"Did your people really verify it?" Chu Zhaodong looked at the text on the intelligence briefing, stood up excitedly, and asked a little rudely, but He Minhan's face was expressionless, and even his tone did not change, and his empty and deep gaze continued to introduce.

"Boss, our people have verified it very clearly. The Japanese Navy was the first to come out of Taiwan with the "84 Fleet Plan" drawn up in the 8th year of the Republic of China, that is, to equip eight battleships and four battle cruisers that were less than 8 years old by the 16th year of the Republic. Including the battleships that have been completed or are nearing completion, 2 Fuso-class, 2 Ise-class, and 4 battlecruisers Kongo-class. But knowing that we had acquired two German Dresden-class heavy cruisers and four destroyers, Japan accelerated its once-stalled naval construction program. ”

"Originally, it was planned that three to five years later, funds would be allocated for the construction of battleships Nagato, Mutsu (Nagato-class battleships), Kaga, and Tosa (Kaga-class battleships), as well as the battle cruisers Amagi and Akagi (Amagi-class battlecruisers), and the two Amagi-class ships were the replacement ships of the two Kongo-class ships that would be eight years old at the time of the implementation of the plan. At the beginning of this year, it was expanded into the "86th Fleet Plan", and it was planned to allocate funds for the construction of battle cruisers Atago and Kaohsiung (Amagi-class). It is estimated that by next year the final "88 Fleet Plan" will be formed, no later than the 18th year of the Republic, when the age of the Fuso-class, Ise-class, and Kongo-class ships will be eight years old, and the plan will allocate funds for the construction of four more battleships and four battlecruisers on the basis of two battleships of the Nagato-class, two of the Kaga-class, and four battlecruisers of the Amagi-class. In addition, in addition to the construction plan of the capital ships, the 88th Fleet plans to include the construction of cruisers and other auxiliary ships. ”

After He Minhan sat down, Wu Chenxuan nodded with satisfaction, the Japanese have been built by China in Qingdao, Tianjin, Shanghai and Mawei military ports of four 30,000 tons of unknown purpose and the expansion of Yantai, Nantong and Zhanjiang shipyards under the same 3,000-ton destroyers, this kind of destroyer using the modular production technology of the American Fletcher-class dumplings in World War II is affordable, low production difficulty, and has experienced the test of the Pacific Theater in World War II, which is very suitable for the needs of the Chinese Navy for multiple purposes. Although the destroyer with five single-barreled 127mm high-level dual-purpose guns does not look amazing in terms of firepower, it is indeed a good hand for escorting and breaking diplomatic relations, not to mention that once the two 533mm torpedo tubes with five units are touched by the opponent and fired a salvo within 5,000 meters, the opponent's battleship may not be spared. The steam turbine with a power of 80,000 horsepower and a top speed of 37 knots can be said to be a perfect interpretation of "what can be beaten can't be caught up, and what can be caught up can't be beaten".

The Japanese have already grown hairy and began to compete with China to make dumplings, so their already overloaded domestic economy can be seen, and when the Japanese accumulate heavy weight on the road of the cannon giant ship, they should find that the battleship on the Chinese slipway has actually turned into an aircraft carrier, but when they wake up, probably the results of the Sino-Japanese war have come out, and there is no time to regret it.

At the following meeting, Chu Zhaodong was satisfied with the specific situation of all Japanese warships, spy ships, and miscellaneous ships, the resumes of officers above the rank of Zhongzuo, and the production status of the Japanese Navy's military industrial enterprises. Facing the Japanese artillery giants, Chu Zhaodong looked at the group of flying dives in his hand, and always felt a little mischievous, but what can remove pus is a good plaster, and Chu Zhaodong is not a picky person.

Commander Chu took office as a new official, and the spring breeze was proud, and those Fujian bigwigs who were sitting in the city of sorrow on the Penghu Islands had no chance to find fault. Every day, the planes hovered overhead, and the fish-* pedo boats patrolled around Penghu, and those old warships were not worse than a star and a half in all aspects except for the larger cannon barrels, and if the guns on both sides were misfired, it was estimated that the Fujian Navy could survive an hour is not easy to say. Under these circumstances, an unexpected mutiny occurred in Penghu.

The protagonists of this mutiny were not Cheng Biguang or Sa Zhenbing, but Chen Jialiang, a stubborn young man who defended the Fujian navy in his face. Since Chen Jialiang learned that his "sea chip" had been taken by the National Defense Force, his mind had long been active, and he had privately connected dozens of young Zhuang factions. It seems that there is no fun in waiting for people to look at the thatched house with a shelf, so they simply have a Juyi Hall and Wang Lun, so as to get a vote and mix up qualifications in the National Defense Army. A group of young officers peacefully took over the fleet headquarters in Penghu, Cheng Biguang was not there to buy food in Hong Kong, Sa Zhenbing simply handed over the account book, and was worried that he couldn't open the pot. But when he took over the ship, there were really bad deeds who were afraid of being liquidated and shot to resist. As a result, the peaceful takeover turned into infighting, and a naval battle fought with machine guns and rifles finally ended with one heart and one mind, and most of the Fujian officers of the old faction chose to protect their property and hand over their military rights, and except for the captain of the "Hairong" ship, Gan Lianjiao, there was no one killed or wounded.

