Macho Wars

The entire island capture operation was completely handed over to Dragoon by Howard, and the navy and army deployed could total more than 100,000 people.Dragon understood that this was the experience that Howard arranged for him, and the other party hoped that he could take this opportunity to realize the transformation from "general talent" to "handsome talent".

The old man has worked hard to train his successor, and Dragon knows his gratitude and is determined to perform well.Dragon always felt that as a traverser, knowledge from the earth was the strongest golden finger he had!

No matter what kind of problems he encounters, there are always one or two great gods for him to refer to.

Chapter 533

There are many islands in the coastal area of ​​the empire. There are thousands of islands scattered on the coastline stretching thousands of kilometers, of which more than 100 are inhabited, and 37 are suitable for garrisons to build airports. Both are concentrated on the southeast coast, facing the control area of ​​Firavi, so there are many targets for Dragon to choose.

The difficulty of capturing the island is actually not that great. They have an advantage in the navy and the Marine Corps specializes in amphibious operations. The real difficulty is how to defend.Because their goal is to occupy eleven islands in total, once attacked and defended, regardless of whether the naval fleet is dispersed or concentrated, it will give the western fleet a chance to take advantage of.

From the existing intelligence, we can know that all shipyards in the Firavi control area are working overtime to produce a "large cruiser" and attack submarine.The standard displacement of this large cruiser reaches 7,500 tons, and its tonnage is between the traditional light and heavy cruisers. It is equipped with three triple-mounted 150mm new rapid-fire naval guns, which sacrifice a certain amount of armor and firepower in exchange for the maximum speed. Promote.

From the performance of this warship, it is not difficult to see that its original design purpose was not to prepare for the traditional fleet decisive battle, but more like a kind of "military pirate ship", designed to break the battle.The one with more firepower than her can run faster than her, and can not catch up with and beat her.

Once this new type of warship was launched, it caused a lot of trouble for the Eastern Empire Navy.

Just last month, two of these warships attacked one of their transport fleets. They followed the fleet during the day, and at night they suddenly approached with speed, and they rushed up like a beating.The escorted light cruiser and four second-class destroyers were not rivals at all and were quickly defeated.The two hungry wolves rushed into the fleet and slaughtered the merchant ship that could not fight back.

If it weren't for the fleet's call for help, a battleship that happened to pass nearby was called, and the entire transport fleet was almost wiped out.The arrival of the battleship was only to drive the opponent away. The two high-speed large cruisers turned around and ran away, and the slow battleship could not catch up.

After this incident, the Navy had no choice but to change its strategy, increase the escort of the transport fleet, and install larger-caliber deck guns on the merchant ships, so that they can also have a certain amount of strength to fight back.Some senior navy officials even clamored that we should build similar warships to fight against them.

In response to this problem, Dragon felt that instead of thinking about how to fight on the sea according to traditional thinking, it is better to directly target the port and shipyard.

From its own point of view, the navy does not dare to attack a naval port with large-caliber coastal defense guns and a complete set of coastal defense systems. Those who are confident will not live long.

But the navy's inability to gnaw on these hard bones does not mean that the air force can't do it.

The first target in the Dragoon phase is Teddy Island. This island with a total area of ​​more than 3,700 square kilometers is the third largest island in the southeast coast of the empire. The island has rivers, lakes and fresh water. Abundant reserves.Although there are only a thousand permanent residents, the garrison has a reinforced regiment and built a large fortress.

The reason why Dragun is here is that Teddy Island has the flattest terrain, suitable for the construction of Daxing Airport, and is conveniently located. The Air Force can use this as a foothold to monitor more than two-thirds of the southeast coast. Compress the space of the Western Imperial Navy.

The combat plan was launched in one and a half months. The ground combat units involved in the operation included the Marine Corps’ 1st and 3rd Divisions, the Army’s four infantry divisions, totaling 92,000 men, and the surface ships were all the amphibious fleet and were transferred from the Navy. The first task force composed of elites has a total of 73 warships of various types and 80 freighters, which are used to transport troops and materials.

The air force only had the opportunity to participate in the shipboard of the amphibious fleet. Bombers and transport opportunities were stationed after they had completely captured the island and established an airfield.

After the battle plan was formally confirmed, Dragun summoned the main commanders of these six divisions to the military headquarters for a battle meeting.Oduin, commander of the 95th Division, was the first of the four army divisions to arrive at the meeting.Seeing Dragon, the stubborn old man's face was obviously twitched a few times, and he reluctantly paid a military salute to Dragon first.

Four years ago, when Dragun was a major, Alduin was the commander of the major general, but now that four years have passed, Alduin hasn't changed much, but Dragon flew directly over his head like a rocket.Now he has become his immediate boss and needs to obey the other party's arrangements completely.

Alduin felt even more uncomfortable when he thought of calling him "sir".

However, when I feel unhappy and return to unhappy, my mouth is hard, Alduin has actually recognized the strength of Dragon in his heart. The ability of this young man is indeed far above his age!Seeing Alduin's entangled face, Dragon just smiled, and didn't embarrass the straight, bad-tempered old man.

"Sit down, General Vakkan."

Soon, all the commanders of the six divisions under him were gathered. Dragon looked around, and they were basically old acquaintances in the colony that year. The relationship is not to say how good, but at least they are all familiar.Dragon is not the kind of person who likes to talk nonsense, and goes directly to the topic of this meeting.

The main content of this meeting is to introduce the general process of the island capture operation to the division commanders and to assign their respective tasks by the way.In addition to Teddy Island as the primary target, the operation will also launch an offensive on several other large islands at the same time.

After all, Teddy Island is said to be big. It is only compared to other islands. It is less than four thousand square kilometers in size and no more than one hundred kilometers vertically and horizontally. Throwing up all the troops of six divisions in one breath is purely. I'm afraid that the enemy's shells will not blow up people.

