Chapter 1454: Island Protection

Guam is different from other islands, this is one of the two most important islands in the Pacific region, it is a special A-class air base, even Iwo Jima near Japan is not as good as the location and role of Guam, more than 500 square kilometers of Guam, Guam in later generations has at least more than 120 square kilometers as a military base of the US military, now, Guam has fallen into the hands of China, there is more territory that can be used, China will pay attention to here in advance, and even like Southeast Asia, the aborigines will be relocated, China is different from the United StatesSeparated by a distant Pacific Ocean, China's Southeast Asian territory is only 2,400 kilometers away, and if it is properly arranged, it will become one of the most important air bases in the entire Chinese Pacific Ocean.

Because of this, starting from the navy and the landing force, Yang Yuanzhao has been waiting for news, at the first time when Guam was confirmed, in addition to ordering the surveyors to set off in the early stage, Yang Yuanzhao was in Baotou, directly issued an order with the airwaves, by the most outstanding seaport design experts in the field of Chinese design, the most famous experts in the military air base, they together formed the highest specification design team, as well as at least 200 assistants and surveyors, they urgently concentrated in Baotou, and flew to the Philippines, The flight of more than 8,000 kilometers took less than a day to arrive under the rapid flight of the plane, and then after a day of rest in Manila, it began to take a seaplane to Guam.

Entering the ocean, even if it is a slight step from the Philippines to the Pacific Ocean, it is a 2400-kilometer voyage, there is nothing more suitable than an airplane, in China, airports have been arranged in most cities, even Lanfang, a city that has just joined the Chinese sequence, China has at least 15 to 20 airports, Manila is a node city in the Philippines, and he has the largest airport.

There is no airport in Guam, the US military in this era did not even realize the important role of aircraft, and even Guam itself, the US military did not care much, a larger island, a node from Hawaii to the Philippines, and then it was just a forward position, the US military did not build a large construction project in Guam, only a temporary wharf, even a larger merchant ship could not dock, if you want to arrive quickly, the plane is the best, and China happens to have the largest seaplane in the world. Seaplane in terms of utilization, can not be compared with the roadbed aircraft, has a huge pontoon relationship, he has a lot of weight and volume, will be used to this, even in the air, there is no best aerodynamic system, the utilization rate is not high, but in most areas except the land can easily take off and land flight this, has become an island, important liaison tool, in the island has not completed the construction of the case, some personnel, small tools, supplies and many other things, with aircraft transportation is the best choice.

Before the arrival of the top experts, there was already a group of personnel in Indonesia, on a seaplane, arrived in Guam, they need to make preliminary preparations, and at the same time, at least 300,000 tons of merchant ships, carrying all kinds of machinery and equipment and personnel, carrying floating docks to Guam, because they are at sea, the speed is a little slower, but they have brought the necessary equipment, will be in the shortest possible time, on Guam, to build temporary wharves and settlements, to ensure that Guam construction will not be delayed.

In the previous air force reconnaissance, in front of the necessary personnel, there was enough photographic information about the location and simple outline of the island, the distribution of the elevation of the land, the distribution of the mountains, and the location suitable for the port, now it is necessary to have a complete design, the most important of which is the air base and the naval base.

An island of more than 500 kilometers, if carefully planned, can accommodate a lot of things, Yang Yuanzhao's purpose is very simple, not only to take here, but also to defend and live here, the first thing to choose is the airport and port, to station enough aircraft and warships, to build Guam into China's largest naval and air force military base in the southwest Pacific, and on this basis, Yang Yuanzhao also put forward higher requirements, without the help of aircraft, Guam itself had to be defended against possible attacks from battleships, that is, protective batteries were to be placed.

Unlike the Japanese archipelago, the batteries on the Ogasawara Islands, the batteries arranged in those places are slightly simpler, the most important thing is to arrange the airport, those places are also very important, but they are not the largest military base, even if they encounter a sneak attack, the loss is very small, Guam in China's view, the future is a port larger than Pearl Harbor during World War II, the fleet of the southwest Pacific, and even the Australian fleet, will be temporarily anchored here, and the air force headquarters of the entire southwest Pacific will also be here, and at least more than 1,000 aircraft will be accommodated in the future.

