"What is this Sun Jiugong going to do......"

In the command hall of the General Staff Office of the Ministry of National Defense, Yan Fu looked at the Northwest Army, which had been parked in Yulin for three days on the sand table, and looked puzzled, now that it has entered July, it stands to reason that this is a good period for attacking, otherwise after the temperature plummets in October, the troops will not be able to move for several months. 【 I want: super fast update 】

You must know that in this military operation in the northwest, the General Staff took out almost all the available forces, not only transferred the only mobile cavalry, but also handed over to him the second and fourth divisions that had completed the expansion, and in order to reconnoiter and support the military operation, the air force also sent three small reconnaissance airships, and also undertook the task of long-distance supply of materials.

Not to mention anything else, just the command vehicle that Sun Jiugong rode in, there are only three in the whole army at present, and the formation of an armored battalion composed of forty Wildcat II armored vehicles also let him take ten of them, not to mention the light machine guns that had just been tested two months ago, and the first batch of thirty off the assembly line were handed over to him!

Whether it is the strength or quality, he has the strength to sweep the northwest, why did he stop in Yulin for three consecutive days, what should he pay attention to?

Zhang Zuoshuang next to him also frowned, he and Sun Jiugong are fellow countrymen, and they joined the army in the same year, and at the same time went to Germany for training, and their friendship is far deeper than that of ordinary people, so they are anxious, since ancient times, no matter which dynasty or generation, "the poetry is tired of supporting the army and self-respect, could it be that Sun Jiugong served as the commander, and there was this bad problem?

Zhang Zuoshuang shook his head, trying hard to get rid of this idea, but he just couldn't figure out why Sun Jiugong stopped his troops in Yulin, you must know that even if he entered the territory of Gansu a hundred kilometers ahead, it would be better than staying there!

"Yuting, when the emperor and Yuanshou left, did you explain anything?"

"No, but I've sent the news here, and I'm sure they've seen ......"

"That's good." Yan Fu nodded, although he is the Minister of Defense, he is a civilian, and the military operations and command of the three services are still in the hands of Li Mo and Chen Ping, and he also knows that he is not a good hand at fighting, "So it is better to simply help to do a good job in the stability of the army, logistics and handling of internal affairs and other things."

"What the hell is this guy doing...... Yan Fu looked at the sand table again, underestimated it twice, turned around and walked out, leaving only Zhang Zuoshuang standing in front of the sand table, holding his chin and thinking sadly, when the corner of his eyes swept to the north in a straight line with Yulin, he suddenly opened his mouth wide and slowly passed through the closed gate, and the Ryukyu Shipyard came into view, looking at both sides from the door, "There are loaded Marines everywhere."

On the sea, several motorboats shuttled back and forth, and even the entire Bahai port was emptied, and any foreign cargo ships have been asked not to approach the sea within 50 kilometers of Bahai for the time being, of course, the reason is military exercises!

The exercise was a good cover for that era, and since the beginning of the entry into Liaodong, the Ryukyus have imposed strict entry and exit restrictions on foreigners except foreign employees, so the Ministry of Intelligence can monitor every suspect on the island without even much effort.

In addition to Li Mo and Chen Ping, the commander of the Navy Long Guozhang, Tang Xiao of the Equipment Department, and Chang Lin of the Ministry of Science and Technology have all come here.

Li Mo sat in the car and looked out, the continuous factories, warehouses and the core of the six docks are scattered, because the four Jinghai ships have entered the stage of launching and perching, in order to cooperate with the transfer of equipment manufacturing industry, but also to reduce the pressure on the land, the Honolulu shipyard, which is very unsuitable for the development of industry, has been demolished, the four docks will only retain two, and at the same time, all the factories supporting the shipbuilding services are being reduced in scale or even directly dismantled, a total of more than 50,000 employees will return to Liaodong one after another, Join the newly built North Heavy Industry Co., Ltd., where the two major shipbuilding bases, Dalian and Huludao shipyards have been completed.

However, due to the fact that the transfer of personnel has just begun, although the equipment and shipbuilding tonnage of the two major shipyards are very large, the technology and experience must wait for the old workers to be in place, so in the next year, the Ryukyu shipyard will temporarily become an important shipbuilding base in China.

Li Mo's dedication to the navy is obvious to all, even now that the war in the northwest has opened the curtain, the south is actively preparing for a round of enclosure operations to divert the attention of the powers, and the Ministry of Finance has prepared a special budget of 100 million blue coins for the south and the north, he still insists on not reducing the investment in the navy.

Fortunately, the previous major adjustment caused the Navy to eliminate a large number of equipment that did not have much effect, and even the four survey-class light cruisers were officially withdrawn from active service, and they were not even changed to patrol ships, but were directly dismantled and sold for scrap iron!

