"You're going to withdraw your troops? This hasn't been fought yet, and you're going to withdraw your troops? ”

Yang Feng looked at Van Mock in disbelief, the latter had been promoted to general and had actually been transferred back to Europe, but this time it was probably because he had a good relationship with Yang Feng, so the Dutch government specially asked him to inform him of this somewhat embarrassing news.

It's because I haven't fought yet, so I withdrew! What a shame it would be to fight and then withdraw!

Van Mork thought to himself.

"Your Excellency, it is not really a withdrawal of troops, but a gradual reduction in the number of troops in the Far East, according to our plan, to reduce the garrison to 10,000 by the end of the year, and the defense of the autonomous republics is gradually under their own responsibility, after all, as a federation, these things should be shared and not the Dutch army alone."

He went on to say.

Of course, these are all face-saving words, everyone understands that this means that the Netherlands will completely withdraw from the stage of the Far East, as for the autonomous republics of the Dutch-Indian Federation, they have already left it alone, you can go as you like, you can stand if you are willing to stand up, you can go to the sugar daddy if you are willing to spend a lot of money, and you are willing to stay under the queen's banner, then we are also welcome, anyway, if something happens, we will not send troops to protect it, at most we will support it spiritually.

"Well, what do you want me to say? You've made me passive! ”

Yang Feng said very melancholy.

He really didn't expect these profiteers to run so simply, and they ran away as soon as they saw that the limelight was wrong, this brain was absolutely smart, but in this way he was very passive, after all, on Java Island, the 200,000 Dutch troops can still be regarded as the most powerful force until now. The Ming army there were only 50,000 men, while Hada had only 150,000, and there were 40,000 Whips of Allah. These troops were scattered along the long N-shaped defensive line, and the retreat of the Dutch army would leave the entire line in tatters.

In other words, during the retreat period of the Dutch army for most of the half year, at least 200,000 troops will be needed to fill the vacancy left by them.

But now Yang Feng is also short of troops, he has a total of 250,000 troops in his hands, and Assam is stationed in 50,000. There are 50,000 on the island of Java, and in Sumatra, there are three overseas Chinese escort teams in Palembang, Medan, and Padang, all of which are at the brigade level, and there are still some in Li Zongren's place, and after deducting the garrisons of various bases in Borneo and Yingtian, there are less than 100,000 mobile combat forces that can be used in their hands! You can't just take it all and plug the holes left by the Dutch, can you?

But now that the Dutch have decided, they certainly won't change because of him.

"Okay? That being the case. I don't have much more to say! However, I hope that your Air Force will not be cut for the time being. ”

Yang Feng said.

The Dutch Air Force also has more than a hundred combat aircraft here, the main base is Batavia, and it also shares the Machen base with his Air Force, and these more than 100 are all Meteor MK8s like the Ming Army, which are still very useful if they can stay.

"Well, I think Congress will agree."

Van Mock said.

After they left, Yang Feng's interests in the Far East would have to be taken care of by Yang Feng, and a large number of Yang Feng's enterprises in the Netherlands were also becoming an important force in the Dutch economy. In any way, this face should be sold. After all, they themselves know very well that they are not doing an authentic job, and it is an explanation for the Air Force to stay, and it is not bad to train the pilots in this way.

The news that the Netherlands would gradually reduce its garrison in the East Indies immediately caused an uproar in Southeast Asia, and everyone understood that if they withdrew at such a time, they would completely withdraw from the Far East stage. The sea coachmen, who once roamed the ocean, have also completely withdrawn from the stage of the great powers, although they have long been reduced to a small supporting role, but this time it is a complete end.

Almost as soon as the first Dutch troops boarded the transport ship to return to Europe in Batavia, the already impatient Autonomous Republic of Aceh declared its independence from the Dutch-Indian Federation.

The Government of the Netherlands condemned this.

But that's all.

This is followed by the Autonomous Republic of North Sumatra and the Autonomous Republic of Java. The merger was announced without going through the Dutch government, and Hada remained prime minister.

Fortunately, he has not directly declared his independence.

The Dutch government is silent.

Under the instruction of Yang Feng, the two autonomous republics of Borneo in the east and west announced their merger to form a new autonomous republic of Borneo, and of course they did not announce their establishment.

The Dutch government remained silent.

"Doesn't the Führer seem to be in a good mood?"

Lao Pan stood on the dock, looked at the merchant ships that were gradually moving away, and said to Yang Feng with a smile.

