Red Alert Invincible

Xue Lin looked at the time, it was already eleven o'clock in the morning on the 5th.

The Red Guard staff officer in charge of naval liaison immediately took a map of Asia, put it on the table, and explained it to Xue Lin: "Xue Shuai, there are only three ways to go from the Luzon Sea to the East China Sea. "

Saying that, he pointed to the treasure island that had been occupied by the Japanese army and used as a colony, and Chen Zhen, Jiang Baili and others also came over and listened carefully to the explanation of this naval liaison staff officer.

I saw the staff officer nodding left and right on the treasure island: "The distance between the treasure island strait and the sea on the east side is only 120 kilometers. "

Everyone looked at it, and sure enough, on the west side of Treasure Island is the mainland, and the narrowest point is only less than 120 kilometers away from the strait, and the west side is only about 110 kilometers away from Yonaguni Island.

"And the minimum distance in the Ryukyu island chain is 220 kilometers, which can allow our entire fleet to pass safely at night!" he said, pointing to Miyako Island and Okinawa Island in the Ryukyu Island Chain.

"The North Sea Fleet is sailing towards Shanghai at a speed of 15 knots, and it will take about thirty hours to reach Shanghai. "

That is to say, we will be able to reach Shanghai tomorrow night, and we will naturally not be able to fight at night, so we can only wait until the day after tomorrow.

Xue Lin looked at such a long distance and nodded slightly: "I don't know much about the navy, and this naval battle can only be handed over to Lin Yongchang." "

"Lin Yongchang?" Although Jiang Baili is in the army system, the navy has also heard of it, and said with a little surprise: "Could it be the grandson of Lin Zengtai, the former Beiyang Navy Division?"

"Oh, Mr. Baili also knows about him?" Xue Lin looked at Jiang Baili with a little curiosity.

Jiang Baili nodded, as if recalling something, and said slowly: "The Lin family is also a naval general, and most of the children serve in the army, the reason why I know this Lin Yongchang is because he was mentioned by Chen Shaokuan, this Lin Yongchang and his brother Lin Yongjian are very good naval officers, the two graduated from the Yantai Naval Academy first, his brother participated in the Second Fleet, and Lin Yongchang went to the Royal Naval Academy of Britain, and joined the Northeast Navy after returning from his studies.

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Jiang Baili said with a smile: "I didn't expect him to fall under Xue Shuai." "

It seems that the children of the Lin family are also famous in the navy, Xue Lin curled the corners of his mouth, and snorted at Chen Zhen: "Lin Yongchang was also saved with Chen Zhen." "

"Oh, then he ......," Jiang Baili asked in a low voice.

Xue Lin naturally knew what he was asking: "I'm lucky, it's okay, everything is normal." "

"That's good. Otherwise, I'm afraid it will be difficult to explain to Sa Lao. Jiang Baili sighed.

Xue Lin was slightly stunned, and then remembered that Sa Zhenbing, who was an evergreen in the navy, had participated in the First Sino-Japanese War, and he was especially sorry to participate in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, and he was very concerned about the descendants of the dead officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Fleet.

Speaking of which, at this point in time, Sa Lao is 72 years old, and since he stepped down from the post of chief of the navy ten years ago, he has been running charities in Fujian, providing disaster relief and charity, and his prestige in the navy is the highest.

Even the current Vice Minister of the Navy, Chen Shaokuan, is inferior to him.

Thinking of Chen Shaokuan, Xue Lin naturally thought of the First Fleet and the Second Fleet of the Central Navy, the Republic of China Navy isolated in the Shanghai War......

Hey, the navy is not easy, Chairman Chiang does not want to fight a full-scale war, and the navy has two of the most advanced warships built in the island country, even if the entire First Fleet and the Second Fleet fight to the death with the Japanese Third Fleet, it is just a death, except for the Yatsen, the others are basically old ships that have been in service for more than 20 years, and the old ships that have been used since the end of the Qing Dynasty to the present, the largest Hairong is only 3,000 tons.

On the other side, the Japanese Third Fleet had three cruisers of 5,000 tons, as well as the Izumo cruiser with a displacement of nearly 10,000 tons, the 27,000-ton Kaga aircraft carrier, and the 7,400-ton Hosho aircraft carrier.

The gap between the navies of the two countries is too great to win, no matter how you look at it, it is impossible to win.

But it is absolutely impossible to let the Republic of China Navy fleet look on coldly as in history, so Xue Lin has already ordered Lin Yongchang, commander of the North Sea Fleet, to be fully responsible for the battle in Shanghai, and I believe that as a naval man, Lin Yongchang will use his own methods to persuade Chen Shaowan to join the battlefield with the two fleets.

After Xue Lin was concerned about the war in the south, he waved his hand and asked the staff officer to continue to contact the navy, and then discussed the draft attack on Port Arthur with Jiang Baili and Chen Zhen again.

And thousands of miles away in the waters of Luzon.

On the vast and boundless blue sea, a huge fleet is sailing towards the north, and countless petrels and warship birds in the sky are looking curiously at this fleet flying the star-striped flag of the United States.

In the diagonal formation, two huge battleships lined up at the head, followed by two slightly smaller ones, and at the end of the fleet, an aircraft carrier, on the left and right sides of the formation, and two smaller but extremely fast warships.

On the huge ship at the head, Lin Yongchang was in the steel corridor outside the bridge, blowing the salty sea breeze, looking at the huge fleet behind him, and his blood was surging.

He never imagined that he would one day lead such a huge fleet!

The North Sea Fleet has one battleship, one battlecruiser, two heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, and an aircraft carrier temporarily converted from merchant ships!

Although there is a lack of many warships supporting other fleets, such as minesweepers, destroyers, etc., such a fleet with a total tonnage of 130,000 tons alone is enough to rank among the top three in East Asia!

And what made him even more excited was that when the warship was released and named at the Nanyang sub-base, Xue Shuai ordered the battleship Bavaria and the battlecruiser Prestige respectively - Zhenyuan and Dingyuan!

Subsequently, the rest of the fleet was named after the warships that had disappeared in the Beiyang Fleet, two 10,000-ton New Orleans heavy cruisers were named Jingyuan and Laiyuan, two 8,000-ton Königsberg-class light cruisers were named Jingyuan and Laiyuan, and the 20,000-ton merchant ship temporarily converted aircraft carrier was named Yang Wei.

It seems that the Beiyang Fleet, which dominated Asia at the beginning, has returned!

But this time, we're no longer in captivity!

Xue Shuai has already given me full command of the battle in Shanghai, and it is up to me to decide how to fight!

Lin Yongchang clenched his fists, and his heart was full of alternating feelings.

North Sea Fleet:

Battleships: Zhenyuan Battleship, Dingyuan Battlecruiser,

Heavy cruisers: Jingyuan heavy cruisers, Laiyuan heavy cruisers

Light cruisers: Zhiyuan light cruiser, Jingyuan light cruiser

Aircraft carrier: Yang Wei seaplane carrier (25 carrier-based aircraft)

Total fleet personnel: 6500 people

Because of the scarcity of naval personnel, less than 4,000 Red Alert soldiers were assigned to these seven warships, while the remaining 2,000 or so were naval personnel who had been stepping up their training after being withdrawn from the National Training Center.

Moreover, these personnel only serve as some boilers, cooks, machine gunners, emergency damage management personnel, etc., and the core of the warship is served by the Red Alert Navy soldiers.

Even so, Xue Lin had to send out nearly 4,000 people to start this huge fleet, plus more than 4,000 Red Alert soldiers from the army and air force, he had completely used up his recruitment ceiling!