The descendants of Zhao Chengxun are indeed extraordinary, and the senior engineers of the Nanjiang Naval Ship Design Institute are by no means in vain.

After talking for half an hour, Bai Zhizhan felt like an enlightenment, and there was a feeling of sudden opening. Zhao Yu can explain many problems that make Bai Zhizhan puzzled by only one sentence, at most a few sentences, and his views and predictions on the direction of the development of the navy are also very unique.

Here's a very simple example.

In the White Stop War, it was mentioned that neither the seaplanes that have already made their mark on the stage of naval warfare nor the conventional take-off and landing planes that various countries are currently vying to develop are unable to carry heavy bombs that can pose a threat to large warships, let alone accurately drop bombs on targets. Due to the limitation of bomb carrying capacity, even without considering the accuracy of bomb delivery, it is difficult for aircraft to pose a threat to warships protected by heavy armor.

In a word: what is the use of planes that carry and drop bombs if they can't be blown up into battleships?

Zhao Yu did not answer directly, but gave an example.

Submarine.

Before the outbreak of the war, the great powers refused to believe that this kind of warship, which was only a few hundred tons, did not even have large-caliber naval guns, and could only dive to evade in case of danger, could pose a threat to a maritime power, and even influence the direction of a major war, so no country attached importance to submarines before the war.

As a result, the Kingdom of Bran was almost driven to death by dozens of submarines of the Riman Navy!

Some people believe that if the Navy's attention to submarines had been paid attention to earlier, and the number of submarines had been doubled by developing submarines with one-tenth of the resources of building the High Seas Fleet, then the war would probably have ended with the surrender of the Kingdom of Bran in the second year.

Unfortunately, there are no ifs in reality.

In addition, the performance and tactical application of submarines have also improved by leaps and bounds in the war, and they have become well-deserved main warships.

Zhao Yu used submarines as an example, in fact, he was telling Bai Zhizhan that the development of technology is unpredictable by anyone, so the problems that Bai Zhizhan said are actually not problems. As long as a breakthrough in technology is made and the performance of aircraft is improved, it will inevitably change the face of naval warfare.

Does this need to be explained?

Coming out of the building, the icy autumn wind blew in his face, and Bai Zhizhan immediately came to his senses.

Zhao Yu is not only smart, but also very capable of fooling.

said so many words, almost all of them were saliva, and none of them were to the point, even the few sentences that made Bai Zhizhan Daigo empowered were not far-sighted, either they had been proposed a long time ago, or they were told in a novel way.

It's all old wine in new bottles!

To be objective, at most it can be regarded as a bystander.

Still use airplanes to talk about things.

Technological progress is inevitable, and all classical military theories admit that tactics are driven by technology, and what kind of technology there is has what kind of tactics. For example, in the era of flintlock pistols, soldiers had to stand in a row side by side. After the Maxim machine gun appeared on the stage of warfare, trenches and foxholes replaced the battle line. Tanks that appeared later in the war were able to break through the lines of trenches, barbed wire, and machine guns.

The same is true of naval battles.

From wooden-hulled sail warships to ironclad ships, to former dreadnoughts propelled by steam engines and propellers, dreadnoughts that dominated the seas during the Great War, invincible submarines that attacked by sneak attacks, and even destroyers that relied on torpedoes to change the balance of naval warfare, without exception, all were technical weapons.

With the progress of technology, new technological weapons will inevitably appear on the stage of warfare.

At that time, replacing the battleship and changing the face of naval warfare was an inevitable result.

It can be seen that Zhao Yu did not reveal too much valuable information to Bai Zhizhan.

The only thing that needs to be admitted is that Zhao Yu has perfect system knowledge, and his understanding of technical weapons is far above that of professional soldiers like Bai Zhizhan.

In fact, this is also the most incomprehensible thing about Bai Zhizhan.

Zhao Yu has never been on the battlefield, let alone participated in battles, how does he know the trend of war, and what does he rely on to judge the direction of military development?

Just guessing!?

It's not surprising to guess some of the gibberish.

However, many of Zhao Yu's predictions are actually the trend of development, at least Bai Zhizhan believes that this is the way to engage in the next war.

For example, Zhao Yu mentioned electronic technology.

This is definitely the most cutting-edge and for the time being unknown to the outside world.

It was only in the last two years or so that the Imperial Navy discovered in practice that under certain circumstances, communication stations would be interfered with by electromagnetic waves emitted by themselves, especially shortwave stations. The Imperial Navy set up an institute to study this phenomenon and explore the value of military applications.

Zhao Yu not only said exactly under what circumstances radio communications would be interfered with, but also proposed that the phenomenon of interference could be used to transform the radio station into a detection tool, and this set of ideas was only thought of by the research institute of the Imperial Navy a few months ago.

How did Bai Zhizhan know?

The institute was part of the Imperial Naval Academy, and a number of cadets were recruited to participate in the study, and the White War was one of them.

Before he left the Naval Academy and went to the 21st Squadron, the relevant research had only begun, and there was still a long way to go before tangible results were achieved.

For Bai Zhizhan, the biggest gain from this in-depth conversation is actually to strengthen his previous beliefs.

Regardless of whether the aircraft can replace the warships and become the dominant force in the future maritime theater, the Imperial Navy must be reformed if it wants to sweep the seas.

Objectively speaking, replacing capital ships with aviation does not look too illusory, at least.

If you don't seek change, you still fight brute force, even if you follow the example of the Nanjiangkou Naval Battle and try your courage for 50 years, there will be no other result.

The next time I lose, I'm afraid I won't have as good luck as I have now.

For the next month or so, Bai Zhizhan lived in seclusion, most of the time in shipyards or ship design institutes, and borrowed a lot of documents.

is not only digesting the knowledge obtained from Zhao Yu, but also recharging himself.

Don't look at Bai Zhizhan to study aviation reconnaissance, and he also got good grades in the first grade, but he didn't like this major, and he only got good grades a few days before the exam. The point is that aviation and reconnaissance are both newly opened majors, and the exam questions are relatively simple.

After in-depth understanding, Bai Zhizhan realized that he had wasted five years of time.

Fortunately, it's not too late to make amends.

It was like returning to life at the Naval Academy, which lasted until the last day of the 78th year of the new calendar.

Because tomorrow is New Year's Day, the chef specially reminded him that he would have dinner in the evening, so Bai Zhizhan did not go to the design institute and stayed in the archives of the shipyard in the afternoon. After sunset, Bai Zhizhan took a borrowed set of battleship blueprints and rushed to the restaurant that was already brightly lit.

The hall was packed, but no music was playing, and everyone was gathered around.

What are you doing?

Approaching, Bai Zhizhan found that there was a radio on the table in the middle of the crowd, and a skilled worker from the shipyard was tuning the channel.

Who got this radio?

Bai Zhizhan has seen a radio, and He Yongxing has one. It's just that for the common people, the radio is definitely a rare high-end gadget.

In fact, radio was popularized during the Great War.

With the radio, there must be something very important.