Chapter 391: Age of Steam

"We're ignoring some of the advantages our adversaries have in the current battlefield environment."

"Although the technology of the steam warship they manufactured is backward, it seems that by carrying advanced guided weapons, they can also control the sea surface."

"The most important thing is that the steam warship burns coal or even firewood. It may be a little slow, but it can be deployed and used without restriction, and its self-sustainability on the sea surface is at least half a month. But our speedboat is too small, and it takes five to five years to go to sea. God can't hold on."

"It won't be long before these low-tech steam warships will cover the sea like small steamers. If we don't get new equipment, we will soon lose control of the sea."

After Commander George returned to Havana, he told the upper echelons of the entire Diago faction about the situation he was about to face. The news of the failure of the fleet's expedition will soon spread, and they must figure out how to deal with it?

Governor Diego personally presided over the meeting on the fate of the team. He said in a hoarse voice: "We must reform our organization. It is absolutely impossible to continue fighting in this messy situation."

The Diego faction was originally a large-scale gang from Mexico. During the war with the "Aurora Legion", it was almost entirely dependent on the material support of the "Enclave" and the management of the military advisory group. But now the entire management system has reached the end of its strength and cannot be maintained.

"First of all, we need stronger support from the 'Enclave'. Food, medicine, daily necessities, if we want us to continue fighting the 'Aurora Legion', we must be strengthened.

Second, we need more military advisors and more heavy equipment. Even direct military intervention. For example, the "Enclave" dispatched fighter planes to directly kill the opponent's steam warship and bombed Nassau and Matanzas.

Finally, we need to unite with others to deal with the 'Aurora Legion'. For example, there are other local forces in the Caribbean Sea. No one would like an overly powerful and oppressive organization to occupy the Caribbean Sea. "

The members of the 'Enclave' military advisory group agreed with Governor Diego's request. But it is another matter whether the recognition is the recognition or not.

Marshall, the head of the advisory group, said: "It is possible to give more material support, and it is not a problem to help His Excellency the Governor reorganize the group, but it is more troublesome to directly dispatch fighter planes and warships to kill the 'Aurora Legion'."

The reason behind this statement is actually very simple. Since the end of the Soviet Union, the United States has been the strongest pole in the world, and it is also the pole that attracts the most hatred. In the process of nuclear bomb cleanup, the capital Havana of Cuba was hit by one nuclear bomb, Mexico was only hit by four or five, and small places like the Bahamas were not hit by a single one.

And where have all the nuclear warheads in the world gone? Needless to say,

The United States has suffered the most nuclear bombs. The nuclear bundling policy does not distinguish between friends and foes, and it is going to be the end of the world, and it must drag everyone to die together. Therefore, the five nuclear powers all attack the world indiscriminately, and they will suffer together.

The United States was repeatedly ravaged by the other four big hooligans. Not only were the cities completely destroyed, but the military base was the most important hit. Now that the 'Enclave' has closed the mess, it finds that it no longer has the sea and air power it used to dominate the world. The airport was destroyed, the military port was bombed, and the fighter planes and warships were almost lost. Even if there are a few left, it is difficult to find maintenance and driving personnel.

Behind a powerful aircraft carrier is a powerful and complete industrial system, and now the US industrial system has been destroyed in pieces. And modern industry took hundreds of years to build up. How easy is it to rebuild?

Don't you want to send more warships to the Caribbean to clean up the "Aurora Legion" as an "Enclave"? It's not that he doesn't want to, it's that he really can't send them out!

In fact, when they learned that the 'Aurora Legion' was actually building a steam warship, the first reaction of the 'Enclave' was surprise, and the second reaction was approval. It is foreseeable that within ten years without a complete recovery of the petrochemical industry, low-tech but easy-to-use steam power will become popular again.

Anyway, the distribution of coal mines is very wide, and coal can be used after mining, stored in the open air, and transported is very convenient. Unlike the need to build a series of refineries after oil extraction, it is troublesome to use.

But now the 'Aurora Legion' is equivalent to re-entering the steam age one step ahead. If other forces do not recognize the reality and quickly follow up, they will be completely eliminated immediately.

Faced with this situation, the 'Enclave' doesn't want the 'Aurora Legion' to have a good life. Although Diego's power has been greatly weakened, as long as they can cause trouble for the 'Aurora Legion', they are willing to support it.

After repeatedly bargaining with the Diego forces, the 'Enclave' is still willing to support the forces occupying Havana. Their only requirement is to hold Havana and never let the 'Aurora Legion' occupy Cuba.

In order to wait for the support of the "Enclave", in order to restore strength, and in order to counterattack one day, the Diago forces began to shrink their defenses. With the oil refinery and port as the core, they arranged a large number of fortifications layer by layer, intending to prevent the attack of the 'Aurora Legion'.

And just when the Diego forces began to enter a defensive posture, the ship repair yard in Nassau was still in full swing, and the steam battleship that had just completed the preliminary sea trial was undergoing follow-up outfitting. All kinds of pipelines, circuits and other auxiliary equipment on the ship must be installed, so as to ensure that the ship can exert its combat effectiveness as much as possible.

In the dock, another steam battleship with a smaller tonnage was being slowly pushed in by the tugboat. Zhou Qingfeng stood by the dock, listening to Dr. Lei Zuo's introduction to the ship.

"Before we were worried that the power could not keep up, so we picked a large light-weight yacht for transformation. Now this time we are going to transform a 600-ton coast guard ship, also changing the power and enhancing the armor.

As long as we occupy Havana, get the refinery there. The main force of our future naval battles will be advanced thousand-ton fuel-powered warships, and this small steam warship will be used to maintain law and order and cruise the ocean.

Before long, steam-powered ships will be sailing the entire Caribbean Sea. These ships will be the military guarantee of our rule here. "

Zhou Qingfeng was very satisfied with this, and he asked with a smile: "When will the final outfitting work be completed on that steam warship? Which 155mm caliber howitzer on it is powerful enough, I can't wait to use it Havana is down. That Governor Diego has been there too long."

Dr. Lei Zuo shrugged and said: "The steam warship has nothing particularly advanced, and we don't plan to use that warship for a long time. At most, it will take another three days to complete the outfitting. The combat effectiveness will be much better than when it was just launched. few."

"Alright, in three days Matanzas's troops will almost complete their repairs and replenish their troops. I will then launch an attack by land and sea together and blast the enemy out of Havana in one go." (To be continued.)