Chapter 3608
The time has come to September, but for a tropical battlefield located in the equatorial region, there are no clear four seasons here, and the environment is still as hot and humid as in the previous months.
Zheng Agui's company has completed another round of rest and recuperation in Beimen Port and set off again to the east end of the Lesser Sunda Islands to continue its search and suppression mission.
At this time, a month has passed since the action time limit proposed by Xiao Zhengyang. Although the Bangui Battalion has almost cleared the area south of the Banda Sea, due to the recent Taiwanese fleet destroying a secret that had been operated by Spain for three years in Papua Island, At the port, the Combat Command believes that the Spaniards are likely to continue to mobilize armed fleets from the Americas to sneak into this area, so it is necessary to increase search efforts in the area east of the current war zone.
Before Zheng Agui set off from Beimen Port, he saw the Taiwan Fleet battle report forwarded by the Combat Command. While he envied Li Zhencheng's good luck, he also couldn't help but admire the Spaniard's tenacity. Even after the battle reached this point, he was still thinking about counterattack.
Although they have lost power in this area, they still insist on fighting guerrilla warfare with Haihan. If we negotiate with Haihan and choose to bow our heads and admit defeat and stop the confrontation, at least thousands of immigrants can be safely evacuated from the war zone. But now that the territory has not been saved, and the immigrants who worked so hard to move here are gone, it can be said that we have completely lost.
Zheng Agui believes that the Spaniards are completely unaware of their situation. Even if they can mobilize troops from another distant continent, it has become a fueling tactic in the current situation and cannot change the contrast between the two countries in this region. .
Judging from the current situation, the Spaniards probably want to use delaying tactics to drag out the war until Haihan can no longer afford it, and then it will be more advantageous to choose a truce.
But what the Spaniards didn't know was that since Haihan was determined to develop the New World in the South, he would never allow Spain to be a stumbling block on the route connecting the new colonies. No matter how long this war lasts, Haihan will definitely not take the initiative to cease the war.
Even if the Executive Committee has other ideas, the Luzon Region, which has already paid a huge price for this, will never stop here.
This war must not only continue to be fought, but also must be completely won until Spain can no longer covet this region.
Not long after the troops were dispatched, Zheng Agui's company received the latest notification that reinforcements had also arrived in the southern theater south of the Banda Sea, which would greatly alleviate the pressure of the current severe shortage of troops.
However, the newly joined reinforcements are not from Fujian or Taiwan, nor are they from the Sing Tao region that is competing with Luzon to develop the New World, but from the Kingdom of Matalan, which is adjacent to the Southern Front Theater.
Speaking of the Kingdom of Matalan, it can be regarded as an old friend of Haihan. Since the Battle of Batavia in 1632, Matalan has become an important buyer of Haihan's arms exports. In 1636, the Madalan envoy brought a cart of gold bricks to the gate of Fort Victory to openly purchase arms. With his astonishing financial resources, he won the bidding auction with the Netherlands. This is still one of the legendary stories that people in Sanya talk about.
The western area of the Lesser Sunda Islands was originally the traditional territory of the Kingdom of Matalan, but it was successively controlled by the Netherlands and Spain. This time the Luzon Region cleared Spanish colonies in the Lesser Sunda Islands, and the most direct beneficiary was actually the Kingdom of Matalan. Although Haihan has completed the cleanup of these areas, he currently does not have enough troops to control the numerous islands, and he does not want to affect the relationship with the Kingdom of Matalan for the ownership of these islands.
So the Manila authorities took the initiative to propose a plan to the Kingdom of Matalan. The Kingdom of Matalan participated in the operation against Spanish colonial forces and provided material and combat force support. In return, Haihan could return the area of the Lesser Sunda Islands that originally belonged to King Matalan to its original owner.
This deal is quite cost-effective for the Matalan Kingdom. If Matalan takes the lead and asks Haihan to send troops to help and take back control of these islands from Spain, the price required will be much higher than what Haihan is doing now. The demands made were much higher.
So Matalan quickly agreed to the plan of the Manila authorities. Without waiting for the two parties to sign a formal agreement, they immediately organized a cargo fleet to transport the food and other living materials needed by Haihan to Beimen Port. At the same time, they dispatched a team of An armed fleet headed to the Arafura Sea at the eastern end of the Lesser Sunda Islands to assist Haihan in performing patrol and search missions in the area.
The voyage from the Matalan Kingdom to Beimen Port is more than twice as close as Manila, and the route does not need to pass through the war zone, and the transportation cost is far lower than Haihan's own supply line.
Although the strength of the Madalan fleet is not as good as that of the real-name alliance armies such as North Korea and Annan, almost all of its main warships are purchased from Haihan, and its naval tactics are also in line with Haihan. As long as they are not allowed to fight in the line of fire As the main force, it is not difficult to cooperate with Haihan to complete some basic tasks.
According to the arrangements of the combat headquarters, the Matalan fleet will cooperate with the actions of the garrison at Beimen Port. Its arrival indeed makes Zheng Agui breathe a sigh of relief. Now he no longer has to worry about his company being blocked for a long time due to insufficient ships. "Abandoned" on an island.
After entering September, good news came one after another, but most of them were in the northern front theater north of the Banda Sea.
The Fujian Fleet achieved its first military success after entering the war zone, and cooperated with the Luzon Fleet to eliminate a Spanish fleet that had been fighting guerrillas on Sulawesi Island. According to the battle report, the number of enemy ships destroyed in this battle even exceeded the Taiwan fleet's record in Manokwari, making it the highest record in a single battle in the current round of the Strait-Western War.
After this fleet was wiped out, Spain's remaining local armed forces basically lost the ability to maneuver and could no longer threaten the New World route passing through the east side of Sulawesi Island.
Xu Kaiyuan, who commanded the Fujian Fleet, also received double commendations from the Executive Committee and the Ministry of National Defense. It is probably only a matter of time before he is promoted after the war.
Although Li Zhencheng was quite dissatisfied with the limelight being stolen by the Fujian fleet, he also understood that this was the Executive Committee's intention to loosen the chain of the Xu family, and it was not something he could control. Now that it is impossible to suppress the Fujian fleet's performance in the war, it can only try to strengthen its own performance in the future.
By the end of September, no trace of the Spaniards was found in the northern and southern theaters for nearly half a month. It was only then that the Manila authorities reported to the Executive Committee, claiming that the war had achieved a phased victory, and what would happen next Concentrate resources to increase the development of Beimen Port in the New World.