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At the same time as the missile development program was launched, the nuclear weapons project funds had been allocated, but nuclear physics scientists such as Marie Curie did not know that the nuclear physics projects they were studying included nuclear bombs and other military applications, and the official explanation of Beiyang Science and Technology was to seek new energy and use the super energy of nuclear physics to build nuclear power stations to replace the current large-scale pollution problem of thermal power stations, so they received their strong support, so that the nuclear project research plan went smoothly. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the end of Guanghua's eighteenth year, the Imperial Nuclear Physics Research Laboratory of China successfully obtained uranium-235, which is necessary for nuclear fission, from natural uranium elements by gas centrifugation, and obtained laboratory-level production capacity. In this way, the nuclear physics laboratory has enough uranium-235 to carry out a large number of tests, opening the door to the nuclear reactor stage.

However, due to the technical limitations of the times, Wang Chenhao can only provide them with a general theoretical guidance direction, and the specific theory and practical technology have to rely on these scientists themselves.

Due to the strong anti-war mentality of Marie Curie and other nuclear physics experts, the Chinese emperor did not dare to tell them the slightest rumor about nuclear weapons research, so the Chinese empire could only first conduct research on nuclear reactors for power generation projects, and only after the technology could the military slowly develop it into a weapon-level nuclear project.

Nuclear reactors used to generate electricity require only 3.5% uranium-235 feedstock, which is far from the weapon-grade uranium feedstock. Moreover, the high-temperature environment and powerful radioactive environment required by nuclear reactors are not achievable with ordinary materials.

At this point. Wang Chenhao's research direction is to purify 99.9% high-purity graphite materials. However, at this time, the technology and machinery manufacturing technology of the Chinese Empire could not obtain high-purity graphite materials. For this reason, Wang Chenhao pointed them out again, saying that Kunming, Yunnan Province has natural graphite raw materials, which are extremely pure and can be used as a reference.

However. At this time, Yunnan has not yet discovered the graphite raw material production area, and Wang Chenhao does not know where it is. Wang Chenhao just thought that the graphite needed by the United States to develop the atomic bomb in history was obtained from the area of Kunming, Yunnan, for which Japan and the United States fought in Yunnan, but in the end the Americans still succeeded in transporting the graphite back to the United States, and finally completed the development of the atomic bomb.

Thereupon. The Chinese Emperor and the Yunnan Provincial Government gathered manpower to search for graphite, but it was obviously like looking for a needle in a haystack. Fortunately, the nuclear reactor research has only just begun, and it is not yet at the stage of using graphite electrodes, and according to the R&D schedule, graphite electrodes will be used in five years, so there is still plenty of time.

The study of nuclear physics is not limited to uranium, under the guidance of Wang Chenhao. Scientists have also begun to study heavy water. Although they didn't know why Wang Chenhao asked them to study heavy water, they thought that Wang Chenhao had extremely accurate foresight based on their previous experience, so they set out to do research.

The whole world doesn't know how to get heavy water, except for Wang Chenhao. Wang Chenhao ordered someone to prepare a set of distillation equipment in the palace, which repeated thousands of distillations of ordinary water, as well as dozens of electrolysis, and finally obtained a small bottle of heavy water with relatively high purity, and then handed it over to scientists for research. Soon, scientists discovered a new substance, heavy water. I couldn't help but sigh, and I admired Wang Chenhao even more.

Wang Chenhao knows that heavy water is a necessary coolant and retardant for nuclear reactors, and deuterium in heavy water is a necessary reactor for thermonuclear, so Wang Chenhao has already done everything that can be done for nuclear physics experts, and Wang Chenhao can't help with the rest of the problems, and it is all up to these scientists to sum up their experience.

Of course, Wang Chenhao is on the safe side. The Nuclear Physics Laboratory is not in Tianjin, but a separate experimental base in the uninhabited northern Xinjiang, because Wang Chenhao is worried that if there is a failure or mistake in the test process and a large explosion, it will be too dangerous, so it is safe to send them to an uninhabited place.

After the signing of the Five-Power Pact. The Chinese imperial side focused its efforts on the building of strategic forces and the research and development of high-tech armaments and weapons.

The General Staff issued the first five-year plan to the navy, army, and air force, requiring the Chinese Empire to realize the mechanization of the land. The General Staff believes that the total strength of the Imperial Chinese Army has dropped to 1.2 million, and the reduction in numbers has brought about a certain decline in combat effectiveness, so it can only rely on quality building to make up for the loss of overall combat capability. Mechanized units were at the forefront of the war against Japan, but they showed their skills in the war against the United States. The armored units of the Imperial Janissaries of the Chinese Empire made a show of prestige on the Great Plains of the United States, which terrified the American army. At the post-war summary meeting, the military's demands on armored forces were increasing day by day.

Due to the high cost of producing the latest M16 tanks, W16 infantry tanks, and Z16 anti-tank tanks by the weapons and equipment companies of the early Chinese Empire, Rao was not equipped by the Chinese Empire even if it had the money and could not afford it, and could only meet the needs of the Imperial Guard and a few ace troops of the major military regions.

With the progress of the war against the United States, the military industry of the Chinese Empire developed rapidly, and the production technology of the Three Musketeers of the Armored Forces made a major breakthrough, the production speed was greatly increased, and the production cost was greatly reduced, only a quarter of the previous one, which made all units of the Chinese Imperial Army begin to form armored units one after another.

