308 East Asian Sea Power
At dawn the next day, Blair Castle, the capital of the Andaman Islands, fell silent in a cloud of gunsmoke. After a night of bloody battles in the city and alleys, the Indian player general Kalam could not resist the fierce attack of the squadron, and fled to the Andaman jungle with thousands of Indian players and NPC remnants in disarray, and sneaked to other castles.
There is more than one castle in the Andaman Islands, there are more than a dozen large and small castles, with a total of 160,000 troops. Blair Castle is only the largest of these, with 90,000 troops deployed, and more than 70,000 troops in more than a dozen smaller Indian castles.
At great cost, the Chinese vanguard fleet forcibly stormed Blair Castle overnight and occupied Blair Harbor, an excellent deep-water seaport in the Indian Ocean, next to the castle.
In this battle, the Chinese side lost 50,000 elite infantry and dozens of siege vehicles. Killed nearly 80,000 Indian soldiers, captured more than 20,000 Indian NPC soldiers, four Indian war elephants, and a large number of supplies that Indian players did not have time to destroy.
I didn't stay for thousands of miles and saw the statistical battle reports of the enemy and us, and I suffered heavy losses, and I felt a little heartache. Fifty thousand, fighting a castle costs fifty thousand elite NPC soldiers. If it weren't for the fact that he wanted to take the Andaman Islands in a short period of time, he would never have attacked the city at such a cost.
But the current situation does not allow him to deploy slowly. ^^^^
Pakistan is in danger, and the decisive naval battle with the Indian fleet cannot be delayed for long. And he received the latest military information, a large fleet of Japanese players also rushed to the new Pacific Fleet in Keelung, Taiwan last night. There is no doubt that these Japanese players are going to take advantage of the fire to rob and take advantage of the war between China and India to carry out a large-scale counterattack.
Now Chinese players are faced with a two-sided battle. Military power was split in two. The situation began to deteriorate.
Although he was heartbroken by the heavy losses, he had to step up his encirclement and suppression of the Indian soldiers in the Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands, which was the main task of his vanguard expedition to the Indian Ocean.
He knew very well that the shorter the time he could take the Andaman Islands, the easier it would be for the leaders of the Pacific Command and Indian Ocean Command to face the challenge.
Thankfully, Indian players are not very combative. After only one night's strong attack, Blair Castle, which was heavily defended by India, was forcibly breached. Capturing this castle is equivalent to gaining a supply base in the Indian Ocean.
Thousands of miles did not leave behind, and quickly issued a series of orders. Sent several naval forces to continue the attack on other Indian forts and military defenses in the Andaman Islands. ^^^^ also intensified the restoration of the dilapidated Blair Castle and the port. A shipment of supplies was transported from Myanmar and Thailand. The Indian player left behind a large amount of supplies enough to last 90,000 troops for a month, relieving him of a lot of burden.
News of the victory at Blair Castle was also sent to the Provisional Indian Ocean Command in Singapore. The follow-up action needs to wait for the commander of the Indian Ocean Fleet, Sea Soul, to decide.
Thousands of miles away from the Andaman Islands, Keelung Port, Taiwan, near the sea.
The 5,000 three-masted warships of the New Pacific Fleet slowly left the harbor and headed for the open sea. The 3,000 three-masted warships and 5,000 two-masted warships of the Japanese First Fleet have arrived in the area around the Okinawa Islands, which are only a few hundred kilometers away from Taiwan. It will not take half a day to arrive in Keelung. Japan's Second and Third Fleets are near the Japanese island of Kyushu.
The naval battle was imminent, and the atmosphere was serious. The commander of the New Pacific Fleet, the Sword King, personally sits on the flagship of the New Pacific Fleet. Command the battle.
These 5,000 warships are all the warships currently owned by the island of Taiwan.
Seriously calculated, this number is actually pitiful.
There are at least 20,000 warships in the military ports of Guangzhou, Zhanjiang, Hainan Island, Brunei, and Singapore in the South China Sea. But these warships will be put into the Indian Ocean theater and secure the seafaring supply lines in Southeast Asia, so there will be no reinforcements for Taiwan's new Pacific Fleet. \
The 5,000 warships of the Bohai Fleet in the Bohai Sea have already gone south, and when they passed through the Yellow Sea, they also brought down the Big Bird Fleet, and they are currently on the surface of the East China Sea. There is still half a day to reach Taiwan.
There are also more than 20,000 warships in the Yangtze River and Zhoushan ports in the East China Sea. But they did not move and did not immediately reinforce Keelung, but continued to wait for something. In other words, the first large-scale naval battle in East Asia will be Japan's First Fleet that will crush China's New Pacific Fleet. The strength of the fleets of both sides is half a pound and eight taels, and they are all hastily formed into fleets. It's not about who is better or who is inferior.
The greatest advantage of the Chinese fleet is its geographical advantage. Fighting at home, saving supply lines. And the supply lines of the Japanese fleet were two or three thousand kilometers long. It is inevitable that there will be worries.
Before the war.
The Sword King and Qin Xiaobai made a contact offline.
