Chapter Fifty-Eight: Super Crossbow-Class Battleship - Yamato

From 1909 onwards, the Chinese government's foreign policy was no longer as tactful as before, no longer hiding needles in the cotton, no longer digging holes for people to jump into, but began to become aggressive. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info This may be because the strength of the Chinese has increased dramatically in recent years, or because China has finally completed reunification in general, from south to north, from east to west, a large country of tens of millions of square kilometers, naturally it will be a breathless existence.

Moreover, after the Gengzi Rebellion, the Chinese finally established regional hegemony with a great victory over the Russians. Although Siberia does not have much population and industry, its area is placed there, and when you look at it on the map, such a large piece of territory has become a vassal of the Chinese, which will inevitably make people look high.

Even if it is Russia, the weakest of the great imperialists, that is beaten all over the place, and even if it is Tsarist Russia, which is called poor imperialism, that has seized so much land, this can make the Chinese one of the great powers.

Since Chen Cheng, the former chief of the general staff of the Northwest Town Shoufu, retired due to illness, the situation in China has also undergone great changes. Probably hundreds of thousands of people were tried, sentenced, and shot for one reason or another, and millions were exiled to the frozen soil of Siberia to build the Soviet Republic of the Far East with those old Maozi.

Farther north, a new type of city has sprung up. After imprisoning a monster named Gok, he was given a near-free, infinite amount of energy. With energy, the rest is easy to say. Heating, electricity, pyrolysis is there, making fuel, smelting steel, greenhouse planting..... These problems are just how to use energy to solve the problem of governing the country.

In the shipyards of Guangzhou, Hainan, Injury, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao and other places, destroyers and light Xu Yangjian also began to underground water like dumplings. On the newly built slipway, battleships named "Tyrant" class are also beginning to lay keels, and in a few years, the Chinese will build a fleet that can only maintain regional peace.

The British expressed concern about the construction of battleships by the Chinese. They can only express their concern, because in Europe, the Germans have already set off a wave of construction of battleships, and the arms race has begun.

Because of the traditional friendship between China and Germany, the Chinese generously gave the Germans a large set of blueprints for battleships modeled on the "Yamato" class. In the same way, out of traditional friendship with the British, the French, and the Japanese, they were also given a separate set.

Because the Americans still had a complete repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, the drawings were not given to them. However, the U.S. government doesn't care about this, and in their opinion, such flashy things have no real combat value at all. But there are still many Americans who say that a battleship of more than 60,000 tons sounds terrifying.

"Saito-kun, did Chinese scare us with these materials, or can they really ......?"

Ijiin Goro said in an anxious tone: "A supercrossbow-class battleship, more than 60,000 tons..... This.... This ......"

"Calm, calm," Minoru Saito looked at the army elders such as Oyama Iwa, who was calm and relaxed, and shook his head, "I think it's mostly used to deceive people." The slipways of the Chinese themselves in Qingdao and other places simply cannot build 60,000-ton ships. ”

"But .....," Ijiin Goro still had a feeling that the sky was about to fall when he saw the drawings and data, "and they are building a larger dock, and they may not be able to build a super-crossbow-class battleship in the future." ”

"What a terrible design," Ijiin Goro wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, "It's simply invincible, a dreamlike existence!" ”

"Hmph," Dashan Yan sneered, "Now that the Chinese don't even have a battle column, are you scared like this?" If the Chinese Tyrant-class battleships were launched, would the Navy no longer dare to go out? ”

"What do you mean?" Although Ijiin Goro's qualifications are not comparable to Oyama Yan, he is a general of the navy, not a red deer of the army, and he said angrily at the moment: "Our navy still dares to fight with the Chinese!" Do you Army dare? ”

Dashan Yan stopped talking, which was a very embarrassing question. After the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese government, which was already poor and almost had to take away its pants, owed a lot of foreign debts, and could not even pay pensions after the war. Because of such poverty, it was naturally impossible to maintain a huge army, so the Japanese army, which had more than one million men at its peak, was reduced to a size of only a few hundred thousand.

These hundreds of thousands of people can be preserved because the Chinese have stationed 100,000 soldiers and are eyeing the part of Liaodong occupied by the Japanese.

Dashan Yan didn't speak, but there were many generals below him, so he naturally wanted to jump out to protect the interests of the army.

Xiao Chuan, who was already in poor health, once again struggled to support his body, and said, "Army.... If the army can be expanded to half the number of people mobilized in wartime, and equipped with a sufficient number of weapons and equipment.... It is confident that it will defeat the Chinese in the northeast. ”

Speaking of which, Ogawa glanced at Ijiin Goro again and continued, "As long as the navy can guarantee that the supply line will not be cut off. ”

"Half of the total mobilization?" Ijiin Goro shouted, "That's more than 1.5 million people, and even if there was a war with the Russians, so many people would not be mobilized!" ”

"Do you think that the Chinese are weaker than the Russians now?" Xiao Chuan coughed a few more times and said, "The Russians... It is a tiger dying of hunger, but the Chinese are like a newborn sun, and the two... There is no comparison between the two. ”

"Hmph, let's talk about it, it's still your army that doesn't do it." Ijiin Goro snorted and said, "Chinese is developing too fast, these two years are the last opportunity, otherwise, after their battleships begin to form combat effectiveness......."

Ijiin Goro shook his head, apparently with great fear of the Chinese "Tyrant"-class battleships.

"Ahem," Hirofumi Ito, who had not spoken, finally spoke when the two sides were almost arguing. He is like Guan Gong on the altar, as soon as he speaks, all the demons and monsters are quiet.

"Saito-kun, is the supercrossbow-class battleship given to us by the Chinese really not feasible?"

"It's not completely unfeasible," Minoru Saito pondered for a moment and said seriously, "But a 60,000-ton ship is really unimaginable." At least, the current Empire of Japan did not have the strength to build. ”

Isn't that nonsense? The people around him scolded together. There are more than 20,000 tons of monsters in armor alone, where is the annual output of steel in Japan, which is only 400,000 tons?