Expedition to Europe

In fact, it is not just a Moon Bay. More than half of the Chagos Archipelago now belongs to Lan Fang or is actually controlled by Lan Fang. The presence of Mauritians here is getting lower and lower. In five or six years at most, the entire Chagos Archipelago will become an enclave of Lan Fang.

Lan Fang is very skilled in playing the "population replacement". From the initial Corsica Island to Lan Fang's mainland and then to the Northern Frontier Region, Lan Fang has successfully achieved a simple majority of Chinese in all territories through "population replacement". Once the "population replacement" is completed, it means that the land has become an inseparable part of Lan Fang forever. No matter who wants to split away, they will inevitably be strongly suppressed by the Lan Fang government.

There is no doubt about this.

Qin Zhiyuan will never compromise with the rebels.

The same is true for the Chagos Archipelago.

When Qin Zhiyuan first bought Diego Garcia, he spent a lot of money to lure the indigenous people on Diego Garcia Island to move away, to the African continent or the Australian continent, or the South Asian continent. No matter which direction they move to, all the migration costs are borne by Qin Zhiyuan.

To be honest, facing the "sugar-coated bullet", only a few people can resist the temptation. Without much effort, all the residents of Diego Garcia Island moved away, and Diego Garcia officially became "Moon Bay".

Qin Zhiyuan has always been very thorough in "population replacement", and the name change is only part of it. After moving all the people in Moon Bay, Qin Zhiyuan ordered people to flatten all the man-made buildings in Moon Bay and rebuild them according to the plan of the urban designer. After ordering a troop to be stationed in Moon Bay, the population of Moon Bay also increased.

These extra people are mainly family members of the troops, who are the first residents of Moon Bay.

As the route between Lan Fang and Europe becomes more and more important, the number of residents in Moon Bay is also increasing. First, there are soldiers, then port staff, and then shipping company staff who travel between Lan Fang and Europe for a long time. By 1920, the number of residents in Moon Bay has exceeded 5,000.

It is said that even if there are 5,000 people, living in Moon Bay is not crowded at all. However, in Qin Zhiyuan's positioning, Moon Bay is still a pure military base, so such a large population must be further diverted.

Where to divert?

Of course, the Chagos Archipelago.

Moon Bay is originally part of the Chagos Archipelago. It is the southernmost and largest coral island in the Chagos Archipelago. There are about 2,000 islands in the entire Chagos Archipelago, with a total area of ​​about 60 square kilometers.

60 square kilometers of 2,000 islands, an average of about 0.03 square kilometers each.

Many islands cannot be called "islands" at all, and it is more appropriate to describe them as "reefs".

In the entire Chagos Archipelago, there are only about 30 islands suitable for human habitation, and only more than 20 of them are inhabited by humans. These islands suitable for human habitation are the direction of the population diversion in Moon Bay.

Since 1920, the Lan Fang people have been like migratory birds that have finally returned to their breeding grounds. They have begun to expand northward from Moon Bay to the Chagos Archipelago.

First, there were several uninhabited islands and reefs closest to Moon Bay. One of them was only 1.5 square meters in area, which meant that there was only one place for people to step on when the tide was high. Even for such a small reef, Lan Fang paid a thousand francs.

From the perspective of the 21st century, this is simply cheap, but in the 1920s, this price was a standard "stupid people with a lot of money".

By May 1923, when Lan Fang began to prepare to stockpile supplies in Moon Bay, more than half of the entire Chagos Archipelago belonged to Lan Fang. These were all purchased by Lan Fang through the Mauritius government. Among them, there were 27 islands suitable for human habitation, accounting for 80% of the islands suitable for human habitation in the entire Chagos Archipelago.

In order to obtain these islands, Qin Zhiyuan invested a total of about 5 million francs.

Compared with the reef with an area of ​​only 1.5 square meters, this price is still very cost-effective.

The reason why the price is so low is because package purchase is considered a "wholesale behavior".

If the British government had not stopped the Mauritian government, which had become obsessed with money, in time, the Mauritian government would have sold Mauritius to Lan Fang.

It was a matter of time!

During the expansion of Lan Fang, the islands acquired by Lan Fang were all purchased by Qin Zhiyuan with private funds. In other words, all the land acquired by Lan Fang in the Chagos Archipelago is Qin Zhiyuan's private property. Strictly speaking, it has nothing to do with the Lan Fang government.

By the time the British government noticed the problem of Moon Bay, the entire Chagos Archipelago had become irreversible. Currently, there are about 15,000 Lan Fang people in the entire Chagos Archipelago, including all the islands, and only a little over 800 Mauritian people.

This population ratio absolutely makes the British feel desperate.

In the current Chagos Archipelago, the ruling center of the Lan Fang people is still Moon Bay, and "Moon Islands" has also become the official name of the Chagos Archipelago by Lan Fang. Dou Yongyi, an air combat hero in the World War who once shot down the "Red Baron", led a battalion of marines and two air wings to be responsible for the defense of the entire Moon Islands.

