Five-four-five departure, navy

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July 24, early morning.

Snow-white searchlights pierced the night, countless trucks rushed to the warehouses and docks, sailors shouted from time to time, and the boom swung back and forth more often than usual.

Standing on the top of the bridge of the Honolulu, looking at the battleships being prepared around him, even Long Guozhang, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Navy, was excited to blush, and the cigar in his mouth had not been put down since last night.

From the start of Mas Ti Island 23 years ago, to the huge fleet with eight bases, dozens of small bases, and a quarter of the Pacific Ocean, one after another fierce battles, from youth to maturity, all the way forward in the wind and rain!

On the eve of the First Day of the First Day 21 years ago, the navy made its debut by relying on the technological superiority it bought, but the quality of the officers may not even be comparable to Japan.

Two wars against Russia, two wars against Japan, challenging the British Far East Fleet.

Step by step, step by step!

But in the emperor's intentional or unintentional battle to challenge the opponent, Hua finally grew stronger, more and more naval people began to join this team, the deep blue consciousness of the country and the people began to appear and deepened, and the century-old navy was no longer a dream.

The important thing is that from purchase to self-construction, from cruisers to the world's most powerful capital ships, for more than 20 years, under the guidance of the emperor's profound eyes and thoughts, the footsteps of the Chinese Navy people have been solid and steady, and all of this has converged in front of us!

The navy will set off again, this time to challenge the two navies ranked first and second in terms of total tonnage, one is a century-old naval power, and the other is a thriving industrial empire!

Standing behind him were the three commanders of this operation, codenamed "Great Counterattack".

Gu Junhuo, commander of the First Task Force, Hebei-class battleships Jiangsu and Fujian of the Third Fleet, two Jilin-class battleships of the First Fleet, Jilin-class battleships and Heilongjiang, six light cruisers and six destroyers, plus the Raider training aircraft carrier carrying only the F4 Hornet, and one supply ship.

Xiao Tianzhi, commander of the Second Task Force, the Beijing-class battleships Beijing and Chongqing of the First Fleet, the Dalian-class heavy cruisers Dalian and Fengtian of the Second Fleet, two light cruisers and four destroyers, and one training aircraft carrier and supply ship of the Defender.

Ning Xiaochuan, commander of the 3rd Task Force, the 2nd Fleet's Beijing-class fast battleships Hong Kong and Shanghai, Dalian-class heavy cruisers Harbin and Dandong, two light cruisers and four destroyers, the Defender training aircraft carrier, and one supply ship.

Twenty years ago, these three captains were in their prime, and Gu Junhuo, who still maintains the captain of the young capital ship of the Navy, was only 20 years old at the time, but now he has also entered his prime. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

This is all the mobile forces that the Imperial Royal Navy can mobilize at the moment, and they will lead the battleship to launch a super counterattack after the enemy declares war, and the enemy will die in a trembling and disgusted death!

Victory, there will be no opponents in the Pacific in the coming year, and the Navy can concentrate its forces with the Indian Ocean!

Fail? No, there are no failures!

Long Guozhang pulled out his cigar fiercely and snuffed out the cigarette butt vigorously.

With the growth of Li Xiuyan and other captains of the new generation, the period of the great blood change of the navy has arrived, and from the beginning of this war, there will be countless people who will come to an end in blood and explosions, and how many younger generations will support the backbone of the empire!

So the Navy will not bend over!

Never!

"Let's go, Navy!"

Long Guozhang raised his arms, there was no passionate speech, no warm hugs, only a pitiful four words and an almost solidified military salute.

Three o'clock.

With the commander-in-chief who had not lowered his arms and gaze to see him off, the First Task Force slowly passed by the Honolulu and took the lead in rushing out of the Guam base.

When the three task forces disappeared from sight, Long Guozhang found that his arm was stiff and numb, and when he raised his head again, a golden mang in the east had stubbornly jumped out of the sea.

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Fortress on the northern border of the Empire, Minusinsk.

Located on the artery of the Trans-Siberian Railway, next door to the Great Plain of Western Siberia, the town bordering Russia has undergone earth-shaking changes, with huge fortresses replacing the former towns, a large number of 36N heavy guns eliminated by the Navy, and 60N 152mm artillery of the Army, arranged on a fortress group up to 30 kilometers wide, blocking the two million Russian troops on the opposite side from the border.

Three long trains slowly stopped at the makeshift station, tanks and armored vehicles began to enter the temporary barracks that had been prepared for them under the command of the soldiers, and several falcons flew by in the sky.

Sun Jiugong raised his wrist and looked at his watch, took the list handed over by the logistics officer, and the last two ** armored regiments used by the General Staff to strengthen the northern front finally arrived.

**The armored regiment is the formation that has just appeared in Huagang and belongs to the continuation of the armored division.

According to the current army establishment, a standard armored division has three armored regiments, an infantry regiment, each armored regiment has three tank battalions, each tank battalion is subdivided into three companies, each company has 10 Type 3 tanks, plus 60 units of a divisional training battalion, the entire division has 330 tanks in tanks alone, plus 48N152 mm self-propelled guns, 60N80 mm vehicle-mounted recoilless guns, 800 trucks, 100 three-wheeled motorcycles, and 96 Wildcat 3 armored vehicles and 100 other combat vehicles belonging to the reconnaissance battalions of various regiments, with 160,000 combat officers and men, including as many as 5,000 in logistics and mechanics alone.

