1825 My New Daming

Chapter 426 This strategy seems to work! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

"Your Majesty, do you want to surprise Pearl Harbor?"

"Your Majesty, now we have declared war on Ming Dynasty, and the undeclared war has lasted for two years, and the defense of Pearl Harbor has already been completed!"

"That's right, the Ming Pacific Fleet is very powerful. Our Australian fleet is far away, so I'm afraid it's not an opponent."

The ministers under Emperor William felt that it was inappropriate when they heard about the "surprise attack on Pearl Harbor".Not to mention anything else, Zhuge Weidao, the commander of the Pacific Fleet, is an expert in the Zhuge family of the Ming Dynasty, and his ancestral inheritance can pinch and count. You are still attacking, and when you look back, he counts everything, what should you do?
Besides, the Ming family also has reconnaissance planes and reconnaissance airships. Oh, and submarines!
There have been rumors about the submarine for a long time, but this time it was really discovered. In the Caribbean Sea, a British airship took dozens of photos, including photos of it diving.

When these photos were taken back to the Admiralty in Whitehall Street, London, for study, everyone was shocked.Although the UK also has submarines, the British submarines are not that big. If they can't run that far, they are all small ones of one or two hundred tons, and they are all experimental.The quality is not good either. Try it and it will be gone. But all of Daming’s submarines have come to the Atlantic Ocean!

Now there are Zhuge who can pinch and count in the headquarters of Pearl Harbor. Outside Pearl Harbor, there are scout airships, scout planes, scout submarines, and ultimately surface ships wandering around. If the sneak attack succeeds, it will be a miracle .

Emperor William was not angry when he saw that the people below were not in favor of attacking Pearl Harbor. He just smiled and said, "This emperor knows the tricks of the Easterners best! Back then, I spent some time with Zhuge Youde, the father of Zhuge Weidao. I also read two books full of oriental conspiracies under his recommendation, one is called "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and the other is called "Sun Tzu's Art of War". So I will also use oriental strategies this time, I will use oriental people The strategy to deal with the Chinese Pacific Fleet! This is called the way of the other, and give it to the other!"

William's words were mixed in Chinese and English, but the British ministers present could understand them.

It seems that Daming's cultural output on this timeline is still very strong!
"Your Majesty, how do you plan to use your tricks?" Duke Wellington asked curiously.

Of course, this duke is also a Chinese hand. When he led troops in India, he thought that sooner or later the Ming Empire would compete with the British Empire for India.So from then on, he began to study Chinese issues.And he has read the Chinese art of war much more than Emperor William.

Not only have I read "Three Kingdoms" and "Sun Tzu's Art of War", but also read "Six Secret Teachings", "Wu Zi's Art of War", "The Law of Sima", "Three Strategies", "Wei Liaozi", "Questions and Answers of Li Weigong", "Training Soldiers" "Real Records", "Selected Works of Zhuge Wuzhong Wang". And they are all classical Chinese versions!

As for the "old friend" of the Duke of Wellington, Emperor Napoleon, he is even more familiar with China-the kings of the Bourbon dynasty, Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI, are all old friends of the Chinese people and good friends of the Zhuge family. Brother, so the French military academy directly has the course "Chinese Art of War"!The Emperor Napoleon could not only speak Chinese with a Corsican accent, but also write calligraphy!

In the Louvre in this timeline, there are also several calligraphy works of Emperor Napoleon-the contents are all ancient Chinese poems. The calligraphy works of Emperor Napoleon in his early years include "Guan Canghai", "The Turtle's Life", "Duan Ge Xing", the later calligraphy works include "When is the Spring Flower and Autumn Moon", "Speaking Alone to the West Building", "Forty Years of Family and Country", "Man grows and hates water and grows east".
Emperor William smiled and said: "Duke, I know that a simple surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will not succeed. Before our large fleet approaches Pearl Harbor, it will be discovered by various detection methods of the Ming Navy."

That is for sure!
Even if it is the latest carrier-based bomber of the Ming Dynasty, the combat radius is unlikely to exceed 200 kilometers-these aircraft are "deck defenders", so simple bombing cannot defeat the enemy's fleet, it must be bombing plus water surface Fleet decisive battle will do.

Therefore, the attack on Pearl Harbor envisaged by Emperor William was not a sneak attack by plane, but a large fleet pounced on it!

Naturally, there is no sneak attack, unless the Ming army is blind.
"My idea is to strike west and attack east!" Emperor William said, "We can first assemble the fleet in the Indian Ocean and put on a posture of preparing to counterattack Malacca, so that we can mobilize the main force of the Ming Navy from the Pacific to the Strait of Malacca the area.

After the Ming army's navy is concentrated near Malacca, it is very likely that they will land on Java Island. At that time, our large fleet will be able to maneuver in the direction of Australia by bypassing Sumatra in the name of reinforcing Java.Then, we will use a part of the fleet to emerge as the main force and be active between Java Island and the west coast and northwest coast of Australia.At the same time, the main force moved along the north coast of Australia, sneaked to Port Moresby and joined forces with the Australian Grand Fleet, and finally went north to Pearl Harbor together.And near Pearl Harbor, seek a decisive battle with the left-behind detachment of the Pacific Fleet of the Ming Navy! "

In the throne hall of St. James's Palace, there was a moment of silence, and everyone stared blankly at Emperor William.

This emperor seems to be quite powerful!
Emperor William was also very proud. He was a professional admiral and had studied naval warfare all his life, but he had no chance to practice it. Now that he became emperor, he finally had the opportunity to make a big deal.

The emperor asked the Lord of the Admiralty and the First Sea Lord: "Viscount Palmerston, Sir Hardy, how soon can we be ready?"

"August, August this year!" First Sea Lord Sir Dow Hardy calculated, "There will be two...no, three Indian Emperor-class ships in service by then!"

The Indian Emperor class is the "2.5-ton class" battleship that started construction at the beginning of last year.

According to the final design drawings, the standard displacement of this class of ships is 2.5 tons, and the full load displacement is 2.95 tons!

该级舰的侧舷主装甲带305毫米；指挥塔装甲280毫米；甲板装甲25-65毫米；主炮炮塔四周装甲280毫米，顶部102毫米，炮座76-254毫米。

该级舰的武备为：10门双联装13.5英寸45倍径舰炮；12门6英寸火炮；12门3英寸防空炮；12门1磅防空速射炮；4具533毫米鱼雷发射管。

该级舰的动力是：18座三胀式蒸汽锅炉，4台蒸汽轮机；主机最大输出功率：31000马力；4轴推进。最大航速可达21.6节，在10节经济航速下的最大续航里程则为7500海里。

I have to admit that the British shipbuilding technology is still quite strong!Although limited by the backwardness of steam turbine technology, fast battleships cannot be built, but slow iron lumps can still be built.

And this Indian Emperor class with a full load displacement of 2.95 tons definitely has the ability to fight against Daming's "Shihuang" class!

"Three ships are not enough," Kaiser William said, "all four Indian Kaiser-class ships must be put into service!

In addition, our secret weapon, the standard displacement of 2.8 tons, the first and second ships of the King William IV class named after me must also be in service! "

(End of this chapter)