People who are not our race must have different minds! But if they have enough interests, the nation will abandon it! And there will never be a shortage of revolutionary speculators and conspiracy theory careerists in this era.————"Empty Space", December 14, 1937
"Dust Quotations"
Following the military mobilization order from the headquarters, the war machine headed by the Hainan Army restarted and unleashed a surprisingly powerful force.
The military government's financial budget is heavily tilted towards the military. Supplies, ammunition, medical drugs, and everything else that can be used are distributed to the troops in large quantities.
Hon Ki County in the coastal area of North Vietnam is also now known as Hon Ki County, the administrative center of the Republic of North Vietnam. What is happening here now can be described as earth-shaking changes.
After the expansion of the Hainan Army, the injection of a large number of Hainan businessmen, and the gathering of local Vietnamese residents, the original small county town has become full of vitality.
Especially the small wharf outside Hongji County, which once maintained all the material transportation tasks of the Hainan Army during the North Vietnam War. Various ships are busy here every day, including military transport ships transporting military supplies and civilian ships.
ships carrying people who came to Vietnam with dreams of getting rich.
After subsequent expansions by the Hainan Army, it has turned into a port covering a very large area. After the North Vietnam War ended, the place did not fall into depression, but developed further and rapidly.
A large number of cheap daily necessities, as well as items that North Vietnam could not produce, were loaded onto ships from the western part of Hainan mainland, and then crossed the Beibu Gulf to Hongji Port for unloading. They were then snapped up by Vietnamese traders who heard the news.
Of course, returning empty ships is definitely not allowed by capitalist businessmen who want to maximize their profits, so Hainan businessmen began to collect various crops grown by Vietnamese and hire them to mine, in order to transport Hainan Island's very scarce metal resources back.
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At this moment, military transport ships were parked in the north of Hongji Pier, and groups of soldiers in khaki uniforms came down from them.
These soldiers were soldiers of the North Vietnamese garrison. Most of them were prisoners captured by the Hainan Army during the battle with the French army. After excluding some of them, a standing force was built with the skeleton of soldiers from the Hainan Army.
Because for the sake of distinction, and because North Vietnam is still a country in name only, it is definitely not allowed to wear the military uniforms of the Nationalist Government soldiers, so the uniforms of the Vietnamese garrison are not green, but khaki.
This special security force is nominally affiliated with the government of the Republic of North Vietnam and is under the jurisdiction of the government of the Republic of Vietnam, but in fact it is ordered by the commander of the Hainan Army Headquarters. The appointment of the commander is issued by the headquarter.
"Beep...beep...!" On the sea, another ship slowly moored at the pier.
The sound of the ship's whistle also woke up Ruan Wen, who was distracted. Looking at the soldiers walking beside him, his heart was filled with uncontrollable excitement.
The newly established North Vietnamese garrison force has now been ordered to enter the North Vietnam region and will be responsible for the defense of the North Vietnam border from now on. Using the elite 1st and 2nd divisions of the Hainan Army to garrison the border is obviously overqualified.
Now, Nguyen Van is the new Chairman of the Republic of North Vietnam, who was jointly elected by all representatives of North Vietnam. Of course, he knows exactly how this came about, so he will continue to cling to the Hainan Army.
This 20,000-strong security force is also the only armed force in Ruan Wen's hands. Although he is not the actual commander, but a young officer named Zhou Wenqiang sent by the Hainan Army, now there is this
With the army, he will have the ability to suppress those with evil intentions, making his position more stable.
In fact, the 20,000 troops are widely spread across the land of North Vietnam, and the number of troops that can be garrisoned in various places will be very weak. Some counties can only be divided into a hundred troops, but these are actually irrelevant.
The number of troops is not important. What is important is the Hainan Army standing behind the Republic of North Vietnam. Although the Hainan Military Government is only a local government in China in name, people who know the inside story of the North Vietnam War will definitely not think so.
Didn’t you see that everyone defeated the powerful Vietnamese French? Although it was just a French colonial governor-general, weren’t tens of thousands of French regular troops suppressed and beaten by the Hainan Army? Is there such a ferocious ‘local government’?
Now, the energy of the French is attracted by the situation in Europe, and the French colonial governor-general of Vietnam does not have the power to take back the land. As for other small countries in Indochina, it is thankful that the Hainan Army does not attack them. After all, Vietnam has learned from the past.
No one wants the Hainan Army to come and ask for a piece of their country. How can they be expected to challenge the Hainan Army?
Therefore, the current Vietnamese garrison is more symbolic than actual. As for the number of people reorganized into the garrison, why there are only 20,000 people? That is because the high command unanimously agreed.
The Hainan Army only has 50,000 people. Even if you include the more than 10,000 people who recently joined the army, and the local security force on Hainan Island, the total number does not exceed 70,000.
The current limit on the number of people is also based on cautious considerations. After all, if the number of people in this North Vietnamese guard force is too large, then the North Vietnamese guard force is likely to be full of uncertainties.
Besides, this security force is only there to catch petty thieves, or to suppress a little bandit who is better than them.
At this moment, an officer in military uniform walked by and said to Ruan Wen: "Chairman Ruan! Everything is ready, let's go!"
"Okay, let's go! Don't keep the commander waiting for too long!" Ruan Wen did not dare to neglect the garrison commander Zhou Wenqiang, although he was younger than himself.
That's right! This man was Zhou Wenqiang who performed well in the North Vietnam Liberation War. With his sharp knife troops, he was the first to tear apart the French defense line.
Logically speaking, Zhou Wenqiang's qualifications were not suitable for the position of commander of the North Vietnamese garrison. However, there were too few senior officers under Li Weidong, and he was not suitable to be promoted from the main force to an officer at this juncture.
So Zhou Wenqiang jumped to his current position at a rocket-like speed, and now he has also held a temporary military rank, which also contains the "moisture" rank of brigadier general.
Being in this position that was not on the front line of the battle, Zhou Wenqiang felt uncomfortable all over because the battlefield was the place he was accustomed to.
But when Li Weidong summoned him, he knew the importance of this position, so he obliged and accepted the transfer order from the headquarters.
As the North Vietnamese soldiers disembarked, the troops lined up in long lines and entered the military camp near the outskirts of Hon Ki County.
After repairing here for half a day, they will go to the border areas and other areas to take over the blank areas vacated by Hainan's main force, and then go to patrol or capture small thieves.