Chapter 1586: Sand Table (5)

The staff of the "Blue Army" found that their "supreme commander" in the design of the entire defense system paid the most attention to air power and matching air defense capabilities.
To this end, he re-adjusted the air defense positions on the island, even at the expense of weakening some of the defensive forces of the "important areas", and redeployed these forces to 8 military airports and 14 major radar stations to ensure these. The place can get maximum defense.
In this regard, Tan Zhenhua’s explanation is:
Compared with land offensive, landing operations have their particularities. Affected by the terrain, the offensive side cannot make all kinds of land offensives until it has established a stable beachhead position at the landing point. Interspersed with tactics, this determines that the offensive must first open up a sufficient number of landing fields and project enough forces to establish a beachhead before it is possible to execute the next battle plan, but this is subject to objective conditions. It is basically determined by the upper limit of the transport capacity of various vehicles that the offensive can mobilize."
Then, he took a form and said: "This is a summary of the transportation forces that can be mobilized by the "Red Army" to perform cross-strait tactical delivery capabilities, including:
13 "Mountain" class tank landing ships, with a single one-time carrying capacity of 16 armored units and 159 soldiers;
One 073-class medium-sized landing ship, with a one-time carrying capacity of 10 armored units and 500 soldiers;
30 medium-sized landing ships of Type 079, with a single one-time carrying capacity of 5 armored units and 250 soldiers;
There are 5 Type 072/072II tank landing ships, a single one-time carrying capacity of 10 armored units and 200 soldiers;
One 072III tank landing ship, a single one-time carrying capacity of 10 armored units and 250 soldiers;
4 "Yudeng" type medium-sized landing ships, a single one-time carrying capacity of 6 armored units and 180 soldiers;
A simple calculation shows that the "Red Army" has a total of 54 ships with amphibious landing operations, but they are generally small in tonnage and long in age. Among them, the "Mountain" class landing ships are even the Mi Army's World War II materials captured that year. It has been more than 40 years, and the proper rate and dispatch rate are obviously doubtful. Even if these amphibious ships can achieve 100% dispatch rate and pass through a strait with an average width of 120 nautical miles without any loss, they can be delivered to land at one time. The entire equipment on the beach has only 452 armored forces and 12,037 soldiers-roughly equivalent to the 1.2 standard infantry divisions under the current regular organization of China. "
Speaking of this, he couldn't help shook his head and said: "It's too weak. With this strength, it is almost impossible to open up a sufficient landing field on the beach and defend it for 24 hours to wait for reinforcements to arrive."
Zhang Shaozhong frowned when he looked at the watch and said: "Yes, the average speed of the cross-strait transport force equipped by the "Red Army" can only be estimated up to 15 knots (1 nautical mile per hour equals 1 knot per hour). For a width of 120 nautical miles, it takes 8 hours to cross the sea, plus 1 hour for beachhead unloading, and 12 hours for refueling and reloading after returning. The total amount will not be less than 22 hours. The first wave of landing troops will be established. After the beachhead position, you have to stand by for at least 24 hours. This is too difficult, unless the first wave of landing forces can obtain sufficient sea-to-shore and air-to-ground fire support."
Tan Zhenhua continued to shook his head and said: "It is difficult. From 1949 until now, the Wandao authorities have carried out large-scale fortifications on the 14 landing sites on the west side of the island where conditions are met. Temporary minefields can also be set up during the war." From the point of view of the "Blue Army", these fortifications can effectively delay the actions of the "Red Army" on the beaches and landing forces, thereby buying time for the artillery firepower deployed in the rear positions to focus on them. Generally speaking, it is necessary to destroy these fortifications. , It is necessary to organize enough firepower for regional coverage, but in my opinion, the "Red Army" may not be able to achieve this."
Having said that, he turned up another piece of information: "Assuming that the "Red Army" will carry out the first wave of beach-grabbing and landing operations with maximum force. Due to the landing site environment and vehicle limitations, the "Red Army" needs to open up at least 2~ Three landing fields and ensuring that the frontal width of each landing field is not less than 5 kilometers is enough to transport all landing personnel ashore in 2 to 3 waves, and the "blue army" on the defensive side can easily reach a width of 5 kilometers At least one hundred bunkers in a stepped layout, 150 or more trenches or foxholes are deployed on the front of the landing site, and a large number of double-layer barbed wire fences, anti-tank and anti-horse barriers are added to the beachhead area. These facilities can Effectively delays the deployment of the "Red Army" troops after they rush to the beach, giving the artillery behind them a long enough attack time, which poses a considerable threat to the landing troops."
After a pause, he continued: "Because the "Red Army" is not equipped with tactical precision-guided weapons, the only way to clear these obstacles and fortifications is to use the current ships of the "Red Army" by focusing artillery fire on a large area. Based on calculations based on the most powerful 130mm caliber artillery, it is quite difficult to completely suppress the beachfront defensive position on a 5 km landing front. The amount of artillery and ammunition required is probably an astronomical figure, not to mention, " The fleet of the
Red Army
also cannot have the opportunity to concentrate on carrying out the fire support mission on the opposite shore. Except for the first ship of the Gallic
Lafayette
class frigate to be delivered next year, the
Blue Army
currently has at least 8
Jiyang
ships. Class" frigate (formerly the US Navy "Knox" class), 7 "Success" class frigates (Metric "Perry" class), 22 World War II level but some modernized "Yang" destroyers and some offshore defenses Missiles and artillery boats are available, and they all rank among the top ten in the world by just looking at their scale. These ships will inevitably cause a lot of trouble to the "Red Army" and landing fire support fleet.
Then, he gently shook his head and said: "However, in terms of strength, unless strong "foreign aid" joins, it is impossible for the "Blue Army" to completely eliminate the "Red Army" fleet in a naval battle, or even be "Red Army". Therefore, the
Blue Army
should avoid a large-scale naval battle with the
Red Army
. The outcome of a naval battle cannot fundamentally determine the outcome of the entire landing battle. The true winner must still be Looking at the results on the beach, the main task of the "Blue Army" navy is actually to carry out continuous harassment of the "Red Army" amphibious landing fleet. The purpose is to cause trouble for the "Red Army" amphibious forces and delay as much time as possible. We all know that for this kind of beach landing operations, time always belongs to the defensive side with solid logistics capabilities."
"So Dr. Tan, you attach so much importance to the air defense capabilities of the "Blue Army" because you believe that the victory or defeat of the war will be decided in the sky, right?"
The question sounded with a pure Wandao dialect.
Tan Zhenhua nodded and said: "That's right, I really think so. For the red and blue parties involved in the war, whoever has control over the strait, especially over the landing point, will win the war."