363 Iron Defense – Cape Town
Empire players around the world watched the whole day, plus a whole night after the Sino-Russian Siberian War. This chapter was uploaded by netizens, and the network hereby affirms that the war in Africa's Big 6 has finally begun to escalate gradually.
In the early morning of April 14, the joint First Fleet of Europe and the United States arrived in the waters near the Kingdom of Angola. Angola is still a long way from Cape Town, South Africa, China's African command.
It's not that they deliberately want to delay time, so that Russia can take the lead for half a day, it is enough. It doesn't mean much to them if it drags on for too long, but it delays time in vain.
The reason why they did not attack South Africa directly was because South Africa was an extremely hard bone and very difficult to gnaw. China's African Navy fleet, coastal artillery, aircraft clusters, and 6 military corps formed the Iron Curtain Defense Line of four seas and six air.
China's African naval fleet has almost all of China's ironclad battleships, a total of 80 ships, and more than 7,000 gunboats, firmly controlling the maritime supremacy of hundreds of miles around Cape Town, South Africa.
Coastal artillery was used for coastal defense and to guard ports. There were more than 5,000 gates, making it difficult for European and American fleets to get close to the coastline of Cape Town.
Cape Town's airfield is densely packed and controls air supremacy for 20,000 kilometers around the Cape Town sky.
The 6th Army Corps was stubbornly defending its military positions on the shore to prevent the troop carriers of the European and American fleets from boarding the 6.
If the European and American fleets were to fight directly at Cape Town and engage in a war with the Chinese fleet, they would face a fierce attack from at least three or more of the defensive lines. Not to mention attacking the port of Cape Town, even if it is a little closer, it will be unbearable.
In order to negotiate a way to capture the port of Cape Town, the European Players Alliance, the North American Players Alliance, and hundreds of admirals have been arguing for a long time. But we still haven't been able to come up with a workable solution.
European and American players let Russia go to war with China first, not just to put more pressure on the Russian alliance. Another reason is also to obtain accurate data on some of China's heavy weapons and equipment, such as the power, degree, and range of fighters and bombers.
They first deduce it with the most orthodox wargames. Frontal offensive methods. The combined European and American fleets were precisely calculated. The land cost of taking the port of Cape Town.
Because the European and American fleets are the active attackers. And the Chinese fleet is on the defending. So there is no aircraft support in Europe and the United States. There was also no coastal artillery support. The only land that can be used is the naval fleet. On the contrary, it is. China has aircraft support. There is coastal artillery support.
They were shocked by the results of the wargames.
European and American fleets. It is necessary to use about four times more power than the Chinese fleet. It is possible to use the method of attrition in the field. Forcibly tore through the four lines of defense of the squadron. Capture the port of Cape Town.
That is, they will come up with at least one ironclad battleship and one gunboat. It will be possible to break the Chinese African fleet. Storming Cape Town.
It's just a joke.
The total number of European and American fleets combined cannot reach this figure. Not to mention that they don't have so many warships, even if they have. I don't dare to fight like this. Because China still has the Indian Ocean Naval Fleet and the Pacific Naval Fleet, and it has not moved. When the European fleet is exhausted, I am afraid that the Chinese fleet will soon dominate the world's oceans.
Hundreds of admirals from the European and American alliances were extremely controversial, with the admirals of Russia and other countries strongly calling for a strong attack, but the United States, Britain, and other countries resolutely opposed it. For this, the generals of the Russian and American players almost slapped the table on the spot.
The Russian player general roared, "Our Russian army group is storming the city of Siberia for the victory of the European and American camps." Fighting bloody battles at all costs, in just one day, two tank armored armies and more than 10,000 tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed. Why can't you, the United States, storm Cape Town and make a heroic contribution to the First World War! As long as Cape Town is taken, our European and American coalition forces will win the Great 6 War in Africa. For the sake of victory, we can pay this price at all! ”
The American generals were equally hideous, "That's because you don't know what war strategy is." Stupid only understands massive armor shock, firepower is overwhelming! Can this win the battle? You must use high-tech equipment that can defeat the enemy in order to destroy the enemy! ”
Players in the UK, Germany, France and other countries are desperately trying to persuade them.
However, in the end, the American generals still vetoed the plan to storm Cape Town. Who told them that their warships accounted for about 1/3 of the combined fleets of Europe and the United States, and without the consent of the American generals, they could not fight at all.
Although the Russian generals were very impulsive, trying to make the European and American fleets also attack head-on like the Russian army, in order to detonate the most fierce war in Africa.
But they were right about at least one thing -- just take Cape Town, South Africa. won the victory of the African Big 6.
