Episode 145 Quota Battle

At the dinner, the guests circulated this piece and proudly introduced it to Xiaoqiang:

"This is still a few days ago I chatted with His Majesty in the palace, talking about the current submarine strategy against Japan, Your Majesty happened to mention that there was such a piece of music during the period of the first emperor, she read it, and felt that it coincided with my submarine warfare thinking...... So His Majesty ordered someone to take it from the archives and study it again...... At that time, His Majesty and I were full of emotion! Although Fang Hongru is not in a thousand ways.

"Look at what is written: 'Maritime traffic is the lifeblood of Japan, and the flesh and skin of the Ming Dynasty...... If we build a submarine force similar to the German Navy within 10 years, the superiority of the Japanese Navy will no longer exist. If the end of the battle opens, I will hold this sharp weapon, and I can use my own flesh and skin to his lifeline, and my own secret arrow to his spear, although I am weak, I can also win. ’…… How well said! At that time, I was so fond of this piece that I borrowed it from His Majesty and watched it with you. Unexpectedly, after 20 years, the views of predecessors and descendants on the same strategy are so amazingly coincident! ”

Everyone echoed it, and at the same time respectfully circulated the recital. None of you have ever seen this piece. Xiong Dingming, Qi Xiaofeng, commander of the submarine force, and a few older people had all heard of this piece back then. However, the positions of several people back then were still relatively low, and it was just like everyone else, after the establishment of the submarine force, that they had read the original text of the reprinted chapter in the newspaper. And some of the younger ones have never even heard of it.

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled:

"I have talked to Your Majesty, and Your Majesty also agrees with this strategy of 'trapping Japan in submarine warfare' and is willing to do her best to help us. All of you here, especially a few adults, are also elites of the Navy and submarine forces, so naturally everyone didn't say anything. Merely...... Now with the war against the Soviet Union in full swing, the blockade of sea routes in the Sea of Japan has become a top priority.

"Especially now that the offensive on Vladivostok has been blocked, the high command has considered the strategy of implementing a long-term siege of Vladivostok. Then it is necessary to cut off the sea supply lines in the Sea of Japan, so that Vladivostok can be trapped. The Sea of Japan is also Japan's backyard, and now the overall strength of the Japanese Navy is still above ours, and it occupies a geographical advantage, and it is not realistic for us to rely on surface warship forces to gain sea supremacy in the Sea of Japan. That is to say, it is necessary to rely heavily on submarines.

"However, that means that submarines will have to be drawn from the other three submarine theaters and concentrated in the Sea of Japan theater, and the submarine forces in the other three theaters are already insufficient, and now they are even thinner...... We now produce only a dozen submarines a month, and if we really want to reach the number of completely trapped Japan, it will take a year and a half or two years...... What's more, we still have losses. This is not at all in line with our strategic spirit of 'dealing with Japan as soon as possible and dealing with the Soviet Union with all our might'!

"In fact, this problem is very simple to solve, just increase production and increase production. But...... Hehe, you all know that China's shipbuilding capacity is limited after all, even if the submarine is small, do not grab the slipway of the big ship, but ...... You still have to compete with big ships for steel, transportation, other resources, and workers, right? And how these are deployed is under the control of the Admiralty. Alas, over there at the Admiralty, I can't do anything about it! As you know, our naval forces, of course, look at the problem very soberly, after all, they are all directly commanding the war, and they are all very pragmatic. But the Admiralty guys can't sit in the office! That's a whole cannon club...... Only now can I be regarded as having a bit of a straight eye on aircraft carriers. But for submarines, people still don't look down on ......"

Xiong Dingming heard it. Xiang Xiaoqiang thought that the submarine construction speed was not fast enough, and he hit the idea of those big ships in the shipbuilding plan. He wanted these people to help him exert influence together, and to report directly to the Admiralty from the perspective of naval combat forces, demanding that the construction of some large ships be canceled and resources allocated to submarines.

Xiong Dingming smiled slightly and said:

"Well, what do you mean?"

Xiang Xiaoqiang was stunned, and then laughed with a smile:

"You see, since we have decided on the grand strategy of naval warfare against Japan - mainly submarine warfare, then everything must be carried out around this strategy! You see, at least in the allocation of shipbuilding resources, we have to lean more towards submarines! …… I don't dare to say that it is mainly submarines, at least not a dozen of them every month! ”

Xiong Dingming laughed, and sure enough. He glanced at Qi Xiaofeng, the commander of the submarine force, who was also smiling and nodding slightly. And Xiang Xiaoqiang's two wives, Qiuqiu and Xiuxiu, were also nodding. The three captains present behaved in the most formal manner, just smiling and bowing their heads to drink tea, but their expressions were similar to those of the two Mrs. Xiang.

Xiong Dingming smiled:

"Well, do you want to say that part of the quota for destroyers and cruisers should be taken and transferred to submarines?"

Xiang Xiaoqiang hurriedly smiled and waved his hand:

"No, no, no, how can that. Destroyers and cruisers are all good things, they are very useful, they are not enough in the first place, they cannot be reduced. According to me, if we want to reduce, let's lose another battleship. ”

Not only Xiong Dingming, but even Qi Xiaofeng was taken aback:

"What? Also minus? None left? ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled:

"Hey, I just didn't leave any of them. The cost of battleships is too high, the cost performance is too low, and it is too exciting. You build a hundred more submarines, and others don't care much. As soon as a big battleship hits the slipway and starts construction, it immediately attracts the attention of the world, and many countries are stimulated, and people's shipbuilding plans must be revised immediately, adding one or two more ships...... Japan, in particular, has no choice but to tighten its belts and escalate its shipbuilding race to the next level. The shipbuilding race is a bottomless pit, and any amount of money can be thrown into it. ”

Xiong Dingming shook his head and sighed with a wry smile:

"It's very good, it's not that you don't know, no matter what I say about it, it's also a sea power. Surface ships must not be weak. Especially now we are not only facing a tonnage problem, but also facing the problem of upgrading. Now, just after the treaty period, several countries are launching new battleships to replace the old ones of the twenties. And our battleships are all old battleships of the first and twenties. If we don't build new ships now, we just rely on modifications to make do with them, and in the future, Japan will build a few new battleships, and our old antiques and people will run into each other, and the consequences will be unimaginable. Well, you can understand this. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang also smiled:

"Lord Xiong, I didn't say that I wouldn't build a big warship. Aren't we building aircraft carriers? Let Japan build battleships, and we'll build aircraft carriers. With the same money, the same manpower and material resources, they build one, and we can build two or three. What's more, in the future, when their battleships meet our aircraft carriers, little Japan will throw it to the bottom of the sea, no matter how much money it spends. Haven't you all seen how light the aircraft carrier is in the face of a battleship? ”

Xiong Dingming was dumbfounded by what he said, but thinking about it, it was indeed the case. He laughed and said:

"Okay, keep the battleship or not, put this aside for now, let's not talk about it for now. If...... If such a large battleship is removed, what will the large slipway vacate for? You can't use it to build submarines, right? ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled:

"That's easy! Didn't we say it, it's used to build aircraft carriers! As long as this battleship is replaced with an aircraft carrier, then at least half of the budget and various resources can be saved, and 60% can be saved if it is done well. So it's not too much to put the rest of this part on the submarine, right? Haha......"