The capture of the Japanese "Musashi" greatly boosted the morale of the Eighth Route Army.
This is particularly beneficial to the Eighth Route Army's war situation in the Northeast, because it almost means that the Eighth Route Army's control of Dalian is a foregone conclusion: the Jinzhou defense line cannot be broken on land, and even the most powerful Japanese battleship at sea can't help or even be captured. In addition,
The Eighth Route Army also sank two Japanese destroyers and wounded one... This included two Japanese destroyers sent to Dalian Bay. One of them was sunk and the other was seriously damaged by Dalian Bay anti-ship missiles.
On the other hand, as long as Dalian is in the hands of the Eighth Route Army, the people in Northeast China will have no worries about supplies and equipment for at least half a year, and even the coastline near Dalian will be safe.
This is obvious, because the control of the sea near Dalian is in the hands of the Eighth Route Army. As long as a coastal village or city is occupied by the Japanese, the five warships of the Eighth Route Army's Coastal Defense Regiment will come over and bombard it, and then a sea and land attack will easily defeat it.
Take it back.
This is particularly important for the Western Front, because the two major fulcrums of the Eighth Route Army's defense line on the Western Front are Nuruerhu Mountain, which the Japanese who are not good at guerrilla warfare do not want to face, and the other fulcrum is HLD along the coast.
Since the establishment of the Western Front, the strategic location of HLD has always been the focus of competition between the two armies, but now there is nothing to fight for.
Because even if the Japanese captured the HLD, they would not be able to hold it, and they could not even guarantee their attack on the HLD... The Eighth Route Army navy might appear there at any time to bomb the Japanese logistics supply lines and flanks.
Therefore, many soldiers and civilians in the areas controlled by the Eighth Route Army have a legend: "As long as we have missiles, the Japanese can't win!"
There is some truth to this, because the Eighth Route Army has missiles, which means it can keep the navy. Having the navy means it has local control of the sea. With local control of the sea, it can control the situation in this area, and the Japanese Kwantung Army will always be blocked in a semi-encirclement.
A tough day.
But Wang Xuexin thinks this is wrong. He knows that it is very difficult to gain even limited sea control by just relying on anti-ship missiles and a limited number of warships. Of course, it cannot guarantee the victory of Northeast China.
The next day Wang Xuexin went to the research institute.
At this time, the research institute has become China's scientific research center, and it is at the forefront. More and more equipment research and development and talents from all over the country are gathered here. The research, development and improvement of equipment in any place are directly or indirectly controlled by the research institute.
For example, the shipyard is far away from the research institute and across a war zone, but because most of the people in the shipyard are workers and technicians, the research and development personnel are very limited, so it mainly relies on the research institute.
In fact, this is ultimately the reason why the coastal defense regiment used missiles.
If the warships of the Coastal Defense Corps still use naval guns and anti-aircraft guns as before, then there will be nothing to do.
Now since it is an anti-ship missile and an anti-aircraft missile, of course the research institute must be responsible for it.
When he walked into the conference room, Wang Xuexin immediately felt the excitement and excitement of the researchers. Everyone in the conference room was discussing enthusiastically, and even He Zhimin, who was usually not very gregarious, also participated.
Before Wang Xuexin walked to the chair and sat down, several researchers asked anxiously:
"Captain, we have captured the Japanese Musashi, and now we have to repair it, right?"
"That's right! If we had one more battleship, our coastal defense regiment wouldn't be bullied by the Japanese like before!"
"Not to mention anything else, our firepower reinforcement to the coastal troops will also be greatly enhanced!"
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Wang Xuexin was not in a hurry. He turned to Professor Su and asked, "Mr. Su, what do you think?"
After all, Professor Su is the director of the institute, and he also has considerable prestige among researchers. Wang Xuexin wants to hear his opinion first.
Professor Su was a little surprised when he heard this. He asked: "Captain, are you talking about how to deal with the 'Musashi'?"
After receiving Wang Xuexin's affirmative answer, Professor Su said without thinking: "Of course we need to repair it, no need to ask! What a wonderful warship, we can't even dream of it. But I think it needs
Some improvements…”
"How to improve?" Wang Xuexin asked.
Professor Su waved his hand and said to others: "Comrades, we can no longer think about the future battlefield with the same old vision and old tactics. Think about it, our anti-aircraft missiles are accurate and fast. In terms of cost-effectiveness, space is
, the cost is much higher than that of anti-aircraft guns, so why not use anti-aircraft missiles but also repair the anti-aircraft guns?”
All the researchers nodded in agreement.
Then Professor Su added: "The same is true for anti-ship. We can no longer think about using naval guns. Our anti-ship missiles are much easier to use than naval guns, and they are not as troublesome as the maintenance of naval guns!"
This time someone objected:
"Director, do you mean to dismantle the naval guns?"
"Navy guns have the benefits of naval guns. Keep them and we can provide firepower for the troops on the shore!"
Professor Su replied: "Of course you can stay, but do you need 460mm naval guns to provide firepower for the troops ashore? And there are 9 of them. In addition, the Musashi has 6 155mm naval guns and 24 127mm naval guns! I think
, it’s enough for us to keep a few 155mm naval guns!”
Then someone objected:
"If you want to keep it, just keep the 460mm. It can hit far and has great power!"
"The 450mm can provide reinforcements to the land and can be used as an anti-ship, killing two birds with one stone!"
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However, this debate can be said to be at the level of details. In the general direction, everyone agrees to keep a few naval guns and install anti-aircraft missiles and anti-ship missiles.
There is nothing wrong with this combat idea.
Because modern warships actually have this model: naval guns plus anti-ship missiles and anti-aircraft missiles, but modern warships also have an additional close-in anti-aircraft gun... This thing is equivalent to the anti-aircraft gun of this period, except that the shells are much denser and more
Controlled by computers to attack autonomously, it is the last line of defense for modern warships.
At this time, warships had not yet achieved the miniaturization and automation of anti-aircraft guns, so they could only choose between anti-aircraft missiles and anti-aircraft guns.
Obviously, everyone chose anti-aircraft missiles.
Wang Xuexin felt a little disappointed when he heard these discussions, because in the final analysis, this idea did not start from the needs of the coastal defense regiment.
At this moment Su Xin expressed different opinions.
"I don't think we should change it like this!" Su Xin said solemnly: "The main reason is that our army has anti-ship missiles, and the Japanese will probably have them soon too! And the accuracy may not be lower than ours at all.
, maybe even higher!”
Everyone couldn't help but be stunned when they heard this, and then immediately thought of the Japanese's "human missiles".
Although the Japanese are not as good as the Eighth Route Army in terms of missile technology, once they use "human control" and put it on the ship... its accuracy may indeed exceed that of the Eighth Route Army!