Chapter 259 North Vietnam Military Intelligence Report

These voices of dissatisfaction and questioning coming from the grassroots made the Executive Committee realize that today's crossing group is not monolithic, and some members still have big differences in their ideas from the Executive Committee. The main reason for this ideological difference is

The reason is the differences in the personal pursuits of the members. The people in the executive committee want to dominate the country and leave a name for the ages, but there are many people among the members who are content with a small amount of money. They think that now that they have established a firm foothold, that is

Isn’t it time to start thinking about enjoying life? In this case, if the executive committee wants to increase collective cohesion, it must firmly control the public opinion position in its own hands.

Now that the propaganda department is handed over to the Ministry of Information Industry, the effect is obviously not satisfactory to the Executive Committee. Meng He, the director of the Ministry of Information Industry, is a homebody, not very politically sensitive, and does not attach much importance to public opinion work.

The guidance work has not been done well enough. It seems that the executive committee needs to take back its supervisory power and turn the propaganda department into an agency directly under the executive committee.

After a brief break after lunch, the year-end summary report will continue. The supervisors of each department came on stage one after another and made work reports on the department's status in the past six months since time travel.

After the report of the department head, the head of each overseas unit will take the stage to give a report. Although currently among the three overseas units, only Heitu Port is relatively large, the importance of the Yaya Office and the Guangdong Office is not at all important.

No less than Heitu Port. In particular, the China Guangdong Office has begun to catch up and become the main channel for purchasing and selling materials of the Cross Group.

Like Tao Donglai, Schneider also stepped onto the podium twice in one day, once on behalf of the Ministry of Finance and once on behalf of the General Office of the People's Republic of China. Schneider pointed out in the "Report on the Work of the General Office of the General Office of the People's Republic of China" that currently the personnel transported by the General Office of the General Office of the People's Republic of China to Shengli Port

Although immigrants only account for 5%-8% of the total inflow of immigrants, the literacy rate among this group of people is as high as 57%, far exceeding the existing average literacy rate of naturalized citizens. And mainland China introduced by the Guangdong Office

Merchants have accounted for 85% of the total number of foreign merchants in Victory Port, and the goods sold to the mainland account for more than 70% of the total exports of Chuan Chuan Group. Various data are enough to show that the Guangdong Office plays a role in the rapid development of Chuan Chuan Group.

indispensable and important role.

Compared with such an important role, the current staffing of the General Office is still insufficient, especially the number of business personnel is pitifully small. This shortcoming has been particularly prominent in the recent influx of businessmen visiting, and the entire

Basically, only Schneider and He Xi can take on the task of business negotiations in the Guangdong Office, while other tasks such as personnel contact, cargo inventory, and material transportation lack enough manpower. Although the Executive Committee specially sent a second

The echelon has enriched the staffing of the Guangzhou Office, but it is inconvenient to arrange for members to do some menial labor or errands. The new overseas unit system has extremely strict requirements for external personnel. Hiring people from Guangzhou is also faced with the same problem.

Policy threshold restrictions.

In order to prevent the outside world from getting too much internal information of the group and ensure the safety of the Guangdong Office and the air routes between the two places, the Executive Committee stipulates that external personnel in the overseas units can only engage in peripheral work and are not allowed to come into contact with financial delivery, human resources

Arrangements, shipping traffic and other aspects of information. This is not unfounded by the Executive Committee. The merchant ships currently traveling between the two places carry goods of very high value. Some cargo ships also carry illegal salt, arms and other materials. If the news leaks out,

It would be quite troublesome to be caught by the local government. Moreover, there are pirate gangs in the waters of the Pearl River Estuary, so we have to be careful if they get some important information and send ships to rob merchant ships traveling between the two places at sea.

This kind of strict personnel control must continue at least until there are regular escorts by armed sailing ships between the two places, or until the crossing group has cleaned up the waters of the Pearl River Estuary to ensure that there will be no pirate forces nearby. In short, it doesn’t matter

Whichever one it is, it seems that it is almost impossible to realize it in the short term. Therefore, the only way to solve the staffing problem of the General Office is to rely on the base camp to continue to replenish manpower.

