Volume 12 Prelude to the Great War Chapter 121 Defensive Counterattack
…Zhenkouguo said that the warring parties in the southern Syrian desert was a way of fighting... Then the battle that took place in the northeastern town of Bakhce in Ottomaniye Province, Turkey was an absolute battle.
Regardless of whether Wang Xueping was willing or not, after He Chengyi made arrangements, he could only shrink his defense line, die, and defend Bakhche.
As it turns out, this combat unit adapted from Mi Jun is definitely a good fight.
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Before defending Bahce, the eighth combat unit was not as smooth as it was. Compared with the battle in the east, the biggest challenge of the eighth combat unit was not the ground combat units of the US-Turkey coalition, but the US long-range artillery deployed at the mouth of the Gksue River, and the US Navy fleet operating in the southern waters of Melsin Bay. In other words, the eighth combat unit had to consider the US long-range artillery strike first.
Obviously, this is a very serious threat.
You should know that on the east battlefield, the first battle and the tenth combat unit attacked cities and villages, first rely on long-range artillery support. When air support cannot be expected, especially in positional warfare, air forces cannot provide close-range artillery support to combat troops, so they can only place their hopes on long-range artillery support. According to statistics from the Republic Army, in the first week of ground warfare, long-range artillery support accounted for the above-mentioned battlefield fire support, and almost all offensive operations have to rely on long-range artillery support.
However, the US Army does not have as advanced electromagnetic gun systems as the Republic Army, nor does it have such powerful artillery, but in the coastal areas, the US military can fully pin its hopes on the navy. As early as the 2nd century, the US Navy proposed the tactical idea of "from sea to land," and regards ground strikes and support for ground troops as the number one task of the navy fleet. The world's first warship that can use naval guns to support inland combat, that is, the very famous "Zumwalter" class destroyer was born in the United States.
Although the "Zhu Mei Walter" class destroyer did not perform well on the battlefield, its design ideas and methods were relatively successful, and its poor practical performance. We can only blame the problems of the overall tactical thinking of the US Navy and the prediction of future naval wars was wrong. In the Iran War, the "Zum Walter class destroyer made a stunning spurt and proved the actual value of war with accurate long-range artillery fire strikes. It is precisely because of this that the US Navy accelerated the procurement speed of this type of destroyer at the end of the thug, increased the purchase speed of this type of destroyer from one ship per year to three ships per year, and started from the first mutual ship and built according to the standards of the second batch. That is, by adding a cabin of about meter long at the front of the hull, increasing the displacement by tons, strengthening the continuous combat capability, and installing electromagnetics in the future.
The artillery left enough space. In the Peninsula War, the "Zumwalt class" participated in the war again and accompanied the amphibious assault fleet operation. It played an extremely important role in the battle landing on Yuanshan, but it was hit hard in the subsequent battle. To be honest, the poor performance of the "Zumwalt" class in the Peninsula War was mainly because the US Navy did not purchase the same hull air defense cruiser as the plan, while the "Zumwalt" class is a multi-purpose destroyer with ground strikes as its main mission. Its air defense capabilities are not very outstanding and can only protect itself at most. In this way, without sufficient air defense cover, the "Zumwalt" class destroyer can easily become a hunting target for air strikes, thus suffering heavy losses.
In fact, the US authorities have also recognized this problem.
During the Japanese War, the Republic's Navy's "multi-purpose warship" performed extremely well in combat operations, and its ground strike capabilities attracted worldwide attention.
Affected by this, the US Navy not only accelerated the modification of the Zumthelter-class destroyer and the Bainbridge-class cruiser, which is the Diyin, but Jigo equipped many destroyers and more than 20 cruisers in service and under construction with electromagnetic guns developed for large warships. It also advanced the development of alternative warships and required construction to start two Western years.
There is no doubt that the US Navy has been greatly stimulated.
You should know that the Zumwalt-class destroyers were in service in the mid-year old era, while the Bainbridge-class cruiser was officially put into service in the mid-year power era. By the year of the blade, the Zumwalt-class service was less than the thugs. The Bainbridge-class service was even less than the old year. Although both types of warships have performance defects, they will definitely be able to serve until 0 years after improvement. The U.S. Navy will replace the Zumwalt-class and the Bainbridge-class warships in advance. Either expand the scale of the navy or deal with a large number of warships in their prime. In fact, the U.S. Navy later adopted these two kilograms of method, that is, to expand the fleet size, and to sell some of the warships, mainly the first batch of Zumwalt-class destroyers to friendly countries in the form of second-hand equipment.
In fact, the U.S. Navy's replacement warships failed to be launched before the year of Libian.
It is not that Congress is unwilling to spend money to afford more warships for the navy, nor that the shipyard is not prepared, but that several very critical technologies have not made breakthroughs, including the long-range electromagnetic gun system specially developed for it.
