When the U.S. Navy dispatched a fleet to the Indian Ocean, its Navy was in full swing.

As speculated by US President Duchwie. The Republic’s authorities did not regard Eurasia as the main battlefield from the beginning. After determining the United States as its number one enemy, the Pacific Ocean is the main battlefield of the Republic.

Ground battle broke out in the afternoon of Yuri. The Ninth Combat Unit, which was the first to participate in the war, surrounded the Russian Central Airborne Brigade without any suspense. In the battle between day and night, annihilated some Russian troops and obtained ironclad evidence of Russia's invasion of Kazakhstan. That night, Yuan Chenhao issued a counterattack order as the chief of staff of the Republic's army, that is, if necessary, ground troops can cross the border. Less than half an hour after the order was issued, the artillery brigade of the Ninth Combat Unit deployed in Karamay suddenly shelled the Russian troops gathered in Barnaul. During the three bells, he threw tens of thousands of tons of ammunition of various types, directly defeating nearly two divisions of the Russian ground troops.

This shelling kicked off the prelude to the Sino-Russian ground war.

Similarly, this shelling set several records. Not to mention, the shelling distance of only a thousand meters broke all the past battle records. The only one that can reach this range is the latest spiral electromagnetic cannon. Although in past wars, the Republic's Army had long used its operation brigade to fire at the enemy from kilometer away, and after throwing tens of thousands of tons of ammunition within minutes, it still shocked the outside world. You must know that if the Republic's Army deployed artillery to Attzawa Prefecture and West Kazakhstan Prefecture in northwest Kazakhstan, one-third of the European part of Russia, including Ryazan in southeast Moscow, were within coverage, and the Republic's Army could even rely on long-range artillery support to launch a large-scale strategic offensive without air support, turning Russia's vast territory into a decoration. If the war really hit this point, Russia would not be far from defeat.

It was this shelling that made many people realize the true face of this war.

Among them, naturally, including Du Chengyi, the head of the Republic.

In fact, long before this artillery attack, Pei Chengyi made significant adjustments to the strategic deployment based on the improvement of the combat capabilities of the army's artillery. It should be not about Yuan Chenhao, but Pei Chengyi, the first to propose that the Pacific Ocean should be the main battlefield. As we all know, Yuan Chenhao is an army general. If he wants to get more performance opportunities, he must improve his status on the mainland battlefield, rather than treating the ocean as the main battlefield. As mentioned earlier, in several initial war plans, Yuan Chenhao regarded the mainland battlefield as the main battlefield, or insisted on starting a full-scale war with the United States after defeating Russia. The problem is, how to fight the war and how it can be fought cannot be determined by someone's subjective wishes. According to Pei Chengyi's judgment, as long as the Republic concentrates its troops against Russia, the United States will actively participate in the war and force the Republic to adjust its strategic deployment. Instead of passively adjusting its deployment

It would be better to point the finger at the United States from the beginning. After persuading Yuan Chenhao, Pei Chengyi asked the General Staff to re-formulate a war plan. It clarified that the Pacific Ocean was the main direction and the main purpose was to defeat the United States. In other words, it was necessary to formulate a combat plan against Russia by ensuring that there was no serious negative impact on the Pacific War and being able to take the initiative in the war with the United States. Among them, the Republic's Army Artillery Unit was particularly important. To put it bluntly, if there was no strong artillery unit, the army would need a large-scale tactical aviation unit. The Army aviation unit obviously could not meet the requirements, so it would have to retain the air force while strengthening the Sky Army. There was no doubt that doing so would inevitably increase the country's war burden, affect the overall strategy, and thus affect the combat operations in the main direction.

Affected by this, when Pei Chengyi was the Minister of National Defense, he made comprehensive measures to develop the Marine Corps.

In terms of details, in addition to maintaining a large reserve force like the Army by signing re-service agreements with retired officers and soldiers, the Marine Corps' combat capabilities are mainly improved by enhancing independence. Among them, the most important thing is to transfer the amphibious assault fleet, landing fleet, and the ship-based aviation corps to the name of the Marine Corps from the Navy to the Marine Corps, which is directly commanded by the Marine Corps rather than the Navy.

