714 Santa Barbara!

"1,000 ships!"

This number made Tan Wang suddenly petrified, and even Tang Xiao, who originally wanted to be miserable, widened his eyes, and the two finally knew why Duan Qirui, who could find them with a phone call, came in person. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

In the absence of the chief of the general staff and the prime minister, he was ordered to personally go into battle to supervise the logistics.

"What's wrong?" Duan Qirui squinted his eyes, and his temperament seemed to have changed, no longer the civilian defense minister, but like he had returned to the battlefield, and changed back to the three Beiyang heroes who became famous after defeating Iltscook.

1,000, which is equivalent to the transfer of more than 60% of China's transport ships, including Australia, the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf and even domestic routes have to face a halt or reduction.

If Tang Xiao is surprised, he may not know much about the capacity of the navy, then Tan Wangke is really surprised, for more than ten years, under the impetus of the emperor's thoughts, whether Hua is self-built or purchased, almost all of them are 10,000-ton ships, each 10,000-ton ship can carry at least about 3,000 tons of materials or 1,000 soldiers, not to mention that the navy itself has nearly 100 transport ships, supply ships and landing ships, if 1,000 ships, That can at least send 400,000 soldiers plus 1.5 million tons of equipment and materials at a time, and according to the calculation of the Chinese standard infantry division, it can be delivered to exactly 20 divisions at a time.

20 divisions are not too much, but too little, and if they are attacked by others, under the protection of aircraft and warships, no matter how much they are doubled, they will not be able to guarantee the smooth establishment of a landing defense line, but the US Pacific Fleet almost does not dare to go out, the planes are vulnerable, and with the assistance of Mexico, why do they need to transport so many troops at one time?

Is it true that everything in Mexico is a trick? The landing site is not in the safety of the Baja California Peninsula, but there is another mystery?

Santa Barbara!

Standing in front of Li Mo, who had quietly arrived in Hawaii, in the Honolulu villa, when Chen Ping's finger moved to this small place nearly 100 kilometers north of Los Angeles, even people like Li Enfu were surprised.

This choice surprised his former imperial prime minister when he first saw the landing plan codenamed "Heaven Without Two Days", which was the core of Hou Yi's plan.

As early as when he decided to land in the United States, Li Enfu was also thinking about landing from there, from the current point of view, after Mexico joined, the best landing place is undoubtedly the Baja California Peninsula, followed by San Francisco, but he didn't expect Chen Ping to move his fingers to this small place between San Diego and San Francisco.

Chen Ping didn't seem to see the surprised Li Enfu, and continued: "Judging from the current reconnaissance and intelligence, the U.S. military has deployed a total of 15 group armies in the three states on the west coast, with a total strength of about 3 million, and there are 12 group armies on the second line in the three states of Texas, Nevada and Arizona, but at present, the 10 divisions of the second line have all been concentrated in Texas and Arizona for defense against Mexico, and the 150,000 British expeditionary force is currently stationed in Utah, and according to my estimates, it is very likely to be deployed to California in the near future. In this way, the total number of troops is close to 6 million! ”

"Hey, good guy, the whole country is here!" Hearing this number, Li Enfu couldn't help but gasp. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

"Not yet, but it has accounted for more than 7 percent, according to intelligence, nearly a million troops withdrawn from Panama are expected to be pulled to the west coast, but at present, they have problems with military morale and morale, so I estimate that if they want to return to the battlefield, it will be at least 3 months later.

Moreover, Wilson has just issued the third national mobilization order, and considering that this is fighting on American soil, the psychology of Americans to resist aggression, and the fact that they have more guns in their own country, we must be prepared to face many armed men. Speaking of this, Chen Ping's eyes were cold, and he said coldly: "So I have ordered that all soldiers who land in the United States and participate in the war against the United States can fire freely at anyone with a gun!"

Including women and children! As long as they ......, pick up the gun! ”

"Not bad!" Li Enfu agreed with these two orders very much, and said coldly: "Since the fight has started, don't save the kindness of a woman, not only shoot, but also learn from the British in the kind of concentration camp in Boer and lock them up first!"

The Americans are defending their homeland and defending the country, but the United States is still short of its founding, domestic racial discrimination is serious, and the contradictions in South America have not been completely bridged. ”

Concentration camp!

The corners of Emperor Li's eyes twitched twice, these guys are really more ruthless than the other!

