1825 My New Daming

Chapter 434 Where is Yingyi's main force?Isn't this a multiple choice question? (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
Pearl Harbor.

"Junmen, I have received a telegram from the General Staff in Beijing. The General Staff believes that the purpose of the British side to concentrate its naval force is to attack one of our three major fleets!"

"En!" Zhuge Weidao, who was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass window in the command center of the Admiral's Division of the Pacific Fleet and looked at the scenery, responded, and immediately turned and walked to the chart.

The nautical chart is also a bunch of arrows, lines, circles and numbers that make people dizzy.

The number in it represents the fleet number. The Pacific Fleet is the head of the three major fleets, and the representative number is "1".The representative number of the Second Squadron of the Pacific Fleet is of course "1", the third Squadron is "01", and so on.

Now the "1" sign is still posted at Pearl Harbor, which means that the main force of the Pacific Fleet is still at Pearl Harbor—well, this main force is actually not much, it can only cover dozens of square kilometers!

The "101" sign has moved to the Maluku Strait, which is a bit far from Pearl Harbor.In addition, there are "103" and "104" on the chart, which start with the number "1".Among them, "103" is placed in the Truk Lagoon. This "103" represents the 3rd Patrol Team of the Pacific Fleet.As the name suggests, the 3rd Patrol Team is a team composed of cruisers and destroyers. The admiral of the team is Guo Xiaobao, the former Chief Staff Officer of the Pacific Fleet.

Zhuge sent Guo Xiaobao to lead the 3rd patrol team to the Truk Lagoon for the purpose of escorting, guarding and reconnaissance.Although Zhuge Weidao has already planned to go straight to Australia, the Truk Lagoon still has to be defended - it is only a few hundred kilometers away from the New Guinea Islands and the Solomon Islands, which are the frontiers of the British defense line. An outpost in the direction of the Guinea Islands and the Solomon Islands.

The reconnaissance airship deployed in the Truk Lagoon can fly directly to the New Guinea Islands and the Solomon Islands for reconnaissance, and if the "Kongming" class large light cruiser equipped with the Yunlong 1 water reconnaissance aircraft is based on the Truk Lagoon, it will fly to the Truk Lagoon in two days. Time to go to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands for reconnaissance.

In this way, the north of the New Guinea Islands and the Solomon Islands were under the vigilance of the 3rd Patrol.

In addition to the 4rd patrol team with 3 Kongming-class ships, Zhuge Weidao also dispatched the 104th submarine team code-named "4", which was directly placed in the Marshall Islands, and Kwajalein Atoll was used as the base of the submarine mothership. A cordon of submarines has been set up along the line of the Marshall Islands, northeast of the Solomon Islands.Dozens of ocean-going submarines cooperated with the airships deployed in Kwajalein Atoll, watching the large sea area between the Solomon Islands and the Hawaiian Islands.

And behind the cordon formed by the 3rd Patrol Team and the 4th Submarine Team, there are dozens of camouflaged reconnaissance ships pulling out the second cordon, and the airships taking off from Pearl Harbor are also constantly flying over the second cordon. patrol.

After the second cordon is the core alert circle of Pearl Harbor - with Pearl Harbor as the core, the surrounding sea area and airspace of 100 kilometers are all dispatched by Pearl Harbor. Under the vigilance of the torpedo boats, gunboats, and camouflaged reconnaissance ships!
However, the three warning lines (circles) on this map look very tight, but because the sea area that needs to be controlled is too large, and the means of investigation and search are too backward-basically rely on observation!Therefore, the loopholes in the first and second warning lines are very large. Only the core warning circle of Pearl Harbor has a limited sea area to be controlled, so it can be seen relatively firmly.

Fortunately, the British planes are not very popular nowadays. It is impossible for the Japanese devils in World War II to take off carrier-based planes to bomb hundreds of kilometers away from Pearl Harbor. So if they really want to attack Pearl Harbor It is not enough to rely on 6 aircraft carriers and a small number of escort ships. It is necessary to bring a large fleet of "ten or even tens of square kilometers".

In this way, the momentum will be huge, and it will be very difficult to pass through the two cordons of the Pacific Fleet.

However, the main force of the Pacific Fleet cannot lie flat in Pearl Harbor and wait for the British fleet to come by itself-how can a fleet of tens of square kilometers lie flat in Pearl Harbor?
What if the British don't come?

What if after they came, they saw that they couldn't fight and then slipped away?
If the Royal Navy's main fleet retreats to Port Moresby, then Zhuge Weidao's plan to attack Australia will be difficult to implement.

So Zhuge Weidao folded his arms and was about to meditate when Wang Wen, the chief of staff of the Pacific Fleet, came over and said, "Militarymen, the General Staff has already suggested that the Western Fleet fight Ceylon, and the Nanyang Fleet fight Java. We also suggest that we take the initiative to attack. But where to fight is up to us, and of course we don’t have to. The telegram from the General Staff stated that everything is up to you, the military gate.”

The "suggestion" of the General Staff of Ming Dynasty is usually an order!

Because the tradition of the new Ming Dynasty's military command is that the frontline commander has the right to act cheaply and make decisions on the fly-in the era of King Zhuge Wuzhong, this is a must!Otherwise, using the military orders of the central government to command an army hundreds of miles away, wouldn't this be the Song Dynasty?

But now times have changed, with telephones and telegrams, the general staff can fully grasp the situation hundreds of thousands of miles away, thousands of kilometers away.

But the General Staff still has to follow the tradition left by King Zhuge Wuzhong, so we still have to respect the decision-making power of the frontline coach.Therefore, the orders issued by the General Staff will use the name of "suggestions" instead of orders.In theory, the former enemy coach is the one who makes the final decision in the military.

Of course, the front-line coach can still exercise "theoretical" power, but the consequences. However, the telegram sent by the General Staff to Zhuge Weidao emphasized that "everything is up to him to make the final decision", which means that the decision-making power has been truly delegated.

Zhuge Weidao didn't make a decision right away, but stared at the chart with his arms folded, as if he had fallen into the deepest thought - this was the thinking of Zhuge's military adviser!

Everyone in the command center stopped talking, put down their work, and stared at Zhuge Weidao intently.

Zhuge Weidao just didn't say a word, and I don't know how long it took before he heard him chuckle and said, "Isn't this just a multiple-choice question? This military division knows how to do questions best! The British concentrate their main forces, and they must They want to defeat them one by one, if their target is not the Western Fleet or the Nanyang Fleet, then it must be us!"

This is a multiple choice question!

It is the question of choosing A, choosing B, and choosing C. If A and B can be ruled out, choosing C must be correct. This kind of multiple-choice question is suitable for Zhuge Weidao, a professional who "made questions" and "made questions" in his previous life. In other words, there is no difficulty at all.

"Junmen," Wang Wen is also good at solving questions, but obviously not as good as Zhuge Weidao, so he frowned and asked, "Then how do we know who the British will choose?"

Zhuge Wei said with a smile: "I don't know now, but there will be results soon."

"But before the results come out, how should we deploy?" Wang Wen asked.

"Our main force goes out for a turn!" Zhuge Weidao said with a smile, "At the same time, let the first flight fight south to cooperate with the Nanyang Fleet to bomb Java."

(End of this chapter)