In the waters between the Dongsha Islands and the Zhongsha Islands, a huge fleet of four aircraft carriers and several high-speed battleships, a large group of light and heavy cruisers, destroyers and supply ships is heading towards the Philippines.

Their mission is to cover the landing troops to land on the Philippines. Of course, it would be even better if the Japanese joint fleet could be eliminated together.————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————

For China, the Japanese archipelago, Ryukyu, Taiwan and the Philippines formed a pearl chain, locking the national defense and navy tightly in the coastal areas. Although the National Defense Forces just recovered Taiwan not long ago, opening a gap in this pearl chain, this is still not enough for China.

The reason is very simple. Even if Taiwan is captured, China still needs to go through the Philippines if it wants to march south, and if it wants to directly attack Japan, it also needs to go through Ryukyu.

Therefore, this gap that locks China's pearl chains must be expanded a little.

Therefore, within the National Socialist Government, there have been considerable discussions on which direction to place the attack direction for the next stage.

There are two main options for the attack direction, one is Ryukyu and the other is the Philippines.

It should be said that there are not many supporters in both directions, and in general, they are evenly matched.

For many senior executives, it is a good choice to use Ryukyu as their next goal. Because Ryukyu is not only a way to attack Japan, but also can also cause certain obstacles to the connection between Japan and South China and Australia. It is probably impossible to cut it off. After all, the Pacific Ocean is so big. You can go anywhere, at most it is a little farther away.

What's more, Ryukyu is still a former vassal state of China...

The Ryukyu Kingdom is the collective name of the first Shang clan dynasty and the second Shang clan dynasty in Ryukyu history and the common country name, including the three kingdoms of the early Sanshan era, Shannan, Zhongshan and Shanbei.

The ancient Ryukyu Kingdom was geographically located between Taiwan and Kyushu, Japan. It once paid tribute to the Ming and Qing dynasties of China. After being invaded by the Satsuma vassal state, it also paid tribute to the Satsuma vassal state and the Edo shogunate in Japan. The ancient Ryukyu Kingdom was invaded by external forces of the islands many times. Especially after the Satsuma vassal state in 1609, the Satsuma vassal state controlled and interfered with the internal affairs of the Ryukyu Kingdom. Because of its special geographical location, the Ryukyu Kingdom was known for its transit station for trade in Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia. Its trade was developed and known as the "Zipingliang of All Nations".

In 1879, the Ryukyu Kingdom was annexed by Japan and forcibly established as the Okinawa Prefecture of Japan. Although some Ryukyu people supported the annexation at that time, most Ryukyu people were opposed. They negotiated in Japan, the Qing Dynasty and the embassies of the great powers stationed in Japan, hoping to restore the Ryukyu Kingdom through diplomatic means. The Ryukyu people who were exiled to the Qing Dynasty to launch the Ryukyu Kingdom restoration movement were called the Qing people. These people used Fuzhou, Beijing, and Tianjin as their bases and asked the Qing Dynasty to negotiate with Japan on the Ryukyu issue, which was known in history as the Ryukyu case. However, in the end, it was shelved due to the disagreement of views between China and Japan.

In 1945, the Battle of Okinawa broke out. Under fierce attacks by the US military and tenacious resistance of the Japanese army, civilians in Okinawa suffered heavy casualties. According to different estimates, the population decreased by about one-tenth to one-third. Some historians believe that the Japanese army had forced or induced Okinawa civilians to commit suicide collectively, but this statement was denied that it was not included in textbooks, which caused controversy. It was also the reason why some Okinawans resisted Japan.

As China is becoming increasingly powerful, many Chinese people have begun to revive a kind of Celestialist idea, that is, the Chinese supremacy idea, which is undoubtedly quite attractive for these people to rebuild the "tributary system" of the past.

And Ryukyu, like Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and other countries, was undoubtedly a member of this system.

In fact, Yan Guang has always been ignorant of this sentiment in China. The only thing that makes him regret is that by the time he established the National Social Security Government, almost all the people who left the Qing Dynasty had died...

The last leader of the Qing Dynasty in history was Xiang Zhili. Xiang Zhili was named Siguojin, and was originally the fifth son of Xiang Wenhui and the daughter of Xiang Shihu). Later, because Xiang Wenhui's subordinate Shang Qian had no heir, he was ordered to join the heir of Yicun's family and became Shang Qian's heir.

Since Xiang Zhili was born in 1830 and died in 1898, he obviously could not meet Yan Guang, who did not come to this world until 1908, so naturally he did not have the opportunity to be taken advantage of by Yan Guang.

Of course, Yan Guang had thought of choosing some of the existing Ryukyu people, but unfortunately, there were no influential people in Ryukyu at that time who were not influential enough, Yan Guang didn't want those who were not influential enough. After all, Yan Guang still had his own plans and did not want to alert the enemy...

Therefore, this has always been Yan Guang’s regret.

Despite this, when the proposal to attack Ryukyu or attack the Philippines was handed over to Yan Guang, Yan Guang did not choose Ryukyu, but chose the Philippines.

