Scheer's capital ships left Southeast Asia, and there was a cover for the Northwest Fleet, which should not be known to the British in a short time, because for a long time to come, the Northwest warships would not be dispatched, at least, until Scheer's fleet crossed the Cape of Good Hope, it would not launch an attack on the Philippines.

Asia, which had been in turmoil for a whole year, seemed to have fallen into calm at this moment, and the Russian **** wound in the Far East in the north, the final blow of their attack on Chita, under the strong defense of Chita and the strength of the armored division, was wiped out. In the cold Siberia, the possibility of war breaking out is almost zero, and even China cannot fight Russia in a temperature of minus 40 degrees, let alone Russia.

Southern Lanfang, taking advantage of the fact that the reinforcements of the East China Sea Fleet did not arrive, began the last period of rectification before the war, and even the Indochina Peninsula, which has been gunfired, has also fallen into calm, and is desperately loyal to the French, after all, it is a minority of the minority, and in a few months, it has almost been cleared, Lanfang continued the tradition of the Chinese, and with the direct help of China, it has carried out a replacement, replacing the original Indochina Peninsula people with domestic Chinese, they can get education and learn skills, Even if they live a better life in China, they can't stay in Indochina.

No matter how good the policy is, no matter how powerful the integration, when the tide of national liberation emerges a few decades later, fluctuations will inevitably occur, unless it is like the United States, which kills almost all the Indians. That was madness, in the relatively enlightened times of the 20th century. It's impossible to do.

Fortunately, China is a vast country. The population is large, and the Indochina Peninsula is full of no more than 17 million people, and when these people are scattered among the 450 million people in China through various means, it is really inconspicuous.

Similar practices of mixing sand and diluting the local population have been experienced silently for the natives of Indochina. Not as cruel as the use of the natives of Indonesia, first, this is the sphere of influence of China itself, many countries in the Indochina Peninsula, many are vassal states of China, that is, when the Qing Dynasty was separated from Germany, many countries have a strong tradition of Confucianism and Chinese, which is different from the Indonesian natives, is worth using.

In a word. Enwei and giving, one hand turnip, one hand stick, disobedient and obedient. Deal with them separately, but there must be a scale in your heart, China's expansion steps. Since the outbreak of the European war, the pace has accelerated. In particular, Southeast Asia is under the control of Lanfang, and it is very difficult for countries to obtain news about the hinterland of Southeast Asia. I did some of the work and let go of it a little.

The Indian Ocean is choppy, especially when crossing the equator, the currents and winds make the waves at least 2 meters high, and they are replaced by fishing boats, even if they are about 300 tons of sailboats, they will not be close to here during this time period, but for 50,000 tons, it condenses the essence of German warships, plus the achievements of the Northwest in materials and fluid mechanics, not to mention 2 meters of waves, even if it is a little higher, the bow of the flying scissors directly breaks the waves, providing enough buoyancy for the ship, and the 50,000-ton giant ship travels through the waves, Soon crossed the equator.

In the accurate chart, with the help of advanced equipment, Schell quickly determined his position, although slightly deviated to the south by 0.5 degrees, still within the bearable range, at most 3 days, they will reach the Cape of Good Hope, after passing, as long as they are careful not to be discovered by the British and French ships, they can reach Europe smoothly.

Scheer's capital ship was still in the southern part of the Indian Ocean, and when he was fighting against the huge waves, Lan Fang's side was also making final preparations before attacking the Philippines. Next to Jakarta, in the newly built huge military camp, the troops used to attack the Philippines themselves have almost three divisions and 75,000 people, but after the withdrawal of Scheer's capital ship, the continuous concentration of personnel, now more than 200,000 troops, is gradually assembling and reorganizing, compared to the general Indochina Campaign, the Philippine Campaign, from the very beginning, has been quite important, and Lan Fang will hold a certain number of casualties.

The Philippines must take it, as long as it takes the Philippines, the entire South China Sea and the Strait of Malacca will be connected, and even the islands of Indonesia and the coast of the Philippines will become a solid inner circle, which is conducive to the layout of the defense line.

This is not the era of aircraft carriers in World War II, the tactics of island hopping can basically not be implemented, and the strategy of the entire Southeast Asia, if it is to be completely removed, must be one after another, with the strength of the Chinese army, as long as there is a strong enough defense, no one can open the defense line of the island. In this way, China, which is located in the landlock, will be completely safe and able to attack him by either attacking from the Indian side, across the Himalayas, the highest and largest mountain range in the world, but also through the world's largest roof of the world, the Tibetan Plateau, which is a difficult task for the 21st century, or from the north.

However, if the northwest defeats Japan and includes Siberia, the core area will have enough strategic depth that it is impossible to conquer it, which is very important for the strategic security of China's core area, and the Philippines must be conquered no matter what.

