Warlord: Red Alert Base, I challenge the whole world alone

In Fuso Kingdom, Xijing, a rare imperial conference was held.

In addition to the two giants, the Chief of the General Staff and the Minister of the Naval General Staff, the main cabinet members such as the Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, Army Minister, and Navy Minister also participated in this Imperial Conference.

This is the first time that the Imperial Conference has been held since the new emperor ascended the throne. This shows how high the standard of this Imperial Conference is.

"Everyone knows the purpose of participating in this imperial meeting. Please share your opinions.

The Foreign Minister will first share their views.”

The "they" here naturally refers to the Western powers, and their attitude is very important.

The Foreign Minister stepped forward and bowed, saying, "The current war situation is not very clear, so John, Citi, Hans, Gallic countries and others have not come forward to express their views.

At the same time, they did not express strong opposition to our invasion of Andong Province.

They may not have much intention of interfering.

If we can capture Andong and even the entire northern Saibei region and establish a fait accompli, they will have no choice but to accept it."

"What about the military? Isn't the Army going to say anything? They've sent out two divisions with 30,000 men, and they haven't even broken through the border defenses.

What I promised Yuan Shicheng before was to launch a feint attack to tie down the Saibei Army.

But your army doesn't seem to mean that.

Now that the offensive has failed and the empire has lost face, you must give me an explanation."

The emperor, sitting on the high seat, glanced coldly in the direction of the high-ranking army officers, and from his tone it was clear that he was very dissatisfied.

The Army Minister and the Chief of General Staff looked at each other, and the Army Minister stood up.

"Your Majesty, this offensive by the 19th and 20th Divisions was not initiated by us, but was initiated without authorization by Goryeo Governor-General Hatoyama Shinya.

But he also did it for the empire.

After all, the main force of the Saibei Army has been deployed, and the three provinces in the northern part of the Saibei are short of troops. This is the best time for us to take over the northern part of the Saibei.

If it weren't for the Fuxing Army fighter planes bombing the 19th and 20th Divisions, our troops might have already appeared in Shengzhou.

However, it is also a fact that the front-line offensive has been frustrated. Now that the Saibei Army has returned for reinforcement, there is no hope of taking over the three provinces in Saibei.

So I suggest stopping the offensive and concentrating the main forces in another direction."

What Lu Xiang said was very insightful.

First of all, it should be noted that this was not their intention and it actually has nothing to do with them. At most, it is their fault for not governing their subordinates strictly.

However, we cannot rush to push Hatoyama Shinya to take the blame, so we should protect him.

After all, the Hatoyama family still has a great influence in Fuso.

The other direction he was talking about was naturally Qidong Province.

Yuan Shicheng's telegrams were placed on the emperor's desk, and everyone knew about this matter.

"Resurgence Army... Jiang Hua...

Hasn't the Empire's intelligence department figured out the source of his weapons and equipment?

Tanks, airplanes, and heavy artillery are not something a small Chinese warlord can possess."

At this time, Prince Utsujihei, the Chief of Staff of the General Staff, who was also a prince, stood up.

Because the Army's intelligence department is under the General Staff Headquarters, it is also the highest agency of all Army intelligence departments.

"Your Majesty, we have contacted Hans, Citi, John, and Gallic Chicken, and they all replied that they did not export large quantities of heavy weapons to this Jiang Hua.

Their weapons and personnel seemed to have appeared out of thin air, and no trace could be found at all.

But I will continue to send more personnel to investigate."

The emperor was not very satisfied with this answer.

"Hmph, are they all Sun Wukong? Then tell me about your next plan."

"Hi!"

"It's impossible to take over the three northern provinces. The northern army has already gone all out to support us. If we continue fighting, it will not benefit us and will only irritate the Russians in the north.

So after discussion, we decided to abandon the attack here and instead launch landing operations simultaneously in Daocheng and Wendeng in Qidong Province.

This Jiang Hua openly issued a declaration of war to the empire, which also provided us with a good excuse to occupy Qidong Province.

Although we cannot occupy Qidong Province for a long time, we can plunder the province's wealth and use it to demand more benefits from the Northern Frontier."

There was no hope in the three northern provinces, so they naturally had to settle for the next best thing.

What's more, Jiang Hua was so provocative. If they did not take any action, how would the Western powers and various forces of the ancient country view them?

So no matter what, landing in Qidong Province has become a foregone conclusion.

The emperor nodded and agreed to this battle plan.

"Then launch the operation as soon as possible. The navy will cooperate with the army to launch a landing operation."

The Minister of Military Affairs was represented by another prince.

After hearing the emperor's order, he immediately bowed and replied: "Hi!"

The Chief of the General Staff and the Chief of the Naval General Staff are the real decision-makers of the army and navy. They are also the Emperor's chiefs of staff and his right-hand men.

The Minister of War and the Minister of Navy belong to the military and political circles and do not have real power.

So the two princes just had to nod.

After the meeting, Fuso's navy and army quickly took action.

Because they knew that Qidong Province was short of troops and could not hold out for too long, they had to act as soon as possible.

An order was sent directly from the General Staff Headquarters to the Governor-General's Office of Goryeo.

According to the order, the 20th Division will be mobilized from the Korean Peninsula to the island city by boat as their vanguard.

The General Staff will also draw 2-3 permanent divisions from the mainland to provide support and launch a counterattack based on the island city.

The navy will also send a fleet to support the army’s landing on the island city.

At the same time, a fleet was sent to Donglai Bay to bombard and attack Donglai City, which was occupied by the Restoration Army.

Jiang Hua did not expect that the Fuso people would so decisively give up attacking Andong Province, but instead quickly turn their guns and land in Qidong Province.

After the 7th Mechanized Infantry Division occupied Donglai City, the tens of millions of funds that Jiang Hua had accumulated during this period finally came in handy.

Taking over Donglai City means having a deep-water port, and there will be no restrictions on building warships.

So he built six naval bases in one go, spreading over 6 kilometers of coastline.

Of these six naval bases, two are used to build small and medium-sized ships, and four are used to build large warships.

The two naval bases are used to build Gearing-class destroyers and Cleveland-class light cruisers respectively.

The Gearing-class destroyers and Cleveland-class light cruisers are also important components of the future fleet.

In particular, the number of Gearing-class destroyers required is very large.

He also made arrangements for the remaining four naval bases.

Two of them were used to build battleships and two were used to carry aircraft carriers.

It is true that the future world belongs to aircraft carriers, which is an indisputable fact, but it does not mean that battleships have no role to play.

Take night combat for example, which an aircraft carrier cannot do.

But battleships with radar can do it.

For example, in an environment with strong winds and waves, an aircraft carrier cannot even take off its carrier-based aircraft, but a battleship can still fight at this time.

For example, during landing operations, the main guns on battleships have a destructive power against fortifications that cannot be compared with aircraft carriers.

Of course, there is another very important point. The main force of the navies of the major powers is still battleships.

Although aircraft carriers have already made their mark, they still have a long way to go before they can replace battleships.

Therefore, Jiang Hua could not let these powers discover too early that aircraft carriers were the trend of future naval battles, but instead let them continue to build battleships.

If he had taken out two large battleships at this time, it would have been enough to shock the world.

This will undoubtedly trigger another craze among countries to build large battleships.

If they build one more battleship, they will build one or even two fewer aircraft carriers.

So considering all aspects, this battleship must be built no matter what.

Moreover, two Red Alert-class dreadnought battleships were built at one time, which can also be called the Montana class.

Because the appearance of the Dreadnought-class battleship was derived from the Montana-class battleship.

The Montana-class battleship has a full load displacement of tons, and its power plant consists of 8 heavy oil boilers and 4 steam turbines, with a horsepower of 25 and a maximum speed of 31 knots.

Its main guns consist of four triple-mounted 4mm naval guns, totaling 406 12mm main guns, specifically designed to attack Yamato.

There are also 10 twin-mounted 54-caliber 127mm dual-purpose anti-aircraft and anti-aircraft guns.

There were also 19 quadruple 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns and forty-five 20mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns.

This weapon configuration is already quite luxurious.

At the same time, it also has very thick armor and very advanced ship electrical equipment.

Although this battleship built by the base is slightly inferior to the Yamato class in tonnage and firepower, it is not necessarily a crusher in other aspects, but it has surpassed it by a lot.

Take the shipborne radar and advanced computer fire control system as an example, which are enough to gain a greater advantage in battleship bombardment.

The cost of building two Montana-class battleships is $1200 million per ship.

The total cost of the two ships is 2400 million, which is relatively expensive.

But in Jiang Hua's opinion, it is very cost-effective.

These are two 70,000-ton super battleships that can be built for only 24 million oceans. Isn’t that a good deal?

At the rate of more than one million yuan per day, he saved up more than 20 million yuan in about 2400 days.

However, Jiang Hua can only build one ship now because he has limited funds.

If we calculate the tonnage based on building 3000 tons per month, it will take a total of 23.5 months, or nearly two years.

It is now January 32, and it will be able to be produced at the beginning of 1. We can wait for two years.

The battleships have been selected, and the next is the aircraft carrier, which is the real core of the navy.

In fact, whether it is the Gearing-class destroyer, the Cleveland-class light cruiser, the Baltimore-class heavy cruiser, the Deutschland-class battlecruiser or the Montana-class battleship, all of their tactics are formulated around aircraft carriers.

After the aircraft carrier came out, the battleship had to stand aside and become the aircraft carrier's strongest sword-wielding guard.

If we talk about the strongest aircraft carrier 45 years ago, it must be the Midway class.

Although this thing did not participate in World War II, it was launched just before the end of World War II.

The full load displacement of the Midway-class aircraft carrier is tons, the unit price is 1000 million, and the construction time is 20 months, which is one year and eight months.

At this construction speed, it will be put into service in September 33.

Jiang Hua was a little surprised at first that the aircraft carrier only cost 1000 million.

However, considering that the construction cost of an aircraft carrier is lower than that of a battleship, not to mention the need for matching fighter jets.

In fact, if you calculate it, it is not much different from a battleship.

But he can still afford the more than 30 million.

After these shipbuilding plans were arranged, Jiang Hua's accumulated funds were once again squandered.

All that’s left to do now is wait for it to bloom and bear fruit.

Attention turns to the Navy's First Submarine Squadron.

On the way from Donglai Bay to Jinghai, one needs to pass through the Canghai Sea in the northern territorial waters of the ancient country.

Just as the two submarines were sailing in the central waters of the ocean, they discovered a surprise.

They encountered a fleet of more than ten Fuso merchant ships.

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