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The gongs and drums in the new Mawei shipyard in Sanduao are noisy, and the firecrackers are ringing in unison, and the two golden lions are flying up and down with the drums. Today was the day of the delivery of warships to the Navy, so the dock was full of officers in white admiral's uniforms and sailors in rough blue overalls, and everyone's eyes stayed on the three warships not far away, which were painted in lead gray and hoisted full flags waiting to leave the port. At the front is the battleship Beijing, which has undergone maintenance and upgrading, and the two at the back are the No. 6 Xiajiang, a light cruiser of the Xiangjiang-class class that was borrowed from North Korea to evade the start of the naval treaty, and the first ship of the Tien Shan-class landing ship, the Tien Shan.

Beijing and Xiangjiang are no longer cutting-edge, but the Tianshan-class landing ships are the new favorites of the Navy. The standard displacement is 1600 tons, the full load is 4000 tons, in order to save costs, all civilian standards are adopted, the end of the door layout, the sheltered high tank deck, the use of two Rhineland plans after the self-produced German company marine high-horsepower diesel engine, the maximum speed of 13 knots, installed with small-caliber anti-aircraft artillery, the maximum load of 2050 tons, can carry 4 landing craft and 16 tanks. Of course, this is all appearances, and what really made the Navy order it was that it used the latest variable ballast system.

As everyone knows, ships with a deep draft are suitable for sailing across the sea, ships with a shallow draft are suitable for driving close to the beachhead, and landing ships cannot have a deep draft because they need to be close to the coast. To solve this problem, it took Mawei engineers three years to develop a variable ballast system that allows a single ship to have both. When driving at sea, it can be filled with seawater to enhance the stability of the boat, and when landing, it can be discharged to reduce the draft and facilitate beaching.

"Bingwen."

Although the Tianshan-class is an important project in the navy's expansion plan, with the first batch of 12 ships to be built, Bingwen's eyes were attracted by the improved battleship Beijing. Seeing that Cheng Biguang, Wang Guangxiong and other retired veteran officers had not yet arrived, they were ready to go up to take a closer look. Just stepped onto the gangway. Unexpectedly, there was a shout from behind. Turning his head, Shen Honglie, commander of the First Fleet, and Zhang Zhaoyang, commander of the fleet's battleship detachment, walked in unison.

"Brother Chengzhang, Brother Zhaoyang, why are you here too?"

The three of them are all friends who have experienced the baptism of the Battle of Jutland in Europe and have also participated in the Battle of the Bohai Strait. Shen Honglie saw that he was about to board the ship, and laughed: "What? Commander Bing, you are also going to rob my old Shen's warship? ”

The two oceanic fleets do not mean that they are evenly divided, and the main target of the First Fleet is Japan. In order to deal with the Japanese battleship group such as Nagato, all four Beijing-class aircraft carriers were given to the First Fleet after delivery, and the Second Fleet received all four Sichuan-class aircraft carriers. The first two Beihai-class aircraft carriers were handed over to the First Fleet. So Bingwen was really red-eyed, and said with a smile: "Brother Chengzhang, or let's discuss." You kept the Beijing here for three months, and let my boys see and understand. ”

"Fuck off, I haven't settled accounts with you about the last Anhai incident! If Beijing is left in your hands for three months, Lao Tzu will have to overhaul it when he goes back! Shen Honglie hurriedly waved his hand.

The scene of the two commanders bickering made Zhang Zhaoyang and the officers around him secretly amused. But it's also interesting to say, although the navy is one, but the two fleets are fighting openly and secretly is a well-known secret. The second child can't get used to the boss's old-fashioned school. The boss can't get used to the second child's conservatism, so every time the north-south exercise is sparked. Especially the year before last, Shen Honglie pulled out two Lao Anhai and wanted to carry out a night sneak attack, and it happened that the Xiangjiang light patrol of the Second Fleet was selected as a radar test ship at that time. As a result, the Second Fleet used this light cruiser, which was not supposed to be present during the exercise, as an outpost reconnaissance ship. As a result, a "tragedy" occurred, and while the planes and submarines of the Second Fleet were on board at dawn, more than a dozen exercise torpedoes were used in a "deep hatred", and one of them accidentally collided with a propeller and caused damage.

After the exercise, Shen Honglie shouted that he was wronged and disagreed. Because the Xiangjiang and the radar itself were not in the exercise plan, the matter finally reached the ears of the president. With the phrase "In real combat, you still don't allow the enemy to use new weapons?" "Just kick it off.

In the laughter, everyone boarded the newly modified Beijing. After more than 20 years of development, the Republic of China has formed its own style in ship design, unlike Japan's complicated tower ship islands, but more similar to the simple design of France and Germany, so the overhauled superstructure of the Beijing is not only very beautiful, but also full of modernity.

But fighting a war is not better looking than anyone. With the collapse of the naval treaty, countries have built new battleships, and new concepts such as fast battleships have appeared, and the Beijing class has gradually failed to keep up with the development speed of the navy, so the navy decided to make mid-term improvements in advance after internal research, mainly to improve the capabilities of air defense, power and naval guns. The improved standard displacement of the Beijing class has been increased to 36,200 tons, the full load is 44,520 tons, the maximum speed has been increased to 32 knots, and the endurance has been shortened to 15 knots/12,600 nautical miles. In addition to the addition of one anti-aircraft and anti-sea radar, 10 new twin L56/120 mm high-level dual-purpose guns, the original 12 quadruple 40-mm rapid-fire aircraft remained unchanged, and 24 twin 25-mm machine guns were also retained, but new fire control sights were installed, and the anti-aircraft firepower was stronger.

