Chapter 51: Seal the Victory
In the Dutch East Indies, 60,000 soldiers of the Red Guard Regiment devoured the few Dutch troops in the region at a rapid pace.
Under the leadership of the local Chinese, the local Dutch garrisons were often disarmed without preparation, and there were few battles, and some were small.
However, despite the covert nature of the Red Guard's operations, the turmoil that inevitably erupted during the operation quickly made the outside world aware of the change.
On the night after the occupation began, the British East India Company was unable to contact its branch in the Dutch East Indies, and the British quickly sensed the silence of Sumatra.
Merchant ships docked in the main ports of Sumatra were secretly contained, and the British Navy, while patrolling the Strait of Malacca, found suspicious floating objects, which were confirmed to be the contents of Dutch warships and the faintly recognizable wooden wreckage of warships.
When the news was urgently reported to the British Governor of Malaysia, the Governor of Malaysia took it very seriously and immediately ordered the British fleet to approach Sumatra to check the situation.
A few hours later, it was confirmed that war was raging in the Dutch East Indies, and that the Chinese in the Dutch East Indies were overthrowing Dutch control and had succeeded in capturing a large number of major cities.
As soon as the news came out, the British were shocked, let alone the Dutch.
The British Governor of Malaysia immediately reported the situation here, and it was transmitted to London step by step by cable telegraph.
The British side also notified the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which was still in the dark at the moment, and other European countries also got the news one after another.
Britain and France paid close attention to this matter, because the colonies of these two countries were on the border of the Dutch East Indies and had a good military presence in the Far East.
The careerist seems to have seen the benefits that are close at hand, but at this time, no one will move.
Although the Netherlands has been in decline for a long time, the military forces deployed in the Dutch East Indies have always been very deterrent.
Sixty thousand long-serving army members of the colony, as well as thousands of navies and seven or eight warships.
What is the situation in the Dutch East Indies today, everyone is not clear, the Dutch army in the Dutch East Indies is no longer able to hold their colonial cities.
Other than that, there is no other detailed information.
And seven or eight warships of the Dutch Navy, all of which were missing, seemed to have been sunk.
As a result, in the absence of clear information and intelligence, both Britain and France are in a wait-and-see state.
Because whether it is Britain or France, the naval forces of the two countries in the Far East, if they want to completely destroy the navy of the Dutch, there is also a very high risk.
In this era, all countries have their own level of warships, and the Dutch coastal defense battleships are basically called so only by a few countries such as the Netherlands, compared with some of the former dreadnought battleships of the United Kingdom, these 5,000-ton battleships of the Netherlands also have a great threat.
In this era, there is no similar unified name for the class and specifications of naval ships.
It's like the destroyers of the Red Guard Navy, with a tonnage of 5,000 tons, are on the same level as the Dutch coastal defense battleships, but in the Red Guard Corps, they are called destroyers.
Therefore, the names and ranks of warships between the navies of various countries are not equal, and they cannot be generalized.
The strange Dutch East Indies deterred the ambitions of Britain and France very well, and this matter gave the Dutch a headache first, and then the colony was not their own anyway.
At the same time that the Netherlands got the news, the last troops in the temporary chrono portal located on the island of Java were racing against time to get out of the chrono portal.
The last group of invading troops were all navy, and the warships they were riding on were not the three main warships of the Red Police Base Car, but the small patrol ships behind the three main warships.
The tonnage of such patrol ships can range from armed boats of only a few tons to small ships of only five or six hundred tons.
These small combat vessels, also incapable of seizing sea supremacy, are mainly tasked with patrolling the banks of rivers and coastal waters, maintaining sea routes, fighting piracy, or moving inland along rivers to assist ground forces in military operations.
These boats, the smallest of which are equipped with a machine gun as the main force of destruction, can easily defend against rifle bullet armor, and can enter narrow rivers or water surfaces for patrols.
There are also small gunboats of several tens of tons, equipped with a small-caliber gun, and then a few machine guns, which cooperate with patrols between the various islands.
The largest, about six million gunboats, equipped with several guns, are the main warships for coastal patrol and defense.
These warships all have one thing in common, that is, they have a shallow draft, are fast, and can come and go freely in very shallow waters.
As the last navy to arrive in this world, it has just entered this world, and immediately assumes the task of patrolling and guarding.
At present, the Red Guard Corps is rapidly conquering one island after another, and both Java and Sumatra have many waterways connecting to the sea, and these gunboats will be able to protect the army and attack other major cities on the island directly from the water.
As the commander, Fan Yize did not personally command this war, but directly delegated autonomy to the troops in every operation.
And he had only one request, that is, to complete the occupation of the Dutch East Indies as quickly as possible.
Because of this war, it can be concealed for a day or two, but it is difficult to conceal it for three or four days, and the Dutch will react quickly, and even Britain and France on the side may intervene sideways.
There is no such war in history, and Fan Yize has to make the fastest plan.
Forty-eight hours had passed since the outbreak of the war, and the Red Alert Navy had also received several good news, and the inherent patrol routes of the Dutch warships, coupled with the surprise and surprise attacks, had wiped out all the main forces of the Dutch Navy in the Dutch East Indies.
At present, the major cities of the Dutch East Indies are all controlled by the Red Guard Corps, and the rest are only some small cities, and the 60,000 troops of the Netherlands here have been wiped out by four-fifths, and there is not much wind and waves left.
At this time, the Netherlands no longer had the military strength to retake the Dutch East Indies.
This result directly sealed the victory, but it was not the time to open champagne to celebrate, Fan Yize, who had never put the Netherlands in his eyes, was now setting his sights on the British.