To this end, the Imperial Navy needed to be equipped with a large number of escort ships with poor equipment, low displacement, and combat performance only required to deal with the enemy's torpedo boats and submarines, but it needed to be cheap and economical enough to use. The large number of "small city" class frigates equipped by the Imperial Navy is actually a product of this demand.

The "Small City" class was first designed and developed with the "large torpedo boat project", mainly anti-torpedo boats, and later increased anti-submarine functions and air defense functions according to the requirements, and its displacement also increased from the initial 780 tons to the standard displacement of more than 1,200 tons when it was finally finalized, which has exceeded the tonnage of destroyers in the early days of many countries.

Unlike the large destroyers of the Imperial Navy, which used the high freeboard flat deck ship type, the "Small Town" class frigate adopted the long bow ship type, equipped with four twin high-level dual-purpose guns, semi-enclosed turrets, and also equipped with four twin 40 mm anti-aircraft guns and two 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine guns. The "Small Town" class is also equipped with two semi-automatic loading depth charge launchers, equipped with 50 depth charges, anti-submarine sonar, and has a very powerful anti-submarine combat capability.

Due to the small tonnage of the hull, the low fuel consumption, and the economical and cheap use, the commanders of the fleet preferred to let this kind of warship perform a series of combat missions such as daily combat readiness patrols, anti-submarine and anti-torpedo boats, reconnaissance and minelaying on the Black Sea and Baltic Sea coasts, air defense, etc., relatively speaking, it became the ship with the highest attendance rate in the Imperial Navy.

Seeing the personnel of other ships going to the shore to enjoy themselves, while they themselves had to be on duty day and night, of course, this made the crews of these frigates naturally full of complaints and dissatisfaction.

"Brethren! I'm in the sad news that the routine vacation has been cancelled! Ling Kaiyu stood on the deck and said loudly to a group of well-dressed subordinates, "The guys from the Operations Department of the Fleet Command raised by the dog have ordered us to go to sea and follow the 'Jizhou' to the Northern Mariana of Poland to escort the training of this aircraft carrier!" Okay, everyone went back to the cabin to change their clothes, and in half an hour, we set sail! ”

The deck suddenly exploded, "Why should the light let us be on duty, he MD, I want to protest upwards!" ”

"Hehe, why, it's up to us to save fuel...... If you're not afraid of confinement, you'll go, man. ”

"I'm quitting!"

"Haha, don't be stupid, if you really don't try, I promise that the gendarmerie will arrest you immediately and send you to a labor camp! It's useless to protest, man, we're here to go, get ready to work...... There is a beautiful girl, her name is Xiaofang, and we are all in love with her...... Haha, the girl is waiting for us on the shore, but we are sailing away......" a guy was singing and screaming.

Ling Kaiyu didn't pay attention to them, he knew very well what the virtues of these sailors under him were, noisy was noisy, but no one really dared to violate military discipline, "In 20 minutes, everyone will be in place!" He shouted at them again, and without looking back, he boarded the bridge.

Unlike large destroyers, which have three decks, the superstructure of the "Taixing" frigate with the number DH21 has only one and a half platform decks, and due to the long bow structure, the living conditions on board the ship are quite acceptable. The ship has a total of 142 personnel, but only 9 officers.

The Imperial Navy only built 32 frigates before the war, but after the war, it urgently added an order for the construction of 136 ships, compared with the "Zhoucheng" class destroyers, the construction cost of this class of warships is only about 1.2 million Chinese yuan, which is one-fifth of the cost of the "Zhoucheng" class destroyers, and because of the simple structure, it is more suitable for construction in small and medium-sized civilian shipyards.

The "Xiaocheng" class frigate has two main gun configurations, one is equipped with four single-mounted 105-mm high-level dual-purpose turrets, and the other is four twin-mounted half-tower 90-mm anti-aircraft guns.

Since the beginning of the North American campaign, four of the 10 destroyer fleets belonging to the Imperial Northern Fleet and the Eastern Fleet have been deployed to carry out missions along the Caribbean coast with the main fleet, and in addition to the four destroyer fleets deployed on the South American coast, the number of destroyers carrying out anti-submarine, reconnaissance, and patrol missions in the Pacific waters is obviously insufficient.

The East Francian navy, which has an absolute superiority in the number of light warships, has always been very active in the Baltic Sea, so the four Tang destroyer fleets and six escort fleets deployed in this area have also had many experiences in fighting the enemy.

When it comes to fighting East Francian destroyers, these self-defeating frigates usually use tricks to evade attack. If you encounter small ships such as minelayers and minelayers of the East Francian navy, they will pounce on them, and most of these battles are thrilling and dangerous.

Early the next morning, the five warships of the 27th Escort Fleet had already moved away from land, and although the vast scenery of the East China Sea was monotonous, it was the environment that Ling Kaiyu and they were most familiar with. The Imperial Convoy, like the destroyer fleet, is generally composed of five warships, with one "State City" class destroyer as the command ship, and four frigates of more than 1,000 tons.

It was only after equipping the new radar with high power that the original lower observation post on the bridge was converted into a new radar room. After the corresponding technical transformation, the frigate's night combat and air defense capabilities have undoubtedly been significantly improved.

The "Small Town" class frigates are equipped with two boilers and a 25,000-horsepower steam turbine.

The Navy's shipbuilding department has always wanted to equip this class of frigates with more fuel-efficient high-horsepower marine diesel engines, but after the test, the technicians of the engineering and technical department were frustrated to find that the installation of diesel engines does not increase the endurance of warships significantly, and because the tremor problem of diesel engines in high-speed navigation cannot be solved, this will greatly affect the maximum speed and high-speed performance of warships, so they reluctantly gave up the plan to install diesel engines.

At 9:30 a.m., the figure of another newly formed imperial main fleet finally appeared in Ling Kaiyu's sight, and its members included the newly commissioned super battleships "Kunlunshan" and "Qilianshan" equipped with millimeter guns, and the heavy fleet aircraft carrier "Jizhou" that had just entered service, as well as an escort formation composed of five light ships of the 15th Destroyer Fleet. In addition, there are two fast integrated supply ships, an integrated training ship and a large hospital ship in the entire fleet, and the sheer size and composition of this fleet will certainly surprise novices who have never seen a large warship!

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