In particular, the 90th Infantry Regiment under the 23rd Division, which was planned to be the first batch to land, had seasickness training as a focus.
The predecessor of this infantry regiment is actually the first infantry regiment under the 23rd Mixed Brigade. Many of its soldiers and officers are old people who participated in the Haizhou landing and Shandong landing operations, so this unit will also As the first batch of landing troops, he and the Second Marine Regiment were the first to land and fight.
As long as this regiment can maintain its combat effectiveness after landing, it can stabilize the defense line no matter how hard it is, leaving time for friendly troops with poor physical fitness to rest and recover after landing at the rear.
As long as those soldiers whose physical fitness has deteriorated after long-distance sea transportation can be restored to physical fitness, I dare not say more, but it will not be a big problem to gain a foothold in Jinzhou.
As for the Second Marine Regiment, which was the first batch of landing operations, Bai Yangrong did not need to worry about this. They were originally Marine Corps, specializing in the subject of sea crossing and landing, and had gone through various specialized trainings for a long time. As long as the situation was not too severe, It's so bad that you won't get seasick at all.
With the ability of the soldiers of the 2nd Marine Regiment, let alone traveling more than a hundred kilometers by boat, even if they were allowed to float on the sea for ten days and a half before landing, they would still be alive and well.
After a long period of training, the soldiers of the 90th Infantry Regiment have been able to avoid seasickness in low sea conditions. Most soldiers can maintain basic physical fitness in medium sea conditions.
As for the high sea conditions... If he was allowed to lead his troops out to sea to land in the wind, rain and big waves, Bai Yangrong could stuff him into the barrel of a 48-pound howitzer and shoot him out...
The other two regiments of the 23rd Division, namely the 89th Regiment and the 91st Regiment, also conducted adaptive training for sea crossing and landing. Although the soldiers' ability to resist seasickness was not as good as that of the 90th Regiment, it was still better than that of ordinary troops. a lot of.
This is actually the reason why the Army has gone all the way to transfer the 23rd Division to Shandong to prepare for the landing operations on the Liaodong Peninsula. This unit has a tradition of landing operations, so it is easier to adapt to training, and its combat effectiveness will be stronger after the landing operations. powerful.
As for the 20th Division, the situation is much worse. The adaptive training for sea crossing and landing has been carried out for nearly two months, and it is still not good...
There is no way, this division is originally a landlubber division. It is already good to be able to train like this in two months, but it will not be good if it is trained more.
The 20th Division is actually the main force in the Chu Army. Even among the first-class divisions, it is among the best in combat effectiveness.
This unit has been participating in frontline battles for a long time since the Northern Expedition, and this division is also the second main division in the army to undergo complete reorganization and reorganization after the First Infantry Division.
In terms of combat effectiveness, it goes without saying that this division can rank among the top five among the dozens of Chu army divisions.
But... this division has never been exposed to transitional sea landing operations before.
Well, except for the 23rd Division, in fact, the other main forces in the Chu army had basically no experience in crossing the sea and landing operations.
Anyway, they have little experience in crossing the sea and landing, and there are too many uncontrollable factors in landing on the Liaodong Peninsula. Naturally, the army's top brass is inclined to allocate a main force that can fight and dare to fight to serve as a strategic reserve.
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How should I put it? Even after crossing the sea and landing, the soldiers of the 20th Division may be in poor physical condition due to seasickness and other factors, but their combat effectiveness will still be stronger than that of other ordinary first-class divisions.
Because their discipline is clearer and the soldiers' will to fight is stronger.
They are also a group of soft-footed shrimps. The soft-footed shrimps that dare to fight and kill are better than the soft-footed shrimps with weak combat power...
The last 104th Division is purely a second-class division. Although it is directly affiliated with the second-line second-class division under the jurisdiction of the Northeast Campaign Command, it is not the kind of third-line second-class division that is dispersed and deployed in various places.
However, the quality of the backbone of officers and non-commissioned officers is not good, nor is the level of weapons and equipment.
The role of this second-class division is to transport the landing force across the sea as a reserve force after the landing force successfully lands, and then stationed to participate in ground battles.
As for the prerequisite landing operations, even attacking the Golden State Acropolis, they have nothing to do.
Therefore, although the training situation of this division is not optimistic, Bai Yangrong does not force it.
Bai Yangrong led three divisions, and after a long period of adaptive training at the Weihai base in Dengzhou Prefecture and Penglai Port, the Navy's Beiyang Fleet Commander Admiral Xia Qiuyang took the Songjiang cruiser and other battleships as well as A large number of transport ships arrived at the Weihai base.
Weihaiwei Naval Base is the most important naval base in the northern seas and the main naval base. This place was originally a coastal defense center of the Ming Dynasty Navy. More importantly, this place has a natural port.
At the same time, the port is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there is Liugong Island in the northeast.
