Chapter 890: Behind the Maritime Defense Line Plan

A group of people came out of the headquarters and took a military locomotive to Shanyang halfway. After a few minutes of bumpyness, they arrived at the front line. At this time, the locomotive could no longer drive. After getting off the car, they used walking and headed east along the cement passage of the fortifications. The entire fortification was built with concrete. Originally, there was only a layer of bluestone in the passage inside the fortifications, but later they found that the beach was too wet, and then they used cement to pass through the aisle.

The fortifications are trapezoidal structures. Wu Shaoting is now walking on the uppermost part of the mountainside. Most infantry strongholds and a few shore defense artillery are distributed from the waist of the mountain to the bottom. Other key and important turret positions are distributed along the waist of the mountain to the top of the hillside. However, in order to ensure that the shore defense artillery is concealed, there are no obvious fortification marks on the front.

"The trees on the mountain will soon regenerate leaves. At that time, the mountains will be covered with green, and the hiddenness will be better." Chen Zhen, who was walking behind Wu Shaoting, introduced.

"First of the People's Republic of China, please see, from here it is a shore defense foundation of two and a half kilometers in a row. The row of gray concrete buildings below is an infantry bunker... You need to look carefully. The sky is too dark now and it may not be easy to see. These infantry bunkers are a powerful tool to prevent the enemy from landing on the beach. They use a three-layer mechanism to ensure long-term combat and firepower concentration as much as possible, and at the same time ensure that the fallen area is isolated as soon as possible." Tang Jiyao said.

"Very good." Wu Shaoting nodded and continued to walk forward.

"The traffic line of the entire frontier position is mainly mountainous highways, and the fortification passage, which is the passage you are walking on now, is to ensure that traffic in the occupied areas can be cut off in critical moments, so this non-motor vehicle road is adopted. However, there will be a junction every kilometer or so. Just like where we arrived by car just now, the transport vehicles in the rear can transport materials to the front line through the junction, and then transport the soldiers to various combat positions." Zheng Zhixian said.

"So that's the case. I'm about to ask if you plan to rely on low transportation lines to ensure logistics transportation." Wu Shaoting said in a daze.

Everyone walked about a kilometer, left the main traffic lane of the fortifications, and followed another small mountain road toward the hillside. At this time, the sky was completely dark. Although you could hear the whistle and sound of sea breeze and waves, the sea surface was dark, and you could barely see some outlines with the light of stars and moons. However, Wu Shaoting knew very well that from his current condescending perspective, his vision must be very good when he waited during the day.

Not long after, everyone came to a mountain, and there was a hidden company camp to the south. The outside of the mountain was the second main fortress of the Changle defense line. The soldiers of the company had already gathered and were waiting to welcome them at the end of the mountain road. Chen Zhen and Zheng Zhixian communicated with the company commander, and then led Wu Shaoting to the main fortress directly.

"Please, please. This is the first main turret. Although it is not concealed here, it has the highest position, the best line of sight, and the range can be guaranteed to be the farthest. The firepower output is the best in the entire defense line." Zheng Zhixian first came to the periphery of the fort. The entire turret occupied the entire mountain, but there was only a concrete protective wall defense facility at the front, and a large mountain rock was leaning against behind.

The first main artillery has a total of one fixed angle shore defense cannon, three semi-fixed shore defense cannons, and two infantry howitzers. At the same time, there is a military warehouse hidden behind Dashanyan, which not only stores shells and cannon maintenance parts, but also two 70 mm spare cannons and two latest air defense machine guns. After all, China is the first country to launch air force tactics, so naturally it must also prepare air defense measures first.

The models of the four-door shore defense cannons are the same, all with a caliber of 235 mm. The base of the fixed angle shore defense cannon was welded to death. The three half-fixed angle cannons are dragged by rails and can be transferred parallel to about 60 degrees. According to Zheng Zhixian, the Changle defense cannons are mainly two series, one is the D1915 series of heavy seats, that is, the models of two main turrets, and the other is the L1915 series that can operate heavy seats.

The first main turret is the d1915-a type shore defense gun, and the Tang Ligeng turret is the d1915-c modified shore defense gun. Although the caliber of the two shore defense guns is different, according to the design principle of the d1915-c modified shore defense gun, the shells of the type A shore defense gun can also be used when necessary. However, the A-type shells will have many unstable factors when used in the c-modified shore defense gun, such as it may cause "near-range bombs" and may also cause "error bombs".

The so-called "operable heavy seat" refers to the situation where the cannon can be transferred with the maximum manpower, or can be assembled and disassembled to reduce weight, and then move it.

