"Your Majesty, you want to make a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor?"

"Your Majesty the Emperor, now we have declared war on the Ming Dynasty, and the undeclared war has been going on for two years, and the defense of Pearl Harbor has long been completed!"

"Yes, the Daming Pacific Fleet is very powerful, and our Australian Grand Fleet has gone far away, I'm afraid it is not an opponent."

When Kaiser Wilhelm's ministers heard that they were going to "surprise Pearl Harbor", they all felt that it was inappropriate. Not to mention anything else, that Pacific Fleet commander Zhuge Weidao is a master of the Ming Zhuge family, and his ancestors can pinch and count. You still sneak attack, turn around and people pinch their fingers and count, what should you do?

Moreover, the Ming family also has reconnaissance planes and reconnaissance airships. Oh, and submarines!

Rumors about submarines have been rumored for a long time, but this time they were really discovered, and dozens of photos of a British airship were taken in the Caribbean, including photos of it diving.

When these photos were taken back to the Admiralty on Whitehall Street in London, the big guys were shocked. Although Britain also has submarines, the British submarines are not so big, they can't run so far, they are all small guys of one or two hundred tons, and they are all experimental in nature. The quality is not good either, try and try and it is gone. But Daming's submarines have all run to the Atlantic!

Now there are Zhuge who can pinch and calculate in the headquarters of Pearl Harbor, and outside Pearl Harbor there are reconnaissance airships, reconnaissance planes, reconnaissance submarines, and inevitably surface ships that are wandering around.

When Kaiser Wilhelm saw that the people below did not approve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was not angry, but smiled and said, "This emperor knows best the intrigues of the Orientals!" Back then, I also spent some time with Zhuge Youde, my father Zhuge Youde, and at his recommendation, I read two books full of oriental intrigue and trickery, one called "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and the other called "The Art of War". So I will also use the Oriental strategy, this time, I will use the Oriental strategy to deal with the Chinese Pacific Fleet! This is called the way of the other, and the way of the other! ”

William's words were spoken in a mixture of Chinese and English, and the British ministers present could actually understand it.

It seems that the cultural output of Daming on this timeline is still very strong!

"Your Majesty the Emperor, what are you going to do?" The Duke of Wellington asked curiously.

Of course, this duke is also a China expert. When he led troops in India, he thought that sooner or later the Ming Empire would compete with the British Empire for India. So from then on, he began to study the China problem. And he has seen much more of the Chinese art of war than Kaiser Wilhelm.

I have not only read "Three Kingdoms" and "The Art of War", but also read "Liutao", "Wu Zi's Art of War", "Sima Law", "Three Strategies", "Wei Zhenzi", "Li Weigong Asks Right", "Actual Record of Military Training", "Selected Writings of Zhuge Wuzhong Wang". And it's all in Chinese!

As for the Duke of Wellington's "old friend" Emperor Napoleon, it is even more of a Chinese expert - the kings of the Bourbon dynasty, Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI are all old friends of the Chinese people and good brothers of the Zhuge family, so there is a course of "Chinese Art of War" directly in the French military academy! That Napoleonic emperor could not only speak Chinese with a Corsican accent, but also write with a brush!

In the Louvre Museum of this timeline, there are also several calligraphy works of Emperor Napoleon - the content is ancient Chinese poetry, the calligraphy works of Emperor Napoleon in the early years are "Watching the Sea", "Turtle Although Shou", "Short Song Xing", and the later calligraphy works are "When is the Spring Flower and Autumn Moon", "Alone in the West Building", "Forty Years of Home and Country", "People Grow and Hate Water and Long East".

Emperor Wilhelm smiled and said: "Duke, I know that a simple sneak attack on Pearl Harbor will not succeed, and our Grand Fleet will be discovered by various reconnaissance methods of the Ming Navy before approaching Pearl Harbor." ”

That's for sure!

Now even if it is the latest carrier-based bomber of the Ming Dynasty, it is unlikely that the combat radius will exceed 200 kilometers - these aircraft are all "deck defenders", so simple bombing cannot defeat the enemy's fleet, it must be bombing and surface fleet decisive battle.

Therefore, the attack on Pearl Harbor envisaged by Kaiser Wilhelm was not a sneak attack by planes, but a large fleet pounced!

Naturally, there is no sneak attack, unless the Ming army is blind.

"My idea is to strike the east!" Kaiser Wilhelm said, "We can first assemble our fleet in the Indian Ocean and assume the posture of preparing for a counterattack on Malacca, so that we can transfer the main force of the Ming navy from the Pacific side to the area around the Strait of Malacca."

And after the Ming navy is concentrated near Malacca, it is very likely that it will land on the island of Java. At that time, our Grand Fleet will be able to maneuver in the direction of Australia, bypassing Sumatra in the name of reinforcing Java. Then, with a part of the fleet, we will emerge as the main force and be active between the island of Java and the west and northwest coasts of Australia. At the same time, he moved along the north coast of Australia with the main force, sneaked to Port Moresby to join the Australian Grand Fleet, and finally went north to Pearl Harbor together. And near Pearl Harbor, seek a decisive battle with the remaining detachment of the Pacific Fleet of the Ming Navy! ”

In the throne hall of St. James's Palace, there was silence for a while, and everyone looked at Kaiser Wilhelm in a daze.

This emperor seems to be quite powerful!

Emperor Wilhelm is also quite proud, he is a professional admiral, and he has studied naval warfare all his life, but he has no chance to practice and now he is an emperor, and he finally has the opportunity to do a big job.

The Emperor asked the Admiralty and the First Sea Lord, "Viscount Palmerston, Sir Hardy, how soon will we be ready?" ”

"August, this August!" Sir Dow Hardy, the First Sea Lord, calculated, "There will be two of them. No, it's 3 Indian Emperor-class ships in service! ”

The Indian Emperor-class is a "25,000-ton" battleship that started construction at the beginning of last year.

According to the final design drawings, the standard displacement of ships of this class is 25,000 tons, and the full load displacement is 29,500 tons!

The main armor belt on the side of ships of this class is 305 mm; conning tower armor 280 mm; deck armor 25-65 mm; The main gun turret was armored 280 mm around the perimeter, 102 mm on the top, and 76-254 mm in the gun mount.

The armament of this class is: 10 twin 13.5-inch 45-caliber naval guns, 12 6-inch guns, 12 3-inch anti-aircraft guns, 12 1-pounder rapid-fire anti-aircraft guns, and 4 533-mm torpedo tubes.

The power of this class is: 18 three-expansion steam boilers, 4 steam turbines; Maximum output of the main engine: 31000 horsepower; 4-axis propulsion. It has a maximum speed of 21.6 knots and a maximum range of 7,500 nautical miles at an economic speed of 10 knots.

I have to admit that British shipbuilding technology is still quite strong! Although it was not possible to build a fast battleship due to the backwardness of steam turbine technology, it was still possible to build a little bit of a slow iron lump.

And this Indian emperor class with a full load displacement of 29,500 tons definitely has the ability to fight with the "first emperor" level of the Ming Dynasty!

"3 is not enough." Emperor Wilhelm said, "All four Indian emperor-class ships must be put into service!"

In addition, our secret weapon, with a standard displacement of 28,000 tons, must also be put into service with the lead and second ships of the King William IV class named after me! ”

(End of chapter)