1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 918 Quy Nhon Port

Just take military exercises as an example. The army of this era often just does some marching drills on the school field. Even if it imitates the offensive and defensive situations in wartime, most of them are just for show, and it can play a practical role in improving the combat effectiveness of the troops. very limited.These field exercise plans formulated by Haihan are extremely novel training methods for Annan's army, and the effect is also obvious.The Annan troops who participate in the joint military exercise every year will find that their strength has improved after comparing their conditions before and after participating in the exercise.In addition, Annan has basically had no war outbreaks in recent years, and he has no conditions to send them out to fight in turn like the Haihan militia. Joint military exercises are almost the only opportunity for them to simulate wartime environment training.

Because the records of the Haihan militia during the Annan Civil War were too brilliant, after the war, the Annan military respected everything about the Haihan militia, from the selection of the army to the reward and punishment measures, from the weapons and equipment to the training methods, basically from scratch. The pattern of Haihan militia is reproduced to the foot.Even the military's institutions have been reorganized according to the Haihan model. Apart from retaining the name of the Ministry of War, internal agencies and officials at all levels have abandoned the naming method that followed Daming in the past, and adopted the Haihan system instead.

Haihan was naturally happy with such a change, and even took the initiative to invest in the transformation and upgrading of the former Tushan training camp into the Tushan Military Academy, which was specially used to train new troops and grassroots officers for Annan.In order to be able to implement the new military system as soon as possible, Haihan also deliberately relaxed the number of senior officers selected to study abroad at the Sanya Military Academy every year, so that all officers above the battalion level in the Annan Army can master their due knowledge and skills as soon as possible.And the deeper these senior officers' understanding of Haihan's military system, the more awe they feel. After all, there is a gap in strength between the two sides. Only those who really understand the situation of the two sides can realize the frightening nature of this gap.

Annan's land is long and narrow, with a coastline thousands of miles long, and it attaches great importance to coastal defense. In addition to striving to build a powerful navy, this kind of amphibious operations in offshore areas is also a training program that it attaches great importance to. Although such a military The exercise cost a lot of military expenses, and it was not the same as the paddling exercise on the school field. However, the Annan Ministry of War still gritted its teeth and tightened its pockets and sent troops to participate in order to accumulate more battlefield experience. Han learned some practical tactics here.

The coalition fleet spent most of the day conducting amphibious landing drills on Champa Island, and then continued southward after resting for one night.Starting from Champa Island and continuing southward for about [-] nautical miles, we arrived at the second supply point of this trip, Quy Nhon Port.

Quy Nhon was once the capital of the Champa Kingdom in history. In the 15s, Le Thanh Tsung of the Annan Post-Le Dynasty personally led an army to attack Champa, and occupied most of the Champa territory after defeating the opponent. Guiren is also among them.At the end of the 70th century, Champa supported the Sultanate of Johor against the Portuguese colonists, which angered the Nguyen regime in southern Annan, which had an alliance with Portugal at that time.

After Haihan crossed over in this century, it quickly ended the decades-long north-south division in Annan, but the Champa Kingdom did not regain their lost land because of this. On the contrary, the Zheng regime, which was supported by Haihan, continued to seek Drive south.If Haihan hadn't found a balance between Champa and Annan later, and deliberately restrained Annan, it is estimated that Champa would suffer from the destruction of the country in just a few years.

Quy Nhon, the former capital of Champa, was assigned to Haihan as a concession port after the Annan Civil War.Because of the past history of Quy Nhon Port, the infrastructure of the port area is not bad, and its location is just in the middle of the area between Da Nang and Cam Ranh Port, so it was selected by Haihan as the southern part of the Indochina Peninsula. One of the four ports.

There is no special product in Quy Nhon, so Haihan followed the simple and easy-to-operate concept of development here, making full use of the terrain of the coastal plain here, reclaiming farmland and building saltworks.Grain and salt, these two products are consumables that are in great demand in any country at any time. Although they may not be able to make a lot of money, the income will be relatively stable, and it will not be a big problem to support the local economy.Moreover, Haihan has rich experience in the development and operation of these two industries, and it is relatively easy to get started.

