Chapter 204: The Battle Situation of the Parties and the Model Fleet
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The first target plane, the small city of Perovo around Moscow in the Soviet Union, where Marshal Timoshenko was directing combat troops to stop the onslaught of the Germans.
"How many times has Deko attacked?" Timoshenko asked.
"For the fourth time, Marshal. In total, they've advanced 12 kilometres in the last few days, but we've built a new line of defense to stop their initial sharpness! Adjutant Ivan said.
"Hmmm! What is the situation with the reserves, and how many reserves are left to continue fighting? Timoshenko nodded, and then asked.
"About halfway there, but ......," the adjutant replied with some hesitation.
"What's wrong?"
"The remaining half of the reserve lacks the most basic armament, and in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the first few reinforcements, the first half of the reinforcements took away a large number of guns and most of the artillery." The adjutant said with a sad face.
"Is that so? It doesn't matter, I just received a message from Moscow, and soon new arms will arrive! β
"Really? That's great! β
That night, as a steam train loaded with goods slowly stopped and entered the station, the soldiers of the Soviet Red Army, who had been waiting for a long time in the cold wind, immediately swarmed up and carried boxes of munitions off the train and artillery pieces with both hands and feet.
"Be careful!"
"Come over and help, this cannon is too heavy, I can't hold on!"
"Note that these shells and artillery are urgently needed at the front, and they will be assembled and transported away as soon as they are removed."
"Yes, yes!"
Andrei means brave in Russian, and a Soviet soldier named Andrei did not disgrace the title, and by virtue of his ability to lead by example, Andrei was quickly appointed battalion commander and quickly promoted to acting regimental commander because of the regimental commander's death in the shelling.
"Leonid, I didn't expect that this shipment would be a weapon of the Japanese Kou." Andrei carefully inspected the station and spoke to his important partner Leonid.
"Indeed, has our country joined forces with the Japanese Invaders?" Leonid asked after picking up a three-eight cover, holding the bolt of the gun to check the status of the weapon.
"Who knows, but whatever they came from, at least we don't have to fight with wooden sticks in our regiment. By the way, how is the replenishment of the personnel in the regiment? β
"It's about 85 percent full."
β85%οΌ Okay, there has been a shortage of recruits in all units lately, and 85% is better than I thought. Andrei originally wanted to continue to inquire carefully about the situation in the regiment, but when he saw that the last few Japanese 75mm guns were also going to be pulled away by the people of the division artillery regiment, he was very dissatisfied and shouted loudly: "Yevgeny, you bastard, you have to leave me two guns~" After speaking, he strode forward to stop it.
In the evening of the same day, in the Australian outback city of Bathurst, the defensive command headquarters of Admiral McArther and King were discussing the latest situation in the Japanese landing war.
"The loss of Bell Bay was to be expected, and we didn't have enough troops to defend the long Australian coastline." Admiral Kim looked at the map hanging on the wall, lit a cigarette and commented.
"Yes, I feel the same way!" McAlr took a sip of coffee from the iron tea jar and said.
"However, it seems that the Japanese are not strong enough to fight, they did not land on the entire coastline, and only attacked Bell Bay and then Sydney."
"Good news for us, isn't it?"
"Hopefully, although we still have some ports, the supply transportation is becoming more and more dangerous, and we can only rely on surprise unloading at night, even so, the density of the Japanese navy blockading the coast is also increasing, and for a long time, we are very dangerous without logistical support."
"We had anticipated this before the battle, so we have been accelerating the stockpiling of supplies and ammunition for the past month, and now with the existing reserves, there should be no problem supporting it for four months. As for the rest, it will depend on the performance of the Pacific Fleet. MacArthur reassured.
"I remember in a secret phone call with Washington, they promised to kill them in another month?" Admiral Kim said half questioning, half answering himself.
"Marshall promised that in a month and a half at most, the Pacific Fleet will launch a general attack on the combined fleet of the Japanese Invaders, and they have been equipped with four Essex-class heavy aircraft carriers and two Dúlì-class light aircraft carriers in the past six months, and in another month, there will be a heavy and one light aircraft carrier in service, and the Navy has been training uninterruptedly for the past six months, so it can be said that the Pacific Fleet has the ability to fight head-on with the Japanese Combined Fleet."
"5 heavy, 3 light?" Admiral Jin frowned, and then said: "Not too optimistic, according to our intelligence, the Japanese also have at least 7 heavy aircraft carriers in their hands, and we may have the lead in quantity, but there is a gap in quality." β
"There's no way, this is the maximum force that can be mustered up in a short period of time. But it doesn't matter, if we fight for attrition, we are not afraid of the Japanese invaders, I heard that the Red Party of the Yanhuang Continent recovered Manchukuo established by the Japanese Invaders, and found a large shipbuilding factory abandoned by them there (the false news released by the Red Party, in order to explain the origin of some warships such as cruisers), if this is the case, the lack of the ability of the Japanese to build ships will make the navy that has fallen into a war of attrition gradually slide into a desperate situation, after all, in terms of industrial capacity, we are far higher than them. MacArthur analyzed.
"Indeed, so during this time, our task is to attract the main force of the Japanese Invaders and contain it until the time comes to counterattack."
Dalian Port in Liaoning Province in the northeast of the Yanhuang Continent, there is no busy shipping here at this time, so the harbor is relatively quiet, and the waves of small height wash away the warships docked on the dock from time to time, pushing them up and down, up and down. Looking from the entrance of the port, I saw that there were about 20 warships docked neatly on the extended wharf, among which a large guy was very conspicuous, and it was initially estimated that there would be a displacement of tens of thousands of tons. The rest are mostly destroyers and frigates of one or two thousand tons, submarine hunters, minesweepers, minelayers of several hundred tons, and even two Soviet Navy SC ("Sguka") class submarines, which can be said to be a fairly complete naval fleet.
