16 assault boats can be placed in the dock of the Taishan. Each assault boat is 16 meters long, 3.2 meters wide, 0.6 meters draft, 16 tons of water displacement, 5.5 tons of load, driven by diesel engines, with a maximum speed of 18 knots, and a range of 40-50 kilometers at the maximum speed. When the speed is 12 knots, the range can reach 80 kilometers. A assault boat can carry 45 soldiers, including 3 assault boat drivers, and the boat is equipped with a 14.5 mm machine gun. In total, more than 600 soldiers can be sent ashore, which is a standard synthetic battalion.

Compared with the beach-style landing ships built by the East China Government, the Taishan Army's troops delivery capabilities have not changed much. They all send the troops of a synthetic battalion. However, the beach-style landing ship has high requirements for the landing location. It must be a beach with flat terrain and few reefs. The Taishan Army is a dock-style landing. The assault boat for the landing mission has only 0.6 meters of draft water. Therefore, it can also carry out landing operations on beaches with more reefs and complex sea conditions, and the scope of the operations is wider.

Moreover, the hull of the Taishan is larger, which can provide landing soldiers with better rest space and strong self-sustaining power, so it can carry out long-distance landing operations. The previous beach-style landing ship had a small tonnage, so it could only be operated at close range, and it was much worse in combat range. It can be said that the service of the Taishan dock landing ship made the Marine Corps have the ability to land long-distance landing operations, and truly became an amphibious army.

In fact, in this era, only the People's Army attached importance to amphibious landing operations. Although other countries, including the traditional naval Britain, also organized landing troops in the navy, there was no tactical theory in landing operations, let alone built ships dedicated to landing operations. Generally, they carried some landing soldiers on the warships, drove to the nearshore distance and placed the lifeboats carried on the warships, loaded the soldiers who landed on the landing operations, and the soldiers themselves paddled to the shore to land on the shore.

This is mainly because there were not many landing wars in this era. Although Japan had launched landings on the enemy's territory during the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, they all chose to defend the slack coast on the other side and did not receive tough resistance. Only after the East China government participated in the war, they launched several real landing wars. In the old time and space, it was only the Battle of the Dada Lyon Strait during World War I that it was a real landing war. In World War II, the landing war model was widely valued by major countries.

But for the elders, of course, they know the importance of landing operations, and they also have a set of mature landing operations theory and tactics, as well as sufficient experience. Of course, these theories and experiences must be adjusted according to the actual situation of this era and the technical level. For example, imitating the Changbaishan ship to create the Taishan dock landing ship, but due to technical reasons, the assault boat can only be used to replace the car mat landing craft on the Changbaishan ship. The next step is to explore the use of this type of warship.

Five days later, the synthetic battalion that lived on the Taishan was basically familiar with the life process on the warship, and also conducted several drills for opening the cabin and launching the water, accumulating some experience in using it. So the Marine Corps decided to organize a formal login training and go through the entire login process.

The Taishan is parked about 10 kilometers away from the coast, and the stern of the ship is facing the coast. In fact, if the landing is really done, it will definitely not start from a distance of 10 kilometers, because it is still within the range of the onshore artillery. Although most of the onshore firepower has been destroyed when the landing is launched, there will definitely be some remaining artillery fire. Therefore, if it is during combat or exercise, at least 15 kilometers away from the coast, the landing operation should be launched. However, this is just a general training, and it is not so strict that it will start from 10 kilometers away from the coast. At the same time, there is no guard force arranged on the shore.

Luo Yue and others sat on the beach to watch. Here you can see the entire beach, and with the help of a telescope, you can also see many details. In this era, there are only such conditions. Although the East China government still has several camera drones in stock, it is impossible to use it for such a training.

All work was ready, and three signal flares were fired into the air from the viewing platform to announce the opening of this landing training. On the Taishan, the ringtone of the landing was immediately pulled up. A soldier from the synthetic battalion immediately came out of his lounge, gathered on the rear deck of the Taishan, then got down into the cabin, and boarded the assault boat in turn. These actions have been practiced many times in the past few days, and the soldiers are also very skilled, so it was completed without long and it went very smoothly.

