Li Fushou has been particularly excited these days. The general manager of Huitong Bank, Kester, could not affect his good mood and his attitude was surprisingly kind.

Bank positions are short and financial difficulties are temporary. By the end of the month, a large amount of exported combed wool strips will be paid for, with an amount of up to 3.2 million pounds (with principal and profit), which can greatly alleviate the current tension.

In the past six months, more than a dozen fierce battles were fought in succession, and five new troops were built. The money was spent like water, and the results were also huge.

The Navy fully controlled the sea power in the South Pacific region. The island-guarded troops eliminated the Royal Dutch Army troops landed on Shangri-La Island, fully controlled Shangri-La Island, and the Army landed on Sanmalinda. Through a series of successful military expansion operations, Borneo's Eastern Kalimantan Province and Southern Kalimantan Province were included in the bag.

Anyone who has entered the pocket of the Earl of Queensland and has difficulty taking it out, the Dutch should not even think about it even if she doesn't take off her skin.

Li Fushou regards all the occupied land as his own. Large-scale immigration work has been underway for more than three months, especially in the occupied areas of Eastern Kalimantan and Southern Kalimantan provinces of Borneo. The colonial imprint of the Dutch is being completely eliminated. In addition to introducing British consortiums, he also used forced transactions to seize large areas of white Dutch plantations and rewarded them to the meritorious soldiers in the army.

This regional war of hegemony was initiated by the Dutch, but they had no choice but to decide whether it was over. The initiative was controlled by Li Fushou.

Now he is not in a hurry to negotiate, but instead deliberately delays it and will wait until next year.

These huge victories established the great reputation of Queenslanders.

Queensland's military strength is nothing in Europe, it is just a slag at the level of a third-rate small country. However, it can defeat the Dutch colonial army and find its way to the ground, and it is indeed a strong army in the South Pacific region.

These days, Li Fushou has been accompanying his wife Gu Liuyan in Jingsi Pavilion, talking with her, looking forward to the future, and having fun together to make fun of the children.

In Jingsi Pavilion Study Room

After reporting the accounts, Chen Shiheng, the chief manager of the inner account, stood up with his hands down. Li Fushou looked at the thick expense accounts on his hand and finally couldn't laugh. "What the hell? I didn't understand it wrong, that is, the richest rancher in the world is no longer rich, and the poor in the inner warehouse can run away from rats?"

"Reporting to the master, strictly speaking, you still have £73,017 16 shillings and 7p. Maintaining a decent aristocratic life is enough, but as expensive as before..." Chen Shiheng kept silent, the meaning below was self-evident.

"Haha...more than 70,000 pounds..." Li Fushou smiled bitterly.

This amount of money is enough to put in the hands of other noble masters, but it will be a drop in the bull in his own hands. If you throw it in the water, you can't even hear a sound.

At the meetings in the past two days, a lot of development plans were proposed. It’s a big deal to have no money. It seems that all of them have to be postponed.

The war is really a bottomless gold-swalking beast. It took a lot of money to accumulate the foundation for several years. He also brought a huge debt of more than 5 million pounds at Huitong Bank. He is really a million-dollar debt.

"It's September 22nd today. I remember that there was a huge amount of export payments that could be recovered at the end of the month. It should be more relaxed, right?"

"Reporting to the master, you are referring to the monthly payment for the Honghe Wool Spinning Factory to export combed strips from Europe, the amount is about 3.2 million pounds. Nearly 70% of this is the principal and must be returned to the company for wool acquisition and reproduction. What we can misappropriate is only about one million pounds. According to the equity ratio, the amount belongs to you shall not exceed 800,000 pounds."

"This million pounds should be charged into the warehouse first. Let's talk about the dividends of other shareholders at the end of the year. If it really doesn't work, it will be a few months. If you don't have money, you can't handle it first. Let's go ahead."

"As for orders, my subordinates will leave."

Li Fushou was in a bad mood and picked up the tea and took a sip. It seemed that the pace of Borneo expansion had to be paused.

The Netherlands' colonial rule over 200 years has had a low level of development over the entire Borneo. Except for the white plantation economy around more than 10 port cities in the coastal areas, large areas of inland areas still maintain their original appearance and have no development at all.

The entire coastline of Borneo Island is more than 14,400 kilometers long. In the northern Malaya region and the northwest corner of the British Straits Governor's Office, the Dutch Borneo occupies 2/3 and is still strong, with a coastline of tens of thousands of kilometers.

This is a tropical rainforest climate, and the only way of transportation is coastal shipping and inland shipping. In the depths of the jungle where inland shipping cannot reach, it is completely isolated from the world, and only a few indigenous tribes that are slash-and-burn.

Therefore, the expansion in Borneo mainly adopts cross-altitude combat method, which is similar to checkers.

