Chapter 180: Millennium Fortress 2

Due to the vast territory of the Soviet Union, the area available for development is the largest in the world, and it is inevitable that there will be some decision-making matters in the process of large-scale development, such as the development of the area near the Aral Sea and the large-scale wheat planting plan in the northern part of the country in the 60s - one led to a great deterioration of the ecology near the Aral Sea, and the other ended in complete failure, because the energy exposed to the sun was not enough for the wheat to produce seeds, and the large-scale investment was exchanged for a pile of wheat stalks. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

These are all issues that Lin Jun will need to pay attention to in the future, the construction of the country sometimes cannot pick up the sesame seeds and lose the watermelon, and the current leaders do not have the concept of sustainable development.

More than an hour after breakfast, Lin Jun saw a large sign on the side of the railway: the train had left the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and entered the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. And at midnight today, the train will once again enter the land of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

In later generations, a few people in the East will know that the Crimean peninsula at this time belonged to Russian land, and people have the impression that Sevastopol has always been a municipality of Ukraine and a home port leased by the Russian Black Sea Fleet - and this is also "attributed" to Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, the current first secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

To celebrate the 300th anniversary of the beginning of the "alliance" with Russia by Ukraine's Cossack chief hetman Bogdan Mikhainovich Khmelnitsky, Khrushchev led the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to pass a resolution in 1954 to annex Crimea to Ukraine. The rationale for the resolution reads: "In view of the economic commonality, geographical proximity and close economic and cultural ties between Crimea and the Ukrainian SSR. ”

Since the mid-18th century, Crimea has been part of Russia and is the coveted outlet to the Black Sea for the Russian Empire, and the price to pay for its capture is not small.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Russians realized that Crimea would be permanently owned by Ukraine, but it was too late to regret it. A Russian State Duma deputy once said: "We should not renew the treaty with Ukraine, when Khrushchev gave Crimea to Ukraine when he was drunk." ”

In this way, Russia has to negotiate with its former family and current neighbors in order to lease the port of Sevastopol. If Comrade Orlov had known that the glorious Red Navy might be forced to evacuate Sevastopol in the future, he would have taken the Marines to destroy Khrushchev now.

"Khrushchev, there is more than enough success and more than failure!"

Maybe Lin Jun's thought decided Khrushchev's future fate, this Humpty Dumpty is really a troublemaker, and his sycophants are first-class, otherwise he should have been dragged out and shot by Stalin a long time ago.

Taking the train is a relatively boring thing, there are no piles of official documents to deal with by yourself, and the artillery experts also gather alone to talk about professional topics, embarrassed to disturb their rest, all Lin Jun can do is look at the same scenery outside the window and wait for the next meal.

"Chief, we have the best wine, would you like to taste it?" The waiter, who was in his 50s, asked Lin Jun very politely during the lunch.

Lin Jun smiled slightly: "Let's have something made in Ukraine, something special." ”

In Moscow, Lin Jun drank the most Georgian wine, who called Stalin liked the taste of his hometown, so that the special supply of senior cadres was Georgian goods. In fact, the wines produced on the Black Sea coast of Ukraine are also very famous, and the quality is even better than that produced in Georgia, especially with many local varieties.

It seems that Lin Jun's "characteristic point" has worked: Have you ever seen a golden wine? The waiter had a bottle in his hand.

"Chief, this is a Piraci wine from Odessa, and it tastes very good."

The waiter skillfully poured a glass for Lin Jun and the three people sitting at the same table, and finally put the wine bottle into the ice bucket on the table.

"Volnov, in fact, the waiter comrade introduced it incorrectly, this should not be called Odessa Pelaki wine, in Ukraine it is Pilaki wine, it is a town famous for wine, just by the Black Sea."

"Comrade Andrei, it seems that you also have a deep study of wine, which is rare in Moscow."

"Hehe, as I read in the book, Piraci's comrades all work in the brewery." As he spoke, Lin Jun raised the wine glass in his hand.

If anyone here knew where he knew about Piracian wine, they would probably jump off the train in shock - Lin Jun's knowledge of Soviet wine came from the memoirs of an American spy!

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Crimea is a large peninsula jutting out of the Black Sea from the south of the Soviet Union, and has always been a Soviet resort due to its warm and comfortable Mediterranean climate. But the resort is built on a huge fortress – the Black Sea, an inland sea shared by Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria and many other countries, and is strategically important enough to exert political pressure on the countries surrounding the coast once it has mastered the Black Sea. And Sevastopol is the most suitable port on the Black Sea coast, a nail deep into the Black Sea, a military fortress for thousands of years, a place where soldiers must fight.

Today, Sevastopol has evolved into a fortress city with millennia of fighting: a large number of fortresses, moats and deliberately created labyrinthine tunnels surround the city.

Since the Civil War, and especially from the 30s, the fortress was completely modernized, and a military airfield was built. Because of this, Lin Jun knew that it had also become a piece of Hitler's heart.

Hitler believed that the Soviet troops stationed in Sevastopol could land from the Black Sea at any time to encircle the troops of the southern front of the invading German army, which made the German army inevitably dare not advance to the east; Moreover, the Soviet planes taking off from the Crimean airfield always threatened the lifeline of the Axis powers -- the Proyesti oil fields in Romania, and Germany, which was short of oil, would not think of starting the giant ship of war if it lost the oil fields of its friendly country, Romania.

Moreover, an attack on Crimea would undoubtedly allow Germany to win favor with Turkey, thus pulling the great power that had been on the sidelines into the Axis chariot.

It's just that Turkey doesn't seem to buy Hitler's account, and the relations between the Turks and the Soviets have been okay these years, and the Soviet Union has also provided a lot of aid to Turkey.