Then the door at the tail of the Taishan ship was opened and the skateboard was lowered. The assault boats were placed in a row of 4 ships in the dock. The ground of the dock was a slope and the tracks were laid. In addition, pulleys were installed at the bottom of the assault boat, so they could automatically slide down to the sea. Of course, every row of assault boats now has railings and locks, so they would not slide.

At this time, the lock training of the first row of assault boats had been untied, and the operators in the dock cabin raised the railings, slid out of the cabin door together, entered the sea, and entered the sea. The drivers on each assault boat started the engine and operated the assault boats to sail towards the shore. In the dock cabin of the Taishan, the second, third and fourth rows of assault boats also slid down into the sea one by one.

All 16 assault boats went into the sea and immediately began to organize their formation. They lined up in 4 columns according to 3 combat companies and one mortar company, with 4 assault boats in each team. Each column kept a distance of about 100 meters and drove towards the shore.

Luo Yue and others stood up on the viewing platform, picked up the telescope and looked at it. Some people whispered, some shook their heads, some nodded, and all kinds of expressions. Of course, overall, for this reason, this training has performed quite normally.

About 10 minutes later, the assault boat entered within 3 kilometers of the coast, and the formation began to change. The assault boat behind it accelerated and gradually caught up. It changed from four columns to a horizontal line, lined up in a row, heading side by side toward the coast. The change in the formation during the landing process was the first difficulty in landing operations and a new problem faced by the veterans.

The Changbaishan ship that crossed the landing battle was equipped with four 726 Mustang air cushion landing crafts, with a displacement of about 150 tons, a load capacity of 40 tons, and a maximum speed of 60 knots. It can carry 1 Type 96 main battle tank, 2 infantry fighting vehicles, or 80-100 fully armed Marines. Because there are only 4 landing crafts, there is no need to pay attention to the formation. The Taishan has 16 assault boats, so the formation must be considered. You cannot rush around on the white shore in a swarm.

Of course, during the login process, no one knows what kind of team type should be adopted to take the best plan, and they can only use training and exercises to audition. However, the East China Government has another option, which is to use computers to simulate and deduce it through a data center located in Qingdao. However, this requires first submission of the application and special approval by the Executive Yuan. Therefore, according to the experience of the veteran, we have determined the changes in team types that are arranged in a column in units of companies when ships are sent, and when approaching the coast, we will test whether this plan is possible in practice.

At this moment, an unexpected event occurred. As the column turned into a horizontal line, all the three assault boats in the rear had to accelerate and catch up. Therefore, when catching up, due to sudden waves on the sea, in a column, the bow of the third assault boat hit the tail of the second assault boat, and just caught up with a big wave, the third assault boat suddenly shook aside. 7 or 8 soldiers did not hold it tightly, and fell into the sea. The second assault boat was not well, and the tail was hit and the engine was damaged. He could only rely on the soldiers to paddle the shore.

On the viewing platform, many people shook their heads and sighed. Luo Yue was silent. Firstly, Luo Yue is now in a high position and powerful position, living in a place to move his energy and body, and has also developed some ability to not show his emotions. Secondly, it is a new tactic and new equipment, and it is normal to have an accident, and it is not worth making a fuss.

The two assault boats had an accident, and no accident happened to the other assault boats. The other columns also adjusted their teams and rushed towards the shore. However, the columns were crooked and slanted, but this was not harmful.

But while rushing to the beach, another accident happened. When it was about 100 meters away from the coast, a assault boat was stuck by the reefs under the sea. Although the beach was relatively flat, there were still some small reefs. In addition, it was in the low tide period at this time, so a few reefs were very close to the sea, so they were easily hit by bad luck.

However, it was not far from the shore at this time, so the soldiers on the assault boat made a quick decision and jumped off the assault boat. In fact, the sea water was only high at this time, so the soldiers wade on the water and went ashore.

The other assault boats rushed to the shore very smoothly. The soldiers jumped out of the assault boats, waded over the sea, and rushed to the shore. After they got ashore, the soldiers immediately gathered as companies and launched an offensive team.

This is another difficulty in landing operations. It is that when we go ashore, the army must quickly gather and organize and launch an attack. In addition, when organizing the army, we must also place firepower cover. This process is naturally the faster the better. After all, in formal wars, there will definitely be beachhead positions and troops on the coast. This is also the time when the guards of the landing army are weakest. Therefore, the faster the landing army organizes and the faster the attack, the more it can reduce its casualties.
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