Pearl Harbor, the home port of the Pacific Fleet of the Ming Navy.

On the wharf, another 10 "Nanyang ships" that had just arrived from Daming began to unload, and 10 cranes were swinging back and forth under the command of the soldiers, unloading one after another biplanes from the ships.

This time, 180 Haifeilong-2 fighter-bombers, 100 Ssangyong-2 reconnaissance bombers, 60 Brontosaurus-1 torpedo bombers, 36 Xianglong-1 four-engine biplane bombers, and 18 Yunlong-1 water reconnaissance planes were transported.

These 394 wooden planes are about one-third of the monthly output of Daming. In order to strengthen the strength of the Pacific Fleet and the Southern Continental Corps, the General Staff of the Daming Navy and Army made a decision at the beginning of the 12th year of the Taiping Dynasty to allocate one-third of the monthly aircraft production to the Pacific Fleet and the Southern Continental Corps starting in February, and send them once a month.

Of course, you can't just have an airplane without a pilot. So along with these planes are 180 rookies who have just graduated from the Navy and Army Flight Schools, and these pilots will be assigned to the Air Division of the Southern Continental Corps and the Town Guard Flight Corps under the Pacific Fleet. At the same time, more than 100 veterans who have been trained in the town guard flight corps will be replaced by rookies and then transferred to the carrier-based flight corps of the Pacific Fleet. After completing the aircraft carrier take-off and landing training, they will become carrier-based aircraft pilots - the current Daming Navy has no shortage of aircraft carriers or aircraft, but there is a shortage of carrier-based aircraft pilots!

In addition to these pilots, the 1st Marine Division assigned to the Southern Continental Corps had all arrived three days earlier, bringing the total strength of the ground forces to which the Southern Continental Corps belonged to 100,000. The total strength of the ground forces on Oahu alone under the Southern Continental Army has reached 50,000, and with the personnel of the Pacific Fleet, there are almost 1120,000 troops.

The entire kingdom of Hawaii has become a sea of Ming troops!

In addition, there are many warships on Oahu! Twenty-one battleships and battle cruisers of all classes were concentrated! Eight aircraft carriers came, and more than 40 armored cruisers and cruisers of the second and third ranks. The number of destroyers is even higher, all over a hundred. In addition, there are no less than 100 Nandao ships, Nanyang ships, and South oil tankers together! However, the most of them are the A-1 landing ships...... There was so much that Pearl Harbor couldn't fit in, so it had to be scattered to other ports in the Hawaiian Islands.

Standing on the dock outside the headquarters in Pearl Harbor, looking at the ships that almost filled the harbor, watching the planes rise and fall, Zhuge Weidao and Chen Jian, Ma Xuchen, Ling Zongjun, Huang Shuren, Wang Wen, Li Kezhi and other high-level leaders of the fleet or the general military department of the town were all a little ambitious. What they are about to fight is a great battle to conquer a continent!

Since the death of Zhuge Wuzhong Wang, the Great Ming Dynasty has put away its ambitions and developed steadily for more than a hundred years, until it has developed itself into a giant enough to lead the entire world, and has never carried out such a grand conquest...... And this record will be broken by these Ming soldiers who are now gathered in Hawaii.

In the future, the history books will definitely praise these heroes of the Celestial Empire with the most gorgeous words, and their names will be remembered by future generations. And after the end of this great conquest, those who are fortunate enough to participate in it will be duly rewarded.

The current Ming Dynasty is not a country that belongs to the emperor, but a country that belongs to the heroes and the descendants of the heroes...... Although the Ming Dynasty has maintained peace for more than a hundred years, the descendants of the heroes have "lacked merit in the five elements".

But the military merit medal is in the Ming Dynasty...... Still sparkling!

"Let's go! Just now, Guo Xiaobao called and said that there was an important military situation! ”

Zhuge Weidao withdrew his gaze from the large warships that radiated metallic light, then turned around and walked first towards the Pacific Fleet headquarters building.

Several guards standing in front of the Pacific Fleet Command building couldn't help but straighten their chests when they looked at the high-ranking officers with shining stars on these epaulettes, as well as the Grand Fleet waiting to go out in the harbor. Although they are only compulsory soldiers, they are not front-line personnel, and they have almost no chance of meritorious service. But you can be in this battle, you can watch the characters who will go down in history in the future, and you can brag to your children and grandchildren for a lifetime.

When Zhuge Weidao walked into the newly renovated command center in the headquarters building, Guo Xiaobao, the chief staff officer of the Pacific Fleet, who had been promoted to rear admiral, was directing a group of young staff officers to push several models of ships in Mumbai, India, which symbolized the British Royal Navy's Indian Grand Fleet, gathered on the super sea chart platform with a long push rod.

Seeing Zhuge Weidao and others coming in, Guo Xiaobao hurriedly stepped forward to give a military salute, and then said excitedly: "Junmen, I just received a notification from the Navy Staff that the British Indian Grand Fleet has moved!" ”

"Oh? Finally moved? When Zhuge Weidao heard this, he immediately became excited, "They have been lying in Mumbai for almost 5 months, and I thought they were going to celebrate the New Year in India!" ”

It is now November of the 12th year of Taiping, that is, November 1832 of the Western calendar...... It has been almost 5 months since the assembly of the Royal Navy Indian Grand Fleet was basically completed!

During these five months, except for some newly commissioned ships and carrier-based aviation units that were busy training and running-in, the other ships were basically in the process of maintenance, maintenance, lying on their stomachs, and routine training, as if it were still a time of peace.

But this is also the characteristic of "sea battles" - those battleships, armored cruisers, and aircraft carriers are all like their ancestors, and they have to be carefully served. And the larger the warship, the more likely it is that their power system will wear out and fail, and the fuel and coal consumption will be astronomical.

Therefore, the battle of the main force of the fleet is not a casual fight.

In addition, these large warships are quite difficult to drive. Now both sides have received many new ships, many new recruits, and a number of new captains, chief officers, and chief engineers have been promoted exceptionally...... Oh, and there are a lot of rookie pilots. If you don't train and run in well, let them go out in a big warship as delicate as their ancestors, what if they are damaged?

Therefore, the commanders of the Grand Fleet are all masters who are happy to fight for a while and manage the swelling of their heads.

And in order to train the Grand Fleet under his command, Zhuge Weidao and William. Baga, as well as Tianpei and Li Chengxun, have been very troubled in the past few months.

Of course, combat missions are also indispensable. Big ships, especially new ships in big ships, can't be dispatched casually. However, small boats, small boats, and old ships still have to be frequently dispatched to carry out tasks such as breaking diplomatic relations, escorting ships, and seizing small islands.

At the same time, these tasks are to test the depth of the opponent, so as to provide a basis for the formulation of the final decisive battle plan.

After a few months of testing, Zhuge Weidao basically determined that the main force of the British Royal Navy was not in Australia, and the British mainly relied on small fleets and island chain defense, as well as the deployment of a large number of land forces in Australia to defend that wild but resource-rich continent.

Since the British Grand Fleet is really not in Australia, then they must be concentrated in India.

"Now that they've moved, it's time for us to do too!" Zhuge Weidao looked at the chart and asked in a low voice, "Does the General Staff have any suggestions?" ”

Guo Xiaobao said: "Yes! The General Staff believes that we should first cooperate with the Western and South Ocean fleets to encircle and annihilate the British Indian Grand Fleet! Only by annihilating the main force of the British Navy can the Southern Continent campaign be sure of victory! ”