The long-term stay of 2,000 warships of two large formations of the Chinese Pacific Fleet in Singapore's Changi Harbor has caused great shock among Southeast Asian players. You must know that Singapore's navy is weak, and Singapore's open sea is almost a paradise for pirates from nearby countries.

Although the Malacca Golden Sea Route is not prosperous at the moment, there are still many adventurous players and merchants who take risks for high profits, and trade between China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and India, selling valuables such as ceramics, silk, spices, precious wood, and gold. These adventures through the merchant ships of Malacca provided a huge source of wealth for many pirates of unknown origin, and raised these pirates one by one to become fat and strong.

Now that the Pacific Fleet has entered the area strongly, although there is no war, it has strongly deterred the pirates roaming the islands near Malacca, so that they do not dare to act rashly. The area around the Strait of Malacca has calmed down for the time being, and pirate players from all sides have gone into hiding, waiting to see what happens.

The Pacific Fleet is strong, and most of the navies of Southeast Asian countries have less than 2,000 ships, and as long as they are not full of food and panic, they will not easily have the idea of competing with the Pacific Fleet.

A large number of merchant fleets of Chinese players began to frequently travel to and from coastal cities in China and Southeast Asia to conduct seafaring trade. Because Brunei and Singapore are garrisoned by Chinese players, the security of Chinese players' merchant ships is extremely high, so there are more Chinese merchant ships sailing to these two countries. The seafaring trade between these two countries became increasingly prosperous and became a hub for trade between Southeast Asian countries.

Singapore's shipbuilding industry also recovered overnight, with many Singaporean players taking fishing boats to the sea, sailing merchant ships to other countries in Southeast Asia to trade with China, and even build warships. With a large number of Chinese warships, pirates are now afraid to attack Singapore's ports, which is a good opportunity for the Singapore Navy to regain its strength.

Unfortunately, this lull and prosperity was short-lived.

Pacific Fleet is in the name of helping Singaporean players eradicate pirates. Entered Changi Port. However, after entering Changi Port, there has been no action to suppress bandits, which is somewhat strange.

Other than that. The Pacific Fleet only protects large fleets from China, and will regularly send a group of warships every day to escort the large fleets of Chinese players, reducing the chance of large Chinese fleets being attacked by pirates. If a pirate gets dazed and comes to loot these large fleets, the Pacific Fleet will not be polite, and will hunt down the pirates until they regret leaving their mother's womb. If the pirates didn't touch these caravans of protected Chinese players, they wouldn't be too embarrassed and would have passed with a blind eye.

As for why the Pacific Fleet is not interested in suppressing bandits, ordinary players may not know why. But players in China's seafaring fleet, who are well versed in the art of competition, know the trick – pirates don't just harass Chinese merchant ships. It also harasses other merchant ships. The Chinese fleet is protected by warships and has light losses, while the fleets of other countries lack sufficient warship protection and suffer heavy losses, which invisibly hits the strength of the fleets of other countries and strengthens the strength of the Chinese fleet. The shipping lines in Southeast Asia will gradually be monopolized by the Chinese fleet.

And, importantly, pirate players were quick to see this, secretly delighted, and became more and more active.

As the number of sailing ships sailing through the Straits of Malacca doubled, pirates lurking on the islands coveted it. In addition, the pirates saw that the Pacific Fleet did not make any major actions to suppress the bandits, so they finally couldn't hold back and were ready to move, and their eyes were aimed at the merchant ships loaded with goods, and they carried out a large-scale crazy looting again.

But. The pirates had a new rule of the game -- all those escorted by Chinese Pacific warships retreated for 30 miles. Avoid conflict. Anything that was not escorted by Pacific warships, nor by warships of other countries, or where private warships were escorted, were all looted.

Southeast Asia's seemingly prosperous maritime trade has been hit hard again. Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, Singapore and other countries did not have the money to hire enough private warships to escort them, and almost all of them were ruthlessly destroyed by pirates.

These pirates are from different countries in Southeast Asia, supported by players from all over the country, and roam the seas and islands. They won't be too harsh on their own players' merchant ships, though. But it will never spare the merchant ships of other countries. Once caught, the merchant ship and cargo are basically swallowed up. nbsp; Singaporean merchant ships also suffered heavy losses in this frenzied wave of pirate attacks. Although their navy is gradually beginning to recover, and the number of single-masted and two-masted lightweight warships has reached dozens, it is not yet possible to form a sufficient number of naval fleet battle groups in the short term, and there is no way to take the hordes of pirates. A small group of pirates is at least a few warships, and a large group of pirates is dozens or even hundreds of warships, which is more powerful than the Singapore Navy.

