1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 3762

Hai Han’s plan to train military personnel for the Xihu tribe had actually already begun to be implemented before Gao Qiao Nan arrived at Fubo Port.

However, there are only a few dozen Arab students being trained here. Hai Han aims to train the backbone of the army. After completing the training, these students will serve as officers of the first regular army of the Xihu tribe.

However, larger-scale military training now faces a very practical difficulty, that is, most of the young and strong personnel sent to Fubo Port by the Xihu tribe are not in the military camp, but are working as laborers on the port construction site.

According to the cooperation agreement between the two parties, the Xihu tribe will continue to provide hired laborers to Fubo Port, and most of these people are young and strong men needed to build an army.

Due to the limited population of the Xihu tribe, it is impossible to simultaneously accelerate the construction of Fubo Port and help the Xihu tribe train its army. Gaoqiao Nan can only choose one to focus on.

Now that the reinforcements from the special operations division have arrived, the need for the Xihu tribe to form an army is not so urgent. Takahashi Minami decided to continue with the current arrangement and let the young and strong people of the Xihu tribe assist in the construction first. Military training can be arranged later depending on the situation.

Of course, this also requires the cooperation of little Abdullah. As long as he nods, the people of the Xihu tribe will be more obedient to Hai Han’s arrangements.

While conducting military training for the Arabs, the combat troops brought by Takahashi Minami this time were also conducting adaptive training at the same time.

Although the special operations division is strong, it has no experience in fighting in a desert environment before. In the future, it will have to disguise itself as the armed forces of the Xihu tribe, and adapting to the environment is the first step.

Fortunately, there are ready-made indigenous people to serve as teachers. The Arabs can teach by example how to eat, dress, live and travel in the desert and how to avoid various natural risks in the desert, and pass on the survival experience accumulated over thousands of years to the soldiers of the special operations division.

At the same time, a caravan of Shihu tribesmen boarded ships and headed for ports in the western Persian Gulf to buy clothing and horses.

In order to transform the special forces into Arab warriors, they must first change their clothes. Arab robes and headscarves are necessary. In addition, camels and horses are also indispensable means of transportation for maneuvering in the desert inland.

The Xihu tribe raised a lot of camels, but could not provide too many clothes and horses at once, so they could only purchase them from outside to meet the camouflage needs of the special operations division.

In order to avoid attracting attention from the outside world due to the large-scale purchase of materials, these purchases had to be completed in batches in multiple locations. Hai Han was not in a position to directly handle this matter, so it could only be entrusted to the local natives to complete it.

However, the Xihu tribe does not have any large ships of its own, and the loading capacity of the few cargo ships it has is very limited. It is okay to buy some ordinary supplies, but if they want to transport a large number of horses, I am afraid that even two or three trips may not be able to meet the needs of the special operations division.

Although Takahashi Minami hopes to start the action as soon as possible, she also knows that these things cannot be rushed and can only wait patiently for the preparatory work to be completed one by one.

However, there was also some exciting good news at this time. From the telegram sent from Phuket, he learned that a large fleet led by Shi Diwen and other high-ranking Hai Han officials had arrived there and brought a large number of immigrants and supplies to the special warfare division.

Of course, the most important thing is that Qian Tiandun talked about the policy support that the Executive Committee will provide for the Western Front in the telegram, which means that the Special Operations Division will have greater freedom of action, and perhaps the series of expansion plans previously formulated will eliminate the possibility of being vetoed by the Executive Committee.

However, the trade situation of the new port, which Qian Tiandun and the Executive Committee were concerned about, had not improved significantly. The surrounding countries were still skeptical about Fubo Port and had not yet included it as a trade destination, which resulted in the Fubo Port dock being very deserted and not as lively as Hai Han had hoped. Only cargo ships from the Sohar region on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula were quietly transporting coal to Fubo Port. After all, the local coal merchants had already received a lot of real money from Hai Han and tasted the sweetness of trade with Hai Han, so they would not cut off their own financial resources because of some rumors.

At the same time, the various military supplies and weapons and equipment prepared by the Special Warfare Division for the Xihu tribe finally arrived at Fubo Port.

Takahashi Minami did not bring these supplies when he led his troops to Fubo Port because most of the equipment provided to the Xihu tribe were models specifically for export, and the special operations division did not have sufficient reserves in its warehouse. So it was during the last return journey from Fubo Port that Qian Tiandun sent a message to the rear to raise the necessary supplies and equipment to be shipped to Phuket.

Now that these supplies and equipment have finally arrived at Fubo Port, Gaoqiao Nan can also show Hai Han’s sincerity to little Abdullah.

Little Abdullah, who was conducting shooting training, was called out of the training ground by Takahashi Nan, and then followed him to the dock with a confused look on his face to check a batch of goods that had just been unloaded ashore.

Takahashi Minami opened one of the wooden boxes and motioned little Abdullah to go forward and check.

Little Abdullah walked forward and looked down. The long wooden box was filled with dry straw, and in the straw were five muskets neatly arranged. They were the Type 29 flintlock rifles that he had used for daily shooting practice in recent days.

Little Abdullah reached out and took one out hurriedly. He saw that there was no sign of use on the gun and it was in brand new condition. It was much better than the gun he used for practice.

Little Abdullah asked in disbelief: "Is this the weapon your country provided us?"

Takahashi Nan nodded and said, "Type 29 rifles, a total of one thousand, they are all in the pile of boxes behind you."

Little Abdullah turned around and looked at the wooden boxes piled up like a mountain, and was shocked.

Currently, the number of people in the Xihu tribe who have learned to use this type of rifle is only in the dozens, including him, but Hai Han has prepared a thousand rifles at one time, which shows that it is seriously preparing to form a powerful army.

Gao Qiaonan continued, "Except for our Hai Han army, there is no armed force within a thousand miles of Fubo Port, including the Portuguese on Hormuz Island, that can mobilize a thousand musketeers in a short period of time."

Little Abdullah's heart beat faster when he heard this. This meant that as long as the armed forces of the Xihu tribe were formed, they would be one of the strongest forces within a thousand miles!

However, this was not all that Takahashi Nan wanted to show him. At another dock not far from these rifles, Hai Han sailors were using the ship's hoisting equipment to unload some heavy cargo onto the shore.

"This is a cannon made in our country. It is a very powerful cannon. The Xihu tribe will need it in the future."

Takahashi Nan patted the gun vigorously and proudly showed off to little Abdullah, "This gun can accurately hit a target the size of a door at a distance of one hundred feet. Any armor, shield, and shelter of similar thickness will be torn to pieces by the shells it fires!"