Before arriving at Gwadar Port, Pei Chengyi's first feeling was that the giant cannon like a changing world entered the thug.

Many years ago, Gwadar Port was a very inconspicuous fishing village in Balochistan Province, Pakistan, which is not found on many maps. Because it is only 1,000 kilometers away from Iran and only about 1,000 kilometers away from the Strait of Hormuz, and its strategic location is very important. As early as the 1900s of the 2nd India-Pakistan War, the Second India-Pakistan War, and Pakistan decided to build Gwadar Port into a naval base. Affected by the Second India-Pakistan War, political turmoil, and slow economic development, until the end of the century, Gwadar Port was still an unknown small village.

It was not until the second year of the century, that is, the year when the Republic participated in the construction work by providing funds and using it together that Pakistan formally decided to build Gwadar Port into a naval base. At the beginning of the year, the Executive Vice Premier of the State Council of the Republic and Pakistani President Musharraf co-chaired the start-up ceremony of the first phase of the Gwadar Port. From then on, Gwadar Port entered people's vision.

The construction of Gwadar Port was not smooth. By the old year, the third phase of the project had not been completed. The reasons for the slow progress of the project were very complicated, such as political turmoil in Pakistan, changes in the regional situation, intervention by the forces, opposition from local people, etc. Among them, Musharraf's resignation led to the delay of the project progress by at least three years. The Afghan War and Iraq War launched by the United States affected the construction work. The local patriarch and elders were worried that a brand new Guadal Port would squeeze them out of the authority, and even lead to external forces controlling the area. In addition to being instigated by the patriarch and elders, local people were also worried that they would lose the living.

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In general, the problems brought about by Gwadar Port are very complicated.

Although in the past years, the Republic's authorities adopted many methods to solve the problem of slow progress of the project. For example, when subcontracting projects, local people were given priority. Because most of the local Wangmins had not received formal education, the Republic also arranged professional engineers to train them. In the words of the Republic's chief engineer of the Gwadar Port construction project: No country in the world, like us, both exporting funds and providing technology for free. The Gwadar Port construction project has trained a large number of technical personnel for the local area. In response to this problem, the Pakistani authorities have also taken many measures, such as making solemn promises to the patriarchs and elders, so that their interests will never be threatened. However, these measures did not achieve immediate results. It was not until the old year, that is, after the Fourth India-Pakistan War, that the construction work of Gwadar Port turned around.

As we all know, the direct reason for the involvement of the Republic in the Fourth India-Pakistan War was that the Western Fleet of the Indian Navy dispatched fighter jets to bomb Gwadar Port, causing dozens of Republic engineers to be killed and killed. During this bombing, hundreds of local engineers were killed and killed. At that time, Pakistani security departments arrested a group of local people suspected of providing military intelligence to India, including several tribal members who had previously opposed the construction of naval bases. Although the matter ended in the end, based on some information declassified by the Republic after the end of the Fourth India-Pakistan War, the Pakistani authorities are likely to use this to shut up the local people who opposed the construction of naval bases.

In fact, the greatest contribution of the Fourth India-Pakistan War was to prove the importance of Gwadar Port.

At that time, the biggest problem facing the Republic was not that it could not defeat the Indian thugs, but how to defeat India. In other words, it was how to exert the combat effectiveness of the Republic's army. The first thing that needs to be solved was the logistical support issue. In order to deploy tactical aviation and support air force to Pakistan, the Republic's authorities used tens of thousands of military vehicles to travel day and night on the highway from Kashgar to Islamabad. After the Republic's navy's task force seized the sea power, the sea transport replaced the land transport and the fleet replaced the convoy. The problem was, the swallowing of Karachi Port

The ability to ventilate cannot meet the wartime requirements. In order to ensure that the maritime transportation lines are unobstructed, the fleet will give priority to the port; the task force operating in the Arabian Sea does not rely on the ocean-wide integrated supply ships that come from the mainland, and cannot go to the port of Karachi, which is close to the close. In a sense, Ji Yueguo did not take the opportunity to regain the southern Tibet region that had been occupied by India for decades, but left this historical task to the end and Wang Yuanqing took the initiative to solve it. One of the most critical reasons is that the logistics support capabilities at that time could not support a full-scale war.

Because the Fourth India-Pakistan War had not completely eliminated India's strategic threat, both the Republic and Pakistan realized the seriousness of the problem after the war, and increased the scope of military cooperation, increased the depth of military cooperation, and arranged hundreds of military cooperation projects between the two countries in accordance with priorities. Among the important strategic projects, the construction of the Gwadar Port project ranks second, second only to the construction of the Korz-Iran strategic railway.

At that time, Pei Chengyi graduated from military academy and worked in the General Staff Department for less than a year.

Although influenced by the major he studied, Pei Chengyi did not have the opportunity to go to Gwadar Port for inspection like several other young officers who entered the General Staff with him. These young officers later became senior staff officers in the Logistics Equipment Department of the General Staff, and some of them became generals. However, according to the rules of the General Staff, the newly appointed staff officers would spend a year familiar with the situation of all departments, and Pei Chengyi also participated in the planning work of Gwadar Port. To be precise, he was fortunate to come into contact with the rules of Gwadar Port and the joint judgment of Gwadar Port, because at his level at that time, it was impossible to play a big role. He did not study the logistics major, and he did not even have the qualification to give advice.

