Britain, France, the United States, and Italy have all started to build large aircraft carriers, but limited by the 23,000-ton aircraft carrier displacement limit stipulated in the Washington Naval Treaty, the total tonnage of aircraft carriers in various countries also limits the number of aircraft carriers they can build too much.

The Japanese Navy is also limited by the Washington Naval Treaty, and its total tonnage of capital ships and aircraft carriers is less than that of Britain and the United States, which is an insurmountable red line for Britain and the United States to jointly limit the Japanese Navy.

The treaty stipulates that the total tonnage of the capital ships of the Japanese Navy is 315,000 tons, and the combined fleet lost more than 240,000 tons of warships in the Pacific naval war.

According to the new 88th Fleet Reconstruction Bill submitted by the new Navy Minister Otkaku Shoshi, the Japanese Navy will have eight supercrossbow battleships, eight heavy cruisers, and more than 60 light cruisers and destroyers in the next two years to reconstitute the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet.

In order to counter the four large aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier battle group of the Tang Empire, the Japanese Navy will complete the construction of four large aircraft carriers in the next two years, all of which are more than 25,000 tons. At the same time, considering that the Tang Empire may also expand the number of aircraft carriers during this time, the appearance of a large number of escort aircraft carriers in the Tang Army has made the Japanese Navy even more crazy.

Therefore, in addition to building four large aircraft carriers, the Japanese Navy will convert six heavy cruisers in service into aircraft carriers to offset the numerical superiority of the Tang Army's main aircraft carriers in the next two years.

And the total tonnage of aircraft carriers of the Japanese Navy is limited to less than 81000 tons. The displacement of a single newly-built aircraft carrier was limited to less than 23000, and apparently the four large aircraft carriers of the Japanese army exceeded the standard.

But the Japanese Navy did not care about this at all, and the entire Japanese military was outraged. was beaten by the Tang army and had no power to fight back, and his face was thrown to Mars, except for the crazy expansion of armaments, nothing else mattered.

However, the Inukai Cabinet really did not have that much money to build ships for the Navy, let alone rebuild the 88th Fleet, and the Japanese economy was on the verge of collapse after the economic crisis and terrorist attacks. There was not so much money allocated to the navy at all, and the army was hit hard by the defeat in Shanghai, and it also asked for money from the cabinet of Inuyangyi. Forced to repeatedly postpone additional appropriations.

The Japanese military has gone crazy, and the Inuyang Yi cabinet has repeatedly postponed the original Haode appropriation and the issuance of national bonds, which makes the Japanese military very dissatisfied, and the Inuyang Yi cabinet is planning to sue for peace with the Tang Empire. Even Jihua agreed to the demands of the Tang Empire. The cedion of Taiwan and its affiliated islands, the Ryukyu Islands, and the Southern Islands to the Tang Empire and the compensation of the Tang Empire's military expenses of 2 billion yen aroused opposition from top to bottom in Japan, and the Japanese military was even more furious, and finally the Japanese military launched the May 15 coup.

The coup d'état attacked the Prime Minister's residence, the Metropolitan Police Department, the residence of Minister of the Interior Nobuaki Makino, the Bank of Mitsubishi, the headquarters of the Political Friends Association, and substations around Tokyo. Prime Minister Inuyang Yi was killed. Due to the small scale of the coup d'état and the lack of concrete jihua to establish political power, in order to achieve the goal, the putschists surrendered. During the trial, the military department incited public opinion to exonerate the coup d'état. And in doing so, they will strengthen their right to rule. As a result, on May 26, a so-called "nationwide" cabinet headed by Navy Vice Admiral Minoru Saito was formed. The era of the party cabinet is over.

The establishment of Minoru Saito's cabinet marked the comprehensive march of Japan's military, politics and economy towards the road of fascist militarism, he completely implemented militarized control over the economy, dispatched troops to massacre hundreds of thousands of mobs within two months, completely controlled the situation, politically refused to return the three northeastern provinces to China, and at the same time completely withdrew from the League of Nations in order to get rid of the pressure of the international community such as Britain and the United States, and at the same time refused to recognize the League of Nations to transfer the management of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands, and the Marshall Islands to the Tang Empire, and refused to negotiate peace with the Tang Empire. The whole country rebuilt the United Fleet and vowed to defeat the Tang Empire.

