Still, the situation now is well beyond Rossbury's bottom line. Although Rosbro also knows that in this gluttonous feast against the wealth grabbing of overseas Chinese, it is impossible to want all overseas Chinese to die, but the death toll must be controlled at a low level, and the goal set by Rosbro for himself is to control the number of dead overseas Chinese to less than 100, and the maximum limit cannot exceed 300, but now of course it is far beyond this limit, so Rossblue's anger can be imagined.

Of course, it is not enough to just stabilize the situation in Java, so Rosburu is not sure that the expeditionary force will win, and he does not dare to put all the treasure on the expeditionary force, after all, the risk of doing so is too great, so some subsidy measures must be made, and while the fleet is still in Java, it is just right to take remedial action, after all, remedial action must be done with strength.

So Rosblue asked the fleet again, hoping that they could help him again, conquer several indigenous tribes, and of course let them know the interests of the colonial government, and dare not disobey the orders of the colonial government in the future. At this time, the warships were being maintained, and the soldiers were idle anyway, looking for something to do to pass the time and move their muscles, so the Dutch and Russian navies formed a coalition and went with Rosburu to conquer the indigenous tribes of Java.

Of course, the indigenous tribes are not the opponents of the regular army, so under the leadership of Rossburu, the coalition army wiped out 3 indigenous tribes in one fell swoop, killed more than 1,500 natives, and also captured more than 1,000 captives. The rest were bought as coolies on farms and estates in Java, and the funds received, as well as some of the supplies and goods captured during these battles, were distributed to the soldiers of the navy.

Of course, Rosburu's conquest of these indigenous tribes is not for money, he has been sitting in the position of governor of Java for 5 years, and has already accumulated a huge amount of wealth, and in this gluttonous feast against the wealth of overseas Chinese, Rosburu has also gained a lot, it can be said that Rosbro's property can not be spent in several lifetimes, and the indigenous tribes can have a few dollars, so Rosburu does not look down on this little money at all.

He is interested in the people who are caught, because this time the people who are caught are the high-level personnel of these tribes, if in the future, when the East China government returns to Java, there will be a group of substitutes for the dead who will be used as backs, and they will be handed over to the East China government, at least there will be an explanation. Of course, strictly speaking, these natives are not considered to be substitutes for the dead, because they all have a part in attacking overseas Chinese villages. However, if the East China government can't return to Java, Rosburu won't release them, and they will all be bought as coolies, and the three tribes of Bijing will be wiped out.

Of course, for the Dutch and Russian naval soldiers, this trip to Java not only killed time, but also made a lot of extra money by the way, which was of course a good result.

At this time, the fleet received an order from Singapore, requiring the fleet to immediately rush to Singapore to join the expeditionary force, and then rush to the Far East to officially participate in the war. After receiving the order, the Dutch and Russian fleets did not dare to slack off, and set sail the next day, leaving Java and sailing for Singapore.

Two days later, the Dutch-Russian fleet arrived in Singapore, by which time the British 2nd Battleship Detachment and the French Fleet had left Singapore for seven days and had reached Cam Ranh Bay in Indochina four days earlier, leaving only the 1st British Battleship Detachment and some cruisers and destroyers. The Dutch-Russian fleet rested in Singapore for another 3 days before departing with other warships such as the British 1st Battleship Detachment and rushing to Cam Ranh Bay.

The fleet traveled for three days and arrived at Cam Ranh Bay, and the expeditionary fleet was assembled, and Phillips regrouped the fleet, and only after three days did the expeditionary fleet set off from Cam Ranh Bay and sailed north.

Just as the expeditionary force was gradually approaching the Far East, the East China government was also actively preparing to meet the expeditionary force. After the overseas Chinese fleet returned to Qingdao, the East China Government seized the time to repair and maintain the warships while resettling the evacuated overseas Chinese. In the naval battle of the Natuna Islands, although the losses of the KPA fleet were not large, basically all the warships were shot, so they were somewhat damaged, and the fleet sailed for nearly two months, and the consumption and wear of the warships were very large, and now they are about to meet the expeditionary force, so it is natural to hurry up to carry out maintenance and repair, so that the warships can go into battle in the best condition.

In addition, the two battleships that participated in the landing in Japan, the Yuanyang and the Aoyang, the two armored cruisers Kaihai, The Takumi has also long returned, and the battleship Shikiyo has also entered service, so now all 8 battleships of the KPA Navy have been gathered, and at the same time, an armored cruiser Bayan has been repaired, which was originally one of the Russian Pacific Fleet, which was sunk by the Japanese along with 5 other battleships in the Lushun offensive and defensive battle, and was later salvaged by the Japanese army one after another, ready to be sent back to Japan for maintenance, but the KPA sent troops to participate in the war to capture Lushun, and these warships were captured by the KPA. The Bayan was less damaged, so it was first repaired and renamed the Bahai as the 2nd Armored Cruiser Detachment.

