readx; In the conference room of the Pearl River, Admiral Zhao Zhike and a group of generals gathered around to discuss the battle ahead, and the telegraph in the command room was constantly sounding, constantly transmitting the battle reports from the front, and at the same time constantly issuing combat orders. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Since the headquarters of the Front Army was temporarily located on the Pearl River, the presence of many headquarters personnel made the Pearl River extremely crowded.

As the third ship of the Yangtze River class large cruiser and the last large main gunboat built by China, the Pearl River was not considered to serve as a command ship at the beginning of its design, but later considering that several battleships of the Navy were old, and the communication facilities and interior could not meet the command needs of large-scale battles, the three large cruisers of the Yangtze River class were slightly modified during the construction process, and various communication equipment required by the large headquarters was increased. As a result, the three Yangtze River-class cruisers have become the most professional command ships in the Chinese Navy, which is enough to undertake the command needs of large-scale battles.

Under such circumstances, Admiral Zhao Zhike also set up the temporary headquarters of the Ryukyu Front on the Pearl River, but Rao has been professionally refitted, but the entry of a large number of headquarters personnel still makes the Pearl River look extremely crowded.

"Now the 3rd Marine Division has occupied the beachhead and is extending to the depth, and the engineers have also set up the most basic temporary wharf!" The chief of staff of the front army said to Zhao Zhike.

"However, the 3rd Marine Division encountered stubborn resistance from the Yue Army during the attack, and the casualties were not small!"

Zhao Zhike frowned and said: "Order the Third Marine Division, let them not worry, and fight leisurely!" ”

Zhao Zhike didn't want the troops in front to fight too quickly and cause too many casualties, because he had already received guidance from Shen Gang and other bigwigs before he came, although this battle was the most priority battle, but there was no need to fight too quickly, and there was no need to buy time and cause a large number of casualties.

Although the National Military Commission took the attack on the Ryukyus as the goal of the first stage, to a certain extent, the Ryukyus did not need to be taken in such a hurry, because whether or not the Ryukyus were taken would not have much impact on the attack on the mainland, and the navy also wanted to use the Ryukyu Campaign to lure out the remnants of the main force of the navy, and to completely destroy the remnants of the navy in a decisive battle at sea, so as to create favorable conditions for the landing on the mainland.

For the war between China and China, the importance of the Ryukyus is actually not high, far less important than in the history of the war between the United States and the United States, because China does not need to take the Ryukyus as an advance base for attacking the mainland, attacking the Ryukyus just wants to encircle the point and send reinforcements to attract the main force of the navy to attack, and in fact this tactic has been successful before, when China was preparing to attack the Ryukyus, it was said that "in order to increase the defense of the Ryukyus, the naval escort transport formation was dispatched, So much so that it was intercepted by the Second Mobile Fleet of the Chinese Navy in the waters of the Amami Islands, thus breaking out a naval battle between the United States and the United States.

In terms of the strategy of encircling the point and sending reinforcements, it was actually a success, and the next attack on the Ryukyus was naturally not in a hurry.

Anyway, the navy has blocked the maritime connection between the Ryukyus and the mainland, and the 30,000 or 40,000 defenders on the Ryukyus have become lone troops, and it is estimated that these troops are starving to death for a few months, so Zhao Zhike's plan is to go all out as long as he lands at the beginning, as long as he lands up, it will slowly grind, and constantly consume the troops and materials of the army, and when his own troops and materials are almost consumed, then it is the time to launch a decisive battle, now, don't worry!

Compared with the Ryukyu Campaign, the battle on the Malaysian side was quite urgent, because Malaysia's Singapore held the Strait of Malacca, and since China declared war on Ben, China's power in the Indian Ocean has been divided, so China is currently in urgent need of taking Malaysia to open the Strait of Malacca, so as to restore the maritime connection between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea.

In addition to the goal of opening up the Strait of Malacca, what is actually more important is that China must take Malaysia and the Philippines before Britain and the United States can react, so as to lead to the implementation of the actual occupation, because only after taking the Philippines and Singapore can China's absolute defense circle be pushed outward, so that it can use the Ryukyus, Taiwan, and the Philippines to form a defensive line.

This is somewhat similar to the first island chain that ordinary people in later generations said, but the first island chain in later generations was used by the United States to blockade China, and the current first island chain is to consolidate the absolute defense circle of the mainland.

Therefore, although Malaysia is a British colony and the Philippines is a colony of the United States, Chen Jingyun is determined to take it.

And if you want to take these areas, you have to take them from the hands of the people who say, and take them before Britain and the United States react.

Now the power of Britain and the United States in the Pacific is still contained in Australia, more than two million people on Australia said, "This army is fighting with Britain and the United States, in addition to the big battlefield of Australia, the two sides on the island of New Guinea are also engaged in a brutal offensive and defensive war, as long as these two directions are not taken by Britain and the United States, then there is no talk of counterattacking the Philippines or Malaysia."

