Chapter 582: The Fourth Mexican-American War Breaks Out
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Since the Chinese Empire entered the nuclear age, four large-scale nuclear power plants have been built one after another, solving the problem of industrial, commercial and private electricity difficulties in the southern region of the Chinese Empire. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ After the use of nuclear power, not only the price of electricity has dropped significantly, the average industrial electricity price is lower than 45% of the northern thermal power, and the commercial and civil electricity prices are also lower than the northern thermal power to reach more than 25%, for the Chinese empire that has completed the power industrial revolution, large-scale national economic construction is inseparable from electric energy, and the huge advantages of nuclear power compared with thermal power are suddenly highlighted.
The contribution of nuclear energy to the economy of the Chinese Empire was such that the Imperial Government and Congress were in a state of frenzy for the development of nuclear energy, and any project involving the use of nuclear energy would soon be approved by the Congress.
As far as the Chinese Emperor is concerned, the Guanghua Emperor nuclear-powered ultimate battleship, which has already been built, has won the praise of the military for its huge international deterrence and economic practicability.
At the same time as the construction of the Yuan-class nuclear-powered attack submarine began, the construction of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier had already begun.
For the construction of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, the emperor Wang Chenhao strongly supported it. Despite the strong obstruction of the BB Party of the Imperial Navy, thanks to the efforts of the CV Party, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier proposal passed the approval of Congress.
From the beginning of Guanghua 39, the design of the Taishan-class, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the Chinese Empire, began. Because the Chinese Imperial Navy has successively had experience in the design and construction of aircraft carriers such as Emeishan-class, Wudangshan-class, and Fanjingshan-class. As well as the successful installation and operation experience of the Guanghua Emperor nuclear reactor, the design scheme of the Taishan-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was quickly finalized, and the construction of the first ship, Taishan, was started in Shanghai Shipbuilding Industry in early September of Guanghua 39.
USS Tarzan nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, number CVN-37. Named after Mount Tai, the first of the five famous mountains of the Chinese Empire, five ships were built at the same level, namely the CVN-38 Hengshan. CVN-39 Songshan, CVN-40 Hengshan and CVN-41 Huashan. The standard displacement of the aircraft carrier Taishan is 72,400 tons. ββ Full load displacement of 98,600 tons, length of 332 meters, width of 40 meters, draft its flight deck length of 332 meters, width of 77 meters, the use of pressurized water nuclear reactor as a power source, four-axis propulsion. The speed is 33 knots, it can carry about 120 jet aircraft such as F6, F8, A5, B2, etc., and can carry up to 150 aircraft, requiring more than 3,400 people to operate on the ship, with 150 days of self-sustaining power of the crew and more than 10 years of self-sustaining power of the aircraft carrier.
Due to the fact that the shipbuilding budget of the Tarzan was as high as 625 million dragon coins, the debate within the Imperial Navy on the victory theory of the giant ship cannon and the victory theory of the aircraft carrier did not see a victory, so it was to balance the resistance of the BB faction. To maintain the balance within the Imperial Navy, the first Tarzan class was approved for construction, and the next four ships were subject to the commissioning of the Tarzan.
In the overall design of the Taishan nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the design standards of the Emeishan-class aircraft carrier and the Fanjingshan-class aircraft carrier continue to be followed, with only a few changes.
The first change was the installation of a nuclear reactor and related protective measures, with the use of two HDIM-4 pressurized water reactors (one in reserve) and four steam turbines. The total power is 194MW, four-axle propulsion, and the power of 4 emergency diesel engines is 8MW. These power equipment can ensure that the aircraft carrier Taishan can sail indefinitely at a constant speed of 33 knots (theoretically 10~14 years). The protective measures are directly applied to the layout and structure of the nuclear-powered battleship Guanghua Emperor, which can ensure that under no circumstances can the enemy's artillery fire threaten the safety of the nuclear reaction.
