Chapter 219: No Reinforcements
The general "Han Xin" hand-picked by His Majesty - Admiral Long Zhou. Because of his successful command of the "sheep, sheep, sheep" left battalion air raid and his outstanding performance in the Yellow Sea naval battle, he was praised by His Majesty as "an unborn naval genius".
Now Admiral Long has once again taken on the important task of leading the Royal Navy's main two-ocean fleet to Hawaii!
The Hawaiian Islands, located almost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, are the largest of the Polynesian archipelagos, an arc across the Tropic of Cancer and consisting of eight main islands. According to some sources, the ancestors of Hawaii's earliest inhabitants can be traced back to the Yangtze River Delta region of China, about 5,000-6,000 years ago. Honolulu, the largest city in the archipelago, has many connections to modern China.
At the end of the 18th century, the Hawaiian chieftain Komehameha conquered other islands with cannons and established the Hawaiian dynasty, becoming King Kamehamey I.
In 1893, U.S. forces overthrew the rule of Queen Liliukalani of Hawaii and established the U.S.-controlled Republic of Hawaii, which was formally annexed by the U.S. in 1898.
Since the beginning of the 20 th century, the US military has built a naval base and airfield at Pearl Harbor on the west side of Honolulu, making it the headquarters and base of the Pacific Fleet and Air Force, and as an important means for it to occupy the Pacific Ocean.
In a sense, the dispute between Han and the United States in the Pacific can also be said to be the struggle for Hawaii. Whoever owns Hawaii has the first offensive and defensive starters. The fact that the mainland of Han and the United States are thousands of miles apart, and the loss of Hawaii, a transit point in the vast Pacific Ocean, also means that the possibility of attacking the mainland of the other side is promoted.
Unlike the previous attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Combined Fleet, Ryuzhou did not set sail off the east coast of Japan, but set sail in Moresby, New Guinea, the home port of the Pacific Fleet. The fleet passed through the Solomon Islands, established a supply base in Tuvalu, then rested on Christmas Island in Kiribati and sent a battalion of marines to land on Christmas Island.
Christmas Island is not the Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean dominated by "banana people", this Christmas Island belongs to the territory of the Republic of Kiribati, a Central Pacific island country, a British colony, 2080 kilometers from Hawaii, is the largest atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
In this operation, codenamed "The Storm", His Majesty specifically chose this island as a forward base. In the previous life, the Pearl Harbor incident, which had been filmed and talked about, and the many mistakes of the Japanese army in the air raids, were well known.
Zhong Yi clearly remembers that a military expert once shouted on a TV program: if Nagumo Tadaichi carried out the third wave of attacks, blow up the dock and heavy oil depot; Or if the Japanese were not so weak-minded, shelling the American beach positions with battleships after an air raid, and then carrying out a sailor landing and occupying Pearl Harbor and even the entire Hawaiian Islands, then what would be the result? Then there would be no more Battle of Midway, and the Pacific War would drag on for at least another two to three years......
"Two or three more years?" Thinking of this, His Majesty grinned, "That's Little Japan, if Lao Tzu does it, ......"
"Don't crook your mouth, the baby will learn from you to be ugly!" The two expectant mothers, who are busy doing prenatal education, are busy and have to restrain His Majesty's words and deeds.
The imperial physician said that women at this time are unreasonable. In particular, there are two pregnant women in His Majesty's house; Especially Qin Yingxue is close to the time of labor, and the two expectant mothers are the real power and hegemonists. "In this house, I'm a fart fascist!" Your Majesty's self-deprecating smile, of course, is a decent smile, didn't you hear that the crooked mouth has been warned?
"Can't afford to provoke us to hide!" Zhong Yi grabbed his windbreaker and prepared to go to Weiqing Pavilion to avoid the limelight.
"Where are you going?" Director Qin, who was unable to move, even his voice was full of milky fragrance.
"Uh, I'll go to Weiqing Pavilion and find Chief Jiang to talk about something!" frowned, in fact, Zhong Yi hated women being too tired.
"Oh...... Baby, your father doesn't like you, you haven't been born yet, and he's going to leave us behind......"
Zhong Yiyi, who had just stepped out of the door with one foot, stumbled and almost fell to the ground, "Whoever says that Lao Tzu is a fascist, Lao Tzu will destroy him." Nima, Lao Tzu, this is purely the oppressed proletarian toiling masses! ”
Well, when it comes to the proletariat, Zhong Yi thinks of the northern battlefield, Ye Weixun is worthy of his name, and His Majesty used a bunch of ...... Rags in exchange for him. The three-way army of the Northern Group Army marched forward at the same time, especially the guy Ishihara Wan'er, what was in Fula...... Nima Lao Maozi's name is too bitten, it's still called Vladivostok. The Right Route Army, led by Ishihara's command of the Toei Army, bombarded all the nearby civilians into Vladivostok, and as a result, the supplies in the fortress that could have lasted for half a year were exhausted within two months, and the Soviet defenders were forced to leave the fortress and surrender.
This fortress, known as the first fortress in the Far East, built according to the "Velicko Fortress Theory", was easily taken without a single soldier, which really surprised the whole world.
Of course, this also depended on the absolute superiority of the Imperial Navy and Air Force, and the Northern Fleet defeated the Soviet Pacific Fleet in the northern part of the Sea of Japan, and the weak Soviet Pacific ships could not compete with the Northern Fleet led by Guan Canghai.