It has been less than a year since the Quy Nhon Salt Field was put into production, but it has already captured nearly half of the sea salt market in the area south of Hue.However, unlike Haihan’s way of selling smuggled salt in Daming, the sales of Haihan Salt Farm in Annan are basically through official channels, that is to say, the salt produced by the salt farm is directly purchased by the Annan government, and then sold to the market in the name of official salt. superior.Although this method will reduce the profit of this business, the stability of the income is much better than selling private salt, and the Annan government seems to be very happy to use this method to control its domestic salt market. The production cost of the salt model is much lower than that of Annan's official salt in the past. The government directly buys salt from Haihan, which actually makes more money than producing it by itself.

Compared with the other four southern ports, the maritime trade of Quy Nhon Port is not so developed, and it is not a military important place.Two-thirds of the more than 3000 local residents work in the farms and saltworks under the Haihan Ministry of Agriculture, so life here is more peaceful.Because there are garrisons in Cam Ranh and Da Nang in the south and north, Hai Han has not even deployed militia troops in Quy Nhon Port, and the local law and order is completely maintained by the police agency.

However, in order to welcome the arrival of the joint fleet, the Haihan militia stationed in Annan had already dispatched a platoon of troops from Jinlan to prepare.The purpose of calling these people here is not to be concerned about safety issues, but to be able to organize the various supplies required by the combined fleet locally in advance and to clear out the dock positions for the fleet to dock.Although these matters are not particularly complicated, they involve various military secrets of the United Fleet, and it is impossible for ordinary organizations to take over and handle them.

The arrival of the United Fleet is good news for the local people. Just providing various supplies for these thousands of people is enough to make a fortune for many local farms.However, on the night when the fleet arrived at Quy Nhon Port, a small accident occurred.

Several Annan sailors got drunk and made trouble in a tavern in the port area, and clashed with local dock workers. One of the sailors got drunk and stabbed another person with a military dagger he carried on his body. When the gendarmerie arrived, the wounded had died.The people who caused the disturbance were all caught on the spot, but none slipped through the net.

The nature of this matter is not complicated. The only thing that needs to be considered is how to punish the soldiers who violated the rules.Annan's military naturally hoped that the major incidents would be turned into trivial ones, and that they would spend money to eliminate the disaster in the end, trying not to let such small unhappiness affect the good relationship between the two militaries.But after Yan Chujie learned about the matter, he insisted on handling it openly, in order to be able to explain to the local people.

But this time Zheng Zuo didn't come forward to argue with Yan Chujie again, and in his capacity, it was impossible to plead with Yan Chujie for such a trivial matter.Zheng Zuo just sent someone to inquire about Yan Chujie's attitude, and after learning about it, he ordered the offenders to be handed over to Haihan.This is not because Zheng Zuo is selfless, but when the two parties signed the concession agreement, it included the content related to the concession law.According to the original agreement, all civil and criminal cases that occurred in the concession port, the perpetrators were handed over to the local authorities to deal with according to Haihan law.

The agreement did not clearly define the identity of the criminal, leaving the right of judicial interpretation to Haihan.That is to say, if an Annan national was arrested for committing a crime in the concession port, whether it should be handed over to the Annan government for disposal according to the Annan law, or whether it should be dealt with by the local management committee in accordance with the Haihan law, the decision-making power and the scale of control will be different. In the hands of Haihan.If the perpetrators were Annan officials or other Annan nationals with status, then the management committee may put a size on it as appropriate, but if it is just a group of ordinary Annan sailors, then there is nothing human to say.If Zheng Zuo came forward to intercede, perhaps all the subordinates who committed the crime could be saved, but Zheng Zuo's face is not so worthless, so this group of people can only admit that they are unlucky.

So on the second day when the United Fleet stayed in Quiren Port, Yan Chujie personally set up a temporary military court to interrogate several Annan sailors who committed the crime, and Zheng Zuo was also invited to attend.The facts of this case are clear, the evidence is clear, there are all witnesses and material evidence, and the parties were also arrested. There is nothing worthy of dispute in the case.

