…… The commissioning of the island-class heavy cruisers of Taiwan is shocking! Even Yang Qiu, the initiator, didn't understand the meaning. According to the provisions of the Washington Naval Treaty to promote mutual trust among all countries, all countries need to publish the relevant data of the warships in service, when the Chinese Navy entered service with the new two-class warships and released part of the data, the designers of various countries who racked their brains to build stronger cruisers under the condition of displacement constraints almost all threw the first draft in their hands into the garbage basket, and the armored cruisers, protective cruisers, patrol cruisers, etc. in the dockyard were all shot and eliminated as long as they were not battleships (no new battlecruisers were built after the war).

If Britain and the United States were not in a hurry, because the heavy patrol was always a heavy patrol and could not compete with their huge main fleet of 510,000 tons, then the close neighbor Japan showed the opposite anxiety and tragic uneasiness after the red eyes and jealousy in Chapter 569. The reason is very simple, even if Japan retains 11 capital ships, the data released by the Chinese Navy makes the Japanese Navy suddenly discover that unless it is a battle cruiser, there is no warship in the huge naval arsenal that can fight! The Furutaka-class heavy cruisers, which are about to be completed, are facing the fate of becoming scrap metal after launching, and even the Aoba class, which is about to start, has to be returned to the design department for redesign, requiring it to compete with the Taiwan Island class.

As a result, the island-class heavy cruisers of Taiwan had the notoriety of "cruiser scrap metal makers" overnight!

First of all, the Taiwan Island-class heavy cruiser is the world's first large warship to place all its guns on deck, which means that it has an excellent firing angle from the main gun to the secondary gun. Secondly, it's ...... Although the data of naval guns have not been published, they are calculated according to the data shown by caliber, body barrel, etc. Even the worst have the ability to penetrate 150mm armor on 15000 yards!

The second is the announced speed of 29 knots! No one knows how the Chinese made such a big breakthrough in power, and many believe that they have help from the United States or Germany behind it. But it doesn't matter anymore, if you publish verse 29, it means that it must be 30 verses or even higher! So even if the tragic cruiser after the jealousy of the 569th chapter of the battle column was dispatched, it meant that except for the world's fastest Hood, which could barely chase it, the rest could only watch others ride in the dust.

What's more, whether it is the Lion-class purchased from Britain at a high price, or the Kongo-class battlecruisers built in China, the main armor is about 152mm. And from the analysis of the photos, the German Zeiss origin rangefinder is also installed on the island level of Taiwan. Assuming that the fire control is accurate to the level of the Verdlinger-class battlecruisers that once made Britain so bad, a little luck would be enough to damage or sink the battlecruiser!

Judging from this, the Japanese Navy not only needs to transform all six main battlecruisers to enhance their protection capabilities. It is also necessary to build secondary warships that can be used by the opponent, after all, it is impossible for the capital ship to make frequent sorties, and even in terms of the speed of sorties, it cannot catch up. But the problem is that it costs a lot more to rebuild 6 capital ships than to build 2 Nagato.

Therefore, the service of the Taiwan Island class also means that all ships below the Kongo class are not its opponents, and even the Tumen Jiang class has crushed all kinds of small cruisers and destroyers owned by Japan!

4 Taiwan-class heavy cruisers and 8 Tumenjiang-class light cruisers If Japan wants to catch up, it means that it will also have to build at least 12 warships of the same class, but where will the money come from? Nagata Tetsuyama began to do business with the Soviet Union, and it is said that the harvest is still very rich, but he is a member of the army, and it is still unknown whether the navy can get enough appropriations, not to mention that compared with the booming economic aggregate of China, this money is completely a drop in the bucket.

Worried...... You can't catch up, you can't catch up. What to do?

What's worse! Even if Japan were to design and build the same heavy cruiser, it would not exceed 10,000 tons because of the damned Washington Naval Treaty. And the 4 more damned Taiwan islands are 13,000 tons, and the full load is 16,000 tons!! The requirements for installing powerful artillery in 10,000-ton warships and balancing protection have given Japanese designers who are not as good as Britain and the United States a headache, and now they are slapping their faces openly and excessively, and no matter how they design, it is impossible to recover the protection capacity of 3,000 tons of steel!

Anxious, abusive, hateful, and seen as a thorn in the side! And so on all the strange thoughts were brought to the inauguration ceremony of the battleship Nagato.