However, Chen Jingyun naturally can't expect to say, 'The mainland has been landed by China, and they are still fighting to the death in Australia and New Guinea with Britain and the United States, and the Chinese army in these directions is very likely to surrender to Britain and the United States or other variables, and Chen Jingyun just wants to quickly take Malaysia and the Philippines before these variables happen.

Therefore, it is more important to attack Malaysia and the Philippines than to capture the Ryukyus or attack the mainland, as can be seen from the fact that a large number of troops were mobilized from the South Pacific Theater to participate in the attack on Malaysia.

On the first day after the declaration of war, the First Army, which was responsible for operations in the direction of Malaysia, quickly moved south from Thailand, and its subordinate units continued to move rapidly south along the Malaysian peninsula.

After a short tentative attack, the First Army launched a rapid large-scale attack on Singapore, and the first round of attack was carried out by the veteran 12th Army, which was subordinate to the 25th, 43rd, and 44th Divisions. These divisions are China's main forces in the south, before the outbreak of World War II was a standing division, after the outbreak of World War II to further strengthen the armament, and then in the Southeast Asian War in the first batch of Vietnam, and then all the way south to Thailand, after which the 12th Army is also stationed in Thailand, as an important military threat force of China on the Indochina Peninsula.

After declaring war on the Twelfth Army, the three divisions of the Twelfth Army quickly moved south from Thailand as soon as they received the order, and arrived in Singapore after successively defeating a number of small units of the Yue Army.

However, the First Army obviously would not wait for all the follow-up troops to arrive before launching an attack on Singapore, so the Twelfth Army immediately launched an attack on Singapore after Duan Cho's tentative attack and rested for three days.

In order to blockade Singapore and at the same time provide strong support to the army units, the navy dispatched the First Mobile Fleet to the south to provide support, and its First Mobile Fleet has five aircraft carriers and many cruisers and destroyers, which is an important mobile force of the Chinese Navy in the South China Sea.

At present, the Chinese Navy has organized a large number of aircraft carriers into four mobile fleets, namely the first mobile fleet, the second mobile fleet, the third mobile fleet, and the fifth mobile fleet. These mobile fleets are large aircraft carrier battle groups formed by multiple aircraft carriers, although they will continue to draw troops with the continuous changes in the war situation, but on the whole, these four mobile fleets represent the essence of the Chinese Navy.

The First Mobile Fleet, which was originally responsible for the East China Sea, was later dropped into the South China Sea, and now has five aircraft carriers. The Second Mobile Fleet is responsible for the extensive Pacific waters east of Taiwan, south of Taiwan, and north of the Philippines. The Third Mobile Fleet is the main force on the Indian Ocean, but the Third Mobile Fleet is much smaller, with only one aircraft carrier and two converted aircraft carriers of only 25 knots. The Fifth Mobile Fleet has five aircraft carriers under its jurisdiction, which is mainly responsible for the East China Sea, supporting the Ryukyu Campaign, blockading the waters southwest of China and early warning air defense at sea, so as to prevent bombers from taking off and bombing the Chinese mainland.

Among them, there is one missing the Fourth Mobile Fleet, because the Fourth Mobile Fleet at the beginning was not an aircraft carrier battle group, but a battleship force, but after the war, the four battleships under its jurisdiction were all transferred to the Second Mobile Fleet for aircraft carrier escort, so it existed in name only, and it was temporarily vacant.

After the arrival of the 1st Mobile Fleet, it engaged in a skirmish with Singapore's navy, but he himself knew that his navy was weak, so he adopted the tactic of avoiding the war, and did not go to sea to fight the Chinese navy, but tried to use these surviving warships to provide fire support for the ground forces.

At the foot of a hill outside Singapore, a young armored soldier leans against a T16 light tank smoking a cigarette, and around him there are other tanks, T16 and T14, which are the most common tanks in southern China.

Since 1940, when it was found that the T10 tank was overwhelmed and even the actual combat effect was inferior to the T8 light tank, the army was quickly developing a new generation of southern tanks, that is, the T16. When this tank was first developed, it attached great importance to the mobile surname, so that after the successful development, due to the superiority of the mobile surname, it not only became the main tank of the southern army, but also was adopted by the northern army as a light tank.

Therefore, this T16 is in service with both the southern and northern forces, in the south it is the main tank, and in the north it is used as a light tank with T15, T18 and other main battle tanks.

In addition to the T16, the T14 tank is also widely used in the Chinese Army, although the T8 tank has always been China's main light tank, and in 1940 it replaced the T10 tank as the main force in Southeast Asia. However, the T8 tank is a product of the thirties, and the army has developed a replacement model for the T8 tank, which is the T14 tank.

Both weigh almost eight tons, but the T14 tank is superior in firepower and protection, as well as maneuverability. This light tank, which is only eight tons, is used as a reconnaissance force, which is widely used in the southern and northern forces, and is mainly used as a reconnaissance force.

The 43rd Division, as the main division in the Southern Army, naturally equipped with the most advanced tank battalions, replaced the original T10 and T8 tanks with the second-line troops.

After the armored soldier finished smoking, he threw the cigarette butt at his feet, then stepped on it hard, walked two steps, and said to a sergeant: "Boss Li, when are we leaving?" ”