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After going to Singapore and attacking, the Chinese military made a brief poor record in India, which allowed the military to reach a consensus. It did not attack India for the time being. Whether it was the humid jungle or the incurable disease, it made India an inconsistency area.

In fact, Zhao Gang made the decision to shift his strategic focus to the vast Pacific Ocean. Before a large-scale attack on the United States, a necessary cleaning work still needs to be done. Although it nominally recovered provinces such as Malaysia, the Americans still have considerable strength in these areas. It is obviously extremely important to eliminate these residual forces before using these provinces as offensive bases.

In July 1917, a magnificent battle started on a sea area of ​​1.3 million square kilometers. This war and other battles of World War II, all kinds of naval armed forces, from submarines to aircraft, came in handy. However, it is undeniable that the American fleet had no chance to defeat the opponent from beginning to end. However, this was a battle that caused a lot of controversy. The Americans always believed that if this battle was not a logistical problem, at least it would not have been lost as badly.

After the surprise attack in 19174, the Americans knew that the situation was not good, and the Chinese were powerful far beyond their imagination. Originally, the enemy continued to retreat but was just an illusion, with the intention of being trapped without knowing the limit. Now the enemy showed a hideous face under the veil, and the Pacific Ocean was covered with enemy ships.

From the Philippines to Guam, from Guam to Australia, the Chinese have begun to build a huge encirclement. The Americans have left less and less time. Americans have thought of escaping, but soon the Chinese occupied the outer ports of Indonesia and Malaysia. The overwhelming fighter jets have made Americans who lack air force understand that the hope of retreating from the Coral Sea is almost zero.

While the Americans were hesitating, the Chinese quickly conquered the periphery of Malaysia. Although this did not completely block the road to India, the gate had been closed halfway, and they wanted to use ships to transfer all millions of people. Moreover, the road was not smooth. Aircraft submarines and torpedo arrays could sink the fleet into the sea. The Americans hoped that it was only theoretical.

Since the probability of escaping only exists in the air of nothingness, the next thing the Americans do is to send representatives to fight to the death, and at the same time show loyalty comparable to ancient warriors, so that American citizens who are far away from the ocean can feel their tragic and loyalty, and finally -- obediently hand over the force in their hands and sign their own name on the surrender letter.

But this time, for no reason, the negotiator sent to negotiate was treated cruelly. The Chinese emperor rejected the representative very rudely, and it can even be said that he was treated extremely humiliatedly. A policeman arrested him on the grounds that he "entered illegally!"

In fact, Zhao Gang's idea is not complicated, and it can even be said to be very simple. That is, "for blood, for tooth, for tooth." Since Americans can bomb their capital, regardless of the fact that most of the following are innocent people, don't blame yourself for being cruel and not accepting their surrender. It is normal for Americans to get bad consequences before, but now they are reaping bad consequences.

After closing the gate of peace, the Americans had to go all out and fight to the death. They then formulated a "iron wall" plan - once the Chinese fleet invaded the U.S. inner circle stronghold, namely, the American ports in Malaysia and the Philippines, the remaining U.S. Navy will come out in full swing and fight to the death.

There are four "Iron Wall" plans, which will cope with different situations. However, according to Major General Morison's analysis, China's offensive plan is probably "...the main offensive starting point is determined in the Philippine Islands (this is equivalent to not saying that. The huge raid fleet in Australia can only maintain a minimum attack due to lack of supplies. It cannot be excited on a large scale).

The American command has obtained very little intelligence through reconnaissance, so it can only be speculated from other aspects. On June 6, 1 | Americans, China's Fourth and Eighth Army Air Forces, have been ordered to attack the American army in the inner circle.

Although the Americans knew this plan very clearly, they could not counterattack. The US Air Force in this area was completely destroyed. As for the only thing that could fly up on the Air Force Commander was the pheasant who had been raised for two years. It disappeared on a clear afternoon. It was probably destroyed by some evil ghosts with complete teeth. At the same time, it meant that the US Air Force in the Asian War Zone had completely lost its combat effectiveness.

By comparison, China's intelligence is much worse. China is very optimistic about this battle. In fact, they do not need to understand the intelligence of the Americans. After opening the Nanyang route, the Chinese supply lines in the Nanyang and even Australia are becoming increasingly smooth. The escort fleet sends the American submarines into the warm seabed of the South Pacific.

