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Chapter 1480 is for my use

Xia Jian sat in front of the large floor-to-ceiling window of the conference room on the fourth floor of the fleet command building of the naval base, the coffee table in front of him was full of pistachios, sunflower melon seeds, seasonal fresh fruits, and a bottle of 20-year-old brandy, and his eyes fell on the planes that were constantly taking off and landing on the wide airport runway outside. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The airfield of the Haiphong Port Naval Base, which has always been deserted, has become very lively today, and transport planes flying from the Sufu, Simao, Lao Nanchang, and Xingzi Naval Bases are constantly landing, bringing in a large number of experienced sailors and cadets of the Naval Academy. At the same time, the First Regiment of the Southwest Air Force officially stationed at the Haiphong airfield and began to conduct routine reconnaissance of the 200-kilometer coastline at different times, assuming the heavy responsibility of guarding the airspace.

The headquarters of the Anjia Army has issued an urgent call to the South China Group, the Hongxing Society, the Ou Shi Group, and the Huaqing Society, and has quickly mobilized experienced sailors from the ocean-going fleets of each group to Haiphong, and through the European and American Chinese groups, most of the students who have interned in the navies of the United States, Britain, Germany, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil have been cleverly arranged to return to China urgently to enrich the strength of the naval fleet to be established.

At the same time, the search for various talents in the French ocean-going fleet was also carried out at the same time.

Among the 13,000 officers and men of the fleet, 648 are designers, engineers, and senior technicians from shipyards that build and assemble the battlecruiser "Strasbourg" and the large cruiser submarine "Sukuf", the "Mogador"-class "Volta" super destroyer, and three 1,500-ton conventional destroyers.

In order to avoid all kinds of unpredictable failures during the voyage, Admiral Darlang, the chief of staff of the Navy, who pursued perfection in everything, waved his hand and asked the relevant technicians to accompany the ships to sea as naval technical officers.

In addition to this group of professional ship-building talents, from the commander of the fleet to the captain, first officer, second officer, chief navigator, chief gunner, chief engineer and even ordinary sailors, they are all valuable assets. The young Anjia Navy had no experience in the actual establishment system, command and management, navigation, and naval warfare of the ocean-going fleet, and all of this urgently needed the guidance of experienced veterans.

After An Yi clarified the stakes, he immediately ordered Xia Jian to rush to Haiphong as soon as possible to carry out psychological research on the captured French naval talents, and strive to be of use to me, even if these people are unwilling to serve on the ship, we must persuade them to serve as instructors of the naval academy and the chief officer of the training fleet.

Although the French Navy is not as good as the British Navy, it is the fourth largest navy in the world, and its historical inheritance and detailed grasp of ship control, navigation, formation, specific operations, and tactics cannot be comprehended and improved in a few simple exercises.

Taking naval warfare as an example, although the guns of warships in this era are no longer deployed on both sides, in order to maximize the power of the main and secondary guns of battleships, it is still necessary to adopt a variety of flexible and changeable tactics, and at the same time to contain the enemy's fleet attack, concentrate the firepower of their own fleet to attack the opponent, which has a whole set of tactical deployment. At the same time, the fleet also has many excellent experiences summed up by its predecessors in carrying out such tasks as blockade, escort, interception, and raiding, which are worth learning from, so that it can avoid making detours.

After receiving An Yi's order, Xia Jian did not dare to slack off, and urgently rushed to the Haiphong Naval Base to contact the captured French admirals, focusing on the core backbone of the fleet. With the mentality of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, the first person he met was Vice Admiral Kinsor, the commander of the fleet.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Xia Jian didn't look back, still looking at a large silver transport plane on the tarmac not far from the building, this transport plane opened its belly wide, and radar cars and anti-aircraft gun trucks drove out of the belly of the plane one by one, like a chick hiding under the belly of an old hen, which was very interesting.

After a long while, when the two radar cars and the two anti-aircraft gun trucks walked away, and the back door of the cabin slowly closed, Xia Jian looked at Jinsol, who was sitting on the sofa opposite the coffee table, his eyes were red and haggard.

