[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 655: Shocked (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

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Escorted by more than 30 old **** destroyers, 15 large transport planes slowly landed at Tianjin Airport, and this fearful air journey finally came to an end.

As the cabin door slowly opened, 850 officers and men belonging to the Chinese Navy quickly stepped off the plane and lined up at the airport.

Ma Zheng could see clearly that at the back were a vice admiral and two rear admirals, and Chen Shaokuan, the tall, thin and current naval commander of the official Nationalist Government wearing a general's uniform.

Seeing Ma Zheng and the others coming towards him, Chen Shaokuan hurriedly walked over with a few officers.

"Welcome to Commander Chen!"

"Commander Ma is polite, it is an honor for all of our naval colleagues to be able to bother you, the general of the party and the country, to greet us in person!" Chen Shaokuan said immediately.

"There, there, what kind of good generals, thanks to the brothers under his command who fought with their lives, otherwise my Ma Zheng would not be able to defeat the little devil even if he had three heads and six arms!" Ma Zheng said with a smile.

Chen Shaokuan said enviously: "What Commander Ma said makes sense, no matter how much we officers have ideas, it is useless if the soldiers below do not cooperate." I am ashamed to say that I, the commander of the navy, am really a wretch, and I no longer have a decent ship in my hands, and the navy does not have many troops to use. I didn't hear that you captured a lot of Japanese ironclad ships in Tianjin, so you rushed here. I wonder if you captured the Japanese warships?"

"A few of the warships we captured this time are also a bit famous, such as the Ashigara, in addition to the Kawauchi, Tenryu, and Yubari, as for what kind of warships these warships are, and what their performance is, Commander Chen himself has to go and see, I, a layman, don't know anything about it," Ma Zheng said with a smile.

"Are you sure there's a footgami in there?" Chen Shaokuan asked excitedly.

"Yes, I've been to see it myself, it's really Ashigara, I heard it's a heavy cruiser, I don't know if it's right! Oh, by the way, on this warship we also captured Vice Admiral Toyoda, the commander of the Japanese Second Fleet. Ma Zheng said.

"Yes, yes, it's a cruiser, and if it's really Ashigara, that's great." Chen Shaokuan said happily.

"Commander Chen, is this Ashigara cruiser very powerful?" Ma Zheng asked with a smile.

"Well, the Ashigara Heavy Cruiser is one of the Myoko-type heavy cruisers designed by Vice Admiral Hiraga Jean, the famous god of warships of the Japanese Navy, and in the whole of Japan, there are only four heavy cruisers of this class, and the Ashigara is the latest of the four. Moreover, these four battleships were all heavy cruisers with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, and among them, only the Ashigara and Myoko had fleet flagship equipment, while the Nachi and Haguro did not have fleet flagship equipment. ”

Then Chen Shaokuan continued: "You may not know much about this, let's put it this way, the heavy cruiser Ashigara has a displacement of 10,940 tons and a full load of 13,000 tons. The total length is 203.76 m, the full width is 19 m, the speed is 35.5 knots, and the cruising force is 14 knots per hour and 7,000 nautical miles. Moreover, the heavy cruiser Ashigara was equipped with ten 20.3cm main guns, six 12cm high-angle guns, twelve 61cm torpedo tubes, two water reconnaissance units, eight 25mm machine guns, four 13mm machine guns, and sixteen 61cm torpedo tubes attached to the secondary loading device! ”

To be honest, Ma Zheng is really not very clear about these data of the navy, and he didn't say anything after listening to it, but the officers and men of the navy who came with Chen Shaokuan were all surprised, as the navy, they certainly knew the significance of the heavy cruiser.

A heavy cruiser with flagship equipment is a heavy warship that can be used as a large flagship, and such a large ship is a strategic weapon even if it is placed in a European power such as the British Empire and even Germany, let alone the Chinese Navy, which is now basically exhausted.

