I built an armada.

Chapter 529: Evacuation of Overseas Chinese, Long Xia will never give up any of his compatriots

"Yes, I understand."

After hanging up the phone, the person in charge of foreign affairs received the reply from above, but he still felt very heavy.

First of all, even though evacuation missions have been carried out before, they were small-scale and easily resolved.

Now it is such a large-scale evacuation, more than 29,000 people, which means at least 30,000 people will be evacuated from the war zone in the Keyi tribe. This is unprecedented and involves great risks.

The occupation changed so quickly this time, and coupled with the tribes' misjudgment, none of them withdrew their troops in advance.

The airport must have been bombed to pieces by now, so it would be impossible to continue using charter flights to evacuate Chinese citizens.

In the early years, other tribes had also experienced unrest and wars. After the order to evacuate overseas Chinese was issued, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately organized charter flights and then chartered ships to evacuate overseas Chinese.

At that time, because our side was not strong enough and did not have large aircraft, and our ships were not allowed to pick up people, in the end we could only use other means.

Later, when conditions improved, things started to change.

Today's conditions are even more complicated. The Keyi tribe has gathered a large number of coalition forces. It is not an easy task to carry out the evacuation mission under such circumstances.

Not long after, Ambassador Chen received news from the military.

As soon as he received the news, he rushed to the Beijing Military Region without stopping.

This is the largest and most complicated evacuation operation in the history of the Longxia tribe. As the local situation is so complicated, it naturally requires the forces from all sides to discuss and formulate a foolproof plan.

While Ambassador Chen's special car was still on the road, the heads of the three armed forces were also on their way, all looking hurried.

Ever since they received the first edition of the "Three-Step New Strategy for Military Reform" submitted by Su Dingping a few days ago, they were all overjoyed and couldn't put it down.

Although the content is very difficult, at least the path that the three armies will take has been determined.

This is much easier than asking them to grope around blindfolded in the pitch-dark night, and it also gives them a target to focus on.

After getting it, the various military services held several meetings.

We have conducted in-depth discussions for several days on the contents involving various services in the first edition of the "Three-Step New Strategy for the Reform of the Three Armed Forces", and the response has been very enthusiastic.

They were all very happy, and commanders at all levels strongly agreed with the three-step strategy for military reform and were very enthusiastic about learning it.

We already have some clues now, and the next step is how to roll it out and implement it.

Before receiving the call from Marshal Xue, the heads of the three armed forces were still discussing with the heads of their respective departments how to carry out the work and from which aspect to choose a breakthrough point and make inroads.

Anyway, no matter what, the reform of the three armed forces has already started and entered a new track.

After receiving the call and learning the specific situation, the heads of the three armed forces made a decision immediately. After handing over the work at hand to the rest of the people, they immediately took a special car to the meeting hall of the Beijing Military Region.

As soon as they entered the meeting hall, they saw that Ambassador Chen, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, had arrived ahead of time.

"Now that you are here, please sit down. This is an emergency, so I won't say anything more."

After seeing the three military leaders sitting down, Xue Shuai gestured to Ambassador Chen who was not far away and said, "Ambassador Chen, you will now explain the details."

Ambassador Chen nodded and said very seriously: "According to the latest news we have received, the current situation in the Keyi tribe is very chaotic and complicated..."

"There are at least 29628 people waiting to be evacuated, the largest number in all previous evacuation operations, and the most complicated situation..."

At least 29628 people?
After hearing such a large number of people, the heads of the three armed forces were all stunned for a moment.

They also didn't expect that there would be so many people waiting to be evacuated from the war zone.

Although today's air force is completely different from what it was back then and has made tremendous progress, with a lot of large transport aircraft, even if it takes a chartered route, it is not impossible with the escort of its own air force fighter jets.

However, the current situation is so complicated that it will be very difficult to implement this plan.

Even if a 300-seat passenger plane is used, at least 100 such aircraft will be needed in total. It is obvious that this plan is not feasible and was directly rejected.

If the airport had not been bombed before the war, it might have been possible to carry out this operation, but it is obviously not possible now that we are in a state of war.

