Chapter 1277 Imperial Fortress (First update, please subscribe)
Author: Xiaoyu’s Destiny
Chapter 1277 Imperial Fortress (First update, please subscribe)
"Healthy male citizens aged 16 to 50 from farms in this area who have received this notice are asked to bring horses, guns, ammunition, and five days of rations, and go to Freehead Town before dark on August 16 to report to the library.
Commander S-Van Reimer reports..."
In August 1888, the day after the capital was "invaded by the British", such orders were posted everywhere in the Republic of Swaziland, and signal corps on horseback issued mobilization orders to various villages overnight.
, this country with a population of 300,000 mobilized.
While tens of thousands of teenagers and adult men were riding horses, carrying rifles on their backs, carrying pistols, machetes and rations on their waists, they were rushing to various places to gather on standby to guard against a large-scale British invasion. Diplomatic negotiations were also in progress.
What will be the outcome of the negotiation?
No one knows, but one thing is certain, as for President Paul Kruger, the man who prophetically warned when the Rand gold mine was discovered - we should not cheer but weep, because this will
Let our land be soaked in a sea of blood. Foreigners (mainly British) will come one after another, and they will eventually take away our country.
It was precisely because of this political foresight that he tried to introduce Ming capital to fight the British. Now, facing the British invasion, Paul Kruger naturally thought of help from the Ming Empire.
While launching diplomatic negotiations with Britain, Paul Kruger purchased a large number of weapons from the Ming Dynasty to strengthen his armaments. He also invited military attachés from the Ming Empire to help him formulate a plan to defend against British invasion.
"The core of defense is to establish strong fortresses in places where the enemy must attack, such as Johannesburg. The gold mines there are places where the British must attack. Once they capture the gold mines, they can obtain huge economic returns. Of course, as long as the gold mines
In our hands, it can provide your country with sufficient financial support so that your country's resistance can continue!"
In the conference room of the Presidential Palace, Zhao Wenyu, an army major of the Ming Empire, was recommending the empire's fortress defense system to him.
"... In addition to the firepower base with the machine gun fort as the core at the bottom of the mountain, a main gun building is built on the top of the mountain. The main gun building is composed of 4 base buildings to form a main tower. The main tower is about 25 meters high. Each base has a separate base at the top.
Equipped with a 150mm heavy artillery - this artillery adopts the empire's latest long-range fortress artillery, with a range of up to 25 meters. It uses a high-magnification artillery scope to observe and guide the artillery attack, and can bombard corresponding targets up to 20 kilometers away... In terms of internal structure
, except for the basement, it usually has 5 floors. There is a spiral staircase between each floor to connect the uppermost floor and the top, and an automatic elevator is used. There are a total of 2 automatic elevators. In addition to military and cargo transportation, they can also be used to transport wounded soldiers...
...The turret looks like a ten-story building from the outside. According to our design, it is equipped with four 152mm heavy cannons on the top and twelve 120mm field cannons installed at the four corners.
There are several machine guns for defense... Since the turret is a reinforced concrete structure with an outer wall thickness of more than 2.5 meters and a top thickness of usually more than 3 meters, its structure is extremely strong. Even twelve-inch artillery shells cannot pose a threat to it, and
The 150mm artillery can attack any target within 20 kilometers from a high position, so the British heavy artillery has been destroyed by the heavy artillery on the turret before it even gets close..."
What is this turret introduced by Zhao Wenyu?
It is a product of the Nanhua era. At that time, Emperor Zhu Da saw that the Pampas where Nanhua was located was endless and there were no highlands or passes that could defend against enemy attacks, so he moved out the anti-aircraft turrets from Sandoku in World War II and used them as anti-aircraft turrets.
Used as a fortress to defend against enemy invasion.
Compared with ordinary fortresses, what is its biggest advantage? It is condescending and it is strong enough.
How strong is Sandoku's anti-aircraft turret?
It cannot be blown down by planes or collapsed by cannons. The entire tower's concrete armor alone is several meters thick, which can be said to be indestructible. During the entire World War II, none of the eight towers built by Santoku was occupied. When the Soviet army captured Berlin
After that, a bunch of heavy main battle tanks were directly pulled in to bombard the Berlin anti-aircraft tower G, but the tower was safe and sound. Not only that, during the war, the anti-aircraft gun tower was also used as a shelter and hospital, housing tens of thousands of residents.
Avoid damage from artillery fire.
It was because it had so many advantages that Emperor Zhu Da chose it. However... in the end, none of them was built in the Ming Dynasty.
Why?
There isn’t that much steel!
After enough steel was available, the Ming Dynasty no longer had the need to build such turrets.
But it was different here in the Transvaal. They had a practical need to build this kind of gun towers, so the imperial military directly transferred the plans of Emperor Zhu Da decades ago, and even used airships to transfer the drawings and engineers directly from
Local delivery to Pretoria.
"Not only that, its wide turret is also a natural refuge for the residents. They can take shelter in the turret during the war. Of course, if necessary, they can also serve as soldiers in the fort to resist the British invasion.
After all, in a Patriotic War like this, the only way to resist is to unite all the people as soldiers!"
"Indeed, just as you said, Major, the only option to resist the British invasion is to mobilize all the people!"
Senior Smuts agreed with approval. In fact, the reason why they were able to repel the British and force them to withdraw from the Transvaal a few years ago was because all the people were in arms. Now they are also preparing to use this to defend their country.
"So how long can it hold up? I mean a turret like this."
Paul Krueger asked.
"It depends on the number of people. If the number of people taking refuge in it is 5,000, based on the material reserves, they can theoretically hold on for a year. In fact, as long as there is enough food and ammunition, they can hold on for longer. After all, every turret has its own
With separate deep wells, independent water supply facilities and power generation devices, as long as the food and ammunition reserves are sufficient, the gun tower can theoretically persist even if it is heavily surrounded by enemy troops."
"One year, 5,000 people..."
Paul Kruger thought for a while and then said.
"That's enough, Major, let's build a turret like this in Johannesburg, find a suitable place, build it, and if war breaks out, then we'll be there to make the British pay for their invasion!"
After the words fell, Paul Kruger said.
"However, I want to know what Daming can do for us!"
(End of chapter)
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