Mu Yong doubted that Gwadar Port was designated as a comprehensive naval base shared by the Republic in Pakistan from the very beginning.

The so-called comprehensive naval base is a "base camp" nature, including deep-water ports for fleet docking, including supporting docking wharfs, warehouses, shore camps, communication command centers, intelligence centers, etc. Large air stations for carrier-based aviation are often bases and air transport bases for long-range patrol aircraft, and camps for marines or expeditionary forces include supporting barracks, warehouses, training grounds, transportation stations, communication centers, etc., and cave databases specially provided for submarines. Because few countries deploy strategic nuclear submarines overseas, they do not need to have the ability to support strategic nuclear submarines, but they must have the ability to support attack nuclear submarines. The ground transportation system connecting various military facilities and military bases is mainly freight railway lines and high-grade highway networks, as well as various supporting facilities.

It can be seen from this that when the construction of the thugs of the early century was launched, the scale of Gwadar Port was extremely amazing.

It is precisely this that the construction of Gwadar Port is so eye-catching and has encountered so many resistances during the construction process.

Shortly after the end of the Peninsula Battle, Pei Chengyi, who had been promoted to major general of the army, once visited Guadal Port. Although he only stayed there for less than two days, Guadal Port still left a very deep impression on him.

At that time, the fourth phase of the project had been completed. The military base group had begun to take shape. According to relevant news released by the Pakistani authorities at that time: After the fourth phase of the project was completed, the Guadal Military Port, Guadal Submarine Base, Gigi Naval Air Station, Bernice Marine Barracks and Givoni Strategic Intelligence Station, which were set up under the Guadal Naval Comprehensive Base, were put into use, forming a Guadal Military Port as the core, spanning 0 kilometers from east to west and across thugs and 1,000 meters from north to south. The total area of ​​each camp and facility exceeded 10,000 mu. It is the largest joint military base group of sea, land and air in South Asia.

Compared with the initial plan, the Gwadar Port at that time had already exceeded the standard.

The problem is that the construction work has not ended here.

The inspection report provided by the inspection team that Pei Chengyi participated in explained the importance of Gwadar Port and detailed the existing problems and solutions. As one of the drafters of the report, Pei Chengyi clearly stated that the transportation facilities in Gwadar Port still need to be improved.

It is very coincidental that Wang Yuanqing, who was already in power at that time, attached great importance to South Asia.

From a post-event perspective, Wang Yuanqing attached great importance to South Asia and was preparing for the later Indian War. In a sense, what Wang Yuanqing wanted to fight the most was not the Japanese War, but the Indian War. Because after the end of the Peninsula War, Zhao Rundong put forward the view that "Japanese war is inevitable" and launched the second military reform on this ground, forcing Japan to a dead end in just a few years, turning the Japanese war into a war that had to be fought. As a result, after Wang Yuanqing came to power, he had to complete the work that Zhao Rundong did not complete.

It is highly valued by Wang Yuanqing, which is equivalent to giving the green light to the expansion of Gwadar Port.

Among the many expansion projects, the most eye-catching one is nothing more than two-way railways from Benda, the capital of Balochistan and Karachi, the capital of Sindh Province, to Guadal Port. Because these two railways are not among the initial regulations, in fact, a single-line railway of 10,000 tons was planned at that time, so after the Republic proposed the expansion plan, the Pakistani authorities did not buy it. After years of negotiations, Kistan finally agreed to build these two railways, but the Republic only bears all the costs and compensates the losses of the people along the way.

It can be said that if the Japanese war had not ended quickly, the Republic's war expenses were far lower than expected, and Wang Yuanqing was actively seeking military operations to recover southern Tibet, and even began preparing war operations against India, the Pakistani authorities would have been responsible for such acts of cheating.

Of course, there is no benefit in investing alone, that is, it can greatly speed up the construction speed.

Because they were worried that the military operations to recover southern Tibet would lead to early war, these two extremely critical strategic railways were opened to traffic before the outbreak of the southern Tibet conflict. Although the Republic had paid billions of additional projects for these two railways in order to catch up with the progress, the few years gained provided the Republic with more choices. Before the outbreak of the Indian War, the ground transportation system surrounding Guadal and Karachi Ports had been very developed. Although during the entire war, Pei Chengyi did not consider entering Gujarat and Rajasthan in India from Sindh Province in Pakistan, and did not even deploy the Republic's ground combat troops to Sindh Province, but relying on the highly developed ground transportation system, the military materials sent to Karachi and Guadal Ports could be delivered to the front-line troops within hours. It effectively improved the logistics support efficiency and provided more tactical choices for front-line commanders.

In fact, these two railways affected more than just the Indian War.

In a sense, when Pei Chengyi was about to end the Indian War, he sent some of the equipment of the front-line command to Gwadar Port. One very important reason for wanting to set up the later theater command in Gwadar Port was that Gwadar Port had the most ideal ground transportation system.

