1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 259 North Vietnam Military Intelligence Report
These voices of dissatisfaction and doubts from the grassroots have made the executive committee realize that the current time travel group is not monolithic, and some members still have big differences in their thinking with the executive committee.The main reason for this disagreement is the differences in the personal pursuits of the members. The members of the executive committee think that they are kings, and they will leave their names through the ages. Once you have a firm foothold, shouldn't you start thinking about enjoying life?In this case, if the executive committee wants to increase collective cohesion, it must firmly control the public opinion position in its own hands.

But now the publicity department is entrusted to the Ministry of Information Industry, the effect is obviously not satisfactory to the Executive Committee.Meng He, the director of the Ministry of Information Industry, is a homebody, not very politically sensitive, and does not pay enough attention to and guide the work of public opinion. It seems that the executive committee has to take back the power of supervision and turn the propaganda department into a The executive committee is directly under the authority.

After a brief break after lunch, the year-end summary report will continue.The supervisors of various departments came to the stage one after another, and made work reports on the status of the departments for more than half a year after the crossing.

After the report of the department head is over, the head of each unit stationed abroad will come to the stage to make a report.Although at present, among the three overseas units, only Heitu Port is relatively large in scale, the importance of the Cliff Office and the Guangzhou Office is no less than that of Heitu Port.In particular, the Guangzhou Office has now started to catch up from behind and has become the main channel for the purchase and sale of materials of the Crossing Group.

Like Tao Donglai, Schneider stepped onto the podium twice in one day, once representing the Ministry of Finance and once representing the Guangzhou Office.Schneider pointed out in the "Work Report of the Guangzhou Office" that although the immigrants transported by the Guangzhou Office to Shengli Harbor only account for 5%-8% of the total inflow of immigrants, the literacy rate of this part of the population is as high as 57%. It far exceeds the average literacy rate of the existing naturalized people.The mainland merchants introduced by the Guangzhou Office have already accounted for 85% of the total foreign merchants in Shengli Port, and the products sold to the mainland accounted for more than 70% of the cross-border group’s total exports. All kinds of data are enough to show that The Guangzhou Office plays an indispensable and important role in the rapid development of the Transway Group.

Compared with such an important role, the current staffing of the Guangzhou Office is still insufficient, especially the number of business personnel is pitifully small.This shortcoming is particularly prominent in the recent influx of businessmen visiting. In the entire Guangzhou Office, only Schneider and He Xi can take on the task of business negotiations, while other personnel contact, goods inventory, material delivery, etc. Tasks, there is not enough manpower.Although the Executive Committee specially dispatched the second echelon to enrich the staffing of the Guangzhou Office, it is inconvenient for members to do some clumsy physical work or errands. Those who want to hire people from Guangzhou also face policy threshold restrictions.

In order to avoid too much internal information of the group from being grasped by the outside world, and to ensure the safety of the Guangzhou Office and the air routes between the two places, the Executive Committee stipulates that the external personnel of the units stationed abroad can only engage in peripheral work, and must not come into contact with financial delivery, personnel affairs, etc. Arrangements, sea transportation etc. information.This is not unfounded worry by the executive committee. The value of the goods carried by the merchant ships traveling between the two places is quite high. Some cargo ships also carried illegal salt, arms and other materials. That's quite a hassle.Moreover, there are pirate gangs in the waters of the Pearl River Estuary, and they have to be careful that after they obtain some important information, they send ships to rob merchant ships traveling between the two places at sea.

This kind of strict personnel control must continue at least until there are regular escorts of armed sailboats between the two places, or until the crossing group has cleared the waters of the Pearl River Estuary to ensure that there will be no pirate forces in the vicinity.In short, no matter which one it is, it is almost impossible to realize it in the short term at present.Therefore, the only way to solve the staffing problem of the Guangzhou Office is to rely on the base camp to continue to replenish manpower.

Schneider also briefed the military and police department by the way, and briefly mentioned the necessity of setting up an island stronghold in the Pearl River Estuary to control the waters of the Pearl River Estuary.As the intelligence outpost of the Traversing Group, the Guangzhou Office has collected a lot of information about the pirate gangs in the Pearl River Estuary waters through various channels, and provided them to the Military and Police Department as a reference for future operations.In the past two months, Yu Yao and Xiao Liang of the Guangzhou Office have taken boats several times to investigate the situation of the Wanshan Islands, especially Dawanshan Island and Baili Island, which are the main choices. The island has been visited several times for field surveys.

The work report of Heitu Port is a bit more special, being divided into civil affairs and military affairs.As the largest overseas institution of the Crossing Group, the Black Earth Port not only provided the base camp with a steady supply of energy, but also sent back a large number of North Vietnamese immigrants to enrich the working population of the base camp.The various trade agreements reached with the North Vietnamese regime also benefited from the hard work of the Black Earth Port Management Committee in the early stage.At the same time, Black Soil Port is also the place with the highest autonomy among the agencies stationed abroad. Not only can the local area organize immigration and conduct foreign trade, but even the establishment of a localized military and police agency has been approved by the Executive Committee.The Tushan Peninsula stronghold established in the Beibu Gulf is currently assigned to the Heitu Port Management Committee for daily management and operation.

