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    The news of Japan's secret mobilization announced the complete breakdown of peace in the Far East.

    So the day after arriving in West Borneo, Dai Yunong and Zhuang Meisheng convened the Chamber of Commerce to mobilize.  Whether it was the overseas Chinese who had just evacuated or the local businessmen in West Borneo, they all took active action after learning that the war was about to break out around them.  Du Yuesheng also took advantage of the opportunity to resettle evacuated overseas Chinese to build dormitories, warehouses and airports in Pontianak and other places, and built fortifications and positions in important areas to prepare for the entry of domestic troops.  He also organized all the factories in West Borneo, took the initiative to contact the country, and invested in the vast arms manufacturing.  Zhang Haidong also immediately gathered the security teams that were scattered across the country to conceal the British and Dutch information, conducted unified training in Pontianak, and began to form a militia group.  According to his plan, at least 30,000 reserves should be organized before the war begins in Japan, so as to ensure that there will be sufficient second-line supplementary force after the main domestic troops are stationed.

    The country also took advantage of the opportunity of evacuation of overseas Chinese to continuously transport supplies, weapons and ammunition to West Borneo for advance reserve. It also brought hundreds of anti-aircraft guns for the first time to prevent sudden attacks by Japanese aircraft.  Now the eyes of Britain and the Netherlands are all on Japan, and they all hope to unite with Beijing, so they have adopted a tacit attitude towards this kind of action.  At the same time, the Second Fleet also took action. It will include two Taiwan Island-class heavy cruisers, two Tumenjiang-class light cruisers, 12 destroyers and 16 submarines deployed to the Natuna base for the first time, and will be strengthened again.  The base's air defense force also changed the Snake fighter jet into the sea-going Li Feng fighter jet, and increased the number of dive bombers and twin-engine heavy bombers.  Originally, Bingwen wanted to send two Anhai-class battleships to station, but after all, Natuna is not Honolulu and lacks a good port to station a large fleet, so this scale is already the maximum capacity of the current base.  And this is based on controlling the security of West Borneo. If West Borneo is lost, Natuna cannot be defended no matter what.  Of course, if you can take the Anambas Islands which have good deep water bays.  It can ensure the stationing of the Grand Fleet, but it is still controlled by the British.

    Britain, it really controls too much good territory.  Yang Qiu picked up the tea cup and took a sip. Looking at the Anambas Islands that he had rejected, he secretly cried out a few words of pity.  Then he turned to look at Song Ziqing and Jiang Fangzhen, who had come to discuss military affairs, and asked: "How do you arrange Zhang Haidong's security team? What else is missing in West Borneo?"

    "Thank you, madam."

    Song Ziqing took the black tea from Lu Bicheng, moistened his throat and replied: "When the security team was first established, it was based on the standards of the Marine Corps, and the officers were all selected from the Marine Corps. So what Chen Shaokuan and I meant was to wait for Japan to go to war.  After that, they were officially organized into the Third Marine Division. Now there is no shortage of human resources in West Borneo. Shipbuilding and steelmaking are complete, but the scale is slightly smaller. I have already said hello to Li Shixing, and he will take advantage of the recent evacuation of overseas Chinese.  , in the name of the Ministry of Transportation, to deliver supplies to Borneo in advance. Our plan is to dispatch the Second Marine Division, the Army's Eleventh Army, the 17th Independent Brigade, and the Air Force's three mixed combinations in the name of protecting overseas Chinese immediately after the war.  The team landed in West Borneo from Singkawang and Pontianak at the same time.¡±

    "Six divisions. One brigade. Have the transportation capacity been arranged?"

    "Since the beginning of the year, a total of 11 ro-ro ships, 161 10,000-ton ships and 7 oil-water ships have been delivered. I have seized these ships in the name of national defense requisition and concentrated them near Guangzhou, Zhanjiang and Qinzhou. In this way, the 11th Army can  Get on board nearby. Coupled with the temporarily mobilized transport ships, we can gather more than 400 ocean-going ships in at most half a month to ensure the first batch of transportation tasks." Song Ziqing's plan is still very solid, not to mention that he has already started to stockpile  Materials, four hundred transport ships alone can ensure the delivery of about 2.5 million tons of materials, equipment and ammunition at a time.  It can ensure that six or seven divisions fight several tough battles.  But West Borneo is not the main target after all. Yang Qiu is more worried about distant Saudi Arabia and continues to ask: "After the war, Japan will definitely attack Sumatra first, Malaya, Singapore, Thailand and Myanmar. There is a high probability that the Strait of Malacca will be cut off."  Big! Once something happens to Iran after the strait is blocked, how are you going to respond?"

    Song Ziqing said: "The worst possibility is to lose Saudi Arabia, but our country's current oil reserves have reached 100 million barrels, and the domestic oil fields can basically meet the needs of the war, so even if we lose it, it will not have much impact. But the president can rest assured that he wants to lose it  Saudi Arabia is not that simple! We have been stockpiling supplies in Saudi Arabia since last year and shipped a large number of trucks, ammunition and spare parts in the name of Gulf Oil Company. This is the first step, and the second step is the prepositioned ship method you proposed  . You see, this is Anpu Port deep in the Leizhou Peninsula. The Navy has already deployed 66 10,000-ton bulk ships filled with tanks, armored vehicles, weapons and ammunition according to your idea of ??pre-positioning ships here. From now to the end of the year,  There are 51 10,000-ton ships to be delivered, and they will all be filled with cargo and driven here to be temporarily sealed as pre-positioned ships. As long as Japan starts war, the Second Fleet will escort these pre-positioned ships to pass through Malacca ahead of Japan and go to  Addu Atoll, Maldives.¡±

