Businessmen and soldiers have different understandings of failure.
For businessmen, if they fail, they can start over again, which is nothing more than working hard again.
For soldiers, failure often means no chance to do it again, and more often than not, failure means death.
For example, Tom Spike and Derek Champlin, if they lost this war, it would mean the end of their military careers. Even if they survive in an ignoble way, they will not gain people's trust in the future.
For a soldier, this may be more painful than death.
It is understandable that Tom Spike and Derek Champion behaved out of control when they witnessed the defeat of the war, but this cannot change the fact that the Paz Expeditionary Force was in dire straits.
Faced with this situation, Tom Spike and Derek Champion did not try to save themselves, but broke out in internal strife because of shirking responsibility. It can be seen that there was a reason for their retirement.
Chen Zhaoqiang did not understand the farce that took place on the bridge of the USS Paz. At the same time that the submarine force launched an attack on the USS George V and the USS Black Swan, Chen Zhaoqiang commanded troops to launch a counterattack against the Paz Expeditionary Force that had landed.
In fact, beach fighting is still a big problem until the 21st century. The key issue is how to get heavy weapons ashore. Without the support of artillery and armored vehicles, the infantry will eventually be driven off the beach even if they can land.
The Port Hedland defense force is not equipped with many heavy weapons. There are no tanks at all. There are only a few armored vehicles. The artillery is only Miss 75 made in France. On paper, it is not very powerful.
This lack of power is relative. Compared with the regular field forces in Lanfang, the weapons and equipment of the Port Hedland Defense Force are indeed not powerful. However, compared with the Parth Expeditionary Force that has already landed, the weapons and equipment of the Port Hedland Defense Force have been
Can form a crushing advantage.
The ground at the dock where the Paz Expeditionary Force landed has been hardened. This is actually urban combat. The armored vehicles shine and become a nightmare for the Paz Expeditionary Force.
The armored vehicles equipped in Port Hedland are also produced by Lanfang. This armored vehicle is 2.2 meters high, 4.6 meters long, 2.4 meters wide, and weighs 2.5 tons. It is equipped with a 12.7 mm air-cooled heavy machine gun and can shoot at 45 meters on the road.
Running at a speed of kilometers per hour, the armor thickness can withstand the fire of a 7.7 mm caliber Lewis light machine gun. This armored vehicle has a name that Qin Zhiyuan never forgets: Hummer.
For the light infantry, every Humvee armored vehicle is a butcher. They harvest the lives of the Parth Expeditionary Force on the dock of Port Hedland without any scruples. The Parth Expeditionary Force has no way to deal with the Humvee armored vehicle.
Because of the addition of Humvee armored vehicles, the battle on the dock ended quickly, and the defense forces achieved a brilliant victory. About 300 of the approximately 2,000 expeditionary soldiers who had landed on the dock were killed, and the rest lost their will to resist and disarmed one after another.
surrender.
At this point, the Paz Expeditionary Force was finally at the end of its rope and could no longer make any waves. The expeditionary force's warships were threatened by submarines in the outer harbor. They could not even pass through the narrow channel of the port and could only be captured in the inner harbor. The army troops were even worse.
In the two landing operations, the army lost 80% of its soldiers. The remaining soldiers were unable to launch another attack. The soldiers also refused to attack. They had been frightened by the tragic conditions of the soldiers in the previous two landings. There was no
People are willing to die.
At this time, Chen Zhaoqiang made a mistake. Chen Zhaoqiang ordered the radio operator to use a radio transmitter to send a surrender telegram to the warships of the Parth Expeditionary Force in clear code, and set a final time for surrender. If the Parth Expeditionary Force did not surrender by four o'clock in the afternoon,
, then the Port Hedland defense forces will sink all expeditionary warships, including these transport ships.
At 3:30 in the afternoon, there was still no response from the Paz Expeditionary Force fleet. Chen Zhaoqiang had to order the troops to be prepared and launch an attack at any time.
Perhaps Derek Champion finally felt the crisis. At the last moment when the hour hand was about to turn to four o'clock, the white flag was finally raised on the Pass.
Afterwards, Chen Zhaoqiang learned that there was no radio transceiver equipment on the Paz, so the Paz did not receive a surrender telegram from Port Hedland. The reason why the Paz surrendered was completely autonomous.
The British were also considered evil. They sold their warships, including the USS Paz, to the city of Pas without any modernization of these warships. The communication between the warships of the Pas City Expeditionary Force still relied on semaphores and flags.
Lighting, doesn’t it say that the customer is God?
This is really cheating
The battle that took place in Port Hedland was quickly telegraphed to the Black Swan Castle in Paris, which caused unrest within a certain range, especially Pierre.
Pierre, who was well aware of the relationship between Port Hedland and Lanfang, immediately approached Qin Zhiyuan to understand the situation.
