October 12th

The main force of the Royal Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet, the "Beilun", "Tianshu", "Humen" and "Sanmarinda", arrived off the coast of Jakarta and dealt a devastating blow to the Royal Dutch Navy's East Indies Fleet in the harbor.

This is not so much a naval battle as a long-range artillery drill with live ammunition.

The difference in strength between the two sides is too great, and the largest cruiser on the Dutch side, the "Lukebet", is only 3,200 tons, and it is a small bug in front of the powerful battleships of the Ocean Empire, and it will die if you reach out and pinch it.

The Indian Ocean Fleet left a few ships to blockade the open sea, and the main force then escorted the landing ship group to Sumatra Island, preparing to land in the established sea area.

The landing force was two divisions;

One is the 4th Kalimantan Division, which will land in the port of Medan, northwest of Sumatra, and will be responsible for occupying the northwestern part of the island.

One is the Kalimantan 6th Division, which will land at the port of Champa in the southeast of Sumatra, and will be responsible for occupying the southeast of the island.

The two divisions had a total strength of more than 42,000 men, while the Dutch defenders of Sumatra had about 17,000 men and more than 20,000 indigenous servants.

In terms of total strength, the two seem to be about the same.

But in terms of combat effectiveness, the 4th and 6th divisions in Kalimantan were all equipped with an armored tank battalion, each battalion was equipped with two companies of Wolf light tanks, a total of 44 vehicles. Equipped with a company of 22 Cheetah medium tanks, it is an out-and-out attacking iron fist.

To deal with the Dutch all-light infantry is to bully people.

The landing force was also equipped with two battalions of aircraft, each with 24 fighters, and if such strength could not take down Sumatra, the division commander who led the army should find a piece of tofu and kill him.

The Second East Indies War was dominated by the Borneo garrison, and the Indian Ocean Fleet, known as the "Nursing Home", was dispatched by the navy, and the Pacific Fleet, the Atlantic Fleet, and the Imperial Native Army, the main forces of the Royal Navy, were basically untouched.

Even so, it was an unbearable burden for the Viceroyalty of the Dutch East Indies.

Looking back on 30 years

The First East Indies War was a hard bone that Li Fushou did his best to gnaw down, but this time, it was as easy as probing for something, and the difference in strength was very different.

The landing force did not disappoint the Empire, although there were some minor twists and turns, but the advance went smoothly, and the stubbornly defended Dutch army suffered heavy losses under the combined attack of the Imperial armored forces and air force, and was crushed in strength.

The head of a captured Dutch colonel, speaking to reporters on his return to Europe;

"Their soldiers are very chicken thieves in battle, as long as the guns go off, they scatter like frightened pheasants, organize counterattacks on the spot, and the guns are very accurate, as long as they dare to show their heads one or two hundred meters away, the probability of going to see God is more than eighty percent.

And their mortars are also very accurate, heavy machine guns can't hit a shuttle of bullets, mortar shells are smashed down when specified, and there are tanks and planes, this battle can't be fought at all.

One of my regiments of soldiers took advantage of the terrain and laid siege to a tank platoon and an infantry company, but they were beaten with heavy casualties, and God, they are the devils from hell. ”

Regardless of whether the colonel was exaggerating or not, but looking at his palpitating look, the reporter silently withdrew the follow-up question, so as not to be more embarrassed.

Landing on 15 October, the Kalimantan 4th and 6th Divisions successfully joined forces in the central part of the island before the end of the month, completing the occupation of the entire island.

During this period, more than 8,000 enemy troops were killed and wounded, more than 23,000 were captured, and the remaining part of the enemy army fled.

Next

It was a war to eradicate law and order, calling the leaders of the local indigenous resistance forces to a meeting to discuss the future political arrangements of Sumatra.

On 9 November, dozens of tribal leaders and indigenous nobles from all over Sumatra gathered in Medan to discuss the formation of a government of national unity.

The next day, the 4th Kalimantan Division suddenly turned around and carried out an encirclement and suppression of more than 1,000 tribal leaders and indigenous nobles and their entourages in the name of arresting the militants who were plotting against them, and none of them survived.

Over the next month or so, the Imperial Army launched a large-scale series of sweeps, consolidating all the villages and households, and with the cooperation of the local Chinese residents, they completed complete control of Sumatra.

Between December and January, 13 ships of laborers, 41,277 men, were exported to Europe.

Shortly thereafter, the Kingdom of the Netherlands admitted defeat, and the two sides signed the "Singapore Re-Peace Treaty" in Singapore, the main content of which was that the Kingdom of the Netherlands recognized the defeat, ceded Sumatra and its nearby islands, and compensated 1,500 gold oceans, guaranteed to strengthen the consular protection of Chinese merchants, safeguarded the interests of Chinese residents in the Java Islands, and prevented any such vicious incidents.

Thus, the Second East Indies War, which lasted 23 days, came to an end.