The Singapore Players Alliance asked the Pacific Fleet to help escort Singaporean merchant ships, but the Pacific Fleet rejected the request on the grounds that it did not have enough troops.

Isn't this a joke, Singapore gave the port of Changi to the Pacific Fleet in exchange for protecting Singapore's coastline from pirate ships or other fleets.

But escorting Singaporean merchant ships, this is not part of their land exchange. If you want to escort, you have to exchange something else.

Singaporean players have no choice but to exchange new things.

Singapore itself does not produce any special products, mainly because of its geographical location, occupying the most critical place in the Strait of Malacca, and they do not have many products. In fact, the Pacific Fleet does not lack anything, the only thing it lacks is food and water supplies, and food needs to be transported from the southeast coast of China over long distances. If Singapore is able to settle a portion of the grain, the Pacific Fleet doesn't mind doing the Singapore players a favor.

After negotiations between the two sides, a new agreement was reached.

The Pacific Fleet "leased" 200 three-masted multi-sail warships to the Singapore Players Alliance. The Singapore Players Alliance, on the other hand, is responsible for the daily food and water supply of the Pacific Fleet's 200,000 soldiers.

The three-masted multi-sail warship is a low-to-mid-range warship in the Pacific Fleet, but it is definitely a high-class warship for a poorly equipped Southeast Asian pirate ship.

If you have a large load capacity and bring more food and less soldiers, you can stay at sea for a longer time. The mast has many sails and many ships are fast, which is suitable for short-distance encounters at sea and long-distance pursuits. Moreover, the number of soldiers and combat effectiveness at sea are definitely much stronger than that of pirate ships. The sails are complex, the agility is not much worse than that of a small boat, and most of the seas are advantageous except for small bays.

The Singapore Players Alliance is overjoyed, with these 200 multi-masted capital warships, and with some lightweight sloops of their own production, the Singapore Navy can be regarded as a small strength, at least it does not have to be pitifully despised, even pirates can't bear it.

However, in order to lease these 200 warships, they have to take on the food supply of 20,000 soldiers of the Pacific Fleet, and it seems that they have to tighten their bellies. If these ships can protect Singapore's fishing grounds, and protect the merchant ships of Singaporean players, and make a good profit from the Sino-Indian maritime trade, then it is generally very cost-effective.

He personally handed over 200 three-masted warships to the Admiral of the Singapore player. He smiled faintly as he watched the Singaporean players happily steer the ship away.

The matter of lending the warship, he has been instructed by the little white boss.

Whether it is to use piracy to fight other countries' merchant ships, or to lend warships to Singapore, these are all things that the Pacific Naval Command expected, and it is also a gradual layout to strengthen control over Southeast Asian waters.

For the Pacific Fleet to control the entire Pacific region, conquest by brute force and force alone may not be effective. Even if you conquer the countries of Southeast Asia, you may not be able to convince players from all over the world, but you will lose people's hearts. Using the power of pirates to let players from various countries take the initiative to move closer to the Pacific Fleet has naturally become a priority strategy for the Pacific Naval Command.

Entering Southeast Asia under the guise of encircling pirates, but not fully encircling and suppressing pirates, giving pirates the opportunity to attack the merchant ships of players in Southeast Asian countries, is not only a commercial competition consideration, but also a political and military consideration, which can have the effect of killing two birds with one stone.

Interests are the most important link between countries.

Only when players from various countries suffer heavy losses from pirate attacks will they realize the importance of the Pacific Fleet to maintain the security of this region, and will take the initiative to accept the existence of the Pacific Fleet.

Like Singapore, if it weren't for the heavy loss of maritime interests due to pirates and Malaysian warships, it might not have been happy to allow the Pacific Fleet to be stationed in Changi Port.

If the Pacific Fleet is unable to normally enter Singapore's ports, it will be difficult to control the shipping routes in the Strait of Malacca. Perhaps when this place will be occupied by India, it will directly lead to the deterioration of the situation facing the Chinese fleet.

Now, the Pacific Fleet has successfully entered Changi Port with the help of pirates, and has leased a small number of warships to Singaporean players with the help of pirates, gradually tying its own interests to the interests of Singaporean players.

In this way, Singaporean players have become allies of Chinese players, and their interests have been strengthened day by day. This is important for the Pacific Fleet to gain a long-term foothold in Malacca and to receive all kinds of support from its allies, especially in terms of supplies.

"Pirates are a good thing, no wonder the little white boss always says to be kind to pirates and don't frighten them, it seems that this is true!"

He smiled and set his sights on Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and other countries. The next step may be to mobilize these countries with the power of pirates, continue to find more allies in the Strait of Malacca, get more supply support, and make more preparations for the Indian Ocean.