The Third Reich: The Return of the King

"What are they doing here?"

Since they have docked at Lijiapo, Mainz and the others naturally can't wait on the ship.

So they all got off the boat and went around Lijiapo.

Lijiapo is also called Xingjiapo, Xingcheng, etc., this place is not large, located on an island, very close to the Strait of Malacca, is a strategic artery.

With the opening of the Suez Canal, the strategic value of Lijiapo began to be reflected, so the empire on which the sun never set began to pay attention to it.

After 1870, with the vigorous development of the rubber industry in the Malayan Peninsula, Li Jiapo became more important to the empire of Sun Never Set, so under the advice of the Minister of the Navy Qiu Jier, the Sun Hundred people began to build a military base in Li Jiapo, mainly a naval base.

At this time, what Mainz and others saw on the island was the Lijiapo Naval Base under construction.

This naval base was built according to the scale of the Gibraltar Fortress, and compared with the Gibraltar Fortress that held the Strait of Gibraltar, the strategic value of Lijiapo in the Far East is about the same, so the sun never sets on the construction of this naval base is very attentive.

Mainz noted that the Sunset Man used a large amount of reinforced concrete territory in its construction, and that in addition to the naval base, there were protective fortifications outside the naval base, including fortress guns to control the strait, underground bunkers, and permanent fortifications.

It can be seen that the fortifications of the sun does not set are well planned, and if these fortress systems can be established, it will be almost impossible for the enemy to cross the Strait of Malacca under the nose of the British army!

As long as the enemy in the Far East cannot cross the Strait of Malacca, then the sea control of the Asan Ocean region will be firmly in the hands of the Sunset, which is of great significance for the Sunsetman to maintain absolute control over the colony of Ahsan.

However, in World War II, the military fortress that the sun never sets and the people worked so hard to build did not even fire a single shell, and directly raised the white flag and surrendered!

Hundreds of thousands of well-armed and fortified British troops were forced to surrender to Japanese troops, who were half as numerous as them, lacked supplies and were inferior in weaponry, an incident that became one of the greatest humiliations of the sun during World War II.

And the reason for this shame is not only the greed for life and fear of death that the sun never sets, but also their strategic planning mistakes in 1920!

"Do you see what's wrong?"

Mainz noticed that everyone was looking at the fortress with curiosity, so he asked them.

"The sun doesn't set on the fortifications of the people is a little strange!"

Paulus said with his chin furrowed.

Mainz nodded, although he didn't like Paulus very much, but he didn't deny this guy's ability.

The person who can see the problem at a glance is, of course, powerful, otherwise, the mustache would not trust him so much and hand over the elite Sixth Army to him!

It's a pity that he failed the mustache and, by the way, buried the entire Third Reich!

"Oh, what's so strange?"

Mainz didn't tell the other party directly, and continued to ask.

Pauss shook his head, saying that he wasn't very clear, but his instincts told him that something didn't look right.

Mainz nodded, slightly disappointed, and then looked at the others.

"Dönitz, what do you think?"

Navy Commander Dönitz is second only to Mainz in rank and status here, and his vision must be higher than that of ordinary people, so Mainz wants to know his opinion.

"From the point of view of the navy, the fortress where the sun never sets is indeed solid, if I guess correctly, their fortress should be equipped with more than 30 mm cannons, and maybe even 406 mm fortress guns, to be honest, when the warship is adrift at sea, because the warship shakes with the sea, so the accuracy of the design is not as good as the fortress cannon on land!

In addition, the fortress artillery was specially selected when it was designed, the design angle was very large, and the shooting Zhuyuan in the port had already had data, so the shooting accuracy of the fortress gun would be much higher than that of the naval gun, in this case, if the two sides bombarded each other, the fortress artillery would be very advantageous, and the naval artillery would suffer a lot, plus there was a steel concrete territorial protection wall several meters thick outside the fortress gun, even if it was hit by the naval gun, it would be difficult to destroy them, so, from my professional point of view, I think it is almost impossible to conquer this place from the sea!

"

Dönitz's words were considered from a naval point of view, and he denied the possibility of an attack from the sea, but did not mention anything else.

"You mean, there is a chance to attack from land?"

Heydrich was the youngest and had been in the army for the shortest time, so he couldn't help but ask curiously after hearing Dönitz's words.

"At least I didn't notice that the sun never sets, and the people have gun emplacements aimed at the rear!"

Dönitz spread his hands, although he was not sure if anyone could attack from the rear, but the coastal defense fortresses of various countries have such a common problem, that is, they are careless.

This is actually normal, after all, their design requirements are to deal with the enemy from the sea, not the enemy behind them, after all, behind them is their own homeland, and it is not very likely to be attacked by the enemy!

Therefore, this design of the sun does not set is understandable.

Of course, things are not absolute, for example, the fortifications of the fortress of Gibraltar are completely three-dimensional, not only to guard against enemies on the sea, but also to guard against the attacks of enemies behind you!

The reason is very simple, the fortress of Gibraltar was snatched from the hands of Banya without the sun setting, and they were always worried that they would be snatched back by force by Banya, so they had to strengthen the defense of Banya, which made the fortress of Gibraltar impregnable and difficult to capture!

Dönitz's words opened the way for everyone to realize that the British fortress was flawed, and this fatal flaw was that they had no resistance to attacks in the rear.

"However, the rear of this fortress is Lijiapo, and behind Lijiapo is the Malay Peninsula, if you want to attack Lijiapo, you must first take the Malay Peninsula, and then you can attack Lijiapo, and only after taking Lijiapo can you attack the fortress of the British army, I feel that this kind of thing is unlikely!"

Himmler opened his mouth and said that he felt that the people who never set the sun were certainly not fools, so they must have been well aware of such shortcomings, but the people who did not set the sun did not care at all, which showed that they must have thought about it beforehand.

"That's right, if you want to attack the Malay Peninsula, you must have sea supremacy, and no one in the world has the ability to say that you can still have sea supremacy in the face of the Royal Navy, so for the Royal Navy, this weakness is actually irrelevant, unless the Royal Navy is defeated, otherwise they will not be attacked by the enemy from behind!"

Dönitz said with a smile, not that he thought that the fortress of Li Jiapo was really impregnable and unbreakable, but that he felt that the sun did not set because he was confident in his own strength, especially the strength of the Royal Navy, otherwise, they would definitely not dare to do this!

"General, what do you think?"

Everyone had been discussing, but they didn't hear General Mainz speak, so at the end of the conversation, everyone looked at Major General Mainz and wanted to hear his opinion.

"The Royal Navy is still the first in the world, but the future is not certain, and this is the Far East, it is impossible for the Royal Navy to transfer all its forces here, especially in the face of a huge threat to the European mainland, they dare not easily mobilize the local forces, and it is precisely because of this willingness that the sun does not set to build a fortress in Lijiapo!"

"They're already feeling threatened!"

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