Chapter 387

Hu Zhen looked at the neat fleet on the sea from the airship, and weighed his naval background in his heart.

At this time, the 13 main battleships owned by the Huaxia Navy fleet were of different speeds, and it was difficult to overhaul the speed and power, but according to Hu Zhen's requirements, in order to facilitate the command of the artillery salvo, a unified main gun configuration was transformed, and even the two main battleships of the original Beiyang Fleet were also urgently transformed into weapon systems:

1. Zhenyuan (displacement of 7670 tons, speed of 15 knots, 5 210 mm caliber 42 times diameter body barrel main guns)

2. Dingyuan (displacement 7670 tons, speed 15 knots, 5 210 mm caliber 42 times diameter body barrel main guns)

3. Dahua (displacement of 8,000 tons, speed of 17 knots, 6 210 mm caliber 42 times diameter body barrel main guns)

4. Daxia (displacement 8,000 tons, speed 17 knots, 6 210 mm caliber 42 times diameter body barrel main guns)

5. Maine (displacement 7294 tons, speed 17.5 knots, 6 210 mm caliber 42 times diameter barrel main guns)

6. Pelayo (displacement 9745 tons, speed 16.7 knots, 8 210 mm caliber 42 times diameter barrel main guns)

7. Carlos V (displacement 9235 tons, speed 16 knots, 8 210 mm caliber 42 times diameter main guns)

8. USS New York (displacement 9,165 tons, speed 21 knots, 8 210 mm caliber 42 times diameter body barrel guns)

9. USS Brooklyn (displacement 10,229 tons, speed 19 knots, 8 210 mm caliber 42 times diameter body barrel main guns)

10. Chang'an (displacement of 12,600 tons, speed of 21 knots, 4 305 mm caliber 40 times diameter body barrel main guns)

11. Changzhi (displacement 12,600 tons, speed 21 knots, 4 305 mm caliber 40 times diameter barrel main guns)

12. Changshan (displacement 12,600 tons, speed 21 knots, 4 305 mm caliber 40 times diameter barrel main guns)

13. Changhe (displacement 12,600 tons, speed 21 knots, 4 305 mm caliber 40 times diameter barrel main guns)

From an outsider's point of view, the thirteen main battleships of the Huaxia Army were either captured or bought, or the four battleships of the "long" series were also imported from Germany and assembled, and such a "captive fleet" or "bought fleet" was more or less embarrassing.

This is where Hu Zhen is helpless, as a traverser, he can use the 3D printing system on the nuclear submarine to immediately produce some very advanced small and medium-sized industrial products, and he can also build factories to mass-produce more complex cars and tanks on land, but no matter how much money is invested in the production of large warships, it takes a process.

The shipyard workers and technicians have mastered the production process of the "long" battleships imported from Germany, and now the shipyards in Nanyang are producing two battleships of the same type of "long" series on their own, and the newly established Lushun shipyard will also produce two battleships of the same type after the dockyard is completed.

At the same time, a type of battleship with a displacement of 16,000 tons has been designed, and two have begun to be secretly built in the name of "long" in the Nanyang Shipyard, and two ships will be produced at the same time at the Lushun Shipyard.

However, that was two or three years later, and now the war with the Pacific Fleet of Oros will have to rely on these warships in front of them whose main guns have been unified but whose speed is uneven.

In order to protect the Nanyang industrial base, five battleships, the Dahua, the Great Xia, the Maine, the Pelayo, and the Carlos V, were stationed in the Nanyang.

What Hu Zhen saw on the airship were eight battleships, 27 cruisers, and 24 destroyers, including the Zhenyuan, Dingyuan, New York, Brooklyn, Chang'an, Changzhi, Changshan, and Changhe, for a total of 59 warships.

The airship threw a rope at the flagship Chang'an, tied it to the deck, and slowly descended, and Hu Zhen walked down the rope ladder.

The soldiers waiting in a neat line on the ship suddenly shouted like a tsunami: "Long live the emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Hu Zhen didn't like this kind of red tape, but he knew that this had a great impact on the morale of the soldiers, so he waved his hand and shouted: "The soldiers have worked hard!" ”

After the audience ceremony, Hu Zhen said a few words of encouragement to the soldiers, and then hurriedly walked into the conference room of the battleship, and the generals sat down in two rows in the conference room.

In the past few days, the warships of the former Beiyang Fleet have been sent to the docks in the South Seas to be renovated on the basis of the original structure, and the large ships have dismantled useless torpedo weapons and old naval guns, increased their speed, and installed rapid-fire artillery.

Seeing that everyone was still saluting, Hu Zhen waved his hand to block it, and when he opened his mouth, he immediately reported the situation of the enemy at sea: "Now that the war situation is urgent, you don't have to be polite, Zheng Dingbang, tell me about the situation of the Pacific Fleet of the Hubei Army at sea!" ”

"Report to the emperor, more than 50,000 people of the Japanese army are taking the forty-seven transport ships of the Hubei army, and under the cover of eight warships of the Hubei army, they are advancing towards the Japanese mainland!"

"What type of ships are these eight Hubei warships?"

"The flagship of the Hubei army's escort mission this time is the cruiser Ascord, and the rest have four old gunboats and three destroyers!"

"The Hubei army escort is so careless, are they careless or is there some conspiracy?"

"According to our intelligence, the commander of the Pacific of the Hubei Army is still concurrently held by Alekseev of the Far Eastern Front, but his main focus has been placed on the land battlefield, and the command of the Pacific Fleet is entrusted to Alekseev's close confidant, Deputy Commander of the Pacific Fleet, Stark.

From Alekseev to Stark, there is a natural contempt for the Yellow People of the Far East, and they do not care at all about this escort mission! ”

"Well, what is the main force of the Pacific Fleet of the Hubei Army doing now?"

"They are very crazy, they have crossed the Tsushima Strait twice and headed south, trying to find the main force of our army for a decisive battle, but we implemented the temporary avoidance strategy set by the emperor and ignored them, and the Pacific Fleet of the Hubei Army retreated."

That was the strategy that Hu Zhen set to reassure the more than 2 million Japanese troops to advance north from the Goryeo Peninsula, and now that the Japanese army has left the Goryeo Peninsula and fallen into the ambush circle of the Huaxia army, this strategy must be changed.

"I have decided, from now on, we will not avoid war, but actively seek war, we must wipe out the Pacific Fleet of the Hubei Army before the arrival of the Hubei reinforcement fleet, and cooperate with the army to seize Vladivostok, so that even if the Hubei reinforcement fleet comes to the war zone, it will lose its base!"

As soon as Hu Zhen said this, Zheng Dingbang and the admirals present were excited, Zheng Dingbang stood up and said: "Your Majesty, we have made a plan for a decisive battle with the enemy!" ”

(To be continued.) )