Chapter 265 Last Question

The towering lampposts and the snow-white high-power searchlights swept back and forth, illuminating the whole Ryukyu port brightly and transparently. Luo Sanniang, who saw this scene for the first time, was stunned. Even the sea harpoons who followed her seemed to have been fixed by a spell.

The two of them have been in the Nanyang Sea for many years. They think they have seen a lot. They have even seen submarines several times and boarded on real battleships. But when they saw the huge Ryukyu Port wharfs in front of them, they knew that what they had heard and saw before were children's housewarming things!

Compared with the Ryukyu Port in front of us, the port of Manila, which I thought was good before, the Port of Krabi is not flowing at all, not to mention that this is just a base of the Pacific Fleet, in Honolulu, in Guam, in Lushun, and in the distant place called Truk Island, the smiling young man in front of him is His fleet expanded its base everywhere.

The sea rpth finally understood how merciful the Pacific Fleet instructors who came to Palawan and laughed at the small family of Shuizhai were. This is the big water village!

Not to mention the seven or eight boats of the special operations team, just pulling the whole fleet over, for fear that the harbor will not be filled.

Luo Sanniang stood on the deck in a daze, looking at the figure standing on the bow deck of the ship. There was only one thought in her mind. How much money does this prodigal son have?

Not to mention others, I'm afraid even Master Li himself is not very clear about this problem. Take gold as an example. After he donated all the 500 tons of gold he had accumulated to the State Council at a time, before he could clean the empty secret room, he was filled with 300 tons of gold exchanged by Thomas from the American market, plus the special gold bonds of $65 million exchanged for 100 tons of gold, and the run. The price difference between the Chinese and American stock markets suddenly made Master Li's small treasury full of money. At this moment, the disposable cash in his hand is enough to build five or six Duke-class battleships.

But to build a ship, you have to wait and be restricted. The most important thing is that these things made now will become scrap metal in a few years. Why can't you fight for a few years? It's all consumed in the crazy ship-building competition. In the later stage, hundreds or even tens of millions of pounds of super fearless, which is simply a burning of money. !

Even Master Li, the richest man in the world, can't afford to play this kind of game, but if he shortens the previous fearless era and bring the world closer to the dreadnought competition earlier, how many times will the scale of the Battle of the German Sea of Tehran, which is worshipped by all the BB parties, expand?

Master Li is leisurely fascinated. If there is a duel of 100 battleships, will the BB disciples of later generations be directly blown up?!

So since he learned that Japan began to rebuild the navy, he had already planned to get a ticket, but it was not easy to rob a warship. Why did he say that the navy was tragic? It is because the navy has an extreme tradition, and it is common to be defeated by self-sinking. The My Wife was also because the guy who had just become the captain of the cargo ship was stunned. In addition, this cargo ship basically could not install a sea valve, so he forgot that the warship and a sea valve, and finally made Ji Rushan cheaper.

Whether it is memory or reality, it is rare to capture naval warships, unless they are scared to death by fierce artillery battles like the previous Russians and the Azuma.

In the face of cutting my stomach and pulling out my intestines, the incident can only be very rare. If you want to move the brain of the fleet, you can only be at the dock.

"Young master, Qin Shou is leaving."

Master Li just took Luo Sanniang to the cement dock. Chen Ping, who had returned to Ryukyu earlier, handed over the latest war report. At the same time, he did not forget to look at Luo Sanniang, and the corners of his mouth were crooked.

"What are you laughing at? Haven't you seen it?" Master Li stared at Chen Ping, who bit his lips and smiled, and then opened the information.

After reading the telegram, Li Mo took a deep breath and finally came back in time. He hurriedly said hello to Luo Sanniang. After order someone to take them to rest, Sanniang hurried to the headquarters in her deep eyes.

Looking at Li Mo's hurried back, Luo Sanniang's red lips opened slightly and wanted to ask when she would see her brother, but when she came to her mouth, the words turned into a sigh.

"Where's Xue Muhua?" In the soldier's salute, Li Mo quickly rushed into the staff and squeezed into the huge sand table.

"It's all ready. At present, they are on standby on Hachijo Island." Chen Ping took the putter from the staff officer and pointed to a small black spot with a red flag on the Izu Islands off the coast of Tokyo.

Hachijo Island is located 280 kilometers south of Tokyo. As early as the day after the declaration of war, a battalion of the Marine Corps quietly landed on the island. Due to the interruption of all communications and the inability of the Japanese navy to control the offshore islands, the Izu Islands did not station troops. The Marine Corps almost effortlessly captured Hachijo Island and even nearby. All the islands also threw thousands of fishermen on the Izu Islands into the construction corps.

It has become the secret forward base of the newly formed airship force.

After introducing the situation of Hachijo Island, Li Mo immediately looked at the Uraga Waterway, which was wide outside and narrow inside, and suddenly turned left before entering Tokyo Bay, which had troubled the fleet for several months.

