Chapter 667: Bombardment of Jiangtian Island (Part II)
The Taiwan Navy hit the archives of the Japanese Etajima Naval Academy with one shot, which brought immeasurable losses to the inheritance of Japan's naval system. In the future, they want to rebuild so much knowledge and experience that they simply can't do without decades. In particular, there are many research archives conducted by naval experts, which are the core of the basic education of the Japanese Navy and an important teaching and research material for training students, but now they have all been destroyed by such an explosion.
"Boom Boom Boom Boom ......"
Taiwan's Sword-class battleships were still pouring out shells, and with so many shells, in just half an hour, 300 shells were fired, and almost every Japanese naval cadet was assigned one shell on average. The power of these artillery guns has razed the entire naval academy to the ground, and there is no longer a single prominent place on it. All kinds of teaching buildings, teaching facilities, simulated training places, and all kinds of archival materials have also disappeared and become a pile of ashes.
"Alright, let's go!" Chen Fa said.
Chen Fa ordered the fleet to return, because this time the mission had been completed, so they had to leave as soon as possible, otherwise they would be besieged desperately by the Japanese reaction. Therefore, under Chen Fa's order, those sword-class battleships immediately accelerated the speed of the battleship to the fastest, and then walked back very quickly, obviously not staying at all to continue the war.
However, for the Japanese, their losses were very large.
"Your Majesty the Emperor, it's not good, it's not good!"
"What's going on?" Emperor Meiji asked.
"Your Majesty the Emperor, I have just received news from Etajima Prefecture that some of the Chinese navy have become our battleships in disguise. Then we bombed the Jiangtadao Naval Academy indiscriminately, and now the Jiangtajima Naval Academy has been razed to the ground. None of the teachers and students in the school survived. None of the survivors have been found yet, and although we haven't found too many bodies, I'm afraid they are all ...... under such heavy naval artillery They are all loyal to His Majesty the Emperor. ”
Under such heavy artillery fire. And it's still a high-explosive bomb, so I'm afraid the corpses have also been blown up to scum, and there aren't many complete corpses to be found at all. So even if there are no corpses, most of them will be annihilated, and there will be no survivors.
When Emperor Meiji heard this, he almost sat down, he didn't expect such a thing to happen. You must know that the Japanese battleships have sunk, and the officers and soldiers of the battleships are all the objects of key inspection and appointment in the future, so they are all the essence. After the battleship was annihilated this time, the losses for Japan were very huge. But now he actually heard that those cadets in the naval academy were all wiped out. It made him feel even more terrible. Because the cadets in these naval academies are the essence of the future navy, and they are an important reserve of human resources for them to reorganize the navy, but now they have been defeated by Wang Guorui's battleships, and almost none of them are left, which makes them all feel that they have suffered heavy losses.
"Your Majesty the Emperor, our navy has suffered heavy losses! Our navy has all kinds of archives, all kinds of teaching and research materials, and many kinds of various intellectual wealth accumulated over the years. These are all things that we have accumulated over decades. There is a lot of information about our naval predecessors, and many of our admirals' various honors are also in it. In addition, a lot of information has been accumulated since the Meiji Restoration of His Majesty the Emperor. But this time, it was actually ruined by this group of people, and it was ruined! ”
The naval attaché was crying and grabbing the ground, and he was obviously very sad. No one understands the value of these things and the value of those students better than them, the Navy. Those students can be said to be the last hope of the Japanese Navy, and it can be said that it is the last hope for the reconstruction of the Japanese Navy. But now it has been ruined by Taiwan, and it will be ruined all of a sudden. Originally, the Japanese battleships may have sunk. But they just have to rebuild or buy again, and they only have to spend money. In a sense, the problems that can be solved with money in this world are actually not big problems. Money may not be the biggest problem for a country. The biggest problem for a country is not money, but problems that cannot be solved with money.