The first person to give a report was Gu Kai, the head of the Heitu Port Management Committee.After several months of living abroad, Gu Kai's bookishness is obviously much less than before, and his temperament has a bit of leadership.However, he didn't plan to end his overseas mission with the opportunity of returning to Sanya to report on his work this time. He still planned to work there for a full year according to the original plan before making any plans.In addition, it is said that when Gu Kai returns to Heitu Port this time, he will bring his foreign girl fiancée Reisa with him. This news probably makes the Executive Committee happier than bringing back a few shipments of coal from Heitu Port.

Gu Kai pointed out in his report that the current resident population of Heitu Port has reached about 500, of which more than 90% are naturalized citizens, and the rest are immigrants who are still under investigation and a small number of prisoners.Among the local naturalized people, there are more than 2000 laborers engaged in coal mining or coal-related industries. In addition, planting agricultural products, fishing, shipbuilding, and developing maritime trade with North Vietnam and Lianzhou Prefecture are also managed The industry that the committee is currently vigorously developing.

Since the local industry is relatively single and the population is relatively concentrated, the difficulty of civil administration is much smaller than that of Sanya.Moreover, the source of the local naturalized people is basically the war refugees from the North Vietnam region, and the poverty level exceeds that of the immigrants collected from Hainan and the mainland by the base camp. It is quite high, and the local implementation of the civil affairs measures promulgated by the management committee is relatively small.

Of course, to a certain extent, this is also due to the fact that the executive committee has provided very comprehensive support for Heitu Port from the very beginning. The elite soldiers and generals of various departments were recruited.Except for Gu Kai who guards the local area on behalf of the executive committee and takes overall control of the situation, civil affairs chief Zhou Hengxing, shipping chief Xie Chun, mining chief Tian Yeyou, and military chief Qian Tiandun all have outstanding abilities. It can be said that there are no obvious shortcomings in the configuration.

The current actual output of the Heitugang Coal Mine has exceeded the target of [-] tons per month for the year, which is already a good achievement under the current almost all-manual coal mining conditions.In addition to being transported back to Shengli Port by cargo ships to meet the production needs of the base camp, the coal produced in Heitu Port has even begun to occupy the market in Hainan Island. "Clean coal" has taken over the main body.This kind of coal burns brightly, with little soot, and its quality is much better than the lignite produced in Danzhou in the north, but the price is [-]% lower than that of Danzhou coal. People will naturally choose this cheap and high-quality competitor—— — This also led to the closure of small coal mines in Danzhou in the north, and part of the labor force began to go south to work in the Shengli Port area to make a living.

As for asphalt, coal tar and other products that are being produced by Heitu Port as high value-added industrial products, the current output is also rising steadily.According to the annual financial budget made by the Heitu Port Management Committee, if the production of coal series products can be further increased by 1628% in 30, it is expected to shorten the repayment period of the original development funds to within Gu Kai's tenure. It will mean that the economic independence of Heitu Port has taken the first step in a real sense, which is great news for both Heitu Port and the entire crossing group.

After Gu Kai finished his report, Lieutenant Qian Tiandun, the chief military officer of Heitu Port, took the stage next.Because it is said that he brought back the latest news about the Annan civil war, everyone in the audience cheered up again——The direction of the Annan domestic war situation will directly affect the future arms sales strategy and trade progress of the Crossing Group to Vietnam. Matters concerning the vital interests of all members.However, Qian Tiandun did not first mention Annan's civil war, but introduced the current progress of the military power building in Heitu Port.

At present, the Heitu Port Management Committee has three companies with military establishments, one of which is stationed on the Tushan Peninsula and serves as a military advisor to the North Vietnamese side, specializing in the training of North Vietnamese firearms troops.Another mixed security militia company is stationed in the Heitu Port area. In addition to undertaking local security and guard work, it also has to undertake the task of escorting armed ships between Heitu Port and Shengli Port.And the third company is the mountain forest special warfare company advocated by Qian Tiandun. Of course, the nature of this company is still kept secret, and only a few people know the truth.However, this company has only been formed for about two months, and it is still in a state of training, so it is far from being able to speak of combat effectiveness.

Therefore, the actual combat strength stationed at Heitu Port is actually only a mixed company, and at least one platoon of this company has been floating at sea for a long time.In this way, the Heitugang Military Region, which seems to have three companies and is not weak in combat strength, actually has less than one company to directly command and deploy troops. Not to mention defending against foreign enemies, it is inevitable that it will be a bit stretched to maintain local law and order.

However, after the popular militia training plan proposed by the Ministry of Military and Police was approved by the Executive Committee recently, Heitu Port also adopted this militia training system for ordinary people.Due to the single industry in the area, there are only two or three work units. It is much less difficult to concentrate young and middle-aged people for militia training than the base camp. Qian Tiandun organized the preparation of three companies in Heitugang very smoothly. militia.Of course, these reserve militiamen, like the base camp, can only use cold weapons mainly iron-tipped spears for the time being.In this way, the local security and azimuth forces finally have a basic guarantee. The only thing that is lacking is probably the sea power. A water force is still some time away.

