Chapter 203: Cutting off one of its fingers
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In this time and space just after the end of the First World War, Cheng Pan was ready for Europe's imminent counterattack, and it was wishful thinking to hope that Europe would appease after China occupied Southeast Asia.
China did not dare to move during the First World War, and it confused Europe even more. And China's current move is unacceptable to Britain and France, which have just retained their world hegemony. It just so happened that Britain and France felt that they had run out of money after fighting the First World War, and it would be better if they could rob China after the Crimean War decades ago. The Times conveyed this thinking to people who had just lived through World War I. It can be said that the British and French now sent powerful battleships because the British people wanted to rob the rich East and supported it, and as long as the war did not go well, the country would be changed, and now the British and French cabinets felt that they were sitting on the crater.
The news from the front made the British and French high-level understand that the current China is definitely not a big fat meat, and there are sharp iron thorns everywhere. After Britain and France lost air supremacy, China's metal planes, which were more than 10 meters long and wide and three or four meters high, carried 1.5 tons of ammunition from a distance of 100 kilometers, and relied on the power of chemical energy explosion to transform into powerful power in machinery, and dropped bombs to valuable places at a high altitude of 300 or 400 kilometers.
The British colonial army in Southeast Asia did not dare to gather a large number of troops, and gathering together would only make the steel balls and fragments produced by the explosion of the bombs dropped by China like a sickle to cut the grass and harvest human lives at a glance, and the British colonial army did not dare to gather materials, and the thermite and gasoline and white phosphorus mixtures that fell from the sky would turn the materials that the colonies had worked so hard to collect into a big torch. Only the remnants of the colonial army at night could enjoy a moment of peace, but the lack of supplies and even food supplies reminded the indigenous soldiers of Southeast Asia that it was time to leave this lifeless defeated army.
Britain and France continued to erode in Southeast Asia, and China, which was preparing to swallow the southern line of control of northern Vietnam, began to organize a large number of surrendered colonial troops to be transformed into puppet armies. It is a bit ugly to say that the puppet army is a little ugly, China does not intend to swallow the southern part of Southeast Asia directly, there are few Chinese in the south, and it is poison to swallow a large number of mentally retarded South Asian natives into the industrial system. Let them build their own country and toss it themselves. There are still too few countries in Southeast Asia in the original time and space, and when heroes emerge in this troubled world, Cheng Pan is ready to divide Southeast Asia and formulate the rules of Southeast Asia at the same time.
On September 23, 1922, China convened the Southeast Asian Liberation Conference in Hanoi, and three countries were identified.
China has already begun to prop up puppet regimes in Southeast Asia, and the fleets of Britain and France are still unable to cross the South Seas controlled by Lan Fang, so should the fleet of the British Empire bypass the Australian Big 6 to attack China? Just as the country began to question when the war would be won, Japan's declaration of war on China was a shot in the arm for Britain and France. Britain and France had pinned all their hopes on Japan to go south to cut off the South China Sea shipping lanes between China and Lanfang, and by the way, open the Strait of Malacca.
The plan of Britain and France was to cut off the connection between Lanfang and China, and then strengthen the blockade in the long strip of the western part of Southeast Asia by China in the future of the Chinese in the place where the Kra Isthmus Canal in Thailand was transported in large quantities. Lan Fang, who has lost the support of Big 6, will be dealt with first. The combined fleets of Britain, France, and Japan will go north to 6 Taiwan to occupy it, so that from the Indian Ocean to the East China Sea, China will be firmly trapped on the big 6 by the blockade line constructed by the naval forces of Britain, France, and Japan. In this way, the tempo of the war could be shifted to that of the First World War against Germany.
After this strategy was formulated, many people in Britain and France expressed doubts about the loopholes in this strategy, how to occupy Taiwan, the most important blockade node, and how to ensure that China's powerful Sixth Army crossing the Taiwan Strait would not retake Taiwan after the occupation. To this question, the British and French commanders replied: "The empire will shed the blood of the last Indian in Taiwan." ”
It's a pity that the British didn't have a chance to think about it so much, and this strategic plan went bankrupt the day after ten days of its preparation.
Cheng Pan didn't expect the Japanese rebellion, the reason was that Japan dared to die under his nose. Cheng Pan now has a variety of ways to kill Japan, more than 20 Dongfeng-3 nuclear missiles are aimed at Japan, and Japan will not be able to turn the tables even if it has bumps.
It's still too high-class to deal with Japan with the treatment of washing the floor in the east wind, so let's throw incendiary bombs. The aircraft used by the Sickle Hammer Society to drop the hydrogen bomb in Xinjiang was modified from the prototype of the H-6, which is a jet aircraft with an 8oo km radius of only 2,500 kilometers. The production is small and the bomb load is small, and the main reason for throwing a hydrogen bomb with it is to pay attention to the degree to which it escapes after the hydrogen bomb is thrown. And the long-range bomber is still a copycat of the classic B-29 bomber of World War II. This kind of flying fortress floats 1oooo meters in the sky, which is beyond the limit of interception by Japanese aircraft in this era.
China now has 300 of these large planes, codenamed Bald Eagles, to form paratroopers, which were converted into bombers in large numbers after the war in Southeast Asia to prevent the British from jumping over the wall on the Tibetan border. Prepare for a scorched-earth policy for northern India. But the British tacitly did not launch an offensive in Tibet. The Sickle Hammer Society didn't want to provoke the British dead end. Now that Japan is looking for death, 300 bombers are immediately deployed at airfields in the northern part of the Goryeo Peninsula and near the three northeastern provinces.