In addition, the Qingzhou and Yizhou, which returned with the evacuation fleet, originally belonged to the Second Cruiser Detachment, but now the other four warships of the Second Cruiser Squadron are all in Japan to assist the Marine Corps in combat, and of course the two warships cannot form a detachment, so these two warships are temporarily incorporated into the 1st Armored Cruiser Detachment.

On the whole, although the KPA Navy did not concentrate all the ships this time, its strength was much stronger than during the Battle of Tsushima, mainly due to the fact that a large number of warships were captured in the Battle of Tsushima and were incorporated into the KPA Navy after repair.

In addition to gathering the fleet, it is also necessary to formulate tactics, and to conduct war games to determine the most reasonable tactics, which is also the main work of the Admiralty during this period, in contrast to the landing in Japan and the evacuation of overseas Chinese, in the work of the Admiralty did not spend too much energy, mainly the relevant fleets themselves are responsible.

Seeing that the expeditionary force was about to reach the waters of the Far East, the Military Commission also held a hearing on the operational plan drawn up by the Admiralty. In addition to Xiao Jianjun, the person in charge of the Central Military Commission, Xia Bohai also attended the meeting, which was personally explained by Shang Jinfeng, Minister of the Navy.

"The battlefield of this operation will be set in the Taiwan Strait. Because in this operation, our goal is to annihilate as many ships of the expeditionary force as possible, and preferably of course all of them. However, in sea warfare, the battlefield is vast, and it may not be difficult to win, but it is not easy to completely annihilate the opponent, and once the war is unfavorable, warships can scatter and flee the battlefield. Although the Battle of Tsushima in the old time and space and the current time and space were battles in which the opponent was basically annihilated, these two Tsushima naval battles had certain particularities, both of which were waiting for the victorious side to work at ease, and the number and strength of the fleets of both sides were not much different. And these two conditions, we do not have at present. ”

"Although the expeditionary force also came from afar, because it was through the Suez Canal, their voyage was more than 10,000 kilometers less than that of the Russian fleet, and the consumption was naturally smaller than that of the Russian fleet, and after passing through the Strait of Malacca, the expeditionary force rested for more than a month in Singapore, Java, Indochina and other places. As for the number of fleets, not to mention, whether it is the number of capital ships or the total number of warships, the expeditionary force will far surpass us; although we have five modern warships in formation, it is not very difficult to defeat the expeditionary force, but if we fight in conventional sea areas, it is basically impossible to completely annihilate the expeditionary fleet, and according to the military chess deduction, the most ideal result can only annihilate about 5 percent of the ships of the expeditionary force, and the capital ships of the expeditionary force cannot reach 5 percent. ”

"In order to achieve total annihilation or heavy damage to the expeditionary fleet, the battlefield must be set in a relatively small and closed sea area, and it must also be near the middle of the expeditionary force's route, and it must not be too far away from us, so only the Taiwan Strait is the most suitable operational sea area to achieve this goal. The Taiwan Strait is generally in a north-east-south-west trend, flanked by Chinese mainland and Taiwan Island, with a total length of about 370 kilometers; the north is narrow and the south is wide, the north mouth is about 200 kilometers wide; the south mouth is about 410 kilometers wide; the narrowest point is between Baisha Cape of Taiwan Island and Pingtan Island in Fujian, about 130 kilometers; the total area is about 80,000 square kilometers. It is about 700 kilometers away from Shanghai, and the sea area is relatively closed, but there is a certain amount of room for combat, and we have also conducted a detailed survey of the water ripples in the Taiwan Strait, which is the most suitable sea area for fighting a war of annihilation at sea. Our fleet will be divided into the North and South Fleets, with the North Fleet as the main force, responsible for attracting the expeditionary fleet into the Taiwan Strait and blocking the northern exit of the Taiwan Strait, while the Southern Fleet was hidden in the waters around Lanyu Island off the southeast of Taiwan before the war, and after the expeditionary fleet entered the Taiwan Strait, it will attack and block the southern exit of the Taiwan Strait, catch turtles in an urn, and annihilate the expeditionary fleet in the Taiwan Strait in one fell swoop. ”

After introducing the general operational ideas, Shang Jinfeng gave a detailed account of the distribution of forces of the North-South Fleet; the Northern Fleet allocated a total of six battleships, in addition to the five battleships that participated in the evacuation of overseas Chinese, the Fuyang was also included in the Northern Fleet, and in terms of armored cruisers, it was the first armored cruiser detachment, plus two Qingzhou-class protective cruisers; in addition, there were also the first and fourth cruiser squadrons, and the second and third destroyer squadrons. In total, there were 29 combat warships.

The Northern Fleet consisted of only two old-fashioned battleships, the Lookout and the Ocean, as well as five armored cruisers of the newly formed Second Armored Cruiser Detachment, and the other ships were the Third and Sixth Cruiser Fleets, and the First and Fourth Destroyer Fleets, totaling 23 combat warships.

The five modern warships were assigned to the Kunming and Xiangyang ships to the Northern Fleet, and the Yueyang, Sanya, and Huaihua ships to the Southern Fleet.