Schneider also gave the Military Police Department a briefing and briefly mentioned the necessity of setting up an island stronghold at the Pearl River Estuary to control the waters of the Pearl River Estuary. As the intelligence outpost of the traversing group, the Guangzhou Guangdong Office has currently collected information through various channels.

A lot of information about pirate gangs in the waters of the Pearl River Estuary was collected and provided to the Military and Police Department as a reference for future actions. Yu Yao and Xiao Liang from the Guangdong Guangdong Office have taken boats several times in the past two months to conduct on-the-spot inspections.

We visited the islands several times for on-the-spot investigation, especially Dawanshan Island and Baili Island, which were the main choices.

The work report part of Black Tu Port is a bit special, divided into two parts: civil affairs and military. As the largest overseas agency of the Cross-Travel Group, Black Tu Port not only provides the base camp with a steady supply of energy, but also transports back a large amount of energy.

North Vietnamese immigrants have enriched the working population of the base camp. The various trade agreements reached with the North Vietnamese regime also benefited from the hard work of the Black Tu Port Management Committee in the early stage. At the same time, Black Tu Port is also the one with the highest autonomy among the overseas agencies. Not only does the local

You can organize your own immigration, carry out foreign trade, and even the establishment of localized military and police agencies has been approved by the Executive Committee. The Tushan Peninsula stronghold established in the Beibu Gulf is currently assigned to the nearby Black Earth Port Management Committee

Will conduct daily management and operations.

The first person to take the stage to give a report was Gu Kai, the top leader of the Black Tu Port Management Committee. After these few months of living abroad, Gu Kai's bookishness was obviously much less than before, and his temperament also looked a bit like a leader. But he

He has no plans to end his overseas mission just by taking this opportunity to return to Sanya to report on his work. He is still planning to work there for a year according to the original plan. In addition, it is said that when Gu Kai returns to Heitu Port this time, he will bring

He went there with his foreign girl fiancée Risa - this news probably made the executive committee happier than bringing back several cargoes of coal from the Black Earth Port.

Gu Kai pointed out in the report that the current resident population of Heitu Port has reached about 3,500, of which more than 90% are naturalized residents, and the rest are immigrants who are still in the inspection period and a small number of prisoners. The local population

Among the naturalized citizens, the number of workers engaged in coal mining or coal-related industries exceeds 2,000. In addition, planting agricultural products, fishing, shipbuilding, and developing maritime trade with North Vietnam and Lianzhou Prefecture are also management committee members.

It is an industry that is currently undergoing vigorous development.

Since the local industry is relatively single and the residential population is relatively concentrated, the difficulty of civil administration is much less than that of Sanya. Moreover, the source of local naturalized people is basically war refugees from the North Vietnam area, and the level of poverty is

It also exceeds the immigrants collected by the base camp from Hainan and mainland China. Therefore, the dependence and support of the local naturalized people on the Management Committee is quite high, and the implementation of the civil affairs measures promulgated by the Management Committee is relatively easy in the local area.

Of course, this is partly due to the fact that the Executive Committee has provided very comprehensive support to Black Earth Port from the beginning, not only ensuring the needs of Black Earth Port as much as possible in terms of materials, but also almost all staffing is using the

In addition to Gu Kai, who represents the executive committee to guard the local area and oversees the overall situation, Zhou Hengxing, the civil affairs officer, Xie Chun, the shipping officer, Tian Yeyou, the mining officer, and Qian Tiandun, the military officer, all of them have

Their abilities are quite outstanding, and it can be said that there are no obvious shortcomings in the configuration of management personnel.

The current actual output of the Heitugang Coal Mine has exceeded the annual target of 1,000 tons per month, which is already a good result under the current almost all-manual coal mining conditions. In addition to large quantities of cargo being transported back to Victory Port to meet the production requirements of the base camp,

In addition to demand, the coal produced in Heitu Port has even begun to occupy the market in Hainan Island. Currently, the "Haihan clean coal" shipped from Heitu Port accounts for the majority of the coal currently sold in the Yazhou market. This kind of coal burns when

The fire is strong, the smoke is small, and the quality is much better than the lignite produced in Danzhou in the north, but the price is 20% lower than Danzhou coal. People will naturally choose this cheap and high-quality competitor - which also leads to

Small coal mines in Danzhou in the north began to close down in large numbers, and some laborers began to move south to work in the Shengli Port area to make a living.

