After returning from the United States, Kangfan, Donovan and Judy transferred non-stop to the "Taihang Mountain" ship and led a fleet to Egypt. A fleet of three ships set off from the Lushun Military Port and headed south at a speed of 16 knots, passing through Green

During the island base, the ocean-going comprehensive supply ship "Xingkai Lake" joined the fleet and took on the logistics supply and medical insurance tasks along the fleet's trip.

The living conditions on the "Taihang Mountain" dock landing ship are very good. The officer cabins are all single rooms for two people. Donovan and Judy each were assigned to a room like this. Kang Fan was originally arranged by the captain in better conditions.

In the captain's room, but seeing Judy's face unhappy, he had to go to the officer's room with Judy's living conditions for a while.

On the way, Kang Fan found that the former Judy was back again. Noble, cold, reserved, all of them disappeared, and he couldn't help but feel happy.

When the fleet crossed the Strait of Malacca, Judy felt in love with the scene. When she remembered the scene when she encountered pirates here, she couldn't help but burst into tears. At that time, if Kang Fan and his subordinates had not sacrificed their lives to save him, he and his cousin might have become.

The ghost under the sword of those vicious Malacca pirates.

"Are there still pirates here now?" Judy asked Kang Fan.

Kang Fan replied: "Yes, yes. But when they see the ships hanging on the Qing Dynasty Huanglong Banner, they will retreat - our navy has long been defeated."

Judy got into Kang Fan's arms and looked up at him, "Do you know what am I glad for after you saved me?"

Kang Fan shook his head.

Judy's face flushed and she said, "I am glad to keep a clean body for you, not to be glad that I was not dead... although I was not sure if you were a eunuch at that time."

Kang Fan was speechless.

The Red Sea is located between northeastern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. It is a narrow sea area with an area of ​​450,000 square kilometers, smaller than Nanhua Island. The northern end of the Red Sea is connected to the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal, while the Mediterranean Sea connects to the Atlantic Ocean. The southern end of the Red Sea passes through the Mande Strait

It is connected to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. The country of Ethiopia is located on the west coast of the Red Sea, and the country's port of Masawa is also the largest port in the Red Sea.

Kang Fan is interested in this Masawa Port. As long as a military base is established in Masawa Port, the ships and aircraft of the Beining Navy can control the Suez Canal and the Gulf of Aden, the two Red Sea entrances and exits in the north and south, and even exit the Mediterranean.

, the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and as the only transit station on the Indian Ocean-Atlantic route, it provides urgently needed services for merchant ships of Beining Ocean Transportation Company or Beining Fishery Company's ocean fishing ships in foreign lands.

After the fleet arrived in Egypt, the stern door of the landing ship "Taihang Mountain" dock was opened, and four landing boats were loaded with supplies that made the Egyptians drool out of the ship's wide dock, rushed to the Red Coast Beach, and let the

The Egyptian government officials who came to greet him were so happy that they couldn't help but be amazed at the advanced military equipment possessed by the Beining Navy!

"Kang Fan, objectively speaking, the people here are really dark and ugly." Donovan said with a frown.

Kang Fan smiled disapprovingly and said, "But their teeth are much whiter than yours."

Judy giggled, her beautiful teeth were white and neat. Donovan hurriedly closed his lips tightly, worried, and covered them with his hands, finally covering them with his two rows of cigars.

Bad teeth.

The Beining government will pave the way for Egypt's promise to provide more economic aid and Judy's good prestige in Egypt. This diplomatic action was a complete success: the Beining government got what it wished and obtained the adjacent area of ​​Massawa Port and the Red Sea.

The coastal areas build military bases with paid land leases, garrisons with permission, and are obliged to provide Egypt with force protection if it is invaded by foreign enemies.

The Port of Masawa Port is built on Masawa Island and Torude Island located in Masawa Bay. The Masawa military base proposed by the Beining military is divided into two parts: naval and army base. The naval base is built in Masawa.

