Chapter 594: Level 1 Combat Readiness

Cam Ranh Bay's location is peculiar to Vietnam, it is a very important military port in the southeast of Vietnam, but it is by no means a good economic area. Because it is not a large place, only more than 60 square kilometers, and the population is also very small, only about 100,000 people. Its terrain is easy to defend and is one of the best natural deep-water harbours in the world. Cam Ranh Bay is also a strategic corridor between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and is only an hour's flight distance from the international route connecting the Pacific and Indian Oceans, making it strategically important. In the words of Vice Admiral Zheng Xin, commander of the South China Sea Fleet, it is simply unreasonable for such a good place not to be used as a sub-base of the South China Sea Fleet.

Since leasing Cam Ranh Bay, the Chinese Ministry of National Defense has allocated 60 million gold yuan in coupons to expand Cam Ranh Bay, including an airport, two 2,800-meter-long runways and hangars. A squadron of 'Wildcat' fighters, a squadron of 'Stukka' fighters, and a squadron of B17 heavy bombers were stationed at the airport, totaling more than 160 fighters. One heavy cruiser and six light cruisers of the South China Sea Fleet, as well as more than 30 destroyers, are also stationed here all year round, and the South China Sea Fleet even plans to permanently station an aircraft carrier that is about to enter service in Cam Ranh Bay. The Chinese government attaches so much importance to Cam Ranh Bay, so it is understandable how angry Su Tong and others were when the Vietnamese government proposed to take back Cam Ranh Bay.

However, it would be incorrect to say that the Vietnamese wanted to drive the Chinese away, at least the residents of Cam Ranh Bay would certainly be reluctant to let the troops stationed in Cam Ranh Bay. Since the ships and personnel of the South China Sea Fleet began to settle in Cam Ranh Bay, stimulated by the consumption of more than 10,000 more personnel of the navy, army, and air force, the living standards of the residents in the vicinity of Cam Ranh Bay have been greatly improved, and tropical fruits such as pineapples, mangoes, and bananas, which used to rot on the trees, and Vietnamese souvenirs that no one cares about on weekdays, have also been sold very well.

"Sir, this is looking for your money, thank you for your care." Next to the Cam Ranh Bay base, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl with a slightly dark complexion but a delicate complexion spoke not fluent Chinese, and handed the calculated golden yuan coupon to Zhou Zihao who was standing in front of her a little shyly.

Zhou Zihao, who was able to join the army when the South China Sea Fleet visited Kuala Lumpur half a year ago, was fortunate to catch up with the expansion of the Marine Corps at the end of the recruit training and joined the ranks of the Marine Corps, which was officially expanded into the Second Marine Division.

At this time, Zhou Zihao was wearing a well-fitting marine-colored Marine Corps uniform, with the rank of a senior soldier on his shoulders, a standard Mitsubishi military spur of a five-six-type semi-automatic rifle pinned to his waist, and a healthy wheat-colored skin that had been exposed to the sun in the tropics for half a year.

Zhou Zihao, who had collected the golden yuan coupons, smiled at the Vietnamese girl in front of him, showed a mouthful of white teeth and said softly: "Goodbye" and then turned around and walked towards the base with Huang Haoran beside him, leaving only the blushing Vietnamese girl behind.

Huang Haoran on the side flicked his fingers, threw the cigarette butt in his hand aside, and said to Zhou Zihao with a strange smile: "Zihao, you kid is blessed, this little Vietnamese girl has taken a fancy to you, maybe you can take her to the hotel tomorrow by hooking your fingers at her." ”

"You think about good things all day long, how can there be such a good thing, besides, you don't know that I already have a girlfriend" Zhou Zihao smiled and shook his head.

"Yo, I didn't expect you kid to be hypocritical." Huang Haoran patted Zhou Zihao's shoulder and smiled strangely: "Look at the soldiers around you, aren't they also looking for excitement around?" As long as you give them more money at the time, no one will force you to marry those Vietnamese girls home."

What Huang Haoran said is also the truth, the Cam Ranh Bay base has not yet been built, and family members are not allowed to accompany the army, even if family members are allowed to join the army, a high-ranking soldier like him is not qualified to bring his family. But how to solve the physiological problems of more than 10,000 energetic men in a base? It doesn't matter, there is service when there is a need, so many bars soon came into being outside Cam Ranh Bay, and many Vietnamese "lost women" were stationed inside, waiting for the soldiers at the base to "rescue" and "care".

Interestingly, the officers and soldiers in the base naturally used Huaxia gold yuan coupons when they spent money around, and the gold yuan coupons also quickly circulated in the central region of Vietnam. In this way, the influence of China has gradually increased in Vietnam with the circulation of golden yuan coupons.

Zhou Zihao was really a little speechless, but he didn't expect the serious-looking man next to him to like this tone, which really fulfills the old saying that people can't look good. However, it is not surprising that Huang Haoran was able to hand over a senior soldier of his own Marine Corps with the dignity of a colonel and captain of the Air Force Flying Group, which in itself shows that this guy is not a guy who plays cards according to reason.