While dismantling a large number of old-fashioned equipment to save money, the development of a generation of equipment has not slowed down, the obvious of which is the perfect performance of the submarine and the Gray Ridge shark class in the raid on Tokyo Bay, which made the navy see the value of submarines.

Coupled with the recent military operation, the navy finally gave the protagonist to the army, and had a large number of valuable recuperation periods, and was able to concentrate on reorganization and training, which made the quality of naval personnel also be greatly improved. 【 I want: super fast update 】

This wave of major adjustments finally ushered in the harvest period, the first batch of four Defend-class destroyers were delivered ten days ago, originally in accordance with the requirements of the Navy, will be put into testing immediately, and even ready to take advantage of the upcoming operation in the South Seas to put into actual combat testing, but after getting the news that the No. 6 dock is about to open, they decided to test together, and at the same time can also practice formation tactics to save consumption.

From this point, it can be seen that the navy has indeed put a lot of effort into saving, starting from every detail, which also makes the Prime Minister's Office very pleasing to the navy.

The proud car arrived at the destination of the No. 6 dock, if the outside is heavily guarded, then this place can be described as terrifying, all the important positions around are set up machine guns, and snipers are arranged on the roof, in addition to the presence of Master Li, Gui is because this dock is too important!

Looking at the huge closed dock, Li Mo couldn't help but have a surge of blood, although he already had the experience of the Jinghai class, when compared to the big guy lying inside at this moment, the Jinghai class was not an order of magnitude opponent at all.

Under the leadership of Tang Xiaohe and the factory director, as soon as Li Mo passed through the side door where the personnel entered and exited, he felt that a huge steel wall suddenly appeared in front of him, and his vision seemed to be unsmooth.

In the design, the standard displacement of 19,000 tons, the full load exceeded 20,000 tons for the first time, reaching 21,500 tons, such a huge warship has surpassed any capital ship known to various countries at present.

Importantly, it features a unique five-twin turret design: "The front is in a zigzag shape, with the first gun emplacement on the ship, the second and third gun emplacements on the rear side of the bridge, the fourth gun emplacement between the second and third smoky white, and the fifth turret at the stern."

Of course, it is not the real dreadnought in Li Mo's heart, it is just a test ship that finally spent 16 million blue coins, but even so, no matter who returns to this era and sees this kind of behemoth, they will be deeply shocked.

Countless designers and boatmen crowded the dockyard, hoping to see for themselves the behemoth they had been fighting for a year and a half, "and some of them even shed tears of emotion before the ceremony began.

Dreadnought, this is not something that Young Master Li came out of patting his head and drawing drawings, "It is the final result of further progress on the Jinghai class, and it is the crystallization of the whole Hua!"

After the Jinghai class, Li Mo put forward the design concept of the all-heavy artillery, and handed over the preliminary drawings to the design department led by McKinson, and after half a year of calculations and experiments, the design department comprehensively submitted the construction conditions and technical level, and finally made up his mind to start construction.

Truth be told, "this was not the actual battleship he had in mind, but he still conservatively adopted the layout of the later Sir Fisher, so that although there were five main guns, in fact, in the linear tactics, there were only eight large fires when projecting fire to one side. Why this layout is adopted, instead of the Jinghai class has already adopted an advanced piggyback layout, this doubt has attracted countless criticisms from the design department even now.

Especially in order to make way for the five main guns, the superstructure is no longer tall and elegant of the Jinghai class, all in order to reduce the weight of the upper layer as much as possible. What is puzzling, and even the navy is not satisfied, is that it actually uses a combination of a coal-fired boiler and a three-expansion reciprocating steam engine, so that the speed of the ship has fallen to an unbearable sixteen knots, which is a significant regression in the era when speed is becoming more and more important!

However, Li Mo tried his best to disagree, he also knew that this was not scientific, the five-turret design increased the weight of the superstructure, and the utilization of displacement was not as good as that of the British, so the secondary gun went back and used the gun silhouette gun design, only ten 152 mm rapid-fire guns, as for the combustion medium boiler and the three-expansion steam engine, it was entirely because he did not plan to put this ship into use at all, in addition to confusing Europe through this means, he made follow-up plans!

What is difficult for the navy to endure is that this battleship is only laid with a layer of 152 mm vertical main armor on the side waterline, not to mention this level of armor against enemy battleships, even the Jinghai-class can penetrate when it is close.

But there is no way, this is a test ship after all, and the technical department does not know the importance of armor, but they themselves are not confident in such a large weight, so they adopted the method of gradual thickening proposed by Li Mo, first test the design and deconstruction, and install armor on it little by little, otherwise the design department would not make the superstructure the same as a gnocchi.

