Chapter Ninety-One: The Attack Went Smoothly

Wang Xiangzong looked at the group of soldiers carrying Type 80 rifles and rapidly advancing under the leadership of his direct commander, and was silent! Although the occupation of Surabaya was unexpectedly smooth, it took advantage of the Dutch's defenselessness to a great extent! However, the remaining 20,000 or so Dutch troops needed their own troops to gnaw at each bit!

Moreover, unlike the British, the Dutch were just frantically looting the wealth in the East Indies, and never thought of spending money on construction, resulting in too bad traffic conditions on the entire island of Java! Therefore, in addition to the relatively light mortars, the other infantry guns and the large-caliber heavy artillery reinforced to them in front of the station could not keep up with the speed of the march, so it was difficult to provide artillery support for the next series of offensive operations! Although this will not change the final result of the third division's occupation of Java Island, the casualties of Huo's army may exceed the original expectations!

"Have all the troops already set off?" asked Wang Xiangzong silently.

"Yes, division commander! The 1st Regiment has advanced to Ramongan and Tuban again, the 2nd Regiment and the He Artillery Regiment have already attacked Jalan Ban and Zongban under the leadership of the chief of staff, and the 3rd Regiment and the Logistics Regiment have already moved south under the command of the political commissar to attack Yanwang, Pang Yue, and Malang, and to take over the 4th Marine Division that has landed from Banyumeng! At present, all three units have set off!"

Hearing the staff officer's words, Wang Xiangzong nodded clearly, and then ordered solemnly: "Let the Jǐng Reserve Force in the rear quickly take over the defense of the city that we have left, and then we will lead the division and the Jǐng Guard Battalion to join the Northern Route Army, and advance forward without stopping until the entire Java is defeated!"

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Borneo Province, East Manyu, General Headquarters of the Nanyang Military District!

Almost half an hour has passed since the order to attack was given, but until now the command has not received any news from the divisions operating on the front line!

Although he knew that his troops, both in terms of morale and weaponry, were far superior to the Dutch! However, war is war, and any unexpected situation may happen, and before they really got the exact news, everyone in the headquarters, including Huo Jianguang, couldn't help but be a little impetuous!

"Report, after receiving a wireless telegram from the destroyer Li Mu, the attack of all units is now going smoothly, the four divisions of the Marine Corps have all completed the landing, the Dutch are caught off guard, and the losses of our troops are very small! At present, all units have advanced to the depth of the two large islands according to the advance route drawn up before! The report is complete!" After speaking, the telegraph officer who had just taken office handed the telegram of the battle situation translated in his hand to Huo Jianguang, commander of the Nanyang Theater, who was walking quickly!

Before the war, in order to facilitate military command and to be able to transmit theater intelligence and mobilize troops in a timely manner! Huo Shan took out the radio that was not very mature at present and handed it over to the Nanyang Military Region for use! Although after more than half a year of improvement, the transmission distance of the radio was only increased to a distance of 100 kilometers under the improvement of the first man, and it still could not cover the entire Nanyang Theater, but after the rapid transmission of destroyers was added in the middle, it was much better than the slow mechanical telegraph!

"Okay, good fight!" After roughly browsing the telegram and handing it to Yuen Long and Liang Zhanshan, who were already a little impatient next to him, Huo Jianguang couldn't help but smile and said!

"Well, yes, the attack of the troops went smoothly, especially on the island of Sumatra, after nearly two years of our operation, coupled with the blow of our three divisions of nearly 60,000 standing troops, the Dutch garrison, which is only in the early 10,000s, is not far from defeat!" Yuen Long said with a smile.

"By the way, I don't see that in three days, the fighting on Sumatra Island can be completely resolved! However, the war on Java Island may be a little more troublesome, and although we have also invested two divisions, nearly 10,000 more than the Dutch! However, the population here is too much, the whole island is close to fifteen million, and nearly half of the population of the islands in the South Seas is concentrated here, so we must set aside enough troops to stabilize the place and carry out law and order management! Otherwise, although we are not afraid of these natives making trouble, if it affects the war on Java Island and delays time, it may affect our subsequent series of battle plans!" Liang Zhanshan said with a somewhat serious expression.

As high-ranking officers of the Nanyang Theater, they all received a campaign analysis from the General Staff Headquarters, and they knew that the British who were close at hand were probably not willing to be lonely! Therefore, being able to end the first phase of the war with the Dutch as soon as possible would also reduce the occurrence of unexpected situations and make full preparations for the arrival of the next war!

"Have the four garrison regiments supporting Sumatra set off?" Huo Jianguang looked at the large Nanyang map hanging on the wall, and suddenly turned back and asked with a serious expression.

"The Sixth Regiment and the Twelfth Regiment have already set off, and the remaining Third Regiment and Eighth Regiment are still on Bangka Island and Belitung Island, and they have not yet boarded the ship!" As the chief of staff, the garrison situation of each unit was all in Liang Zhanshan's mind, so after hearing Huo Jianguang's question, he quickly said it without thinking!

After listening to his words, Huo Jianguang issued a new military order without hesitation!

"Let them transfer to Java Island and cooperate with the four Jǐng Reserve Regiments there to take over the garrison of the 3rd and 4th Marine Divisions! In addition, after the Dutch are defeated, all the troops of the 4th Marine Division will remain on the island and there is no need to go to Nusa Tenggara Islands!" He paused obviously, but quickly continued: "If the natives disobey our management and commit rebellion, then Wang Xiangzong and Ren Bangding don't have to keep their hands, the rifles in their hands are not burning sticks!" In addition, in troubled times, we should focus on reducing the indigenous population there, which will be conducive to our next rule there!"

Huo Jianguang's faint words revealed a murderous intent that made people's hearts chill in their hearts, there were many natives on the island of Java, and they had always resisted the colonial rule of the Dutch before, and they had also acted as the executioners of these colonists many times, persecuting the Chinese living on the island! It is conceivable that after they defeated the Dutch, these cunning natives would definitely take advantage of the war to launch a new round of riots! These lazy Nanyang monkeys never thought of working on their own, and were always drooling over the hard-earned wealth of the Chinese! How could they let go of such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a fortune!

"The commander is right, we should teach them a good lesson, these dirty guys, we Chinese are not easy to bully!" said a young second lieutenant staff officer, his face flushed, and his eyes were murderous. His name is Wu Lixin, and he is the first batch of formal senior cadets of the Taiwan Army Noncommissioned Officers Academy, and he is not a temporary officer who served as the commander in chief of the unit after three months of training, but a first-generation army officer who has truly received military and political and ideological education from Huoshan and has been specially trained! It can be said that they are the upstarts in the army who have been most deeply influenced by Huoshan! As long as they graduate from the noncommissioned officer academy, they will become the backbone of the Huo Jiajun and make up for the dilemma of the lack of high-quality officers in the army!

Hearing his words, all the left-behind personnel of the Nanyang Command nodded fiercely, under the influence of Huo Shan, the Huo family army had no good impression of those natives in Nanyang from top to bottom!

"Okay, since everyone agrees, let's give them an order like this!" Liang Zhanshan couldn't help but smile and said!