The world's first submarine force!

It wasn't until Huo Lan left the Governor's Mansion that Tang Haoran's heart still couldn't be calm. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Navy!

Anyone who knows the history of modern China, as well as the history of the world, knows that the significance of the navy to a country, and the threats of modern times come from the sea!

For China, it is a well-known fact that the threat comes from the sea, and the navy is not only the basis for ensuring that the country is protected from aggression, but also the basis for China's dream of becoming a great power.

And from a more far-reaching perspective, the future war between China and Russia. If in another time and space, Japan had to fight with Russia, which occupied the northeast, now China and Russia, which occupied Japan, are also in a situation where they have to fight.

In another time and space, the threat posed to Japan by Russia, which occupies the northeast, is limited, and in this time and space, Russia, as the northern leader of China, not only poses a mortal threat to the northeast from the Far East, but even Japan under its control can threaten the Yangtze River estuary all the way to the mouth of the Yangtze River and threaten the most prosperous areas of China's industry and commerce.

The unprecedented real threat made Tang Haoran have to list Russia as China's first imaginary enemy, and under the premise that a Sino-Russian war is inevitable, how to build a fleet capable of defeating the Russian Navy has become something that Tang Haoran has to consider.

Unlike in another time and space, where Russia only had two bases, Vladivostok and Arthur, Russia now has the whole of Japan as a base for its expansion in the Pacific, and Japan has too many good ports as bases for the Pacific Fleet. Even Japan's shipbuilding industry will become the basis for the Pacific Fleet's combat capability.

All this only makes the future Sino-Russian war. The Chinese navy will face a more formidable and formidable adversary than it has ever been. This also puts forward higher requirements for the construction of the navy. It can even be said that in the future Sino-Russian war, naval warfare will be the foundation that will decide everything.

Although the war was still more than ten years later, Tang Haoran had to think about this issue and how to strengthen the construction of the navy.

Navy......

Thinking of the weakness of the current naval force, Tang Haoran's brows furrowed slightly, and he thought of Horan's submarine again.

Perhaps the submarine force will not be able to help the Northeast Navy seize sea supremacy, but at least it will be able to threaten the enemy's capital ships. Especially in this era when anti-submarine technology is completely zero, submarines may be able to achieve unprecedented results.

Even Tang Haoran believes that if the submarine force of the Northeast Navy is well trained in the future and can adopt the wolf pack tactics of World War II, perhaps it will become the dominant force on the battlefield, and the submarine can even be used as the "killer weapon" of the Northeast Navy to resist the killer of the enemy's battleships, after all, at least in the next few years, the fledgling Northeast Navy is a fleet dominated by cruisers, and its strength is far inferior to that of the Beiyang. Not to mention the threat from Russia.

Ten years of the Army, one hundred years of the Navy!

Founding a navy is not just about sending naval students to study the navy and buy warships. Just like the Beiyang Fleet, it is certainly the most powerful maritime power in Asia, but this maritime power has no roots. In contrast, the Oriental neighbors in another time and space first laid the foundation of the fleet through investment in the naval academy and the support of the shipbuilding industry.

The navy is an interlocking system project, from the cultivation of the people's maritime plot, to the enhancement of the government's awareness of sea power, and the cultivation of the maritime character of the navy soldiers, and other aspects of infrastructure construction, each link needs to invest too much energy. Although the Japanese have proved that the so-called "100-year navy" is just a legend, it took them less than 40 years for the Japanese navy to become one of the world's great powers. But for China, not even 40 years!

On the one hand, the time is urgent, on the other hand, it is difficult to establish the navy, and the contradictory reality is placed in front of Tang Haoran, although he knows the urgency of time, but Tang Haoran still does not try to eat a fat man, Tang Haoran, who knows the difficulty of founding the navy, still stubbornly chooses to establish a cruiser fleet, in order to gradually strengthen the naval force.

However, Tang Haoran had to consider the real threat. The threat from Russia was secondary, the more immediate threat was the threat from the Beiyang Fleet, if what was the last major thing that the Manchu court did while its authority was still alive? I'm afraid it's the enhancement of the Beiyang Fleet, and even this is contributed by Tang Haoran.

