Chapter 496: The Southward Expansion Plan Begins
"Woo woo woo ......" in the long whistle, a huge battleship sailed on the vast sea, next to it was accompanied by an equally huge aircraft carrier, surrounded by two heavy cruisers and four light cruisers and dozens of destroyers composed of a fleet, there are more than a dozen in the sky above this fleet, wild cats, fighters around the guard escort, this is the East China Sea Fleet in China is conducting sea training. In the war room of the battleship, Dingyuan, two draftsmen measured the distance and orientation between the coordinate Yu 3 and the ship on the drawing with a fan-shaped ruler. The calculation hand pulls the vernier of the shooting ruler according to the shooting distance reported by the cartographer, and reads out the corresponding shooting elevation angle. At the same time, the ammunition operator in the main gun control room has prepared the appropriate amount of ammunition and installed the appropriate warhead fuse according to the first spell order. As soon as the calculation hand worked out the data, he quickly picked up the phone on the stage. "One-two-three main gun No. 6 charge, direction one two zero. Another ninety-three degrees of elevation, ready to report! "No. 9 secondary gun, No. 5 charge. The direction is 126 degrees, the elevation angle is 30 degrees, and the report is ready. As one order after another was issued, the horizontal hand of the artillery that received the order was busy setting the direction, and the high and low hands were equipped to set the elevation angle, and the four ammunition men operated the elevator to put the medicine bag weighing 1 dry 200 pounds that had just been sent from the ammunition compartment on the platform, together with the two dry 200 pound projectiles and primers, and finally the four loaders pushed the long poles to send them into the gun chamber, and then closed the huge cannon bolt.
The gun commander locked the breech, picked up the microphone and shouted "The first cannon is ready!" "Put!" "Boom, boom!" A continuous loud bang was heard.
As the commander's order came, the battleship's three huge main guns let out a huge roar at the same time, and the battleship that was moving at high speed instantly moved more than ten meters away as if it had been punched by a giant.
The destructive power of the three 460 mm guns fired at the same time on the battleship was astonishing. Navy regulations prohibit anyone near the gun emplacements on the deck when the main guns are fired, and the gales generated by the Guy guns are strong enough to blow an adult weighing two hundred into the sky. "Boom..."!" Twenty kilometers away, Dingyuan, three huge columns of water rose into the sky.
In the command room, the telescope that Shen Honglie had been holding slowly put down, and said expressionlessly: "Three hundred meters away from the target." Then he turned around and scolded loudly, "Can you fight any farther?" ”
The people in the war room were silent one by one, and no one dared to touch his moldy head, and the roar of the fleet commander echoed throughout the war room.
Seeing that the three consecutive shots were missed, Shen Honglie's anger could no longer be suppressed, "It deviated by three hundred meters!" The six-lamp golden yuan coupon has been lost like this, 60,000 golden yuan coupons! How many 60,000 yuan does our navy give you to waste, you are committing a crime!
We've trained you idiots for more than half a year?
If you behave like this in actual combat, you can all kill yourself to thank your countrymen! ”
After more than half a year of training, the East China Sea Fleet has completed all the basic training, and the fleet has also seized the time to train the accuracy of the ship's gun shooting in the past month, but it is always unsatisfactory, and today Shen Honglie's anger finally broke out. You must know that the shells of the main guns on the battleship are very expensive, and the cost of one shell is 20,000 gold yuan.
Since, Dingyuan, the battleship became the flagship of the East China Sea Fleet, "Dingyuan, the ship has also become Shen Yulie's new home, for most of the past six months, Shen Honglie has spent almost all of his time in Dingyuan, and he has devoted all his efforts to this fleet. He also said to all the officers and men of the fleet more than once: "If you want to defeat the Japanese Combined Fleet, you must sweat ten times more than the Japanese!" ”
At this moment, an officer came over and reported, "Report sir, Dadonggou has arrived!" With a "Mom", the eyes of everyone in the war room looked at Shen Honglie.
Shen Honglie "snorted" and ordered, "Order the fleet to form a battle formation, except for the officers on duty, everyone assembles on the deck!" ”
Under Shen Yulie's order, all the fleets of the East China Sea Fleet put up battle formations, all the warships' gun armor was unfastened, and all personnel except the officers on duty gathered on the deck.
