Chapter 384 The Navy takes action

The six members of the North American gang had been friends for many years before they traveled through time. They all trusted each other very much, so they met to cross half the world to Hainan Island to participate in a time-traveling operation with an uncertain future. But even though they acted in the same way, their purpose of participating in the time-traveling was still unknown.

There are still differences. Some people want to completely break away from the past life circle, some want to seek more excitement in the unknown world, and some hope to realize their life ideals in a new environment. But from now on

Judging from the actual situation, not everyone is one step closer to their dreams after time travel.

Wang Tom was undoubtedly the lucky one among the six of them. It only took him just one year after time travel to become the supreme commander of the navy of the militia. Not only did he become famous, but he was also far away from the goal of becoming a great navigator that he had set before time travel.

It was getting closer and closer. However, Qiao Zhiya, who was eager to take risks in the new world, had to spend a lot of time in laboratories and production workshops, dealing with various chemicals and bottles all day long. The military's

There are fewer and fewer field missions, which is certainly not an ideal life situation for him.

But in the Haihan collective, everyone must obey the collective arrangements. Even the executive committee members at the top of the power pyramid cannot do whatever they want. The North American gang members who were accustomed to being self-centered in the past are gradually being worn away in this environment.

As far as Tom Wang knew, Qiao Zhiya would never have been able to find ways to find connections to transfer jobs in the past. With his character, he would probably be transferred if he could be transferred, and if he couldn't be transferred, he would simply resign and leave. But now Qiao Zhiya

, it seems that the thinking mode is becoming more and more similar to that of the time-travelers from China, and things have begun to follow the rules within the system. Wang Tom doesn’t know whether such assimilation is a good thing or a bad thing, but if he can make his friends live happily

Some, he is still happy to come forward and help.

The first day of 1629 came in a blink of an eye. On the occasion of the new year, the Executive Committee did not hold any form of New Year celebrations. This was because the Haihan calendar, which adopted the international customary calendar method of later generations, was still not used locally.

It has not been fully implemented, and most people are still accustomed to the traditional Chinese almanac. Secondly, because all aspects of work are too busy during this period, even a one-day shutdown will affect the progress of multiple projects. Especially

At the beginning of the year, there was a large-scale foreign military operation, and there was no time to stop and rest in the related preparations.

"You're as stupid as a pig! How many days have you been training for? You can't even tell the difference between your left and right feet!"

When Gu Wei returned to the office, he complained loudly and angrily took off his military cap and threw it on the table. Although it was already winter, the warm Sanya area was still sunny and the temperature remained around 25 degrees during the day. Gu Wei continued

After wiping the sweat from his head with the towel handed by the orderly, he picked up the tea and took a big sip, and then slowly calmed down.

"Didn't you think of a way before to tie a strap on the feet to help the recruits distinguish between left and right?" After Gu Wei's mood stabilized, Harugong, who was sitting next to him, began to persuade him: "This method was not used to train recruits before.

Quite effective?"

"Old ha, you don't know how stupid this batch of recruits are... No, I still have to talk to Mr. Yan. The threshold for recruiting people still needs to be set higher, especially these new Vietnamese monkeys.

Immigrants speak with heavy accents. They can’t understand what I say, and I don’t understand what they say. They are not as useful as the Li and Miao people recruited from the mountains!” When talking about the new recruits under his command, Gu

Wei was furious again.

"Don't talk about it like that. No matter where you come from, the militiamen are all naturalized citizens after joining the army. If Mr. Yan and Mr. Tao hear this, then your political attitude is incorrect!" Haru Gong said with good intentions.

reminded.

"If I have a choice, I really don't want to take these new soldiers. It's too nerve-wracking." Gu Wei shook his head repeatedly.

"If you are someone whose IQ is too low and can't be corrected, you might as well leave it to me. I still have some positions that don't require training in tactical movements. It doesn't matter if you are stupid." Haru smiled and gave Gu Wei advice.

