Holy Roman Empire - Chapter 1136

After the artillery fire in Tokyo Bay, only wreckage was left all over the floor. The Japanese people were busy clearing the ruins, and the scene looked particularly miserable.

As the saying goes: “Vengeance is not overnight”. With the defeat of the Malacca naval battle, the Japanese navy lost its sea power, and the Spanish navy immediately killed it.

Intercepting merchant ships and cannon fodder ports has now become a routine job for the Spanish Navy. It seems that I feel uncomfortable if I do something in a day.

Perhaps it was because of hatred, or perhaps it was to solve the Philippine security problem once and for all. In the course of fighting against Japan, the Spaniards were particularly eye-catching.

In this context, the Japanese are naturally pour out blood mold. The Japanese people, who are in panic, are panicking now.

It’s just that the imaginary Shen Luo liquidation did not wait, but the Spaniard’s revenge came first.

If it is possible to protect against the Russians with Shinra, the Tokyo government and the Spaniards have nothing to talk about.

One is on the far east and the other is on the west, separated by a series of countries. Whether the Russian Empire is mixed well or poorly, it has nothing to do with Spain.

Not only do the two sides have no sphere of influence, but even in international trade, disputes of interest rarely occur.

The days of Emperor Meiji have been very difficult recently. How to get rid of the entanglement of Spain has become the biggest problem for the Japanese government.

Xiyuan Temple Gongwang: “In the past half month, we have successively lost hundreds of large and small ships. Now even the fishing boats dare not leave the port, and the foreign trade line is almost completely interrupted.

Affected by this, domestic prices have risen sharply, and some industrial raw materials have even been out of stock.

Especially when the frontline is still fighting, without local material support, the frontline troops may not be able to support it for long.

If we don’t take action and allow the Spaniards to looting like this, I am afraid that the empire will…”

The word “collapse” still didn’t say it. However, from the nervous look of everyone, it may be seen that the smart people present have completed their brain supplements.

Everyone is aware of the danger, but how to solve the problem is a big problem.

The navy can’t count on it. The battle of Malacca has disrupted the backbone of the Japanese navy. The lucky ones who have escaped a catastrophe have not yet emerged from the panic.

What’s more, the battleship is now annihilated. With just a bunch of auxiliary warships, leaving the port now is to contribute to the enemy’s record.

Foreign Minister Kazuyuki Inoue: “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has tried its best. We have contacted the Spanish, but they never talked to us.

In order to solve the problem, we even communicated with the Vienna government. They acquiesced in our continued attack on the Russian Empire, but this did not include restraining Spain.

The Vienna government made it clear that the war had broken out. Spain, as the main member of the Continental Alliance, has the power to attack any country in the hostile forces. “

The rules of the game are so cruel and ruthless. Although the Vienna government can solve the problem with a hello, the Japanese are not enough.

The smoke of the Malacca naval battle has just dissipated, and the blood of each other is stained with each other. It is impossible to say that you do not hate.

The Vienna government did not retaliate immediately. It was all about the overall situation. How could it be possible to ask Spain about the trivial matter of revenge against the Japanese.

I can’t stand it because I don’t have the skills. I can’t even pass Spain. I’m afraid it is not realistic to suppress Russia.

Unable to help the Holy Roman Empire suppress the Russian Empire, Japan lost its value of existence. Once a chess piece loses its use value, it is discarded.

In order to preserve Japan and its own prosperity and wealth, the Japanese government must solve the current troubles and prove that its existence is valuable.

“It is not impossible to deal with Spanish warships. In the Malacca naval battle, the enemy used air force bombing, and we can also follow suit.

If it really doesn’t work, they recruited a death squad, strapped bombs to the plane, and hit the enemy warship directly.

Spain has decayed, and it is very reluctant to maintain the current naval size, and they cannot afford to lose. “

Although Shanxian Youpeng’s proposal is cruel, it is generally true. Without fighting for human lives, the current Japanese navy is simply not an enemy’s opponent.

Although playing a death squad cannot defeat the Spanish navy, at least it can dare the Spaniards to go and restore the trade lines in the Far East.

