() Since the official landing on Mindanao in April 1907, the Taiwan Army has rotated twice. During the clearing operations in Mindanao, nearly 30,000 soldiers have changed from recruits who have never seen blood to those who have seen blood, participated in battles, and faced each other face to face.
Veterans who have killed the enemy, no matter how high or low they are, at least will not run away when they hear the sound of cannons, or stick to the ground and dare not move when they hear the sound of machine guns.
Although the garrison soldiers were rotated twice, the armed uprising on Mindanao still showed no sign of letting up. Although it was not as large as before, the frequency did not decrease at all. The highway not only failed to completely isolate these guerrillas, but actually became them.
One of the targets of the attack was to dig out a road somewhere every now and then, and then the local garrison would escort the criminals and prisoners to repair it.
If roads are of no use at all, then not only the Taiwan garrison, but also the local US military observers disagree. With these roads, coupled with the small roads leading to the roads voluntarily built by various villages and towns, the power of the guerrillas has been reduced to a minimum.
In many places, due to the convenient transportation and the convenient entry and exit of goods, local villagers have begun to think about how to get some good wood or good game to sell to the Taiwanese people in exchange for money or various tools. Once people see the way to get rich,
Maybe, he is no longer interested in fighting tooth and nail.
As for why the guerrillas have not been eliminated, there is no need to answer the Taiwan garrison. American observers will come up with various figures to tell you how many mountains there are on the island, how many dense virgin rain forests there are, and how many Taiwan garrison there are. If it is not these
The Taiwanese army found a way to build these three roads. It is estimated that now it is not the Taiwanese and American troops moving around Mindanao, but the guerrillas, and the two Japanese troops can only huddle in a few strongholds, struggling day and night.
In view of the combat effectiveness of Taiwan's garrison, the U.S. Governor even planned to ask Taiwan to send some additional troops to Luzon Island to work with the U.S. military to maintain security on the island. Upon hearing this, Liu Fei and the U.S. military quickly excused Taiwan's insufficient population and the inability to support the island.
Why did you raise so many troops?
Because I refused, what a joke, are you with the US military? Only fools are with you. You must leave the hard work and death to the Taiwanese army. When you pacify Luzon Island, how many Taiwanese troops will I lose? I am going to train troops.
I went, but I didn’t really risk my life for you.
The U.S. Governor also felt that the small island of Taiwan might not be able to provide that many regular troops, so he stopped raising this request. Moreover, he could not pretend that the Taiwan military was opening gold and silver mines and reselling timber on the island of Mindanao.
You know, in the eyes of Americans, the two gold mines on Mindanao Island can only be regarded as extremely small mines. Coupled with the swamps and poisonous insects all over the area, even if the Taiwan military intends to
No one from the U.S. Army was willing to dig with the U.S. Army. Although the gold was good, it had to be lived. The Americans looked down upon the wood. There were still large tracts of trees in the United States.
People are cutting them down. Who has traveled tens of thousands of kilometers to transport wood back home? They will have to pay for it when they are shipped back. Anyone who wants it will want it. The Americans only wish that the Taiwanese army would cut down all the virgin rainforest. They hate it to death.
These rainforests.
The two small gold mines on Mindanao were dug by the garrisoned army using prisoners. Since there were not so many projects to be done, and guarding these prisoners was a very time-consuming and laborious task, some of the more responsible prisoners and prisoners were left behind.
Those Japanese criminals continued to repair the road together, and the remaining more than 2,000 prisoners were sent to the northeastern part of the island near Butuan, where they dug gold mines.
Because there are swamps all over here, even the locals dare not enter easily. Therefore, after building a road leading to the depths of the swamp, you only need to guard the exit of the road and drive these prisoners in, and you can use it regularly.
Food and tools were exchanged for gold. Not only were these captives unable to escape, but they also had to deal with poisonous insects in the swamps and landslides in the gold cave. It is estimated that within a few years, these captives would have to fend for themselves.
As for the guerrillas that have not been wiped out, they are not guerrillas at all, but a group of Taiwanese regular troops trained by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Taiwan. The old staff officer gave Liu Fu an idea to cultivate the bandits to respect themselves, and then Liu Fu let him
The Ministry of Internal Affairs trained hundreds of army soldiers and secretly
They were transported to the island and played the role of guerrillas. These guerrillas hid in the rainforest during the day. At night, they went to designated locations to obtain supplies and replenish ammunition according to the telegrams from the Taiwan garrison commander. If there were any wounded, they were also replaced by Taiwan garrison uniforms.
Military uniforms were then picked up by the garrison.
When a riot or uprising breaks out, the garrison commander will direct the guerrillas to attack targets such as villages, towns or plantations according to the uncooperative list on the island provided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs agents, creating the illusion that the guerrillas are dispatched. Because
have
The garrison commander reported secretly, so this guerrilla unit was so elusive that even American observers couldn't detect it. In his report to the governor, he praised the Taiwan garrison's active attack and also cursed it.
Those damn rainforests.
The more powerful this guerrilla force is, the less the U.S. Army will dare to take over Mindanao, and the U.S. Governor of the Philippines does not want to use his own American life to fill this bottomless pit-like island. Moreover, several islands on the north side of Mindanao are also
Taiwan's garrison is stationed, if lightly
It is easy to replace them. If they are surrounded by these guerrillas and come to Luzon Island, it will be troublesome. Tens of thousands of US troops have just managed to make Luzon Island standby, and then let another army fight for a hundred battles.
