Chapter 146 Great Naval Development
Aldrich then launched an attack on the rest of the city of Beira, but they were stopped by the Portuguese navy, and the cost of casualties was too great, but no progress was made. This was followed by several artillery battles with the Portuguese Navy. The results were minimal.
Aldridge was greatly annoyed by the successive setbacks in several attacks on the remaining areas, but the anger returned to the fire, and finally Aldridge asked the air force to blow up and sink the heavy cruiser Alde, the capital ship of the Portuguese Mozambia Navy, and the remaining three warships, and forced the Portuguese Mozambian Navy to withdraw to the open sea, and the African People's Army was able to break through that section of the forbidden zone. Moving forward smoothly.
While the army under the command of the African People's Army Aldrich was in full swing, the Portuguese army returned again to continue the fight against the AFA attacking forces. Once again, the attacking forces were forced to retreat. The air force reappeared, and the opposing navy fled again. Several successive engagements were successful in the first few times the AFA Air Force was successful. But then the Portuguese became cunning and got into play with the African People's Army. I ran away before you came, and I'll come back when your air force is gone. The African People's Army Air Force took off from the interior and was already close to the flight radius to the city of Beira. Unable to go further. Therefore, the Portuguese Navy figured out the routine of the African People's Army Air Force and played hide and seek with the African People's Army. It really made Aldridge miserable.
For this reason, Aldridge was reluctantly distressed by the Portuguese Navy, and reluctantly sent a telegram to Li Junhao asking for help, explaining what happened to him, and Li Junhao was really shocked by the Portuguese style of play after receiving this report. But their own naval forces are far away in the city of Mtwara in ********. Aldrich, on the other hand, is in the city of Beira in Mozambia, which is hundreds of nautical miles away. My own navy is far away and the water can't save the thirst of the near.
But you can't just sit back and wait. Li Junhao still brought his naval commander Jarvis over and asked, "Can your navy fight now?" ”
Naval Commander Jarvis replied: "Chairman, if our Navy wants to say that it is not possible to fight in the ocean, we have only 5 heavy cruisers and 7 light cruisers. 25 destroyers. 25 frigates. 40 submarines. At present, these warships are the main force to defend the security of the coastline of Feijing. Deputy Commander Ye Hao has now basically become the commander of the Marine Corps. ”
Li Junhao sighed after hearing this. The development of the navy, which is busy, is basically stagnant.
At this moment, Lisa came out and said: "The commander has discovered the side mission, the expansion of the navy plan, in the next year, the commander's navy must exceed 500,000 tons, with 4 battleships and 3 aircraft carriers." The reward for completing the mission is very difficult to beat two air carriers. ”
As soon as Li Junhao heard this, he knew that he must also develop the navy, and as for the significance of systematically letting himself build battleships, it is also to paralyze the world, and the status of battleships is much higher than that of aircraft carriers, and building aircraft carriers by himself alone is bound to have a major impact on the history of the world's navies.
For the construction of the battleship, Li Junhao did not choose the Mtwara-class battleship attached to the base shipyard, but designed a battleship by the Red Police warship engineer recruited at the base. Named an African-class battleship by Lee Jun-ho. The African-class battleship Lee Jun-ho was intended to be the first, last, and last battleship of the African People's Republic Navy. All the whole warships were built very large.
African-class battleship: 275 meters in length, 264 meters in waterline. The width of the ship is 42 meters, and the height of the ship is 12. 5 meters, standard displacement 69,000 tons. Full load displacement 78000 tons. Power 28 knots, four fuel turbines. The engine output is 168,000 horsepower. The oil storage capacity is 7400 tons. The cruising range is 8200 nautical miles. Cruising speed 17 knots. The main gun is a triple 52 times 460 mm plus three howitzers. The secondary gun is a quadruple 52 times 155 mm plus six howitzers. 12 twin 120-mm anti-aircraft guns. 24 quadruple 30-mm anti-aircraft guns. Carrying 2500 people. Equipped with 5 seaplanes.
Instead of using the original Hope-class aircraft carriers at the base, the aircraft carriers had these ship designers design a new one. It was called by Lee Jun-ho as a battleship that he hoped to reclassify. The ship's deck is 290 meters long and 45 meters wide. Draught 11. 5 meters. The standard displacement is 25,000 tons, and the full load displacement is 32,000 tons. It carries 90-110 aircraft. Carrying 3000 people. The armament was armed with 6 120-mm anti-aircraft guns. 30 anti-aircraft guns of 40 mm. 20 mm anti-aircraft guns 60 seats. The speed is 35 knots. The cruising range is 8200 nautical miles, and the cruising speed is 17 knots.
Immediately after reviewing the design drawings, Lee ordered the construction of four African-class battleships and four aircraft carriers, as well as 20 heavy cruisers, 40 light cruisers, 60 destroyers, and 60 frigates. 60 submarines.
Navy Commander Yarvis and Deputy Commander Ye Hao walked excitedly after learning about Li Junhao's big deal. For this, Jeriola and Durabo laughed at them a lot. But the two did not look annoyed, and the commander of the navy, Jarvis, pointed to Jeriola's and said, "Comrade Jeriola, how thick your waist is, that is, about 73 centimeters." The thickest of your army cannon is 155 mm, do you know how big the main gun of Lao Tzu's navy African-class battleship is? I don't know, Lao Tzu told you that Lao Tzu African-class battleships have a caliber of 460 mm main guns. Are you comparable? ”
Jeriola was immediately amused by this crazy Yalvis, but he still struck him: "Lao Tzu is the commander of the three armies, not the commander of the army." provoked Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu asked you to be an army. ”
At this time, Yalvis was so frightened that he didn't argue with Geriola anymore. Wandering away, Jeriola laughed out loud after Jarvis was gone.
Four battleships were named Africa by Lee Jun-ho. XX, XX, XX. The aircraft carriers were named Hope, XX, XX, XX. The battleship String starts with 0101, the aircraft carrier starts with 0201, and the heavy cruiser starts with 0301. Light cruisers start with 0401, destroyers start with 0501, frigates start with 0601, supply ships start with 0701, troop carriers start with 0801, landing ships start with 0901, and submarines start with Q0001.
The cost of building these warships suddenly wiped out the metal points that Li Junhao had saved for several months. It really made Lee Jun-ho sigh, so Lee Jun-ho entered a state of idiocy again, muttering that he had returned to the pre-liberation period overnight. It's a Red Alert base breeder. For this reason, Lisa ignored Lee Jun-ho for several days.