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Chapter 729: The Face of Imperialism in Nanyang (Third update, please subscribe)
Mahan's theory of sea power once said - whoever controls the oceans rules the world. It has also been said that "the power of a country lies in its naval strength and the commercial power it protects."

Because of this, developing a navy is an indispensable and inevitable option for any country interested in carrying out trade.

Because of this, in the past few years, Nanyang has been focusing on strengthening its maritime power, not only based on trade needs, but also based on Nanyang's geographical location.

Among all the military services, the navy is the most difficult to build, especially for a country that has just been founded less than five years ago. In order to make up for the navy's lack of talent, the Nanyang Navy is filled with a large number of European officers and sailors, most of whom came from the Sandoku Navy. The existence of these technical officers makes the Nanyang Navy, although young, definitely not a novice.

The Gulf of Siam, located between Indochina and the Malay Peninsula, is the largest bay in the South China Sea. Although its southern waters belong to the high seas, it is the only way for ships to enter and exit the Gulf of Siam. For the Nanyang Navy at this time, this is a quite suitable demonstration location.

On April 10, a powerful task force appeared, making Siam nervous.

Even though this fleet only has one amphibious assault ship, 7 destroyers and 12 escort gunboats, it is definitely the most powerful maritime force for Asian countries.

When this fleet from Nanyang appeared in this sea area in such a mighty manner, it naturally caused a sensation in Siam and also aroused discussions among Siam's senior officials. Although Siam also had several warships, it faced They chose to remain silent against the Nanyang fleet that rushed to their doorstep to show off their power.

After all, at this time, no one wants to have a direct conflict with Nanyang. No country with any sense is willing to face an enemy with atomic bombs.

No one wants to see being an enemy of a country that possesses atomic bombs. However, even so, the Siamese people still expressed their anger in their unique way-organizing hundreds of thousands of people to protest against the threat of force from Southeast Asian imperialism.

Well, Nanyang was successfully promoted to an imperialist power.

It has to be said that on the road to national promotion, Nanyang's promotion speed is very fast. At least in the eyes of some countries, Nanyang has advanced again!

Although this task force only has a few dozen warships, no battleships, and no cruisers. Even the aircraft carrier has shrunk, but for Southeast Asian countries, this fleet has enough power to calm them down.

It can even be said that this fleet is not worth mentioning in front of a truly powerful country. After all, a navy that has always only had destroyers is not worth mentioning at sea. But the Nanyang Navy has their confidence - I have a big weapon!
The fleet is not as large as humans, but because Nanyang has a trump card, it will not have any psychological pressure even when facing powerful countries. In addition, the size of Nanyang's navy can basically go sideways in front of countries in Southeast Asia.

It is still possible to find confidence in front of them and show your imperialist face. Besides, isn’t that what it is?
Aren’t we all bullying the weak and afraid of the strong, relying on the strong to bully the weak? This is the essence of interactions between countries, okay.

At present, the strength does not allow it, so we can only find some sense of presence in front of these small and weak countries. If you don't look for a sense of presence around them and keep pretending to be a grandson, then if the grandson gets used to pretending, he may really become a grandson.

Therefore, it is not impossible to bully the weak from time to time.

At this time, this task force coming from afar was sailing rapidly in the Gulf of Siam. The bow of the drive cut through the waves, and the high-speed propeller stirred up large white streaks of water.

The naval battle flag flapped in the wind.

As part of the recognition of the power of force, the "naval battle" carried out by the fleet is actually a blockade. It will completely block the maritime transportation of the imaginary enemy and at the same time remove the maritime threat of the imaginary enemy, thereby ensuring the security of Malaya.

Amidst the rumbling gunfire, those high-speed destroyers fully demonstrated their capabilities. While the escort ships intercepted the enemy's transport ships, the fleet radar discovered the imaginary enemy's torpedo boats - these torpedo boats are worthy weapons for the navies of poor countries. At this time, they were just sorting out to harass the fleet. When they formed a dense attack team and tried to attack with torpedoes, the destroyers immediately started maneuvering, shuttled back and forth on the sea, and attacked the target ships with fierce gunfire. The sea was very lively for a while. .

At the same time, the helicopter on the amphibious assault ship took off, and the Marines boarded the enemy's transport ship by rappelling to perform a search and interception mission. Soon they successfully controlled the transport ship and seized a large amount of arms. ——This is also the main purpose of this exercise to intercept Western transport ships transporting arms and other supplies, and to block their support for the Malayan rebel forces.

Amphibious assault ships are unique to Nanyang. In fact, the development of this type of ship in Nanyang is not just because the combination of helicopters and aircraft carriers in the "fishing zone conflict" allowed the navy to see a new way of combat. What's more important is Li Yian's reminder. At that time, taking into account the special rainforest terrain of Nanyang and the need for his own safety, Li Yi'an specifically asked the army and navy to pay attention and study the use of helicopters. Because the escort carrier presented by the British was not large in tonnage, he directly changed it to a helicopter. Mothership, also known as amphibious ship, and studied a series of new tactics.

Air interception is one of the subjects. Before the advent of helicopters, this subject was impossible to achieve.

This maritime interception exercise was naturally a great success. While the maritime exercise was going on, the B24 bombers taking off from the mainland of Nanyang also flew to the target sea area and began to attack the "imaginary enemy" arsenals, airports, ports and other military targets. Carry out bombing.

The last step was a landing exercise - in order to prevent "imaginary hostile interference in the internal affairs of Malaya", the Marine Corps landed on the isthmus with a width of only tens of kilometers and established a safe isolation zone to prevent the imaginary hostile rebel forces from interfering. assistance.

This is undoubtedly the focus of the entire exercise, which is to tell the other party that if you want to die, they will definitely satisfy you.

Finally, a massive military exercise ended three days before and after. After the exercise, the task force continued to patrol the Gulf of Siam.

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"...Our exercise lasted for three days, and Siam held protests for five days. About a million people participated in this event. They even protested through their representatives to the United Nations, accusing us of threatening their country. Safety."

As the Minister-General of Foreign Affairs, Li Guoren watched His Excellency report one by one on the controversies caused by the exercise.

"Every exercise will attract the attention of all parties. It is natural for Siam to think so, but..."

Putting down the pen in his hand, Li Yian looked at Li Guoren and said.

"That's right this time. It's aimed at him. If Siam continues to interfere in Malayan affairs and provide weapons and material assistance to rebel organizations, then the exercise may turn out to be true!"

"Is that what we need to answer them?"

Li Guoren asked,
“What needs to be told is that Nanyang’s patience is limited.”

In fact, this exercise is just a show, and it is for the whole world to see. After all, with Wyszynski's promise, Malaya will completely calm down in half a year at most. But to the outside world, the war in Nanyang Therefore, the Malay crisis was able to be quickly quelled because this exercise made Siam shrink back and choose to stop aid to the Malay side. This was the fundamental reason for the end of the crisis.

Of course, this is only for the outside world to see.

But it is undeniable that through this exercise, Nanyang is indeed deterring other countries.

An idea has formed in Li Yian's mind at this time - maybe in the future, similar exercises can be conducted every year, just like the Soviet Union's "Western Series Exercises", for no other reason than to deter, to deter all parties, Let them throw a rat-proof weapon.

A rat-throwing weapon!

When this word came to mind, Li Yian suddenly felt that strategic bombers, which were not fragrant at first, suddenly became sweet. What could be more deterrent than strategic bombers?
I even couldn't help but think of the famous saying from another world - "Protesting a thousand times is not as good as flapping the wings of a strategic bomber once."

(End of this chapter)