Jingshi, the Forbidden City, the Hall of Renzhi, the center of the Ming Empire, the office of His Majesty the Emperor, Zhu Mu was wearing a regular dress embroidered with dragon patterns, frowned and threw two materials from the Navy's technical department on the desk in the office. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info He looked at the generals in front of him in navy uniforms, and his face seemed to be covered with a layer of frost.

"It's not been a day or two since the Navy developed the submarine project, so what did you give me? Now that the war has started, our cruiser has been sunk, and the naval fleet has been suppressed by the other side, I want to see your research results, but it turns out to be such a rudimentary thing...... "The sinking of the heavy cruiser Fuxian Lake has brought a considerable impact to Emperor Zhu Mu, and his anger is also expected by everyone.

First of all, it is worth Zhu Mu to be angry about himself, since Zhu Mu came to power, he has devoted a lot of effort to the technological development of the Ming Dynasty. At a time when the technological innovation of the Air Force and the Army has promoted military development and achieved good results on the battlefield, the Navy has problems in technology, how can it not make His Majesty the Emperor angry?

Moreover, a heavy cruiser with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, a powerful battleship with 6 heavy guns of 203 mm caliber, was sunk by a small submarine, and dozens of battleship cruisers accompanying the voyage did not even have a chance to fire back.

What's even more terrifying is that the cruiser sank extremely fast, and 400 of the more than 600 officers and men on board the ship sank along with the battleship before they could escape. In just ten minutes of a sneak attack, the Ming army paid such a heavy price, which really made Zhu Mu a little uncomfortable.

If the next time, or one day, is a battleship with thousands of people in service that is sunk, wouldn't the losses of the Ming Empire be even greater? When the battleship Wuyishan sank, Zhu Mu was still just a prince, so the impact on him was not as great as the sinking of the Fuxian Lake.

What if in the next naval battle, a Japanese submarine fished in troubled waters and sank two battleships of the Ming Dynasty, which suddenly changed the balance of power at sea, what would the situation become? This was not just a matter of sinking a cruiser Fuxian Lake, but the serious problem that ensued that the superior Ming Empire Navy could not play to its advantage.

Another fatal problem was that the originally planned plan to replenish the Ming Empire's army by sea to attack the Korean Peninsula now seems to be unrealizable. The Ming Empire's sea control was temporarily unable to be used because of the Japanese submarines, so there would be problems with the supply of materials in the original plan.

The road infrastructure on the Korean Peninsula is not comparable to that of the Ming Dynasty, and the Japanese colonial situation here was not intended to be perfected. Therefore, if the troops of the Ming Empire want to obtain sufficient material replenishment, they have to rely on sea transportation with a stronger load capacity to solve the problem.

As a result, it is now impossible to carry out sea transportation, and if it continues to be carried out, it is in danger of being sunk by Japanese submarines. In this case, it is impossible to transport expensive items such as oil and ammunition, except for the risk of transporting some less important food or clothing.

The fact that an enemy submarine, disrupted by the plans for pre-war deployment, also suffered huge losses, which is enough to prove the value of this new weapon developed by Japan. Of course, this value is based on the extremely uncomfortable foundation of the Ming Empire.

"It seems that the development of this new weapon is not only valued by my Daming. Japan...... Good, good! With an angry gaze in his eyes, Zhu Mu swept the technical information of the Ming Empire's submarines in front of his desk.

"The top priority at the moment is to strengthen the defense measures of the ports as soon as possible in Lushun, Weihai and even Qingdao, increase searchlights, lay mines and other facilities...... Prevent Japanese submarines from attacking the port. Recently, Shen Yan, the secretary of the military department, who was busy with the all-out war against Japan, opened his mouth to suggest to Zhu Mu.

This time, he brought three admirals to meet Zhu Mu, and also brought two engineers related to submarine technology research and development.

Sure enough, Zhu Mu glanced at him, and saw that Shen Yan, who had stayed up late to deal with military affairs because of his poor sleep quality, had two deepening dark circles under his eyes, and he didn't have the heart to say anything more, nodded and said, "What Aiqing said is extremely true, let the three military ports immediately start to do this matter!" Don't make any more mistakes! ”

"Yes!" A naval general hurriedly stood up and saluted, and replied to Zhu Mu: "The plan has been drawn up, and the minister will personally deploy it as soon as he returns, and it will be absolutely foolproof!" ”

"Another thing, is it necessary to prevent Japan from providing this kind of thing to Ceylon, a more tricky ......" Wang Jianfeng, the first minister, also opened his mouth at this time, talking about a thorny problem that must be faced not only in terms of military affairs, but also in terms of political alliances.

Zhu Mu raised his eyebrows, the main naval force of the Ming Empire was entangled with Ceylon in the south, if Ceylon had a submarine like Japan, it would definitely cause great trouble to the Ming Dynasty fleet.

This is something he didn't want to see, so he could only stubbornly order: "Send a telegram to Wang Jue and tell him to fight as quickly as possible...... Tell him about the Fuxian Lake, and let him and General Sima decide for themselves. ”

If Japanese submarines were really allowed to go to the South Seas, or Ceylon would also begin to mass-produce such Japanese submarines, then the huge fleet of more than a dozen battleships that the Ming Empire had painstakingly operated in the South Seas would really not have any advantage. If you accidentally sink some of them, it will be a question of whether the Philippines and Taiwan and other regions can be saved.

"It's not just defense, it's not enough! First, we must build our own submarine force, use the results of scientific research at the present stage, use our brains more, come up with our own submarine plan as soon as possible, and mass produce it to form combat effectiveness! Zhu Mu turned his gaze to the two scientific research experts standing on the side and spoke.

Then, without waiting for the other party to react, he continued without pause: "Second, it is to develop means that can find the opponent's submarine and attack the opponent's submarine!" This will allow our fleet to have a way to fight the enemy's submarines! Go figure it out and come up with it as soon as possible! Do you get it? If you understand, go to work, I want results! ”

"Yes!" Everyone present hurriedly saluted, and then exited Zhu Mu's office. (To be continued.) )