Chapter 369: Cam Ranh Bay
"Helping the losing side?" Ye Zi was stunned, it was obvious that her ambition or ambition had not yet swelled to the point of Emperor Yang.
"Don't you understand? If you don't understand, that's right! Yang Feng said with a smile.
If the United States had not entered the First World War, the final result would have ended in a mutual compromise before 1918, before which the two blocs had already understood that they were draining their own blood to fatten the United States, Japan, and even China, and the two sides had begun to contact the armistice. The Americans understood this and were afraid that the Europeans would not shed their blood cleanly, so they entered the war, and because of their accession, Britain and France knew that they were definitely the victors, while Germany was afraid of losing the war and suffering the disaster of losing the country, and the two sides fought more happily.
In the end, the Americans got the best result they wanted, Germany was finished, Russia was abolished, Britain and France were disabled, and they were the only one in the whole world, and then Japan also rose, but to tell the truth, Japan is also fed by Chinese blood, if it weren't for such a big lump of fat for themselves to hold and gnaw, their strength would really be a joke in the eyes of the Americans.
But what if China joined the war to help Germany by then?
Then the Germans will usher in a big reversal, they will continue to fight to the end with high morale, while they bleed each other in Europe, while China can rely on its huge military aircraft to crush all the way around, whether it is Russia, the United States, Southeast Asia, India, Australia, will plant their own Yellow Dragon flag.
In recent years, China has perfected the reserve system, and the total number of active naval and land troops is only 700,000, but in case of emergency, 7 million or even 17 million can be conscripted, and the compulsory education of six-year primary schools has spread throughout the country, including all universities and factories, and there are regular military training, with a huge base of nearly 400 million people, this figure is not excessive, in fact, even 40 million can be made up.
You must know that in World War II, the United States mobilized 13 million troops with a population of more than 100 million.
Military production is even more worry-free. Because of the railway, shipbuilding, machinery manufacturing stimulus, steel production reached 1.5 million tons last year, and in five years 5 million tons is very easy, now China's hottest investment project is steel, those capitalists have even been thinking about going out to grab iron ore, Vietnam is a good example. Military production has already been able to meet the needs of millions of combat units this year, and in fact the number of combat troops being supplied exceeds 400,000, because there are still 300,000 Mexicans in the Americas using arms supplied by China.
Imagine if there were ample supplies. What a terrifying force that an army of seventeen million men can erupt in, and for whites it would be a yellow peril that will truly sweep the world.
Of course, Ye Zi would not understand Emperor Yang's lofty ideals, this little woman was only satisfied with occasionally going out to grab a colony, in fact, her ideals represented the ideals of the vast majority of Chinese hawks at this time, after all, she had just climbed back from the precipice of being turned into a colony by others. And ambition is a thing that needs to grow with strength, the mustache who waited for the gas bombs to fall in the trenches never thought that he was going to dominate the world, but when he stood at the opening ceremony of the Berlin Olympics, he would never have such an ideal, for Yang Feng, he wanted China's capitalists and generals to fight for world domination. It's just a question of growing strength.
The victory on the battlefield in Vietnam did not make him wait long, although the French fought bloodily for honor and dignity, but the gap in strength was not something that courage could make up for after all, and the environment here was too difficult for them. Those who died of illness were about to catch up with those who died in battle, and they were not like the Chinese soldiers, who were vaccinated against all the tropical diseases that Emperor Yang could think of.
The bloody battle did not bring the French the victory they hoped for, and after a week of struggling in the hot and humid mountain forest. They still had to lose Nha Trang to Nie Shicheng and retreat to Cam Ranh.
Cam Ranh Bay, the best natural military port in Asia. Emperor Yang diligently sought a good place, the French Far East Fleet took this place as their home port for only two years, originally their main station was in Shanghai or Haiphong, but since Emperor Yang became the Minister of the Navy, it is undoubtedly very stupid to do so, just like they moved the Indochinese Federal Governor's Office to Hanoi, the Far East Fleet also ran to Cam Ranh Bay, far away from the threat of the Chinese Navy.
The French also expected that because of the problem of Vietnam, it was inevitable that there would be a war with China, so they carried out large-scale construction here, and had turned the original commercial port into a large-scale fortress, especially the entire outer bay has been locked by mines, leaving only one passage in and out of the middle, and a large number of new reinforced concrete coastal defense batteries have been built on both sides of the strait, equipped with various coastal defense guns including 280 and 240 mm calibers, and even equipped with more than a dozen torpedo boats, plus the naval fleet in the inner harbor, It is impregnable in the face of attacks by sea and land, and the only railway to Saigon passes through here, so you can't avoid this port if you want to go south.
