1825 My New Daming

Chapter 433 No matter how many ways I go, you only come all the way! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
Beijing Xishan, the command center of the Great Ming General Staff Headquarters.

In the huge hall, a huge world map was hung on a tall and wide wall.The staff members are constantly marking red or blue arrows and dots on this huge map, pasting the good map to the point where anyone will be dizzy at first sight.But for those who really know how to do it, they only need to take a few more glances, and the situation map of today's world will become very clear.

Zheng Guozhong, the left minister of the Ming Empire, Zhuge Weiyi, the right minister, Zhuge Weiyong, Minister of the Navy, Liu Quanzhong, Minister of the Ministry of War (Ministry of War), Li Tieshan, Chief of the Army, and Lin Zexu, Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stood in front of this big map.Zhuge Youmo, the newly appointed chief of naval staff, was holding a baton, explaining the current situation to these important officials of the Ming Dynasty.

Zheng Guozhong and Prime Minister Zheng stared at the stick carefully. As the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty’s wartime cabinet and the head of the Zheng family, he certainly couldn’t tell others whether he was interested in fighting at all. This stick full of arrows, lines, and dots The situation map is like a bible to him.Especially that Zhuge Youmo who always talked about some weird grounds, the Andaman Sea for a while, the Maluku Strait for a while, and the Trukxi Lake (lagoon) for a while. He is quite familiar with Hangzhou West Lake. Where does he have it? What a big house!What is Truxi Lake (lagoon) and where is it?There is also a small "West Lake", how could it hold the entire Pacific Fleet?

However, following Zhuge Youmo's final summary, Zheng Guozhong still had a little understanding of the current situation.

The current situation looks chaotic, but it is actually not complicated. It is to find the main force of the British Royal Navy, the Indian Fleet. Find them, beat them up first, and then encircle them from all directions, and wipe them all out. Next, I want to Just hit anywhere.

And this genius plan now encounters a little trouble-it just doesn't know where the British Indian fleet went?
Five days ago, the main force of the Indian Grand Fleet quietly left the port of Colombo while taking advantage of the darkness, and then disappeared into the vast Indian Ocean.The first voyage of the Western Fleet had long been lurking in the Great Strait, and after getting the news, it went out one or two hundred nautical miles southeast of Ceylon Island to search for the enemy.Li Chenghui, the admiral of the Western Fleet, personally led the main force out of the Temasek base and entered the Andaman Sea westward, posing as if he was going to attack Ceylon Island, hoping to attract the Indian fleet to a decisive battle.

However, Li Chenghui's large fleet wandered around the Andaman Sea for two days, but there was no trace of the British large fleet.As a last resort, he could only lead the main force of the Western Fleet out of the Shidu Strait westward, and joined the Western Fleet commanded by Rear Admiral Zhuge Yang in the first voyage battle, and approached Ceylon Island together.

But the Indian Ocean Fleet still hasn't shown up
However, the General Staff did not pin all their hopes on the Western Fleet.At the same time that Li Chenghui sent troops, Guan Taipei also received an order from the General Staff to command the Nanyang Fleet to leave the Brunei Bay base in two ways.Among them, Guan Taipei led the main force to go south to the vicinity of the east exit of the Strait of Malacca, while Zhuge Yangyong, the commander of the aviation unit under Guan Tianpei, led the first flight of the Western Fleet to lurk in the Makassar Strait on the east of Borneo Island. There are also capable people in it. Of course, they would have thought that the British fleet might bypass Sumatra and then pass through the Lombok Strait or Sunda, enter the Java Sea, and attack the oil fields in southern Borneo.

However, Guan Tianpei and Zhuge Yangyong lurked for three or four days, and they did not find the main force of the British Indian fleet.The planes and airships that took off from Sumatra wandered around the Indian Ocean every day, but they also found nothing. The Indian Ocean is so big that it is impossible to search for it!

"Hey, don't search if you can't find it!"

After listening to Zhuge Youmo's introduction, Zheng Guozhong waved his hands and said, "Since your navy can't even search such a large area, why are you still doing these useless efforts?"

"Master Xiang," Zhuge Wei, Shangshu of the Admiralty, spread his hands, "Then what are you going to tell us?"

"We can take the initiative to attack!" Zheng Guozhong said, "Let the Western Fleet fight Ceylon, the Nanyang Fleet fight Java, and the Pacific Fleet fight wherever you want! Isn't it good that we have more ships? Then just divide our forces I can't believe that the Brits are really unmoved, watching our fleet take Ceylon, Java, and a bunch of dots in the South Pacific!"

After hearing Zheng Guozhong's words, the right minister Zhuge is righteous, the secretary of the Navy Department Zhuge is useful, and the chief of naval staff Zhuge Youmo is stunned. All the possibilities have been counted-even, they have already counted that the British fleet may make a big detour, bypass the southern mainland and enter Port Moresby, and attack the Hawaiian Islands after a period of rest.So the three of them asked Zhuge Weidao to send a team to Truk Lagoon just in case
However, Zheng Guozhong, Prime Minister Zheng Da, now came up with a way to disrupt the fist - beat the master to death with random punches!Isn't the British Empire just a master with insufficient strength?If you play tricks with him, he may still be able to hold on for a while. If there is a punch, the British Empire may be knocked down.

"With this way of fighting, the siege will be broken!" At this time, Liu Quanzhong, Minister of the Ministry of War, twitched his beard and said, "We're fighting indiscriminately, can't the British be able to concentrate their main force and fight us all the way?"

"Yes!" Zhuge Weiyong nodded, "They don't care which way we go, they just concentrate on the main force to come all the way!"

Zhuge Weiyi said: "This is why we divide our troops and let the British concentrate to fight together!"

"Can this work?" Liu Quanzhong asked.

Zhuge Youmo said: "I think it's okay. The British guys concentrated their forces in India, that's what they should be planning! Let's just play tricks and give them a chance!"

"Can you win?" Zheng Guozhong asked.

"It's okay to hurt both!" Zhuge Youmo said confidently, "We use one-third of the main force to fight against all their elites. If we lose both, we still have another two-thirds to use, which is enough to take down Java Island and Australia!"

Zhuge Weiyi added: "And our shipbuilding capacity has far surpassed that of Yingyi. There is nothing to be afraid of if we wipe out a large fleet. The big deal is to rebuild!"

Zheng Guozhong glanced at his advisor, Lin Zexu, who nodded, and said, "Players who have a lot of capital and are not afraid of losing at the poker table can always take advantage of it, and our poker skills are not bad."

"It makes sense!" Zheng Guozhong laughed, "That's the reason!"

He is familiar with playing cards
Zhuge Weiyong nodded to Zhuge Youmo, Zhuge Youmo said: "In this case, then order the Western Fleet to attack Ceylon Island! Order the two teams of the Nanyang Fleet to meet in the Java Sea and attack Java together! As for The Pacific Fleet. You can ask Zhuge Daozi for his opinion. The Pacific Fleet is the main force in this battle, and Australia is the main attack. How to fight still depends on Daozi’s own opinion."

Zhuge Weiyong nodded and said, "Then give Zhuge Daozi a power call and ask him how he wants to fight? Should he recall his first flight and attack Australia together?"

(End of this chapter)