The reason is very simple. He needs to attack Australia as fast as possible, and occupy this vast and sparsely populated continent without the Americans and the British...

If you want to go south, you must first take over the Philippines, which is in the way. Therefore, Yan Guang must not lose time and resources on Ryukyu...

"If Ryukyu, he can fight at any time, and he won't run away anyway, but if Australia, it's really possible..."

Of course, these are all the words Yan Guang said to several senior executives at a secret meeting. After all, the fewer ambitions for Australia are known, the better. If there is any British, American, German and Japanese spy within the senior executive, it would be bad.

Today, China is already a vast country, with a considerable proportion of its population being white, such as the Slavs. After more than 20 years, white people are not uncommon in the National Socialist Government.

Therefore, it wouldn't be a rare thing to sneak in if a spy from Britain and the United States came in.

At least Yan Guang himself knew very well that there were many Soviet spies within the National Socialist Government. After all, the National Socialist Government occupied a place with a considerable number of Slavs in Southern Russia. However, some of these spies cannot be arrested yet, while others do not know who they are. It is quite difficult to deal with.

After all, such things cannot be killed with one blow, otherwise the national and social government's ethnic policy would not be necessary.

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After determining the Philippines as the direction of attack, the National Defense Navy dispatched four large and medium-sized aircraft carriers, the Lingbo, Kunlun, Luofu and Canghai, as well as multiple battleships and groups of cruisers and destroyers, as well as landing ships carrying a large number of landing troops...

It is also a tragedy. Although the subsequent "Fubo" and "Tabo" have started construction after the launch of the "Lingbo" aircraft carrier, it has only entered the outfit stage so far. If you want to serve, you still have to wait for a while. In addition, only the first ship "Kunlun" and the second ship "Luofu" and "Canghai" can be put into combat.

Of course, this does not mean that there are only these four aircraft carriers of the Ocean Fleet. Not to mention those aircraft carriers that were constructed, installed and tested on the ship platform and dock. There were several aircraft carriers used for early experiments or training alone.

However, these aircraft carriers are not as good as the latest "Lingbo" and "Kunlun" in all aspects, especially in terms of speed, which is much different from these two-level aircraft carriers and is not suitable for combat with these two-level aircraft carriers. Therefore, these aircraft carriers can only be left behind at the port in the end. And only these four ships sent out.

However, although there are four ships, the combat effectiveness of these four ships is extremely strong.

For example, the standard displacement of the Kunlun class is 34,000 tons, the full load displacement is 43,000 tons, and the number of carriers is 90. The standard displacement of the Lingbo class is 62,000 tons. The full load displacement is 83,000 tons, and the full load load capacity is 180. The full load capacity is more than 200 units...

In the Japanese joint fleet, there are only two aircraft carriers that can reach the Kunlun-class level, Akagi and Kaga. There is no one that can reach the Lingbo-class level...

Therefore, as the commander of the Ocean Fleet, Chen Shaokuan has considerable confidence.

Because according to the information from the Military Intelligence Bureau, the only aircraft carriers that Japan can use are currently six aircraft carriers, namely "Kaga", "Akagi", "Aolong", "Flying Dragon", "Shorika", and "Ruizu".

The total number of aircraft carriers of the six aircraft carriers is only more than 400, of course, not considered preparatory.

The number of carrier-based aircraft in Chen Shaokuan's fleet has reached more than 400. Moreover, the performance and design of both the Lingbo-class and Kunlun-class aircraft carriers are more perfect than that of Japanese aircraft carriers. Especially in terms of take-off efficiency, the Lingbo-class, which uses an oblique flight deck, is much higher than that of Japanese aircraft carriers.

"But naval battles also depend on luck..."

As he said that, Chen Shaokuan put the book in his hand aside.

"The President proposed that the enemy was discovered first and attacked first is the iron rule in the new naval battle after the launch of aircraft carriers. Therefore, only by discovering one step ahead of the enemy can we truly lay the victory. If the enemy discovers us first, we might fail..."

"yes…"

When Shen Honglie heard Chen Shaokuan say this, he also smiled.

"But luck is also very important in naval battles. After all, in naval battles, a battleship sinks just because one shell hits the vital point. And the hundreds of shells hit are almost dead, but there are countless things that are not sunk..."

When Chen Shaokuan heard Shen Honglie say this, he also smiled.

"Yes, you're right..."

As he said this, Chen Shaokuan looked aside.

"Have you not found the location of the Japanese fleet?"

Chen Shaokuan actually agrees with Shen Honglie's words, after all, the tragedy of the "Houd" just happened last year.

