Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

The young staff officer named Geng Junyi pointed out that although the Kingdom of Sumatra is an archipelago country with 1.7 islands in the entire kingdom, the largest and strategically important island in the entire kingdom has only five islands in total.

Moreover, these five islands are also the center of the entire Kingdom of Sumatra. As long as these five islands are occupied, it will be much more convenient to use these five islands as the core and expand to the surrounding areas.

And throughout the Kingdom of Sumatra, there are many small or micro islands. The strategic significance is not great, and whether the empire occupies it or not does not affect subsequent plans.

In addition, the empire has absolute sea control in the Western Pacific, so Geng Junyi proposed that the empire only needs to conquer the main islands, abandon other non-important islands, and strengthen maritime patrols to completely control the Kingdom of Sumatra.

Because those small or micro islands either have no people or lack of supplies, they need to transport supplies to the medium and large islands. As long as the big islands are controlled and sea transportation is cut off, the other small islands will be destroyed.

When the other staff heard what Geng Junyi said, they all felt that it made sense, and then they wrote this opinion into a plan and submitted it to Lin Yi and Pan Chengzhang.

When Lin Yi got the plan, he suddenly thought of a term, which was the "island hopping" tactic.

The island hopping tactic is a new tactic used in the Pacific battlefield by the American five-star General MacArthur in the original world.

In the original world, the Sakura Kingdom deployed heavy troops on the Southeast Asian island chain and implemented a layer-by-layer defense approach in order to delay the Millican attack.

If Sakura Country envisions it, it will take one to two years for Milician to break through the defenses of these island chains. And this time is enough for Sakura Country to take a breather after losing the Battle of Midway.

However, MacArthur did not want to give Sakura Country this chance. He wanted to defeat Sakura Country quickly and end the war as soon as possible.

Therefore, he proposed that on the premise of having absolute sea control, he would directly bypass the defense points of Sakura Country, and then only attack the weak islands behind their defense points.

As a result, it took Millijan just a few months to break through Sakura Country's carefully arranged island chain defenses.

The army pressed forward and came to the mainland of Sakura Country. The Kwantung Army was also defeated by Da Maozi. Finally, coupled with the unique ability of Tianhuang, the contemporary Tianhuang of Sakura Country, to surrender directly.

Anyway, to sum it up in one sentence, it was precisely because of the invention of the island hopping tactic that this was an important reason for the rapid collapse of the Sakura Empire.

Although the tactics proposed by Geng Junyi are not the same as the island hopping tactics, we can still see the prototype of the island hopping tactics.

It's just that one wants to avoid the truth and bypass the opponent's defense points, while the other wants to do the opposite and focus on attacking the opponent's defense points. But the principles are the same.

And the Empire now has prerequisites that can be implemented.

First of all, in this world, except for the empire's aircraft, other countries are still in the experimental stage, while the empire's air force has been formed and can be put into actual combat.

Therefore, in terms of air control, the empire's ability to control the air is undoubtedly the best in the world.

As for sea control, there is no fleet in the entire Pacific that can fight against the empire. Who do you think holds sea control?

Now that we have sea control and air control, coupled with elite soldiers, there are prerequisites for implementing island hopping tactics.

So, after Lin Yi read the plan, he signed his name and approved the plan.

The combat plan signed by Lin Yi was named "Golden Toad Plan" by the military ministry.

To be honest, Lin Yi didn't know if it was because a large number of officers in the military department had studied abroad before, so this group of officers always liked to give advice when formulating some important battle plans. These plans have a strange name.

For example, this time they came up with the "Golden Toad Plan" for the island hopping plan. The previous train artillery attack on the Twin Cities was called the "Hammer Plan."

There is also a beach landing for the second battlefield in Southeast Asia. They call it the "Canary Plan."

Lin Yi initially thought about whether to correct their habit of naming names randomly, but then he thought that by naming them randomly, they could disrupt the possibility of enemy agents' exploration plans and reduce the chance of exposure. In the end, he just Let them be.

Then again, when Xue Dingshan got the message from the military headquarters, he was asked to immediately lead the army to turn around and go south to the Gulf of Siam. And took a boat in the Gulf of Siam to directly attack the Kingdom of Sumatra.

Xue Dingshan was very puzzled. He had obviously said that he would go to war with the Kingdom of John before, so why did he suddenly know that he was going to fight the Kingdom of Sumatra under the control of the Netherlands?

However, since this order was issued by the military headquarters, Xue Dingshan did not dare to delay.

He directly mobilized the 5st, 12nd, [-]rd, [-]th, and [-]th divisions of the Longxiang Army, [-] divisions, a total of [-] people, and transferred to the Gulf of Siam to wait for the transport ship of the imperial fleet.

The Imperial Fleet stationed in the Strait of Malacca, after leaving half of the battleships to continue stationed in Malacca, dispatched a Qin-class battleship and a Han-class battleship as the main force, leading 12 cruisers and 20 destroyers to form a special fleet and began to assist Long. The Xiang army landed in the Kingdom of Sumatra.

In early September 1913, the special fleet arrived in the northern waters of Kalimantan.

Kalimantan is the largest island in the Kingdom of Sumatra, covering an area of ​​74 square kilometers, but has a population of less than [-] million.

The inhabitants of the island are mainly Han people, Dayaks, Malays, Banchars, and a very small number of Bugis, Javanese, and Bajau people. Among them, Dayaks have the largest number and are the native race of the local people. .

However, the level of enlightenment of these people is very low. Most of them are still in a relatively primitive era and have almost no scientific research ability.

But those with the highest level of education are the Han people. Although these Han people came to Kalimantan for a long and short time. The longest one is that they immigrated here in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty. Others have only arrived in recent decades.

However, these Han people were more or less friendly towards Daxia.

The Dayaks, who were the most numerous, were the least concerned. Because for others, they can only serve as low-cost labor and do some simple manual work.

Those who were hostile to Daxia were several other tribes.

As for the reason, it is very simple. He is just jealous of the wealth of the Han people. He often follows the Dutch and wants to rob the local Han people.

What needs to be added here is that there was actually a country led by Han people on the island of Kalimantan, but it was destroyed by the Dutch in 1888.

However, with the support of Fang Xiao's powerful intelligence agency, the empire still found the descendants of this country.

Speaking of which, it must be lucky.

Last year, in 1912, Daxia officially participated in the war, so the Dutch, who had occupied Lanfang Country for almost 20 years, officially announced the annexation of Lanfang Country.

Also in this year, in Kuala Lumpur on the Malay Peninsula, a wealthy businessman named Li asked his son to come to the capital on his own initiative and wanted to meet Lin Yi.