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Chapter 57:UK-Dutch Alliance

Li Yishan reported after his work, just to leave the courtyard, he saw Li Daolin who rushed in, which made Li Yishan can't help but frown.

Not waiting for Fan Yize and Li Daolin to speak, Li Yishan took Li Daolin and said with blame: "When can you learn that the Taishan collapses in front and does not change color, and do not live up to Mr. Fan's teaching to you."

Li Daolin heard the words, took a deep breath, nodded to his uncle, and then reported to Fan: "Mr. Fan, the British are completely restricting the freedom of their compatriots in the colony, demanding that all Chinese people not leave their homes for 500 meters, and there are British soldiers who have blocked the concentrated areas of their compatriots."

Fan Yize heard that there was no change in his face, and it seemed that he had already known the same, nodded and said, "I already know this thing."

Li Yishan had heard his nephew's words, and he was a little nervous, when he saw the appearance of Fan Yize, and suddenly walked out of the courtyard with confidence.

And Li Daolin immediately rest assured, said: "Mr. Fan, the behavior of the British, must be prevented, these colonists have always been bad, perhaps they are planning something."

Fan Yize said, "It is not possible, but the British are planning how to deal with us."

Li Daolin said that there are some tensions, after all, as the world's first power in the world, Britain's strength is not comparable to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Li Daolin, who had long lived overseas and often had business dealings with the British East India Company, was well aware of the British's strong military, and how dangerous it would be to meddle in the Dutch East Indies.

“Mr. Fan, should we first withdraw from the places of Borneo and Dutch Guinea, for there is only one boundary between our territory and the British colonies on these two islands.”Li Daolin thought and said.

Let Li Daolin say that if he gives up, it is absolutely impossible, because the Chinese people now have no way out.

Once the British attack, it can only be resisted to the death, and the British face is even more disturbing, which may bring devastating disasters to the Chinese people in all of Southeast Asia.

Li Daolin does not have any lucky idea, rights and interests are extremely cruel, the interests taken by force, once concessions are made, it will only be a step by step, and ultimately lose everything.

Moreover, Li Daolin also believes that the army under Fan Yize's army is not without half-combat force in the face of the British.

In addition, there are still hundreds of thousands of Chinese, as long as they are armed, they also have the power of a war.

When Li Daolin got the news, he had a general idea in his mind to avoid being connected to the British short-term soldiers and delaying the British army with the defense of many islands.

The idea is okay, but Fan Yize did not have such an idea, if there is no red police corps, only hundreds of thousands of Chinese, then Fan Yize made the same decision as Li Daolin.

The British army is indeed much stronger than the Dutch army, which is not only based on equipment, but also on combat ideas.

Especially last year, the British Army summed up on the battlefield in South Africa, which has a strong role in promoting the British Army's combat concept.

In last year’s colonial war in South Africa, the British Army had come to realize the terrible power of the barbed wire and machine gun combinations, and the trenches, had turned the war into a terrible purgatory for the infantry.

However, for the British Army today, this is only a preliminary understanding, and it has not yet reached the complete tactical transformation of the First World War.

New operational concepts and tactics take time to perfect.

What really cared about Fan was that the British navy’s powerful navy was the real threat to the Dutch East India.

“We have received preliminary information that the British have contacted the Dutch and will also attempt to recover the Dutch East Indies with the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and we do not know, of course, the content of the transaction between us is not very important to us.”

“The Netherlands has placed an order for two new warships from the British Naval Shipyard, with the first of the Seven Provinces Soyuz and No. 2 going to start construction at the Dutch shipyard, two more in the UK, and plans to build several protective cruisers.”

"According to the preliminary information, the Dutch shipbuilding plan is to restore as much war-loss naval power as possible, because in addition to the Dutch East Indies, there are other colonies that also need the Dutch navy to deter and maintain, and second, to strengthen cooperation with the United Kingdom, with the help of the British hand against us, the ship is also one of the chips."

“The British have secretly mobilized forces in the colonies of Southeast Asia and in the Australian colonies, and according to our projections, the British will be able to mobilize between 80,000 and 100,000 troops, half of which will be cannon fodder troops composed of colonists.”

"England needs to attack in the name of attack, and the British caution makes it certain that England will not come alone, and in the name of the United Holland, there will be the Dutch who act together.There is no standing army in the Netherlands, it is a reserve army, it is a standing army, and it can prepare a force of about 100,000 people in a short period of time.”

The butler went to the two men and introduced the intelligence points he had received in the morning to Li Daolin.

Now there are not many available talents around Fan Yize, originally only responsible for the operation of the base, the steward who carried out Fan Yize's orders, and also undertook some military tasks, but this is only a temporary work.

Li Daolin listened to the housekeeper talk about the whole incident, and a little sweat on the brain door overflowed, and the situation was even worse than he expected.

At least hundreds of thousands of enemies, or even the scale of 200,000, Li Daolin's heart is inevitably a little uneasy.

Fan Yize said: "Although British Prime Minister Balfour is not a democrat, but he does not have any favor with the Chinese, has always positioned the Chinese as unstable factors, so it is not surprising that the colony began to restrict the movement of the Chinese."

"There is no danger to my fellow-citizens in the British colonies."Li Daolin saw Fan Yize's state, tried to calm his heart down, and asked questions that were very worried about.

"The British will not take the Chinese, will not kill the Chinese for no reason, kill the Chinese, this we can be assured, and once the war breaks out, the Chinese in the British colonies will soon be safe."He said confidently.

Fan Yize has long been concerned about the movement of the United Kingdom, a little wind and grass will be aware, the greed of the United Kingdom, he also fully expected, for the dare to extend the greedy hand, not only to chop off, but also to chase.

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