Inoue Narumi's question was also a question for the attendees: if the enemy was already behind in quantity, why not pursue a qualitative superiority over the opponent?

"There are three reasons: one is the construction cycle, the construction time of the Dafeng-class is more than 3 years, and we can roughly build 2 Yunlong-class ships at the same time, usually 2 Yunlong-class can exert stronger combat effectiveness than 1 Dafeng; The second is the degree of difficulty in construction, the Dafeng class is more technically difficult, more complex, and requires more skilled manpower than the Yunlong level, if the Yunlong-level construction is fully rolled out, it will involve a large number of workers, and it is impossible to concentrate all skilled workers on the Dafeng class; The third and most important point is that there can be 1-2 ultra-thick armored aircraft carriers in the future, but not too many, because there is no need at all - aircraft carriers are consumables, and they do not expect their aircraft carriers to be sunk by the enemy, nor do they expect to sink more enemy aircraft carriers. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Consumables?" Everyone was stunned, the aircraft carrier formation built with the strength of the country was actually a consumable in Matsuda's mouth? The crowd was bewildered, and their eyes were fixed on him.

In the face of all kinds of questioning eyes and pressure, Chiaki Matsuda was not afraid and talked eloquently: "Dare to ask you, do you know the difference between the Tiger tank and the No. 4 tank?" ”

Everyone nodded, although the navy is not traditionally equipped with combat vehicles, but the combined fleet went abroad to get back a bunch of Tiger and No. 4, of course everyone is interested in seeing it. Navy people can understand as soon as they see the Tiger that this is not the Yamato of the tank world.

"Of course, there is no doubt that the Tiger is stronger than the No. 4, and even one car to play four is no problem, but why do the Germans continue to build the No. 4 on a large scale and not all of the Tiger? I asked the German side with this question, and they said that the qualitative advantage must not be too large in quantity to be meaningful, otherwise it will fall into the sea of the opponent's equipment and will not be able to extricate itself, and in order to ensure the use of mechanized troops, Germany must have a sufficient number of tanks - I immediately thought of the saying that ants bite more than kill elephants. We are already inferior to the US military in terms of quantity, and if we reduce the quantity again because of the emphasis on quality, there may be a situation in which 10 Essex-class ships will fight 1 Dafeng, and victory or defeat will be known without looking at it. If as long as the quality is not the quantity, what did you do in the first place? Isn't building 2-3 100,000-ton Jumbo battleships invincible all over the world? ”

Another sentence of "seventy percent to the United States" choked King Fushimi Miyahiro Gong out of breath, and the audience was speechless, but many people were still not convinced, because the Japanese Navy has always pursued quality and military building, and the ideological bend cannot be turned all of a sudden.

Chiaki Matsuda glanced at the venue: "Let me ask you again, what is the most important and core strike force of the current navy?" ”

Even if it is a stubborn fleet faction, no one dares to say that it is the Yamato in this situation, either Ai Ai is unwilling to speak, or he is very reluctant; But the aviation faction didn't care about this, and Onishi Takijiro immediately answered: "Aircraft carriers." ”

"Actually, it's not all, in my opinion, the most important and core strike force is the carrier-based aircraft, the aircraft carrier is only the carrier, and the carrier-based aircraft is the lethal means to launch the final blow." Chiaki Matsuda smiled, "The biggest lesson that this expeditionary operation has brought me is that the reason why we can overwhelm the US military in combat is not because our ships are good -- in fact, the new Essex class put into operation by the United States is much better than our aircraft carriers, not to mention compared with Yunlong, it is stronger than Shuanghe -- there are more than 90 single carrier-based aircraft, and they are extremely strong, and what we really have the upper hand is the first is the aircraft, and the second is the people." If we have to emphasize quality building, I think the emphasis is on aircraft rather than aircraft carriers.

At present, the mobile fleet is equipped with three types of carrier-based aircraft, namely the Zero Combat Reform, the Comet Reform, and the Tianshan Reform, each of which is stronger than the opponent, especially the Comet and the Tianshan Reform, which are far stronger than the US military's SBD and TBF, and we fly faster than them with the same bomb load. The performance of these three aircraft is completely heaven and earth compared with the original Zero Battle, 99 Ship Explosion and 97 Ship Attack. Not to mention anything else, our military planes used to have hypochondriasis, and they didn't dare to put them on the deck in the sun and rain, how to deal with German planes? All of them were piled on the deck, and they couldn't be damaged by the sun or drenched at all, which suddenly increased the number of carrier aircraft. Now that Germany has developed folding-wing planes and further strengthened its aircraft carrying capacity, if one aircraft carrier can carry 20 percent more aircraft because of this, wouldn't it suddenly be equivalent to 20 percent more aircraft carriers -- building planes is always faster than building aircraft carriers, right? ”

According to Chiaki Matsuda's point of view, it is not that there is no need for quality superiority and quality to build the army, but relatively speaking, the performance of the aircraft is more important than the performance of the aircraft carrier at present, in order to further support his own view, he took the Battle of Tarawa as an example: "Take the Essex class that was sunk this time as an example, before we destroy it, we will hit at least 3 torpedoes and 4-5 500 kg bombs against the opponent, if we attack with 99 ship explosions, how many 250 kg bombs will we have to throw to make the enemy finished?" In the Battle of Midway, the four main aircraft carriers of our army were lightly bombed by the US army, and although there was the problem of ammunition detonation, the actual combat showed that the enemy aircraft carriers were far stronger than ours, and their planes were actually very strong, but why did we win in the end? It is precisely because the carrier-based aircraft are effective -- the planes that have been trained and modified by Germany are very effective.