As for the Tushan Peninsula, the management of the local garrison and the training of the training camp are currently being taken over by Feng Annan and Mu Xiabo transferred from the Cliff Office. Qian Tiandun will go there from Heitu Port every seven to ten days. Once, look at the local training situation - by the way, I also took out the special warfare company I personally trained for a training session.

The training camp built by the North Vietnamese side on the local coast has expanded a lot compared to two months ago. At present, it has received more than [-] trainees. Among them, there are about [-] North Vietnamese soldiers receiving musket training, and there are about [-] people. Artillery cadets, and dozens of North Vietnamese officers who were trained in military theory.Of course, for this reason, the North Vietnamese side had to nearly double the order quantity on the basis of the original arms order, and extended the lease period of the Black Earth Port from one year to three years.The Zheng family wanted to extend the lease period in exchange for the "free arms" of the Crossing Group, but the Black Earth Port Management Committee did not agree to the other party's request - if they still can't afford the Beiyue gang after three years, they need to rely on the lease Only in order to maintain the safety of Heitu Port, then there is no need to talk about it, everyone just jump into the sea and die.

The Military and Police Department believes that because the North Vietnamese army is equipped with slow-firing matchlock guns, even experienced hands who have been trained for several months can only shoot at two rounds per minute. It is a bit risky to adopt the formation of pure musketeers, so it is necessary to deploy a certain number of spearmen to fight.As military advisors, the hot weapon tactics taught by Feng Annan and others to North Vietnam did not have too much secrets, but it was not advanced either. It was basically a copy of the contemporary Gustav phalanx.

The basic combat unit of this phalanx is the squadron, and each squadron consists of 192 musketeers and 216 spearmen.The spearmen are arranged in 6 rows and are located in the center of the formation, while the musketeers are divided into two parts and arranged on the left and right wings of the spearmen, which is also a 6-row formation.In this way, the front of each squadron is 68 people, and the combat width is about 60 meters.Based on the number of musketeers trained in the training camp, about 5 such rectangular combat phalanxes can be equipped-the North Vietnamese side logically called it the "Haihan phalanx".

On the front of the phalanx, the musketeers can unimpededly exert all their firepower, and maintain continuous firepower by firing and reloading in reverse.When the enemy rushed close, the spearmen stepped forward or defended on the spot, while the musketeers regrouped behind the spear phalanx.If you want to avoid flank or rear attacks, then these five combat squadrons can also be deployed in a checkerboard format.The greater the number of combat squadrons, the more powerful the checkerboard arrangement will be.

Gustav's phalanx would add 96 musket soldiers to each squadron to further increase the combat width, but the "Hainan phalanx" did not adopt this strategy considering the limited number of North Vietnamese musketeers. Instead, the artillery As a battlefield support firepower, it is deployed in the gap between the phalanxes.Considering the maneuverability, the Military and Police Department selected six-pound guns for the North Vietnamese firearms unit as battlefield support, and each phalanx was equipped with three guns, which happened to deploy all the fifteen six-pound guns Zheng purchased in two installments. use.As for the 12-pound gun, because the gun body is relatively heavy, it needs to be drawn by livestock, and it is inconvenient to move on the battlefield. It must be used in positional battles or city battles, and it is not suitable for field battles or encounter battles.

At the same time, the North Vietnamese officers who received Haihan's training learned the most basic spear phalanx and infantry combination tactics.The Ministry of Military and Police believes that after the graduation of these students, North Vietnam can organize a decent musketeer phalanx unit, coupled with engineers, supplies, logistics, reconnaissance and other companies, and can probably form a total of about 3000 people. Elite", it must be second to none in the entire Indochina Peninsula.After several actual battles on the battlefield, this army, which has already cost Zheng's 10 taels of silver, is enough to become Zheng's magic weapon.

Of course, due to the generational difference in the performance of weapons, it is far from enough for North Vietnam to rely on this force to deal with the crossing group.Whether it is the accuracy, range, and power of the firearms, or the training methods and combat methods of the troops, there is still a big gap in strength between this puppet army and the Haihan militia trained by the crossing people.The most important thing is that the North Vietnamese firearms units are completely dependent on the supply of ammunition from the crossing group. As long as the North Vietnamese commanders are not crazy, they will definitely not order them to fight against the Haihan side.

But things did not go so smoothly. The North Vietnamese army suffered several defeats on the battlefield recently, and the battle line gradually moved northward from Hue before, and now it has reached between Nam Quang Binh and Ha Tinh.And in this cold weapon era war, once a certain side is defeated, it is difficult to effectively organize a defensive front during the retreat. It often takes hundreds or even hundreds of miles to gather the defeated troops and reorganize the troops. Therefore, North Vietnam The side was very worried about the situation of the civil war, and sent envoys to the training camp on the Tushan Peninsula, hoping to get Haihan's help.

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