Ma Zheng smiled and said: "We really don't know much about this, but the strength of the Ashigara can still be seen, after all, among the so many ships we have captured, the size of the Ashigami is indeed the largest, and the cruisers of the Kawauchi and the Wyvern are like small sampans compared to it." ”

Chen Shaokuan said with a smile: "The Kawauchi light cruiser is an improved version of the Tianlong class. There are three warships of this class, namely the Kawauchi, Shentong, and Naka-3, and they are designed for the same purpose as other light cruisers, all three of which are designed as command ships for torpedo warfare, equipped with water observation aircraft and catapults for torpedo firing guidance. With a displacement of 7,100 tons, seven 140mm guns, one seaplane on board, a design speed of 35 knots, and a crew of 450 people, it is not a small sampan compared to a heavy cruiser like the Ashigara. ”

Then Chen Shaokuan said again: "However, the Kawauchi is also an extremely rare ship for us, and it is even more suitable for us than the Ashigara to a certain extent. ”

"Why? Isn't it true that the larger the displacement of a warship, the more artillery the better? Ma Zheng immediately asked.

"Of course not, it may be like this in the era of battleships that admired giant ships and cannons, but since the emergence of naval aviation, it is not about whose warships are bigger and whose artillery is more, but about the overall strength. Although there are many warships in the Japanese Navy with large tonnage and firepower, none of them are suitable for us. Now that the main force of our navy is gone, the only way to fight the Japanese army is to attack by sneak attack, which requires the warship to sail fast and escape immediately if it misses a blow, while the speed of the Kawauchi is 35 knots, which can fully meet our requirements. ”

"If you miss, you will run away immediately! Such tactical characteristics are a bit like the guerrilla warfare of our Eighth Route Army, which really requires the battleship to be fast enough! Ma Zheng said.

"Commander Ma, are those warships still at the dock now?" Chen Shaokuan asked.

"Yes, but we've already arranged a meal in the city, and I'll take you to the port after dinner!" Ma Zheng said.

"Don't be in a hurry to eat, let's go to the port to have a look first, after all, these warships docked in the port are easy to be bombed by the Japanese air force, so it's better to leave Tianjin Port as soon as possible!" Chen Shaokuan said.

"Well, what Brother Houfu said makes sense, then I'll take you to the port first to familiarize yourself with these warships!" Saying that, Ma Zheng took Chen Shaokuan and others out of the airport, and then drove straight to Tianjin Port.

In the port of Tianjin, dozens of large ocean-going vessels are quietly moored in the port. Thousands of officers and men of Ma Zheng's headquarters on the shore were nervously observing the movements around them, and dozens of shore defense guns and hundreds of antiaircraft machine guns were all loaded and ready to fire at any time.

Seeing the nervous appearance of Ma Zheng's department, Chen Shaokuan and others were quite puzzled, it stands to reason that the Japanese army around Tianjin has been wiped out by Ma Zheng's department, and the only organized Japanese army has not retreated to the vicinity of Langfang, why is Ma Zheng's department still so nervous.

"Commander Ma, I have seen your army so nervous all the way, why is this, is there a Japanese puppet army nearby that can pose a threat to your army?" Chen Shaokuan said.

"There aren't many Japanese puppet troops nearby, and there are just some stragglers, who can't pose any threat to our army at all. However, in the past few days, the Japanese air force has been constantly attacking Tianjin, and yesterday more than 40 bombers were dispatched to bomb Tianjin. Although the Japanese army was beaten all over the ground by our army on land, we couldn't help them in the sky! Ma Zheng sighed and said.

Commander Chen thought for a while and said: "The Japanese army only has four airfields in North China, and now the Nanyuan Airport in Beiping and the Dongjuzi Airport and Zhangjiakou Airport in Tianjin have all been captured by your Ma Zheng Division, and now there is only one Baoding Airport left. In this way, it just so happens that Captain Gao led the fourth brigade to escort us this time, and let them go to Baoding on the return trip, and take good care of the little devil's airport, maybe it can relieve you a lot of pressure. ”

"Okay, well, little devil, this is unwilling to let these ships fall into our hands, so I'd rather blow them all up. Fortunately, our army had been prepared for a long time, and although the Japanese bombed and sank several small ships in yesterday's bombing, they were shot down by our army with six fighters, and the rest fled in panic. Ma Zheng said.

"Hehehe, as early as when I was in Chongqing, I heard that your department is strong in combat, but I didn't expect it to be so strong, Commander Ma has a good way of governing the army!"

"Everywhere, it's all the brothers' lives. Otherwise, our army would have been annihilated by the little devils a long time ago, and as for me, Chen, someone's head would have been cut off by the little devils and sent to Beiping. Ma Zheng said.

...... (To be continued.) )