      Prepositioning ships is a means of later U.S. global naval strategy. In order to achieve rapid intervention, cargo is loaded in advance and then sealed together with the ship, so that complex and time-consuming shipping time can be reduced.  Of course, the United States' prepositioned ships need to be supported by huge industrial capabilities, because prepositioning the ship means preparing two sets of equipment and supplies.  The current Republic of China certainly does not dare to be so wasteful, and there is no opportunity to deploy pre-positioned ships in major strategic ports around the world for the time being. However, before knowing that a war is about to break out, pre-positioning weapons, equipment and supplies for hundreds of cargo ships is not a big problem.  .  So Song Ziqing continued: "Although the Indian Ocean is the traditional sphere of influence of the United Kingdom, there is nothing they can do as long as we hide in Addu Atoll. But in my opinion, we don't need to hide for too long, because the news has been sent back from Moscow.  Stalin was very happy when he heard that we bombed the Balikpapan oil fields, and he convened a meeting with senior officers from the Caspian and Caucasus fronts that night. He was probably preparing to take advantage of the unrest in Malacca when Japan moved south to eat Iran in one bite."

    "This method of pre-positioning ships is very good." After hearing this, Jiang Fangzhen pointed his thumb at the side and said with a smile: "Adu Atoll is 70 kilometers from north to south and 50 kilometers from east to west. It can avoid strong winds above level 8. How many people can park in the atoll?  Hundreds of ships. The Navy currently has an aviation group and a water reconnaissance squadron deployed there, with 200,000 tons of fuel and sufficient ammunition in reserve. There are also 6 destroyers responsible for patrolling the Indian Ocean. The radar station equipment has been transported and can be used at any time.  It can be set up. In addition, the Second Fleet is preparing to send two aircraft carriers to protect the fleet. Unless Britain and Japan take the initiative to attack us, there will not be much trouble. As long as we wait for news from Iran, we can immediately set off for Saudi Arabia.  In this way, soldiers can take the air route from Kashgar to Saudi Arabia, saving the time and trouble of transporting heavy equipment."

    Yang Qiu was happy to hear the news about the Soviet army, but Malacca was related to whether Malacca could quickly send troops to Saudi Arabia in the name of protecting oil after the Soviet Union moved south. Even if there were prepositioned ships, they could only ensure the first batch of supplies, so he did not dare to have any  Any slight, asked: "Do you think Japan will immediately block Malacca from us after taking action?"

    Song Ziqing shook his head: "It depends on when the Soviet army will go south. If it is the middle of next year, Japan will definitely not come to trouble. Because since the Japanese military headquarters is determined to go south, at least ten of the current twenty divisions will be used.  . The thirty divisions mobilized this time will take at least half a year from recruitment to training. Considering the transportation capacity required for deployment, at least two to three months will be added. In other words, this wave of mobilized troops  We have to wait at least until the end of October next year before we go to the battlefield. Therefore, this period is the weakest time for Japan, Korea and the mainland! No matter how stupid the Japanese military headquarters is, they still know that Malacca is our lifeblood, and we will hit whoever cuts it off! So as long as it is not  You're stupid. During this period, he must have tried his best to make friends with us. If they really block the Strait of Malacca, huh! I wouldn't mind fighting first." After being the Minister of Defense for decades, Song Ziqing watched the National Defense Force grow from weak to strong.  They have grown up little by little, so not only are they not nervous, but they secretly expect Japan to block the strait first, so that they can legitimately seize Singapore and Sumatra.

    "Haha, it seems that Ziqing was led astray by that guy Yue Peng." Jiang Fangzhen laughed, stood up, took two steps and thought about it before saying, "The bombing of Balikpapan has shown Japan our country's advantages in aviation. It can't be done any more."  You have to be patient before making up for your shortcomings. It can be confirmed that once the Japanese army takes action, it will be swept away with thunderous force. Malaya and other places will not be spared. As for the Philippines and Singapore, whether we fight or not depends on the relationship between us and the United States.  What an attitude. But now the British army has a total of 130,000 troops in Singapore and Malaya. It should be no problem to defend it for a few months."

    How many months?  Yang Qiu didn't want to attack Jiang Fangzhen. In his opinion, if the British army could hold off for a month, it would be unreasonable.  The key now is what to do in Singapore!  If Singapore is captured before Japan, Japan will definitely fight against itself at all costs. If it gives up and fights again in the future, it will not be able to ensure the security of the strait.

    Just when he was thinking about how to deal with it, Lu Bicheng suddenly walked in, holding a telegram in his hand: "Chen Hua, this is an urgent telegram from Shaochuan." Hearing that it was a telegram from Gu Weijun, Yang Qiu couldn't pay attention.  The two of them were still nearby and grabbed it.  Before Song Ziqing and Jiang Fangzhen understood what was going on, they saw the corners of his mouth suddenly curved, and couldn't help but look at Lu Bicheng who came in with some newspapers: "Madam, what happened?"

    Lu Bicheng said: "It was Shaochuan who sent it back from Paris. It was said that Britain and France had compromised and signed the Munich Agreement with Germany to cede the Sudetenland without the presence of representatives of the Czech government."

    "A bunch of idiots!"

    Hearing this, Jiang Fangzhen no longer cared about etiquette, and slapped the table and cursed regardless of Lu Bicheng's presence.  Although the Sudetenland crisis was so intense that Chamberlain could not even take care of the Far East for the time being, this outcome was really difficult for soldiers like them to accept.  With superior military strength and superior strength, they actually compromising with Germany. The British Empire has lost the face of hundreds of years!  ¡­(To be continued.)
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