Such a place will not only become an important node of China in the southwest Pacific, but also become a necessary target for the enemy's attack, once paralyzed here, there will be major loopholes in the protection of the entire southwest Pacific, so it is necessary to do a good job of perfect protection, under the requirements of Yang Yuanzhao, there is a need for perfect batteries, requiring that without aircraft escort, at least 8 battleships such as the fantasy class can withstand the attack.

This is not a small number, Panama, an important American town, with a fort and fleet defense system, faced with the attack of 4 battleships, it only took a few hours to collapse, and even the dam and lock of the sea, which are the largest projects in the world, only to withstand the attack of 4 battleships for less than 40 hours, collapsed and completely destroyed, although it is easier to destroy than to build, it is enough to see how terrible the attack of 4 battleships on fixed targets is.

When the number has increased to 8 ships, the requirements for everything have almost doubled or tripled, and the reason why Yang Yuanzhao's requirements are so high is very simple, the plane is far from the all-weather state to the current level, even in later generations, in some extreme environments, all-weather fighters can take off, but not in the case of war, generally in the state of training or mission, will avoid combat.

Strong winds, heavy rain, thunder and lightning, a series of things, can affect the effect of the aircraft, although China already has a night vision device, but has not yet been put into the aircraft geodetic, at night, the aircraft can basically test the flight can but, that is in the last resort, will be chosen, can not be used as the main conventional combat method.

Before night sailing has not become a regular behavior, it is necessary to strengthen the island's protective capability, defense, has always been China's strong point, an island of more than 500 square kilometers, can be arranged in many places, plus Guam as a mountain range, not a coral reef type island, as long as it takes effort, in a specific place to arrange artillery, after a specially designed battery, it is enough to protect all.

Land-based artillery fire, because the height can be arranged to a relatively high place, coupled with the relationship between increasing the barrel and the length, the firing distance is above the naval gun, and the Chinese side is also willing to deploy the best artillery here for a special base like Guam.

The existence of the all-in-one machine, China has surpassed the world too much in material science, and it may not reach the average level of later generations on the whole, but it may exceed in a few individual items.

On the material, it was originally a very accidental thing, for example, the sword unearthed in the ancient tomb can not corrode for thousands of years, or even thousands of years, and it is still sharp and abnormal, of course, this is just a case, it may be that the swordsmith got a very special meteorite, or he accidentally completed an alloy, in the era of no industry, can make this alloy that far exceeds that of later generations, let alone Yang Yuanzhao, who has an all-in-one machine.

Every day with the support of materials science, the completion of 10,000 different specimens, may be better than the previous 100,000, or even 1 million, more outstanding, after countless permutations and combinations, especially complete data analysis, China on the basis of materials science, even better than later generations, and 3 million per year, 5 years fast 20 million specimens, it is natural to give birth to some more unique alloys, especially in the cannon steel, China has come up with excellent basic materials.

The existence of the all-in-one machine, not only to manufacture some of the success rate is not high, the yield rate is not high of the material, or can be the perfect different materials, added to different metals, the proportion of materials is quite excellent, in countless choices, China in materials science is also constantly confirmed, the progress is very fast.

The inference of the proportion of various materials has a set of laws, different from the research of materials science in later generations, after a furnace of metal comes out, it needs to be a systematic detection, which takes a long time, if there is no effect, such a furnace will be wasted, time, cost, plus the cost of the material itself, these are all problems, which is also the fundamental reason for the difficulty of breakthroughs in materials science.

Sometimes in order to find a suitable material ratio, countless technicians keep calculating, finding out the possible formula, and then experimenting with a furnace of alloys, so happy if they succeed, but once they fail, they are all scrapped, and developed countries almost use a lot of money and a lot of time to find an alloy formula, which is almost their core secret.

But for the all-in-one machine, this is not a problem at all, as long as the proportion of materials is entered, a little synthesis at one time can be, in the metal scanning, all aspects of the performance of the metal are fully expressed, with these accurate numbers, many branches of materials science can be applied, and the cost is negligible, it is the great progress in the material, supporting the rapid development of China's military. (To be continued.) )