Late July.

As the main forces of the 6th Army and the 11th Army approached Shimonoseki City in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, a large-scale urban assault began again.

At this time, the 19th and 20th armies had also crossed the Guanmen Strait and were heading towards Shimonoseki City, Japan, which was closest to the Guanmen Strait, while the 24th Army was hurrying to cross the strait, and the 26th Army was stationed in major cities in Kyushu.

At home, as the six major group armies displayed their skills in Japan, many group armies were red-eyed and asked the Ministry of Defense for war and asked for an expedition to Japan.

Zhang Yunfei considered that the number of troops in Japan might still be too small, so he ordered the 8th, 9th, and 10th armies to start boarding ships, landing in Japan, and attacking Japan.

Shimonoseki City in Japan belongs to Yamaguchi Prefecture in Japan, and the administrative division of Japan is very different from that of China, the first level of Japan is the capital, province, prefecture and prefecture, and the capital, province, prefecture and prefecture of Japan are parallel first-level administrative regions directly under the central government.

Japan has one prefecture (Tokyo), one (Hokkaido), two prefectures (Osaka Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture), 43 prefectures, each prefecture has several cities, Shimonoseki City belongs to a city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, located in Honshu Island closest to Kyushu Island a city, but also the first city conquered by soldiers on Honshu Island.

The fierce battle lasted for four days, and the next three days were street fighting, and the 30,000 or 40,000 little devils who resisted in Shimonoseki City, except for a few thousand who fled, were either annihilated or captured by the soldiers.

The soldiers annihilated more than 20,000 enemies and captured thousands, in addition, there may be thousands of small Japanese civilians who were "mistakenly injured" by the soldiers, but this kind of "accidental injury" happened. Whether it was Chu Tianming or Liao Yaoxiang, they didn't go to the bottom of it.

After the occupation of Shimonoseki City, the major group armies have received the latest order from the Ministry of National Defense, ordering them to divide their troops and continue to advance along the roads and railways to the depth of Honshu Island.

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Tianjin.

Today's Tianjin Shipyard is very lively, because today Zhang Yunfei is going to visit the Tianjin Shipyard, and all the workers of the Tianjin Shipyard who got the news are beaming with joy. It's like the New Year.

Tianjin Shipyard is the former Tianjin Tanggu Shipyard, however, after nearly a year of transformation and development, Tianjin Shipyard has been replaced with cannons, not only the scale has expanded sharply several times. Several large dockyards were added, and its own research institute was established.

However, the only thing that embarrassed the leaders of the factory was that since the beginning of this year, not a single ship has been built at the Tianjin Shipyard, and the only thing that has made the faces of the top management of the Tianjin Shipyard shine is that several amphibious landing ships are about to be launched, and they may be delivered to the troops in another month or two.

At the beginning, Zhang Yunfei positioned the Tianjin Shipyard as a manufacturing base for large warships. Even aircraft carriers can be built here, and the newly built dock is also a huge dock, enough to build a large ship of 50,000 tons.

However, Zhang Yunfei also knows. You can't eat a fat man in one bite, a few years ago, you definitely couldn't make an aircraft carrier that the navy urgently needed, Zhang Yunfei has turned to the second, the first two years. The Tianjin shipyard was tasked with creating large transport ships and amphibious landing ships that were urgently needed by the troops.

Zhang Yunfei gave the task of designing and manufacturing amphibious landing ships last year, and at that time, the Chinese army had not yet made an expedition to Japan, but Zhang Yunfei knew that with the Chinese army's expedition to Japan, the amphibious landing ship was more urgently needed.

At present, because there are no amphibious landing ships, the ships used by the fighters for landing and beach fighting are all varied, and even fishing boats are used; because there are no suitable transport ships, the fighters often have to work hard to transport heavy equipment, and it is very troublesome.

This time, the amphibious landing ship developed by Tianjin Shipbuilding is of the 1,000-ton class, which belongs to the small landing ship, and the main reason is that the troops urgently need the amphibious landing ship at present, and if a large amphibious landing ship is launched, the time will drag on for a long time, and it is far less fast than the manufacture of small landing ships.

The landing ship is the most practical weapon and equipment for landing warfare at sea, also known as amphibious ships, which are specially manufactured for the transportation of boarding soldiers and their weapons and equipment, and supplies for landing.

In layman's terms, an amphibious landing ship is a flat-bottomed armored ship with a very shallow draft, which is suitable for transporting troops to the beach for landing operations.

At present, amphibious landing ships are not a new thing, and all countries in the world have equipment, especially the US military, which has a lot of equipment, ranging from hundreds of tons to tens of thousands of tons. In the Pacific War, a large number of amphibious landing ships equipped by the United States played an important role in landing and seizing beaches, especially in the battle for islands.

The amphibious landing ships, also known as tank landing ships, which are being manufactured by the Tianjin Shipyard, can carry several tanks, Type 39 tanks and hundreds of soldiers. It has a cruising range of 2,000 km and a speed of 30 km/h, which allows the landing force to reach the landing point beachhead from the point of departure without having to change trains en route.

