… Zhenkouguo said that the way the warring sides fought in the desert of southern Syria was born with this move. Then the battle for Bakhche, a small town in the northeast of Turkey's Osmaniye province, was an out-and-out battle.

Regardless of whether Wang Xueping wants to or not, after Ji Chengyi makes a deployment, he can only shrink the defensive line, die, and defend Bakhche.

Facts have proved that this combat unit, which was adapted from the Mi Army, is definitely a good fighter for tough battles.

Before holding Bakhce, the fighting of the 8th Combat Unit in the west was not so smooth. Compared to the battle in the east. The biggest challenge for the single battle in the eighth battle is not the ground combat forces of the US-Turkish coalition, but the long-range artillery of the US forces deployed in Silivkay at the mouth of the Geksu River, and the US Navy fleet operating in the waters south of Mersin Bay. In other words, the 8th combat unit first had to consider the long-range artillery strikes of the US army.

Obviously, this is a very serious threat.

You must know that on the eastern battlefield, the 1st Battle Single and the 10th Combat Unit attacked the city, and they were stunned to rely on long-range artillery support. In situations where air support cannot be counted on, especially in positional warfare, air power is unable to provide close fire support to combat units, so it can only pin its hopes on long-range artillery support. According to the statistics of the Republic Army, in the first week of the ground war, long-range artillery support accounted for more than the battlefield fire support, and almost all offensive operations had to rely on long-range artillery support. Although the US Army does not have such an advanced electromagnetic cannon system as the Republic Army, nor does it have such a powerful artillery, the US military can completely pin its hopes on the Navy when fighting in the coastal area. As early as the 2 th century, the US Navy proposed "from sea to land." The naval fleet regards ground strikes and support ground forces as the number one task of the naval fleet. The world's first warship capable of supporting inland battles with naval guns, the very famous Zumwalt-class destroyer, was born in the United States.

Although the performance of the "Zhu Mei Walter" class destroyer on the battlefield was not very good, its design ideas and methods were relatively successful, and its actual combat performance was poor. One can only blame the US Navy for having a problem with its general tactical thinking and its misprediction of a future naval battle. Iran war, "Zumwalt. The destroyers were a blockbuster, proving their combat value with accurate long-range artillery fire. It is precisely for this reason that the US Navy accelerated the procurement of this type of destroyer at the end of the generation of the thugs, from one per year to three per year, and started with the first mutual ship and built according to the standards of the second batch. That is, by adding a compartment about a meter long at the front end of the hull, the displacement has been increased by tons, which has strengthened the continuous combat capability and left enough space for the installation of electromagnetic guns in the future. In the Peninsular War. "Zumwalt. class again entered the war, and accompanied the amphibious assault fleet operations. Played an extremely important role in the battle for the landing of Wonsan, but in the subsequent battles. But it was hit hard. To be honest, the poor performance of the "Zhu Ma Walter" class in the war on the peninsula is mainly due to the fact that the US Navy did not purchase the same hull according to the plan! type of air defense cruisers, while the "Zumwalt" class is a multipurpose destroyer with ground strike as its main task, and its air defense capabilities are not very prominent, and at best they can only protect themselves. As a result, in the absence of adequate air defense cover, Zumwalt-class destroyers can easily become hunting targets for air strikes and suffer heavy losses.

In fact, the US authorities also recognize this problem.

During the Japanese War, the "multi-purpose warships" of the Republic Navy performed extremely well in combat operations, and their ground strike capabilities attracted worldwide attention.

Affected by this, the US Navy not only accelerated the "Zumtier" class destroyer and the "Bainbridge". The conversion of the class of cruisers, namely the flute, equipped a number of destroyers in service and under construction and more than 2o cruisers with electromagnetic guns developed for large warships. The project of the start of the replacement warship was also brought forward, and the construction of the project was required to start before the 2nd Western year.

There is no doubt that the US Navy was greatly stimulated.

You know, the "Zumwalt" class destroyers were commissioned in the middle of the old years, and the "Bainbridge" class cruisers were officially commissioned in the middle of the force years, and by the time of the blade, "Zumwalt. The service time of the class is less than the year of the thug, and the service time of the "Bainbridge" class is less than the old year. Although both types of warships have performance defects, they will definitely be able to serve well after being improved for more than a few years. The US Navy will replace the "Zumwalt" class with the "Bainbridge." The construction of warships of the class was carried out ahead of schedule. Either expand the size of the navy, or dispose of a large number of warships in the prime of life. In fact, the U.S. Navy later adopted the two catties. The approach, that is, to expand the size of the fleet, and to put part of the warships is mainly the first batch of "Zumwalt." Class destroyers were sold to friendly countries in the form of second-hand equipment.

In fact, the U.S. Navy's replacement ships failed to enter service before the Year of the Blade.

It's not that Congress isn't willing to spend money to get more warships for the Navy, it's not that shipyards aren't prepared, it's that breakthroughs have not been made in several very critical technologies, including long-range electromagnetic gun systems developed specifically for it.