Wa Port is adjacent to the area, and plans to deploy 6 "Daqing" class cruisers, 6 "Jiaolong" class submarines, 12 "Flying Fish" class high-speed patrol boats, 12 "Sea Eagle" amphibious aircraft, and various auxiliary combat ships, auxiliary combat ships

Operational troops, etc. Army bases are built on adjacent shores, and seawall roads are built to connect naval bases.

Integration. Considering that the UK has built the largest overseas military base and a huge army of tens of thousands of people in the Suez Canal area, it is a real threat, and it also has to bear the obligation of force support for Egypt, the army base

A fully-filled armored mechanized division and an Army Aviation Brigade equipped with 12 Skyhawk reconnaissance/attack aircraft and 24 Wind Chasing Fighters, plus some auxiliary troops, the total number of officers and soldiers was nearly 20,000.

It is almost the same as the size of the garrison in South China Province.

While building the base, the Beining garrison engineers voluntarily expanded the Masawa Port and repaired the port facilities, which made the port look brand new, and received high praise from local people and government officials. After the base was completed, the power plants and water plants in the base were built.

, Meteorological/hydrological observatory, communication/navigation station, hospital, repair shop, cold storage and other facilities will bring great benefits to the local people, allowing this backward and barren African land to contact and enjoy modern civilization. And the base

The huge daily needs of 20,000 troops within the country will also stimulate the development of local agriculture, fishery, commerce and service industries, and gradually form a new social circle in the local area, each taking the needs, living in harmony, and deepening the military and civilians of the two countries.

Friendship between them stabilizes the social environment around the base.

But the Red Sea coast has a tropical desert climate, dry and hot, Judy was very uncomfortable and cried and shouted to go back to Beining with Kang Fan. Kang Fan originally planned to stay in Egypt for a longer time to be familiar with this strange and distant,

African countries that are of great significance to the Qing Empire, after the airport of the Masawa military base was initially available, they took a comfortable "big bird" plane to Beining. But they could not resist Judy's soft and hard work, and had to change their plans in the middle.

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"But we can't go back to Beining yet, we still have something to do," Kang Fan said.

Judy was stunned for a moment and said, "Okay, you can just take me out of this ghost place."

With the sharp increase in maritime trade between the Qing Empire and the American countries, more and more merchant ships shuttled across various routes in the Pacific Ocean, more than half of which were merchant ships of Beining Ocean Shipping Company. The ocean fishing fleet of Beining Fisheries Company

It is also growing rapidly, and the operating sea area has spread throughout the Pacific. Therefore, it is necessary to build a fully functional shipping transit station and ships, amphibious aircraft, sea radar, meteorological/hydrological observation, communication/navigation systems in the depths of the Pacific Ocean.

A search/rescue system composed of such as the search/rescue system, providing services to passing merchant ships and fishing ships.

Kang Fan knew that after the end of World War I, Germany would announce that it would abandon its occupation of Northern Mariana, Carolin and Marshall Islands in the Pacific. Therefore, Germany prepared for war wildly before the outbreak of World War I.

When he was unintentionally concerned, Kang Fan secretly ordered the Beining Navy God to seize these three archipelagos without knowing it.

When the German government found out, it was a year later. At this time, World War I had already broken out. The German navy was blocked by the world's most powerful British Royal Navy in Wilhelmshaven and Bremen, which were hard to move forward.

, has become a veritable "existence fleet", so what if you know it?

Another year later, on May 31, 1916, Britain and Germany broke out in the North Sea near the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark. The displacement of the two sides of the 261 participating ships

Battleships and battlecruisers with a caliber of more than 300 mm and a main gun caliber of more than 300 mm have become the protagonists of this naval battle. The Royal Navy of the British and 27 German Navy of the German Navy have two such mobile sea steel fortresses at sea.

Each of them had a queue of more than 10 kilometers long, using giant cannons to bombard each other! In the end, when this bloody sea duel of large ships and giant cannons ended, the German high seas fleet led by Admiral Schell was again

The Royal Navy's local fleet commanded by Admiral Jelico successfully forced it back to Germany and became the "existence fleet" again, losing its effect from then on.

