Treating Xiang Xiaoqiang with a feast and cheering him up really helped a lot.
Needless to say, Qi Xiaofeng, the commander of the submarine force, is originally a submarine fan. He can't wait to use all the quotas to build submarines. Xiong Dingming, the chief of general staff of the Navy, listened to Xiang Xiaoqiang's words. On the one hand, he felt that it made sense. On the other hand,
He was also quite moved. In his opinion, Xiang Xiaoqiang, as an army general, had to take advantage of his own time and time again and again.
He must use his strength to persuade the top brass of the Navy to accept his proposition... and the Navy is a navy after all. No matter how great the victory the Navy achieves, Xiang Xiaoqiang will not get any direct benefits. If Xiang Xiaoqiang uses this energy to run the Army
, use the time you have to eat with yourself to eat with Tang Yunsheng, or even use it to chase His Majesty, which will be of much greater benefit to his future.
And now Xiang Xiaoqiang spent his own money to invite so many people from the navy to his home for dinner, went through so many circles, and spent so much thought, just so that the navy could accept some of his ideas, and he thought these ideas would be of great benefit to Ming Dynasty.
...It would be great if the Ming Dynasty had more people like this.
After Xiong Dingming went back, he thought for a long time and decided to side with Xiang Xiaoqiang. In the name of the General Maritime Staff, he made a request to the Navy to cancel the construction plan of the last battleship, change it to an aircraft carrier of the same tonnage, and then build the remaining ones.
All budgets and resources were allocated to submarines. Xiong Dingming agreed with the strategy of trapping Japan in submarine warfare. He also saw the huge advantage of aircraft carriers when facing battleships. He decided to take a gamble and put all his treasure on aircraft carriers.
If...if it is found that there is something irreplaceable about the battleship in the future, it is not impossible to make up for it. Japan will definitely have to pay compensation by then. And for the sake of compensation and peace, Japan will definitely have an empty treasury and not much cash compensation.
, naturally it is necessary to use several warships to pay off the debt. This is much more cost-effective than building it yourself.
On September 30, the fourth day of the offensive, Army Group East's southern route had advanced to the Sea of Japan. As a result, the narrow area of the Far East east of the Ussuri River was completely divided into two halves. The important town of Vladivostok in the south was completely
Lonely city. The two Soviet infantry divisions that retreated south into Vladivostok were also besieged and became a lonely army together with Vladivostok.
The Ming army's submarines are constantly moving to the Sea of Japan. There are now more than 20 submarines like wolves, waiting eagerly around the sea outside Vladivostok. Once any ship sails out of Vladivostok, or wants to sail into Vladivostok from the periphery, it will be very dangerous.
It is easy to be discovered by submarines. The Ming Army submarine force has now accepted the order of the General Staff of the Sea and began to operate according to the "wolf pack tactics" mode. That is, boldly conduct radio contact.
Once a submarine discovers an enemy ship, it will try its best to attack. If it can catch up, sinking it is of course the best. If it is too far away to catch up, then use radio to notify other submarines in front that such an enemy ship is approaching.
Approaching you, speed, course, current position, etc. The submarine in front will use this information to ambush the ship's planned route in advance and attack again.
This is not a "wolf pack tactic" in the full sense. Because the opponent has not yet formed a "pack". When the opponent thinks that the loss of sailing alone is too great, starts to form a fleet and sends warships to escort, then the "wolf pack" of the submarine
"Swarm tactics" will also be officially launched. Then once a submarine discovers the fleet, it is not just as simple as notifying the submarine ahead to intercept. Instead, it summons multiple nearby submarines to approach the fleet, follow the fleet, and start a group massacre at night
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Although the Sea of Japan is large, the only large port that can be used is Vladivostok. Whether it is to besiege Vladivostok or prevent Japan from supporting the Soviet army, all we need to do is to keep an eye on Vladivostok. The dozens of submarines of the Ming army can also be seen.
Live. It’s just that the submarines in other sea areas have been mobilized so much that they are too empty. However, now that the primary goal is to capture the Soviet Far East, destroy the Red Flag Far East Army, and blockade Japan, we have to let it go for the time being.
On the 30th, Ming army bombers discovered that cargo ships at the Vladivostok port were carrying soldiers out of the port and sailing north along the coastline. The Ming army's Changchun headquarters immediately understood: This was the Soviet army's plan to use sea transportation to transport the encircled troops.
Carry out maneuver and transport it to the north by sea to join the other main forces.
The Ming Army headquarters immediately ordered the mobilization of dive bombers to bomb these troop carriers. At the same time, the Nanjing Maritime General Staff also dispatched several submarines northward and deployed 200 kilometers along the northern coastline. Because the northern coastline is flat, there are no ports, and there are basically no towns. Naturally,
There are also no shore defense guns. Submarines can boldly approach the coastline.
Sure enough, on the 5th, within a day and a half, dive bombers sank two troop transports and submarines sank two troop transports. None of the four troop transports sailed out of Vladivostok was spared, and almost a division of Soviet troops
Soldiers and weapons and equipment perished in the sea. After that, no troop transport ships came from Vladivostok. The remaining Soviet infantry division also gave up the idea of breaking out by sea and stayed on the outside of Vladivostok to set up defenses and defend Vladivostok.
And this is exactly what the Ming army wants. Anyway, the Ming army does not plan to attack by force. The more troops gather in Vladivostok, a small place, the faster the food and fresh water are consumed, and the shorter the siege time is.
Most of Vladivostok's fresh water is supplied by the "Lazdolinaya River" that flows into the sea from here. There is also a seawater desalination plant in Vladivostok, but the output is never enough for so many people to drink. This Razdolinaya River is not
Wide, the widest part is less than fifty meters. It becomes narrower as you go upstream. Now, the upstream is within the area occupied by the Ming army. The Ming army decided to make a fuss on this river.
The Ming army first tried to cut off the water flow, but since it was the flood season, the water flow was relatively large and it was difficult to cut off the water flow. The amount of work required to dig ditches to divert the water flow was too large. In the end, the Ming army had to make up its mind to destroy the water quality.
They threw a large number of corpses of Soviet soldiers into the river and let the corpses flow down the river, polluting the water quality. They also removed the corpses of earlier Japanese soldiers from the ground.
They were dug out, truck by truck pulled to the river, and then thrown into the water one by one. Although it was almost October, it was still summer, August, when the Japanese army was fighting. And these corpses were also
After being buried in the soil for a month, many of them are now highly corrupted and the stench is unbearable. The Ming army team responsible for transporting the corpses had to wear chemical protective suits.
In addition to human corpses, there were also many soldiers, horses and livestock killed in the bombing. Regardless of whether they were corrupt or not, they were all thrown into the river.
Within a few days, corpses were floating on the Razdolinaya River, goshawks and maggots were writhing up and down, and the stench filled the sky. The Soviet infantry division guarding the outskirts of Vladivostok, as well as the troops holding on to the fortified areas, had to
They took water from this river filled with carrion. Although they had treated it with purifying drugs and boiled it for drinking, the disease still spread unstoppably.
A large number of Soviet officers and soldiers suffered from vomiting, diarrhea, fever, and convulsions. Their combat effectiveness was seriously reduced.