Rebirth of the Qing Empire

The waters around the South China Sea are surrounded by mainland, peninsular and islands. To the north are Guangdong, Fujian coastal mainland and Taiwan, Hainan. To the east are the Philippine Islands of the United States, the Indochina Peninsula to the west, and the Dutch East Indies Islands to the south.

And, in an extremely unfavorable defensive situation. Among them, the north, west and south are actually controlled by the Beining military, with the exception of the US Philippine Islands in the east.

In other words, the east is an unprepared direction, and it is also a direction with huge uncertainties. Therefore, this direction has become the focus of defense in the South China Sea.

The South China Sea route from Hainan Island to Green Island is more than 2,000 kilometers long. It is best to have several intermediate bases as support to make it the torso connecting Beitou (Hainan Island) and Nanwei (Green Island)

, so as to make this route safer, and at the same time, it can also be used as the baseline to build a coastal defense line in the eastern South China Sea.

Although the Qing Empire is currently in good terms with the United States, in the face of interests, Americans are as greedy as Europeans. Following Britain to interfere in socialism with the Soviet Union is a clear proof that it must be prevented. Moreover, after the Indian Ocean route was blocked, Britain, France, etc.

The country is likely to use it to invade the South China Sea of ​​the Qing Empire. The numerous communications between the Philippine archipelago, which connects the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea, are under the control of the United States. By then, the United States will not be able to give the green light to Britain, France and other countries.

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Therefore, Lin Island in the Xisha Islands, Huangyan Island in the Zhongsha Islands and Huangshan Mazhi Island in the Nansha Islands were identified by the Beining military as the three basis points on the "Trunk of the South China Sea".

The South China Sea islands are located in the east and south seas of Hainan Island, including hundreds of islands, reefs, beaches, sand and dark sand composed of coral reefs. They are divided into four groups according to their locations, namely Xisha, Dongsha, Zhongsha and Nansha Islands.

Lindao is the Xisha Islands and the largest island in the entire South China Sea. It covers an area of ​​more than 2 square kilometers, about 3,000 acres, and is more than 300 kilometers away from Hainan Island. The island is located in the middle of the Xisha Islands and has a superior location.

It was designated by the Beining government as an administrative and military center that controls the entire South China Sea islands. After completion and use, it was renamed Yongxing Island. The island has a large airport and a 5,000-ton berth. It is suitable for military and civilians, and has sea and air routes to connect Hainan Island.

Convenient transportation with Huangyan Island and Taiping Island.

Taiping Island is the Mazhi, Huangshan in the Nansha Islands. After expansion and renovation, it is renamed Taiping Island. The island is located in the middle of Hainan Island and Green Island. It is more than 1,300 meters long from east to west, nearly 400 meters wide from north to south, and an altitude of 5 meters.

On the left and right, the area is only more than 490,000 square meters, but it is already the largest island in the Nansha Islands.

The island was originally built with small-scale communications/navigation, meteorological/hydrology, navigation beacon lighthouses and various living facilities. There were only dozens of coast guard troops stationed, which completely failed to meet the development requirements of the new era. After the expansion and renovation, Taiping

The infrastructure on the island is more complete, and an amphibious aircraft airport that occupys very little land and a 4,000-ton dock have been built, and more coast guard officers and soldiers have been stationed. Since the island is close to Nanhua Island, its defense mission is from Nanhua

The provincial garrison undertakes the responsibility, and considering the needs of marine administrative management, there is no need for the navy to enter.

Taiping Island is the only island in the Nansha Islands with freshwater resources. It is summer all year round, with abundant rainfall and fertile land. The island is densely vegetation, with coconuts, papayas, bananas and other trees everywhere, and seabirds are everywhere. It has always been carried out by fishermen of the Qing Empire.

The important resting place for long-sea operations. After the coast guard forces entered, they built a beautiful military camp in the dense forest of the island. The living environment was beautiful. The ships and amphibious aircraft belonging to them were based on this to the Nansha Islands.

Many unmanned islands and reefs and vast seas are effectively managed.

In addition, the island's hospitals, canteens, cold storages, barracks, ship repairs, supply facilities, etc. can provide urgently needed services to passing ships and seafarers. In addition, the Beining Coast Guard Fisheries Department later entered the island, which prompted the fishery industry in the waters around the Nansha Islands.

