On the northern shore of Galway Bay, 17 kilometres from Galway, the capital of County Galway, lies a modern naval base. During www.biquge.info Kingdom of Ireland, it was the largest submarine training, supply and maintenance base of the Irish Navy on the west coast, and the famous Royal Irish Submarine College was born here.

One day in the summer of 1947, His Majesty King Joachim I, the new King of the United Kingdom and the admired Great, arrived with his admirals to attend the inauguration of the International Naval Academy in Galway and the opening ceremony of the first cohort of cadets. Despite the scorching sun, the cool sea breeze from the Atlantic Ocean makes it safe to be outdoors. On the playground of the academy, 240 young people from eight different countries, including the New United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Greece, the United States, Argentina and China, wore crisp white cadet uniforms, and their faces were full of confidence and pride. Everyone standing here has passed the layers of selection and fierce competition, and is the best and lucky among their peers; Everyone standing here will come with the ambition to serve the motherland, and they will receive a 12-month high-level course and intensive training, exploring the mysteries of the Irish Navy's transformation from an unknown junior to a majestic and proud power, and appreciate the essence of the development of naval technology and the evolution of actual combat strategy......

The Royal Irish Submarine College has moved to the more technically sophisticated Dublin and renamed the Royal Submarine College of the United Kingdom, and the schoolhouse, dockyard and docks it left behind form the main body of the International Naval College. In order to carry out the course, the new United Kingdom Navy provided the International Naval Academy with a number of ships and aircraft from the active and mothballed ranks, including the IA-40 carrier-based radar early warning aircraft, which became famous after the Philippine campaign, and the new United Kingdom Navy's experimental underwater high-speed submarine Uh-1.

In the joint naval exercises between the Soviet Union and the New United Kingdom, the K-class underwater high-speed submarine is one of the few bright spots of the Northern Fleet of the Soviet and Russian Navy, and the Russians' mastery and application of closed-cycle reciprocating engine technology are even ahead of the world's first naval power, Germany. The reason for this contrast is not that the Germans' ship design concepts or shipbuilding engineering technology are lagging behind, but that they are a direct manifestation of the country's strategic thinking on naval warfare -- the current focus of the development of the German Navy is on sea-dominating ships, that is, aircraft carriers and multi-purpose surface ships, and at a time when all countries are still using piston carrier-based aircraft, they have already realized the practical application of jet-based carrier-based aircraft.

The closed-cycle reciprocating engine technology of the Russian Navy originated from Italy, a traditional naval power in southern Europe, but Italy was not a true leader in this field. As early as 1938, the United States and Ireland signed a military cooperation agreement, there was a joint development of underwater high-speed submarine project, and in 1941, the project moved from theoretical research to practice, and the United States soon built a 200-ton experimental submarine. In 1943, on the basis of a large number of tests, the United States and Ireland cooperated to design a defensible underwater high-speed submarine with a standard displacement of 1,400 tons and an ocean-going underwater high-speed submarine of 3,200 tons, both of which were included in the active service sequence of the two navies in the spring of 1945. During the Philippine Campaign, the US Navy dispatched nine underwater high-speed submarines, and Ireland dispatched four to participate in the war, and these underwater high-speed submarines achieved a total of 33 Japanese warships, of which the most dazzling star was the US Navy's "Sea Monster," which created an impressive record of sinking three enemy ships and two warships within three hours in the waters north of Luzon, and sent nearly 20,000 tons of Japanese combat materials and more than 600 seafarers to the bottom of the sea. In terms of actual combat results, the United States and the new United Kingdom are the leaders in the development of the current AIP embryonic technology......

Ascending to the viewing platform in front of the playground, his eyes swept over the 240 students with their heads held high, and the oriental faces among them made Natsuki full of emotion. This international naval academy is positioned as a senior military academy for active duty officers from all over the world to come for further study, and applicants need to have the basic naval literacy of non-commissioned officer level, which is not difficult for any country with a navy, except for the Chinese. So far, the new United Kingdom has not recognized the puppet regime established by Japan, nor has it established diplomatic relations with it, let alone accepted its naval personnel to come for further training, so the Chinese cadets accepted by the International Naval Academy are all from Soviet Russia or the areas under the actual control of Soviet Russia -- there are Chinese soldiers and civilians who entered Russia during the period of the great strategic retreat and remain in the country today, and there are also capable personnel selected by the Soviet power that is now rooted in northeastern China. Among the dozens of people who participated in the screening, only 9 had previously worked in the navy, and only 6 had military qualifications that reached the standard of non-commissioned officers, that is to say, except for 6 people who really met the requirements for registration, and the rest were only qualified for selection by receiving special care -- under Xia Shu's special care, these oriental men had to complete in less than two months the skills that ordinary people needed to master in less than two months with a weak or even no foundation at all, and with perseverance that ordinary people could hardly imagine. It can be said that the 25 Chinese standing here at the moment are not inferior to their peers in other aspects, except for their lack of language and experience!

