1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 747 Enlistment Review
In Haihan's normal conscription process, traversers seldom personally participate in the work of the enlistment review stage, and this kind of troublesome work is basically handed over to naturalized officers.However, Qian Tiandun intends to train a strong army at the Penghu base, and also expands his special warfare battalion by the way, so he pays special attention to the source of recruits. Apart from him and Chen Yixin, two traversers who participated in the enlistment review, The others are all naturalized officers at the company and battalion level.

Qian Tiandun's plan was very clear. Among the recruits selected from Penghu, the best-qualified recruits must stay in the local area to practice. Those who are qualified but not outstanding enough can be sent back to Sanya for recruit training.Those who are not qualified will be returned to the immigration camp, and they will honestly go to work and work in agriculture.A very small number of talents with special conditions like snipers will also be singled out and sent to the corresponding department to receive professional training.

After the interview session was over, it was already time for dinner, and he did not return to the immigration camp on Baisha Island that night, but lived in a nearby air force camp.Most of the people were very excited about today's experience. After dinner, they gathered together to discuss what they saw and felt when they first arrived in Penghu, especially the real body of the Haihan people they saw during the interview, which was the focus of everyone's discussion.

The more common view is that Haihan people have no airs, and they are not superior because of the difference in status. They will even stop someone when they kneel and kowtow, and tell them that there is no such thing as kneeling and kowtowing in Haihan etiquette—even if Yes, that is only applicable to the elders in the family.And the Haihan soldiers do seem to be more energetic and majestic than the soldiers of Ming Dynasty, which really moved the hearts of some people who just signed up for quick naturalization and high military pay.

Sun Zhen is undoubtedly one of them. When he signed up, he didn't consider more factors. He just wanted to be naturalized early and then stabilized.As for being a soldier and fighting, he wasn't too worried—since the Haihan people were helping Daming solve the war refugee problem, they naturally wouldn't go against him, and being a soldier didn't seem to be too dangerous.

But if Sun Zhen knew how many battles Hai Han had fought in the past few years, perhaps he would not have made such a rash decision.There are at least five or six countries that have fought against Haihan directly or indirectly, and the frequency of their military operations is absolutely second to none in the South China Sea.The Haihan militia is not a private armed force that maintains local law and order as he imagined, but a professional army that really wants to set foot on the battlefield and conquer all directions.

However, for these new immigrants who have just arrived, their attention is not all on the matter of enlisting in the army. Although they have only been in Penghu for one day, what they have seen and heard all reflects Haihan's abilities. powerful strength.

Although on the way to the south, the crew and sailors had repeatedly said that Haihan was strong, but this impression was not verified until he stepped into the immigration camp after disembarking.Sun Zhen and others have never seen such an immigrant camp that can accommodate thousands of people in the north. Although Huai'an Prefecture is also a rich place, no one will build such a large-scale camp to solve the refugee problem.It is said that there are as many as five such camps on Baisha Island.

No one can figure out how much money it will cost to bring so many people here from the north, but there is no doubt that such financial resources have never been seen in their lives.At the beginning, those crew members said that they would live a good life after arriving in Penghu, but it seems that they were not completely false.This place has food and housing. Although the conditions are not superior, at least it seems that the social order is very stable, and the Haihan militia is stationed on the island, which is a condition that cannot be compared elsewhere.

Early the next morning, the recruit review entered the physical fitness test.Today, the person in charge of the review has been replaced by a naturalized officer, but Qian Tiandun and Chen Yixin are still both present, personally supervising the test process.

Considering that these new immigrants have just arrived in Penghu for only one day, their physical condition should not have recovered to a relatively good state, so the content of the physical fitness test seems a bit misleading. Arrange high-volume sports.However, in order to allow those with extraordinary abilities to have a chance to stand out, the test site can still apply for opportunities to demonstrate their skills. For example, people with great strength can try to lift a stone lock.

Sun Zhen took the initiative to make this request, because he found that the first two people who came out to show their strength were actually not as strong as himself.So he stepped forward, bent and picked up a fifty-pound stone lock with one hand, then picked up another one from his side, and said, "Brothers, make room for me!"