Kinsol is fifty-two years old, and the fact that he can become a vice admiral commander of a French naval detachment at this age shows that he is extremely good at drilling. However, this is not to say that Kinsol is incapable, this person graduated from the French Naval Academy in 1905, from an ordinary fleet staff officer, successively served as a sailor captain, fleet navigation officer, second officer of the capital ship, first mate and other positions, before the end of the European war in Washington Conference, he had already served as the captain of the former dreadnought "Voltaire", with the rank of colonel, and he was only thirty-seven years old at the time, which can be described as a promising future.

However, after the Washington Disarmament Conference, the development of the French Navy was severely restricted, and only ten capital ships could be retained, and many mixed fleets were disbanded as a result, and a large number of veteran fleet commanders could only be parachuted down to become captains, so Kinsol abdicated to give way to the "old" and entered the French Naval Academy as an instructor, which was seven years.

During this period, Kinsol began to study the military history of the world's navies, especially the history of the British Navy, and combined with the reality of World War I, he suddenly realized that a new naval military revolution might be coming, and the opportunity was to control the aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft in the sea and sky.

However, in the 80s of the last century, the French Navy was once influenced by the academic school of "abandoning the manufacture of capital ships and turning to torpedo warfare and cruiser operations", and made every effort to develop cheap torpedo combat ships and cruisers, resulting in a serious shortage of capital ships after the outbreak of the European War. As a result, Kinsor was ordered to review, and his future became bleak.

Fortunately, Dar Lang, who was born as a coastal artilleryman, was the godfather of his godfather as Secretary of the Navy. Legge and Albert. With Saro's support, he became chief of staff of the Navy in 28, eager to form a team of his own, so Kinsol, who had no factional imprint and was not welcomed, entered Darlan's field of vision.

Kinsol had learned to be shrewd at the moment, he no longer insisted on his own ideas, and deliberately greeted Darlang, who had good social relations, and was finally activated, and once again took up the position of captain of the capital ship, and by May 35, Kinsol became the captain of the battle cruiser "Dunkirk", promoted to the rank of rear admiral, and this year became the commander of the Mediterranean Fleet, promoted to the rank of vice admiral.

"General Kinsor, I wonder what you think of everything on the airfield outside?"

Xia Jian asked with a smile, and the staff officer of the second lieutenant of the General Staff who graduated from Southwest University of Political Science and Law next to him immediately translated Xia Jian's words into French and told them to Jinsor.

Jin Sol had already noticed Xia Jian's epaulettes, and the three golden generals who were extremely obvious dispelled the arrogant attitude he deliberately maintained:

"It's scary. Such a busy airport, in my memory, has never been seen even in France itself. It is also unthinkable in France today to transport so much material by air to the front line, in fact, in France, both the army and the navy know that aircraft play a great role, but in order to maintain the so-called tradition, they still deliberately ignore this emerging strategic decisive force. If there is a war in the future, France will suffer for it! ”

"Not bad!"

Xia Jian nodded: "My boss told me that the future war will be a contest of sea supremacy and air supremacy, so our army has paid attention to the construction of the air force from the very beginning, and from the late twenties to the present, we have created our own air force from scratch, and have a complete set of complete industrial systems for the production of fighters from project establishment, design, experimentation and manufacturing, and even the most complex and difficult engines have also been produced nationwide." The fact that our own fighter planes were not inferior to the Japanese Air Force, which was supported by the United States, Italy, and the United Kingdom, proved that our thinking was correct at the beginning. General Kinsor, I wonder what you think about future naval battles? ”

Hearing Xia Jian's question conveyed by the translator, Jin Sol was slightly stunned, and then said a little unnaturally: "Naturally, it is still like the First World War, whose battleship's cannon caliber is large, whose armor is thick and fast, and with reasonable tactics, whoever will win the naval battle!" ”

Xia Jian smiled faintly, called the guards, took the briefcase, unzipped it, took out a few French manuscripts from it, and handed them to Kinsor.

Kinsol took it with some confusion, and his face suddenly turned red, as it turned out to be a newspaper clipping of an article he had published in the newspaper ten years ago about the decisive role that aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft would play in future naval warfare.

