Chapter 032 Correct Answer
Zhou Charter shook his head and smiled bitterly. In the past eight months, he has been trying to be an inferior student, and it is about to be completed. In the end, an assignment on the picture has been in vain.
The homework on this picture made him accidentally become a top student!
And this superior is really not the right time!
Jin bet on the Sino-Japanese war. He will not cut off his head because Zhou Charter has become a superior student, but Li Hongzhang will definitely cut off his head without waiting for the declaration of war between China and Japan!
Because this sand table and the battle map on the test paper mark the base of Beiyang Marine Division - Weihai Military Port!
The Red Army represents the Beiyang Marine Division's fleet in Hong Kong and the coastal defense force of the Qing army. The Blue Army is a hypothetical enemy from the sea. Everyone knows that this imaginary enemy is the Japanese United Fleet!
Because a giant cruiser appeared in the Blue Army fleet, which is the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet - Matsushima!
Tianjin Armed Forces School is an army school that trains army officers. They should not have cared about the naval port and its defense. However, since the Opium War, all the external troubles of the Qing Dynasty have come from the sea, and coastal defense has become the top priority of the national defense of the Qing Dynasty. Before the establishment of the Beiyang Navy, the Qing army, which lacked a navy, mainly focused on coastal defense and established a defensive coastal defense system based on land warfare, although this system It is very incomplete, but the slightly visionary army officer is still familiar with the coastal defense line.
Tianjin Wubei School, like the Beiyang Marine Division, is a direct line of Li Hongzhang. The teaching ideology of Tianjin Wubei School is consistent with the Beiyang Marine Division's military ideology. They are all to deal with enemies from the sea. Therefore, anti-landing operations are a compulsory course for infantry teaching in the school, and the students are more familiar with the coastal defense line.
Weihai Military Port is Li Hongzhang's proud work and an important support for the coastal defense of the Qing Dynasty.
Weihaiwei is an ice-free port, surrounded by mountains on three sides, with the gate facing east, far away from Lushun, Dalian, and Liugong Island, forming two waterways and entrances to the east and north. Ridao, Huangdao, Yashi and other islands list both sides of Liugong Island, forming a natural barrier in the Hong Kong region, and the situation is dangerous and solid.
On three sides of Weihaiwei surrounded by mountains, there are 23 large and small forts such as Ridao, Huangdao, Beishanzui and Zhao Beizui. The firepower of the forts is enough to cover the whole Weihaiwei. The turret was equipped with the world's most advanced German Cannon and British Armstrong coastal cannon. Among them, the German Crank 15cm cannon was the main gun of the Qing army, weighing 10 tons, with a firing range of 11 kilometers, and could fire 51 kilograms of shells. The imperial 30cm Armstrong cannon is a giant in the artillery, with a range of 10 kilometers and a final speed of 360 meters per second. It is the nemesis of the ironclad cruiser.
A large number of fortresses have been built near Weihaiwei, with 19th Army Battalion and arched forts. The army is equipped with 7.5cm gram heavy field guns, Gatling machine guns, and strong firepower. Once the enemy waits on the beach, the army's artillery and heavy guns on the forts can cause devastating damage to the landing troops. A few enemies who have escaped the long-range artillery bombardment will also be quickly attacked by the Qing cavalry.
Even if the enemy lands successfully, it is impossible to seize the fort. In the direction of the coast, the turret has a 30-meter-high chest wall. Under the chest wall is an open land full of mines. The chest wall is built with dark castles and bright castles, forming a strong crossfire. Any offender who dares to approach the chest wall will turn into powder under strong firepower.
The defense of the whole military port is impeccable!
The sand table on the martial arts hall is a thumbnail of Weihaiwei. 23 forts have been simplified to 5, and the 19th battalion army has been reduced to 5 battalions. The coastal defense guns do not identify 30cm Armstrong cannons, and the warships in the military port are not represented by the Beiyang Marine Division. Zhenyuan and Dingyuan are two giant armored cruisers.
However, any student of Tianjin Wubei School can see at a glance that this is Weihai Guard Port, and this simplified defense map still shows shocking power!
However, this powerful Weihai defense line has a flaw. Near its 1st battery, there is no 30cm Armstrong cannon, so that the entire coastal defense gunfire cannot cover 10 kilometers north of 1st Fort, where the large-caliber naval guns on enemy cruisers can cover Fort 1, so Fort 1 will be the weakness of this line of defense.
