"On a dark night when you can't see your fingers, it's a great feeling to drive one of the world's most advanced submarines, quietly sail into Kure Gungang, the home port of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and then use torpedoes to take out the battleships and aircraft carriers moored there."

The man who said this was the young man named Youshi. This person has a serious expression and looks handsome and straight. The eyebrows are thick and black as lacquer, and the sharpness of the eyes is like a cone in the sac, as if it is always reminding others that the owner of these eyes is the best and most dangerous soldier.

Zhao Zheng had already gotten up from the bed at this time, pulled a chair and sat beside him, and whispered: "Zhang Youshi, when we do this, it's best not to declare war, and have an undeclared sneak attack...... I am afraid that it will be difficult to achieve a decisive victory with only a few submarines, and if we can have the cooperation of night-sailing torpedo bombers and pocket submarines, and then carry out a sneak attack without declaring war, it will be good to deal with small Japan at once, and it is better to lay the victory in the first hour of the war."

Although Zhao Zheng's words were whispered, he still made Long Yuhui hear it clearly: "Can an aircraft have this kind of performance?" Long Yuhui also leaned over to the two young people and snorted: "What we have to think about now is not how to deal with Japan, but ...... How to deal with the Hokkien Yankees in power in the Admiralty, otherwise, let alone battleships, aircraft carriers, even torpedo boats, they can't go up, so they will wander around the yamen and batteries everywhere for the rest of their lives."

Zhao Zheng glanced at Long Yuhui, who looked like an official, lowered his voice, and said with a smile: "Those Fujian Yankees don't need us to deal with them, and the bigwigs of the Kuomintang will squeeze them out." What we have to consider is how to shoot that Luo Dashuai's sycophant. Brother Long, do you know how to shoot? ”

Without waiting for Long Yuhui to answer, Zhao Zheng said with a wicked smile: "There are only two ways to please Luo Dashuai." The first is to be able to do things for the commander and manage the navy well. I think this Marshal Luo really wants to run the navy well, as long as he has real talent and learning, and he is not outdated, he will definitely be reused, such as me and my friends. There is another way...... It's this Luo Dashuai who seems to be a little lustful, he is only twenty-eight years old this year, and he already has four wives and concubines. Hehe, Brother Long, how old is your daughter this year? Is it possible to contribute it to Luo Dashuai......"

"Zhao Zheng, you...... You...... You kid look at you like this, do you look a little serious? We're talking about a very serious issue, so let's not joke about it...... I don't have a girl, just a stupid kid. Right now, I am in the first phase of the Navy, studying naval aviation. Speaking of his son, Long Yuhui's face was helpless. How many times has this kid been rebellious now, asking him to learn how to fly, but he just won't listen, he has to play with naval aviation, how dangerous is this plane? If there is a good one, isn't this Long family the queen of extinction?

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More than 200 non-commissioned officers and cadets lined up in the playground. At the front of the queue with a command knife was a gray-haired German naval officer, walking in a bumpy goose stride and shouting various passwords in German. At present, the naval academy is taught in German, and the majority of instructors are German.

Luo Yaoguo watched more than 200 students doing various queue movements in the sound of German passwords, as if they were one person, which was not worse than those troops of the Central Army Military Academy in Wuhan. I can't help but feel a little emotional, the revival of the Chinese Navy may start with these people, right? The original Fujian Navy ...... To be honest, it is already rotten, in addition to excluding dissidents, it is smuggling and carrying passengers, and using the country's warships as cargo ships to run transportation and make money. The warship that he had worked so hard to build could not be handed over to these people as a freighter

While Luo Yaoguo was observing these naval cadets, he naturally became the object of other people's research. In order to leave a good impression on these future elites of the navy, Luo Yaoguo also made some careful preparations today. Deliberately wearing a neat and well-fitting white admiral uniform, wearing a large-brimmed military hat, and white gloves on his hands, he looked stern and stood straight on the review stand. had a very kind face, but he also deliberately pretended to be a hero who saved the country with iron and blood.

Probably infected by Luo Yaoguo's iron-blooded appearance, the more than 200 students in the playground couldn't help but stand more and more straight at this time, only the blue sky and white sun flag fluttered in the wind in the hands of the flag bearers. In the playground, breathing can be heard, and everyone is engrossed in looking at this hero who once defeated the Soviet Red Army in the Battle of the Middle Road, which is a great victory that China has not seen in a century, this victory has now been added to the propaganda of the Kuomintang propaganda machine, Luo Yaoguo has already become the god of war in the eyes of countless young people in South China

The reason why it is said to be South China...... That's because in the northern country, this hero is General Zhang Xueliang.

"Classmates" I don't know how long it took for Luo Yaoguo to break the silence in the playground with a slightly southern shout: "I am Luo Yaoguo is the current Minister of Armaments of the National Government, and the original purpose of my visit to Guangzhou this time was only to inspect the shipyard and determine the shipbuilding plan of our National ** Army and Navy." ”

The following are all in the navy, and when they hear the shipbuilding, their ears are naturally erected, and at present, the largest ship of the navy of the Southern People's ** Army is less than 1,000 tons, so it cannot be called a navy at all, at best, it is just a "coast guard". During this time, I finally heard a lot of news about the revival of the navy, and it was to buy aircraft carriers, and to build cruisers, and I also faintly heard that battleships were going to be built, so how could these future naval elites not be excited?