At the Dalian Yanhuanghong Party Naval Headquarters, Xiao Jinguang was discussing with Zhou Xihan, chief of staff of the Navy, the issue of the Stars and Stripes Banner Navy instructors who would arrive in the northeast in the near future.
"Everything is ready at the port of Dalian, and eight Anshan-class destroyers (the kind of 'four King Kong' destroyers purchased from the Soviet Union after the founding of the Yanhuang Republic of China) are already in place, and one Heilongjiang-class cruiser (the most advanced heavy cruiser of the Japanese Invaders) and one Qinghai-class cruiser (the Japanese Akhano-class light cruiser) are also in place." Navy Chief of Staff Zhou Xihan introduced.
The most advanced heavy cruiser, with a standard displacement of 11,200 tons, a standard displacement of 12,400 tons after refitting, and a full load displacement of more than 15,000 tons, the final domestic modification of the Japanese in terms of firepower is: equipped with ten three-year twin 203cm/50 times caliber main guns, eight ** 40 times caliber 12.7cm caliber high guns, eight 25mm caliber high guns, four 13mm caliber machine guns, and twelve 61cm caliber torpedo firing tubes.
Agano light cruiser with a standard displacement of 6652 tons and a full load displacement of 8534 tons. Armament: 6 152 mm caliber twin main guns, 4 127 mm caliber twin high guns, 61 25 mm caliber triple high shè machine guns, 2 610 mm caliber quadruple reloading torpedo firing tubes (spear torpedoes).
"Well, by the way, Lao Maozi has cheated us in history." Xiao Jinguang hated the information brought by Wang Fan: after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yan Huang originally decided to use the Hong Kong channel to buy the decommissioned old ships that Britain and other countries were disarmed after World War II and were eager to sell them cheaply, but due to the outbreak of the Korean War and the embargo, he had to buy his old ships from the Soviet Union at a price as high as 17 tons of gold at that time, that is, the Soviet "Fury-class" destroyers, with a standard displacement of 1,855 tons and a full load displacement of 2,502 tons.
"Got a pit? What do you mean, Commander-in-Chief? Zhou Xihan didn't understand.
"Nothing! By the way, how's the Shadow Shipyard set up? Xiao Jinguang changed the subject.
"Yes, the shadow shipyard we built in the north of Dalian, in the Erjiegou area, has been completed (Wang Fan started to build), as long as it is not a detailed investigation on the spot, if you just look at it from a distance, you should be able to hide the soldiers of the Star-Spangled Banner." Navy Chief of Staff Zhou Xihan replied.
"In this case, we will be able to explain the origin of the Okko heavy cruisers and the Agano-class light cruisers in our possession." Xiao Jinguang said regretfully: "It's a pity, for the sake of reasonableness, we can only expose one for the time being, saying that it is because there is a problem with the power compartment and it is too late to withdraw on the slipway." β
"According to the top-secret information we have obtained, the future is the era of aircraft carriers and missiles, and the era of artillery giants is over. It's just that for the purpose of covering the 'Dandong-class' missile frigates and training the seed cadets of naval cruisers, we need heavy cruisers and light cruisers to practice, after all, for intelligence personnel of various countries, the attraction of a big guy of tens of thousands of tons is far greater than that of a small frigate of one or two thousand tons. β
"In addition, I think that the effectiveness of aircraft carriers and missiles is only known to us for the time being, and the civilian artillery giant ships are still very appealing, if we can have a battleship and cruiser detachment in the future, it is estimated that it will be very helpful for the morale of the people and the gathering of naval talents."
"Indeed, the dream of a giant ship is not only shared by the people, but now many fighters are also vying to apply, hoping to transfer to the cruiser for service training."
"Hehe, I guess I'm going to break my head then."
"Haha, the commander is right~~"
Twelve o'clock in the evening of the same night. A Soviet transport ship docks at the port of Cheongjin in northern North Korea, near the border between Am Hwang and the Soviet Union, for cargo loading.
"Ah~ so sleepy, Vtoriac, why do you say we have to make a detour to North Korea to load goods?" Moros, a crew member of the Cautious, complained.
"How do I know, this is the captain's order, and it seems to be an order from someone in the Far East Command. Besides, if you're going to the west coast of the Stars and Spanglers, there's no difference between arriving empty and carrying something. Vtoriac replied.
"Okay, it's not for nothing anyway, everyone gets canned meat and vodka." Moros thought about it and immediately saw the merits.
"Canned meat can be eaten now, vodka you have to be careful, don't drink it on duty, Captain Balshak's nickname 'The Butcher' is not for nothing, I have seen him throw the erring crew into the icy sea and leave them to fend for themselves." Ventoriac thought of the bad past and preached with a pale face.
"Really? Is there no one up there? β
"Above? Who cares? Now is the time of war, as long as the 'butcher' can complete the transportation task on time and with quality and quantity, it is insignificant to die one or two people. Besides, in his nautical chronicles, it is either written that someone is seriously ill or has bad intentions, plus he has a backer in the Far Eastern Army, and every time he comes back, he hands in gifts, and he is not afraid of us reporting at all. Also, don't you yourself get a share of canned meat and vodka? You know, according to discipline, these are all to be turned in. If we denounce him, we will not be able to get down. β
"Okay, okay, I'll be careful, you must drink when you're not on duty, damn it, it's so cold, I really hope they finish loading it soon."
At 4 a.m., the loaded Soviet freighter "Cautious" left the port of Chongjin in North Korea, carrying the yellow cargo and sailing at maximum speed towards the west coast of the Star-Spangled Banner.