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Chapter 1751 is a bit troublesome

September 11, 3 p.m., Karachi. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The southern part of the mangrove swamp in the south of the city, including the east and west wharves and the Cliff military port and the Merrier naval base, declared martial law as early as a week ago, and today the alert level has been significantly raised.

With Sheng Shicai's deliberate murder to cover up the massacre, and the subsequent outbreak of the Great Plague in Karachi and the surrounding area, which wiped out European and American journalists in western India, these security measures are now being adopted not so much as secrecy as to eliminate all possible security risks.

An Yi, his wife Ou Chuer and Feng Jieyun, together with the South China Navy Command, the captains of various fleets and detachments, and the relatives and representatives of the crew members of the Indian Ocean Fleet and the American Fleet of the French Navy, totaling more than 1,200 people, gathered at the Cliff Military Port in Karachi to greet the French naval officers and men who had taken refuge in the north.

Karachi is located on the northwest side of the Indus River Delta, south of the Arabian Sea, the terrain is flat, surrounded by many sandbanks, islands, and two seasonal rivers in the city.

Two centuries ago, Karachi was a small fishing village. After the British occupation in 1842, due to the development of the port and the construction of the railway, it became the gateway to the Indus Valley, and the inland of India was exported to Britain with cotton, wheat and other crops.

In the thirties of this century, with the rapid development of industry and commerce, the Karachi port area continued to expand, west of Monorah Island, on the basis of the original West Wharf, the East Wharf was expanded and the berths and docks of the Clifton Military Port were widened, and then a large naval base was built at the mouth of the Merrier River, which could fully accommodate a main fleet.

As a result, the population of Karachi has grown from 90,000 at the end of the last century to 260,000 this year, but with the sensational massacres and raids of the prosperous people, followed by the plague, the entire city is left with less than 10,000 people. If it were not for the urgent transfer of 50,000 workers from all over South China, especially the 20,000 dock workers from various ports, it is estimated that it would not have been possible to maintain the normal operation of the port area.

Earlier this month, after inspecting the nuclear submarine manufacturing plant in the southern part of the Jinou Peninsula, An Yi went to the Saigon Shipyard and the Kampong Son Shipyard to inspect the construction of landing transport vehicles, transport ships, large landing ships equipped with armed helicopter platforms, and dock-type landing transport ships urgently needed by the Marine Corps. Depart for Karachi.

Before separating from Gong Qian, An Yi instructed her to speed up the development of amphibious tanks and amphibious tanks after returning to Syria, so that the landing combat force would not be weaker in firepower than the weapons and equipment deployed by the defenders.

On the wharf of the military port, the admirals belonging to French, Russian, Jewish, and Chinese nationalities gathered in groups, chatting quietly, and laughing heartily from time to time.

When Navy Commander Lu Guang saw such a scene, his brows frowned slightly, and his face was a little solemn.

Although it is too good news to have been taken refuge by the French Navy, there are also many problems that have followed, the most typical of which is that in the first, second, and third fleets of the South China Navy and the two sub-fleets of Beibu Gulf and Nanhua Bay, the Chinese officers and men have achieved numerical superiority over the French officers and men, but now with the joining of the main fleet of the French Navy, the South China Navy will face a situation in which the French officers and men have an absolute upper hand.

Although An Yi and the General Staff, National Security and Navy held many meetings for this purpose, at most they were able to divert some officers and men in the direction of naval bases, naval military academies, and training fleets, while the rest of the French officers and men would still choose to stay in the fleet without a place to be settled, posing a threat to the stability and loyalty of the South China Navy.

An Yi saw Lu Chengguang's anxious appearance, his heart moved, and he knew what he was worried about, so he said to Ou Chuer and Feng Jieyun, walked quickly to Lu Guang's side, and asked with concern: "Why, are you anxious that you, the naval commander, will be overridden by the French?" ”

Cheng Guang smiled bitterly: "It's false to say that you are not worried, this time, our navy will have to add at least a few more main fleets, and dozens of French naval generals occupy the leadership positions of the fleet, exerting influence on us from all aspects." But all this is not terrible, the bad thing is that if they use the fleet they control as a bargaining chip, and then they are bribed to join other countries, I, the commander of the navy, will not have the face to see people. ”

"That's right!"