Obviously, this flaw was deliberately revealed by the examiner. It can be seen that the examiner is extremely confident in the defense of the whole Weihaiwei. He deliberately sold a flaw to examine the students.
Who is this examiner? I believe that every student who gets the test paper is bright in his heart. He is Li Hongzhang!
Li Hongzhang took his proud work to test the students!
In the Qing Dynasty, the important thing to be a good officer is not to learn to lead troops to fight, but to learn to be sensible!
Anyone who got the examination paper knew that Weihaiwei was run by Li Zhongtang. He deliberately sold a flaw, not to let the students dictate, but to make the students icing on the cake!
As a result, all the students' work on the map, without exception, focused on the attack and defense of No. 1 turret, with a variety of attacks and defense, but as a result, the Blue Army suffered a fiasco under the fort. Of course, most of the students are not fabricated out of thin air. The students of Tianjin Military Academy still have two brushes. Most of them make up for the lack of long-range firepower through efficient firepower configuration and mobilization, attract the landing enemy to the landing beach, and attack short-range artillery and cavalry to kill and injure the enemy.
Of course, there is also an exaggeration. Some students actually mobilized 100 15cm cannons at one time and got on the No. 1 battery to concentrate their fire to attack the iron-armed cruisers on the sea and wipe out the enemy on the sea! Not to mention whether the No. 1 turret can accommodate 100 cannons, there are no 100 15cm cannons in the whole Qing Dynasty.
But in any case, it turned out to be a great victory for the Red Army. This proves that even if Weihai's coastal defense has flaws, the enemy can't help it. Li Zhongtang's Weihai defense line is as solid as gold!
All the students are sensible, but one person does not know the current affairs.
This person is the charter of inferior students.
In fact, Zhou Charter is not ignorant, let alone ignorant of current affairs! Eight months after coming to the Qing Dynasty, he has learned so much from the Jin Dynasty. He has already had a clear understanding of the national conditions of the Qing Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, the preference of the officer is the preference of the subordinates, and the will of the officer is the will of the subordinates. The superior must not pick bones, otherwise it is to die!
What's more, Zhou Charter will not know how to stand out in order to keep his head and strive to be an inferior student.
But the problem is that Zhou Charter is not inferior! In Tianjin Martial Arts School, his knowledge, observation, judgment and operation ability are absolutely first-class.
Sometimes, it is quite difficult to be clumsy. As the saying goes, it is rare to be confused.
It's not easy for a person with a sharp mind to hide his sharpness. If he doesn't pay attention, his sharpness will be exposed. Because anyone, in the face of anything, will naturally choose what he thinks is the right answer.
If Zhou Charter wants to be an inferior student, he has to deliberately choose the wrong answer. Therefore, Zhou Charter always reminds himself that if you pretend to be confused, you should pretend to be real!
And if a person wants to pretend to be confused, his mind must remain highly clear!
A person who is not clear-headed can't pretend to be confused, because he can't help choosing the right answer.
In the classroom, when he got the exam papers, it happened that his mind was in chaos.
Zhou Charter, who had not slept all night, had only one thing in his mind - how to escape from the school.
When he decided to hand in the paper and run away immediately, he was even more indecidated to study the battle map. He just wanted to write something randomly and hand in the account.
It was in this state that he did not recognize Weihaiwei, let alone realize that Li Zhongtang was taking Weihaiwei examination students.
However, in his subconscious, he found that there was a huge loophole in the deployment of the Red Army on this combat map!
Strictly speaking, this is not a loophole at all, but a major strategic mistake!
Because of this mistake, it seems to be a solid defense line. In fact, it is just a piece of paper, which will be broken as soon as it is poked!
So, Zhou Charter hurriedly gave the answer in a panic.
This answer is undoubtedly correct, but the simplest. Zhou Charter broke through the Red Army's defense line with only a few strokes. Moreover, the Blue Army won a complete victory and the Red Army was completely destroyed.
The reason why Zhou Charter was handed in in only half an hour is that the answer is too simple and straightforward.
And this answer also shocked the invigilator Ed.
Of course, Ed will not deliberately please Li Hongzhang. What surprised him was not because Zhou Charter captured Weihaiwei, but because Zhou Charter's answer was incredible!
So, Ed chased out of the classroom, and he thought Zhou Charter was crazy.
However, after Zhou Charter hurriedly left, Ed studied the answer alone and found that Zhou Charter's answer was correct!
Zhou Charter's answer is that the Blue Army landed in an inconspicuous small harbor north of the Red Army's defense line and circled behind the Red Army's defense line.