readx; Chapter 269: River Defense Fleet

Wang Xiangzong waved his hand, and the originally noisy war room also became calm! All the officers standing here stood solemnly, waiting for the new battle order!

The calm and sharp eyes slowly swept over every officer! Wang Xiangzong couldn't help but nod with secret satisfaction in his heart! After a series of trainings in large and small wars, these Huo Jiajun officers, who were originally a little immature, had already bloomed with the momentum that a qualified commander should have! Calm, calm, confident, and eager to pursue victory. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"I order!" As Wang Guangzong's voice fell, a neat and crisp sound of 'pop' came from under everyone's feet, and every officer couldn't help but straighten their waists!

"Pang Wanchun, deputy chief of staff of the Americas Theater!" Like Diao Fei, the division commander of the Eighth Marine Division, Pang Wanchun was also promoted to deputy chief of staff of the American Theater because of a series of exploits in the American War!

"Here!"

"Ling Pang Wanchun is the commander of the Fifth Route Army in the American Theater, under the command of the Sixth Marine Division, the 120,000 Black Servant Army, with San Antonio and El Berso as the center, to attack Dallas, Oklama City, Albuquerque, etc., all American cities in the central region west of the Mississippi River, and to meet with the Third Marine Division of the Marine Corps, which has been appointed by the Theater Command as the Seventh Army, and has moved south from Cheyenne and Ohama to the north and south!" Therefore, this time Wu Guangzong assigned it to the Southern Front. Commanded by Wang Xiangzong himself!

"Understood! Chief of Staff!"

Wang Xiangzong nodded solemnly, "Liang Guang, the commander of the 46th Division!"

"To!" was originally the deputy commander of the 25th Division of the Army. After this expansion of the army, he was appointed as the commander of the 46th Division!

Originally, when the Huo Jiajun unit was first formed, Huo Shan adopted a two-unit system! Each division and regiment-level unit was equipped with two deputies for the most important positions in the army, such as the division commander, political commissar, and chief of staff! This was also what he learned from the later Soviets!

In World War II, the Soviet army was crushed by the rapid offensive of the Germans! The Soviets relied on these early reserves of deputy division commanders, deputy political commissars, and other officers at all levels to make the number of their troops increase rapidly by geometric multiples; although almost all the soldiers in these units were new recruits, their officers had been in the army for many years. Experienced veteran officer.

After simple training, these newly organized Soviet troops had a good combat effectiveness! During World War II, the Germans encountered this kind of unplanned situation, and the sudden emergence of a sea of soldiers by the "people" and the "people" and the "people" were exhausted and dragged down, and finally suffered defeat! Therefore, it was long expected that the rise of the Huo Jiajun would encounter Huo Shan, which was suppressed by the Western countries. also took a fancy to this dual-configuration method of the Soviets, and of course it was implemented within the Huo Jiajun!

Liang Guang, commander of the 46th Provisional Division, was appointed commander of the Sixth Route Army, with a provisional 46th Division under his command and 60,000 black servants! Attack north with New Orleans and Houston as the center, and occupy west of the Mississippi River and east of Austin, Dallas, Oklahoma City, and Tulsa City. All areas including Memphis!"

"Yes, Chief of Staff! We promise to complete the mission!" Liang Guang said with excitement in his tone. Of the three provisional divisions this time, only his provisional 46th Division has a specific combat mission! The provisional 47th Division is stationed in the rear and western Canada! The provisional 45th Division is divided into two parts, the north and the south! Now they are basically all officers at all levels of the black servant army! Only he, the 46th Provisional Division, is still a fully equipped integrated division!

"Well, the rest of the 45th Division, 20,000 black servants, and the Sea Lion Special Forces will stay in the rear and stick to New Orleans and Houston and along the Pacific Railroad!" Wu Guangzong finally said. Now west of the Mississippi River in the United States, except for some National Guards. There is no such strong military force at all! There is no need for such a sharp force as the Sea Lion Special Forces!

"Yes, Chief of Staff!" the crowd replied in unison.

Wu Guangzong nodded simply and looked at the white sè navy uniform. A middle-aged man who is unusually striking in a group of high-ranking army officers!

After occupying Houston, Wang Guangzong set his sights on New Orleans, the second-largest port in the United States, which is located at the mouth of the Mississippi River and borders the Gulf of Mexico in the south, after New York! The shipbuilding industry and oil exploitation industry are developed here! The most important thing is that there is a US naval fleet consisting of seven warships of different tonnage stationed here!

Therefore, Wang Xiangzong, who understood the important position here, after occupying Houston, stayed for a day to rest, and then led a regiment of the 6th Marine Division and the 4th Brigade of the Sea Lion Special Brigade to quickly move east along the railway line and take this important city at the mouth of the Mississippi River in one fell swoop!

In addition, he not only took over all of the Americans' naval branch fleets! In one fell swoop, he also took control of 436 large and small freighters and fishing boats stationed in the harbor of New Orleans, as well as a large number of shipyards, including the Avonlda shipyard, and the captured shipbuilding equipment could be added to Huo Jiajun's two large shipyards with a total annual shipbuilding volume of nearly 200,000 tons!

