Xia Jun's salvage of the warship this time can be described as a big fanfare, and he didn't think about how he would feel about the political axe, and there were also a large group of Chinese and foreign reporters who went to Laizhou Bay together, and this kind of behavior was simply a slap in the face to the political axe.

However, now that the navy can't even enter the Bohai Bay, what else can they do to stop it?

With regard to the salvage of the warships, two 30,000-ton floating docks were dispatched this time, and the lifting force of these two floating docks was very large, and it was not a problem to salvage the two warships under the sea, as long as they did not sink too deeply.

The floating dock dragged on the sea for four days, and it was considered to have reached Laizhou Bay.

The Navy dispatched twenty submarines, as well as two Sea Shield-type cruisers that had already been launched, as well as five destroyers.

The navy's water ships are relatively weak, and it is naturally not beneficial to encounter the navy of the army, but there is still air force protection along the way.

The air force is constantly moving from coastal airfields, and at night, the navy is constantly firing flares at the surrounding sea, and the air force is on high alert at night to avoid a sneak attack by the navy.

The navy did not come, and the two floating docks were towed to Laizhou Bay very smoothly.

Under the tracking and reporting of a group of Chinese and foreign reporters, the salvage of the Fusang and Hiei was soon launched, and Xia Jun personally commanded at the scene, but in fact he had nothing to do.

The sinking sites of the Fuso and Hiei are all in the seaside area, and after investigation, they did not sink too deeply, and the sinking of the Fuso is probably more than 50 meters deep, which is deeper than the sinking of the Rui, about more than 80 meters.

The salvage work went relatively smoothly, and it took only two days to lift the Fuso, and the shipwrights and engineers immediately entered the Fuso to inspect the damage to the Fuso.

The results of the inspection came out quickly, and the keel of the Fuso was not damaged, and the bombing did not blow up the keel of the Fuso, but only blew up the superstructure of the Fuso, and there was a large hole in the stern area, and it was the stern position that entered the water.

The shipwrights began to urgently repair the hole in the stern of the Fuso, and if the hole was filled, it could be towed back to a shipyard in Zhejiang or Fujian for a thorough renovation, and there are many docks of this tonnage that can be repaired.

Xie Baozhang stood on the shore and was very excited, if the Fusang could be repaired, the navy would finally have a useless ship, although the Fusang was built independently, and there were still some defects in some places, but it was just dragged back and changed.

This time, the indemnity is presumably the navy can get another share of military expenses, thinking of this, Xie Baozhang's heart is hot.

He once thought that he would never be able to defeat Yueben, and it would never be possible to make Yueben pay compensation, but later Xia Jun invited him out of the mountain, and Xie Baozhang saw hope, and today the East China Autonomous Political Axe has done it.

However, Xie Baozhang is still relatively sober, he knows that the strength of the East China Navy in front of him is still relatively weak, take submarines as an example, although it is said that the East China Navy is a magic weapon for surprising victory, but it is said that the future may have anti-submarine weapons, and the number of submarines in the East China Navy is not too much.

The construction of 50 submarines began this year, and with the addition of the previous submarines, the number of submarines is only more than 130, which is not as large as the Germans.

Without the protection of the Air Force, it would be difficult for the Navy to come out and wander openly.

The sea surface power still needs to be strengthened! New technologies still need to be stepped up research and development.

The successive victories of the navy have made the navy attach great importance to the development of new technologies, and no matter which victory over the navy, it has used new types of weapons.

Submarines, airplanes!

The object of the next experiment is the aircraft carrier, and the two aircraft carriers have almost been successfully transformed, just waiting for the aircraft factory to come out with a good dive bomber.

…… Just when the warship was being salvaged in Laizhou Bay, the East China Army also began to enter the rear of the Yueban army and began to transfer the people in the Longkou area.

There are about 1.5 million people in the Longkou area who need to be relocated, and this is a plain area, which belongs to the relatively wealthy areas of the three eastern provinces of Shandong.

The army was quite cooperative, but after a big defeat, the arrogance of the army was suppressed a lot. Little devils have always been like this, as long as the opponent's resistance is weaker, the more pampered their arrogance becomes.

At this time, the Yue army naturally did not dare not cooperate, because the East China Army was on the opposite side, and if it was in the way, people might directly find an excuse to launch an attack.

The first of the $100 million reparations was $10 million, which was an interest-free loan from the British, and the money would be fully received within ten days.

This Sino-Chinese war came to a temporary end with the temporary victory of the East China Autonomous Axe.

The people who were evacuated from Longkou were all sent to the seven provinces of East China Autonomous Region for resettlement, and now there is a shortage of workers everywhere, and these people can easily find work.

…… The salvage work lasted six days, and the Biei was salvaged, and the damage to the Birui was much better than that of the Fuso, but it was said that the sailors themselves had dug a large hole in the low. The hole is not big, and it is easier to repair than the Fuso.

The two warships were salvaged and quickly repaired for the leak, and then the Navy towed the floating dock and the two warships back again.

Navy and Air Force escort all the way!

