Out of the cage

Qin Tongli February 4, 2293. Wei Keng looked at Nanyang Sunshine's high-sounding protest against the military conflict in the disputed area from the headquarters, full of disdain.

Wei Keng: "After starting the war, do you want to end it so lightly?"

And according to the intelligence, Shengyang is still increasing its massed troops in the coastal area of ​​the Pacific Ocean in Latin America. Oh, these brats who are afraid of being beaten and provocative at the same time make Master Wei can't help but raise his knife.

Backed by today's trend of the times, Wei Keng straightened his back and judged: "This is an unjust war, and only a few beneficiaries of maritime trade have sent millions of dollars away from the state in order to safeguard the interests of their own trade monopoly. Subsea workers pushed to the opposite."

Wei Keng couldn't help looking at the huge South Pacific region: such a large area, the ocean front will expand to tens of millions of square kilometers! Some parts of the maritime frontier are bordering on the continental shelf of Latin America.

In an era of peace, countries are "the first to discover and have sovereignty" over their overseas territories. But how is it discovered that a flag has been planted? Or picked up a submarine space station? It's very vague.

But for the party that can win the battle, as long as it can actually control where it is through construction, it will naturally have sovereignty

Today will become the history of the future. In the future, if the people of Nanyang and Shengyang face this kind of coastline that hits their doorstep, they will get the answer of "since ancient times" from the people of Zhuxia at that time.

Master Wei stared at the location of Easter Island, and decided to erect a monument to prove that he had fished there.

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In 2292, the mainland of Lizhou, which had just finished the war of de-imitation, announced to support the marine worker team in the South Pacific Ocean, and jointly counterattack the old hegemony of the overseas restoration group.

This is the battle between farming and nomadism in the ocean. (The sea is no longer the route for pirates to wash their hands.)

It is also a dispute between "industrial stable society" and "industrial monopoly of wealth".

What is most obvious to the residents of the production base in the South Pacific Ocean is that the Supreme Council of Oceanic Social Governance has confirmed that the cruise ship just purchased has been temporarily sealed off on the west coast.

All the industrial people are no longer working on the 4th and resting for three days, but are fully mobilized and take the submarine factory as their home. Carry out long-term work in units of one month, and adjust at intervals of three days.

The newly appointed commune leadership group played a leading role, and all of them were on duty at the bottom of the sea, setting an example for the workers. All fighting for their own interests.

The time during the battle is counted as ten times the length of service, and the wages during the war are also ten times the wages, which are put into the provident fund.

The phenomenon of sabotage and laziness that the business group worried about in the past does not exist in Dayang Commune at this time! Wei Keng, who looks like a man, knows the reason for sabotage.

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The three Jiedu envoys in the entire Nanyang region also dispatched sea forces to join the war, trying to use absolute naval tonnage to break the union of Lizhou land and sea communes.

But this festival made the alliance's thinking still stay in the old days after the alliance in Lion City.

Traditional sea power thinking in the old era. That is to eliminate the opponent's main maritime fleet, by controlling the sole control of the sea traffic channel, suppress the opponent's passivity in space with the initiative in space, suppress the opponent's resource supply, and finally force the opponent's navy to lose its combat effectiveness.

But Haiyang, where Wei Keng is located, is now playing the business flow of planetary construction.

The control of the sea line of communication is based on the premise that human beings could not have permanent control over the sea in the past era, and the development of the fleet has the ability to cut off the opponent's cruising route.

Nowadays, the communes that build bases on the seabed directly complete storage in important coastal defense areas. Second-level production equipment is enough to allow a company-level deep-sea force to continue fighting for three months.

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The key equipment now is not the fleet, but the ability to search for information with the lotus sonar infrastructure, and whether there is manufacturing economic capacity to support such infrastructure.

Think back a hundred years ago, when Shenzhou obtained underwater meson detection technology in the last World War, the lotus canopy equipment had already been invented and put into key waterways, and was used by the Shenzhou Navy at that time to attack the Shengyang and Soviet Russian fleets.

Shenzhou produced 60 million lotus sonars before and after the last world war a hundred years ago, surpassing the output of Sunshine's rifles.

