…… The voice in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington spread throughout Europe that night, and Britain and the Netherlands, who had already received another riot in the East Indies, were anxious, and whether President Coolidge was willing or not, he and Yang Qiu stood side by side, and the act of mobilizing the navy to protect overseas Chinese in front of many reporters was undoubtedly sending a message.

China and the United States will jointly intervene in the East India issue!

Whether it's Downing Street or Whitehall, or the Netherlands looking at their faces, they are all in a state of anxiety and unease.

Europe was awake at night, but the East Indies riots intensified. On the afternoon of the second day after the riots, the British Royal Navy, seeing that the situation was not good, immediately organized sailors to Batavia to investigate the situation, but soon after disembarking, the team was ambushed and suffered heavy casualties. In the end, Vice Admiral Livingston had to order the Hawkins-class heavy cruiser Chapter 603 South Sea Riot (10) ship Effingham off the port of Batavia to provide artillery support. However, due to the lack of any prior communication, the sudden roaring naval guns of the Effingham caused a huge misunderstanding, and the heavy cruiser Chongming Island of the Chinese Navy mistakenly thought that it was firing at itself, so it carried out a "counterattack"!

The column of water rising into the sky also frightened the Effingham to abandon the detachment, turn the muzzle of the gun and launch an "attack". Fortunately, due to the long distance and the fact that the Chongming Island immediately took the initiative to pull away at a high speed of 30 knots after judging that the shelling landing point was not its own, it did not lead to a sea battle. The withdrawal of the Chongming Island from the battle made the British naval sailors breathe a sigh of relief, and they also found that it was a misunderstanding, and since there were no casualties, they simply sent a telegram to spray and curse, and then re-cope with the critical situation in Batavia.

Finally, with the support of naval guns. The naval detachment finally arrived at the Governor's Palace in Batavia and met Lord Decaux, who was leading the remaining soldiers to hold the last line of defense. When it was learned that due to the incident, suddenly the Batavian barracks had been occupied. More than 3,000 rifles and a large amount of ammunition were lost, and only two strongholds remained in the city, the Harbor Fortress and the Doge's Palace. The Effingham immediately informed Livingston, Singapore, of the news, which hastily forwarded it to Europe and immediately mobilized the Singapore garrison to test Chapter 603 of the Great Nanyang Riot (10) in an attempt to support Batavia.

But just as he was about to set off, he received three very bad news at the same time.

The first is that two Anhai-class battle cruisers and two U.S. ** ships resupplied in Manila set off at the same time, and after converging 2 Chinese fast troop carriers off the coast of Manila, they flew south at a speed of 20 knots! The second news is that China and the United States announced the East India evacuation operation in Washington at the same time! And the third news was even worse, a British cargo ship that was resting in Sanduao reported. Some seven ocean-going convoys and one oil and water vessel are being assembled, and thousands of F-FDTL soldiers are ready to go.

If there was only the Chinese Navy, Vice Admiral Livingston did not hesitate to order the formation of the Hood, which was on guard near Palawan, to intercept it, but the second telegram made him have to think about the consequences of the interception! Because of this concern. He was forced to send a telegram to Whitehall and wait patiently for a callback, and was later ridiculed by British newspapers as "a coward who made the empire lose the South China Sea".

The battle for Batavia was raging, and more than 20,000 Islamic soldiers gathered in Surabaya City were rapidly heading west. Lieutenant General Livingston waited for a reply, and the Dutch government was so overwhelmed that it had to send troops from Borneo back to Batavia. At this time, the light cruiser Heilongjiang, which was ordered to support the Second Fleet, had quietly arrived on the island of Natuna with two Changfeng-class destroyers.

Historically, the Natuna Islands were regarded by China as the farthest point in southern Xinjiang. Since the Song Dynasty, it has been included in the territory, and although it was temporarily controlled by the Manchurian state, the maps and documents of all dynasties have said that this is the land of China. It was not until the advent of modern colonists that the Dutch seized the East Indies. The Dutch and the British demarcated the island of Natuna, Singapore and other places belonged to the United Kingdom, and the east of the Anambas Islands, including the east of Natuna, was under Dutch control. There was no protest due to the weakness of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but both Anambas and Natuna were clearly marked as Chinese territory on the new map of the Republic of China after the Shanghai Communiqué.

The Netherlands did not protest against this, firstly, the Dutch government had set up tax officers in the Natuna Islands to actually control the surrounding islands, and secondly, compared to the huge East Indies colony of Natuna, it was not important to the Netherlands, and the Republic of China had never mentioned it, so the Dutch government did not bother to pick up this veil to cause conflict. Since neither side of the matter was competing, Britain naturally did not pay much attention to this matter. But he did not expect that it was precisely because of this "negligence" that it led to a war of words that lasted for more than ten years until the British and Dutch withdrew from the Far East.

Natuna Island is the core of the entire archipelago, not to mention the population of less than 10,000 people, the area is only more than 2,000 square kilometers, but because it is in the middle of Borneo and the Malay Peninsula, it can radiate the entire sea area, so the strategic location is very important, and it has been known as the throat gateway of the South China Sea since ancient times!

However, due to the fact that the Netherlands were no longer able to dominate the world, let alone deal with the British Far East Fleet that controlled Singapore, and had few resources, Natuna Island at this time had no modern facilities at all, and as a symbol of colonization, the Batavian government only sent a dozen sailors and a tax collector as a symbol. For the island of Natuna, which has almost no contact with the outside world and is still in slash-and-burn farming, one can imagine what a huge commotion it will cause when several speedboats rush into the fishing port in the north of the island and dozens of heavily armed Chinese Navy commando soldiers land!

