Chapter 1764 Show of Force (6)

Different from the "Stride" military exercise that Haihan leads in the South China Sea every year, this amphibious military exercise in Sanya did not invite other countries to send troops to participate. The participating troops were all from Haihan. The troops participating in the military parade in the morning were

The Army is the main force, and they have already started to take leave after finishing the work. Only the Marine Corps will continue to participate in the military exercise in the afternoon and serve as the main force for the armed landing.

The tactical drill of amphibious landing has a long history in the Haihan Army. Ever since troops were dispatched to Annan to participate in the war in the early years, seizing beaches and islands has become one of the combat subjects that the Haihan Army must master. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a special skill.

.In the wars launched by Haihan over the years, amphibious landing operations have almost become a fixed link. Even whether they have participated in amphibious operations will become one of the assessment criteria for officers to be promoted to a certain stage.

The effect of this top-down emphasis and years of persistence is that Haihan has almost unparalleled strength in the field of amphibious warfare. At least in the entire East Asia region, there is currently no armed force that can

He did a better job than Haihan on this project.

Of course, this specialty of the Haihan Army will also be used as an object of study by various countries. The Spanish even made a very targeted defense deployment in Manila Port in advance for this purpose, trying to use dense coastal defense batteries to attack the harbor.

Fire blockade. It’s just that the Spaniards failed to guard against Haihan’s intelligence and leaked this trump card in advance, allowing Haihan’s army to correct the direction of its main attack before the war. Otherwise, they would probably have become a coastal offensive and defensive battle.

The pioneer in defeating the offensive of the Haihan Army.

But even Spain's ultimately failed defense strategy cannot be copied by just any country. Aside from the cost of building coastal defense forts and the required weapons and equipment, Spain also has an armed fleet cooperating in the port, and this

The strength of this fleet is probably second only to the Haihan Navy in the South China Sea. Even if other countries can build forts, it will be difficult for them to assemble such a fleet to support operations at sea.

Of course, the battle reports in Manila are basically what Haihan officials have chosen to release. The specific battle situation can only be imagined to the outside world. Although Haihan himself claimed that he had bypassed the key defensive areas of the Spanish.

The landing has been carried out, but everyone is still curious about Haihan's current amphibious landing tactics - maybe after watching the exercise, he might be able to figure out the loopholes and shortcomings of Haihan's tactics, and that would really make a fortune.

Already.

However, this is just a one-sided idea. The tactics that Haihan will publicly display to guests from various countries will certainly not be bottom-of-the-line. It is still a bit difficult to deduce the true strength of Haihan’s army from the exercises. Take a step back.

It is said that even if the Haihan Army comes up with real weapons, there seem to be very few troops that can withstand such an offensive.

The three warships on which the guests were riding were at full power and surpassed the naval fleet being reviewed before arriving at Ximaozhou. Such speed was an eye-opener for the guests. In most people's minds, it was impossible for a sailing ship to sail

Under the current weather conditions, Haihan's battleship can travel at such a speed on the sea, but Haihan's battleship can incredibly do this. Of course, knowledgeable people know that this is the role of the steam propulsion device installed on the ship, but the problem is this thing

How exactly a sailboat is propelled forward, but not many people can figure it out.

This made the few people who had been lucky enough to find out the clues from the military exercises suddenly feel cold. With this speed alone, the Haihan Fleet was enough to defeat its opponents. It is no wonder that the Haihan Navy has never had any success in sea battles.

Failure.

However, not all Haihan warships can have this advanced propulsion system. Only the largest-tonnage Majesty-class warships built in the early years were equipped with steam engines. A small number of later expedition-class warships also began to install this propulsion system.

But the proportion in combat ships is actually less than one-third.

On the one hand, the steam propulsion system is very expensive in terms of manufacturing, installation, daily use and maintenance. The Navy’s limited military expenditure is not enough to support the installation of this system on all combat ships. In terms of cost performance, the Navy is more

I am willing to use this part of the funds to build more sail warships to expand the size of the fleet so that I can control a larger sea area.

