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Linga Islands, the eastern gate of the Straits of Malacca.

Under the red sunset, the majestic battleship Counterattack was refracted by the beam of light, revealing indescribable grandeur and majesty. Beside it, five escort warships and three transports loaded with 1,300 heavily armed British troops slowly sailed, cleaving the waves and cutting the waves to the west.

"General."

The captain turned his head, looked at Livingston, who was standing in front of the porthole and frowned, and cleared his throat: "The forward ship Ariston asks whether to go left or right." ”

As soon as the words came out, all eyes on the bridge converged on Livingston, whose face was gloomy and could almost grasp the water. At this moment, everyone has already gotten the news, just last night! A battalion of about 500 Chinese marines landed on the island of Natuna, quickly disarmed the poor Dutch troops there, declared the Natuna Islands and the Anambas Islands to be China's inherent territory, and prepared to turn the island into a temporary shelter for refugees.

Also today, two hours ago, the Japanese government also sent the battleship Battleship Kongo and two cruisers to the south quickly on the pretext of protecting the expatriate. This is disturbing news, and Japan is also involved in the intervention of China and the United States, does this mean that the three countries will intervene in the East Indies with arms? If it intervenes, or provides only partial support, the undertrooped Batavian government is likely to lose control of the Maluku Islands, Sulawesi, Java, Borneo, and even Sumatra. Once Sumatra is taken over by any of these three, the vital Strait of Malacca and Singapore and even Malaya will be threatened!

It's a challenge! It is a naked challenge to the Royal Navy's dominance in the South China Sea! Everybody knows. That's why I'm more concerned about this issue.

To the left, Natuna.

To the right, the island of Java.

The orderly had already changed the general's coffee three times, but the figure in front of the porthole was still motionless. Livingston has no evidence that the crisis was a conspiracy, but it is certain that it was a perfectly strategic-level operation to take the crisis to the extreme! It can even be said that a new mode of world competition has been opened!

He had no doubts about it. Since its establishment in 1912 until yesterday, China has not raised the issue of Natuna's sovereignty, and now it has taken advantage of the insurrection in the East Indies to suddenly send troops to occupy it. The island was also brought under rule in the name of building a refugee camp. Fearing that the Far East Fleet would eventually draw the United States and Japan south one after another, complicating the crisis.

For the British, it would rather China take West Borneo than see Natuna lost, and the loss of Natuna would mean using the European war to regain the northern lands. Yang Qiu finally showed his fangs to the south! "Yang Qiu, Yang Qiu!" Vice Admiral Livingston repeated the name, and as a core officer in the Navy, he knew better than ordinary people that this was a formidable and difficult opponent.

At the age of 20, he founded the Wehrmacht. At the age of 24, the reunification of the country was completed, and the army, from personnel to training, was almost entirely completed by individuals. It's not that a soldier doesn't know what this means, but he knows it very well, which means that as long as he gives an order, even if it is across thousands of mountains and rivers, the Wehrmacht will not hesitate to go forward. It's not a lie, the army is such a monster, especially the founder who led them to make great achievements! So he is the soul of the whole army! And generals such as Cai Yi, Yue Peng, and Qin Zhangshu are just his subordinates, and he is the brain of the entire army and even the entire country.

Perhaps his ideology and strategy were not clear when he built the army, but how far could his gaze penetrate after many years of stealing from a high position through the war against Japan and Europe? It has become the most important thing for strategists around the world to know. Such a person has enough strategic thinking, enough means. Once a man who is still a skilled military strategist gains a foothold on Natuna Island, the South China Sea is bound to gradually become China's inland sea!

Psychologically, what he wants most to do now is to immediately send troops to Natuna to sink the Chinese navy one by one and then land on the island, and put the archipelago under the control of the Far East Fleet, but the problem is that Whitehall does not dare to start a war with China now. Therefore, he was ordered to help the Netherlands solve the crisis on the island of Java first, and then solve the Natuna issue after ensuring the security of the islands of Java and Sumatra.

