.Like Mu Haoyang, when conducting combat deployment, Imai Tatsumura must consider the enemy's situation.

Strictly speaking, combat deployment can only be carried out according to the combat purpose after mastering the enemy's tactical deployment and tactical actions.

As a result, the problems encountered by Mu Haoyang also became a problem for Imai Rimura.

Although the Chinese fleet has only two choices, one more choice means one more variable, which puts higher requirements on combat deployment.

Without an absolute strength advantage, Imai Yoshimura must have the troops in his hands reasonably.

To do this, he had to make accurate judgments before making combat deployments.

To address this issue, Imai Rimura has been preparing for it.

First, Japan and India each launched two submarines. Japanese submarines were deployed at both ends of the Sunda Strait, while Indian submarines were deployed at both ends of the Malacca Strait.

However, this is not necessarily very reliable.

The Strait of Malacca is one of the busiest sea areas in the world, with hundreds of ships passing through every day. Because the Strait of Malacca is too crowded and the oil prices continue to rise, the shipping industry relies more on super cargo ships to reduce the average cost, so more and more freighters are turning to the Sunda Strait.

In this way, the submarines lurking under the sea are likely to be unable to detect the Chinese fleet.

To this end, Imai Toshimura made a second-hand arrangement.

According to his request, Japanese intelligence agencies sent dozens of spies to Sumatra, Java and Singapore, and went to the Sunda Strait and Malacca Strait as tourists, business travelers, etc., lurking in the narrowest part of the strait to monitor passing ships.

To be on the safe side, Japanese intelligence agencies have also adjusted the orbit of reconnaissance satellites.

However, reconnaissance satellites are even more unreliable. Because even if you focus on monitoring the Sunda Strait and the Malacca Strait, you can only pass once every two hours and last for six hours. The Chinese fleet only takes half an hour to pass through the Sunda Strait, and only two hours to pass through the narrowest part of the Malacca Strait. Therefore, as long as you master the orbit of the Japanese reconnaissance satellite, the fleet can avoid the reconnaissance period.

It can be said that Imai Yoshimura does not have enough effective methods to monitor the two straits.

It is not certain when the Chinese fleet will enter the strait. In combat deployment, Imai Toshimura has to face a very big problem, that is, which direction is the priority.

If the Chinese fleet travels to the Strait of Malacca, the focus should be on the Andaman Sea.

If the Chinese fleet goes through the Sunda Strait, the focus should be on the southwest waters of Sumatra.

Obviously, when there is only one large aircraft carrier, it is impossible to take care of it.

Imai Yoshimura must make a prior judgment to determine where to focus.

According to his judgment, the Chinese fleet has a higher chance of going to the Sunda Strait. First, the Sunda Strait is shorter, and the Chinese fleet can pass through the full speed within half an hour. Second, the average water depth of the Sunda Strait exceeds the Singapore Strait, that is, the narrowest section of the Malacca Strait, and the channel for large warships to pass is wider. Third, the Sunda Strait is directly facing the vast sea area of ​​the Indian Ocean, and can perform large-scale tactical maneuvers after leaving. Fourth, walking through the Sunda Strait, being able to bypass the Andaman-Nicobar Islands, and avoid India's first line of defense in the Andaman Sea.

These favorable conditions will become the key factors for the Chinese fleet to go to the Sunda Strait.

Based on this judgment, Imai Rimura believes that the "Verat" should be deployed to the southwest of Sumatra Island and two small aircraft carriers should be added at the same time. Because the Chinese fleet is unlikely to travel to the Strait of Malacca, only the "Verata" and "Verata" and "Verata" need to be in the Andaman Sea.

This deployment has another advantage, that is, the carrier-based aviation forces of India and Japan operate separately for easy command.

Objectively speaking, there is no problem with the deployment of Imai Ri Village.

Not to mention, the command systems of the Indian Navy and the Japanese Navy cannot be compatible with each other, especially in aviation operations. If joint operations are carried out, there will definitely be a lot of trouble. The reason is very simple. The main carrier-based fighter of the Indian Navy is mig-29m, while the Japanese are f-35c and f-35b. If two command systems are used at the same time in combat, it will definitely have catastrophic consequences and even lead to a crushing defeat.

In addition, the combat radius of mig-29m and lca are relatively short, making it more suitable for combat in the Andaman Sea.

The problem is that the Indian Navy refuses to accept this combat plan.

The reason is simple: the combat effectiveness of the "Vicramadia" and the "Vicrand" is very limited, and the Chinese Navy is likely to choose to go to the Strait of Malacca. After defeating the Indian fleet, it bombed the Andaman Nicobar Islands and destroyed the island's military facilities.

For the Indian Navy, this is an unacceptable result.

More importantly, there is enough intelligence to prove that the Chinese Navy has dispatched a landing fleet, so there is reason to believe that China will attack the Andaman Nicobar Islands, and use this as a springboard to control the entire Bay of Bengal, laying the foundation for defeating the Indian Navy and seizing sea control.

In this way, defending the Andaman Nicobar Islands is more important than defeating the Chinese fleet.

The combat deployment of Imai Taemura is equivalent to giving up the Andaman-Nicobar Islands, and also helping the Chinese fleet create opportunities to defeat them in various ways.

In order to defend the Andaman-Nicobar Islands, the Indian Navy demanded to retreat to advance.

