Wild North America 1846

With the soldiers pressing down on the border, the Dutch defenders in Balawia had no choice but to abandon the dock area, and retreated to the city to guard against death. They watched the armed soldiers of the Tang Empire burn, kill and loot, and wisely did not take counterattacks.

The Dutch are very shrewd. They know that the entire dock area is completely under the artillery coverage of the enemy's powerful fleet.

There is no need to use the 305mm main naval gun, only the numerous secondary guns of the ship can bring devastating damage, and they are not willing to die in vain.

after dusk

The Tang Empire task force escorted a large number of captured cargo ships, one after another, they left the dock and headed towards the open sea.

It wasn't until night fell that the looted and destroyed Batavia port area returned to calm. Only the burning shipyards and warehouse buildings, as well as the mess everywhere, can prove what happened here?
The enemy's actions were so fast that they were completely evacuated within an hour or so, causing General Michels, who was organizing a night counterattack, to slam his back.

He hurriedly led people to the dock area, and sure enough, there was no trace of the enemies who had landed in a large scale?

Today's Batavia harbor wharf is in a mess, and thousands of people have gathered on the wharf, looking extremely miserable against the backdrop of the fire.

The attacking Datang Empire fleet captured a large number of merchant ships and completely destroyed some old sailing ships, leaving only some small fishing boats and small sampans.

Many people lost their livelihoods, many Dutch captains lost their ships, and the entire Dutch East Indies shipping industry suffered a severe blow, having lost most of its ability to supply and transport materials to other islands.

After General Michels made his rounds, his face turned livid, and he realized a serious problem;
If most of the cargo ships capable of sailing in the open sea were destroyed or captured, the Dutch East Indies would become several archipelagos that were difficult to support each other and were artificially divided.

Materials from the Dutch East Indies could not be transported out, and if the blockade by the enemy fleet was added, materials from outside could not be transported in.

Thinking of such serious consequences, his heart was half cold.

The news was quickly reported to the Governor's Mansion. After hearing this, the Governor of Perth turned pale in shock, and blurted out, "Oh... God! What about other ports?"

Java Island is a long and narrow island. The central part is mostly uplifted peaks running through the whole island from east to west. Important cities such as Jakarta, Bandung and Surabaya are located on the northern plains. There are many densely populated coastal areas and the shipping industry is relatively developed.

Offshore ships are the only link between the islands. Without these ships, the Java Islands are completely isolated.

Not to mention supporting the Sumatra Islands or the Kalimantan Islands, even the main island of Java to Bali, Zamboanga Island and other subsidiary islands have been separated. This move is really too vicious.

There was no need for anyone to answer, Governor Perth turned pale with fright at the thought of such serious consequences.

Everyone present looked at each other in blank dismay, realizing the seriousness of the problem, but they were helpless.

A few days later

A series of bad news came one after another, Surabaya Port was attacked, Pamaran Port was attacked, Semarang Port was attacked, Jingliyan Port was attacked...

almost without exception
Large cargo ships or passenger ships in various ports were either robbed or destroyed on the spot. The foreign shipping industry of Java Island was severely hit, and more than 9% of the ship transportation capacity was lost.

An important port city in East Kalimantan Province, Brazil
This is a port city with strong Dutch architectural features, with a total population of about 11.2. The stone roads, churches, and towering Dutch-style buildings in the city make people think that they have come to a certain Dutch city.

This is the second largest city in the Dutch Kalimantan Islands. Traces of gunfire and smoke can still be seen in the city. The streets are full of heavily armed soldiers of the Tang Empire. Now it has fallen.

In the port of Brazil, there are countless freighters and passenger ships moored, including sailing cargo ships, small steamers and iron barges, and the edge cannot be seen at a glance.

In the two-story building of the former Brazilian City Council, a very high-level military meeting is being held.

Marshal Tang-Li Xin, the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, sat at the head, and the meeting room was full of stars, at least all officers above lieutenant colonel, and more than 100 people sat densely.

In front of the hanging large map, Major General Wang Tianxiong, the deputy chief of staff of the expeditionary force, is holding a slender wooden pole, and is introducing the military deployment of the expeditionary force.

According to his introduction;
After the Royal Navy task force swept the main Dutch port, the Imperial Expeditionary Force began a large-scale landing in two groups.

Along the way, the Sumatra Corps led by Lieutenant General Liu Zhongguo, Commander-in-Chief of the Second Corps of the Royal Guards, has successfully landed in Palembang and Jambi in the Sumatra Islands. After a small-scale fierce battle, it has initially occupied the area.

Next Step

The landing corps will take 15 to 20 days to consolidate the occupied area and rest and assemble. After the follow-up troops arrive one after another, they will begin to attack the enemy's deep areas.

