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In the Yuhua Garden, Wang Chenhao accompanied Li Youyi for a walk. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Shi Wei came to report, saying that Li Guodong asked to see him. But Wang Chenhao didn't want to listen to his explanation, so he ordered someone to keep him out.

Wang Chenhao knew in his heart that perhaps Tan Sitong's statement was a bit exaggerated in order to impeach Li Guodong. But Wang Chenhao has his own account in his heart, and in order to control his subordinates and seize power, the two major secret agencies of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Homeland Security Agency are therefore above the five provinces and nine ministries. But with the consolidation of Wang Chenhao's power and status, the status of these two major secret services is no longer so important.

With the rapid expansion of the power of these two major secret services, it has aroused strong dissatisfaction from the other four central provinces and nine departments of the empire, and the voices of accusations have risen one after another. Wang Chenhao has not intervened, just because Li Guodong and other previous intelligence officers are from his lineage, especially Li Guodong, as an important minister during Wang Chenhao's official residence, his loyalty to Wang Chenhao can be regarded as the first person, so Wang Chenhao has always turned a blind eye to the old feelings.

Wang Chenhao knew that the Ming Dynasty's Jinyiwei and the People's ** Unification and other secret services would lose their checks and balances, which would bring disaster to the country, so although Wang Chenhao was very kind to Li Guodong and others, he already had the intention of rectification in his heart.

Earlier this day, Tan Sitong openly impeached Li Guodong in front of hundreds of civil and military officials, listing dozens of crimes, and Wang Chenhao also had an excuse to rectify the CIA and the Homeland Security Agency, so he ordered Tang Shaoyi to handle the matter.

Li Youyi asked, "What does Your Majesty plan to do with Li Guodong?" How can you say that they are all founding ministers! Wang Chenhao smiled: "Let Tang Shaoyi have a headache with this problem!" Wang Chenhao didn't take action in person, only let Tang Shaoyi come forward, so that no matter how the matter is resolved, whether it takes into account benevolence and righteousness and the law, there is room for maneuver.

Li Youyi chuckled and said, "Your Majesty's political skills are getting higher and higher!" It's just that I don't know if Tang Shaoyi has the courage to defend Li Guodong, and it is estimated that his head will be broken. ”

Wang Chenhao nodded, Li Guodong's power is very large, and it is not so easy to impeach. However, Wang Chenhao believes that Tan Sitong will not act easily if he does not get enough evidence to bring down Li Guodong. In this regard, Zen Sitong is quite similar to Wang Chenhao's style, that is, if you don't make a move, you will be hit.

Thinking of this, Wang Chenhao said: "It's not a good thing that the intelligence bureau has too much power, and it is still necessary to suppress it appropriately." Li Youyi understood Wang Chenhao's intentions, so she didn't ask more.

Suddenly, Li Youyi asked, "Your Majesty has rarely stayed with Concubine Shu recently!" "Is there one?" Wang Chenhao coughed dryly.

Li Youyi said: "Although the two countries are at war, Rothsier is your concubine after all, so you can't snub others!" ”

Wang Chenhao smiled bitterly: "It's too late to hurt her, how can she be snubbed?" Just seeing her makes me feel guilty, after all, we are invading her homeland. ”

Li Youyi smiled and said, "Go see her!" Comfort her. She has recently been worried that her family will be persecuted by the U.S. government.

"How so?" Wang Chenhao immediately explained: "I have ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to warn the United States many times that the safety of the Zeringen family must be guaranteed, otherwise you will bear the consequences." I don't think the U.S. side will be embarrassed by the Lingen family. Li Youyi nodded and said, "It's better for you to tell her personally!" ”

"This ......" Wang Chenhao wanted to refuse.

Li Youyi suddenly said angrily: "I have already passed on the word, except for Concubine Shu, no other concubine is allowed to serve His Majesty in the past few days." Wang Chenhao hugged Li Youyi and begged for mercy: "Will it be okay tomorrow?" I want the queen to accompany me tonight. ”

Li Youyi immediately knocked off Wang Chenhao's bad hands, looked around, and the palace maids turned their eyes away, pretending not to see.

Li Youyi crossed her waist and said with slight disgust: "The law is established by Youyi, and Youyi should abide by it, otherwise how can you command the harem?" If you don't go to Lady Lady's for the night, then sleep in the study! Wang Chenhao suddenly smiled bitterly, in this harem, she has always been the biggest queen, and Wang Chenhao, the emperor, has to be obedient.

While he was talking, a female official suddenly came to report urgently.

"Your Majesty, Wang Shizhen of the General Staff asks to see you."

"What's the matter?"

"It's said that the main force of the Imperial Navy is fighting with the main force of the US Navy!"

"What?"