An Yi's face also became serious, and he nodded and said: "This worry is very necessary, after all, the fleet is adrift at sea all year round, who can guarantee that these French people who are in the twilight will not have two hearts?" During this time, I also pondered this matter repeatedly, but fortunately, when Lao Shen briefed me on the situation of the US Navy last night, I got some inspiration and had some ideas in my heart...... Cheng Guang, do you know how many naval academies the United States had before the outbreak of the European war in September last year? ”

"This—"

Lu Guang was thinking about what wonderful ideas An Yi would have to solve his troubles, and when he heard his question, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, thought about it carefully, and said with some uncertainty: "Maybe it's *** ten!" ”

"Wrong!"

An Yi waved his hand: "Even if you add the various naval training points in the United States, it does not reach fifty, but these naval academies comprehensively cover the teaching tasks of the Navy from senior to junior at different stages and at different levels, and the target groups are also different, which can basically meet the needs of the US Navy in peacetime." However, who would have imagined that by this time this year, the Americans have expanded the number of their naval academies to 329 in one fell swoop, and according to the intelligence department's predictions, in another two or three years, this number may reach more than 900, or even exceed 1,000.

"Before the war, the number of officers and men in the US Navy was about 250,000, and by September this year there were more than 300,000, and it is expected that as the United States joins the war group in the future, the number of US Navy personnel will rapidly expand to 1 million, 2 million, or even 3 million, and the growth rate will be more than 10 times. At the suggestion of the U.S. government, especially President Roosevelt, the training of a large number of qualified naval officers and soldiers in a short period of time is a work of great significance, and the work of the government and the navy must be carried out around it. Up to now, about 30,000 people from all over the United States attend classes at naval academies every day, and this number is expected to increase more than tenfold as the United States enters the war.

"At the same time, the U.S. Navy is not only satisfied with the training of officers, non-commissioned officers and alternates, reserve officers and sergeant majors, but also vigorously builds recruit training centers, so far, three training centers have been built, many of whom have never seen warships in the past, and have only climbed model warships in training, but after a few weeks of training, they are nominally qualified sailors and ready to accept the call of the motherland!"

"What does the United States want so many Navy officers and sailors to do? Do they have so many ships? Cheng Guang asked with a look of surprise.

"Joining the Navy does not mean that you need to serve on a warship, they still have a lot of work to do!"

Speaking of this, An Yi showed a look of admiration on his face: "Sometimes I have to admit that Americans know how to play to their strengths. In the eyes of the Americans, the essence of naval warfare is actually logistics, because the battle is fought thousands of nautical miles away from the mainland, which requires a thorough supply system to ensure the supply of food, fuel, and ammunition to the ocean-going formations, including refueling, maintenance, and technical support at sea.

"Although the navies of various countries have paid little attention to logistics since the last European war, on the whole, there is some progress in the supply of logistics at sea. For example, during the last European war, there was an experiment of refueling during the voyage, that is, when the American destroyer formation crossed the Atlantic Ocean to Queenston, the oil tanker "Momy" sailed next to it to refuel the warship. And the refueling of aircraft carriers at sea was completed by the *** Navy in the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean at the beginning of this year.

"With the German invasion of Poland, which ravaged Southeast Asia and India, the Americans had to pay for their previous short-sightedness. You know, last year alone, the Americans sold a large number of ready-made and scrapped transport ships of nearly three million tons, half of which were second-hand cruise ships and merchant ships, which made the urgently mobilized US Navy seriously lack supply ships, oil tankers, ammunition delivery ships and other transport ships, and the temporary remedy is to requisition civilian ships, equip them with naval officers and sailors, and integrate them into the fleet sequence together.

"Such a maritime logistics support force sailing together with a fast aircraft carrier formation can be said to be a unique idea, but also a new interpretation of the art of war, through which the Americans can at any time turn a remote and remote reef into a naval base, which not only needs to provide the navy with floating docks, but also needs to become a maintenance workshop at sea, and the cargo ship carries everything in it, such as food, trucks, cloth, toothpaste, toilet paper, etc...... All this is inseparable from the participation of naval officers and men.

"Therefore, it occurred to me just now that we can completely follow the example of the Americans and expand our naval academies from twelve to one hundred and fifty, and these new naval academies are very much in need of experienced instructors, and at the same time we are also building a 50,000-person water training center to train naval recruits, and all these places will need at least 200,000 staff, and I think even if we fill in the entire personnel of this fleet, I will not be satisfied.

"At the same time, in order to relieve the worries of French officers and soldiers, those who choose to leave the ship will receive preferential treatment such as promotions, promotions, and salary increases.

Cheng Guang was overjoyed, grabbed An Yi's hand, and said loudly: "Oh, this can solve my big trouble!" As long as I can get rid of two-thirds of the French crew who used to operate the ship, I am confident that I will have a firm grip on this fleet. And from your analysis, the secondment of experienced seafarers and officers to the foundation of the Navy and the lower, middle, and upper education is justified in every respect.

