/newmessage.php?tosys=1&title="The Crossing Begins with the Titanic."

Chapter Errors/Click here to report

It is unbelievable that the navy of the British Empire was being pointed at with a cannon in its own backyard. Haven't the Royal Navy's guns always been pointed at someone else?

In this way, the artillery fire of both sides pointed at each other!

The proud Royal Navy!

On one side is the South China Navy, which has entered and exited the Strait of Malacca, has been a pirate for several years, is lawless, and has just fought another naval battle!

It's crazy! In the event of a misfire, the British destroyer on the opposite side will definitely be very uncomfortable, and the South China Navy and the South China regime, which are happy for a while, may also suffer a catastrophe!

The two sides confronted each other silently for a few minutes, and the captain on the opposite side realized the seriousness of the situation, and he had not yet been authorized to fire at the South China Navy. Of course, self-defense and counterattack are another story!

"It's not a good place to stay for long, we have more important things to do." A Chinese officer advised Colonel Robinson.

What he meant was that a large number of British warships were coming, and the South China Navy should take it as soon as it saw it and leave as soon as possible!

Colonel Robinson came "sober" and gladly agreed, giving the order to return to the course: "Go!" Let's go back and pack up the army in the Netherlands! ”

"Haha!" Colonel Robinson stood at the bow of the ship and looked at the British ** ship and laughed wildly, while a group of young South China Navy around him also laughed wildly, leaving in a dashing manner in the blushing faces of the British.

In a brief confrontation, a group of bold young officers of the South China Navy satisfied their vanity, after all, it was also a kind of courage to show the sword to the British. And the British, with the invincible prestige of the Royal Navy, also guaranteed their own honor by letting the enemy "retreat", and each gained something.

Robinson left quite in time, and in half an hour, a large number of British warships rushed to the area where the accident occurred, and they were all a little afraid afterwards.

The South China Navy actually defeated the Dutch East India Fleet, a result that surprised the British.

From the mouths of the Dutch sailors who fell into the water, they learned that when the South China Navy was actually equipped with submarines, the British could not be calm.

"The strength of the Chinese in Medan is far beyond what people expect. Their army is not only equipped with advanced equipment, but also has a certain strength of the navy, especially the submarines of South China, which are deployed in Malacca, and are even more threatening to the Royal Navy, and we cannot tolerate them. ”

In the Governor's House of the Straits Settlements in Singapore, the commander of the British fleet demanded that troops be sent against the Chinese regime in Medan.

"The Empire is not prepared for war, let alone hasty involvement in the Sumatra incident. How to deal with the South China regime. We should wait for news from London.

From now on, the Royal Navy will be on high alert and will always keep an eye on the situation in Sumatra. At the same time, I asked Medan to get in touch with what they really wanted to do.

In any case, we must control the situation in the Indonesian archipelago, and we can control it within the scope of what we can. ”

Sir Kilima said the Governor. He also sent Vice-Chancellor Clifford to make private contact with Medan.

When Singapore was worried, in the Dutch Indian Governor's Palace in Jakarta, after receiving the news of the total destruction of the Dutch fleet, Governor Gullitt and Colonel Van Basten were mourned, and the two men couldn't help but cry in the end.

"How is this possible? Oh, God. That's crazy, isn't it?

The Seven Provinces Soyuz is gone, and the Dutch East Indies are gone. So what else do we have? Oh my God, the kingdom is losing the Spice Islands. Governor Gurlitt muttered.

"Nope! We haven't lost yet! Our 20,000 troops have landed in Medan, and as long as they defeat the rebels, there is still a chance of recovery. Major Van Basten said weakly.

"You don't have to comfort me. Although the yellow-skinned monkeys haven't done it yet, I know that the lads in the kingdom won't be able to hold out for long. Although I don't understand military affairs, I can finally see that we lost from the beginning.

Alas. Why did I come here in such a single place, it was a mistake, a big mistake! ”

Governor Gurlitt said in despair.

Colonel Van Basten was silent. Listening to the Governor's complaints and regrets, my heart was full of bitterness. Now there are more than 10,000 Dutch-Indian colonial troops on the island of Java, but their combat effectiveness is very poor.

Once the more than 20,000 main forces hanging out were annihilated, the entire Indonesian archipelago would be completely reversed. At that time, the only reliance may be the intervention of Great Powers such as Britain and the United States.

"I'm going to lay out Jakarta's defenses." Colonel Van Basten sighed.

Before he could walk out of the door, he was bumped by an officer with an anxious face.

