It was not until February 20 that the Archipelago Military Region fully occupied the island of Papua, only two days before the signing of the peace agreement with the Netherlands, which shocked Fang Liang and Han Xin for several days, and if they occupied Jayapura two days later, the war achievements would be half inferior. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

After receiving their war report, Zhang Wei knew that their conditions were special, and did not blame them, but called them back, demanding that the pirates be cleared as soon as possible, and that no other uncontrolled armed forces should be allowed to exist in every territory occupied.

After discussing with Li Jiang, Fang Liang decided to leave one squadron in Ambon, and the other six squadrons should be sent out to clear the pirates within his jurisdiction.

By February 15, the established pirate army had reached 960 people, all of whom were Chinese, and some of them were fishermen when they were on the mainland, and they became pirates when they could no longer live; Some of them were Chinese who had lived in Nanyang for several generations, and were forced by the Dutch to join the pirates; Some were pirates transferred from Vietnam, the Philippines, etc.

For the Chinese who were not physically fit to continue to be pirates, they were secretly placed in different areas, and they were given land and houses, as well as basic living materials, to help them start a family as soon as possible, and live a stable life in the future, and become ordinary people.

The pirate army is under the direct jurisdiction of the General Staff of the Archipelago Military District.

Now these pirates are concentrated in Manado City for simple military training, and the longest training has lasted more than 1 month. They originally had a good foundation, otherwise they would not have survived in the cruel pirate organization, but now they have good living conditions, coupled with a balanced diet and scientific and reasonable training, so that these pirate members have a qualitative change in a very short period of time, and their physical fitness is better. It turns out that all diseases in the body have been well treated.

Now there are camp cooks to make food for them, three meals a day, nutritious, in the morning there are eggs, gruel, small pickles, flatbread, fritters, etc., eat casually, full for the principle, but can not be wasted; At noon, there are fried vegetables, and each person has a half-pound braised fish, rice or steamed buns; In the evening, it is served with green vegetables, half a bowl of braised pork, sometimes stewed chicken, and the main dish is often large steamed buns, but also steamed buns and rice, and accompanied by fruits.

The instructors of the training are active officers of the army, that is, the soldiers are non-commissioned officers, and it is more than enough to train these pirates. Now there is a good diet, the instructor is not afraid of training them badly, every morning to get up 3 kilometers to 5 kilometers of cross-country, at the beginning of the trekking cross-country, gradually add weight, the weight loss is gradually increased; After cross-country, it is scrubbing and breakfast, physical training in the morning, tactical training in the afternoon, 20 rounds of ammunition on target in the morning and afternoon, 10 rounds of fixed target and 10 rounds of moving target, half of each in lying and kneeling; In the evenings are cultural classes and ideological and political classes.

In order to strengthen the military strength of these pirates, Zhang Wei specially purchased 2,000 Commission 1888 rifles, 50 Madsen light machine guns, 20 Maxim heavy machine guns, and 6 75mm Krupp mountain guns. He also arranged for the ship repair plant in Manado to repair and renovate the broken ships of the pirates, eliminated all the sailboats, and left only some ships powered by steam turbines, and changed the coal-fired boilers of these ships to oil-fired boilers to increase the range and speed, and the weapon systems were also modified accordingly, and all of them were replaced with rapid-fire guns.

Now Zhang Wei gave the order to clear the pirates, and these pirates who had undergone simple training immediately became the vanguard army, and selected the best quality from among them to form six battle platoons of 40 men each. Each platoon assists 1 detachment. Since they are more familiar with the characteristics of pirates and know their nests, many people have connections with other pirate organizations, and even have acquaintances in other pirate organizations, which greatly speeds up the clearance, and even instigates some small pirate organizations, allowing them to directly join the current pirate army.

This is a resolute blow to pirates who are unwilling to surrender, and there must be no pirates in the area under the jurisdiction of the Archipelago Military District.

For the pirates who surrendered, the Chinese who were physically qualified were assigned to the pirate army for training, and for the pirates of other races, a mercenary army was formed, ready for them to perform some special tasks. The mercenaries were placed directly under the jurisdiction of the two divisions and were responsible for their training.

