"Do you have any research on shipbuilding?" Major General Marshall was very surprised when an army general asked such a naval-like question. After all, the so-called "straight of the road is like a mountain", and there are definitely a few versatile talents like Crown Prince Ruprecht, and how does General Caripot, who has never worked in the navy for a day, know about this?

"Marquis de Rio and I are good friends, and sometimes we talk about these issues. In addition, when we landed in the Bay of Riga, we considered what to do if the weather was bad. At that time, our solution was to increase the ballast to improve the stability of the hull. But for your country, this problem is not easy to solve, because your ship is a flatbed, and more ballast will naturally reduce the transportation volume." Kariput said with a smile.

"This is how we solved this problem. We are not at the bottom of the boat, and the bottom of the hull is not a completely flat bottom. If you look at the lateral section of the hull, you can find that the narrowing range of the upper part of the hull is very small, but the narrowing range below is a bit large. The lower part is a water tank. We can control the ship's draft by adjusting the water tank. When sailing from the ocean, we will increase the draft. When we arrive near the sea or in a good weather, we will reduce the amount of water in the water tank. Then the deck we are on will enter the water line from the water line. Open the cabin door and the landing craft inside the hull can easily enter the sea." Marshall explained.

"For heavy equipment, such as tanks, cars and artillery, we use Guam-type tank landing craft, referred to as LST. This landing craft is generally tonnage of about 400 tons, and uses a flat bottom, and the draft is very shallow. When landing, you can directly re-tank, and then open the cabin door, and the tank can enter the battlefield along the cabin door." Then Marshall took his group to visit the newly designed tank landing craft by the Americans.

"This width is a bit small and the displacement is not large. It may be difficult to accommodate a wolf tank," said Caripot.

"It's true, because it's difficult for us to seal the tanks and swim over now. So if we want to send the tanks or vehicles to the beach, we have to go directly to the beach. This seriously limits the draft of the ship. Today it affects the tonnage of the ship. This is also an important reason why we later gave up the plan to let the wolf tank fight the first wave of landing war. The wolf tank is too heavy and the structure is not friendly to landing. The pressure is too high and it is easy to fall into the beach." Marshall explained.

"It's understandable." Kariput said. Military is a system project, and the performance advantages of some equipment are sometimes not important in front of the whole. Parts that can make the system operate in the most appropriate way are the best. Americans have their own reasons to face such enemies and then choose in this way.

After understanding the US military's landing combat system, the next step is to watch the US military's breakthrough exercise. If we simply talk about breaking through the defense line, no one in the world is more experienced than the Germans. Although this time the drill was a breakthrough battle in the island landing field, the Germans still discovered some problems.

Accompanied by the roar of heavy artillery, the roar of several cruisers and destroyers' ship guns kicked off the exercise. Then, outside the simulated enemy's main firepower firing boundaries, the landing craft began to depart from the landing transport ship, and then prepared to launch an attack with the tank landing ships they sailed over.

The first wave of rushing was infantry and engineers. After the naval guns cleared the obstacles and minefields on the beach, in the preset area, the American infantry rushed to the beach from the landing craft with the opening of the hatch door, and then began to establish fire support points and contact points. Then, with the support of various firepower, the engineers used blasting equipment to clear the remaining obstacles and minefields, while the scouts began to look for remaining fire points in the distance, and then guided the naval gun to destroy them.

When the landing field expanded to a certain range, American tanks began to enter the battlefield. American tanks were mainly cricket tanks produced by Germany and T1 tanks produced by themselves. The latter was equipped with a 75mml15 short-barrel howitzer. Perhaps it was for the convenience of transportation and improved passage in island combat, so the armor defense was relatively limited. The frontal defense could barely block the ordinary 57mm cannon, but the side could only defend against machine gun bullets.

After various tanks rumbled to the shore, the entire exercise entered the most critical stage. According to the script written below, it was naturally the American soldiers who broke the enemy's defense line under the cover of tanks, and then interspersed with the situation, and finally wiped out the enemy.

"Let's go to the exercise field to take a look." General Kariput said. The Americans are still very sincere, so the Germans must also show their serious attitude. Although they may have to fight with the Americans in the future, at this time, Kariput decided to do a good job of the attitude.

"I am frank, if I deploy the defense line, I will push the main defense line backwards and increase the depth of the entire battlefield. Although it is the weakest time for the attacking side to land, I still don't want to face the attacking side's naval guns on such very friendly terrain to the attacking side." Kariput said, pointing to the very neat terrain in the distance.

This is very obscure. In fact, this landing ground is very good for the attacking side, with a flat terrain and almost no broken place. There is no place to rely on the terrain to set up side strikes and reverse strike positions. Moreover, the shooting rangefinder is very wide. The rangefinder on the heavy cruiser can see the other end from this end of the island without any cover. This is a bit suspicious of cheating. After all, it is really hard to say whether you can encounter such a good landing ground in actual combat. And even if there is, according to European earthwork standards, earthwork or explosives will definitely be used to destroy this terrain.

In Caripot's opinion, the Americans' exercise was more like acting. Or they hadn't realized the cruelty of war. It looked very good, and some theories were also good, but there were too many flaws in the final execution.

"For example, this line of defense, I will not deploy a wide but not-so-deep minefield outside the line. I will use anti-tank trenches, traps, and anti-tank belts to cut the entire outer part into pieces, and then leave a few areas that seem easy to pass through. These places can be easily set into traps. I don't even have to deploy mines or wire mesh around the passage, which cannot be expanded and is within the attack range of multiple castles. This is enough to destroy all invaders."

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