This is not an isolated case, you must have read the information sent by Ambassador Oshima, the British and American 1,000-plane bombing formation was beaten by German jets, this is the use of technology and performance advantages to crush it, replaced by our military planes, can not fly so high, how to beat?

Aircraft performance is currently number one. Under the premise that the performance of the aircraft is equal or has an advantage, the second important thing is the quality of the pilots, and it is recognized that the quality of the pilots of our carrier-based aircraft is better than that of Germany and the United States, but Akamatsu Sadaaki came back and said that under the same technical equipment, he could not beat the Luftwaffe, or even the pilots of German carrier-based aircraft. ”

Everyone's curiosity was aroused at once, Akamatsu Sadaaki is now a well-known Japanese Navy No. 1 ace pilot, why did he say that he couldn't beat the Germans? There was some reason why the Luftwaffe could not defeat the Luftwaffe, even the German carrier-based pilots could not beat them - they had been formed for less than a year.

"If it's just a 1vs1 match, of course Sadaaki Akamatsu has no problem, but what about 3vs3, 5vs5? What about 50vs50 if it expands a little more? You may not know the situation on Socotra Island, but the German ace pilots who accompanied us in training abound -- the number of shot down or more than 50 is regarded as a real trump card, the Imperial Navy has 50 shot down records only Akamatsu Sadaaki, the Luftwaffe has hundreds of records, most of the German Navy members are excellent air force members, there are at least more than 40 such super aces, although the German Navy has only one year of history, the total number of pilots has exceeded 1500, and at least 800 can be on the ship, We have been tossing for nearly 20 years, and the cumulative number of pilots who have been trained and can go on ships is a little more than 1,000, and behind the German HNA there are a huge air force with a total number of more than 20,000 aircraft and invincible opponents all over Europe as a reserve, and we only have a few shore-based troops as a reserve.

You must be clear that as long as the pilots can fly the aircraft safely from the aircraft carrier, it is the performance and aerial technology that will determine the fate...... In the same way, once an aircraft carrier releases its planes, it is not the performance of the aircraft carrier that will determine the success or failure of a naval battle, but the performance of the aircraft and the quality of the pilots. How was the Battle of the Caribbean won? Is it that our aircraft carriers are more than the enemy, better than the enemy? Apparently not! That's why the commander said that aircraft carriers are consumables. If we can make up for 2 ships after sinking 1 ship in front, we are afraid that we will not be able to hold on? What's more, the Dafeng class is not really not sinking, in case it is dragged back for maintenance for a year and a half by a dying breath, this time is equivalent to no ship, but 2 cloud dragons sink 1 can continue to fight. ”

Everyone was impressed by this lofty remark, and even Yamamoto Isoroku was solemnly moved: Now it seems that the old classmate has seen the problem more far-reaching than himself, and he has shaken off the shackles that Japan has always insisted that the quality of ships is better than the quantity, and has begun to consider a total war and an all-out war.

He stood up and bowed slightly to Chiaki Matsuda: "Matsuda-kun is good, I have been taught." However, there is still a question, if it is a fight for consumption, the potential of the United States obviously exceeds ours by several times, how to make up for this gap? ”

"I'll answer that question." Seeing Yamamoto Fifty-six stand up, Horikichi also stood up immediately - it would be disrespectful for the Minister of the Navy to personally ask Matsuda to reply, and he had to explain it himself.

"I have always been extremely opposed to fighting a war of attrition, and for this reason, I am even more opposed to a war between Japan and the United States, because we are not opponents of the United States at any level, let alone fighting attrition, let alone 1:2, even 1:3 may not be able to afford it, but after I arrived in Europe, the words of the German Führer inspired me a lot...... "I made it clear that the country was not strong enough to continue fighting, and he said that he had thought about the same problem, and finally decided to adopt two strategies, first, Integrate Europe, make up for the gap in industrial power between Europe and the United States as soon as possible, and even if it can afford to fight a war of attrition in the future, the Americans will accompany them for a few years if they want to fight; Second, we must actively make use of our strong points -- our unique national advantages. He told me mysteriously, 'Don't look at the high production efficiency of the United States, but there is one thing that is produced at the same speed not only in Germany, but also in Japan and the United States...... ”

Everyone shook their heads in unison, waiting for the marshal Admiral to solve the riddle.

Only King Fushimi Miyahiro was very dissatisfied with Hori's trickery, and just now Chiaki Matsuda took one "aircraft performance" and one "pilot quality and quantity", and all his words were aviation first, aviation victory, and even came to the point of view that airplanes are more important than aircraft carriers, which in his opinion was a naked teasing and foolery by the aviation party fleet faction, coupled with Hori's several times emphasizing that pilots can also be officers, and the view that aviation officers should be selected from among professionals is almost to death. After all, officers who control aircraft carriers can still be classified into the fleet faction if they have the opportunity, and those who fly planes cannot be classified into the fleet faction no matter how much they try to do so.

This is simply digging the roots of the fleet faction! If Horiyoshi succeeds, won't he retire from the rivers and lakes from now on? (To be continued.) )