1825 My New Daming

Chapter 428 What a coincidence, we also want to attack Australia! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

"Battleships and battlecruisers include one Dazhou-class, two Zhongwang-class, six Shihuang-class, six Hero-class or Hero-kai, six Hanwu-class (Hongwu Kai), a total of 21 ships! The mothership has two There are four Guangdong-class ships, two Shuzhongwang-class ships, four Liaodong-class ships (improved from the Nandao class), a total of eight ships! As for the new cruisers and destroyers such as the hero class, the strong man class, the Kongming class, and the escort class, there are even more Hundreds of plans. There are more than [-] Type A landing ships! With such strength, wouldn’t it be easy to take the Southern Continent directly?”

"Go straight? Brother Daozi, don't you plan to fight from the New Guinea Islands, the Solomon Islands, and the New Guinea Island step by step?"

"Yeah, if you take it directly, you have to sail 7500 kilometers directly? You have to pass through the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides, can it work? The logistics line will not be destroyed by the British Anzac fleet, right? "

"No problem. It seems that there is no problem now. According to reliable information, the British are preparing to launch a counterattack in the Strait of Malacca and the Nanyang Islands. According to the analysis of the Navy Staff, they may land in the west of Sumatra and attract the main force of our Western and South Sea fleets. In the waters of the Indian Ocean, the main force of the Indian fleet will bypass Sumatra and arrive in Java, and finally go north to attack the oil facilities in the south and east of Borneo Island, attracting our Western and South Sea fleets to return east!"

"It's really complicated, is this information reliable?"

"Reliable! These days, the main force of the British home fleet is entering the Indian Ocean through the Strait of Suez and the Red Sea. The Dutch are also strengthening the defense of Java Island and starting to expel our businessmen in Java. Obviously, they want to fight us!"

Zhuge Weidao, Mu Zhongjun, and Zheng Guoxian have been discussing how to fight Australia since they left Shanghai.At the very beginning, Zhuge Weidao's plan was the same as the strategy of the Japanese devils going south. They first captured the New Guinea Islands, then attacked the Solomon Islands, and finally entered the Coral Sea to capture Port Moresby.With Port Moresby as a springboard, the army can go south to land on the east coast of Australia.

And this plan is actually what the Ming Pacific Fleet Command has been doing.Before the Pacific Fleet went south to capture and operate the Truk Lagoon, it was actually to use it as a springboard for going south to the New Guinea Islands.

However, following the "reliable information" sent by the Naval Staff to Zhuge Weidao in the past two days that the British Royal Navy is gathering in India and that Britain is likely to launch the Malacca-South Seas Battle, Zhuge Weidao changed his mind. .Instead of learning from little devils, I want to learn from the devil's "McArthur" MacArthur, and use a leapfrog tactic to directly bypass the heavily guarded New Guinea Islands, Solomon Islands, and New Hebrides by the British, and take Make a long-distance raid in a straight line between Pearl Harbor and the east coast of Australia, and land directly on the east coast of Australia!

In his view, the main force of the British Royal Navy has now gone to the Indian Ocean, and is preparing for a decisive battle with the Ming Navy in Malacca and the western part of the Nanyang Islands. Therefore, the British Australian fleet must be weakened.Now that the Australian fleet has been weakened, no matter how strong the British forces on the New Guinea Islands, Solomon Islands, and New Hebrides are, they will be alone and helpless.

Moreover, this is not the era when aviation can seal off large areas of sea. It is impossible for the enemy trapped on an isolated island to send planes out to bomb. Now the best carrier-based aircraft of Ming Dynasty, the Ssangyong 2 and Haifeilong 2, are in the air with full ammunition and fuel. Under normal circumstances, the combat radius is only 200 kilometers. This distance is not enough to look at in the South Pacific.

Therefore, the defenders on these islands must cooperate with the fleet to play a role.If the main force of the fleet is taken away, then they are useless.

"Daozi," said Mu Zhongjun, who had already got the rank of general, holding on to the railing, and set his sights on a Type A landing ship with a standard displacement of 2000 tons, a full-load displacement of 5000 tons, and a 4000-horsepower steam engine. The Marine Corps is no better than your navy. You can leave at any time, but we can't! And this time we used to fight Australia is a mixed brigade that requires a lot of logistics, equipped with a lot of cars, armored vehicles and artillery, The logistics of this kind of troops can keep up, and the fight must be very fierce. But if the logistics is broken, then even the riflemen can't compare. After all, a rifleman can fight for a day with 10 or 20 bullets. Yes, but the operation of the mixed brigade consumes a lot of gasoline, accessories, and ammunition!"

The so-called mixed brigade. Of course it is not a mixed brigade, but motorized infantry that will march in cars, armored cavalry that can directly charge into battle (no horses, only armored vehicles), motorized artillery with enough tractor vehicles, and a large number A synthetic brigade composed of automobile soldiers used to transport supplies and ammunition!
It sounds very powerful, but it is very difficult to manage. As for using it, no one has used it!But one thing is certain, this kind of brigade stuffed with a lot of motorized equipment and artillery has extremely high requirements for logistical support.

Zhuge Weidao, who has led soldiers for several years, knows this very well. A rifle with a few bullets is a "soldier", and the powerful "Da Zhou" battleship is a "lord"!

A battleship is serving, it is really like an ancestor!It’s not that industrialized countries absolutely can’t play. Even if you spend money to buy equipment, it’s a one-off. For example, Mexico is now beaten back to its original shape, and you can’t play high-level games. Only Florida jungle warfare and Texas trench warfare are left.

However, it is impossible to conquer Australia with an infantry with a few bullets from a rifle, because Australia is too vast and vast, and there is no highly mobile army. Let alone occupying the entire continent, they want to maintain a certain number of coastal areas Strongholds are difficult.

Moreover, because Australia has too few residents and the level of development is too low, neither side can establish a long front, so large corps mobile warfare will inevitably become the main method of confrontation.The Ming army, which was unable to transport a large number of cavalry to Australia by long-distance sea, could only rely on the motorization that had just appeared. At least cars would not get seasick!
But to maintain a group of motorized brigades, the logistical head really needs to be huge.And the logistics of Australia's operations must be the fault of the Pacific Fleet!
"Don't worry," Zhuge Weidao said with a smile, "the big British fleet has reached the Nanyang battlefield and the Malacca battlefield. It is a dead end! The Nanyang and Western fleets of Guan Junmen and Li Junmen are more powerful than my Pacific Fleet." It is necessary to keep 50% stronger so that Kaiser William’s large fleet will never return! And how can the little navy left by the British in Australia be able to stop my Pacific Fleet?”

Just as he was speaking, Guo Xiaobao, the Chief Staff Officer of the Pacific Fleet, hurried over with a copy of the telegram. When he reached Zhuge Weidao, he saluted: "Admiral, a telegram from the Naval Staff Department."

As he said that, he handed the telegram to Zhuge Weidao with both hands. Zhuge Weidao took a look and laughed: "Haha, the British built a super battleship called King William IV. It is said that the standard displacement is more than 3 tons, and the full load can reach 3.8 tons. They plan to let it go to India while sea trials. If there is any situation, it will be repaired and improved in India. It seems that it is their trump card for attacking Nanyang! This trip to Nanyang, The Dazhou-class battleship of the Western Fleet has an opponent!"

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