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The relationship between Britain and the Netherlands has not been very good, since the 19th century, the British and Dutch colonial forces have fought many times for control of the Strait of Malacca, so Song Xiaofei proposed a plan for China and Britain to divide the South Seas after China's occupation of Indonesia, and the British government is also very interested in cooperation, not only sending warships to seal the Strait of Malacca, but also allowing the Chinese ** ship to lease British ports in the South Seas.

Song Xiaofei looked at the battle plan drawn up by Duan Qirui, Liu Buyun and others: the squadron advanced from the east, west, and north to the near of Java Island, controlled Borneo, Celebes, Sumatra and other islands, blocked the area near Java Island from the sea, and then landed from the east and west sides at the same time, occupied Java, and completed the occupation of the entire Dutch Indian islands. It's a good plan, and he agrees.

In order to occupy Indonesia, Song Xiaofei issued a presidential decree and invested Nie Shicheng's Sixth Army, with a total of two divisions and one independent brigade, a total of 100,000 people, and the navy was mainly Liu Buyun's First Fleet and Li Yuanhong's Third Fleet, using the South China Sea base and the newly purchased Dahan-class battleships, a total of 40 cruiser ironclad warships.

In 1903, just when the Dutch thought that the Chinese were celebrating the Lunar New Year, the squadron began its campaign against Indonesia, and the first island to be taken was Sumatra. Because Sumatra has been producing gold in the mountains since ancient times, in the 16th century, because of the name of "Golden Island", it attracted many Portuguese explorers to Sumatra in search of gold. It is the second largest island in Indonesia, bordering the South China Sea and Java Island in the east, and Java Island in the southeast, accounting for 1/4 of Indonesia's land area, as well as a large amount of oil, tin, iron, gold, iron and rubber resources, it is one of the richest colonies in Asia, and its economic status is second only to Java Island.

What's more, the Dutch had not yet fully occupied Sumatra at this time, in March 1873. The Dutch sent warships to invade the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, provoked the Aceh War, and fell into the sea of the Aceh people's anti-Dutch struggle, and the local feudal chieftains of Aceh supported the new sultan. Lead the people of Aceh to continue their struggle against the Netherlands. In 1881, the Dutch colonial government announced that the Aceh War had ended, but in fact the Dutch army only controlled the main communication routes, and the Aceh War was in a stalemate stage, and the Dutch colonists had spent hundreds of millions of dong in military spending, which was why the Netherlands refused to sell Indonesia to China at a low price of three million silver dollars.

The naval battle unfolded in Palembang, South Sumatra. The combined fleets of the Netherlands, France, and Spain had a total of 8 cruisers and 12 gunboats participating in the naval battle. Palembang is a huge naval base that the Dutch spent a full fifteen years and millions of dollars to create.

That afternoon, everything was normal in the port, as calm as an afternoon on a rainy weekend. Most of the time, dark clouds cover the sky. It provided a natural shield for the Chinese fleet to sneak attack Palembang, and the Dutch did not expect that the sneak attack would not happen at night, but in the afternoon. Attack it unprepared".

Standing on the deck of the flagship of the "Queen Wilhelmina", the new commander-in-chief of the Dutch Far East Fleet, Dutch Admiral Philkadru, 5 feet 4 inches tall, with a very stubby neck, from a distance, it seems that the body is directly connected without a transition under the head, he is 52 years old at the time, and has spent 28 years in the navy. Experienced in combat, he discovered that it was too late for a Chinese destroyer to enter the port, and within half an hour, seven warships parked southwest of Palembang had already been attacked. Huge black smoke rose over the harbor.

When a torpedo hit the cruiser "Amsterdam", which was next to the "Queen Wilhelmina". Its weld was shaken open by the shock wave from a huge explosion, and on the nearby destroyer, a bomb hit its ammunition depot, and the resulting explosion fragments flew everywhere.

When the first bomb exploded, the captain of the Dutch gunboat "Amsterdam" Yegatsi and his companions. Standing on the old destroyer, dressed in their stiff white outfits with golden braids, with a dazed face, around him, explosions were everywhere.

The heavy artillery on the Chinese cruiser also fired, 10,000 guns fired in unison, the shells over the entire ocean seemed to be thrown a lot of sand, one bomb hit the middle of the "Amsterdam", the other two fell on both ends of the battleship, the explosion caused the battleship to catch fire in several places, Fang Boqian was on the deck of the battleship "Republic", waving his arms, commanding the gunners: "Bombard those Dutch for me!" ”

"Amsterdam" was hit by two torpedoes at the same time, the propulsion shafts of the two left compartments stopped turning, the steering gear also failed, and a signal was sent to Captain Yegatsi: "The battleship is out of control and begins to tilt." ”

When the battleship "Amsterdam" began to tilt, the cruiser "Juliana" next to it approached to see if it could help. But when the battleship approached, three more torpedoes flew, one of which hit the rudder of the cruiser "Juliana", and as a result, it also lost control.

Admiral Phil Cardru hurriedly commanded the battleships to counterattack, and the 7,000-ton Dutch battleships "Princess" and "Sannaali" stepped up their horsepower to break out of the encirclement of the Chinese ** ship. But then, the "Dahan" class battleship commanded by Liu Buyun also opened fire, with a loud sound, a bomb hit the second turret of the battleship "Princess", it was also attacked by several torpedoes, the bomb passed through the deck, exploded in the front ammunition depot, with a huge shock wave, this bomb exploded together with the ammunition on the "Princess", this big explosion shook almost the entire harbor, and the shock wave could be felt hundreds of yards around it, and the red-hot fragments flew around the hull.

The Sannaali was also immediately ignited and turned into a large fire tower, 500 feet high. Then three more bombs hit the warship, and the hull of the ship quickly began to sink, and before the entire hull could capsize, more than 1,000 officers and men were drowned in the sea with the warship, hundreds of filthy and exhausted soldiers clinging to the shattered remnants of the sea, or floating on the oil slick, like vacationers in a hive.

Captain Philkadrew ordered all the men to gather on deck and prepare for the battle, but several officers around him grabbed him and forced him to leave the ship with them. A bomb hit the battleship "Queen Williammina", it spewed black smoke, and the big ship trembled like a huge sleigh. On the bridge of another warship "Bridrod", Admiral Philkadrew and Dutch Navy Captain John? Lizel, standing next to each other, staring straight ahead with his eyes stiff, remained in this position, watching in agony as the "William Mina" capsized and sank to the bottom of the sea.

Thick smoke enveloped the entire base. It was filled with the smell of burning rubber and the smell of death. The first batch of 300 Krupp cannons fired at the same time, and the overwhelming shells attacked the Dutch army in Sumatra, under the cover of heavy artillery fire, the first batch of 20,000 Chinese troops landed, attacked on the southwest coastline, and occupied Palembang, Sumatra, and the first battle of the squadron was victorious!!