Chapter 587 The birth of Yin Shang
The autumn wind rises.
Sitting in the garden pavilion, Li Mo can already feel the chill.
Since yesterday, heavy snow began to fall in Siberia and other places. The first battle of Western Siberia has all ended. Hundreds of thousands of prisoners are being transported inland through three railway lines. These Russian prisoners will serve in China until the end of the war.
The remaining 28 Kunpeng and 46 storms of the Second Air Division have also begun to transition this morning, because the severe cold will cause metal cracks, which is especially serious for the aircraft. Therefore, in order to avoid unnecessary losses, they will return to China to rest for a period of time, and then go to Luzon for deployment, ready to start a large-scale westward battle. Service.
The troops in the southeast war zone under the command of Liu Hengyu are progressing smoothly, but they are not in a hurry to attack. This is because considering the differentiation of the political pattern of the southeast peninsula in the future, they have adopted the method of advancing step by step to consolidate and unite the local people to form a decentralized political power circle. This plan now seems to outweigh the gains, but It can have a significant impact on the future.
Direct use of war to eliminate or divide local forces is the most direct and effective way. Li Mo and General Staff do not like to see a huge Vietnam that continues to maintain unity, so the war in French Indochina is not so urgent. In the case of almost no foreign aid from the opponent and the geographical environment is bad, it is stable. It is a good way to fight steadily and reduce casualties.
Singapore and Malacca really need to be solved as soon as possible!
At present, Liu Henghui has sent two divisions into Myanmar, but from the current news, the road conditions there are really bad. Not to mention the miasma, if there are no locals leading the way, I'm afraid no one will know where the troops died.
To open up Myanmar, it is almost impossible to quickly realize the way to attack India, so the general manager's eyes have returned to the plan to openly attack Malacca and open up the Indian route.
What's more, he still has information about the Allied Gibraltar Conference in his pocket. In addition to facing third-line pressure, the United States is also really enraged.
Li Mo sighed from the bottom of his heart, turned his head and asked, "How's Qiaoer?"
"Your Majesty, don't worry, Sister Qiao is not so weak." Fang Xianqi knew that Li Mo was restless during this period, mostly for Li Zhen's injury, so she quickly comforted him and said, "Our sisters will discuss things at home. You don't have to worry about it."
"That's good."
Li Mo nodded, but he was still a little worried. Originally, he wanted to see the small one, but Chen Ping had already walked into the garden.
Knowing that there must be something wrong with the two, Fang Xianqi obediently gave up her seat and ordered someone to make tea before saying hello to Chen Ping, and walked into the hall.
"What's the matter?"
"Your Majesty, Lefei has departed from Subic and is expected to arrive off the coast of Cape Town on the 20th. He asked me to tell you that everything is at ease." Looking at Li Mo, who seemed to be a few years old, Chen Ping also knew the pressure on Li Mo at this time and comforted: "Just now, we received a telegram from Cuba. The 31st Fleet has completed the supply and left there after confluence with the Dongting Lake. At present, even if their fuel can no longer be replenished, they can still insist on returning to China.
In addition, Cuba also found several good doctors and a large number of medicines, and used the speedboat to send them to Li Xiuyan. According to them, the eldest prince can already eat, and his injury has begun to improve.
"Thank you!"
Li Mo looked deeply at Chen Ping, and his eyes made the latter slightly surprised. At the same time, he couldn't help smiling: "The emperor doesn't have to blame himself. Although the 31st Fleet is risky, it is not without gains. At least the U.S. economy and heavy industry will recover. I'm afraid it won't work without a year and a half. Our pressure is not so great."
Chen Ping said it easily, but Li Mo was already very clear that with the agreement of the Gibraltar Conference and the Allied countries out of the chaos, his gambling war strategy more similar to the fifty-six of the later generations of Yamamoto was impossible. Fortunately, Li Zhen's accidental injury woke him up. Even if the 31st Fleet could come back safely, it could drum Dance morale also outweighs the gains.
In retrospect, if it can be stabilized after the counterattack, the 31st Fleet will be strengthened to the Gulf of Panama and cooperate with submarines to contain the U.S. channel to Australia, although the effect is not as immediate as the shelling of New York, it is more in line with the current war process. At least the United States will not be in a hurry to work hard.
With Le Fei's comeback, the serial number of the special hybrid appeared in the naval sequence again two months later. With his response, as long as Li Xiuyan does not make mistakes and don't waste time, there is no big problem to come back safely. With the next five enlarged Western Qin-class aircraft carriers, the first one was launched three days ago to start the sea test, at the latest I can join the navy in February next year, so I still have an advantage!
What we need to do now is to sulk them with superior equipment first while the Allied countries have just begun to adjust!
Thinking of this, Li Mo felt more relaxed: "You should know about the Gibraltar Conference. How are you going to fight?"
"East attack, south defense, west attack!"
"Then do it, and don't leave a little respite!" After thinking about it, Li Mo said.
"Yes!" Seeing that Li Mo finally smiled at the corners of his mouth, Chen Ping saluted and quickly walked out of the garden. As he left, he entered the countdown to the first large-scale battle of complete encirclement and annihilation after the war.
Looking at his back, Li Mo's heart flew to the Indian Ocean--
The blue sky and the sea are connected in the distance. On the usual stormy and dangerous Southern Indian Ocean, today there is a rare calm and good weather.
