Chapter 241 Decisive Battle Overseas

Ma Chaoyun, Yan Lisan and Huang Xing were also in the office to discuss the current situation. In recent days, the meetings of major national institutions have been held continuously, and the few people also came together to discuss the situation when they had time and issued combat orders in a timely manner.

"President, you never seem to have advocated war with the Japanese army on land. Do you have too much hope for our navy? If the navy fails, our morale will be greatly affected. If the land military operation is launched at that time, it may be detrimental to our army, right?" Huang Xing was a little worried about Li Tiancheng's plan.

Since the war started, Li Tiancheng ordered the army to hold on, but ordered the navy to take the initiative and actively seek the enemy to fight, which made some people in the army not understand his approach. Many people advocated advancing in unison and launched an annihilation war against the main force of the Japanese army on land, but they were blocked by Li Tiancheng and returned.

"The reason I didn't choose to start a war in Shandong is because I don't want this large-scale war to start a big fight in China. The losses caused by civilians and civilians will fall on the heads of our people. If there is no need, we will try not to go to war with the Japanese army." Li Tiancheng still insisted on his own proposition, and the army did not move and did not take the initiative to attack.

"If we don't actively attack, how can we drive the Japanese out of China?" Huang Xing frowned and asked in confusion.

"This is also the issue I need to consider. My preliminary plan is to obtain sea control power. Once we have sea control power, we can control important sea areas such as the Taiwan Strait and the Tsuma Strait, and cut off the ties between Japan and North Korea and the Japanese army in North China. If the Japanese army's troops in North China cannot get supplies, they will definitely not be able to support it for long. After a long time, the morale of the army will be completely transformed and will be destroyed." Li Tiancheng analyzed.

"I understand what the president means, but it is probably not easy for our army to eliminate hundreds of warships from the Japanese Navy. Besides, they also have Russians and fleets of Britain and France. Once the maritime war fails, the plan will be ruined." Huang Xing said worriedly again.

"So how to annihilate the main force of the Japanese fleet is a matter that our army must consider carefully in the next step. As long as our tactics are used properly, our army will still be sure to win. After all, our technological advantages are obvious, and the Japanese army can only rely on numerical advantages to fight us. As long as our army adopts flexible and maneuverable tactics, avoid the enemy's large-scale wolf pack tactics, and eliminate the enemy's ships in batches, our army will gradually gain the initiative to win the entire naval battle." Li Tiancheng continued to analyze.

"I also agree with the president's meaning. Now some of our maritime trade is temporarily interrupted. From Europe to Africa, the Indian Ocean, and Malacca are full of British and French fleets. Our merchant ships are under great threat. For a time, in addition to the United States, Germany, and the Americas, they also maintained foreign trade exchanges through the Pacific Ocean. The trade of other major European import and export countries has been almost interrupted. This will be a big blow to our financial resources." Ma Chaoyun continued.

"If we launch large-scale battles in both sea and land, our financial resources will be consumed too quickly. If the Americans finally join the ranks of encircling China, then our overseas trade can be said to be completely interrupted, industrial production will be greatly hit, and fiscal revenue will naturally grow weakly. Over time, it will be more difficult to persist. Therefore, striving to obtain sea control rights in a short period of time is crucial to our country, so that we can at least obtain sea outlets in the Pacific. In the medium term, we can go south to compete for the maritime control of the Strait of Malacca and the Indian Ocean, so that trade between my country and Europe, the Middle East and other regions will be restored." Ma Chaoyun paused slightly and continued.

"Brother Ma's analysis is correct. Our fiscal expenditure will increase greatly during wartime. In recent years, the expansion plan of our navy's aircraft carriers will require a lot of money. The military pay and weapons and ammunition procurement expenses during wartime will increase several times that of daily life. We can currently try to control the scale of the war to the sea as much as possible. A comprehensive land war will greatly affect the domestic economy and people's livelihood. Over time, the food supply of ordinary people may become a problem, and chaos will arise in the country." Li Tiancheng continued to analyze.

Li Tiancheng, who knew the history of World War I and World War II, of course, knew that during the war, the economic conditions of a country would be greatly affected. Many countries would implement commodity rationing system, limited distribution of food, and receive food and clothing with tickets, etc. The majority of domestic resources will be used for military production, and the production of civilian factories will be greatly restricted.

For example, in order to save rubber, the Germans produced car tires in order to save rubber, and in order to save oil, domestic factories were ordered not to produce rubber shoes and other products. In order to save oil, they ordered all German private cars to be allowed to go on the road, and factories were not allowed to produce private cars. In addition, Germany's grain was rationed. In the later stage, there were even government orders that potatoes had to be eaten with skin to save food. It can be seen that the national economy was greatly affected during the war.

