Chapter 609: Lin Dengwan's Banner Flying High (Part I)
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"Although the Australian army is outdated in equipment, the quality and morale of its officers and men are still very high, and we must not take the enemy lightly. Yi Damao sounded the alarm bell for the generals who were gearing up. "If anyone capsizes in the gutter, then be prepared to go to a court-martial......"
"Excuse me, will the three regular divisions from Australia looking for North Africa come back?" someone asked.
"Can't come back!" said Admiral Gong Xuetu, commander of the Nanyang Fleet, "Our navy will guarantee that they won't be able to come back......"
"Hahahaha......" everyone laughed. Since the addition of the Soviet Red Navy, the British fleet is now overstretched, and it is certainly impossible to divide how many warships to escort the fleet transporting the Anzac.
"Okay, I'll assign the task next......" Lieutenant General Lu Siyuan, chief of staff of the Military Region, took out a document and read: "The 9th Army, you landed near Darwin Harbour and are responsible for the north and northwest of Australia. The 13th Army, you landed from the Cape York Peninsula and are responsible for the ...... of northeastern Australia"
"Our air force is ready, and five divisions have been transferred to Linge Island (New Guinea Island), Toli (Dili), Fiji and other places...... "General He Haozhen, commander of the Air Force's Nanyang Military Region, said.
"The navy is fine......" Admiral Gong Xuetu smiled reservedly. Although the strength of the Nanyang Fleet can only rank third in the Chinese Navy, the warships of Australia and New Zealand are not in his eyes.
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April 22, Republic 2782 (1941).
China's ultimatum to Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia was unsurprisingly rejected.
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that since the last peace effort has failed, China will defend its interests in its own way.
"China will send overseas Chinese protection troops to Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia to carry out overseas Chinese protection missions, and we hope that the three countries will exercise restraint and refrain from any unfriendly acts. It is the sacred mission of our army to encircle the safety of citizens' lives and property, and any individual or group that obstructs our army's implementation of its mission will be regarded as the enemy of our country, and we will use all means to eliminate it......," Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhou Changyun said with a solemn face.
"Excuse me, can't China solve the problem by peaceful means?" asked an American reporter.
Zhou Changyun spread his hands and said with a regretful face: "We want peace, but they don't give us a chance." ”
Since then, other reporters have asked questions.
An Australian journalist exclaimed: "We have a population of 6.5 million, we have the bravest and most warlike people, even women can take up arms to fight, we can arm millions of people." We are confident that we will defeat any aggressor, and if your army dares to set foot on our territory, it will surely fail!"
"I'll see!" Zhou Changyun said lightly.
"Excuse me, will China annex Malaya?" asked a German journalist with malicious intent.
"Malaya was originally a vassal state of China, from the Northern and Southern Dynasties. In 515 A.D., King Bhagadatta sent an envoy to China, and then in 523, 531, and 568, he paid tribute many times and established a suzerain-vassal relationship......" Zhou Changyun smiled and said: "Therefore, we are now exercising the power of the suzerain. As for whether Malaya will be incorporated into China, it depends on the choice of the local people, and we are a democratic country......"
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Taiping Tin Mine, Perak, Commonwealth of Malaya.
Tin is the fourth most rare metal after platinum, gold and silver. Tin ore is one of Malaya's most important mineral products. Malaysia's tin ore occupies an important position in the world, ranking second in the world in terms of reserves after China. Malaysia is known as the "Tin Capital of the World" due to its long-standing world leading tin production. Nine of the 11 states in Peninsular Malaysia have tin mines, but Perak and Selangor have the most.
Tin in Malaysia was first discovered and mined by the Chinese in the mid-nineteenth century and created a brilliant industry. In the early days, the Chinese were very backward in the way of mining tin ore. Sand pump tin mining has always been an old method used by the Chinese, who dig out the tin-containing soil from the bottom of the mine and wash it with water, and then use the sand pump to a special collection ditch to separate the sand from the tin. After a few days of mining, the tin seedlings reach a considerable height and the water flow is blocked and the ditch needs to be cleared, which is the day of harvest, and the collected tin seedlings are transported to the tin washing room for further filtration and rinsing.
The most primitive method is the "Liulang method". The "Liulang method" is usually used by women from the Hakka people in China, holding a concave wooden basin called "liulang", washing tin sand barefoot in a flowing ditch or shallow river. Therefore, Hakka women in Malaysia are often referred to as "Liulang women".
However, after China obtained the mineral mining rights in Malaya, these primitive and backward methods were gradually phased out. By now, all the tin mines in Malaya have been mechanized, and the labor intensity has been greatly reduced.