"I'm sure you've heard something, right? This time...... Our Nationalist Government really wants to revive the navy, not only ordering aircraft carriers from the United States, but also planning to build them ourselves, and not only to build aircraft carriers, but also cruisers, destroyers, and of course battleships, and to surpass Japan's Nagato and Mutsu battleships, and with them, China will become a first-class sea power country, and no one in the world will dare to bully us in the future."

The remarks of the cannon giant ship immediately made the originally neat breathing sound in the field become a little rapid and chaotic. Since the First Sino-Japanese War, China seems to be getting farther and farther away from the sea, what first-class battleship? The people in this navy didn't even think about it...... To be honest, I'm glad to have a cruiser open. Of course, there are also disdainful ones, such as Zhao Zheng, who is tall and thin, with a smart face, who is a little deflated at this moment. Zhang Yiming (Zhang Youshi), who was as tall as a sword, also sighed softly.

"It's just...... We can build good ships by smashing pots and selling iron, but with these ships, with the world's first-class battleships, will we definitely be able to win the war? ”

Luo Yaoguo almost mentioned all his anger and shouted, at this moment, he seemed to be really a little emotional, and it seemed that he was really concerned about the future of the navy and China's sea power.

"Yes"

This roar came from more than 200 future naval elites on the playground, they are naval elites, and naturally they can't be defeated, and in this scene, of course, they have to be heroes.

"Good" Luo Yaoguo raised his chin coldly and arrogantly, his legs still standing straight. This appearance was practiced by Natalie for an unknown amount of time after teaching him, and it looks quite domineering.

"That's all there is to it. You are the future pillars of the Navy, and I am the Minister of Armaments. I am here to assure you that I will provide you with the best warships, and you will assure me that you must cherish every minute of your time in the Naval Academy, and you must make yourself the first-class naval officer in the world, so that you can be worthy of those first-class warships."

After speaking, Luo Yaoguo gave a clean military salute to everyone in the playground, and then strode towards the military academy teaching building surrounded by his entourage. Today, he is going to meet with the elites of the Naval University one by one here, to see if anyone can take them for his own use and promote them in the future.

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The place to meet the Haida elites was in an empty classroom, and it was a private meeting, Luo Yaoguo met with each Haida elite alone, and no outsiders knew what to say. The first person to meet was Zhao Zheng, the first sentence of this naval elite who was three years younger than Luo Yaoguo was: "Minister Luo, do you really believe that relying on two first-class battleships can make our country a first-class sea power country?" ”

What the? Luo Yaoguo was stunned when he heard this, he never thought that his question had not been raised yet, but the other party had opened his mouth to test himself first

"What do you say?" Luo Yaoguo smiled slightly, and kicked the question back again.

Zhao Zheng twisted his eyebrows, looking like he was smiling: "You don't believe it, if you believe that battleships can solve the problem, you won't spend a lot of effort to import aircraft carriers from the United States...... And the aircraft carriers you ordered from the United States did not even have naval guns, and you chose to significantly strengthen your anti-aircraft firepower. I think...... You are a complete aircraft carrier faction. But...... Why would you spend a lot of money on two battleships that were doomed to obsolescence? ”

Listening to Zhao Zheng's words, Luo Yaoguo unconsciously raised his eyebrows, and there was a burst of ecstasy in his heart. Talent, I didn't expect that in such a poor and backward China, there are still talents who can see the direction of the future development of the navy, uh, it seems that the commander of the future Nanyang Fleet is the one in front of him

"Okay" Luo Yaoguo didn't hide it, but nodded with a smile, admitted that he was an aircraft carrier faction, and then said: "Then can you guess why I want to build a battleship?" ”

Zhao Zheng shook his head, still looking hippie smiling: "You are always thinking far-sightedly, it must be reasonable to make these wastes." Well, it must be calculating other countries...... I can't guess the specifics. It's just one thing for sure, as soon as our battleship data is announced, the Japanese will definitely follow up, am I right? ”

Luo Yaoguo couldn't help but praise the other party's wisdom, no wonder he was admitted to Haida with the first place, it turned out that he was not a nerd but really smart

To tell the truth, it was not Luo Yaoguo who proposed to build battleships, but those Germans wanted to build the current Sino-German cooperation, and the purpose of the Germans was to use this to rearmament, which naturally included battleships, and Germany would pay for one of these two battleships to buy it back at that time...... Whether the other ship will be kept or not will be discussed at that time, and whether the third ship will be built depends on the situation, but it must be declared that it is to be built.

This battleship is honestly a kind of waste that consumes the most national strength, and if China has an ambitious battleship construction plan, Japan will definitely follow suit, so that their limited national strength will be consumed faster. As for the first-class battleships that China spent a lot of money to build, it will be a big deal to sell them to Germany in exchange for technology and machinery, and they will not lose money at a loss, and they can also train the shipbuilding team, but those big warships that Japan followed up, are they willing to sell them? If you are reluctant to sell it, then put it in Wu Jungang and wait for other countries' planes to bomb it

"Let's talk about how to use an aircraft carrier, shall we?" Luo Yaoguo smiled slightly, looking at the young man with a hippie smile in front of him.

