"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, reporting on 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 weak as much help as they can.
After all, with such a tall man standing in front of him, others would have an easier time, right? This is a way to save yourself, although it doesn't seem so aboveboard.
Transport ships doing business from all over the world gather at Linshui. These ships have radios on them. They will report some news to their own countries, or just say a few words when communicating.
For example, let's express our feelings about how beautiful the new battleship of the Tang Navy is. After all, it is a giant ship with a displacement of more than 40,000 tons. This kind of telegram will be used by the intelligence agencies of other countries and sent to mirage countries to sell favors.
"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has judged from the pressure that the main force of the Tang Navy has left Mirage, but he did not know that it had withdrawn.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 Imperial Navy that has such weapons.
As a naval general, he fully understands the significance of aircraft carriers as a new weapon. Just relying on a new branch of naval aviation that 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 the Mirage Kingdom, nor does it mean that the grassroots operations of the Mirage Kingdom were not brave enough. It is just that the Tang people were too cunning, and the Tang Kingdom's technology was too advanced, beyond their expectations.
But this is a war, and it doesn’t matter who is responsible. This war to destroy the country must still be fought. The Mirage State is doing everything possible to gather intelligence on the Tang Navy fleet. They must ensure that they have enough preparations for the next landing.
"A large number of transport ships are being dispatched, but they are rarely gathered 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 Wuzhong was still working very hard in the battle of destruction of the Great South Bay. The place probably has not fully recovered yet.
As a result, the Tang Army will not be able to use the Great South Bay in a short time, so the new batch of landing fleets can only set off from Beiyuan and Linshui areas.
"That is to say, there are at least fifteen days to a month left!" Mirage Haiping made a more specific judgment.
His speculation was actually very accurate. According to the internal plan of the Tang Dynasty's senior officials, the Tang Dynasty would transform 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 Tang Empire's transport fleets there. If... he has a few submarines, he can greatly delay the Tang army's mobilization of supplies. If... he has a fleet and appears here at this time, the other party will definitely feel extremely 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 for the Tang Navy as possible.
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 it or copy it. Even if it’s too late now, what if we can catch up?
Secondly, he is working hard to build small speedboats. These speedboats equipped with gasoline engines are very fast, small in size, and filled with explosives. The highlight is a "suicide attack."
In fact, he also made a series of modifications to the design based on his own experience: I have to say 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. .
Coupled with the flexible movement of the boat, the possibility of being sunk at medium and long distances is still relatively small. As for the close range... It's almost a collision. It doesn't matter how many ships are sunk, right?
All the small boats were loaded with more than a ton of explosives. Judging purely from the explosive yield, the power was indeed quite large. But the problem is not without it, that is, the small boats used for impact are not cannonballs. These explosives cannot explode inside the warship, nor do they 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 modify than aircraft. In the past two months, the Mirage 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 is too slow to train pilots: 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, the Mirage tried its best to increase the total production of Zero fighter jets. These aircraft also require fuel support.
Although the Mirage lost nearly 200 aircraft in the suicide operation, many of those aircraft were Dragon-Slaying bombers, and now the Dragon-Slaying bombers have almost been discontinued.
Who would produce a useless and slow dragon-slaying bomber if they knew that their bombers could not carry out the bombing mission? It would be better to save productivity and build a more advanced Zero fighter.
Although the Zero fighter is actually lagging 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 driver. Even if it is to carry out 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 kind of aircraft that was more fragile and had 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 defenses.
Firewood and soil were widely used. Most of the trenches were reinforced with locally sourced wood on both sides, and wooden roofs were added 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 hammers to tamp the soil around the bunker, and some also piled a large number of sandbags between the soil and the wooden support mechanism.
Because there were too many similar bunkers 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 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 were newly produced, and others were transferred from the island. In addition to air defense, many of these artillery are also responsible for anti-tank tasks.
According to the new island anti-landing operation plan drawn up by Mirage Wuk, Mirage's remaining "navy" will cooperate with the army to fight. During the Tang army's landing, they will conduct joint raids from the sky, beach, and sea to defeat the arrogant and arrogant army. Tang Expeditionary Army.
(End of chapter)
