1627 Rise of the South China Sea

"Wei Jianyuan, Mayor of Yuhang County, welcomes you all to Yuhang."

Wei Jianyuan has repeated this sentence at least dozens of times today. This is also the day he has received the most guests from all walks of life since he took office.

Before the National Day, Wei Jianyuan received a notice from the Garrison Command of the East China Sea Region to hold a live-fire military exercise in Yuhang County. The relevant preparations have already begun since then.

First of all, in accordance with the requirements of the military, the military exercise area should be delineated in the county, and camps and required materials should be prepared for the participating troops.

Secondly, it is necessary to recruit some civilians in the county to act as logistics supplies and wait for the military to dispatch.

Of course, the most important thing is to prepare for the reception of all the big shots.It is said that in addition to military generals, important members of the Executive Committee and foreign envoys will also be present to watch the military exercise. For the small Yuhang County, that is a more important priority than the military exercise itself.

In the area under the Haihan rule, the officials who stayed in the former dynasty usually retain their previous official positions temporarily. Wei Jianyuan called himself the magistrate rather than the county magistrate because he was a naturalized citizen who grew up in Sanya. He graduated from the Haihan School of Administration and studied under the executive committee. The boss, Ning Qi, was born in Hongmiaozheng, so the official title naturally has to follow Haihan's system.

When he was appointed as the magistrate of Yuhang County, Wei Jianyuan once thought that he was "assigned" to a remote area, but with the plan to move the capital surfaced, Yuhang suddenly became one of the areas closest to the new capital Hangzhou. Then I realized that it was Master who was farsighted and had paved the way for me early on.

Wei Jianyuan is only in his 20s, and he has never held a decent position before. With his qualifications, if he wants to find an official position in the Hangzhou area, it is naturally difficult to compete with those officials who moved north from Sanya, let alone Shi Diwen. Many officials are waiting to fill the vacancies.To be able to get a county magistrate near Hangzhou is considered a special care by Shi Diwen for Ning Qi's face.

Of course Wei Jianyuan intends to make some achievements in his tenure, but for the time being, the various major projects prepared for the capital relocation plan do not have the share of Yuhang County, and it is not feasible to rely on the construction of key projects to earn performance.

Fortunately, Yuhang has been a land of fish and rice since ancient times, and its agricultural foundation is quite good. Wei Jianyuan only needs to spend some effort to promote agricultural technology and introduce agricultural product processing technology, so that the agricultural production of Yuhang has been steadily improved.

But luck can't stop it. When Wei Jianyuan regretted that Yuhang didn't win the key project, a military exercise came uninvited.For Yuhang County, and for Wei Jianyuan, this is simply a great thing that fell from the sky.

Although Yuhang County has to invest a lot of human, material and financial resources for this, it is worth a thousand dollars to a local official like Wei Jianyuan to get an opportunity to perform in front of the executive committee.

In order to make relevant preparations, Wei Jianyuan didn't even go to Hangzhou to join in the fun these days, which can be regarded as a big sacrifice.

After everything was ready, Wei Jianyuan posted notices around the county two days in advance, informing the public not to enter the temporary control area designated by the government.

In fact, the news of the military exercise is not a secret. With the collection of civilian husbands and supplies, it has already spread locally before that.However, the government announced that the military exercise would not be open to the general public. In addition, the Haihan army was on duty outside the temporary control area, so those who wanted to watch the excitement had no choice but to give up their thoughts.

People from the military basically arrived earlier yesterday, especially the troops serving as security guards. As soon as they arrived here, a large area was circled outside the original temporary control area, and no one else was allowed to enter. Even some Farmland is included in it.

For such behavior, Wei Jianyuan knew the pros and cons, so he could only cooperate as much as possible.Although he didn't go to Hangzhou, he also heard that the executive committee was assassinated when he arrived in Hangzhou a few days ago. Although he failed, the relevant security measures must be upgraded.

But to Wei Jianyuan's disappointment, his mentor Ning Qi had other schedules and did not come to Yuhang.

However, Shi Diwen spoke highly of Yuhang County's preparation work, and even asked Wei Jianyuan to watch the match together on the viewing stand, which also made him quite flattered.

The viewing platform for the military exercise is built on a soil slope about one mile away from the exercise site. The stepped seats can ensure that all spectators have a complete unobstructed view.

After all the spectators were seated, Shi Diwen ordered the exercise to begin.

Each guest got a thin booklet, which contained today's drills and the weapons and equipment that would appear in each session.

Today's military exercise plan is that the Haihan army will act as the attacking side, simulating the attack on the fortress of the Ming army guard here, and demonstrating the tactics and tactics used by the Haihan army in the fortified battle.

Considering that the attacker will use live ammunition, there will be no defenders inside the fort during the exercise.However, before the military exercise started, all the spectators visited the inside and outside of the fortress, confirming that the abandoned fortress is not a model that can be pushed down.

The purpose of setting up guards here at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty was to defend Hangzhou, so this garrison point must have the ability to advance, attack, retreat, and defend.There are warehouses, stables, wells, barracks and other facilities in the fort, and there are ditches, suspension bridges and a ten-foot-high parapet on the outside. It is like a small city.

There are also artillery positions on the parapet, but they were originally deployed here with small-caliber artillery such as tiger squatting guns, which have extremely limited range and power. .

The attacking unit this time is the Second Regiment of the Seventh Division of the East China Sea Region, which is the garrison stationed in Hangzhou.

The participating troops are the synthetic battalion under the Second Regiment, which is essentially a temporary unit formed by the elite of the whole regiment.

The most notable feature of this force is that its artillery formation far exceeds the normal standard of the Haihan Army.According to the information provided by the guests, they will use as many as ten models of various artillery in the battle. Normally, the entire [-]th Army Division may not be able to gather so many models.

Of course, the Haihan Army's move is obviously to demonstrate the performance of the weapon, which is not difficult to understand.In actual combat, if so many types of artillery were to be put into one battle, the quartermaster would probably jump and curse.

With a burst of sonorous and powerful drums, the Haihan army entered the battlefield.Leading the charge was a group of armed cavalry, crossing their horses on the outside of the fortress.

The purpose of this is to clear the obstacles for the follow-up troops to enter the attack position, and to conduct fire reconnaissance on the fortress defenders to see if the opponent will open fire rashly to expose equipment and firepower points.

After confirming the situation on the battlefield, the cavalry signaled to the rear to notify the troops to enter the combat position.The cavalry split left and right to the flanks to cover the entry of follow-up troops.