Although the capture was quite expensive, it was not too easy for so many ships to sail away, and the captured warships also needed to be manned! Therefore, in the past month or so, the Admiralty has sent a large number of naval personnel here to receive these warships. Huang Jianxun, who had studied in Britain and had rich experience in Cāo ships, became the commander of the American branch fleet of the Huo Family Army! Of course, this detachment was also assigned to the American theater!

"Huang Jianxun!"

"Here!" Although the warships of the American Detachment assigned to his command this time are all old ships that are one or two decades old! Nearly half of the ships are already very difficult to even go to sea to fight, and they are even more incomparable to the warships built or modified by Huo Jiajun himself in terms of Xing ability, but Huang Jianxun still cherishes this opportunity to personally command the battle!

"How are you familiar with your warship now?" Wang Guangzong asked with a smile.

"Report to the commander! There is no problem with the operation of the cāo ship! However, because most of the warships of this fleet have been in service for too long and their hulls are seriously aging, I am afraid that they are no longer capable of handling fierce naval combat tasks!" Huang Jianxun, who has just passed the year of establishment, is already the father of three children, and he speaks and does things with an unusually steady manner!

"Yes! Now I have to wronged your navy to be the river defense fleet for a period of time!"

"The commander wants us to defend the Mississippi River waterway?" Huang asked.

"Not only the Mississippi River, but also several of its main tributaries, the Ohio River, the Cumberland River, and so on! I believe you have also read the campaign notice issued by the theater headquarters just now! These rivers are the forefront of our defense against the attack of the Americans! However, our strength is limited, and it is impossible to deploy a large number of troops to garrison along all the rivers, so in order to ensure that the Americans cannot cross the river and outflank our rear route, the task of your fleet is very heavy!"

After listening, Huang Jianxun nodded silently! Here, the Huo Jiajun's army is really too different from the Americans in terms of quantity, even if more than 300,000 black servants are recruited, it is a pity that it is difficult for them to become qualified soldiers in a short period of time, and they can only undertake simple garrison tasks! Therefore, with the geographical advantage, it is the best choice for the Huo Jiajun in the case of insufficient troops!

But the Mississippi River Basin is the largest plain in the United States, and the terrain is flat and densely populated! The most important thing is that the terrain of the plains is not conducive to defense! So the only ones that can be used are these great rivers!

"Chief of Staff! My fleet has only seven large and small ships, and I am afraid that it will not be able to defend the tens of thousands of kilometers of the Mississippi River and its many tributaries!"

"Well, I know, don't worry! We've seized a lot of fishing boats and passenger and cargo ships under 1,000 tons in Houston and New Orleans, and they're going to have a hard time going to the seas anyway to get back to our South Sea territories, and we're not short of them. Now it is not too difficult to install a few guns and machine guns on their decks and convert them into armed ships, and it will not take long! And there are also a large number of shipyards and enough shipbuilders for us to use!" Wu Guangzong said with a smile.

After listening to his words, Huang Jianxun also thought about it in his heart!

At present, Huo Jiajun has captured nearly 700 ships in New Orleans and Houston, and most of them are small-tonnage passenger and cargo ships and fishing boats, and there are less than 300 ocean-going freighters of more than 1,000 tons! This means that there are nearly 400 ships that can be refitted, even if they are fishing boats of several tons, even if they can't afford artillery, but there is no problem in installing one or two machine guns! Moreover, inland rivers do not have as many winds and waves as the sea! The quality of soldiers is not very demanding, so most of the marines are capable of doing it! Of course, if you want to drive the ship, it's up to them to do it!

"Commander, so many ships need a large number of qualified pilots, so you still need to report this to the Admiralty!" Huang Jianxun said with a somewhat excited expression. Being able to lead hundreds of warships into battle, although most of them are simple armed ships, and it is not a more demanding naval battle, but this huge fleet size is enough to make any naval officer excited!

"Don't worry! I'll talk about this matter! I believe Huo Feng won't shirk it! This is accumulating war experience for their navy!" Wang Guangzong said with a smile.

Wang Guangzong dared to refit so many armed ships in one go, and he was not afraid of the US navy, which had the advantage on the east coast, because he occupied New Orleans, the mouth of the Mississippi River! This is different from the sparsely populated western coastal cities of the United States, which have almost no coastal defense facilities!

Over the past few hundred years, New Orleans has changed hands several times among the capitalist countries of France, Spain, Britain, and the United States, and the Second American Duli War and the Civil War were also fought here, plus New Orleans occupies the mouth of the Mississippi River and is close to the Gulf of Mexico! The Americans have built a large number of coastal defense facilities here to resist threats from the sea! Now all of them are cheap Huo Jiajun! At that time, as long as this estuary is guarded, then the huge Mississippi River will be at the mercy of the Huo family's fleet!

"Okay, that's all for today's meeting, I believe you have all seen the tasks assigned to you by the military region! Now hurry up and get back and make preparations, and launch a new attack on time in the early morning of 12 July!"