As soon as they entered the gate of the base, the two of them were told by the guards at the gate that the base had entered the second level of combat readiness this morning, and all the personnel who went out had to be recalled, and the alert level might have to be raised again.

"Who gave the order to enter the second level of combat readiness?" Huang Haoran asked in surprise.

The commander of the Cam Ranh Bay base who is now staying at the base is Ren Ran, the commander of the 2nd Marine Division, but even he does not have the right to order the base to enter the first level of combat readiness without the authorization of his superiors, which is an order issued by the fleet commander or even the Navy Headquarters.

"This is the order that Commander Zheng just gave in person." The guard said solemnly.

"Commander Zheng? Did he come to Cam Ranh Bay too? ”

"Yes," said the guard, and then fell silent.

Zhou Zihao and Huang Haoran glanced at each other, and knew that something must have happened, otherwise Zheng Xin, as the commander of the South China Sea Fleet, should be in charge of the Hainan Island base of the headquarters of the South China Sea Fleet on weekdays, and would never have suddenly come to Cam Ranh Bay.

When Huang Haoran and Zhou Zihao were walking briskly towards the base, the day-to-night good-natured headlights on the lighthouse set up in the center of the Cam Ranh Bay base with a height of more than 200 meters suddenly turned from orange to red, which represented the second-level combat readiness, and at the same time, the loudspeaker on the lighthouse also sounded a rapid and sharp alarm, which was a signal that the base had entered the first level of combat readiness.

This tweeter, set up more than 200 meters above the air, emits a sound that can be heard clearly by people within a radius of nearly 10 kilometers.

When the alarm sound of "woo woo woo" floated over Cam Ranh Bay, a logistics procurement staff outside the base who was happily bargaining with the vegetable vendors to buy vegetables changed his face, and immediately threw out a stack of golden yuan coupons from his pocket and stuffed them into the vegetable vendors, picked up a few baskets of vegetables from the stall and threw them at the three-wheeled flatbed truck behind him.

A Marine soldier in a hotel who was discussing his life with a beautiful Vietnamese "runaway woman" heard the siren, and immediately a carp bounced out of bed, lifted his pants and belted up within two minutes, opened the door and rushed out. The only thing in the room was a few red bills left in front of the bed and a woman who was lying on the bed and still hadn't figured out what was going on.

After the alarm sounded at the gate of the base, the sentry at the gate immediately tripled, and in the rumbling sound of metal friction, twelve "Northwest Tiger" tanks immediately headed for the three gates of the base. Groups of assembled Marines ran toward the armory in a neat line at the command of their respective commanders.

The door of the normally heavily guarded armory was now completely open, and under the watchful eyes of more than a dozen soldiers with loaded guns, two black-faced officers in charge of guarding the armory took out the keys they hung around their necks and inserted them into the keyholes on both sides of the gate at the same time, twisted them, and then pulled them in their direction at the same time. The sound of pulleys rolling, and the door of the armory, which weighed more than a dozen tons and was half a meter thick, slowly opened, revealing the swarthy face inside.

More than a dozen forklifts that had been waiting at the door immediately drove in, and in less than two minutes, more than a dozen forklifts drove out in turn, but each forklift had an extra five-meter-long, two-meter-high thing like a container in later generations.

As soon as the elevator of the "Bang Dang" forklift was put down, the large iron cabinet fell to the ground with a bang, and two military police officers quickly stepped forward to open the iron door of the iron cabinet, revealing the neatly arranged firearms inside.

"All of them, take the company as a unit, step forward to receive weapons in turn, and move quickly"

Following the command of the gendarmerie officer, the soldiers immediately moved forward in company units to collect their weapons. The atmosphere in the base was almost suffocating.

The Huaxia Combat Readiness Manual clearly stipulates that after receiving the siren of the first-level alarm, the soldiers inside and outside the base must return to the base within half an hour to receive orders, and all combat units in the base must be issued live ammunition to be on standby 24 hours a day, and even the leaders of the canteen must wear steel helmets.

In the pilots' quarters outside the airport, a group of pilots wearing flight suits and carrying self-defense pistols rushed out of the dormitory and quickly ran towards the neatly lined up planes on the runway. At this time, on the runway, more than a dozen fighters that were originally on routine combat readiness duty had already raised their noses and rushed towards the blue sky.

The battle alarm was also sounded at the door of the warship in the military port, and the boilers of all the warships immediately began to ignite, and the gun jackets of the guns on the warships had also faded to reveal the black holes, and the officers and men of the navy also entered the combat posts.

In the command hall of the base, Zheng Xin, commander of the South China Sea Fleet, stood in the command hall with a solemn expression, listening to the information constantly transmitted by the staff officers: "The division commander reports that the Second Marine Division can be dispatched at any time after it is assembled. The airfield reported that the "Wildcat" brigade was assembled, and the Stuka squadron was assembled. Now waiting for your next command. ”

"Okay, I order, the "deterrence" program begins at once"

Chapter 594: Level 1 Combat Readiness