Although compared with the army's electromagnetic cannon system, the navy's requirements for integration and system quality are much lower, as long as it can be crammed into a large warship with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, the navy has very high requirements for the maximum range of the electromagnetic cannon system, especially under normal conditions. As soon as the verdict began, the U.S. Navy stared at the divination, and the spiral electric bombardment." Hope to get a burst of irrigation

It turns out that the U.S. Navy is too high-pitched. You must know that by the year of Ant O, due to the limitations of several key technologies, the spiral electromagnetic cannon does not have the ability to be applied in actual combat. It is almost impossible to open a spiral electromagnetic cannon capable of equipping large warships in the year of the chimney.

Affected by this, the design of the new warships of the US military has been delayed again and again.

In the year of the blade, let alone going into the water. Even the construction work did not start. The US Navy could not wait any longer and could only resort to the backup option. That is, to use the improved orbital electromagnetic cannon to arm the new warship, and leave room for improvement on the battleship for the installation of the spiral electromagnetic cannon in the future.

In order to reduce costs, the US Navy refers to. The approach of the thugs, so that the air defense cruiser and the multipurpose destroyer have essentially the same hull. In fact, at the time of design, the US Navy clearly proposed that the displacement of the air defense cruiser could be appropriately increased, but the commonality rate of the hull and multi-purpose destroyer must be obtained, and most of the internal mechanical and electrical equipment must be common, so as to reduce procurement and maintenance costs. In fact, long before the four, the ship branch of General Electric, which won the bidding, completed the basic design of the hull using a modular design, and only the modules related to the ship's guns were not implemented.

Exactly, in the year of the milk thug. The General Electric Company's Ship Division came up with a detailed design Fang Qin.

At the beginning of the following year, the U.S. Navy named the destroyer with too many hopes as the "James Lawrence" class, a U.S. Navy colonel in the Second American Revolutionary War, the U.S.-British War, who commanded the "Chesapeake" operation, was known for his bravery in battle, and shouted "Don't abandon ship" in a desperate situation. slogan. He died of his injuries and was posthumously recognized as a hero and was buried in Halifax, Boston, and New York. It is hoped that this will arouse the sense of honor and courageous fighting spirit of the officers and men of the US Navy. At the same time, the US Navy also signed a contract with shipyards for the purchase of whip warships. In order to keep the only two large shipyards, the US Navy, as agreed, transferred the third "Lawrence". The construction of the class, that is, "Perry", was given to Northrop.

In the year of the blade, the "Lawrence", "Mitchell" and "Perry" were put into service.

Because the first batch of "Zumtilt" class destroyers could not be equipped with electromagnetic guns, not because they could not be refitted, but because they needed to lengthen their hulls, which was too expensive, the US Navy built the "Lawrence" class at a wrinkled rate every year, and Ji Ge replaced all the first batch of "Zumwalt" class in the luxury year. By the beginning of the year, the US Navy had a total of "Lawrence"-class destroyers, of which they were in the Atlantic Fleet and three were in the Pacific Fleet.

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The biggest improvement of the "Lawrence" class compared to the "Zumtier" class is the firepower. In other words, when designing, the destroyers of this class put the firepower requirements in place. As a result, the Lawrence class became the first large surface warship in the U.S. Navy to be equipped with a controllable fusion reactor. Although the controllable fusion reactor was intended for electromagnetic guns, the energy interception system was already successful before it was officially built, so the Lawrence class became the first large surface warship of the US Navy to use the energy interception system when it was designed. Relying on the power system with an output of several megawatts of combat power and the catamaran surfing boat type, the "Lawrence" class broke through the Feng Festival to the maximum, thus becoming the first "tall and large warship" of the US Navy. In fact, when the "Lawrence" was designed, the maximum sailing with the blade joint in mind. Otherwise, it would not be a catamaran boat. The reason for the reduction of the degree to Feng Jie is two catties: "First, the power of the power system is not high enough, and the second is that the auxiliary energy system necessary for high warships is not mature enough." According to the plan proposed by the U.S. Navy in the year of the Blade, starting with the second or third batch, "Lawrence. The stage will use a reactor with a higher output power and a propulsion system with higher propulsion efficiency, and an auxiliary energy system will be added to make it reach the maximum blade joint.

This improvement program of the US Navy is actually the same as the "sister ship" of the "Lawrence" class. "That is, the work on the design and construction of anti-aircraft cruisers of the class "New Orleans" has a lot to do with it.

Although the "New Orleans" class uses roughly the same hull as the "Lawrence" class, as a cruiser, the "New Orleans" class not only needs to have the same fire support capability as the "Lawrence" class, equipped with at least 2 electromagnetic guns, if possible, it is better to be equipped with 3 electromagnetic guns, but also has a strong fleet air defense capability, at least a fighter vomit missile vertical firing tube, while the "Lawrence" class only needs grunts, and fleet command capabilities need to provide additional cabins for multiple fleet commanders, As well as providing space for the addition of a fleet command system, the displacement of the "New Orleans" class was increased compared to the "Lawrence" class. More importantly, the U.S. Navy wants to be able to use energy weapons with regional air defense capabilities when it needs to enhance its air defense capabilities, so the reactor output of the "New Orleans" class reactor needs to reach at least one megawatt. It is better to be able to overdo megawatts.