Opposition is impossible. In Japan these days, the least valuable thing is human life. As long as the problem can be solved, no matter how many deaths, there will be no pressure for everyone.

This kind of decision that needs to bear infamy in the future naturally cannot allow the Emperor to participate. Prime Minister Katsutaro Katsuya, a professional backer, immediately made a decision: “Okay, just do it!

No matter what method you use, as long as the Spanish navy is driven out of the seas of Japan, it will be the greatest victory!

In this autumn of life and death, I hope you can let go of your prejudices and work together to overcome difficulties. “

Obviously, the last sentence is for the military. Although the government also has infighting, it is far less intense than that of the army and the navy.

After the Battle of Malacca, the Japanese navy, which had the upper hand in the struggle, was directly trampled underfoot by the army.

Nowadays, the popular stories that insult the navy are mostly organized by the army, and the main purpose is to defile the navy.

Katsutaro, who originally came from the army, should have followed suit, but as the prime minister of Japan, he must consider the overall situation.

In any case, Japan is an island country. Since it is an island country, it is destined to be inseparable from the navy.

Especially the fall of the Spanish navy made Katsura realize the importance of the navy. If we continue to suppress the navy, I am afraid Japan will have no future.

As for the effect, it depends on whether everyone’s mind is clear. Anyone who realizes the importance of sea power will not kill the navy.

Military justice is not completely without merits, not only in terms of efficiency, but also a lot of catching up with democratic countries; even the dead are also a lot.

As soon as the news of recruiting pilots to crash into warships spread, there was a long queue at the recruitment sites. Unfortunately, there is a threshold for a pilot, not everyone can be a pilot, and it can only fail everyone’s enthusiasm.

The more they were dismissed, the more motivated everyone was to sign up. Just like the latter part of World War II, many pilots were forced by public opinion and had to sign up for the death squad.

Driven by the butterfly effect, the well-known “Kamikaze Special Agent Team” has thus stepped onto the stage of history in advance.

Then, there is no more. There is no experience to talk about the plane crashing into a warship, and there is no way to talk about training.

As long as one head knocks it down, regardless of whether it hits the target, even the human and the machine will be finished together.

…

On March 16, 1905, the East African Front Army of Shenluo attacked Djibouti, and the remaining British forces were forced to lay down their weapons and surrender. The East African campaign ended.

Suddenly, the Cape of Good Hope became Britain’s last stronghold on the African continent, and the pressure on the London government suddenly increased.

Below an inconspicuous building, the air-raid shelter temporarily renovated is the British government conference room.

The meeting room was too late to be decorated because of the rush to the construction period. Perhaps for beauty, or perhaps for convenience, military maps are hung on the surrounding walls.

Even in the center of the desk, there is a huge sand table. Standing in it is like being in a military command, but this is indeed a government conference room.

The military style of the interior was forced out by the war. Since the outbreak of the war, the main responsibility of the British government has changed from governing the country to serving the war.

Colonial Secretary Koman: “We can’t let this go on! If we don’t take action, we will lose Africa forever.”

Without Africa, there is at least one Madagascar. However, an isolated island obviously cannot be compared to the same continent.

Once the Cape of Good Hope falls, the route from Britain to the Indian Ocean will be suspended.

Although it is possible to make a detour, but when you open the map, you will know that this time you are going to make a detour.

Without supplies from India, Britain can only rely entirely on the Americas. From the perspective of overall strategy, this is undoubtedly extremely fatal.

Everyone knows that it is important to keep the Cape of Good Hope, but no one can accurately answer what method should be used to keep the Cape of Good Hope.

“The War Department has sent reinforcements, but to keep the Cape of Good Hope, the cooperation of the Logistics Department, the Navy and the Air Force is needed.”

It’s not that Marcus wants to throw the pot away, it’s because the Cape of Good Hope situation is special. Not only is the wind and waves strong, but it also lacks water.

In later generations, Cape Town is known as “the world’s most water-scarce city”. Although it is not that serious now, after being cut off from the outside water supply, it is still difficult to meet the demand with groundwater alone.

