For Lin Fei, the internal combustion engine is a very important equipment, with the internal combustion engine, automobiles, tanks and airplanes can appear, although there have been cars powered by steam engines in history, but that kind of car cannot be used on the battlefield, because the steam engine needs to carry a lot of water, it is large and bulky, and there is no place to replenish it after the water is used up. Lin Fei had a lot of knowledge of tank and aircraft combat, and without an internal combustion engine, none of these things were useful.

In addition to the main battle equipment such as tanks and airplanes, the internal combustion engine can also be used in many weapons, such as torpedoes, modern torpedoes have two powers, one is electricity, the other is the internal combustion engine, now Lin Fei's battery technology is far from advanced, the application of internal combustion engine on torpedoes is a good choice to extend the range of torpedoes.

If tanks and airplanes are still too far away for Lin Fei now, the submarine is already very close, and the determination ship incident illustrates the important role of submarines, and the countries of the world in this era do not attach much importance to submarines, so submarines will become a strange soldier in Lin Fei's hands, and in the future and naval power...... Countries such as Britain, France, and Tsarist Russia would play an important role when they were at war.

Lin Fei then formulated the Borneo oil exploration plan, and he specially established the Lanfang Republic National Oil Company, and selected his henchmen as the general manager to specialize in the oil exploration plan.

Pontianak is in the western part of Borneo, and the mega oil fields are in the southern part of Borneo, separated by more than 700 kilometers, so Lin Fei decided to take the approach of sea and land, on the one hand, to build a road and railway from Pontianak to the south of Borneo, and on the other hand, from the capital of the Sulu Autonomous Region...... The island of Horak sent sailing ships into southern Borneo.

Lin Fei does not have oil extraction equipment now, and Lin Fei is not willing to purchase this kind of key equipment, so he can only design and manufacture it from scratch, although it is easier to exploit the oil fields in southern Borneo, but those equipment also need several months to manufacture, alas, it seems that the time for large-scale application of oil will be postponed for a few months.

Since it is not possible to extract oil immediately, then make preliminary preparations for exploitation, such as preparation for exploration, preparation for oil transportation, preparation of processing equipment, etc., the most important thing is to understand the situation in southern Borneo.

Lin Fei met the Chinese businessman in the reception room, and saw that the Chinese businessman who walked in was an elderly man in his forties and fifties, with gray sideburns and high spirits, Lin Fei stood up and said with a smile: "Hello old man." ”

The old man looked at Lin Fei for a while, and suddenly fell to his knees with weakness on his knees, crying, "Benefactor......"

This kind of old man Lin Fei is not the first time to see him, he is not surprised, he smiled and helped the old man up, "Old man, you don't have to be like this, it is my duty to save the Chinese people." ”

The old man sobbed when he heard Lin Fei say this, "Flying Emperor, don't you know me?" ”

Lin Fei looked at the old man carefully for a while, and sure enough, he found that the old man was a little familiar, but he couldn't remember who he was for a while, so he had to say apologetically: "Old man, I have too many things to do, and I can't recognize you." ”

The old man hurriedly said: "That night our home and shop were burned down by the natives, and we were left on the streets, helpless, and desperate, but you led someone to rescue us, and in order to save us, you also punched a Dutch officer. ”

Lin Fei suddenly realized, "It turns out that you are the old man from that day, hurry up and tell me about the situation in southern Borneo." ”

The old man stood up and sat down under Lin Fei's persuasion, Lin Fei already knew that the old man's name was "Li Deren", so he didn't ask much about the name, and asked directly: "Is there a city built by the Dutch in southern Borneo?" ”

"Yes, there is a city called Balikpapan."

Lin Fei was taken aback, and said to himself, "Why does that city exist now?" Originally, Balikpapan was one of the most important cities in southern Borneo during the Lin Fei era, and it was the processing center of the oil fields in southern Borneo, and most of the oil produced from nearby oil fields was transported to Balikpapan for processing.

Li Deren didn't understand what Lin Fei meant, and asked, "What does it mean to have it now?" ”

Lin Fei shook his head and smiled: "It's nothing, now tell me about the situation in that city, how many people are there?" Is it Dutch or indigenous? ”

"It's not a big city, maybe three or five thousand people, most of them are native, and the fishermen from the neighborhood go there to change things like salt and cloth, and some are Dutch, about five or six hundred people, and they came later."

Lin Fei asked casually, "What are the Dutch doing there?" ”

Li Deren replied: "The Dutch said that they were looking for some oil nearby, and they got a lot of equipment. ”

Lin Fei's eyes lit up when he heard this, he happened to lack oil extraction equipment, if the Dutch had these equipment, he could just use it. It turns out to be this era...... In 1896, it was the period when the electric power industry and the oil industry were developing the fastest, and all countries were developing electricity and extracting oil, and the Dutch were naturally not far behind.

