In September, the Shanghai Resistance Army on the Ceylon battlefield made little progress. But in Madagascar, the Naval Resistance Army achieved an unprecedented victory.

For eight months, from January 16 in '42 to September 16 in '42, the Naval Resistance Army swept through Madagascar and occupied the largest island in Africa and the fourth largest island in the world with more than 10,000 troops, which was nearly twice the territory of Japan and nearly three times the size of the British mainland.

In eight months, Yang Weiwu defeated the French and French servants, who were ten times the strength of his own army, and the battle was brilliant. Although the combat effectiveness of these French troops is not strong, you must know that the naval resistance army led by Yang Weiwu is not the most elite part, and there are still a considerable number of recruits, and in the final stage, they rely on the new recruits of the Yunnan army to achieve victory. The difficulty of commanding, planning, and organizing is also quite high.

September 18, the day of China's national shame, was also the third day of Madagascar's victory. Haitang announced that Madagascar was renamed Datang Island.

At the same time, the plan for the reorganization of the Naval Resistance Army was released. At the same time, the first batch of generals of the Maritime Resistance Army was released. For a long time, Li Guang did not have a military rank, and in order to facilitate military diplomacy, this time he was also recommended by everyone, and he was essentially self-proclaimed, and hung up the rank of lieutenant general, as the commander-in-chief of the three armed services, with a general staff (army, navy, and air force) under his jurisdiction.

The Navy established the First Task Force. Rear Admiral Zheng Xuechang, commander of the fleet.

At the same time, the Navy formed a submarine flotilla, and the commander of the fleet was Rear Admiral Tikerian.

The Strategic Air Force has been created, commanded by Colonel Liu Guobang.

Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Lieutenant General Li Guang. The command system of three divisions under its jurisdiction is called modular columns, and the column headquarters is organized at the regimental level.

Commander of the First Column, Major General Yang Weiwu.

Commander of the second column, Major General Bao Gang.

Commander of the Third Column, Major General Su Qing.

In addition to the three directly subordinate regimental units of the three column commands. All the land forces of the Naval Resistance Force will be reorganized into 16 specialized module regiments. A total of 19 regiments are strong, or more than 70,000 troops. In the course of this reorganization, Li Guang infiltrated the military thinking of his own specialized modules into the building of the army. In this method of reorganizing the army, the strength of each column commander directly under the command is actually only one regiment of the column headquarters, and it will be flexibly allocated according to the needs in wartime. Thinking about it carefully, it is quite a bit of the Song Dynasty's general and not a special soldier.

However, this kind of army building promoted by Li Guang was based on the experience of the United States in later generations, and he originally planned to modularize it to the battalion level or even the company level. But considering the communication traffic of this era. As well as the specific situation of the quality of the naval resistance army, for the time being, it will only be modularized to the regimental level troops. However, some arms, such as the jungle regiment, although they are regiments in terms of organization, do not need such a scale on most battlefields, and will definitely be split into companies in a specific combat environment. Or at the battalion level.

The modular column (division) is to realize the multi-force and multi-functional combination of the army, and it is easier to give full play to the combat effectiveness of the naval resistance force. A multifunctional army is sure to provide a battlefield commander with a balanced mix of multiple forces (heavy forces, light forces, special operations forces, and battlefield support personnel). This allows them to effectively organize forces according to different battlefield environments. And it is good for after a long battle. The rotation of battlefield troops plays a tremendous role in promoting the full play of combat effectiveness.

These 16 professional module groups are:

A regiment of army aviation, the commander of which is far more than a colonel.

Armored regiments, two. Regiment Commander Qin Zhan, Yuan Mao.

Artillery regiments. Three.

Five field regiments.

Three mountain regiments.

An amphibious regiment.

A jungle regiment.

Of course, the strength of the current naval resistance force is far less than this scale, almost only about half. But the structure has been established, and there are now vacancies in many regiments. This greatly stimulated the officers of the Naval Resistance Army in Tang Harbor and Burma. This is a clear vacancy. It depends on the merits of the war. One by one, they are gearing up to make new contributions on the battlefield.