Order has been maintained. Therefore, in recent years, more and more fishing boats and merchant ships have been staying on Taiping Island, and the continuous influx of fishermen and seafarers have also made the island more lively year by year.

Huangyan Island is different. This island is the only island and reef in the Zhongsha Islands that are exposed to the sea. It is located between Taiwan Island and Nanhua Island. It is about the same distance from Hainan Island to the west, Taiwan Island to the north, and Nanhua Island to the south.

It is only more than 300 kilometers away from Manila, the capital of the US Philippines. It is the most cutting-edge fulcrum for the Beining Navy to defend the US troops stationed in the Philippines, and its strategic position is extremely important.

The island has no real land. It is an arbitrary reef disk ranging from 0.5 to 3 meters from the sea surface. The periphery of the reef disk is more than 50 kilometers long and has an area of ​​150 square kilometers. It forms an area of ​​130 square kilometers and a water depth of 10 to 10 to 10.

The 20-meter lagoon is a natural shelter for ships. There are reefs scattered on the atoll that are exposed to the sea. The largest is more than ten square meters, and the smallest is like a washbasin. The Huangyan Island base is built on these reef groups, using

Waste building materials, soil and stone transported from the mainland of the Qing Empire and coral sand excavated on site were made of land reclamation. The main body is a rectangular reinforced concrete platform with a length of 2 kilometers and a width of 600 meters, with a high height built on the outside.

The wave-proof seawall is protected.

From a distance, the Huangyan Island Base is actually an artificial airport isolated in the vast ocean, showing a strange loneliness. Standing at any place in the base, you can look around and see the sea and sky, and it is deserted. Its natural conditions and scenery are all there.

The beautiful Yongxing Island and Taiping Island are not comparable at all. With the rigid and boring days of day, it is a torment for every officer and soldier of Huangyan Island garrison!

In order to make full use of this huge artificial platform, the platform was built into a reinforced concrete hollow frame structure, and the numerous grid-shaped spaces formed between the frames were used as warehouses for storage of various materials or rooms for various purposes.

For example, diesel engine power stations, oil depots, ammunition depots, rainwater storage depots, ordnance repair institutes, combat readiness facilities, etc., while ground facilities such as airports and docks are built on the top-up platform, and the design is clever.

This is a building that has both amphibious airports and docks. Ships can enter the docks in the lagoon through a waterway connecting the central lagoon and the outer sea.

The airport has a cement runway for take-off and landing of "Lightning" and "Sky Eagle" fighter jets, with a total length of 1,200 meters. A water slide for take-off and landing of amphibious aircraft is opened in the lagoon next to the runway. The "Sea Eagle" amphibious aircraft can be obtained from

Direct access to the airport in the lagoon. There are related facilities such as tarmac, hangar, command/control center, radar station, barracks, seawater desalination plants, rainwater collection systems and other related facilities on the platform.

The artificial dock is also fully equipped. The "Giant Touyu-C" class general landing ship equipped by the Beining Navy can be directly berthed at the dock for unloading, making the material replenishment convenient and fast. There is also a ship repair yard built on the west side of the lagoon, which can be used as a guarantee.

Various small and medium-sized ships are subject to daily maintenance and simple repairs.

The base's HNA troops are equipped with 18 "Lightning" fighters, 36 "Sky Eagle-B" multi-purpose fighters and 6 "Sky Eagle-B" amphibious aircraft. Because they are equipped with "Sky Eagle-B" with strong attack power against the sea

Multi-purpose fighter, therefore, the "Sea Eagle-B" amphibious aircraft will mainly perform secondary attack missions and be used as reconnaissance aircraft, search and rescue aircraft, transport aircraft, etc.

The apron and hangar in the airport can accommodate these aircraft, providing them with complete maintenance and maintenance services, which is extremely beneficial to maintaining the aircraft's good combat status. The docks in the lagoon of the island are permanently stationed in three "Zhenhai"-class patrols.

The ship, 3 "Jiaolong-B" class submarines, 6 "Flying Fish-A" class high-speed patrol boats and several auxiliary boats.

"Flying Fish-A" class high-speed patrol boat is an improved model of "Flying Fish" class. It has a full load displacement of 300 tons, and its maximum speed can still exceed 40 knots. All systems of the boat load have been replaced with new models, and the navigation performance has also reached a certain level.

