After the battle between Ye Fu's Pacific Fleet and the Matador Asian Squadron, the Chinese Zhongyong Army Navy held another meeting. The meeting was attended by all the participants from the last meeting regarding the Palau incident.
At the meeting, everyone changed Zhou Yu's established policy. It no longer focused on training and no longer targeted Palau and Guam. Instead, it changed its strategy.
At this time, the Matador Navy, compared to the Zhongyong Army Navy, cannot serve the purpose of training at all. These ghost guys only have empty airs and no great abilities, so it is better to defeat them.
The target of the Zhongyong Army has been raised to take the entire Philippines as its main target.
There are internal reasons for the Loyal Yong Army to do this. From these two battles between the Loyal Yong Army Navy and the Matador Navy, everyone discovered a very strange problem, that is, the Western powers headed by John Bull had no control over
No reaction to this.
If you don't react, then the loyal and brave army will be polite! Just drive the matador away!
This is the direct reason why everyone changed their established goals.
All the naval commanders and fighters of the Zhongyong Army unanimously believed that the matadors at this time were not good enough and were regarded as "targets" by everyone. To put it bluntly, the matadors were not even qualified to be the "sparring partners" of the Chinese Zhongyong Army naval fleet.
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Therefore, everyone unanimously agreed to end the so-called "Navy Training" and take over the entire territory of the Philippines.
This also includes Zhou Yu~Zhou Daguanren, who also agreed to this decision!
With this strategic thinking in mind, the Zhongyong Army began to prepare intensively within the army.
If you want to take over the entire territory of the Philippines, you must activate the army. In this case, the strategic materials and combat personnel to be prepared will be lost to the sea!
However, these are all minor problems in the face of the Zhongyong Army's war machine.
This time, in addition to Deng Shichang's 10 warships, there were also 30,000 special forces led by Liu Chengliang, second only to the bravery of the Excalibur Team, and Wu Fengdian's No.
Second Army, 50,000 elite troops.
The elite among the elite, the Excalibur Team, did not participate in this battle between the Zhongyong Army and the Matador.
As the saying goes, why use a cattle knife to kill a chicken? Good steel should be used on the blade!
This is the largest military operation the Zhongyong Army has ever launched at once.
In the previous battles with the French Expeditionary Force, troops were sent out in stages, and they were all small-scale battles. It is hard to compare with this battle against the Matador!
This is a pain in the ass for those who have been idle~ The logistics troops of the Chinese Loyal and Brave Army are extremely busy, but no matter how busy they are, everyone is happy! This is a big event for the Chinese world to be proud of!
And Tian Ergou's ghost fleet also received a death order. During the battle with Matador, any ship from any country that tries to break into the sea area of the war zone, Tian Ergou can consider whether to expel or not, depending on the situation.
Sink!
After receiving the order, Tian Ergou was so excited that he couldn't sleep for several days. The ghost fleet has been established for several years. However, it has never been put to use. Now, it can fire at the 'enemy'! Do you think he can?
Are you excited?
In Tian Ergou's heart, there was no concept of "depending on the situation" at all. After receiving the order, he issued a death order to his subordinates. Any ship that broke into the warning area of his submarine would be killed.
We will sink them all, there is nothing to discuss!
What he thinks makes sense! The ghost fleet is still a secret underground fleet until now. If he comes out to destroy the ships, wouldn't he expose his own ghost fleet?
As a result, during that period, several merchant ships from other countries disappeared for no reason, and the reason for their disappearance could not be found. Those countries that innocently disappeared merchant ships also suspected that the Zhongyong Army and the Zhongyong Army who were fighting at the time were
Matador Navy, but there is no evidence that someone else did it! In the end, Qian Wangwang was the only choice!
Time passed very quickly. After the naval battle between the Pacific Fleet led by Ye Fu and the Matador ended, another month passed.
And the time for the third battle between the two armies came unknowingly.
Deng Shichang who participated in the battle this time was no better than Lu Han and Ye Fu before. Deng Shichang was very dedicated to training, with a 120-point spirit and went all out, let alone a real naval battle?
