Jiang'yin' is located in East China, the south of Jiangsu Province, the north end of the Taihu Plain in the Yangtze River Delta, is one of the important ports in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and is also a battleground in history - the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge began to be built, it is expected that the bridge is a dual-purpose bridge of railway and highway, in order to ensure its efficiency, the northwest began the construction of the railway at both ends more than a year ago.

In the north of Beijing to connect Shanghai Beijing-Shanghai railway overall construction has already begun, the current railway from Beijing all the way to Nanjing, among them, also with the Longhai railway want to connect, formed a large railway hub Xuzhou, and after crossing Nanjing, from the Yangtze River Bridge on one side, built Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou to Shanghai railway, this is the future of China's coastal areas, the most important railway line, in the middle of this railway, Jiang 'Yin' because it is a 'out' In accordance with the pre-orders of the Revolutionary Party of the Northwest and the South, a new city of several square kilometers was built near Jiangyin to compensate for the investment in railway construction.

Xincheng, can be said to be the fulcrum of the northwest to seek a greater plot, but also an important means of exporting the influence of the northwest, although every year will provide a relatively large amount of funds to the jurisdiction of the region, but they earn more, more and more personnel are concentrated in the new city, abundant human resources, so that the northwest continues to expand the industry, 'plugged' on the wings of take-off.

Jiang'yin' is a port city, but it retains the old-style city wall, on the gap and gray imprints above, you can vaguely distinguish what kind of war it has withdrew, but the new city has left the old city for more than ten kilometers, and opened up in a relatively flat place, close to the Yangtze River.

Jiang'yin' new city is not large, after the northwest setting, more in line with modernization, the construction of the entire northwest, summed up a lot of things. Because of the railway line, various cities have some characteristics, some are regional material distribution centers, and some are cities with separate functions, such as the new city of Jiangyin, which is export-oriented. Exports are the main body, and a series of factories have been established. The new port of Jiang'yin is also enough to accommodate 5,000-ton cargo ships, which can quickly transport the foreign trade materials produced in the new city and those gathered nearby.

This is only temporary, with the Yangtze River as the center, a series of large ports will be built in the downstream, at least 2-30,000 tons below Nanjing, and Wuhan will gradually expand according to the actual situation, the huge Yangtze River, that is, China's mother river. It is also an important waterway, and the "waves" in the previous years were wasted, but this era will be used intensively, and even play a huge role in the future.

At this time, the Chinese New Year had just passed, and under the condition that the smell of the old years had not completely dissipated, a large number of people were concentrated in the new city. Some are returning migrant workers, while others are young people who have heard the news of their fellow villagers and relatives earning money and come to try their luck. It is precisely because of the opening up of this series of new cities that the industrial output value of the northwest has repeatedly hit the peak under the impetus of a large number of new workers.

Single-handedly created this qiē Yang Yuanzhao. Not idle, just after the New Year, after dealing with a series of things in the northwest, Yang Yuanzhao quietly took the train, went to the south, Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge through the north and south, but in the intense construction, plus the northwest machine qì and out of the 'color' materials, this amazing great project, also at least takes more than 3 years, is expected to be completed in 1914, at this time has been repaired most of the time, any ship to see this super project, will be amazed.

Because of the barrier of the Yangtze River, the north and south are still damned, and the travel conditions in other places are much better, such as from Baotou to Nanjing, all the way by train, that is, about a day of time, compared with the previous few days, greatly reduced, and from Nanjing to take the ferry across the river, it is the railway line, that is, the delay of an afternoon, when the high-speed ferry crosses the river, it only takes a few hours at most, which greatly strengthens the connection between the south and the north.

Yang Yuanzhao's destination is not Shanghai, is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River in the small city of Jiang'Yin', once the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, the battle for Jiang'Yin' is particularly fierce, now Jiang'Yin' is not on the main line of the railway, at most a branch railway, and the future artery of the Beijing-Shanghai Railway want to connect, now it's just a very small port, can only dock 5000 tons of ships, berths are only seven or eight, the annual throughput capacity is quite small.

Even in the new city, it is not the best, Henan, Jiangsu, Shandong, there is a vote of the new city, they are huge, there are many people, but Yang Yuanzhao came quietly, and even did quite hidden, did not take a special train, but in the ordinary carriage, chartered a few adjacent carriages, let the guards guard.

