Chapter 92

The air raid sirens sounded, and the screams were piercing. The target ship was a decommissioned Qingdao-class battle cruiser with the main guns removed and the anti-aircraft fire strengthened. This is also where Chen Shaokuan's confidence lies.

Although this was only an exercise, and the anti-aircraft artillery used empty shells, it was still quite risky for the fighters to penetrate the anti-aircraft fire network. Why else would the proportion of casualties in this exercise be greater than that of a normal exercise? In setting up the exercise, the Navy Headquarters is trying to get as close to actual combat as possible.

The scene of the fleet's anti-aircraft fire in full force was very spectacular, but Chen Shaokuan didn't have the heart to appreciate it at all. The planes flying over the fleet dives fearlessly in the face of dense anti-aircraft fire. Although there were constantly scenes of pilots being forced to parachute after planes were hit and the fighters were damaged and could not continue, the situation of the target ship was not much better, and in less than an hour, a total of 22 fighters were "shot down," but the situation of the target ship was even worse, with 20 bombs, plus two torpedoes dropped by two torpedo planes after successfully breaking the defense, the target ship was judged to be sunk. This was still based on the fact that the warships of the Third Fleet had strengthened their anti-aircraft firepower, and when the first wave of attack planes fled, Chen Shaokuan was like being soaked in ice water, and he was so cold that he couldn't speak.

You must know that the target ship is under the protection of all anti-aircraft firepower of 22 warships of all sizes in the entire fleet. Even so, the first wave of attack aircraft managed to escape, what does this mean?

Without waiting for Chen Shaokuan to react, the air defense alarm sounded again, and the 30 planes of the second wave of attack planes arrived, this time without fighter escort, and all the bombers took turns to dive, dropping 25 bombs on the target ship again and then flying away, this time the anti-aircraft firepower only "shot down" one dive bomber.

The second attack. It is equivalent to sprinkling a handful of salt on Chen Shaokuan's wound. The reality that is really unacceptable is just in front of us. The two Beijing-class combat cruisers are equipped with the latest radar, which is the top secret of the navy. This kind of radar can detect incoming enemy ships and fighters from a distance of 100 nautical miles, greatly improving the survivability and combat capability of warships. Because of this, Chen Shaokuan, who was full of confidence, was beaten up by the painful reality.

Looking at the "dying" target ship, Chen Shaokuan's hand holding the telescope fell with difficulty. After the target ship was decommissioned, the main guns were dismantled and delivered to the Coast Guard, which had only been established for two years. In the future, retired Navy personnel and reservists will be placed in this unit. The Admiralty's definition of the Coast Guard, dealing with offshore disputes, providing qualified servicemen for the reserves.

"Send a report to the exercise headquarters, President Fang Da of the Republic of China, Chief Adviser of the Navy Headquarters of the Ministry of National Defense. Jun Jian, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Headquarters of the Ministry of National Defense, said: Although our fleet fought bravely in this campaign, enemy planes still achieved the result of sinking target ships twice at a relatively small cost. Chen Shaokuan, a member of the department, took a look at this campaign and secretly believed that this campaign could be used as a model for the navy's new combat in the future, and he should use this as a lesson to study the new combat methods in depth. …………。 ”

Twenty minutes later. The general command of the exercise issued a circular: "This exercise has achieved the expected results and has provided a favorable basis for new naval operations in the future." President Fang Jianxiong, the supreme leader of the Republic of China and commander-in-chief of the Navy, Army and Air Force, asked all participants to abide by the professional discipline of military personnel. It is not allowed to be disseminated, and if it is leaked, it will be severely dealt with by military law. Thanks to the Navy participants for their great contributions to the Navy's new tactics, all the personnel of the Second Fleet, the victorious side of the exercise, participated in the exercise. The official is promoted to one level, and the bonus is 100 yuan. 15 days off. The Third Fleet of the losing side was guilty of non-war crimes, and although it was defeated, it was still honorable, and all participants were given a bonus of 100 yuan and a 15-day holiday. ”

A battle over the direction of future sea wars came to an end with this secret exercise in the East China Sea. The Navy has issued a dead order that no information about the exercise be leaked to the outside world, not even close relatives.