Xia Jian shrugged: "Actually, I don't know much about this, it's my boss who called me to explain them one by one, on the way here, I made up for the common sense of the Navy and the Air Force, if you say it wrong, don't laugh." In the naval and air battle of Haizhou Bay in August this year, our Southwest Air Force sank one Japanese Navy aircraft carrier, one light and heavy cruiser, and five destroyers, while our losses were zero. Are there any plans for the construction of new aircraft carriers? ”

At this time, Kinsol's mentality had calmed down, and he said: "There are still measures, that is, to replace the secondary guns or torpedo tubes of the cruisers and destroyers under construction with anti-aircraft guns, and at the same time thicken the armor thickness of the deck and turret." As for aircraft carriers...... "Kinsol said this, helplessly spreading his hands:

"Most admirals believed that as long as there was enough anti-aircraft fire, with the thin skin of the aircraft, it would be torn to shreds if it could not get close. The Navy conducted several tests the year before, and I was one of those who witnessed it, and neither the Brock 210 bomber nor the F.220 bomber in Falmont could break through the powerful anti-aircraft fire of the 'Dunkirk'. ”

Xia Jian smiled: "This is normal, take a fighter with a speed of one or two hundred kilometers per hour to test, and fools know what the result is." But the current aviation technology has increased the speed of fighters to 500 kilometers, and it may increase in the future. Take the 'Dunkirk' battle cruiser as an example, its quadruple 130 mm/45 times diameter high-level dual-purpose gun has a maximum elevation angle of 75 degrees and an elevation rate of 6 degrees per second, which is simply unable to deal with high-speed fighters. Such a warship is very likely to become a mobile target on the sea surface. ”

Kinsol was displeased: "Since our warship is so unbearable by you, why did your army take such pains to seize it?" By the way, I don't know who Your Excellency is, you just mentioned the Southwest Air Force, so is the boss in your mouth the Chinese Army General An Yi who lives in the southwest corner of China? ”

Xia Jian's face became extremely solemn: "Xia Jian, the commander of the Honghe Front of the Anjia Army, the boss in my mouth, is the general of the Nationalist Government An Yi who led my Anjia Army to achieve a series of great victories in the war against Japan, but with the entry of our army into Annan to fight, he has deservedly become the only marshal in our army."

"General Kinsor, my boss asked me to invite you to join my Anjia Navy, if you are willing to come, confer the rank of admiral of the navy, receive the rank of admiral, and double the salary, I don't know what the general thinks?"

Kinsol smiled coldly: "General Xia, do you think that I will join an army that does not even have the slightest naval background as a vice marshal of the navy?" The navy is not as simple as your army imagined, although the French navy has lost one of our detachments and a few new warships, but this has only weakened the combat effectiveness of the entire French navy by ten percent. I don't want to die as a traitor.

"I advise you to dispel this idea as soon as possible! Taking the ships and the officers and men of our navy as hostages, it is not necessary that the French government will consider not pursuing the invasion of Annam by your army, otherwise, even the boss of your boss, Chairman Chiang of the Nanking government, will not be able to withstand the wrath of France! ”

Xia Jian was not angry, asked the guard to open the brandy, filled the tall glass in front of Kinsor, filled himself with another glass, raised the glass, took a sip beautifully, and then said comfortably:

"General Kinsor, I don't know if you have seen in the newspaper the fortress group built by our army on the Yangtze River and Hangzhou Bay in the Songhu area? It was with this fortress that the Japanese army knew that it would be difficult to take advantage of China again, so they turned their brains on the heads of the Dutch, who have now become the masters of that land.

"Now, our sappers are heading to Haiphong Port by rail, and there is sufficient guarantee of construction equipment and construction materials such as steel bars and cement, and it is expected that in the next two to three months, Tuoshan, Cat Ba Island, Ha Long Bay, the gateway to Haiphong Port, will build a solid fortress defense system, and when a large area of fortresses is completed, the entire area will be suppressed by our powerful artillery fire, plus our air force to help the war, I don't know why the French fleet will capture our fortress, and then destroy our ships docked in the harbor?"

