Chapter 550 Imperial Strikes Back

Yanjing, 11 o'clock.

In the Naval Operations Intelligence Center of the Ministry of Defense, the staff in front of the wall are constantly marking red and blue arrows and dots on the tactical map. Whoever sees this point and line at first glance will be dizzy.

But as time goes by, the situation map also becomes clear.

Cheng Biguang, the new Chief of the General Staff of the Navy, took a baton and explained the current situation to the emperor, the Prime Minister and officials.

Tang Shaoyi stared at the baton carefully. As the leader of the civil servant, this kind of situation map is a book for him, especially in Nauru, Bougainville Island, Perth and so on. If there is no explanation and explanation, I'm afraid he can't distinguish it in a few days.

But with Cheng Biguang's explanation, he gradually understood.

In his eyes, the complex situation map is very simple. In fact, a red line is divided between the Melanesian Islands (the series of islands in front of Micronesia), Guinea and Australia. This red line contains three crucial points, namely, Nauru and the Solomon Sea (including New Britain, New Ireland and Bougainville Island), and Dili (now East Timor).

Three points guarded three routes from Xinhua to Australia. The attack target of the British and American coalition this time has become obvious at this time, that is, three fleets attack three points at the same time, completely cut off all the sea routes from Xinhua to Australia, and then force the Second Fleet with this kind of raid (in The First Fleet is too important to move) to come to the decisive battle.

Since there are three attack points at the same time, if Xinhua is not prepared, the Second Fleet and the reinforced Third Fleet will be divided, which creates an excellent opportunity for the encirclement!

Even if it can't win, as long as one or two support fleets are eaten, the main second fleet of the Southwest Pacific of Xinhua will not recover in the next year, and the strategic initiative of the Pacific Ocean will change hands, because everyone knows that without the cover of the navy, the island is difficult to defend!

In addition to these three most important points, there are four or five other red points. One of the most important ones is the four main battleships of the American interception formation that are rapidly moving south to Chile. Their mission is also very clear, that is, to intercept the two Guam class of the 31st Fleet. As for the others, they are just some small ships. The team, even one or two small cruisers, mainly continue to disperse and cover the containment of the main operations, which does not pose much threat.

At the same time, combined with intelligence and analysis, the counterattack posture of the Imperial Royal Navy has also begun to be clear, that is, to take the initiative to intercept and destroy the three fleets of the British and American coalition forces. Because the British and American fleets in this attack have nine fast battlecruisers (the U.S. heavy cruiser is the warcruiser), if this can be defeated Some guys, or heavy hits, the mobile forces of the two countries in the Pacific Ocean will no longer be able to move in the next year.

In addition, the two Guam-class battleships of Xinhua's 31st Fleet in Chile played a role in covering and dispersing the enemy's forces. Otherwise, the four American battleships that are going south at this moment would have joined the big attack long ago, which would have increased the pressure on Xinhua's defensive counterattack several times.

But no battlefield is isolated, especially the simultaneous naval battle itself has a very strong linkage surname. For example, the two Guam class of the 31st Fleet, which Chile acts as bait. While they act as bait, they also threaten the route from South America to East Australia. If they quickly go westward, then New Zealand and Australia Ya will be very dangerous.

According to the situation, the British, American and New Zealand Squadron, which attacked Nauru on the far right, also has a dual mission, that is, after occupying Nauru and killing the Xinhua Fleet to reinforce it, it immediately turns to the southeast to cooperate with the U.S. fleet to intercept the 31st Fleet and deal with the two Guam class.

At the same time, the Guam class can also quickly advance westward to reinforce the southwest Pacific Ocean and ensure the smooth flow of the waterway.

It can be said that with the eight red and blue arrows competing against each other, except for the northeast and northwest Pacific Ocean, all other places are shrouded in the four fleets of both sides!

As soon as the war started, everyone went all out to spread the war directly to more than half of the Pacific Ocean!

At present, except for the unexpected temporary inactivity of the 31st Fleet in Chile, everything else has begun or is ready to be strangled!

Because the two Hebei-class and two Jilin-class battleships of the Second Fleet and the Spee fleet were controlled by the Anglo-French fleets in the Far East of Malacca and the Indian Ocean trying to enter the Strait, the four main Hebei-class battleships of the First Fleet could not continue to be reinforced, so the mobile force of the Imperial Royal Navy has been emptied.

Between Australia and Greater China (Miconniesia), the main red line in Melanesia will become a watershed for the situation in the coming year. Failure means that the empire will lose a year, and victory means that the opponent must shrink within a year!

It can be said that if there is no prior preparation, the punch of Britain and the United States will be extremely fierce. If all three red dots are occupied, even if the capital ship is saved, the strategic initiative of the southwest will change hands!!

