In the South China Sea in April, the wind is not high and the waves are not urgent.

The blue sea and blue sky are pleasant.

Yang Yuwei and Xie Niancheng, who also went to sea for the first time, stood side by side on the bow of the boat, their clothes fluttering, like a fairy couple.

"General Xie, I'm so interested." Hansen, the captain of the cruiser Essen, and Wilhelm, the German military attache in China, happened to walk up to the bow and greeted them politely.

The Chinese Revolutionary Army implemented a military rank system, and Xie Niancheng, as one of the commanders of several group armies, was awarded the rank of general of the Chinese Revolutionary Army.

Although the ranks of the Chinese army and the ranks of the German army are not the same system, Xie Niancheng is a distinguished guest of Mandrian, and Hansen will naturally not slack off.

Hansen likes to talk to Xie Niancheng.

From Xie Niancheng's mouth, he can always get some enlightening ideas.

Hansen even admired Xie Niancheng a little.

How can an army admiral of a country that can't even produce thousand-ton ironclad ships think so much about the navy? And these thoughts can't even be imagined by himself, a captain who has been at sea for more than ten years?

"In future wars, including naval battles, it will be the air force that will decide the outcome of the war."

This is the most important concept proposed by Xie Niancheng. This concept is completely incompatible with the "cannon giant ship" doctrine that is now popular in the navy.

"I think your argument of air tiebreaker is very reasonable; However, you see, now if there is a war, does the German Navy have any hope of victory? Hansen asked.

William began to translate.

Seeing Hansen and William coming over to chat with Xie Niancheng, Yang Yuwei, who was wearing a military uniform, smiled slightly and went back to the cabin to rest.

The imaginary enemy of the German Navy. It has always been the British Navy. The development of the navy must depend on the overall national strength of the whole.

The industrial output of the German Empire now far exceeds that of the British Empire.

But the British Imperial Navy has a thousand-year-old heritage. The family background is stronger than that of the German Empire, and secondly, the German Empire has two strong enemies on land, France and Russia, and it cannot put the bulk of military spending on the navy like the British Empire.

So now the German navy is weaker than the British.

The total tonnage of the British Navy was 3 million tons, and the Germans had only 1.5 million tons. Britain's allies, the French Navy had 1 million tons, the Russian Navy 700,000 tons, the Italian Navy 500,000 tons, and the Japanese Navy 700,000 tons. Germany's ally, Austria-Hungary, had only 300,000 tons of ships, and the navies of Turkey, Bulgaria and other countries were not about the same.

Other words. In the event of a war in Europe, the German Navy would be at an absolute numerical disadvantage.

Engaged in battleships lining up for shelling, Xie Niancheng did not see any hope of victory for the German Navy.

"Mr. Hansen. With all due respect, if there was a war, the German Navy would not even be able to open the port if it did not want to be completely annihilated. ”

Hansen's face was a little unpleasant.

"Our army is compared to the British army. The total number is much less, though. However, the British navy is distributed all over the world, and the gap between the strength of the home fleet and our imperial fleet is not huge, so is there no hope of victory for our imperial fleet? ”

"20 battleships against 40 battleships, how do you command to win?"

This question was discussed countless times by the German naval officers, and they also made countless deductions, and the final conclusion was: As long as the commanders of the British Royal Navy did not burn out their brains, then the Germans had no chance of victory.

With the idea of a dead horse being a live horse doctor. Hansen asked, "General Xie, you know the navy very well, so do you think that if the imperial navy wants to achieve victory, is there a good way?" ”

"I think that if the German Navy and the British Navy go to war, there should still be a chance to win."

"One chance?" Hansen was overjoyed.

Within the German Navy, there was a pessimistic attitude towards a possible war.

Being able to hold the German coastline may be the best ending! Now when I hear Xie Niancheng say that it is possible to win, I am naturally overjoyed.

"If it's convenient, please tell General Xie how my German Navy can defeat the British Navy?"

Xie Niancheng was a little hesitant, not knowing whether to say what he really thought in his heart.

William could see Xie Niancheng's hesitation.

"General Xie, what do you think here, you can say it bluntly, Captain Hansen is one of the best captains of our Imperial Fleet, if you have any ideas, you can sue him, just like sue Mr. Manderian."

It seems that this Hansen is also from the Mandrian line.

"Then I'll tell you what I think...... Mr. Hansen, I would like to assume a scenario in which the German Navy and the British Navy were in the midst of a fierce battle on the high seas, and several hundred German Torpedo attack planes flew into the sky to attack the battleships of the British Navy...... Do you think it is possible that the tide of the war will be one-sided and that the German Navy will defeat the British Navy in one war? ”

The best idea is to make the hearer a "so simple?" How I didn't think of the idea of creativity.

The tank was such an idea, and now the proposed torpedo attack aircraft, again.