Seeing his posture, others immediately separated from the left and right, leaving a large open space for him.Sun Zhenli crossed his arms, shouted, and then waved the pair of heavy stone locks.As soon as he danced, the circle around him immediately retreated another five feet, lest he lose his strength and fail to grasp it, and let the stone lock fly out and hurt people.

"This kid has strength!" Qian Tiandun immediately noticed this candidate with outstanding arms.

"This guy is younger than me. I don't know what he ate to grow up. He's a monster!" Chen Yixin couldn't help sighing.

"Did you interview? What grade did you give him?" Qian Tiandun asked with interest.

"A. His name is Sun Zhen. He was born in Dengzhou and came to Penghu alone. He was a farmer. I talked to him about some things in the fields. His identity should be real." Chen Yixin introduced: "Looking at this body, it is indeed It has been trained through long-term physical labor. But looking at the movements should not have the basis of martial arts."

"If he can successfully pass the medical examination and political examination, leave him to me." Qian Tiandun had visited countless people, so naturally he quickly saw the potential hidden in Sun Zhen.As soon as possible, the recruit review is only halfway through, but he already has the intention to bring Sun Zhen under his command.

Sun Zhen held the pair of stone locks and danced for a full minute before stopping and putting them back on the ground.This group of newcomers hadn't developed any rules yet, and they actually shouted together at this time, as if they were watching a martial arts performance on the street selling medicine.

Due to the relatively simple content, the physical examination of these hundreds of people did not take too long to be declared over.However, the final passers among them will still have a formal supplementary test five days later, when there will be tests for sprints, middle and long distance runs, and some strength events.

The candidates were then taken indoors for a physical examination.The relevant content and standards are basically copied from later generations, mainly checking vision, color vision, smell, hearing, height and weight, checking whether the body structure is normal, whether there are skin diseases, and so on.Although the newcomers did not understand the content of these inspections, they cooperated with the doctor to carry out the corresponding inspections according to the requirements of the military officers.

The subsequent political review process will no longer be concentrated. After all, the personal information of these new immigrants is not very detailed for the time being, and most of them cannot be verified, so we can only rely on the descriptions of these people and the personal feelings of the officers. Whether it is credible to make a judgment.However, the officers are also convinced that as long as these people enter the barracks, the training and life of the army will naturally gradually mold them into standard Haihan soldiers, even if there are some minor flaws, it will not hurt.

After the two-day military enlistment review, about 20% of the people have obtained permission to join the army, while the remaining [-]% of the people did not meet Haihan’s recruitment requirements for various reasons and will be sent back to the immigration camp.However, not all those left behind will serve locally, and more than half of them will be sent to Sanya to join the army after completing the basic isolation and observation period.And only about [-] people will be "lucky" to stay in Penghu to serve.

Sun Zhen passed the review logically, and as the best candidate in this application, he was hand-picked by the local supreme official Qian Tiandun to stay in Penghu - of course Sun Zhen himself did not know this.Next, after a one-week quarantine and observation period, he will enter a new local training camp with other lucky ones, and begin to receive military training personally in charge of Qian Tiandun.

Although the number of recruits recruited in a single batch may seem small, several batches of new immigrants like this arrive in Penghu every month.Even if Qian Tiandun selects them with high standards, the recruits who stay in the local service after a month will have at least one company.This expansion speed can't be said to be fast, but if measured by the high standard of special operations forces, it can't be considered slow.

Throughout September, the number of new immigrants from the areas north of the Yangtze River to Penghu was more than [-], reaching a record high in a single month since Haihan entered Fujian, which was newer than that of Guangdong, Guangxi, Annan, Champa and other places during the same period. The total number of immigrants immigrated was even higher, which also made the Executive Committee fully aware of the necessity and urgency of opening up the northern route.