Fortunately, because of the existence of Honolulu, the United States can't launch an attack from the Pacific Eastern Front. The point of the raid is only the southwest side, and there are only a few nodes in the southwest, so the prediction is very convenient. This is why Li Mo dares to let Britain and the United States do it first.

Of course, the biggest reason is the lack of aviation raid force, and he does not have the ability to attack the distant bases of San Diego and Melbourne, so he can only adopt this post-emptive strategy.

It is now extremely clear. Looking up from Australia, the three battlecruisers of the British New Zealand Squadron on the right eastern line have been caught by Xiao Tianzhi. Steddy chose to take the initiative to fight, which is expected to start in an hour.

The middle line also tends to be clear. After searching, the aviation brigade found Clarkston's fleet in the sea north of Solomon. Zhu Houbin's decisive attack made him make a wrong judgment and mistakenly thought that the ambush was in the north, and he was also very clear that if the New Zealand squadron failed, he would not even have a way home, so he chose Choosing to drill south into the Solomon Islands, Gu Juno's first combron is intercepting. Because the speed of four South Carolina-class battleships is only 18 knots, the battle may be the latest to start.

And the interception battle on the Western Front has begun. The third task force led by Ning Xiaochuan boldly ambushed on the coast of Western Australia. In addition, Seymour took two war patrols to shell Perth first, which gave him the opportunity to attack deeply, but the disadvantage was that the fast battleship Shanghai encountered a power failure on the way, so he only had left. A battleship.

As soon as Li Mo turned his head, he saw Rong Kui's face on the side, and even took out a cigarette with trembling hands. He couldn't help taking a deep breath. He also knew very well that although the interception station was set up in advance, except for the advantage of the second task force, the other two games were a little difficult.

Ning Xiaochuan needs to crack Seymour's tactics of entangling battleships with cruisers and using warships to deal with heavy patrols. Gu Junhuo's opponents have eight capital ships, and he only has four, two of which are still older Jilin-class.

"Believe in the navy, they can get through this!"

Li Mo's light but confident words made the civil servants led by Tang Shaoyi and Rong Kui shake slightly. They turned their heads and found that the emperor's eyes were extremely firm, and his heart suddenly seemed to fall a big stone.

"Yuanshou, what else do you need!" With no mood to worry about gains and losses, Tang Shaoyi restored the demeanor of the Prime Minister of a big country and said with a smile, "Don't talk loudly. My heart is not good."

The last sentence immediately relaxed the atmosphere of the intelligence center's analysis room. Chen Ping smiled, looked at the situation map, and took a deep breath: "The army must be insufficient. According to our calculations, it still needs at least three million!"

"The navy needs to see the outcome of this battle, if."

"There is no if!"

Before Chen Ping finished speaking, Tang Shaoyi had already interrupted him with a wave of her hand and gritted her teeth and said, "Since you started to fight, Yuanshou, don't hesitate any more. Our scholars have bad heart, but they are not so bad that they will be scared to death!"

"Three million reserves, and the required army infantry equipment, I will give you all before March next year!"

, "The Air Force will give you four more flight regiments."

"In addition, the navy will give you the quota funds for four special forces. I don't care what you make!"

" hiss."

The Prime Minister's loud words, even Li Mo took a breath. Usually, the Prime Minister's office is stuttering, and it is difficult to pry, and a little bit of military spending will be noisy. That's good. It's the turn of the critical moment. Let's simply support you in one breath!

What is support? This is support! The full support at the critical time is far more important than the usual small favors, which is also what Li Mo wants to see most. In peacetime, you can't do anything, but there must be no delay in wartime.

The three million army was carefully calculated by Li Mo and Chen Ping. Although he tried to make the army slowly begin to mechanize, the road conditions are limited. Even the road construction in Europe is a mess, not to mention other places, so people still need to carry the horse for a long time to come.

The Air Force is also just satisfied with the idea. The four regiments are 2,000 aircraft, and the previous order is enough to deal with any attack, but the navy's gift is a little unexpected. With the acceleration of five new aircraft carriers, Li Mo once thought that he would not continue to build battleships, but he didn't expect Tang Shaoyi to be so decisive!

After Li Mo set the name of the special gangster a few days ago, the navy has made the minimum requirements for the gangster formation, that is, 1 mothership, 2 battleships, 4 light cruisers and 8 destroyers.

Tang Shaoyi now has four as soon as she takes action, which can't even be described as bold. Of course, this is also because of the double-digit growth of the economy in ten years, and when the country will fully enter the wartime plan after the end of this naval war, the cost will drop sharply, which gave the Prime Minister's Office this courage.

Li Mo nodded and was about to praise the people in the Prime Minister's Office. The footsteps of the staff broke the atmosphere that had just turned around.

"Report." The staff reconfirmed the war report he had just received and raised his head: "The Dandong of the Third Task Force was hit and caught fire!"

(to be continued)