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Therefore, after receiving the news of the fall of Singapore, Admiral Cunningham gave the order of "all attack" without any hesitation!In order to defend Australia, he must destroy Truk Atoll, the stronghold of the Japanese navy going south, before the Chinese complete their rest and launch a new attack.

However, this battle is not completely unsure. Due to the "British-Japanese cooperation" in the past few years, the UK has a lot of knowledge about the development of the Japanese army, navy and aviation, and knows that they are not capable of fighting at night due to equipment and training problems. of.Moreover, Japan has no air defense warning radar so far, and the anti-aircraft artillery unit has not equipped a sufficient number of searchlights... In fact, countries in the world are still in the groping stage for night bombing and air defense. Although many countries can send bombers at night, But there are not many ways to fight in the air at night.Except for the United Kingdom and Germany that are developing dedicated night fighters, other countries are still basically blank in this regard, let alone Japan, whose air force is not strong.

"Lieutenant General, here is the weather forecast for today and tomorrow." The communications staff handed a translated message to Lieutenant General Phillips who was drinking coffee with Cunningham.

"Hehe, the nights of the 13th and 14th are cloudless and sunny. With the help of the moonlight, our young man will definitely be able to find the Truk Atoll." Lieutenant General Phillips looked at the weather forecast and laughed happily. up.

The biggest difficulty in attacking Truk at night was actually finding this small atoll in the dark night. Once you find it, you will be able to teach the Japanese devils a painful lesson!In order to find the Truk Atoll at night, Admiral Cunningham and Lieutenant General Phillips have used a lot of brains.First, they chose around February 2, when the moon was relatively round, to launch the raid; second, they arranged for several submarines equipped with high-power transmitters to ambush near Truk Island. , they will use radio signals to provide navigation for the aircraft; in the end, it is natural to order the British intelligence system to do its best to inquire about the weather conditions on Truk Island around February 15.

"Where are we now? How far is it from Truk?" Admiral Cunningham put down his cup of Indian black tea and asked Phillips.

菲利普斯从身边的一名年青海军中尉手中拿过一份标注了舰队位置的海图，看了看说：“我们在新不列颠岛以北150海里，距离特鲁克环礁约450海里，距离X点约330海里，而我们的航程大约有430海里（走Z字形航线以躲避潜艇）以17.2节的航速还有25个小时，舰队就能到达指定位置。”说着他又低头看了看手表。“现在是2月13日下午6点，25个小时后就是2月14日下午7点，比预定时间早到约30分钟。”

"2 o'clock in the afternoon on February 14!" Admiral Cunningham repeated in a low voice, took a breath, and said again: "Well, there are still 7 hours to decide the fate of the British Empire, God will bless the Empire and the Royal Navy!"

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"When will Singapore's airport and port facilities be repaired? When will the Nanyang Fleet be able to attack again?"

Luo Yaoguo gently put down the document in his hand, and asked the Minister of the Navy, Chen Si, who was opposite him with a smile.But I was muttering in my heart, this time I was suspected of wasting ammunition in Singapore, with thousands of tons of aerial bombs and more than 8 naval gun shells of various calibers!This Singapore must not be razed to the ground. If a good Singapore is destroyed, it will take time and effort to restore it.

"It won't take too long." Chen Si replied: "Although we dropped thousands of heavy bombs, we didn't blow up the docks and docks. Those bombs were mainly for forts and forts. So now Singapore's chapter The Yi Naval Base is basically still usable. The airport is pretty badly damaged, but it won't take too much time to repair it. As for the Navy's Nanyang Fleet, they have been fighting continuously for 2 months after all. Although there is no damage, but It is still necessary to rest for more than ten days... They returned to Zhanjiang Military Port on February 2th, and according to the plan, they will rest until February 5th, which means that they can attack again in 2 days."

After Chen Si finished talking about the rest plan, he looked at Luo Yaoguo eagerly, fearing that he would cancel the rest of the Nanyang Fleet with a wave of his hand.Luo Yaoguo just smiled and said: "Half a month's rest is necessary, besides, our next attack direction has not yet been determined. Hualong, brother Jiansheng, what suggestions do you have?"

"I don't understand the big strategy. Let's listen to Deputy Chief of Staff Bai and Minister He." Chen Si waved his hand and let the question go.

"Singapore and Sumatra have already been acquired, and the door to Southeast Asia has been closed, but the French Indochina has not been moved." Bai Chongxi shook his head and asked: "Brother Fuwen, do you have any other thoughts about the French Indochina?" ?”

"I have some ideas." Luo Yaoguo frowned, "I was thinking whether we should completely annex the three countries of Vietnam, Khmer, and Laos? Especially Vietnam, this country has long established its own culture and history, and the Vietnamese independence movement The momentum has always been relatively large. Are we going to consider retaining an Annan Kingdom attached to China?"