As the supply strengthened, the raid fleet began to slowly recover. However, the US military in the encirclement was constantly consuming its weapons and equipment. In fact, the Chinese army was in charge.

Zhongdu underestimated the strength of the US troops stationed on each island, and the US military had a clumsy understanding before.

Zhao Gang once believed that Priest Island (the base camp of the remnants of the US military) "had almost no defensive power, and less defensive power is the determination to fight to the death." He also believed that the US military would not resist and only needed to let the Americans see the flag of the Chinese army, they would surrender in batches, and there was little chance of using heavy weapons to fight, so it was almost impossible to use a fleet.

With the support of Major General Meng Xinghong's third fleet's fast aircraft carrier, from 5624, continued to attack US bases on Indonesian islands. On June 21, naval pilots bombed Kotlit Bay again. The Chinese army gained a lot on the Malay Peninsula, and the US military was extremely weak in resistance.

Meng Fenghong reported to Marshal Tan Fenglin, commander-in-chief of the Pacific War Zone, saying: "Our ships are not damaged at all. There is no enemy on the screen." Seeing that the US military was weak in counterattack, Tan Fenglin decided to follow the established strategy and gradually capture the peripheral strongholds, and then force the remaining US Navy into Priest Bay.

Everything went smoothly. At dawn on June 28, more than 700 Chinese warships drove into Priest Bay. At that time, due to the disappearance of the pheasant, there were no US flying chickens in the sky. The US military only carried out a faint resistance. The largest fleet in the Pacific War in China had scared the US military. By July 1, thousands of Chinese troops had successfully landed, with minor casualties. Only one chef fell and injured his front teeth when he was disembarking, so unfortunately it became the front-page headline. The other three warships were hit by waves. A few pieces of paint were dropped and reported as losses.

However, Tan Fenglin felt a little uneasy that the main force of the US Pacific War Zone naval force was not in Priest Bay, so where would the Americans place the fleet? Although they knew that they would win this battle, Tan Fenglin still did not want any minor mistakes. He ordered each person to strengthen the reconnaissance, but the changing weather in the Nanyang area affected the reconnaissance effect. The US military really wanted to hide in the air and disappeared.

As early as the morning of the 517th, nine minutes after the US military launched the war to liberate the Indonesian archipelago, the US military was ordered to implement the No. 1 "Iron Wall" plan. General Walton, commander-in-chief of the US Pacific Fleet, knew that there was only this last chance to "annihilate the enemy with endless supply of materials" or eliminate most ships.

He issued an "iron wall" statement to his subordinates from the headquarters. Walton once organized pilots on land and carrier-based aircraft supplementary pilots in the Indonesian Sea Campaign to fight against Meng Xinghong's aircraft troops, which made the US fleet lack air cover now.

Although Walton had an aircraft carrier at this time, there were no aircraft and there were basically no flying chickens. The pilot trained less than an hour. Therefore, if the No. 1 "Iron Wall" plan was successful, you had to act secretly, fight cunningly, and operate at night. The ships scattered from various bases in Indonesia could achieve the effect of a surprise attack as long as they cooperate closely.

Although the scattered ships are only conducive to hiding their tracks, Walton's fleet is also very unfavorable to him. He commanded a "combined fleet" at the land headquarters. Before the war begins, Walton will try to concentrate the scattered units to deal with the powerful Chinese fleet.

These adverse factors, as well as the geographical environment of Indonesia, dominated the US military's strategies. Finally, considering that some warships were seriously damaged, they hurriedly revised their strategies. They no longer pin their hopes on these warships. They placed their hopes on more than a dozen high-speed cruisers. However, this hope was very slim. The best warship in Walton's hand was just the Northampton-class heavy cruiser.

The "Northampton" (c26hampton) is the first heavy cruiser of the US Navy's "Northampton" class in World War II. This class is the second heavy cruiser of the US Navy after the "Pensacola" class. This class began to be designed in 1910 at 324 and was originally called the 324th Plan.