On the other hand, the use of this system has very high requirements for logistical support. It does not mean that just a few boilermakers on the ship can use the steam engine. There must be at least three on-board engineers with certain experience. And if it is far away

If the base performs tasks, there must be at least one or two supply ships carrying coal, fresh water and ammunition, as well as very important steam engine spare parts. Due to the heavy reliance on logistics, the cost of using the steam propulsion system is increased in disguise, so

Although steam battleships have outstanding navigation performance, Haihan still has no way to make them standard equipment for the navy.

Other countries are naturally envious of Haihan's steam battleships, but they know how to deal with this matter. To maintain the superior combat effectiveness of the navy, the price Haihan has paid is actually quite high. Because of this, although the Haihans have already

It is possible to produce next-generation warships like the Black Shark, but there is no condition to start building large quantities of this extremely costly new warship at the moment. They can only deploy it into the fleet and use it as an arrow force. If other countries realize

Haihan does not have the conditions to build and equip such powerful warships in large quantities, so perhaps his fear of them will be reduced a bit.

The battleship where Tom Wang was on fired three red flares and slowly rose into the air, which could be clearly seen from miles away. No need for the officers on the ship to explain, the guests all understood that this symbolized today's military

The performance officially kicked off, so everyone quickly cheered up. Those who had telescopes took out their binoculars, and those who didn't opened their eyes wide to see clearly how Haihan attacked this Ximaozhou.

In fact, this is not the first time that Haihan has held an amphibious landing exercise in this place. Because there are not many islands with suitable conditions in the waters near Sanya, Ximaozhou has long been designated by the navy as a training location. Various specially built various structures have also been built on the island.

Various defense fortifications are provided for daily training needs. There are seven or eight styles of coastal defense forts alone to simulate various landing tactics.

The landing tactics that the Navy plans to demonstrate here today are not complicated. It can even be said to be a bit simple and crude. It is to use long-range artillery fire as a cover to send Marine infantry to forcibly land on the beach. However, for safety reasons, the Navy does not have any troops on the island.

The deployed personnel pretended to be enemies, so it was just a one-sided offensive display.

However, the spectators do not care whether these arrangements are reasonable. They now want to see what role the Black Shark can play in an amphibious landing battle. At the same time, they are also weighing in their minds, if the army of their own country is used as the defender.

, whether there is a chance to block Haihan's offensive.

After the exercise began, the Black Shark, which was spitting out thick smoke, took the lead and rushed into the battle area. Then the guests finally saw how the rotating turrets of the two naval guns on the deck worked. The two guns were turning towards each other.

After targeting the target along the coast, they quickly opened fire. The flying shells hit the shore defense fortifications about a kilometer away, causing stone fragments to fly. When the smoke and dust dissipated, the stone fortifications had collapsed.

The two openings, which are about one meter wide, show how powerful it is.

The crowd of onlookers immediately let out a sigh. Judging from the shooting effect alone, it can be confirmed that the power of the two naval guns on the Black Shark far exceeds the level they knew, and is even more powerful than the Majesty-class equipment equipped by Haihan in the past.

The large-caliber naval gun is much more powerful.

After the Black Shark carried out three rounds of shelling on the shore defenses, other ships also arrived at the predetermined position, pointed their broadsides towards the coast, and began to carry out intensive shelling. However, the guns on these ships did not have the Black Shark's guns.

With such a long range, it must be close to the coast to complete an effective attack.

The visual shock brought about by this intensive fire attack cannot be described in words. When the shells hit the fortifications on the shore like raindrops, there was only one thought left in the minds of the guests from all over the world: the one who was beaten was thousands of people.

It must not be me. Even if it is a bunker made of stones, who can withstand such intensive artillery fire?

Some people even began to wonder whether there was any falsehood in the Manila battle report published by Haihan. Could the coastal fortifications built by the Spanish really force Haihan's army to find another landing site? With this intensity of firepower, the Spaniards would have built it on the shore.

A Great Wall should also be destroyed by artillery fire.