It is not realistic to let the army carry out the mission of evacuating overseas Chinese. Not to mention whether the army can get through, even if the Keyi tribe agrees, the army has no way to get through. It is impossible to drive a military truck all the way.

That would be such a huge scale, it would be really scary, right?

Besides, there are thousands of mountains and rivers, and there is also the ocean.

After much deliberation, the army chief Deng Zhenhua, the air force chief Ma Zhengbang, and the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Chen all looked at the navy chief Liu Huaming.

Now, faced with such a large-scale evacuation operation, it seems that only the navy can do it.

"Before you came, I had a brief discussion with Ambassador Chen."

Xue Shuai also looked at Liu Huaming who was not far away, "At present, only the navy can be competent for this arduous task of evacuating overseas Chinese."

Upon hearing this, Liu Huaming frowned visibly. He was of course well aware that at the moment only the navy could undertake such a large-scale evacuation mission.

But at the same time, the navy is also facing a big practical problem.

"Xue Shuai, I have a question."

Liu Huaming took a deep breath and spoke directly.

"What's the problem? Tell me."

Xue Shuai said bluntly.

Everyone looked curious.

"Everyone, please come with me."

Under Liu Huaming's guidance, everyone came to the Blue Star map.

Pointing at the map, Liu Huaming began to tell the story directly.

"Look, if we evacuate the Chinese from the western part of the Keyi tribe, we will be separated by the Xuli tribe. Although we have diplomatic relations with them, the distance is too long to ensure that everything goes well."

"Besides, there is the Ertu tribe in the north and the Judah tribe in the south. If they do something secretly, we will not be able to evacuate our citizens safely."

"The only feasible route at the moment is the southern route. We can go directly through the Red Sea. But in this case, we need to negotiate with the Tesha tribe and the Persian tribe to ensure the safety of the passage."

At this point, he paused slightly.

"We have a pretty good relationship with the Tesha tribe. They have purchased arms from us several times before. I believe they will agree to let us pass through their territory."

"In addition, the Persian tribe will also agree."

"My suggestion is that if those overseas Chinese are closer to the Tesha tribe, they can first pass through the Tesha tribe and settle there, and then we will go over to pick them up."

“On this road, overseas Chinese will have to cross the Kovi tribe.”

Then, Liu Huaming pointed to the Kewi tribe and said seriously, "The Kewi tribe has been taken over by the Keyi tribe, and is now being counterattacked by the coalition forces. The current situation is the most chaotic, and it is also very difficult to go this way." "But according to past examples, crossing the Kewi tribe is the most time-saving."

"It would be most direct and effective to pick them up from the Red Sea port east of the Kwe tribe."

“But there’s a bigger problem here…”

Liu Huaming's voice gradually became low and he could no longer speak.

"If you have something to say, just say it directly. Don't ask for bigger questions."

Deng Zhenhua urged impatiently.

"It's very convenient to pick someone up through this sea area."

"Have you all forgotten? This sea area is also where the coalition forces led by the Eagle Tribe are stationed."

"They have deployed nine aircraft carrier fleets here, plus some other warships, multi-purpose supply ships, and submarines, totaling more than 9 ships."

"We are going to evacuate the Chinese nationals from here, and the difficulty is enormous."

After listening to the analysis, everyone's mood suddenly became heavy.

If these tribes have a very close relationship with the Longxia tribe, there is no need to send the navy to pick up the people. It is enough to just say hello and then charter a boat to transfer the people away.

But the key point is that they are members of the Western Tribal Alliance.

The other tribes can still be negotiated, but the Eagle Tribe is difficult to deal with.

After all, a conflict broke out between the two sides in the eastern waters of Longxia a few months ago, and the Eagle Tribe did not gain any advantage at that time.

If by any chance they take the opportunity to cause trouble, no one can guarantee that the naval ships sent there will not be stuck in it and unable to get out.

Once you encounter such a situation, it will be very embarrassing.

For this reason, Ambassador Chen was stunned for a moment.

He had not thought of this key factor before, because he was too anxious and wanted to withdraw those overseas Chinese as soon as possible.

After thinking about it carefully, he realized that just as Liu Huaming had analyzed, the difficulty of this evacuation operation was far beyond his imagination.

