The Japanese army occupied Quanzhou and Xiamen, and because of the fear of the Japanese landing in Fuzhou, Sa Zhenbing, Xie Baozhang and other naval veterans were persuaded to leave their hometowns and move to the relative safety of Qinzhou. ~Small, o Fujian's strategic significance is not great, Beijing has no plan to defend Fuzhou and Xiamen at all, and the Japanese army has no offensive plan, but only sent Taiwan's Ninth Division to land in Xiamen, and is not ready to attack Fuzhou with relatively strong defense for the time being.

Chen Shaokuan and his entourage made a special trip to the Naval Academy to visit several veteran generals. When Sa Zhenbing was the commander of the Beiyang Navy, he followed him as an adjutant for several years, while Xie Baozhang single-handedly organized the Yantai Naval School and trained a large number of talents for the Chinese Navy.

The two veteran generals were very appreciative of the Admiralty's efforts in the construction of the port of Qinzhou and the naval shipyard. Since Zuo Zongtang and Shen Baozhen established China's first modern shipyard and established the shipbuilding bureau in Mawei, and established the first modern navy in China's modern history mainly by Fujianese, China's naval power has always been controlled by the Fujian system, and most of the officers and men of the fleet were born in the Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding School, and most of the officers and men on the ship were Fujianese.

However, if the naval base is moved to Guangxi, perhaps in a few decades, the power of the navy may be transferred to the people of Guangxi, and some Sa Zhenbing and others are also in a mixed mood. But there was no way, Fujian was close to Taiwan, and at any time it could be attacked by the superior Japanese navy. It is impossible for Beijing to put the importance of developing the navy in Fujian.

After talking for a while, everyone's conversation shifted to the purchased warships and several warships under construction at the shipyard. The Qinzhou shipyard is currently building four "Guilin" class light cruisers and six "Qinzhou" class destroyers at the same time, and the "Guilin" class light cruisers basically continue to follow the design of the Austro-Hungarian Navy's "Bora" class air defense cruisers, with a standard displacement of 6950 tons, a full load displacement of 8600 tons, and are equipped with five twin 127-mm high-level dual-purpose guns, instead of the 150-mm main guns common to light cruisers of this era.

Qinzhou Bay and Fangchenggang are both semi-enclosed bays, which can provide natural protection for ships stationed in the harbor and are conducive to defense. The Admiralty had already begun to build strong shore fortifications on the coast, and eight heavy batteries had been built according to the designs of German-Austrian specialists.

The heavy turrets designed by German-Austrian experts were designed with a rotating turret design on large warships, similar in structure to those of large surface ships. The ammunition depot is located in the bottom of the turret, which is made of concrete and steel plates, and in the lower part there is also equipment such as a generator set, capable of driving the rotation and angle adjustment of the turret with motors.

Armed with three twin 203 mm turrets and five triple 150 mm turrets, the eight batteries had the same firepower as two heavy cruisers, but the protection was much better than that of the warships.

With the help of Austrian steel companies, the Beiyang government, together with Linz Steel Group and Carlson Steel Group, built two 50,000-tonne-per-year steel plants in Liuzhou and Kunming, respectively. However, the two steel plants have only just started production. The variety is still very simple, and many important parts and components on the warship need to be imported or manufactured at the Wuchang Iron and Steel Plant and the Hanyang Arsenal.

China's bauxite resources are relatively rich, Austria-Hungary also has rich bauxite resources in Hungary, after the European war, German and Austrian enterprises established several large-scale electrolytic aluminum smelting plants in China, before the war China's electrolytic aluminum production can reach about 120,000 tons per year, most of which are exported to Germany.

In this time and space, since there was no large-scale civil war. China's national power is much stronger than it was in the same period in another time and space. Although the Japanese army relied on its superiority at sea and was able to quickly assemble superior forces in the coastal areas, after penetrating deep inland. The Japanese Army still exposed its weakness of insufficient troops and poor equipment. In the Battle of Xuzhou alone, the Japanese army concentrated nearly 700,000 troops and fought for more than three months before barely capturing Xuzhou.

At this time, due to the huge attrition, the Japanese army had to stop the offensive. The whole battle situation became calm in the summer and autumn.

On a frontal battlefield. The ground fighting stopped for the time being, but the air battle continued. Three German and Austrian air divisions had already arrived in China, with the German air division stationed in Zhangjiakou and the two Austro-Hungarian air divisions, one deployed in Wuhan and one in Kaifeng. The Chinese Air Force, together with the German-Austrian Volunteer Air Force, struck continuously. The Japanese army continued to bomb the supply bases of the Japanese army in Lushun, Jinzhou, Shanghai, and Nanjing, and mobilized more than 3,000 combat planes to maneuver with the Chinese air force on the southern front with airfields in Jiangsu, Shanghai, and Zhejiang, and on the northern front with Shenyang, Lushun, and Jinzhou.

Due to the superiority in the performance of the aircraft, the Chinese Aerospace Forces have always had the upper hand. However, after entering August, a new type of Japanese plane appeared in the sky, and the Chinese pilots soon discovered that this kind of plane climbed quickly, had a small turning radius, and had very strong combat capabilities, and its performance was not inferior to that of the most advanced "Saker" fighter equipped by the Chinese Air Force.

Due to the emergence of this new type of fighter, the Japanese army has recovered some of its declining momentum, but to the relief of the commanders of the Chinese Air Force, the number of this new type of fighter is seriously insufficient, with less than 60 of them, and it is not yet able to seize control of the Chinese sky for the time being.

Kukoc, who was working as an air adviser in China, was very concerned about Japan's new aircraft and quickly reported the situation to China.

Li Haidon was also a little surprised after seeing this information, it seems that this should be Japan's so-called "Zero aircraft", however, in this time and space, it should be called "99 type fighter". However, the early emergence of the Zero War must have been the result of the technical and material support behind the United States.

Of course, this is not a great fighter, and it is not as fast as the Saker and Messersmitt fighters, but it has a slight advantage in maneuverability thanks to its light fuselage. It is believed that it will not be long before the aviation units with more actual combat experience will be able to find a way to deal with it.

Heldon was not worried that China would be defeated by Japan, and China's military industrial capacity was now basically capable of supporting the equipment and consumption of 5 million troops. After the outbreak of the war, with the wartime economic control and implementation in China, the rationing system of food and major daily necessities was implemented, and the main industrial products and agricultural products were basically in the hands of the government, and the government's control over the country was greatly enhanced.

Due to the relatively transparent, open, and free atmosphere of public opinion, the corruption in government departments is actually much milder than during the period of the centralized Kuomintang, and the state has accelerated and perfected the pace of establishing a modern state system because of the war. At present, China has established a perfect government agency and a reserve military service system in 15 provinces and municipalities, and with the improvement of the mobilization system and the military service system, the Beiyang government has mastered more and more soldiers.

Of course, because the mechanization process is far from enough, the Chinese Army can make do with the relatively backward Japanese army, but if it wants to deal with the Soviet Russian Red Army, the strength is far from enough. (To be continued......) R580