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Finally, Yue Xiaofei left here. Regardless of everyone's dissuasion, he returned on a "Suzaku-class" supply ship. These "Suzaku-class" supply ships will be used exclusively for long-term replenishment of the South China Sea cluster in addition to regular passenger and cargo ships.

They are divided into two ships and return to each month, so that the fleet of these "Suzaku-class" ships can ensure the continuity of material supply.

At the same time as they return home, they will carry with them the materials captured during the Nanyang operation. Yue Xiaofei took such a ship back to Mingyue Bay in China, so Huang Kehui quickly informed Murong Zhuo of the date of his departure with a carrier pigeon, asking "home" to pay attention to greet him.

Mochizuki Ayano finally persuaded Yue Xiaofei that she would use the "Bright Moon" to search in all possible areas, and when the supplies were exhausted, she would return to the base of the Nanyang cluster to replenish it, just like she said, she would conduct a more comprehensive and detailed search on each small island until she found Murong Chuchu.

Huang Kehui was helpless about Yue Xiaofei's insistence on leaving on the "Vermilion Bird Class", so he had to use military pigeons to report to China Mingyue Bay. Soon he put the matter aside and carefully arranged his defense.

Five faster destroyers and 10 "Whale-class amphibious assault ships" were arranged by him to patrol in five batches. The patrol route is set as a triangular route between Belitung Island and Semaxi (present-day Singapore) and Kundian City on Kalimantan Island.

This is also the first line of warning provided by the Nanyang cluster for the China Sea.

The main force of the Marines was stationed on the base of Belitung Island, guarding the captured locals to build the port and station, and guarding against British attacks on the island. Their "whale-class amphibious assault" was deployed to and from Batavia and Belitung Island in batches to transport supplies.

Belitung Island has a ratio of about 7:5 to a total length and width, and the entire island covers an area of only 4,850 square kilometers, and the base is located in the center of the island. Bangka Island, which is more than 30 nautical miles to the west of the island, is about 170 nautical miles away from the Sunda Strait and the Malacca Strait, which can be used as a base for blockading the Strait of Malacca and the Sunda Strait in the future.

Huang Kehui deployed three Marine regiments and all logistics units here, and the Whale-class amphibious assault ships deployed above the sea. In addition, two reconnaissance platoons were dispatched to secretly set up observation posts at the exit of the Strait of Malacca and on the small islands at the exit of the Sunda Strait, basically eliminating the possibility that the enemy could attack without fear.

At the same time, a unit of the Marine Corps was dispatched to take a clearance fleet composed of five "whale-class amphibious assault ships" and hospital ships to begin to clear out the pirates in the nearby waters.

First of all, the sailing of this clearing fleet is southeast, almost accompanying the "Mingyue" to sail together, of course, this fleet is also responsible for the task of finding Murong Chuchu within the jurisdiction of the South Sea cluster.

But just three days after this clearing fleet set sail, the fleet of the South Seas Cluster faced off against the British fleet that had arrived here.

The British East India Company had been trying to get their hands on the Spice Islands, setting up a trading house near Batavia. But soon due to the destruction of the Dutch and the harsh environment of the area, more than 300 British people died. In the end, the British East India Company had to abandon its rivalry with the East India Company of the Kingdom of the Netherlands for spices in the archipelago.

And in the process of the two sides fighting, the Dutch did a rather cruel thing. They killed more than 15,000 natives on Banda Island, and eradicated most of the spices produced on the nearby islands, leaving only one on Banda Island, in order to facilitate control.

At this moment, thanks to Yue Xiaofei's suggestion, the Dutch cruisers had begun to partially dismantle the cannons and place them on the hill near the city of Batavia.

As for these cruisers, they will be converted into fast merchant ships, sail to the Indian side, and purchase them according to the list left by Yue Xiaofei.

So in general, this batch of cruisers has basically lost its combat capability.

At this moment, in addition to the fifteen battleships led by Huang Kehui, the defensive force of Batavia was only left to repair the battlefleet after almost a month and a half of overnight work, a total of ten battleships, and the other was the artillery batteries that had increased to more than 200 cannons on the low hills on both sides of Batavia.

In addition, it was a marine regiment that was the main force in the land defense of Batavia. In order to deal with the unknowing arrival of the British army, barricades were quickly erected in the city of Batavia, and the Dutch army under Diman was responsible for the defense of the city. The Shenzhou Army, on the other hand, is equipped with bicycles and has the ability to move quickly in the city on fairly good roads, because it is responsible for encirclement and mobile defense.

The British, with their money from the Spice Islands, made a big bet on it. A formation of 20 battleships and 30 cruisers covered a 15,000-strong British Marine force loaded by 11 transports to the Sunda Strait, an important sea passage over the Greater Sunda Islands.

This is already about half of all the naval forces of the United Kingdom, of course, if you include the armed merchant ships, the number of British navies can reach nearly 300, but there are not many warships dedicated to combat. In particular, the number of cruisers used as the backbone of the flotilla was much less.

Of course, they don't know who they're up against. Out of all the British, a fleet of more than sixty warships, such a large force convinced the British that they would win the final victory.

Moreover, in order not to be intercepted by the Dutch fleet on the way, the British fleet did not take the smooth Strait of Malacca. Instead, against the strong sea breeze that blows from time to time in the Indian Ocean at this time, following the summer monsoon and currents of the Indian Ocean, it travels from the west side of Simendara Island to the southwest side of the Sunda Strait, and then penetrates through the Sunda Strait and approaches the city of Batavia from the sea.

Therefore, when the British fleet passed through the Sunda Strait, it did not shy away from showing off its military might. From what they knew, there was only one lighthouse for the Dutch to indicate the route, so they didn't care.

It was about 160 kilometers away from Batavia, and the fleet was traveling at an average speed of eight knots per hour, and if it took only two or three days to reach Batavia, how could the Dutch get the news to Batavia, no matter how fast the Dutch were?