"What are they doing?"
Since it has docked at Lijiapo, Mainz and others naturally can't wait on the ship.
So they all got off the ship and went to Lijiapo for a walk.
Lijiapo is also called Xingjiapo, Xingcheng, etc. This The place is small and located on an island, very close to the Strait of Malacca. It is a strategic artery.
With the opening of the Suez Canal, Lijiapo's strategic value began to be reflected, so the Sun Never Sets Empire began to pay attention to it.
After 1870, with the vigorous development of the rubber industry in the Malayan Peninsula, Lijiapo became more important to the Empire where the sun never sets. Therefore, under the advice of the Navy Minister Qiujier, the people who never set on Lijiapo began to The construction of military bases is mainly a naval base.
At this time, what Mainz and others saw on the island was the Lijiapo Naval Base under construction.
This naval base was built on the scale of the Gibraltar Fortress. As far as the Gibraltar Fortress guarding the Strait of Gibraltar is concerned, Lijiapo's strategic value in the Far East is almost the same, so the people who never set the sun are very careful in building this naval base.
Mainz noticed that the people who never set the sun are building it. At that time, a large amount of reinforced concrete was used, and in addition to the naval base, there were also protective fortifications outside the naval base, including fortress guns, underground bunkers, and permanent fortifications to control the strait.
It can be seen that the sun never sets. The human fortifications are well planned. If these fortress systems can be established, it will be almost impossible for the enemy to pass through the Strait of Malacca under the eyes of the British army!
And as long as the enemies in the Far East cannot cross the Strait of Malacca, then The control of the sea in the Asan Yang area will be firmly in the hands of the Sun Bu Luo people, which is of great significance for the Sun Bu Luo people to maintain absolute control over the Asan colony.
However, in World War II, The military fortress that Sun Buluo people worked so hard to build did not even fire a single cannonball, but they just raised the white flag and surrendered!
Hundreds of thousands of well-equipped British troops with the protection of the fortress were forced to surrender with less than half their number. , lacking supplies and inferior to their weapons and equipment, the Japanese surrendered. This incident became one of the biggest humiliations of the Sun Never Set People during World War II.
In addition to the Sun Never Sets People's greed for life and fear of death, the reason for this shame was also. It has a major relationship with their strategic planning mistakes in 1920!
"Do you see what's wrong?"
Mainz found that everyone was curiously looking at the fortress where the sun never sets, so he asked them
"There is something strange about the fortifications where the sun never sets!"
Paulus lifted his chin and said with a frown.
Mainz nodded. Although he didn't like Paulus very much, he didn't deny this guy's ability.
Of course there are people who can see the problem at a glance. Otherwise, Mustache would not have trusted him so much and handed him the elite Sixth Army!
Unfortunately, he failed Mustache and ruined the entire Third Reich!
"Oh, what's weird? Mainz did not tell the other party directly and continued to ask.
This question stumped Paus. He shook his head and said that he was not very clear, but his intuition told him that this thing looked wrong.
Mainz clicked He nodded, feeling a little disappointed, and then looked at the others.
"Dönitz, what do you think?"
Navy Commander Dönitz is second only to Mainz in terms of military rank and status. His vision must be higher than that of ordinary people, so Mainz wants to know his opinion.
"From a naval perspective, the fortress where the sun never sets is indeed impregnable. If I guessed correctly, their fortress should be equipped with a 30mm or more cannon, and there may even be a 406mm fortress cannon. To be honest, when a warship is drifting on the sea, because the warship sways with the sea water, the accuracy of the design is not as good as that of the fortress cannon on land!
In addition, the position of the fortress cannon was specially selected during the design.
The design angle is very large, and the shooting data in the port have been available for a long time.
Therefore, the shooting accuracy of the fortress cannon will be much higher than that of the naval gun.
In this case , if the two sides are bombarding each other, the fortress guns will take advantage, and the naval guns will suffer a lot.
In addition, there is a several-meter-thick reinforced concrete protective wall outside the fortress guns.
Even if they are hit by naval guns, it will be difficult to destroy them, so , from my professional point of view, I think it is almost impossible to conquer this place from the sea!
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Dönitz's words were considered from a naval perspective. He denied the possibility of attacking from the sea, but did not mention other aspects.
"You mean, there is a chance of attacking from land?"
Heydrich was the youngest and had been in the army for the shortest time, so he couldn't help but curiously asked after hearing Dönitz's words.
"At least I didn't notice that the sun never sets on the gun emplacements in the rear!"
Dönitz spread his hands. Although he is not sure if anyone can launch an attack from the rear, coastal defense fortresses in various countries have this common problem, that is, they focus on the head rather than the back.
This is actually normal, after all, their design The requirement is to deal with enemies from the sea, not the enemies behind you. After all, you are on your own homeland, and the possibility of being attacked by enemies is not high. So , of course, there is nothing wrong with this design.
It is not absolute, for example, the Fortress of Gibraltar, the defenses here are completely three-dimensional, not only to guard against enemies on the sea, but also to guard against attacks from enemies behind you!
The reason is very simple, the sun never sets on the Fortress of Gibraltar! They had been worried that they would be snatched back by force, so they had to strengthen their defense. This made the Fortress of Gibraltar impregnable and difficult to capture!
Dönitz's words opened up an idea for everyone, Everyone realized that the British fortress was flawed, and this fatal flaw was that they had no ability to resist attacks from the rear.
"However, behind this fortress is Li Jiapo, and behind Li Jiapo is the Malay Peninsula.
If you want to attack Li Jiapo, you must first capture the Malay Peninsula, and then you can attack Li Jiapo.
After capturing Li Jiapo, you can attack the British fortress.
I feel This kind of thing is impossible!
Himmler said, he felt that people on whom the sun never sets must not be fools, so they must be very aware of such shortcomings, but people on whom the sun never sets did not care at all, which shows that they must have considered it beforehand.
"Yes, if you want to attack the Malay Peninsula, you must have sea control, and no one in the world has the ability to say that it can control the sea when facing the Royal Navy, so for the Royal Navy, this weakness is actually irrelevant. Unless the Royal Navy is defeated, they will not be attacked from behind by the enemy!"
Dönitz said with a smile, not that he thought the Lijiapo fortress was really impregnable and unbreakable, but that he felt that the Sun Never Sets Man did this because he was confident in his own strength, especially the strength of the Royal Navy. Otherwise, otherwise ,���We definitely wouldn't dare to do this!
"General, what do you think?"
Everyone had been discussing, but they didn't hear General Mainz speak, so at the end of the conversation everyone looked at Major General Mainz, wanting to hear his opinion.
"The Royal Navy is still the number one in the world, but the future is not certain, and this is the Far East. It is impossible for the Royal Navy to mobilize all its forces here, especially when the European homeland faces huge threats. They dare not mobilize local forces easily. It is precisely because of this willingness that the sun never sets on building a fortress in Lijiapo!"
"They already feel threatened!"