In addition, this kind of landing ship has a very shallow draft, and huge hatches are designed in the bow and stern, and when they arrive at the landing point and open the hatch at the beachhead, the fighters and the loaded tanks can go down directly and board the beachhead for operations.

The landing ship is equipped with two 30mm cannons to provide fire support to the fighters.

Zhang Yunfei came to inspect the Tianjin Shipyard this time to see that these amphibious landing ships that are about to be launched are only one of them, and in addition, Zhang Yunfei wanted to personally see the 10,000-ton hydraulic press of the Tianjin Shipyard.

Of course, this 10,000-ton hydraulic press is not developed in China, and the largest tonnage hydraulic press developed in China is only thousands of tons, which is very far from this 10,000-ton hydraulic press, and these 10,000-ton hydraulic presses are naturally disassembled from Japan and then reinstalled in Datong Shipyard.

After occupying the Sasebo Naval Base in Japan, the soldiers dismantled a large amount of equipment from the Sasebo Naval Base shipyard and shipped it back to China.

These equipment were dismantled by Zhang Yunfei's order, and now the whole country is engaged in large-scale construction, especially the shipbuilding industry, which urgently needs these equipment, which is why Zhang Yunfei ordered not to bomb the Sasebo Naval Base Shipyard when the Chinese Air Force carried out a fierce bombing of the Sasebo Naval Base.

As a shipyard capable of manufacturing battleships of more than 10,000 tons, Zhang Yunfei knew that the Sasebo Naval Base Shipyard must have a lot of equipment that he urgently needs, and with these equipment, it can greatly speed up the construction of his major shipyards.

The reason why the Japanese Navy is strong is inseparable from Japan's strong shipbuilding industry, but the Sasebo Naval Base Shipyard has now been basically dismantled, and these equipment will be settled in China in the future.

This time, among the equipment dismantled from the Sasebo Naval Base shipyard was a 10,000-ton hydraulic press, which is necessary for the construction of a 10,000-ton battleship or aircraft carrier.

In order to build powerful battleships, Japan did not hesitate to spend huge sums of money to add a large number of new equipment to its shipbuilding industry, and purchased 15,000 tons of hydraulic presses and three 70-ton acid open hearth furnaces from Germany, which cost a total of 10 million US dollars.

With a 15,000-ton hydraulic press, it was possible to create large forgings, including 650 mm thick armor steel plates (used in the main gun turrets of large battleships).

However, these equipment, which was bought at a large price from a small Japanese company, has now been installed at the Tianjin shipyard, and these equipment will play a role in the construction of China's first large transport ship and even the first large aircraft carrier.

15,000 tons of hydraulic presses, at present, there will never be more than five in the world, and there are only a few countries such as Germany and the United States that have this kind of equipment.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Zhang Yunfei traveled lightly, very low-key, and appeared at the door of Tianjin Shipyard, according to Zhang Yunfei's request, Tianjin Shipyard did not hold any large-scale welcome ceremony, but several high-level officials of the shipyard greeted at the door.

Seeing Zhang Yunfei's motorcade coming, these high-level executives of Tianjin Shipyard stood straight, and Zhang Yunfei's motorcade was only three cars, which slowly drove over and stopped in front of everyone.

Zhang Yunfei was dressed in civilian clothes, stepped out of the car, and the director of Tianjin Shipyard hurriedly took everyone to greet him, and shook hands with Zhang Yunfei excitedly.

On the way, several high-level executives of Tianjin Shipyard respectfully introduced the situation of Tianjin Shipyard to Zhang Yunfei, and Zhang Yunfei seemed to be full of interest and listened carefully.

Zhang Yunfei and his entourage first looked at the amphibious landing ships under construction, and Zhang Yunfei even boarded one of the amphibious landing ships that was about to be completed, and entered the cabin to take a closer look.

In his previous life, Zhang Yunfei was a modern special forces, and he had seen a lot of modern amphibious landing ships, although this landing ship could not be compared with modern amphibious landing ships, Zhang Yunfei was still quite satisfied, and such an amphibious landing ship was definitely more advanced in the world.

"Hmmm! Not bad! ”

After coming down from this landing ship, Zhang Yunfei personally praised everyone, and after receiving Zhang Yunfei's praise, several high-level officials of the Tianjin shipyard were obviously very excited.

After seeing these amphibious landing ships under construction, Zhang Yunfei went to the research institute of the Tianjin Shipyard and saw that the design work had been completed, which was a large 6,000-ton transport ship that could transport equipment and soldiers, and could also be transformed into a supply ship for the navy to transport supplies for the navy.

After reading the drawings of the transport ship, Zhang Yunfei was quite satisfied, but Zhang Yunfei still gave some reference suggestions based on his own knowledge.

After coming out of the research institute, Zhang Yunfei finally went to watch the 10,000-ton hydraulic press that had been installed. Take a look at this 10,000-ton hydraulic press, which is the highlight of Zhang Yunfei's trip.

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