By the end of Guanghua's 18th year, the Imperial Chinese Army had been equipped with 2,000 M16 main combat vehicles, 3,300 W16 wheeled infantry vehicles, and 1,500 Z16 anti-tank vehicles.

The General Staff demanded that the 1.2 million officers and men of the Imperial Army be reorganized and that 40 armored divisions and 20 mechanized infantry divisions be formed within the next five years to realize the comprehensive mechanization reform of the Imperial Chinese Army.

Of course, the mechanization reform proposed by the General Staff Headquarters was also instructed by Wang Chenhao. Because Wang Chenhao understood that mechanization was the mainstream of the next world war, and the powerful transportation network of the Chinese Empire, the railway, road, aviation and waterway networks throughout the urban and rural areas required a high-speed mobile force to be competent, so it became an inevitable trend for the Chinese Empire to enter the era of mechanization in advance.

The Imperial Army carried out mechanization reforms, and the Imperial Navy was also modernized and upgraded by order of the General Staff.

After the world war and the war against the United States, the top brass of the Imperial Chinese Navy had discovered that the prerequisite for victory in future naval battles was to ensure air supremacy. Although the Imperial Chinese Navy has a powerful aircraft carrier battle group, a powerful Aegis air defense cruiser, and each ship's own anti-aircraft fire network, etc., which can eliminate most of the threat of enemy aircraft from the air, the senior officials of the Imperial Chinese Navy also realize that the development speed of aircraft is too fast, and before the World War, the Chinese Empire was ahead of Europe and the United States in aircraft manufacturing for more than ten years. The XING energy of the British-designed O-400 bomber is very close to the most advanced H2N1 bomber of the Chinese Empire, and in the final stage of the Sino-US war, the US Air Force was forced by the war to develop a series of advanced combat aircraft such as Bell P-3, Curtis P-5, Brewster F2A, Grumman F1F and so on. If it were not for the rapid end of the war by the Chinese Empire in adopting the blitzkrieg tactics of quick victory, it would have been possible for the United States to continue to develop at such a speed of development, and the Chinese Empire would have been mired in war and unable to extricate itself.

The greatest merit of the Chinese imperial side is not its strong combat effectiveness and advanced weaponry, but its ability to self-criticize and summarize, as well as its ability to correct mistakes in a timely manner. This ability of self-reflection and summarization is Wang Chenhao's key requirement for the imperial side, which ensures that the strength and guiding ideology of the Chinese emperor do not go to extremes and do not turn the corners, and can develop healthily.

At the post-war summary meeting, senior officials of the Imperial Chinese Admiralty, generals of the Naval Fleet Command, and representatives of soldiers stated their overall views on the war from their respective standpoints, confirmed the merits and strengths of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and also put forward the shortcomings and deficiencies of the Imperial Navy in battle.

At the meeting, the top echelons of the Admiralty had to admit that if the world's air force continued to develop at this pace, it would not be long before their air force would achieve a qualitative breakthrough, and even threaten the hegemony of the Chinese Imperial Air Force, which would then affect the Imperial Navy's control over sea supremacy in future naval wars.

Vice Admiral Liu Guanxiong, deputy commander of the Navy Fleet Command and supreme commander of the aircraft carrier battle group, said in his summary report: "In this naval battle against the United States, if the US Air Force and naval aviation had possessed combat aircraft with high star capabilities such as O-400 and F3 earlier, then the Imperial Navy would not have lost only the third aircraft carrier battle group, and the entire aircraft carrier battle group would have paid a heavy price or even lost air supremacy, which would have affected the Imperial Navy's control of sea supremacy and affected the entire course of the war." Therefore, I suggest that the aircraft carrier battle group should be included in the ranks of the capital ships of the decisive battle at sea. ”

Liu Guanxiong's proposal was quite pertinent, but most of the high-ranking officers of the Imperial Navy still had a deep nostalgia for the idea of the giant ship cannon doctrine, so some officers objected to it, hoping to continue to exclude aircraft carriers on the grounds that the Imperial Navy's powerful fleet anti-aircraft fire network was a gap that enemy planes could not cross.

However, Lin Jianzhang, Minister of the Navy, and others had already entered the palace to ask Wang Chenhao, and although Wang Chenhao did not directly let the battleship withdraw from the stage of history, he definitely expressed the meaning that aircraft carriers would become the dominant naval warfare in the future.

As a result, the Naval Commission finally made the decision to merge the battleship battle group and the aircraft carrier battle group into one, that is, the aircraft carrier and the battleship formed a combined task force to participate in a future decisive battle at sea, and both the battleship and the aircraft carrier were treated as the capital ships of naval warfare.

In terms of specific deployments, the Navy Committee ordered all the main warships of the Imperial Navy to be comprehensively modernized and upgraded, equipped with more advanced anti-air and anti-sea radar systems, and installed new anti-aircraft phalanxes, anti-aircraft guns, and anti-aircraft machine guns with more powerful firepower. Since the five-nation convention does not stipulate restrictions on the number and tonnage of aircraft carriers, the Imperial Navy will vigorously develop aircraft carriers and improve the comprehensive combat capability of aircraft carriers in the next 15 years. (To be continued!)