Germany, Lübeck, North Sea Shipyard.

Germany's largest shipyard slipway was particularly busy after the war, and not only did it build the third ship of the Scharnhorst-class battleship, the largest in the history of the German Navy. The "Strassel" aircraft carrier also undertook orders for the construction of an aircraft carrier and two large air defense cruisers with a displacement of 13,000 tons for the Chinese Navy, and also built more than a dozen ships for the German Navy, including two large fuel supply ships and a large landing ship.

Now the shipyard slipway is laying keels for the two newly built aircraft carriers of the German Navy with a displacement of more than 40,000 tons. Due to the fact that the German Navy began the standardization and mass manufacturing of ships by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, coupled with the adoption of the segmented construction mode, the construction period of the slipway was shortened, and the construction speed of the ships was greatly improved.

Before the war, it took nearly three years to build aircraft carriers like the "Zeppelin" class, but after adopting new construction standards and technology, the "Guangxi" aircraft carrier built for the Chinese Navy was completed in only one year and nine months and began to prepare for sea trials.

Under the scorching sun, Rear Admiral Sa Shijun led the officers and men of the whole ship to line up on the deck, and a brief induction ceremony was held on the dock, and Admiral Gujing, deputy commander-in-chief of the German Navy, attended the inauguration ceremony of China's cutting-edge aircraft carrier. At the same time as the Chinese warship, the inauguration ceremony was also held by the German Navy's "Peter? Aircraft carrier "Strassell".

After a brief inauguration ceremony, two aircraft carriers were escorted by two cruisers and four destroyers. Sailed into the Baltic Sea and began his first training trip to sea after completing sea trials.

The Chinese Navy sent more than 10,000 people to Europe for exercises and training before the outbreak of full-scale war, as a result of this new shipbuilding order. Nearly 7,000 people from the more than 500,000 diasporas in Europe were recruited into the navy. At present, there are more than 20,000 Chinese naval officers and men conducting training and exercises in Europe, which in turn provides a sufficient source of troops for the construction of China's navy.

"Guangxi" and "Peter? The "Strassel" belongs to the "Zeppelin" class aircraft carriers, and the standard staffing is 2,869 people, but it is not currently fully staffed, mainly aviation units, and only one-third of the personnel have completed the ship's take-off and landing training on land. Therefore, the current aviation wing of 1,250 people has only more than 900 people on board, and it only carries 35 carrier-based aircraft of various types.

Due to the fact that the production of Messersmitt BF109 fighters could not meet the needs of the army. The German Navy switched to the Fw190 fighter, the latest development of the Focke-Wolf company, as a carrier-based fighter. Since the liquid-cooled engines originally ordered from Mercedes and Junkers could not be delivered, the FW190 fighter was powered by a new 14-cylinder star-shaped air-cooled BMW801C 14-cylinder air-cooled engine from the Bavarian engine factory, so the nose looked bulky. Air-cooled engines are easier to maintain due to their simple structure than liquid-cooled engines. On the contrary, it is more suitable for the requirements of the navy for the performance of carrier-based aircraft, so the FW190 has become the designated carrier-based fighter of the German Navy.

By noon, the entire formation was in the northern part of the Kubitz Bay to rendezvous with the two Chinese cruisers "Yue Fei" and "Li Guang" that were conducting sea training here, as well as two new battleships "Marshal Schell" and "Marshal Hindenburg" that had just been commissioned by the German Navy. The USS Zeppelin" aircraft carrier and the escort formation composed of 6 light warships were so large that Sa Shijun was blushing when he looked at it.

Sa Shijun had already learned of the joint training plan drawn up by the German Admiralty, and this huge formation would go deep into the Gulf of Bothnia to conduct a long-distance sea training and test, mainly to test the warship's long-distance sailing performance, and the other was to conduct a half-month high-intensity training for the crew.

The German Navy's "Deutschland"-class super-battleships looked much more powerful than the two aircraft carriers in appearance. The four stout turrets and 10 410-mm guns mainly exude an unconcealed murderous aura, and the warship is lined up like hedgehogs with 16 twin 127-mm high-level dual-purpose guns and nearly 140 anti-aircraft guns of various calibers, making it one of the most destructive weapons in the world.

Sa Shijun and some Chinese naval generals were invited to visit the "Marshal Hindenburg".

Standing on the tall bridge of the "Hindenburg". Carefully examining this huge and domineering giant ship cannon era masterpiece at its peak, Sa Shijun couldn't help but sigh that the Chinese Navy may never have the opportunity to own such a masterpiece of the era.

It's not that he is arrogant, but with the changes of the times, the battleship is about to retire from the stage of history. The German Navy has begun converting two Scharnhorst-class battleships with a displacement of 55,000 tons into aircraft carriers. This is also the trend of the times, even when the "Guangxi" is facing such a heavy battleship. Sa Shijun also had the confidence to hit it two hundred nautical miles away and run away, and even possibly sink it.

The kings of the past have declined, and the glory is gone.

Of course, in the minds of ordinary people, an aircraft carrier is still incomparable with the deterrent effect of such a heavy battleship operating at sea on the arrival of the enemy, which is the effect of traditional thinking.

Germany's choice to continue the construction of two "Scharnhorst" class battleships was more motivated by political considerations.

The fleet sailed on the Baltic Sea, and there was practically nothing to threaten their power, and the Soviet and Russian navies, which were already very weak, were tightly blocked in the Gulf of Finland after the start of the war, and only occasionally one or two submarines would venture through the blockade line arranged by the German navy and dive into the Baltic Sea to www.biquge.info a little wind and waves. After the German occupation of Norway, British ships and submarines were completely extinct in the Baltic Sea, and there was no trace of them at all.

"Guangxi" and "Peter? The "Strassell" conducted take-off and landing training in the afternoon, and the take-off was quite smooth, but when it landed, it was a mess and full of foreign appearances. The pilots are always in a hurry to brake after landing on deck, and the fuselage is crooked and twisted, which is terrifying to watch. One of the planes slid directly and crashed headlong into the bridge, shattering its left wing. In addition, two planes took the big roof because they stopped too quickly, and the propellers were all damaged.

This made Sa Shijun, who had been standing on the bridge to watch the training, frown, such an aviation unit, if it really wants to be pulled to the sea, basically it will only be beaten. Fortunately, the Germans were not much better off than he was, and two planes were damaged during an afternoon of training.

Everyone is a brother, and no one can see each other's jokes now. (To be continued) R580