[76] The first test of the new ship

Let's take a look at the naval units that have been busy between the Tianjin Port and the Qingdao base recently; since receiving a total of 112 warships, the Bohai Bay outside the Tianjin port has become busy, and every day the large and small warships are exercising, and once they have a preliminary grasp of the piloting and artillery operation, the navy will transfer the warships to the Qingdao naval base.

The fact that our navy was training and transferring in the Bohai Bay day and night had already been discovered by the Soviet Navy in Ludagang. But at this moment, the navy can't care so much, and Commander Xiao made up his mind that once the Soviet Navy asks me, he will say that it is a warship bought from abroad in accordance with the deployment of the central government.

As far as the navy is concerned, it is somewhat difficult to get started with the brigade-class destroyer and the Jianghu-1 frigate, and it will take time to study it, so the navy pins its short-term improvement of combat effectiveness on the 037 hunting submarine and the 024 missile speedboat. According to the thick materials and tutorials, the 10 037 hunting submarines and the 10 024 missile speedboats have completed their preliminary training, and several of the 037 hunting submarines have even been ordered to carry out maritime patrol and sea trial missions near the Qingdao base. In order to break the naval blockade imposed by the Kuomintang Navy on us at an early date, all the ships that had completed their initial training were eager to try and compete for battle.

These days and nights of training and study have made the officers and men of the Navy a little tired, but a wave of excitement for the new ships and a yearning for victory have strongly supported our new Chinese Navy. Whether they are veterans of the navy of the former Nationalist Government who have defected to Cheng or navy recruits who have been transferred from the army, they have only one wish, to make these warships combat effective as soon as possible.

In order to do everything possible to speed up the pace of building the navy, the Central Military Commission has asked all field armies to conduct a thorough search and send to the navy as much as possible those who have served in the navy, worked on merchant ships, or studied in naval schools, including those who know a little about machinery or have driven tanks and automobiles.

The Qingdao Naval Base, which was once moored by the Germans for gunboats, warships by the Japanese, and then filled with the American fleet, is one of the few natural harbors suitable for naval training in New China.

Now this base has finally returned to the embrace of the motherland, and she is already the most valuable asset of the new Chinese Navy. In the evening at the Qingdao Naval Base, in a simple conference room of only about 20 square meters, eight people sat around a narrow long willow table. It was late at night, and the curtains were drawn in the room, and a yellow incandescent lamp hung in the room, covered with a simple white lacquered iron lampshade, shaped like a hat, buckled to the bulb. The lights shone on the whitewashed walls, and the huge charts on the walls made the room serious and important in the light.

"Old Deng, how is your training progress over there?" Commander Xiao asked with a tight frown.

General Deng Zhaoxiang also frowned, looked at Commander Xiao solemnly, and replied with some anxiety: "This Xizhuo is too complicated, we have only preliminarily mastered the operation according to the data, but for the electronic equipment on the ship, we can only operate according to the data, and we can't do emergency maintenance; The steam turbines and boilers equipped on the ship are very advanced, if there is a failure, we can do simple maintenance according to the information, once the fault is serious, we can't repair it; As for the ship's weapon system, it is indeed very powerful and very accurate, I have never seen such a combination of radar and naval guns, this is the real "fire control system" mentioned in the information! After working overtime to study the data, we have now mastered the operation methods, and the naval guns, anti-submarine rockets, and anti-submarine depth bombs have also been test-fired. It works very well; As for the anti-ship missile, none of us have ever fought it, and this missile is so expensive, and I am reluctant to do a practice test launch. In short, this caracal is too advanced, I can't imagine the high-level, it's an out-and-out big baby. ”

Commander Xiao's frowning brows relaxed slightly: "It's good if we can fire artillery, we will experiment with anti-ship missiles in actual combat, and use Kuomintang warships to try them, in case they can't be fired, there will still be artillery." ”

After speaking, Commander Xiao asked General Lin Zun again: "Lao Lin, how are the Jiujiang and Naitong that you are responsible for?" Can you fight? ”

General Lin Zun said cautiously: "The Naitong is basically the same as the problem that Lao Deng encountered in the Xicaracal, at present, we only know how to use it, and we are still far from being able to eat it thoroughly, not to mention the slightly complicated maintenance; There are no missiles on the Jiujiang, but these five 50-tube rocket artillery systems also allowed our military team to study the data for half a day to figure out the operation method, this rocket artillery is too powerful, we have not yet test-fired, but we have mastered the operation of the aiming method, and launched it virtually several times in accordance with the operation steps. ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION, THE 122MM ROCKET ARTILLERY SHELL CAN BE SPLIT INTO 3150 DIAMOND-SHAPED FRAGMENTS WHEN IT EXPLODES, AND THE EFFECTIVE KILLING AREA OF A ROCKET IS 7093 SQUARE METERS, THE AREA OF A WHOLE FOOTBALL FIELD. ”

Commander Xiao nodded: "Yes, let's leave it to the actual combat test, I really want to see what this rocket launcher looks like as soon as possible, good guy, blow up a football field, if this is used to cover the landing of ground troops, hehehe......" As he spoke, Commander Xiao's frowning brows were completely relaxed, and he simply laughed.

Seeing Commander Xiao's smile, the tense atmosphere in the small conference room eased a little.

General Yi Yaocai, commander of the Qingdao base, glanced at everyone, and then Commander Xiao's words continued: "At present, the Type 037 hunting submarine has been preliminarily mastered by me, judging from yesterday's offshore artillery training, the firepower of the rapid-fire guns on the ship is very powerful, and the 57 mm caliber twin naval guns are really ......."

Speaking of this, General Yi, who was born in the army, couldn't hold back his excited expression anymore: "You all saw it, that thing has more than 200 shells a minute, and the entire shore has been plowed out, and the target we erected on the shore, good guy, has been smashed to pieces!" This is a cannon fired from 5,000 meters away, and the second shot hit the target! According to the information, the maximum firing range of this cannon is 12,000 kilometers, which means that it can shoot 24 miles.

The commander of the artillery told me that the accuracy and optical sighting equipment of this gun are very advanced, and the trajectory within five kilometers is completely straight, good guy, isn't this what it means to hit where!

Our army used to have this monster, and we had already beaten the Japanese and Lao Chiang away.

There are two such 57-mm twin-fired rapid-fire guns on this ship, I dare to promise, give me three, and guarantee that the Kuomintang warships will not dare to come in half a step.

Commander Xiao smiled and said, "Your base commander is also itchy and wants to fight a naval battle?" This is not good, the task of base construction in your hands is heavy, and you can't do without people in one step. ”