But this time, the number and quality of the warships in Matador's Asian Squadron have changed. Matador's self-confidence has also reached an all-time high. They vowed to deal a heavy blow to the loyal navy who can only fire dumb bombs.
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There is a reason why matadors have such self-confidence.
This time, they have two more warships than before. These two warships are modified versions of the John Bull Royal Navy First Class sailing ironclad.
This time, in order to contain and suppress the development of the Chinese Loyalty Army in the Far East, John Bulls secretly sold two modified battleships similar to the Victory to the Matador.
This battle array has a displacement of 3,556 tons and is divided into three decks. The number of artillery pieces reaches a terrifying 84, evenly distributed on the three decks.
That's because, in order to prevent leaks, John Bull made necessary technical adjustments to the entire ship, and the two warships sold to Matador were not original, but battleships similar to the original ships!
John Bull's purpose is very clear. The best way for a matador to defeat the Zhongyong Army is to defeat the Zhongyong Army Navy. At the very least, it can delay the progress of the Zhongyong Army. It is not impossible to even sink a few Zhongyong Army warships.
possible.
Anyway, for John Bull, they will not suffer any loss.
The sudden acquisition of two advanced sailing ironclads is where Matador's confidence lies!
In addition, there is another point, that is, Ye Fu's Pacific Fleet fought too conservatively and by the rules, which made the matadors generally believe that the loyal and brave army has given up!
With the support of the sailing ironclads and the misunderstanding of the power of the Zhongyong Army Navy, the matadors were no longer as afraid of the Zhongyong Army Navy as before. They felt that they still had a good chance of defeating the Zhongyong Army Navy.
This time, Matador faced as many as 14 warships from the East China Sea Fleet led by Deng Shichang.
The 14 warships of Matador are all warships capable of fighting.
Most of the warships that were damaged in previous confrontations with the Zhongyong Army have been repaired, except for one that can no longer fight and needs major repairs.
Like the first time, Zhou Yu was still hiding on the A3 heavy cruiser. He wanted to observe closely what kind of outstanding performance the Chinese naval wizard and national hero Deng Shichang had in actual combat.
During the naval battle between Ye Fu's Pacific Fleet and the Matador, Zhou Yu unfortunately did not participate. He was killed by the two "quasi-ladies"! People were also worried about Zhou Yu's safety!
This time, Zhou Yu hid in the Nansha Islands long ago before he had the opportunity to participate in the last naval confrontation between the Zhongyong Army and the Navy against the Matador Asia Squadron.
Yes, the matador dared to pour out of the Manila base, and Deng Shichang was secretly happy. He was afraid that the matador was a son of a bitch, hiding in there and not daring to come out. Then wouldn't his maiden fight be meaningless?
Deng Shichang came here to 'kill pigs' this time, not to tease the matador at all. Therefore, the ammunition Deng Shichang carried this time was no longer dumb bombs, but real artillery shells, but not that kind, extremely abnormal
It's a fueled incendiary bomb, but an ordinary explosive bomb!
The Zhongyong Army wanted to drive away the matadors, rather than engage in an extermination plan like the Ryukyu Island battle. In order to prevent leaks to the greatest extent; and in order to allow the matadors to "survive" a few more warships, Deng Shichang did not carry incendiary bombs.
The Matador fleet was arranged in a neat array, and one of them, the first-class sailing ironclad, the Guam General, which had just joined the fleet, raised the flagship flag, which is also the handsome flag!
Deng Shichang and Lu Han's approach was obviously different. On the flagship A3 ship, while raising the flagship flag, they also raised the battle slogan of the East China Sea Fleet, "Fight for the Chinese Dragon to take off."
Signal!
Immediately afterwards, another banner was raised, "East China Sea Fleet~The dragon on the sea of the Chinese nation is fighting"!
In an instant, 10 ships of the Zhongyong Army East China Sea Fleet, amidst cheers, rushed straight towards the United Fleet.