After learning about these historical situations, Li Tiancheng did not want to drag China into a full-scale war, which would cause great obstacles to domestic industrial production, people's livelihood improvement, and social development.

Li Tiancheng had a plan to fight abroad in his mind, trying to win the war at sea and then lead the war to other countries' territory, rather than letting China's territory rumbling, living beings suffer, and industry, agriculture and people's property be damaged.

At this time, the war had little impact on the domestic economy in the early stages of the war. Unemployed workers caused by the war gradually moved to military factories, and industrial production had little impact, and there was a tendency to gradually expand.

The decisive battle against overseas strategies forced Li Tiancheng to increase the construction of the naval aircraft carrier fleet in recent years. Therefore, after owning two aircraft carriers, he is still stepping up the construction of aircraft carriers. According to the original plan, the Navy will add two other aircraft carriers, and the navy's strength will be greatly enhanced by then. By 1917, the naval aircraft carriers will reach six. Of course, this is a plan that was successfully implemented under the victory of the war and the sea border was preserved.

In order to the needs of the war, Li Tiancheng had specially ordered the two aircraft carriers that were originally scheduled to enter service in 1916 to speed up construction and strive to be put into service in 1915. The construction cycle of aircraft carriers was shortened to only one year, and the time was very tight. They could only rely on increasing the number of workers and rushing day and night to speed up production. The production speed in wartime was naturally several times faster than usual.

If this naval battle fails and the seas of China are blocked by a large-scale blockade by the enemy country, they will send warships to attack our army's ship manufacturing base. At that time, they can only rely on the air force's fighter jets to protect the coastal territory and territorial waters, and rely on the forces of the army and the air force to fight on land with the Allies. However, the local people in China will suffer, and the damage will be the houses, factories and other property in China. The plan to fight abroad will be completely ruined.

"I believe that as long as the tactics are used properly and cooperate with the 300 aircraft that the Air Force now has, the probability of us defeating the enemy's huge fleet is still very high." Li Tiancheng continued.

"Yes, in the early stages of the war, we still have to rely on the naval aircraft carrier fleet. If the navy really fails unfortunately, then we will prepare to engage in a long-term large-scale war with the enemy on land. However, casualties of the people are inevitable. The war will ignite everywhere in the country, and the Chinese people will eventually be injured." Yan Li nodded and said.

"Next, we will send additional reconnaissance aircraft to closely monitor the movements of the Japanese fleet, and also prevent the Russian Pacific Fleet and the British and French fleets from Southeast Asia from coming to attack." Li Tiancheng said again.

All parties are stepping up their combat preparations. In the Japanese side, the Japanese military headquarters took into account the needs of the war and officially prepared to issue a request to Yuan Shikai to join the Allies to join the war. Yuan Shikai had never been willing to get involved in this dispute and be his own emperor of the Chinese Empire. At this time, Japan felt that its army in North China was under tremendous pressure from the Chinese and German troops, and that Yuan Shikai must act as a pawn to entangle with the Chinese and restrain part of the troops of the Zhenguo Army. Then they could rely on the 150,000 troops in China to concentrate their efforts to launch an attack south.

Japan's plan is to send more than 500,000 troops to North China one after another, and if needed, it can even reach one million, some of which will be recruited from the Korean colonies.

The Japanese knew that the combat effectiveness of the Zhenguo Army was no longer comparable to that of the Qing soldiers of the Qing Dynasty. The combat effectiveness of the Zhenguo Army was not only not lower than that of the Japanese army, but also above the Japanese army, coupled with the endless new weapons of the Zhenguo Army, the Japanese military and political circles believed that to quickly resolve the battle of the Chinese country, one must have more than 500,000 combat troops, and the other must work with Britain and France to let the British and French colonies go north in Vietnam and Myanmar colonies and attack the Zhenguo Army on both sides, so that they can have a certainty of victory.

The Japanese even asked the British to send Indian troops to participate in the battle. Although Britain and France verbally agreed to Japan's suggestion, neither country took action because they knew that the second and third-rate troops in the colonial areas could not fight against the Zhenguo army. They had to wait until the Japanese launched the attack first and the Zhenguo army could not take into account the southern line, so they would go north to cooperate with the Japanese in combat, and naturally they would get a share of the pie.

Japan's land offensive plan has been formulated, but the Japanese military headquarters actually has a plan similar to Li Tiancheng, which is to fight decisively at sea first and eliminate all the main forces of the Zhenguo Army's navy. Then the Marines can land from Guangzhou, Ningbo and other places, and the land battle will be smoother. Therefore, Japan is only planning to launch a local attack in Shandong for the time being. After the navy occupys China's southern coastal ports, it will advance together and attack north and south...
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