In the entire Borneo region, the only port with shore artillery defense is Sanmalinda, the capital of Borneo. Other port towns are completely open commercial ports or fishing ports. At most, some defensive small fortresses are built. The Dutch army has weak defensive power, so it is not difficult to attack.

The Queensland army set out from Sanmalinda and used a mixed naval and army formation to capture Machen, an important port city in Southern Kalimantan Province. It adopted a point-based combat plan, which achieved great success.

Of course, this is all the old calendar.

Stimulated by the Queensland army's victory, the Dutch colonial army mobilized more than 5,000 troops from Sumatra, and mobilized and armed more than 4,400 local white militias, focusing on strengthening the city defense of colonial ports.

at the same time

The continuous dispatch of white armed militias from Java to Borneo to participate in defense. Now it is not easy to seize any Dutch colonial town in North Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan and West Kalimantan.

You must go through a bloody battle and pull out hard nails.

Now it is the end of September, and after October, the traditional rainy season will be reached. The rainy season will last until March next year. Due to the limitations of climate and traffic environment, it is not suitable for starting large-scale wars during this period.

Unexpected heavy rains and mountain torrents, muddy roads and extremely humid and stuffy weather are severe tests for soldiers and weapons and equipment.

Yuchi Shouzhuo, commander-in-chief of Borneo, proposed a combat plan to comprehensively capture Central Kalimantan Province. The combat plan took two weeks to adopt a cross-sea point plan to capture important towns in Central Kalimantan Province and defend them.

The submission of the combat plan to the General Staff caused heated debate, with those who agreed and those who opposed it were equally fierce.

Let’s not talk about the opinions that agree, and the opinions that objections are also very reasonable;

Within two weeks specified in the combat plan, the three key cities and towns of the Dutch were too aggressive and inadequate in their consideration of difficulties, underestimating the confidence of the Dutch army after strengthening their defense.

Once the attack fails, the battlefield is prone to fall into a confrontation stage. The subsequent rainy season mountain torrents in the tropical areas will bring great difficulties to the attacking troops. The Dutch white colonists who have a breathing opportunity can gather nearby white plantation owners' armed forces to counterattack wildly, causing the attacking troops that have not yet stood firm in a more dangerous situation.

In addition, the rainy and wet rainy season has a great impact on weapons and equipment and artillery, muddy roads pose greater difficulties, and a large number of non-combat reductions are almost inevitable.

The First and Second Divisions of Kalimantan are newly expanded troops, and their ability to deal with difficult combat environments must be greatly reduced, which must be considered.

What crushes the troops is not necessarily combat, it may be non-combat attrition caused by difficult and harsh environments or tropical epidemics.

Instead of hasty attacks, it is better to wait for the morale of the army to adjust to its best state after the rainy season in March next year. Even if you encounter unplanned difficulties, you still have time to deal with them calmly so that you will not fall into danger to the offensive troops.

When all the conditions are not met, the lessons of the Dutch's hastily landed are thought-provoking.

The last sentence in the opposition of the General Staff moved Li Fushou. After repeated consideration, he finally rejected the combat plan submitted by the Borneo occupation forces.

Military factors are one aspect, and financial difficulties are also one of the important reasons.

In the study room

Li Fushou put down the pen in his hand. He had just rejected the military plan for further expansion. He felt very depressed. He sighed and stood up, walked to the map hanging on the wall of the study to look carefully.

His gaze stayed in the Central Kalimantan Province for a long time, and his eyes showed a fiery look.

What a great place!

Central Kalimantan Province is the province with the densest water network in Borneo. There are more than a dozen rivers with large water volumes rushing into the sea from here. The capital Palancalaya and Sanpit town have a large number of Dutch garrisons and white militias, which are the frontier positions in the fight against Queensland.

This place is only more than 400 kilometers away from the Machen Sultanate, ruled by the Dutch. However, due to the dense tropical primitive jungle, land traffic is completely cut off, and only island jumps and points are leveraged by sea.

Central Kalimantan Province has no local indigenous kingdoms and is directly ruled by Dutch colonists, according to the latest military intelligence;

The capital Palangkalaya gathered nearly 3,300 white military forces (including regular troops and militias), and there were three times more indigenous soldiers (mainly cold weapons), and the defense strength should not be underestimated.

This is a land with an area of ​​150,000 square kilometers, much larger than the entire Java Island, with an area of ​​1.5 times that of Jiangsu or Zhejiang. The total population is less than 190,000, and most of them are indigenous residents.

The total number of white colonists in the capital Palancalaya and Sanpit town is less than 7,000, and most of them are concentrated in towns and nearby plantations. White men who can pick up guns from 16 to 60 years old are basically mobilized to defend the Dutch colonial achievements and defend their homes with blood.

From this we can imagine that in order to defend this colony, the Dutch mobilized the extreme mobilization and prepared to fight to the death with the invading enemy.

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