Chapter 2456: Landing Operation II

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"Do you still have research on shipbuilding?" Major General Marshall was very surprised when an army general asked such a navy question. After all, the so-called "interlace" is like a mountain. There are absolutely few all-rounders like Crown Prince Ruprecht, and how does this general, who has never worked in the navy for a day, know this?

"I am good friends with the entrusted Marquis of Rio. Sometimes we will talk about these issues. In addition, when we landed in the Gulf of Riga, we considered what to do if the weather was bad. At that time, our solution It is to increase the ballast. To improve the stability of the hull. But for your country, this problem is not easy to solve, because your ship is a flat-bottomed ship, and more ballast will naturally reduce the transportation volume." Calip Said with a smile.

"This is how we solved this problem. Our position is not the bottom of the ship's bottom, and the bottom of the ship's hull is not a completely flat bottom. If you look at the transverse section of the hull, you can find that the upper part of the hull is narrowed very little, but below The narrowing range is a bit larger. And the lower part is a water tank. We can control the ship's draft by adjusting the water tank. When sailing in the ocean, we will increase the draft. When it is offshore or in fine weather, we will Reduce the amount of water in the tank, and then the deck we are on will enter the waterline position from below the waterline, open the hatch, and the landing craft inside the hull can easily enter the sea." Marshall explained.

"For heavy equipment, such as tanks, cars, and artillery, we use Guam-type tank landing craft, or LST for short. This kind of landing craft generally has a tonnage of 400 tons, with a flat bottom, and a very shallow draft. It can be retanned directly when landing. , And then open the hatch, the tank can follow the hatch to enter the battlefield." Then Marshall took a group of people to visit the American newly designed tank landing craft.

"The width is a bit small. The displacement is not large. I'm afraid it is a bit difficult to accommodate the wolf tank." Carlipte said.

"That's the case, because it is now difficult for us to seal the tanks and then swim across. So if we want to send tanks or vehicles to the beach, we must directly wash the beach. This severely limits the ship's draught. Today it affects the ship. This is also an important reason why we later abandoned the plan to let the wolf tank fight the first wave of landing battles. The wolf tank is too heavy and the structure is not friendly to landing. The pressure is too high and it is easy to fall into the beach ." Marshall explained.

"Understandable," Calipt said. Military is a systematic project, and the performance advantages of some equipment are sometimes not important to the whole. The parts that can make this system work in the most appropriate way are the best. Americans have their own reasons for facing such enemies and then choosing this way.

After understanding the US military’s landing operations system, the next step is to watch the US military breakthrough exercises. And if you simply talk about breaking through the line of defense, no one in this world is more experienced than the Germans. Although this exercise was a breakthrough battle on the island landing field, the Germans still found some problems.

Along with the roar of heavy artillery, the roar of several cruisers and destroyers kicked off the exercise. Afterwards, outside of the simulating enemy’s main firepower firing boundary, the landing craft began to launch from the landing transport ship, and then prepared to launch an attack with the tank landing ship that was sailing by itself.

The first wave of infantry and engineers rushed up. After the naval guns cleared the obstacles and minefields on the beach, in the preset area, the American infantry rushed to the beach from the landing craft that opened the hatch, and then began to build. Fire support point and contact point. Then, with the support of various firepower, the engineers used blasting equipment to clear the remaining obstacles and minefields, while the scouts began to look for the remaining firepower points in the distance, and then guided the naval guns to destroy them.

When the landing field expanded to a certain range, American tanks began to enter the battlefield later. American tanks are mainly cricket tanks produced by Germany and T1 tanks produced by themselves. The latter is equipped with a 75MML15 short-barreled howitzer. (Yes, the M1 75MM light howitzer newly developed by the Americans is a kind of artillery.) Perhaps it is to facilitate transportation in island operations and improve passability, so the armor defense is relatively limited, and the frontal defense can barely block the general 57MM gun. , But the side rear can only defend against machine gun shells.

After the various tanklonlons rushed to the coast, the entire exercise also entered the most critical stage. According to the script written below, it was natural that the American soldiers broke down the enemy’s defense line under the cover of tanks, and then interspersed with each other. Annihilated the enemy.

"Let's take a look at the exercise field." General Calipute said. Americans are still very sincere, so Germans must also show their serious attitude. Although there may be wars with the Americans in the future, at this time, Kaluput still decided to take his posture and do things well.

"With all due respect, if I deploy the line of defense, then I will push the main line of defense back, and then increase the depth of the entire battlefield. Although, when the offensive side is the weakest when landing, I still don't want to be here. A naval gun directly facing the attacker on a terrain that is very friendly to the attacker." Calipute said, pointing to the very neat terrain in the distance.

This is very cryptic~www.wuxiaspot.com~ In fact, this landing field is very good for the attacker, the terrain is flat, and there is almost no broken place. There is no place to rely on the terrain to set up side and reverse positions. And the firing field is very open, and the rangefinder on the heavy cruiser can see the other end from one end of the island. There is no covering. This is a bit of suspicion of cheating. After all, it is really hard to say whether you can encounter such a good landing field in actual combat. And even if there is, according to the European standard of soil work, it will definitely use soil work or explosives to destroy this kind of terrain.

In Calypte's view, the Americans' exercises are more like acting. In other words, they have not realized the cruelty of war. It looks good, and some theories are also good, but there are too many flaws in the last step.

"For this line of defense, for example, I will not deploy a wide but not deep minefield outside the line of defense. I will use anti-tank trenches, traps, and anti-tank belts to fragment the entire external division, and then leave a few seemingly easy Passing areas. And these places can be easily set up as traps. I don’t even need to deploy mines and viper wire fences around the passages. They can’t be deployed, and at the same time, they are within the attack range of multiple bunkers. This is enough to destroy all invasions. The winner."

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