Southeast London, Kent, Medway Naval Port.
This military port guards the entrance to the Thames River and can be said to be the gateway to London. During the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the daring Dutch fleet penetrated deep into the Thames River, raided the Medway military port, disabled the forts, burned or captured six British sailing battleships, and then blocked several estuaries of the Thames River. In September, Britain was forced to humiliate and sue for peace. This battle was almost a national humiliation for the British Empire!
However, such a "war of national humiliation" will never happen again... The British Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington, is very confident in this!
Because when he was in Vienna, he reached a consensus with Zhuge Weijiu, the plenipotentiary representative of the Ming Dynasty - neither side could attack the opponent's homeland, so as not to hurt the peace, save face, and facilitate marriage after the war to rule the world.
Well, this war is about fighting for the position of the boss and second child, but no matter how hard we fight, we can’t let the current mistress take over and become the second child!
Because there are actually two "mistresses" in the world now, one is the Rakshasa Kingdom and the other is the United States... Haha, they are both ruthless characters!
Although the Duke of Wellington has protected the British Empire through private and secret diplomacy, this does not mean that the British Empire can then lie flat and collapse. Although the future of the British Empire will definitely not be as big as it is now, how big it can be depends on how capable the British Empire is today... and how capable it is of stirring up trouble!
The British have already stirred up the shit on the European continent. They have messed up the beautiful story of Rakshasa going south to Constantine. France and Rakshasa's affairs with Rome have also been messed up. By the way, they have also opened up Europe. Revolutionary Pandora’s Box!
Next, countries on the European continent will have a big headache. Their high-quality domestic population and capital will have to go to the UK, and the UK can also take the opportunity to use pounds sterling to extort their supplies to fight the Ming Dynasty. Although the European countries could not be tied to the anti-Ming chariots and used as cannon fodder, it does not matter. The more than 200 million people of the filial India and the rebellious United States can be "turned to ashes"!
And in order to encourage the United States of America, which is full of military virtue, to be a cannon fodder that is not afraid of sacrifice or smashing North America, the British government, which is the Duke of Wellington's turn, still has to come up with something good.
For example, the 200-ton "aircraft carrier" and the destroyer that tows the aircraft carrier, and of course the Kelly F2 carrier-based water fighter equipped with pontoons, the Kelly F1 fighter jet, and the pilots who fly these aircraft.
Today is the day when these equipment and personnel leave the Medway military port in England and head to the New World on the other side of the ocean.
The military port was heavily guarded inside and outside, and it was still rainy and foggy "good weather." Amid the rain and fog, Kelly F1 or F2 aircraft were being hoisted by the port's large crane to the airship carriers parked on the edge of the pier - those 10,000-ton airship carriers converted from freighters.
Originally, the British Royal Navy wanted to use them to launch airship air strikes. However, due to the large amount of equipment of carrier-based aircraft, the British airships could only undertake high-altitude and long-endurance reconnaissance and warning tasks. The number required was not large. A fleet could carry one Two airship carriers are enough, so many airship carriers that do not have airships to accommodate are converted to accommodate aircraft.
Of course, these 10,000-ton airship carriers can also be used as aircraft carriers. The length of their aviation decks is 80-100 meters, and they can take off and land carrier-based aircraft with a little effort.
However, the speed of these airship carriers is too slow, the fastest is only 13 or 4 knots, which cannot keep up with the main fleet, so if they are exhausted, they can only be used as escort aircraft carriers.
In addition, British Royal Navy pilots have not mastered how to land on the flight deck - landing on a rickety deck less than a hundred meters long in the sea is much more difficult than taking off! Moreover, the British have not yet invented tools to assist landing such as blocking ropes, blocking nets, and landing mirrors.
Therefore, the British Royal Navy can only use a small 200-ton aircraft carrier to carry seaplanes for the time being. In the future, it will be replaced by large aircraft carriers or various aircraft-carrying battleships - those aircraft-carrying battlecruisers and aircraft-carrying battlecruisers built by the Ming Dynasty. Due to the influence of aircraft-based frigates, both the United Kingdom and the United States have now embarked on the evil path of combining battleships, cruisers and aircraft carriers into one... They are currently stepping up efforts to create "stitch monsters" such as carrier-based aircraft and armored cruisers. .
On the pier, the Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington, and Rear Admiral George Elliot, who was about to go to the United States in the name of the head of the Royal Navy Advisory Group, were strolling away in the drizzle. Walking to the edge of the pier, we stopped together while looking at the destroyers, airship carriers and 200-ton displacement aircraft carriers waiting to set off on the sea.
The Duke of Wellington raised his cane and pointed at the ships waiting to set off on the sea. He smiled and asked George Elliot beside him, "George, four airship carriers, 20 fast torpedo boat destroyers, 40 aircraft carriers, 60 aircraft carriers." The planes...are all left to you! There are also 12 Kelly IV airships on their way to the United States. With these, do you have the confidence to do something big in North America?"
"Duke," George Elliot looked less optimistic than the Duke of Wellington, "It is difficult for the Americans to defeat the Mexican-Japanese coalition forces and the Ming Dynasty behind them with these ships and aircraft alone... because the Ming Dynasty They must also be transporting equipment to the Japanese in Mexico and Texas! Although their ships have to go around South America to be sent to the Caribbean, their aircraft, cannons, and ammunition can be transported directly to the west coast of Mexico. The situation is still not optimistic! "
The Duke of Wellington laughed, "George, you haven't understood what I mean. I don't expect you to help the United States completely defeat the Mexican-Japanese coalition. I just want to turn North America into the main player in this world-class war." battlefield!"
"Duke, do you mean to turn North America into the main battlefield?" George Yilu thought for a while, "But the next main target of the Ming Dynasty is probably Australia!"
Duke Wellington nodded and said: "Of course I know where the Ming's next main attack direction will be? But I also know that the Ming will not ignore the Mexican Empire. Because they seem to have known it very well since more than 100 years ago. The potential of North America. So it has been working hard to turn itself into an American country!
After the rise of the United States, Ming Dynasty began to spare no effort to support the Mexican Empire to fight against it. In fact, the Zhuge family of Ming Dynasty never regarded Britain as an opponent. There are only three opponents in their eyes, one is the United States, one is Rakshasa, and the other is the Indian Empire! Only these three countries have the strength to compete with the super empire of Ming in the future!
And our UK... after all, is just a small island country with a population of more than 20 million. It cannot even become the core of a unified Europe, so it is not in their eyes at all.
George, I am very confident about this judgment! Because I have known them more than 30 years ago, whether it is Zhuge Weijiu or Zhuge Youde, I am very familiar with them, and I know what they are thinking! "
George Yilu nodded. In fact, he also knows the thoughts of the Zhuge family... As an elite of the British Royal Navy from a noble family, how could he not understand the Ming Dynasty and the Zhuge family? In fact, his graduation thesis at the Royal Naval Staff College was an analysis of Ming Dynasty's European policy - Ming Dynasty's European policy was the same as that of Britain, which was that it could not allow the unification of Europe or most of it.
This is the reason why they decisively changed their usual pro-French stance and supported Britain and Rakshasa after Napoleon became the Emperor of France!
Thinking of this, George Elliot nodded and said: "Duke, I understand... If the United States severely damages the Mexican-Japanese coalition forces on the Texas battlefield, Ming Dynasty will definitely increase investment, even if they have to invest much more than the United States. It takes more financial and material resources to reverse the war situation in North America, and they will invest it without hesitation! And the more they invest in North America, the less they can use for India and Australia."