In the middle of April of the 7th year of the Republic, the warship "Hairong" collided with the troop carrier "Xinyu" leased by the revolutionary party in the fog, and the "Xinyu" sank on board, more than 700 officers and men of the revolutionary army drowned, and the captain of the "Hairong" ship, Gan Lianjiao, was dismissed from his post by a military tribunal. However, after Sa Zhenbing entered the navy, following the example of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he promoted Gan to the commander of the Second Fleet and continued to take charge of the Hairong. The sailors of the two ships, "Haichou" and "Hairong," were parked together, and the sailors on the two ships were firing at each other with machine guns and rifles 60 meters apart, and they were firing real fires, and as soon as the main guns of both sides opened fire, there was a great uproar. Two ironclad ships play parallel bombardment in the sail era in the small Penghu Bay. The "Hai Chip" was sunk by the "Hai Rong", but fortunately, the "Hai Rong" shell penetrated the "Hai Chip" hull within 2,000 yards, causing it to leak and sink without dismantling, and it could be picked up for repair and reuse in the future. During the battle, the head of the captain of the "Sea Chip" ship, Gan Lianjiao, was cut off by a machine gun and fell into the cabin and died.

The three warships "Hairong", "Haichen" and "Haiqi" set off from Penghu and drove directly to Shanghai, and finally broke away from the Fujian system in Shanghai and announced their return to the Wehrmacht Navy.

Originally, no matter how different the fate of the ships was, the final destination of all four cruisers with the "Hai" was to sink themselves in Jiangyin on September 25, 1937." Hairong", "Haichou", and "Haichen" were Xichang, Huang Zhongying, and Yang Jingxiu at the end of the Qing Dynasty; Huang was appointed chief of the navy after supporting the Xinhai Revolution after the Republic of China. The last captains of each ship before sinking in 1937 were Ouyang Tao, Lin Jinghuan, and Zhang Fengren. However, the current three ships carry dozens of officers, large and small, Chen Jialiang, as the chief planner, took a group of brothers to defect to the national defense force, and was sent to the Qingdao Maritime School for further study, and his officers and men have entered various colleges and universities to study, and the main warships of the Fujian system have been lost.

At that time, the German Vulcan factory had produced a very exquisite model of the "Haichen" ship, which was given to China when the three ships were delivered; The model remained in our embassy in Germany for many years until I broke off diplomatic relations with West Germany in the 70s. The model is now placed in the historical museum of the Zuoying Naval Academy, and it is a precious antique with a history of 100 years.

Soon, ten ships on the island, including "Feiying", "Yongfeng", "Yongxiang", "Wufeng", "Yuzhang", "Tong'an", "Fu'an", and "Chuyu", defected to Guangzhou in the same month and became part of the Guangdong-Fujian patrol fleet. Sa Zhenbing put down his authority and went to his hometown in Fujian to live in seclusion, not asking about world affairs. Cheng Biguang was invited to Jinan by the Intelligence Bureau, and Chen Jialiang became classmates, and the two had constant conflicts because of this matter, and later the two successively served as the commander of the naval detachment and the deputy commander of the navy, and became a pair of famous generals in the national defense navy.

At this point, the defense of China's 10,000-mile sea frontier was all handed over to Commander Chu of the navy.

Speaking of this Commander Chu, there is another interesting story, when he came back from Germany, he had no way to serve the country, and he was scattered everywhere. After the republic, he visited Sichuan, and in order to protect his territory on the Jialing River, Liu Xiang's "navy" bought an ordinary small steamer, and then welded some iron plates to make armor. Then load two small steel cannons for the army. Because the tonnage is small and the horsepower is insufficient, as long as one shot is fired, the hull will have to go back a lot, and if you want to fire the next shot, you have to re-anchor and adjust the position. Chu Zhaodong, who learned of this, wrote a poem for this: "What a Bayu warship, it takes seven days to open from Chongqing. All the equipment is neat, and there are two large circles of fiber and rattan outside; If it weren't for the retreat of the beach, it would almost overshadow the cypress boats; Tell the boatmen along the river that the waves sink the ships and pay money. It is said that Liu Xiang was half angry with the turtle, but there was no way to take Chu Zhaodong, who has a German identity.

According to Kawashima's revelations, nearly half of the spies in China are circling around the four major shipyards, hoping to get some intelligence on the Chinese navy. The destroyers of the Chinese Navy are like dumplings, but the progress of the construction of battleships and battle cruisers is almost stopped like a rusty valve, and the guys of the Japanese Combined Fleet generally believe that China is not ready, and the opponent of the Navy is still the US Pacific Fleet on the other side of the ocean, and as for the Chinese fleet, which does not even have a single battle cruiser, everyone is discussing whether to use a few old-fashioned protective cruisers and dreadnoughts to sweep the Chinese Navy clean.

The "detours" taken by other countries in the navy boiled down to the fact that Wu Chenxuan was still a businessman in his bones, and he only demanded cost-effectiveness and quantity while ignoring combat effectiveness, and the Chinese fleet had not a small number of ships, but in addition to the three brothers of the Haizi who were almost scrapped, and the second-hand cruisers of the Dresden-class were left with a bunch of small dots of more than 3,000 tons, and the British gentlemen who engaged in it were nicknamed "Chief Wu's kindergarten."

Although the navy is despised by outsiders, but seeing that the harbor is full of steel warships, the minds of the people along the coast of China can be put down, with these big iron guys, the foreign devils plan to set up cannons from the beach to conquer the big countries in the Far East, and it is estimated that there is a possibility of being caught by the internal security forces and sitting in the room.