Chapter 140: Prologue
The Pirate Alliance has been living in dire straits for nearly a month, and there is almost nothing to do about it, of course, the harbor of the Black Dragon Fleet is still safe, but there is no way to let the Black Dragon Fleet fight, is this not clear to send to death?
But it takes time to break the deadlock, and in response to this situation, the bigwigs of the Pirate Alliance really have no choice, of course, if they can find an opportunity, the Pirate Alliance will not be relentless!
In order to break the deadlock, the Black Dragon Fleet began to assemble and quietly sailed towards the Storm Strait, all of which was carried out in extreme secrecy, in order to be surprised, the alliance leaders agreed that the underwater ghost must have something to do with the Storm Strait, so use the Black Dragon Fleet to test the Storm Strait!
The news of the Black Dragon Fleet's dispatch soon reached Zhang Lin's ears, Zhang Lin knew that the Pirate Alliance could not stand the harassment of unlimited submarine warfare, and wanted to live and die with the Storm Strait, but Zhang Lin knew in his heart that fighting hard with the Black Dragon Fleet would definitely not be its opponent, even if the Storm Fleet was in a qualitative advantage, so he urgently dispatched the submarine back and prepared to deal with the Black Dragon Fleet!
It's just that the mutation happened suddenly, and when the submarine was withdrawn, the Black Dragon Fleet suddenly turned its bow and did not continue to move towards the Storm Strait, which made Zhang Lin speechless, could it be that this is the enemy's conspiracy?
At the headquarters of the Pirate Alliance, several bigwigs were discussing things about the undersea ghost, and one of the bigwigs said: "It seems to be true, the Storm Strait is the owner of this undersea ghost, I can't believe it, now the Storm Strait is developing to such a point, isn't it our negligence?" ”
As soon as the big guy finished speaking, another big man immediately objected: "Yes, the Storm Strait is very powerful, but we should discuss how to get rid of the Storm Strait, instead of blaming each other here, this is not good for us at all!" ”
Seeing that several bigwigs sank, Alan immediately said: "Now how to find an opportunity to fight head-on with the Storm Strait, otherwise we will always be at a disadvantage, but the matter has come to this point, it seems impossible to annihilate the Storm Strait at one time, we must be prepared for a long-term battle!" ”
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After summoning the submarine back to the strait, Zhang Lin also understood that this was just a means of the pirate alliance, and wanted to find out whether this secret weapon was in the Storm Strait, but now that they knew, it didn't matter, it happened to be a deterrent to the pirate alliance, Zhang Lin felt that it was time to go to war with the pirate alliance head-on, to contain the main fleet of the pirate alliance on the frontal battlefield, and the submarine to break the engagement, Zhang Lin also understood that it was impossible to get the pirate alliance in a short time, this was a protracted war, Both sides are suffering from attrition and patience in the war, and it is up to them to see who can withstand this attrition and endurance. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Since the Black Dragon Fleet left the port, the prelude to the war has been opened, of course, it is not necessary to fight with real guns to call it a war, in order to defeat the enemy, the strategy implemented in many aspects is also part of the war, but the lack of intelligence makes Zhang Lin very embarrassed, after all, the bottom of the Storm Strait is too thin, there can be no mistakes, if he can, Zhang Lin would rather not start a war with the pirate alliance for the time being, but this enemy is very restless, and has been fighting the attention of the Storm Strait!
In order to continue to put pressure on the Pirate Alliance, Zhang Lin let the submarine start patrolling on the vast ocean, and with its excellent concealment, it has become the best weapon to restrict the various activities of the Pirate Alliance!
The construction of the Yamato-class battleship has also come to the end, in order to let the Yamato-class battleship have the strongest firepower, Zhang Lin almost strengthened the secondary gun of the Yamato-class battleship by three times, and the wide hull provides a good weapon carrying platform, the original Yamato-class battleship installed the auxiliary gun armor can only resist the attack of the near miss, under Zhang Lin's instructions, the armor protection of the auxiliary gun has been enhanced, and the power of the main engine has also been improved, in order to be able to play a speed of thirty knots, the main engine of the Yamato-class battleship has been replaced with a boiler, Under the condition that the overall boiler compartment remains unchanged, the boiler pressure is increased, and the engine output is increased, so that the Yamato class ran the maximum speed of 31.8 knots during the test!
The compartment of the hull has also been carefully divided, greatly improving the resistance of the battleship to water ingress, the mine protection system has also been strengthened, of course, the most important thing is the weapon system, in addition to retaining the original Yamato-class 460 mm nine giant guns, the Yamato-class has cleared a lot of unnecessary equipment to reduce weight, the main armor protection area has been enhanced from 410 mm to 430 mm, and the secondary gun is also uniformly installed as a triple 100 mm high-level dual-purpose secondary gun, and a 127-mm double-mounted high-level secondary gun, The fire of the secondary artillery on one side reached a salvo of fifty rounds, and of course some unnecessary facilities were all removed, leaving room for the installation of the secondary gun!
As for the triple 155 mm secondary guns behind the front and rear main guns, Zhang Lin originally planned to replace them with 100 mm secondary guns, but the effect of the four batteries was not ideal, so Zhang Lin simply replaced the two secondary guns with 203 mm to increase the power!
The Yamato-class did not have a torpedo launcher installed, the secondary gun took up too much space, and it was impossible to install a torpedo launch, and the hangar Zhang Lin in the rear was reduced a lot, which could accommodate three water reconnaissance aircraft, as for the fire control radar, Zhang Lin specially asked Smith to customize it, a large ranging radar in front and rear, and a large detection radar was installed, the firepower was powerful, and there was no powerful radar as an eye, it was all in vain, because there was no way to make these guns play their due power, of course, the price of this was that the displacement increased a lot, Originally, the Yamato-class had a standard displacement of more than 60,000 and nearly 70,000, and now the standard displacement has reached 78,000 tons, but this also makes the combat index of the Yamato-class increase!
As for the main gun, Zhang Lin did not use a main gun with a caliber ratio of forty-five times, but a main gun with a caliber ratio of fifty times, at the cost of the Yamato-class main gun with a firing life of only one hundred and fifty shots, but the armor-piercing effect of the shell has been greatly improved, and it is enough to penetrate five hundred millimeters of homogeneous armor at a distance of twenty kilometers.
The Lexington-class aircraft carrier is still under construction, after all, it is an armored aircraft carrier, two large surface ships are built together, and it is very fast to be able to do this in more than a year, of course, this is the result of Smith's full assistance to Zhang Lin, and with the continuous supply of various materials, such a result has been achieved!
As for carrier-based aircraft, Zhang Lin has already begun to order a batch of biplane propeller fighters from Smith, which is similar to the performance of fighters after the end of World War I, but this also makes Zhang Lin very satisfied, after all, there are some objective reasons that cannot be served, in the development of aircraft, the world is far behind, otherwise the battleship would have been replaced by an aircraft carrier!