Those Japanese admirals were not so sad that even the battleships were sunk. Because the sinking of the battleship was only the loss of a number of officers, the Japanese personnel training system was not broken, the Japanese naval training system did not suffer much damage, and there were no problems with all kinds of materials and various teaching and research systems. In less than two years, those officers who have lost can be retrained. The officers who were missing on the battleship could be gradually transferred from elsewhere, and then if they lacked even some knowledge, they could learn from the naval academy. There are enough materials and various archives to study, which is the accumulation of a school.
But now Taiwan is ruined, not only destroying the officers of their various battleships, but also hundreds of their future naval cadets. This is not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is that the battleships of Taiwan destroyed the gains that they had spent decades accumulating. Those excellent naval teachers, they are all seeds, and they can cultivate generations of naval officers. Those instructors are all the seeds of the navy, and as long as they exist, they can quickly cultivate a group of navies again. As for the battleships, as long as everyone tightens their belts and lasts for a few years, as long as there is money, there will always be one.
But there are many things in this world that cannot be solved by money, such as this kind of educational inheritance. Maybe a local tyrant boss can install a school with a lot of equipment, using the most advanced equipment, and all kinds of teaching equipment and teaching buildings are very good. But with such an investment, can you make a good school? The answer is no! Just like some schools in later generations, some teaching equipment has not been updated for seven or eight years, and the teaching buildings are all old houses from decades ago, but he firmly holds the position of a first-class famous school. The well-equipped schools and new ones were no match for them.
This talent inheritance can not be solved directly by spending money overnight, and it is impossible to establish an education inheritance system without decades of accumulation, or even hundreds of years of accumulation. Many prestigious schools show off how many years of history they have, which also shows that their heritage has been passed down from generation to generation, and it is not something that can be smashed out by wealth alone.
"The Navy is finished!" Many Japanese admirals almost fainted, and this completely ruined their hopes.
Emperor Meiji said fiercely: "Everyone, you don't have to worry, I will give you a guarantee. You have faith that we have spent decades building our own navy, and that our losses are enormous, but can't we do it all over again? Everything can be started all over again, we spent decades in the past, then we spent decades again, so what can we do? As long as we can persevere, we will definitely be able to move mountains and then get this thing done again. Didn't we just spend decades? You're spending decades making up for it again. What's more, we started from scratch back then, and I am not starting from scratch now, and the conditions are much better than starting from scratch back then. I believe that with the concerted efforts of all Aiqing, we will be able to restore the strength of this navy and restore our navy's talent system in less than ten years, don't you have confidence? ”
"Long live His Majesty the Emperor, our navy will definitely rally around His Majesty the Emperor and do our best to rebuild the navy. We have done everything from scratch in the past few decades, are we still in worse condition than in the past? So, we fought with them, and we won't have ten years at most, and we can all build a strong navy again. Someone immediately patted his chest and said.
The admirals immediately pledged to continue the hard work for ten years and then rebuild the navy again.
But Ito Hirobumi next to him was thinking, "Can we still have ten years?" ”
Japan was able to build a navy from scratch at that time, and that was because China despised them. China did not pay attention to them at all, so they had the opportunity to be able to build a navy from scratch. If the Manchus had interfered, their navy would have been stillborn. And now Wang Guorui, he is not a Manchu Qing, and his vigilance against Japan is very strict, and there will be no fish that slip through the net at all. Therefore, in this world of great contention, once it is delayed for ten years, I am afraid that the next will be forever behind. In this era of very harsh competition, one step behind means falling behind every step of the way. Japan has lagged behind for ten years, but it does not have the same development as Taiwan's Wang Guorui, how can he continue to keep up? Do they have Wang Guorui's method of opening and hanging, once they fall behind, they can't keep up at all. Their opponent Wang Guorui can open the hang, but they have no way to open the hang, how can they play?
So, Japan is ten years behind, will they be able to catch up again? Moreover, will Wang Guorui let the Japanese Navy redevelop without making small moves in secret? Once Wang Guorui secretly makes a small move, it is possible that Japan will be delayed for not ten years, or even twenty or Chinese New Year's Eve years. (To be continued.) )