260 Battle for the Founding of the State 4
While the fleet was still on its way home, Yang Weiwu sent a report that after four days of fierce fighting, the Maritime Resistance Army had advanced more than 100 kilometers to the north.
More than 100 enemies were annihilated and more than 450 people were captured. The casualties of the Naval Resistance Army also exceeded 100.
With more combat experience, Li Guang also slowly gained some experience in measuring the results of battles. He knew that Yang Weiwu fought hard enough, and the French army was not a complete softie. The French defense was still quite good, and the battle was quite tenacious. The evidence was the number of French casualties, although Yang Weiwu only reported the number of French soldiers killed. Generally speaking, the ratio of casualties in battle is about one to four, which means that one person killed and about four wounded.
Since the French lost more than 100 casualties, it can be estimated that there were about 400 wounded. In this battle, the naval resistance army had a complete advantage, whether it was strength or equipment, and almost all of the French prisoners in this battle were wounded, so they surrendered, which shows the tenacity of their fighting.
What Yang Weiwu did not say was that during the four-day advance, the Naval Resistance Army also captured more than 4,000 indigenous troops. Perhaps in his mind, the defeat of the black native forces was worth not being reported as a war feat.
The French army showed such tenacity in the face of the naval resistance army, and it was completely the face of the French who were playing tricks. The shame of the Italian officers in World War I in Somalia was the same, and the French thought that it was acceptable to surrender to the British, and that everyone was Caucasian. But surrendering to the yellow race, especially the Chinese, who were regarded by the French as barbarians, inferior, was unacceptable to the French gentry. So the fight is quite tenacious.
It was the French who did not recognize the facts that brought many disasters to the French on the island of Madagascar. Faced with this situation, the French seem to be really a little confused. Yang Weiwu's disgust towards the French also came from this, and in the future battles, he was quite heavy.
Madagascar Raiders, good start. Just five or six days. The first phase of the goal set by the Naval Resistance Force has been achieved. Yang Weiwu requested that the second echelon be sent immediately.
Yang Weiwu's request is not a bad thing, but a good thing. Yang Weiwu did not have pressure in the operation, but advanced too quickly, and the elite troops used it to ensure the safety of the rear were really a waste of military strength. He needed a prepared second echelon, stationed in the rear, and he intended to concentrate all the elite forces to quickly advance south. The faster the advance, the shorter the organization time of the French army, and the less resistance the naval resistance army will be.
So when the Naval Resistance Brigade returned to Tanggang, the second echelon rushed to Madagascar.
The second echelon of the Naval Resistance Army. In addition to two thousand recruits, there was a squad of water reconnaissance aircraft - twelve water reconnaissance aircraft.
There were more than 2,000 people who went to Madagascar with the officers and soldiers. There are also dozens of young government officials from the NDRC. The largest group of people were nearly 30,000 black prisoners.
In the first war in Somalia, the Naval Resistance Army captured more than 36,000 prisoners, of which many Italian prisoners of war had been released by Hu Bofeng by collecting ransom. But more than 30,000 black prisoners. He has been engaged in heavy physical labor under the management of Hu Bofeng.
This time, in addition to the 6,000 special black prisoners of war, Hu Bofeng left behind more than 20,000 people to be transferred to Madagascar. This is an extremely important part of Project Zero. These blacks arrived in Madagascar. Almost all of them are in the construction industry.
Without a house to live in, the great cause of immigration in the Zero Plan cannot form a virtuous circle.
Immigration, which is an extremely important part of Plan Zero.
Taking advantage of the world war, the established fact of the Chinese occupation of Madagascar was formed. This is the result of Li Guang and Yuan Ye's discussion.
Madagascar has less than 3 million black indigenous people, and according to the estimates of Premier Yuan and Li Guang, if 500,000 Chinese can be immigrated. It will basically control the economy and politics of Madagascar. If there is no foreign interference, then it is definitely not difficult for the Chinese to become the mainstream society.
If there are two million immigrants, then even with foreign interference, the Chinese will become the mainstream ethnic group in Madagascar.
If you can immigrate five million. Then Madagascar is a complete Chinese country.
Ideally, if the number of immigrants reached 10 million, then in a few decades, Haitang would be a wealthy country.
Li Guang believes that a country with few people can be rich, but it is difficult to be strong, so Li Guang set a very ambitious goal for immigration. In his heart, if he can immigrate to Madagascar with 30 million Chinese, then in a few decades, it will be a powerful Chinese country. The reason why Li Guang set the number of immigrants at 30 million in his heart is because of the two great famines in Li Guang's memory, one is the famine that occurred in the Central Plains in 1942, and the other is the famous "three-year natural disaster". These two natural disasters, or man-made disasters, have taken over more than 30 million Chinese.
The plan of the Naval Resistance Force is one link after another, and there is no mistake in the middle. If it goes wrong, it's the lives of tens of thousands, if not more.
