Chapter 1251 Second-hand Fleet

Chapter 1251 Second-hand Fleet

The East African military has basically confirmed the policy of clearing out the original local population as much as possible, but it is better to use "gentle" means as much as possible, and less killing is better.

Rumors are a relatively "gentle" method. By spreading the bad reputation of East Africa through rumors, a considerable number of people can voluntarily leave the Kra Isthmus territory, reducing the workload of the subsequent East African army.

Songkhla Province.

After the negotiation with the Siamese government, senior official Ande did not return to Lan Fang, but went directly to Songkhla Province with a group of people.

"At present, the military is spreading rumors throughout the Kra Isthmus territory. I believe that in the near future, there will be a large-scale population migration in the Kra Isthmus region." The secretary reported to Ande.

The so-called rumors are actually many facts. After all, the crimes committed by East Africa in Southeast Asia can be said to be innumerable, but the East African official is naturally impossible to admit to the outside world, and these facts have become so-called "rumors".

Ander said: "Very good, there are obviously a lot more ships in Songkhla these days, which shows that a large number of Siamese are leaving the area, which also saves us a lot of effort."

Songkhla Port is the military port selected by the Pacific Fleet. A large-scale migration is currently taking place. Many local residents have already booked tickets to northern Siam, but many people still choose to stay here.

Ander said: "Those who are still staying in Songkhla may not be able to imagine what kind of results they will face in the future. When the Pacific Fleet arrives, this place will become the military bridgehead of the empire."

"Especially those pagans with ulterior motives, if they regard the empire as the Siamese government, they will suffer a great loss."

Although the Lanfang Overseas Province is a remote area compared to the East African mainland, as one of the provinces of the empire, even if the Lanfang Overseas Province has a low status in the empire, it does not affect Ander's status as a member of the empire's senior officials.

After all, there are only more than 40 provinces in the entire East Africa, and there are less than 60 colonial governors. Ander can be said to be a proper frontier official.

At present, East Africa has not yet established an administrative framework in the Isthmus of Kra, so Ander temporarily sits in Songkhla and takes charge of the affairs here until the governor sent by the central government arrives.

In fact, the governor has obviously greater power in the jurisdiction, but because the colonies where these governors are located are economically backward and have a small population, their political status is not as good as that of normal senior officials. Of course, on the surface, the two are at the same level.

The highest leader of the Isthmus of Kra will obviously still be the governor, after all, fighting against the local indigenous people is a long and bloody job.

Ander said: "I don't know which unlucky guy the central government will send here to take office next. After all, the difficulty of thoroughly governing the Isthmus of Kra is no less than that of East Kalimantan, and it may even be more difficult."

Ander came to this conclusion based on two aspects. One is that although the local land area is much smaller than that of East Kalimantan, the population is almost the same as that of East Kalimantan.

Another reason is that the Arab forces here are difficult to deal with, because East Africa's previous behavior in East Kalimantan has spread, and it is almost impossible for East Africa to trick these pagan forces onto the ship and then kill them.

When East Africa was able to quickly settle East Kalimantan, an important strategy was to deceive the local forces, making them think that East Africa would adopt a colonial method similar to that of other powerful colonies, so that they would give up resistance. As a result, East Africa did not keep its word and immediately raised the butcher knife after the local forces laid down their weapons.

After a failure, they will learn a lesson. The Arab forces in the Kra Isthmus will definitely not accept the "amnesty" of the East African government again.

This also means that East Africa will adopt a more extreme ruling method in the Kra Isthmus than in East Kalimantan.

Of course, from Ander's words, it can be learned that the East African government has always regarded the local Arab forces as a major threat.

On the contrary, there is not much hostility towards the Siamese. After all, the Siamese in the Kra Isthmus can be "integrated" in the eyes of East Africa, of course, the premise is that there are not too many.

Of course, the Siamese here only refer to those Siamese at the bottom. As for the Siamese who originally belonged to the ruling class, it is better for them to return to Siam, otherwise East Africa would not mind clearing them out.

"Senior official, our navy's fleet has already arrived from Pontianak to Wanka." At this time, a subordinate entered the office to report to Ander.

Ander stood up from the sofa and said, "Very good, it seems that the new governor should be here soon. Let's go and contact the navy first."

Ander couldn't stay in Songkhla all the time. After all, he was first a senior official of the Lan Fang Overseas Province and had to return to Lan Fang.

At this time, from the window, more than a dozen ships of the Pacific Fleet were already anchored at sea.

As the home port of the Pacific Fleet, the strength of the fleet sent to Songkhla this time cannot be underestimated. There is even a battleship, and the other main ships are two cruisers and a frigate, and finally small warships such as torpedo boats.

There is no doubt that only a part of the Pacific Fleet is enough to beat other naval forces in the entire Nanyang region.

At present, the total tonnage of the East African Pacific Fleet is nearly 200,000 tons, of which nearly 160,000 tons are deployed in the South Pacific region. With 200,000 tons, it is only second to the United States and Japan in the Pacific region.

The main reason for the expansion of the Pacific Fleet is the crazy expansion of the East African Navy in recent years.

The strength of the Indian Ocean Fleet and the Atlantic Fleet is obviously more exaggerated than that of the Pacific Fleet. At present, the total tonnage of the East African Navy has risen to more than 1.3 million tons.

It has surpassed the United States and ranked third in the world. The total tonnage of the US Navy is about one million tons. The United Kingdom, Germany, East Africa and the United States are also the only countries in the world whose total tonnage of naval ships exceeds one million tons.

Among them, the United Kingdom is far ahead, ranking first with a scale of nearly three million tons, and still maintains the "two-power standard".

After all, the total tonnage of the navies of Germany and East Africa, which rank second and third in the world, is still a certain distance away from three million tons.

Of course, the current naval scale is affordable for East Africa, and it will not have a negative impact on economic development, and the Pacific Fleet is the beneficiary.

However, many of the ships of the Pacific Fleet are old ships eliminated from the Indian Ocean Fleet and the Atlantic Fleet.

For example, the two battleships of the Pacific Fleet are both pre-dreadnought battleships. Battleships are still like this, and other warships are even more miserable. There are even ships from the 1980s in service, but they are completely enough to be placed in the South Sea.

However, this also makes the Pacific Fleet unable to get rid of the internal name of "second-hand fleet". In fact, the situation of the Alaska Navy, which also belongs to East Africa, is even more miserable.

However, the Alaska Navy is not at the same level as the three major fleets. Its main battleship is even an ironclad ship from the 1970s.

Although the "second-hand fleet" of the Pacific Fleet is said to be second only to the United States and Japan in the Pacific region, in fact, the US and Japanese navies are far ahead in the Pacific Ocean.

If the East African Pacific Fleet hides in the South China Sea, it may still be the king, but once it leaves the South China Sea and enters the North Pacific, it is impossible to be the opponent of the US and Japanese navies.

Moreover, although the total tonnage of the East African Pacific Fleet is nearly 200,000 tons, it is relatively scattered. In addition to the South China Sea, it is also divided into three small pieces, such as the Hawaiian Islands Division, the South Ryukyu Islands Division, and the Oceania Division.

In addition to the relatively compact East African colonies in the South China Sea, other colonies in the Pacific region are too scattered, especially the bunch of islands around Oceania.

In fact, if the Alaska Navy is included, it can better reflect the complexity and difficulty of the East African colonial system in the Pacific Ocean.

At least, if the United States or Japan targets the East African and Pacific colonies, there will be basically no resistance except in the South Pacific region.