The reason for this is that the river 'yin' here, a few months ago, quietly built a project, next to the new city, the port is close to the more downstream, as early as a few months ago, a hidden port was quietly built, here is relatively hidden, and the surrounding is ' At least 400 or more special forces and 800 regular soldiers, they put this area within a radius of only 20 square kilometers, and the water of defense is impassable, and anyone who enters will attract their attention, and under special circumstances, they will come out to block it to prevent someone from going deep here.

Historically, in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, here was the Jiang'yin fortress, when the million army crossed the Yangtze River, it was still the fulcrum of the Yangtze River defense line, the deep-water channel of the Yangtze River gave the submarine a waterway in and out, and the position close to the inland was relatively hidden, and it was not easy to be found, which was a natural base.

This is just a helpless choice, as far as ports and military ports are concerned, Qingdao is a good place, Qingdao shipyard is occupied by large docks and warships, compared to inconspicuous submarines, more designers are still placed on battleships, Germany just supported a submarine designer to come, after careful consideration, finally, it was decided to set the submarine base in this location.

Submarines, this from the beginning of the appearance of many "waves" of the ship, has been, in the twists and turns of development, even if it has been a grandiose, no country's navy attaches importance to it, historically, Germany in the First World War, special attention, in fact, is just a helpless choice, the entire high seas fleet in the 'Baltic' Sea, after the strategic failure of the Battle of Jutland, few fleets can get out of the Kiel Canal and the North Sea, in this case, to strike Britain, broken' The only way to fight is to rely on these submarines that come and go without a trace.

Unlike Germany, Yang Yuanzhao, who is familiar with the development of the whole world, is very aware of the huge role of submarines in the future, especially large ocean-going submarines with a larger range and stronger torpedoes, as long as they stay on the channel, they will have a huge deterrent to most of the merchant ships on the channel, unless there are destroyers to carry out armed escort, some of the faster submarines can even 'touch' fish in troubled waters in the duel of large battleships, or even take advantage of the fire to rob some damaged ships that have withdrawn from the battle line sex's blows, which ordinary ships can't do.

Submarines have even become the standard configuration of the navy of poor countries in later generations, compared with the high price, huge operating costs of warships, the power of submarines and the price are not proportional, there are many times the victory over several times, dozens of times the example of warships, but also make submarines the first choice of poor countries.

The northwest is not poor now, but if you want to form a navy as much as possible, this is the only option, and the explosion battleship of Qingdao Shipyard has been opened. At the same time, 5 45,000-ton ships, even in this era of naval armament, are enough to defy the sky, and the next 4 enlarged Orions of more than 20,000 tons, 9 capital ships at a time, and all of them are battleships, such a practice can only be satisfied by the Northwest with deep pockets and world-class steel production capacity, otherwise, just the consumption of these steels is enough to destroy the steel system of a small country.

It stands to reason that a small warship such as a destroyer should be a little faster in the army, but unfortunately it is also parallel to success, and defeat is also parallel, after considering the overall efficiency, the single among the small ships, its efficiency is reduced, sacrificing their interests, ensuring the overall efficiency and speed of the large ships, this is also a helpless choice, so, within a year, the ships that can serve and become an army, I am afraid that only submarines.

Different from the fantasy class, the submarine, Yang Yuanzhao did not plan to use the German designer at the beginning, the submarine is a few basic principles, diving and floating, the rest is very simple, two sets of power systems, one can choose the more mature diesel unit in the northwest, which can provide strong power and greater endurance, and one is the electric unit, Germany has achieved great results in the motor. color', but compared to the northwest with Yang Yuanzhao and Truss, it is still not enough to see, as for the battery, it is even more needless, the northwest with the battery and lithium battery of later generations, can almost completely explode Germany.

From the very beginning, the purpose of inviting the German designer was mainly to let him calculate, whether the whole design was reasonable, whether it would exceed the scope of use of the submarine, as for the design, from the very beginning, the Northwest did not plan to take the road of development from small to large, from dozens of tons, one or two hundred tons, one by one, the First World War was about to break out in more than a year, and then study this, the time is too late, and the direct positioning is on the 1000-1800 ton ocean-going deep-sea submarine, Even the two test ships that were initially built were close to 1,000 tons and about 800 tons -- 73175 + dsuaahhh + 30498533 -- >