Songjiang, Navy Songhu Shipyard.

In the drizzle, thousands of naval officers and sailors lined up on the flight deck of the giant ship at Outfitting Pier No. 5 for a pre-commissioning ceremony. On the review stand temporarily erected next to the bridge, Marshal Pei Yunsong, Minister of the Imperial Navy, Marshal Xia Ting, Chief of the General Staff of the Navy, Senior Admiral Liu Zhen, Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Chen Wenqiang, Director of Shipbuilding of the Imperial Navy, and Admiral Xu Yannian, Commander of the Fifth Task Force of the Empire, all dressed in full costume attended the inauguration ceremony of the cutting-edge aircraft carrier, and everyone's faces were filled with pride and excitement.

After more than three years of lengthy construction, the second ship of the improved "Kyushu" class aircraft carrier built in batches, and the "Jizhou" with a standard displacement of 32,000 tons finally ushered in the important day of joining the Imperial Navy--- although the keel was laid a month later than the "Kyushu", but because the flight deck design of the six aircraft carriers of this class was changed after the start of construction, the second ship "Jizhou" was the first to be completed and put into service, and the remaining five aircraft carriers of the same class were also expected to enter service in the second half of 1940.

The design of the "Kyushu" class aircraft carrier is the same as that of the six "Taiyuan Fu" class ships built in batches, but the biggest change is that the flight deck is changed to an external floating flight deck that extends to the outside of the hull, due to the addition of a landing flight deck, the entire flight deck width has reached 56 meters, in order to balance the weight, the starboard side is used one front and one behind the double ship island design, the front ship island is the navigation command, the rear ship island is the aviation command, due to the flight deck area increased by a quarter, The standard displacement of aircraft carriers of this class has also been increased to 34,500 tons. With the enlargement of the hangar and flight deck, the number of carrier-based aircraft increased from 82 in the original 5 Squadron to 112 in the 7 Squadron.

This is basically the first class aircraft carrier that carries the most carrier-based aircraft in the navies of the world at present, due to the use of a semi-enclosed hangar with a closed bow and stern, under the same circumstances, the carrier-based aircraft carried by the aircraft carrier of the Tang State is less than the aircraft carrier of the same class in West Francia and Byzantium with an open hangar, and similar to the aircraft carrier of the East Frankish Navy, but the latest flight deck design makes up for this shortcoming.

Compared with other ships of the Imperial Navy, the construction of aircraft carriers is one of the top priorities of the Imperial Navy's construction, and with the abundant supply of materials and the continuous efforts of the admirals headed by Marshal Pei Yunsong and Marshal Xia Bohan, although the construction period of this class of warships was delayed by more than two months due to the change of deck design during the construction process, it still took only 26 months to complete and put into service.

The West Franks, who started construction a year earlier than the Imperial Navy, also had the "Louis V" class aircraft carrier, which was completed and put into service less than two months earlier than the "Jizhou". The construction of the Byzantine Navy was even slower, and the two "Constantinople" class aircraft carriers, which started construction almost half a year earlier than the Imperial Navy, have not yet completed outfitting and are expected to take more than half a year to be actually delivered.

With such an efficient speed of large-scale construction, there is no other country in the world whose navy can match it.

In fact, the efficiency of naval shipbuilding is still a competition between the industrial technology level of various countries and the comprehensive strength of machining, military industry, and shipbuilding industries, and the differences between the industrial levels of various countries can be intuitively seen from the comparison of shipbuilding speeds. Comparatively speaking, East Francia's shipbuilding industry has a strong foundation and is very good in terms of scale, but their lack of sufficient raw materials for the metallurgical industry and mechanical processing industry has slowed down their shipbuilding speed.

Because it was in a period of war, the whole enlistment ceremony seemed very simple but very solemn, although there was a lack of onlookers and cheers from the people, and there was also a lack of news reports, and now the treatment enjoyed by the "Jizhou" does seem a little shabby.

This situation is quite appropriate to describe it in the words "quietly entering service".

After Marshal Pei Yunsong read a congratulatory message from the Emperor on behalf of the Emperor, who was the commander-in-chief of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, Marshal Xia Bohan, Chief of the General Staff of the Navy, made another speech full of enthusiasm and expectations. When his voice echoed through several loudspeakers on the huge flight deck, the officers and men of the Tang Navy present were all moved by his demagogic words, and everyone believed that this warship would inflict a heavy blow on the enemy at sea, and that the day would come when the Imperial Navy would finally defeat all the enemies and achieve final victory.

After a brief commissioning ceremony, the heavy fleet aircraft carrier, towed by tugboats, slowly sailed to the fairway, sailed into the Baltic Sea with more than 2,700 officers and men, and began intense maritime training in order to form combat capability as soon as possible.

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February 7, Republic 307, Zhoushan Naval Base.

Under the warm sunshine of early spring, more than 30 large and small ships are moored in the calm bay, and the geographical location far away makes it impossible to feel the threat of war here. On the clean and tidy docks, people are busy, except for the heavily armed Coast Guard patrols, dressed in navy dark blue uniforms and rifles, to remind people that this is a time of war.

As one of the important naval bases of the Tang Empire in East Asia, the naval headquarters of the Eastern Fleet is located here. Of course, in this sea area, no one can threaten the dominance of the Tang Empire in this sea area. In addition to the four almost obsolete dreadnought-class battleships of the Eastern Fleet, all that remained was a few light ships. But in recent times, the Imperial Navy has begun to gradually strengthen the power of the Eastern Fleet.

First, the 27th destroyer detachment was transferred to Mingzhou Harbor, and then the 19th and newly formed 27th frigate detachment was also sent here.

Saturday came, and the crews of the warships were busy washing the decks, bridges, and cleaning, and some sailors were carrying sandpaper, brushes, and diluted paint buckets to repair the railings, and the bridge's towers were covered with rust because the paint was peeling. After taking a shower, the officers and men who had finished their work shaved their beards clean, changed their dirty overalls, changed into the permed and snow-white navy summer clothes, put on their beautiful and mighty big-brimmed hats, and looked forward to the order from above to go ashore and rest on Sunday.

Captain Ling Kaiyu rode a Type 36 "Red Flag Bucket Car" to the Donggang Wharf southeast of the port and returned to the "Taixing" frigate in a small speedboat. As he climbed up the gangway to the deck along the starboard gangway, he frowned at the expectant eyes of his crew.

"Frigate" is the name given by the Imperial Navy to this "small destroyer", which means something similar to the "escort ship" of the West Frankish Navy. As the destroyers built by the Imperial Navy became more and more multi-purpose in the direction of large, ocean-going escort, anti-submarine and air defense, the original function of destroyers to "drive away enemy fast torpedo boats in coastal waters" has weakened. Besides, it would be uneconomical and uneconomical to take an ocean-going destroyer with a displacement of about 3,000 tons to deal with the Europeans, as many as hundreds of small torpedo boats of tens to more than 100 tons.

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