I'm sorry, I got the name of the chapter in the last episode wrong, it's not 24 episodes, it should be 23 episodes, and this episode is 24 episodes. ）

Damn, Xiang Xiaoqiang couldn't help but scold in his heart, how narrow can the waterway between the Miaodao Islands be?

To say narrow, the waterways of the British military port of Scarpa are narrow, right? Mines, shipwrecks, chains, anti-submarine nets, the narrowest part of the nets is only a few meters.

But just a few years later, Captain Brian of Germany drove the U-47, felt into the harbor in the middle of the night, sank a battleship, and came out again, and retreated!

There is also the Strait of Gibraltar, one of the narrowest straits in the world, as narrow as a pinnose, and the middle is crowded with British destroyers, but in order to support the Italian and North African battlefields, Germany shuttles U-boats back and forth under the belly of the destroyers, in and out.

How do people do it?

Take a look at our Bohai Strait, the map hangs there, and if you look at it in combination with the scale below, you can roughly visually inspect any of those "narrow waterways" and stuff a small city in the middle!

The widest section in the north, according to the scale of the mental calculation, there are not forty kilometers but also thirty kilometers, and it is more than enough to plug two Nanjings! Did you say you wouldn't go?

It should be explained that the level of the North Korean captain and the German captain is not the same, and it cannot be compared, but is this so?

The waterways of the Yangtze River are narrow, right? There are only 1,000 meters, and there are shoals, small sandbanks, and mines on both sides of the bank in the middle, but don't I drive the submarine in the autumn and go to hang out every other night? He also sank a Qing Dynasty destroyer and won a medal!

When it comes to the level of personnel, whether the Qing Dynasty destroyer captain can be half the level of the long-tested British captain, Xiang Xiaoqiang is very skeptical.

Destroyers mainly rely on acoustic detectors to catch submarines. However, this kind of thing has been monopolized by Britain since World War I, and I don't know if this technology has spread in this time and space.

But Xiang Xiaoqiang knew that even in the early days of World War II, the effective range of that thing was only more than 2,000 meters, and it had to be in very good sea conditions. And now, years earlier?

And that thing is troublesome, too far to work, too close to work; It's too fast to work, it's too slow to work, and the submarine doesn't work at all when it comes to the surface. In the era when there was no radar, it was only possible to rely on visual inspection.

Therefore, the common method of "smuggling" submarines is to dive near the strait during the day, float up at night, take advantage of the dark moon and high winds, pull the diesel propulsion, and pass at full speed.

The submarine is low, and as long as the moon is not too bright at night, it is not visible at all.

Day, Xiang Xiaoqiang scolded in his heart, these common senses even I know as a military fan, how many of you are in the navy? Damn, pretend you don't know!

"Second Elder Son," a general dressed in a delicate blue-black general's uniform stood up and bowed slightly, "Please allow the lower official to say a few words." ”

"Oh? Oh, hehe, okay," Yang said in a daze, "Oh, you are ...... Oh no, you name it. ”

Shen Rongxuan interjected at this time:

"Lord Yang, this is General Qi, the commander of the Navy's submarine force."

As soon as Shen Rongxuan introduced this, he also emphasized the word "navy", and everyone muttered one after another, this deputy commander of the navy didn't even know his own general. Regardless of whether Vice Chief Yang made a slip of the tongue or not, anyway, the professional feeling he gave just now was instantly neutralized.

Vice Chief Yang also sensed the abnormality of the atmosphere, glanced at Shen Rongxuan and General Qi, and said very unhappily:

"Well, let's talk about it."

"Second Elder, my lords," Commander Qi bowed to the left and right, "The Bohai Strait, as the Second Elder said, is really tightly blocked. However, as the saying goes, 'one hundred dense and one sparse', there are seven waterways in the Bohai Strait, and at least three of them are relatively vast. As for the puppet Qing Dynasty, not every island in this string of Miaodao Islands was garrisoned, and only the four larger islands of Beihuangcheng Island, Daqinxiang Island, Dangji Island, and Changdao were equipped with observation posts. As for the patrol ships, there is an improvised military port only on Long Island, the southernmost point, and three to five destroyers are moored on weekdays. Regular patrols between the islands are usually carried out by only a few torpedo boats, and destroyers are not usually dispatched. ”

He paused, smiled slightly, and continued:

"The 'tight lockdown' that the second elder said was also deeply thought by the lower officials. But the second-eldest may be only in the case of surface ships. It is true that for traditional surface ships, such a blockade can be said to be tight. However, submarines are a new weapon that has only appeared in the past 20 years, and the second elder is a senior, and he is busy with government affairs all day long, so he may not know much about it. The most important feature of the submarine is that it acts in a concealed manner, and even if it is in an upward state, only one-third of it is exposed to the water, and the target is extremely small. In addition, when passing through the blockade waters, it is completely possible to sneak, which is more difficult to be detected by the other party. ”

Commander Qi's remarks were not very respectful, saying that Vice Commander Yang was a "senior" and "didn't know much", which was to mock his low professional level, and secondly, to imply that he was a traditional giant ship artilleryist and could not see the advantages of emerging ships.