The Northampton class pays more attention to wave resistance than the Pensacola class, so the flat deck type was changed to the forecastle type. In terms of firepower, the main gun still uses the Pensacola class equipped with a 55-times-caliber 203-meter cannon. In order to enhance the resistance to strike and the number of aircraft, it was initially hoped to reduce the number of main guns to eight (a common design plan at the time), so a four-seat dual-equipment arrangement was proposed. However, such a design would lead to the hull being too narrow and long, affecting the structural strength and falling into trouble. At this time, Navy Colonel McBride proposed a three-seat main gun design plan. This not only solved the previous one

The plan brought ground problems, and the weight of three triple turrets and four double turrets was almost the same. Finally, the plan was passed, and it formed a relatively standard main gun configuration mode for the heavy patrol of the US Navy for a long time. The secondary gun was originally planned to install two 51-time 127mm guns with dual 51-time caliber, but later it was copied from the "Pensacola" class secondary gun, which was a standard 25-time caliber 127mm gun. In terms of air defense firepower, because the 37mm anti-aircraft gun developed by Colt has not been completed, the air defense is very good: >.] Previously, the ground warships of this class had installed 28mm anti-aircraft guns to strengthen air resistance.

Compared with the "Pensacola" class, the turrets are reduced

Part of the weight was used to strengthen the protection of warships ("Northampton weighed 750, and the four turrets in the "Pensacola" class totaled 1,057 tons. Despite this, the protection of the main cabin and turret still seemed weak.

In addition to the main and secondary guns and torpedo armed forces, the power part of this class also completely copied the "Pensacola" class power unit. However, the mechanical chamber is relatively reduced and can carry more fuel. In order to strengthen aviation reconnaissance capabilities, this class has installed explosion-proof hangars around the rear smoke, making the operation of the aircraft more convenient and protecting fragile machinery from damage when the ship's gun is fired. There are four seaplanes in the hangars, and two can also be carried on the catapult, but usually only four aircraft will be loaded onto the ship - the aircraft on the catapult is often the most likely object to catch fire on the ship.

Row, 150~:02 tons (full load)

Main gun 3mm*3.4

Torpedo 3mm*2

Size 2.96 meters/177.4 meters (water <0.14, draft 5.

Power 7,000 horsepower

Continued 0,000 miles/

Speed ​​.5

Carrier:

Ship crew

And the Chinese cruisers seem very scary.

City-class battlecruiser

Ranking 0000000~:

Main gun 6mm

Deputy gun;.

Anti-aircraft weapon mm anti-aircraft gun 16 seats>

Length 5.31 meters:

Power 0000 horsepower

Continued 2000 miles/

Speed

17 crew members 1900 (wartime)

Logically speaking, the corresponding battleships of this kind should be the Arkansas-class cruisers. However, since the Americans cannot summon the many battleships sleeping in Victory Bay, all they can do now is rely on these cruisers.

The main gun of this level cannot even penetrate the armor of Chinese cruisers. Only torpedoes can sink China's main battleships, but it is ridiculous to use more than 10 cruisers to implement a torpedo attack. However, in addition, Walton could not think of any feasible plan and could only implement such near suicide actions.

So in the rainy July, after a series of difficult organization, Walton finally assembled fifteen heavy cruisers, seven light cruisers and fifteen destroyers, crossing the St. Bernardino Strait at night, preparing to launch an attack on the huge American fleet anchored in Priest Bay at dawn of 715. Blow the light armored ships into a scattered water. Of course, if you encounter heavy armored warships, what will await these American fleets will be the fate of failure. The cruel reality finally made the Americans realize that only by fighting to the death can you survive.

This American fleet did not have direct air cover and was expected to be used as a cover to approach the Chinese fleet. Finally, it was even more hastily decided to dispatch the remaining submarines to raid the Chinese ships, hoping to attract the enemy's attention.

"The fate of the United States depends on this move... Our sea fleet has set out... The first submarine brigade is to cover General Walton's fleet's advancement... For this reason, we must attack enemy battleships, at least sink or seriously injure one, so that they dare not appear in this sea area. I think there is only one way to maximize our weak military power, that is, use wolves tactics to concentrate on attacking enemy ships at all costs."

This is the "Iron Wall" plan that is desperately betting, which is the most adventurous and incredible bold gambling in the history of naval warfare. This time the US Navy devoted almost all the remaining naval and air force to combat, with a total of seven light cruisers and fifteen destroyers. Although it still looks like a huge fleet, it is really pitifully small compared to the Chinese fleet.

The Chinese are much stronger. The commander-in-chief of the Chinese fleet is located in Priest Bay, and is divided into several squadrons. However, no matter which squadron is, their strength is far greater than that of Walton's small fleet. In this case, the Chinese's slackness began to spread.

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