Lin Fei hurriedly asked, "Is there any Dutch army in that city?" ”

Li Deren nodded, "Yes, the Dutch often clashed with the local natives, so the Dutch organized a force of more than 100 people, each armed with a Mauser gun. ”

There are only a hundred Dutch troops? Lin Fei smiled proudly, Li Deren saw Lin Fei laughing, and laughed along, Lin Fei asked Li Deren to draw the general situation in Balikpapan City, and then said goodbye to Li Deren.

The Dutch army in Balikpapan is only 100 people, and there are no fortifications, Lin Fei can kill them without sending too many troops, but Balikpapan legally belongs to the Republic of Lanfang, and it is inconvenient for Lin Fei to send troops directly, so Lin Fei instructed Chen Guizong, the president of the Republic of Lanfang, to issue an expulsion order to the Dutch in Balikpapan, ordering them to leave Balikpapan within the time limit.

There is no telephone or telegram between Pontianak and Balikpapan, and the traffic on the road is very inconvenient, so if you want to send this expulsion order to Balikpapan, you can only take the sea route, but the Republic of Lanfang does not have warships, so you can only ask the Chinese Empire for help, and Lin Fei is of course gladly agreed.

Lin Fei originally planned to personally lead the warships and troops to Balikpapan and hand over the expulsion order to the Dutch, if the Dutch refused to give in, then directly kill the Dutch and occupy Balikpapan, but after thinking about it carefully, he found that this would not work, because Balikpapan is more than 1,500 kilometers away from Pontianak and more than 970 kilometers away from Hole Island.

Lin Fei then decided, first return to Dayu City, and then solve the matter of entering Balikpapan, Lin Fei left the frogman commando and a thousand soldiers in Pontianak, and then led the Tianlong ship and the Yunlong ship back to Dayu City, three days later, on March 4, Lin Fei finally returned to Dayu City.

The first thing Lin Fei did when he returned to Dayu City was to order his subordinates to lay a submarine cable from Dayu City to Pontianak, Lin Fei's subordinates hurriedly complied, and after laying the submarine cable, Lin Fei began to prepare for the Balipapan Expeditionary Force, Lin Fei decided to take the Tianlong ship and the Yunlong ship as the naval force, and Hele Island as the logistics base, and draw the elite from the garrison troops from all over the country to form the Balikpapan Special Expeditionary Force.

Lin Fei's order, the garrison troops from all over the country quickly dispatched soldiers to form the Balikpapan Special Expeditionary Force, on March 7, Lin Fei personally led the troops to station on Hele Island, and on March 9, the fleet set sail and marched towards Balikpapan.

The fleet crossed the vast Celebes Sea into the Strait of Makassar and reached the sea near Balikpapan, a busy port in Limphy's time, when the nearby oil resources were not exploited on a large scale.

Lin Fei saw a small fishing boat near the port, so he ordered his subordinates to send a small boat to get close to the small fishing boat and bring the people inside.

In the small fishing boat were two natives, an indigenous old man and an indigenous child, different from the greedy and cunning natives in Pontianak City, these two natives seemed to be honest, which reminded Lin Fei of those simple and unpretentious old farmers in China.

The old man said that the child was his grandson, and the father of the child worked in the Dutch oil factory, and Lin Fei asked, "Can you meet the Dutch people in the port?" ”

The old man promised to say "yes", and Lin Fei said, "Then please give a letter to the Dutch leader in the port, you should know where the Dutch leader is, right?" ”

The old man thought for a while, nodded, and then Lin Fei handed over a letter that had already been written to the old man, the content of the letter was to ask the Dutch to withdraw from Balikpapan, otherwise the Republic of Lanfang would take measures to forcibly expel the Dutch.

After ten hours, a small boat with the flag of the Kingdom of the Netherlands appeared in Lin Fei's field of vision, and Lin Fei hurriedly ordered his subordinates to send a small boat to intercept the Dutchman's boat.

It didn't take long for Lin Fei's subordinates to row back in a small boat, but what Lin Fei didn't expect was that his subordinates actually brought back two heads...

The blood on the necks of the two heads has congealed into dark red blood clots, which looks shocking, and if you look closely at the faces, these two human heads turned out to be the ancestors of the natives...

Lin Fei hurriedly asked, "What's going on?" ”

The subordinate replied angrily: "Report to Your Majesty, the Dutch said that they were determined not to surrender, and they also beheaded these two envoys, and threatened you to cut off your heads if you did not return to the Chinese Empire immediately." ”

Lin Fei frowned, smashed his fist on the guardrail of the ship, and said viciously: "The red-haired ghost deceived me too much..."

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