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Chapter 206 Gongzhen Port

While the 404 ship was bombarding Liletan, Qiongzhou also received the formal Liletan-Gongzhen Reef port construction plan.

Gongzhen Reef belongs to Lile Shoal and was the final selected site for port construction. The future port will also be called Gongzhen Port.

Su Weiguo organized relevant leaders and people from the Ocean Bureau to take a look, and they immediately exclaimed, "Wow!"

The plan is almost identical to that of the Greater Bay Port, with the same building scale and number of vessels. It also plans for five large berths, which can actually accommodate 20 to 50 or more ocean-going fishing vessels.

The port was chosen at the southwestern end of Reed Bank, facing the Pacific Ocean to protect against storms and high tides, and was developed using a small natural topography called C Bay.

Out of caution, Tang Wen still chose a small port, with a land area of ​​about 10 hectares, or about 0.1 square kilometers.

He also encountered a system bug here, because the edge area of ​​Lile Beach is almost completely submerged underwater at high tide, which normally requires a large amount of land reclamation and island building work.

However, by arbitrarily changing the terrain, the location of the port can be made to be higher than the highest sea level, which is equivalent to getting 0.1 square kilometers of land for free.

Don't underestimate this 0.1 square kilometers; it's equivalent to 100,000 square meters. It would take two "Tianjing-1" dredgers working day and night for 45 days to fill in this much land.

As soon as the plan was announced, two dredgers slowly set off.

Su Weiguo received a complete development plan, and only then did he realize that Gai Jin had actually put in two dredging vessels and... blown up the port.
Because it involved the marine environment, the experts from the Ocean Bureau carefully reviewed the blasting plan, which stated that Gai Jin was to blast the water depth in the C-shaped depression to a depth of 15 to 20 meters.

15 to 20 meters deep?!

This can already accommodate supercargo ships weighing tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of tons.

Given the conditions in the Spratly Islands, it would be quite remarkable if even a large fishing boat with a draft of 5 meters came.

Given that the Gongzhen Port is located close to the edge, the amount of earth to be blasted alone would be astronomical, requiring a huge amount of explosives.
The environmental impact caused by massive amounts of explosives is tolerable, but safety must be taken very seriously!
"Wait, what is this Type 93 pure oxygen self-propelled explosive device?"

"The explosive charge is 1 ton, consisting of 60% TNT and 40% hexanitrodiphenylamine. It can be driven remotely to the blasting site and its depth can be flexibly adjusted according to the depth of use..."

Expert A read it aloud with a puzzled expression. He had handled many underwater blasting projects, but he had never seen such a blasting tool before.

However, a retired military officer who had been transferred to civilian work suddenly changed his expression, took the book, read it carefully, and exclaimed:
"This is just a torpedo! Holy crap, how many of these would we need?!"

The crowd was drawn over by their voices and then noticed that the estimated usage in the plan was...

"Estimated usage: 3000 to 15000 tons (based on actual charge loading)"

The dosage fluctuates greatly, but that's to be expected.

There is very little hydrological data available for Lile Beach, and different blasting methods and sudden changes in the natural environment can all lead to significant variations.

Even if we assume a torpedo has a ton of explosive charge, this number is still extremely exaggerated.

The experts from the Ocean Bureau were somewhat puzzled and asked in confusion:

"A torpedo is just explosives in a propulsion casing. It's not that expensive, is it? But it is indeed a very novel explosive tool."

The section chief shook his head in despair: "Even the cheapest straight-running torpedo costs hundreds of thousands, and the more expensive ones cost over a million each, and there are three thousand of them... I don't even know if the national torpedo inventory has that many!"

"So expensive!"

"The straight-running torpedoes used by Gaijin are definitely the simplest and cheapest, but they won't be cheaper than a Santana!"

Su Weiguo imagined the scene of thousands of Santana cars being thrown into the sea, and the pain was almost suffocating.

I wonder how confident Tang Wen was in finding oil, that he was willing to make such a large investment.

The people from the Ocean Bureau couldn't sit still any longer: "Their dredgers have already set off. Let's find a boat to go and take a look. I feel uneasy if we don't keep an eye on such a huge project."

"I'm going too!" "I've never seen so many torpedoes in my life, I have to go see them!"

……

"So Army you steer shy-yyy."
(Your army can only walk shyly)
Sail Navy down the field and sink the Army,

(The navy sails, while the army sinks.)
Sink the Army Grey
(Let the gray army sink.)

Allison sang "Setting Ship" once, then gestured to the students.

Nearly a thousand students occupied almost the entire area of ​​the airport, painfully singing along to lyrics they couldn't understand at all.

Chen Quanrong taught training on old-fashioned cannon warships, purely old-era naval tactics, while Allison mainly focused on aircraft carrier tactics.

The two were simply talking past each other, mixing Chinese and English technical terms together, and crudely instilling knowledge of different time periods and types into the trainees.

Most of the club members only had an elementary school education, so they could understand some of what Chen Quanrong said, but Allison's lectures were completely incomprehensible.

With such disorganized teaching methods, many students would rather do frog jumps on the beach than listen to the lectures.

Although they outnumbered and outgunned, Tang Wen was no less formidable.

The original crew of the Twin Moon were all retired sailors who were crammed in by the navy, and they were treated like dirt.

But the two of them didn't care at all. Tang Wen even told them to do whatever they wanted and to learn even if they couldn't.

The more than 900 students were divided into several classes, including electromechanical, navigation, radio, and even flight classes.

The students, whose grades were already not very good, were exhausted and dizzy from the torment. Fortunately, it wasn't just lectures; they had to practice using bi-monthly magazines almost every day.

Tang Wen stood in the control tower near the runway, holding binoculars and looking at the dozen or so small formations. Suddenly, he felt a surge of excitement.

"How about it, getting a little cocky?"

Yan Jian, standing to the side, clicked his tongue a few times and joked:

"With a light cruiser and four destroyers, commanding such a fleet requires at least the rank of colonel, which is already a respectable position."

Tang Wen: "What if there were aircraft carrier and battleship fleets?"

"Then it must be a general in charge, but those old things from World War II are definitely meaningless now."

Yan Jian knew that Tang Wen was probably not joking, otherwise he wouldn't have brought so many students.

However, in his opinion, the training of these trainees was really an eyesore, and the military would definitely not allow them to train directly on ships.

How long will it take for your students to complete their formal training?

Tang Wen thought for a moment: "Even if we go directly to the ship for intensive training, it will take at least three months before they are barely usable. The quality of these trainees is really too poor. We might even have to start teaching them from the very basics."

Last time you mentioned the Naval Academy, I contacted them and wanted to borrow some people.

Yan Jian immediately understood the outcome and laughed, "You think you can just borrow that many people? A few people might be fine, but how could you possibly borrow dozens or hundreds?"

I know their principal treats his students like precious treasures; that's why he wouldn't send them here.

"They borrowed it."

"I knew it... huh?"

(End of this chapter)