50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 764 The whole world is in rebellion
When aid arrives from within the country, the ideal scenario is that veterans can settle on Grand Natuna Island with their entire families.

The manpower that Sun Zhiwei needs can be recruited locally, which also saves the soldiers from having to go back to visit their families every year for the Spring Festival.

But these were all just his guesses; he didn't know how his family would send him support.

To increase the attractiveness of Natuna Island to the country, he specifically pointed out that Natuna Island is not only a key transportation route in front of Malacca, but also has abundant oil and gas resources in the waters of its 200-kilometer exclusive economic zone.

In particular, the Natuna D-Alpha block is the largest gas field in Southeast Asia, estimated to contain approximately 222 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves.

Moreover, he also needs to consider a long-term issue.

That is, most of his current subordinates are hot-blooded young men, most of whom are not married. It's okay for a year or two, but it definitely won't work in the long run.

He doesn't expect to provide wives, but at the very least, he wants to organize regular matchmaking events for the young men. However, all of this depends on the availability of women of marriageable age, and there are still too few Chinese people on the nearby islands.

In Beijing, Sun Zhiwei's lengthy telegram was delivered to Xu Yimin immediately.

But when he saw the number of reinforcements Sun Zhiwei requested in the telegram, he wanted to curse.

Who among those living away from home would dare to ask their family for tens of thousands of people? Are they trying to become a local tyrant?

However, after carefully reading Sun Zhiwei's analysis of the status of the Greater Natuna Islands, he realized that the matter was not so simple.

According to Sun Zhiwei's analysis, the difference between having a large Natuna and not having a large Natuna lies in whether or not the vast coastal and border regions are peaceful.

Once we legally possess Greater Natuna Island, the southernmost maritime territory, which was previously beyond our reach, will no longer be an issue.

After all, given the size of Greater Natuna Island, it wouldn't be a problem to station thousands of aircraft there.

The H6's previous weakness of having short legs is no longer a problem with the addition of Natuna Island as a fulcrum.

With the Great Natuna in hand, and more than a dozen surrounding countries within H6's flight path, I ask them if they're afraid.

Seeing the benefits, Xu Yimin really wanted to agree immediately, but Sun Zhiwei wanted too many people, which made him very conflicted.

So Xu Yimin held the telegram and began to consider it in his office.

It took him a while to realize that he had gotten himself into a rut; he was essentially taking an employee's salary while worrying about the boss's job.

Because this is not something he can decide at all, why should he worry about it? He can just report it directly and let the big shots worry about it.

Having thought it through, Xu Yimin immediately took the telegram to his old leader in the Second Military Medical University.

Not to mention the heated discussion at home over Sun Zhiwei's telegram.

After returning to Subi Island, he and his men repainted the two frigates and changed their hull numbers to 8001 and 8002.

The light frigate "Sukarno" that he had his eye on was also repainted and is now called 8003.

Although he liked the small boat that weighed several hundred tons, it was loaded with too many weapons and was not suitable for transporting back to North America or his hometown.

Therefore, he could only give it to Dong Haoyang and his team to use as a command ship.

The reason he hadn't returned to Anatahan Island to be with Tong Jiajia and the children was that he was waiting for news from various places. This included not only news of support from within China, but also news from various parts of Java and several rebel groups.

Australian troops have certainly gone up to Timor Island, but no media outlets have reported on them yet, indicating that they are maintaining a tight information blockade on the area.

Meanwhile, in Banda Aceh, Farouk's guerrillas, having received a large amount of military supplies, have been secretly training in the mountains for more than half a year.

Now that such a good opportunity is available, I believe Captain Farouk will not miss it.

Furthermore, Sun Zhiwei has already taken down the naval base on Papua Island, so the local natives will likely take some action.

In the pre-internet era, information transmission was just this slow.

He said he was waiting for news, but actually he was waiting for someone to stand up for him.

Java is, after all, a country that has been unified for more than 30 years.

Because of Harto's strong rule, the internal political situation has always been relatively stable. In the past, Java was even able to play both sides between the two superpowers and maintain an aggressive stance towards its neighboring countries.

The current situation is the result of multiple factors, but the past thirty years have also cultivated a group of Javanese people with a sense of unity.

The first force to stand up and split Java will definitely attract the hatred of most Javanese, and it will be difficult to succeed.

At the end of August, the first major news came.

Hundreds of thousands of indigenous people in the central mountains of Papua collectively descended the mountains and attacked the coast.

What's astonishing is that almost everyone had an automatic rifle, and no one knew why they had so many weapons.

Although these natives were not yet proficient in the use of weapons, they were still able to overwhelm the cities along the way because there was no longer a fully-fledged Javanese army on Papua Island.

As the indigenous people gained the upper hand over the local Javanese immigrants, more indigenous tribes joined in, and the entire western part of Papua Island was thrown into chaos.

In just one week, the indigenous coalition captured Jayapura, the largest city in the north and the capital of Java in Papua province.

On the same day, the indigenous coalition announced the establishment of the Kingdom of Irian and elected a tribal chief as king, with Jayapura as the capital.

Upon hearing the tongue-twisting name of the king, Sun Zhiwei began to realize that this king, who was being hailed, must be the leader of the tribe from which he had abandoned his weapons.

This guy is quite a clever native; he knows how to distribute the weapons and get others to support him as their leader.

Sun Zhiwei didn't know how long this new kingdom would last, but he was certain that the unifying forces in various parts of Java had already come to hate this Irian Kingdom.

As September arrived, on the 1st, Banda Aceh, located at the northern tip of Sumatra, was attacked by guerrillas. The city and port were completely lost, and the local navy even captured a frigate.

Sun Zhiwei was certain that the guerrilla force that launched the raid was the same one he had funded back then. Ordinary guerrilla forces wouldn't have so many people, nor would they have that level of combat capability and equipment.

Although most of the local troops stationed in Banda Aceh have been transferred away, there are still thousands of Javanese police in the city, who are no match for ordinary guerrillas.

Therefore, he was certain that the raid was carried out by the guerrillas led by the captain named Farouk.

(End of this chapter)