When Wang Chenhao heard this, he suddenly moved, and with a little nervousness, Wang Chenhao immediately said goodbye to Li Youyi and hurriedly went to the imperial study.

On July 5, 1917, the largest Atlantic naval battle in human history broke out. The two sides involved in the war were the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, which had won many naval battles, and the main force of the Ocean Fleet of the American Navy, which had not fought a decent naval battle.

Among them, the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy is composed of capital ships and naval elites drawn from the Home Fleet, the Pacific Fleet and the Atlantic Fleet. The combined fleet is divided into three tactical echelons, and the battleship echelon includes five battleship battle groups, each of which includes 4 super battleships, 4 Aegis air defense cruisers, 8 light cruisers, and 8 destroyers. Considering that the US Navy already has. Super battleships with inch main guns, so the early Shenbow-type battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy and the earliest super-Shengong-type battleships were not approved to participate in naval battles, and their impact on the battlefield has been minimal: four aircraft carrier battle groups are separately organized into aircraft carrier echelons, with four Emeishan-class large aircraft carriers as the main force, eight battle cruisers are also assigned to the aircraft carrier battle group as escort missions, and another 32 escort-type aircraft carriers are used as auxiliaries, carrying a total of 1200 carrier-based fighters, There are 200 bombers, and each aircraft carrier battle group is equipped with six Aegis air defense cruisers, six light cruisers, and twelve hunting ships: the third tactical echelon is the submarine fleet, which is composed of 52 Tang-class submarines, and more than 80 submarines were originally prepared, but in view of the lessons of the Bermuda campaign, the intelligence of the submarines has been leaked to the U.S. military, so the submarines did not participate in the decisive battle, but served as patrol and vigilance tasks in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

The U.S. Navy's Ocean Fleet consisted of the main force of the Atlantic Fleet (the U.S. Pacific Fleet had been wiped out), including 20 early Divine Bow battleships (USS Virginia, USS Nebraska,

USS Georgia, USS New Jersey, USS Rhode Island, USS Connecticut, USS Louisiana, USS Vergent, USS Kansas, USS Minnesota, USS New Hampshire, USS Mississippi, USS Idaho, USS South Carolina, USS Michigan, USS Delaware, USS North Dakota, USS Florida,

USS Wyoming, USS Akensse), 25 battleships (USS New York, USS Texas Nevada, USS Odong La Homer, USS Pennsylvania, USS Arizona, USS New Mexico, USS Mississippi, USS Idaho, USS Tennessee, USS California, USS Colorado,

USS Maryland, USS West Virginia, USS Washington, USS South Dakota, USS Mengdana, USS Indiana, USS Massachusetts, USS Oregon, USS Chilshaji, USS North Carolina, USS Maine,

USS Missouri, USS Ohio), 16 battlecruisers (USS Sacramento, USS Hartford, USS Birmingham, USS Tallahassee, USS Atlanta, USS Nashville, USS Columbus, USS Pittsburgh, USS Boise, USS Springfield, USS Indiana Boley, USS Des Moines,

USS Frankfurt, USS Honolulu, USS St. Paul, USS Helena), 5 aircraft carriers (USS Assault, USS Lexington, USS Valiant, USS Franklin, USS Ticonderoga), of which USS Valiant, USS Franklin and USS Ticonderoga are aircraft carriers that have been urgently refitted, with an average of 40 aircraft.

In addition, the US Navy's oceanic fleet includes 42 cruisers, 78 destroyers and 69 submarines.

In terms of the number of capital warships alone, the US Navy is undoubtedly very powerful. Although the most powerful battleships of the U.S. Navy were four North Carolina-class battleships with 17-inch guns, the main battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy had four Yuan-class battleships with 17-inch guns, and four Ming-class battleships with 18-inch guns, posing a mortal threat to the U.S. Navy battleships. To this end, the U.S. Navy gathered all its main battleships, 20 Divine Bow and 25 Super Divine Bows, as well as 16 battle cruisers, in the hope of winning by relying on the tactics of numerical superiority and the wolf biting the tiger to death.

Although after the Battle of Bermuda, the U.S. Navy realized the importance of aircraft carriers, and began to build 12 aircraft carriers and refit 50 transport aircraft carriers, but it was too late, and before the decisive battle between the capital ships of China and the United States, only three aircraft carriers were refitted, and they were transferred to the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier fleet before the sea trial.

The difference in number between the five aircraft carriers of the US military and the 36 aircraft carriers transferred to the Atlantic by the Imperial Chinese Navy is huge. At the same time, in terms of quality, the four Emeishan-class aircraft carriers of the Chinese Imperial Navy are secretly built medium-sized aircraft carriers, with extremely strong combat capabilities, and can take off and land combat aircraft at the same time, while the US military's straight-through deck aircraft carriers cannot do this, and once they begin to recover aircraft, they can only be passively beaten, which has become an Achilles' heel of US aircraft carriers.