Don't underestimate this small change. This alone can more than double the combat effectiveness of the Marine Corps.

For the amphibious assault fleet, after being incorporated into the name of the Marine Corps, it can be built according to the needs of the Marine Corps, rather than the overall strategy of the Navy.

Of course, if you want to implement this reform, you have to do one thing well, that is, give the Marines independent budget rights.

As we all know, in the Republic's army, the Marine Corps has long been granted the status of independent arms, but has not obtained the real independent budget power. The biggest difference between independent arms and branches of the army is whether they have independent budget power. Basically, the purchasing decision-making power of most equipment is in the hands of the Navy and the Army. For example, if you want to purchase ground main combat equipment, after applying to the General Staff and the Ministry of National Defense, the Marine Corps must first contact the Army to see if they can purchase together with the Army, rather than separately. Relatively speaking, the problem of ground main combat equipment is not very big. After all, the development of the Army to lighter is also very beneficial to the Marine Corps, and is suitable for the Army's main combat equipment. Most of them are suitable for the Marine Corps, or after a slight improvement, it is also suitable for the Marine Corps.

It can meet the requirements of the Marine Corps. More importantly, purchasing with the Army can greatly reduce procurement costs, save expenses, or expand the procurement scale under the same expenses. What is really important is the amphibious assault fleet. It can be said that as the combat capabilities of ground troops become more and more comprehensive, the biggest difference between the Marine Corps and the Army is no longer the combat area, that is, the Marine Corps is a force that fights in coastal areas, while the Army is a force that fights in inland. Relatively speaking, the biggest difference between the Marine Corps and the Army is that the Marine Corps has the ability to attack from sea to land, and this ability is reflected in the amphibious assault fleet that is sent to the Marine Corps. It can be seen that whether the amphibious assault fleet is dominant is particularly important for the Marine Corps.

In fact, in large-scale wars, appropriately trained and equipped with amphibious assault fleets, the Army can also undertake amphibious landing operations. For example, in World War II, the US Army participated in many landing operations from North Africa to Sicily and then to Normandy, and was the main force of landing operations. Even on the Pacific battlefield led by the US Marine Corps, the US Army also undertakes many combat tasks.

To gain dominance of the amphibious assault fleet, one must have independent budget rights.

It can be seen from this that Pei Chengyi's reforms in the fantasy era were equivalent to liberating the Marine Corps.

Of course, the amphibious assault fleets are also warships, so there is a relatively long construction cycle. It was not until Pei Chengyi left the Ministry of Defense and became the deputy head of state of the Republic that the Marine Corps truly gained independence and became independent from the navy. It was only affected by the merger of the Sky Army and the Air Force that the Marine Corps did not become the "Fifth Army." It only emphasized its status as an independent army. It was also during this period that the Republic built the second largest Marine Corps in the world.

More importantly, by the outbreak of the war, the Republic had three amphibious assault fleets of great scale, deployed in the Western Pacific War Zone. The Southeast Asian War Zone was originally affiliated with the Western Pacific War Zone. It was independent in the year of the Knife and became the third war zone and the Indian Ocean War Zone. The South Asian War Zone was divided into the East War Zone of the Indian Ocean War Zone. Among them, the Indian Ocean War Zone inherited the mantra of the South Asian War Zone, which was Siying, and the advance force that sent one force at a time, and in Zhou

Within the war, a standard land combat brigade with a force of about 10,000 people will be sent to the tactical standards on the battlefield 44,000 meters away. An amphibious assault fleet includes moving amphibious assault ships, 4 comprehensive landing ships, amphibious landing ships and 4 dock landing ships. During the war, 4 to 8 rapid roll-roll cargo ships and container cargo ships will be increased according to the landing combat intensity, and the size of the escort fleet will be determined based on the actual situation of the route. If necessary, several warships that provide fire support can be added.

It can be said that in terms of military force delivery, the amphibious assault fleet far exceeds the aircraft carrier battle group.

