620 Night Battle Warriors (2)

Dalian. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

In the early morning screeching brakes, Commander Long jumped out of the jeep and walked towards the depths of the shipyard with an unhappy face.

The rumbling sound of the machine kicked off a busy day in this prosperous city, because this is the emperor's hometown, and it is the first stop when he returns from wandering for many years, so many Chinese people regard this place as the land of Longxing, plus the Naval Academy, Ocean University and other institutions are also built here, so a large number of young people come here every year to study and work, making the population of this large northern seaport city quickly exceed one million.

Population spurred the rise of industry and commerce, and as the maritime industry began to expand at an unprecedented rate, it was blessed with a unique geographical advantage that made it a necessary place to enter and exit northern China.

With the beginning of the war, the place became more and more busy, from the chaos at the beginning to the current orderly function, like a clockwork pendulum clock.

Its representative ones are the aircraft factory and shipyard that were renovated and expanded from the original airship factory.

The Dalian Aircraft Factory does not produce complete aircraft, but specializes in wing and tail rudders, and now it can supply 1,000 sets of wing and rudder accessories a year to the final assembly plant in Mukden, from where it can be assembled into a qualified military aircraft.

There are many factories like this in the country, some of which make wings, some of which manufacture internal equipment, as well as wheels, fuel tanks, etc., and then are continuously transported by train to the five major assembly plants for assembly, forming a streamlined industrial chain.

Despite the small size of these factories, some of which have only about 100 workers, these small factories scattered all over the country can now provide more than 400 aircraft of various kinds to front-line soldiers every month, and this number continues to soar as workers become more skilled.

Therefore, the Ministry of Armament and the Ministry of Industry once proudly patted their chests and boasted that as long as they were given another year, an annual output of 8,000 aircraft would be as simple as irrigation.

However, compared with shipyards, the output of aircraft cannons is really a drop in the shadows, carrying all kinds of large-scale cargo ships in and out of the shipyard every day, building a large streamlined industrial chain.

10 boiler factories, 8 steam turbine factories, more than 60 smelters, forging plants, and more than 600 other parts factories, distributed in 19 provinces across the country, and then through the railway and sea, a huge shipbuilding assembly line was built, and from today on, these forces will come together to build only one kind of ship.

Chinese wheel!

Five large, strange, even ugly freighters lay silently in the bay, and the occasional flashing arc on the deck told everyone that the work was still going on. 【 I want: super fast update 】

"Tang Xiao, Chen, this is the Chinese wheel? Why is it so ugly? With such a short construction time, will there be a problem?! Long Guozhang frowned, looking at the five strange-looking and ugly freighters, both excited and reassured.

Excitedly, this 10,000-ton ship named Zhonghua Ship adopts the streamlined and standardized process that began to be promoted many years ago, and takes this process to the extreme, and the design department has also carried out a lot of optimization, removing all unnecessary internal structures and decorations, simplifying the industry, shortening the process, completely abandoning the riveting process, all using electric welding, and using steam turbines and boilers on cargo ships for the first time, making this 10,000-ton ship only need 150 days from laying the keel to completion.

At that time, after this data was submitted, everyone thought it was impossible, and Long Guozhang even thought that they were crazy, you must know that the time to build a 10,000-ton ship and the construction of a Weiqing-class destroyer was about the same, and Hua needed about 280 days, but now it has been directly shortened by half, and the time it occupies the dock has been shortened from 4 months to 50 days.

What does this mean?

It means that there are a total of 120 docks that can build 10,000-ton ships in China, except for military and other purposes, and all the rest are used to build this kind of ship, that is, nearly 500 or so Chinese ships can be launched a year!

No one believes that it takes about 240 days for the strong United States to build a 10,000-ton ship, and only Li Mo and the designers in the whole country firmly believe that it can definitely be built within 150 days, and it can also ensure that it meets the requirements of navigation in the fourth sea state, and even McKinson said that if he did not consider factors such as the proficiency and number of skilled workers, the construction speed could be cut by half.

Lose your marbles!

Long Guozhang sprayed with him at that time, and later saw that his son married his daughter, and did not fight with his in-laws in the garden, but the two also made a bet, that is, to build a batch of try, if it can't be completed, McKinson said that he will marry his second daughter into the Long family.

Li Mo, who knew very well how simple this kind of freighter technology similar to the Freedom Ship of later generations was, held back a smile and asked Chen Ping to allocate ten ships from the Navy's order for a trial construction.

"In 143 days, the first batch of three, and all of them have undergone sea trials and met the design requirements." Tang Xiao snickered as he spoke, because it was said that if Commander Long lost, he would need to take out a year's salary to invite McKinson and all the designers of the ship design department to have a big meal.

"Right?"

"No, all the construction records from the first day the keel was laid to the present day are on it." Huang Chen also held back a smile, and stuffed all the construction records to Long Guozhang, a year's salary, Long Da slammed the door and finally bleed.