In the memory of Luo Yaoguo's previous life, Vietnam was a small overlord in Southeast Asia. It seemed that even the United States had suffered from it, so it seemed that it had to be handled with caution.As he spoke, he asked Natalie to find a map of Southeast Asia and spread it out on his desk.

"You see, the current Kingdom of Vietnam has been dismembered by the French Indochina authorities into three parts: Tokyo, Annan, and Cochin China. Among them, the Vietnamese king Bao Dai nominally only rules the central part of Vietnam centered on Hue. We can The Tokyo area is merged into China. In addition, Cochin China's Kunlun Island and Cam Ranh Bay are also merged into China... The Tokyo area, Conlun Island, and Cam Ranh Bay can be merged to form a Guangyue province. The remaining Annan and Cochin Parts of China can be merged to form the Annan Kingdom, what do you think?"

"This distribution is not good." Bai Chongxi shook his head, pointed to Cochin China on the map and said with a smile: "I heard that the southern part of Vietnam was taken from Khmer, so it is better to return Saigon, the Mekong Delta, Phu Quoc Island and other areas to Kingdom of Khmer, annexing the remaining Cochin China region to Vietnam."

"Brother Jiansheng's method is good." He Yingqin applauded loudly when he heard Bai Chongxi's method: "Brother Fuwen, after we swallow Tokyo, the Vietnamese will definitely be hostile to us, and the Khmer people will definitely be hostile to us because they took back their homeland." Thanks to us. And Khmer and Vietnam have territorial disputes since then, and they will never unite against us again. And we can also profit by inciting the two countries to fight each other."

"Well, this is the best way!" Luo Yaoguo tapped the map lightly, "In this way, the strengths of Khmer, Vietnam, and Laos will be relatively balanced. This area is controlled by these three countries, so it should not be separated from ours. Control." As he spoke, he pointed to Java Island at the bottom of the map and said: "Lan Yin said it was for Japan... We have now captured Sumatra and South Borneo, and the rest is not easy to directly If you seize it, why don’t you support some kind of national independence movement there? What’s the name of that Lanyin revolutionary?”

"It's called Sukarno." Natalie reminded.

"Well, it's him. Let the Military Intelligence Bureau find a way to find him and ask him if he is willing to do it. If he is willing to do it... I will support you." Luo Yaoguo pointed his finger at the British Burma on the map again. . "The ethnic groups in northern Myanmar have something to do with China, so they can be merged directly into Yunnan Province. Southern Myanmar followed the example of Siam to establish an autonomous dominion, and the next step is to try to merge with China." Finally, he pointed to the Malay Peninsula and Borneo continent. "There is no need to trouble these two places. The Malay Peninsula, Andaman Islands, and Sumatra Islands form the province of Singapore, and Borneo, Palawan Island, and the Kalamian Islands merge to form Hainan Province. The provincial capital is Brunei."

In just a few words, Luo Yaoguo randomly assigned the ownership of most of Southeast Asia.Just when Bai Chongxi, He Yingqin, and Chen Si were about to flatter, there was a sudden knock on the door. "Auxiliary Commander, the Ministry of the Navy has reported that Truk Atoll has been suddenly attacked!"

Chapter 0826 Pacific chaos ([-]) Japanese were attacked?

"Duke Wei! Duke Wei! Wake up!" Major General Wu Chong Wu, who was sleeping with his arms around a young Caucasian woman stolen from Hawaii, was woken up by the rapid and blunt shouting.This fat man has been running around all these days, and it's rare that he can hug a beautiful woman and have a good sleep. I don't know who woke him up so unreasonably!I don't know who can cruelly disturb the sweet dream of this big-hearted and fat fat man Wu Da?

Fatty Wu yawned and sat up from the tatami. It took dozens of seconds before he felt his consciousness return to himself.At this time, he suddenly heard the sound of "rumbling" thunder outside.Uh, no.That's not thunder!It's an explosion!After all, he graduated from Whampoa's first class. Although he hadn't been in the army for a few days, he could still distinguish the sound of thunder and artillery!It's not like the beauty named Janice next to him who doesn't know anything and is still looking at him with a confused face.Wu Chong put on his clothes indiscriminately, opened the door, and saw his secretary and Lieutenant Colonel Hu Dingxin from the Naval Transport Command standing at the door.The faces of the two were already ashen. Although Hu Dingxin tried his best to look calm, beads of sweat kept rolling down his face... Although it was not the base of the Chinese Navy that was attacked, the Naval Transport Command But there are several freighters in this unlucky Truk Atoll!

"Janesse, stay here and don't go anywhere. I'll take you back to China later." Fatty Wu didn't forget to comfort the beauty at this time, and then followed the two men outside.

