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Chapter 514 A new prelude to the war

If external conditions allow, Xu Xingchen will develop in the Malay Peninsula for a period of time.

Take control of the local area and train more troops to quickly grasp the resources in your hands.

But the problem is that external conditions do not allow it.

In fact, since the time when Xu Xingchen arrived was mid-1942, don’t think about developing well.

Because the war launched by the ship girl was too fast and the communication capabilities of this era were relatively limited, even local generals such as Yamashita Tomoto had not completely happened when they were arrested.

Therefore, the troops in other areas of the foot basin and the headquarters in the rear did not immediately find Singapore and the Malay Peninsula taken away.

However, as the most important city in Nanyang, ships heading south and north will pass here.

When a naval patrol fleet with a foot basin approached here, trying to replenish supplies by the port but received no response, and was even driven away by shore defense artillery, they felt that the situation was not right.

But they still didn't realize immediately that the Malay Peninsula had been taken away by unknown organizations, and they could not imagine it at all.

They just took it for granted that it was Yamashita Fengfu of the Army who deliberately gave the Navy an ugly look.

So the Navy contacted the senior management and then directly led to the base camp, and transferred to the army through the base camp.

Then the army found that it could not contact Fengwen at the foot of the mountain, and not even just Fengwen at the foot of the mountain, but the entire 25th Army was lost, as if it had disappeared out of thin air.

So they dispatched troops from Indochina, went south through southern Siam, and went to the Malay Peninsula to check.

The ship girl who was training troops at the remnants of the foot basin on the peninsula arranged for Chinese recruits who had been trained to block the border and successfully defeated the Indochina Army who came to test.

This made the army completely overwhelmed and finally began to clearly realize that something was wrong with the Malay Peninsula.

So they sent more troops to attack the Chinese corps south, but they were all blocked on the border.

The air support of the Foot Basin Army, the assisted attacks and air strikes of the Navy were easily suppressed by the ship girl.

There are only simple army-to-army troops on land, and the elite southern troops have become the whetstones of the Chinese Corps.

The Navy assembled the Marine Corps and launched a landing battle against Singapore. It was also repelled by the human troops commanded by the ship girl with advanced weapons.

The two sides were just stalemate. If the ship girl did not go directly to counterattack, the army of both sides should have been here for a long time.

So Xu Xingchen became quite happy. This situation was exactly what he wanted. Even if it was only a stalemate for a month or two, it was very precious to him.

Not long after, Polaris reported the new trends of the footbasin military that it collected and summarized.

After the Battle of Midway, the foot basin gave up the battle for Midway. This was originally a permission obtained by Yamamoto Iroku and even through autism protests.

The Bald Eagle in history also did not believe that the foot basin would attack Midway. In the eyes of the Bald Eagle, this place is not very important. Aleutian and Moresby are much more important than here.

If it weren't for deciphering the radio of the foot basin, there was a final confirmation of the inducement information of the lack of fresh water in Midway, they really wouldn't have thought that the foot basin would launch an attack here.

After Yamamoto suffered a failure in Midway, he had no reason to continue to persevere and could only turn more attention to the south.

Prepare to launch a larger-scale operation around the Solomon Islands and try to capture Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea again.

Located at the eastern end of the Nanyang Islands, New Guinea Islands across the sea from northern Australia. It is the world's largest Pacific Ocean and second largest island in the world, second only to Greenland.

Port Moresby, southeast of the island, later became the capital of Papua New Guinea. It is now a military base belonging to Australia, far away from Australia's mainland.

If Port Moresby can be occupied, it can be used as a base and springboard to deter and attack the Australian continent and threaten the transportation lines between the United States and Australia.

Then further seize the major islands in the Southwest Pacific such as Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa, etc., and completely cut off the transportation lines between the United States and Australia.

This will prevent the Bald Eagle from using Australia as a counterattack base to drive the Bald Eagle troops back to America, and ultimately forcing them to agree to the peace talks.

The Foot Basin Navy Army had occupied the northern part of New Guinea Island in the previous Nanyang operations.

But New Guinea's islands are very large. There is no ready-made road between the northern and southern Port Moresby between the island's northern and southern Porto Moresby, across the dense rainforests and towering mountains.

So Foot Basin was preparing to use its island country's advantages at the beginning, thinking about whether it could go around the south from the sea and use landing war to capture Port Moresby.

This detouring sea route requires crossing the Solomon Sea and the Coral Sea.

When the Foot Basin Fleet and the Army were preparing for related operations, the Bald Eagle sent a fleet to intervene, which directly triggered the first aircraft carrier war in human history and the Coral Sea naval battle.

In history, although the Bald Eagle lost the USS Lexington aircraft carrier in the Battle of the Coral Sea, the intervention was successful.

The historical foot basin troops later gave up the plan to detour from the sea and land on Port Moresby.

Therefore, in the historical summary and evaluation of the Coral Sea Battle, the bald eagle failed at the tactical level, but it was strategically successful, and the opposite was true for the foot-basin chicken.

Then the Battle of Midway took place, which was called the turning point of the Pacific War in World War II, but to some extent it was a side mission forced by the Navy of Foot Basin.

Moresby cannot get through the main line for the time being, so try to play a trick elsewhere and try to force the Bald Eagle to make peace with other methods, but it ends up being even more defeated.

Then I had to go back and continue to push the main line, try to capture Port Moresby again, and continue to find ways to do Tuo.