Xie Niancheng did not know whether Germany's current level of science and technology would be able to develop torpedo attack aircraft and aviation torpedoes, but when he saw Hansen pondering, he knew that this was at least a plan that could be considered.

"General Xie, please come into the command room." Hansen plans to talk to Xie Niancheng in detail.

Xie Niancheng happily went.

When he arrived at the command room, Hansen took out a North Sea chart and put it on the table and began to ask: "General Xie, can you explain in detail?" ”

"In the current naval battle, the artillery battle is basically started after the fleet opens the formation...... As I understand it, the decisive factor in this naval battle is the number of artillery and the rate of hits. The German Navy was at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, and I don't think there was a decisive gap between the officers and men of the Navy and the British Navy. In the case of a traditional naval battle, the German Navy would not have taken advantage of it in the slightest. ”

"As far as I know, the planes have not participated in naval battles now because of their low load capacity and slow speed, the bombs are not easy to hit the target, and at the same time they are not powerful enough to pose a threat to the battleship."

"Because of this, the British Navy will not take into account the threat from the sky when it meets the main force of the German Navy, so Germany will have an opportunity to attack the British Navy with its air force."

"But there is only one such chance, and if a decisive result cannot be achieved this time, then the British will not give your country another chance next time."

Xie Niancheng drew a circle on the Beihai map near the German mainland, "I don't know what the current level of Germany's aviation industry is, but I believe that Germany can manufacture torpedo planes with a range of 300 kilometers." After the torpedo plane has launched the torpedo, if it is unable to return home, the pilot can parachute and wait in the sea for rescue. ”

"The so-called torpedo machine is an aircraft that launches torpedoes from the air, I don't know, the current battleship, is the anti-aircraft firepower strong?"

Hansen is an expert on this question: "The current fleet, the anti-aircraft firepower is not strong, if there are really hundreds of planes that can launch torpedoes in the air suddenly join the battle when the main force of the fleet is engaged in a general battle, it is very possible to annihilate the main force of the British fleet at one time!" ”

Hansen and William both looked at Xie Niancheng with admiration.

Now in Germany, everyone knows that war cannot be avoided. Compared to the bullish German Army, the German Navy was much weaker.

Although Hansen and Wilhelm were not high-ranking members of the Empire, they also knew that on land, the combined forces of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey were likely to overthrow the combined forces of France, Russia, and Italy. Even if the British Imperial Army were to participate in the land battle, the German side should be able to win.

But if the German navy was annihilated and completely lost sea supremacy, it would be almost impossible for the entire German Reich to achieve a final victory. The best outcome is to force France, Russia, and Italy to surrender and fight a protracted war with Britain.

Now the plan proposed by Xie Niancheng may allow the German Navy to solve the main force of the British home fleet in a war, how can this not make them ecstatic?

As a naval expert, Hansen knew that technically speaking, it should not be difficult to develop an aviation torpedo at the level of German technology.

However, neither Hansen nor William were air force generals, so it was not known whether Germany could build a torpedo machine capable of carrying torpedoes with a range of up to 300 kilometers in time.

After chatting with Xie Niancheng, Hansen couldn't sit still, he couldn't wait for the Essen to return to Germany immediately.

Hansen did not dare to send a message with a telegram about this torpedo machine attack plan. Now the shape is intricate, and if a telegram is sent and the British listen to it and decipher it, it will be a big deal.

All Hansen could do was give the order to go full speed.

The Essen could reach a speed of 22 knots at full speed, but it would not be possible to return to Germany in 20 days.

How Hansen survived these 20 days is not something that Xie Niancheng considers.

One day, after the two watched the beautiful sunset over the sea, Yang Yuwei thought of Captain Hansen and asked, "What did you say to that Hansen?" Why can't you squat in the cabin all these days and not come out? ”

"Yuwei, I exchanged a few words for the army's equipment; This time, if the conversation I had with Hansen that day could be exchanged for technical information for the Air Force and Navy, would you believe it? ”

Xie Niancheng brought Yang Yuwei too much shock, and Yang Yuwei was no longer surprised.

"Really? That's great. Yang Yuwei's tone was flat.

"Then when we have a plane, I'll take you to the sky, okay?" Seeing that Yang Yuwei didn't react, Xie Niancheng threw out another bombshell news

"Flying into the sky? Can it really be? ”

Yang Yuwei looked up at the blue sky, and those seabirds screaming and soaring gave people a feeling of extreme freedom, "Can I also go to the sky?" ”

Seeing that Yang Yuwei was a little moved, Xie Niancheng patted his chest, "Maybe, one day, I can take you to the moon to see." ”

Yang Yuwei glanced at Xie Niancheng, full of charm.

"Just blow it!"

Xie Niancheng shrugged helplessly, why did he tell the truth, some people always felt that he was bragging?

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PS: The first update will be sent, and there will be two more today! (To be continued......)