In fact, the 5 battleships currently built by the Ming Empire are still some time away from being able to really participate in the war. Although the Beihai battleship, the first ship of the Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info has been completed to a very high degree, it has only been built for one year and seven months, and it will take another two months to complete the construction and official service.

The other battleships, because of the financial relationship, the degree of completion can only be regarded as average, and they can only continue to serve in the inland for half a year. The main enemies that the Japanese Navy now needs to face are the traditional battleship forces of the Ming Empire such as the Hengshan and Changbaishan.

However, the Japanese navy can also be said to be in a state of insufficient preparation: the Yamato Super Battleship, which they are secretly building, is now only a hull, and it is still far from being completed. Therefore, in the coming war, the navies of both sides will endure the situation that the equipment is not fully in place, and fight a war that neither side is satisfied with.

"The battleships of the Ming Empire are not really what worries me, what I am most worried about is that the Ming army may send a landing force from the Shandong region to bypass our defense line and land behind the battle line......" Dongxiang Guiyi said worriedly to Deputy Commander Yagi beside him: "The main forces of the navy are concentrated on the route between the empire mainland and Korea, and it is impossible to prevent the Ming army from acting like this." ”

"Your Excellency, General, if the Ming army goes to war against us...... Then Ceylon's navy would go north and cut off their oil supply lines in Luzon...... For the Ming Empire, this line is the lifeline, and it is impossible to abandon it. Yagi opened his mouth to comfort Togo Takaichi: "As long as the Ming Empire does not concentrate the five new battleships and invest in the naval battle against us, then the empire will still have a chance to win." ”

"I don't know where our secret weapon has been." Takaichi Togo nodded after hearing the deputy commander's comfort, and then raised his feet and walked in the direction of the bridge: "Prime Minister Uesugi comforts His Majesty the Emperor's air superiority hypothesis...... I wonder if it will really save our Empire of Japan at a critical juncture. ”

When General Yagi heard his commander say this, he moved closer and said, "I heard that on the shore base side, Lieutenant General Kumamoto has already obtained the mass-produced ...... The name of the new weapon is 'Shenlong', and its performance is much higher than that of existing aircraft! ”

"News from Kumamoto-kun? I'm relieved that although there aren't many new weapons, we finally have some means to compete with the enemy. Togo nodded, let go of some irritability, and took Yagi to continue to visit the new Nagato battleship.

As he approached the bridge of the battleship, which was protected by heavy steel, Takaichi Togo said to General Yagi beside him with his hands behind his back, "The military airfield to be built on Jeju Island and Tsushima Island must be completed as soon as possible...... If we can rely on aircraft to cover our routes, then at least we can send out battleships to effectively protect the coastline of the Korean Peninsula......"

In fact, because of the pressure on the navy of the Ming Empire caused by the Japanese Navy and the Ceylon Navy, although the Ming Empire began to build the Vladivostok military port after the end of the Liaodong War, even if it had its own military port, there was no way to threaten the coastline northeast of the Korean Peninsula.

Therefore, what the Japanese army was most worried about was that the Ming army set out from the Jiaodong Peninsula and landed on the southwest coastline of Korea, which would make the Yalu River defense line painstakingly managed by the Japanese army useless. Therefore, in addition to protecting several transportation lines in the Tsushima Strait, the most important task of the Japanese Navy was to ensure as much as possible that the Ming army would not dare to carry out landing operations on the Korean Peninsula.

It can be said responsibly that although the Japanese navy has a certain degree of superiority over the North Sea Division of the Ming Empire in terms of numbers. However, because they had to take care of two tasks, they could not give full play to their own advantages, and even had to go on the defensive after the "Yellow Sea Artillery Battle" Huang.

Therefore, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Navy's fleet, Takaichi Togo, did not have a trace of joy when he was reinstated after the investigation and continued to command the combined fleet. He even felt that the burden on his shoulders was heavier, and some of it weighed him down.

"Let's hope that the defense agreement between us and Ceylon can really work at a critical moment...... Facing the entire Ming Empire with our navy alone is really too difficult for a strong man. Takaichi Togo stretched out his hand and pressed it on the cold steel armor belt on the front of the battleship's bridge, muttering something like this.

Japan, which was originally raised by Ceylon and finally barely established itself after the Ceylon Rebellion, could only survive in the gap between Ceylon and the Ming Empire. And only the Japanese themselves will know how much effort they put in, how much blood they shed and how many tears they shed!

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At the same time, at the other end of the Tsushima Strait, in the Yalu River Defense Line Command Headquarters of the Japanese Army on the banks of the Yalu River, Army General Miyamoto Yuhito, who had been in office for more than a year and could be said to have established the Yalu River Defense Line with his own hands, was using his sharp eyes to scan the land that the Ming Empire had recaptured for a year on the other side.