South Africa is the core hub of the Chinese fleet. If this place is captured by Europe and the United States, it will be difficult for the Chinese fleet to stay in African ports. It can only retreat to Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean.
The Chinese fleet does not have more fortified naval bases in the African Big 6. The Chinese and Asian armies, and in other African countries, are mostly 6th Army bases, not naval bases.
Once the Chinese fleet withdraws from South Africa and is controlled by the European coalition forces, it will be much easier to attack the African Big 6.
It is precisely because of the extremely high value of South Africa that China has built its defense here extremely strong.
If the combined European and American fleets were unable to attack Cape Town, they would have to attack the other minor places of the Great 6 in Africa -- then it would not be a naval Armageddon, but a long tug-of-war between the 6th Army. The European and American coalition forces need to ascend from other African countries, gradually advance from the road to South Africa, and take Cape Town -- it is difficult to say whether they will eventually reach Cape Town. Because the 6th Army of the Asian Coalition Army is also surprisingly large in number, it is not afraid of 6 wars at all.
The defense of Cape Town by American generals was a headache.
"The Chinese built this Cape Town base like an iron bucket, and not a drop of water could be poured into it. 6. The sky, the sea, and the sea cannot be attacked, and the only thing that can be attacked is the bottom of the sea. Only by using submarines can we avoid their lines of defense as much as possible. ”
A British general in charge of reconnaissance said, "Submarines are indeed the only feasible way to destroy the Chinese naval fleet." We sent 10 submarines to Cape Town yesterday on a reconnaissance mission, but there were no Chinese submarines in the waters near Cape Town Port. ”
The Russian general mocked, "Your submarine didn't dare to enter the port at all, and was driven away by the Chinese frigate." They did not have Chinese submarines in the waters near Cape Town, but there was no guarantee of whether there were Chinese submarines in the harbor. The Chinese have deployed four defenses on the water, how can they not think of underwater defenses? Maybe a submarine force has been deployed and waiting there a long time ago. ”
The German player agreed, "In my experience, I estimate that there must be Chinese submarines at the bottom of Cape Town, or mines." It's just hard to say the exact number. ”
The French player general said leisurely, "Anyway, it's good to send submarines to raid it, maybe there will be unexpected gains." ”
The Russian general thought for a while, full of evil meaning, and said: "Cape Town is a dangerous place, and it is easy to be ambushed. How about we let submarines sabotage navigation in the Indian Ocean and strike their civilian merchant ships? First, it is not easy to be ambushed, and it is much easier to fight civilian merchant ships than warships, and it is also safe. Second, by interrupting the Chinese's maritime transportation routes, their fleets in Africa were isolated. Supply consumption could not keep up, and after a long time, the deployment of the Chinese in Africa collapsed. ”
The generals of the other countries changed color and looked at each other, most of them were silent, and only a few were whispering.
It's not like they've never had an idea in this regard.
However, they can use submarines to disrupt China's nautical supply lines and attack merchant ships. China could not use submarines to sabotage their seafaring supply lines and attack their merchant ships. In the end, who will suffer, it is not certain. If anyone sets this precedent of attacking civilian merchant ships, it will be a mess in the future.
So far, the two sides of the war have only kept the war on the front line, and have not taken the merchant ships in the rear.
Seeing their expressions, the Russian general snorted coldly, "A group of cowards, hard military fortresses dare not fight, soft logistics supply lines do not dare to fight, and those who are not soft or hard do not want to fight, hundreds of people, none of them have succeeded." I haven't decided yet. The American general changed color slightly, extremely angry with the Russian general.
Russia's port of St. Petersburg is huddled at the back of Europe, protected by Britain, Germany, and France along the way, and it is impossible for Chinese submarines to go to the "Baltic Sea" to harass Russian merchant ships. The Russians, of course, do not take the Chinese submarines in their eyes at all. Even if a fire burns, it will not burn Russia.
But does the United States dare? Do Britain, Germany, France dare not take China's submarines seriously?
Chinese submarines can go directly to Senegal, Gibraltar, and even Panama in South America without hindrance to harass American merchant ships. At that time, it was the merchant ships of China, the United States, Britain, Germany, France and other countries that were unlucky, but not Russia.
More importantly, as the supreme commander of the joint First Fleet of Europe and the United States, he knew a very secret thing, and the United States and the top leaders had a secret agreement before the war: to limit the war between China and the United States to Africa, instead of burning all over the world.
The American player general said coldly, "The precedent of submarine attacks on merchant ships cannot be easily opened, and not a single submarine can enter the Indian Ocean to carry out sabotage activities unless there is an order from the highest level of the European and American camps." As for when you can do this, you need to wait for approval!
The mission of our First Fleet was to attack Cape Town, South Africa. ”