Chapter 1704: Fort Construction Site
The military base under construction where the prisoners were taken and the military dock not far from here are actually two construction sites under the same project, and the Sing Tao garrison has planned several amphibious military bases in the direction of the Johor Strait since the end of the war the previous year, and this is one of them.
Sing Tao is separated from the Malay Peninsula to the north by a narrow Straits of Johor, the narrowest point is just over 1,000 meters, and it has been facing military pressure from the state of Johor on the other side of the strait all year round. Although the Johor army has been proven to be far from being the opponent of the Haihan army in the 1635 confrontation, the Haihan does not dare to be too big, if the other party crosses the line next time, the Haihan may not be able to rely on the limited depth of Sing Tao to maneuver with the opponent. Therefore, under Roger's strong insistence, the Sing Tao authorities built strongholds in several strategic points in the direction of the Straits of Johor in order to implement his tactical idea of "repelling the enemy from the coastline".
Of course, judging from the current size of the garrison in Sing Tao, it is still very difficult to fully implement this tactical thinking, and the coastline of the Strait of Johor is 100 miles long, and even if the garrison camp is moved to the north of Sing Tao, it will not be able to implement an airtight defense of the entire strait. Roger's real purpose is not only to strengthen the defense of the border, but also to apply to the Ministry of Defense for more military budgets and the opportunity to expand the size of the garrison.
After the Battle of Manila, the Ministry of Defense officially granted this unit the establishment of the "South China Sea Independent Battalion", along with the nationality of soldiers of other ethnic groups that had been pending in the past. In the future, all non-Han soldiers in this unit, such as Marcus and Dulu, will be treated in accordance with the regular army, and will automatically obtain Haihan nationality and be assessed according to the military merits they have received in the past. The corresponding systems of weaponry, material supply, military budget, personnel training and promotion, etc., are all in line with the regular army, and in the future it will no longer be a militia force with an unclear position and an ambiguous identity.
This is really the biggest worry for Roger, who wants to make a world in the South China Sea. These soldiers under him may work hard for a living at first, but after a long time, if there is no official name and no reasonable channel for promotion, the people's hearts will soon or soon disperse. And Roger himself has no intention of raising a private army, after all, almost all the weapons and equipment of the Sing Tao garrison come from domestic supplies, if he wants to have any other ideas, the country can cut off the supply in minutes, so that his troops become ornaments, so after the troops formed combat effectiveness, he has been trying to solve the establishment problem for this army, and now he has finally got what he wants.
The next thing the Sing Tao authorities need to do is to turn the island into the largest military base of the Haihan Kingdom in the southern part of the South China Sea. Although Roger and Tan Juren still have some disagreement on this goal, the base project that has already started must still be completed. In Roger's view, these strongholds were not only forward fortresses to defend against the northern enemy, but also bases for future marches across the Straits of Johor to the north, so even if he could not come to supervise the work in person, he would ask his deputy Nguyen Phu to patrol the construction sites along the northern coastline, and by the way, he would also visit the nearby hard labor camps to ensure that there was a stable number of hard labor available at each construction site.
In fact, due to the limited population of Sing Tao, there is a labor shortage at various construction sites, so these prisoners in the hard labor camp have to endure high-intensity labor tasks. Even a cell boss like Lin Xingsui, who has been taken care of by the authorities, is also inevitably involved in the same work as other prisoners, and does not have much privilege to enjoy.
After coming to the construction site, Qin Huacheng noticed that they were not the only ones here, there were at least two or three hundred young men busy on the construction site. Judging from the number of armed guards around, these people probably have the same identities as themselves, all of them are prisoners from nearby hard labor camps.
And the so-called bunker being built here, Qin Huacheng felt that this appearance was a little inexplicably familiar. Such concave polygonal fortifications were also found in Manila, and the Spaniards called them bastions. In the 16th century, during the Dutch War of Independence, the Spanish army suffered enough in the Netherlands due to the construction of a large number of fortresses.