If the establishment is changed to one armored regiment and three infantry divisions, it becomes a standard infantry division.

The cost of a standard armored division is huge, not counting the daily consumption, only the entire equipment requires the cost of a semi-battleship, and in peacetime, four armored divisions and four mechanized infantry divisions are already the emperor's great capabilities.

But now all kinds of restrictions have been lifted, and the General Staff originally considered building two more armored divisions and four mechanized infantry divisions after receiving the funds, but the emperor suggested the formation of a small ** armored regiment, so that one is a small establishment, mobile deployment capability, and flexibility, and in an emergency, as long as several regiments are combined, it will be a complete armored division.

The General Staff and the Army accepted the proposal and began to form 12 ** armored regiments, each of which consisted of three armored battalions and a training battalion, with a total armament of 120 vehicles and 3 tanks.

3 is the number in the army, the official name is Cheetah, this kind of tank is a collection of the experience and lessons of the first two tanks, it also has a nickname called the patch tank in the equipment department, because 3 at the beginning of the design, has been tested on various terrains across the country, the result is to change the track today, change the drive shaft tomorrow, change the turret the day after tomorrow, damage nearly 40 test vehicles in a circle, and all parts of the car have been completely modified.

After nearly two years of hard work by the staff and the money-throwing campaign at any cost, they finally came up with a very good tank, weighing 15 tons, using a 180-horsepower gasoline engine, similar to the American 24 tank in the future, with a high speed of 40 km/h on the ground, 15 km/h off-road, and a large driving distance of 380 km.

The engine front plus the front of the turret is tilted, and V steel armor is used, so the bulletproof XN can be greatly improved, and a 37 mm cannon with an N50 x body barrel is used, with 350 rounds of ammunition in reserve, and a 7 second one.

Importantly, its 37-mm cannon can penetrate the 7 tanks that are being used in large quantities in Europe at 3500 meters, and the excellent maneuverable XN is difficult to target by the slow 7 main guns, and as for the machine guns that threaten the opponent, as long as they do not expose the thin flanks and rear within 300 meters, they are almost immune.

Sun Jiugong put together the list, with the arrival of these two armored regiments, he already had a mechanized infantry division, two ** armored regiments, and the tank regiment of the ninth brigade composed of Jewish soldiers, a total of four regiments of armored assault force, plus eighteen infantry divisions, a total of 400,000 troops!

In addition, there are 300 Falcon of the Air Force to provide air support and reconnaissance.

Therefore, how to make good use of this force, turn the technical advantage into a winning situation, and lay a good foundation for next year's general offensive is the key to his operation.

As for the fact that the General Staff did not target the northwest for the first round of attacks, he is not surprised, because this is not all a strategic need, the main thing is the bad weather here.

On the opposite side of Western Siberia is a huge plain, if you put it in other places, this is the paradise of 3, but it is already the end of July, and by October it will snow, the temperature will drop very much, at that time all the vehicles will not be able to attack, and the temperature of minus tens of degrees will make the attack extremely difficult.

Therefore, the General Staff was forced to make this decision, although theoretically let go of the armored regiment to break through frantically within two months, it was true that it could be killed all the way to the Ural Mountains, but the big flaw of the armored troops was logistics, and the northwest operation especially needed logistical support, especially the long motivation, which made him miserable.

Western Siberia is not an inaccessible East Siberia, with 3 million square kilometers of land with sufficient strategic depth, and with more than millions of Russian immigrants over the decades, it would be a logistical disaster if the front line was lengthened.

This kind of difficulty is unimaginable to ordinary people.

Therefore, before May next year, it is simply an absurd dream to launch a major offensive here to advance the front to the Ural Mountains, and Russia's advantage is the depth of its territory, so the General Staff decided to attack in the northwest and take advantage of this autumn and winter to solve the southeast first and open up the Malacca passage.

400,000 troops were gathered on the northern front, and more than 25 divisions could be used for the offensive, so he did not intend to give the Russians a chance to breathe, not to mention that the General Staff needed the northern front to continue to attack through oppression, killing and wounding a large number of soldiers and personnel, forcing Nicholas II to mobilize more troops here and relieve the pressure on Germany.

Million?

Hum!

In Sun Jiugong's cold snort, the first machine step master Shi Shoushan had already walked to his side.

"The authorized telegram of the General Staff has arrived, and the Northwest Military Region has been officially formed, and you will continue to serve as commander-in-chief." This descendant of General Yuan Chonghuan smiled and handed the telegram to Sun Jiugong.

"Shoushan, when do you think the United States will declare war?"

"I can't guess the exact date, but it's definitely Monday."

"Oh? Why? Sun Jiugong's eyes flashed with coldness, and he asked.

"Hehe, Commander, I'm afraid you have the answer in your heart." Shoushan turned his head, looked to the west and said with a smile: "Foreigners believe that Sunday is a day of rest for God's gift. ”

Sun Jiugong narrowed his eyes, it was almost Monday.

It's August 1st!

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