This kind of place is very suitable for use as a naval base, because the harbor is large enough, the water is deep enough, and the calm waves are suitable for berthing ships.
In addition, it is surrounded by mountains on three sides and is suitable for building fortifications to prevent enemy troops from breaking through from the ground.
Then the existence of Liugong Island can effectively resist the enemy's attack from the sea!
The navy of the Dachu Empire built forts on Liugong Island, as well as on the south and north sides of the port, and deployed many large-caliber coastal defense guns, including more than 40 twenty-four-pound cannons alone. There are also quite a few eighteen-pound cannons and fourteen-pound cannons.
Not only that, because the east exit of Weihai Port, that is, the sea surface between Liugong Island and the south coast is four to five kilometers, and the sea surface is relatively wide. It is more difficult to completely block the sea surface simply by relying on the forts on both sides.
To this end, they specially reclaimed a piece of reef in the middle of the sea, spent a lot of money to create a small island, and built a fort on the island.
In this way, Weihaiwei had a total of five forts, large and small, and deployed more than a hundred artillery pieces. These artillery pieces were all heavy artillery pieces weighing more than 14 kilograms.
It is precisely because of ensuring safety that the Da Chu Empire Navy can regard this place as the most important naval port in the northernmost region.
Today, hundreds of ships are densely moored in this wide bay, and you can feel the power of the Chu Empire from a distance.
After General Xia Qiuyang arrived at the Weihai base, he immediately convened a consultation meeting with senior army and navy generals who were expected to participate in the Liaodong Peninsula landing operation.
Although the strategic plan for the landing operation had been finalized in the previous Imperial Land and Sea Consultation Meeting.
But that was just a strategic plan. If it changed, the higher-ups decided to land on the Liaodong Peninsula, and also mobilized warships, transport ships, landing troops, and a large amount of supplies.
But how to land and how to fight after landing is a matter for the frontline generals.
Luo Zhixue has never given up the battle plan directly in the imperial strategy meeting, because it is not operable at all.
The Great Chu Empire was so big that it traveled from Jinling City to various border areas, whether it was the Nanyang Peninsula area in the south, or to the area facing Kangzang, or to Gansu in the northwest, or Yulin, Shaanxi and other places, Xuanda, Jiliao Wait, that’s all far away!
Even if there is an emergency of 500 miles, the news will be delivered back and forth for more than half a month or even a month or two.
And apart from urgent military situations, you can’t rush for five hundred miles for nothing...
Every five-hundred-mile rush is a huge challenge to the stations along the way. The horses' physical fitness will be severely damaged and they will need a long period of rest to recover. It often even happens that the horses are directly killed by exhaustion.
Communications these days cannot be used for long-distance command.
Therefore, when it comes to military issues, Luo Zhixue generally sets the tone and grasps the general direction; as for specific tactics, whether they like it or not, they can only leave it to the frontline generals to make their own decisions.
The same is true for the landing operations on the Liaodong Peninsula.
Luo Zhixue decided whether to fight and when to fight, sent the main force there, and then transferred senior generals there.
As for the specific tactical arrangements and even the specific launch time of the battle, that is a matter for the frontline generals.
Now Admiral Xia Qiuyang convened the land and sea generals for a consultation meeting to finalize the specific tactics of this joint land and sea landing operation, including finalizing the specific combat time.
The superiors only asked them to mobilize the main force of the enemy through landing operations after the spring of next year and before the battle of the Western Liaoning Corridor begins. However, there is basically no interference in the specific time and how to fight.
According to Xia Qiuyang's idea, it is better to do it sooner rather than later, and to avoid carrying out large-scale landing operations after the cold winter as much as possible.
After the cold winter comes, it will be a huge challenge to play landing operations.
And after the spring begins, it will be too late. After all, it will take time for the Dongbu people to get the news of the Chu army's landing attack, then mobilize troops to counterattack, and then mobilize the troops in the west of Liaoning. It is conservatively estimated that it will take two or three people. months or even longer.
The Da Chu Empire launched a landing operation on the Liaodong Peninsula. The core strategy was not to capture many places directly. It did not even think of attacking all the way to Shenyang. Although the Da Chu Empire's national power was relatively strong compared to the Eastern Capture, it was separated by Playing like this in front of the sea can easily lead to collapse.
During the landing on the Liaodong Peninsula, the core goal was very clear, which was to attract the attention of the Eastern captives, create a threat to them, and force them to deploy troops from the Western Liaoning Corridor to return reinforcements, thus reducing the pressure on the Chu army to attack the Western Liaoning Corridor in the spring of the following year.
Under such circumstances, the Chu army's landing operation must take into account the reaction of Dongji.
We must try our best to force the Eastern Captives to mobilize troops from the Liaoxi Corridor, and we must also give them time to mobilize troops.
After comprehensive consideration, Admiral Xia Qiuyang and Lieutenant General Bai Yangrong of the Army initially decided to set the landing time in late September.