On May 24, 1941, Hood and the Prince of Wales intercepted the German battleship Bismarck and tracked the Bismarck in the Denmark Strait. In the subsequent Battle of the Denmark Strait, after 6 minutes of fire with the German ship, Lieutenant General Holland, the commander of Hood, ordered the ship to turn to carry out all firepower from the side. However, at this time, on the one hand, the German Navy's excellent artillery shooting technology, and on the other hand, it may be possible to

It was the bad luck of the Hood, and the two formed an unfortunate coincidence that the Hood was directly hit by the Bismarck's 380mm main gun shell at a distance of 14,870 yards and was penetrated. This caused the ammunition depot of the "Y" main gun at the stern, and the hull broke and sank rapidly. Including the fleet commander Lieutenant General Lancelot Holland, 1,418 officers and soldiers on the ship were killed, and only 3 were rescued. These three were tedb

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This incident was extremely tragic, but it was not without its predecessors. For example, the Arizona at Pearl Harbor was also caused by 800 kilogram bombs that penetrated the Arizona's front deck, detonated the black powder depot of the seaplane catapult, and then detonated the smokeless powder depot of the main turret, causing 1,177 officers and soldiers to kill the colonel in the explosion. Now the Arizona is still calm in Pearl Harbor.

As an "old" navy born in 1889 and entered the Nanyang Navy School at the age of 17 to study navigation technology, Chen Shaokuan can also be said to be knowledgeable.

Of course, this is not true. However, after the establishment of the National Social Security Government, as a member of the Fujian clan, although the Fujian clan did not dominate the entire navy like the Chinese navy in later generations, Chen Shaokuan was still doing well due to his outstanding personal abilities.

The Hood battlecruiser was the last battlecruiser built by Britain. It is the fourth warship named after "Hood" in the history of the British Royal Navy. It belongs to the Admiral-class battlecruiser. The ship was ordered to be built in 1916 under the War Emergency Response Act.

In 1916, it was precisely during World War I. Since China and Britain were all ally, not long after the Hood was launched and served, Chen Shaokuan had the opportunity to witness the true appearance of the Hood with his own eyes.

The Hood had a standard displacement of 42,100 tons when he was in service. It became the largest warship in the world at that time and was regarded as the pride of the British Royal Navy. During his service, he visited countries around the world many times as a ceremonial ship that demonstrated the prestige of the United Kingdom.

Although the Chinese Navy had already had the "Baxia" battleship and the "Jazi-class" battle cruiser at that time, I still had to say the word "Submit". After all, as a battle cruiser, the Hood had a full load displacement of 45,200, and its displacement was even larger than any battleship at that time.

To Chen Shaokuan at that time, this Hood was simply a giant.

Therefore, when the news of the Hood sinking reached China, and the reason for the sinking was still like this... Chen Shaokuan himself obviously didn't believe it.

So many times, people really don’t believe in fate...

However, compared with Xinming, Chen Shaokuan still believes in intelligence more.

Chen Shaokuan was quite convinced of Yan Guang's proposal to discover the enemy first and attack the enemy first. After all, it is often a good idea to take advantage of the attack. Although he didn't know that this was actually the concept of fighter jets that Yan Guang had heard of in his later generations.

When the enemy discovers first, the first thing to do is to determine where the enemy is.

Chen Shaokuan was not particularly worried about this, because for this battle, the Air Force had specially dispatched several yj40 early warning aircraft to perform early warning missions on behalf of the fleet.

Of course, while performing early warning tasks, they are also responsible for the task of finding enemies.

In fact, this is a very suitable task for early warning aircraft, because the yj40 is equipped with the latest radar, and its search distance for low-altitude aircraft exceeds 100 kilometers, and its search distance for large ships reaches 320 kilometers...

Although this distance is nothing compared to the radars in later generations, it is already quite amazing in this era.

What's more, the Japanese army of this era had just equipped radars and had radars on warships, and that radar often had problems.

The most important thing is that at least radar is much stronger than visual vision.

Moreover, if you look at it, there will be some problems due to the weather. But if you want to see the radar, it will actually be disturbed to a certain extent, but it is always much better than sight.

Chen Shaokuan himself has seen the power of radar and early warning aircraft, so he is not particularly interested in discovering the enemy's problems...

"General, just now, news came from the Air Force that the Japanese fleet had not been discovered yet..."

Just as Chen Shaokuan was thinking about that, an officer came over and said.

"Didn't find it yet..."

Hearing this, Chen Shaokuan frowned.

Now they are not very far from the Philippines island. If they continue to approach, they will undoubtedly enter the strike range of Japanese Army Air Fighters...

Chen Shaokuan is still very confident about his fleet. At least he doesn't think his four aircraft carriers will lose to the six aircraft carriers of the Japanese, but if the Japanese army air force is included...

To fight against a large number with a small number, it is only possible if you are very strong. In terms of carrier-based aircraft, the carrier-based aircraft of the National Defense and Navy are not as different as those of the regional aviation fighter. At least there will be no situation where the ZD20 is suppressing zero battles.

What's more, in the hands of the Japanese, there is a four-style that can support the situation...

Chen Shaokuan asked himself that the performance of the navy's carrier-based aircraft was definitely better than that of the Japanese Zero War, but if the Japanese Style Four were involved, he might also need the help of the Air Force.

The relationship between the Air Force and the Navy is obviously worse than that of the Army...

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