In the melody of "Jun's Generation" sounding in the Wu Naval Factory. The Nagato-class battleship, which had been delayed until now because of two failures, finally showed its majesty to the world after half a year of sea trials, and the Tokyo Daily even described the grand scene of delivery with "The Empire is bathed in the light of golden chrysanthemums".

Nagato was delivered, and sea trials began on the Mutsu. The whole of Japan seemed to be refreshed, and the shadow of defeat and rice turmoil seemed to be shattered by the hideous barrel overnight. Coupled with the determination of the status of German Guinea, the plutocracy once again advocated the theory of empire for world hegemony. But at this time when the whole country was most inspired, there was a bewildering Taiwan island-level ...... The Satsuma clans looked cold, and although the arrogant and disgusting horsemen (referring to the army) closed their mouths, and the Empire of Japan finally adjusted its direction and began to strengthen its naval construction, the damn Taiwan Island class and the Washington Naval Treaty strangled their necks like a noose.

The Tireless class, which was purchased with a huge amount of money, will have to be dismantled and decommissioned before the modification is completed, the Hanoi will be retired from active service, and so many former dreadnought battleships will also be retired from active service! One treasure after another was scrapped by his own hands, and the group of warships that had accumulated countless money was scrapped, which made the anti-British and American hardliners in the navy very dissatisfied. In particular, such a serious breach of contract ship as the Taiwan Island class should not be built at all! All this is to blame for Yuzaburo Kato, who compromised with the Anglo-American ghost animal, this public enemy of the Navy!

Abusive: "Yuzaburo Kato, that traitor, really deserves to be sent to the gallows!" It is simply a shame for the empire that such an obvious exceedance of the island level of Taiwan has been passed! The crown prince should immediately withdraw from the treaty and continue to build the Kaga class, instead of dismantling the hull that has already been built! ”

took the opportunity to ask for money: "Yes, there should be an additional 100 million allocation." Even if the Kaga-class is not built, the construction of the Ise class should be resumed. ”

The aircraft carrier is useless: "The Amagi class should also continue, only the Amagi class has the speed to catch up with it, and it should not be transformed into a useless aircraft carrier." ”

Suspicious of other people's mothers: "Yuzaburo Kato is definitely not Chinese...... The muttering resentment turned the supposed festive Nagato service ceremony into a crusade meeting, and also made Yamamoto Isoroku, who was short and inconspicuous in the crowd, secretly scratch his head, not expecting that the service of a warship would cause a mournful effect within the navy. He also looked at photos and data of the Taiwan Island-class and Tumenjiang-class, and also carefully studied the two types of warships. In fact, the two warships were not as terrible as the British dreadnoughts appeared. What is really worrying is the novel design and the growing national power behind the two warships! He couldn't imagine what a terrible scene would happen when the two were combined.

China has obtained the target of 250,000 tons of capital ships, and it is only a matter of time before 2 old Austro-Hungarian warships are decommissioned. The 2 capital ships leased by the United States will also be returned soon, so as long as the Chinese continue to train for a few years, they will definitely start building their own capital battleships! That's what worries the Navy. Aside from the 4 Ankai-class, China can actually have and build 4 super battleships similar to the Nagato-class, but Japan is already full of tonnage, unless it is willing to continue to retire the 2 Lion-class battlecruisers that were bought at a high price. That is why there is such indignation within the navy, mainly because of the dissatisfaction with the "Washington Naval Treaty" and the excuse of reaching out for military spending.

However, the financial and resource decisions decided that Japan would no longer have the ability to build new battleships in the short term, so he felt that these old naval factions should not continue to focus on one warship after another, but should pay more attention to external strategies and the value of aircraft carriers. Therefore, he felt that Yuzaburo Kato was not only not an imperial sinner, but because he won the 20-year lease rights of German Guinea and Rabaul, he won a huge maneuver space for the navy and Japan! He is a great hero of the empire.

Taiwan's loss is not terrible, because Taiwan does not have an excellent deep gorge as a military port, and the eastern coastline is all within the strike range of the Japanese navy. As long as China is not stupid, it will no longer deploy too many warships in Taiwan, which lacks a good port. So from Keelung to Sasebo are all within the radiation range of the Japanese Navy, and even control the Bass Strait and the Balintang Strait, but the South China Sea and Luzon are too big a problem. Even if Rabaul were to be captured, the Japanese Navy would already have the ability to block the eastern route from the United States to China and the South China Sea, and it would not be able to prevent the Chinese Navy from moving south from Luzon into the Pacific Ocean. This loophole is likely to result in the Chinese Navy being able to evade the Japanese fleet with high-speed warships such as the Taiwan Island-class and escape into the complex South China Sea or Deep Pacific region in the event of a war.