In fact, a long time ago, Chen Pingping, a senior officer, planned to forcibly cross the Uraga waterway and raid Tokyo Bay after the declaration of war, directly disintegrating Japan's will to war. However, due to the interference of Britain and the United States and his lack of preparation, he could only watch the four capital ships lose the opportunity to return to Tokyo Bay.

After the blockade began, there was a call to forcibly open the waterway in the fleet, but the dense mines made almost everyone shut. According to the intelligence, after receiving a loan from the United States, he bought more than 1,000 new anchor mines, and almost 90% of them were sprinkled into the Uraga waterway, leaving only a narrow waterway in and out. .

Not to mention the era of lack of mine clearance technology before World War I, even in World War II and even in the future, mines are enough to give any fleet a headache. These giants lurking underwater with a maximum load of four or five hundred kilograms are enough to sink any battleship immediately.

Seeing Li Mo staring at the waterway with a worried look, Chen Ping immediately said, "According to the information we have in the early stage, it is said that in addition to setting up mines, I have also built a turret on both sides of the entrance of the waterway, each with six 250mm and at least 20 150mm legal shore guns."

"In addition to these two forts, even if we enter the waterway, we still have to face here." Chen Ping turned left at the end of the waterway with a push rod, and the protrusion on one side: "According to the reconnaissance of the night eagle, the navy has built a large fort fort here. Originally, there were 12 250mm shore guns and 36 150mm shore guns here, but recently, I don't know why, four doors were suddenly withdrawn. The newspaper department has not yet grasped the whereth of these four guns.

Four 250mm guns are missing?

Li Mo suddenly frowned. This is a sudden situation. Although large-caliber shore guns are modified with naval guns, the rate of fire is slow and the quality of the projectile is small, the range is farther than that of similar naval guns, and most of them are protected by thick cement fortifications. It is not easy to knock open them once these four shore guns suddenly appear at a critical moment. Then the fleet will undoubtedly encounter great threat.

And from the perspective of the shore gun base referred to by Chen Ping, it not only protrudes the waterway and the range can cover half of the waterway, but it is almost certain that the channel I left after entering there will be very close to the shore gun base. As long as any warship passes by, it will face at least 44 shore artillery bombardment, which is quite Where did you hoard the firepower of two battleships?

"Notify the Night Eagle and the Intelligence Department, and be sure to find out the where of these four guns."

"Yes."

Behind him, a staff officer immediately took the order and left. Li Mo raised his head and asked, "How are you going to fight?"

Chen Ping immediately replied, "According to the intelligence, more than 90% of the shore guns and mines were arranged in the Uraga waterway, which shows that they have made plans to concentrate on the use of mines and shore guns to guard the waterway. In addition, the remaining few of their warships, if they use conventional means, even if the British ship The whole team can't get in at all.

"Unless we are willing to send the army to land and seize these important places from the land, but the army has shrunk its strength. At present, there are nearly 200,000 troops on the island, half of which are concentrated in Tokyo Bay. We have no ability."

"So I have ordered the supply ship to set off. After Qin Shou figure out the situation of the waterway, the fleet, like the airship, will all use armored bombs and enter Tokyo Bay through the waterway at the fastest speed."

"A-type bullet!"

Li Mo's pupils suddenly shrank. Since the regularization of the army, many of the equipment have also been set levels and names, so he is not unfamiliar with the armor bullets in Chen Ping's mouth, because the monster was originally made according to his ideas.

White phosphorus incendiary bomb!

Unlike the early incendiary bombs doped with a small amount of white phosphorus in Vladivostok, after seeing the power of the incendiary bomb, the Navy and the staff have been strengthening the research of new incendiary bombs and determined the number of the first order of armored bombs, which is even more important than the new armor-piercing bombs.

The new generation of incendiary bombs not only increase the proportion of white phosphorus, but also add some other materials. Especially after Li Mo heard about it, he also deliberately refined some aluminum powder to make the new incendiary bomb adhesion and combustion area wider. According to the results of the secret test, not to mention cement fortifications, even steel It can't stand the burning for a long time.

More importantly, after a large proportion of special materials such as white phosphorus are added, a large amount of toxic smoke will be released after the shell explodes and burned. As long as ordinary people inhale a few mouthfuls, they will faint and completely lose their combat effectiveness!

If the four Jinghai ships and heavy patrol high-speed firing in the auxiliary fleet are all used with incendiary bombs, it is certain that it only takes half an hour to completely submerge a shore gun base, so this is the right and the best choice.

"The smoke is poisonous. Let Long Guozhang be careful." Li Mo said faintly, which was equivalent to agreeing with the plan to use incendiary bombs as the vanguard. Just as he was about to continue to ask about the army, a sound of footsteps suddenly interrupted him. Zhang Zuolin walked into the room and handed over the telegram he had just received: "Night Eagle Report, that batch of things is in Senso-ji Temple, guarded by about 100 people in the United Forces. It has been verified!"

The telegram made Li Mo and Chen Ping happy, and the biggest suspense was solved. So the last question in front of him now is whether Qin Shou can complete the task.

Li Mo asked Chen Ping for a cigarette. He went to the window and looked up at the remnant moon in the sky and exhaled a puff of smoke.

(to be continued)