Chapter 487: Bright Sword
A military exercise is an exercise of operational command and action conducted under the guidance of a predetermined situation, and is a comprehensive training that is close to actual combat carried out by the troops after completing theoretical study and basic training.
There are many classifications of military exercises, but in the final analysis, there are only two kinds, one is virtual, such as joint disaster relief, maritime search and rescue, and other retreats with more content, most of which are communication between the military to increase understanding; The other is real, real knives and guns, full of confrontation, and clear meaning.
A total of more than 20 warships participating in the exercise were divided into two fleets, the red and blue fleets, and the battleship Guangxi, which had just returned from a visit to Siam, served as the blue force.
Guangxi has just made a visit to Siam, the impact is great, beyond everyone's imagination, the whole Nanyang is shaken, although the Nanyang Chinese have been away from the motherland for many years, but the blood is connected, so that the vast majority of people are sincerely proud of having a strong motherland,
China is getting stronger and stronger, and the most obvious feeling is not the Chinese people, but these overseas wanderers, although the Chinese have always been rich in Nanyang, but there is no sense of security, the colonial forces, the local indigenous people, religious groups, as long as there are some forces, dare to find trouble with the Chinese, and the Chinese can demonstrate the fat that can be wantonly plundered, but all this has become less and less with the expansion of China's maritime power.
When the Guangxi was just in service, it visited Java and stopped a violent incident against the Chinese, and the Dutch colonial authorities had to come forward to deal with all the Indonesian monkeys, which really gave the Chinese a sigh of relief.
China is not only the backer of overseas Chinese, but also the largest market in East Asia, and in recent years, a large number of Nanyang Chinese have focused their own investment on the domestic market, establishing factories, selling local products, ores, and Kimura, relying on trade. Most Chinese people are getting bigger and bigger.
And this time the Chinese Navy defeated the Japanese Combined Fleet. It has become a well-deserved overlord of East Asia, and the shock is even greater, everyone exclaimed that the Celestial Empire has returned, and the Nanyang Chinese have the most profound feelings about all this, Guangxi visited Siam for the first time, and after the news came out, the Chinese living in Siam went to Bangkok. I hope to be able to get a glimpse of this giant ship.
In addition to the excitement of the Chinese community, other Nanyang people were also alarmed, there was no shortage of warships in Nanyang in recent years, Britain, France, and the United States all had powerful navies. It also often appeared in the South Seas, but the Guangxi was a Chinese warship, and it also carried the divine might that defeated Japan, which suddenly evoked the memories of these people for the once powerful Celestial Empire, and the yearning and fear hidden in their hearts emerged together, making everyone either rejoice or panic, but no one could be indifferent.
After the Guangxi arrived in Bangkok. Received a grand welcome. King Rama VII of Siam personally came to the port to greet him, and the ceremony was beyond imagination. Countless Chinese waiting in the port played a huge couplet:
Remember the Three Treasures fleet
See China Tianwei again!
After seeing this scene, almost every Chinese soldier had tears in his eyes, hundreds of years ago, the ancestors led a huge fleet to conquer the sea, showing the divine power of the Celestial Empire in front of the world, and later generations were unfilial, sitting back and watching China be driven out of the ocean step by step, and finally became a piece of fat in the mouths of the great powers!
The billowing smoke of Humen Beach, the blazing fire of the Old Summer Palace, and the fluttering of the flags of eight countries in Beijing......
Fortunately, all the humiliation has passed, and China has once again reigned in East Asia, and the profound imprint left by the 5,000-year-old China on East Asia and even the whole world is not at all comparable to a century-old colonial empire, and China has brought order and prosperity to these regions, while Westerners have oppressed and plundered, and the huge gap between the two has an account in everyone's heart.
The king of Siam is also very excited at this time, it is not easy for a small country to survive in the world, it is inevitable to maneuver between the big countries, and there will be a life and death crisis if there is a little mistake, since the death of Chulalongkorn, Siam's national strength has begun to decline, and the financial situation has deteriorated rapidly, and Britain and France have eyed Siam from all aspects of military and economic suppression.
The Siamese people understand very well that as long as they can't get rid of the fate of the buffer zone between Britain and France, Siam's national situation will be greatly affected by the two countries, and they don't want to develop their national strength and improve people's livelihood at all, but sadly Siam has no power to change the tragic status quo, and China finally provides Siam with a third option, introducing the old suzerains of the past into it, relying on China's power to confront Britain and France, forming a three-legged situation, which is the most stable situation.
Therefore, Siam will brave the world's condemnation, invite China to visit, and also release the news of the Kra Canal, in order to knock Britain and France, China also attaches great importance to this matter, Minister of Finance Jiang Yonggui and Foreign Minister Gu Weijun visited together, Gu Weijun spent three days in Siam symbolically left for Europe, to attend the arms reduction meeting.
Jiang Yonggui has been staying in Siam, meeting with celebrities from all walks of life to discuss the development of the two countries, especially Jiang Yonggui proposed to King Rama VII of Siam the idea of forming a canal company, and hoped to go to the United States to go public for financial financing.
