Chapter 463 - To be liberated, there is collusion! (Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass)
December 30, 1832.
South of the equator, the Pacific Ocean.
The night has gradually fallen, hundreds of steamships of all kinds composed of a huge and incomparably large group, covering dozens of square kilometers of sea, one after another warships and steamships, ploughing out white waves on the surface of the ocean, heading towards the southwest, mighty and mighty...... To liberate the suffering Australians, no, it should be the people of the Southern Continent!
That's right, this is the Grand Fleet sent by the Great Tomorrow Dynasty to save the natives of the Southern Continent from being exterminated by the Anglo-Saxon bandits!
In this timeline, the Anglo-Saxons exterminate the indigenous peoples of the Southern Continent and the Indians of North America for their heinous crimes, which cannot be denied in any way. Because the evidence is conclusive, and the human and material evidence is complete! The ships of the dozens of square kilometers on the sea were loaded with the soldiers of the Great Tomorrow who were going to collect evidence, but they took assault rifles and put them on the heads of the Anglo-Saxon people on the southern continent, and kept them crying and confessing their sins one by one...... This is true justice!
Hundreds of columns of smoke rose into the sky, and the setting sun shone on the ocean. Between the sea and the sky, there is righteousness.
On every ship within a few tens of square kilometers, the sun and moon flags are flying. And on the warships guarding the perimeter, there is a blood-colored red flag that symbolizes the decisive battle!
Now the entire South Pacific is under the control of the Ming Navy, and after the Battle of Kwajalein, the Pacific Fleet has completely controlled the sea supremacy. And the remnants of the Great British Australian Grand Fleet, which have abandoned Port Moresby, are still missing, and no one knows where they went?
According to the report of the 101st Fleet (the First Air Force of the Pacific Fleet) that attacked Port Moresby a few days ago, there is no ship worth bombing in Port Moresby, and there is nothing to bomb in the Papua Sea and the Coral Sea.
The report of the 102nd Fleet (the 2nd Battleship Squadron of the Pacific Fleet), which was responsible for chasing down the defeated British fleet, has no trace of the British Royal Navy in the area of the New Guinea Sea and the Solomon Sea. However, some of the islands in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands are also garrisoned by British Army...... But now no one cares about them, Zhuge Weidao and Mu Zhongjun don't plan to gnaw at the islands guarded by the British one after another, their plan is to smash the Yellow Dragon!
That is, to bypass these islands and advance directly from Hawaii to the southwest, through the open sea between the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides, and go straight to the east coast of Australia - this distance is about 4000 nautical miles, and if the landing fleet advances at a speed of 12, it will take 330 hours, 13-14 days.
The landing fleet, which is now sailing in the ocean, left Hawaii on December 26, completed the assembly and formation of the landing fleet on the 27th, and completed the merger with the 103rd Fleet and the 105th Fleet (escort fleet) on the 28th to form the Grand Fleet. If all goes well, by early January 1833, you'll be on the east coast of Australia!
The reason why they were in such a hurry was that in addition to wanting to help the indigenous people of the southern continent get rid of the bitter sea of genocide as soon as possible, they wanted to strike while the iron was hot, and seize the time to strike another blow to the British Army and Royal Navy in Australia before they came out of the shock of the fiasco in the sea battle.
On the flagship of the Pacific Fleet, "Nanjing", Admiral Zhuge Weidao was looking at photos in his spacious and comfortable office - these photos were taken of British warships that had been destroyed and were sinking or about to sink, including large battleships, armored cruisers, aircraft-carrying armored cruisers, cruisers of the second and third rank, and destroyers with a displacement of about 1,000 tons!
They were all sent to Zhuge Weidao by the Ming army's airships, seaplanes, or the 103 fleet...... The thick stack is full of photos that make Zhuge Weidao happy - this photographic technique is really a very practical invention for a military commander! Whether it really sank the old British warship, you can get an idea by looking at the photos.
Zhuge Weidao looked at them very carefully - he had to make sure that those photos were not P's, and he also wanted to recognize who those battleships, armored cruisers, aircraft-carrying armored cruisers, and so on were?
Just as he was looking at it, there was a knock on the door of his office.
"Come in." Zhuge said habitually for the Tao.
Pushing the door in, it was his chief of staff, Zhuge Yangyang, who reported in a low and respectful voice after entering: "Admiral, the flagship of the First Air Battle, the 'Guangdong', has sent a telegram saying that the seaplanes sent by the First Air War have discovered the remnants of the British fleet in the eastern waters of the Southern Continent...... There are still dozens of intact ships, at least 20 battleships, 2 aircraft-carrying armored cruisers, 10 armored cruisers, and a large number of cruisers, destroyers are reported! They are rapidly retreating south along the coastline of the Southern Ocean, and it is estimated that they will be retreating to Sydney Harbour! ”
"Evacuate to Sydney?" Zhuge Weidao immediately stood up and walked to the chart hanging on the wall of his office, while his chief of staff Zhuge took out a red and blue pencil and drew the approximate location of the First Naval Battle and the British fleet on the chart.
"It's a little far!" Zhuge Weidao looked at the chart and said to himself, "Maybe you can let the air attack on Sydney in the first air war......"
The chief of staff of Zhuge did not take Zhuge Weidao's stubble, but took out a telegram, handed it to Zhuge Weidao with both hands, and said: "Uncle 108, this is the telegram in the house......"
"At home?"
Zhuge Weidao immediately understood that the so-called "inside the family" was, of course, not his small home in Pearl Harbor, but the "everyone" of the Zhuge family, to be precise, this was the instruction of the military division!
Although an internal group of a great family gave instructions to Zhuge Weidao, the admiral of the Pacific Fleet...... No matter how you look at it, it's not quite correct, but the current Ming Dynasty is such a system where the remnants of feudalism and capitalism are deeply integrated.
Zhuge Weidao took the telegram and unfolded it and read it, and then frowned: "Release the water?" Is this a suggestion made by the Grand Army? Does his old man have anything to do with the British...... Tacit understanding? ”
It turned out that this telegram asked Zhuge to release the remnants of the main force of the British Royal Navy...... Have them return to Sydney to refuel and resupply, and then leave the Southern Continent for good!
"Uncle 108, the military division does not think it is appropriate to weaken the British maritime power too much...... Otherwise, she would not be able to defend the British Isles and take on the burden of destabilizing the European continent. According to reliable information from the Naval Intelligence Directorate, the size and quality of the French Republic's navy will increase dramatically in the coming year! If Napoleon II took advantage of the vacuum of British naval power created by our annihilation of the main forces of the British Royal Navy, he launched a landing across the English Channel...... The consequences will be unimaginable! ”
"This ......," Zhuge frowned, "is it really possible?" ”
"Of course! The landing in England was Napoleon II's best plan to consolidate power and establish the Second French Empire...... Once he succeeds in conquering the British Isles, he will become a hero for all of Europe! If we are to prevent the Second French Empire from unifying Europe, we must vigorously support the Rakshasas, and once the Rakshasas defeat the Second French Empire, they themselves will unify Europe! So it is very much in our interest to keep a strong Britain! ”