C2895 Vietnam strategy

French Annan, that is a general name for the French for their own colony in Vietnam, and the French colonial rule over Vietnam begins with a ban on religion.

When Emperor Ming Ming Ming witnessed the two Opium Wars inflicting great damage to the Qing Empire during his reign in Ruan Dynasty, he increased his policy of sealing the kingdom down and began a nationwide ban on the missionary service.

The ancient Vietnam, also known as Annan, was ruled by Confucianism like North Korea since ancient times, and the mainland's policies had always influenced them.

A policy that has been in place since the Ming dynasty. Vietnam and North Korea naturally followed suit and began to do the same.

However, Viet Nam's geographical location was too unique. The narrow and long land in the southeast was filled with coastlines. It was impossible for the limited land to support the people of the entire country. Thus, they had no choice but to go to the sea to live.

Therefore, in the The Age of Great Navigation, Yue Yang's port also frequently saw Westerners, so it was essential for them to trade.

Therefore, before Emperor Ming Ming Dong banned religion, Western Powers and Viet Nam were in a short period of peace. Both sides frequently traded with each other, and to a certain extent, Viet Nam had become an important transportation route for the Great Qing Dynasty.

However, the short period of cooperation had ended after the prohibition on missionary orders were issued. Since the France had always defined themselves as the biggest protector of Catholicism in the secular world, spreading Catholicism could be said to be the national policy of the France.

Not allowing the church to move the French, the French battleship bombarded Da Nang in 1852. After the failure of the negotiations in 1858, the French united with Spain began to invade Da Nang with their army. In 1859, they even temporarily occupied the Saigon.

Not long after the French occupied the Saigon, the French army in Viet Nam received the order to march towards the Great Qing.

Immediately following was the year 1860, when the British and French combined forces invaded the Beijing, setting the Yuan Ming Yuan on fire and other major events in history!

This time, the Vietnamese were completely shocked. They never thought that the powerful Qing Empire would be able to take over the capital. Then what about a small country like their own?

Sure enough, the French did not let Vietnam go. After the treaty was signed, a part of the French army that were fighting for the Great Qing went south and headed straight for Vietnam.

In 1861, the French army attacked the Saigon once more, and this time with unstoppable force, the four provinces of South Vietnam were conquered once more. At this point, the Ruan Dynasty surrendered to France, paid the cost of the war of four million francs, and signed the First Treaty of the Saigon.

The treaty made it clear that Vietnam would cede four provinces of land and Kunlun Island to the France, that all ports along the sea would be opened up, that Catholics were free to preach, and that the Ruan court would have to obtain the consent of the French Emperor before it could enter into diplomatic negotiations with other countries.

By depriving a country of its right to diplomacy, Vietnam could be considered a complete colony!

But the French rule over Vietnam was borderline in the area of Port Nang, and to the south was the lair where the French operated, and to the north, which was deeply influenced by the Qing, the French infiltrated in a gradual way.

Xiao Letian had been greedy for this piece of meat that belonged to France, especially the Jinlan Bay. It was a rare deep water bay in Viet Nam, and was even known as the number one natural military port in Asia.

The terrain here was very unique. Two tripped and encircled by a gourd-shaped sea, which could provide excellent protection for battleships.

There was no need to be afraid of the storm, nor the enemy navy's attack. The calabash shaped peninsula could form a defensive net with three cannons, making it extremely difficult for the enemy navy to break in.

More importantly, this was a place with very few natural deepwater ports. It could berth all the large-scale water battleships of the 21st century. It didn't matter if you had 40,000 or 100,000 tons, the depth of water here would still be sufficient.

Back in the days when the United States and Russia were competing for hegemony, the Soviet Union had to pay Vietnam an average of one billion dollars a year to garrison troops in the Jinlan Bay. In the end, they built the Jinlan Bay into the biggest military base in the Soviet Union.

How could Xiao Letian let him go? As future generations have proved, to develop a great navy, one must be filled with the finest military harbors in the world.

Every military port with a good location was equivalent to controlling an economic zone with a radius of a thousand kilometers. As long as a warship had the power to cover a place, as long as a naval gun could shoot, it would become its territory.

Once the Jinlan Bay was controlled by the Chinese, the battleships here could immediately seal the whole of Vietnam's territorial waters, and all the cities would be covered with Zhiyuan Warship s.

Not only that, but the fleet could take control of the Gulf of Thailand and take over the crasher directly!

Xiao Letian had already completely controlled the first island in the Pacific Ocean. His Expedition was searching for any undiscovered islands in the Pacific Ocean.

On the west side, the Chinese side was extremely important. At the moment, all the routes were concentrated in the Malacca Strait, which had always been an important bridgehead for British operations in Asia.

It was unrealistic to start a war with Britain. The Chinese currently did not have the ability to arm wrestle with the British, so they could only take a step back and look for a way out of the Krasian Gorge.

The narrowest part of the cras was only 50 kilometers, and the two sides of the coast was also very smooth. Digging into the canals here was not difficult at all, and it was much simpler than the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal.

It was politics that was the hardest part in the development of the isthmus, mainly the fact that no one in Britain was allowed to disrupt his geographical position. If the Chinese dared to start digging, they would certainly get into trouble.

However, there was no need to be anxious. Xiao Letian would patiently wait for them to migrate to the Kara Gorge first, letting the Chinese become their main race.

When the war broke out, when Britain was dragged alive in Europe, no one would be able to stop the Chinese from doing anything!

Once the Cradle Gorge was excavated, the Chinese would have an additional passage through the Indian Ocean, and oil from the Gulf would be transported to the Chinese safely.

Don't forget that in the Arabian area, Xiao Letian still had a free hand that was fighting to the west to unify the small tribes. If nothing went wrong, then he would definitely be able to occupy a few large oil fields in the future.

This plan was extremely huge, if he wanted to complete it completely, there would be a lot of work that needed Xiao Letian's son to do.

Forget about other things, the Jinlan Bay must be under her control, and the land around the Jinlan Bay as the core must not be spared.

Xiao Letian said with a mischievous smile, "Let me go south... It will go smoothly north, what do you think? "