In terms of civil affairs, Haitang has occupied the entire territory of Datang Island, but the number of immigrants is still seriously insufficient, and the financial strength is also seriously lacking, so it has not developed inland cities, or even the capital Chang'an, but has selected four areas around Datang Island for key development.

At the northern end, Vladivostok is still dominant, and in fact, Vladivostok will be the political, economic, and military center of the Haitang Kingdom for a long time. The other three options also took into account the military and the economy, either by using its seaports or by taking advantage of its geographical environment that was convenient for agricultural development, and that the infrastructure was also rolled out.

The situation is excellent, but there is a serious shortage of people and funds.

Funds need to be earned little by little, but manpower is still relatively easy to solve. Forced to be helpless, civilization could not be taken care of, and the Haitang government sacrificed feudal means - Zhulian. Native native captives must serve three times as many as in their families or tribes for three years to atone for their sins. The promulgation of this policy is not the idea of a single person, but almost a common idea of the military, government, and civilian circles.

It's brutal, but it works. Within a few months, the government had organized more than 200,000 people, including prisoners, to around 400,000.

What is the population of Madagascar? But three or four million. During the eight-month war, both sides did not care much about the casualties of the indigenous people, and the death toll was in the hundreds of thousands. Under the policy of the Haitang Kingdom, most of the young and middle-aged people of the indigenous population of Madagascar were organized.

The poor quality of the indigenous people, coupled with the language barrier, can imagine how rough and cruel the management methods are. In this regard, Li Guang was very ostrich and did not dare to ask.

Hundreds of thousands of people were organized to engage in basic development, which was indeed extremely effective and greatly promoted Haitang's economic construction. It also enabled the implementation of one of the most basic policies of the Haitang Kingdom: the state-owned land.

However, the concept of state ownership of land is not the same as that of state ownership in later China. At its core, the guiding principle is that all land belongs to the state, but the land allocated to soldiers or immigrants belongs to individuals. Cities and other land, on the other hand, need to be purchased by citizens.

Almost eighty percent of the indigenous young people of Datang Island were organized, which directly destroyed the original primitive economy, resulting in a serious shortage of food.

In two or three years, the Haitang government paid only a small amount of grain in exchange for land owned by the indigenous people, as well as other means of subsistence. Of course, the policy is preached in this way, and it seems that there is no forcible occupation, but the cruelty in actual operation can be imagined.

And then later. Lured by food, the vast majority of the natives had to leave their original places of residence and join the pioneer army on their own. In the past few years, the original social concept of the indigenous people has been completely destroyed, the tribal power has disappeared, and the weak primitive culture has dissipated, and there is no trace left. As a result, the indigenous people were inexorably integrated into the Haitang Kingdom.

It should be noted that there are many ethnic groups in Datang Island, and the races are not entirely black, and some ethnic groups are ethnically speaking. It's a white race. Of course, that's academic, just by looking at the appearance, it's just not as dark as black Africans.

Some of the brighter visions of the indigenous peoples turned to the Haitang Kingdom early, and thus formed a servant army. Due to its complexion, which is not as shiny as that of black Africans, it is yellow with a bluish tinge. This force was called the Blue Kunlun Battalion by Haitang.

Under the guidance of Hu Bofeng, the minister of construction. The pure black community actually learned Chinese in labor. But a song was sung - the African continent, my hometown.

At most, the officers and men of the Maritime Resistance Army can be called black, but the civilian officials in the government, headed by Premier Yuan Ye, are black. This propaganda method is clearly intended to move blacks out.

However, Hu Bofeng is justified in this. It is true that a significant part of the black community in Madagascar emigrated from Africa. Mozambique, across the Mozambique Channel, was the most important slave-exporting region. The Portuguese who colonized the area had been in this slave trade for the past few hundred years.

In the early battles of the Naval Resistance Army, Portugal created a lot of resistance, which aroused the disgust of the Haitang Kingdom. In addition, in recent times, Haitang has had professional diplomats. The treatment of certain territories has become more internationally customary and standardized. In the Mozambique Strait, the ownership of some islands is naturally disputed, and there are naturally many contradictions and conflicts between the Haitang Kingdom and the Portuguese side. Although it has not risen to the level of war, it is also a sword and a gun, and you come and go.

Haitang instilled a certain idea in the black people, and some of the implications of it are self-evident. The Haitang government department is indeed playing chess, in the next big game of chess.