The current output of asphalt, coal tar and other products, which are regarded as high value-added industrial products by Black Tu Port, is also rising steadily. According to the annual financial budget made by the Black Tu Port Management Committee, if in 1628

If we can further increase the output of coal series products by 30%, it is expected that the repayment period of the original development funds will be shortened to Gu Kai's term of office, which will mean that Black Earth Port's economic independence has taken the first real step.

This is great news for both Black Earth Port and the entire Crossing Group.

After Gu Kai finished his report, the next person on stage was Lieutenant Qian Tiandun, the military commander of Heitu Port. Because it was said that he had brought back the latest news about the civil war in Annan, everyone in the audience cheered up again - the people in Annan

The direction of the war will directly affect the Chuanchuan Group's future arms sales strategy and trade progress with Vietnam. This is a matter of vital interest to all members. However, Qian Tiandun did not first mention the civil war in Annan, but introduced the current situation of Black Earth Port

The progress of military force construction.

Currently, the Black Tu Port Management Committee has three companies of military strength. One of the companies is stationed on the Do Son Peninsula and serves as a military advisor to North Vietnam, specifically responsible for training North Vietnam's firearms troops. The other company is stationed by a mixed security militia company.

In the Black Tu Port area, in addition to undertaking local security and guard work, they also have to undertake the task of armed escort on ships between Black Tu Port and Victory Port. The third company is the mountainous area advocated by Qian Tiandun.

Of course, the nature of the Jungle Special Operations Company is still kept secret from the outside world, and only a few people know the truth. However, this company has only been established for about two months, and is still in a training state, so it is far from being able to speak of combat effectiveness.

Therefore, the actual combat strength stationed at Black Earth Port is actually only one mixed company, and at least one platoon of this company has been floating at sea for a long time. In this way, it seems that there are three companies, and the combat strength is not weak.

In fact, the number of troops that can be directly commanded and mobilized in the Heitugang Military District is less than one company. Not to mention defending against foreign enemies, even maintaining local security is inevitably a bit stretched.

However, after the popular militia training plan proposed by the Military and Police Ministry was approved by the Executive Committee recently, Black Earth Port has also adopted this militia training system for ordinary people. Due to the single industry in the local area, there are only two or three work units, which need to be concentrated

Militia training for young adults is much easier than at the base camp. Qian Tiandun successfully organized three companies of reserve militiamen in Heitu Port. Of course, these reserve militiamen, like the base camp, can only use iron for the time being.

Cold weapons based on pointed spears. In this way, the local security force finally has a basic guarantee. The only thing lacking is probably maritime power - after all, the local shipyard has just started production, and sailors who can control large ships

There is also a considerable shortage of crew members, and it will take some time to train a floating force.

On the Tushan Peninsula, the management of the local garrison and the training tasks of the training camp are currently taken over by Feng Annan and Mu Xiabai who were transferred from the Cliff Garrison Office. Qian Tiandun will pass by Heitu Port about every seven to ten days.

Once, I took a look at the local training situation - and by the way, I also took the special operations company I personally trained out for a training session.

The training camp built by North Vietnam on the local coast has expanded a lot compared to two months ago. Currently, it has received more than 1,200 trainees. Among them, there are about 1,000 North Vietnamese soldiers receiving musketry training, and about 100 people.

artillery trainees, and there are still dozens of North Vietnamese officers who have received military theoretical training. Of course, for this reason, North Vietnam had to nearly double the order quantity based on the original arms order, and lease the Black Earth Port

The lease period was extended from one year to three years. The Zheng family wanted to exchange for "free arms" from the Crossing Group by continuing to extend the lease period, but the Black Earth Port Management Committee did not agree to the other party's request - if they still can't live with North Vietnam after three years,

To help people, we need to rely on leasing to maintain the safety of Black Earth Port. Then there is no need to talk about it, everyone will just jump into the sea and die.