The summary meeting after the exercise was held in Shanghai, and all the top officials of the navy were notified to rush to Shanghai from various places to hold the meeting.

A Y-3 plane, which had just been delivered to the Marine Corps last year, landed at Hongqiao Airport, and it was Chen Ce and Shen Honglie, the commander-in-chief of the Marine Corps, who got out of the plane. Today's Marine Corps is not as good as it was at the beginning, and the establishment of three Marine Divisions has become an important ground combat force in the hands of the Navy. The entire navy is very polite to the marines, and there is no way to say it, the navy can't drive the battleship to land, right?

Shen Honglie, who was very aggrieved and went to the Marine Corps, is now a leading figure in the Navy with the rank of lieutenant general. Chen Ce didn't look at him as the commander of the Fourth Fleet, and if he wanted to use the special plane, he had to ask Shen Honglie to speak. For no other reason, there are only 20 of these Y-3 aircraft in the entire Navy. This kind of aircraft can deliver a platoon of troops and equipment to a distance of 500 kilometers at a time, and in addition to the Marine Corps, only the Airborne Forces are equipped. China's aviation technology is different from that of Europe and the United States, which use the best technology for civilian use, while China gives priority to the military.

Seeing Tang Qianming waiting at the airport, the two of them turned grim and stepped forward to salute. Tang Qianming is a two-star admiral in the Navy, and in terms of military rank, he is the third person in the Navy today, only worse than Sa Zhenbing's five-star and Liu Guanxiong's three-star.

"Vice President Tang is good!" The two of them saluted and greeted, Tang Qianming didn't put on a stand as the deputy commander of the naval headquarters, and came forward to salute in a low voice after saluting: "Two, this meeting is absolutely confidential, Fu Shuai personally presides over it, all guards are not allowed to follow, please bear with me if I neglect it." ”

Chen Ce and Shen Honglie glanced at each other, their hearts were awe-inspiring, they nodded solemnly, and told the accompanying guards not to follow, and followed Tang Qianming's car one after another. After getting into the car, Shen Honglie glanced at the soldiers in the truck in front of him, and said in a nervous tone: "It seems that there are people from the presidential guard in the car in front." ”

Tang Qianming nodded and said, "Chengzhang has good eyesight, and he is indeed the one who supports the guards. The pick-up and drop-off of all the personnel at this meeting was completed by the Commander-in-Chief. The two of them came late, and when Liu Ziying (Liu Guanxiong) and Commander Xie of the First Fleet arrived in the morning, Sa Lao personally picked up the people. Seeing this meaning, Fu Shuai and Sa Lao reached an agreement, and it was inevitable that Sa Lao came forward to communicate with Mr. Liu and Commander Xie first. ”

"Brother Zhuxin, ...... this exercise?" Chen Ce's question went straight to the point, Tang Qianming smiled slightly, shook his head and said, "Keep it secret for the time being, and you'll know when you wait for Brother Shuo." Shen Honglie heard this. I put away the problems in my heart. The meeting presided over by Fu Shuai himself, Tang Qianming would definitely not leak half a word on this occasion. Besides, Tang Qianming has never been popular in the navy, and he has always been the master who holds the thighs of the commander. To say that the three people present are grasshoppers on a line within the navy, they seem to have an average relationship on weekdays, but in fact they have a common interest relationship to maintain. If you want to talk about personal relationship, it is between Shen Honglie and Tang Qianming, both from Hubei. And good personal relationships. Together with Chen Fu, the commander of a submarine force, the whole thing is to fight against the traditional Fujian camp. These four have a common characteristic, they are all characters that Fang Jianxiong values. Tang Qianming is a little older than the old school, and the other three belong to the absolute new school.