"Life at sea is not wonderful, and being able to spend time with a wife and children, and being able to enjoy better benefits and treatment than at sea, smart people make wise decisions."

Seeing that Lu Guang was overjoyed, An Yi smiled and said, "Now you want to open it, right?" In fact, for us, these warships mainly reduce the time and cost of building our own ships, and at the same time facilitate us to train suitable naval officers and crews to drive warships, but we must not regard these warships as the main force of naval warfare! The trump card of future naval warfare must be aircraft carriers, look at this time in the western Indian Ocean, the capital ships of the *** Navy are obviously not as good as the British Royal Navy, but they can rely on the superiority in the number of aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft, and the British will jump and flee!

"I have to say that in the current naval battle, there is no longer the spectacle and agitation of naval artillery firing, and some are just surprise attacks by carrier-based aircraft on both sides for hundreds of nautical miles! Of course, I'm not saying that the cannons of giant ships are useless, these ships are still very good for aircraft carrier air defense and escort after being transformed. In addition, the artillery of these warships can still play a greater role in dealing with land targets, or covering landing operations, and this is not the effect that carrier-based aircraft on aircraft carriers can achieve!

"Soldiers are impermanent, water is impermanent, we are to give full play to the advantages of our navy in various arms, strengthen our armed forces, in the future war, the role of the navy will become more and more obvious, we must take advantage of the great opportunity for the main fleet of the French Navy to surrender to us, and build our navy into a world-class navy!"

Cheng Guang nodded again and again, and was about to speak, when suddenly Shen Fengdao walked behind the two of them and said softly:

"According to the air force's reconnaissance, in less than half an hour, the French fleet will appear on the southern sea, and if any of these warships fire a few shots at the military port, there will be a big mess. Although the air force has been prepared for battle, and the intelligence department is confident that the other side is sincere and obedient, it cannot guarantee absolute safety! The so-called heart of harming people is indispensable, and the heart of preventing people is indispensable, once the worst situation occurs, it will be too late to regret it! Therefore, I think it is best for us to enter the underground command center of the base for now and wait for the battleship to enter the port and come out when it is completely safe. ”

When An Yi heard this, he frowned: "If we leave at this time, will it give people a bad impression?" ”

"It's okay!"

Shen Fengdao shook his head: "In fact, there is indeed something, according to accurate information, the plague in India has broken out in full force, from the north to the central and eastern regions, and from the central to the south, everywhere the plague goes, corpses are everywhere, and it is unstoppable...... Now that a large number of Indians are suddenly moving to the Indus Valley that we control, we have to come up with a charter as soon as possible, otherwise there will be a big mess. ”

An Yi was taken aback: "This matter is really negligent, let's go, let's have a meeting and come up with a solution as soon as possible." After speaking, An Yi walked quickly to the side of the navy and explained the sudden situation to Admiral Jinsol, deputy commander of the navy and director of education of the Naval Command College.

Kinsol hurriedly said: "This matter is indeed very urgent, and no one wants to be threatened by the plague...... Chairman, go ahead, this matter must be dealt with as soon as possible, otherwise the poison will be endless! ”

Almost two years after becoming a South Chinese citizen, Kinsol is now able to speak Chinese fluently, and An Yi has also found time to learn French in order to communicate face-to-face with the French.

Karachi, as the location of a large military port and military base built by the British, in addition to building strong batteries, also did a good job of defending against large-scale air raids and naval artillery shelling. The military command center in the port area was built on the belly of Mount Bart, two kilometers away from the coastline and more than 100 meters above sea level, more than 30 meters above sea level, and reinforced with reinforced concrete on the outside, so that it could cope with the aerial bombs and artillery shells of this era without any pressure.

An Yi, Ou Chuer, and Feng Jieyun entered the bunker, asked the female bodyguard to take the two ladies to rest, and then walked into the conference room of the command center alone.

