The Chinese Navy is no stranger to torpedoes. As early as October 1874, Li Hongzhang, Minister of Beiyang, was invited to visit the Russian [***] ship at the mouth of Dagu, Tianjin, and saw the torpedo launch performance for the first time, and was immediately impressed by this new weapon. Since the beginning of China's construction of modern coastal defense, while purchasing and building Western-style warships, it has purchased and imitated a large number of mines for the defense of key ports, and Li Hongzhang, who is well aware of the astonishing explosive power of mines, suddenly saw a special kind of mine that can sail on his own to attack the enemy, which is tantamount to a treasure; after that, Li Hongzhang has become a well-known torpedo fan in China's high-level officialdom, and the torpedo armament work of the modern Chinese navy has been vigorously carried out through his single-handed promotion.

At the same time that Beiyang was buying new and trendy weapons and torpedo boats with great fanfare, there was also a feudal official in the Chinese officialdom who was also obsessed with this kind of underwater weapon, Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Liangguang at the time, and Li Hongzhang, the minister of Beiyang, who was also a standard torpedo fan. In 1882, on the occasion of Beiyang's construction of ironclad ships in Germany, following the "Qian-1" and "Qian-2" in Beiyang, Liangguang also ordered three torpedo boats from the German Volkeng Factory, which were named "Thunder Dragon", "Thunder Tiger" and "Thunder Zhong". There is a 14-inch torpedo tube on the left and right sides of the bow, equipped with a total of 3 blackhead torpedoes (1 of which is a spare mine), and 2 37mm Haqikes five-barrel rapid-fire guns, with a total crew of 20 people.

It seems to be to steal the limelight of Li Hongzhang's Beiyang, just when Li Hongzhang purchased a batch of carrier-based torpedo boats with his warships, in 1884, Zhang Zhidong sent an order to Germany again, and ordered 8 torpedo boats in one go at the Elbingschichau shipyard in Germany.

For a time, torpedo boats in the Beiyang and Cantonese oceans were everywhere, and Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong jointly contributed to the trend of torpedo boats and weapons entering China.

It is a pity that China has purchased so many torpedo boats, and the results of the battle are infinitely close to zero, except for the fact that the officers and men of the torpedo boats blew up several of their own batteries in Beiyang at the last moment when the Chinese army was about to capture Lushun, only the extremely rare collective escape in the history of the world's naval history will go down in history. At that moment, a very absurd incident occurred, and the Beiyang Naval Division concentrated all its fire against its torpedo boats, and the combined fleet sent the fastest "Yoshino" to capture it.

After Chai Dongliang came out of the venue, he returned home directly and took out his laptop in the safe in the study.

"Ladies and gentlemen, give me some advice, which torpedo is best for the protagonist?" Chai Dongliang typed out a message for help in the book friend group.

"Tang Yuanda, are you asking about aviation torpedoes for aircraft or torpedoes used by warships?"

"All of them, all of them! Offer a reward of 10,000 starting coins for torpedo information! "Chai Dongliang sacrificed again, and there must be a magic weapon of a brave man under the heavy reward.

Sure enough, the originally deserted group of book friends immediately became active, and many thousand-year-old "submarines" also surfaced.

"Whether it's a total of 10,000 or 10,000 for one person, you can tell me clearly!"

"Tangyuan is the most cunning, always playing word games, let Ya make it clear, can't be sloppy!"

Chai Dongliang hurriedly patted his chest and promised: "As long as the information is useful, each person who provides it will be 10,000, and the glutinous rice balls will be guaranteed by personality." ”

"Cut, do you still have a personality? How many times have you broken off recently? You count it yourself, and you say that you will make up for it, but when is it not a pigeon? ”

Chai Dongliang's face was depressed, his character was so unbearable? The ruling area is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more things, but the talents available around us have not been able to cultivate a few, looking at the whole of China, there are only a handful of talents who are really familiar with industry, politics, law, and military.

"Great, I've posted the information to you to share with the group!" Xiaofang, a beautiful book friend, sent Chai Dongliang an impromptu conversation.

Chai Dongliang immediately thanked him: "Beauty, thank you!" ”

Xiao Fang suddenly turned her face and said: "Tang Yuan is big, why does your protagonist want to marry two wives, it's not fair!" ”

Chai Dongliang said with a bitter face: "I'm already married, what else can I do?" Divorced? ”

Xiaofang sent a smiling avatar: "There's no need for divorce, let the heroine Hongxing go out of the wall and find a lover again, even if it's a tie." ”

Chai Dongliang was sweating: "I object!" ”

"The objection is invalid, so it is decided! Otherwise, I won't tip! Xiao Fang said in an unquestionable tone.

Chai Dongliang saw that there were already a few book friends who had provided information, and hurriedly got off the line??? After the nineties, she really couldn't afford to hurt, and she cuckolded her husband without even blinking an eyelid.

After Chai Dongliang opened the information, the first thing that caught his eye was the information provided by the beautiful book friend Xiaofang "A Hundred Years of Torpedo Development History".

"In 1866, the Englishman Robert? White Black made a new underwater weapon, because its appearance is very similar to fish, not like the kind of electric eel that loves to attack large underwater animals, and the Latin name of the electric eel is "torpedinidae", so people named this new weapon "torpedo", torpedo. Because the name of the inventor was White, this model torpedo was named a white-headed torpedo???