Even from the perspective of firepower delivery, except for the amphibious assault ships that can only carry low-altitude attack aircraft with limited range, which makes the long-range firepower strike capability weak, the amphibious assault fleet's firepower delivery capability is not even worse than that of the aircraft carrier battle group with a combat radius of 0 kilometers.

The problem is that when the amphibious assault fleet is really needed, the amphibious assault fleet's firepower delivery capabilities and troop delivery capabilities are not enough to bear the heavy responsibility. To put it simply, if it is only a local conflict or regional war, if the combat intensity is limited, the army can undertake almost all combat tasks by tactical airdrop or strategic air transport, and there is no need to use the amphibious assault fleet. Only when the combat intensity is too high and the army assault forces entering by air transport cannot be blocked alone.

On the one hand, you need to invest in the Marine Corps. There is no doubt that one time is to send a knife and a person. It takes a week to send a land brigade. Even if three amphibious assault fleets are used, "weekly can only send a three brigade. The combat troops of about 30,000 people are obviously unable to meet the needs of high-intensity combat, so the independent combat capability of the Marine Corps is still limited. It is precisely because of this that many people oppose strengthening the Marine Corps, believing that the overall combat effectiveness of the Republic's army should be improved by strengthening the combat capabilities of the army.

In fact, the way to improve the combat capability of the Marine Corps is also very simple, that is, to improve the delivery capability.

To put it bluntly, if one could send a land brigade to the front line within an hour, I am afraid no one would think that the Marines were dispensable combat troops. If three land brigades could be sent to the front line within Sun Bushi, no one would think that it would be necessary to improve the status of the Marines.

The method to improve delivery capabilities is not complicated, that is, let the sea base serve the Marine Corps.

Obviously, this is the fundamental reason why the Marine War believes that it is called the "Marine Corps" and is an independent armed force under the name of the Navy with ground combat capabilities, rather than the amphibious combat force under the name of the Army. In fact, before the 1900s, the Republic's Army had an amphibious force of not a large scale.

From the perspective of actual use, the sea base will definitely be more helpful to the Marine Corps.

In fact, as early as the time when Pei Chengyi returned to the Central Committee and became the Minister of Defense, he made it clear that the maritime base should support landing operations as the main tactical indicator, rather than seizing sea control power as the main purpose. According to this basic idea, General Hua Jianfeng, who was the commander of the navy at the time, made comprehensive adjustments to the main tactical indicators of the maritime base and strengthened the nature of the "base".

What comes from this is that the system scale has been magnified several times.

As mentioned earlier, the first-generation maritime base that was launched in the Middle East War in Secret Year consisted of 8 rapid transport ships, including the main body and 2 functional units. In the second-generation maritime base designed in the year of Kou, the number of modules increased to, because the design adhered to the tactical idea of ​​sea control, all of them were soon abandoned and did not enter the engineering construction stage. The number of modules in the third-generation maritime base designed in the year of Knife and increased to ships. Among them, the old main modules and 6 functional modules were designed in the year of Kou, and the fourth-generation maritime base built in the year of 2 of the year of 2 of the injury increased to loosen ships, and the total tonnage of the system reached an astonishing 640,000 tons. It can be said that when all the modules were patched together, it was an artificial island floating on the sea surface, made of steel, and able to accommodate tens of thousands of people.

Of course, such a huge system has very comprehensive combat capabilities.

In fact, on the morning of the Yari, more than half of the naval fighters bombing the Russian Pacific Fleet base took off from the sea base deployed in the Sea of ​​Japan, code-named Changxing Island. It was just to prevent the Russian counterattack. The sea base was not fully assembled, and the fighter boat was quickly disbanded when it was released, and it went to the next battlefield separately. The fighter jets carrying out attack missions also returned directly to the airport in the Republic. More importantly, during the battle, the favorable conditions of the complex weather in the winter of the Sea of ​​Japan were fully utilized, avoiding the reconnaissance aircraft of the Russian Air Force and the Navy, and also avoiding the US Navy's marine surveillance satellite passing overhead.
Chapter completed!