"From the point of view of deployment, there are a total of three army groups in Washington and Oregon, and considering the mountainous valleys in these two places, the troops cannot be deployed quickly after the landing, so we don't need to consider it for the time being.

So California is the only option for us, first of all, there are a lot of Mexicans and Chinese Americans living here, after Mexico announced its preparation for war, the conflict between Mexicans and whites in the United States has increased, and there are two world-class seaports, San Francisco and San Diego, but these two ports are not easy to get right now.

San Francisco has a special geography, narrow on the outside and wide on the inside, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it has basically become an empty city at present, and the US army has deployed 6 group armies there, with more than 1,500 artillery pieces of various types, as well as about 300 tanks and a large number of machine guns, and the price will be very large if you want to take it.

San Diego is also difficult, although we considered Tijuana and the Baja California Peninsula before, and then quickly seize San Diego through the border, but now it is more difficult, first of all, there is a lack of support environment for large forces to deploy, and the US army has strengthened the defense north of Tijuana, a total of about 2 army groups are deployed on the border line, the remaining 4 army groups are in San Diego, plus the navy personnel are also more than 50,000, in fact, the strength here is stronger than San Francisco! Chen Ping said here, and took out a stack of aerial reconnaissance photos: "And the emperor"

The photo is an aerial photo of the situation in the port of San Diego, with 4 types of battleships and 6 old battleships behind the US Pacific Fleet, but what is strange is that there are a few more things like breakwaters outside the hull of these battleships, which is very strange.

"This is an American mobile mine protection embankment, consisting of semi-submersible pontoons, with a draft of 4 meters and a width of 2 meters, and the interior is filled with water, there are three in total, we did experiments, whether it is a spear or an aviation fish bone, in order to hit the battleship behind, at least two or more torpedoes need to pass from the same point, which is almost ......, impossible."

"Do you realize that the United States is going to use the battleship as a makeshift battery?"

Li Mo instantly grasped the reason why the US military did this, to be honest, now the US Pacific Fleet is no different from sending it to death, the guy who invented this semi-submersible lightning protection levee is indeed a person, but unfortunately he doesn't know that there is already a dive bomber in the world that can attack from the top.

"At present, the U.S. military's lightning protection embankment has been promoted in the Entente countries, and its production is very simple, so we also detected something similar in Mumbai, but it has a very big flaw, that is, it is slow to move, and it takes at least 3 hours to evacuate, so it is not so much a lightning protection embankment as a prison, so we suspect that the American army is preparing to use them as temporary batteries.

Tijuana is only 19 kilometers away from San Diego, and the whole process is under the threat of American heavy artillery, although we have air superiority, but the US military has spent a lot of effort to build the San Diego defense line, only deploying more than 300 heavy artillery and about 700 light artillery on the border of the Baja California Peninsula, all of which are made of cement and steel bunkers, which are very troublesome to clear, plus San Diego's naval guns and other shore defense heavy artillery, if the attack will cause great losses.

Since Mexico currently only has 200,000 troops worthy of World War I, the 2 million that President Carranza promised us has actually just begun to recruit, although Gu Weijun sent a telegram back saying that the Mexicans are quite enthusiastic about recovering the country, but it takes at least 3 months to really pull the battlefield with training, so if you go to Tijuana, even if you open the border, you will face the encirclement of 10 armies on the second line of the US army from Texas and Arizona!

Therefore, the above two seaports, we are currently unconditionally attacked, then the only deep-water seaport that can be used is the port of Los Angeles! ”

Chen Ping's finger pointed to Los Angeles again, and continued: "The port of Los Angeles is not big, but it is deep enough that as long as the mines are cleared, it can dock any ship.

But the Port of Los Angeles is also a strong defensive area, and it is not realistic to attack the harbor directly, so we chose Santa Barbara, which has two major advantages according to submarine and Nighthawk scouting, although there is a lack of good deep-water ports near Santa Barbara.

The first is that it is very close to the railway line, less than 5 kilometers after landing on the shore is the railway, the coastline is also relatively flat, and there is a lack of commanding height defense points, as for the Santajez Mountains behind, it is 20 kilometers away from the coast, and the artillery deployed where it cannot really threaten the landing site, so the US army can only rely on cement fortifications and where the Spanish fortresses remain, from the current reconnaissance, there are a total of 170 threatening heavy firepower points, most of which are obviously easy to destroy.