Similarly, in terms of the air defense capability of the fleet, the US military suffered a big loss in the Battle of Bermuda, and although it learned a lesson and successively installed a large number of anti-aircraft guns and machine guns for US warships in just one month, it was too far behind the Typhoon-class cruisers of the Imperial Chinese Navy that were specially used for air defense.

In terms of light cruisers and hunting ships, although the Imperial Chinese Navy was still a little ahead, the advantage was not obvious, and the two sides barely reached a draw.

In terms of submarine fleet, the U.S. Navy's submarine forces used the Imperial Chinese Navy's upgraded submarines as simulated attack targets, but it was not until after the battle began that they discovered that the other side had already replaced themselves with more advanced Tang-class submarines.

The U.S. Admiralty handled the pre-war strategy inappropriately, advocating at one moment to take the initiative to attack and find a decisive battle for the Imperial Chinese Navy, and at another time it was worried that there would be no naval aviation cover, so it did not dare to stay far outside the combat radius of the native air force.

In this way, when the Imperial Chinese Navy entered the Atlantic Ocean from the Caribbean Sea, the US Navy could only look at the ocean and sigh, and did not dare to go out to fight it.

The top brass of the US Navy usually clamored that they were not afraid of the Imperial Chinese Navy, but when it was time for a decisive battle, they were weak. The top brass of the Navy headed by Benson believed that the US Navy should preserve its strength, and as long as the main force remained, then the Imperial Chinese Navy would not dare to be too arrogant. But if the decisive battle is lost, then the United States will lose its sea supremacy, and the east coast is an important industrial base and developed area, once the navy is defeated, it will be difficult to avoid being ravaged by the Chinese imperial navy, and the losses will be astronomical.

Due to these concerns, the U.S. Department of the Navy finally gave up the idea of taking the initiative to find a decisive battle for the Chinese Imperial Navy and adopted the strategy of avoiding war and protecting ships. Use the coastal defense system and air force on the east coast to help defend the coastal waters, and do not actively collide with the Imperial Chinese Navy.

On 1 July, the Imperial Chinese Navy's powerful naval artillery fire launched a fierce artillery bombardment of the US forces on the Bermuda Islands, and the naval aviation dispatched a large number of combat planes to attack the US positions on the island, and the Marines took the opportunity to launch the campaign to recover Bermuda.

Since the U.S. military had just occupied Bermuda, after a month of fighting, the facilities of the Bermuda base had basically been scrapped, and the U.S. military could not repair it in a short time. At the same time, the US Navy pursued the strategy of avoiding war and protecting ships, and did not dare to come to support, with the result that a US infantry brigade on the Bermuda Islands did not have air and sea supremacy, and under the powerful firepower of the Imperial Chinese Navy and Air Force, more than half of them suffered casualties in less than half a day.

At three o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the Chinese Emperor successfully landed on the beach. Isolated and eventually annihilated at around 5 p.m., the Chinese Empire recaptured Bermuda and stepped up repairs to its Bermuda base, focusing on the runway at St. Davie's Air Force Base. Because the Imperial Air Force of China could only attack the east coast of the continental United States with the help of the runway of St. David's airfield.

The main fleet of the US Navy stayed in the coastal waters and did not dare to go to war, which virtually handed over the sea control to the Imperial Chinese Navy, so that the Imperial Chinese Navy could completely block the connection between the United States and Europe, cut off the arms support given to the United States by the Anglo-French Entente in Europe, and completely surrounded the United States.

The U.S. Navy is hiding in Norfolk Naval Base, the largest naval base on the continental United States, which is located in Chehopike Bay. The bay is a drowning valley-shaped estuarine bay and is the deepest bay in the eastern Atlantic Ocean of the United States from south to north into the interior. The northern half is in Maryland and the southern half is in Virginia. It is 320 kilometers long from north to south, 6-48 kilometers wide from east to west, and 106 meters deep at its deepest. The mouth of the bay is 19 kilometers wide with Cape Charles to the north and Cape Henry to the south. Rivers such as the Susquehana, Botomac, and James rivers flow into the bay. The shore of the bay is tortuous and has many islands and many important ports. Baltimore at the head of the bay and Norfolk at the mouth of the bay are famous for their large harbors. Norfolk forms the Hampton Passage together with Hampton and Newton Neutrius on the other side of the river, and is an important pot for the U.S. Navy fleet.

Since the U.S. Navy could not retreat, the Imperial Chinese Navy had no choice but to adopt the tactic of grabbing badgers and forcing them out