Walking outside the small Japanese-style courtyard used by the Maritime Bureau of the China Joint Logistics Command, Wu Zhong was stunned by the sight in front of him.The whole Truk Lagoon seems to be burning!From far away, Wu Zhong saw a [-]-ton oil tanker belonging to China Pacific Trading Company (the oil had already been transported to the oil depot on the shore) burning raging fire, illuminating the whole area like an oversized torch. There is a large sea area, and there is obviously more than one torch like this.In addition to the seven or eight ships that are slowly sinking in the lagoon, the small islands around the lagoon are also full of flames. It was the anti-aircraft guns on the ground that fired indiscriminately into the sky.In addition, there are some sporadic beams of light shooting into the air, swinging around looking for incoming planes.

"This... who did this?" Wu Chong asked in a murmur. "Isn't it night now? How can they still be dispatched?"

The answer to this question was a few flares that fell slowly. The place where these flares fell was a certain distance from Zhuzhi Island where Wu Zhong was located.However, a large illuminated sea surface and two battlecruisers that were desperately spraying flames into the air could still be seen.

"The enemy is attacking the Hiei and Kirishima!" Hu Dingxin watched for a long time and finally let out a sigh of relief, "Wei Gong, I saw the British Swordfish torpedo bomber, they actually used this old-fashioned double wing Airplanes, raiding the heavily fortified Truk Lagoon at night. Really, really well done!"

Fatty Wu also heaved a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the British did it, not the Chinese!If it was the marshal who suddenly turned against the Japanese devils, then his two hundred catties would be in the sea in a foreign country.Only then did he turn his head and shout to his secretary: "Go and send a telegram to the higher-ups, telling them that it was the British carrier-based plane that attacked Truk!"

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"Your Excellency, General! Please order the air force to dispatch! Let the aircraft carrier lurking in the north of Truk Island also dispatch carrier-based aircraft..."

At this time, in the base headquarters on Summer Island in the Truk Lagoon, a naval staff officer who seemed to be frightened by the scene in front of him was loudly giving advice to Commander Yamamoto 56, who came here secretly to inspect the military situation.He seems to have forgotten that the Japanese Army and Naval Air Force have no training in taking off, landing and combat at night!Wouldn't it be a waste of sacrifice to let them attack at this time?

Although Yamamoto 56 was also extremely shocked, he did not lose his due judgment. He knew very well that on such a night, under such fierce anti-aircraft firepower from ground and surface ships, the British night attack was not right. It will cause too much damage to the warships of the United Fleet!Especially those two battlecruisers, they are now protected by layers of lightning protection nets, and the British Swordfish can't hurt them at all.As for the dive bombers... on such a big night, they probably wouldn't be able to dive bomb.

So what Yamamoto is worried about now is not the warship at all, but the dozens of transport ships in the Truk Lagoon!

"Mr. Toyota, how many transport ships and tankers are there in the Truk Lagoon now?" Yamamoto turned around and asked the commander of the Truk base, Lieutenant General Toyota.

"Your Excellency, Truk now has 42 freighters and 7 oil tankers, of which 2 freighters and 2 oil tankers belong to the Chinese." Deputy Takeshi Toyoda paused sullenly, and then continued: "All the ships here The transport ship and the oil tanker add up to about 35 tons! If they are all sunk, we can..."

Thinking of the heavy burdens placed on the United Fleet to capture Australia, capture Lanyin, and attack the west coast of America, and look at the burning lagoon in front of him, Yamamoto 56 couldn't help but smile a few times.

In all fairness, the defense of this Truk Lagoon is considered world-class, with more than 300 anti-aircraft guns, 265 aircraft, and more than a dozen forts, and because the Truk Lagoon is surrounded by a circle of coral islands, the enemy The artillery of the battleship could not hit the targets in the lagoon at all.Therefore, after Japan got here, it immediately started construction. After more than 20 years of construction, it has reached its current scale and become the base camp for Japan to go south to Australia.But who would have thought that those British guys who seemed to be dying would come up with such an amazing way of attacking Truk at night!All of a sudden, the Japanese United Fleet, which is good at surprise and sneak attacks, was caught off guard...

"Boom! Boom!" There were two loud bangs again.Yamamoto looked in the direction of the explosion, and saw two more fireballs on the sea!Apparently two more freighters were hit by the Britons.Looking at the Kirishima and Hiei, there is no longer any aircraft attacking.Yamamoto's face became gloomy again. These British guys were much more cunning than expected. Instead of continuing to attack the heavily defended battlecruisers, they took freighters and oil tankers as their main targets!As long as all the transport ships here are sunk, his southward attack will have to be delayed for a long time.

"Can you figure out the approximate location of the opponent?" Yamamoto put down the telescope in his hand, turned around and came to the chart platform.Ask the Chief of Staff Ugaki who lay there and sketched with a pencil and ruler for a long time.

