Chapter 3025

At dawn, a bright red firework suddenly rose on the silent sea, drawing a beautiful arc in the sky.

Seeing the signal flares launched from the flagship, the troop transport ships on the nearby sea started to set off as planned and sailed to the bay at the southern end of Langkawi Island.

Different from yesterday's attack on Penang Island, the Ninth Army Division and the Third Detachment of the South China Sea Fleet, which were responsible for the main attack today, did not use artillery fire to clear the way for landing, but directly sent troop transports to the landing target.

This simple tactic was formulated by Roger, who personally served as the commander. He believed that there was no armed force on Langkawi island that could interrupt the Haihan Army's landing operation, so there was no need to create chaos and quietly landed at dawn.

Help our side quickly control the situation on the island.

The amount of troops invested in the landing today greatly exceeded the previous landing on Penang Island. An infantry regiment under the Lu Ninth Division and a battalion from Roger's ace unit, the South China Sea Special Warfare Group, served as the vanguard of this landing operation.

After they establish a beachhead position, another regiment of the 9th Lu Division and a battalion of the Special Operations Division will follow up to supplement the troops landing on the island.

The reason why Roger wanted to send so many troops ashore was mainly because there were a large number of people living near the bay where he landed. Controlling these populations would mean a group of cheap labor, which would be helpful to Haihan after he occupied the island.

There are some infrastructure projects that need to be implemented immediately.

There was originally a small fishing port built in the bay. Although its port facilities are simple and far from mature commercial ports, troop transport ships do not have high requirements for the landing environment, even the most primitive wooden trestles or relatively flat ones.

Quick docking can be achieved in shallow shoals.

Although some early-rising fishermen spotted landing boats approaching from the sea, this was a rare occurrence and they did not react immediately. It was not until these boats began to dock that countless soldiers poured into the coast from the boats.

Only then did these fishermen understand what happened.

Basically not encountering any decent resistance, the landed Haihan Army quickly took control of the port. After quickly regrouping, they marched towards nearby villages in company units.

Two hours later, the dust settled and Roger and his party landed on the island at the same place.

As the commanders of the first batch of troops to land on the island, brothers Luo Shenghuai and Luo Shengding reported the current progress of the operation to Roger and others.

The Haihan Army has initially taken control of the settlements near the bay, and the specific situation of the local residents needs further investigation and registration.

During this process, the Haihan Army basically encountered no organized resistance. The sporadic rebels were quickly suppressed, and there were no casualties on the Haihan Army side.

The government agencies set up by the Kedah State on the island have also been controlled by the Haihan Army, and all relevant personnel have been arrested.

The South China Sea Special Operations Brigade is currently rushing to several villages and towns on the west side of the island, and is expected to complete control of all settlements on the island before dark today.

"We will gather all the islanders near this bay and start the construction project of Langkawi Port as soon as possible."

Roger pointed to the nearby fishing port and continued: "We must first improve the port facilities here to facilitate the development of this place. We need larger berths, spreaders for loading and unloading cargo, and warehouses for storing supplies... If we act

Soon enough, this place can be turned into a trading port within the year."

Compared with Penang, Roger is obviously more optimistic about the development prospects of Langkawi Island. However, this does not mean that Roger is ready to abandon Penang, he just believes that the local area is not suitable for developing port functions.

Qian Tiantun asked: "What do you plan to do with the people in the Kedah government office?"

Roger said meaningfully: "Since we are stationed here in the name of combating pirates, someone must be responsible for the existence of pirates."

Of course, Qian Tiandun was not a womanly person. He nodded and said, "Then we have to do it more carefully. At least we need to be able to explain things to Aceh and Portugal."

Roger said: "Counting the time, the envoy from Aceh will arrive here tomorrow. Then he will bring the Portuguese one over and show them the evidence we have seized."

Before this, Roger had notified Aceh officials of the plan to send troops to exterminate pirates through diplomats stationed in Banda Aceh. However, the specific target of the operation was not directly informed to the other party, but was based on Haihan's actions.

The process will be announced to Aceh in stages.

The purpose of this is to ensure Aceh's right to know as a partner, but also to prevent it from participating in the operation. The same strategy was originally used for Portugal, but I didn't expect that the fleet passing through Malacca City would make Lopez immediately take the initiative to pursue it.

Coming up, we had to make separate arrangements for the Portuguese.

Although there was no fierce battle to seize control of these islands, considering the diplomatic impact, Haihan still needed to adopt some "technical means" to eliminate the doubts of other countries.

As Roger expected, the Aceh envoy arrived at Langkawi Island the next morning. Although the Portuguese arrived here from Penang yesterday, they had not received permission to go to the island until this time.

Only then was he arranged to land on the island with the Aceh envoy to confirm the "results" Haihan had achieved here.

The special envoy sent by Aceh was a member of the royal family named Kaza. He had visited Star Island before and was considered an old acquaintance of Roger.

"Lord Roger, please forgive me. As a loyal partner of your country, your arrangement is unreasonable. I think there should be a better way of cooperation between us for the operation to eliminate pirates."

After Kaza saw Roger, he complained unceremoniously.

But Roger knew that Kaza's complaint was not that Haihan did not notify Aceh in advance to send troops to join the operation, but that he arranged for him to land on the island with the Portuguese.

The feud between Aceh and Portugal has a long history. The two sides have been fighting continuously over the past hundred years. There have been at least four large-scale wars with detailed records.

The competition between the two countries in the shopping mall is no less intense than on the battlefield. For a long time before Sing Tao became a trading port, Banda Aceh and Malacca had been competing for the position of the trade center in the Strait region.

Generally speaking, official personnel from the two countries will only meet on two occasions, one is on the battlefield, and the other is at the negotiation table. Even if it is a diplomatic event hosted by Haihan, the relationship between the two countries will usually be taken into consideration, and the relationship between the two countries will be taken into consideration as much as possible.

Do not arrange for them to meet.

But on this special occasion today, Kaza actually saw the Portuguese here. Of course he had every reason to be dissatisfied.

"Sir Roger, please don't forget that Kedah is a vassal state of our country, and our country has the right to decide who can and cannot come to this island!"

Seeing that Roger didn't respond to him, Kaza simply spoke more clearly.
Chapter completed!