The 200,000 troops were not delivered to the island at the first time, which took time, and when everything was almost ready, reinforcements from the East China Sea Fleet were also sent to Jakarta.

On November 27, the 18th day after Scheer's fleet left Southeast Asia, according to the radio contact two days earlier, Scheer's capital ship had successfully broken through the Cape of Good Hope, choosing a shipping route not close to the land, and even the farthest time, dozens of nautical miles from the Cape of Good Hope, without encountering any ships, just crossed the Cape of Good Hope, and then went deep into the depths of the Atlantic, which would have made a detour of about 1,200 to 1,500 nautical miles, but it was safe.

On this day, 8 cutting-edge heavy cruisers and shallow water heavy gunboats arrived in Jakarta, the new heavy cruiser speed is definitely more than 27 knots, it is a veritable fast cruiser, but only 17 knots of shallow water heavy gunboats will not work, the maximum speed of 17 knots, in the high sea conditions and wind and waves, it is necessary to choose a place to shelter from the wind, which greatly delays the time, even if between Shanghai and Jakarta, the distance is not very far, and it is almost 30 days or so.

Xiao Jianfeng, as the commander-in-chief of the sea attacking the Philippines, arrived at the port at the first time, he has always been very curious about the so-called shallow water heavy gunboats, as far as he is concerned, he does not think that there are only more than 5,000 tons of warships on this report, which can make up for the gap brought by the capital ships.

First of all, entering the port is a cutting-edge warship, named the city-level heavy cruise, using the name of China's provincial capital city, aside from Nanjing, Beijing, Baotou such a former core city, in turn is Shenyang, Kaifeng, Jinan, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Xi'an, Taiyuan and Kulun, this is the first batch of named cities, the future of this level of heavy patrol construction of a total of 46 ships, maybe the provincial capital city is not enough, but also with the center of the world to make up.

This heavy patrol main gun is quite fierce, 3 twin 254 mm cutting-edge naval guns, the design itself is four 220, when determining the aircraft carrier as the core, the heavy patrol plays more of a role in protecting the aircraft carrier, there is a separate air defense cruiser, on this level, the design institute after careful consideration, chose to strengthen the artillery, with 3 twin 254 mm cutting-edge batteries, instead of 4 220 mm twin batteries, the weight is almost the same, the layout is more compact, the firepower of the heavy patrol is strong enough, The protection is also quite in place.

The 254 mm gun, which was just developed in September 1914, looks much lower than the 14-inch gun of the capital ship, but in fact, Xiao Jianfeng has long heard of this new type of artillery, not only the attack distance is long, the power is large, and if a special armor-piercing bullet is used, it can reach 13.5, or even 14-inch guns.

After asking the captain, I learned that the firing range of this gun was only 10% less than that of the 15-inch gun, and even above the 13.5-inch gun of the 1912 version, which was quite amazing in the combination of large-caliber guns, higher muzzle velocity, and better shells. The only drawback is probably the rate of fire, the 220 mm twin gun, has solved the problem of rapid fire, the rate of fire can get up to 6 rounds a minute, and this, for the time being, there is no way to try rapid fire, it is the mainstream 4 rounds in 1 minute. In the case of reducing the rate of fire, the 254 mm gun, under the premise of having sufficient muzzle velocity, has excellent armor-piercing performance, and can easily penetrate the 15-inch northwest cutting-edge armor, in addition to the main protective belt of the Fantasy class and Orion, the cutting-edge dreadnoughts of other countries, and even the Orion, are somewhat irresistible, and the attack performance is already extremely impressive.

For the cutting-edge heavy cruise, Xiao Jianfeng is aware of it, what surprised Xiao Jianfeng even more, or the shallow water heavy gunboat, when he heard the name, Xiao Jianfeng just thought that this could be a small boat, a small boat pulling a cannon, the same as the Japanese, but when he really saw the real thing, he was startled, a 5000-ton battleship, but with 2 twin 14-inch guns, such artillery power, can no longer be called a strong or not powerful problem, it is simply a perversion, tested the performance of the 14-inch gun, good performance, a new generation of 14 inches, more than 15 inches, just a little weaker, but a 5000-ton ship, there are too many places to go, it is really a genius idea, equivalent to the capital ship used as a ground attack, this is better, saves a lot of resources, to start a 30,000-ton, or even 50,000-ton battleship, it takes too many power personnel, but it is a shallow water heavy gunboat, which is completely consumed by the light cruiser class, for close ground shelling, Simply the best weapon.

A weapon can only play an excellent role if it is used in the right environment, and the same is true for shallow water heavy gunboats, everything is ready, and it is only a battle with the other side. (To be continued.) )

PS: The first chapter is delivered, and the second chapter is around half past nine!