Both warships can be repaired, and in Xia Jun's opinion, the battle cruiser Birui is more useful to the East China Navy than the Fuso.

Because of the fast speed and long range of battle cruisers, they could be stationed overseas to protect merchant ships.

As for the Fuso, it is not bad to change it and use it as a capital ship for the time being. But in the future, the main force will not be battleships, but aircraft carriers.

However, battleships still have to be built, and the East China Navy needs deterrence, and battleships are the most deterrent maritime giants in this era.

During the entire salvage process, he didn't come to make trouble, obviously understanding that the past was just thankless.

It is said that only the First Fleet and the Second Fleet are left in this Combined Fleet, and the First Fleet is still in a half-crippled state, and has not yet recovered from the heavy losses suffered by the East China Navy in the last sneak attack with submarines.

The Fuso and Hiei will be towed to Mawei in Fuzhou for repair and refit.

There are many modifications, one is to increase the displacement, increase the power, and unify the caliber of the main gun and the secondary gun, and increase the anti-torpedo watertight compartment, and improve the armor.

In terms of technology, now the Navy lacks only one aspect of armor. However, soon Germany's armor technology will arrive, and at this time, the East China Autonomous Axe trades with Germany, one of which is a lot of German technology, and through trade, the East China Autonomous Axe can buy the technology it wants from Germany.

Another important thing is to buy technicians from Germany.

Now that war has broken out in Germany, their shipbuilding industry seems to be useless, because the sea has been blocked, so those shipbuilders have nothing to do but build warships.

This is a good opportunity for China, which lacks mechanics and engineers. The East China Autonomous Government can completely absorb Germany's warship manufacturing technology, not only in terms of technology, but also in terms of personnel, and I believe that when the war is fought to a corner, the Kaiser will consider it.

Xia Jun returned to Hangzhou and soon dispatched the second batch of transport submarines, a total of twenty transport submarines, loaded with arms and supplies ordered by Germany.

Among this cargo were a large number of 60mm mortars.

This Sino-Chinese war was a stage for the East China Autonomous Government to advertise weapons, and all countries were optimistic about this kind of mortar, which had a fast rate of fire, good power, and was lightweight, and received a lot of orders for this.

Britain ordered two thousand in one go, France also ordered a thousand, Germany ordered a thousand, as well as mortar-making technology.

For the technical needs of Germany, Xia Jun is very happy to meet them.

However, the premise is that Germany must also come up with technology in exchange, and Xia Jun is naturally eyeing the Navy's battleship manufacturing technology. Battleships are a more complicated thing, and the last time there was an exchange of technology, the technology for the manufacture of battleships was not completely exchanged.

Germany did not refuse this, and the East China Autonomous Government is currently Germany's only powerful 'foreign aid', and it is the only neutral country that can directly transport supplies to Germany. The industrial development of the autonomous political axe in East China is obvious to all, not to mention that what Germany needs is raw materials.

Although Germany had stockpiled many raw materials before the war, these raw materials had to be used in a planned manner. In terms of aircraft orders, Germany buys directly from the aircraft factories in Germany based in the East China Autonomous Government.

As for tanks, Germany is not interested for the time being.

Even if this weapon achieved a certain effect on the battlefield, Germany initially rejected this weapon, and this situation was also expected by Xia Jun, and he did not sell Chinese chariots to Germany.

Orders from Britain and France were also increasing, and after the armistice was signed, Britain had to fulfill its commitments, and Zhu Erdian was still selling hard, so that the East China Autonomous Government soon won an order of 100 million pounds, and France's order reached about 50 million pounds.

After the completion of the current orders, the profit is as high as about one billion.

But the war has only just begun!

Britain alone spent more than £2 billion on its military spending in the first year, and the rest of the country together would never be less than Britain.

In the first year of the war, the Allies fought relatively calmly.

At this time, on the European battlefield, the snipers trained for Germany by the East China Autonomous Axe showed their skills, causing great psychological fear to the Allied soldiers on the battlefield.

At first, the Entente did not think that this was any kind of sniper, but only felt that it might be the luck of the other side, but soon they found out that it was not good luck, but that there was a kind of infantry in Germany [***] that accurately hit the enemy.

The Entente soon learned from the Entente that the East China Army also possessed such precision strike capabilities.

It is also unknown who came up with the idea of attaching a scope to a rifle, but the problem was that the Entente did not have the ability to create a scope.

It's not that there is no technology, there is still technology for optical lenses, but there is no production line and no experience in sighting.

In order to reverse the fear of the soldiers on the battlefield, the Entente immediately went to the East China Merchant House to discuss the matter of the scope in detail.

The previous historical Allied countries even wanted to make a private deal with Germany, but Germany refused. At present, after the Entente knew that the East China Autonomous Political Axe had snipers, they naturally discussed the matter of the scope with the East China Autonomous Political Axe.

The East China Commercial Hall soon reached an order for sniper rifles and scopes with Britain and France, and the sniper rifles purchased by Britain and France were mainly Type 09 sniper rifles, semi-automatic sniper rifles, and the price was naturally expensive.

(To be continued)