At the beginning, Siam just wanted to take the opportunity to beat Britain, and did not want to fake the show and sing, and saw that China was playing for real, Siam was also a little worried, but Jiang Yonggui's methods were also extremely spicy, and he immediately threw out a business cooperation plan, China will import agricultural and mineral products from Siam, and then help Siam export machinery and equipment, and help Siam build a fertilizer plant, and comprehensively improve Siam's agricultural production capacity.
Siam has a dense network of rivers, abundant precipitation, high rice yields, and is also the main granary in later generations, in addition to a large number of rubber plantations and tin mines in Thailand, these things are urgently needed by China, and Siam is now in financial difficulties, is lacking in the market, China proposed cooperation conditions are very equal, without too many additional conditions, the most critical of which is to China and Siam to join hands to build the Kra Canal.
After the construction of the Suez Canal, it immediately became an important economic pillar of Egypt, if the Kra Canal was opened, Siam can also get huge benefits from it, not only passing ships have to pay a lot of taxes, but also along the way will attract a lot of investment, get a large number of jobs, Singapore's kind of lying down to collect money life makes Siamese people too envious.
Just when Jiang Yonggui was about to leave Siam. King Rama VII of Siam suddenly decided to accompany Jiang Yonggui on a visit to China. Meet President Qiao Yu to discuss cooperation between China and Siam.
On the land returning home, the Guangxi received an order from China to participate in naval exercises and act as a side of the Blue Army. King Rama VII still had great enthusiasm for the navy, but Siam was weak and incapable of building a strong fleet, so when he heard that China was preparing for a naval exercise, he immediately asked to watch it.
China was also happy to show the king a powerful navy, so King Rama VII was the most important guest of the ceremony.
The Chinese exercise took place against the backdrop of a dispute between a Western power and China in the southern Xinjiang region. The Chinese navy acted urgently to protect the safety of the Chinese, and then a powerful naval fleet was sent through the Strait of Malacca, into the South China Sea, and into southern China.
After receiving the information, the Chinese Navy dispatched an aircraft carrier formation with the Qiqi and Yangwei as the core to immediately move south to meet the invading enemy fleet.
It can be said that the target of China's exercise is very clear, and that is the United Kingdom. And somewhere in southern Xinjiang is Hong Kong. This time it was a simulation of a dispute in Hong Kong and the intervention of the two countries. How did China respond, the Blue Army, on behalf of the United Kingdom, dispatched a total of two battleships and one aircraft carrier, and China, represented by the Red Army, mainly used two aircraft carriers.
The British fleet wanted to quickly pass through the South China Sea and enter Hong Kong to assist the defending forces there, and the task of the Chinese aircraft carrier formation was to intercept this fleet.
The Chinese carrier-based aircraft took the lead in discovering the British fleet by virtue of their performance superiority, and then the Chinese carrier-based aircraft formation was dispatched to take the lead in attacking the British aircraft carrier, and the British carrier-based aircraft were also dispatched to intercept it.
The British aircraft carrier was sunk, and then China focused its attack on the two giant ships, although the two giant ships had strong firepower, but in the face of the aircraft carrier, they could neither attack the other party, nor could they escape, it was completely a passive situation, and the final referee ruled that the Red Army successfully sank three British warships with the loss of thirty-one carrier-based aircraft, although this was just an exercise, but with the end of the Sino-Japanese war, Britain became the only country that still occupied Chinese territory, Such a war is highly likely to occur in the South China Sea in the future.
This exercise is a bright sword operation, the sword is directly aimed at the British Empire, Britain was able to go on an expedition of 10,000 miles with 10,000 or 20,000 people, and the history of setting up a few cannons on the coast to make a thousand-year-old country succumb has passed, and now it is not Britain attacking China, but a powerful China will attack Britain at any time and drive them out of the land of Asia.
Rama VII, who has been watching this exercise, has also set off a monstrous wave in his heart, this naval exercise shows an unprecedented way of fighting, the two fleets are not like knights, meet on the sea, and then begin to fire at each other, the main battle is all out of sight, the aircraft carrier plays the protagonist of the battle, reconnaissance relies on carrier-based aircraft, attacks also rely on carrier-based aircraft, and the rest of the warships all revolve around the aircraft carrier, becoming the bodyguard of the aircraft carrier.
Rama VII studied in the West for many years, and his vision was not comparable to ordinary people, and he gradually understood why China was able to defeat Japan, and the way of naval warfare had undergone revolutionary changes, and the Japanese were outdated, and Chinese seized this change, so Japan had a powerful navy, but it was controlled by others everywhere, and it could not give full play to its own advantages.
The Celestial Empire is really unusual, in the past, Rama VII thought that China had fallen, and China's situation was not even comparable to Siam, and now it is seen that China is really strong, not to be underestimated, and quietly Rama VII has more and more admiration for China, and even some fear! (To be continued.) )