By the end of March, there were no pirates in the area under the jurisdiction of the Archipelago Military District, and after elimination, the pirate army had reached 4,300 people, the mercenary army had reached 6,000, and each division had 3,000 mercenaries. The Chinese who were not fit to join the army were all resettled in various regions, and the non-Chinese who were not in good health were secretly dealt with.

Zhang Weiwei was very happy about the wealth obtained by clearing the pirates, only gold and silver, not counting other materials, which was converted into more than 10 million taels of silver. This made Zhang Wei decide that in the future, he would treat piracy as a business and let this business flourish.

The pirate army was all trained in Manado.

In order to strengthen the pirate army's hunting ability at sea in the future, Zhang Wei specially equipped it with two British Sentinel-class light cruisers, with a base displacement of 2,880 tons, a power of 17,000 horsepower, a maximum speed of 25 knots, a main gun of 10×76MM, an auxiliary gun of 8×47MM, a 2×18-inch torpedo, and more than 100,000 points together with the crew's baggage.

In order to strengthen the power of the main gun, 1 more destroyer, the Japanese Sea Breeze turbine warship, was purchased. The task of combat is to shell, break through the enemy's warning net, and carry out close torpedo attacks. The total length is 98.5 m, the waterline width is 8.6 m, the draft is 2.7 m, and the standard displacement is 1,030 tons. The main engine is Parsons type direct connection steam turbine 1 group of 3 shafts, the central shaft is directly connected to the high-speed steam turbine, the two side shafts are directly connected to the low-speed auxiliary propulsion steam turbine, the high-speed cruise is combined with the port side low-pressure steam turbine, the fixed pressure cruise is combined with the starboard low-pressure steam turbine, the main boiler is 8 ship-based water-tube boilers, 2 heavy oil boilers, and 6 heavy oil/coal hybrid boilers. The power is 20,500 horsepower, the speed is 33 knots, and the cruising range is 15 knots / 2,700 nautical miles. The armament consists of 2 12cm/41cal single-mounted guns, 5 8cm/40cal single-mounted guns, and 3 45cm single-mounted torpedo tubes. There are 141 members.

In order to strengthen the management of pirates, Lieutenant Colonel Xu Qiang was transferred from the Navy to serve as the head of the pirate regiment after being promoted to the rank of colonel, and Ding Guangming, a deputy regiment commander was transferred from the 4th Division to serve as the deputy head of the pirate regiment after being promoted to colonel to assist Xu Qiang in handling land affairs.

The pirate army trained until the end of April and set out on a quest to conquer Mindanao. It is believed that it will not be long before the pirate group will become the largest force on Mindanao, and will bring Zhang Wei a steady stream of points and wealth, and when the opportunity is right in the future, it can directly eat Mindanao and use it as a springboard to attack the Philippine US forces.

In view of the achievements of the Archipelago Military Region, at the end of March, Zhang Wei specially rewarded the Archipelago Navy with one Lanfang-class battlecruiser, one British light cruiser, three British destroyers, and one submarine squadron, and 10 submarines, including eight Lanfang-class Type 101 submarines and two Xinhua-class Type 101 submarines.

Li Jiang stationed the battle cruisers in Ambon Harbor, and the British light cruisers and three destroyers were organized into the 8th Squadron as the escort detachment of the battle cruisers.

Set up the submarine base in the port of Biton, and at the same time send the first squadron to be stationed in the port of Biton, if necessary, you can pick up the pirate group, or shoot the submarine team to ambush the enemy of the pirate group.

The army sent one battalion to protect the port of Bithong, and the local natives were transferred to live on the island of Papua.

Zhang Wei's request was that on May 1, the pirate group began to ambush Japanese merchant ships. When the time comes, Mindanao will be used as a base for pirate groups, and the South China Sea will be used as a venue for activities, and the current warships of the pirate groups are all high-speed warships, and the merchant ships they encounter will be easily captured or sunk, and if they encounter battleships of other countries, the pirate groups can easily get rid of each other.

Zhang Wei's goal is to make the pirate group a sharp sword in his hand, which can stab at any time to the country that he wants to repair but is inconvenient to come forward.