The sea distance from Jeju Island to Weihaiwei is about 500 nautical miles. The sea distance from Weihaiwei to Jinzhouwei is no more than 140 nautical miles.

The ships of the First Fleet of the Renaissance Army were all clippers with a mixture of steam and sail (with a maximum speed of 20 knots), and at an average speed of 15 knots per hour, it took only 334 hours for the ships of the Renaissance Army to travel from Jeju Island to Weihaewei. From Weihaiwei to Jinzhouwei, it takes no more than ten hours.

This speed doesn't sound like a big deal. After all, in modern society, if you take a plane, it will not take more than three hours to take the three places (Jeju Island-Weihai-Dalian) together. But in the time and space of the last years of the Ming Dynasty, such a speed is not only shocking, but also can affect many things.

The purpose of the second phase of the Baath Party was to establish a military base at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, in the later Dalian region, and a base from which to support military operations against the Later Jin Jurchen regime.

The construction of base areas requires human resources first, and material resources second. Human resources were very abundant along the Bohai Bay coast in this era, especially in Shandong. At the same time, the Liaodong region itself has a large Han population, which can be used as a target for liberation by the Fuxing Army. Therefore, in terms of human resources, the Baath Party is not lacking.

The key issue is in the material.

Wang Shuhui himself has a gold-fingered arbitrary door, but he can't blatantly use any door to pull out food and materials from modern times in large quantities without any foundation. In any case, in the early stage, the Baath Party had to establish a foundation of agriculture and industry in the Dalian area. After that, Wang Shuhui was able to transport materials on a large scale through the Time and Space Gate.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, due to the influence of the climate of the Xiaoice River, the freezing period of Bohai Bay was much longer than that of modern times. Generally speaking, only during the four months between May and September each year, the ports of Jinzhouwei and Weihaiwei can be berthed and used.

Under these circumstances, in order to ensure the security and stability of the Baath Party's base areas in southern Liaoning, it is necessary to make these base areas self-sufficient.

This means that as long as the Baath Party lands in southern Liaoning, then in the first year, the Baath Party must build up the industrial and agricultural foundation in the base areas of southern Liaoning.

According to the forecast of the General Staff of the Central Military Commission of the Ba'ath Party, if it wants to ensure that the Baath Party's base area in southern Liaoning is safe and sound under the military offensive of the Later Jin Jurchen regime with a total strength of more than 100,000 troops, then the Baath Party must deploy 20 battalions, more than 10,000 troops, and material supplies that can sustain 500,000 to 100,000 people for about eight months. Of course, these supplies must also include military supplies for 10,000 troops.

And once the Baath Party landed in southern Liaoning, it would mean that the Baath Party would have to face the military threat of the Later Jin Jurchen. Under these circumstances, the Baath Party must have the capacity to carry about 50,000 military and daily necessities for a year on the route from the Yangtze River to Jeju Island and from Jeju Island to Weihaiwei.

The problem at the moment is that neither the Baathist's naval fleet nor the Ba'ath's ocean-going fleet have such capabilities. Therefore, the Central Committee of the Baath Party had to take the form of moving ants, and transport the corresponding troops and materials to Jeju Island and Weihaiwei for hoarding.

Only in this way can it be ensured that when the Terminator project officially begins, the Baath Party will be able to continuously transport about 10,000 armed forces and a large amount of equipment and materials to Jinzhouwei, which has been occupied by the Later Jin Jurchens, from May to September.

It was not an easy task to set up military bases in outside areas far from the Baath Party's sphere of influence. Even if the North Korean government on Jeju Island cooperated strongly with the Baath Party, it would be difficult to build a large military base capable of accommodating about 20,000 people due to the island's scarce resources.

In this era, Jeju Island under Korean rule was not a tourist attraction for later generations. With the addition of about 10,000 North Korean exiles, the total population of Jeju Island is currently less than 30,000. Jeju Island is not self-sufficient in terms of the living materials of these 30,000 people. The Jeju government also sends grain from the DPRK mainland every year to meet the food needs of these 30,000 people.

Kim Deok Soon was very polite to the Revival Army, and the Revival Army was not polite to Kim De Soon at all. At a price of 1,000 taels of silver per year, the Renaissance Army divided one-third of the land around Jeju City, the most fertile city on the entire Jeju Island, into the concession.

In fact, these lands can only be said to be relatively flat, and to say that they are fertile, that is completely indescribable. After inspecting the land, the Baath Party technicians from the Planning Bureau and the Agricultural Bureau of the Baath Party who came with the fleet agreed that without enough fertilizer, it would be impossible to guarantee the yield of any crops grown on such land. It is imperative to build a small fertilizer plant on Jeju Island to ensure food production at the Jeju military base.

The fleet carried limited supplies. After the five container ships had wasted a lot of effort and manpower (the port facilities under the Baath Party had long been fully steamed) to unload the supplies, the five container carriers immediately returned to the sea along with the five troop carriers, ready to continue transporting the people and supplies behind.

Don't look at the cruiser and the five dual-purpose gunboats that didn't return with them. In fact, there is no need to worry about the safety of these ten two-thousand-ton carriers. You know, although they are transport ships, they are also equipped with one Krupp naval gun of 100 mm caliber and two Krupp guns of 75 mm caliber for land and sea on these ships. And each ship also had three Gatling guns in the front and two in the back.

Although the machine guns on each ship were left at the Jeju base. However, with advanced naval and dual-purpose guns and 150 heavily armed Baath Navy officers and men, there is no need to worry about security at all in this era.

The fleet and the base, that is to say, the Navy and Marine Corps of the First Fleet and the production and construction forces that accompany the ships are two different units.

The First Fleet carries out military tasks, while the production and construction forces carry out construction tasks. Because the Production and Construction Corps is also a second-line unit that has received comprehensive military training, the security of the base does not need to be the responsibility of the fleet.

The Baath Party is vigorous and resolute. Whether there is a contradiction in the upper echelons of the First Fleet has nothing to do with the base. After all the production and construction units went ashore, the base command, which was not subordinate to the fleet, immediately began the work of building the base.

Because the supplies that came with the ship were relatively scarce, the base headquarters used a mixture of barbed wire and stone walls in the construction of the defense system.

The amount of barbed wire was insufficient, so the base had to use local materials to build stone walls with volcanic rock, the only abundant resource on Jeju Island, and a small amount of cement.

If 2,000 people want to build living and production facilities for 20,000 people, they will definitely not be able to do it. Under such circumstances, it became inevitable to hire local labor from Jeju Island. Space-Time Gate 1619

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