The generals stood up together, and An Yi saw that in addition to the Navy Political Commissar Yan Kaitai and Deputy Commander Jiang Shangmin staying in the port to be in charge of the reception, his brother Li Jinlong, the Navy Commander Cheng Guang, the Chief of Staff Wei Mingyang, and the generals and colonels who accompanied him on the tour were all present, and couldn't help but smile and greet everyone one by one, and then pressed his hands and motioned for everyone to sit down, and then asked: "Who will introduce the situation of the great plague in India?" ”

Colonel Fu Mingshan, deputy director of the Intelligence Department of the General Staff, took the initiative to stand up, walked to the large map of India on the side of the conference room, held a baton in his hand, and said loudly:

"Previously, we had set up the border with the area controlled by the Sheng Shicai Department, in order to prevent the free movement of people on both sides, resulting in the plague being impossible to prevent, but what is strange is that for such a long time, no one has entered our territory. With the mass defection of Sheng Shicai's men this morning, and the influx of tens of thousands of Indians into the areas under our control, we learned that Sheng Shicai had previously deployed troops along the border line and arranged relatively dense patrols to shoot anyone who tried to cross the border. However, now there are also large-scale sickness reports within Sheng Shicai's army, many people have died tragically, the morale of the army is completely lost, and the border defense line has collapsed. All those who crossed the border today have been placed in refugee camps near the border line, where they will be quarantined for observation and targeted treatment.

According to Gai Jia, the commander of the 13th Regiment of the Fifth Division of the Cavalry Corps of Sheng Shicai's Ministry who defected, in the middle of last month, the cavalry corps commanded by the Kazakh Yakov, Sheng Shicai's confidant, left one cavalry division, plus an infantry division left by Sheng Shicai's third brother, Sheng Shixiong's Second Army, to defend the area along the Grand Canal in Rajasthan, and the remaining eight divisions attacked and advanced eastward, all the way to the Varanasi area, and after making contact with the advance of the Japanese army advancing westward, they turned to retreat to the Vindia Mountains and the Malwa Plateau in the southwest.

As early as the 25th of last month, there was vomiting, fever and diarrhea in the Eastern Expeditionary Army, but the military top brass did not pay attention to it, and as a result, at the beginning of this month, the epidemic broke out, and nearly half of the troops of the Eastern Expedition were killed in an instant, and those who survived also found themselves unwell and panicked, and asked for help from Mumbai. However, at this time, the whole territory of the subcontinent was plagued by terrible plagues, from Delhi to Kolkata, Dhaka, and Imphal in the east, from Chandigarh, Lucknow, and Patna in the north to Mumbai, Bangalore, and Madras in the south, all of them were suffering from epidemics, killing and wounding countless people.

"As we all know, Indians are probably the least hygienic group in the world, there are no public toilets on the streets of towns and cities, and most families do not have independent toilets in their homes. In India, the earth is the largest open-air toilet, whether it is New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, you can see the streets, railways, coasts, and Indians who look calm and calm. ”

Seeing everyone's incredulous expressions, Li Jinlong smiled and quipped: "Didn't everyone find that the public toilets on the street were all simple shacks that were temporarily repaired after coming to Karachi?" This was built with the help of my troops! In fact, on the way we marched, we dug almost all the latrines ourselves, and we never saw a single public toilet. ”

"No toilets?"

Zhang Yang, deputy director of the General Logistics Department, who has always been pampered, asked with some disgust: "Over time, don't Indians live in a big ***?" Can they stand it? ”

Fu Mingshan explained: "After getting the information, I was also surprised, so I found the relevant information, and I believe that I was not wrong." It turns out that there is a saying in India that where there is a wall, you can be 'free and convenient', and in the downtown area of most cities and towns, you can stick a few tiles and dig a few pits in the place against the wall, which has become a convenient place for people to use. And in the countryside, even such places are not visible.

"In India, traces of urine flow can often be seen in the grass, in the shade of trees, on the side of roads, at the foot of walls. Many of the buildings are stained with nitrate at the foot of the wall from the ground up, and many of the concrete or brick buildings have walls that look like teeth suffering from periodontitis, with a deep groove at the root, thus greatly increasing the number of dilapidated houses.

"Without toilets, the men don't care, day or night, whether there are more or fewer people, they just need to find a random place against the wall to 'solve the problem', but the women are miserable, because they have to hide behind the wall or in the bushes before sunrise and after sunset, which greatly increases their chances of being violently assaulted and even bitten by snakes, because those places are usually quiet and rarely visited. However, Indians are accustomed to this, believing it to be a sign of closeness to nature, a habit that has remained unchanged for thousands of years. Many Indians even have a superstitious belief that having a toilet at home is unlucky, so no matter how rich the family is, they will not build a toilet.

