Chapter Ninety-Three: The Strategy of Attacking the North and the South

Seeing Hendrick's unbearable appearance, everyone present felt that he was really a bit of a disgrace to the Dutch Kingdom, and everyone also sneered at the advanced weapons that the enemy had that he said!

Because the center of science and technology in this era has always been Europe, and most of the advanced technologies and new inventions appeared in Europe first, and then began to expand to the whole world!

As Hendrik just said, even the shè gun sounds very powerful, but everyone is very suspicious that it is really xìng! After all, not only have they not seen it with their own eyes, but they have never heard of that country in Europe has developed such a powerful army weapon! As for the Far East, which has no industrial base, is still in an agrarian society, and is known as a technological desert, God, is it April Fool's Day?

"All right, Hendrik! What we want to know now is how many troops do these abominable eastern invaders have, and how many troops do they have, and now that their army has advanced there?" asked Mondrian with a frown, his tone a little irritated.

Hendrik was not a fool, and he could naturally see the distrust shown by the people in what he had just said! However, he did not argue with it, and if he had not seen it in person, he would not have believed that those Eastern armies were actually equipped with weapons and equipment far superior to those of the rest of the world!

"Your Excellency Governor, I was only in charge of defending the port of Surabaya, and I don't know the exact number of troops at that time, but I'm sure they had at least 12,000 or more men! As for whether there were other attacking troops outside the port of Surabaya, then I don't know too well! In addition, from the time the port of Surabaya was lost to the last time I received news from these Orientals, their forward troops had occupied Xinbutou!"

"Xinbutou, do you mean that now their troops have advanced to Xinbutou?" Pete was particularly sensitive to military matters, so after he finished speaking, he asked anxiously!

Hearing his words, Hendrik shook his head with a wry smile, "Not now, it was two days ago!

"What? impossible? There are hundreds of kilometers of horizontal distance from Surabaya to Xinbutou, how can they advance so far in one day?!"

"Will they all fly?"

After hearing what he said, the hall would be blown up! Originally, they thought that with the help of the more than 20,000 troops on the island and the barrier of the rainforest, they would delay the offensive pace of those Orientals and hold out until the arrival of the expeditionary fleets of the two countries! At that time, the crisis on the island would soon be resolved, but if they held out for less than half a month, then their fate could already be imagined! I believed that the endless labor and filthy prisoner of war camps would make them repay the blood debt committed by their ancestors to the Nanyang Chinese!

"Hendrick, are you sure you're telling the truth?" asked Pete, a little pale. The only warships left in the East Indies Colonies are all under 1,000 tons, and they are not at all suitable for long-distance voyages, and the observation posts in the coastal waters have already discovered the enemy's ironclad ships patrolling the coastal waters! Although we do not know where these advanced warships from the Orientals got them, we can understand from the point of their guns that they will not be too friendly to any ships that try to escape from Java! Therefore, if they cannot resist the enemy's attack on land, they will have no way to escape except to go into the mountains to be savages!

"Yes, General! I swear in the name of God that everything I have just said is true!" But he soon said something in his heart: "Not including the first time I ran away!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the hall fell into a deathly silence, and they began to think about their own future!

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In Semarang, where the smoke of gunpowder fills the air, in addition to the sporadic gunfire around from time to time, the whole city has completely calmed down, covered in gunsmoke, the Huo family soldiers with rifles in their hands, looked at the tall Dutchmen proudly, put down the Snyder Enfield rifle in their hands, raised their hands, and obediently walked into the prisoner of war camp that the Huo family army had prepared!

"Have you contacted the Navy?" Wang Xiangzong looked at the running panting telegraph officer, and couldn't help but ask with a smile on his face. When formulating the military strategy of taking Java Island, there were many arguments among the people, not only because of its large population and poor road conditions, but also because the fourth largest island in the South China Sea was too narrow and long, and it was not only difficult to travel from the road to Madura Island occupied by the Huo Jiajun and Bali Island in the Nusa Tenggara Islands, and attack from east to west, not only was the road difficult, but also nearly 1,000 kilometers long from east to west, coupled with the barrier of more than 20,000 Dutch troops along the way, let alone seven days, I am afraid that it would be difficult to take the whole of Java even in two weeks, after all, the Huo Jiajun will divide the province and city here in the future, and incorporate it into its own essence xìng ruleAlthough they don't care about the lives or deaths of the natives here, none of the millions of Chinese on the island do not want to lose! Therefore, the Huo army must end the war in the shortest possible time, only in this way can the damage of the war be minimized, the recovery time after the war can be shortened, and be ready to face the war before the arrival of the Dutch and Portuguese coalition forces!

