Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Zhuge Weidao's mansion is located next to a bay to the west of Pearl Harbor, although it is also within the scope of Pearl Harbor, but it is some distance from the bay that is the naval base of the Daming Pacific Fleet - although the entrance and exit of this Pearl Harbor is very narrow, but the pattern inside is not small, there are islands, bays, peninsulas, and the coastline suitable for building docks and docks is forty or fifty kilometers long. Not to mention a Pacific Fleet, even if the "1000 ships" of the Ming Navy are sailed over, Pearl Harbor will definitely be able to fit it.

In addition, the entrance to Pearl Harbor is very narrow, less than 1 kilometer wide. It's the kind of terrain where once the fort is repaired, the large fleet inside can sleep peacefully. And the water at Pearl Harbor is shallow, only a dozen meters deep, enough for a large warship to float, but it is too shallow for submarines and air-dropped torpedoes...... Of course, there is no such thing as air-dropped torpedoes, and torpedoes weighing several hundred kilograms are still too heavy for current carrier-based aircraft.

So the inside of Pearl Harbor is indeed the comfort zone of the Grand Fleet!

According to the requirements of the Admiralty of the Ming Dynasty, since the Kingdom of Hawaii was completely controlled by the Ming Dynasty, Pearl Harbor began to build on a large scale. The battery at the entrance to Pearl Harbor, the naval port dock and naval shipyard in Pearl Harbor, the oil depot, coal depot, ammunition depot on the shore, and various supply depots. There is also the shore command of the Pacific Fleet, as well as large and small airfields, as well as the barracks of the garrison, the barracks of the Pacific Fleet, and the living quarters of officers, non-commissioned officers, and family rolls, all of which have risen from the ground in the past few years.

By the time Zhuge Weidao led the Pacific Fleet, although these major projects were not all completed, they had already begun to take shape. The barracks, headquarters, living quarters for corps and non-commissioned officers, and family members have all been built. Among them, Zhuge Weidao, a large family of commanders, lived on a small peninsula at the bottom of a slender bay west of Pearl Harbor. Four Chinese-style garden villas were built on the peninsula, which were occupied by the Admiral, Deputy Admiral, Chief of Staff of the Pacific Fleet, and the Chief of Staff of the Pearl Harbor Guard.

Today's Admiral of the Pacific Fleet is Zhuge Weidao, Deputy Admiral is Chen Jian, Chief of Staff is Li Kezhi, and the commander-in-chief of the Pearl Harbor Guard is Huang Shuren - all old acquaintances!

In addition, Guo Xiaobao, Wang Wen, Ling Zongjun, Yu Yang, and Ye Wu, the "old men" who have followed Zhuge as the Tao since the Battle of "Daoguang Printing", also have houses in the officers' living quarters in Pearl Harbor. Only Ma Xuchen was promoted to Admiral of the Naval Aviation, so he did not come to Pearl Harbor.

Zhuge Weidao's wife and children were also brought to Pearl Harbor by him. He has Natalie, Da Heikong, Nalandili, Ah Li, a total of one wife, two concubines and a maid, and the four women can still have a good time, which is really envious of others!

Before arriving at Pearl Harbor, Da Heikong was already pregnant, and during this time, his belly had gradually bulged, and Zhuge Weidao's fourth child would be born this year, that is, in the twelfth year of Taiping.

Admiral Zhuge has already arranged for the fifth child to be born and raised by Natalie, so these days, he is trying to get Natalie pregnant before he leads the team on his next voyage......

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"Where do you want to go on your next voyage? Will it be to escort the Echigo Division from Japan to Mexico, or to go south to the Marshall Islands to occupy the Eniwetok Atoll?

In addition, according to the Admiralty, the Guangdong, the lead ship of the Guangdong-class aircraft carrier, will enter service with China's Pacific Fleet next month...... Why don't you use it as your flagship on your next voyage? ”

In the living room of Zhuge Wei's Taoist house, while drinking tea, while talking about the voyage, it was Huang Shuren, the chief soldier of the Pearl Harbor town guard.

During this time, Chen Jian, deputy admiral of the fleet, and Li Kezhi, chief of staff of the fleet, took a team out on a mission to lead a detachment of the Pacific Fleet to escort the troop transport ship to Mexico.

When they returned, it would be Zhuge Weidao's turn to give the task - in order to combine work and rest for the Pacific Fleet, Zhuge Weidao divided the fleet into two subfleets, of which Zhuge Weidao himself led the first fleet, and Chen led the second fleet. In the absence of a big war in the Pacific direction, two detachments took turns sailing.

And these two detachments sailed in two directions, one was the American direction, mainly to escort the troops transported from Japan to the Mexican Empire to participate in the war - the United States began to carry out general mobilization after declaring war on the Mexican Empire and Japan!

The United States is serious and is ready to use all its land and sea forces and their industrial strength to fight a big war with Mexico and Japan!

The Mexican Empire was immediately mobilized. However, Mexico's native-born white population is only about 2 million, which is too small to fight a full-scale war with the United States.

So I can only ask Daming for help. And the way the Ming Dynasty helped the Mexican Empire, in addition to supporting arms, was to transport Japanese soldiers to Mexico to participate in the war.

After all, Japan now has a population of more than 20 million, which is enough to fight with the Americans!

In addition, in the name of protecting overseas Chinese, the Ming Dynasty also sent a serious Ming expeditionary force into California...... The logistics of these Ming troops stationed in California were also transported by the Pacific Fleet.

The second direction of the Pacific Fleet detachment is the South Pacific...... That is, to advance towards Australia!

However, the Pacific Fleet did not do it in one step, rushing directly to the east coast of Australia. Because there are layers of island chains on the northeast coast of Australia.

There is no way for the Pacific Fleet to rush directly towards Australia, and it must break through step by step.

The first step into Australia was to take control of the Carolingian and Marshall Islands, both of which boasted atolls that could be converted into anchorages for the Grand Fleet.

As long as the Pacific Fleet takes one or two of these key atolls and builds them, it will have a forward base for advancing into Australia.

After taking these two bases, it will be Rabaul and the Solomon Islands...... After taking the Solomon Islands, it will be the Coral Sea and Port Moresby!

And how the battle in the direction of the Solo Islands and the Coral Sea should be fought, Zhuge Weidao could not be clearer.

Therefore, Zhuge Wei and Chen Jian did a private division of labor. The task of North America was given to him, and the task of going south was taken care of by Zhuge Weidao himself.

Before Chen Jian's escort mission, Zhuge Weidao had already led the First Detachment of the Pacific Fleet to escort a regiment of Ming marines and a wing of Japanese troops to take Truk Atoll in the Carolingian Islands.

In addition to these two "heteropathies", Zhuge Weidao also has a task of remote command of Texas Haizi, which is also very important.

Although the Texas Sea was victorious in last year's Atlantic Campaign, the Nicaragua Canal has not yet been opened, so the Texas Sea is still isolated and difficult to receive direct support from the Pacific Fleet.

But Zhuge Weidao still did his best, drawing ships from the Pacific Fleet and sending them to the Caribbean to support the Texas Sea.

Just as the air fleet of the Texas Sea entered Port Yin Lizabeth (an important port in Mexico). Zhuge Weidao sent two Zhuangshi-class cruisers, six destroyers, and six torpedo boats to form a support fleet, commanded by Wang Wen, which should be almost there now......