There was a reason why he dared to speak to Shangguan like this.

The navy of the Ming Dynasty, like the navy of the United States and Japan, belonged to the system of "separation of government and order", that is, the military and political system and the military order system were integrated.

The highest organ of the military and political system is the Ministry of the Navy, and the secretary and vice minister of the Navy to the accountants and typists at the lower levels are all civilian staff, and they are only responsible for administrative work such as army building guidelines, military budgets, policies and decrees, officer promotions, and logistics management, as well as speaking on behalf of the Navy in the DPRK and China. In general, it is not able to interfere in the affairs of the fleet below.

The highest organ of the military order system is the General Staff of the Navy, which is the place where the war can be truly commanded. On weekdays, the operations and training of the fleet are under the supervision of the General Staff of the Sea. It can command and mobilize major fleets, specify campaign battle plans, and draw different types of ships from different fleets to form task forces as needed, and so on.

Vice Commander Yang is a member of the Admiralty, and Commander Qi is a member of the General Staff of the Navy. Although the administrative level of the deputy chief of the naval department is higher than that of the commander of the submarine force, first, the military and political people have never been able to control the people who give military orders, and second, the level of this vice minister Yang himself is really not very good, so Commander Qi can completely dismiss him.

However, in front of so many outsiders, both in the navy, Commander Qi still gave Shangguan the necessary respect. Although these words are disrespectful, they are also more polite.

Vice Chief Yang was very unhappy, feeling that his authority had been challenged as a superior. He snorted, picked up the shelf, and said:

"Commander Qi, you say this officer doesn't know about submarines? As the deputy commander of the navy, how can this officer not know about every type of ship in the navy? At the time of the World War, the officer was in the Admiralty. Yes, in Germany's 'unrestricted submarine warfare' back then, submarines did come out of the limelight for a while. However, later the Entente adopted a convoy escort system, and the submarines were immediately helpless. Yes, submarines are a new type of ship, but Commander Qi, don't forget that this 'new type of ship' is also recognized as an obsolete type of ship. With the invention of sonic detectors, submarines have nowhere to hide at sea, and now at most they are stealing chickens and dogs, like a thief, having the opportunity to do something, and staying at home and doing nothing if they don't have the opportunity. Hmph, in this case, as the commander of the submarine force, you should know better than this officer, right? ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang sat down and listened to this kind of words, crying and laughing.

"Submarines should become obsolete" is indeed a common concept among the navies of various countries after the end of World War I.

After the defeat of the German submarine war in World War I, the idea of "giant ships and cannons", which everyone had shaken a little, became strong again.

Tradition holds that naval battles were fought mainly on battleships. British Admiral Chatfield famously said, "The battlefleet is like the 'queen' on the chessboard, the ultimate master of the sea." If you lose it, you lose the game. ”

Of course, if it is Chinese chess, it is "car", the same.

In modern times, torpedo boats have arose. It was cheap and abundant, small and fast, and it carried deadly torpedoes that scurried around the surface like a mouse, posing a great threat to expensive and bulky battleships.

Fortunately, torpedo boats could not sail far, and later there were equally nimble destroyers, specializing in torpedo boats, and the position of battleships was consolidated again.

By the time of World War I, submarines were back in play. Although the speed is not fast, it is expensive that it can sail far away. Surface ships have never dealt with such a thing, and there is basically nothing to do with it.

Later, the convoy escort system was adopted, and merchant ships were pooled together to sail together, and destroyers were sent to escort them, so that the opportunities for submarines were reduced. Later, the acoustic detector was invented. At that time, submarines were also lagging behind, and they had to get very close to each other when firing torpedoes, so acoustic detectors were still very useful.

Coupled with the defeat of Germany, all the remaining submarines sank by themselves, which can be regarded as an end to the submarine war. In people's minds, this kind of thing is considered to be the end of life. As a result, the navies of various countries have turned back into "cannon clubs".

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Thinking of this, Xiang Xiaoqiang couldn't help but sigh in his heart: outdated? Oh, it's early!

A few years later, by what did Germany almost break Britain's neck? Submarine!

A few decades later, what will the Soviet Union rely on to confront the American aircraft carrier battle group? Submarine!

When a nuclear war breaks out, the end of the world comes, and the land is scorched, how can you launch a second strike on the other side? Or a submarine!

During the missile crisis in the Taiwan Strait, why did the US aircraft carriers that had already entered the Taiwan Strait suddenly withdraw? It is said that it was discovered that two nuclear submarines were missing from the Qingdao naval base in China!

If it weren't for the fact that Hitler at this time, like you members of the Artillery Club, was short-sighted and only recognized battleships and refused to build submarines in large quantities, he would have won World War II!

Alas, what should I say? Perhaps this is the distress of the traverser.