The flagship of the fleet, the Kalinin, led the other ships to take refuge in the Vladivostok fortress, hiding in the coastal artillery units and the fortress's harbor defense system.
However, this fortress, which was gradually perfected with the concept of war in the old era, could not fully adapt to the modern way of warfare, because Shuangchengzi was captured by the Right Route Army and the navy was defeated, and Vladivostok had become an isolated city in the practical sense. Concrete fortifications several meters thick and cannons comparable to battleships could deter and support the fortress from bombing warships, but they could not protect against aerial bombs. Although constructed of U-shaped steel pipes, T-beams and asphalt up to 4 thick. The 5-meter concrete ceiling could withstand the power of 420-mm shells, but the incendiary bombs dropped by the Pterodactyl bombers of the Northern Fleet still caused great problems for the Soviet defenders, and with the influx of large numbers of civilians, Major General Popochav, the supreme commander of the Red Army in Vladivostok Fortress, still had to surrender after holding out for two months.
Immediately, Popochev, who had caused the fall of the fortress because of his sympathy for the civilian population, was declared a traitor to the people by the People's Commissariat Military Council of the Supreme Command of the Soviet Union and expelled from the Bolshevik Party.
This led directly to Popochev's questioning of his beliefs.
"What is our revolution for? Is it to sacrifice the few civilians, or to really seek happiness for the proletariat? Are we going to kill innocent people or are we going to liberate all of humanity? ”
"That's a good idea! Knowing how to question is a true wise man, otherwise it is just blind obedience! The so-called Soviet revolutionaries/orders are actually blind obedience! They joined the Bolsheviks with the good hope of overthrowing the tyrannical rule of Tsarist Russia, but what did the Bolshevik leaders do? Purge, purge, invasion, hegemony, he is a ruler even more brutal than the tsar! The great Russians should not be blind followers of a certain doctrine, you should come to your senses, stand up and build your own Russian empire, and not be full of powerism and hegemonic so-called alliances! ”
This is a televised speech made by His Majesty in Chang'an, but there is no television station in the Far East, so the televised speech became a recording, and it was a translated recording, read aloud by a Russian translator. To put it bluntly, it is the text of His Majesty's speech, Ye Weixun found a group of American/female staff officers who knew Russian to read it out, and then distributed it to various Allied occupied areas in the Far East to play it on a loop, including the paragraph of Popochav's "The Self-Redemption of a Former Bolshevik".
In Zhong Yi's view, before the winter comes, it is enough to fight in the Far East, capture Vladivostok, the "first fortress in the Far East" that Lao Maozi boasts, capture the Soviet Pacific Fleet, a heavy cruiser and nine destroyers and a large number of auxiliary ships, all of which were sent to Beiping, so that the naval strength over there suddenly surpassed Nanjing, although there is a lack of a large number of sailors to operate the ship, but in terms of tonnage and firepower, it is absolutely completely dependent on a few small ships supported by British and American handouts.
The left guard of the Central Route Army also lived up to expectations. After crossing the river, the left fat man spent two weeks to clear the remnants of the Red Army that remained in Boli to insist on street fighting, and at present the flank troops are storming Blagoveshchensk (Hailan Pao), while the main force has attacked the important Soviet city of mineral resources Amur Komsomolsk, which is also the most important river transport terminal on the Amur River. Of course, in the previous life, Komsomolsk was more famous for the "Komsomolsk Aircraft Manufacturing Complex" - the production place of the famous "Flanker" Su-27.
More importantly, however, this is the land that was forcibly ceded by Tsarist Russia to the Manchu government during the Treaty of 1858. This is the land of China.
When His Majesty convened the mobilization meeting of the "Heavenly Song" plan, he clearly pointed out that in the Far Eastern War, we are not aggressors, we are the defenders of the dignity of the Chinese nation, and we only want to get back the land of our ancestors.
The Left Route Army under the command of Lieutenant General Chen Shukang was the most difficult force, with 400,000 troops facing a two-sided attack by the Soviet Transbaikal Military District and the Soviet garrison.
However, in the Left Route Army, the participation of a number of ace troops greatly made up for the gap in the number of troops. Relying on the strength of the 1st Guards Army and other armored units, Chen Shukang exerted an extremely high command level in the Battle of the Shikal River, repeatedly attacked with surprise troops, and used modern warfare methods such as large-scale detours of armored forces and the advance of cavalry divisions in the army and air forces, and could only barely parry the Lieutenant General Kovalev, a division commander of the Transbaikal Military District.
During the civil war between the Red and White armies of the Soviet Union, the Red Army, which was good at overwhelming the enemy with artillery superiority and then launching a charge, did not have many ways to face the Allied forces that were more ferocious than them, and it was even more unrealistic to charge against the enemy's combined firepower of air and ground.
Of course, after the 44th Army of the three armies of the Transbaikal Military District was encircled and annihilated in formation, Kovalev had no choice but to lead two other armies with equally heavy losses to withdraw from the defense line of the Shikal River and retreat to the defense line of Chita City, and prepare for street fighting.
Kova Mias has received a secret telegram from the Command Department: without reinforcements, everything can only rely on the power of the people!