This war was fought so easily and comfortably, Britain, France and other countries watched it with a sour stomach in their hearts, and public opinion reports also revealed a full sour taste;

The Times reported;

The Ocean Kingdom once again conquered a defenseless Dutch colony, and unsurprisingly took Sumatra into their pockets, and they were adept at asserting their hegemony in the Pacific by grabbing territory from Europe's smaller, third-rate states.

Of course, this was when the British Empire and France had no time to take care of it.

So far, the Ocean Kingdom has not shown its strength in the truly harsh European battlefield, and by bullying the weak colonies in the surrounding area, it will never be able to grow into a truly world-class military power.

implication

If you don't go to Europe to fight a bloody war, you can't get the real recognition of European countries.

Paris Saint-Germain reports;

Emperor Li Fushou of the Ocean Empire once again rejected an olive branch from Paris, and his current interest was to expand in the surrounding region while the European war was raging, as evidenced by the Second East Indies War.

In this 22-day war, the Ocean Empire fully demonstrated the face of bullying the weak, calculating, bullying the weak, and accumulating war money, which made most Europeans have a negative view of the world's largest economy.

I have to say, this is a very regrettable thing.

As a result, the day after the Paris Saint-Germain article was published, the newspaper was suspended.

Three days later, on the front page of the resumption report, Paris Saint-Germain published a solemn apology from the newspaper; We sincerely apologize for the serious damage caused to the feelings of the Ocean Empire because of the previous false report, and dismiss 11 people, including the editor-in-chief, editor-in-charge, editor-in-charge and reporter of the newspaper, and promise that we will never commit similar incidents again.

Paris Saint-Germain was charged with defamation of the monarch, which was a serious crime in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century, and there would be no similar situation in Britain, Germany, Italy, and only France, which had a high degree of freedom of speech.

Of course, the cost is very serious.

The major Entente powers, such as France, Great Britain, Italy, and Tsarist Russia, all relied on large gold loans to support the war, and don't forget, the Ocean Empire was their number one creditor.

Forget about the yin and yang weirdness, dare to name and name the big nonsense, who will you punish if you don't punish you?

And at this moment

Gallup, which had begun before the Second East Indies War and had not yet ended, was fought very hard, with both the United States and Japan showing an uncompromising fighting spirit, and the battle was quite tragic and bloody.

The Battle of Gallup came to an end before Christmas on December 25, when General Fred C. Ainsworth, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, commanded 150,000 U.S. troops to fight to the death on the 100-kilometer line from Gallup to Milan Town, taking advantage of the favorable geographical conditions of the Colorado Plateau, and repelled round after round of onslaught by 295,000 Japanese troops.

During the 58-day battle

A total of 33,700 Japanese soldiers were killed and 81,100 wounded, although they lost dozens of square kilometers of depth in the town of Milan and its surroundings, but they kept the vital Gallup Fortress, dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army, and won the Battle of Gallup.

In this battle, the U.S. army lost 26,300 killed and 45,500 wounded, with a total of 71,800 casualties, accounting for 44.6% of the total strength. It has also reached the level of breaking muscles and bones.

Another battle in Colorado, North America, ended in a Japanese victory.

The 173,000 Japanese troops under the command of Marshal Oyama Iwa broke through the 265,000 American troops deployed in depth in Colorado City after continuous battles, occupied the city of Colorado that had long been in ruins, and approached the Denver defense line after a bloody battle.

In this battle, at the cost of 32,200 casualties, the Japanese army killed and wounded 74,200 American troops and captured 13,600 prisoners, achieving a difficult victory.

In front of them, Denver, the capital of Colorado, was already unobstructed, and as long as the city was captured, it would mean the fall of Colorado, and the remaining small towns would not be able to withstand the large-scale attack of the Japanese army.

After more than two months of bloody battles, both the United States and Japan were exhausted, most of the tens of thousands of tons of ammunition in reserve were consumed, and the supply of military supplies was seriously insufficient.

As a result, after 58 days of brutal battles, North America ushered in a bloody calm.

And that's just the calm before the bigger storm.

Count the gains and losses

It can be seen that the Japanese army encountered serious difficulties in attacking the Gallup fortress, and the artillery fire of its troops was a major shortcoming, and it was basically possible to walk sideways in the Far East, and it was not afraid to confront the Tsarist Russian troops head-on, but it was still not enough to see it in North America.

The U.S. troops defending Gallup Fortress not only had more artillery fire, but also had larger calibers and more adequate ammunition reserves, which caused great casualties to the attacking Japanese troops, and basically more than half of the casualties came from the heavy artillery fire of the U.S. troops.

After 58 days of fighting, the American artillery fire showed no signs of abating, and no one knew how much ammunition they had stored, forcing the Japanese to stop this kind of pointless attack with increased casualties.

The casualties were too great, and the offensive tactics had to be adjusted.

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