Chapter 85: Combat Readiness

With guns on their backs on the streets and docks, more and more Dutch people patrolled the streets, and the originally bustling Batavia became a bit depressed!

The reason for this is that most of the people who are active on the island of Java are yellow-skinned Chinese and natives! It is very similar to those mysterious armies that defeated the Dutch and occupied most of the East Indies.

But at all times, there are people who are bold!

"Knock knock ......!"

After a long and three short knocks, the originally closed door opened a crack that was only large enough for one person to pass through!

"Come in!" a Chinese with a pigtail on the back of his head, after dodging to let the knocker in, he looked left and right, and after making sure that no one was following, he quickly closed the door!

"Hehe, why hasn't Old Tang been so cautious for a while?" The person who quickly came into the room took off the hat on his head that looked very wide, and asked with a smile.

"Can you be careless? Recently, the Dutch have been very strict in their investigations! In case your kid is targeted, this intelligence station that our military intelligence bureau has finally established in Batavia will be leaked!" Looking at this young man who has joined the military intelligence bureau for two years and is in charge of the Javanese intelligence station, Tang Daqiang couldn't help but say angrily!

"Just those Dutchmen, either Lao Tzu looks down on them, or adds a pair of dog eyes to them, and they don't want to stare at me!" Sui Zhiqiang said disdainfully. As a high-level agent specially trained by the Military Intelligence Bureau, he has been honed in make-up reconnaissance, infiltration behind enemy lines, etc., and the tight blockade of the Dutch is almost everywhere in his eyes, and he can go freely under the nose of the Dutch army with his ability!

"Okay, what's new this time?" Tang Daqiang asked with some urgency after punching him with a smile.

When it comes to business, Sui Zhiqiang's god has also become serious!

"This time I infiltrated the Dutch East Indies Governor's Palace, and I heard some of their conversations! Now, the Dutch on the island have conscripted nearly 30,000 of their expatriates, and are stepping up their training to form an army! Plus their original colonial army! That is to say, by the end of this month, their army on the two main islands will reach 40,000! This will be very detrimental to our next military journey!"

"There are so many of them?" Tang Daqiang exclaimed in a low voice of disbelief. After turning around the room anxiously a few times, he suddenly turned around and said: "Old Sui, this news is very important, I will personally make a trip to inform our troops of the 40th Division of the Army on Bali as soon as possible! Otherwise, when our troops land, I am afraid that we will suffer a big loss!"

"Shall I go?" Sui Zhiqiang said hurriedly.

"Lao Sui doesn't have to fight with me, although I entered the game a year later than you! However, you are not as familiar as me on this Java island, and you don't know the indigenous language, so it is easy for them to find out here! Let me go!" Tang Daqiang stopped the young man and said with a smile.

Looking directly at this old friend who he had been friends with for more than a year, looking at his unwavering gaze, Sui Zhiqiang understood that he had already made his own decision!

"But Don, be careful, the Dutch on the island are crazy now, and many natives have been killed by them for no apparent reason!"

"Don't worry, I also have kung fu, and ordinary people can't get in!" Tang Daqiang patted him on the shoulder and comforted him with a smile.

"Then when are you leaving?" asked Sui Zhiqiang.

"Let's go now, such important information should be delivered to the army as soon as possible!"

"Okay, then be careful on your way!"

"Okay, don't worry! I'm leaving!" Tang Daqiang didn't say anything, took a few clothes, made a small package, carried it on his back, and after explaining a few words to him, he opened the door and walked out!

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"Young Master, this is the information that has just been transmitted from the headquarters of the 40th Division stationed in Nansha Province! Sure enough, as the young master expected, the Dutch had already begun to secretly recruit overseas Chinese and start training two months ago! I am afraid that the army will be officially formed by the end of this month!" Huo Long held the telegram that had just been sent from Nanyang in his hand, and walked into Huo Shan's study quickly, and said in a somewhat anxious tone.

"Really, how many people have they trained?" Huo Shan asked with a smile after putting down Klauswitz's "On War" in his hand.

The Dutch did not have much army in their East Indies colony in the first place, and after a series of skirmishes with the Huo family's army, there were even fewer left! Therefore, the only way to keep the two large islands, which covered an area of nearly one million square kilometers, was to recruit soldiers from among their diaspora in the South Seas! After all, it was common for the West to use armed expatriates to guard the colonies in an emergency.

"The exact number is not too clear, but it should not be less than 20,000!"

"Plus their original colonial army! That is, in a month's time, we will have to deal with 40,000 Dutch troops, right?" After getting up from his seat, Huo Shan picked up the teapot on the table, poured a cup for Huo Long, and asked with a smile!

"Yes, young master, but I don't think that these Dutch troops, who have been trained for three months and are much inferior to us in terms of weapons and equipment, can pose any major threat to our next landing operation!" Huo Long couldn't help but smile after taking a sip of the tea on the table.

"Yes, we have worked hard for two years, and finally built an army that can win battles, it is not easy!" After sighing, Huo Shan shook his head with a smile and continued: "Okay, let's not talk about this, let's talk about the specific battle plan of your military department for this war! You must know that we are not dealing with an enemy this time!"

"Yes, young master!" After finishing speaking, Huo Longshen walked to the small war room next to Huo Shan's study with some excitement, picked up the whip placed next to him, opened the curtain on the wall, pointed to the large Nanyang map hanging on the wall, and said solemnly: "In order to win this war, we have mobilized five marine divisions that have been training in the three Pacific provinces, and now they have all gathered in Borneo Province and Bali in Nansha Province!" After the formal combat order is issued, they will rush to the theater of operations as quickly as possible, and with the support of the navy, launch a landing operation as planned! When the time comes, together with our garrison troops on the islands, we have already assembled more than 220,000 standing troops in the entire Nanyang theater, plus our second-line reserve troops, which means that after the start of our first phase of military operations next month, the number of troops we can mobilize in the entire four provinces and regions of Nanyang will reach an unprecedented 280,000! Coupled with our advanced weapons and equipment, our military headquarters is confident that even if the Dutch and the Portuguese, plus the powerful British, attack together, we are also confident that we can defeat them!"

After listening to his words, Huo Shan couldn't help but smile faintly and asked, "Are you ready to say this?"

"Yes, young master! We are all ready, for today's our army has been training hard for two years! Through this battle, we must not only thwart the enemy's ambition to invade, but also make them feel afraid when they see us in the future! They will never dare to provoke us again!" Huo Long clenched his fists and said with a resolute expression.

"Since your military department is so confident, then I won't say anything! However, I hope that when the new year comes, what you can hand over to me is a brilliant victory!" Huo Shan said, slowly walking out of the war room!

"Yes, young master, we promise to complete the mission!"

Watching Huo Long's tall and resolute back disappear into the corner of the garden, Huo Shan couldn't help but look up at the somewhat hazy weather outside, and muttered to himself, "Is this the darkness before dawn?"