The biggest change in the boat-mounted weapon is to replace the main gun of the boat with a single-barrel 76mm high-level dual-purpose automatic naval gun with stronger strike power. This naval gun is equipped on the "Qing-Ding" class cruiser

Double tube 76mm high-level dual-purpose automatic naval cannon

The single-tube type. Other weapons such as the 37mm naval gun at the tail of the boat, the deep-water bomb launch device, the 12.7mm machine guns, torpedo tubes on both sides of the superstructure in the middle of the boat, etc. have not changed. In addition to the boat launch guns and torpedoes

In addition to attacking enemy surface ships and aircraft with machine guns, it is also equipped with small retractable sonar, used in conjunction with deep-water bombs, with basic anti-submarine capabilities, and its comprehensive combat performance is much larger than that of the prototype "Flying Fish" level.

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The Zhenhai class patrol ship is a medium-sized combat ship with performance between the "Da Qing" class cruiser and the "Flying Fish" class patrol ship, mainly performing offshore combat missions.

With the continuous advancement of the Beining Navy overseas, the coastal border of the Qing Empire has become extremely broad, and a large number of ships are urgently needed to defend it. The "Qing"-class cruisers have large displacement, complex systems, long construction cycles and high cost.

Therefore, the number cannot be large. It is used as the main battleship of the Beining Navy or the frigate of the ocean strike fleet - the core of the aircraft carrier. Using them to perform offshore defense missions is really a waste of energy and extremely uneconomical.

Therefore, the cheap and practical "Zhenhai" class patrol ship came into being.

Since the Beining Navy has a great demand for this type of warship, and the ship-based systems of this type of warship use mature systems, the construction difficulty is not very high. There are many coastal provinces in the Qing Empire, and small

All large-scale shipyards can be built. Therefore, more than a dozen shipyards have received orders from the Beining Navy and then started large-scale construction.

The different construction manufacturers and the multi-purpose requirements of the navy for this type of warship have been repeatedly increased, so there are various versions and modifications, with different performance focuses, but the hull is still built according to standard design, just a ship-based weapon system.

, electronic equipment, etc. are different. Take the "Zhenhai"-class basic type built by shipyards in various coastal provinces in the southeast, that is, the patrol type as an example: full load displacement is 2,000 tons, length is 91 meters, width is 10 meters, and two medium-speed diesel engines are driven by dual-axis

, maximum speed of 35 knots

, the endurance is 4,000 nautical miles/18 knots. The head and tail of the ship are equipped with a 130mm single-tube automatic naval gun. The 4 37mm double-tube automatic naval guns are arranged in diamond shape on the front, back and left and right sides of the superstructure to make any left and right sides.

At the same time, it can maintain the fire of 2 130mm and 6 37mm. A four-tube rotary "harpoon" torpedo launch device that can be reloaded is arranged in the middle of the ship, and several double-tube 12.7mm machine guns and deep-water bombs are also installed.

Transmission device, etc.

Due to the increase in displacement of this class of ships several times, their ship-based weapon systems, electronic equipment, living facilities, navigation performance, etc. are more complete than those of the "Flying Fish-A" class high-speed patrol boats, and of course the overall combat performance is better.

Although it is only a type of offshore medium-sized warship, due to the excellent structural design of the "Zhenhai" class, the ship can flexibly change the ship-based equipment according to the task needs on the basis of the basic type, and be easily and quickly modified into performing different tasks.

The modified ship undertakes tasks such as alert, reconnaissance, patrol, anti-submarine, attack, escort, mine-breaking, mine-sweeping, communication relay, etc., and has become a level 1 almost omnipotent general-purpose warship.

The various types of patrol ships of the "Zhenhai" class were equipped with various naval bases, and they were composed of the early models of the "Qing" class cruisers, the "Jiaolong" class submarines, hundreds of "flying fish" and "flying fish" improved patrol ships.

The offshore ship defense system of the Qing Empire cooperated with the shore-based aviation force to form a warning, patrol and defense network covering the vast seas of the Qing Empire, which can greatly support the Beining Coast Guard troops and the Beining Navy's ocean-going strike fleet.

, allowing these two troops to concentrate on their main mission without having to worry about it.