area51novel #371 - Mutually restrained war and self-confidence
#371 - Mutually restrained war and self-confidence
With the Third Campaign successfully capturing Hancheng, the war on the peninsula entered a period of downtime.
Considering the limits of logistical support, the Supreme Command decided to restrict attacks on the south to defensive counterattacks.
In other words, the Volunteer Army's southernmost defense line was now controlled at Hancheng. They would not give the Rogue Eagle any opportunity for an Incheon landing. Hancheng, Chuncheon, and Gangwon Province would be built into the first line of defense.
The 38th, 40th, and 42nd Armies moved up to replace the 16th, 17th, and 18th Armies of Li Yunlong and others, which returned home for rest and reorganization.
Therefore, the current requirement for the front-line headquarters was to either have a combat plan that could strike the enemy's vital point with one blow, aiming to swallow a target in one bite, or not to engage in reckless battles.
The current logistical support was much stronger than in Ren Zhong's main world history timeline.
However, without the ability to use sea transport, the upper limit of supply capacity was on the railway. The Dragon Country's navy currently only had a few destroyers. Although their combat power was not bad compared to current destroyers, the most important anti-ship missiles had not yet been configured. The attack capability was simply incomparable to the Rogue Eagle's aircraft carrier battle group with destroyers and carrier-based aircraft.
Otherwise, supplying by sea would be much better than by rail. A 3,000-ton ro-ro ship could not be compared to the loading capacity of a train.
Currently, both sides were restrained in the war. The Dragon Country's missiles had not exceeded the range of the peninsula, and the Rogue Eagle had tacitly not launched attacks on the Dragon Country's ports, so that although the war on the peninsula was fought to the death, with Rogue Eagle casualties (including prisoners) already as high as tens of thousands, considering the enormous destructive power of the Dragon Country's Dongfeng Express, the Rogue Eagle could not imagine how tragic it would be if this weapon fell on their west coast.
Although it seemed that the Dragon Country did not have any transportation equipment that could transport the huge Dongfeng Express to the distant ocean off the west coast.
However, as long as there was this possibility, the Rogue Eagle would not take such a huge risk.
After all, they knew the power of the Peace Egg better than any other country.
Therefore, the entire war was limited to the peninsula, and in terms of weapons, it was basically limited to conventional weapons. The Peace Egg, such a great weapon, was as if everyone had forgotten about it, and no one brought it up.
Currently, two superpowers and one Eastern power had the actual ability to use the Peace Egg, and two other major powers were working hard to obtain this capability.
The Dragon Country took the lead in conducting a real test of the Peace Egg, using a missile for remote attack, and was technically completely ahead of the other two superpowers.
They were still using the airplane-drop mode, and were working hard to put the warhead on a rocket to achieve remote unmanned delivery, but the incomplete version of the V2 technology obtained by the Great Bear was now significantly lower than the progress made by the Rogue Eagle from the first generation of the Eastern Dongfeng Express.
The Eastern power was obviously unique in terms of rockets. When the Great Bear barely managed to launch 500 kilometers, and the Rogue Eagle's rockets worked hard to break through 1,000 kilometers, the new generation of Dongfeng Express had already launched 3,000 kilometers!
The progress in propellant was not something that could be learned simply by looking at the appearance. The Rogue Eagle had learned the first generation of propellant. Increasing the size on this basis could increase the range, but it was obviously limited. Too much would prevent the rocket from increasing its range indefinitely.
A range of 3,000 kilometers already covered almost all of the Rogue Eagle's bases in Asia, not to mention that if they got anxious, the Eastern power could spread the technology to the Great Bear, which would be a huge threat to the Rogue Eagle.
Now the Great Bear was coveting this technology, but the Eastern power had nothing to ask of the Great Bear. In this timeline, the Eastern power had Ren Zhong as a cheat, and its industrial development had surpassed the Great Bear by a lot. It didn't need anything from them, even to fight the Rogue Eagle. The Eastern power had its own sea, land, and air weapons, and didn't need their support for even a bullet. Now they had won three campaigns.
This made the Rogue Eagle even more cautious.
The affairs of the peninsula were limited to the peninsula.
"We also don't want the war to expand," Staff Officer Ye said in his most recent communication with Ren Zhong, "If it doesn't expand, our industrial development can continue, even if it is affected to some extent, and some production capacity is given priority to military industry, but overall, our industrial system will not have major fluctuations, and there is no need to make large-scale adjustments."
"For example, some people suggested moving the heavy industry in the Northeast to the west. We did not agree. This is not a small change. Once moved, the raw materials, workers, and even the entire industrial system will change. We cannot afford such a toss at this stage."
"Yes, Staff Officer Ye, we don't need to avoid something essential because of a minor problem. The Northwest must also develop naturally, but not by weakening the Northeast to strengthen the Northwest, but according to our layout, we must also gradually build heavy industry bases in suitable places in the Northwest. Since we have ruled out the possibility of a large-scale all-out war, then we will follow our established steps." Ren Zhong nodded. As the helmsman of the Dawn Research Institute, he was actually the most important promoter of industrialization.
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"We have already promoted a million-ton vanadium-titanium special steel plant in Sichuan, two 500,000-kilowatt hydropower stations, a 500,000-vehicle production base, and a million-ton chemical plant plan. The gas field development in southern Sichuan has already produced several high-yield gas wells. The conditions for a chemical plant in southern Sichuan are already in place.
The Guizhou Province's million-ton phosphate plant, 100,000-ton aluminum smelting plant, 100,000-ton manganese smelting plant, and 2 100,000-kilowatt supporting hydropower stations, plus the Yunnan Province's 100,000-ton tin, lead, and zinc smelting plant, 100,000-ton copper-nickel smelting plant, and 2 supporting 100,000-kilowatt hydropower stations and 1 cable factory, the Gansu Province's Jinchang 200,000-ton copper-nickel smelting plant, the newly built million-ton steel plant in Jiayuguan, and 2 supporting 100,000-kilowatt thermal power stations, and two 500,000-ton steel plants and two 100,000-kilowatt thermal power stations in the Western Regions, have formed a reasonable distribution of steel production across the country, which can not only reduce the risks faced by the Northeast's steel production capacity, but also lay the foundation for the large-scale railway construction in the Southwest and Western Regions."
"We now have better steel smelting technology, which can be fully applied in the newly built factories. There is no need to move these heavy equipment around the country. Speaking of which, we are now beginning to look like a great power. Now we need to strengthen everyone's sense of self-confidence. We are not a weak army that anyone can step on. We can not only defeat the little devils, but also have the ability to fight and win against a superpower like the Rogue Eagle on the battlefield!"
Ren Zhong was very dissatisfied with some people's inherent ideas and took this opportunity to speak out. Presumably, there will soon be some effects in terms of guidance.
After the Air Force's J-5A came out, it changed the disadvantage of the number of air forces, and exchanged quality for control of the air. Even if it only temporarily grasped air superiority, this has greatly reduced the risk of homeland security. Any country that wants to invade my Eastern power without air support is dreaming! (End of this chapter)