Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Fort
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There are several ports in the bend of Ningde Port, one is Baima Port, one is Nangang, and one is Feiluan Port, of which the military port is located in Nangang and the smuggling wharf is located in Baima Port.
Xia Jun hurried to Ningde, inspected Nangang for a long time, and selected the location of the fort in the northeast of Nanmen Mountain Village, which was located higher and was in a straight line from the entrance of the harbor.
Xia Jun arranged 5 M1919s here, and built the Nanmen Mountain Fort, which required an additional 200,000 points to build the fort, which could be built in two days.
Time was short, Xia Jun did not choose to build it himself, but hired the engineering team on the platform to build it.
Then Xia Jun ran to the small peninsula where Feiluan Port is located, not far from the southeast is the entrance of the harbor, Xia Jun inspected for a while, and chose the location of the fort in Shangkeng Village, so he built the Shangkeng Fort here, which is also 5 M1919 shore defense guns.
The two batteries form a 90-degree right-angle fire intersection at the exit of the harbor, and it is very cool to be hit by this M1919, this is a 408mm caliber cannon, of course, this shell is also expensive, the price of a shell is 10,000 points.
The M1919 16-inch shore defense gun is a large type of shore defense gun deployed in major U.S. ports from 1920 to 1949.
Caliber: 16 inches / 406mm
Tube length: 50 times diameter (67 feet / approx. 20 meters)
Projectile: 2100 pounds or 2240 pounds (1 pound equals about 1 pound)
Charge: 640 lbs
Range: about 45,000 yards / about 40,000 meters
Range of fire: 215°
Price: 500,000 points
This artillery gun only needs 500,000 points, which can be said to be very expensive, but Xia Jun has just sunk two warships, and if there is income, there must be investment, and only with investment can there be income, so how to say it, it will also give Xiao Yueben a big 'surprise'.
The 4.5 million points obtained from the sinking of the Hashitachi and Itsukushima were invested in the construction of the fort, Xia Jun could buy 9 M1919 shore defense guns, and he bought 10, that is, 5 million points, plus 400,000 points for the construction of the fort, and 20 high-power searchlights, for a total of 5.5 million points.
The M1919 16-inch shore defense gun is actually a naval gun, because the United States stopped the construction of the Lexington-class battleship because of the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty, and the 20 16-inch naval guns originally used for the battleship were also transferred to the Army for the manufacture of the M1919 shore gun.
Buying shore defense guns is much more cost-effective than buying battleships directly, take the smallest torpedo boat as an example, 100 tons need 100,000 points, which is equivalent to 1 ton = 1000 points, and the points required for battleships are even higher, the price of 1 ton displacement is generally around 2000. A 20,000-ton battleship needs more than 20 million points, and 20 million points is just to buy displacement, install naval guns, as well as radar, fire control systems and other equipment, and the price will at least increase to 30 million points, of which the fire control system is the most expensive, if you buy a better fire control system, the price can even soar to more than 50 million points.
Moreover, if the battleship is bought, the Navy will not open it for a while, and the mercenary system on the exchange platform only allows the hiring of a maximum of 500 mercenaries, which is not enough to slap the personnel of a battleship.
These mercenaries can be competent in all high-tech weapons, and they are not a problem for the Gang Fort, but they are more expensive to hire, and for the artillery of the Gang Shore Defense Artillery, you need to pay 500 points a day to a mercenary.
Xiao Yueben's retaliation must be coming in a few days, and Xia Jun has no time to train the soldiers of the fort, so the mercenaries are temporarily engaged in these M1919 shore defense guns.
The two forts could be built in two days, and Xia Jun stayed in Ningde to command the naval deployment.
The smuggling was also temporarily stopped, the ship was rerouted to take the Fuzhou route, Xia Jun let the ship sail out of Ningde, and he was also prepared for the worst, so he couldn't leave the ship in Ningde.
Torpedo boats began to lay mines at the entrance, and submarines were ready to fight at any time. Xia Jun still has 130 million points in his hand, and he can buy a high-tech weapon to support the defense of the port at any time.
In order to prevent leakage of news, Xia Jun mobilized the infantry to evacuate the masses during the construction of the fort, and the navy was shocked by the ten coastal defense guns, and they had a better understanding of Xia Jun's magical powers, and they even guessed about the uncle in Xia Jun's mouth.
Xia Jun is currently acting more and more unrestrained, because he has established a confidentiality system, he no longer cares about people's suspicions about him, they doubt and can't let him follow Mao less, just let them keep their mouths shut, and destroy all files in the future, even if these people who have signed a confidentiality agreement jump out to expose it, they can also be arrested as a neurosis, and the people will only think that it is nonsense.
If you sign a confidentiality agreement, even if you know a big secret, you have to rot in your stomach, otherwise you will be held accountable.
In fact, many people who have signed confidentiality agreements now only think that these things were shipped back from abroad by Xia Jun's uncle.
If they want to reveal the secret, they can only tell the outside world that the chairman of the committee has a very good uncle, and he ......
Even if people find all the clues of the uncle who is not Xia Jun, in the face of doubts, Xia Jun can also use state secrets to prevaricate.
In short, no one will doubt that Xia Jun bought these things from the exchange platform, because people's imagination is not so rich.
Two days passed quickly, and the two batteries were successfully built, but the navy had not yet arrived.
It has been three days since the sinking of the two warships.
Xia Jun stayed in Ningde and waited for Xiao Yue to kick the iron plate, while remotely controlling Xia Harvest's work and expanding the navy at the same time.
At present, there is simply not enough people in the offshore fleet, and Xia Jun wants someone to condone these shore defense guns, and he also has to expand the scale of submarines, and even equip some useless ships.
Although the era of battleships is about to fade away, this is after all the ultimate maritime power of this era, and it also symbolizes a spirit and glory.
Xia Jun even plans to build the strongest ultimate senseless ship in history in the future, and it will be named Qi Jiguang at that time, which will be at least more fierce than the Bismarck, which Germany spent ten years building during World War II.
Zhou Xiulong, the interim commander of the offshore fleet, graduated from the Yantai Naval Academy, and Fujian is the province with the largest number of sailors in the country, and a large number of students also go to the naval academy every year to study. Half a year ago, Zhou Xiulong signed up for the formation of the offshore fleet after seeing the recruitment notice, and was soon appointed as the interim acting commander.
In this naval expansion, Zhou Xiulong's first thought was Xie Baozhang, the principal of the Yantai Naval Academy, who immediately recommended this person to Xia Jun.
Who is Xie Baozhang? Xia Jun opened the information column of the exchange platform, and after entering his name, he quickly found the information about Xie Baozhang, what he didn't expect was that Xie Baozhang's information was very expensive, and a resume would cost 500,000 points, which was higher than Yuan Shikai and others.
Generally speaking, the more precious the information, the more expensive it is, is there anything else extraordinary about this Xie Baozhang?