The biggest improvement comes from the main gun, the original L47/380 mm main gun is no longer enough in front of the new cutting-edge of various countries, so the Navy replaced it with the newly designed L50/380 mm main gun, using the method of lengthening the double diameter to improve the firing range and armor-piercing ability. Judging from the experimental results of live firing, the new L50 main gun is equivalent to the main gun used by the French Richelieu class, with a maximum firing range of 42,500 meters, and after using the newly developed armor-piercing projectile, the vertical penetration depth of 30,000 meters can reach 339 mm, which is close to the 357 mm power of the L50/406 mm naval gun adopted by the Shandong class.

Of course, the use of a large chamber to enhance the power of the cartridge also costs a lot more after increasing the propellant, and the life of the barrel and chamber is much lower. But even so, before the new battleships of China and Japan were put into service, the Beijing class was still a well-deserved king of the Far East! However, due to the strict confidentiality of the data, the navy deliberately spread false news such as poor artillery quality, and before this refit, it also planned a so-called "artillery quality fraud case" and deliberately delayed the refit for more than half a year to install the false impression of artillery quality defects, which led to various countries not having a high evaluation of the Beijing class, believing that its comprehensive combat capability was weaker than that of the world's seven major capital ships.

Such a good battleship is, of course, the favorite target of any admiral, even if the Second Fleet is a hardcore aviation faction, it does not prevent Bingwen from wanting to train as an imaginary enemy for a few months. But how could Shen Honglie agree, this is his own treasure! In case a torpedo bomb or something smashes a few craters, who is it?

"Brother Chengzhang, I heard that Japan's Canglong is about to be delivered?" When he walked into the bridge to visit, Bingwen secretly thought that after the North-South exercise began, he must take this big guy out of anger, and at the same time asked about the situation of his old opponent.

Due to the different goals faced, Shen Honglie paid more attention to the expansion of the Japanese navy and said: "Indeed. According to the intelligence, the Canglong will be delivered early next month, the Feilong will be completed by the end of the year at the latest, and the two ships Hexiang and Ruihe will also be completed in the second half of next year. The two Nagato and two Fuso were all improved last year, and the four Kongo and two Ise improvements will be completed by the end of the year. Japan has also used the mothballed four Hanoi-class ships as second-line forces, and the first ship of the Yamato-class will also be launched at the end of the year, and it is expected to be delivered by the end of 41. On the heavy cruise, the four top ships will all be completed in the middle of next year, and the four Ligon class ships have also started construction, and the first two ships have already passed half of the speed. Intelligence said that after the Soviet Union received the loan and supplies, in order to deal with our naval bill, Japan has also adopted a plan to continue to build Mikumo-class aircraft carriers, four Agano-class, four Oyodo-class light cruisers, and 32 destroyers and submarines to deal with us.

Having said that, even if they can't get it for the time being, their overall preparations for war are three years earlier than ours, and there was no army drag in the past few years, plus the United States and the Soviet Union deliberately supported, as long as they go south to get oil and water, they can start work quickly. So I made a rough calculation, by the end of 41 their total tonnage is afraid that more than 1.3 million tons, our four Shandong and six Xi'an heavy cruisers can be put into service by the end of 41 is still unknown, and then subtract my two Lao Anhai, leaving aside the Tianshan and supply ships These auxiliary ships, even if the four 20,009 Liaoning-class aircraft carriers are all put into service next year, it will be more than a million to die. Shen Honglie frowned and talked eloquently, with a hint of bitter water in his tone, because everyone knew the relationship between Bingwen and Yang Qiu, and sometimes he was more useful than Chen Shaokuan.

Bingwen nodded, because the domestic armament is two years later than Japan, although the industry is strong, but the construction of the navy takes time, the Shandong and Xi'an classes are all plans in the 36-year naval bill, and the "1938 Navy Act" just passed by the Congress will have to wait until 42 years later, so the next two years will be a key year for the next two years.

However, he didn't have Shen Honglie's mood of suffering from gains and losses, after all, in Yang Qiu's position, he needed to consider it holistically, and he couldn't follow Japan's example of completely destroying domestic construction and development for armaments.

In fact, Shen Honglie is not very worried about tonnage, because this is not the biggest problem of the navy now, and what worries him and the top management the most is experience. The navy is very different from the army, the army has gained experience in Afghanistan over the years, and the air force is the same, but the navy is a newcomer after the war, except for a few of them who participated in the European war and the battle of the Bohai Strait.

On the contrary, Bingwen has a relatively open view, and his Second Fleet is basically based on aviation strikes, and it is better than Japan in terms of technology and experience. But just as he wanted to comfort him, there was a sound of kicking behind him.

"Report! Commander-in-Chief Chen's telegram ordered the Beijing to postpone its return to Qingdao, and asked the two generals to rush to Zhanjiang to meet him immediately. ”

"Now?"

Bingwen's heart skipped a beat for no reason, just now he was joking with Shen Honglie that he wanted to leave the Beijing in the south, but he didn't expect the order to come. What the hell is it that the strongest battleship at the moment needs to be left in the south? Could it be that he and Shen Honglie met each other, and four words popped out of their minds at the same time.

"The Japanese army is going south!"