Suddenly, a thick smoke separated the sea and the sky, like a dragon rising from the sky, drilling through the sea and going straight up to the sky.
As a cruiser full of gun barrel on the deck suddenly jumped up from the sea level, the sky was gradually dyed black. A huge fleet appeared in the sky. Heron Bird looked curiously at the two warships with a wide straight-through deck in the center, flapping its wings to use it as a resting place, but unexpectedly a huge The figure has buzzed and soared from above.
On the right side of the narrow and small island, there is an extended platform. Behind the railing of the platform, there is a man in a blue navy short-sleeved suit with two glittering silver stars on his shoulders. The cold-faced man looked at the railing from afar, and there seemed to be hidden worries between his eyebrows.
"Report, the information transferred from the Admiralty, the two French battleships on the island of Madagascar are not in the port. Do you want to send reconnaissance aircraft to confirm?"
"No!" Le Fei decisively interrupted the staff. He knew what the staff who had followed him from the Honolulu thought, so he added, "Continue south."
The moment the staff officer turned around, a bi-wing attack aircraft quickly took off from the end of the deck, but few people knew that this kind of wooden aircraft, which can be listed as one of the world's top, using a 550 horsepower star air-cooled engine, was just a transitional product. When it was set off, it learned that the aviation design institute was a single-wing aluminum carrier-based attack aircraft. Significant progress has been made in weight loss, and they may be quickly eliminated soon.
In order not to affect the take-off and landing of the aircraft, the slender and narrow bridge position is placed on the right side of the deck, especially the two chimneys in the back are also designed to be flat and wrapped in a steel plate, which looks like a close to the back of the bridge, forming a rather strange shape for outsiders.
But for him, who has been dormant for several years and has been studying and exploring the use of aviation for naval warfare, the Yin Shang class is two steel beasts that are really born for aircraft.
The deck is 222 meters long, 29 meters wide, with a water intake of 7.5 meters, a standard displacement of 16,500 tons, a full load of 22,000 tons, four gas turbines, a total of 110,000 horsepower, which can make this big guy soar to 31 knots, and the endurance can also reach 15 knots/10,000 nautical miles, or 20 Section/5,500 nautical miles.
It adopts a closed bow and deck design, a three-layer bottom design, and a 120mm carburizing armored steel is used for the torpedo wall. In addition, important parts such as power and fuel have also been strengthened. The ship has four large generators, two of which are used for large hydraulic lifts before and after the bridge. Four double-mounted 130mm high-level dual-purpose rapid-fire guns, 16 quadruple 37mm rapid-fire guns, and the newly installed 24 double-mounted 25mm machine guns, as well as a number of 12.7mm large venomous snake machine guns.
In these years of exploration and practice, it has been confirmed that the aircraft carrier is a warship born purely for attack. The greatest value lies in the above carrier-based aircraft, so the load capacity and the surname energy of the aircraft itself are the key.
68 original designed aircraft, 18 F4C "Bumblebee", 48 F4D "Dragon Teeth" attack aircraft and 2 search and rescue four-seat "hummingbird" seaplanes (do not occupy the hangar position, park in the gap between the flight deck and the stern, and take off on the surface of the water).
Bumblebee no longer needs to be repeated. As a single-wing all-metal fighter, it surpasses the current whole generation in the world, and the Longya ship-borne torpedo attack aircraft, which should have been equipped, had a problem of being overweight at that time and had to be re-modified.
Although the Seahawk is a very good aircraft, the designers also deliberately shortened the length of the double-layer wings, but because it cannot be folded to take up more space, the total number of aircraft carriers has dropped to 18 bumblebees and 28 seahawks.
What's more serious is that because it is made of wood, the plane itself is very light. Once it encounters a side wind of more than ten meters per second when landing, it will be very dangerous. However, this kind of wind speed is very common on the sea, and it can't grab the blocking rope with a tail hook like the hornets when it is on the ship, because it will directly tear off the fragile aircraft. Body.
These defects have led to the emperor's reluctance to purchase biplanes. Although the Aviation Design Institute had considered manufacturing a biplane all-metal aircraft, it has been cancelled after Longya's weight reduction is expected.
Although there are many shortcomings, the Seahawk's loading still solves the embarrassment of the lack of attack means, and the attack aircraft is suddenly reduced by nearly half, so that he does not feel too worried. Even if these aircraft face the Allied Fleet, which has just begun the concept of air defense, he is still confident. Winning the opponent, what he is really worried about is whether he can meet with the 31st Fleet as soon as possible to protect them back!
Thinking of the telegram sent by Commander Long and the Chief of General Staff at the time of departure, he could not let go of the hanging heart. As an old qualified naval officer, he knew very well how difficult it would be to move behind enemy lines for more than two months. At this time, the 31st Fleet must be exhausted, so Li Xiuyan chose not to go to Chile, but Go straight to the Cape of Good Hope.
They will face the British South African fleet directly, and the two French battleships that have probably arrived there from Madagascar.
With the strength of the 31 fleet, it is only a matter of time to defeat them, but the fleet composed of two Yinshang-class aircraft carriers, one Yanjing-class fast battleship, three Yangtze River-class light cruisers, and two oil and water supply ships, still runs at a speed of 20 knots.
In addition to being anxious to protect the 31st Fleet from accidents, it is also because everyone hopes to use a non-fierce war to give Yin Shang a sacrifice flag.
(to be continued)