The four tribal-class destroyers had already crossed the strait on a stormy night, and the bald interceptor fleet was unable to stop them in the end because of the bad sea conditions, except for one destroyer that was shot, the other three ships were intact, and at this time they had taken refuge in the Yangtze River and were sailing upstream to Wuhan, where they were fully armed.

However, these four destroyers will make some changes in the configuration of weapons, except for the main guns have not changed, everything else has been changed, the air defense weapons have become four twin 37 mm anti-aircraft guns, semi-open gun emplacements, and the air defense machine guns have been changed to four four-link 14.5 mm, these are all directly provided by Yang Feng, and then his people are responsible for the installation.

Lao Pan is here to inspect the goods this time, of course, that's just what it means.

has been dealing with Yang Feng for so long, and he now occasionally jokes with Yang Feng.

"Alas, my friends are gone one by one, how can you make me feel good!"

Yang Feng said melancholy.

"Your friends should have left a long time ago, the era of the colonizers has passed, and now the people of Asia have awakened, but their minds are still stuck in the ancient Victorian era, but they do not know that they have been swept into the dustbin of history, and now they are smart to go, and when the people who pursue freedom rise up and drive them away, they will not be so polite as they are now."

Lao Pan said lightly.

"Are you sarcastic about me?"

Yang Feng said very purely.

"No, I'm just telling a fact."

Lao Pan said.

Yang Feng nodded, and suddenly turned back and said, "You're just sarcastic about me!" ”

After speaking, he looked at a middle-aged woman who had been standing not far from them, looking quite charming, and said, "Who is this eldest sister?" Are you a lady? It looks like the two of you are quite husband and wife, go back and take it to the mall, and buy anything is mine. ”

"No, no, this is Miss Hu."

"Miss Hu? Is it still a young lady at such an age? ”

"That, Your Excellency, we shouldn't be too concerned about people's personal feelings, she is a special correspondent of the Xinhua News Agency, and she is going to be stationed in Ying Tianfu in the future, but we have already registered with your industrial and commercial and cultural departments, and we have consulted, and you do not prohibit the activities of the Xinhua News Agency here."

Lao Pan said.

"Of course, we have freedom of speech here, not to mention Xinhua News Agency, what about the Soviet Pravda and reporters, last time she was expelled by us because she sneaked into a military restricted area, but she is really not your wife?"

Lao Pan looked at him speechlessly.

"Okay, but I need to remind you that if Miss Hu also likes to get lost in the military restricted area, we will also expel her, and I have a lot of military restricted areas here."

"Your Excellency, we have no interest in your military exclusion zone in the slightest."

"That's for the best." Yang Feng nodded and put his arm around his shoulder, and said sincerely with a smile: "Old Pan, do you want to do a big business?" ”

"How old?" Lao Pan asked vigilantly.

"It's huge, estimated to be in the millions."

"Your Excellency, you have taken millions of people from us, is it not enough?"

"Millions? How can there be so many, I remember that even the sinners of the decadent class plus the stubborn anti-Dong faction are less than a million people in total, and you won't even count the refugees who left on their own, right? That has nothing to do with you, it's the people themselves who are willing to go to me. ”

Yang Feng said.

In his opinion, the number of people brought in during this period is indeed not very large, and about 4 million people were sent to pick up ships in various ports, while less than 1 million were traded with Comrade Li, and this was mainly due to the lack of cooperation of their local comrades, especially those who had a relatively high ideological consciousness, and even resisted this, and there were those who secretly killed people without reporting them, and there were also those who deliberately caused accidental deaths.

In addition, his work team was too serious, to be honest, Comrade Li killed in the early days, and indeed a large part of them should be killed, after knowing that the objects they wanted to save were actually mixed, those work team members would definitely not bring in some of the real scum of society, so they were more strict in auditing, and the result was that the efficiency was not high.

And those prisoners of war, the vast majority of them are illiterate peasants, they want to go home after the war and their wives and children are hot on the kang, and even many people don't know what the Ming Dynasty is like, such people want him to leave his hometown and run abroad, of course, he won't do it, the Chinese have a strong sense of locality, especially the northerners, many of whom would rather be targeted in their hometowns than throw a handful of bones to the South Seas.

That is, some officers and literate people are well-informed, and they know that Yang Feng's side agrees to come over, so the number of these people is not too large.

And this time, Yang Feng targeted those soldiers of the People's Chinese Army who were being gradually dismissed home by Comrade Li after surrendering.

Because he wants to expand the army, a large-scale expansion of the army, at least 300,000 troops, he has a hunch that if this war is to really be fought, if it is not done well, it will get out of control, and he must prepare in advance. (To be continued.) )