The second change is the integrated flight deck. The flight deck of the previous aircraft carrier was not equal in length to the longitudinal structure of the aircraft carrier, to be precise, it was installed separately and separately. The Taishan aircraft carrier was the first to open a flight deck that was directly integrated with the length of the longitudinal structure of the aircraft carrier. Its flight deck is a powerful deck, which participates in the total longitudinal strength of the whole ship. To this end, it not only ensures the requirements of high-performance aircraft landing, but also solves the longitudinal strength problem of hull beams that occurs after the hull is lengthened, so that the aircraft carrier can continue to be lengthened to obtain a longer flight deck.
The third change is the strengthening of the watertight structure, making the Taishan a theoretically unsinkable aircraft carrier. Its watertight structure is divided into 8 decks (including double bottom). Its depth is 19.51 meters, and the two sides are from the bottom to the hangar deck with an ancient lightning protection bulkhead structure, and there are four longitudinal partitions between the inner and outer hulls. This type of protection proved to be effective in the Sino-American war, but it has now been further developed and extended above the waterline, so that the two sides of the hangar also form a double defensive structure. There are 23 watertight horizontal partitions every 12-13 meters along the length of the ship, and 10 fireproof partitions. ββ As a result, more than 2,000 watertight compartments have been formed, and it is these more than 2,000 watertight compartments that ensure the unsinkability of the Taishan aircraft carrier. The adoption of air-space and real-reality measures in these cabins has greatly enhanced the aircraft carrier's ability to resist damage.
The fourth change is the enhancement of the Steam Catapult and Blocking Cable. In the past, the aircraft carriers of the Chinese Empire rarely used catapults, but as the combat aircraft of the Chinese Empire entered the jet age, the requirements for steam catapults and arresting cables for carrier-based jets were greatly increased. To this end, the steam catapult on the aircraft carrier Taishan has been greatly upgraded, so that it can safely send all kinds of jets into the air.
Due to the extremely fast landing speed of jet aircraft, the traditional arrest cable needed to be upgraded. In order to improve the level of safe landing of pilots, an advanced optical landing system and landing TV are installed on the port side of the landing deck of the Taishan, and a landing signal commander platform is set up on the port side of the tail of the landing area, so that the pilots can land safely and accurately. In addition, there is a night landing command system, which cooperates with the night lights on the carrier-based aircraft to improve the safety of the night landing.
The armament system of the Taishan nuclear-powered aircraft carrier still has 16 sets of MK40 Vulcan phalanx systems, and the Imperial Navy originally planned to install the Mistral 9 cruise missile system on the Taishan, but Wang Chenhao directly stopped it.
The aircraft carrier Taishan is equipped with a powerful radar detection system, with more than 300 radar devices in various bands. It is capable of providing aircraft carrier battle groups with parameters of air and sea targets within a radius of 500 km, with a distance error of 12 meters and about 3 dense positions, simultaneously tracking 160 air and sea targets, and being able to lock on 20 of them at the same time.
The construction of the first ship, Taishan, began in September of the 39th year of Guanghua. It was not launched until June of Guanghua 41, and it was expected that Guanghua would be able to outfit and deliver to the Imperial Navy in the summer of 42.
Although the Chinese Empire chose to acquiesce in the US-German alliance, it did not mean that the Chinese Empire did not care about the US-German military alliance. Opposite. The Chinese Empire felt that the excessive power of the Allies could threaten the national defense security and global interests of the Chinese Empire in the future. Thus, from the moment the United States and Germany were aligned, the Chinese Empire began active military preparations.
On the fourth day of the sixth month of the 41st year of Guanghua (June 28, 1941), the day after the US invasion of Canada, the Chinese imperial ** side strengthened the defense of the Alaska base and the Hawaii base and raised the alert level. Roosevelt was worried that the Chinese Empire would send troops to intervene, so he hurriedly promised the Chinese Empire that the American-Canadian war would not endanger the security of the Chinese Empire, and that the U.S. military would ensure that the safety of the citizens and property of the Chinese Empire in Canada would not be violated.
The Chinese Empire did not turn to the United States again because of this. The main thing is to take into account the strength of the entire Allied world. However, the Chinese Empire would not allow the United States to flex its muscles on the American continent, and immediately supported Mexico in building up its armaments and preparing for another war with the United States.