"Get out of here, immediately! Natuna is the inviolable and sacred land of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and you are doing this. The Dutch tax officer, who was born in the navy, finally had some backbone, and led the soldiers to hurry to the dock, pointing at the commandos on the island and scolding. But before he finished speaking, he saw two huge 12.7mm fanged heavy machine guns unloaded from a speedboat behind him, and immediately his throat was dry and he stopped the words.

"Feng Zizhang, a second lieutenant of the Chinese Navy commando, was ordered to come and take over. Please let the soldier lay down his arms and take custody immediately, and we will ensure the safety of you and the soldier! Failure to do so will be considered as carrying weapons into our territory illegally...... Dutch tax officers and soldiers were dumbfounded, when did Natuna become Chinese territory? And so arrogantly drove a warship to receive ?! Could it be that both the Imperial Navy and the British Far East Fleet have disappeared? They looked out over the sea at the cruiser with their guns pointed here. Look at the commandos who are fully armed and even have machine guns set up, although they have the heart to protect the dignity of the coachman. But the reality forced them to lay down their arms and accept the supervision of the commandos.

Seeing the Dutch soldiers put down their guns, the Chinese people gathered around came back to their senses. A dark-skinned fisherman didn't seem to believe what was happening in front of him. stepped forward and pretended to be bold: "Master Junjun, you just said, tell me that this is our land?" ”

"Yes! This is Chinese territory! My comrades-in-arms and I will be ordered to be stationed here from now on! Even if you fight to the death, you won't give up! ”

"Haha, I'll just say, hit our Chinese's land here today!" Ha ha. The young man shouted in surprise at first, and then all the Chinese people around him were restless to deliver the "big news", and many of them also took the initiative to help the commando carry their luggage. They were welcomed all the way to the original Dutch Yamen.

"Ashore! Went ashore and clanged. ”

Shortly after the assault team went ashore, a telegram from the Heilongjiang was sent to the war room of the Ministry of National Defense in Nanjing. Xu Shuzheng, who was transferred to the General Staff last year, was on duty in the war room, and when the telegraph operator told him the news that the commando had landed on Natuna Island, he immediately shouted excitedly and rushed to the confidential office. Even the guards who knocked over and carried the water did not pay attention.

"Ashore! Natuna is ours! ”

Xu Shuzheng slammed open the gate, and before Yue Peng and the others inside could react, he said the news that the commando had landed on Natuna Island. Not to mention officers such as Song Ziqing and Yue Peng, who studied military strategy at home and abroad every day, even Cai Jimin and others, who came to the meeting, stood up suddenly.

Natuna!

That's Natuna!

It doesn't take much esoteric vision to see that controlling Natuna is tantamount to controlling the southern gate of the South China Sea. Even the United States, which controls Luzon, and France, which controls Annan, have to accept supervision "under their noses"! "Smack." Yue Peng even put the teacup on the table, glanced at Song Ziqing, and then gave an order: "Send telegrams to Qinzhou, Guangzhou and Sanduao." No matter what method they use, no matter whether they are going to catch or rob, the first batch of reinforcements and equipment must set off before midnight today! In four days, the troops will be sent to the island anyway! Then send a telegram to all submarines and warships in the South China Sea. Except for the warships responsible for guarding and protecting overseas Chinese, the rest all moved closer to Natuna to prevent the British from jumping over the wall! ”

No one blamed him for being so nervous because Natuna was so important. In fact, from the beginning of the Nanyang Plan, Yang Qiu had discussed with them that Natuna was a strategic place where everything had to be obtained and even given up. Since they can see it, then Britain can also see that they ignored it because of Dutch control, and now even if China has dragged the United States into the water, no one dares to guarantee that Britain will not do it.

So everyone knows how urgent the situation is. Even Song Ziqing and Yue Peng and other people who knew all the plans were not spared, because in order to confuse Britain and prevent others from discovering that they had already planned, the domestic troops were not mobilized. It was not an easy task to send enough troops to Natuna, 1,800 kilometres away, before Britain came to their senses. But at this time it had to be done, because as long as the marines went up, unless Britain also committed infantry attacks, the navy alone could not take the big island.

"That's right! Troop carriers, troop carriers are off the coast of Pontianak. Cheng Biguang was even more excited, Natuna won it is of great significance to the navy. Therefore, he was most anxious about the follow-up troop delivery, and when he saw that he had no clue, he suddenly remembered that the Marine battalion that had been sent to Borneo at the beginning of the crisis, but was blocked from going ashore, so he fiercely pushed aside his staff officers and rushed to the map, pointed to Pontianak and shouted: "Here, right here." In the last conflict, I sent a battalion of marines, and the British and the Dutch stayed on this small island temporarily after they refused to go to the island. The Marine battalion has 327 men, complete with artillery and machine guns, and it is no problem to draw 500 more sailors to go to the island, and they will be able to leave now and arrive tomorrow morning at the latest. ”

"Tomorrow morning? Too slow, are there any destroyers nearby? ”

"There are three, and there are two Tumen River light patrol protection." A naval staff officer rushed out.

"Get on board! Let all the Marine battalions board destroyers and light cruisers, and go at full speed to support Natuna. The troop transports were dragged behind, and they must all be on the island by eight o'clock tonight. Song Ziqing didn't dare to delay, and immediately ordered the use of destroyers to transport troops, and shouted at Cai Jimin: "Xiangpu, you call the Information Agency and tell Dai Jitao to build up the momentum!" Tomorrow morning, I will see all the newspapers publish the news of the "East India Riots, Sino-US Joint Protection of Overseas Chinese"! In addition, he sent a telegram to the prime minister, informing him that the vice president had reached a joint agreement with the United States to protect overseas Chinese, and asked him to ask the Japanese navy whether there was any action to protect overseas Chinese...... Muddy it completely...... To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )rq！！！