Chapter 545 Departure, Navy

Guam.

July 24, early morning.

The snow-white searchlight pierced the night. Countless trucks ran around the warehouse and docks. The sailors shouted from time to time, and the frequency of the boom swinging back and forth was higher than usual.

Standing on the top of the bridge of the Honolulu, looking at the warships being prepared around, even Long Guozhang, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Navy, was excited and red on the ground, and the cigar in his mouth has not been put down since last night.

From starting from Mastil Island 23 years ago, to now it has eight bases, dozens of small bases, and a huge fleet covering a quarter of the Pacific Ocean. There are battles, from green to mature, and all the way forward in the wind and rain!

21 years ago, on the night of the morning, the navy made its debut by relying on the technical advantages it bought, but the quality of the officers may not even be comparable. Thinking of the scene of the fleet that led several times superior to the enemy, but was so nervous that it was stiff, the corners of Long Guozhang's mouth twitched twice.

Two wars in Russia, two battles, challenging the British Far East Fleet.

Step by step, step by step!

But in the battle of the emperor to force the navy to challenge the opponent intentionally or unintentionally, Xinhua finally grew up. More and more naval people began to join this team, and the deep blue consciousness of the country and the people began to appear and deepen. The century-old navy was no longer a dream.

More importantly, from purchase to self-construction, from the cruiser to the world's most powerful capital ship, under the leadership of the emperor's deep eyes and new ideas for more than 20 years, the steps of the Chinese navy are solid and steady, and all of this has gathered in front of them!

The navy will set out again. The next challenge is the two navies with the first and second total tonnage, one is a century-old naval power, and the other is an emerging industrial empire!

Standing behind him were the three commanders of the "Great Counterattack" operation.

Gu Junhuo, commander of the First Task Force, two Hebei-class battleships of the Third Fleet, Jiangsu, Fujian, and the Jilin-class battleships of the First Fleet, two Jilin and Heilongjiang, six light patrols and six destroyers, plus the assault aircraft carrier carrying the F4C Hornet, and one supply ship.

Xiao Tianzhi, commander of the Second Task Force, Yanjing-class rapid battleships Yanjing and Yucheng of the First Fleet, Dalian-class heavy patrols Dalian and Fengtian of the Second Fleet, two light patrols and four destroyers, Defender training aircraft carriers and one supply ship.

Ning Xiaochuan, commander of the Third Special Fleet, the second fleet Yanjing-class rapid battleships Hong Kong and Shanghai, Dalian-class heavy patrol Harbin and Dandong, two light patrols and four destroyers, Defender training aircraft carriers, and one supply ship.

Twenty years ago, these three captains were in full bloom. Gu Junhuo, the youngest captain in the navy, was only 20 years old at that time, but now he has also entered his prime.

This is all the mobile forces that the Imperial Royal Navy can mobilize at present. They will lead the warship to launch a super counterattack after the enemy declares war, so that the enemy will die in trembling!

Victory, there will be no opponents in the Pacific Ocean in the next year, and the navy can concentrate on the Indian Ocean!

Failure? No, there is no failure!

Long Guozhang pulled out the cigar fiercely and extinguished the cigarette butt hard.

With the growth of the new generation of captains such as Li Xiuyan, the period of naval blood change has arrived. From the beginning of this war, countless people will curtain call in blood and explosions, and more young generations will support the backbone of the empire!

So the navy won't bend over!

Never!

"Let's go, navy!"

Long Guozhang raised his arm, without a passionate speech, no warm hug, only a pitiful four words and an almost solidified military salute.

Three o'clock.

In the arms and eyes of the commander-in-chief who came to see him off, the first task force slowly passed by the Honolulu and rushed out of the Guam base first.

When the three gangster fleets disappeared from sight, Long Guozhang found that his arms were stiff and numb. When he raised his head again, a golden light in the east had stubbornly jumped out of the sea--

Minusinsk, the border fortress of the northern frontier of the empire.

This is located on the artery of the Siberian railway, next to it is the Western Siberian Plain. The town bordering Russia has undergone earth-shaking changes. The huge fortress has replaced the former town. A large number of 36 heavy guns eliminated by the navy and 60 152mm cannons of the army are arranged in Kuanda. On the 30-kilometer fortress group, the two million Russian troops on the opposite side were blocked outside the border.

Three long trains slowly stopped at the temporary station. Tanks and armored vehicles began to enter the temporary barracks that had been prepared for them under the command of the soldiers. Several falcons flew through the sky. In the eyes of the proud people of these days, there was no concept of a border line at all, roaring towards the Russian border. .

Sun Jiugong raised his wrist and looked at his watch, took the list handed over by the logistics officer, and the last two reading armor regiments used to strengthen the northern line finally arrived.

The Reading Armored Regiment is a formation just emerging from Xinhua and belongs to the continuation of the Armored Division.

According to the current army system, a standard armored division has three armored regiments and one infantry regiment. Each armored regiment has three tank battalions. Each tank battalion is subdivided into three companies, each company has 10 M3 tanks, plus 60 of the division's teaching battalion. The whole division has 330 tanks. In addition, 48 152mm self-propelled guns, 60 80mm vehicle-mounted recoilless guns, 800 trucks, 100 tricycles, and 96 Wildcat 3 armored vehicles and 100 other combat vehicles belonging to the reconnaissance battalions of various regiments, with 16,000 combat officers and soldiers, including logistics and machine repair. Up to 5,000 people.