With let. Baptiste. Paul. In Governor Bo's words, the Chinese are dragons, and they have to destroy all their minions here.
"Cam Ranh Bay is indeed a good place, why can't we find such a good military port in China? If you look at our naval bases, they are either too small or too big, and the water is too shallow to find a good place like this. Emperor Yang looked at the map and said with emotion.
"Your Majesty, this is our battle plan for Cam Ranh Bay, but according to the plan, it may take us a month or even more to take this port, and we must be prepared for more than 20,000 casualties." Li Yuncong, chief of the General Staff, carefully handed the battle plan to His Majesty the Emperor.
What they came up with was nothing more than that the naval guns at sea would bombard the fortress, and then the minesweepers would sweep away the mines in the outer bay, and at the same time land in the southern Phan Lang to cut off the connection with Saigon, and then the Second Army would press from north to south and clear the French troops on the periphery one by one, but in this way, Nie Shicheng's troops would definitely have to face the large-caliber naval guns of the Far East Fleet in the bay, and the fleet at sea could only engage the French coastal defense artillery more than ten kilometers away because of the limitation of minefields.
"This will definitely not work, the casualties will be too great, it will take too long, and it will not have the effect of deterring the French, we must adopt the simplest and most effective method." Emperor Yang Feng casually flipped through the battle plan and said with a smile, this kind of approach is exactly what the French are looking forward to, he doesn't want to follow the rhythm of the French, according to the plan of Li Yuncong and others, it will be a war of attrition, which will be very unfavorable to the negotiations being conducted in Singapore, and it will be even worse if it becomes Lushunkou.
"Your Majesty, there's really no better way than that." Li Yuncong said that he also knew that this plan was time-consuming and laborious, but in the face of such a well-defended fortress system, there was no other way than to smash it, and the person who designed the fortress must have thought of all kinds of offensive methods, and it was impossible to leave a fortress with obvious loopholes.
"Really, not necessarily?" Yang Feng looked at the map and said.
"You say we're going to set fire to the French, will they surrender?" This thing looked at the terrain of Cam Ranh Bay, and suddenly came up with a vicious trick.
"Set it on fire, but how does it burn in the sea?" Li Yuncong was bewildered by the whimsy of His Majesty the Emperor, and actually came up with such a creative idea of setting fire to the sea.
"Who said that the sea water can't be set on fire, if you pour oil on it, it won't burn." Yang Feng said with a cruel smile.
"Pour crude oil!" Li Yuncong's mind buzzed, and he suddenly understood Emperor Yang's goal, to dump crude oil into the narrow waterway on the inner side of the Cam Ranh Peninsula, which will be poured into the inner bay of Cam Ranh Bay with the impact of the low tide and river water, and the closed environment of Cam Ranh Bay makes it difficult for crude oil to flow out, and soon the sea surface of Cam Ranh Bay will be completely covered with crude oil, including the warships of the French Navy will also be soaked in the oil sea. Once the crude oil on the surface of the sea is ignited, you can imagine what will happen to the shells on these warships under the high temperature, especially because of the lack of the ability to produce antimony en antimony on a large scale, at this time the French shells are all nitrocellulose that can be easily detonated by high temperatures, and the explosion of ammunition is certain.
"Also, even if the French flee from their warships, the burning of crude oil will form a large amount of smoke, which is very toxic, and then the entire Cam Ranh Bay will be covered in flames and poisonous smoke, and our army will prevent them from escaping around, even if they can't burn to death, they will have to be smoked to death!" Emperor Yang looked at his face and added with a smile.
"It would take a lot of crude oil." Li Yuncong swallowed with difficulty and said.
"Ha, last year, Shandong oilfield produced two million tons of crude oil, how much do we need to care about? Besides, there is just such a bay, 10,000 tons is enough, transfer a few inland river oil tankers from the bay oil, send 10,000 tons over first, and let Nie Shicheng step up his attack and seize the northern tip of the Cam Ranh Peninsula. Then connect two kilometers of oil pipeline, enough to cross the Cam Ranh Peninsula from the sea to fill the inner waterway with oil, find a low tide time at night, if the moonlight is better, put some smoke screens, yes, before the start of the warship from the sea across the Cam Ranh Peninsula more smoke screens, it is dark and smoke, the French can find out that it is strange. By the time dawn they knew, they were already immersed in the sea of oil, and at that time they were given an ultimatum to light a fire if they didn't surrender within an hour, to see if they wanted to die or live! Emperor Yang said with a sneer. (To be continued......)