Chapter 636 Not a Perfect End
I waited until the afternoon before I waited for the exact news.
Niz has died.
According to official news released by the Hwaseong authorities, Niz was killed by the uprising naval officers and soldiers because of the arrest. All the more than a dozen senior generals who fought stubbornly at the headquarters were shot dead, including Fry, who was ranked seventh in the wanted list, and generals such as Clark, who were famous on the list.
However, Niz is more likely to choose to break himself at the end.
The message was sent along with the highest instructions issued by the Prime Minister.
The war action to attack the Howai Islands was launched with the ultimate goal of occupying the entire Howai Islands.
Because Zhenbaogang and other places have been controlled by rebels, there is no need to consider collateral casualties.
In addition, the Navy Command also sent the latest briefing.
The 22nd Special Mixed Fleet has been transferred to the northwest of Zhenbao Port, and it is expected to reach the attack waters early tomorrow morning and participate in the combat operations of attacking Honu Island with the three special Mixed Fleets on Baizhizhan. However, from its deployment location, the main task of the 22nd Special Mixed Fleet is to provide cover for the three islands in the west, strengthen the troops in this direction, and will not participate in the combat operations to attack Zhenbao Port.
The eight small aircraft carriers that had previously retreated to the nearest transit island arrived the latest day after tomorrow.
If necessary, more than 20 fast escort aircraft carriers organized in the support fleet can be mobilized to participate in the bombing operation after the 27th.
Starting tonight, China Airlines will focus on bombing major military bases such as Zhenbao Port.
Because the air defense cover is provided by the carrier-based aviation force, the air defense combat pressure of the shore-based aviation force has been greatly reduced, so the Navy is preparing to withdraw long-range fighters deployed on Laisan Island and give the precious forward base to the Army Strategic Aviation Forces to deploy more heavy bombers.
In this way, at most, China Airlines will invest more than 800 heavy bombers in one month.
The key point is that before this, the Marines had already captured Wei Island without any bloodshed and gained a foothold between the volcanic islands and the transit island.
Relying on the airport on Wei Island, bombers can easily travel between the front line and the rear, thereby greatly improving combat efficiency.
However, to attack the Hovay Islands, you still have to look at the ground troops.
If nothing unexpected happens, the Marines will be able to invest 8 divisions by May 10 at the latest and arrange 8 divisions as reserve teams.
If mobilization is carried out in time, 8 divisions of the Army will be obtained in late May.
In fact, as long as the battle is delayed until the second half of the year, that is, by July, not only will the ground combat troops exceed 30 divisions, but also 3 new special mixed fleets can be obtained.
At that time, the combat forces that can be used include 6 large aircraft carriers, 2 fleet aircraft carriers and 20 small aircraft carriers.
Obviously, if we only attack the Hovayi Islands, we would not need so many troops at all.
The key is here.
These troops were originally prepared to march into the Lone Continent.
According to the initial plan, after successfully taking over the Hovayi Islands, we have to consider entering the Gu Continent, that is, attacking the Wangxi Canal.
As for the local area of Newland, the early stage was mainly maritime blockade.1
Only when necessary are necessary, carrier-based aviation troops are arranged to attack port cities on the west coast of Newland.
Because we had to prepare for the march into the Lone Continent, we mobilized a total of 32 divisions, a total of 600,000 ground troops!
The problem now is that there is no need to attack Wangxi Canal, at least there is no such need for the time being.
In addition, the Hovay Islands must be taken down as quickly as possible, and at least the island of Honu must be captured to ensure the legitimacy of the Wallace regime.
As a result, the Navy Command sent all the reserves.
Judging from this situation, as long as the logistics support can keep up, several landing operations will be launched at the same time and the islands in the eastern part of the Hovay Islands will be attacked at the same time.
As for the difficulty of combat, the possible resistance is not a big problem.
However, the battle belonging to Baizhizhan has ended.
In the telegram sent by the Navy Command, a special order was issued to Bai Zhizhan, asking him to escort Wallace and Spear and other Newland military and political officials back to the empire.
To this end, the Navy Command also issued an order to Li Mingbo, who was from the 21st Special Mixed Fleet, asking Li Mingbo to send warships to escort the Qinling.
In addition, the "Qilian Mountain" has arrived near the transit island and will join the 22nd Special Mixed Fleet in 3 days.
The ship is the sister ship of the Qinling Mountains. It is the first ship of the second batch. It was officially put into service two months ago and has been performing performance tests before.
According to the arrangement of the Navy Command, after Bai Zhizhan returned to China, Li Mingbo was temporarily the commander-in-chief of the front line, the guards were the deputy commander-in-chief, and jointly commanded the combat operations against the Hovayi Islands. Li Mingbo was responsible for fleet operations, and the guards were responsible for connecting with the Marines.
In addition, Zhou Yongtao will go to the "Qilian Mountain" on his way back to cooperate with Li Mingbo as a fleet combat staff officer.
The commander-in-chief of this combat operation is still nominally a war in vain.
If you want to say, this is also the most appropriate arrangement after the battle to adjust the white-cut battle.
Although the Navy Command did not mention it in the telegram, letting Bai Zhizhan return to China at this time is related to the 5th Fleet of Newland, which has not yet been fully controlled.
The 5th Fleet must be stabilized to ensure that the 5th Fleet warships can be used by the Empire.
Obviously, if the 5th Fleet stayed on the front line, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Because there is no nearby military port that can accommodate the 5th Fleet and is controlled by the Imperial Navy, it is impossible to disarm the 5th Fleet from the front line.
You must return to the rear as soon as possible, and the closest rear is Liuhuangdao.
That night, Liu Changxun personally sent a telegram to explain the situation to Bai Zhizhan.
Just like Bai Zhizhan was worried about, the top leaders of the Empire are worried about the mutiny of the 5th Fleet of Newland.
Anyway, they were dozens of large warships!
Let’s not talk about the value of these warships. If the 5th Fleet mutinied and the Imperial Navy was forced to take action, would there be hope that other Newland troops would surrender?
Obviously, the impact caused by this is simply impossible to estimate!
In the telegram, Liu Changxun clearly mentioned one thing.
A few days ago, when Wallace left Golden Bay and went to Zhenbao Port, the Empire began to promote related matters, the focus of which was the surrender of the 5th Fleet.
Of course, Wallace is also very important.
According to Liu Changxun's wishes, after capturing the Hovay Islands, Wallace had to be sent back to ensure that he was still the president of the Newland Federation.
The reason is equally simple. Only in this way can a large-scale military operation be ended without attacking Newland's local area.
As for the blockade and bombing against Newland, that is another matter.
In addition, the empire's top leaders have made arrangements for the next stage of action.
The Xiluoyang Fleet, led by Liu Xiangzhen, was strengthened by the Tsuman Fleet and the Raleigh Fleet. Strictly speaking, it was actually a joint fleet of the Allied Group to the Bermuda Islands.
As long as conditions permit, a combat operation to attack the Bermuda Islands will be launched.
If we can win the Bermuda Islands, even if it is just a few of them, we will be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort when we advance to Cuba and Newfoundland.
It can be seen that the siege of Newland Federation has been formed.
This is telling Bai Zhi Zhan that the large-scale combat operation is about to end.
However, Bai Zhizhan was not happy about it, or it was time to celebrate.
Among the telegrams sent successively, the situation of the army was not mentioned, that is, the combat operations against the Luosha Federation on the huge land.
Chapter completed!