Even if the clamor is fierce, the Admiralty still fully supports it, because everyone knows that through this Chinese ship, it can comprehensively test the level of its own shipbuilding after integrating British, German, French and even Italian shipbuilding technology, inspection structure, displacement utilization, load-bearing and a series of technologies.

Of course, this is not without technology, such as the first three-oar, double-rudder design, large-area anti-shake keel, etc., but compared with the original Jinghai class, "in addition to tonnage, other things really can't be regarded as a big progress."

But for Li Mo, this is nothing, "What he is really dissatisfied with is still the naval gun!"

The imitation of the Italian L45/3.05 million mm naval gun is still the main force of the navy, and the modified gun body "adopts the hydraulic pipe withdrawal technology, although the weight is greatly reduced, and the rapid fire has reached the level of one round per minute, but the range and accuracy are still very unsatisfactory."

The larger the caliber of the naval gun, the higher the requirements for metallurgy, materials and processing technology, and the armament department did not come up with a 305 mm naval gun" but compared with the Italian naval gun, the performance has not been greatly improved, and the stability is still slightly insufficient, so it can only continue to use imitation naval guns.

However, although there are such doubts and imperfections, it is a full battleship after all, with ten heavy guns, so that when it is against the enemy, it can output the powerful firepower of eight heavy naval guns at a time, even when pursuing, it can also put six guns, and its combat effectiveness is equivalent to two Duke-class battleships!

Importantly, yes, this spoon hums the times!

When this warship is tested and announced, the whole world will be able to build any battleship under construction, even on the drawings, will become scrap metal!

No wonder Li Mo said that this is a veritable scrap iron manufacturing ship!

In the noisy gongs, drums and firecrackers, Li Mo stood on the side of the slipway, handed the bronze nameplate of the Chinese ship to Long Guozhang, and accompanied Fang Xianqi, who came to participate in the launching ceremony, used all his strength to throw out the champagne bottle, and the wine bottle smashed on the cold ship and scattered in all directions, and the aroma of wine suddenly filled the entire dock, and there was applause all around.

With the end of this small ceremony, the sailors who had already been prepared happily saluted under the gaze of Li Mo and Fang Xianqi, and then boarded the ship and rushed into their respective posts.

At the same time, the iron locks of the dock began to open little by little, "tons of seawater rushed into the dock, and everyone held their breath", watching the white line representing the scale on the inside of the dock be flooded, and their hearts hung in their throats.

Although the main armor has not yet been installed, it is still a light load, and it has not even reached the standard displacement in the design, but it still can't reassure everyone, because this big guy is too big!

But very, as the huge hull suddenly shook a few times, and floated a little bit in the dock, everyone who saw this scene cheered.

An hour later, three high-horsepower tugboats that had been on standby for a long time connected the steel rope to the ship, and under their towing, "the Chinese ship finally sailed out of the dock little by little, and the reporters accompanying the army kept pressing the door, and even in order to record the whole moment, the General Staff also used four cameras that had just become popular in Europe and the United States to shoot from four different angles."

When it is decrypted, it will become a legend!

"Have you chosen the water for the experiment and training?" , Seeing that the Chinese ship was out of the dock little by little, Li Mo came to Long Guozhang, who was already unable to close his mouth.

"The test will be held at the Truk base in the Daxia Islands, where the construction has been completed, and we have also sent two Jinghai-class destroyers to protect the whole process, and the first batch of four Defense-class destroyers will also test and train there together.

Long Guozhang spoke quickly and excitedly.

Li Mo nodded, there is indeed no better place than Truk, the vast and many islands of the Great Xia Islands can provide perfect concealment, and Truk can provide sufficient technical support after the completion of the base.

"I'll give you a year, test it with all your might, and after a year, I'll sell this ship." Li Mo smiled and stretched out a finger and shook it in front of Long Guozhang.

"What!"

The feeling of stepping on the hot sand, soaking your feet in the seawater, and letting the waves wash away has not been experienced for a long time since moving to Beijing, so taking this opportunity, Li Mo can finally touch the sea up close again.

Perhaps this is the great sorrow of the emperors of all dynasties who were hidden behind high walls and surrounded by eunuchs and palace maids, except for a few, most of them may not know how vast the sea is and how wonderful the world is in their lives.

Just one of the newly established provinces of the Great Xia Islands, the sea area exceeds the total area of all the land under the current control, and if your dream is realized in the future, the entire Pacific Ocean will be enveloped and played by itself, what a magnificent result it will be!

Even now, the Philippine Sea has become an inland sea!

However, this is already the limit of what can be achieved at present, if you want to realize your dream, you must continue to wait patiently, waiting for the European and American powers to finally can't help but kill each other, that time is the best opportunity!

