1825 My New Daming

Chapter 362 Segmented volley operations in the Great America and the theory of three successes against the Ming Dynasty! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

USA, Washington, White House.

President Jackson's cabinet's "laying down crisis" has passed, and those cabinet members who went on strike because of the scandal caused by the Secretary of War and the married woman, naturally can no longer be angry with the president when the enemy is at hand.So Secretary of State Martin Van Buren held a reception and made up the mud.

At this moment, the ministers of the US government finally got together in the conference room of the White House, and began to seriously discuss the issue of the yellow peril-the British embassy called again early this morning, saying that they were in Malvina The airship station in the Sri Lanka Islands reported that the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force fleet has now passed the Drake Passage and entered the Atlantic Ocean.

The situation is quite serious!

According to the British airship reconnaissance, this fleet has at least 30 ships, of which there are seven large ships with more than [-] tons, two of which have sails, and the other five have no sails.The rest of the ships are all small and medium-sized ships of three to four thousand tons. They are actually not small, they are almost second-class and third-class cruisers.

And those five big ships without sails might all be battleships like the Hero class and the Great Emperor class!

This is a bit worrying!
Now the main force of the U.S. Navy is the "Sixty-Six Fleet"-the main force of the fleet composed of six United States-class battleships and six Pennsylvania-class armored cruisers.

Among them, the United States class is a weakened version of the Victory class. The firepower and armor are the same as the Victory class. However, because the boilers and steam engines produced in the United States are purchased, the quality does not seem to be up to standard. Although the nominal indicated horsepower is 2.3 horsepower, but in In actual use, it can only generate less than 2 horsepower without forced ventilation, and where does the remaining 3 horsepower go?So their speed is 3 knots slower than the Victory class, only 18 knots.

The Pennsylvania-class armored cruiser is an armored cruiser designed and built by American engineers. The ship has a standard displacement of more than 1.3 tons, two twin 8-inch main guns, 14 6-inch secondary guns and quite strong armor. .

In addition, it also has boilers and steam engines of the same type as the United States.However, because the main engine supplier of the six Pennsylvania-class cruisers and the six United States-class warships are not the same.The craftsmanship of the former is obviously better, so the main engine power of the Pennsylvania class is actually greater than that of the United States class, reaching 2.2 horsepower, and the speed is as high as 22 knots, which is only 1 knot slower than the hero class.

Although the performance of the United States and Pennsylvania grades is not ideal, but because the number of "heroes" is twice as high as that of Mexico, and because they can make them themselves, they are willing to fight (this is where making is better than buying), enough Suppress those Caribbean fleets of the Mexican Empire.

But what is coming now is the Japanese devils who are the agents of the Great Ming Dynasty, and it may even be the Ming Navy with the signboard of the Japanese devils. What aircraft carrier battleship!

Aircraft can take off and land on the battleship, and I don't know how to do it?Anyway, with this unique skill, the Ming Navy beat up the "Big Brother" of the United States in the Straits of Malacca and the Great Strait a few months ago, and later sent planes to bomb the "eldest son of Great Britain" and the "Big Brother of India" of the United States.

Seeing that "Daddy Ying" and "Brother Yin" were beaten up badly, the U.S. Department of War and the Department of the Navy became tense during this period, and began to scramble to formulate a battle plan for tomorrow (day).

"John, is the Department of the Navy's battle plan ready? How does the U.S. Navy plan to defeat the invading Ming and Japanese navies?"

The President of the United States, Andrew Jackson, is an army. He is very sure about the combat effectiveness of the US Army. There are 2000 million white Americans. If there is a general mobilization, there will be at least 100 million soldiers!Daming and Japan are separated by the Pacific Ocean, how many soldiers can they send over?

Moreover, if soldiers sent by Ming and Japan landed on the west coast, they would have to pass through the Rocky Mountains if they wanted to fight eastward after landing. There are no roads or railways in the Rocky Mountains.

If the Ming and Japanese armies disembark at the port of Acapulco in south-central Mexico, then reach the coast of the Gulf of Mexico through the Mexican railway line, and then march to Texas, the logistics will have to rely on the Ming-Mexican Navy in the Caribbean Sea.

So what President Andrew Jackson is really worried about is that the U.S. Navy will lose its command of the Caribbean Sea!

In order to ensure the dominance of the sea, after being elected, President Jackson ordered the Department of War and the Department of the Navy to start formulating a plan to invade Mexico, separate Texas from Mexico, and force Mexico to stop the Nicaragua Canal project.

But unexpectedly, before the U.S. took action against Mexico, Daming would take the lead. First, he built a Texas warrior city in Texas, and now he sent a fleet to the Texas Troop Carrier. Seeing this, he must be determined to "invade" "It's Texas!

Therefore, Andrew Jackson can only ask the Ministry of the Navy to urgently prepare a battle plan.

"Mr. President," Secretary of the Navy John Blanche took over the president's question and replied, "The Department of the Navy has formulated two plans to deal with short-term and long-term threats respectively.

Among them, the plan used to deal with short-term threats is segmented interception, gradually weakening the naval expedition formation of tomorrow (Japan), and finally launching a decisive battle of the main fleet near Dezhou Bay, in order to wipe out the enemy in one fell swoop! "

Andrew Jackson asked: "Why does the navy intercept in sections? Can't it concentrate its main force to destroy the enemy's fleet at once?"

"Mr. President, the staff of the Navy believes that our capital ship does not have enough anti-aircraft firepower, and its speed is too slow. It is easy to be spotted and damaged by the enemy's carrier-based aircraft before the main battle. It would be extremely disadvantageous to have been bombed for a few rounds by heavy bombs! In the Battle of Great Strait, the capital ship of the British Royal Navy was first damaged by aircraft, and then besieged and sunk by enemy capital ships and destroyers. "

Andrew Jackson frowned, "Then the navy's segmented interception can avoid being bombed by the enemy?"

"The navy plans to take advantage of the high speed of the Pennsylvania class and our home field advantage in the Caribbean Sea, and use the islands in the Caribbean Sea as cover to carry out multiple rounds of night raids, aiming to damage or sink the enemy's aircraft carrier fleet. Retreat and hide during the day to avoid being injured by enemy planes. After fully weakening the enemy, the navy concentrated the Pennsylvania class and some fast ships in good condition, pretended to fight the enemy at night in the Yucatan Strait, and pretended to be invincible to lure the enemy Go to the outskirts of Dezhou Bay, which is blocked by mines, and use the minefields to weaken the enemy again. Finally, dispatch the main fleet, and strive to annihilate the invading enemy fleet in one fell swoop!"

Andrew Jackson frowned immediately after hearing this plan, and then asked: "What about the long-term plan of the Navy Department?"

"Mr. President, the Department of the Navy's long-term plan to deal with the threat of the yellow peril is to increase the size of the navy's battleships, armored cruisers, and aircraft-based cruisers to more than 30% of the size of the corresponding capital ships of the Ming Dynasty Navy."

(End of this chapter)