Although compared with the Army's electromagnetic gun system, the Navy's requirements for integration and system quality are much lower, as long as it can be stuffed into a large warship with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, the Navy has very high requirements for the maximum range of the electromagnetic gun system, especially the maximum range under normal circumstances. As soon as the judgment was made, the US Navy was watching the divine and spiral electric cannons. I hope to obtain sudden irrigation
Facts have proved that the US Navy is too ambitious. You should know that by the year 0, due to the limitations of several key technologies, spiral electromagnetic guns do not have practical application capabilities. It is almost impossible to develop spiral electromagnetic guns that can be equipped with large warships in the year of the stack.
Affected by this, the design of new US warships has been delayed again and again.
By the year of the Strength Blade, let alone launching the water. Even the construction work has not started. The US Navy can no longer wait and can only adopt a backup plan. That is, use improved orbital electromagnetic cannons to arm new warships and leave room for improvement on the warships so that spiral electromagnetic cannons can be installed in the future.
In order to reduce costs, the US Navy referred to the practice of the thugs to allow air defense cruisers to use basically the same hull as multi-purpose destroyers. In fact, when designing, the US Navy clearly stated that the displacement of air defense cruisers can be appropriately increased, but the ubiquity rate of hulls and multi-purpose destroyers must be achieved. Most of the internal electromechanical equipment must be universal to reduce procurement and maintenance costs. In fact, as early as four, the General Electric Company Shipping Branch, which won the bid in the bid, adopted a modular design method to complete the basic design of the hull, and only modules related to naval guns were not implemented.
That's why General Electric Company took out a detailed design for Fang Qin in the year of the ship division.
At the beginning of the following year, the U.S. Navy named this destroyer that bears too much hope as the "James Lawrence" class. This person was the Second American Independence War, that is, the U.S. Navy Colonel in the US, the United States and Britain. He commanded the "Chesapeake" for his bravery and shouted the slogan "Don't abandon the ship. In the desperate situation, he died of injury. He was repeatedly chased after his death and was buried in Halifax, Boston and New York. He hoped to awaken the sense of honor and fighting spirit of the US Navy officers and soldiers. At the same time, the U.S. Navy also signed a contract with the shipyard to purchase a whip warship. In order to preserve the only two large shipyards, the U.S. Navy handed over the construction of the third "Laurence", namely the "Perry", to Northrop, as agreed.
In the year of Libian, the "Lawrence", "Mitchell" and "Perry" were successively in service.
Because the first batch of Zumthelter class destroyers could not be equipped with electromagnetic guns, but they needed to lengthen the hull, which was too expensive, so the US Navy built the Lawrence class at a rate of wrinkle every year, and Jigo replaced all the first batch of Zumwalter class in the year of 1999. At the beginning of the year, in addition to the ones who were not capable of fighting, the US Navy had a total of "Lawrence" class destroyers, including the Atlantic Fleet and 3 in the Pacific Fleet.
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Compared with the Zumthelter class, the biggest improvement of the Lawrence class is firepower. In other words, when designing, the destroyer of this class puts firepower requirements first. In this way, the Lawrence class has become the first large surface warship in the US Navy to be equipped with a controllable fusion reactor. Although the controllable fusion reactor is prepared for electromagnetic guns, the energy interception system has been successful before its formal construction, so the Lawrence class has also become the first large surface warship in the US Navy to use an energy interception system when designing it. Relying on the output power to reach the thug, the power system and catamaran surfing ship type, "Lao
The maximum speed of the Rance class broke through the Fengjie, and thus became the first "high-speed large warship" of the US Navy. In fact, when designing the "Lawrence" was designed, the maximum speed considered was the Blade Festival. Otherwise, the catamaran surf boat type would not be used. The reason for reducing the speed to the Fengjie was two kilograms. "One of the power system is not high enough, and the other is that the auxiliary energy system necessary for high-speed battleships is not mature enough. According to the plan proposed by the US Navy in the Power Blade Year, starting from the second or third batch, the "Lawrence class will use a reactor with greater output power and a propulsion system with higher propulsion efficiency, adding an auxiliary energy system to make its maximum speed reach the Blade Festival.
This improvement plan by the US Navy is actually closely related to the design and construction of the "Sister Ship of Lawrence" class, that is, the "New Orleans" class air defense cruiser.
Although the New Orleans class uses roughly the same hull as the Lawrence class, as a cruiser, the New Orleans class not only needs fire support capabilities comparable to the Lawrence class to be equipped with at least 2 electromagnetic guns. If possible, it is best to be equipped with 3 electromagnetic guns, and at least a powerful fleet air defense capability requires a thug missile vertical launch tube. The Lawrence class only needs grunts, and the fleet command capability requires additional compartments to provide cabins for multiple fleet command personnel, as well as space for the additional fleet command system. Therefore, the displacement of the New Orleans class is increased by more than the Lawrence class. More importantly, when it is necessary to enhance air defense capabilities, the US Navy hopes to use energy weapons with regional air defense capabilities, so the output power of the New Orleans class needs to reach at least an MW. It is best to exceed the MW.
