"Did Sa Shijun ever go to the United States to study?"

"I remember that at that time, I used my military connections in the United States to send a full group of 20 naval cadets to the West Point Military Academy."

Zhang Zongqing closed the document in his hand, and he looked at Zhang Dabiao.

"Second son, you remember correctly!"

"Captain Sa Shijun returned to China directly after graduating from the West Point Military Academy with the first grade in the naval subject at West Point."

"The American general Michael Arthur once kept him with the nationality of the United States, trying to keep him in the United States army and continue to serve the United States navy."

However, Captain Sa Shijun refused to be retained by Michael Arthur, and he resolutely returned to China.

After speaking, Zhang Dabiao handed all the specific intelligence information documents of Sa Shijun to Zhang Zongqing.

Zhang Zongqing flipped through the documents that recorded Sa Shijun's information, and when he saw an extremely familiar name, he was stunned for a moment.

"Ridgway?"

"I didn't expect that the relationship between my former senior and Captain Sa Shijun was quite good."

"He's actually Captain Sa Shijun's instructor!"

"I wonder what will happen if they meet on the battlefield in the future?"

Zhang Zongqing seemed to think of something, but he shook his head with a smile.

"The commander of the U-XII submarine formation will be Sa Shijun, and at the same time, the first naval fleet of China with the battleship Zhiyuan and the battleship Dingyuan as the core should also be formed as soon as possible."

Zhang Zongqing put aside the document handed over by Zhang Dabiao, and he quickly formed his own decision.

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Giving the relevant command of the U-XII deep-water submarine formation to a hero of the "War of Resistance" like Sa Shijun, Zhang Zongqing naturally couldn't be more relieved.

"However, for the construction of battleships, our two battleships, the Zhiyuan battleship and the Dingyuan, are enough for us."

"In the future, the direction of our warship manufacturing will be to bid farewell to the category of battleships."

"The development of aircraft carriers equipped with carrier-based aircraft is our ultimate direction of development."

In this era, giant ship artillery is still the direction of naval development that Europe and the United States and other countries have been pursuing.

It wasn't until after the Pacific War that many people realized that battleships were thick enough in armor and firepower.

But compared to aircraft carriers carrying various carrier-based fighters, it is still a little far behind.

After all, in the future, the firepower of battleships can be completely replaced by destroyers, cruisers and other warships.

And an aircraft carrier with carrier-based aircraft is simply a mobile steel fortress.

With a large group of fighters, the attack on the enemy's warships is far more powerful than the battleships.

Therefore, the battleship will also completely withdraw from the stage of history one day in the future.

"Second son, do you mean that we only need these two battleships in Huaguo?"

Zhang Dabiao looked at Zhang Zongqing with a surprised face, and his face was full of disbelief at this time.

After all, "ship and cannon" is still the mainstream development direction of the world's navy.

Even Zhang Dabiao did not get out of this category.

"Yes, the battleship only needs these two."

"However, it would be better if the construction of these two battleships could mislead the direction of the development of the Japanese Navy."

After speaking, the corners of Zhang Zongqing's mouth curled up with a hint of cunning, in fact, even after the outbreak of the Pacific War.

The Japanese slave country was still superstitious about the "ship strong cannon", otherwise a huge battleship like the Yamato would not have been born.

It's just that the battleship Yamato, despite its huge size, has only become a living target for sea movement.

"The future of this world's navy is, after all, the world of aircraft carriers!"

Zhang Zongqing, who has seen a powerful aircraft carrier in another period of history, said to himself with emotion.

After all, the DAO bomb crisis in the sixties of the twentieth century, which almost destroyed the whole world, has proven the importance of aircraft carriers.

……

At night, a cold wind blew.

The temperature in Yanjing seems to drop a few minutes at night, and you can feel the slightest chill when you walk outside the house.

Zhang Zongqing paced in the courtyard wearing a large coat, but what he was thinking about switched back and forth between domestic and international, and his thoughts drifted to a very distant place.

The rise of a great power has never been smooth sailing, nor has it ever been achieved overnight.

In another period of history, it took so long for Huaguo to still be in a catch-up position.

This also shows how difficult it is to become the largest country in the world.

"Navy, even if there are no aircraft carriers, with these destroyers and battleships at the moment, China's naval strength can only be ranked number one in the world."

At this time, Zhang Zongqing was holding an intelligence document from the island country in his hand.

Even if China is currently taking off at a speed, it is constantly launching various naval warships like dumplings.

But Zhang Zongqing still feels that the current naval strength of China is not strong enough.

In order to make the Chinese navy strong, it can compete head-on with the Japanese navy in a short period of time.

Only then did Zhang Zongqing agree to Han Chunqi's suggestion to use five naval warship shipyards to start the construction of the "extermination-class" destroyers at the same time with the same specifications.

At this time, Zhang Zongqing and Hua Guo could not wait for the time-consuming warship construction plan.

Because according to the information provided by the spy "Muyu" who was lurking in the Japanese slave country.

The radar technology cooperated between the United States and the Japanese slave countries has reached a deeper level.

That is, the anti-submarine technology of the island nation is in the process of constant maturation.

It only takes a while for the Japanese slave country to no longer have to be so jealous of China's naval submarine forces.

And Huaguo's U-XII submarines will gradually become smaller and smaller in terms of constraints on the Japanese slave navy.

Zhang Zongqing's use of naval submarines to gain time for the development of the Chinese Navy is running out.

Of course, with China's existing naval technology, building an aircraft carrier is not too difficult.

However, Zhang Zongqing still hopes to get the most advanced aircraft carrier manufacturing technology from the system.

Otherwise, no matter how many aircraft carriers are built, it will be just a waste of resources.

As for the accumulation of technology, it is completely possible to obtain it from other warships.

"What the hell is this, why hasn't the top-level aircraft carrier technology been exposed at this time?"

"Do you have to wait until the monster fight is upgraded?" Zhang Zongqing complained helplessly.

In fact, in Zhang Zongqing's impression.

The system never seems to have given too many weapons ahead of its time.

And a big killer like an aircraft carrier doesn't know when it will appear.

Just when Zhang Zongqing was complaining about the system, the voice of the superweapon design system suddenly came.

"Ding, congratulations to the host for obtaining the design drawings of the Scharnhorst-class battlecruiser of the Navy of Country D during World War II."

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