Such a relentless artillery attack lasted for about a stick of incense, and then the second-echelon troop carrier quickly rushed into the beach under the cover of artillery fire. The landing ship lowered its bow springboard, and the soldiers quickly swarmed onto the beach, and among them

Several light field guns were clearly transported from several landing ships.

It only took a very short time for the Marine Corps to complete the erection of artillery on the beach, and then joined the ranks of bombarding the shore defenses. Although only a few small-caliber artillery were added, because the shooting distance was closer,

Therefore, the effect of shelling is also very significant. The outer walls of several forts that were targeted were almost forcibly knocked down. No one would doubt that if someone was deployed inside during the war, they would not even have a chance to look up.

There won't be.

As more soldiers rushed to the beach, several beachhead positions were quickly erected. Haihan's experience in civil engineering was also used in combat, and the engineers set up as quickly as possible outside the beachhead positions.

There is a bellows-type barbed wire fence that can prevent infantry and cavalry from charging, and in front of several gun positions there are already bunkers built with earthen bags.

Such combat efficiency amazed guests from all over the world. Although the tactics used by Haihan in the landing battle were very simple, these details were still commendable. Most people mentally evaluated the effect of the shelling just now, and then gave up.

The idea of ​​​​resisting Haihan's landing head-on. Once the Haihan Army successfully established a beachhead, it was not an easy task to drive it back to the sea.

When the Marines with only a few hundred men attacked the shore defenses, the visual impact was not as strong as the previous artillery bombardment. However, sharp-eyed people have already observed through telescopes that not only the rifles used by this unit can fire continuously,

Moreover, the field artillery they equipped is different from traditional artillery. They only need to load the shells from the breech, lock the barrel, and then fire. In the time it takes for traditional artillery to fire one shell, this new artillery can fire three times. The firing speed

It's simply despairing.

"How to block Haihan's landing combat method?" This question appeared in the minds of almost every audience present, but no one could come up with a practical and effective response plan. After all, the previous wave of artillery strikes

It is too powerful. Not to mention this relatively simple coastal defense, even if a city wall is really built on the coast, it may not be able to withstand the intensity of the shelling just now.

Fei Cexian turned his head and looked at Su Keyi, who shook his head at him with a wry smile, indicating that he had no solution to this situation. Fei Cexian sighed secretly, and suddenly felt that Haihan could restrain himself and keep his posture.

Activities in coastal areas are already considered lucky for the Ming Dynasty. If these maritime strongmen really want to attack the coastal prefectures and counties of the Ming Dynasty, who can withstand such an offensive? No wonder the Spaniards have no stronghold on Luzon Island

But the city cannot be defended. It must be that under such bombardment, it is inevitable to feel desperate, right?

At this time, Wang Tom explained to everyone on the deck seriously: "This kind of combat method is actually rarely used by our army. We generally prefer to find areas with weak enemy defenses to carry out landings, rather than choosing this kind of combat method."

A frontal attack style. Of course, in any war, we will prepare for the worst, so we will also conduct tactical training in the more extreme environments you have seen to ensure that even in the most unfavorable situations

Under the conditions, the navy's combat effectiveness can also be fully utilized to complete amphibious landing missions."

In fact, the current environment in Ximaozhou is far from an extreme environment. Because there are no defenders deployed, the Haihan Army's offensive can be launched calmly. It looks like a raging fire cooking oil, but in fact, if you consider the defenders,

The counterattack launched by the Chinese army is unlikely to be as smooth as everyone saw. When the Haihan army attacked Manila, they deliberately avoided the key defensive areas of the Spanish because they did not want to fight the enemy during the landing stage. It might still be possible to fight.

The battle is won, but the price required is something the military is not willing to see.

However, for most spectators, they do not have that much experience and knowledge. The environment in Ximaozhou is basically equivalent to a battlefield. It is difficult to imagine how the defenders can counterattack under such artillery fire.

.So Wang Tom’s words sounded more like a demonstration in their ears - Just defend, if you can’t attack, I lose!
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