After being transferred to the Ninth Fleet, Ling Wencha stayed at the Luda Naval Base, responsible for the modification of the "training aircraft carrier". In fact, he had almost nothing to do here every day, so he and a group of colleagues in the Northern Fleet were constantly discussing the future naval strategy and tactical ideas of the Empire.

He belonged to the "aviation winning faction" in the Imperial Navy, and people like him were different in the Imperial Navy, because the Naval Aviation Technology Bureau, the department he had served in after the war, was the main organ of the Admiralty in the post-war period dedicated to the study of aviation technology and tactical development.

The "aviation winners" in the navy insisted that the aircraft were the future rulers of the seas, and they preached that flying forces could defeat the battlefleet, which sounded like a joke to most senior admirals.

In fact, the biggest obstacle to the expansion of the air fleet came from within the Imperial Navy, and those senior admirals who were outdated in their thinking and still clinging to the dogma of "giant ships and cannons" did not want to build new aircraft carriers in the navy, because this would crowd out the construction funds of the Imperial Navy, which was not rich, and thus affect the number of other major warships.

Of course, they wanted to be able to build more battleships.

During the war, the Imperial Navy set up a special aviation technical department, and the current commander of the Ninth Fleet, Vice Admiral Chen Shiying, served as the director of the Imperial Naval Aviation. This clear-minded general from the naval aviation had an unusual understanding of the "out-of-the-way" naval technologies such as aircraft and submarines, and it was under his leadership that the naval aviation unit, which had just become independent from the War Department, established the Aviation Technology Department.

Ling Wencha's interest in airplanes was completely out of boredom, and after being transferred to the Falklands base in South America as a naval observer, he began to learn aviation knowledge, and soon learned to fly airplanes, and passed the pilot technical examination organized by the Aviation Association, and obtained the flight certificate.

Since learning to fly, he has been paying attention to the development of aviation technology in various countries, and has quite a unique insight into the theory of naval aviation construction. It was for this reason that he was transferred by Vice Admiral Chen Shiying to the Ninth Fleet, which was the only experimental fleet of the Imperial Navy with aircraft carriers as the main force.

Under the influence of the Imperial Navy's aviation faction, there were also some cutting-edge officers in the navy who were "aviation victors".

Admiral Ding Guozhen, commander of the Northern Fleet, belongs to the typical giant ship artillery faction, but his ideas are a little different from most of the imperial naval generals: he believes that due to external geographical disadvantages, the imperial navy's strategy should focus on the development of fast warships, that is, to form a number of flexible small fast capital ship formations in wartime -- by building a number of heavy and fast warships with strong combat effectiveness, and to attack the enemy's weak points with flexible and changeable tactics, so as to achieve the goal of mastering sea supremacy.

Admiral Ding Guozhen was originally the deputy chief of the general staff of the Imperial Navy, but his views were in great conflict with the traditional fleet theory of the current Minister of the Navy, Marshal Pei Yunsong, and the commander-in-chief of the Navy, Marshal Liu Chengliang, and finally led to the breakdown of relations with the other two, so after he was promoted to admiral, he was transferred out of the general organ of the Navy and transferred to the Northern Fleet, which is called the "Navy Retirement Home", as commander.

The area under the jurisdiction of the Northern Fleet is not small, the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the Northwest Pacific Sea, the problem is that this area is in the core area of the Tang Empire, and there is no trace of the enemy at all, and the warships equipped with it are known for being old and dilapidated, and are nicknamed the "Imperial Navy Retirement Home" and "the Second Training Fleet of the Navy".

In the current navies of various countries around the world, the traditional doctrine of giant ships and cannons is still the mainstream. However, after a period of exchanges, Admiral Ding Guozhen, who was clear-headed and active-minded, still accepted some of Chang Yuebin and Ling Wencha's views that aircraft on aircraft carriers are more suitable than destroyers as reconnaissance forces for a fast fleet, but he still stubbornly believes that aircraft carriers cannot become the core striking force of a fast fleet.

It's a strange way of thinking.

The Shenyang Aircraft Factory is one of the eight major aviation enterprises of the Empire, and after more than 30 years of development, it is listed as the main aircraft manufacturer of the Imperial Navy along with the Nanchang Aircraft Factory. Among the aviation enterprises of the empire, the Luoyang Aircraft Manufacturing Company and the Jinyang Aircraft Manufacturing Company were mainly engaged in the manufacture of civil airliners and large military transport aircraft, the Guangzhou Shipbuilding Group Aircraft Factory was dedicated to the manufacture of seaplanes, and the Xifei, Chengfei and Guifei were the main collaborators of the Army Airlines.

In terms of military aircraft, Army Airlines' orders are three times that of Hainan Airlines, and although Shen Fei and Nan Fei also want to get a piece of the pie, the other three aircraft manufacturers have a solid relationship with Army Airlines, and they can get "inside information" in advance.

Recently, Li Guoyong has been staring at the assembly and commissioning of the new verification machine specially designed for the navy in the assembly workshop of Shenfei Company, which makes him feel exhausted and a little overwhelmed.

It lost to the Xi'an Aviation Manufacturing Company in the tender for fighters in the Army Air Corps, and lost to the joint Chengdu and Guiyang companies in the Army Aviation Dive Bomber Project. Zeng Yiwen, the well-informed general manager of Cheng Xi, occasionally heard the army aviation mention that the performance of the Guifei company's dive bomber was good, and he took the initiative to put down his body and personally went to Guiyang to join forces with the Guifei company, which is half the size of the Chengdu Aircraft Manufacturing Company, to jointly develop a new type of dive bomber to participate in the procurement bidding of the army air force.

This kind of cooperation is a good thing for the cash-strapped Guiyang Aircraft Manufacturing Company, but it is a disaster for Shenfei Aviation, which is also developing a dive bomber. Sure enough, the joint design of the two airlines, Chengfei and Guifei, narrowly defeated Shenfei Airlines, which single-handedly participated in the Army Air Corps' dive bomber project bidding.

When the sun is just above the horizon, the eastern sky is full of brilliant morning glow. Li Guoyong, who had not slept all night, dragged his tired body alone to the small garden next to the office area in order to relax his nervous mood. Taking a few deep breaths of the fresh morning air with the scent of flowers made him feel refreshed and his mind cleared up a lot.

"Why can't you combine a torpedo machine and a dive bomber into one?" This is the question raised by Lieutenant General Chen Shiying after visiting the dive bomber project, and it is also the goal of Shenfei Aviation this time, "I hope today's test flight can be successful and everything will go well!" ”

Thinking that the first public test was about to be conducted in front of the representatives of the navy today, Li Guoyong's mood suddenly became a little nervous.

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