Chapter five hundred and ninety-four first-level combat readiness
The location of Cam Ranh Bay is very strange for Vietnam. It is a very important military port in southeastern Vietnam, but it is by no means a good economic area. Because it is not large, only more than 60 square kilometers.
The population is also very small, only about 100,000 people. Its terrain is difficult and easy to defend, and it is one of the best natural deep-water harbors in the world. Cam Ranh Bay is also a strategic passage between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and is only a short distance away from the international shipping routes connecting the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
The one-hour voyage has an important strategic position. In the words of Lieutenant General Zheng Xin, commander of the South China Sea Fleet: It is simply unreasonable for such a good place not to be used as a sub-base of the South China Sea Fleet.
Since leasing Cam Ranh Bay, the Chinese Ministry of National Defense has allocated 60 million gold yuan in coupons to expand Cam Ranh Bay, including an airport, two 2,800-meter-long runways and hangars. A Wildcat fighter jet was stationed at the airport.
The group, a Stuka fighter squadron and a B17 heavy bomber squadron, totaling more than 160 fighters. One heavy cruiser, six light cruisers and more than 30 destroyers of the South China Sea Fleet are also stationed here all year round.
It is even planned to station an aircraft carrier that is about to be commissioned in Cam Ranh Bay. The Chinese government attaches so much importance to Cam Ranh Bay, so it is understandable that Su Tong and others were furious when the Vietnamese government proposed to take back Cam Ranh Bay.
However, it is not correct to say that the Vietnamese want to drive away the Chinese. At least the residents near Cam Ranh Bay are definitely reluctant to leave the troops stationed in Cam Ranh Bay. Since the ships and personnel of the South China Sea Fleet began to station in Cam Ranh Bay, more and more people have been stationed in Cam Ranh Bay.
Stimulated by the consumption of more than 10,000 navy, land and air force personnel, the living standards of residents near Cam Ranh Bay have been greatly improved. Tropical fruits such as pineapples, mangoes and bananas that used to rot on the trees are Vietnamese local specialties that no one cares about in peacetime.
It also has a good market. Not only the officers and soldiers at the base like to eat it, but many officers and soldiers will also take some back home to give their relatives and friends a try when they return home.
"Sir, this is your money, thank you for your concern." Next to the Cam Ranh Bay base, a 16 or 17-year-old girl with a slightly dark complexion but a delicate face spoke not very fluent Chinese and was a little shy.
She handed the calculated gold yuan coupons to Zhou Zihao who was standing in front of her.
Zhou Zihao, who was able to join the army when the South China Sea Fleet visited Kuala Lumpur six months ago, was lucky enough to catch up with the expansion of the Marine Corps at the end of the recruit training and joined the ranks of the Marine Corps, which was officially expanded into the Second Marine Division.
At this time, Zhou Zihao was wearing a fitted marine-colored Marine Corps uniform, with the rank of private on his shoulders, and a standard Mitsubishi military spur of a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle on his waist.
The healthy, wheat-colored skin that had lasted for half a year looked so heroic, and it had long since lost the fair-skinned scholar look it had when he was in Nanyang.
After collecting the gold yuan coupons, Zhou Zihao smiled slightly at the little Vietnamese girl in front of him, showed his white teeth and said softly: "Goodbye" before turning around and walking towards the base with Huang Haoran beside him, leaving only a blushing face behind.
Vietnamese little girl.
Huang Haoran on the side flicked his fingers and threw the cigarette butt aside. He smiled strangely and said to Zhou Zihao: "Zihao, you are lucky. This little Vietnamese girl is probably attracted to you. Maybe you will hook her tomorrow."
Just hook your fingers and you can take her to the hotel."
"You think about good things all day long, how can such a good thing happen? Besides, it's not like you don't know that I already have a girlfriend." Zhou Zihao shook his head with a smile.
"Oh, I didn't expect you to be so pretentious." Huang Haoran patted Zhou Zihao's shoulder and said with a strange smile: "Look at the soldiers around you, aren't they also looking for excitement around you? Just give them more time.
Money is all that matters, and no one is forcing you to marry those Vietnamese girls home."
What Huang Haoran said is true. The construction of the Cam Ranh Bay base has not been completed yet, and family members are not allowed to accompany the army. Even if family members are allowed to accompany the army, superior soldiers like him are not qualified to bring their family members. But there are more than 10,000 energetic soldiers in one base.
It doesn’t matter how men’s physical problems are solved. Services will be provided if needed. So many bars soon emerged outside Cam Ranh Bay, where many Vietnamese “slip women” were stationed, waiting for the “rescue” of base soldiers.
and "care".
What’s interesting is that the officers and soldiers in the base naturally use China’s gold yuan coupons when spending money around them, and gold yuan coupons are also rapidly circulating in central Vietnam. In this way, China’s influence is slowly increasing in Vietnam with the circulation of gold yuan coupons.
Got up.
Zhou Zihao was really speechless. He didn't expect that the serious-looking man next to him actually liked this tune. This really goes with the old saying that people should not be judged by their appearance. But it's not surprising when you think about it. Huang Haoran can be an air force officer.
