Another type of landing ship is that it can directly rush to the shore and send soldiers and equipment directly to the shore. The advantage is that it can directly send some heavy weapons to the shore. Moreover, the defense and wind and wave resistance of the warship are much stronger than that of the assault boat, so its survivability is much stronger than that of the assault boat, and after rushing to the shore, it can also be used as a cover for the landing troops. However, the disadvantage is that such warships need to be specially designed and built, and cannot be transformed with transport ships, which is relatively expensive. In addition, this kind of landing ship has higher requirements for the terrain and environment on the shore.

In fact, this kind of landing ship was mainly popular before and after World War II. It was not used to transport personnel, but to transport heavy equipment, mainly tanks and armored vehicles. Before crossing, there was also a warship with similar functions in the PLA's naval ship sequence, the Type 072a tank landing ship, which can transport 10 Type 99a tanks to the shore at one time.

However, from the development trend of amphibious operations, this kind of landing ship directly rushing to the shore is of course a general trend. Therefore, the East China government also designed a type of landing ship last year, with a displacement of about 1,000 tons. It can transport an artillery operator to the shore at one time, and is expected to be completed in the second half of 1905. Of course, this is not a large delivery capacity, but it is sufficient for the current Marine Corps. Moreover, this is the first time that the East China government has built this type of warship, and it is reasonable to adopt a more stable strategy.

In order to adapt to landing operations, the organization of the Marine Corps is also very different from that of the Army. Since the Marine Corps currently uses assault boats to land on combat mode, heavy equipment cannot be transported to the shore position at the first time to participate in the battle, the entire army has increased the proportion of mortar equipment. The Bijing mortar can be transported to landing artillery with assault boats. At the same time, in order to increase the firepower of the landing troops, the number of machine guns has also been increased.

Just last year, the general-purpose machine gun developed by the East China government was finally finalized and was named the Type 03 general-purpose machine gun. The body weighs 13.2 kilograms, the heavy machine gun is 21.6 kilograms, the light machine gun weighs 17.5 kilograms, the maximum range is 800 meters, and the maximum firing rate is 200 rounds per minute. It can be used in two ways: chain-type ammunition and drum-type ammunition. Although compared with the Maxim machine guns and Haqiks machine guns of this era, their power is inferior, but their advantage lies in their lightness and flexibility, and can be directly transferred to squad-level combat units for use, which is suitable for use by the Marine Corps. Therefore, the Marine Corps has also become the first unit in the army to be equipped with Type 03 general-purpose machine guns.

The Marine Corps' squad has 16 people, divided into 2 combat groups, a machine gun group and a mortar group, equipped with a Type 03 general machine gun and a 60 mortar. It has strong firepower, even exceeding the average army platoon. When conducting landing operations, a squad will take a assault boat.

The battalion-level subordinates all have fire support troops, equipped with various mortars, machine guns, and rapid-fire guns. As fire support for combat troops, the entire division only has one artillery regiment under the division, equipped with 27 75mm caliber field guns. Of course, this is not used for landing operations, but for guarding key positions on the beach or coast after landing. The Bijing Marines do not only carry out landing operations. After landing successfully, if the subsequent army troops do not follow up at the extreme, then guarding the beachhead positions or key strongholds on the coast is also the combat task of the Marine Corps, which requires artillery. Moreover, the Marine Corps also equips a cavalry battalion, which is also for other operations.

This time, the landing combat training lasted for 2 weeks. Each unit conducted three simulated landing combat trainings, and initially had a certain amount of landing combat experience. At the same time, many of the problems were discovered, so the troops were brought back to the base for repairs. Luo Yue and other officers always wanted to analyze the exposed problems, find ways to improve, and test the effect in the next training.

However, when he returned to the base, Luo Yue did not have to live in the military camp, but returned to Qin Zheng and Zhou Ping's residence. During this period, Luo Yue was not busy with work, but Zhou Weiying was not easy, because he was preparing for war and the medical system could not stay out of it. On the one hand, he had to prepare a large number of medical equipment and drug supplies; on the other hand, he had to organize training positions and personnel from field hospitals to formulate work plans. Now Zhou Weiying is the backbone of the medical system, and his work is naturally very heavy. In addition, Luo Yue often carries out training tasks and leaves home for several days. Therefore, Zhou Ping simply lets them live in his own home, so that they can work with peace of mind and not worry about housework.

After returning home, after dinner, Qin Zheng called Luo Yue to the study room and handed him a folder, saying, "Xiao Luo, I have already read the combat plan you submitted for Lao Xiao. Lao Xiao is very interested in this plan and believes that it is very likely to be implemented. He also put forward several modification suggestions. He also suggested that you make a formal submission to the General Staff after the modification is made. Now the General Staff is formulating a detailed combat plan. Your combat plan should have a great reference for the General Staff. If it is officially implemented in the future, you will definitely be the supreme commander to implement a combat plan, so you must be prepared."