Four 10,000-ton battleships, six protective cruisers, and more than a dozen torpedo boats, mine-striking ships, and other auxiliary ships, while doubling the strength of the Beiyang Fleet with last year's large-scale purchases, Tang Haoran also felt unprecedented pressure, and even during the entire "Northeast Campaign," the Beiyang Fleet hung above Tang Haoran's head like a sword of Damocles. And now, instead of being erased, the sword of Damocles has become even stronger!

"I knew this was the case, I really shouldn't have ...... in the first place"

Complaining in his mouth, thinking of the Beiyang Fleet stationed at the Qingdao Naval Base in the future, thinking of the four 10,000-ton battleships and the six cutting-edge cruisers, Tang Haoran only felt a thrill, which made him even understand the unprecedented pressure that the Japanese felt back then.

"Within three years, with the return of students and cruisers ordered from France, the Northeast Navy will have 3 Dinghai-class armored cruisers and 6 Pingbo-class armored cruisers! ”

The "Dinghae" class armored cruiser in Stenge's mouth is the amiralcharner-class armored cruiser purchased from France by the Korean Unified Prison Office, which is the most powerful fully protected armored cruiser in this era, and this class of armored cruiser is even the parent type of the "Pingbo" class armored cruiser he designed, but compared with the Dinghai class with a tonnage of up to 4700, the tonnage of Pingbo is smaller, but only 2800 tons, but its speed is faster and the firepower is also extremely impressive.

And for Stenge, the small armored cruiser "Pingbo", designed on the basis of the Amiralcharner-class armored cruisers, was his brainchild, and although its normal displacement did not exceed three thousand tons, its firepower was quite formidable. The speed of 21 knots is not inferior even compared with the newly acquired protective cruisers in the Beiyang.

Nine armored cruisers, as well as six thousand-ton gunboats. This is all for the Northeast Navy in three years. According to the plan of Stengge, the chief of the Northeast Navy's Ship Administration Department and the naval headquarters, the fleet will be doubled in size in five years, and the number of sailors in service will reach 17,000, and in six years, it will be able to provide the battlefleet with a sufficient number of qualified naval officers and men, and the time will be ripe for the navy to equip combat ships at that time.

And the current Northeast Navy is like standing in front of a building, but it has just come to the stairs, and there are stairs waiting to be climbed in front of it, and now everything is just beginning.

“…… At this stage. The plan formulated in the early days was that before the cruisers were put into service, the naval fleet would further expand the scale of its training ships and rebuild 14 training ships, including five sail training ships, so as to maintain the base of 4,000 naval officers and men in training, and in terms of the navy's combat effectiveness, it would take six 1,000-ton mine-striking ships as the main force, supplemented by 14 small 700-ton mine-striking ships and 38 torpedo boats......"

Mine-striking ships are not novelty warships, but mine-striking ships with a tonnage of 1,000 tons, which are not inferior to small cruisers, are undoubtedly extremely novel. This mine-striking ship, which uses torpedoes as its main weapon, excludes two quadruple torpedo tubes. It was also equipped with four 105-mm rapid-fire guns, which could both escort the fleet at high speeds, drive away and sink enemy torpedo boats, and launch torpedo attacks on enemy fleets with high speed and maneuverability.

Now, together with 14 small mine-striking ships with torpedoes as their main weapon, these small warships can not only guard the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Bay, but can even threaten the enemy's capital ships, especially the large number of small torpedo boats based on a large number of small islands on the Korean Peninsula, which can also pose a threat to the enemy's fleet.

Torpedo-based high-cost-effectiveness "deterrence" actually came from Tang Haoran, which is the helpless move of the generally weak maritime forces of the "Eastern countries" in later generations, compared with large warships such as destroyers and cruisers, torpedo boats have become the first choice of the Eastern countries because of their simple technology and can pose a threat to large warships, and the Eastern countries rely on a large number of torpedo boats to form a coastal defense posture, although there is some helplessness, but for the Northeast Navy of the grass stage, at least this is an example that can be used for reference, Especially in this era when there are no machine guns, high-speed torpedo boats may be able to exert unimaginable effects.

When formulating this plan, Tang Haoran did not take into account the "submarine", not without consideration, but because the submarine technology at this stage is extremely immature, it can be said to be a coffin under the sea, in the case of human resources are extremely valuable, Tang Haoran is naturally unwilling to take risks with manpower, but the appearance of Holland made him see hope, after all, Holland invented the earliest practical submarine in history.