Li Guang is not a saint, although he is not an extreme nationalist, nor is he an angry young man. However, he is still very sober because of the alien relatives of the countrymen. The prosperity of any European and American country is not based on the blood, tears and bones of other nations.

With a clear conscience, Li Guang couldn't do it in the long journey of establishing a country overseas. From this point of view, Li Guang may never become a politician.

As soon as the war in Madagascar ended, Liu Guobang, commander of the strategic air force, had already begun to organize the transfer of strategic air force units to prepare for reinforcements in Ceylon.

On 23 September, the Strategic Air Force was transferred to the airfield of the city of French India. Under the command of Liu Guobang, more than 300 airborne troops of the Naval Resistance Army quickly took control of the city of Puducherry and disarmed the French army, which was almost non-existent. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Haitang State immediately made a statement, declaring that the action was an act of punishment for the French colonists, and that the seizure of the pilots of the Naval Resistance Army by the French colonial authorities on 30 July affected the Second Ceylon Naval Battle between the Naval Resistance Army and the Japanese Army, causing heavy casualties. Thus, the presence of the French colonial authorities in the region has become an obstacle and uncertainty for the Allies against the Axis powers. On the same day, the Haitang Kingdom took over the administration of French India and became the suzerainty of the former French Indian region.

On 28 September, the Haitang Kingdom announced the transfer of all rights in French India to the British Empire.

In this bloodless military occupation, the military and diplomacy of the Haitang State were simply breathtaking. A series of diplomatic activities and military actions eventually resulted in the acquisition of a British colonial island in the Indian Ocean - Seychelles.

This is the last nail household around Datang Island. It is a hidden danger in national defense for the future Haitang Kingdom, but it is a British colony, and at this stage, the Haitang Kingdom cannot be seized by force, so it has to adopt this roundabout means.

So far, the hidden dangers of Haitang in the vicinity of Datang Island have been completely eliminated, and the surrounding islands such as Mauritius and Reunion have all returned to Haitang.

On the surface, the Haitang Kingdom exchanged more than 100,000 square kilometers of land for a small island, which was a loss-making business. However, in essence, a small military operation of a few hundred people can be exchanged for a strategic point that is vital to Datang Island and the Indian Ocean, which can be regarded as a profitable business.

A professional diplomat is a professional diplomat, and he will not be able to accept it. This operation was planned by Yan Huiqing, the new foreign minister of Haitang, and accurately grasped the psychology of Britain.

On the one hand, the British Empire promised India post-war independence, but it never let go of its greed to dominate India. For French India, the British have always been ambitious. Due to the "traditional friendship" between Britain and France, although French India was suppressed many times, and even forced France did not even have troops here, it did not directly annex it.

Eating fish is not sticky with chopsticks, and the British Empire has taken over such a large colony from the Haitang Kingdom, and there is no psychological burden at all.

On the other hand, in October, the British Empire had promised to increase its troops in the three months promised by the Japanese army when it first attacked Ceylon, but it was now clearly impossible to do so. At the junction of India and Burma, the Japanese army and the British and Indian armies never stopped, and the African battlefield was even more intense. The British Empire is now simply not free to spare, and now it is in demand for Haitang, which is also an important factor in the speedy conclusion of this treaty.

And Haitang has already offended France to the end, so it doesn't care if it offends a little deeper. In this transaction, the Haitang Kingdom and the British Empire each got their own place, and only the French side suffered from the interests. Exchanging other people's interests is the greatest achievement of diplomacy.

But many years later, Li Guang knew in his heart that India was still the most hurt. Because, under the malicious manipulation of the British, this land of French India became an independent country after twenty or thirty years, which seriously weakened India's power.

After World War II, India was divided into three countries: India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh in the original time and space, but Li Guang's butterfly wings instigated another country.

One day, Yuan Ye, Lu Zhengxiang, and Yan Huiqing, three old people from Beiyang, and the old people of the Republic of China, raised their glasses together, laughed, and cried: "Fortunately." There is also a day when China's Chinese diplomacy will raise its eyebrows and be proud, and we will make persistent efforts to be ashamed of the snow for a hundred years. (To be continued......)