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When the land crossed the border, the shipyard in Kuwai Prefecture, Japan, was once again crowded with high-ranking officials.

Japanese Emperor Takahito took the lead, and the prime minister, land minister, and sea minister, plus a large number of high-ranking officers from both the sea and land, flocked to Wuhai to build ships.

They went to ask Yamato Nadeshiko, the "patron saint of the Japanese Empire".

After learning most of the truth about the two Norwegian naval battles from the mouth of the Japanese observation group in Germany, the Japanese upper echelons were full of confidence, believing that with the support of the "gods", they could completely reproduce the miracle of a naval battle created by Germany and defeat the Americans in the east in the Pacific Ocean.

From extreme unconfidence to extreme self-confidence, after the Norwegian naval battle, the mentality of the Japanese upper class underwent a complete 180-degree change.

Before the start of the war in 1939, Japan borrowed money from the United States, and the shipyards in China were saturated and started to build small destroyers.

In addition to taking the opportunity to sell a bunch of old antiques to the "thankful" British Kaizi, the Japanese also found an "owner" buyer for the twenty destroyers under construction. The British, who were in urgent need of destroyer escorts, generously paid a large sum of cash to order these destroyers under construction, not knowing that this was a trap dug for them by Li Huamei and the Japanese -- after signing the contract, Yamamoto Fifty-six Zengo looked at the British who were leaving with great regret and sighed to his friend Yoshidatou Zengo with great regret: The British will never receive these newly built destroyers.

Relying on the generous funds provided by the British, plus the huge loans obtained from the Americans, the current Japanese government has the capital to start building warships and restore its military strength at home. Because of the "war dividends" brought about by armaments and the war in Europe, Japan's domestic economic situation is now in a seemingly beautiful false prosperity, just like that of Germany after Hitler came to power.

After the end of the Third Norwegian Naval Battle at the end of February. The Japanese Government, which did not want to deliver the warships in the first place, refused to hand over the British order under the pretext that the warships still needed to be commissioned, and the first batch of six destroyers that had already been built were swallowed up in an extremely ugly appearance. Including under construction, similar to the pit expulsion of the British. There were twenty in all, and the money paid by the British for these destroyers was enough to build forty of them in peacetime.

When the Empire of Fortune was beaten into a sunset empire by the Germans, the Japanese who had fallen into the well finally tasted the first "beef feast", which was really delicious.

At the Wuhai Shipyard, the main body of the hull of the battleship Yamato was nearing completion, and the laying of the hoisting turret would begin in two more days.

In order to speed up the construction of the Yamato and the other three aircraft carriers, Li Huamei has been walking back and forth in the docks of large shipyards in Japan for a long time. Harness the power of faith to speed up the construction of warships. When Yamaguchi Tawen and others returned to Japan for a meeting in Tokyo, Li Huamei took the pretext that several vital parts of the hull of the Yamato battleship were at a critical stage of construction, and attended the meeting that determined Japan's future strategic direction.

Li Huamei was not unable to participate, but deliberately avoided it.

The gods are mysterious because they are far away from mortals, and they are awe-inspiring to mortals because they are mysterious.

At that meeting, there were too many people in Japan. If you have too much to do with them, it is easy to expose your shortcomings. This is Lin Han's experience after many years of pretending to be a ghost, and he was influenced by it. When Li Huamei played the game of "dancing gods" in Japan, she also tried to minimize too much contact with high-ranking officials in Japan as much as possible -- of course, the young but immature Emperor Chonghito was an exception.

Today's Wuhai Shipyard, all the workers in the shipyard have now become Li Huamei's followers. In order to speed up the launching of the Yamato, the workers of the shipyard worked continuously in three shifts 24 hours a day during the year. Even holidays are not closed. This has been going on for more than a year, but not a single worker has complained.

Because of the factory, these Japanese workers realized that they were building a sacred ship during the construction process, and with the deliberate guidance of well-intentioned people, they soon became the most sincere fanatical believers in Li Huamei. In the hearts of these Japanese. They consider their work to be in the service of the "gods", an incomparably sacred cause. For more than a year, I have worked continuously without rest, and no one has complained. On the contrary, Li Huamei was worried that the continuous working conditions of these workers for a long time would affect the quality of the project, so she forced them to take two days off every month. As a result, many of these workers who were "forced" to take a break often secretly returned to work on their days off. For more than a year, two shipyard workers have even died suddenly due to overwork.

The Yamato battleship, which is about to be launched, has a vastly different performance from the original historical plane.

The protection of the main armor of the hull adopts the design concept brought by Lin Han and Hannah from later generations to suit the technical level of World War II: the main armor belt uses a sandwich structure, the outer armor thickness is 8o mm, and then a layer of 25o mm foamed cement, the main purpose of these two protections is to peel off the caps of incoming shells; Behind it was 300 mm thick case-hardened armor to withstand armor-piercing shells that had lost their caps.

Compared with the traditional single-layer main armor, this double-layer combination method undoubtedly has a qualitative improvement in the defensive power of the shell: because the armor-piercing ability of the shell is guaranteed by the cap that shatters the hardened layer at the top and straightens the shell at the same time, and the shell without the cap is like a tiger with its claws smoothed out in front of the surface hardened armor, and can be blocked by the latter.

This concept of composite armor-like protection was historically proposed by Italian designers and used on Veneto-class battleships. In the discussion of later generations of military fans, it is recognized as the most reasonable and advanced in the design of the armor protection of battleships.

And in order to withstand horizontally falling shells and aerial bombs, the ship's main horizontal armor was up to 22o mm thick, and in some vital parts it was even up to three hundred mm. After the keel integration's anti-heaven demon modification ability was added to the construction of the ship, the battleship Yamato had more spare tonnage and thickened armor in terms of bulletproof, lightning protection, and air raid protection. The designers of the battleships no longer had to struggle to save tonnage. (To be continued......)