It was not until 1904 that the American Bliss invented the first thermodynamic torpedo (also known as the "steam gas torpedo"), which increased the torpedo speed to about 65 km/h and the range of 2,740 meters. The torpedo finally became the main combat weapon of the navy on a par with naval guns. In World War II, about 30,000 torpedoes were fired by the warring parties and 13.66 million tons of transport ships were sunk, accounting for 68% of the total tonnage of sunken transport ships. 369 combat ships, accounting for 38.5% of the total number sunk. Among them, the "Wolf Pack" of German submarines successively used traceless electric torpedoes, single-plane passive acoustic self-guided torpedoes, and wire-guided torpedoes, the "shallow water torpedo" specially modified for the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, and the "Type 93 torpedo" (with a diameter of 63 centimeters and a range of up to 40,000 meters) known as the "underwater spear." All of them were famous for a time and caused the Allies to suffer greatly.

The Anglo-Argentine Battle of the Famer Islands in 1982 brought torpedoes into the limelight again: British submarines sank the cruiser "General Belgrano", the second largest ship of the Argentine Navy, with two old torpedoes from the Second World War era????.

Looking down further, Chai Dongliang's eyes lit up, the torpedo that sank the "General Belgrano" was actually the MK8 sailfish torpedo that had been in service since 1933.

MK8, I don't know if it can be imitated successfully with the current level of technology, Chai Dongliang's brain is spinning fast.

went online again, only to see a lot of scolding.

"Tangyuan is really shameless, I cooked it for supper, saying that it was for 10,000 starting coins, and there is no shadow again!"

"Ya has always been shameless, do you know?"

Chai Dongliang announced in a very high-profile manner: "The three book friends who provided the information just now will each have 10,000 starting coins, and they will be distributed now!" ”

"I knew that Tangyuan was very trustworthy!"

"That is, Tangyuan's great credit is like Sima Qian, people are not castrated, and they can do it when they say it."

Chai Dongliang hurriedly stopped: "Don't say these nutritious, who scolded me just now?" ”

"Don't be surprised if you misunderstand, misunderstand, and accidentally hurt your allies!" The book friend who scolded the loudest, "Lightning Fierce God", wiped his cold sweat and said.

Chai Dongliang handed out the starting point coin of the bounty, and then issued the bounty again: "Whoever can help me provide me with the drawings of several famous torpedoes during World War II, I will reward the ocean with five hundred." Especially the MK8"

Anyway, Chai Dongliang's manuscript fee is not life-saving, so it is better to exchange it for some urgently needed technical information.

"Great, you mean five hundred? It's not a starting point, is it? "As soon as the lightning god saw that he was rich, he immediately became more energetic.

"Cash, five hundred dollars in cash!" Chai Dongliang said coaxingly.

The technocratic scholar said disdainfully: "What's so good about MK8? The data was a mediocre mess during World War II, except that the reliable surname was better, there was no advantage, or Xiao Yueben's Type 95 pure oxygen torpedo, that thing data is extremely perverted???"

Before the words fell, the Iron Blood Knife was beaten by a group of people.

"The Ninety-Five is not good, the surname can be very unstable, and there is even a danger of self-explosion, even if it is hit by a machine gun on the plane, it will affect the main ship, and the Ancient Eagle and Autumn Moon of the Yue Army are both dead like this. This kind of direct-sailing torpedo has an ultra-long range that has proved to be a huge threat to both sides in the melee in actual combat, and the combat ability is not high. ”

"Little things about this book.,The protagonist must not use it.,It's disgusting to see the word "this.,Except for Mr. Aoi Sora and Yui Hatano.,All the things I say and things I hate it!"

Chai Dongliang said angrily: "Don't quarrel, is Lao Tzu's two thousand yuan easy to earn?" Say something useful, which is better. ”

"The German goods are good, and the American MK14, it is very easy to use after improving the fuse, Chai Dongliang was confused by what they said, for the navy, he basically knows aircraft carriers, battleships, everything else is a smear, the more he listens to the arguments of book friends, the more overwhelmed he becomes, and finally he has to howl: "I want these kinds of drawings, who can get them?" Five hundred pieces of each! ”

The book friend group immediately quieted down and knew without asking, these guys went to Baidu.

After a long time without movement, Chai Dongliang couldn't help but ask, "Did you find the drawing?" ”

The iron-blooded mad knife said with a depressed face: "Tangyuan, the drawings of the torpedo are really unavailable, and there is no one on the Internet!" ”

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Chai Dongliang's mood was suddenly greatly affected, he originally thought that these old-fashioned antiques should be overwhelming on the Internet, but he didn't expect that he couldn't get a single drawing.

"Are there any drawings for aviation torpedoes?" Chai Dongliang was unwilling to give up.

There was silence again, and after a long time, the "submarines" surfaced one after another: "Tangyuan, it's really not, this brother Qian can't earn it, damn it, I originally planned to earn 500 yuan to buy a gift for my girlfriend!" ”

"Tangyuan, it's really not available on the Internet, you can figure it out yourself, my brother can't help you!"

Chai Dongliang had to turn off the computer again, he couldn't help but laugh dumbly, he had been too dependent on the book friends for a long time, and always felt that they were omnipotent, but he forgot that most of them were ordinary school students and young people who had just worked, and none of them were military experts??? It's a little too hard for them!

Forget it, sort out the information at hand and hand it over to the ordnance experts of the Industrial Bureau to solve the problem, always rely on yourself, and the growth of technical personnel has also been greatly suppressed.

It's time to develop your own scientific research skills!

(To be continued)