The second day after the Japanese declared war on China, the bombing began, and a Bald Eagle could carry twenty tons of ammunition. A hundred planes can drop almost 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs. This amount of incendiary bombs dropped on that wooden city in Japan was no less destructive than an atomic bomb. After all, part of the destructive power of the shock wave of the nuclear bomb is released towards the sky, and this power is wasted on the ground target, while the damage from the incendiary bomb is real.
In the middle of the original time and space, Cheng Pan has always wondered that Japan knew that its wooden house was a hidden danger before the war, but why didn't it change? Now Cheng Panxian's question is as stupid as "why not eat minced meat", Japan's resources and steel production are not qualified to build a large number of reinforced concrete buildings. Therefore, Japan deserves to be burned, and if you want to engage in militarism, you have few resources, and if you do not pay attention to urban construction, it will be Japan's dead end. In this plane, the move of throwing incendiary bombs will always be effective as long as Japan does not discourage the idea of competing for hegemony with China.
The three consecutive days of incendiary bombing made the Japanese mainland mourn, which made the Japanese base camp start to think about whether it was wrong to join this war, and the giants on the big 6 in the west were too powerful. The bomb shelter in the bombing area has become a roast duck oven, and the lake water has been boiled and stewed into human broth, which has been blocked by the Japanese high-level, and there is no turning back from the bow, and Japan can only hope to defeat China with Britain and France. Well, the Japanese top subconsciously hypnotized themselves, China is still the strange government of the Qing Dynasty that surrendered after a little injury, ignoring the resilience of the Kamaksha in the big and small wars since the founding of the country.
After so many years of farming, the population of Northeast China, steel output, and industrial strength have been thrown out of Japan a few streets, and Japan can be crippled alone. However, after Japan declared war, Cheng Pan set a strategy of prioritizing the settlement of Japan. Smoke is rising from Japan's homeland, and the next step is to shatter Japan's illusions once and for all.
The Japanese Combined Fleet was at this time floating four hundred kilometers northwest of Taiwan, and the horizontal bombing of strategic bombers had little effect on the fleet in action. The Chinese Air Force did not waste ammunition and flew directly towards the major cities in southern Japan. But the Japanese combined fleet was not having a good time either. Horizontal bombing by strategic bombers is ineffective, then dive bombing is very threatening. The radius of activity of shore-based dive bombers is 400 to 500 kilometers, and the bombers taking off from Taiwan are just able to cover the Philippines and Taiwan. At this time, the Combined Fleet was struggling with whether to go south to carry out the British blockade mission or go north to seize sea supremacy in the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea. In the deduction of the Japanese, going north can cause the greatest damage to China in a short period of time and force China to negotiate peace, but the Kamaka Society left a difficult impression on the Japanese, and the Japanese can guess that the damage of the North Kamakama Society will grit its teeth and endure the fight with Japan to the end. In the end, Japan was consumed to death, and as for the blockade of China in the south, it can be slowly planned from a long-term strategic point of view, but now the Japanese base camp is urging a decisive battle three times a day. As well as the terrible scene of being bombed by incendiary bombs in Japan, Japan cannot afford to slow down.
In the end, the commander of the Japanese fleet still made a decision to go south and open up the Strait of Malacca with friendly forces, gather the navies of the three countries and fight a decisive battle with China.
At the beginning of 192o, Cheng Pan began the construction of aircraft carriers, a total of five, one at the Huludao Naval Base, and the other four at Sanduao, Fujian. The five aircraft carriers were built according to the standards of the Essex-class aircraft carriers in the history of the United States, with a standard displacement of 275oo tons, a flight deck length of 262.13 meters, a flight of 32 knots, and fifty quadruple 4O mm anti-aircraft guns, carrying a total of 91 aircraft. There are no steam catapults, an aircraft carrier composed of all-natural World War II propeller fighters. After its completion in 1921, it was carried out at sea for three months, and at the same time a large number of carrier-based aircraft pilots near the Huludao naval base began training. After the outbreak of the Southeast Asian War, these five large ships began to fight under the escort of destroyer formations.
On 4 November, the Japanese Combined Fleet sailed through the Surigao Strait in the central Philippines with the intended permission of the United States, and the news was immediately learned by Lan Fang's hidden spies there. China is beginning to reassess the idea of the United States. The United States was indeed isolationist in the aftermath of World War II. Ordinary Americans don't want to go to war, but that doesn't mean that all American politicians have become pacifists. As for China, an opponent that can overwhelm American industry in the world, American politicians do not mind cheating China when necessary. Let's say put the Japanese fleet into the South China Sea. At the same time, the Japanese Navy was supplied with merchant ships. At the same time, the United States is also using public opinion to stir up the public's disgust with China. At this time, it was impossible to let the Americans fight, but it was still possible to make the Americans sympathize with the Japanese and support the policy of material support for Japan. The sinking of a US merchant ship deliberately entering an area designated by China for unrestricted submarine warfare has made the United States even more emotional, and the Chinese in the United States have received unfavorable treatment. At this time, the Chinese Revolutionary Party in exile in the United States began to propagate the abhorrence of the dictatorship of the Big 6 in the Chinese community, and the practice of making the Chinese Americans draw a line with the Big 6 was well received by the US government. Adhering to the policy of carrots and sticks, the United States has protected the Chinese who have risen to the dictatorship of the Big 6 in China, and it has also enabled the Chinese Revolutionary Party to quickly spread among the Chinese in the United States.
This move of the United States is purely because it does not want to come in person, but also wants to suppress its competitors and disgust China with the flow of the world. And the Chinese navy has quietly included the Philippines in the scope of unrestricted submarine warfare. At the same time, the Chinese aircraft carrier battle group went south to find the Japanese fleet and fought a decisive battle.
There is no need for a reason to be strong, returning to the top will inevitably be pressured by the world, and now Cheng Pan has decided to cut off one of the world's leading national coalition forces in this war.