Germany has arranged a total of hundreds of defensive forces in Northern Mariana, Carolin and Marshall Islands, and is thousands of miles away from the local area. Seeing the powerful Beining Navy fleet coming, it immediately gave up its resistance and gave in, as if

As if they were waiting for Beining to send troops to receive them. Therefore, given that the German defenders gave "very good cooperation", the Beining Navy also gave the German defenders a high courtesy and sent them all back to Beining for proper placement.

They were not sent back to China until the end of World War I. For these German prisoners, they could be said to be the luckiest group of German officers and soldiers in this war.

When World War I entered a harsh war of attrition, Germany was in a tight war in Europe and consumed huge national strength, which basically turned the entire country into a military factory, resulting in a serious shortage of domestic supply of food, medicine, daily necessities, etc.

, the Qing Empire must rely on the assistance of the Qing Empire to continue the war. Therefore, the two sides finally reached an agreement: Germany agreed to hand over the above-mentioned Pacific islands to the Qing Empire for trust, and the Qing Empire needed to give priority to ensuring the supply of materials to Germany.

In this way, the Qing Empire had legitimately owned these islands, and because it needed to do everything possible to supply materials to Germany under the blockade of the British Royal Navy, it inevitably openly challenged the maritime hegemony of the British Empire, which further angered the United Kingdom.

.But Kang Fan ignored the protests of Britain, because the Qing Empire also supplied materials to Britain, not to mention that the materials supplied were all humanitarian and did not violate any international law.

The Northern Mariana Islands are located in the Pacific Ocean 3,000 kilometers southeast to the east of Taiwan Island. More than 2,000 kilometers east of the Marshall Islands are located in the central Pacific Ocean, and the Caroline Islands are located in the southeast of the Northern Mariana Islands.

The southwestern part of the Marshall Islands. Kangfan named this island group the Donghua Islands and established the Donghua Province. The capital is located on Saipan, the largest island in the Northern Mariana Islands, making Saipan the entire island.

The name of the administrative center of the Donghua Islands was naturally changed to Donghua Island.

At this point, the Qing Empire had three overseas island provinces, Nanhua, Xihua and Donghua. The territory under its jurisdiction was greatly expanded, and its control over the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean was greatly improved.

All islands in Donghua Province have a typical tropical marine climate, with a total land area of ​​less than 2,000 square kilometers, which is only equivalent to a district of Ningwu County. However, its scattered sea areas reach millions of square kilometers and possess extremely rich tropical marine resources.

After the establishment of Donghua Province, together with Nanhua Island in South Asia and the Kuril Islands in the north, formed the outermost coastal defense base point in the Pacific direction of the Qing Empire, greatly pushing the defense range forward, with far-reaching strategic significance.

"Don't you still want to take the Japanese archipelago and the Philippine archipelago for yourself, right? In that case, the entire Qing Empire's maritime defense line will be indestructible." Donovan joked.

Kang Fan smiled and said nothing.

After Judy left Egypt as she wished and came to Donghua Island, which is known as the "tropical ocean paradise", she felt particularly comfortable. She had long thrown the disturbing national politics out of the sky, enjoying the blue sea, blue sky, breeze and warmth here.

The comfort brought by the sun, beaches, coconut forests, etc. seems to be back to the nostalgic girlhood when I first met Kang Fan, enthusiastic and unrestrained.

One thing Judy has to do every day when she comes here is to wait on the beach by the sea to return by Kang Fan. Because of this, Kang Fan will always remember a picture: on the white beach, the white clouds are everywhere.

Under the floating blue sky, beside a gorgeous parasol, a woman with a charming back was lowering her head and leisurely holding up a handful of fine sand and looking at the blue sea... The woman had a blonde hair shawl and was wearing white vest shorts,

Sitting on a yellow and white bath towel with smooth arms and legs exposed, blonde hair, white clothes, human body and bath towel mixed with the surrounding natural scenery to form a very heart-warming color!
Chapter completed!