The car arrived at the headquarters of the Second Fleet of the Wusong Garrison District, and after passing three inspections along the way. Eventually, it stopped in front of a small, heavily guarded two-story building. Don't look at these three people who are amazing figures in the navy, but when they come here, they have always only authenticated documents and did not recognize people.

As soon as the three of them got out of the car, they saw Chen Shaokuan coming out of it, the commander of the Third Fleet, with a rather ugly expression at the moment. Needless to say, he was reprimanded by Fu Shuai, otherwise with Chen Shaokuan's character, except for Sa Lao and Fu Shuai. No one will buy it. Otherwise, after Chen Shaokuan's later stage, he can be mixed with the commander of the Third Fleet? Cheng Biguang, a veteran of the navy, is now only a first-class vice admiral in the navy, teaching in schools. Speaking of Cheng Biguang, he was idle. The reason for this is not well understood. Only Fang Jianxiong understood in his heart that Cheng Biguang had always had a pimple in his heart because of historical issues, so he never gave Cheng Biguang a chance to master the troops. The preconceived impression is broken, even if Cheng Biguang has been a man with his tail between his legs for many years. It's also hard to undo.

"Housuke!" Chen Ce, who has a good personal relationship, greeted him and saw these three. After Chen Shaokuan came forward to say a few words, he glanced at Tang Qianming with complicated eyes and said in a low voice: "Let's go first, and drink together at night." ”

Tang Qianming has not spoken, there is no possibility of the relationship between him and Chen Shaokuan getting better, as a rising star of the Fujian Gang, there is really no possibility of emotional crossover with Tang Qianming, the number one enemy of the Fujian Gang.

There were models of two warships in the living room, Fang Jianxiong bent down with his hands behind his back to look at them carefully, and when the three of them came in, they only nodded slightly, without looking up. Two models are interesting, one is a model of a battleship and the other is a model of an aircraft carrier. As a senior member of the Navy, it is not difficult to see that these two models have not appeared in the Navy's queue before.

"I heard that someone mentioned yì to stop the construction of new battleships?" Fang Jianxiong suddenly came up with such a sentence, the three who came with different expressions, and after looking at each other, Tang Qianming stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Fu Shuai, I think that the battleship has been proven to be insufficient to control the sea power." In particular, this new type of battleship had a main gun caliber of 16-inch guns and a displacement of up to 70,000 tons. The cost is too much to build ....... ”

"Say no more!" Fang Jianxiong unceremoniously interrupted Tang Qianming's words, and added a sentence without being salty: "Short-sighted!" Tang Qianming looked embarrassed, but he was secretly happy in his heart. Fang Jianxiong spoke to him politely, this is not a bad thing, but a good thing. The more the commander talks to you casually, the more he shows that he treats you as his own, and Tang Qianming has already mastered this law.

"Humble and stupid! Please also make it clear! Tang Qianming bowed his head to admit his mistake, Fang Jianxiong turned around and picked up a telegram from the table and handed it over: "Japan announced its withdrawal from the Washington Naval Treaty, this is the news that I just received. ”

Japan in December 1934 was not at all as strong as Japan in parallel time and space, and the reason is clear: the rise of China. Japan's economic crisis has been hit far harder than China's, and without the Chinese market, the shift to militarism has accelerated. Due to the strength of China's ground forces, the theory of the China threat has long been a consensus. How to solve this powerful China, the Japanese government and the opposition still formed a consensus, that is, to solve the problem through a decisive battle.

Don't be surprised by these consensuses between the Japanese government and the opposition, and a closer look at the line of Japan's rise since the Meiji era is clear. For Japan, it is a tragedy to face a powerful China, and this tragedy has fully deepened Japan's sense of crisis.