"In Delhi, every morning, many people run out into the streets, standing or squatting, releasing their savings for the night, making a stinking stench, and these feces are usually cleaned up by people from the lower castes. In the countryside on the outskirts of the city, at sunrise people run in groups into the thick bushes to make it easier, free-range pigs like to scurry between the dung, and when one is preoccupied with 'personal problems', the bushes are cold and pigs are cold. These pigs bully the soft and are afraid of the hard, and there are often incidents of children being attacked by pigs when it is convenient for them. Snakes are also a headache, there are many snakes in the bushes, and people have to keep their eyes open to avoid being bitten at their convenience. In addition, heavy rains are also a big threat, and residents have to wade through waist-deep water, bypassing the holes that the rain has washed out in the ground before starting to make it easier. ”

Seeing that everyone was stunned, An Yi couldn't help but interject: "Don't the British care?" You must know that it is very easy to spread diseases everywhere, and the British can also become victims of this bad habit. ”

"Tube, but useless!"

Fu Mingshan shook his head: "In the early days of the British entering India, a number of public toilets were also built in some cities, but it has been proved that people would rather gather around the toilets and use urine and feces to wash down the buildings for many years than squat in the toilets to make it easier. When the British saw that it was not effective, they simply did not bother, but only built toilets in British residential areas, churches, parks, or those high-end restaurants and hotels, and some wealthy Indians or literate Indians would also build toilets at home.

"There are also some people among Indians who are very disgusted with the vices of their own people, such as Gandhi, the leader of the Indian National Congress, who was a very health-conscious man, and when he returned to India from South Africa more than 30 years ago, he found the worst thing to look at was the poor state of public health, saying, 'Scattered across this land is not beautiful towns and villages, but a pile of dung. When we enter the cities and villages of India, we have to close our eyes and pinch our noses, because the piles of garbage and the stench around us are too unsightly and pungent. Regarding toilets, Gandhi said fourteen years ago, 'The toilets of the Indians have brought shame to our civilization and they have violated the principles of hygiene', 'I have known since I was a child that the toilet must be as clean as the living room of every family', which shows how bad the hygiene habits of the Indians are and how powerless they are in the face of the plague. ”

Lieutenant General Li Yufu, head of the Communications Department of the General Staff, asked: "It's just a toilet problem, the plague can't spread so quickly and have such a big impact, right?" ”

"Indeed!"

Fu Mingshan patiently explained: "This is the result of the combination of many bad habits. For example, after Indians go to the toilet, they don't use toilet paper, but use their left hand to water and clean the dung door, and then wash their left hand with water, there is no garbage bin on the street, so people can litter anytime and anywhere, at the same time, Indian tableware is not sterilized, there is no habit of boiling water to disinfect at all, and they also have the custom of grabbing rice and receiving food with their hands. That's how they usually ...... when they eat."

Fu Mingshan said while gesturing with his hands: "They usually don't wash their hands before eating, they use those black hands to go to the table to take the food they like to eat, the tray in their left hand, the food in their right hand, and the big finger, index finger and middle finger to mix the sticky meal, pour the milk and drink into it and continue to stir, and then grab and eat again." Indians have a clear division of labor between their hands, and generally use their right hand except for going to the toilet, so they are very taboo to stretch out their left hand to shake hands when they meet friends, and they can only pay with their right hand when buying goods.

"Indians like to drink raw water, and they usually use a tank to fill it at home, and when they get home, they drink it directly from a container. During the journey, hotels and hostels usually do not supply hot boiled water, that is, when you arrive at a hotel or a hotel, you will first give the guests a cup of raw water, because the water quality in most cities is not good, drinking raw water, it is very easy to get sick, but Indians are tired of it, thinking that it is their excellent tradition! ”

An Yi sighed: "When we were in southern Sichuan, southern Yunnan and Nanhua, forcibly flogging or even imprisonment for people who littered everywhere on the streets, I am afraid no one would have thought that this would be the scene in this place in India!" With so many bad habits, it is not difficult to imagine the plague in India, if nothing else, but just drinking the water of the many rivers mixed with corpses and viruses that flow down from the upper reaches of the Ganges is enough to kill people!

"People are mobile creatures, India's convenient railways and highways, the plague and viruses in the Ganges River basin are brought to various places, spread through mosquitoes, flies, mosquitoes and other organisms that breed in open toilets, and then the dead people will pollute the water source and cause greater pollution, so it seems that the plague in India will be even more terrible than we imagined.

"Now I don't know what happened to the Japanese army, it is estimated that they are also starting to be infected with plague and viruses! As the Japanese army moves, the virus and plague may spread to Southeast Asia and even China! Looks like we need to activate the emergency plan, otherwise we will be in big trouble! ”

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: Oh, this chapter exposes some of the bad habits of Indians, which are still perpetuated in India today, which is really incredible!

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