Are you going to start a war with the British? Pierre, who has returned to the army, has been given the rank of lieutenant general. This has made Pierre's temperament more calm, and now he has a faint momentum.
Of course not, now is not the opportunity. Qin Zhiyuan is honest and does not deny that there will be a battle with the British in the future.
I really can’t understand. Since you don’t want to go to war with the British now, what happened in Port Hedland? A group of militiamen defeated the regular army with the help of warships, and it was a clean annihilation. What do you want the British to think? If the British
Intervene, what are you going to do? Pierre has many questions, and he throws them out like a barrage.
Pierre, your right-wing tendencies are obvious now. Foch sounded the alarm to Pierre.
Foch, who answered Paris, seemed to have returned to the period of the raging world war. Not only did he put on the marshal's uniform again, but he was also full of passion. He talked about war at every turn, no matter it was the ongoing war in Gorcha in the north.
Whether it was the war launched by the Croatian coalition government and Lanfang Northern Territory against Red Russia, or the Australian Civil War, Foch would drag Qin Zhiyuan through repeated tactical deductions on the sand table, and he would take great pleasure in defeating Qin Zhiyuan. He really enjoyed it.
It has simply reached the point of becoming obsessed.
There are also left and right wings in France. Although the soldiers have no position, in Foch's heart, Foch has always been the standard, and he still belongs to the more radical group. Therefore, Foch is afraid of the wolf in front and the tiger in the back.
El always has a bad face.
It's not the right wing, but more off-field factors must be taken into consideration. The promotion of military rank has given Pierre a certain degree of confidence. At least now, Pierre dares to defend himself in the face of Foch's accusations.
Thinking too much will make you worry too much and ultimately accomplish nothing. Foch is indeed radical. In this regard, Qin Zhiyuan and Foch are more similar. No wonder the two have such a good relationship.
The British may not necessarily intervene. Qin Zhiyuan intervened before Pierre, stopping the useless bickering between Pierre and Foch: For the British, both Perth and Port Hedland are part of the United Kingdom.
, it’s like two children of parents, the palms and backs of their hands are full of flesh, and the British should not be too biased towards Perth, which will make the distance between the British and Port Hedland further and further.
Qin Zhiyuan has always believed that the British will not overly intervene in the Australian Civil War. The British are still in the recovery period. If another war starts, it will definitely be a bigger burden for the British, and the British may not necessarily take risks.
The news I got is completely opposite to yours. The British are indeed in a difficult situation now, but this difficulty prompted Lloyd George to need a scapegoat to divert the British's attention from their pessimism about reality to Australia thousands of miles away.
, so the British are very likely to intervene. The British House of Commons has begun discussing this matter, and there may be news within a few days. Pierre sent the latest information.
Just as Germany has penetrated deeply into France, France has also penetrated deeply into Britain. Therefore, the actions of the British government cannot be hidden from the French, just as the actions of the French government cannot be hidden from the Germans.
It would be okay even if the British intervened. Lanfang lost Port Hedland as a source of iron ore and could still obtain it from Annan. But if the British intervened in the war in Port Hedland, then the British would definitely be in trouble in Port Hedland.
Falling into a quagmire will make the British more miserable. Qin Zhiyuan is confident and confident.
As far as the methods of war are concerned, the current methods of war are more about gongs versus gongs and drums on the frontal battlefield, and terms such as guerrilla warfare and unrestricted warfare have not yet appeared.
Qin Zhiyuan is of course familiar with guerrilla warfare and unrestricted warfare. Even if the British intervene in the war in Port Hedland, they may be able to occupy Port Hedland with their strong ships and cannons, but that's all.
Once they reach the inland areas where the fleet cannot provide support to the land, the British will fall into the encirclement set up by Qin Zhiyuan in advance, and the British will be unable to move at that time.
These tactics belong to the category of unrestricted warfare, and Qin Zhiyuan will not explain it to Pierre yet, so Pierre is not optimistic about the Port Hedland side.
Quagmire, please forgive me, I don’t think the submarines in Port Hedland will cause much trouble to the British. Facing merchant ships, or facing the ragtag group of people in Perth City, the submarine force may be the key to the war.
It is a sharp weapon, but if it is faced with the most powerful British naval force in the world, the role that the submarine force can play is very limited. This was proved by the Germans during the World War. Pierre also considered it sincere and used
The example of the Germans came to convince Qin Zhiyuan.
In terms of submarines, the Germans did use tactics well, but they were far from the ultimate level.
What's more, Qin Zhiyuan has no intention of competing with the British on the sea, so even if the British have the most powerful fleet in the universe, Qin Zhiyuan will not worry.
So what can they do? Will their warship still fly? Qin Zhiyuan is really not afraid, and his words are still relaxed.
Pierre must not understand what Qin Zhiyuan means. Qin Zhiyuan's subtext is: Why don't you go to heaven?