Seeing this scene in the eyes of the staff officer, he stood up: "General, you can order the counterattack to shell the island of Natuna, expel the ships gathered around, and then send troops to land and drive them away." It is also possible to order the Hood to intercept the Chinese battle cruisers. Lure them out into the waters off Sarawak and let's head out to sink them! ”

Livingston glanced approvingly, but he knew he couldn't. The reason is very simple, so far Yang Qiu has successfully wrapped all his actions under the glamorous cloak of protecting overseas Chinese and rescuing refugees! Intercepting an overseas Chinese protection fleet, whether international or domestic, will cause an uproar, and then China and Britain will become mortal enemies that can never be resolved.

"It's a bad day!" Lieutenant General Livingston took a deep breath, lit his cigar and walked to the side of Java.

At the same time as he made his decision, the Islamist coalition guerrillas led by Xiao Jinyun and Suharto arrived in Batavia after a day and a night, and no matter how strong the Dutch regular army was, it was never able to fill the huge advantage in human resources. On the afternoon of February 21, Lord Decaux's most important servant army suddenly defected, and even hundreds of local sailors in the naval fortress revolted, killing officers and sailing 2 destroyers and several small ships to Surabaya under cover of night.

Faced with the guerrillas who had more than doubled in number, the Dutch colonial army was overwhelmed, and Lord Decor had to go to the naval fortress under the protection of the soldiers, while at the same time withdrawing the soldiers sent to Borneo, and finally hurriedly sent a telegram asking for domestic reinforcements as soon as possible.

It was impossible to take down the naval fortress without heavy weapons, but the control of the city of Batavia made the GC League and the Islamic guerrillas very excited, but the news of the landing of 1,300 British soldiers in the early morning of the 22nd was like a basin of cold water to wake them up. Fearing that the world would not be chaotic, Hsiao Jinyun took the opportunity to suggest that the British and Dutch expatriates from all over Java be used as hostages, and after a heated argument, the local soldiers and Islamic guerrillas in the GC Allied Army agreed to this plan.

In the afternoon, more than 2,000 Anglo-Dutch expatriates living in Batavia and Surabaya, who had not had time to evacuate, were arrested. In order to prevent the enemy from rescuing, these "precious" bargaining chips were quickly transferred to the depths of the rainforest. By the morning of the 24th, the Islamic guerrillas sent an envoy to the fortress for the first time, demanding that the British troops immediately withdraw from Java and not interfere in the East India incident, and hinted that thousands of hostages had been controlled and threatened. Important hostages, including Worcester, of Anglo-Dutch Shell, caught Britain and Dutch off guard, and Livingston and Lord Decaux had to wait for a response from Europe before deciding what means to use.

The insurrectionary movement threatened with hostages completely changed the rules of the game, Europe was shocked, and Britain and the Netherlands were tricky. Countries have also taken the opportunity to hype up GCISM as having turned into terrorism! In the face of the safety of thousands of hostages, while the Anglo-Dutch parliament was discussing for several days, the East Indies riots spread rapidly like a prairie fire.

27th. Semarang and Bandung were occupied by the rebels.

On the 29th, gunshots rang out in Sumatra, and riots were also heard in Borneo on the same day, and tens of thousands of locals once again gathered to occupy the city and attack the Chinese.

March 1. There are also news of riots in Sulawesi and British-controlled Sarawak!

Overnight, the whole South Seas was agitated! At this moment of crisis, when troop carriers from Taiwan finally arrived in Surabaya and Batavia, the Chinese Marines immediately set up expatriate settlements in both places and began to retreat, and the navy sent a clear telegram to recruit all Chinese ships sailing in the East India and the South China Sea.

By March 3, a total of 117 ships of various types had joined the evacuation operation, and about 30,000 Chinese and American expatriates boarded transport ships to Natuna, Borneo, and Luzon. On the same day, a domestic evacuation and resettlement force consisting of 17 ships arrived on Natuna Island, and about 1,000 soldiers from the vanguard of the 23rd Brigade of the National Defense Force went to the island, bringing dozens of construction machinery. At the same time, another group of 1,500 soldiers disembarked from Pontianak and other West Borneo seaports. Crack down on the rioters who stormed the city and ensure the safety of overseas Chinese.