This is the key to the headache of the Taiwan Island-class heavy cruiser, speed and large endurance!

Both Sakhalin and German Guinea were leased until 1940. Once all these places are returned, the Japanese Navy will suddenly become an offshore navy from an ocean-going navy! This is intolerable, but what should Nanyang do? This big, rich, resource-rich loophole is eye-popping! Thinking of this, Yamamoto Isoroku's eyebrows slowly twisted together, and he couldn't help but think of Heihachiro Togo, the geniuses of Shinyuki Akiyama who had almost single-handedly brought Japan into a world power, if they had not retired or were younger, what choice would they make?

Yamamoto raised his head and looked at the mighty Nagato-class battleship in deep thought. In fact, now is really the best opportunity to do something to China and even Nanyang! The powerful Nagato-class has no opponent for the time being, because the three Colorado-class ships of the United States are still under construction, the round-the-world cruise of the USS Hood and the Counterattack has not yet reached Asia, and China actually has only 6 battleships that are not even as good as the Fuso-class.

If you do it now...... Yamamoto was conceiving his own strategy, unaware that another explosive news had swept in after the entry into service of the island class in Taiwan. The sound of hurried footsteps pulled him back from his imagination, and when he turned his head, he saw Inoue Narumi Minakasa, who had graduated two grades below him, running towards him sweating profusely.

Although Inoue Narumi is his junior brother, the two have known each other for a long time, and the two have become friends because of the consistency of thought and strategy. During Yamamoto's year as an instructor at the Naval Academy, he often visited to discuss the future of Japan and the Navy, so the relationship between the two was very good. Seeing that he was running out of breath and looking anxious, Yamamoto hurriedly grabbed him and asked, "Inoue-kun, what are you ...... Takano Daisa. "Although it has been a few years since the name was changed. But many people in the navy who know Yamamoto well still habitually call him Takaya. Inoue Narumi looked around and hurriedly lowered her voice: "There is very bad news. ”

"Very bad?!" It's not that Yamamoto Fifty-six's heart couldn't stop sinking after hearing these three words. But he really can't think of any bad news recently, can the Chinese build battleships overnight? Or he hurriedly asked: "Is the American Colorado class in service ahead of schedule?" ”

The three Colorado-class ships are another big thorn in the side of the Japanese Navy! But apparently this is not the news, so Inoue Narumi shook her head again and again: "No, the American battleship will not be commissioned until December, which is another news." The Sumatran Chinese have discovered a giant oil field in Sumatra! ”

"Giant oil fields?! Yes, how many reserves? Yamamoto almost jumped. First of all, the word "giant" means that it is a very large oil field. There is a lot of black oil that Japan craves! So he grabbed Inoue Narumi's arm so hard that his fingers almost pinched the other party's flesh, which shows how much oil stimulates him and the Japanese Navy!

Inoue knows the importance of oil. The fact that the Taiwan island class has such a high speed and large range has a lot to do with the application of a heavy oil boiler, so I also forget the pain in my arm. He said hurriedly: "The news was revealed by a Russian engineer who helped China prospecting in Palembang after getting drunk, and he said that according to the intensity of the blowout and the speed of the gas leak, it should be a large oil field similar to Texas in the United States, at least between 1.5 billion or 2.1 billion barrels (7 barrels and 1 ton)!" Yamamoto-kun, please let go, I need to report this news immediately. ”

"2.1 billion barrels...... Yamamoto Fifty-six, who boasted that he would no longer be disturbed by foreign objects, stayed on the pier like a sculpture, and he couldn't hear the military music in his ears, and the hand that was holding Inoue Narumi had already been released. 2.1 billion barrels of oil, that's 300 million tons of oil! If it belongs to Japan, not to mention 2 Nagato, you can build 10 more! Convert the entire combined fleet into heavy oil boilers. Ten years of burning is enough!

Why did it come to the Chinese!

The Great Japanese Empire invests millions of dollars every year, mobilizing thousands of people and hundreds of experts to find much-needed oil and mineral deposits, is it all embezzled!?

Dispatch troops! Troops should be sent immediately! Occupy Sumatra! Occupy the island of Java! Drive the Dutch colonists out of the East Indies, liberate the people of the East Indies in dire straits, and occupy Palembang and Balikpapan! Snatch the oil fields of the Chinese. Blocking the Chinese Navy in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea for the rest of your life!