He believed that the newly launched China ship would be the catalyst for this catastrophe, just like the dreadnoughts in history.

What is important at this moment is to prepare for this inevitable upheaval, to stabilize the country as much as possible, so that we can devote ourselves wholeheartedly to that rolling torrent.

Thinking of this, he immediately turned his head, looked at Chen Ping, who was the same as himself, pulled up his trousers, and said with a smile: "Yuanshou, what do you say Sun Jiugong is paying attention to?" ”

Chen Ping was stunned for a moment, and then smiled slightly: "Your Majesty, since you guessed it, why did you ask me why?" ”

Li Mo took a breath, "Sun Jiugong, a bold guy, has already sensed the shortcomings in his hands, so he set his eyes on the tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry, although in the era of muskets, the Mongolian cavalry has long lost its former bravery, but those soldiers who grow freely on horseback are still valuable assets.

Sun Jiugong didn't want to give up, why didn't he think about it?

But every time I look at the map, I will be frowning by the long distance, the vast territory, the Mongolian kings at the end of the Qing Dynasty have long had a rebellious heart, Genghis Khan's grandchildren have been hooked up with the Tsarist Russia that was once conquered by them, and the Ministry of Intelligence has found Russian soldiers in Kulen more than once.

If we set out from Zhangjiakou, the distance would be far, and even the air force would not be able to fight so far, so the current ground problems still need to be solved by the ground.

After most of the peace in the north, the important cavalry division in his hand was finally free, so Li Mo generously handed him over to Sun Jiugong, although he didn't explain it directly, but now, that guy has guessed his thoughts, and he is very smart.

"How's the BMW over there doing?" Li Mo asked again.

"BMW ......." Chen Ping shook his head and smiled bitterly, he was really speechless about Young Master Li's ability to choose a name, and he actually came up with this name last time when Tang Xiaolai patted him and asked to name the truck that had just been finalized.

"Bao ......, horse, has begun to roll off the assembly line in batches, our military has preliminarily ordered 500 military-type" equipment is all aluminum engines, according to the test, at present can carry three tons of cargo, a refueling continuous driving kilometers or so, but the failure rate is still quite high, and it also depends on road conditions.

Chen Ping shook his head, also frowning.

Since ancient times, there has never been a precedent for a quick victory in the Northwest War, and it is normal to fight for a few years or even decades, even if the Muslim rebellion not long ago has been fought for 17 years!

This is because whether it is the Northwest or Mongolia war, material transportation and logistics restricted the course of the war, although the BMW truck came out, but the road problem has limited its use, whether it is the Central Plains, or the provinces of Jiangsu, or Mongolia and the Northwest, there is no perfect road network, although the railway is under construction, but there is no time to use it in a few years, and only the three northeastern provinces have the conditions for large-scale use of trucks.

Chen Ping is worried, Li Mo is also very clear, but there is no way, he is back to the end of the Qing Dynasty where the infrastructure is very poor, and even if the truck is put into use, it needs enough fuel, although there is no shortage of oil, but to continuously transport gasoline from the seaside to such a far inland, everyone will stare dryly, otherwise it would not be sudden to directly use the air force expedition!

When the railway network is not perfect, the road network is gone, armored vehicles and trucks have appeared, and the signs of the army entering mechanization have appeared, how to solve the oil shortage in the northwest is a big problem, although people have been sent to Yumen to explore oil before, but more than a dozen wells have been drilled in a row and no oil has been produced, and even the Ministry of Resources is a little discouraged.

The oil shortage in the Northwest must be solved as soon as possible!

"Yuanshou, you will tell Mr. Li later, let him supervise the Ministry of Resources, the exploration of the Yumen Oilfield will be increased, don't give up after drilling a few wells without oil, there must be oil there!"

"Yes."

"In addition, immediately organize manpower and animal power, starting from Zhangjiakou, build a military station every 150 kilometers to store fuel and provide rest, and use relay ......." Li Mo is not a passive person, he can't just be so exhausted because of the difficulty of the road, he paused and said fiercely: "The troop transport line from Zhangjiakou to Kulun must be opened within three months." ”

"In addition, tell Tang Xiao that I will ask the Prime Minister's Office to give him another military order of 500 vehicles, and ask him to gather all the trucks that have been produced now, and use the method of transporting half of oil and half of materials, and immediately set off for Kulun support, and the armored battalion will also set off with him!"

Tell Sun Jiugong: "There is only so much I can help him." Li Mo thought about it and continued: "In addition, Tang Shaoyi is already arranging for me to visit Europe next year, and before that, I must pacify the northwest" to make way for the march to Jiangnan! ”

"Yes!"