Therefore, the strongest defender, the most difficult bone to gnaw, was handed over by Dragoon to his own marines. In fact, the four infantry divisions, except for the 98th division, were left as the overall preparation because of the latest formation and the worst combat effectiveness. The team was on standby on the ship, and the other three divisions were each responsible for a surrounding island.

After the first four islands are captured, a triangular formation with Teddy Island as the core will be formed.After learning that the island was lost, Firavi should soon be aware of their intentions, and hope to launch a counterattack while their foothold is not stable.

Unsurprisingly, the subsequent battle will be a large-scale naval battle. Firavi is not the kind of person who likes to sit and wait for death, and he is very courageous. Therefore, he is most likely to make a desperate move and directly use all the existing forces of his navy.

Therefore, Dragun also made some careful preparations to give Firavi a big surprise!

Chapter 534 No War in the West

After a month of intense preparations, everything is ready for the island capture operation, and the task force composed of the Navy and Marine Corps is ready for departure in Port Pandora.Such a large-scale military mobilization is naturally inevitable from the eyes and ears of the spies, so long before the fleet departs, an encrypted telegram crosses the ocean and is passed to Firavi, who is far across the sea.

Firawi who got the telegram saw through the intentions of the east at a glance, and the opposite was to seize their islands in the coastal area.Fortunately, he was well prepared. A few months ago, he had begun to strengthen the defense forces of the islands along the southeast coast, with the intention of turning these islands into "unsinkable warships" so that the weaker fleet could rely on these islands to the east. The fleet confrontation.

"Notify our fleet, implement the No. 3 plan, let the fleet leave the port to the open sea in advance, and strengthen the defense forces of each port city, the key is to prepare for air defense!"

In the battle of Red Rock Harbor in the Far East half a year ago, aircraft carriers and carrier-based aviation shocked the world.When the news reached the Western Empire, the civil and military officials in the court were shocked.Firavi urgently asked his scientific research department to give priority to the development of new air defense weapons for fighter jets.Many actual battles have proved that the old heavy artillery is not suitable for use against aircraft.

In this civil war between East and West, although Firavi, who controls most of the empire, has a clear advantage in overall strength, the navy and air force have shortcomings.

In particular, the air force, their surface fleet, at any rate, can still rush up to posture with two moves, fighting asymmetric operations, and the air power is completely crushed.Firavi does not have ready-made airplanes and excellent pilots, and does not have a mature R&D team and production industry. To bridge the gap in this regard, it takes a lot of time and money.

Whenever this happens, Firavi will have resentment towards Dragon who refuses to support him.

"Dragon! The fuck, why..."

Putting down the documents in his hand, Firavi closed his eyes wearily for a while. Since the capture of the imperial capital and proclaiming the emperor, Firavi has been swallowed by a large amount of official affairs every day. The workload is completely different from that of his former commander of the Southeast Military Region Same day.

It was also at this moment that Philavie didn't understand why when he was young, when he asked his father what it was like to be an emperor, the other party would reply with "a word is hard to say".

"How tired!"

Filavi leaned on the chair and muttered to himself. At this time, a pair of powerful hands pressed on his shoulders and massaged him with just the right skill.

Filavi closed his eyes, but the corners of his mouth floated unconsciously.

"Thank you, Barbie."

"You're welcome, my majesty."

Barbie Harov, the daughter of Peterman Harov, the current Minister of Military Affairs of the Western Empire, a woman whom Filavi called the Empress and married, and is now the Queen of the Empire.Looking at her appearance alone, this woman almost runs counter to the current mainstream aesthetics of the empire. She is tall and powerful, with a strong body and strong muscles than many men.

Therefore, the nobles ridiculed her privately as the "monster" of the Harov family, and gave her many embarrassing nicknames, such as "King Kong Barbie", "Old Duke's Steel Ball" and so on.

In order to win over Peterman and the Northwest Military District under his command, Philaviy almost bit the bullet and made the engagement, and further confirmed the rumors among the nobles about him.

However, after the actual contact after marriage for a period of time, Filavi was surprised to find that apart from not being beautiful, this queen can be regarded as perfect in other aspects!

First of all, the personality is very likable, cheerful and feminine, very considerate to Firavi, and caring for him in daily life.

The second is profound knowledge and good literary literacy.

When many people see Barbie’s muscles that can burst a dress, they will subconsciously think that this is a female orangutan with well-developed limbs and simple mind, but in fact it is not. Although Barbie likes to exercise, she also likes to read books, especially listening to classical music. Le, while appreciating the handed down works of literary masters while exercising her biceps, this made her chat with Firavi very speculative.

In Barbie's own words, because she was excluded by the entire upper-class social circle, she instead had a lot of free time to enrich herself by reading.

In short, when the outside world is "sympathizing" with Firavi at the expense of his own personal blessings in order to consolidate his rule, the two parties are on the contrary get along well, and the relationship between husband and wife is very harmonious.

After enjoying his wife's massage in silence for a while, Filavi felt that he was much better, so he opened his eyes and patted the back of Barbie's hand gently, and the other party immediately retreated to the side with his heart.

Filavi had always liked to work alone. The quiet solitary space helped him concentrate and think. The adjutant and the staff were busy in the office outside the door, and they were only called in when needed.But now he is used to having Barbie sitting at the side of the office, and occasionally asks her opinion.

As far as the current situation is concerned, the problems that Firavi has to face are actually no less than Howard's. It is also a tricky mess waiting for him to clean up, and there are many internal and external troubles.

Just last month, the Kingdom of Wieland suddenly provoked friction on the border between the two countries. The border guards of the two sides dispatched a regiment to fight for two days and two nights. More than 200 people died in a ceasefire.