The Sevastopol Fortress was not a single fortress-like fortress, but was based on the city of Sevastopol, with the southern shore of the slender Severnaya Bay to the north, and the defense between the northern shore of the Severnaya Bay and the Bebek Gorge. In this rectangular strip of 360 kilometers, there are 12 permanent fortress groups, each with a typical Soviet name.

The center was guarded by three huge fortress groups of "Molotov", "Cheka" and "Kobeu", two fortresses "Lenin" and "Northern Fortress" were arranged in the angular salient near the sea to the southwest, and five joint fortresses were located due east, namely "Stalin", "Siberia", "Volga", "Donets" and "Urals".

In the northernmost pass of the 4 defense lines is also the easiest to break through, is the strongest "Maxim-Gorky No. 1" combined turret fortress at that time, it has a twin 305 mm cannon made in 1934, the firing range of 44 kilometers, the shape of the outer defense layer resembles a battleship turret, by 200 ~ 300 mm thick armor plate all wrapped, there are 3 layers of permanent fortifications under the turret, each layer of permanent concrete canopy is up to 3000 ~ 4000 mm thick. Any enemy army that tries to approach the fort will be bombarded with artillery, and being hit by a 305-mm shell is no joke, and the attacking enemy must have extraordinary tenacity.

In addition, on the east side of the "Maxim Gorky I", the fortress "Bastion I" was set up as a foresight. All fortresses were covered with permanent concrete armor plates, connected by underground passages and small railways, and countless bunkers and firing points were set up in the mountainous areas, and all the fortress turrets were sunken and had an absolutely superior firing range, making it theoretically impossible to carry out a ground attack on this defensive area. Moreover, the designers stored the basic ammunition of the fortress in the main ammunition depot of "Kulabe", which is 30 meters underground on the southern shore of Sevinaya Bay.

On the other hand, the defensive forces in the south and west of the city of Sevastopol were not so concentrated: from due east to southeast, there were only three fortresses, "Bastion II", "Kube" and "Bal Kuleva", interspersed with five main front-line infantry defensive positions: "White Sugar Hat Position", "Northern Nose Position", "Ruin Mountain", "Thorn Mountain", "Red Heights 1, 2, 3"; On the west side of the first-line position, there were only 3 second-line infantry positions: "Uphill Heights", "Vulture Heights" and "Windmill Heights".

In order to prevent threats from the southern sea, the Maxim-Gorky-2 joint turret fortress was set up in the southern salient of the Crimean peninsula. Between the second-line positions and the city of Sevastopol were the "Soviet mountain positions", which were the last barriers.

The Soviet soldiers guarding Sevastopol in peacetime are relatively special and are not a single branch of the army: in addition to the ordinary Red Army (army), there are also marines and Soviet internal affairs troops, and these special units are very strong in combat effectiveness, weapons and equipment, and officer quality, and the total strength is generally about 100,000 people.

The whole of Sevastopol is a huge fortress, and it is almost impossible to break through the defenses of the fortress group from that direction.

No matter how strong a fortress is, it may be breached if it is just blindly defended, there is no fortress in the world that will never fall, what Lin Jun can do is to make the fortress defense more reasonable, rather than blindly reinforcing it.

Over the years, the Soviet Union has spent no less manpower and material resources in Sevastopol than building two battleships, and Lin Jun will not have another big toss. If a fortified fortress is breached, give it a certain amount of strong counter-assault force - equip it with enough armored assault clusters.

Although I came to the fortress this time to learn from experience, by the way, I also had to inspect the fort's defense situation and earnestly strengthen the fortress's counter-assault capability.

Before he came, Lin Jun knew that there were less than 40 old-fashioned tanks now equipped with the garrison troops of the fortress, and it was impossible to form a powerful counter-assault iron fist, and it seemed that the decision-makers at the upper level were too confident in the fortress's defensive capabilities.

It is planned to equip Sevastopol with another 150 to 200 new T34 tanks over a two-year period, which would be an iron fist for the limited Crimean peninsula.

On the morning of September 4, Lin Jun and his entourage arrived in Sevastopol, and Lin Jun's first instruction was to bring the commander of the fortress a map of the coordinates of the area near the fortress.

The first site was the most fortified fortress of the Maxim-Gorky-1 fort, with two twin turrets "crouching" on a huge reinforced concrete platform, like a battleship on land.

However, this "battleship" is more difficult to deal with than its counterparts at sea, and the range of its main guns is longer than that of ordinary 305 mm naval guns, because it has the ability to shoot at large elevation angles that battleships can hardly have, and all the target references in the range are in a detailed firing table -- once the report from the forward observation post or the shelling observation machine is obtained, the shells can be firmly smashed into the enemy's head.

Why was this fortress broken through during the Great Patriotic War? A large part of the reason was that the positions on the front line were broken through, the airfield was also destroyed, and the "Maxim-Gorky-1" lost its eyes and could not know the detailed location of the German "Dora" and "Karl" cannons, otherwise not to mention the "Karl" with a limited firing range, even the 800-mm "Dora" was really within the effective range of the fortress's giant guns.

In order to destroy the reinforced concrete roof of the fortress up to 4,000 mm thick, the "Dora" must use concrete sabotage shells, then it must venture into the range of the Soviet fortress guns, and the pre-launch preparations of the "Dora" are like a big play, if the specific position is discovered, it may be bombed into a pile of more than 1,000 tons of scrap steel in a few minutes.

If the Soviets and Germany went to war, the Caucasus oil fields on the west side of the Crimean Peninsula would be an important target for Hitler, and Sevastopol in the middle would be a thorn in the side of the German army. (To be continued.) )