Today, the major powers fly space fleets all over the sky, and space-based ion cannons are deployed to every suborbital location. The heat of this hundred-year-old equipment seems to have cooled down.

However, Western China has always been studying infrastructure technology for marine strategy. When Shengyang, Edenia, Europa League, and Dongzheng were fighting a pot of porridge, and the fleet was constantly being built, so many fleets were exploded on the Western Shenzhou side, and the saved national money was used in these low-heat, but very Potential technology research and development.

The service life of the lotus sonar detector and the amount of information stored have been replaced four times. More importantly, the output has been exploded to the point where it can compete with sunfish for high output.

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2293.

When Western Shenzhou was sure that the war was inevitable, before the Haiyang Commune entered the ocean and decided to unite with the Lizhou social governance faction, it stockpiled 40 billion lotus equipment, and even produced 300 million a month during the war .

These lotus devices are connected to the Earthsha network, and the deep-sea discrimination has reached the level where fish species can be identified.

And the intelligent program follows the "gou" formula during wartime. When the enemy ship minesweeper arrives, it will automatically shrink and hide in the deep sea mud along the chain of the seabed base.

From February 2293 to before the start of the war, Shengyang and Nanyang Jiedushi sent mine-sweeping fleets several times but failed.

And even if there is no interference from other forces, the cleaning speed cannot keep up with one-thousandth of the production capacity. And the minesweeping fleet was unable to operate under the attack of the sea militia of the Ocean Commune.

In May 2293, three months had passed since the collision between the Ocean Commune and the Sunrise Fleet in the Southeast Pacific, and there was no truce response from Sunrise and Nanyang.

The Marine Commune and the Lizhou Maritime Militia have established a search network in the huge sea area from New Guinea to Easter Island.

But any military fleet with a single order will be torpedoed by the marine front underwater militia.

The Sun Fleet has been hiding in the protective circle of the continental shelf, like a yellow water fleet, and sold out the Nanyang Group that made a statement with them.

The Nanyang three-level Jiedu made the allied fleet wait for the confluence of the Sun Fleet, and was approached step by step by the sonar array, and gradually blocked in the offshore. Under economic pressure, they can only attack alone to try to find the main decisive battle in Lizhou.

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However, the entire ocean is full of ambush pits.

Smaller pits appeared frequently in early February. Several torpedo pits fell off the military supply ship, and the keel was blown off on the spot to become a dangerous ship with water seepage.

The bigger pit was April 28, when more than a hundred groups of unscrupulous underwater submarine-launched missiles fired a saturated salvo at a super-close distance of 50 kilometers from the Imperial Fleet. A sea fortress of the empire was pierced through the energy station on the spot because the protective shield could not be strengthened, and its main weapon, the God's Breath structure, ignited a raging fire.

Shengyang and Nanyang are auxiliary fleets, and they know very little about the underwater situation in the vast ocean during the three months since the war started.

Admiral Yunxi, who was watching the fire from the other side, vaguely confirmed that the social governance camp in the southern hemisphere had achieved a qualitative breakthrough in productivity at the most basic and common level, such as monitors and underwater lines.

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In the blink of an eye, June came, and the Ocean Commune was deployed in the No. 17 Ocean Base in the north of Lizhou, and a large-scale riot was going on.

The base is a deep-sea city composed of one hundred and four hexagonal concrete honeycombs with a side length of 120 meters.

In every concrete hexagonal hole in this deep-sea city, there is a standard industrial cabin comparable to a metal building, like a bee chrysalis.

Different production chains are operating in these cement hives, and each shipment is completed in an hour, and each shipment is thousands of tons.

During the war, the production and manufacturing of the Ocean Commune continued to hit new heights!

In the cutting-edge battleship base in the center, a disc-shaped underwater vehicle with a maximum thickness of three meters, a wingspan of twenty meters, and a height of twelve meters after folding is being built.

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Such an underwater drone has a cabin designed to accommodate three people for five days. This is the way to ensure that soldiers fighting underwater have enough margin to escape.

But in actual combat, it is remotely controlled through the mesotron chip. Wearing spirit armor, the command module sergeant will control forty of these underwater manta rays for raid operations.

For such an underwater drone formation, thirty groups are a mechanical company.

