Chapter 434 Where is the main force of Yingyi? Isn’t this a multiple-choice question? (Please subscribe, please vote)

Pearl Harbor.

"The military gate has received a telegram from the General Staff of Beijing. The General Staff believes that the purpose of the British concentration of its main naval force is to attack one of our three fleets!"

"Yeah!" Zhuge Weidao, who was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass window in the command center of the Pacific Fleet Admiral's Office and looking at the scenery, responded and immediately turned around and walked to the chart.

The chart is also a bunch of arrows, lines, circles and numbers that are dizzying to look at.

The numbers represent the fleet number. The Pacific Fleet is the head of the three major fleets, and its representative number is "1". The representative number of the First Air Force of the Pacific Fleet is "1" followed by "01", which is "101".

The representative number of the Pacific Fleet's second fleet is of course "102", the third fleet is "103", and so on.

The "1" plate is still posted at Pearl Harbor, which means that the main force of the Pacific Fleet is still in Pearl Harbor - well, there is not much of this main force, it just covers dozens of square kilometers!

The "101" sign has moved to the Maluku Strait, which is a bit far from Pearl Harbor. In addition, there are two numbers "103" and "104" on the chart starting with "1". Among them, "103" is placed

Truk Lagoon, the "103" represents the 3rd Drive Patrol Group of the Pacific Fleet. As the name suggests, this 3rd Drive Patrol Group is a battle group composed of cruisers and destroyers. The admiral of the battle group is Guo Xiaobao, the former chief staff officer of the Pacific Fleet.

Zhuge Weidao sent Guo Xiaobao to lead the 3rd driving patrol to Truk Lagoon for the purpose of escort, warning and reconnaissance. Although Zhuge Weidao had planned to take Australia directly, the point of Truk Lagoon still had to be defended——

It is only a thousand and a few hundred kilometers away from the New Guinea Islands and the Solomon Islands, the forefront of the British defense line. It is the outpost of the Pacific Fleet monitoring the New Guinea Islands and the Solomon Islands.

The reconnaissance airship deployed in Truk Lagoon can fly directly to the New Guinea Islands and Solomon Islands for reconnaissance, and the "Kongming" class large light cruiser equipped with Yunlong 1 water reconnaissance aircraft can use Truk Lagoon as a base in two days.

In time, we can drive to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands for reconnaissance.

In this way, the New Guinea Islands and the Solomon Islands due north are under the alert of the 3rd Driving Patrol Group.

In addition to the 4th Kongming-class 3rd drive patrol force, Zhuge Weidao also dispatched the 4th submarine force code-named "104", which was directly stationed in the Marshall Islands and used the Kwajalein Atoll as the base of the submarine mothership.

A submarine cordon was set up along the Marshall Islands line, which is northeast of the Solomon Islands. Dozens of ocean-going submarines cooperated with the airships deployed in the Kwajalein Atoll to watch the large area of ​​​​sea between the Solomon Islands and the Hawaiian Islands.

Behind the cordon formed by the 3rd Drive Patrol Team and the 4th Submarine Squadron, there is a second cordon drawn by dozens of camouflaged reconnaissance ships. Airships taking off from Pearl Harbor are also constantly flying over the second cordon.

patrol.

After the second cordon, there is the core cordon of Pearl Harbor - with Pearl Harbor as the core, the surrounding 100 kilometers of sea and airspace are all occupied by aircraft, airships and military personnel belonging to the Pearl Harbor Garrison Division.

Under the watchful eye of torpedo boats, gunboats, and camouflaged reconnaissance ships!

However, the three warning lines (circles) on this picture look quite tight, but because the sea area that needs to be controlled is too large, and the detection methods are too backward - basically relying on looking! So the first and second warning lines

The loopholes are very large. Only the core warning circle of Pearl Harbor is relatively tight because the sea area that needs to be controlled is limited.

Fortunately, the British aircraft are not very powerful nowadays. It is impossible for the Japanese to take off carrier-based aircraft to bomb hundreds of kilometers away from Pearl Harbor like the Japanese during World War II. So if they really want to attack Pearl Harbor

, it is not enough to rely on 6 aircraft carriers and a few escort ships, it must bring a large fleet of "more than ten or even dozens of square kilometers".

As a result, the momentum will be huge, and it will be very difficult to pass through the two cordons of the Pacific Fleet.

However, the main force of the Pacific Fleet cannot lie down at Pearl Harbor and wait for the British fleet to arrive on its own - how can a fleet of dozens of square kilometers lie down at Pearl Harbor?

What if the British don't come?

What if after they come, they see that they can't be beaten and then run away?

If the main fleet of the British Royal Navy shrinks into Port Moresby, it will be difficult to implement Zhuge Weidao's battle plan to attack Australia.

Therefore, Zhuge Weidao folded his arms and was about to meditate when the Chief of Staff of the Pacific Fleet Wang Wen came over to speak: "Military gate, the General Staff has suggested that the Western Fleet attack Ceylon and the Nanyang Fleet attack Java. It is also suggested that we take the initiative to attack.

But it’s up to us to decide where to attack, and of course we don’t need to dispatch any troops. The telegram from the General Staff said that everything is decided by you, the military officer.”

The "suggestions" of the General Staff of the Ming Dynasty are usually orders!

Because the tradition of military command in the New Ming Dynasty is that frontline commanders have the power to act expediently and make decisions on the fly - in the era of King Zhuge Wu Zhong, this was a must! Otherwise, the central military orders were used to command armies hundreds or thousands of miles away.

Isn’t it the Song Dynasty?

But now times have changed. With telephones and telegraphs, the General Staff can also fully control the situation not to mention hundreds or thousands of miles away.

However, the General Staff still has to follow the tradition left by King Zhuge Wuzhong, so it still needs to respect the decision-making power of the frontline commander. Therefore, the orders issued by the General Staff will be in the name of "suggestions" rather than orders. In theory, the former enemy

The commander-in-chief is the one who makes the final decision in military matters.

Of course, the frontline coach can still exercise "theoretical" power, but there are consequences. However, the telegram sent by the General Staff to Zhuge Weidao emphasized that "he will make the final decision in everything," which means that the decision-making power has been truly delegated.

Zhuge Weidao did not make an immediate decision, but folded his arms and stared at the sea map, seeming to have fallen into the deepest thinking - this was Zhuge's military advisor's thinking!

Everyone in the command center fell silent, put down their work, and stared at Zhuge Weidao intently.

Zhuge Weidao just said nothing, and I don't know how long it took before I heard him chuckle and say: "Isn't this just a multiple-choice question? I know how to answer questions best! The British will concentrate their main force, and it will be inevitable

They want to defeat them one by one. If their target is not the Western Fleet or the Nanyang Fleet, it must be us!"

This is a multiple choice question!

It is a question of choosing A, choosing B, or choosing C. If A and B can be eliminated, choosing C is definitely correct. This kind of multiple-choice question is especially suitable for Zhuge Weidao, a professional who "made questions" and "proposed questions" in his previous life.

It's not difficult at all.

"Junmen," Wang Wen was also good at answering questions, but obviously not as good as Zhuge Weidao, so he frowned and asked, "Then how do we know who the British will choose?"

Zhuge Weidao smiled and said: "I don't know now, but there will be results soon."

"But before the results come out, how should we plan?" Wang Wen asked.

"Our main force will go out and take a look!" Zhuge Weidao said with a smile, "At the same time, let the first naval battle go south and cooperate with the Nanyang Fleet to bomb Java."
Chapter completed!