"Well, with such solid fortifications, I can rest assured in the sea." Wu Shaoting said approvingly.

After inspecting the first main fort, Wu Shaoting and others returned to the military camp in Shanyin from the underground traffic lane. However, there was only one traffic line in the underground traffic lane that was relatively wide, which allowed people to stand and move bicycles. The other traffic lane was very crowded and low. This wide traffic lane circled a long road, and it was almost eight o'clock when he returned to the military camp. Wu Shaoting said some encouragement to Chen Zhen, Zheng Zhixian and others, then set off to say goodbye and leave to end today's inspection activity.

Although the Changle defense line may not be as good as the Qingdao Fortress in Germany, after witnessing the results with his own eyes, Wu Shaoting can proudly call it China's strongest maritime defense line. In fact, compared with the Qingdao Fortress, the range of the Changle defense line is far ahead, and it is just a difference in operating system and structural quality. He believes that if all the strongholds on the southern coastal defense line are like the Changle defense line, the southern and southeastern waters can definitely rest assured.

On the way back to Fuzhou urban area, Chen Jiongguang, who was accompanying him, introduced the situation of the entire southern coastal defense line to Wu Shaoting. From Wenzhou, Zhejiang to Fangchenggang, Guangxi, there were a total of 18 coastal defense headquarters, basically garrisoned by brigades. The several coastal defense fortresses that have been completed are Wenzhou, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Xiamen, Shantou, Guangzhou and Zhanjiang. Because Zhejiang is closest to Jiangsu and has the responsibility to share the important task of coastal defense in Kinki, the first two commands were located in Wenzhou, and then Guangdong is the foundation of Wu Shaoting, so there are eight sequence commands on the coast of Guangdong, and then they are sorted in the order of the establishment of the coastal defense forces.

"To be honest, the entire Southern Coast Defense project costs a lot. At present, the Ministry of National Defense still has almost 60 million budget loopholes in this project. Head of State, do you really think this is necessary?" After the introduction, Chen Jiongguang sighed and suddenly changed the topic and said.

"Because we do not have the power to control the sea, we must strengthen the coastal defense project. In addition, I initially planned this project, not all because of military value." Wu Shaoting said meaningfully. He always thought that no one could really see the disadvantages of the southern coastal defense line. After all, the Sino-Japanese conflict is getting more and more intense. Everyone knows that the Japanese army in Taiwan must take into account, so everyone thinks that this coastal defense project is very useful. Unexpectedly, today it made Chen Jiongguang, a young man, point out a little.

"What do you mean..." Chen Jiongguang really didn't understand.

"Economy! These projects are projects to promote the domestic economy. You can treat them as simple civil engineering, just like building a bridge or a dam. You don't know how huge people's livelihood problems we faced at the beginning of the establishment of the Nanjing Central Government. This is a mess left by the Qing Dynasty in the past century. After the Beiyang government's tossing, the national foundation has become very fragile. Maybe you will think that I am a woman's kindness, but what I want to tell you is that now I am a national leader, not the former governor of Guangdong Province, nor is it a great consul of the government. If the country wants to establish long-term national strength, it must strive to create a solid foundation, and the people are the foundation of our country!" Wu Shaoting took a deep breath and said this solemnly.

Chen Jiongguang was stunned for a moment, and he already understood what Wu Shaoting meant.

Wu Shaoting paused and continued: "To be honest, I know that the first Japanese fleet in Taiwan now dares not invade the South China Sea. But the problem is, if we had not promoted the defense line of the South China Sea before, wouldn't the people really consider Taiwan's springboard? This is the superficial purpose. If we go to a deeper level, it is to give the people a bite of food, and at the same time use this major project to promote the innovation and development of various industries in China. You see, the Sino-German factory is a typical example."

Chen Jiongguang was a little moved. Whether it was the previous court, the central government, or the military government, they would never plunder the people to consolidate their interests. However, today, Head of State Wu Shaoting did the opposite and used the consumption of the central government to consolidate the interests of the whole people. This is really the behavior of a leader of a country! However, no matter how moved it is, as a soldier, he still needs to have rational thoughts. He sighed and said, "Head, I know that this is your kindness, but the price is too high..."

Wu Shaoting smiled and said, "Is it big? Haha, the few coastal defense fortifications that have been built are only one-fifth of the plan. When we completely solve the small ***, the other four-fifths of the project can be completely stopped and the funds can be transferred to other projects. I also plan to build the Yangtze River Bridge. The plan can be changed!"
Chapter completed!