: "You don't need to be very smart to cut the grass and feed the horses. Just give me the eliminated people from your side. It just so happens that I am also short of labor here."

"I'm afraid that these monkey soldiers can't even learn to cut grass!" Gu Wei muttered a few words, then stood up and picked up his military cap: "No, I still have to go to the training ground to keep an eye on these monkey cubs and give me a warning.

If they can't practice any more, they will all be sent to Jinji Ridge to become grooms!"

Since the cross-sea operations after the beginning of the new year required the dispatch of most of the militia troops, the Military Commission temporarily recruited another battalion of new recruits. Nearly 70% of this batch of recruits came from immigrants introduced from North Vietnam after April this year.

It can be regarded as a group of militiamen with the largest concentration of naturalized people of Annan origin so far. Although most people in North Vietnam speak the same language as Guangdong and Guangxi, the accent difference is also very obvious. If the Annan militiamen who enlisted in the early days are not equipped with the same voice,

Translation, Gu Wei cannot even direct the training of these new recruits. And the training time given to him by the Military Commission is very limited. The militia will send troops by the end of January at the latest. By then, the grassroots militia, militia recruits and police forces will take on the local responsibilities.

Gu Wei did not want his reputation as the "Forbidden Army Instructor" to be ruined by a group of idiots.

After the campaign in early 1628, although the military budget was still very tight by the Executive Committee, the military's military expansion operations have never stopped. On average, a group of militiamen who have completed training will join the army every three months.

At the same time, a group of new soldiers will be recruited from the outside. By the end of 1628, the garrison in the Victory Port area alone included two full battalions of the Army with a total of more than 1,500 people, 22 combat ships of the Navy's South China Sea Fleet with a total of more than 800 people, and a reserve grassroots militia of more than 1,000 people.

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After the establishment was expanded, the military barracks area originally located east of Victory Port was overcrowded, and even the shooting range was moved to the ravine between the military barracks and the Victory Port Salt Farm. Considering the needs of future development, the Military Commission designated the current military barracks as exclusive for the navy.

base, and the army's garrison base was moved from the current military barracks to the Luhuitou Peninsula. A large number of barracks have been built in the plain area between the two mountains in the north and south of the Luhuitou Peninsula, and the new barracks are next to the immigrants.

The isolated observation area can actually play a certain deterrent effect.

Of course, in addition to the militia troops of the headquarters, there is also an indispensable force in the military operations against South Vietnam, which is the special operations force from Black Earth Port. This external force was formed, trained, and commanded by Qian Tiandun himself in previous operations.

Zhongdu has achieved quite impressive results, and it has the status of an ace unit. The Executive Committee and the Military Commission have not been stingy in their support for this unit. In addition to developing and producing short-term weapons specifically for jungle warfare and street fighting,

In addition to barrel shotguns, a batch of expensive Type 28 sniper rifles were also distributed to this unit, and ten snipers were selected from the snipers trained in the base camp to serve in the Black Earth Port Military Region. If we must say that this unit has

What is the shortcoming? Perhaps the long-range firepower output is not strong enough.

Different from the militia group in the base camp, the artillery equipped by this unit is mainly light and portable 3-pound guns, with a small number of 6-pound guns as fire support. As for the 12-pound guns used by the base camp army, in this unit

There is no trace of them at all. This is not because the Military Commission intentionally did not allocate heavy weapons to them, but because the combat concept of this unit relies on its good mobility, and carrying a large number of larger-caliber artillery will obviously have a serious impact on

Mobility. Besides, attacking frontal battlefields has never been the main task undertaken by this unit. When it is really necessary to build a long-term defense line or conduct a large-scale battle, it is natural for regular troops from the base camp to cooperate with it.

At present, the establishment of the special operations force of Heitu Port has been expanded from the original special operations company to a special operations battalion, with three combat companies, an engineer company and a special agent company, totaling more than 800 people. In addition, Heitu Port also has reserve militia

And the establishment of surface troops, plus the special operations battalion also has a size of nearly 2,000 people, stationed in Heitu Port, Tushan Port and Yongan Port.