Each company will be equipped with an underwater headquarters consisting of eight 5,000-ton Blue Whale-class maintenance submarines and auxiliary ships.

Inside these blue whale maintenance ships, there is a large cabin that can accommodate three manta rainbows.

After the battle, the repair ship can take the damaged manta rainbow into it, and then clean it with fresh water in a pure nitrogen (non-flammable) environment, repair the damaged cracks with gel and metal mesh, fill up with natural gas fuel, and check the manned compartment at the same time Whether there is water seepage and whether the control systems are normal.

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Now on the side of the Ocean Commune, such combat teams are fighting extensively on the wide ocean.

The social governance faction keeps an eye on the enemy at all times, and now the total strength of the deep sea has reached 29,345. The number of underwater fighter jets put into combat exceeds 50,000.

This is already a strategic force no less effective than the main fleet in the ocean.

Most of the deep-sea bat rainbows were soldiers who had just finished fighting the "Lizhou Civil War" a year ago. After overthrowing the Tang Dynasty, their fighting spirit did not let up. After confirming that the Nanyang feudal faction was still unwilling to give up and was about to go from behind the scenes to the front stage and directly intervene in Lizhou, Lizhou followed suit and launched a battle.

They work for a long time in a small underwater space, which is undoubtedly a character of incomparable perseverance.

"Social governance" allowed most of the people in Zhongrenzhi to prove themselves inadvertently.

Take the logistics of the Ocean Commune as an example. The staff carefully inserted the liquid natural gas tank into the belly of the underwater fighter, and mounted the oxygen tube in the form of a fairing on the back! Test each engine.

(Note: Oxygen tanks and natural gas tanks are loaded separately on the belly and back of the fuselage. As for the cabin, except for the very safe human control cabin, the rest of the cabin is non-flammable and inert gas. This design makes it leak when it is broken down. Into seawater, it will not cause combustibles to mix in the cavity of the body, which is much safer than Liben's oxygen torpedo.)

They are also the troops with the highest degree of organization, resolute execution of orders, and a sense of collective honor. After a problem with the sonar network, quickly arrive at the target area to determine whether it is "the enemy's man-made situation or a natural situation."

As the commander, Wei Keng sincerely paid tribute to these fighters: "It is my honor to command everyone in battle."

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In the headquarters of the Ocean Commune, in the spherical hall, there are densely connected information points like stars.

The quantum communication network of these 4,800 battle groups is connected to each company's personnel. In other words, every detail of the front line can be recorded in this command center.

It is helpful for commanders to have a broad and comprehensive understanding of the real situation of the frontier battle situation, and to support strategic judgments in details.

Supplement: This informatization is not about leapfrog command and micromanagement.

Narrator: Only those who sit in the top command but are incapable of commanding will use micromanagement to show their existence. Bosses who are truly able to advance their work in leadership positions will not reflect their abilities in micro-operations such as attendance and post checks.

Wei Keng's concept: Even if the most basic company has made an obvious mistake and needs to be shot to establish military regulations, it must be dealt with by the front battalion-level commander of the department. Time to waste energy.

Each performs his duties, and the general should be the general.

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In the command hall, Wei Keng locked his eyes on the key battlefield of New Guinea. On an equatorial map, this is a galloping cat, with a distinct chain of rising cat-tail islands.

The combat readiness planes of the Nanyang United Fleet patrol here for 24 hours, sprinkle sonar, and strictly guard the last layer of information barriers, while their own side is in the peripheral area, forming an underwater barrier area that stretches for hundreds of kilometers. Formed an information confrontation area.

This theater has remained stable in the past. But in the recent period, the region has clearly begun to build up a strategic battle.

In the Earth Sha detection information, they moved a large-scale fleet here, and the mobile force composed of 673 small submarines accelerated the destruction of the surrounding sonar arrays.

After watching for half an hour, Wei Keng made a judgment that was almost nonsense: "Do they want a decisive battle?"

Then he nodded to confirm his judgment, and turned his head to provide his own confirmation to the decision-making department.

[The commander doesn't need to give any highly resourceful opinions, but dare to take responsibility. Give it a quick and decisive confirmation! In this kind of super-large-scale battle, anyone can judge, but only the commander can bear the responsibility. 】

Wei Keng determined the direction of strategic investment, and let the staff follow the process to complete the remaining series of preparatory work (digging deep holes for the enemy).