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The military base under construction where the prisoners were taken and the military dock not far from here are actually two construction sites under the same project, and the Sing Tao garrison has planned several amphibious military bases in the direction of the Johor Strait since the end of the war the previous year, and this is one of them.
Sing Tao is separated from the Malay Peninsula to the north by a narrow Straits of Johor, the narrowest point is just over 1,000 meters, and it has been facing military pressure from the state of Johor on the other side of the strait all year round. Although the Johor army has been proven to be far from being the opponent of the Haihan army in the 1635 confrontation, the Haihan does not dare to be too big, if the other party crosses the line next time, the Haihan may not be able to rely on the limited depth of Sing Tao to maneuver with the opponent. Therefore, under Roger's strong insistence, the Sing Tao authorities built strongholds in several strategic points in the direction of the Straits of Johor in order to implement his tactical idea of "repelling the enemy from the coastline".
Of course, judging from the current size of the garrison in Sing Tao, it is still very difficult to fully implement this tactical thinking, and the coastline of the Strait of Johor is 100 miles long, and even if the garrison camp is moved to the north of Sing Tao, it will not be able to implement an airtight defense of the entire strait. Roger's real purpose is not only to strengthen the defense of the border, but also to apply to the Ministry of Defense for more military budgets and the opportunity to expand the size of the garrison.
After the Battle of Manila, the Ministry of Defense officially granted this unit the establishment of the "South China Sea Independent Battalion", along with the nationality of soldiers of other ethnic groups that had been pending in the past. In the future, all non-Han soldiers in this unit, such as Marcus and Dulu, will be treated in accordance with the regular army, and will automatically obtain Haihan nationality and be assessed according to the military merits they have received in the past. The corresponding systems of weaponry, material supply, military budget, personnel training and promotion, etc., are all in line with the regular army, and in the future it will no longer be a militia force with an unclear position and an ambiguous identity.
This is really the biggest worry for Roger, who wants to make a world in the South China Sea. These soldiers under him may work hard for a living at first, but after a long time, if there is no official name and no reasonable channel for promotion, the people's hearts will soon or soon disperse. And Roger himself has no intention of raising a private army, after all, almost all the weapons and equipment of the Sing Tao garrison come from domestic supplies, if he wants to have any other ideas, the country can cut off the supply in minutes, so that his troops become ornaments, so after the troops formed combat effectiveness, he has been trying to solve the establishment problem for this army, and now he has finally got what he wants.
The next thing the Sing Tao authorities need to do is to turn the island into the largest military base of the Haihan Kingdom in the southern part of the South China Sea. Although Roger and Tan Juren still have some disagreement on this goal, the base project that has already started must still be completed. In Roger's view, these strongholds were not only forward fortresses to defend against the northern enemy, but also bases for future marches across the Straits of Johor to the north, so even if he could not come to supervise the work in person, he would ask his deputy Nguyen Phu to patrol the construction sites along the northern coastline, and by the way, he would also visit the nearby hard labor camps to ensure that there was a stable number of hard labor available at each construction site.
In fact, due to the limited population of Sing Tao, there is a labor shortage at various construction sites, so these prisoners in the hard labor camp have to endure high-intensity labor tasks. Even a cell boss like Lin Xingsui, who has been taken care of by the authorities, is also inevitably involved in the same work as other prisoners, and does not have much privilege to enjoy.
After coming to the construction site, Qin Huacheng noticed that they were not the only ones here, there were at least two or three hundred young men busy on the construction site. Judging from the number of armed guards around, these people probably have the same identities as themselves, all of them are prisoners from nearby hard labor camps.
And the so-called bunker being built here, Qin Huacheng felt that this appearance was a little inexplicably familiar. Such concave polygonal fortifications were also found in Manila, and the Spaniards called them bastions. In the 16th century, during the Dutch War of Independence, the Spanish army suffered enough in the Netherlands due to the construction of a large number of fortresses. The military base under construction where the prisoners were taken and the military dock not far from here are actually two construction sites under the same project, and the Sing Tao garrison has planned several amphibious military bases in the direction of the Johor Strait since the end of the war the previous year, and this is one of them.