There must be a decisive battle between China and Japan, and this is Japan's national policy! For the sake of this national policy, Japan has been enduring humiliation. However, Japan's luck has been very bad, first with the Great Kanto Earthquake and then with the worldwide economic crisis. If the Great Kanto Earthquake was like God taking a knife and sprinkling a handful of salt on the body for Japan, then the global economic crisis is equivalent to God cutting another hole in the unhealed wound and sprinkling another handful of salt.

How to achieve victory in a hypothetical future decisive battle, the Japanese Navy is undoubtedly a decisive force.

Once, Tetsutaro Sato, known as the "two staff officers of the Japanese Navy," was lecturing at the Naval University in response to a student's question, "What was the cause of victory in the Russo-Japanese War?" When I asked this question, I thought about it for a while before I said, "40% is luck." The student followed up with the question, "What about the remaining 60%?" ”

"It's still luck", this time Sato Tetsutaro replied very simply.

In a Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese defeated the Russians by just luck? This answer didn't seem convincing, so Tetsutaro Sato explained his "40% luck plus 60% luck".

"The first 40% of the luck is pure luck, for example, Commander Makarov was killed by a mine just after taking office, and the Yellow Sea naval battle hit the command tower of the battleship Prince with one shot impartially, etc., the occurrence of these events that directly affected the battle situation was just pure luck. The luck of the last 60 was the missteps of the Russians or the luck of the efforts of the Japanese, and in any case, the Japanese Navy was really lucky in the Russo-Japanese War. ”

You must know that before the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese Navy could not even build battleships, but Russia was able to build its own. It was under this premise that the Japanese Navy won the Battle of Tsushima when the whole world was not favorable. Going back further, in the First Sino-Japanese War, why didn't the Japanese Navy boast that the weak defeated the strong? Not to mention, this will give the Japanese Navy an absolute psychological advantage and strength advantage in the face of the Republic of China Navy. The Japanese Army, on the other hand, was scarred by the beatings and could not raise its head at all.

In the war history materials compiled by the Japanese Saburo Waiyama, the title of the chapter on the history of Japanese naval warfare is defined as follows: The glorious Japanese navy!

Getting back to the point, Tang Qianming's chest, who was holding the telegram in his hand, rose and fell for a while, the deadline for the Washington Naval Treaty was 36 years, and according to the agreement, it was not too much for the Japanese government to notify him two years in advance. The problem is that after the Japanese government has taken this step, it is not difficult to imagine what will happen next. In other words, Fang Jianxiong and the top brass of the Chinese Navy are faced with a decision: should they follow Japan in withdrawing from the Washington Naval Treaty?

"A preparatory meeting in May that was personally sponsored by British Foreign Secretary Simmons, attended by Yokoo Matsudaira, Japan's ambassador to the United Kingdom. At that time, the differences between the countries were very great, and the negotiations were interrupted. Later, at the resumption of the meeting in October, attended by Major General Yamamoto Isoroku, Britain and the United States adhered to the principles of the Washington Naval Treaty, while Japan advocated a vigorous reduction of offensive armaments on the premise of 'no threat or aggression.' The two sides could not find common ground. "It's like an endorsement, Tang Qianming came to such a paragraph.

Fang Jianxiong snorted and said with a smile: "The Japanese proposition is purely a-stirring stick, and it is really stupid." In fact, Japan saw that Britain and the United States would not give up their absolute superiority at sea, and according to the principles of the Japanese, the British Empire still had a fart deterrent. But in general, we still have to thank Japan for this-stirring stick, without Japan making such a fuss, we really have no excuse to get on the new warship. It has been almost half a year since the model of this new type of battleship was made, and it has been placed here for me, and the design drawings have been repeatedly revised more than 300 times, constantly adding new technologies and new design ideas. Japan's economy is already very bad, and if Japan can be dragged into an arms race, it will inevitably accelerate Japan's madness and collapse. If you can't see this, you can't be considered a qualified top of the Navy. ”