Along the way, the Kalimantan Corps, led by Lieutenant General Fan Pengfei, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Royal Army and Deputy Commander of the Expeditionary Corps, has now occupied Brazil, Samarinda and other places and established a solid bridgehead.

Next Step

After gathering and resting, it will expand to South Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan and North Kalimantan.

In response, part of the armed forces of the Kalimantan Corps have already landed in Lanfang. With the assistance of the Lanfang army, they will aggressively attack North Kalimantan from the northwest to implement a two-way attack strategy from east to west.

It is estimated that within 2 to 3 months, the Dutch Kalimantan area with a total area of ​​about 59 square kilometers will be fully occupied.

The total area of ​​the Kalimantan Islands is about 74 square kilometers, and the northern part is the ruling country of Lanfang, the British Straits Colony of Malaysia.

Among them, the total area of ​​Lanfang Kingdom is about 4.72 square kilometers, the total area of ​​the British Malaya region is more than 10 square kilometers, and the rest is all the territory under the command of the Governor-General of the Netherlands East Indies, which is what the Tang Empire wants to occupy Part of it occupies four-fifths of the entire Kalimantan Islands.

Although the Dutch colonists in this area have a colonial history of more than 240 years, the degree of development is extremely low. Only some coastal areas have been initially developed, and the large inland tropical rainforest areas are completely primitive.

Therefore, the Kalimantan Corps faced great difficulties.

One is that the local road conditions are extremely poor, almost all of which are muddy tropical rainforest dirt roads. After the rain, it is extremely muddy and difficult for vehicles and horses. This troop expansion and logistics transportation have brought great challenges.

After careful research, the Kalimantan Corps, combined with the local geographical conditions, decided to mainly transport troops and supplies by sea, and seize control of coastal towns one by one.

on the basis of

Relying on the controlled coastal towns, carry out mop-up operations against the surrounding areas, and gradually control the overall situation.

This process generally takes 2 to 3 months, and the next step is the consolidation and digestion period.

The Kalimantan Corps intends to use the captive local aborigines as the main labor force to carry out large-scale road construction to connect the coastal cities and towns.

Organized felling of trees in the coastal rainforest area, tamping the roadbed with sand and gravel, building drainage ditches, building bridges, and striving to build a smooth road around the island.

According to the construction experience in tropical areas, it generally takes 3 to 4 years to build a trunk road.

In the early stage, the road surface was mainly tamped with sand and gravel, and bridges and ditches were built to meet the basic conditions for transporting a large amount of materials.

After being soaked in rainwater, subsidence, collapse and other situations, the built road can be kept smooth under continuous maintenance, and a solid foundation can be formed after repeated rolling by vehicles.

In the end, on the basis of this solid trunk road, mixed with gravel asphalt to harden the road, a smooth main artery of the road around the island can be built.

Of course, building a ring road artery in the tropical rain forest area is a huge project.

Due to the heavy rainfall and numerous streams in this area, there are quite a lot of bridges and culverts to be built, with an average of more than [-] to [-] per [-] kilometers, and the amount of concrete used is quite large.

Fortunately, the Expeditionary Corps has made sufficient preparations for this. After establishing itself in Brazil and Samarinda, it has begun to select sites for the construction of cement plants, and the initial start-up work has been carried out one after another.

For the rich and powerful Tang Empire, as long as it can be solved with money, it is not a problem.

Over the past 50 years of imperial expansion, he has rich experience in the field of colonization and knows the truth that sharpening a knife is not a mistake in chopping firewood. It has always been "colonial development, infrastructure first".

The costly ring-island main road is not just a road, but by extension, it is an expanded colonial area.

Along the 1700-kilometer-long ring-island trunk road, within 50 kilometers, there are new colonial areas that are easy to develop.

Countless plantations and farms can be connected along a trunk road, which can bring livelihood to millions of new immigrants, and dozens of coastal towns can be connected to bring continuous prosperity to them.

Huge investment means huge gains. The completion of the main road around the island will expand the colonization of the Kalimantan Islands, the third largest island in the world, to a depth and breadth that the Dutch have never achieved in 300 years of colonization, which is of great significance. major.

The provinces and coastal towns of the Kalimantan Islands today are fragmented and disconnected.

During the Dutch colonial period, they only cared about squeezing the economic output of the colony all the year round, turning it into a source of European spices, coffee, cocoa, sugar and natural rubber, and did not build it at all.

Therefore, the entire Dutch East Indies is a complete agricultural economic structure, with no trace of modern industry at all. The construction of roads, canals, and dams is still the original appearance hundreds of years ago.

Most of the roads are still passable in the dry season, but they are completely interrupted in the rainy season.

This is also the real reason why the Aceh uprising in Sumatra lasted for 25 years.

As long as they escaped the encirclement and suppression of the Dutch army in the dry season, the rebel army can take a breath in the rainy season and hide in the rainforest year after year to deal with the Dutch colonists.

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