At this time, after the Third Mexican-American War, Mexico's national strength was greatly reduced compared to before the war. The Chinese Empire succeeded in weakening Mexico, exporting large amounts of capital to Mexico after the war, squeezing Mexico's gold and silver reserves. Although Mexico's gold production is not very large, and it is a drop in the bucket of the Chinese Empire's rapidly expanding dragon coin issuance, Mexico is an important silver producer in the world. With the Chinese Empire, the issuance of silver dragon coins increased. Mexico exports 70% of its silver to the Chinese Empire every year, greatly relieving the pressure on the Chinese Empire because gold production cannot keep up with economic development.
With the massive export of capital from Mexico by the Chinese Empire, it soon took control of Mexico's national financial system. In this case, Mexico's dependence on the Chinese Empire increased significantly, but for the Mexican government. Accepting control of the Mexican economy under the Chinese Empire would do more good than harm to Mexico. With the support of the Chinese Empire, the Mexican economy grew by leaps and bounds, and by the summer of 1941, Mexico's economy had recovered to its pre-war level.
Similarly, Mexico's military power was greatly supported by the Chinese Empire. In order to contain the United States, the Chinese Empire exported advanced weapons and equipment to Mexico on a large scale after the war, such as advanced Jian-10 fighters, M28A3 main battle tanks, W30 wheeled infantry combat vehicles, Z29 anti-tank combat vehicles, H-5 tactical bombers, as well as various types of artillery, firearms, logistics support vehicles and other advanced weapons and equipment successively equipped to the Mexican army, arming the Mexican army to the level of the Chinese emperor in 1935.
In 1941, Mexico had two armies, 24 armies with a total strength of 1.2 million men. ββWith the help of the Chinese Empire, 8 of them were mechanized and 8 were semi-mechanized. The combat effectiveness has also been greatly improved with the help of the Chinese Empire.
When the United States invaded Canada, the Chinese Empire, in order to hold back the United States, intensified the export of military supplies to Mexico and instigated Mexico to attack the United States.
On June 29, 1941, the Mexican government declared the United States an evil fascist state, and in order to maintain justice on the American continent, Mexico joined the entente group of invaded countries and declared war on the United States.
Mexico declared war on the United States, which made Britain and France and other countries very happy, almost three years after the outbreak of World War II, the Entente countries have been bullied by the Allies, and few countries are optimistic about the Entente. Although Mexico was defeated in the Third Mexican-American War, it was still much stronger than Italy and Spain. With the help of the Chinese Empire, Mexico had a strong military and was definitely a shot in the arm for the Entente camp.
Most importantly, the Anglo-French Entente believed that Mexico's entry into the Entente must be acquiesced in by the Chinese Empire, otherwise Mexico would not have the courage to fight against the entire Allied world. Although the Chinese Empire still did not take a stand, saying that Mexico's entry into the Entente was a personal act. It does not represent the entire Greater China Alliance, and the Chinese Empire remains strictly neutral. However, Britain, France, and other countries had already decided that the Chinese Empire supported the Entente more than the Allies, and actively worked to win the Chinese Empire to truly join the Entente camp.
For the Allied world, Mexico joined the Entente in declaring war on the United States. This meant that the attitude of the Chinese Empire had become more and more inclined towards the Entente camp.
Hitler knew that this would be the result, and from the day of the alliance between the United States and Germany, he knew that sooner or later the Chinese Empire would tear its skin with the Allies. But to his relief. The Chinese Empire had not yet made up its mind to enter the war, but had only acquiesced to Mexico to test the depths of the waters. Then make a final decision.
Hitler personally called Roosevelt and asked Roosevelt to take care of the war with Mexico, not to drag the Chinese Empire into the war, and at least to remain calm until the Allied world was able to counter the military power of the Chinese Empire. Hitler was naturally referring to Germany's nuclear weapons program, and he knew very well that unless Germany also possessed nuclear weapons, Germany and the entire Allied world would have to end the war as soon as the Chinese Empire entered the war. ββ
To this end, Hitler tightened his belt and allocated huge sums of money to continue to invest in nuclear weapons research programs. Roosevelt also strictly ordered the US Self-Defense Forces on the US-Mexico border not to take the initiative to attack, and were only allowed to adopt defensive tactics and not to invade half an inch of Mexico's territory, so as not to provide a pretext for the Chinese Empire to enter the war.