In the military operations against South Vietnam after the beginning of the new year, the number of troops that the Military Commission will dispatch will definitely exceed the level of the previous year. The combat troops alone will definitely exceed 2,000, and the shipping, baggage, logistics and other personnel to cooperate with the operation are also estimated to be thousands.

plus a large number of civilians who accompanied the army, the total number of personnel involved in the battle is estimated to be more than 4,000, which will also set a new record for the Haihan Militia's foreign military operations.

Sending so many troops to fight in South Vietnam will inevitably lead to the emptiness of one's own defense. Therefore, the Military Commission will seize every moment to recruit and train new recruits. At the same time, it also makes targeted arrangements for the combat plan to maximize the number of troops deployed.

Time is compressed to be shorter.

The only way to achieve such an effect is to improve combat efficiency and eliminate the effective forces of South Vietnam in the shortest possible time. As for cleaning up the mess, you can leave it to the North Vietnamese Army to do it slowly. Several key points in the South Vietnam area

The ports have been acquired in advance, and more than half of the strategic goals have been achieved ahead of schedule. Now the Executive Committee will no longer point to extending the combat time to extract military remuneration from the North Vietnamese court - by then, almost all the ports on the east coast of the Indochina Peninsula will be

They are all under the control of Haihan, which is equivalent to controlling the import and export trade of the entire Annan Kingdom. The benefits that can be obtained are not only the little money that can be obtained from the North Vietnamese court now.

However, while the army was still preparing for this expedition, the militia navy had already set off quietly in the early morning of a certain morning. The fleet composed of twenty warships would rush to the South Vietnamese waters to establish a forward station.

The combat mission is to block South Vietnam's sea lines of communication in advance and cut off its sea channels for import and export materials.

The leader of this fleet is naturally the top commander of the Navy, Wang Tom. The battle of the Haihan militia to attack Hoi An Port nearly half a year ago was also commanded by him. The navy's battle plan this time was also directed by Wang Tom.

If the combat mission can be completed satisfactorily this time, then the title of Commander of the Navy will almost certainly be placed on his head in the future.

"The air at sea is the most free and comfortable!" Qiao Zhiya, who finally completed the deployment one day before the fleet set off and regained his status as a soldier, said sincerely with his hands on the side of the ship.

"When did you go to sea and didn't you say that? If you stayed at sea for a few more days, you would be screaming to go ashore!" Wang Tom exposed Qiao Zhiya mercilessly.

Qiao Zhiya didn't take it seriously and laughed loudly: "I promise I will never complain from now on. It's great to be able to return to the sea."

Qiao Zhiya’s previous position in the military was actually an engineer. When the coal rail track was developed and repaired at Black Earth Port, Qiao Zhiya worked as a construction technical consultant on site for a period of time. However, this time the job was transferred because it was Wang Tom who came forward to request it on behalf of the navy.

The executive committee also gave Wang Tom face and satisfied his request. So after Qiao Zhiya returned to the military, he was assigned to the navy and served as Wang Tom's deputy. Of course, Qiao Zhiya himself also has certain sailing abilities.

His experience is even more than that of most captains in the current navy, and he is fully qualified for this deputy position.

On January 7, 1629, the militia naval fleet quietly arrived at Cham Island, only 10 nautical miles off the coast of Hoi An. When Wang Tom led his army to attack Hoi An Port the previous year, he also chose this place as a temporary stronghold.

.The choice of this small island to settle down again this time is actually somewhat of a last resort, because there are no islands in the coastal area near Hue Province for the fleet to dock, so choosing Cham Island is also a helpless move.

However, what surprised Wang Tom slightly was that the dozen or twenty families of South Vietnamese fishermen who lived on the island the previous year still did not move away, and even took some of the temporary residences built by the last vigilante group on the island as their own.

