Chapter 362: Revise the battle plan
Just when the navies of the twenty-four countries of the Beast Alliance gathered in the Wiener Harbor of the Ice Lion Country, in an office of the National Defense Force Headquarters in Yueyang City, Su Yi said to Sun Guodong, Deputy Commander of the National Defense Forces, and Liu Pengbin, Chief of the General Staff, with a somewhat solemn face: "The combined fleet of the twenty-four navies of the Beast Alliance will launch an attack on the Port of Mangers on the same day, I wonder if the navy and air force of our National Defense Force can stop this huge fleet with hundreds of warships and tens of thousands of carrier-based aircraft?" β
Liu Pengbin, chief of the General Staff, said loudly: "Commander, now a large aircraft carrier and 30 improvised aircraft carriers of the Independent Fleet have arrived at the port of Mangers, and these 31 aircraft carriers have more than 1,700 carrier-based aircraft, and the navy has also deployed more than 3,500 carrier-based aircraft in reserve in a number of temporary field airfields near the port of Mangers, and the air force has gathered 15 full air divisions in the port of Mangers, and these 15 air divisions have a total of more than 8,000 fighters. Enough to cooperate with the army units to hold the port of Mangas! β
After the Yueyang Front Army was renamed the Great Qin National Defense Army, the independent air force division of the original Yueyang Front Army was divided into 36 air divisions by Su Yi, each air force division has five air regiments, each air force regiment has two fighter groups and one bomber group, each fighter group has 36 show bird fighters, and each bomber group has 36 goshawk dive bombers, so that each air force division has 360 show bird fighters and 180 goshawk dive bombers.
Thanks to the production of several large aircraft factories in the world on the side of the Tang Empire, the 36 air divisions of the Great Qin National Defense Force have almost always been in a state of full strength, even if there are losses of fighters in the battle, there will soon be spare fighters to replenish it, and now the number of spare fighters of the Great Qin National Defense Army exceeds 6,000, and it is more than enough to form ten new air divisions.
Deputy Commander Sun Guodong continued: "At present, the entire Twelfth Group Army has taken over the Port Mangers area, and the other provisional 32nd Army, the 35th Army, the 71st Army, the 92nd Army, the 109th Army, and the 124th Army, a total of six provisional armies, have also entered the Port Mangers area, which means that our National Defense Forces have gathered nearly one million army units in the Port Mangers area. In a short period of time, an additional army group and nine provisional armies can be sent to the area of Port Mangers, and the strength of the army to defend Port Mangers should be sufficient. β
Today, the 236 independent corps-level units of the Great Qin National Defense Force are still under the name of provisional formation, and the 216 armies of the 36 group armies are not preceded by the word "provisional formation".
The words of Chief of General Staff Liu Pengbin and Deputy Commander Sun Guodong did not ease the expression on Su Yi's face, and Su Yi said in a deep voice: "This big battle against the combined fleet of the twenty-four navies of the Beast Alliance in Port Mangers can be said to be related to the trend of the entire war, once our Great Qin Defense Force loses in this war, maybe the situation in this war will take a sharp turn for the worse immediately, so no matter what, the army of the Beast Alliance cannot be allowed to successfully land in Port Mangers!" I suggest that a few more air divisions should be sent to the Port of Mangers area? β
Chief of the General Staff Liu Pengbin pondered for a while and said: "Commander, our National Defense Force now has a total of 36 air divisions, and this time we have done our best to gather 15 air divisions in the Port Mangers area, after all, we also need a large number of fighters of the Air Force to cooperate in several battlefields on land, and more than 8,000 fighters of the 15 air divisions, including more than 5,000 carrier-based aircraft of the Navy, should be enough to control the air supremacy in the Port of Mangers area." β
Su Yi then said: "According to the information obtained by the Intelligence Bureau, the warships of the joint fleet of the twenty-four navies of the Beast Alliance are as high as hundreds, and these hundreds of warships are equipped with a large number of air defense weapons, and even the thousands of transport ships carrying the army units of the Beast Alliance are also equipped with some air defense weapons, and the task of our air force fighters and naval carrier-based aircraft, in addition to fighting for air supremacy, also needs to attack hundreds of warships and thousands of transport ships of the enemy, and when the time comes, the loss of air force fighters and naval carrier-based aircraft, It's going to be huge. β
After a pause, Su Yi continued: "Since the navy can gather more than 3,500 spare carrier-based aircraft near the port of Mangers, I think the air force can also transfer some of the spare fighters to the port of Mangers area, I remember that the air force has spare fighters, but there are still more than 6,000, if it is not convenient to command, the air force can set up a few new air divisions to rush to the port of Mangers area, anyway, the fighters and pilots are ready-made." β
Since the clone soldiers and cyborg soldiers can enter the world of the Great Qin Kingdom through the interstellar gate, the Great Qin Defense Force under Su Yi has enough pilots, and almost all of them are ace pilots, as long as there are a sufficient number of fighters, it can be said that it is very simple to form a few new air divisions.
