After signing the agreement with Germany, Yang Yuanzhao came to the shipyard again, at this time in the shipyard, it was not a warship made for the Germans, but China, because of the relationship between the manufacture once, this time the progress was faster, 3 months, almost completed the project of almost 4 months, it is estimated that the original construction period of more than 8 months can be saved to 6 months, and the part of the sailors and officers who followed the German sea trials, they will be more familiar with these warships in the future, because they are almost exactly the sameThe only difference is that most of the heavy and light tanks are loaded with the strongest seaplanes in the northwest, they use the latest materials and engines, and have a strong endurance, which can be used in battle, acting as the eyes and ears and sights of the battleship, using professional equipment at high altitudes, measuring and calculating, and after the results are out, they will be transmitted to the command station by guò radio.

The reason why the dreadnought can make all the other warships outdated is because of the unified caliber, which can ensure a salvo, with a range of attacks, instead of point attacks, so that the attack power and artillery projection ability per unit time are greatly increased, as for the aiming method, there is no obvious improvement, generally on the battleship, a relatively high position, set up observation posts, and use optics for ranging.

Such a limited height, simply can not see the overall situation of the battlefield in the eyes, each battleship sees a part, in fact, high-altitude observation and aiming, has long appeared, the early hot air balloon observer, is one of them, but the height of the hot air balloon at that time may only be one or two hundred meters, with some tools can still transmit the sound down. Now the altitude of the airship is about a kilometer, and the horizon is wide. But the transmission is slow.

The Northwest is on the radio and has crowned the whole world. From the emergence of a few years, has been updated several generations, the speed of upgrading and development of electronic products, basically continued the development speed of the 21st century, in this era of electronic deserts, it is simply incredible, the reliability of the radio has increased greatly, and the transmission distance has also increased from hundreds of kilometers to thousands of kilometers. Basically, it has the ability to apply it militarily, and the current Northwest Army is also carrying out modification and adaptability training based on this, and the application of radio is coming and going.

Seaplanes are one of them, carried in light and heavy port, which can be sent and received in a smooth way, and in peacetime, can be used as reconnaissance. With a flight radius of 200 km and a flight speed of 180 km, you can detect enough range in a short time. Help the fleet find opponents, even during battles, as long as it's not night. You can take to the skies at an altitude of 1000 meters. With the help of special optical instruments, it was possible to supplement the lack of observers of battleships. On a certain Cheng dù, it can even replace the command of the fleet, which has many uses.

Seaplane is only one aspect, in addition to the transformation of air defense is also underway, there is a torpedo, under the premise that Yang Yuanzhao proposed the direction, the computer provides calculation support, and the lathe provides high-precision processing capabilities, the northwest has made drastic improvements to the torpedo, not only to make the shape of the torpedo slightly changed, so that it is more suitable for high-speed progress, the charge and positioning have also been greatly improved, more accurate, faster, longer range, more charge, has become the most outstanding place for the new torpedo in the northwest, Of course, this is still an ordinary torpedo, the project of special torpedoes is also being carried out, and the project of oxygen torpedoes has been established, but the progress made so far is very small, mainly the progress of some underlying theories, and there is still a considerable distance from the real thing and the real combat application.

When Yang Yuanzhao arrived at Qingdao Shipyard, he found that Qingdao Shipyard was already visited, these people were the students who had entered Qingdao Navigation College and had studied for 3 months. Not to mention that before these warships are completely completed and launched, all the training needs to be completed when they enter service, otherwise, the basic sailors and high-level officers are available, and the intermediate level and some professional and technical positions are too insufficient.

Therefore, choose once a month to watch the progress of the battleship, because it is the ship they may serve and board, it will have a huge boost to them, in fact, this effect is excellent, there is no basis for words, the old cruiser used for training before, there is no sense of substitution, but when you really go to the shipyard and see the huge battleship that is laying the keel, in the showroom, you can see the model of the battleship, and the giant ship that you have seen in the military port and supply dock, these together, have a huge boost for the students, and the previous one had a good effect, this month is the turn again.

Seeing Yang Yuanzhao's arrival, several instructors who had seen Yang Yuanzhao immediately stepped forward and asked Yang Yuanzhao to tell everyone a few words.