Although the Denglai Rebellion is coming to an end in terms of time, and the chaos in Shandong will gradually calm down in the coming year, the Executive Committee believes that the social situation in the entire north will still tend to deteriorate, and the continuous outbreak of peasant uprisings will be extremely serious. The earth destroys social productivity, causing more places to fall into turmoil.Not only will the number of refugees not shrink, but it may even exceed the previous situation.

Just when Sun Zhen and others successfully enlisted in the army and began to transform from obedient Ming people into war machines under the Haihan Executive Committee, more problems were also emerging within Daming.

In September of the fifth year of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, peasant army generals Gao Yingxiang, Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong and others gathered in Shanxi and attacked in multiple ways, successively conquering Daning, Xizhou, Zezhou, Shouyang and other counties.The overwhelmed Ming court could only order Xuanda governor Zhang Zongheng to be stationed in Pingyang, and governor Xu Dingchen to be stationed in Fenzhou to defend against the peasant army's offensive separately.However, such measures can only hold a part of the city, and cannot prevent the peasant army from acting recklessly in Shanxi.On September [-]th, Li Zicheng led his army to capture Xiuwu County and killed the magistrate Liu Fengxiang during the battle. This record also made Li Zicheng gradually stand out from the many generals of the peasant army.

Although the Ming court later sent three generals, He Renlong, Li Bei, and Ai Wannian, into Guanzhong to encircle and suppress the peasant army, such countermeasures had no obvious effect.Before the end of the year, the Peasant Army will continue to attack Jiaocheng, Wucheng, Qinzhou, Liaozhou and other places using the method of attacking from multiple routes and dividing troops.In the next year, the Peasant Army will also invade Hebei, Sichuan and other places, and spread the flames of war to a wider area within Daming.

For Haihan, the most scarce resource now is not money, but population.Haihan's development has been limited by the population bottleneck. If it wants to continue to improve its strength at a high speed in the short term, it must introduce more immigrants as quickly as possible.The current number of immigrants obtained by the Penghu base basically meets the expectations of the Executive Committee, but the current cost and speed of immigration introduction are not satisfactory to the Executive Committee, in other words, the price-to-credit ratio is too low.If a large number of immigrants from the north are to be brought in for a long time, then continuing to expand the sphere of influence northward and creating an immigration route completely belonging to Haihan has become the next goal that must be completed.

Of course, this is not just something that can be done by sending a fleet to the north every month. More importantly, it is to establish a transit base north of the Fujian Strait, and use this as a basis to achieve efficient transshipment of immigrants.However, on this matter, the views of the military and civil affairs departments are not very consistent.

At the 1632 third quarter summary meeting held at the end of September, Ning Qi, on behalf of the civil affairs department, put forward a proposal to expand the northern route as soon as possible and establish the next base near Hangzhou Bay as soon as possible.The purpose of this proposal is basically to expand the scale of immigrants imported from the north, so that Haihan can send its own high-speed fleet to undertake the task of transporting immigrants.

Before that, Ning Qi had proposed a similar plan, but at that time, because Penghu hadn’t been completed yet, most people regarded his proposal as too ambitious and unrealistic, and it was not discussed in the executive committee. passed in.Now that various military and civilian facilities in the Penghu base have been put into use and operation, and the immigration base has begun to continuously send immigrants to Hainan Island, it seems that the conditions for the northward movement are gradually maturing.Therefore, Ning Qi brought up the old matter again, and once again put the relevant plan on the agenda of the executive committee.

In terms of long-term planning, Ning Qi's plan is actually consistent with the military's, because the next springboard chosen by the military is indeed in the archipelago area outside Hangzhou Bay.However, the military believes that before continuing northward, it is necessary to solve the hidden dangers in the vicinity to ensure the absolute safety of Haihan ships in the channel of the Strait.

The hidden dangers pointed out by the military are the Dutch and Spaniards who are currently settled in the south and north of Taiwan Island.The Dutch occupied Dayuan Port in the south, while the Spaniards built a base in Keelung Port in the north. The military believed that these two hidden dangers must be resolved before continuing to expand Haihan's territory northward.

(End of this chapter)