Jakarta is the largest port city in Indonesia, but also the largest military port, the Dutch have been operating here for many years, not only forming a huge throughput commercial port, but also forming a well-equipped military port, 280 mm coastal defense artillery, at least more than 30, which is also the largest defense that the Dutch can come up with.

This is also the fundamental reason why Xiao Jianfeng did not choose to directly attack Jakarta, using a warship to attack the fortress on the back, in any case, it is a loss, the value of the coastal defense cannon is far less large than the warship, and even the gun barrel that has been replaced on the warship can be temporarily used as the barrel of the shore defense cannon, but the service life is not so long, this is also the use place of most of the navy's abandoned naval guns, the shore is far more convenient than the sea, and you can even add something to prevent explosions or other serious consequences, The cost of large-caliber naval guns is very high, and they are used as scrap metal in vain, even local tyrants such as Britain do not have such luxury.

The young Norton was very confident, he believed that he had not thought at all, this was a serial scheme given to him by the Chinese, used to lure his fleet to sea, in his opinion, those rebels in Borneo could not have a navy, the navy is different from the army, it is not rich, it is enough to have warships, it requires a long period of training and fine naval tradition. Even if the Netherlands declines, it still has this fine tradition, and stands in a certain degree of naval power, while China, maybe 20 years ago there was a so-called navy, and now, with the so-called protective cruisers?

Norton is of course referring to the three seas, to be honest, an offshore cruiser like the Seven Provinces Alliance may not be as advanced as the three seas, but the main gun of the three seas is 210 mm. It is 280 mm, plus the protection is even better. In terms of positional warfare, Mitsumi is not his opponent. If a guerrilla war really starts, Sanhai may not be afraid of it.

Preconceived prejudices, coupled with his own stubbornness, made Norton take it for granted that Borneo only had an army, and took advantage of the opportunity to sneak attack the Dutch, or even just attack the armed natives, and did not capture Pontianak with heavy troops at all. The fact that the Dutch army in Pontianak was damaged by artillery fire was directly ignored by him. He imagined himself as Britain in 1840, facing the Chinese who had only an army and no navy, and when the warships sailed to Borneo, the Chinese armed forces were almost unable to resist.

He even felt that the victory on land was the support of Germany behind the back, and the soil buns in the poor countryside. If it weren't for Germany's big thick legs, how could it be that the Netherlands lost, which is embarrassing. Now, the opportunity for dirt buns is gone. The Dutch navy also moved, and the last shred of opportunity was gone, those more than 100 mm guns. On land, so to speak, heavy artillery. At sea, not even a secondary gun. The secondary guns are at least 6 inches, some are even 8 inches, the Seven Provinces Alliance is backward, but the main gun is 280 mm, for more than 200 mm ship main guns, the army's 108 is not much different from a toothpick.

Norton's face flushed with excitement, as if the glory of the ancestors was showing at this moment, he would become the savior of the Netherlands like his ancestors, and even promote the glory of the Dutch navy, Norton didn't know that from the time they left the harbor, a dozen of their ships were targeted.

Staring at them was not the ships on the water, but the submarines under water, the ocean-going submarines in the northwest were thousands of miles away, and they came to the South Sea, and the troops composed of submarines and destroyers set off urgently from Qingdao, galloping all the way, the whole process was at high speed, and they were in a tense hurry at a speed of more than 15 knots. After coming to Southeast Asia, there was not much rest, one night later, they came to the outside of Jakarta, they and Norton almost front and back, on the 4th day of Norton's arrival in Jakarta, they came to the open sea, in an angle that the Dutch did not expect, relay monitoring Jakarta.

The transport ships that went to Borneo a short time ago were also under their surveillance, if it weren't for Xiao Jianfeng's strict order not to allow them to shoot, just these dozen or so submarines would be enough to send those transport ships to the bottom of the sea.

The history of the use of submarines in the Northwest has been several years, to be precise, the Northwest has attached importance to submarines from the very beginning, in the face of the Northwest with internal combustion engines and battery technology against the sky, as long as the material problem of the hull is solved, it is basically not a problem to create ocean-going submarines, and even in the submarine laboratories in the Northwest, sound-absorbing materials, high-pressure shells, and hydrodynamic propellers are also under development. Along these lines developed.

The submarine that came to perform the mission is already the second generation of submarines, the tonnage is larger, the largest one has a displacement of 4,300 tons, in the historical period of World War I, quite amazing, larger displacement, representing greater space, greater endurance and armament, when the number of torpedoes in ordinary submarines is in single digits, the new generation of whale-class submarines has 6 twin launch tubes, a total of 48 torpedoes, that is to say, saturation attacks, can be carried out four rounds.

