50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 759 The Frugal Sun Baiwan
It seems that if we want to move forward with the Grand Natuna Island issue, these military bases must be taken down.

With Java in chaos and no one taking care of the base there, Sun Zhiwei felt there was no time to lose.

So, after dinner, he immediately boarded the Black Hawk helicopter and headed straight for Grand Natuna Island.

We can't wait for the frigate to return home now; we need to deal with the more important matters first.

Pontianak is only 400 kilometers away from Natuna Island, and it only takes a little over an hour by helicopter to get there.

Sun Zhiwei didn't know if those bases had anti-aircraft missiles, so he raised the Black Hawk's altitude to 5000 meters to prevent himself from not being able to react in time when missiles attacked.

The summer sun sets very late. Although it was already after dinner, the western sun had not yet sunk below the horizon.

Sun Zhiwei had excellent visibility from high above and soon spotted the coastline of Grand Natuna Island.

With both the land and sea bases directly ahead, he tilted the control lever, veering the car towards Badong Town.

Just as the Black Hawk helicopter approached the coastline, an F-5 fighter jet took off from the air force base north of Grand Natuna Island and was rapidly flying in his direction.

After entering the land, Sun Zhiwei's Black Hawk landed on a deserted beach and then stored it directly into his spatial storage.

As he walked into the nearby forest and was changing out of his flight suit, the roar of fighter jets approached from afar.

Soon, an F5 supersonic fighter jet swept across the jungle where Sun Zhiwei was located.

When Sun Zhiwei saw this from inside the woods, he felt a chill of fear. If he had landed any later, and the supersonic fighter jet had launched a surprise attack from afar, he probably wouldn't have been able to react in time.

Judging from the direction the F5 came from, it was probably a fighter jet that took off from the air force base to the north.

He originally thought the remaining F5s were left on Batam Island in Malacca, but he didn't expect that they were also equipped there.

Moreover, the fact that fighter jets from the air force base could take off to inspect from such a distance indicates that the air force base has advanced radar capable of detecting aerial targets hundreds of kilometers away.

Such advanced radar, installed in this crucial maritime transportation hub instead of Jakarta, suggests that Hatto's plans for Greater Natuna went far beyond simple immigration.

The F5 hovered in the air for a while, but found no suspicious targets, so it had to turn back to base.

Sun Zhiwei had already changed into civilian clothes, then took out his motorcycle and drove west along the road.

Half an hour later, estimating that he was close to the military base, he turned his motorcycle into the forest next to the road and then walked towards the base's defenses.

Soon, he saw rows of barracks across the road, with green-roofed houses situated not far from the sea.

He had seen several military bases in Java, and he wondered if they had some special hobby, since all the rooftops in the military bases were green.

Look at those barracks, they're divided into three sections, each with 30 rooms. If one room is for one squad, that's a scale of 1000 people.

This doesn't even include maintenance, medical, logistics, and other administrative support units. The entire base has about 1500 people, which is exactly the size of a regiment.

The number was less than he had expected, and not even as many as the number of people he had on Subi Island.

But thinking about it, it's understandable. It's such a small island, and the enemy is mostly unarmed civilians. There's really no need to use a large number of modern regular troops. What is a modern regular army? It has sufficient weapons, ammunition, and logistical supplies, is fully motorized when deployed, and has professional artillery and a small number of tanks and armored vehicles.

Yes, he saw tanks and armored vehicles, all American-made. Although the number was small, it was enough for an island.

If a tank faces a group of infantry, and the infantry doesn't have armor-piercing weapons, it's a one-sided massacre.

Knowing that he didn't have these things on his island, he couldn't bear to just blow it up.

Instead, he waited until dark, when the camp lights were turned off, before using his spatial ability to take all the soldiers away, leaving the military base completely empty.

Only then did he emerge from the forest and enter the base.

After touring the base, he first collected all his personal belongings, then turned off all the base's power supply, closed all the doors and windows, and made it look abandoned and unused.

In fact, the equipment and supplies in the base's logistics warehouse are still there, and the ammunition depot is also full.

A standard regiment requires approximately 200-300 tons of supplies per day during wartime, much less during peacetime, but still consumes no less than 10 tons of supplies daily for food and training.

A resident regimental-level camp typically stores three months' worth of commonly used supplies and ammunition.

In other words, this small camp now has more than 1000 tons of supplies stored in its warehouse.

I heard that in the 21st century, the annual maintenance cost of one of our heavy combined arms brigades was as high as 3 billion yuan, which translates to 8 million yuan per day.

Maintaining an army is incredibly expensive. Although Sun Zhiwei is a wealthy man known as "Sun the Millionaire," he has to start to be more frugal as the number of people on Subi Island increases.

When he was out, if he encountered a large amount of supplies that could be easily transported back, he would not be willing to destroy them and would carefully preserve them, waiting for someone to come and bring them all home later.

His personal space is his greatest secret. Unless it's something very precious or too far away, he tries his best not to reveal its existence.

Using space to transport supplies is acceptable occasionally, and the subordinates dare not ask too many questions, so they just brush it off with a few words.

However, if he could frequently deliver large quantities of new supplies to the island's warehouses without any transportation, it would be impossible to fool the logistics personnel. This is definitely not acceptable.

Just like the supplies in this army camp now, it would be easy to transport them using space, but how to get them to Subi Island would require extra effort to conceal them, which is quite troublesome.

So he simply sealed it off, waiting for his subordinates to come and move it themselves.

The sea route from Subi Island to Grand Natuna Island is only 100 kilometers. We can make several round trips a day, which can be considered as long-range training.

The army base is secured; there are two more bases to go, one of which, the naval base, is on the island opposite.

Having learned his lesson about helicopters, this time he didn't take a boat. Instead, he put on a set of frogman gear, went directly into the water from the beach behind the military camp, and swam towards the island.

An hour later, Sun Zhiwei had swum to the vicinity of the harbor of the Java Naval Base. The seawater was still quite cold at night, so he swam to a pier before surfacing to get some fresh air.

(End of this chapter)