As soon as he finished speaking, a confidential secretary whispered in Yang Yuanzhao's ear: "The secret message of the Intelligence Bureau, the Japanese have moved!" Yang Yuanzhao's face remained unchanged, and he nodded slightly at him, but his heart was churning, he didn't stay in Qingdao Shipyard for long, and even changed his itinerary temporarily, and the 3 visits were canceled, and then he hurriedly ended this inspection, left Qingdao Shipyard, and went to Qingdao.

Sitting in the car, driving smoothly on the avenue, recovering Qingdao is a big deal, it should be a big publicity, the reason why it is secretly received, and the reason why there are so many tricks is in Japan, Japan is the enemy of China, during the history of World War II, so that China has suffered great damage, this era, Japan's rise has been replaced by the northwest, whether it is the cotton crisis, or in recent years, their exports, have been hit hard, traditional projects are replaced by the northwest, The newly opened technology was not enough, and in this era, Japan was only a second-rate power, and it was not even qualified to come to the forefront of the competition.

However, at present, the largest amount of land occupied in China is Japan, North Manchuria, various concessions, and Taiwan, including the current Shandong where Yang Yuanzhao is located, which has always been coveted by Japan, and the navy directly crosses the Sea of Japan is China's Yellow Sea, and Shandong is on the coast of the Yellow Sea.

Japan has not yet declared war on Germany, but it will be soon, in the Anglo-Japanese treaty, Japan has the legal principle of declaring war on Germany, and Germany's construction in Shandong, Qingdao port, fortresses and factories are also Japan's hope, they will inevitably go to war, and the first to bear the brunt is the navy.

Since the development, Japan's army is far behind the navy, the navy quickly entered the forefront of the world, but the army is not into the stream, with the northwest of the strong army, more than a million troops, not afraid of fighting with Japan on land, but the sea is different, the Japanese navy started from the first Sino-Japanese war, the battle of Dadonggou, the strongest Chinese fleet built by the Westernization movement, the Beiyang naval division was completely defeated, and it has not been restored until now, in 1906, it defeated the Russian navy, under the two major wars, The Japanese have accumulated enough experience, coupled with the fact that they have such a main super-dreadnought as the Kongo-class and a large number of cutting-edge ships, if they are not able to inflict heavy damage on the Japanese fleet in the first place, it will be a nightmare for the entire Chinese coast, and it will be impossible for the main warships to be launched after six months, and at most under the premise of putting into use for more than a year, the Japanese fleet will be weakened as much as possible and China will be given time, which is what it is inevitable to do.

At that time, whether it was the General Staff or Yang Yuanzhao, the only way to think of was to dig a pit for Japan to attack and take back Qingdao from Germany, but it was kept secret, for this purpose, maybe in a year or two, the northwest has enough ability to resist the Japanese fleet, the overwhelming number of capital ships and the strength of the capital ships, even if the fleet in the northwest is not good enough for Japan, it is enough to overwhelm Japan, but now, after a vacuum period of more than a year, there is no way, although the northwest slightly regrets it, why not leave a few capital shipsBut if you think about it carefully, if there is no German sea trial, which has accumulated a lot of experience and qualified sailors in the northwest, even if you have a good ship, you may not be able to completely defeat Japan.

If the main force of the Japanese naval fleet moves, they will definitely be outside the range of naval guns, that is, thirty or forty kilometers away from the shore of Jiaozhou Bay, which is a place where naval guns cannot reach, but it is an area for aircraft attacks, and the planes that are the best in the northwest and the large-caliber 15-inch naval guns with a range of more than 40 kilometers should be able to leave most of Japan's combined fleet behind.

The car hurriedly arrived at the Qingdao fortress, in the war room, more than 40 radio stations, are working intensively, responsible for contacting the intelligence bureau and the northwest headquarters, the intelligence is sent from Japan, the current intelligence personnel in Japan, did not enter the top level of Japan, but from the bottom to observe the high-level situation, from the beginning of the war in Europe, the Japanese military department and the government have held a long closed-door meeting, until today, it is over, the intelligence bureau can not get the main content of the meeting, but through the guò periphery to get the information, Just today, all the personnel of the Combined Fleet canceled their vacations and entered a state of combat readiness, and the soldiers of the 18th Division were also on standby, ready for war.

If Japan wants to declare war on Germany and make a move against Shandong, it will rely on a combined fleet of nearly 100 warships of various types and the 18th Division of the Army that has been assembled. (To be continued......)