Kinsol's expression moved: "Is the general sure that under the blow of France's powerful naval fleet, he will hold out for two to three months?" ”

Xia Jian said confidently: "In modern warfare, sea supremacy is only one aspect that determines victory or defeat, and relatively speaking, air supremacy is more important. If we use all our warplanes to carry out an all-round bombing of the French ** team in French Annam, your country's rule in Annam will collapse if it lasts for half a month at most. General, imagine that our army has taken control of Cochinchina, and put Cam Ranh Bay and Saigon Port under the control of our army, where will your country's fleet on the expedition to Annam settle down to replenish? ”

Speaking of this, Xia Jian smiled a little mockingly: "Moreover, we have a perfect plan to greatly advance the time of occupying Saigon on this basis, at most three to five days, and the French ** team in Annam has no choice but to surrender to our army." Under these circumstances, does the general think that the attitude of the parties in your country to send troops is still so resolute? Will there be a fierce quarrel in Parliament? Even if the proposal to send troops is passed and coordinated with the British and American allies, but now that British Burma, Malaya, and the American Philippines are in chaos, and the Lanyin Islands have become Japanese territory, I am afraid that your government can only coordinate with the Siamese government and lease a military port as its home port. ”

Xia Jian's every word shocked Jinsol's heart. He stared at the airfield, his eyes fell on the airport outside, and he saw a group of Chinese ** people in French Navy uniforms, marching towards the dock area, and suddenly his face changed: "Your ministry wants to go south to Saigon in the name of my French ocean-going navy?" ”

Xia Jian was not surprised that Jin Sol was able to guess the plan, with a hint of strangeness in his smile, and said to him: "General, our people have taken your parents, wife and twin daughters from Bordeaux......

Seeing Jin Sol standing up angrily and shouting "despicable" in his mouth, Xia Jian waved his hand:

"Don't be impatient, I haven't finished speaking, why is the general so excited? I really didn't expect that the general's family turned out to be all Jews...... Due to the increasing persecution of the Jews by the right-wing forces in France, your parents and wife have long lived in the shadow of fear, so when we sent them to say that you arranged for them to take refuge in Syria, China, they had no doubt that they could easily be put on a plane, diverted to Berlin, and flew directly to Syria......"

Speaking of this, an intelligence staff officer hurriedly came and handed Xia Jian a document.

After reading it, Xia Jian showed a satisfied smile on his face. On the other side, Kinsol sat down weakly, and was unusually shocked by the An Jiajun's pervasive intelligence spying ability, and even the Admiralty didn't know how they got the secrets he had hidden for many years?

Xia Jian put down the document, and then said: "General, you must also know how serious the current anti-Judice in European and American countries is, there are as many as 1,486 robberies, rapes and murders against Jews in France this year, your baby daughters, blonde hair and blue eyes, loved by everyone, although they are only fourteen years old, they are already like angels, you don't want them to be the next victims, right?" Now in the world, only our Syrian government does not exclude Jews and treats all people equally, doesn't the general really think about it?

"Also, I apologize to you here, the next operations of our army will be carried out under your banner, and the recruitment of officers and men under your command will also be issued in the form of your written orders. We have experts in imitating handwriting, and it is difficult for ordinary people to see it after the official seal is stamped. ”

Xia Jian pointed to the document on the coffee table: "I'm afraid the general doesn't know yet, now every soldier of the ocean-going fleet knows that you are the internal response of the Jews arranged in the French Navy, and it is precisely because of your cooperation with us that we can control the entire ocean-going fleet so easily." Now that the 824 Jewish officers and men in the fleet whom you have recruited and who are loyal only to you have promised to be part of our navy, and more than 1,000 others who are attracted by the high salaries offered to us, I am sure that between the suffering of prison and the enjoyment of freedom, people will make what they think is the right choice! ”

Kinsol slumped back in his seat, covering his face in agony, speechless for a long time. After a long time, he made a request to Xia Jian, allowing him to meet An Yi in person, and only after getting An Yi's promise would he agree to join the An Jiajun Navy, otherwise everything would not be discussed.

The matter was serious, and Xia Jian didn't dare to make decisions for An Yi, so the news was sent back to Syria and waited for An Yi's reply.