Suddenly, the whole of Tokyo entered an inexplicable impulse and clamour! From the War Department to the Admiralty to the Prime Minister's Office, and even inside the Imperial Palace in Chiyoda, this hysterical barking and roaring can be heard.

This time, the "Allied Army" around Hirohito has grown a lot. In addition to Okamura Ninji and others, Toshishiro Obata and Shinzaburo Mazaki who returned from Europe strengthened the power of the Imperial Sect, plus people such as Tetsuyama Nagata and Kenji Dohihara, who switched to the Imperial Sect. His Excellency the Crown Prince is growing in his wings.

The one who took the lead in clamoring for troops was Konoe Fumiro, the "second generation of dukes" who was active in politics knelt in front of Hirohito regardless of his image: "Send troops!" His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, this is a blessed opportunity for the reversal of the Great Japanese Empire! At the Washington Conference, which tied the hands and feet of the empire, it can be seen that the British and American ghosts deliberately stifled the living space and hope of our country for the sake of the Chinese people! We cannot rest on their propaganda rhetoric that peace is humanity. At present, China's international status is no different from Germany and Italy, and even the people of China are inferior! Their vaunted pacifism should be broken. I believe that as long as the empire sends troops, the people of the East Indies will welcome the arrival of the imperial army as if they were praying for the gospel!

Now is the best opportunity, the battleships of Miju have not yet been built, Britain is boasting for the USSR and the restoration of the country, the China Navy is not yet our opponent! There were less than 10,000 Dutch soldiers in the entire East Indies, and the Japanese Empire only needed to dispatch a few cruisers to defeat them, liberate the poor East Indies, and free them from the sharp knives of the colonizers. There is no way back! Half of Sakhalin's oil is handed over to the people of China every year, and the oil production in Hokkaido and other places is not enough for a naval sortie, and the future of the 50 million people of the empire needs to be obtained through a sacrifice! For the long military fortune of the Great Japanese Empire, I am willing to go there in person, open up the territory for the Empire, liberate the people of the East Indies, and realize the common prosperity of Asia! ”

Even Crown Prince Hirohito's face was slightly red when he said the words that were extremely inflammatory, and Nagata Tieshan secretly said that it was not good, and hurriedly said: "Konoe-kun, I don't think now is the best time!" The empire has just begun to recover, and two maritime trades with the USSR have brought back valuable resources and precious metals, solving the pressing problems of our country, so I think that trade with Moscow should continue now, and not go to war! Because if there was a war, even the trade route between the victorious empire and the Soviet Union would be cut off, the people of the rice would transfer all the main naval forces to the Pacific Ocean, and the army of China would advance to the south of Korea! Before Moscow is restored, the empire alone will not be able to deal with the encirclement and suppression of the world! ”

"Shut up! Nagata-kun, what nonsense are you talking about? As long as the East Indies are liberated, the empire can connect German Guinea with the south, and a maritime encirclement can be formed to completely cut off the connection between the United States and China! It only takes 2 years, 2 years! The empire can be restored to life, millions of citizens can be transferred there, and peace will be granted forever! ”

"You're crazy, using the empire's national fortune to gamble!"

"What war is not a gamble? If there is a war that must be won, what else do you need a soldier like Nagata-kun to do? As a soldier, don't you even have the courage to sacrifice? The soldiers of the empire need to fight for more living space for the country and the people! Let His Majesty's blessings shine on the whole of Asia! ”

"You...... Nagata Tetsuyama and Konoe Fumiro were fighting for each other, and seeing that both sides were about to tear their faces, Hirohito slowly got up to ease the atmosphere, but just as he was about to speak, he suddenly felt the ground under his feet shake suddenly, and after a while, the glazed tiles on the palace began to fall down piece by piece.

"It's an earthquake! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is getting out of here...... No one expected that when the Japanese high-level officials were in the oil fields and were arguing so much that they would immediately send troops to the South Seas, the nervous and hurried shouts outside the room suddenly shattered all Japan's dreams. In just a few minutes, the whole of Tokyo and Japan was running and shouting! When the earth stopped shaking, countless buildings were no longer visible, and clusters of flames scurried up from under the sawdust and bricks, instantly igniting the surrounding buildings, and the terrible scene of beacon fire on the night of 510 appeared again in the sky over Japan...... To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )rq！！！