50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 724 The Unexpected Discovery of the Third Battlefield

Sun Zhiwei covered the 700-kilometer distance in just two hours and landed on the southwest coast of Timor Island.

Timor Island covers an area of ​​3 square kilometers. The island is mostly mountainous, swampy, and forested. It has a tropical rainforest climate, which is hot and rainy all year round.

The island has a steep coastline with many coral reefs, and earthquakes are frequent.

Upon setting foot on Tehren Island, Sun Zhiwei's first impression was that it was not a very livable place.

After storing the Black Hawk helicopter, his forehead was covered in sweat within minutes.

He took out the military map he had just swiped from the temporary military camp in Darwin Harbor from his backpack and roughly determined his current location.

Sun Zhiwei took out his beloved little motorcycle from his spatial storage and set off for Gubang City, the nearest city 20 kilometers away.

He encountered several villages along the way, and when he saw thick smoke rising from the villages in the distance, he detoured to avoid the crowded areas.

As he approached the edge of Gubang City, more plumes of black smoke from the city came into his view.

Good heavens, this place is already engulfed in war.

A little worried about being ambushed by long-range weapons, he carefully packed up his motorcycle and started walking into the city.

He is currently on the outskirts of Gupta, the westernmost city on the island of Timor and the capital of West Timor.

Kubang is considered the most developed place on Timor Island, with over 100,000 people migrating from other islands to Java in recent years.

But seeing the low-rise buildings here still gave him the feeling of a small county town in China.

Sun Zhiwei activated his spatial ability, closely monitoring all movements around him, trying to avoid contact with anyone, and quickly moved into the city.

Along the way, he often saw burning car tires and vandalized shops.

As they approached the inner city, barricades made of sandbags began to appear on the streets, with Javanese regulars in military uniforms stationed behind them.

Outside the barricades, Molotov cocktails were frequently thrown at them from the street. Behind the attacked barricades, fierce retaliatory gunfire always rang out.

After circling around the city, he finally understood the situation.

The Javanese garrison protected key locations such as the city center, port, and airport, and kept most of the Javanese immigrants within their territory.

The rest of the city was occupied by dozens of scattered resistance groups of varying sizes.

They surrounded the area controlled by the Javanese army, but the attack was disorganized and unplanned.

However, these resistance groups had weak firepower and could not form a united force, so they could not pose a threat to the Javanese army's defenses.

It is foreseeable that after a while, once the Javanese army from other islands arrives to provide support, this resistance group will be defeated.

The reason the Javanese army hasn't launched an attack yet is simply because they don't have enough manpower.

After carefully examining the size and manpower of these resistance organizations, Sun Zhiwei selected three of them and secretly dropped a large amount of weaponry at the entrance of their bases.

The reason these resistance groups cannot unite is because they lack a leader.

Sun Zhiwei couldn't tell which of them had the ability, so he could only randomly choose three that looked good and provide each of them with a batch of weapons and equipment.

In such chaotic times, whoever has the strongest fist can thrive. Sun Zhiwei has supplied these three organizations with weapons and ammunition, and they will soon be able to absorb other smaller groups. Also, because of the weapons and ammunition provided by Sun Zhiwei, their combat strength will be enhanced, leading to even fiercer battles with the inner city – exactly what Sun Zhiwei wants to see.

However, the resistance here will eventually face a tough nut to crack: the Javanese navy at Kubang port.

There is a Javanese squadron at Kubang Port, consisting of three frigates, six gunboats, and some other auxiliary ships.

Without naval support, they would be helpless against those warships on their own.

Although he saw Australian soldiers arriving in Darwin, he was unlikely to engage the Javanese army directly; at most, they would maintain order in the occupied territories.

Neither America, the leader behind the scenes, nor Australia, the vanguard, would directly support the rebels in terms of the navy.

To put it bluntly, it's still a matter of interests.

There are no significant interests involved in Timor Island, so the Americans might support them in the League of Nations to boost their prestige, but they won't directly participate in the conflict.

After thinking about it, he decided to help them temporarily resolve this problem.

After nightfall, Sun Zhiwei quietly approached the port from the seaside, then put on the frogman suit he had obtained from the monkey's training camp and successfully approached the ship in the port.

An hour later, Sun Zhiwei, who had returned to shore, looked at the Gubang Port naval dock from afar and saw a huge fire erupting, followed by a violent explosion.

Nine explosions were heard in succession, and the ammunition depots of all nine main warships in the Javanese Navy's squadron there were detonated by time bombs planted by Sun Zhiwei.

With this, the Javanese navy on Timor Island lost its ability to threaten the Timorese resistance.

The Javanese Navy in the 1980s was in a transitional period, facing a generational gap.

The main warships imported from countries like Russia in the early days have been gradually decommissioned due to aging hulls. In recent years, Harto has been negotiating new warship import projects with several countries.

But before he could reach an agreement, he disappeared, and the matter was left unresolved.

Neither Prabowo nor Colonel Latif has fully taken over the Javanese government, nor do they have the intention to represent the country in negotiating the import of warships, and more importantly, they don't have the spare money.

The main issue is money. Many cities and regions in Java are currently observing the fighting between the two sides, and many cities are withholding taxes from Jakarta.

Why did Prabowo send several warships to Pontianak last year? Wasn't it to collect taxes? In the end, he lost several warships for nothing and gained nothing.

The Javanese Navy currently has only about 130 ships, most of which are small vessels such as gunboats, as well as auxiliary ships such as transport ships, supply ships, and landing ships.

Among them, there are fewer than 40 main warships with a displacement of over 1,000 tons.

Over the years, due to Sun Zhiwei, the Javanese Navy has lost more than a dozen main warships and even one of its only two submarines.

Therefore, of the half of the navy that Prabovo and Captain Latif each received, there were only about 10 capital ships each.

However, in order to safeguard their enormous maritime interests, they still have to send all their ships out to carry out patrol missions.

Now, losing three capital ships and six gunboats at once must be devastating for Colonel Latif.

Moreover, Sun Zhiwei was certain that he would never dare to send warships to their deaths again until he figured out how these ships were destroyed.

Therefore, in the coming period, the Javanese army will be without naval support, and the situation on Timor Island will be favorable to the resistance forces.

(End of this chapter)