"I'm sorry, but there was a massive rebellion on the island of Borneo (called Kalimantan by the Dutch), and suddenly there were a large number of Chinese rebels who had captured the western city of Pontianak and the central central city of Machen a week earlier. And there is a tendency to South Borneo and East Borneo after all. ”

The Dutch officer reported with an ugly face, looking like a great calamity was coming.

"Why are you reporting now?"

"Because the rebels blocked the news, it happened so suddenly that our people didn't have time to report it. We only found out about a royal ** official who fled to the Sarawak region of the United Kingdom and sent back the news. The Dutch officer explained.

Hearing this, Colonel Van Basten's heart sank again and he walked back to the Governor's Palace.

"What can we do?"

When he heard that Borneo was about to fall again, Governor Gurlitt did not burst into a rage, but had a calm face, and he was already disheartened.

"yes, what can we do?" Colonel Van Basten chewed on this sentence bitterly and realized that he really couldn't do anything.

Borneo Island is the third largest island in the world, located at the equator, the climate is hot, most of the island is covered by forests, there is little developed land, and the population is not large, compared to the population of more than 100 million in Java, Borneo Island has a population of less than 8 million and is actually very inconsistent with the third largest island in the world.

The British and the Dutch divided the island of Borneo, with the northern Salawak and Brunei territories being owned by the British, which was almost the best place, while the southern three-quarters of the land was Dutch territory.

However, because the island of Borneo produces very little, the Dutch have not paid much attention to the island of Borneo. In the minds of successive Jakarta governments, Borneo Island is far inferior to Sumatra, and cannot be compared with the island of Java.

This may also have something to do with the fact that the Dutch only wanted to plunder the resources of the Indonesian archipelago and did not want to exploit the local area. With the exception of oil in the Balikpapan region of East Borneo, the Dutch cared little about the rest of Borneo, which was an opportunity for the Chinese company.

Cutting down forests, opening up farms, and engaging in forestry and planting in large quantities are the strengths of the Chinese, and they are also the strengths that have been forced out.

In the process of developing the South Seas. They have made great sacrifices, but they do not have even a minimum of security, and it is a dead end if they do not rebel.

This can be seen in the exploitation of many of the investments made by the American and Indian authorities in Borneo, which had to spend a lot of money to buy off local Dutch and Indian officials in order to bring in more Chinese workers, and also pay a poll tax for each Chinese worker!

Many Chinese workers were smuggled, but many were bought with money. Every year, the American Chinese Company had to subsidize a large sum of money to the Chinese workers, who fell into the hands of the Dutch. I was already full of resentment towards the Dutch.

The intensification of the recapture of what had been lost from the Dutch was a measure implemented by the South Chinese in Sumatra and Borneo, so after the arrival of the army, the financial representatives of the American Chinese Company almost followed, and the Dutch expropriated the Dutch of their property in a brutal way, and the Dutch influence was uprooted in the occupied areas of South China.

It's a must. In the future, Nanhua does not need investment from the Dutch, and the American-Chinese consortium and the William consortium can fill the gap in the Dutch funds at will.

Driving away the Dutch who occupy the pits and don't means that in the future, the Chinese can continue to develop Borneo, attract more immigrants, develop the local economy more freely, and obtain better profits.

While the war on Sumatra was in full swing, the South China 5th and 6th Divisions, led by Zhang Chengdong, began to fully occupy Dutch Borneo. As soon as the ambush soldiers came out, they captured Pontianak, Machen and other big cities. Destroying the rule of the Dutch-Indian authorities has made Jakarta even worse.

Powerless.

This is a true portrayal of the Hokti-Indian Governor's Office in Jakarta. Almost every day, a large number of Dutch businessmen returned to Jakarta crying, begging the Governor's Palace to intervene to seek justice for them.

The governor of Gurlitt was in the mood to receive the wounded Dutch merchants, promising that as soon as the kingdom's troops arrived, the Dutch merchants would make up for what they had lost.

But every promise he made was frustrated, and more and more Dutch businessmen came to complain. He was so annoyed that he simply hid and disappeared.

Jakarta has blocked the fighting on the front lines, but some Dutch businessmen with a keen sense of smell sense that things are not good. Rumours are increasingly circulating on the island of Java, but the Governor's Palace has been debunked without convincing reasons. As a result, some Java businessmen began to sell their assets and began to flee the land of right and wrong.

Of course, if someone sells, someone buys.

Thomas, who had been closely monitoring the situation in Java, immediately ordered American and British businessmen commissioned by the Intelligence Bureau to come forward and buy the assets of foreign investors on the island of Java.