Chief of General Staff Liu Pengbin nodded and said: "Sun Peng has been clamoring for the formation of a few more air divisions these days to deal with the increasing number of beast alliance fighters on the battlefield, so it is better to take advantage of this time to guard the port of Mangers, form four new air divisions, and transfer all four air divisions to the airfield in the port of Mangers area." β
Sun Peng, the former division commander of the independent division of the Yueyang Front Air Force, has now been promoted to the commander of the air force unit of the Great Qin Defense Army.
Su Yi waved his hand: "Anyway, we still have a steady stream of fighters being produced, and now the Air Force has more than 6,000 spare fighters, I think we will directly set up ten new air divisions, and then immediately transfer these ten air divisions to the Port Mangers area, today is March 12, I ask that before March 15, ten newly formed air divisions must be stationed in the Port Mengus area, I don't know if it can be done?" β
Chief of the General Staff Liu Pengbin hesitated for a moment before he said in an affirmative tone: "The pilots and fighters are ready-made, as long as our national defense force headquarters gives an order, ten new air divisions can be formed immediately, and a large number of temporary field airfields have been built in the port of Mangers area, and more than 5,000 fighters from ten air divisions will be stationed, and the problem should not be big, but the production of spare fighters will have to be intensified in the future. It will certainly cause very large losses to the fighters of the Air Force and even the carrier-based aircraft of the Navy. β
Su Yi said: "There is no problem with the production of air force fighters and navy carrier-based aircraft, and before the end of this month, more than 3,000 new air force fighters and more than 1,000 new naval carrier-based aircraft will be delivered to our Daqin Air Force and Daqin Navy." β
Liu Pengbin, chief of the General Staff, nodded and said: "Commander, rest assured, before March 15, ten newly formed air force divisions will definitely be able to enter the Port Mangers area!" β
Su Yi suddenly touched his chin and said: "Since we have gathered so many air force fighters and naval carrier-based aircraft at the many airports in the Port of Mangers area, then the more than 1,700 carrier-based aircraft on the thirty-one aircraft carriers of the Independent Fleet are not too big for the defense of Port Mangers and the attack on the combined fleet of the twenty-four navies of the Beast Alliance, so is it possible to withdraw the Independent Fleet from Port Mangers?" After all, it is not easy for the navy of our Great Qin State to save this little bit of money, if the independent fleet stays in the port of Mangas, it will definitely be the focus of attack on the tens of thousands of carrier-based aircraft of the Twenty-four Nations Navy Combined Fleet of the Beast Alliance! β
At present, the Daqin Navy has a total of six fleets, namely the First Fleet, the Second Fleet, the Third Fleet, the Fourth Fleet, the Fifth Fleet and the Independent Fleet, the first five fleets are all naval forces controlled by the former Daqin Ministry of Defense, but these five fleets add up to only more than 80 warships, and most of them are torpedo boats and gunboats, and the warships that really have some combat effectiveness are only one dreadnought battleship, one heavy cruiser, one light cruiser, two destroyers and three submarines, These eight warships were saved by the Great Qin Navy with great difficulty under the attack of the Ice Lion Navy.
After the five fleets controlled by the former Great Qin Ministry of Defense were subordinated to Su Yi, Su Yi did not have time to completely reorganize them for the time being, so the capital ships of the navy under Su Yi were still concentrated in the independent fleet.