In the last South African war, the Cape Town colonial government experienced the taste of water shortage, and even used ships to transport fresh water to the front line in the middle.

Lessons learned after the war, the colonial government increased its fresh water reserves. But bureaucrats are best at three-minute heat.

To reserve the domestic water for hundreds of thousands of people is not something that a few reservoirs can handle. This requires a lot of manpower and material resources and is a long-term investment.

Except for the popularity and high attention of the first governor after the war, subsequent successors were not interested in this thankless project.

The plan is huge, investment is large, and the duration is long. The key is not to make political achievements. Even if the construction of the underground water storage project is completed, everyone has little intuition.

Instead of filling this bottomless pit, it is better to spend money on urban construction and improve transportation. At least these are all things that everyone can see.

Anyway, as long as no war breaks out, Cape Town will not be short of water. Smart bureaucrats naturally know how to choose.

But now that the war has broken out, with the continuous shrinking of the defense line, the lack of water resources has also become a problem that plagues the Cape Town defenders.

What is even more tragic is the rampant activities of the enemy’s air force, looting overhead every day, and ships entering the port during the day are like robberies.

If the logistics problem is not solved, even if reinforcements are sent in, it will only increase the enemy’s record.

Feeling the attention of everyone, Air Minister Attilio waved his hand helplessly: “Don’t look at me like this, everyone knows the situation of the Air Force. If we can suppress the enemy, we won’t be so passive.”

The safety of the London sky cannot be guaranteed, let alone the Cape of Good Hope. Even if the fighter planes were transferred, it would be delayed for a few more days at most, and the defeat would still not change.

The defense of the Cape of Good Hope itself is a short blow. When confronting the Holy Roman Empire on land, Attilio was totally disinterested.

No matter how important the Cape of Good Hope is, if you can’t win, you can’t win. Britain can send reinforcements, as can the enemy.

For a time, the shadow of failure flooded everyone’s hearts. For the first time, everyone thought carefully about the possible consequences of losing the war.

Seeing everyone’s dignified expressions, after hesitating again and again, the Secretary of Military Sigmund slowly said: “There is even worse. According to the news from our intelligence personnel lurking in the Holy Roman Empire, the enemy is planning a landing operation.

The specific combat plan is currently unclear. However, we can roughly infer that the enemy is preparing to let the navy and air force work together to cover the landing of the army.

If the enemy’s air superiority cannot be destroyed, the Royal Navy has to intercept the enemy’s landing, and the risk is very high.

Maybe this is a trap, deliberately lure the main force of our navy to a specific battlefield, with the help of the air force to encircle and destroy. “

True and false, false and true. Since the war, neither side has transmitted false information to the other side.

Only this time is different. Once the enemy conducts a landing operation, even if it knows that it may be a trap, the Royal Navy can only bite the bullet.

Yangmou is so terrible, knowing that there are holes, you must step on it. The British government cannot bet on the safety of the British Isles.

If the Royal Navy does not send out an interception, the enemy will do it. Once the enemy landed successfully, the Ocean Alliance would immediately fall apart.

Regardless of how tightly we were **** before, and the benefits involved, we still have to fly separately at the moment of life and death.

In fact, if it were not for the inconvenience of information transmission these years, all countries were just immersed in the reputation of Britain in the past, and the specific situation is not clear. I am afraid that some people have already begun to cut meat and stop losses.

Jumping off the ship early is dangerous, but it is also more likely than struggling for life after the ship sinks.

Without the support of allies behind, and relying only on the strength of the British Empire, once it enters the stage of close combat, failure is a matter of time.

Secretary of the Navy Swinding said fiercely: “This must be the enemy’s conspiracy against the Royal Navy. Landing before obtaining sea power is a risk in itself.

Even if the enemy has air supremacy, the air force is not omnipotent, and it is still difficult to cover the landing of the army.

The surface hull is inconvenient to dispatch, and submarines can also be used. If we sink a troop carrier casually, the troops of a regiment are gone. No one can ignore such a loss.

If it is really urgent, we can follow the example of the Japanese and organize death squads to hit enemy ships with planes.

One person, one aircraft, one bomb for one ship, we…”

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