Japan is a country with a relatively weak industrial base and scarce resources, and before the naval battle in the Pacific Ocean, the imaginary enemy of the Japanese Navy was the United States, considering that it was simply impossible to compete with the United States, which had a strong industrial base and abundant resources, in terms of the number of warships. The Japanese Navy expected that the battleships built by the U.S. Navy would carry 406 mm (16 in) naval guns due to the Panama Canal restrictions. In accordance with its policy of "insufficient quantity and making up for it by quality" since the Meiji era, Japan has attempted to offset the opponent's quantitative superiority with the quality superiority of a single ship. Under the guidance of this ideology, the Japanese Navy has always regarded the United States as an imaginary enemy since the Russo-Japanese War. In 1916, a 460 mm caliber naval gun was trial-produced, and in 1920, a 480 mm caliber gun was manufactured, and it had certain experience.

With the end of the Tang-Japanese Pacific Naval Battle, the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy suffered devastating losses, and the Japanese Navy temporarily changed the imaginary enemy to the Tang Empire. Because all the capital ships of the combined fleet were sunk, and the Japanese economy did not allow a long-term large-scale arms race, the Japanese navy had to continue to pursue the policy of insufficient quantity and quality compensation, and the Saito Minoru cabinet demanded a one-time permanent defeat of the Tang Empire, so if the Japanese Navy rebuilt the combined fleet, it must exceed the quality of each capital ship than the whole Shijie, even after completely eliminating the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire, it will still maintain an advantage over the United States and other European naval powers for a long time.

In this context, the Japanese Military Command Department officially issued the design task of the new battleship to the Naval Ship Administration Headquarters, requiring it to be equipped with more than 8 460 mm caliber main guns, 12 155 mm caliber secondary guns (four triple installations), or 8 200 mm secondary guns (four twin installations), with a maximum speed of more than 30 knots, and the hull defense armor can withstand the blows of its own main guns at a distance of 20,000-35,000 meters.

The overall design of the new ship was carried out by Keiji Fukuda Daisa, the fourth department of the Ship Administration Headquarters, and the guidance of Vice Admiral Hiraga Jean Shipbuilding Jishu. Due to the tight time, the Japanese Navy was facing a huge threat from the Tang Empire at sea, and the design had to be completed within three months, and construction would begin immediately after three months, so Keiji Fukuda had to be so tired that he vomited blood to complete the task.

Finally, Keiji Fukuda vomited several liters of blood and fought hard for three months. Finally, the design drawings that satisfied the Japanese Navy were produced.

The design standard displacement of the supercrossbow class battleship is 64,000 tons, the length of the ship is 263 meters, and the width of the ship is 38 meters. The speed is 28 knots, the endurance is 7200 nautical miles / 16 knots, the oil storage capacity is 6400 tons, and it is equipped with 9 460 mm 45 times the caliber of the main guns, 3 combined and 3 seats, which exceeds the gun caliber of the main battleships of Europe and the United States. 6 155-mm secondary guns, 3 in 2 units. 24 127-mm high-level dual-purpose guns, 12 twin units, 156 25-mm anti-aircraft guns. 3 units of 45 seats, 21 units of single loading, 4 x 13.2 mm machine guns, 2 units of twin loads, such a huge anti-aircraft gun. It was considered enough to shoot down any enemy aircraft that wanted to get close to the battleship. The total weight of the armor is 22895 tons. The main armor belt was up to 410 mm, strengthened horizontal armor protection, up to 270 mm, which was enough to withstand the bombardment of the 500-kilogram aerial bombs of the Don Army, which was considered invincible.

The Japanese Navy was very satisfied with this design, but the cost budget was too high, as high as 1 billion yen, equivalent to 500 million US dollars. Of course. This is the price of the yen before the depreciation to the current predicament of the Japanese finances. The ship can only be built by issuing additional banknotes and depreciating the yen, and I am afraid that it will eventually exceed 150 billion yen.

Fortunately, at this time, the Japanese Navy got a piece of news, and the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire announced the start of construction of four super battleships, and their names and performance parameters were exposed in the report.

On the grounds of military transparency, the Tang Empire publicly announced that it would build four super battleships in the local shipyards of the Tang Empire, namely BB-1 Chiyou, BB-2 Lizhu, BB-3 Yinglong, and BB-4 Kuafu.