Zhao Zheng frowned, looked around, and saw that there was no one else, so he lowered his voice and said: "Of course, the aircraft carrier is going to be used for a sneak attack, or if you don't declare war, you will secretly drive to the door of Japan, and then you will raid Wu Jungang and sink all their battleships and aircraft carriers in the old nest." Merely...... The current aircraft does not have this kind of performance, so we have to develop it well. ”

Well, I met China's Yamamoto Fifty-Six, and now I've hit the jackpot. Luo Yaoguo felt a burst of ecstasy in his heart, but his face was still impassive, and he just nodded lightly.

In fact, it is not surprising that this Zhao Zheng has this kind of thinking of the aircraft carrier faction, he originally went to study in the 53rd term of the Japanese Navy. At that time, the Japanese Navy already had an aircraft carrier faction, which naturally affected Zhao Zheng, who was studying there. Moreover, the performance of the aircraft improved extremely rapidly in those years, and it can be said that a few years was a leap forward. In this case, a young naval officer with a little imagination would most likely think that in the future there would be even more powerful aircraft equipped on aircraft carriers, which would be powerful enough to defeat battleships whose technology had stagnated.

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"Where do you want to serve after graduating from Haida?" Luo Yaoguo glanced at Zhang Yiming, who had just walked in and stood in front of him, and asked with a smile.

"Submarines." The other party's answer was neat and tidy.

"Why?"

Because submarines were the most ideal tool for a weak navy to counter a strong navy, German submarines sank a total of 5,906 merchant ships with a total tonnage of more than 13.2 million tons during the World War. And throughout the world war, 192 combat ships of various types were sunk by submarines, including 12 battleships, 23 cruisers, and 39 destroyers. This is a record that no other combat ship can match."

Zhang Yiming stood there straight, his eyebrows did not stir, but quietly said the achievements of submarines in World War I. At the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, England, he had heard about the British Empire's brutal U-boats in World War I. Since the heat has sprung up with this mysterious and terrifying weapon, he has developed a keen interest.

Luo Yaoguo smiled: "Then do you have any good proposals for future submarine operations?" ”

Zhang Yiming thought for a moment and said coldly: "Submarine warfare is nothing more than breaking diplomatic relations, sneak attacks, and laying mines, and it should mainly be used to break diplomatic relations." As for sneak attacks...... It's hard to say, but it's still worth trying, such as pocket submarines, frogmen, and using submarines to infiltrate enemy military ports, etc. This is like a small gamble, and if you lose, you won't lose much, and if you win, you might be able to change the course of the war. ”

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Among the students of the first phase of Haida, the most eye-catching should be Chen Shaokuan's cousin Chen Si. This short, dark-skinned young man and the tall and handsome Chen Shaokuan did not look like each other at all. Except for the unruly unruliness that can't be hidden between the eyebrows.

Chen Si is a typical Fujian Navy, graduated from the Mawei Ship Master School, and has been serving on warships since graduation, and has served as the first mate of a gunboat before being admitted to the Naval University. This time, he was obviously trained by the Fujian Navy as a successor, I am afraid that in Chen Shaokuan's calculations, the future captain of the second ship of Zhending and Dingzhou should have a share, right?

The classroom was quiet, Luo Yaoguo quietly looked at the sturdy lieutenant colonel in front of him for a while, and finally smiled and broke the silence: "Can you give me some advice to the Zhenyuan-class battleship that is still being designed?" ”

Chen Si's expression did not move, and he replied lightly: "This class of battleships should use the most advanced technology in the world at present, because it was born nearly ten years after the Japanese Nagato-class battleships, so its performance should also be much better than that of the Nagato-class." First of all, it should be much faster than Nagato's 23 knots (Japanese public data), at least more than 28 knots. In this way, when the Zhenyuan-class battleships encountered the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet at sea, they were able to escape at high speed. Secondly, the Zhenyuan class should have the advantage of firepower and protection capable of easily defeating all Japanese battleships except Nagato. In this way, in a future war, the Japanese battleships would not dare to disperse their actions, no, it should be the entire combined fleet of Japan that would not dare to disperse their actions. In this way, they will not be able to blockade all of our seaports, and will allow our foreign transportation not to be interrupted in wartime. ”

"Thirdly, the current aircraft technology is advancing extremely rapidly, although it is not so much that aircraft carriers will completely eliminate battleships, as those foreign aircraft carrier factions say. However, the anti-aircraft firepower of the battleships must also be strengthened, and the Zhenyuan class should now be designed to have enough firepower to defend against air attacks by enemy aircraft. If this can be done..., the Zhenyuan class should be a good enough battleship, but ...... Now that we have the Zhenyuan class, I'm afraid Japan will start building better battleships, right? ”

In the end, Chen Si's eyebrows couldn't help but wrinkle slightly.

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