Chapter 498: The Battle of Guam
At this moment, Vice Admiral Domilek, commander of the U.S. Western Pacific Fleet, was calculating on the map when their fleet would arrive on Guam. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Vice Admiral Giorgiago, Chief of Staff of the Fleet, said: "General Domilek, we have 32 hours to reach Guam. However, I would like to report the bad news that in the waters off Guam, the Chinese Empire's navy is much stronger than ours. We must be fully mentally prepared. ”
Vice Admiral Domilek smiled contemptuously and said: "George, you have made Chen Zhong and them mysterious, they are just rookies in the Pacific, even if they have a few more warships than us, but our tactics and a few giants are much stronger than them."
Fighting in the Pacific, the navy of the Chinese Empire was still a little tender. This sea area is destined to belong to us Americans. They will always have to huddle in their own country, and if they want to come out and mingle, sooner or later they will have to pay the price. ”
After Lieutenant General Domilek finished speaking, he suddenly had a feeling that he had everything in the boundless Pacific Ocean.
The navy of the Chinese Empire, in the eyes of this veteran American vice admiral, is just a fledgling calf, and he thinks that it is simply self-defeating to wield a knife and a gun in front of such a maritime power as them.
Although Vice Admiral Domilek was disdainful of the navy of the Chinese Empire, he was still extremely serious about preparing for this battle to seize the island.
Lieutenant General Domilek did some research based on Chen Zhong's troop deployment and the terrain around Guam.
Guam, the southernmost island of the Mariana Islands, is surrounded by reefs, cliffs, and large rocks, making it a great challenge for the attacking forces.
Vice Admiral Domilek, in view of the topography of the island, he developed a combat plan to defeat the naval and submarine forces of the Chinese Empire at sea.
Then, the tactics of blockading Guam and cutting off its supply sources were tactics. Finally, they will carry out a devastating attack on the island defense forces of the Chinese Empire.
In addition, this time, in order to prevent the attack of the air airships of the Chinese Empire, three air defense ships were specially prepared. On these ships, cannons and machine guns for high-altitude firing were installed.
Aimed at the submarine forces of the Chinese Empire, in addition to their six new underwater submarines. In particular, anti-submarine devices were installed on the ship.
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Although the Huaxia Empire had more ships than them, Domilek believed that their fleet had nearly ten warships that were much more advanced than Chen Zhong's ships. This is their most prominent strength.
In the strategy formulated by Vice Admiral Domilek, the main thing is to use these ten giant battleships to defeat the large warships of the Chinese Imperial Navy, and in the process, focus on the battleships of the main Chinese Empire.
In the whole strategy, Domilek devised that the first step was to use a part of the light ships to feign escape and lure the Chinese Imperial Navy fleet to the ambush zone of submarines and giant warships that he had pre-set.
In the second step, submarines and giant warships were used to annihilate the pursuing forces of the Chinese Imperial Navy one by one.
Lieutenant General Domilek is an expert in tactics, and the tactics he developed make full use of their familiarity with the sea. Use a part of the force to lure the opponent into going deep alone, and annihilate the opponent in this vast Pacific Ocean and movement.
Chen Zhong did not have the slightest contempt for this kind of US Western Pacific Fleet, and in the past three or four days, he and Chen Fangzheng also formulated corresponding strategies and tactics.
On the one hand, the sappers were ordered to work overtime to build forts and fortifications around the island.
On the other hand, an in-depth study and discussion was also conducted on the organization of the US Western Pacific Fleet and its tactical characteristics in the past.
Chen Zhong knew that the Americans would not give up Guam easily. For the Americans to succeed in strategically deploying their military forces in the Far East, then Guam will be an indispensable maritime springboard for their future.
With Guam as a springboard, they can radiate westward to the Asian continent and south to the South Pacific region. Moreover, it has successfully connected Hawaii and the mainland of the United States.
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However, without this island, they will lose their source of supplies in this vast expanse of sea. Then for the radiation of the Far East, the distance will be too long.
Therefore, the United States stands at the point of long-term global strategy and is a maritime springboard that they cannot afford to lose.
Now that Guam is occupied by the fleet of the Chinese Empire led by Chen Zhong, the United States will not just give up.
It is not difficult to imagine that this battle with the US military's Western Pacific Fleet must be a vicious battle.
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At 1:18 a.m. on November 10, Chen Zhong received information from a reconnaissance submarine in the Pacific Ocean: The US Western Pacific Fleet had arrived in the waters near Guam. The first formation of nine cruisers of this fleet is already approaching the ambush zone of our submarines.
At 1:32 a.m., the forward submarine reported: The first formation of the US army has entered the ambush circle of our troops. Request whether to start an attack.
Chen Zhong asked the forward reconnaissance submarines, how far is the first formation of the US military from their main fleet?
Five minutes later, the forward reconnaissance submarine reported that the first formation was nearly fifty nautical miles away from the main fleet.
Chen Zhong asked Chen Fangzheng: "Commander Chen, what do you think is the strategic intention of the US military in such an formation?" ”
Chen Fangzheng pondered for a while and said: "Your Majesty, a formation like the U.S. Army has formed a lone army to go deep, and once the first formation in front is attacked by our fleet, it is difficult for them to echo back and forth, and it is very easy for them to be surrounded and annihilated by our army.
If it weren't for the mistake of the commander, they had only one intention in such a formation, which was to lure our army. This vanguard is just a decoy. ”
Chen Zhong nodded and said, "The reason why I am doing this is why they must want to lure us into the wider Pacific Ocean to ambush us, and then annihilate them one by one. It's a very clever tactic. Because, their current strength is far weaker than that of our fleet, and moreover, the terrain of Guam is complicated, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Vice Admiral Domilek has taken great pains to do so. ”
Chen Fangzheng said: "Your Majesty, what should we do? Is the lurking submarine group going to attack now? ”
Chen Zhong said: "We can attack, but we have to wait a little bit, we have to eat this US Western Pacific Fleet bite by bite!" Wait until this first formation is fully in the ambush circle before striking out! ”
Chen Fangzheng said: "I think that as soon as we start attacking, this fleet will immediately turn around and run, until we lure our pursuing fleet into their ambush circle." Since we have seen their tactics, of course we will not continue to pursue. ”
Chen Zhong said: "Chase! Let's do it! ”