The second advantage is that the beach on the coast here is very wide, we can use the landing craft with a shallow draft to achieve a quick landing, and the assault boat can even directly rush to the beach to land, before the navy has ordered about 1,000 of these small boats from the shipyard, plus the naval landing craft, the first wave can send more than 30,000 troops and at least 50 tanks to the coast, and at least 100,000 people can be delivered within 6 hours, if it can last for 48 hours, I am sure that all 20 divisions will be sent up!

Moreover, it is more than 100 kilometers away from San Francisco and San Diego, and the US military wants to support it a little farther, even if it takes 5 hours by rail, not to mention that I will let the Air Force blow up the railway line in the early stage.

Therefore, as long as Santa Barbara is taken, it is completely possible to quickly move to Los Angeles, use the superior naval and air forces, completely destroy the coastal defense facilities in Los Angeles Harbor, and then take it from the flank and rear by the army.

As long as we take Los Angeles, we will have a seaport, so that the follow-up troops can be deployed quickly, and if the temporary airfield can be repaired quickly, then our bombers can completely cover the entire San Diego Baja California Peninsula and the U.S. border. ”

"And what about Mexico? How are you going to do that? Li Mo asked: "Don't forget, Gu Weijun promised at least 20 divisions in Mexico." ”

"Hehe, Mr. Li rest assured." Chen Ping said: "Mexico I will send 21 divisions, of which we will send two infantry divisions and 3 infantry divisions, plus three ** armored regiments, plus 8 divisions from Japan and 7 divisions from North Korea, as well as a large combined division from Colombia, Peru and Ecuador, and in order to ensure combat effectiveness, I have discussed with the latter ones, these 15 divisions are all from the old troops who have fought in Australia and Panama, anyway, the US troops in Panama are also withdrawing, As long as Japan and North Korea shoot some second-line troops to clear up, these main forces can also take the opportunity to rest and recuperate after arriving in Mexico, and as long as they exist, they can contain the 10 US army groups in Texas and Arizona, so that they do not dare to turn around and come to California. ”

"21 divisions, the logistical pressure is not small, what are you going to do?" Li Enfu squinted his eyes and asked worriedly.

"In terms of food, the Mexican government has promised to provide a part, and the three Colombian countries have also promised to bear a part, so that we can shorten our transportation distance, and we still have enough food reserves, plus Australia can achieve self-sufficiency in the first half of next year, I can fully guarantee the needs of more than 6 million troops!

Don't worry too much about ammunition, their current task is mainly to contain and prevent the US army from attacking Mexico, and they will not take on the main offensive task for the time being, so the consumption will be less, as for the fuel aspect, Mr. Thomas has prepared a huge profit for us, and his refineries in Mexico have stockpiled 150,000 barrels of gasoline over the years, which is enough to maintain 10,000 trucks and five armored divisions for 3 months. ”

"Thomas, hehe, I should say it's the emperor." Li Enfu smiled, this kind of advanced means was definitely instructed by Li Mo to do this, otherwise how could such a terrifying figure of 150,000 barrels come out at once, according to the output of the Gulf of Mexico Oil's small refinery in Mexico, it is at least three full years of output!

has not sold oil for three years, and only Emperor Li has such a crazy hand.

Li Mo didn't care about Li Enfu and Chen Ping's eyes, he cared about Hollywood in the future, and he didn't know if he would have the opportunity to go there to insert a card.

"At present, the first batch of 5 Japanese and Korean divisions from Australia is expected to arrive in Mexico in 10 days, and the infantry divisions of the two brothers Nagayama and Shoushan have also set off, and it is estimated that they can arrive at the same time, they will all land in the Gulf of California, escorted by the South American fleet led by Sa Zhenbing, and the rotating troops on the Panamanian side will also arrive in 20 days, and the transport fleet will directly transport the replaced troops to Mexico, so that after one more month, we promised Mexico that the 20 divisions can all be in place!

In addition, I have sent a telegram to Duan Qirui, and he will personally coordinate the shipping and escort operations. Chen Ping took a deep breath: "Now I will wait for the prime minister, according to the telegram he sent yesterday, it is estimated that an agreement may be reached at the end of the month, so I have ordered all the participating troops to enter the second level of combat readiness, and the fleets of the navy are ......."

It's already starting to go! ”

: Wow Ka Ka, the landing point is out, support!

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