Now all the tin mines in Malaya are controlled by the Chinese, the largest being Datong Mining, a public-private joint venture mining company, in which the Chinese government has the majority of the technology and equipment, and the rest is shared by domestic private companies or private individuals, as well as local Chinese.
Taiping Tin Mine is the largest tin mine owned by Datong Mining, which was originally just a barren Chinese mountain village inhabited by Chinese miners. Since Datong Mining bought the site, it has not only built a new modern mine, but also built a tin smelter, as well as surrounding supporting facilities, and built a feeder railway to Wende Port.
Subsequently, a steady stream of miners from China, personnel from various logistics service industries, made it more and more prosperous, more and more populated, and now it has become a prosperous town with as many as 20,000 permanent residents, and it has also been renamed "Taiping".
Every year, more than 2,000 tons of tin ingots are loaded onto trains from here to the port of Wende in the west, and then loaded onto merchant ships waiting there, and shipponted to China to the ports where they are needed.
In the large conference room in Taiping Town, an important meeting was being held at this time.
"Guys, you're going to do it soon! Are you all ready?" Lin Dengwan was red at the moment, and his voice was loud.
"Ready!" shouted in unison from the attendees below.
Lin Dengwan said to everyone: "Okay, then everyone will launch according to the original plan and take control of Perak." Our troops are already massing in Siam, and as soon as our side is launched, they will arrive within 24 hours. ”
A sturdy middle-aged man stood up and said, "No problem, don't say 24 hours, it's no problem for a little longer." Our people have all practiced, and there is no problem with those indigenous monkeys! Hmph, it just happens that the new and old accounts are settled together!"
On April 10, during an anti-Chinese riot in Perak, several rubber plantations were attacked by thousands of local Bumiputera thugs, killing 32 people, injuring 176 others, and burning down many buildings by the mob, causing extensive property damage.
Here in Malaya, the relationship between the Chinese and the indigenous people is not good, and this is a tradition for many years. Originally, because of the rise of China, the indigenous people have stopped a lot, but this violent incident has once again triggered the confrontation between the two ethnic groups, and the Chinese side has come with new and old hatreds. Popular sentiment is already very intense.
"Kill those damn monkeys!"
"Lao Tzu has endured these turtle grandsons for a long time!"
"Grandma's, arrest that Sultan! How much blood and sweat this son of a bitch has scavenged us!"
The crowd clamoured.
"Okay, now adjourn the meeting and start acting according to the plan!" Lin Dengwan announced the adjournment. The excited crowd immediately returned to prepare for the upcoming uprising.
The Chinese here are completely different from before, since the new China intervened in the area, they have been organized and armed. Moreover, a militia has been established, and military training is carried out on a regular basis, generally understood to be conducted for four days a month, and the basic militia has to conduct military training for more than half a month every month, of course, most of them are in the capacity of security guards. On top of that, the town is populated mainly by miners, most of whom are able-bodied young men, especially those from mainland China, many of whom are veterans.
That is to say, as long as they are willing, they will soon be able to gather a large number of people who can fight, at least tens of thousands, and organize them into more than two light infantry brigades.
With domestic support, they have no shortage of weapons and ammunition at all, and they are even very advanced, more advanced than the regular army of China.
This is not a joke, because the domestic infantry uses the Type 81 assault rifle, the biggest advantage of this rifle is that it is cost-effective, but its performance is not good, and among those assault rifles produced in China, it can be ranked in the top ten thankfully. But the militia in Malaya is different, they are not regular troops, naturally they just like to use what they want, anyway, guns are not banned here. So here is a water of high-grade rifles.
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Janis Johnson is an Englishman who is now employed by the Federal State of Malaya as Chief of Police in Perak.
Originally, his life was very chic, in Malaya, the British were first-class people, and the natives, needless to say, were talking animals. Although the Chinese are not easy to mess with now, they generally operate in their own settlements and do not like to make trouble. And these guys are very sensible, and those tin mining companies give red envelopes every year.
However, Johnson's life has not been easy recently, and since China issued an ultimatum, he has been shocked three times a day. You know, Perak is next to Siam, and China has a garrison in Siam. If this diplomatic mediation fails and the Chinese come over, Perak will definitely bear the brunt.
Johnson has been working here for more than a decade, and he knows nothing more about the situation here. He knew very well that with the scum troops in Malaya, he might not be able to defeat even the security guards in the mine.
The local Sudanese government asked him to step up his vigilance and monitor the movements of the Chinese, and he complied. But that's all, it's not your own country anyway, why do you want Lao Tzu to work hard?
"Bureau, it's not good!" a native policeman hurried in.