"Lads, welcome to the new United Kingdom, to the International Naval Academy in Galway. Over the next year, we will train you in the same standards as the new United Kingdom naval officers. If you are unable to adapt to the pace of study or the environment in which you live, or if you quit for other reasons, I personally regret that you missed an opportunity to become a top career officer. After completing all the courses and passing the assessment, I can guarantee that you will become the pride of your respective countries, because your military literacy, thinking habits, and vision will reach the world-class level! ”

Standing in front of the microphone, Natsuki first made this simple but brilliant speech in English, and then he repeated it in Spanish, which was enough for more than half of the students present to understand what he meant. After that, he paused for a moment and said it again in the Chinese that he had once been intimately familiar with.

Before the words fell, the audience was already full of surprise, especially those oriental faces, their eyes widened one by one, and they couldn't believe their ears. This European monarch, who has been crowned with a series of brilliant titles such as "European God of War" and "Hohenzollern Genius", can actually speak such pure and fluent Chinese!

At the end, Xia Shu added an additional paragraph: "The country is broken by mountains and rivers, and the city is deep in spring; When I feel the tears, I hate the birds; The beacon fire lasted for three months, and the family letter was worth 10,000 gold; The whitehead scratching is shorter, and the hairpin is overwhelming...... You have a long way to go, please don't live up to the expectations of the people! ”

The 25 Chinese men have different body shapes, accents and even beliefs, but at this moment, they all have tears in their eyes.

After the opening ceremony, the 240 students began to study in separate classes. Different from the conventional high-level military academies, the International Naval Academy, which was established at the request of friendly countries, has only three majors, namely, surface ship command, underwater ship command, and naval aviation command. Natsuki's audacity to claim that graduates of the academy can become top career officers stems from the Irish Navy's outstanding performance in all wars, especially World War II and the recent war between the United States and Japan in the Philippines, which has shown the convincing strength of the world.

For example, the U.S. Navy defends itself in the east and attacks in the west, and if they want to safeguard their overseas interests in the vast Pacific Ocean, they will inevitably give priority to the development of naval aviation. Since the sinking of the "Kirov", the Soviet and Russian navies have shifted their focus from surface ships to underwater ships and naval aviation, so the Russian cadets tend to have two majors: underwater ship command and naval aviation; The Argentine Navy is committed to maintaining their dominant position on the east coast of South America, so most of their cadets have entered the surface ship command profession. At this time, neither the Chiang regime in the northwest nor the Soviet regime in the northeast had a real naval existence, and although the puppet regime supported by Japan had a navy with good strength on paper, their ships were basically the goods that the Japanese eliminated and did not want, and the quality of officers and sailors was low, so they could only be qualified for such roles as coastal patrol and inspection and guarding. Therefore, for the Chinese cadets, no matter which of the three major majors of surface ship command, underwater ship command, and naval navigation command is of no practical significance at present, and even after completing their studies, they do not know how to serve the country......

These Chinese cadets have gone through a lot of hardships to enter the International Naval Academy, and they have the precious opportunity to learn advanced techniques and tactical ideas with elites from all over the world, and to develop and cultivate international friendship. Among the 25 people, 6 of them who were born in the military academy were all trained in the operation and command of surface ships, or mainly in gunnery, or good at lightning strikes, and the remaining 19 were not military cadets, but they all had a relatively high level of education. In order to make them do their best, Natsuki drafted a professional plan based on their self-reported data, and then assigned his attendant officers to interview each of them with senior instructors from the Naval Academy, so as to finalize the adjustment plan, and finally finalized the plan after submitting it to Natsuki for review -- 16 people will learn to command surface ships, 5 people will learn command of underwater ships, and 4 people will learn command of naval aviation.

Not only the choice of majors, but also the Chinese students received special attention from the academy during their coursework: those who learned the command of surface ships, whether it was operational drills or combat exercises, spent most of their time using high-speed torpedo boats or light minelayers, so they were familiar with various lightning strikes and minelaying tactics; Those who learn the command of underwater ships basically operate small submarines or micro special submarines, and most of the exercises are underwater minelaying tactics under submarine raids and defensive postures; Those who study the command of the HNA will be able to fight in single aircraft or small formations, and most of them will be low-altitude bomb dropping and night bombing.

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