Sing Tao is separated from the Malay Peninsula to the north by a narrow Straits of Johor, the narrowest point is just over 1,000 meters, and it has been facing military pressure from the state of Johor on the other side of the strait all year round. Although the Johor army has been proven to be far from being the opponent of the Haihan army in the 1635 confrontation, the Haihan does not dare to be too big, if the other party crosses the line next time, the Haihan may not be able to rely on the limited depth of Sing Tao to maneuver with the opponent. Therefore, under Roger's strong insistence, the Sing Tao authorities built strongholds in several strategic points in the direction of the Straits of Johor in order to implement his tactical idea of "repelling the enemy from the coastline".
Of course, judging from the current size of the garrison in Sing Tao, it is still very difficult to fully implement this tactical thinking, and the coastline of the Strait of Johor is 100 miles long, and even if the garrison camp is moved to the north of Sing Tao, it will not be able to implement an airtight defense of the entire strait. Roger's real purpose is not only to strengthen the defense of the border, but also to apply to the Ministry of Defense for more military budgets and the opportunity to expand the size of the garrison.
After the Battle of Manila, the Ministry of Defense officially granted this unit the establishment of the "South China Sea Independent Battalion", along with the nationality of soldiers of other ethnic groups that had been pending in the past. In the future, all non-Han soldiers in this unit, such as Marcus and Dulu, will be treated in accordance with the regular army, and will automatically obtain Haihan nationality and be assessed according to the military merits they have received in the past. The corresponding systems of weaponry, material supply, military budget, personnel training and promotion, etc., are all in line with the regular army, and in the future it will no longer be a militia force with an unclear position and an ambiguous identity.
This is really the biggest worry for Roger, who wants to make a world in the South China Sea. These soldiers under him may work hard for a living at first, but after a long time, if there is no official name and no reasonable channel for promotion, the people's hearts will soon or soon disperse. And Roger himself has no intention of raising a private army, after all, almost all the weapons and equipment of the Sing Tao garrison come from domestic supplies, if he wants to have any other ideas, the country can cut off the supply in minutes, so that his troops become ornaments, so after the troops formed combat effectiveness, he has been trying to solve the establishment problem for this army, and now he has finally got what he wants.
The next thing the Sing Tao authorities need to do is to turn the island into the largest military base of the Haihan Kingdom in the southern part of the South China Sea. Although Roger and Tan Juren still have some disagreement on this goal, the base project that has already started must still be completed. In Roger's view, these strongholds were not only forward fortresses to defend against the northern enemy, but also bases for future marches across the Straits of Johor to the north, so even if he could not come to supervise the work in person, he would ask his deputy Nguyen Phu to patrol the construction sites along the northern coastline, and by the way, he would also visit the nearby hard labor camps to ensure that there was a stable number of hard labor available at each construction site.
In fact, due to the limited population of Sing Tao, there is a labor shortage at various construction sites, so these prisoners in the hard labor camp have to endure high-intensity labor tasks. Even a cell boss like Lin Xingsui, who has been taken care of by the authorities, is also inevitably involved in the same work as other prisoners, and does not have much privilege to enjoy.
After coming to the construction site, Qin Huacheng noticed that they were not the only ones here, there were at least two or three hundred young men busy on the construction site. Judging from the number of armed guards around, these people probably have the same identities as themselves, all of them are prisoners from nearby hard labor camps.
And the so-called bunker being built here, Qin Huacheng felt that this appearance was a little inexplicably familiar. Such concave polygonal fortifications were also found in Manila, and the Spaniards called them bastions. In the 16th century, during the Dutch War of Independence, the Spanish army suffered enough in the Netherlands due to the construction of a large number of fortresses.
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