Chapter 1566: Attack, Pacific Fleet (Second update, please subscribe)

intelligence!

What role does intelligence play in war?

It can decide the life or death of a country.

There is a small port near Cape Harbor, with a long wooden pier extending into the sea. At about five o'clock in the morning, a man dressed as an ordinary person was fishing leisurely there. It is normal for a fisherman to appear here. After all, after the pier was decommissioned, it became a place where children dive and swim and where fishermen often come.

On the nearby shore, several coast guards can be seen patrolling back and forth with live ammunition, their eyes always on the sea. They defend their motherland as faithfully as in the past, although they know that no one will threaten the empire, but duty is duty.

The fisherman sitting on the pier was fishing motionlessly, eating with relish. After catching a fish occasionally, he would change the bait, which seemed no different from the past. The sun gradually rose from the east, and just when the sun was about to rise, he suddenly looked up to the south, and saw some vague black outlines appearing on the sea against the backdrop of the rising sun, and the black outlines looked like continuous mountains.

The mountain was floating on the sea. Seeing this, the fisherman quickly grabbed a pair of binoculars from the fish box nearby and raised them to look out to the sea. After watching for a while, he put down the binoculars to rest his eyes and continued to observe.

That's right! He saw two almost identical black silhouettes in the huge fleet. They were like mountains. He identified them as the "Da Han" and "Da Wei" Dynasty-class battleships. There were hundreds of warships, landing ships, and troop transports with them, including twelve aircraft carriers.

This fleet looked so huge and mighty that one would think it was a floating mountain sailing on the sea.

"Oh my God! It's consistent with the intelligence!"

With a sigh, the fisherman looked at the huge fleet on the sea, then he quickly put away his fishing rod, picked up his fishing gear, and hurriedly ran along the pier to the shore. When he left, the soldiers guarding the coast didn't notice him at all.

After entering the main street, he loaded his fishing gear into the car and drove away from the coast. More than half an hour later, when the car passed by a telephone booth, he walked into the phone booth and made a call. A few minutes later, he drove the car and disappeared on the street.

More than an hour later, an elderly naturalized American man walked into a roadside telephone booth with a cane and made a call.

After a burst of silence, the call was connected to the operator.

"International long distance, Ecuador, Quito..."

After he handed the phone number to the international long-distance operator, the operator at work did not immediately connect the call. She immediately connected another telephone plug and then connected the call. All this is a process. According to the authorization of the Imperial Supreme Court, the Imperial Counterintelligence Agency has the right to view letters, telegrams and wiretap telephones during the war without separate permission.

This phone call, which seemed to be only about something like a wedding, did not seem to attract the attention of the monitoring personnel. The monitoring personnel just recorded the content of the call as in the past...

An hour later, another Ecuadorian native came to the telegraph office and sent a telegram to my grandmother in Spain. Although the telegraph operator winked at the police stationed there after receiving the message, and the police came over to question him, there was nothing noteworthy about this telegram. It was just a telegram telling my grandmother that her cousin was married, which was nothing serious.

In fact, in war, a lot of intelligence is missed in this way, and a lot of unknown information may be hidden in just a few dozen words.

A few hours later, the telegram that had traveled halfway across the world finally reached its destination, London. A motorcyclist drove a motorbike through London at high speed. The streets were hit by air raids and full of craters, but the motorcyclist still managed to deliver the telegram to the British Admiralty in a very short time. The telegram was immediately sent up the chain of command and finally delivered to a rear admiral...

At this moment, the hour hand pointed to 10:15 in the morning, and the date on the calendar was September 27, 1896. After the rear admiral verified the location of the message, he quickly opened the code book and said directly after deciphering the telegram.

"Haha, we won! We won the war!"

Soon, the intelligence was sent to 10 Downing Street and shared with Washington that afternoon. After receiving the secret telegram from London, President Cleveland specifically called Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt to his office.

"Theodore, what do you think?"

In response to the president's inquiry, Roosevelt glanced at the telegram in his hand, thought for a moment, and said.

"Mr. President, this is indeed a very rare opportunity. The Empire's Pacific Fleet has sailed to Australia. Perhaps they will occupy Australia, but a tactical victory cannot make up for their strategic failure. They will lose this war!"

Roosevelt said confidently.

"After we defeat their Atlantic Fleet, our fleet will return to the Pacific, find and defeat their fleet, and then we will cut off their shipping routes. Without logistics, their offensive in the west will also be frustrated. Even if they occupy the entire California, the final defeat on the sea will make their million-strong army isolated. Mr. President, this is our chance! A chance to win the war!"

Looking at the confident Roosevelt, Cleveland was silent for a while, then he looked into the distance, thinking about the situation in the West, and said.

"Although we desperately need this victory, we must also be cautious. After all, this is all our strength. If we fail, then we will definitely lose this war, um..."

In fact, everything is so difficult for the United States now. They are in the West. They are at a disadvantage in California. MacArthur is surrounded in San Francisco, where hundreds of thousands of troops are besieged. The Empire is also eyeing Iowa and other places, and may launch an attack at any time.

If the United States fails to make breakthroughs on other fronts, it will lose its Western territory bit by bit.

But how easy is it to achieve a breakthrough? After all, the United States does not have many trump cards to use.

After hesitating for a moment, Cleveland said.

"We still need further evidence. If the Empire's Pacific Fleet and their troops have already invaded Australia, then we can act. What do you think?"

"Mr. President, you are absolutely right."

Roosevelt nodded.

"We do need further intelligence. After all, this concerns the future of the United States!"

No one knew that the fate of the world was being pushed in such a magical way on this day. For the people involved, they had no idea that the world had been changed on this day.

(End of this chapter)