"Gui Zu, do you think that relying on thunder ships and torpedo boats can threaten the Beiyang Fleet?"

Although it was Tang Haoran's plan to build a high-cost and cost-effective "deterrent fleet" based on torpedoes, this would face a huge gap in strength, and Tang Haoran still couldn't help but feel a tingling in his scalp; compared with the Russian threat, the threat of the Beiyang was real, and although the Beiyang Fleet had to move to Qingdao because of the loss of the dock and other facilities at the Port of Arthur, it fundamentally solved the dilemma that it was stationed in two places and had no dock on Liugong Island, the home port.

After the completion of the Qingdao Military Port, as the station of the Beiyang Navy, its deterrence to the Northeast is self-evident, Tang Haoran does not doubt this, the only thing to be thankful for is probably Li Hongzhang's enterprising spirit...... But that was in history, its more cautious, and now? Now that the situation has changed drastically, will Li Hongzhang still be so cautious?

"There will always be some threats, marshal, if we fight, we can withstand the situation that the entire Northeast Navy is wiped out, but the Beiyang Navy can't afford the loss of one or two capital ships......"

The Northeast Navy, which studied under the United States and was influenced by the Japanese Navy, the best student of the British Navy, had a clear idea of seizing sea supremacy at any cost when it was not yet established, and the Beiyang Navy from its establishment to the present, its idea of building the army was simply "to ensure that the country's sea power is not lost", and the idea of attacking determined that the Northeast Navy was willing to pay a heavy price for victory. However, the idea of defense made the Beiyang Fleet unwilling to bear losses, and thus lost the deterrence it formed at sea.

"Hmmm......"

Recalling the historical "avoiding war and protecting ships", Tang Haoran nodded thoughtfully, although he is only the governor of the three eastern provinces now, but in fact, deep down in his heart, he has long regarded the Beiyang Fleet as a "part of the Chinese Navy" in the future, and if they avoid war and protect ships, it will undoubtedly further enrich the future Chinese naval force.

"Hopefully, if they really think so, then we don't have to think about their threat, at least in the short term!"

After saying this, Tang Haoran shook his head and sighed.

"Who is our enemy? I have never regarded Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong in the pass as our enemies......"

This kind of thinking does not come from the confidence in strength, but from that inexplicable national feeling, although Tang Haoran will not hesitate to knock them down if necessary, but this does not prevent him from appreciating them, of course, more importantly, compared to them, there are always more powerful enemies in the Northeast, such as Russia,

"Maybe the threat of Russia, as far as the current situation is concerned, is far smaller than that of Kannai, but Russia's strength is far from being comparable to all parties in Kannai, so our hypothetical enemy is all targeting it, and if we can defeat Russia, then Kannai ......"

Naturally, the enemy in the pass does not need to be considered, and even if Russia can be defeated before entering the pass, then in the future, the Northeast Army can even enter the pass with the might of a great victory over Russia, and sweep the pass with the momentum of the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves -- however, this is impossible, without more than ten years of hard work, the northeast cannot have the strength to defeat Russia, and if it cannot gather the strength of the country for its own use, how can the northeast afford hundreds of millions of yuan in long-term military expenditures and more than a billion yuan in war expenditures, and the war will be fought to the end, in fact, the competition is national strength. Compared with using the power of the northeast to fight Russia, Tang Haoran was naturally willing to choose the power of the whole country as the backing.

"The opponent in the Kannai is not worth mentioning, but for a long time to come, our forces may only barely cope with the Russian threat, and even cannot resist their invasion, and can only inflict heavy casualties on them and force them to withdraw their troops, so ......"

After a slight pause, Tang Haoran turned his gaze to Shi Tengge, and said with a wry smile helplessly.

"We need to think of some other way, and now the reason why I want to establish a submarine force as soon as possible is not only because of the unprecedented threat to the enemy fleet brought by its sorties from the sea, but more importantly, in the future, even if Russia blocks the coast of Japan, we can provide assistance to Japan's underground resistance through submarines, and return to our ancestors, now, we must use Japan's power to contain the Russian beast!"

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