The Military and Police Department believed that because the North Vietnamese army was equipped with slow-firing matchlock guns, even experienced hands who had trained for several months could only fire two rounds per minute. In addition, the size of the North Vietnamese musketeers was not large, so it was necessary to

It is a bit risky to use a pure musketeer formation, so a certain number of spearmen must be deployed for combat. As a military consultant, the hot weapon tactics taught to North Vietnam by Feng Annan and others did not have too many secrets, but they were also

It cannot be said to be advanced, it is basically a copy of Gustav's phalanx at the same time.

The basic combat unit of this kind of phalanx is the squadron. Each squadron is composed of 192 musketeers and 216 spearmen. The spearmen are arranged in 6 columns and are located in the center of the formation, while the musketeers are divided into two parts and arranged to the long

The left and right wings of the spearmen are also in 6-row formation. In this way, each squadron has 68 people on the front, and the combat width is approximately close to 60 meters. Based on the number of musketeers trained in the training camp, it can probably equip 5

Such a rectangular combat phalanx - the North Vietnamese naturally called it the "Hai-Han phalanx".

On the front of the square formation, the musketeers can exert all their firepower without hindrance, and use the reverse reloading method to maintain continuous shooting firepower. When the enemy rushes close, the spearmen can

Move forward or defend on the spot, while the musketeers move back to regroup behind the spear phalanx. If you want to avoid flank or rear attacks, then these five combat squadrons can also be deployed in a checkerboard format. The number of combat squadrons

The more there are, the more powerful the chessboard layout is.

The Gustavus Phalanx would add 96 musketeers to each squadron to further increase the combat width. However, the Haihan Phalanx took into account the limited number of North Vietnamese musketeers and did not adopt this strategy. Instead, the artillery

As battlefield support firepower, it is arranged in the gaps between the phalanxes. Considering the mobility, the battlefield support firepower selected by the Military and Police Department for the North Vietnamese firearms unit is a six-pounder gun. Each phalanx is equipped with three artillery pieces, which Zheng purchased in two parts.

A total of fifteen six-pound cannons were all put into use. As for the 12-pound cannon, because the gun body was relatively heavy and needed to be pulled by livestock, it was inconvenient to move on the battlefield. It could only be used in position battles or city battles. Field battles

Or it may not be suitable for encounters.

The North Vietnamese officers who also received Haihan training were taught the most basic spear phalanx and infantry-artillery combination tactics. The Military and Police Department believed that this group of trainees could allow North Vietnam to organize a decent army after graduation.

The phalanx of musketeers, coupled with the engineering, baggage, logistics, reconnaissance and other companies, can probably form an "elite" with a total of about 3,000 people, which must be second to none in the entire Indo-China Peninsula. On the battlefield

After several actual battles, this army, which had cost the Zheng family hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, was enough to become the Zheng family's magic weapon.

Of course, due to generational differences in performance of weapons, it is far from sufficient for North Vietnam to rely on this force to deal with the crossing group. Whether it is the accuracy, range, power of firearms, or the training methods and combat methods of the troops, these

There is still a big gap in strength between this puppet army and the Haihan militia trained by the Chuanchuang Group. The most important thing is that the North Vietnamese firearms troops completely rely on the supply of ammunition from the Chuanhua Group. As long as the North Vietnamese commander does not go crazy,

They will definitely not be ordered to go against Haihan.

But things did not go so smoothly. The North Vietnamese army had suffered several defeats on the battlefield recently, and the battle line had gradually moved north from Hue, and now it was between Nan Quang Binh and Ha Tinh. And in this cold weapon era,

Once a certain side of the war is defeated, it will be difficult to effectively organize a defensive front during the retreat. It often takes hundreds or even hundreds of miles to retreat before the defeated troops can be gathered and reorganized. Therefore, North Vietnam is quite concerned about the situation of the civil war.

He was worried and sent envoys to the training camp on the Tushan Peninsula, hoping to get help from Haihan.
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