Chapter 526: Conquering Ten Thousand Islands in One Fell Swoop
Through Mai Ke's efforts, the first special operations team of the Heavenly Army has established a basic framework, and it already has two divisions with a total of 20,000 people.
Due to the special salvation of the Holy Spirit, the original religious leader of Silkland, Hammed, became a staunch Christian, so he led the vast majority of believers to accept the Christian faith and become Christians at the same time.
After this change, the gates of Jakarta were opened, and everyone in the city, including Mayor Sotov, men, women, and children, came to celebrate with these veritable new members of the kingdom of heaven.
The party had two purposes: one was to celebrate the success of the adaptation, and the other was to send off the First Captain of Heaven on an expedition.
Mai Ke had officially announced that this newly established army would join the expeditionary force, and after the party, it would set off to the north to join up with the other expeditionary force units gathered there, and leave Burma by land and enter neighboring Pakistan.
This newly added special combat team was not included in his and Mai Ke's original plan, but at that time, the two of them unanimously hoped in their hearts that it would be great if there was an army transformed from a trace of Lan!
Now, at the right time, God has prepared such a special combat team for them! For this, the two of them thanked God in unison in their hearts for the fulfillment!
Sotov was now happiest, and the greatest conflict of religious beliefs since he took office was resolved invisibly, not only was the contradiction removed, but it was also very good that God made all things work together for the benefit of God's people, and even the events that began to oppose God ended in the glory of God.
This incident also gave Sotov greater confidence. He saw that as a member of the Catholic Church, breaking with tradition and participating in administration was an acceptable thing to God.
After sending off the Heavenly Kingdom Special Operations Team, Mai Ke did not go back to join the Six Divisions to do those troublesome military coordination and arrangements, but shifted his attention to the battle for the Sulu Islands.
In addition to the two main islands of Sumatra and Java, Sulu has countless small and medium-sized islands, as well as Kalimantan, which is the largest but belongs to Malaysia in the north. This is also known as East Malaysia. Therefore, not all of this island belongs to Sulu.
Sulu is also known as the East Indies, which is the direct meaning of the name Sulu, which means East Indies. During Mai Ke's visit to Sulu. The main dominant force was the Dutch colonial institution, the East India Company.
Therefore. The main opponent of the expeditionary force. This included not only the Sulu regime and the army, but also the Dutch navy, which had a fleet based at the East India headquarters. Set on the island of Kalimantan, there are also several marines stationed on several key islands.
Not long ago, Wenfu's navy captured Sumatra and Java, and Mai Ke also established the city of St. Sulu there, but, just as the religious problem was not resolved, the islands to which Sulu belonged were not fully occupied.
In fact, all the fleets of the Celestial Navy, in this region, are fighting lively, going all out to fight island by island.
The reason for this is that there are so many islands in Sulu, and according to the data obtained by Peter by various means, there are more than 17,500 islands in total!
This also determines that the battle to seize the islands cannot be carried out one by one, but must disperse the troops, dozens or hundreds of islands together, even so, even if each attack is completed in only one day, it will take nearly 200 days!
Therefore, Wen Fu was a tactic of dividing his troops to seize the island from the beginning, and Napoleon came to reinforce him, which was the same tactic, and even if Peter, the commander-in-chief of the Heavenly Navy, came, he could only use this tactic!
But up to now, these admirals have survived the most difficult stage, and the bitterness is coming!
Today they are going to fight Kalimantan, take the whole island in one fell swoop, and solve the Dutch naval power!
Peter was already victorious, for those who had sent out to sweep the other islands had returned victorious, and there were more than 17,500 islands registered as belonging to the kingdom of heaven, which means that wherever there is a lord, the master must be the kingdom of heaven, and those islands that have no lord will also belong to the kingdom of heaven in the future.
Mai Ke had already made a detailed plan to cooperate with such an occupation, and if the population reached 10,000, he would send a permanent soldier of the Heavenly Kingdom, and if it reached 100,000, it would be a battalion, and if it reached 1 million, it would be a regiment.
This is not counting the local armament that was built up according to need.
Until the establishment of a supporting political organization, all the occupied islands were under provisional military administration, and everything was under the responsibility of the garrison chief.
Peter looked at a list of the larger islands, where the provincial units of Sulu were located, and at a cursory glance, these provinces and islands included: the provinces of Sumatra, the provinces of Java, Bali, East and West Nusa Tenggara, Maluku, North Maluku, Irian Jaya, and Sulaweri.
Some of these islands were not part of the Dutch power, but belonged to other powers, such as the Portuguese-ruled East Timor, which were also taken by the Celestial Navy.
Whatever belongs to heaven, no matter who says it belongs to him, it is all invalid!
Today's battle was under Peter's personal command and in direct confrontation with the Dutch East India Fleet, with Wen Fu leading half of his fleet around the north of Kalimantan Island to capture several provinces in East Malaysia, while Napoleon was in charge of the eastern provinces, which were the last remnants of Sulu and half of his fleet.
Peter himself led half of the first two fleets to form a combined fleet, responsible for the west and south sides, and the first task was to deal with the Dutch fleet.
The commander of the Dutch fleet was Mentov, who had been dealing with the Celestial Navy for more than a month, at first going to rescue other islands, and fighting with Wen Fu and others several times, all of which ended in disastrous defeats.
While he was dodging, he also used the fastest way to ask for help from the Dutch mother country, so that they could quickly send a powerful fleet to the rescue, otherwise the interests of this colony would not be protected.
It's a pity that the emergency help didn't come, but he couldn't dodge, because today the Heavenly Navy directly surrounded his old nest, the Kalimantan Naval Base, so he knew that he was invincible, so he had no choice but to face it.
He actually knew the reason for his failure: the artillery fire was not as good as the other party, not to mention, the key was that the quality of the warship was inferior to the people, basically it was a combination of a sail battleship and an ironclad ship, and the best thing to do was only an armored ship, and the opponent was already a rear ironclad ship!
In other words, an opponent's cannonball can easily shatter his ship, while his cannonball poses little threat to the opponent's ship.
Therefore, this battle has not yet been fought, and the defeat is decided!
However, he is a soldier, and the integrity of a soldier makes him unable to stop fighting! (To be continued......