1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 3790

These Suhar people who were demoted to slavery for disobeying the arrangements were deprived of not only their personal property but also the opportunity to stay in the local area and serve as laborers.

They will be loaded onto ships and sent to Fubo Port, where there are still a large number of vacancies on the construction site, which are urgently needed to be filled with cheap labor like them.

Fubo Port now gathers a large number of slave laborers collected from various channels. People of Suhar origin will not receive any preferential treatment there. However, only when these good guys arrive there will they realize what a stupid mistake they have made.

Dealing with such minor disturbances was a piece of cake for the special operations division, and they arrested the troublemakers without much effort.

In fact, compared with the areas conquered by the special warfare division in the past, the Arabs' resistance was quite low. After all, these tribes were autonomous and lacked a unified national regime. It was difficult for them to get support from other tribes when war broke out.

Using the strength of a tribe to fight against a big country like Hai Han is of course like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, and the tribe will only be crushed to pieces by the rolling wheels.

The combat operation against Sohar Port came to an end, and the special operations division immediately began to sweep northward along the coastline.

Along this 300-mile-long coastline, there are several smaller tribal settlements such as Kalba, Fujairah, and Khor Fakkan. Compared with the Suhar people, the armed forces that these small tribes can mobilize are even more limited, and they don't even have a fortress like Suhar City that can be defended.

With the combat effectiveness of the special warfare division, dealing with such a target was as easy as autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves. It took less than a month to conquer all the tribes, big and small, along the line from Fubo Port to Suhar Port.

There were also some small tribes among them. After hearing that the port of Suhar fell after only half a day of resistance, they tactfully expressed to the visiting coalition forces that they were willing to submit to the newly established Xihu Kingdom.

This process went much more smoothly than expected in the action plan, and it was far beyond what Little Abdullah had imagined. He originally thought that although the Hai Han people were powerful, it would take at least several months to take over these hundreds of miles of coastline. If they encountered an opponent who put up a strong resistance, it would take them one or two years.

But the reality was that there was no match for the Hai Han army in the entire area. They were invincible wherever they went, and the few small-scale battles that took place during the period were quickly declared victorious by the coalition forces.

Although the East China Sea Fleet, led by the Zhoushan, also participated in the entire operation at this stage, it had no chance to perform any actions. It merely provided logistical transportation support for the landing troops as Qian Tiandun requested.

This also made Shi Diwen, who came specially to watch the battle, a little disappointed. He wanted to get a glimpse of the real strength of the special warfare division by observing this series of combat operations, but the opponents in this area were too weak. They were not strong enough for the special warfare division to use their real skills to deal with them. Just a little bit of tricks were enough to beat the opponents without any chance of fighting back.

"If the subsequent opponents are all this level of soft persimmons, then I think three months will be enough for the time limit, let alone a year!"

Hearing Shi Diwen's praise, Qian Tiandun shook his head and said, "Although it has been going smoothly so far, we have only completed one-third of the plan. It is not the local natives who can fight against us, but the environment here. In addition, the number of troops we can deploy to this area is too small, otherwise the progress of the operation should be faster."

Qian Tiandun's current troop deployment in combat operations is less than the strength of a regiment, and he needs to constantly divide up troops and station them in newly occupied areas during the operation. The limited manpower will soon be divided up. After this stage of the operation is over, he must wait for the next batch of troops to be transferred from Phuket to arrive before he can start the next stage of combat operations. This interval is affected by limited transportation capacity and may last for one or two months.

Although the expansion of the special operations division has been ongoing, judging from the current situation, the growth rate of troops is obviously unable to keep up with the expansion rate of the ruling area.

Shi Diwen said: "I think it's time to expand the size of the auxiliary army. Training the auxiliary army should be much faster than expanding your special warfare division."

Qian Tiandun nodded and said, "Great minds think alike. I am also thinking about this."

So far, the Special Operations Division has trained more than a thousand combat personnel for the Xihu Kingdom, and almost all of these people have participated in recent combat operations.

However, the combat skills of these Arab soldiers were not yet so proficient, and Qian Tiandun did not dare to send them to take the lead, so he only gave them some auxiliary tasks to complete.

But the Xihu army had too few troops. Two hundred were sent here and eighty there, and they were soon all used up.

The recent annexation of these large and small tribes can also provide a lot of young and strong people. It is indeed possible to recruit more Arabs in the name of the Hijra Army. In this way, the garrison tasks in some areas with better public security can be completely handed over to the Hijra Army, allowing the special operations division to focus on performing combat missions.

Shi Diwen added: "There are quite a few officers from North Korea and Annan who have come with us this time. If you can assign them some tasks, even if it's just training new recruits, I think they will be very happy to accept it."

Qian Tiandun smiled and understood, "Let them train the Arab recruits. They may be able to get started faster than us. After all, they are familiar with this business!"

The Annan Army and the Korean Army can be said to be auxiliary forces under the Hai Han military system. As auxiliary forces, they must be much more familiar with what level they need to reach and what subjects they should train than the Special Warfare Division. After all, the Special Warfare Division is better at fighting rather than training foreign troops.

Every stick has its own strengths and weaknesses. It is a reasonable arrangement to entrust the task of training the Arab army to officers from Annan and North Korea. By the way, it can also free up the special operations division officers who serve as instructors.

Shi Diwen's proposal was quickly implemented. The Annan and Korean officers who arrived at Fubo Port were each responsible for leading a unit of Arab recruits. They used a complete recruit training cycle to compete to see which side had a higher training level.

Simply training new recruits may not have any special significance for the officers of the two countries, but Hai Han has to evaluate and compare the training results, which will undoubtedly become another military strength competition between the two countries.

The officers of both countries who took on the task were full of energy, and they wanted to train a strong army in the next hundred days to prove their strength. However, in this way, the Arabs who were given to them for training without knowing why would inevitably suffer during the training.