If the organization is changed to an armored regiment and three infantry divisions, it will become a standard infantry division.

The cost of a standard armored division is huge, which is not an ordinary consumption. All equipment alone requires the cost of a semi-warship. In peacetime, four armored divisions and four infantry divisions are already the emperor's greatest ability.

But now all kinds of restrictions have been lifted. Originally, after receiving the funds, the general staff considered to build two more armored divisions and four infantry divisions, but the emperor suggested to form a smaller reading armored regiment. In this way, the organization is small, the maneuver deployment ability is fast, and more flexible. In an emergency, as long as several regiments are combined, it is one. A complete armored division.

The general and the army accepted the proposal and began to form 12 reading armored regiments, each of which was three armored battalions and a teaching battalion, with a total of 120 M3 tanks.

M3 is the number in the army. Its official name is Cheetah. This tank gathers the experience and lessons of the first two tanks. It also has a nickname called Patch Tank in the equipment department, because the M3 was tested on various terrains across the country at the beginning of its design. As a result, it changed its track today. The drive shaft will be changed tomorrow, and the turret will be changed the day after tomorrow. Nearly 40 test cars have been damaged in one lap, and all parts of the car have been completely modified.

The hard work of the staff in the past two years, regardless of the cost of the money campaign, finally made a very good tank, weighing 15 tons, using a 180 horsepower gasoline engine, similar to the later American M24 tank, the maximum speed of the flat ground is 40 km/h, off-road 15 km/small The maximum driving distance is 380 kilometers.

The front of the engine and the turret are tilted forward, and VH steel armor is used, so the bulletproof name can be greatly improved. A 37mm machine gun with 50 times the body tube is used, 350 rounds of ammunition, a 7.62mm synchronous machine gun, and a second one on the top of the turret.

The most important thing is that its 37mm machine gun can penetrate the heavily used A7 tanks in Europe at the whole distance of 3,500 meters, and its excellent mobility is difficult to be targeted by the slow A7 main gun. As for the opponent's most threatening machine gun, as long as the thin flank and rear are not exposed within 300 meters, almost Can be immune.

Sun Jiugong put together the list. With the arrival of these two armored regiments, he already had a mechaoper, two reading armored regiments, and the tank regiment of the Ninth Brigade composed of the Jewish soldiers, a total of four regiments of armored assault forces, plus 18 infantry divisions, a total of 400,000 troops!

In addition, there are 300 falcons of the Air Force to provide air support and reconnaissance.

So how to make good use of this force and turn the technical advantage into a victory is the key to this action to lay a good foundation for next year's general attack.

As for the general ginseng, which did not target the northwest as the first round of attack, he was not surprised, because it was not all a strategic need, but more importantly, the bad weather here.

The opposite Western Siberia is a huge plain. If it is placed in other places, it is the paradise of M3, but now it is the end of July, and it will snow here in October, and the temperature will drop rapidly. At that time, all vehicles cannot launch an attack. The temperature of minus dozens of degrees will make it extremely difficult to attack.

Therefore, the general assembly was also forced to make this decision. Although in theory, it was indeed possible to let the armored regiment break through crazily within two months to kill the Ural Mountains, the biggest defect of the armored force was logistics. The northwest operation especially needed logistical support, especially the long motivation, which once made him miserable.

Western Siberia is not an inaccessible East Siberia. 3 million square kilometers of land has enough strategic depth. In addition, more than millions of Russian immigrants have emigrated here in decades. Once the front line is lengthned, it will be a disaster.

This kind of difficulty is unimaginable to ordinary people.

So before May next year, it is an absurd dream to launch a big offensive here to push the front to the Ural Mountains. Russia's advantage is the depth of its territory, so the general manager decided to attack the northwest, and take advantage of this autumn and winter to solve the southeast and open up the Malacca channel.

400,000 troops gathered on the northern front, and more than 25 divisions could be used to attack, so he did not intend to give the Russians a chance to breathe. What's more, the general staff needed the northern front to continue to kill and injure soldiers and personnel through oppressive attacks, forcing Nicholas II to mobilize more troops here to relieve German pressure.

Three million?

Humph!

In the cold hum of Sun Jiugong, Changshou Mountain, the first step master, has come to him.

"The authorized telegram of the General Counselor has come. The Northwest Military Region has been officially established, and you will continue to be the commander-in-chief." The descendant of General Yuan Chonghuan handed the telegram to Sun Jiugong with a smile.

"Shoushan, when do you think the United States will declare war?"

"I can't guess the exact date, but it must be Monday."

"Oh? Why?" Sun Jiugong's eyes flashed with a cold light and asked.

"Ha ha, commander, I'm afraid you have an answer in your heart." Shoushan turned his head, looked at the west and smiled, "The foreigners think that worship is a rest day given by God."

Sun Jiugong narrowed his eyes recently on Monday.

It's August 1st!

(to be continued)