In other words, when the reactor power density cannot be increased, the number of reactors can only be increased. The problem is that the space inside the hull is empty. When designing, engineers from General Electric's Shipping Branch thought of ways, such as replacing the sailor cabin of 8 people per room, shortening the length of the sailor bed from mutual meters to 2 meters, reducing a non-commissioned restaurant, reducing the space of the entertainment cabin by half, etc. The problem is that if you do this, the "New Orleans" class hull and the "Lawrence" class hull will be less common than the ship.
At no cost, the US Navy could only delay the "New Orleans" level procurement plan.
In any case, the air defense capabilities of the Bainbridge class are not bad, and the air defense pressure of the fleet is not very large. The greatest contribution of the timely service of the New Orleans class is to strengthen the fleet's artillery strike capabilities. In this way, purchasing more Lawrence-class destroyers can also produce the same effect. Besides, the construction capabilities of General Electric's Shipping Branch and Northrop are very limited. After the construction of the New Orleans class will definitely affect the construction work of the Lawrence-class and may even increase the construction costs.
Affected by these factors, the US Navy has arranged a "New Orleans"-level procurement plan.
If everything goes well, from the ugly ship, the Lawrence class will be built according to the second batch of standards, that is, the output power of the new reactor developed as "New Orleans. The construction of the "New Orleans" class will also be carried out at the same time. Because the hull versatility and main equipment versatility of the second batch of "New Orleans" and "Lawrence" class are as high as irrigation, the construction of two warships at the same time can minimize the procurement price and construction capacity. Because General Motors and Northrop have promised to complete the modernization and improvement of a large ship platform before the years, there will be no big problems.
The impact on the Eighth Combat Unit was the "Lawrence" class destroyer operating in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Because of the differences in naming rules and tactical applications, the long-range artillery support capabilities of the multi-purpose destroyers of the US Navy are comparable to those of the Republic Navy's cruisers, and they all have 2 electromagnetic guns. Instead, they are not like the destroyers of the Republic Navy. Only thugs, continuous combat capabilities and other important factors, the combat effectiveness of the "Lawrence" class destroyers is not as good as that of the Republic Navy's cruisers. However, after excluding the crucial range, no one can ignore the strike capabilities of the world's "newest" destroyers.
According to the information provided by the Military Intelligence Bureau, the two electromagnetic guns on the Lawrence-class destroyer can project sodium-fired small-scale shells in the old minutes, that is, nearly tons of shells. Although according to the combat records of the Eighth Combat Unit, the US military's shelling intensity has never reached this level. However, in the short shelling, the "Lawrence-class destroyer can definitely summon the shells at the thugs and carry out saturation shells on defensive positions with an area of about kilometer square meters.
Bahce is just a town with less than a population and less than 2 square kilometers of urban area.
Because the US military would take the initiative to counterattack, and the threat of long-range artillery fire in previous battles had to be fully considered, the eighth combat unit's defense position in Bahce was less than the old square kilometers. From this, it can be seen that about every minute of the blade, the US fleet's "Lawrence" class destroyer could carry out a full-coverage saturated artillery bombardment of the individual defense array of the eighth combat.
In fact, the US military's shelling has never stopped.
That's why, before it was determined that it was necessary to defend Bahce, Wang Xueping asked the engineering troops of the support brigade to build a large number of strong fortifications in Bahce that were enough to resist the female-pound shells, and strengthened the construction of the underground tunnel system. At that time, Wang Xueping just wanted to reduce artillery losses and did not consider so much.
No, no, this move saved the lives of many officers and soldiers from the eighth combat unit.
Although it feels very uncomfortable to crowd in underground tunnels, it is much better than staying on the ground and getting shells.
Perhaps the US military did not expect that the Eighth Combat Unit would be so prescient, so starting from the morning of the day, the US military's attack was not very smooth. By the night of the day, the US military still failed to break through the outer defense line of the Eighth Combat Unit, and even failed to kill many enemies in the battle.
The fight was in the early morning of the past, when Su Jinhui adjusted his tactics in the south, the US military attacking Bahce was exhausted and had to stop a large-scale attack. In order to prevent the Eighth Combat Unit from taking the opportunity to counterattack, the US military did not completely stop the attack, but instead made the Eighth Combat Unit unable to organize a counterattack smoothly by harassing small groups of troops.
Of course, the situation of the US military is clear at a glance. Even if the attacker fails to make progress, it is strange that it is not exhausted.
For the Eighth Combat Unit, this is definitely a good opportunity to defend and counterattack.
Chapter completed!