The "Air Wing" is the organization that emerged after the Lan Fang exercise in the Marshall Islands. The size of a Lan Fang air wing is similar to that of an American air wing. This shows the current targeting of the Lan Fang army. Considering the performance of Lan Fang fighters and the ability of Lan Fang pilots, the combat effectiveness of a Lan Fang air wing completely suppresses an American air wing. If you want to quantify it with numbers, it takes about one and a half American air wings to ensure that it will not be annihilated when facing a Lan Fang air wing.

Since Lan Fang began to prepare for war in Moon Bay, Dou Yongyi's work has been full of administrative orders, which made Dou Yongyi, who was accustomed to military control, very uncomfortable. For this reason, Dou Yongyi has reported to Qin Zhiyuan many times, asking him to send an administrative official so that Dou Yongyi can take his energy out of administrative work and organize training wholeheartedly to adapt to the newly equipped "Kangaroo" transport aircraft.

The "Kangaroo" transport aircraft is the latest type of transport aircraft newly equipped by Lan Fang. This transport aircraft can carry thirty fully armed soldiers and travel 1,500 kilometers.

If we only consider the range and not the return, this transport aircraft can send two squads of soldiers including their equipment directly from Moon Bay to the Persian Gulf at one time.

This is of great significance to the Lan Fang army. It can be said that it was the "Kangaroo" that directly gave birth to Lan Fang's airborne troops. With the Kangaroo, the airborne troops can truly exert their combat effectiveness.

From the naming of the "Kangaroo" transport aircraft, it seems that some of Qin Zhiyuan's ideas can be reflected, but this idea has not been noticed yet, and even the specific performance of the "Kangaroo" transport aircraft is kept secret from the United Kingdom, the United States and France.

For Germany, Lan Fang did not keep it secret, because in the process of developing the "Kangaroo" transport aircraft, German engineers played an important role, and even Nikola Tesla participated. It was precisely because of Nikola Tesla's participation that the "Kangaroo" transport aircraft could be finalized at the fastest speed.

The original text is in Liu # 9 @Shu/Bar!

Limited by Lan Fang's production capacity, Lan Fang currently has a total of 20 "Kangaroo" transport aircraft, all of which are now in Moon Bay.

Don't underestimate these twenty transport planes. They can throw six hundred soldiers three thousand five hundred kilometers away at a time. If it is on a local battlefield, this is a decisive force that can change the battlefield situation and play a key role.

Dou Yongyi's recent important task is to organize troops to adapt to the "Kangaroo" transport plane. This is an order Qin Zhiyuan gave Dou Yongyi directly.

Qin Zhiyuan did not refuse Dou Yongyi's request. Considering the importance of Moon Bay, Qin Zhiyuan sent Huang Fugui.

Huang Fugui had been in charge of the work of the Republic of China for some time. Almost all the work related to the Republic of China in Lan Fang was handled by Huang Fugui. Huang Fugui also became a bridge between Lan Fang and the Republic of China.

However, since the death of Huang Fugui's adopted son, Huang Fugui has been depressed. Even after Huang Fugui adopted two more children, Huang Fugui still couldn't let it go, so Huang Fugui asked Qin Zhiyuan to transfer Huang Fugui away from the Republic of China.

Qin Zhiyuan also considered that Huang Fugui needed to relax for a while and temporarily leave the environment of the Republic of China, so he sent Huang Fugui to Moon Bay.

In fact, if you don't consider the geographical location of Moon Bay, just in terms of scenery, the Moon Islands is also a very charming place.

Putting aside the reefs of the Moon Islands, almost all islands suitable for human habitation have beaches. Beaches are definitely a magical thing. No matter how desolate the island is, as long as there is a beach, it will immediately become beautiful.

The Indian Ocean climate characteristics on the Moon Islands are obvious. There are floating clouds over the islands all year round, but the clouds are not thick. They are sparse and very artistic, and the clouds are very low, as if you can reach out and touch them. With the beach and sunshine, this is really a good place for leisure.

Another eye-catching selling point of the Moon Islands is diving. The existence of more than 2,000 islands makes the sea water depth of the Moon Islands very shallow. The average sea depth is only about tens of meters. For diving enthusiasts, the natural conditions of Moon Bay are paradise. In addition, there is almost no pollution in the Moon Islands, and the transparency of the seawater is very high. If a ship is sailing in the Moon Islands, standing on the boat, you can almost clearly see the various sea fishes shuttling among the corals on the seabed.

However, all this is not rare in Huang Fugui's eyes. Huang Fugui has seen many beautiful places in Lan Fang, so now seeing the beauty of the Moon Islands, Huang Fugui is numb.

After learning that Moon Bay has insufficient space to continue to expand and survive in the Moon Islands, Huang Fugui immediately said something shocking: "No living space? It doesn't matter, we fill up these shallow water parts, and don't force those poor Mauritians. We reclaim land from the sea."

Reclaim land from the sea-

What a big deal!