Wang Tom couldn't laugh or cry, so he could only order these fishermen to be controlled first, so this group of people became prisoners of the militia again after nearly half a year.

After resting for a day on Cham Island, Wang Tom and Qiao Zhiya each took a team of warships out to sea to begin the blockade mission. Prior to this, Victory Port had issued an embargo order to all maritime merchants entering and exiting Victory Port.

Within months, ships were prohibited from docking at South Vietnam's docks and transporting supplies to South Vietnam in any way. However, this verbal ban had a very limited effect. The fleet led by Wang Tom blocked two people on the first day of patrol.

A merchant ship from the Ming Dynasty.

Both merchant ships came from Danzhou and were preparing to go to Quy Nhon Port in the south for trading. However, after encountering the Haihan warship, this plan could not be realized, and they had to go home obediently.

Qiao Zhiya seemed to have better luck. He actually ran into a merchant ship under the name of the Ruan family in the sea off Hue, heading to Guangzhou for trade. This was also one of the few large ships in South Vietnam that could conduct ocean voyages.

At first, the merchant ship thought it had encountered pirates and was ready to flee. However, it had no speed advantage in front of the Haihan warship. It only escaped less than 10 nautical miles before it was overtaken by Qiao Zhiya's fleet.

After a round of threatening shooting from the naval warship, the South Vietnamese merchant ship wisely chose to stop and surrender. After the militiamen took over the ship, they found tens of thousands of taels of silver on board. After a brief interrogation

, Qiao Zhiya learned that the purpose of this ship going to Guangzhou was to buy weapons produced by Haihan there. And according to the captain, they were not the first ship to go to Guangzhou to buy weapons. There were already ships before them.

Several ships served as pioneers.

This discovery made Qiao Zhiya laugh and cry. It seemed that the South Vietnamese court was really anxious and planned to grab any straw first. But now that they met the real owner, there was no need to travel all the way to Guangzhou.

——This ship and all the people on board became prisoners of the Haihan militia, and all the property on the ship was naturally seized and became the first spoils of this expedition.

All the more than 30 sailors on the ship were taken to Cham Island and imprisoned. During the war period in the next few months, they may have to stay on this island as prisoners.

Since the port of Hoi An was completely destroyed in last year's battle, there are now very few merchant ships visible near Hoi An. The Hai Han fleet hardly has to hide its whereabouts and can enter and leave the nearby waters with arrogance.

On January 10, the fleet once again intercepted two South Vietnamese merchant ships returning from Guangzhou off the coast of Hue. This time, the discovery on the ship once again shocked Wang Tom and Qiao Zhiya - these South Vietnamese people actually purchased from Guangzhou.

A batch of Type 27 matchlock guns produced by Haihan, and even two 6-pound cannons exported the year before last. According to the factory numbers on the cannons, these two cannons should be products originally sold to Fujian.

I don’t know what kind of channels it passed through, but it ended up in the hands of these South Vietnamese businessmen. But their good luck ended here. This batch of arms would never reach Hue and be distributed to the South Vietnamese army.

On January 13, four patrol warships led by Wang Tom encountered two Dutch armed merchant ships in the waters near Da Nang. Both sides maintained a very cautious and restrained attitude and did not open fire rashly. After an hour of confrontation,

Qiao Zhiya came with ten ships for reinforcements. After seeing this, the Dutch merchant ship wisely chose to retreat, and the Haihan side did not pursue it rashly. After all, the main opponent at this stage is South Vietnam, and Wang Tom does not want to provoke the Dutch in advance.

this opponent.

By late January, Hue Prefecture probably finally realized something was wrong and sent many small boats out to sea to investigate the situation. Only then did they discover traces of the Hai Han fleet. However, it was useless to find it. South Vietnam's surface operations

Almost all the troops have been lost in several battles last year. Even if they can barely put together a fleet now, they can only deliver food to Haihan's door and gain experience points in vain.
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