Luo Yue couldn't help but feel excited when he heard this and said, "Okay, I'll modify it right away."

It turned out that after Luo Yue carefully studied the Russo-Japanese War in the old time and space, he believed that although Japan finally won the war, there was almost nothing worthy of praise in tactics. Almost all battles were won by the willpower of the Japanese army and the Bushido spirit who was not afraid of death. Because of the land battle, every battle was almost a meat-mixer. Therefore, every victory of the Japanese army was a miserable victory, and even the battle was fought in which the winning side was more casualties than the defeated side.

On the contrary, to a certain extent, although the Russian army suffered consecutive defeats on the battlefield, from a strategic perspective, it successfully implemented the strategy of exchanging space for time, and gradually retreated to consume the Japanese army's agility and potential for war, allowing the Japanese army's attack to reach the limit when it reached Shenyang, and won the time for reassembling the army. By the end of the war, Russia had assembled another 400,000 troops in the Far East.

In the end, Russia lost the war, which was mainly due to two reasons: one was that a serious political crisis broke out in the country, which affected Russia's foreign combat capabilities; the other was that the Second Pacific Fleet was wiped out and completely lost the sea control of the Far East. However, the strategy of exchanging space for time on land was basically successful. In the post-war negotiations, Japan did not take much convenience. Not only did it not get a penny of war reparations, but it also gave up half of Sakhalin Island. You should know that at the end of the war, Japan had basically occupied Sakhalin Island.

Luo Yue believed that in the middle of the war, that is, at this time, Japan had a trick to change the result of the war, which was to attack Vladivostok. Vladivostok is the most important city in Russia in the Far East and the Far East end of the Siberian Railway. Therefore, once Japan successfully attacked Vladivostok, both political and strategic value were of great importance.

First of all, in a political sense, although Russia has intentionally replaced Vladivostok with Lushun in recent years, it has not been operating Lushun for a long time after all, and from a legal perspective, Lushun is a land leased, and sovereignty still belongs to China; and in the Sino-Russia Beijing Treaty signed by Russia and the Qing court in 1860, it clearly stipulated that the Qing court ceded Vladivostok to Russia. Now Russia has been operating Vladivostok for more than 40 years, so the people in Russia have regarded Vladivostok as Russia's territory. Russia's abandonment of Lushun, Liaoyang, and Shenyang was just a failure at the war level, but these places do not belong to Russian territory after all, and once Vladivostok is occupied by Japan, it will officially lose its territory, which has a huge psychological impact on the domestic government and people.

In terms of strategic value, Japan's occupation of Vladivostok is equivalent to stabbing Russia in the back. To the east, it can directly threaten Harbin, and to the north, it can push the vast areas of Russia's Far East, such as Shuangchengzi, Miaojie, Boli, Gongqingcheng, and even the Kamchatka Peninsula will be placed under the Japanese army's military front. Therefore, Russia can only give up Chenyang and retreat to Hajibin and Mudanjiang on all sides. The Japanese army can almost push the front from Shenyang to Jilin and Changchun without wasting its power. Then the situation in the Far East will be very different. Even if the armistice negotiations are carried out, Japan will be much more beneficial.

In terms of feasibility, Japan is quite sure to capture Vladivostok, because Japan has now controlled the sea control rights in the Far East waters. The distance from Yokosuka or Wu Port to Vladivostok is about 1,000 kilometers, which is basically the same as the distance to Lushun. However, if it is from the port in the northern part of the Honsou Island to Vladivostok, it is less than 700 kilometers, so the distance is not an obstacle.

In addition, since Russia leased Lushun, the focus has been on transferring like Lushun. After all, Lushun is a port that is not frozen, and Vladivostok has an ice period of about 4 months every year. Lushun started to build fortifications since the time of the Beiyang Navy. After Russia took over Lushun, it rebuilt and rebuilt on the basis of the original fortifications built by the Beiyang Navy. Although Vladivostok's defense is not completely useless, it has not been reinforced in recent years, and it is indeed inferior to Lushun.

Moreover, Japan and Russia are now fighting on the front lines from Liaoyang to Chenyang. Russia has almost concentrated all the troops in the Far East to Chenyang. Vladivostok's garrison forces are also very empty. The strength of the Vladivostok squadron is average. The Liurik was sunk, and only the remaining Grombowi and the Warriors were injured, so the support for the garrison is not great. If Japan dispatched a fleet to launch an attack on Vladivostok before the Second Pacific Fleet arrived, there would indeed be a great chance of success.
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