"Boss, how do you think this battle will be fought?"
"Now that they're here, you can't let them go back. However, do not rush too much, and try to attract the Japanese Second and Third Fleets to Taiwan. When the three Japanese fleets have arrived, we will give them another land to eradicate this aftermath at once. ^^^^ 50,000 warships in the Bohai, Yellow Sea, and East China Seas will arrive on time on the battlefield. ”
"Hmm."
Real history is often a joke, and Imperial Expedition is no exception.
Obviously, the players of China and India decided to fight a naval battle first, and Japan seized the opportunity to declare war on China, and Vietnam finally made small moves at the instigation of the Japanese players, which is a sequence.
But when it comes to actually doing it, the result is completely opposite.
The Vietnamese pirate army was the first to pick out and cause a lot of trouble, and the Japanese First Fleet was almost arriving in Keelung, Taiwan, and soon met the Chinese fleet. At this time, the Indian fleet was still grinding in its base camp, and it did not know when it would come out to fight China. As for the battle of the 6 castles in the Andaman Islands, it is just a small confrontation between China and India, and it has nothing to do with the decisive battle between China and India.
The decisive battle between Chinese and Japanese players was born before the decisive battle between China and India. The largest and most tragic naval battle in East Asia lasted for three full days.
During these three days, the Japanese Union of Societies mobilized all the warships of Japan, a total of more than 24,000 warships, as well as tens of thousands of transport ships and fishing boats, into the war, and 2 million elite troops rushed to Keelung, Taiwan, codenamed "Operation Jade Crush". It is planned to use the country's strength to open up southbound routes, connect the Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries, and obtain Australia's iron ore resources.
Players all over Japan were screaming and screaming at the excitement of this huge raid, and they couldn't sleep with excitement and threw themselves into the war.
But they underestimated the will to fight organized by the Chinese players, and pouring out of the nest was not the Japanese Ming way of fighting.
The alliance of China's nine major princes mobilized warships in the entire Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the East China Sea to be emptied, and as many as 50,000 warships and 100,000 large and small transport ships were thrown into the sea battle. Hundreds of thousands of players are directly involved in the battle. The will of Chinese players to participate in the war is unusually high.
In addition, the alliance of China's nine princes has also mobilized several recent allied players and fleets such as North Korea, South Korea, and the Philippines to assist in secondary battles.
On the day of the decisive battle, 5,000 warships of China's New Pacific Battleship Group and 8,000 warships of Japan's First Battleship Group first encountered each other at sea and faced each other head-on. The bloody battle lasted for a day and a night, without a victory, and thousands of ships were destroyed on both sides, and the battle situation was tense.
The next day, the Japanese Second and Third Fleets arrived at the naval battlefield and attacked China's New Pacific Fleet.
Seeing that the destruction of the new Pacific warships was imminent, five fleets of 10,000 ships in China's three major seas finally arrived and outflanked the Japanese Second and Third Fleets on a large scale.
The entire sea surface of Keelung, Taiwan, for hundreds of miles, was obscured by the sails of Chinese and Japanese warships. Everyone can count how many warships have been put into the war, but where the two armies meet, almost every second the battleships sink under the blows of the opposing warships.
"Kill!"
"Boom!"
Arrows, flames, skirmishes, ramming.
The sea battle, which lasted day and night, lasted for two whole days, and gradually stopped.
The entire sea area around Taiwan has almost become a graveyard of warship ruins, with countless corpses floating in hundreds of seas of broken wood, decks, and burned sails. The surviving transport ships began to save the wounded.
The Chinese fleet rested on the spot in Keelung, Taiwan.
Imperial Expedition
China's official forum: "The Battle of the Magnificent Navy", all three major Japanese warship groups were destroyed, none of the 24,000 warships survived, and a large number of transport ships were captured. The Japanese player's attempt to dominate East Asia was shattered. The Chinese fleet group remained intact, with losses of less than 10,000 ships.
A game forum in Singapore, the first time to publish: Congratulations on the victory of China's allies.
The famous European game forum, with a sour tone: East Asia, entering the era of China's sea power, it is time to consider an alliance with Chinese players and divide the world.
Famous American gaming forum: Now, we have an opponent who needs to be faced head-on. There is no place for us in Asia, and we need to occupy the whole of the Americas as soon as possible.
A well-known Indian gaming forum, the mood is mixed: Japanese players are smart, but they are too impulsive. Against Chinese players, you must have the same patience and foresight as Indian players, and you can't rush them. Indian players can sit on an equal footing with Chinese players and share the Asian territory equally.
The forums of South Korea, North Korea, the Philippines, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, and Laos were almost all one-sided in their praise of China's victory. Because China's victory is equal to their victory.
When the fleets of the ROK, the DPRK and the Philippines received the news that the Chinese and Japanese fleets had begun a full-scale firefight, they finally reassured themselves, and the warships swooped down on the major Japanese ports "like lightning" and carried out an all-out attack without any scruples. At this time, not a single Japanese warship could stop them. This news was hidden behind the news of the decisive battle between China and Japan, and did not arouse the players' minds in the slightest.