However, the historical Foot Basin Army changed its strategy. After losing four large aircraft carriers in Midway Island, they were unable to launch large-scale cross-sea operations and could only try to go on land.

On the northern foot of the mountain range in eastern New Guinea, there is a village called Kokoda, next to it, which can be reached through the mountains to Port Moresby.

The Foot Basin Army ventured to launch an attack from here, which triggered the Kokoda Trail Battle, which is not well-known but very important, is also known as the Battle of Papua Peninsula.

The Foot Basin Army almost completely crossed the Kokoda Trail and arrived fifty kilometers from Port Moresby.

But at this moment, the Bald Eagle Navy landed and occupied the footbasin military airport on Guadacanal Island.

Guadalam Airport was built to support the capture of Port Moresby. It is the key to the foot basin troops controlling the surrounding air supremacy. Once lost, it means the loss of air supremacy.

The army, which had been through the hot rainforest after hardships, was extremely exhausted. If they lost their air superiority, they would not be able to escape the result of annihilation at the city of Moresby.

So the army had to give up the attack and retreated back to the north of the island.

When MacArthur was in charge of Port Moresby defense, he ran all the way from the Philippines to here, and finally did not run again, and launched his counterattack from here.

Afterwards, the two sides launched a continuous and high-intensity sea, land and air war for six months around the ownership of Guadalam Airport and the control of sea and air power in the Solomon Sea.

Not to mention the land and air battles, there are six large-scale naval battles: the Battle of Savo Island, the Battle of East Solomon, the Battle of Cape Esparens, the Battle of Santa Cruz, the Battle of Guadalcanal, and the Battle of Tassa Falongag.

The two sides lost 3 aircraft carriers, 2 battleships, 9 heavy cruisers, 3 light cruisers, 25 destroyers, and 1,298 aircraft.

During the battle between the two sides, countless shells were fired, and a large number of sunken transport ships directly poured ammunition into the seabed, which made the seabed between Savo and Guadacanal full of steel wreckage and shells.

This even affected the local geographical magnetic field, causing the magnetic compass on the ships passing here to frequently fail, and it was later called "Iron-bottom Bay".

In terms of personnel, about 40,000 soldiers from both sides suffered casualties, which does not seem to be a lot, but one-third of them are naval and pilots.

Especially the pilots of the Foot Basin family have weak foundations in civil aviation and machinery, and they are very slow to supplement. After Guadalam, there are basically only rookies left.

After the Battle of Guadalam, the Foot Basin Army lost its offensive ability, and the Essex-class aircraft carrier of the Bald Eagles began to serve, and the offensive and defensive momentum of both sides completely reversed.

The Battle of Guadalam is equivalent to the Battle of Stalingrad. The time between the two is basically synchronized. Both are fighting in the second half of 1942 to the beginning of 1943, and they are the beginning of a strategic counterattack.

Midway Island is more similar to the Moscow defense battle, but the fight between the footbath chicken was too hard and he couldn't stop losing, so he became a turning point in history.

Now after the ship girl interfered with Midway Island, the four Navy aircraft carriers of the Foot Basin were only injured but not sunk, and the two sides were considered to have a tie.

But like the Coral Sea naval battle, the Foot Basin Army failed to achieve its strategic goals and was strategically failed.

Then he could only make a choice similar to that in history and continue to go south to capture Port Moresby.

This overall strategy is not that easy to change, and they have no other better choices.

The sea transport capacity of the Foot Basin Army is not enough to support them in logging in Hawaii. It is difficult to log in to Midway Island, so launching an attack is already the limit.

The foot basin had no plan to attack the Bald Eagle's local area, and had no ability at all. The purpose of attacking Pearl Harbor itself and all subsequent operations was only to fight and reconcile.

The construction and competition for Guadalam Airport, the capture of Port Moresby, and the threat of Australia are also implementation plans for this purpose.

"But the current foot basin navy is stronger than in the same period in history. The minor injuries of the four aircraft carriers can be quickly repaired, so they have more choices..."

"With the six main fleet aircraft carriers complete, it may be possible to try to land directly in and capture Port Moresby again, rather than walking the Kokoda Trail as history has been."

"But the Bald Eagle also holds five large fleet aircraft carriers. If the two sides fight again, they may become a larger Coral Sea or Midway Island.

"The large-scale sea and air combat involving more than ten fleet aircraft carriers is unprecedented in history. It is not a unilateral crush in the later stage. It is really a fun to watch..."

Xu Xingchen thought about it in his mind and replied to Polaris:

"Continue to keep a close eye on the news and movements of both the Foot Basin and the Bald Eagle, confirm the subsequent actions and accurate plans of both sides, and track the positions of both sides' fleets and aircraft carriers at any time."

After a few instructions, he hung up the communication. Xu Xingchen turned to Neptune, explaining the news about North Star:

"This is the case, so are you free?... I should say you are interested in continuing to interfere with this larger-scale Guadalam Battle, which is about to break out."

Neptune immediately answered excitedly:

"This is a must. The construction of the factory has been stable. I no longer need to make plans and on-site commands. It can be basically completed in August at most.

"But it will take some time to fight, right? So I'll keep an eye on the factory for a while, think about how to interfere, and I'll go there when they're ready."

Xu Xingchen agreed indifferently:

"Okay, I'll call you later."
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