The final judgment of the court is also relatively fair, which is divided into two parts: military law and criminal law.In terms of military law, all those involved in the case were punished with thirty military sticks. This punishment is only for flesh and blood, but it is not considered severe.However, the punishment in terms of criminal law is much more serious. The persons involved in the case were sentenced to different amounts of compensation according to the degree of participation and corresponding responsibilities. The criminal who caused death was sentenced to ten years of hard labor for manslaughter During this period, the sentence shall not be commuted, and the place of execution shall be designated by Haihan.

Zheng Zuo, who was on the sidelines, was quite satisfied with the result. He originally thought that since Yan Chujie did not agree to solve the big problem with money, he would most likely insist on the judgment method of killing people for life.Although the life of a soldier is not important, if he is sentenced to death, it will still have an impact on the reputation of Annan's army-not because the soldier committed a crime, but because he was taken away by Haihan's court. Take your life.

But since the life of the person involved can be saved now, Zheng Zuo has nothing to question the verdict.As for the ten-year hard labor sentence, it is well deserved. After all, this is a murder case, and it is already a very lenient sentence if he is not allowed to pay his life.

"Does the little prince have any opinion on the penalty?" After Yan Chujie announced the court's penalty, he did not forget to ask Zheng Zuo who was in the audience.However, this kind of inquiry was basically just a formality. Regardless of Zheng Zuo's answer, Yan Chujie was not prepared to change the judgment that had already been made.

Zheng Zuo's tone was very calm: "General Yan's punishment is very fair, I think there is no problem."

"Since the young prince also thinks there is nothing wrong with it, let's announce the result of the trial." Yan Chujie insisted on hearing the case openly in order to avoid fluctuations in the local public sentiment.After all, there is usually no army stationed here, so if the local people feel disgusted with the army because of this, it is not a situation that Yan Chujie can accept.Announcing the results of the processing can somewhat appease the local people.

Sure enough, due to Yan Chujie's quick and proper handling, the local public sentiment did not fluctuate greatly because of this incident.However, starting from the day of the incident, all shops selling alcoholic beverages in the Quy Nhon Port area were ordered to be banned from sale until the United Fleet left the area.Yan Chujie originally planned to inspect the local farm saltworks, but after being disturbed by this episode, he could only choose to take a quick look at one or two places, otherwise the entire fleet's itinerary would be affected.

After resting in Quy Nhon Port for two nights, the United Fleet set off to continue southward.Sailing about 140 nautical miles south from Quy Nhon Port is Cam Ranh Port, the largest comprehensive port built by Haihan in the Indochina Peninsula.

The natural conditions of Cam Ranh Port are undoubtedly the best among the four ports in the south. Two bays are formed by the two peninsulas of Chongkong Mountain and Phoenix Mountain. The inner port is Cam Ranh, and the outer port is Pingba. Surrounded by mountains of about 400 meters, the entire harbor water area reaches 100 square kilometers, and the harbor is deep enough to berth large ships of the aircraft carrier class.

Cam Ranh Bay is in another time and space. It has been used by foreign powers as a large military port since the beginning of the 20th century. France, Russia, Japan, the United States and other countries have set up military bases there and stationed troops there for a long time.

From the beginning of the crossing, Hai Han and his group set Cam Ranh Bay as a strategic location that must be brought under their control, and this goal was quickly realized after the Annan Civil War ended.However, because the area of ​​the harbor here is too large and the number of imported immigrants is relatively limited, the development progress is not too fast.The South China Sea Fleet, whose main force and ships are stationed here, often has to play the role of supervisor, assisting the Ministry of Construction to complete the planning and construction of the port area.

For the planning and construction of Cam Ranh Port, Haihan has made advanced arrangements and deployments, setting up a large-scale military dock area in the harbor.Even if there are two combined fleet-sized fleets visiting at the same time, there is still a basic reception capacity here.However, because the project is too large, it is still in the process of construction today.According to the plan of the Ministry of Construction, it will take about three or four years to complete the basic planning situation.Such a huge port construction plan can only be compared with a few places such as Jilong Port in Tainan and Dinghai Port in ZJ Zhoushan Island.

(End of this chapter)