In the early morning of July 1, 1941, the Mexican army concentrated 500,000 troops, and under the air cover of 850 fighters and 90 bombers, 1,300 combat vehicles opened the way, crossed the Rio Grande and entered the territory of Texas, USA.
The strategic purpose of the Mexican Army was simple. It is to attack the oil-producing regions of the United States. On the one hand, Mexico's industrial development needed oil, and on the other hand, the Chinese Empire wanted to prevent the United States from supplying large quantities of cheap oil to Germany and the entire Allied world, and also required the Mexican army to take the lead in attacking Texas.
At this time, the United States, under Roosevelt's rule, had a rapid economic development. The national strength has been greatly strengthened compared with before the Third Mexican-American War.
Since Roosevelt's New Deal was based on the premise of the development of the military industry, the resources of the United States were extremely large. In order to circumvent the military sanctions imposed by the Chinese Empire, the main equipment of the US Self-Defense Forces was secretly produced. For example, the No. 4 tank production line imported by the US military from Germany, codenamed M3 main battle tank, has a tank chassis disguised as a civilian tractor chassis of the Meibang Tractor Company for production, and the US military produces this kind of tractor on a large scale in peacetime, and the US media jokingly calls the US Self-Defense Forces peasants, because millions of US troops are engaged in tractor agricultural production activities. Before the outbreak of the war, the U.S. military had produced 40,000 U.S. tractors, of which 21,000 were purchased by the U.S. military. Once the war broke out, the US military only needed to make simple modifications to these tractors, and immediately turned them into M3 medium main battle tanks with strong combat effectiveness.
In addition, the US Air Self-Defense Force is restricted from owning a large number of combat aircraft, especially the most tense strategic bombers in the Chinese Empire, and the US military is strictly prohibited from owning them. However, the US Air Self-Defense Force is also secretly carrying out research and production work in this regard, and they are conducting various military tests through civilian airliners in the name of private aviation.
For example, the TBF-C Avenger fighter, the SBD-5 dreadnought attack plane, the A-26 Intruder bomber, and the A20 Havoc medium bomber secretly developed by the US Air Self-Defense Force were all produced as regional civil aircraft under the banner of the Civil Aviation Corporation. At the same time, the U.S. military spent more than 10 years imitating the large international Airbus C-50 aircraft of the Chinese Imperial China Airlines, and developed the U.S. military's version of the B29 long-range strategic bomber, which was produced under the banner of international cargo transportation.
These planes were quickly requisitioned by the U.S. military during wartime, and it only took a few months to transform them into advanced combat aircraft.
However, the US Maritime Self-Defense Force was very sad because they could not disguise tens of thousands of tons of giant ships as civilian ships, so until the outbreak of war, the largest warships of the US Maritime Self-Defense Force were only about 20,000 tons, and there were no more than 10 of them, and there were quite a few other small warships, especially destroyers. The Chinese Empire did not restrict this point, and the US military took the opportunity to vigorously develop destroyers, building a total of 788 destroyers of 54 classes, and building the US Self-Defense Force into a coastal defense arm.
In terms of submarines, the Chinese Empire strictly restricted the possession of submarines by the U.S. military, which led to the U.S. Maritime Self-Defense Force not having submarines for a considerable period of time. However, as the United States and Germany approached, the U.S. military believed that Germany's wolf pack tactics were very useful and an economical and practical weapon for the navies of weak countries, especially now that the Chinese Empire is the world's largest maritime trading country, and 70% of the world's merchant ships are from the Chinese Empire. In the event of a war against China, the merchant ships attacking the Chinese Empire would inflict heavy losses on it. Although submarine warfare against the Chinese Empire could not blockade the economy of the Chinese Empire, Roosevelt still felt that it was feasible, so he secretly established a number of submarine bases, secretly introduced German submarines, and even obtained the Tang-class submarines of the Chinese Empire for imitation.