However, the long and narrow islands and backward transportation have become the biggest obstacles to this strategy, and the Huo family army does not want to take Batavia first, because the Dutch army on the island will be scattered into the whole island because of the loss of rule, which will also increase the difficulty of the troops to clear up in the future, not only increase the casualties of the soldiers, but also threaten the rule of the Huo family army here!

Of course, there are always good and bad things, and the long coastline of Java Island and the width of the island of only 100 kilometers provide the Huo Jiajun with the possibility of quickly achieving strategic goals!

"Skip the harbor attack!"

With the help of the superior navy of the Huo family, the troops were transported to one coastal port after another to defeat the sparse garrison troops of the Dutch! After landing from these ports with the assistance of the navy, the troops were then spread out in all directions! This not only reduced the difficulty and fatigue of the troops' march, but also made full use of the current superiority of the Huojia army! When the time comes, the 3rd Marine Division and the 4th Marine Division will launch attacks on the coastline of more than 2,000 kilometers on Java Island from the north and south, and this will greatly shorten the difficulty and time of taking Java Island!

Moreover, the newly equipped radio in the unit also provided support for this strategy, because through this new equipment, it was very convenient to call in naval artillery support! Reducing the difficulty of landing! Although that huge machine was really inconvenient to carry, compared to the convenience of its communication, these were insignificant!

"We have already been contacted! The destroyer Lianpo has called, our second regiment has handed over the defense of Zhuwana, Bati, and other areas to the 3rd Jǐng Reserve Regiment, which has rushed from the rear, and now they have moved towards the Batang area under the protection of the navy, and it is expected that a landing operation will be launched in four hours! The third regiment is still attacking Puvodida, and they will attack the 402nd Regiment of the Navy attacking Ayara from the south to the north after rendezvous, and hand over the occupied area to the garrison, before attacking the next combat target, Bamaran!"

"Where did the vanguard of the Fourth Marine Division go?" After thinking for a while, Wang Xiangzong then asked.

"Their fastest move is the 402nd Regiment that landed from Chibadan in the south, and the rest of the troops are still in Jasmine and Keyili, clearing out the remaining Dutch troops!"

After hearing what the telegraph officer said, he now has a basic understanding of the strategic situation of the entire Java Island!

"Counselor Wang?"

"Here, division commander, what's the matter?" Wang Ting asked in a solemn voice after running over and saluting.

Looking at the young soldier in front of him with a straight waist and a serious expression, Wang Xiangzong couldn't help but secretly praise in his heart, these non-commissioned officers and students who had just been assigned to various combat units for internship were indeed much stronger than the group of officers who had been trained by the grass platform team at the beginning! Whether it was battle situation analysis, war game deduction, In order to compete for these high-level officer talents who have been trained by the Taiwan Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy for two years, the commanders of the various divisions of the Army and the Marine Corps almost did not fight, and in the end, under the mediation of the young master, the strategy of equal distribution was adopted to calm down the dispute!

After the first batch of 200 people graduated and joined the various field units of the Huojia Army, they could not help but alleviate the dilemma of the lack of high-quality officers in various units because they were too quickly formed, and also led to the progress of the strategies and tactics of various units and strengthened their combat effectiveness!

"You record the order! Order the 1st Regiment and 1st Battalion to go south to attack Kaliongwu, the 1st Regiment and the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Regiment and the division's Jǐng Guard Battalion cooperate with each other, attack from the west to fight Kendel, and the 3rd Battalion to attack from the east to fight Danmu, and the regimental artillery battalion is divided into three to provide artillery support for the three attacking troops, in addition, the regiment belongs to the Jǐng Guard Company, and the logistics troops stay in Semarang to guard the prisoners of war, and wait for the arrival of the rear support troops! That's it, you go down and convey the order!"

"Yes, Commander!"