In the conference room, the staff officer who reviewed the landing exercise of the 7th Army spoke up: "The traditional landing combat method is indeed not very effective... This will lead to a large number of casualties."
Seeing that Loew did not speak, another staff officer continued: "The first batch of landing troops will be fiercely attacked by the enemy near the beach. It is expected that within an hour of the start of the operation, our casualties will exceed 500."
"That's just the beginning. Later, our casualties will increase to 1,000 to 2,000 people. If we can gain a foothold before nightfall, it is estimated that we will have to pay a price of more than 5,000 people." Based on the results of the exercise, the losses are indeed scary.
Calculating based on this number, there is about a 30% chance of landing failure, which is something that the staff cannot accept.
Therefore, Loew shook his head and said: "This number is almost equal to the total force loaded on the three new dock landing ships, which is almost one-tenth of the force we invested in the early stage. This is not good, it is too unsafe."
The distance across the sea for landing determines the strength of the troops. In order to ensure that the landing troops have enough ammunition and sufficient logistical support, 50,000 people is almost the limit.
Of course, the number of troops that will come ashore may exceed 200,000, but the combat capabilities of these troops will be weaker. They can expand and consolidate the defense line after landing, but the attack will definitely not be as good as the two or three divisions in the first batch.
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The more modern it is, the more heavy weapons are invested in the landing war, and the fewer personnel are invested. There is no way, a large amount of transportation capacity must be used in equipment, and it must also be used in related materials to support these equipment.
For example, if you want to bring a tank ashore, you can't just transport this tank, right? Of course, you also need the fuel to ensure that the tank can run, and the ammunition that allows the tank to continue fighting, right?
So, do we need to bring some parts for this tank? Do we also need to prepare maintenance personnel and equipment? Based on this calculation, this tank will only need to occupy the pure transportation space of about three or even five tanks.
By the same token, what about a self-propelled howitzer? Is it enough to prepare just a few hundred rounds of shells? If it runs out of ammunition, the howitzer will be useless, so it is still necessary to ensure that it can continue to function at critical moments.
OK, right?
Back then, for cross-sea operations, only guns and men were enough. That's why Tang Mo was able to dispatch so many troops when he attacked Dongwan Island from Long Island.
Well, now, for the same unit, an army needs three times the number of ships to transport it, so of course it needs a ship with a larger tonnage and a more professional ship.
After calculating the army, we also need to calculate the navy itself: in the past, everyone just drove to the coast and fired artillery fire, but now the cover landing is much more complicated.
First of all, Navy aircraft must provide fleet air defense and dispatch aircraft to perform ground suppression missions. These aircraft require a large amount of transportation capacity.
Maintaining an aircraft within an aircraft carrier is a very complex task, requiring professional maintenance personnel and even professional maintenance sites.
The open part at the rear of the aircraft carrier is actually the reserved position for test runs of the aircraft carrier's aircraft engines. The test run of the jet engine requires spraying hot flames, and of course it cannot be carried out in a closed environment.
In some complicated situations, special aircraft carrier transport planes will be dispatched to transport aircraft engines, but such extreme situations are rare.
Correspondingly, these aircraft require fuel and consume a large amount of ammunition. Supporting these aircraft in combat also requires a large amount of transportation capacity.
Of course, all the lubricants, parts, and ammunition needed to maintain these aircraft cannot be piled on the aircraft carrier where space is precious. Therefore, additional ships are needed to help the aircraft carrier carry these odds and ends.
At sea, all this transportation capacity must be provided by ships. The ships that support these consumption are also consuming fuel and food, so additional transportation capacity must be prepared to support this huge fleet.
Cumulatively, if a 100-kilometer cross-sea landing can transport 100,000 people ashore, the same transport capacity may not be able to guarantee a 1,000-kilometer cross-sea landing operation to transport 1,000 people ashore.
If this distance is further extended, the consumption of the fleet itself will overwhelm the transportation capacity. In other words, the entire fleet will have to return halfway.
In addition, in order to ensure the operations of the landing troops, additional hospital ships and food transport ships to support these troops must be included...as well as the ammunition and oil needed by the fleet to cover these ships.
If the entire fleet does not count the battle, just sailing around for a while, it is almost enough to bankrupt a serious country. If you are even a little poor, you really can't afford a navy, and you can't carry out cross-sea landing operations.
Sometimes the depletion of military strength begins because of this: a warship sailing out for a walk is enough to feed the officers and men of a fleet of the Navy for half a month. What are you doing out there? How good is it to just stay in the port? One less trip a year would be enough
If you save 3 million yuan and run twice less, wouldn’t that save 6 million yuan?
As a result, I saved a lot of money...the boat was rusty and the people were slack, so I cried when the fight started.
"It is indeed not easy to use traditional landing methods. The other party is not a fool. They have deployed a large number of defenses in the landing areas we may choose." Loew continued after a pause: "Even if there are sea and air advantages, facing
We must also be prepared to attack strong fortifications. We only have one chance. If we fail, the entire landing plan will be cancelled."
Even on Earth in the 21st century, military powers like Mao Xiong and Ermao still have no good way to build strong defenses. This is a long-standing problem that is not as easy to solve as imagined.
What's more, if the Tang army had to fight with its back to the sea, it was very likely that it would be suppressed near the beach because it could not break through the defense line, and then be driven into the sea by subsequent enemy reinforcements.
"So, we have to think of a different way to make our landing operation... have a higher success rate." Loew said while looking at Qian Jinhang who was sitting there thinking.
Qian Jinhang frowned and said nothing. Placed in front of him were photos of a large number of fortifications built by the Ice Empire in the northwest direction of Everwinter Port returned by the reconnaissance satellite.
Judging from these overhead photos, the dwarves are indeed building an extremely strong defense line. There are bunkers and bunkers everywhere, as well as forts and anti-aircraft gun positions...
The Tang army had no way to take action in advance to destroy these solid defenses... This increased the difficulty of landing in disguise.
"It's difficult." Qian Jinhang sighed with some resentment.
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