If the police come over, within a few years, the Americans will not be able to do anything else.
Seeing that the situation in Mindanao would not change significantly for a while, and that the plan to train troops in Taiwan could be maintained for a few more years, Liu Fu temporarily put aside this issue and started to implement another plan that had been planned for a long time.
That is Taiwan's industrial export problem.
In the past, the main source of income for Taiwan and Liu Fu was Liu Fu's personal funds. These funds initially came from the income from sulfonamide tablets, and later gradually transformed into the sales of refrigerators and motorcycles by Sandro Electric, which was founded in partnership with David.
share, as well as Schneider Petroleum's income from oil extraction and refining in the United States. Although these incomes have increased year by year over the years, and will be higher in the next few years, Liu Fu does not want Taiwan to become his own private investment territory. Since du
li has become a country, then it is best to slowly transform into a normal country, from military to political, from diplomacy to economics.
At present, Liu Fu cannot think of any good development direction to change politically. Militarily, it is Taiwan's strongest point, and there is no need for transformation. Diplomatically, Taiwan is changing. From the original policy of beating up anyone who messes with me,
Whose Lone Ranger mode is messing with whomever, we beat whomever
The model of regional powers has changed. Economically, because they were afraid of losing many technologies and did not dare to develop large-scale manufacturing in the past, in addition to exporting some agricultural processing products, Taiwan's economy is basically based on imports. Although there are two large gold mines in the income
,but Taiwan government
Fu's own accounts are basically in red. Without Liu Fu's blood transfusion, Taiwan's Zheng Fu would have gone bankrupt immediately.
In order to change this model of inability to form hematopoiesis, Liu Fu brought together the scientific and technological personnel of the institute and the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of National Defense and other governments a few years ago.
The staff of the fu department worked together to screen Taiwan's competitive industrial products to the outside world. While minimizing the risk of premature technology leakage, they formulated a product catalog and then based on this catalog, these products were
The production and sales rights are sold to some local businessmen in Taiwan who have rich funds and want to enter the manufacturing industry. They build factories to produce the products in these catalogs. Then, Zheng Fu takes the lead and finds ways to export them to all over the world to make money.
Earn profits and fundamentally develop Taiwan's local industry instead of relying entirely on the government
defense industry funded by fu.
The first batch of lists in these catalogs include organic pesticides and chemical fertilizers, chemical insect repellents, sulfa drugs, synthetic resins, high-quality electronic tubes, various agricultural machinery, armor steel and special steel, small and medium-sized diesel machinery, and trucks.
and civilian cars, electric water heaters, electric heaters, telephones, telegraph machines, etc. In addition, Hualien Port in Taitung will be expanded into a large civilian ship manufacturing plant, specifically to undertake foreign orders. Due to the rapid development of Taiwan's high-power diesel engines
It is ahead of its time, so it is very advantageous in manufacturing large cargo ships. Freighters driven by large diesel units, although the cost of burning heavy oil is higher than that of coal-burning ships, the diesel unit occupies much less space in the hull than large boilers.
, the speed is also much faster, and the range is longer. The speed is increased, the range is extended, and the number of calls for coal and water is reduced. Taken together, it is more competitive to carry some high-profit cargo, especially for loading.
A cruise ship mainly for passengers.
Although some of these products may be used by research institutions or large companies in various countries for further research, such as synthetic resins, diesel engines, pesticides and fertilizers, experts from the institute predict that in order to develop these products without countless
If you only rely on reverse reasoning for multiple tests, the chance of success is not high. And those more sensitive products such as: polyethylene materials, aluminum alloy materials, high-performance explosives, high-energy batteries, electric motors, radio products, etc., will be kept as national defense secrets.
, temporarily only for military use.
As for Taiwan's submarines, although many countries have inquired whether they can be sold, considering that submarines are very easy to imitate and some of the key technologies are actually just a layer of window paper that can be broken when poked, Liu Fu plans to postpone it for a few more years.
For those countries that wanted to buy, Liu Fu and the Ministry of National Defense have refused on the grounds of extremely low output, extremely difficult construction, and extremely high costs. Although Taiwan's submarines performed well in the Taiwan Defense War, this battle
After all, the battle took place in the Far East, and the course of the battle was not very exciting or clear. The backbone of the navies of various countries should not believe the descriptions of these defeated generals, and people's habitual thinking is very strong.
In this era, if you don't show it on the international stage, no country will use the money of a battleship to buy a submarine. Even if the navy is willing, Congress or the Prime Minister will not be able to pass this budget.
As for Taiwan's aircraft, Liu Fu has no intention of selling them. The mystery of submarines has gradually faded, and they will only be able to be used for a few more years. Once sonar and other equipment for detecting submarines appear and countries have complete anti-submarine tactics,
Submarines can no longer be used as the main attack force of the navy, but can only be used for special tactical needs, such as blockade warfare, break-up warfare, defensive warfare, etc.
By that time, although Liu Fu will no longer have the ace card of submarines, aircraft, the new darling of war, will once again help Liu Fu teach a profound lesson to those countries that want to take advantage of Liu Fu.