Looking up at the fierce blue sky and white sun flag on the ship and the more than a dozen officers and men standing neatly on the deck, Shen Honglie said loudly to all the officers and men: "Soldiers of the East China Sea Fleet, forty-five years ago, the Manchu government's Beiyang Naval Division was defeated by the Japanese Combined Fleet here, and the Japanese also forced the Manchu government to sign the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" that humiliated the country. Since then, our country has been plunged into a deep catastrophe, and since then, foreigners' warships have run rampant in our territorial waters, and our territorial waters have become their amusement park. And the officers and men of the Beiyang Naval Division who fought bravely were also infamous for their deaths. Is it because the officers and men of the Beiyang Naval Division are fighting unfavorably? Or are they greedy for life and afraid of death? No, it was because of the incompetence of the Manchu government that led to the great defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War, and the purpose of our rebuilding the navy was to restore the prestige of our Chinese navy for the shame of the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War. ”
Shen Honglie's voice was sent to the ears of all the soldiers through the microphone, and the officers and soldiers looked at the surging waves on the sea, as if they saw the scene of Deng Shichang driving the burning Zhiyuan ship to the Japanese Yoshino, as if they saw the scene of the Jingyuan ship firing the last shell at the Japanese army before sinking. A wave of anger swelled up in the hearts of all the officers and soldiers, and they all shouted with all their strength. "Snow Jiawu Shame" "Avenge the Beiyang Sailors!" ”
At this time, there was a sound of "..."boom"", which was the destroyers beginning to pay tribute to the officers and men of the Beiyang Naval Division who died here.
At this time, I don't know who took the lead in singing the song, "Let's drink this bowl of wine today and go out with endless joy!"
Expedition to the land of the rising sun, ah, we to the land of the rising sun!
My dear girl, when you receive the letter I left and this medal, I have blessed you in heaven, bless you, my most beautiful girl, and when night falls, when you look at the sky, do not forget that the most beautiful star is my eye on you......"
Just as Shen Honglie took the oath with all the officers and men of the East China Sea Fleet in Dadonggou, Su Tong, who was in Nanjing, received a notice from Niu Ben, a biochemical man who stayed at the Yueshu base, that the last batch of warships planned to be built had been completed. It has been teleported to a place twenty kilometers outside Nahe Karn Island according to Su Tong's request, and Su Tong is asked to send someone to receive it. "Good!"
Su Tongmeng slapped the table, with this batch of two Midway-class aircraft carriers, four Admiral-class heavy cruisers and eight Brooklyn-class light cruisers, and thirty-two Fletcher-class destroyers, the Huaxia Navy could finally wrestle with the Japanese Navy.
Su Tong immediately grabbed the phone, "Hey, pick up the Pacific Fleet for me, and let Chen Shaokuan answer the phone." A CIA officer from the White House of the United States rushed into the president's office and said with breathless eagerness: "Mr. President, an urgent telegram from the Asian intelligence station. ”
Roosevelt, who received the telegram, was so surprised that he almost stood up when he saw the telegram: "What, Huaxia has added two aircraft carriers, four heavy cruisers, eight light cruisers and more than thirty destroyers?" When did this happen? ”
The intelligence officer swallowed. "Your Excellency, just today, our agents in Dalian, China, and the engineers working there discovered that the East China Sea Fleet had suddenly added one aircraft carrier, two heavy cruisers, four light cruisers, and more than a dozen destroyers. ”
This news shocked Roosevelt very much, where did Huaxia buy the warships from, or did Huaxia itself have a secret manufacturing base? In just one year, China has gone from a country with only a few small sailboats to a maritime power, which is ridiculous. Could it be that today is April Fool's Day? "You immediately mobilize the forces in Huaxia and search with all your strength to find out where these warships came from!" Roosevelt's expression was very serious: "This is related to the safety of our United States of America, do you understand?" "Yes, Your Excellency, I'll do it at once."
The Japanese were still very well informed in China, and the news that the Huaxia Navy had added new warships soon reached the Japanese base camp. "How so! How could the China Navy add so many new warships at once? Seeing that the strength of the Huaxia Navy swelled like a blow, Emperor Hirohito could no longer sit still.
At this time, in front of the emperor stood almost all the high-ranking officials of the base camp, and they all had gloomy faces.
Suzuki Haixiang stood up violently and shouted: "Your Majesty, we can't wait any longer, if we don't implement the southward expansion plan, the living space of the empire will be crushed by the people of China!" ”
At this time, Hideki Tojo, Tada Jun, and a group of ministers also said to Kai at the same time: "Your Majesty, it's time to carry out the plan to advance southward. Looking at the rare generals of the Navy and Army, Hirohito, who was originally hesitant, finally made up his mind, and he stood up openly, "Okay! Now that the people of China have driven us to the edge of the cliff, we can no longer be silent, for the sake of the living space of the empire, Zhuqing, let's work together! For the sake of the Empire, forward! ”
(To be continued)