Here we must mention the railway from Gwadar Port to Benda. As early as the beginning of the century, because the Republic's imported oil came from the Gulf region, the imported oil needed to pass through the Strait of Malacca, and the Republic did not have the ability to control the Strait of Malacca. The Octades are located at the southern end of the Indian Peninsula. It is a must-pass place from the Strait of Hormuz to the Strait of Malacca and the Strait of Hormuz. Therefore, while actively building a navy, the Republic must seek to obtain a more stable energy transportation channel. Against this background, the Republic provided great help for the construction of the railway from Santa Pakistan to Zahedan, Iran. In fact, the Republic has built a large-scale construction in Gwadar Port to cover the railway from Zahedan to Benda.

With the later Korg-Iran strategic railway, the ground transportation line from the Republic to Iran was opened.

That's right, during the Iran War, a large number of weapons and equipment produced by the Republic of Mang were transported from the Iranian railway to Iran and sent to the Iranian army. Because Pakistan did not participate in the war, and the United States had not completely withdrawn from Afghanistan at that time. Therefore, the US military did not dare to bomb the railway line in Pakistan, so it could only try every means to swell the Zaheidan Railway Station and break the railway line in Iran. According to some unconfirmed folk rumors, during the Iran War, the Republic sent at least a volunteer engineering force of only a few people to Iran, and the main task of the troops was to ensure that the railway line from the Bai border to Zaheidan was unobstructed. Fortunately, the railway line in Iran is less than a thousand meters, and the route is plateau desert, and the broken railway is easy to repair. The only thing that is difficult to deal with is the various sensors and ammunition used by the US military to deal with engineering personnel.

All in all, this strategic railway saved Iran.

In a sense, because Santa is the rear of the aid to Iran, when the Pakistani authorities refused to pay for the construction of the Holy Gua Railway, the Republic invested tens of billions of yuan to build this railway, which was Wang Yuanqing's early strategic deployment for the future situation in the Middle East. In any case, Wang Yuanqing had no reason to believe that the Republic could build a powerful navy that could match the US Navy in just a few decades. In fact, until the Middle East War was no longer a suspense, the overall strength of the Republic's navy was still only the US Navy.

About 70%. In this case, as the leader of the country, Wang Yuanqing must consider a very extreme consequence, that is, how to transport combat troops and combat materials to the Middle East after losing sea control. Mu Yong doubted that under the protection of the world's number one army, ground transportation is the safest. Although land transportation is difficult to completely replace sea transportation in large-scale wars, after all, railway transportation capacity is far less than that of fleets, when necessary, land transportation can effectively make up for the problems caused by the lack of sea transportation, and at least it can produce results in the short term.

Against this background, it is not just Bengua Railway that is built.

According to information released by the Pakistani authorities, when the Republic invested in the construction of the Bengua Railway, the Pakistani authorities also spent a huge amount of money to build the Pakistani section of the Benja Railway into a duplex.

Although affected by the political situation at that time, the Iranian authorities, who were in a honeymoon period with Russia, did not actively cooperate. Even the Zazahedan Abbas Port, which had been constructed by the thugs, had not been opened for traffic for a long time. The railway was divided into three sections: Zahedan to Shurgaz, Shurgaz to Manujan, and Manujan to Abbas Port. Among them, the southern section of Manujan to Abbas Port was opened for traffic in Maenian, and the middle section of Shurgaz to Manujan was opened for traffic in Shunian, with a mileage of about 4,000 meters. The northern section of Zahedan to Shurgaz has not started construction for a long time. From this, it can be seen that the Iranian authorities are not unaware of the importance of the Zahedan Railway, but are just worried that the railway will have an impact on Iranian relations after it is opened. This makes Iranian in two ways unpleasant.

In the end, three-quarters of the road section to the south were repaired, and one-quarter of the road section to the north could be built in a short time when the situation required it. However, after Ahmadinejad came to power, it promoted economic reforms. His main reform measures include the construction of infrastructure, and Ahmadinejad's obvious pro-China stance, so at the end of the year, the ground strategic transportation line from the Republic of Khosh had been connected to the Port of Abbas north of the Strait of Hormuz. Because Schulgaz also has a straight railway to Kerman, and Kerman has a trunk railway connecting to Tehran, as long as the straight railway from Shulgaz to Kerman is built into a trunk railway, the strategic trunk from the Republic to Iran will be completed.

On this strategic trunk line, the railway network with Gwadar Port as the core plays an important role in "increasing capacity".

To put it bluntly, before the sea control is relatively conservative, or before the scale of the war has expanded, even if the Republic's fleet cannot reach the Iranian port safely, it can still go to Gwadar Port, and then send military supplies and combat troops into Iran through railway lines, and then send them to the front-line battlefield. Even if the scale of the war is expanded, because the route from the Republic to Gwadar Port is all within the cover of the shore-based aviation force, the safety of the fleet is relatively guaranteed, and the fleet can still be used to undertake most of the transportation tasks.

It is precisely because Yuan Chenhao insisted on his own opinions on the issue of the theater command.
Chapter completed!