The corners of the two of them made Long Guozhang's face green, he didn't expect that he was a bad move, no wonder he looked at the emperor at that time, and he dared to love that he was cheated!

However, on the other hand, it is too cost-effective to get this kind of 10,000-ton ship that can be built in only 143 days for a year's salary, and the problem that currently plagues BGI is logistics and transportation.

There are manpower, resources, factory workers are not lacking, the only thing is logistics and transportation! In addition to the Northwest purely by rail, from Alaska to Panama, from Luzon to Australia, and from Canada to the Persian Gulf, all are long-distance transportation routes, all fronts need to cross oceans, and strong maritime transportation capabilities are urgently needed.

Now that there is a China ship, it only takes a little more than a year to really look forward to landing in the United States.

"Hehe, Commander Long, don't worry, the emperor has urged the Prime Minister's Office, the first batch of orders for 2,000 ships has been placed in various shipyards a month ago, and your annual salary is ......, so you can't keep it."

"Grandma."

"Pony, drive, let's go to Huludao!"

In the laughter of everyone, Long Guozhang just got into the jeep and was about to go to Huludao to pinch McKinson again, and cash out the gambling money by the way, but before the car could start, he was stopped by the accompanying guards.

"Commander, Chief of Staff Cheng has called and asked you to return to the military headquarters immediately, saying that 100,000 is urgent!"

"100,000 urgent?" Long Guozhang raised his eyebrows, he knew that Cheng Biguang was calm and careful, and he was not lacking in enthusiasm, and he was rarely in a hurry when he encountered something, so it was definitely a big deal to let him say this.

After returning to the headquarters, Long Guozhang knew that the matter was serious.

A fleet that had just set sail from Chile carrying 27,600 tons of copper ingots was attacked, the four Guardian-class ships that escorted the ship were also attacked, two were sunk, and two escaped to the port of Guayaquil, one of which was so badly damaged that it was basically scrapped.

This is a serious matter, the Colón Islands have just been taken, Peru and Ecuador have also joined the alliance as partners, and the South American route has been reopened for less than half a month, and it was suddenly attacked at this time, which is undoubtedly a slap in the face of the Chinese Navy!

"Submarine or surface ship? Know the identity of the attacker? ”

"The attack took place at night, and it was determined to be a surface ship, but it was too dark to see the specific warship type, but the surviving captains said that there were at least two battleships, the main guns should be 380mm heavy guns, and the speed was at least 26 knots, and several of the cruisers were very fast, much like Bristol-class light cruisers that had just arrived in Australia."

"Battleship? 380mm heavy artillery ?! ”

Long Guozhang was also taken aback, and finally knew why an attack on a fleet would make Cheng Biguang react like this, and also knew why the escort of the four destroyers was killed and wounded, for the capital ship that can fire from 20,000 meters away and has a speed of 26 knots, the destroyer is no different from the target even if it can find the other party, not to mention that the other party is protected by the British Rui Bristol-class light cruiser.

"Can you verify your identity and know that it's the two battleships?"

Cheng Biguang shook his head: "I have already talked to the Ministry of Intelligence and the Military Intelligence Bureau on the phone, and they said that they have not found any battleship movements with 380mm main guns recently, and they also confirmed it once three days ago, and there is no sign of leaving the first-class target, but they have gone to check it again." ”

"That's weird."

Long Guozhang wrinkled his brows, he believed that the Ministry of Intelligence and the Military Intelligence Bureau, it was not so easy to hide the eyes of others when mobilizing battleships, not to mention that there were only a few kinds of 380 mm (15 inches) warships installed by the Entente countries, and the number was scarce, and they were originally listed as first-class targets of high concern, and the intelligence department had to verify the news of these big guys every three days.

"And where did these two capital ships come from? Could it be that the destroyer captain misidentified it? Long Guozhang shook his head, the captain of his command knew very well that it was a basic subject to distinguish the type of naval guns by ear, and the large caliber in Australia's Entente fleet was 305 mm guns, and the sound of this kind of shell whistling was different from 380 mm, and ordinary people could distinguish it with a little training.

Three days ago, it was confirmed that the first-class targets were all there, and it was impossible to fly to Australia within three days, so what kind of warships are these two?

"Report, Klute base telegram that at 11 o'clock last night, seven cruisers suddenly attacked my patrol ship on the periphery of Gilbert Island, causing minor damage to one of our Weiqing-class destroyers, and the enemy's two cruisers were hit and caught fire and immediately withdrew from the battlefield without entanglement."

"Report, at 12 o'clock last night, one of our transport fleets to Nauru was attacked, and the escort battleship Jilin was shelled, and Captain Liu reported that there were at least two types of battleships in the enemy fleet, but because it was dark and the specific models could not be distinguished, and the enemy ships left without entanglement after the Jilin opened fire."

"Hehe, haha......!"

"Okay, bang!" Long Guozhang laughed a few times and slapped the table suddenly, his eyes flashing: "Night battle and attack, good, good tactics, then let's have fun!" ”

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