This action was supported by Situ Nan. William's family's property company, William Real Estate, remitted $10 million to the account of the Intelligence Bureau through secret channels, and entrusted the Intelligence Agency to come forward to buy various properties on the island of Java.

Situ Nan, who had always loved to be the owner of the island, clearly instructed Thomas to transfer the beautiful scenery of Bali to William Real Estate.

There are more than 10,000 islands in the Indonesian archipelago, which is enough to satisfy Situ Nan's greed for land islands. At the same time, it is also another way to support South China with funds.

Naturally, Meihua Company also joined this feast.

Of course, desert islands and island purchases are just small embellishments, and the real big investment is still Indonesia's oil and minerals. In this regard, the Western oil companies and South China cooperated with each other to encroach on the Dutch oil interests in the Indonesian archipelago behind the military offensive.

The situation in Borneo is a great threat to Dutch Shell, which has a large oil industry in Balikpapan and is their oil production base in Asia.

Upon learning of the advance of the South Chinese army towards East Borneo, representatives of the Shell Oil Company hurriedly entered the Jakarta Governor's Palace.

"Your Excellency the Governor, please send troops to destroy the rebels on the island of Borneo at once, and ensure that our oil fields do not fall into the hands of the enemy." Shell oil company representatives almost with a commanding tone.

"Sir, you don't know that the kingdom has no troops to send now."

Colonel Van Basten smiled wryly.

"How so? Isn't it just the rebellion in East Java that has been quelled? Didn't our fleet land in Sumatra? "Representatives of Shell were somewhat dissatisfied with Colonel van Basten's prevarication.

"Our fleet has suffered a defeat in Medan, and the landing force is also in trouble, and now the measure is to keep Java Island. As for the outer islands—" Governor Gurlitt said with a wry smile.

"How can this be?" The representative of Shell was blinded when he heard this, and when he looked at the silent and ashamed crowd in the governor's palace, he immediately understood that it was impossible to count on Jakarta.

"Damn it, you're so incompetent! Her Majesty's face is a shame for you. I'm going to report to Amsterdam! Oh! It's horrible. I?????? It's time to go to the British. ”

The representative of Shell left the Governor's Palace with an ugly face, leaving behind an embarrassed crowd.

The seizure of the oil fields in the Balikpapan area is indeed one of the major tasks of the Borneo Military Region, and the capture of the Balikpapan oil fields will at least have the military expenses for sending troops.

Before Shell could discuss measures, the 6th South China Division led by Zhang Chengdong appeared in Balikpabancheng, confiscated all the assets of the Dutch and Indian authorities, and at the same time imposed military control over the local area, and tens of thousands of lumberjacks of the Meihua Company turned into an occupation force in Borneo, fighting for the 100 acres of land in the future with their own actions.

"Report! Li Han's department reported that they had surrounded Shell's oil production base and were now confronting Shell's factory guards to ask for instructions. ”

An officer walked up to Zhang Chengdong and handed him the telegram.

This is the headquarters of the Borneo Theater of Operations in Majin. After defeating Machen, Zhang Chengdong moved his headquarters to Machen City, and sent 7,000 people from the 1st Brigade of the 6th Division led by Li Hansoul to seize the oil resources of Balibapan.

"Don't touch them at Shell Oil Company, fence them up first, and then talk about it, sue Li Hansoul, and the attitude must be tough.

Except for Shell, the Dutch businessmen in the Balikpapan region were not to be polite to them. Well, report the news to Medan. Zhang Chengdong said.

If it weren't for the fact that Shell had a stake in the British, Zhang Chengdong would have taken possession of the oil field in Balepaban for himself at the first time.

However, he did not expect that because of the oil dispute in Balepapan, the British were almost involved in this war.

Zhang then turned his attention to the map of the Java Sea.

Machen is a port city in the south of Borneo, across the sea from the large city of Surabaya in East Java, just across the Java Sea. After the loss of the East Indies Fleet in Jakarta, the Java Sea became an undefended sea.

As long as there are enough ships, Zhang Chengdong can lead his troops to land in Surabaya at any time and take East Java in one fell swoop.

Zhang Chengdong looked at the map again and again, drew and drew on the map, and kept calculating the plan for crossing the sea in his heart.

"Let's hope Medan will approve this plan soon! Otherwise, watching Sumatra have such a lively time, it would be too boring for Lao Tzu to stay in Borneo. He muttered.

Genius remembers [Aishang Novel Network] in a second biquge.info provides you with wonderful novels to read.