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At the same time, on the other side, under the volcanic island in New Guinea, Nanyang, there is an underground command hall like a palace. Zheng Xianhong put the map in the discussion hall, and the other seats projected the images of the heads of other maritime combat groups. .

Because it is a discussion, there are many differences.

The four generals each exchanged views on the difficulties they faced.

Admiral Yunxi of Shengyang made a proposal: "There is only one mobile corps left on the New Guinea Peninsula. The forces in Lizhou are now basically concentrated on the eastern front, and there is no sign of a large-scale battle on the northern front."

However, Furukawa, the Jiedu envoy from Malaysia, put forward a different view on this. He tapped on the electronic board: "I emphasize again that there has been no diplomatic agreement between our side and Lizhou, and any situation may happen."

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The content of the discussion seems to be very rich, but it is full of oriental officialdom culture of throwing blame.

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From the objective elements of the strategic situation: For these coalition forces, they must break the deadlock.

According to Wei Keng's style of play, Ocean Commune can play for a year or two. After all, it is determined that 10 million square kilometers of land must be built one by one, and each square kilometer should be pushed across. The mining volume of combustible ice on the seabed is measured in millions of tons, and the longer the time for various combat preparations, the more abundant it will be.

What about the Nanyang and Sun Sea Fleets? I can't stand it. Even the nuclear-powered fleet has to return to the home port after two months of suffering, and once it returns to the home port for supplies, perhaps an ambush force will be ambushed on the shallow waterway.

Last month, eight cruisers of the coalition forces were sent to the bottom of the sea by such an ambush.

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The four generals finally reached some consensus on the general direction.

They decided that in mid-May, the main battle would be to break through the defense line in the East China Sea, annihilate the naval fleet in Lizhou, and then create strong conditions for land bombardment, forcing the red forces in Lizhou to agree to the conditions of the coalition forces.

But outside of the general direction, they still execute according to their own situation, which is called adapting to the situation.

Fifteen hours later, at the Lizhou Command.

Wei Keng, who had just taken a nap for three hours, was called up by the staff, and after reading the latest strategic information, his sleepy eyes suddenly became shrewd.

Wei Keng poked his finger at the cat's ass in New Guinea (the shape of the map is Yang cat), where the sonar array has clearly shown the actions of these enemy fleets.

And just next door to Wei Keng, among the 43 interfaces, three of the command headquarters belonging to the Equator Theater are already in the unified command.

The commune military department there is also already busy. A large number of latitude and longitude numbers, as well as the enemy's movement screen are reporting upwards. Ballistic missiles and part of the command of the navy and air force are also connected there, and the forward commander decides to fire strikes according to the situation.

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Regional forces are already deployed.

Master Wei also made a general decision, and said to the staff: "Leave the Malaysian group alone, and attack the Java group first. Send me three regiments to the east, keep an eye on the Sun Group, and block Luzon Island from the north." group."

The staff officers on the side quickly recorded the order.

Wei Keng began to explain his strategic logic. The Malaysian Group occupies the golden waterway of Malacca and is the most prosperous group among the four major groups. The South Pacific has nothing to do with their interests at present, so the will to fight is not high. They are here to fight soy sauce, if they don't fight, there is a high probability that they will not take the initiative to save friendly troops.

The Sun Group fights across the ocean and looks fierce, but its commander has a strong personality but will actively intervene in the war, but once encountering severe resistance, he will be vague and unsteady in the battle goal.

The Java group is closest to Lizhou, and it should also be the initiator of this battle. Fighting them is unavoidable.

As for the Luzon Group: In the near future, it has received a large amount of military assistance from the southeastern Pacific Ocean coastline, and its comprador group actively wants to act as a thug. So their going south is crazy and they have to be prepared.

After Wei Keng explained his suggestion, he transferred the power of dialogue to the staff for questioning.

The staff made supplements on some issues, that is, if the strategic prediction is wrong, the issue of backup plans.

The discussion was resolved within ten minutes. Wei Keng looked at the time on the mechanical watch, checked the current correct electronic time, and said, "If you have no other objections, let's execute it."