Tang Harbor had more than 50,000 Chinese before Pearl Harbor. The main group, about 10,000 people, is engaged in the arms industry. More than 10,000 people now have a production capacity of 500 tons of ammunition per month. The average person generates $100 in GDP per month, which is $1,200 per year. This figure is quite frightening, and in this era, even in the United States, the per capita GDP does not exceed 1,000 dollars. Of course, due to the arms industry in Tang Port, almost all raw materials and equipment are purchased from outside, and although the output value is high, the profits are far inferior to those of the United States.
In addition to the more than 10,000 workers, most of them are family members of the Navy, or Chinese from Nanyang who came to Tanggang to survive. There are 30,000 or 40,000 of these people, and they are also immigrants in the plan of the Naval Resistance Army.
In addition, there are two main sources of population for the Navy. The first is the families of the domestic Maritime Resistance Army, the landless peasants recruited through the propaganda of commercial groups, and the migrant workers recruited in the name of the peasant reclamation soldiers.
The second is the Chinese who fled the war in Nanyang. Since the outbreak of the Pacific War, more than 50,000 Chinese in the Malay Peninsula alone have fled to Ceylon in a period of more than a month. Tanggang has also accumulated more than 100,000 Chinese who fled the war.
All this is thanks to the previous propaganda of the Naval Resistance Army. Almost all the Chinese in Southeast Asia have received a message that if the Japanese army attacks Southeast Asia, then Tanggang will be a safe haven for the Chinese, and the Maritime Resistance Army will protect the Chinese, and the Naval Resistance Army is the Chinese Maritime Resistance Army.
In the more than a year before the war, there were many Southeast Asian Chinese who invested in Tang Port, but the number of people who moved to Tang Port was actually not large. After all, it is not easy to leave one's hometown and make a living from a place that one is familiar with, and the progress of Chinese immigration is not very fast.
But when the war came, many people began to move quickly towards Tang Harbor. There are many Chinese, young and middle-aged people don't want to transfer, they want to keep their homes, such as Lin Lili and Lin Mouzhong, Lin Mousheng's family, they picked up knives and guns.
Under the threat of war, the Chinese were forced to move towards Ceylon. Even those who chose not to leave, there were also many Chinese who sent their young children and elderly parents to Tanggang.
In the process of this great migration, the Maritime Resistance Army took out most of its transportation capacity.
Except for a handful of ships in service with the army. The other vessels, including twenty ships of the Guano Group and ten ships of the Sumoud Group, were involved in transporting Chinese from all over the South Seas.
In Nanyang, although the status of the Chinese is not high, the Chinese are industrious, control a lot of economic total, and the people have also organized hundreds of ships that can sail to the sea, and now all of them have been put into the transportation of personnel. At the moment when the nation was suffering from a crisis, the Chinese people gathered and moved to Tanggang.
Historically, when the Pacific War broke out and the Japanese army began to attack the South Seas, the Chinese had nowhere to go. Now the Maritime Resistance Army has provided a place of refuge for the Chinese, and under the trust of the Yanhuang bloodline, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people, together flocked to Tanggang.
This is the trust of overseas Chinese in the Naval Resistance Army, and this is the trust of the Chinese sons and daughters in Li Guang. Whether it is Li Guang or the Maritime Resistance Army, all the officers and men cannot live up to this trust. This trust is the responsibility of soldiers. The propaganda program showed its power at this time, and for the Chinese, this propaganda program was an attraction and a magnet. For the Maritime Resistance Army, this propaganda outline made the soldiers know the goal they were fighting for and the reasons for sacrificing for it. At a time when the nation was in crisis, the Maritime Resistance Army showed a more cohesive fighting spirit.
First of all, Yang Weiwu's troops. Li Guang once again ordered that no matter how bad the weather was (the rainy season in Madagascar seriously affected the advance of the troops), the speed of the advance must be guaranteed. In a few months, hundreds of thousands of Chinese will be transferred to Madagascar. Yang Weiwu and a cadre of NDRC officials have a very heavy task, not to mention the army of nearly 10,000 people, but facing hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land is like a handful of sand in the sea, which is simply not enough.
In Madagascar, there is absolutely no room for the slightest mistake. This is not only a test of the army of the Naval Resistance Army, but also a test of the administrative ability of the Haitang State. Although Li Guang is in charge of the military in Haitang, the current affairs of Haitang are complicated, and there are some things that you can't just leave behind. Whether the National Development and Reform Commission organized by Professor Yuan Ye can play a role has become Li Guang's biggest worry. Professor Yuan Ye is still in the United States at the moment, and Li Guangzhen does not know if a young NDRC official can handle such complicated affairs in an orderly manner.
Although the war has not yet reached the Indian Ocean, it is not at all calm. In just over a month, not only Japanese submarines were present in the Indian Ocean, but also German and Italian submarines attacked like hungry wolves on the sea. Recently, due to the dispatch of troops by the Naval Resistance Force to Madagascar, it is estimated that French submarines will also appear in the Indian Ocean. In order to ensure the safety of the route, the Maritime Resistance Force allocated an escort fleet, a Tengu-class destroyer and two Jairus-class torpedo boats (newly installed) to begin escorting the migrant convoy from Ceylon to Madagascar.
The Naval Resistance Army was not a strong fleet and was forced to divide its forces. (To be continued......)
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