Yu Yuanchen shook his head, and said with a wry smile: "It is estimated that they are about 150 nautical miles away from us...the location should be to the south, but I don't know exactly where." He looked up at Yamamoto, "Your Excellency, do you want to send water to the sea?" Airplane to search?"

Yamamoto circled the chart platform a few times, and asked again, "Where is Nagumo's Second Air Fleet?"

"150 nautical miles due north of Truk Lagoon."

When answering this sentence, Ugaki Tsunade looked at Yamamoto with admiration.According to the original plan, Nagumo's Second Air Fleet will also be on standby in the Truk Lagoon.But Yamamoto thinks that such an arrangement is not safe, what if the British come to sneak attack after eating the bear's heart and leopard's guts?In the end, the general was really taken aback, but no one expected that the British came to sneak attack at night.

Yamamoto raised his hand and looked at his watch, "It's 10 o'clock in the evening, how many times do you think the enemy will come again?"

Several people were taken aback when they heard this, and Commander Yamamoto was looking forward to the British coming a few more times?Yamamoto, however, snapped his fingers and calculated seriously, "British swordfish flies very slowly. If it is 150 nautical miles, it will take at least 3 hours to go back and forth including takeoff and landing. There is also one on Truk Island." Hours... That means a raid takes 1 hours, if they want to do it again, it will take 4 to 300 hours without moving. Nagumo should be 6 nautical miles away from them, and they can advance 180 nautical miles in [-] hours !"

"Your Excellency, you mean to let Nagumo go south quickly and close the distance between the two sides? To launch an air strike tomorrow morning?" Ugaki already understood what Yamamoto meant, he thought for a while and said: "6 hours later will be 4 o'clock tomorrow morning Yes, this one is close to the equator, the dawn is early, and the carrier-based aircraft can almost be dispatched. But the general direction of the opponent is still unknown, where should we pursue it?"

Yamamoto 56 sneered, and pointed hard at the long and narrow island of New Ireland on the chart: "I don't want to guess the exact location of the British, and it's hard to guess, but I can be sure that they will return after the attack." To go to Australia! To return to Australia, you must go to the Solomon Sea or the Bismarck Sea. The entrances of these two seas are on both sides of New Ireland, so let Nagumo’s fleet go to New Ireland! Order him as far as possible Pursuit to within 100 nautical miles of New Ireland."

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"Auxiliary Commander, the Admiralty has received a telegram from Truk again. It is the British carrier-based plane that launched a night attack there!" Chen Si said to Luo Yaoguo with a telegram in his hand: "Besides, there are About a dozen B-17 Flying Fortress bombers and British Blenheim bombers who flew from New Britain to Truk also participated in the air raid. Now that the first round of raids is over, about a dozen Three ships were sunk and eight were badly damaged, including one of our tankers and a freighter. But the Japanese lost little of their combat ships, and their aircraft carrier was not at Truk."

"Oh, so the Japanese didn't suffer much!" After hearing Chen Si's report, Bai Chongxi suddenly said this, sounding more disappointed than fortunate.

"It should be a big loss!" The corners of Luo Yaoguo's eyes twitched slightly, the commander of the British and Australian fleet seems to be Cunningham!He was the most outstanding British admiral during World War II in history... If it weren't for tonight's night attack, I would have almost forgotten about this man. It seems that Yamamoto 56 has met another good opponent.

"The assistant commander is right. The Japanese suffered a great loss." Chen Si took Luo Yaoguo's words and explained: "Cunningham's move is beautiful. Instead of targeting Japanese warships, he switched to transport ships. It has hit Japan's deathbed. Little Japan's current spread is too large. It almost covers the entire Pacific Ocean, but their merchant ships have a total tonnage of only over 300 million tons, and since the war began, they have been sunk by American submarines and the Z fleet. Even if we lease 70 tons of ships to Japan, their total tonnage will still drop to about 30 million tons. If they lose another 300 tons in Truk, how can they continue to fight this battle?"

In this time and space, Japan's national strength is far inferior to that of the same period in history, and the tonnage of merchant ships is also much smaller.However, the rate of loss after the war was greater than in history.In just 3 months, the Japanese lost more than a quarter of their shipping capacity!I don't know how the Japanese will maintain the supply of the entire Pacific battlefield in the future?

"The Japanese are going to be overwhelmed?" He Yingqin took a breath and asked back: "They even snatched the home port of the US Pacific Fleet, so they won't be able to fight because of the lack of a few merchant ships?"

"It's not a big deal if we can't fight, but the Japanese will slow down more and more." Luo Yaoguo looked at Australia on the map table and swallowed, "That's a good thing, at least not bad for us Well, 3 months have passed since the one-year agreement, and if the Japanese can't take down Australia in 9 months, then we will have to justify it!"