That is, in the absence of an increase in the power density of reactors, only the number of reactors can be increased. The problem is that the interior of the hull is empty "space." When designing, the engineers of the ship branch of General Electric Company came up with ways to replace the sailor cabin with eight people for four people, shorten the length of the sailor's bed from two meters to two meters, reduce the non-commissioned officer canteen, and reduce the space of the entertainment cabin by half. The question is. In this way, the hull of the "New Orleans" class and the hull of the "Lawrence" class will only be less than the common rate of the ship.

In desperation, the US Navy could only delay the procurement plan of the "New Orleans" class.

In any case, the air defense of the "Bainbridge" class is not bad, the pressure on the air defense of the fleet is not very great, and the greatest contribution of the timely service of the "New Orleans" class is to strengthen the fleet's artillery strike capability. In this way, the purchase of more Lawrence-class destroyers can also have the same effect. In addition, the construction capacity of General Electric Shipbuilding and Northrop is very limited, and the construction of the "New Orleans" class will definitely affect the construction of the "Lawrence" class, and even increase the construction cost.

Influenced by these factors, the US Navy arranged the procurement plan for the "New Orleans" class.

If all goes well, starting with the first ugly ship, the "Lawrence" class will be built according to the standards of the second batch, that is, adopted as "New Orleans". The output power of the new reactor reached a megawatt. The construction of the "New Orleans" class will also begin at the same time. Because the common rate of hulls and main equipment of the second batch of the "New Orleans" class and the "Lawrence" class is as high as that of water, the construction of two types of warships at the same time can minimize the purchase price. In terms of construction capacity. Since GM and Northrop have already committed to modernizing a large slipway by the end of the year, there will be no big problem.

The eighth combat unit was affected by the Lawrence-class destroyers operating in the eastern Mediterranean.

Because of the difference in nomenclature and tactical application, the long-range artillery support capability of the US Re Navy's multipurpose destroyers is comparable to that of the Republic Navy's cruisers, and they all have two electromagnetic guns. Rather, not like the destroyers of the Navy of the Republic. Only with such important factors as the accuracy of the fighters, the ability to sustain combat operations, and so on, the combat effectiveness of the destroyers of the "Lawrence" class is not comparable to that of the cruisers of the Navy of the Republic. But after excluding the vital range. No one can ignore the striking capabilities of this "newest" destroyer in the world.

According to the information provided by the Military Intelligence Agency, the two electromagnetic guns on the "Lawrence" class destroyer are capable of projecting sodium pound shells, that is, close to a ton of shells, in the short shelling of the old minute. Although, according to the combat record of the 8th combat unit, the intensity of the American artillery never reached this level. But in a short shelling, "a Lawrence"-class destroyer will definitely be able to summon stewed shells in the thugs. Saturation artillery strikes were carried out on defensive positions with an area of about a kilometer squared by the knife.

Bahche is just a town with a population of less than 2 square kilometers.

Because the U.S. forces did not take the initiative to counterattack, and because the threat of long-range artillery fire had to be fully considered in the previous battles, the defensive position of the 8th Combat Unit in Bakhche was less than the old square kilometer. It can be seen from this that about every minute of the blade, the "Lawrence"-class destroyers of the US fleet can carry out a full-coverage saturation bombardment of a single defensive column in the eighth battle.

In fact. The shelling of the American army never stopped.

It is precisely for this reason that before it was determined that it was necessary to defend Bakhce, Wang Xueping asked the engineering troops of the support brigade to build a large number of strong fortifications in Bakhce that were strong enough to resist women's shells, and strengthened the construction of the underground tunnel system. At that time, Wang Xueping just wanted to reduce the losses of shelling, and did not think about it so much.

No, I don't admit it, but this move saved the lives of many officers and men of the Eighth Combat Unit.

Although it is very uncomfortable to be crowded in an underground tunnel. But it's better than staying on the ground and getting shelled.

Probably the U.S. military did not expect that the 8th combat unit would have such foresight, so it started in the morning. The offensive of the American army was not very smooth. Day and night, the U.S. forces still failed to break through the perimeter of the 8th Combat Unit, and even failed to kill many enemies in the battle.

By the early hours of the old days, when Su Jinhui was adjusting his tactics in the south, the American troops attacking Bakhche were exhausted and had to stop their large-scale offensive. In order to prevent the 8th combat unit from taking the opportunity to counterattack. The U.S. forces did not completely stop the offensive, but harassed them in small groups, making it impossible for the 8th Combat Unit to organize a counterattack smoothly.

Of course. The situation of the US military is clear at a glance, and the strong attack on the hand has not been able to make progress, and it is strange not to be tired.

For the 8th combat unit, this is definitely a good opportunity to defend the counterattack.

It's just that before letting Wang Xueping take action, Pei Chengyi must be more thoughtful. You know, there is another combat unit in this direction.