too much energy to rescue it, and if it did, it might not have spent too much energy to rescue it; if the East China Government had attacked the British merchant ships on a large scale, the British Government would naturally have learned about it in a short period of time and immediately took rescue and protective measures; what was worrying was that the East China Government had seen such a wanton hijacking of a British merchant ship at sea, and would not be afraid of British retaliation? Or do they also have a countermeasure, and the captain just said that the British fleet has been defeated by the fleet of the East China government, and it will be true.

Thinking of this, Captain Jackson couldn't help but panic in his heart, but immediately corrected his thoughts, how could the British fleet be defeated?

This was the 10th day after the voyage of the Hejian and Laiyang, and they arrived at the sea area they were responsible for patrolling on the third day, and found their first target in the afternoon of the same day, the French merchant ship Saint-Louis, a 5,000-ton merchant ship, which became the first result of the Hejian.

And the next day, the two warships reaped their second victory, that is, the merchant ship that Captain Jackson had just seen, the Cromwell, which was a cargo ship with a displacement of 9,550 tons and a deadweight of 4,500 tons. Due to the large tonnage of the Cromwell, after capturing the merchant ship, Zhao Ping ordered the crew and cargo left behind on the St. Louis to be transferred to the Cromwell, and then the St. Louis was sunk.

In this way, the Cromwell became a temporary storage at sea for the Hejian and Laiyang, and the Laiyang was responsible for supervising the Cromwell, and the Hejian was responsible for intercepting other cargo ships and merchant ships it encountered, and once the new cargo ships and merchant ships were captured, the materials and personnel needed by the East China government were transferred to the Cromwell, and then the Hejian was sunk by it.

To this day, the Hejian and Laiyang have intercepted 4 British merchant ships and 2 French merchant ships, the largest tonnage is only 6,250 tons, the smallest is 3,500 tons, and 289 crew members have been captured. However, not all merchant ships will be captured, some merchant ships have fiercely resisted the KPA, and the KPA will certainly not be relentless, and return with dense and powerful firepower, a total of 22 people were killed and 31 were wounded, while the KPA itself, only 3 soldiers were injured.

The Cromwell was also filled with new supplies, even exceeding nearly 200 tons, and it happened to meet the Tbilisi today, which was the second largest tonnage freighter encountered by the Hejian and Laiyang, so the Tbilisi avoided the fate of being sunk and took over from the Cromwell as a new temporary storage at sea.

Subsequently, the Hejian and Laiyang patrolled their own waters for another five days, and successfully intercepted four merchant ships, and filled all the Tbilisi, and Zhao Ping ordered to return to Shanghai.

This time, the Hejian and Laiyang sailed for 18 days, intercepting a total of 11 merchant ships, of which 7 were borrowed by the British and 4 by the French, 9 were sunk and 2 were brought back, with a total tonnage of 51,200 tons, 578 arrestees, and 9,200 tons of various materials were brought back. After resting in Shanghai for three days, Zhao Ping commanded the warship and set sail again.

In addition to the Hejian and Laiyang, the other three groups also made their own gains, and the fleet attacking Java was also carrying out operations.

Although the East China Government and the Netherlands have not yet formally signed a treaty, the general content has been completed, but it is necessary to determine the details, format, choice of words and sentences, etc., so the two sides have also reached a provisional agreement, the colonial government of Java will allow the fleet to dock, and allow the landing force to go ashore and station, while the East China government will abandon the plan to occupy Java by force, the fleet will leave three days after docking, and the army units will remain on the island of Java, waiting for the two governments to formally sign a contract and fulfill their respective obligations stipulated in the treaty.

When the provisional agreement reached the Colonial Governor's Palace in Java, the Governor of Java, Rosberg, was almost ready to sail away, because he had just received a report that the KPA fleet was only more than 120 kilometers away from Java, which was about four hours. And the provisional agreement finally relieved Rosberg that at least the KPA fleet would not attack Java. So Rosberg hurriedly ordered the harbor not to prevent the KPA fleet from entering the port, arranged for the fleet to anchor in the harbor, and prepared for the landing of the troops, which was also busy for a long time.

After the East China government evacuated the overseas Chinese, Rosberg imprisoned the remaining tribesmen of the Zhang family, in fact, to protect them, and after receiving the results of the battle of the Taiwan Strait, he immediately released them, because he already knew that the East China government would soon return to Java. The news was also transmitted to the entire Java Island through the left-behind clansmen of the Zhang family, which made the overseas Chinese on the island happy, and many people even cried with joy.

In fact, it has only been 2 or 3 months since the evacuation of overseas Chinese, and the East China government also issued a warning to Rosberg when evacuating overseas Chinese, so after the evacuation of the East China government, Rosberg also ordered that the overseas Chinese in Java should not be harmed before the battle between the East China government and the expeditionary force was inconclusive, and also sent the army of the colony to deploy defenses at the main Chinese gathering point in Java in case of accidents, and imprisoned the remaining clansmen of the Zhang family to provide protection.

However, Rosberg's actions are mainly to ensure the personal safety of the overseas Chinese in Java, and the property is not in it, after all, he is just to leave a way back for himself, anyway, if the East China government really comes back, then the looted property can be returned, so the property of the overseas Chinese in Java was wantonly looted by the colonizers and local natives. In addition, in a small number of areas, a small number of Javanese diaspora were attacked by some indigenous people, and a total of about 4,500 people died.

Of course, a considerable number of colonists and local natives are very dissatisfied with these practices of Rosberg, after all, although they can rob the property, estate, and workshop of the Javanese overseas Chinese, but their real estate and private property cannot be robbed, after all, there is the protection of the colonial army, and although the property, estate, and workshop are also valuable, they need to invest a lot of energy and money to operate, and if they are not good, they will lose money. Private property, however, was ready-made wealth, which naturally made everyone jealous, so they put pressure on Rosberg, accusing him of protecting the interests of overseas Chinese too much, demanding that he withdraw his army and stop protecting overseas Chinese.

Rosberg didn't really want to protect the interests of overseas Chinese, but he knew very well that once the protection of overseas Chinese was relaxed, these colonists and local natives would not only rob property and real estate, but also kill them on a large scale, and the consequences would be unimaginable. Therefore, Rosberg repeatedly persuaded them to wait and see for a while and wait for the expeditionary force to achieve a decisive result before taking action, but these colonists and local natives were hot-headed and dizzy, and did not listen to Rosberg's advice at all, and only wanted to rob the property of the overseas Chinese.

And just when Rosberg couldn't withstand the pressure, the results of the battle of the Taiwan Strait came, and all the voices stopped abruptly, because everyone knew that the East China government had won the victory in this Far East war, and who would dare to attack the idea of overseas Chinese at this time.