In the face of the huge East Indies riots, Britain and the Netherlands had no intention of caring about the evacuation of overseas Chinese from China and the United States, let alone talking about an illegal landing in West Borneo at this time. Even Vice Admiral Livingston abandoned all confrontation and allowed Chinese and American ships to escort the expatriates away.

By the afternoon of March 4, the Japanese Navy escort formation arrived. Four thousand IDF troops have landed in Natuna, West Borneo and Java, and have sent two cruisers carrying large quantities of light weapons in the direction of the Sumatra oil fields to be distributed to the Gulf Oil Company Security Force to ensure the safety of the oil fields.

The Japanese navy, which had long coveted the affluence of the South Seas, also used the same tactics to join the evacuation operation, and about 500 Japanese soldiers landed on the island of Java to evacuate the island's expatriates to Sulawesi, and set up a temporary refugee settlement in Makassar.

On March 9, due to the influx of expatriates, the Chinese navy built refugee camps in Anabas Islands and Tameran Islands. In one fell swoop, the islands around the Natuna Islands were included in the so-called "temporary resettlement of expatriates in the territory", and thousands of refugees who had escaped were also recruited to build camps and other projects, and a large amount of machinery and equipment and cement building materials were shipped from China.

On March 12, the first batch of 50,000 tons of grain purchased by Yang Qiu from the United States arrived in Natuna, and the status of Natuna Island as a transit point for refugees in crisis was officially established! While a large number of domestic construction workers and machinery and equipment continue to arrive, the number of national defense forces (including the navy) gathered in Natuna and West Borneo has exceeded 21,000! He also took initial control of important Chinese-populated areas such as Natuna and West Borneo, and also set up temporary military camps to protect overseas Chinese in the three seaports of Surabaya, Semarang, and Batavia, so as to collect the retreat of overseas Chinese on Java Island.

By 23 March, 140,000 expatriates had been evacuated from Java, of whom 70,000 were resettled on islands such as Natuna and the remainder in West Borneo cities such as Pontianak, which were already under the control of the National Defense Forces.

At this point, the whole East Indies is like a big colander! The Anglo-Dutch forces, eager to extinguish the uprising, could only watch as ships from various countries gathered in the East Indies and were helpless, and thousands of hostages allowed the two teams to throw rats, which brought a brief period of calm to Java. As for Sukarno, Vychensky and others, they also wished that all the Chinese would be evacuated and a republic would be established entirely under the rule of the East Indians.

On March 25, while Yang Qiu set off from the United States to return to China, in the face of the growing rebel army every day, the anxious Dutch government promised to establish West Borneo [Sino-Dutch Free Trade Zone] under the condition that Nanjing promised not to demand land in West Borneo and would not be involved in the East Indies riots, on the condition that the Wehrmacht must ensure local security, help the colonial government to suppress the rebels, and withdraw from West Borneo when the situation is stable.

On the 26th, the Lombok Agreement was signed in Lombok, and the Chinese delegation led by Wang Zhaoming and Lord Deco formally signed the agreement on the neutralization economic free trade area, but the Natuna issue was forced by British pressure and the Dutch government did not write it into the agreement. After the news broke, the KMT was extremely excited. However, on the third day after the agreement was signed, Hu Hanmin and 371 other important members of the Nanyang People's Party were arrested by the National Defense Forces in Pontianak and other places on charges of colluding with the Soviet Union to undermine the security of the East Indies, causing a large number of Chinese casualties.

The Great Arrest once again shook the world and turned all eyes to Moscow, taking the opportunity to suggest that the East India uprisings and the chaos in the South Seas were entirely caused by the GC International Export Revolution.

The enraged British had no choice but to put down Natuna to deal with the East Indian guerrillas and authorize Lieutenant General Livingston to be the commander-in-chief of military operations in the East Indies.

Livingston and the Far East Fleet had long been holding back their anger, and after receiving the order, they vented all their anger on the Javanese and Sumatran rebels, not only officially representing the Anglo-Dutch government to refuse to negotiate with the East India GC Alliance and Islamic guerrillas, and refusing to withdraw the colonial troops, but also vigorously suppressing the rebellion in Sumatra, and at the same time sending 13,000 soldiers from India, Persia and the mainland to form a coalition army to kill Java.

The Javanese War was on the verge of breaking out.

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