The fact that the Colonel and Captain of the Flying Group had to deal with him, a superior soldier in the Marine Corps, shows that this guy is not a guy who plays his cards according to the rules.
As soon as they entered the gate of the base, the two of them were told by the guard at the gate that the base had entered Level 2 combat readiness this morning, that all personnel who had gone out would be recalled, and that the alert level might be raised again.
"Who gave the order to enter the second level of combat readiness?" Huang Haoran asked in surprise.
The commander of the Cam Ranh Bay base currently staying at the base is Ren Ran, commander of the Second Marine Division, but even he does not have the right to order the base to enter first-level combat readiness without authorization from superiors. That is the right of the fleet commander or even the navy headquarters.
issued order.
"This is the order that Commander Zheng just gave personally." the guard said solemnly.
"Commander Zheng, has he also come to Cam Ranh Bay?"
"Yes." The guard said this and then fell silent.
Zhou Zihao and Huang Haoran looked at each other and knew that something must have happened. Otherwise, as the commander of the South China Sea Fleet, Zheng Xin should be based at the Hainan Island base, the headquarters of the South China Sea Fleet, on weekdays. He would never suddenly go to Jinlan.
Come to the bay.
As Huang Haoran and Zhou Zihao walked quickly towards the base, the day and night benevolent headlights on the more than 200-meter-high lighthouse set up at the center of the Cam Ranh Bay suddenly changed from orange, representing level 2 combat readiness, to red. At this time,
At the same time, the loudspeaker on the lighthouse also sounded a rapid and sharp siren, which was a signal that the base had entered level one combat readiness.
This tweeter set up more than 200 meters above the ground can emit sound that can be clearly heard by people within a radius of nearly ten kilometers.
When the "Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong" siren was floating over Cam Ranh Bay, a logistics purchaser outside the base who was having a great time bargaining with a vegetable seller to buy vegetables, his face changed, and he immediately threw out a stack of vegetables from his pocket.
He gave the green yuan coupons to the vegetable seller, picked up several baskets of vegetables on the stall and threw them into the three-wheeled flatbed truck behind him. He jumped on the flatbed truck and pedaled hard, and the flatbed truck drove quickly towards the base.
In a certain hotel, a Marine who was discussing life with a beautiful Vietnamese "missed woman" jumped out of bed as soon as he heard the siren. He pulled up his pants and put on his belt within two minutes.
, opened the door and rushed out. In the room there were only a few red bills left in front of the bed and a woman who was lying on the bed and didn't understand what was going on.
After the siren sounded at the gate of the base, the number of sentries at the gate immediately increased threefold. Amidst the rumbling sound of metal friction, twelve "Northwestern Tiger" tanks immediately drove towards the three gates of the base. Teams gathered one by one.
The completed Marines ran to the armory in neat lines under the orders of their respective commanders.
The door to the armory, which was heavily guarded on weekdays, was now fully open. Under the gaze of more than a dozen armed soldiers, two dark-faced officers responsible for guarding the armory took out the keys hanging around their necks and inserted them at the same time.
He entered the keyholes on both sides of the door, twisted it, and then pulled hard in his direction at the same time. There was a sound of rolling pulleys, and the armory's door, which weighed more than ten tons and was half a meter thick, slowly opened, revealing
The dark face inside was revealed.
More than a dozen forklifts that had been waiting at the door immediately drove in quickly. In less than two minutes, more than a dozen forklifts drove out one after another. It's just that there was an extra one on each forklift that was five meters long and two meters high, like a later container.
Same thing.
"Bang bang" the lift of the forklift was quickly lowered, and the large iron cabinet fell to the ground with a bang. Two military police officers quickly stepped forward and opened the iron door of the iron cabinet, revealing the neatly arranged firearms inside with a "clatter".
"Everyone has it. Take the company as a unit and come forward to receive the weapons one by one. Move quickly."
Following the command from the military police officer, the soldiers immediately moved forward in company units to receive weapons. At this time, the atmosphere in the base was so heavy that it was almost suffocating.
The Chinese combat readiness manual clearly stipulates that after receiving the first-level siren, soldiers inside and outside the base must return to the base within half an hour to receive orders. All combat troops in the base must be issued with live ammunition and be on standby 24 hours a day.
, even the canteen’s foreman must wear a steel helmet.
In the pilot's dormitory outside the airport, groups of pilots wearing flight suits and carrying self-defense pistols rushed out of the dormitory and ran quickly towards the neatly lined up planes on the runway. At this time, the runway
More than a dozen fighter planes that were originally on routine combat readiness duty had already raised their noses and rushed towards the blue sky.
The warship doors in the naval port also sounded the battle alarm, and the boilers of all warships immediately started to light fires. The coats of the artillery on the warships have also been taken off to reveal the black muzzles, and the naval officers and soldiers have also entered combat positions.
In the command hall of the base, South China Sea Fleet Commander Zheng Xin stood solemnly in the command hall, listening to the intelligence constantly coming from the staff: "Commander Ren reported that the Second Marine Division can be dispatched at any time after being assembled. Report from the airport, "Wild Cat"
The brigade has been assembled, the Stuka squadron has been assembled. Now we are waiting for your next order."
"Okay, I order, the "deterrence" plan will start immediately"