The four ships belong to the same class, and the data exposed by the news is that the single ship displacement standard is 45,000 tons, the length of the ship is 270.4 meters, the width of the ship is 33 meters, the draft is 10 meters, the speed is 31 knots, the fuel load is 8,765 tons, the endurance is 20,150 nautical miles / 14 knots, 15,900 nautical miles / 17 knots, equipped with 3 triple 406 mm 50 times the caliber main gun, 10 twin 127 mm 45 times the diameter of the dual-purpose gun, 60-80 40 mm anti-aircraft guns, 50-60 20 mm anti-aircraft guns, and 3 seaplanes, 2 catapults, waterline armor 350 mm, horizontal armor 287 mm.

The Tang Empire's high-profile announcement of the construction of four super battleships really made Shijie vibrate, and the navies of various countries saw that the Tang Army was still building battleships, so they completely believed that the Tang Army said that the Japanese battleships were sunk only because their horizontal armor was too thin and the anti-aircraft firepower was too weak.

Since the Tang Army is still building battleships, it shows that battleships are still the hegemon on the sea, and the navies of various countries have repeatedly speculated about the question of who is stronger in the end, battleships or aircraft carriers.

However, all countries have questioned the new round of shipbuilding operations of the Tang Empire, but it is a pity that the Tang Empire is not restricted by the Washington Naval Treaty and the London Naval Treaty, and countries cannot prevent the Tang Empire's navy from pursuing maritime supremacy.

After the Japanese Navy learned of this news, whether it was true or not, they were relieved, even if the Tang Army concealed the parameters of their battleship, it was far worse than the newly designed supercrossbow-class battleships of the Japanese Navy. Since the Tang Empire only built four super battleships, the Japanese Navy was forced by financial pressure and shipbuilding capacity to finally build eight supercrossbow-class battleships instead of four, namely the Yamato, Musashi, Shinano and Hitachi.

However, in order to avoid treaty sanctions, the Japanese Navy deliberately claimed that the main gun of the Yamato-class battleship was only 406 mm, the tonnage was only 400000 tons, and the speed was 28 knots.

At the same time, in response to the Tang Empire's announcement of the construction of Doukui-class aircraft carriers, the Japanese Navy announced the construction of four Osumi-class large aircraft carriers.

The Doukui-class aircraft carriers of the Tang Empire are Tianshu [CV-5], Tianquan [CV-6], Tianxuan [CV-7], and Tianji [CV-8], and the data released to the public is a standard displacement of 30,000 tons, a speed of 33 knots, a deck length of 260 meters, and 100 aircraft.

The Japanese Navy already had experience in designing and building the Hosho, Akagi and Kaga aircraft carriers, and the displacement of the four newly built Osumi-class aircraft carriers was limited by the Washington Naval Treaty, and reaching 25,000 was already the limit, and no matter how large it was, it would be seen.

There are four ships built in the same class of the Osumi class, namely the Osumi, Shimoo, Kunisaki, and Atsumi, with a design standard displacement of 25,000 tons, a straight-through flight deck, a length of 220 meters, 80 aircraft, and a speed of 33 knots.

When Zhang Meng, who was inspecting the Navy's General Administration of Ships, learned that the Japanese Navy had begun construction of four Yamato-class battleships, he not only did not have any worried expression, but was quite happy.

Xu Bangjie, chief designer of the General Administration of Ships, and Li Haichen, minister of the navy, couldn't help but smile at each other, they knew the truth, and secretly criticized the Japanese devils for being fooled again this time.

It turned out that the Tang Empire's announcement of the construction of four super battleships was fake, and the purpose was to continue to mislead the navies of various countries to develop money-burning machines such as super battleships, and the four ships Chiyou, Lizhu, Yinglong and Kuafu were indeed built according to the standard of 50,000-ton super battleships, but only according to the standards of battleships to build hulls and engine systems, not main gun systems, and eventually a super-large aircraft carrier will be built, and it is a second-generation aircraft carrier with an oblique flight deck.

"I thought that the Yamato would not appear, but unexpectedly it still appeared, it seems that since the age of mythology, it is the fate of your Yamato to be sunk by an aircraft carrier!"

The corners of Zhang Meng's mouth were slightly raised, revealing a smug smile. (To be continued......)