Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 1344 1345 Small canals along the coast of Shu

Sun Guang has a sea in front of him, and he is inspecting his defensive positions: the hundreds of kilometers of coastline on both sides of Qingluan Port are almost flat, and there are suitable places for landing everywhere.

The soldiers and the requisitioned local civilians were all busy. Everyone was digging a trench, but this trench had a shabby air.

Sun Guang felt it was absolutely a joke to rely on such fortifications to resist the Tang army's landing. The defense of the Mirage Kingdom was much stronger than this, but under the attack of the Tang Army, it still collapsed within a day.

Now, the Qin army is preparing to rely on earthen trenches to prevent the Tang army from landing. This is simply a fantasy. He must strengthen this line of defense into an absolutely permanent fortification! Only in this way can the possible landing of the Tang army be blocked.

 But...where does reinforced concrete come from? The steel bar production in Shu has been requisitioned. What Qin is most lacking now is steel. They need steel to make weapons, so there is no need to think about steel bars.

 All that’s left is concrete—but concrete itself isn’t enough. Although the war in Shu was not that fierce, there were still many houses and roads that needed to be rebuilt and repaired.

Suspension in the construction of these damaged facilities will arouse public resentment. The Shu territory itself is not stable. Now another 200,000 soldiers have been conscripted, and another 300,000 laborers have been mobilized to build defense lines... It has almost reached its limit.

This is also the main reason why the coastal defense line of Shu is still like this today: there are no raw materials and no weapons and equipment, only light infantry digging holes...

Of course, there is another reason: based on Mirage's anti-landing experience, if a defense line is deployed along the coast, it will soon be destroyed by the Tang Army's aircraft carrier fleet.

 The opponent's carrier-based aircraft can provide very precise point destruction support, and the landing force is good at fighting. Generally, the coastal defense line can only hold for one to two days.

 So, deploying more troops on the second line and making better deployments based on the terrain may last longer. This is the defense experience of the Mirage troops.

 Although this kind of defensive experience was achieved in the battle against the landing of orc troops, experience is still experience after all. Actual combat shows that deploying troops on the second line is indeed more cost-effective than deploying troops on the beachhead.

 But cost-effectiveness is not the only criterion for measuring tactical deployment. No matter how cost-effective the design is, it cannot change the fact that coastal defenses are weak.

The shortcomings of deploying defense forces on the second line are actually very obvious: abandoning the beachhead is equivalent to letting the Tang army go ashore. The Tang army's combat effectiveness after landing was really strong. Sun Guang felt that these crooked melons and jujubes in his hands were no match for the Tang army.

In fact, his prediction was very correct: the main force of the Qin army in his hand was only 5 divisions and less than 100,000 people, and the remaining troops were second-line "line-filling babies".

It looks like a mighty army of hundreds of thousands, but when it comes to fighting, these troops are equipped with Maxim heavy machine guns, 98K rifles, some mountain artillery, and towed howitzers... What can they do to the powerful Tang army?

The scene in front of him was still in full swing, and Sun Guang really didn't want to dampen his interest. The accompanying commander was introducing his position deployment, and he sounded confident.

His defense line plans to build 35 hidden bunkers and 90 machine gun positions! The machine guns deployed by the regiment will flow back and forth on these positions, forming a tight cross-fire network.

 All soldiers have their own bunkers, and trenches extend in all directions. If the enemy does not bomb or shell, it is really perfect. But Sun Guang knew that once the enemy's plane made two circles here, everything would have to be reconsidered. Positions will be destroyed and personnel will suffer.

But he did not speak, because the ball of thread placed here is actually just cannon fodder. If these people can withstand the Tang army's offensive or persist for a day, then his goal will be achieved.

  The real defense line is on the second line far away from the coast, relying on some villages and road construction, which is stronger... It is also more suitable for hoarding some supplies, and at least has some living conditions, allowing the commanders of the Qin Army to arrange their own headquarters.

The Qin Army, having learned its lesson, is deploying a complex and huge telephone command system, and this thing is the key point. With this system, at least the generals of the Qin army will not be unable to find the troops under their command when they are attacked.

 Various reserve materials prepared by the Shu Kingdom for its fleet have also been used. For example, the gun barrels prepared for the Shu Kingdom's warships are now being rushed to be made into artillery and placed in important defense areas.

In addition, Qin State also withdrew its submarine forces that were originally preparing to deploy forward and cut off the Nanshan Port route, forming a submarine warning and defense circle.

This circle was not effective when the Tang Dynasty Navy attacked the coastal area of ​​​​Sichuan. Several nearby submarines all lost contact, and not even a single message was sent back.

So the Qin Navy once again changed their tactics. They formed a fleet of submarines, and then waited in the anchorage area, preparing to send out all the submarines to counterattack after being attacked along the coast.

 In short, without knowing how strong the anti-submarine capabilities of the Tang Empire's fleet were, the commanders of the Qin submarine force were choosing various ways to die.

They are using World War II-level submarines to challenge the Cold War-era anti-submarine network—just anti-submarine helicopters and sonobuoys are enough to give these poor Qin submarines a headache.

If they could really take a look at the sci-fi-looking Tang cruisers and destroyers, they would understand that the junk in their hands would not be able to break through the defense line composed of Tang warships.

As for the remaining warships... Qin didn't take them seriously at all. The combined fleet was completely wiped out by the Tang people, so what use could the remaining scrap metal do?

 Hence, all warships, including the destroyer HMS Courage, were used as forts offshore. That's right, they each chose a position. After discovering that the Tang fleet had the intention to land, they would rush to their respective positions and sit there.

Such a tragic strategy was thought up by Sun Guang. Since the warship will be sunk, just find an unsinkable place and keep firing.

As for how much trouble such tactics can bring to the Tang army, Sun Guang doesn't know. Anyway, if Shu is lost, these warships will no longer be used, so it is better to waste them.

Under the premise of disadvantage, Qin's deployment in Shu began to become absurd, tragic, and somewhat unreasonable. This effort is more like a death struggle, more like a chaotic vent. Emperor Qin wanted an alien version of the Atlantic Barrier, but all he could build was a small ditch.

 (End of this chapter)