As far as the U.S. military's individual equipment is concerned, the U.S. Ground Self-Defense Force uses M1 Garand rifles, Thomson submachine guns, and Browning M1911 pistols and M2 heavy machine guns authorized by the U.S. Army Self-Defense Forces to produce them.
On the whole, in addition to being short board in terms of capital ships at sea, the US military and air force are very strong, far exceeding the level of the assessment report of the Chinese Empire.
When the Mexican Army attacked Texas, the U.S. Self-Defense Forces received a strict order from the presidential palace not to take the initiative to attack. Although blind defense would have made the U.S. military passive, the U.S. military still held off the invasion of the Mexican army.
A week later, the Mexican Army advanced 220 kilometers deep into the United States. In the battle, Mexico achieved absolute superiority with the M28A3 Leopard main battle tank, and the M3 tank of the US army was powerless to fight back, and the battlefield was full of corpses of US tanks.
In the air battle, the Mexican Air Force was also in an absolute advantage, with the most advanced Jian-10 fighters, it defeated the US Air Self-Defense Force many times, and set a large score advantage of losing 342 and shooting down 933 enemy planes. However, the Mexican Air Force relied on imported fighter jets from the Chinese Empire, while the U.S. Air Self-Defense Force had a large number of so-called civilian aircraft that could be modified, and soon more and more U.S. aircraft entered the battlefield.
The fighters of the US Air Self-Defense Force cannot compete with the J-10 fighters equipped by the Mexican Air Force in terms of quality, but they have an absolute advantage in numbers. Soon, the U.S. military adopted the tactics of wolf packs in the air, and the wolf pack tactics that only existed during World War I reappeared, but the commanders of the Mexican Air Force were inexperienced, and even gathered all the J-10 fighters together to engage US planes, and as a result, they could not give full play to the superb maneuverability of the J-10 fighters, and lost 722 planes, but only shot down less than 1,150 enemy planes. The U.S. military quickly replenished the aircraft losses, but the Mexican Air Force was unable to replenish the aircraft in time, and as a result, it lost air supremacy.
In San Antonio, the U.S. Self-Defense Forces, which had regained air supremacy, carried out their first stubborn blocking operation, and the offensive of Mexico's 7th Panzer Corps, which had lost air fire support, was suddenly blocked and was blocked by the 22nd Panzer Corps and the 17th Cavalry Corps of the U.S. Army. After several days of fierce fighting, the Mexican Army was unable to move forward, and the U.S. ground attack group continued to destroy the M28 main battle tank, forcing the Mexican Army to retreat.
The U.S. military wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but was stopped by Roosevelt. Roosevelt preferred to place the battlefield in the United States rather than the US military to counterattack, because he was worried that once the US army counterattacked, it would be difficult to grasp the proportion, and it would be very disadvantageous to drag the Chinese Empire into war ahead of schedule.
In this way, the American army, under Roosevelt's strict orders, did not counterattack. As a result, less than half a month after the Fourth American-Mexican War, the two sides fell into a stalemate.
The southern front and the Mexican army were in a stalemate, but on the northern front, the American army was impregnable, and the Canadian army fought extremely bravely, but unfortunately the equipment was too poor. Britain did not expect that the US military would raid Canada so quickly, and the weapons and equipment prepared for Canada would not arrive in North America in time.
On July 12, Ottawa was captured by U.S. forces, and the Canadian government moved far away to Manitoba.
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain suggested that the Canadian government move the capital to the Yukon Territory, where Alaska, next to the Chinese Empire, could be helped by the Chinese Empire, and if necessary, it could drag the Chinese Empire into the water early.
Soon, the Canadian government followed Chamberlain's advice and moved its capital to the Yukon. But Roosevelt was shrewd, and he immediately judged the Canadian mentality, so he ordered the American army to quickly attack from Washington State, capture Columbia, and then make a detour to the northeast to cut off the possibility of the Canadian government retreating in the direction of Alaska. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )