"Intelligence shows that a battleship from the Tang Empire appeared near Linshui Port. It has never been there." An officer from the Mirage Kingdom stood behind Admiral Mirage Haiping and reported the intelligence on the Tang army's movements that he had just obtained.
Many countries are providing similar intelligence to Mirage. Although no one dares to confront the Tang army on the surface, everyone will still give the weakest help to the best of their ability.
After all, with such a tall man standing in front of me, others can have an easier time, right? This is a way of saving oneself, although it doesn't seem so upright.
Transport ships doing business from all over the world gather at Linshui. These ships have radios on board. They will report some news to their own countries, or just say a few words when communicating.
For example, let's say how beautiful the new battleship of the Tang Dynasty is. After all, it is a giant ship with a displacement of more than 40,000 tons. Such telegrams will be used by the intelligence agencies of other countries and sent to mirage countries to be sold.
Favor.
"The Dongwan-class battleship has left the South Island waters, and two of their aircraft carriers have appeared in Beiyuan..." Mirage Haiping has judged from the pressure that the main force of the Tang Navy has left Mirage, but he did not know that it had withdrawn.
Just how much.
Now that he knows that the new warships of the Tang Army are called aircraft carriers, he is really envious of the Tang Empire Navy that has such weapons.
As a naval general, he fully understands how significant a new weapon like the aircraft carrier is. Just relying on a new branch of naval aviation, which does not ask for help, is enough to make the navy's status more important.
It's a pity that now he can only envy him. His main navy fleet has been completely wiped out, and the Mirage Navy is now unable to launch a decent counterattack.
In the seminar held by the Mirage Kingdom, they also summarized the lessons learned from their failures: the Air Force believed that the fighter jets they purchased from the Tang Kingdom had obvious technical flaws, which was the fundamental reason for the rapid loss of air supremacy.
Although the navy's warships were all self-produced, the opponent's new weapons had a technological advantage, and new weapons that the mirage could not understand entered the battle, so they suffered an unprecedented defeat.
In short, the responsibility does not lie with the higher-ups of Mirage, nor does it mean that the grassroots of Mirage did not fight bravely enough. It is just that the people of Tang were too cunning and the technology of Tang was too advanced and exceeded their expectations.
But this is a war, and it doesn’t matter who is responsible. This war to destroy the country will still have to be fought. The Mirage is doing everything possible to gather intelligence on the Tang Navy fleet. They must ensure that they are well prepared for the next landing.
Work.
"A large number of transport ships are being dispatched, but few of them are gathering together... This shows that they are supplying the South Island, rather than gathering to transport a large number of troops." Mirage Haiping is still very professional, as long as it does not involve aircraft carrier operations, and
Tang Guo's new equipment, he is still very experienced in the mobilization and transportation of naval fleets.
The Tang Army is obviously still busy supplying the South Island. Presumably, Mirage Wu Zhong was still very hard-working in the battle of destruction of the Great South Bay. The place should not have fully recovered until now. Qianqianwannu
As a result, the Tang army would not be able to utilize the Great South Bay in a short period of time, so the new batch of landing fleets would have to set out from areas such as Beiyuan and Linshui.
"That is to say, there are at least fifteen days to a month left!" Haiping made a more specific judgment.
His speculation was actually very accurate. According to the internal plan of the Tang State's senior officials, the Tang State would renovate the Great South Bay, increase the port throughput, and then rely on the Great South Bay to attack the new island northward in 27 days.
Mirage Haiping marked a long strip on his map with a boat-shaped magnet, connecting the waters between Beiyuan and South Island.
There are the transport fleets of the Tang Empire. If... he has a few submarines, he can greatly delay the Tang army's mobilization of supplies. If... he has a fleet, and if it appears here at this time, the opponent will definitely be extremely fierce.
Uncomfortable.
It is impossible for civilian ships to install radars, and it is impossible to have large-scale fleet escorts. Therefore, his fleet can cause a lot of losses to the Tang army. In that case, even if it is sunk, it will not end in unilateral destruction with no gain.
Unfortunately, it is too late to regret. What he has to do now is to use the remaining naval power to create as much trouble as possible for the Tang Navy.
First of all, he heard that Tang State had begun selling submarines, but because of the war, Mirage State had no channels to purchase submarines. But he thought he could borrow or copy them. Even if it was too late now, what if he could catch up?
Secondly, he is working hard to build small speedboats. These speedboats are equipped with gasoline engines and are very fast and small in size. They are filled with explosives. What stands out is a "suicide attack".
In fact, he also made a series of modifications to the design based on his own experience: it must be said that Mirage Haiping actually has two brushes.
He considered that the enemy weapons that could sink such a fast-moving small boat were basically rapid-fire guns and small-caliber anti-aircraft guns, so he installed some steel plates on the front of the small boat to defend against small-caliber artillery.
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Coupled with the flexible movement of the small boat, the possibility of being sunk at medium and long distances is still relatively small. As for close range... it is almost a collision. It doesn't matter how many boats are sunk, right?
All the small boats are loaded with more than a ton of explosives. Judging purely from the explosive yield, the power is indeed not small. But the problem is not without it, that is, the small boats used for impact are not cannonballs, and these explosives cannot explode inside the warship.
It does not explode underwater, and it is almost impossible to achieve the maximum destructive effect. It looks scary, but in fact it can only seriously damage the ship, but cannot truly sink the Tang warship...
It has to be said that in terms of modification, Navy speedboats are indeed easier to install than aircraft. In the past two months, the Chinese Air Force has dispatched hundreds of suicide planes, but there has been no successful case.
In addition to the airtight air defense radar network of the Tang Army, the decline in the quality of Mirage pilots is also a major reason.
The Mirage country trains pilots too slowly: their country's literacy rate is already low, there are few schools, and the high-quality population base that can serve as pilots is small.
Now that the losses are huge, it will naturally become difficult to replenish them: among the 1,000 pilots recently recruited by Mirage, some are even illiterate at all.
There is no choice but to fly even if you are illiterate. Some of them only learned the basics of takeoff and then were sent on planes to carry out suicide crash missions because... the amount of aviation fuel was not enough.
The reserves of the Mirage Kingdom itself cannot be replenished, and some consumption can only be reduced. This is the inevitable result after being blocked by the Tang Army.
On the other hand, in order to actively prepare for war, Mirage worked hard to increase the total production of Zero fighter jets. These aircraft also require fuel support.
Although Mirage lost nearly 200 aircraft in the suicide operation, many of those aircraft were Dragon Slayer bombers, and the Dragon Slayer bombers have almost been discontinued now.
Knowing that their bombers cannot perform bombing missions, who would produce a dragon-slaying bomber that is useless and slow? It would be better to save productivity and manufacture as many advanced Zero fighters as possible.
Although the Zero fighter has actually lagged behind and was beaten to the ground by pirates, and is no match for Tang's new jet fighter, it is easier to produce, isn't it?
After all, it has only one engine and only one pilot. Even if it performs a suicide mission, the cost is lower than that of a bomber like the Tulong.
Anyway, there was no other better choice. They made some so-called modifications in a short period of time. They replaced some fighter parts such as tail rudders with wooden ones, creating a more fragile fighter with poor flight performance.
A so-called "attack aircraft" that is too stable.
These planes are for consumption. They are controlled by pilots with the least piloting experience. They will ram Tang warships whenever they have the opportunity.
In addition, the Mirage Kingdom is not only working on suicide, they are also working hard to build a circular defense line on the new island.
This line of defense can no longer use a large amount of reinforced concrete materials. Due to limited reserves, the Mirage people can only use crude materials to build their fortifications.
Firewood and soil were widely used. Most of the trenches were reinforced with locally sourced wood on both sides, and wooden roofs were installed at short intervals to build hidden bunkers.
Although such bunkers are not strong and can be easily destroyed, they cannot withstand the large number and concealment of these things. Mirage civilians were captured to build such fortifications. They used wooden mallets to compact the soil around the bunkers, and some of them are still there.
A large number of sandbags were piled between the earth and wooden supports.
Because too many similar bunkers were built, there were not even enough machine guns in some places. The Mirage troops had to use submachine guns and riflemen to replace the machine gun teams and stationed them in these fortifications.
In order to prevent the Tang army from landing, a large number of landmines were laid on the beach. This may be one of the few weapons in the hands of the Mirage that can really cause trouble for the Tang army.
In addition, like other countries, Mirage has also begun to pay attention to anti-aircraft artillery: a large number of anti-aircraft artillery are deployed on the new island, forming a quite thick defense depth.
Many of these anti-aircraft guns have just been produced, and others have been transferred from the island. In addition to air defense, many of these artillery are also responsible for anti-tank tasks.
According to Mirage's plan to resist the landing on the new island, Mirage's remaining "navy" will cooperate with the army. During the Tang army's landing, they will conduct joint raids from the sky, beach, and sea to defeat the arrogant army.