A year earlier, he had been ordered to take over the command of General Takanomiya Mitsui and rush to the Yalu River to re-energize the defeated Japanese army and rebuild a line of defense strong enough to resist the Ming army. Times have changed and tanks and other weapons have become a threat to permanent fortifications, so he also uses a lot of more advanced gadgets.

The Yalu River Line was the proud work of the Japanese army general, who devoted all his efforts to the year: the entire line was dotted with machine-gun and artillery bunkers as usual, and many of them were permanent fortifications. The thick reinforced concrete ensured that these forts would not be easily destroyed, providing sufficient support for the entire defensive line.

There was also a large-scale minelaying on the position, and Miyamoto seemed to have a great preference for mines, and he would kill and injure a large number of Ming troops, and take the annihilation of the Ming army crossing the river on the first line of defense as the biggest purpose of his deployment of the defense line. Therefore, he saw the first line of defense as a tomb that could self-destruct at any time, burying the graves of 100,000 Japanese soldiers and the elite armored units of the Ming Empire.

As long as his first-line defensive positions could hinder and slow down the Ming army's offensive, his armored troops deployed on the second line could counterattack the Ming army under the cover of the air force. Although the number of Japanese chariot units is not large, they cannot be dispersed and can only be used in a centralized manner, but if they are put into battle in a certain known area, they will still form a numerical advantage over the armored forces of the Ming Empire that cross the river.

The result of repeated deductions was that, with heavy losses, the Ming armored forces were driven back to the opposite bank and lost the ability to attack as fist troops again. The Japanese army rebuilt its defenses and held the Yalu River as an inevitable result, and Miyamoto was very confident that he could complete this deduction.

In addition, the weather is moving in a more favorable direction for him. As long as it takes another two months, part of the Yalu River will enter a freezing period, and then the ships of the Ming army to build pontoon bridges will not be able to use them -- the freezing of the Yalu River cannot support the direct crossing of the river with heavy weapons and equipment, so it is unlikely that the Ming army will use light infantry to attack the heavily fortified Yalu River defense line of the Japanese army.

If the Ming army did this, it would make Miyamoto Yuren wake up laughing from his dreams. Once the Ming army gave up the superiority of armored forces and simply used soldiers to fill the hole in the Yalu River defense line, then within ten days, the Ming army would lose more than 100,000 people on this defense line and achieve nothing.

Because of so many reasons, Miyamoto Yuhito is now more worried about the landing of the Ming army in the rear. This is also the reason why he repeatedly called the base camp and asked the Navy to ensure the absolute safety of the coastline of the Korean Peninsula. Although the landing of a force of several thousand men would not crush the Japanese defenders on the entire Korean Peninsula at once, if this force burned and looted all the way south, it would cut off the north-south communication line on the Korean Peninsula and cause quite terrible trouble to the Japanese army.

Although this strategy was considered nonsense by the Japanese high-level officials, after it was proposed by the Japanese army general Mitsui Takanomiya, who had already been transferred back to Japan, it has been a lingering nightmare in the hearts of the Japanese military leaders in the defense system of the Korean Peninsula.

"Everyone knows that when Ge Tianzhang of the Ming Dynasty was in the military department, he always made landing in Ceylon his lifelong volunteer...... The Ming Empire had also been training in the south for cross-sea landings. The distance between the Jiaodong Peninsula and the Korean Peninsula is 120 kilometers, and it is not a problem to send 5,000 to 10,000 people with the power of the Ming Dynasty. "Miyamoto Youren thinks the same thing as many people in his heart, this is a war related to the life and death of Japan, how can anyone dare to take risks?

The main force of the Combined Fleet, which was originally stationed on the Japanese mainland, was moved from the mainland to Mokpo Port and near Jeju Island, which is the most direct proof of the high-level worries about the Ming army's cross-sea landing.

Fortunately, the newly commissioned Shenlong 1 fighter has a combat radius of more than 200 kilometers, so it can guard the entire Yellow Sea, further reducing the risk caused by the Japanese navy's patrol of the South China Sea, and at the same time has the ability to detect the Ming army's cross-sea landing.

Therefore, Prime Minister Uesugi Adachi's firm support for the decision to develop a new fighter more than a year ago has finally brought convenience to the Japanese military today, at least in terms of fighter jets, Japan has obviously come to the category of world powers, and they have gone faster and farther than many traditional powers.

"I'm ready, now it's up to the Ming army on the other side to make a move...... General Miyamoto Arihito muttered to Takaichi Togo, "It's really too difficult for a strong man to face the entire Ming Empire with our navy alone." At the same time, he muttered such a heartfelt sigh. (To be continued.) )