I'm afraid there is no such precedent in the world.

Even if they wanted to sneak in quietly and get in and out quickly, it would be extremely difficult. After all, the sky above that area was filled with reconnaissance planes of the Eagle Tribe, and there were also satellites in space monitoring it.

I guess we’ll be discovered immediately once we enter that sea area.

In this way, the stealth advantage of the 052-ton destroyer and the D on radar will be greatly reduced.

Without waiting for anyone to speak, Liu Huaming continued, "If we split our forces into two groups, the navy will be in even greater danger. The enemy forces might take advantage of the chaos to devour part of our naval forces."

"Then when we went to find them, they insisted that it wasn't us who did it. There was nothing we could do."

"Therefore, I suggest that if the overseas Chinese can cross the border and reach the Tesha tribe, then we can talk directly with the Tesha tribe and directly charter a plane to pick up those overseas Chinese."

As soon as he finished speaking, Xue Shuai said directly: "The Eagle Tribe has also deployed several military positions along those borders."

"The possibility of going directly across the border is too small."

These words undoubtedly denied the method of crossing the border and taking a charter flight.

Everyone sat down and studied the map carefully. Soon they discovered helplessly that the Keyi tribe had been surrounded by the coalition forces like an iron barrel and had been surrounded for a long time.

We wanted to evacuate the overseas Chinese, but found that there was no place to stay.

Everyone also felt a great headache.

Unexpectedly, the first and largest-scale evacuation in the history of the Longxia tribe happened to coincide with the worst situation.

In the past, when there were melees between warlords, we could always ensure that the relevant sea areas were safe by sending warships directly forward.

Now the coalition led by the Eagle Tribe is launching an attack on the Keyi Tribe, and there is no safe place.

"Now we can only negotiate with them first."

Liu Huaming took a deep breath and said seriously, "If we don't negotiate with them, I'm afraid our fleet won't be able to get through safely."

Deng Zhenhua added, "We also need to negotiate with the Keyi tribe and ask them to give overseas Chinese a certain degree of leniency in their travel policies. For example, passport issues and procedural issues need to be discussed in advance."

"Otherwise, once we pass through, the speed of evacuation will become a big problem."

Ma Zhengbang then added: "In this case, we will have to negotiate with the tribes surrounding the Keyi tribe."

Seeing that they had basically reached a consensus, Xue Shuai immediately decided: "Then next, we will split our forces into two groups."

"I was responsible for negotiating with the tribes along the way and tried my best to complete the preliminary preparations."

"The other team will be responsible for the relevant preparations."

This preparation naturally refers to the navy, so Liu Huaming also knew that Xue Shuai's last words were meant for him.

The success or failure of such a large-scale evacuation operation depends on whether the navy can withstand the tremendous pressure.

Next, Xue Shuai spoke again.

"The only thing we are asked to do is never give up on any of our compatriots."

"Therefore, we must bring back all the stranded compatriots no matter what."

"We're going to take them home!"

Hearing this, everyone was startled and their expressions became extremely serious.

Taking them home may seem like just five simple words, but the responsibility and significance they imply are so profound and will have a huge impact.

Moreover, it was their own tribe that sent troops to pick them up, rather than asking a third-party tribe to charter a plane or a boat!
This is what we can say and do with confidence only after our country becomes prosperous and strong!
Of course, facing the current severe situation in the central region, large-scale evacuation of overseas Chinese is an extremely difficult task and action.

Xue Shuai then looked at Liu Huaming again and asked directly.

"How many warships can your navy deploy this time?"

Liu Huaming knew very well that Marshal Xue was not asking how many warships were needed to bring back nearly 30,000 people, but how much strength the navy could muster to withstand the huge pressure brought by the coalition forces led by the Eagle Tribe in the face of the current dilemma!
After pondering for a while, Liu Huaming spoke.

"At present, our navy can deploy three 3-ton destroyers and 052 16D destroyers."

"If necessary, we can also deploy two Type 052s, submarines, and multi-purpose ships. In short, we can form a large fleet."

Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered that the Varyag aircraft carrier that Cheng Yiqiang was repairing was almost finished and would be launched in the next few days.

(End of this chapter)