To put it bluntly, the First Fleet and the Second Fleet are active together, with a distance of no more than 100 kilometers, that is, within the cover of long-range air defense missiles, they are centrally deployed in the Bay of Bengal, using the Andaman-Nicobar Islands as the barrier to fight against the Chinese fleet.

Objectively speaking, this tactic is not a big problem.

As long as the Indian-Japanese Combined Fleet is active in the Bay of Bengal, the Chinese Navy will not be able to attack the Andaman-Nicobar Islands. Instead, they have to take risks to find the Indian-Japanese Combined Fleet to fight to seize the sea power and make plans. In this way, the Indian-Japanese Fleet can not only rely on the defense facilities on the Andaman-Nicobar Islands, but also rely on the shore-based aviation force of India, and even if it loses the initiative, it can ensure its undefeated.

The problem is that Imai Tatsumura firmly opposes doing so.

First of all, if you retreat to the Bay of Bengal, you will inevitably lose your initiative. The Chinese fleet will never go to the Strait of Malacca, but will enter the Indian Ocean from the Sunda Strait.

Secondly, even if the Chinese Navy does not attack the Andaman Nicobar Islands immediately, it will not directly hit it, but will try to bypass this line of defense and enter the Bay of Bengal from the south.

Finally, and most importantly, the Chinese fleet can bomb military facilities on the Andaman-Nicobar Islands outside the strike range of the Indian-Japanese Combined Fleet, forcing the Indian-Japanese Combined Fleet to advance, thus entering the trap set by the Chinese fleet, and fighting the Chinese fleet in a very passive way.

Obviously, Imai Tatsumura's analysis also makes sense.

Now, the problem arises.

Who should I listen to?

By the early morning of the 25th, this problem was still not resolved.

Although there are still more than twenty hours before the joint fleet can reach Port Blair, Imai Tsubasa knows very well that the operational deployment must be decided before this.

In the end, Imai Tatsumura had to ask Toshio Nakajima for help.

When the Prime Minister came forward, the conflict not only did not slow down, but became serious.

In fact, when the "Akagi" was unable to participate in the war and Japan still insisted on launching the war as planned, the Indian authorities felt distrust. At that time, the Indian Prime Minister proposed to Toshio Nakajima to cancel the combat plan instead of taking extremely risky military adventures. In order to convince the Indian Prime Minister, Toshio Nakajima had to make a clear guarantee that Japan would bear all the consequences of its defeat.

The problem is, it's just a verbal commitment.

When the Indian Prime Minister asked Toshio Nakajima to sign a written agreement, Toshio Nakajima refused to sign the written agreement on the grounds that he could not obtain support in parliament.

Perhaps the written agreement does not make much sense, but Toshio Nakajima's attitude made the Indian Prime Minister very upset.

Against this backdrop, even many generals of the Indian military believe that launching a war under the instigation of Japan is the stupidest act.

The problem is that India has to compromise.

The reason is very simple. India owes huge extra debts, 80% of which are in Japan, with a total value of about 130 billion US dollars, of which 460 billion US dollars will mature in 2028. India's foreign exchange reserves are less than 300 billion US dollars, and it is impossible to repay the maturing debts.

To put it seriously, as long as Japan is willing, it can suffocate the Indian economy at any time.

The economy is over, and nothing to say is useless.

In the long run, it is not unworthy to take risks in war.

India has compromised, but it does not mean that it is willing to act as Japan's cannon fodder.

According to the agreement reached between the two sides, the generals were responsible for military command and the government did not intervene. At this time, Toshio Nakajima came forward, which obviously exceeded India's bottom line.

It was not until noon on the 25th that the Indian Prime Minister made concessions and put pressure on the military.

This is not an unconditional concession.

To this end, Toshio Nakajima paid a great price: before midnight on the 26th, three major banks in Japan had to deposit US$1,500 billion worth of exchange bills into state-owned banks in India as a war mortgage, which is the promise made by Toshio Nakajima.

Of course, this money does not necessarily belong to India.

As long as the battle is won, India will return these bills of exchange. Only in the event of a defeat, this money will become a state-owned asset of India.

More importantly, only if the remittances arrive in time will the Indian Army launch an attack as planned.

However, according to the request of Toshio Nakajima, after the first $50 billion remittance was received, the Indian Prime Minister would issue an order to the navy, and the fleet would be commanded by Imai Toshimura.

One thousand five hundred billion US dollars is definitely not a small amount.

It is not easy to raise so much money in about ten hours. Shinto Nakajima had to come forward in person to lobby the three major consortiums in China.

The problem is that the consortium will definitely not willingly pay for the government's actions of war.

As a result, in order to obtain funding from the consortium, Toshio Nakajima had to make concessions on some major policies and even promised to allow the consortium to participate in cabinet decision-making.

I'm afraid it's hard to say whether this price is worth it.

On the afternoon of the 25th, Imai Rimura obtained the power to adjust the deployment of the fleet. According to his arrangement, the "Verat" will go to the southern end of the Andaman-Nicobar Islands, waiting to meet with the Joint Fleet. The "Verata" and the "Verata" will go to the north of the Andaman-Nicobar Islands. After the Combined Fleet left Port Blair, they left to the Andaman Sea and acted according to the scheduled plan.

Because the Indian fleet is active in the Bay of Bengal, it will take as soon as possible until around 11 o'clock in the evening before deployment will be in place...
Chapter completed!