Of course, it is impossible to saturate the torpedo attack, and after the torpedo in the launch tube is fired at one time, it needs to be reloaded, but the reserve ammunition of 48 rounds is enough for the ocean-going submarine to last for a long time, plus a wider space and more fuel load, the lethality of the ocean-going submarine has greatly increased.

From the very beginning, Xiao Jianfeng was not careless, their target has always been the Dutch sea fleet, the Dutch ships are very backward, these warships are nothing at sea, not to mention the capital ship of the Qingdao base, even if the heavy patrol takes one out, it is enough to deal with them. But Xiao Jianfeng knows that these coastal protection ships, once they are close to the near sea, they will be quite powerful when converted into land firepower, and the 284 mm guns may not be able to face battleships armed to the teeth, but for the unprotected infantry, even the tanks that are already available in the northwest, they are all solved with one shot, which is not something that the Nanyang Army can deal with, and the sooner they can be destroyed, the better.

Xiao Jianfeng was also worried that because of the annihilation of the Dutch fleet, it would cause disgust between Britain and France, but the arrival of Cheng Biguang not only brought the direct support of the naval officers, but also brought the promise of the Germans, they exchanged radio contacts with the Scheer fleet, and once they should be connected, they would also take action.

Scheer's fleet is in the sea trial near the South Seas, as the head snake Xiao Jianfeng of course knows that among the naval soldiers sent to the Scheer fleet for internship, one-third are from the Black Dragon Pirates, and he knows very well that such a fleet is powerful, as long as the German side is willing to join in the middle, under certain circumstances, there is no problem in helping Southeast Asia and annihilating Britain and France.

After the war against Japan, the Northwest has been exploring the reaction between Britain and France, to what extent, Britain and France will accept, will not rebound, will not directly declare war on the Northwest or do it, in the middle, prepared a lot of intelligence, after the war against Japan, found that the other side has more and more no bottom line, even if it is suspected that the Northwest is the mastermind behind the South Seas, there is no direct attack, which can be seen from the Dutch shot instead of the British and French shots.

In many analysis reports of the intelligence department, it is clearly stated that even if Nanyang fights, or even Nanyang independence, and joins the allies under the name of Nanyang or Lanfangguo, Britain and France are only suspicious and will not directly rebound, which has a lot of room for maneuver, and has an extra hand, and there is more of this layer of cover for the Northwest, and to a certain extent, the Northwest is equivalent to relieving a lot of things, for example, it cannot be directly connected to the war, and the benefits of seeing it cannot be obtained, and the interests of Southeast Asia, Or even the interests of Australia in the future.

Scheer's fleet, all along, has been sneaky, just to prevent being discovered by Britain and France, and to attack the task force when the task force has not formed a combat effectiveness, and now the task force has enough strength, and it does not like to continue to cover up, take Southeast Asia, and with the help of Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and even other ports, it can be used as his home port to directly threaten India.

For a long time, India is not an important place, the power left by Britain in India, even some small countries are inferior, if you want to enter the Indian Ocean, have a certain influence, India can not bypass, the land must be close to the Middle East, the south of India, the place of Bangladesh in the future, is a good place, Malacca, Indochina, Bangladesh, will form a complete triangular system, the northwest to the Middle East channel, can be connected, no longer worry about the danger of being cut off.

India's strategy is a follow-up to the northwest, and even uses India as a springboard, on the south side of the Himalayan foothills, owning a piece of land, turning the Himalayas into China's inner peak, and by the way, with the help of Bangladesh to obtain the Indian Ocean's access to the sea, protect the shipping lane, and then go deep into the Middle East, with the help of Basra, control the Middle East, the current Middle East is a desert, but Yang Yuanzhao knows that that is the place with the most oil reserves in the world, and this is the future world energy center. In the energy age, whoever controls here controls the pulse of the world economy

Norton led the fleet and left Jakarta without any cover, the warships went first, followed by dozens of cargo ships, and the natives were all wiped out, even if the natives were temporarily transferred, they could only do some auxiliary work, and could not become soldiers, Norton did not believe in the combat effectiveness of the natives, and was ready to let the Dutch army come in person.

Not far from the Seven Provinces Alliance, an underwater periscope, with the ups and downs of the waves, almost the whole process of detecting the departure of the Dutch fleet, one two or three, all the Dutch warships on the list all set off, mixed with more than 30 cargo ships, the mixed fleet at a speed of 12 knots, slowly towards Borneo, even if Jakarta is so close to Borneo, 12 knots, it will take a long time.

The radio waves spread very secretly on the surface of the sea, and finally reached Xiao Jianfeng, Xiao Jianfeng had been waiting for this moment for a long time, smiled excitedly at Cheng Biguang, and said, "The feast has begun!" (To be continued.) )