Su Yi's words made Deputy Commander Sun Guodong and Chief of General Staff Liu Pengbin couldn't help but light up, and Deputy Commander Sun Guodong immediately agreed: "The strength of the independent fleet, although it is already good, but compared to the twenty-four national naval combined fleet of the Beast Alliance, it is too much worse, according to the information obtained by the Intelligence Bureau, the Red Tiger Navy alone has sent ten regular aircraft carriers, sixty-six escort aircraft carriers, eight super dreadnought battleships, four battle cruisers, fourteen dreadnought battleships, forty former dreadnought battleships, Twenty heavy cruisers, thirty armored cruisers, forty light cruisers, forty protective cruisers, sixty destroyers, and forty submarines joined the combined fleet of the twenty-four navies of the Orc Alliance. β
After a pause, Sun Guodong continued: "In fact, even if our independent fleet alone deals with these warships of the Red Tiger Navy, it is a little difficult, not to mention that there are other twenty-three navies, to deal with this beast alliance combined fleet, we mainly have to rely on the air force fighters that take off from the land and the navy's spare carrier-based aircraft, so that the independent fleet can withdraw from Mangers Port, the defense of Mangers Port and the attack on the beast alliance combined fleet should not have a great impact." β
Chief of the General Staff Liu Pengbin then said: "I agree with the commander's idea, since we have gathered enough aircraft in the area of Port Mangers, then there is no need for the Independent Fleet to make huge sacrifices to defend Port Mangas." β
"Since both of you have no problem with this, then immediately revise the battle plan for the defense of Port Mangers!"
In the bridge of the Super Dreadnought battleship, the new flagship of the Independent Fleet, Liu Bin, the new captain of the Thorn, said to Ding Haifeng, the commander of the Independent Fleet, with an unwilling face: "Commander, our Independent Fleet has been preparing for this battle for such a long time, why did the commander-in-chief let our Independent Fleet evacuate the port of Mangers at this time?" You must know that the combined fleet of the twenty-four navies of the Beast Alliance is rushing towards the port of Mangers! β
The Thorn was originally the last super dreadnought battleship built by the Red Tiger Navy, the fifth of the Violet class, and the Red Tiger Navy built a total of five Violet-class super dreadnought battleships.
The Super Dreadnought battleship had a full load displacement of up to 56,000 tons, was equipped with four triple 45 times caliber 432 mm main guns, eighteen 50 times caliber 155 mm secondary guns, and could reach a maximum speed of 225 knots.
The Thorn was blown up and sunk outside the port of Minggang, and due to the fact that the sinking site was part of a shoal near an island, the Thorn was successfully salvaged and restored at the Minggang Shipyard.
After the Thorn joined the Independent Fleet, the commander of the Independent Fleet, Ding Haifeng, immediately let the Thorn serve as the new flagship of the entire Independent Fleet, and Liu Bin, the captain of the original flagship Xingchen, was also transferred to the Super Dreadnought Battleship of the Thorn and served as the new captain of the Thorn, and the name of the Thorn was retained by the Independent Fleet.
Ding Haifeng, commander of the independent fleet, said with a wry smile: "The commander-in-chief is worried that our independent fleet will lose too much in this war, so we let the independent fleet withdraw from the port of Mangers and become the general reserve of this battle. β
Liu Bin, the captain of the Thorn, sighed and said: "Fortunately, we have deployed more than 3,500 carrier-based aircraft in reserve in a number of temporary field airfields near the port of Mangers, otherwise our navy would only be able to watch the air force sing a one-man show this time." β
Ding Haifeng, commander of the independent fleet, immediately said: "The telegram from the headquarters of the National Defense Forces also said that the air force will soon form ten new air divisions, and these ten new air divisions will also be stationed in the port of Mangers area, so that the air force will gather twenty-five air divisions in the small port of Mangers area, such a powerful air force, the role of our independent fleet in staying in the port of Mangers is indeed not large, but if it stays, it will become the focus of the attack of the joint fleet of the 24 navies of the Beast Alliance." β
Liu Bin said helplessly: "According to the establishment of the Air Force, the 25 air divisions have a total of 9,000 Xiuniao fighters and 4,500 Goshawk dive bombers, plus more than 1,500 Bamboo Dragonfly carrier-based fighters, more than 1,000 Black Butterfly carrier-based bombers and more than 1,000 Moth carrier-based torpedo bombers reserved by our navy. β
"Compared with the combined fleet of the twenty-four navies of the Beast Alliance, the difference in strength is too big, and the commander-in-chief does this to preserve the strength of our independent fleet, after all, our independent fleet represents almost the entire strength of the Great Qin Navy, alasββ"