Chapter 532 Parade
At 9:30 a.m. on the fourth day of the first month of the first lunar month of the first year of the Great People's Republic of China, Zhu Jingyuan's ship arrived at the sea area where the parade was held.
Zhu Jingyuan directly ordered the relevant personnel to start the final preparations for the operation.
The fleet under review officially adjusts its course and team.
The camera teams distributed on the Zhu Jingyuan ship, the inspection flagship, and a number of major ships also began final preparations and corrections.
This is the largest ship parade in the history of the Ming Dynasty.
It is also likely to be the last traditional fleet parade dominated by traditional artillery warships.
Zhu Jingyuan knew that the images of these warships and the fleet's sailing in formation would be very good film and television materials in the future.
Ordinary people in this day and age may not be aware of it.
But Zhu Jingyuan and his grandfather Zhu Zhongliang have already realized the role of this kind of video.
The Emperor Taishang of the Ming Dynasty, also known as the Supreme Emperor, Zhu Jingyuan's grandfather Zhu Zhongliang, can be regarded as the pioneer and leader of practical films in the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Jingyuan himself is not very interested in the corresponding things, and it is also because there are other more important things to be busy.
Therefore, Zhu Jingyuan did not focus on the development and transformation of film, video, video and other technologies.
But Zhu Zhongliang happens to like tossing these things very much.
Since watching the play with Zhu Jingyuan and being reminded by Zhu Jingyuan of the shooting direction of modern films, Zhu Zhongliang has been completely immersed in this art.
As long as there is an opportunity, Zhu Zhongliang will ask Zhu Jingyuan for ideas, technical solutions, and shooting techniques.
After more than ten years of tossing, Daming now not only has a very mature conventional film, but also has a color video film with use value.
The official video of the parade was all made on color film.
Due to the very rapid development of video technology, coupled with Zhu Jingyuan's advice and guidance, as well as relatively official research.
Daming's photographers did not form the strange idea that "black and white is art".
Being able to achieve color photography and video recording is a very direct and attractive step forward for the vast majority of those involved.
It is conceivable that the world of photography in this world should quickly cross the black and white era.
Quickly entered and maintained directly in the color era.
The personnel involved in taking pictures and videos not only set up cameras in various positions on the battleship, but also arranged a large number of planes to be responsible for filming.
to get different pictures from a variety of freer viewing angles.
At 9:50 a.m., Zhu Jingyuan and all the reference personnel came to the deck of the Jianjian ship again.
At 9:55 a.m., Chen Huacheng, the actual commander of the parade and the Governor of the Chinese Military Governor's Office and the Navy, contacted Zhu Jingyuan by telegram.
Through Guan Tianpei, deputy governor of the Chinese military and navy, he asked Zhu Jingyuan for instructions.
After Guan Tianpei informed Zhu Jingyuan, Zhu Jingyuan waved his hand directly:
"Let's get started."
Guan Tianpei relayed the order to Chen Huacheng, and the fleet's public broadcast soon sounded.
Chen Huacheng inquired about the situation of each ship.
While each ship responded to the call, all the warships also honked their horns in turn, signaling that they were ready.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, the parade officially began.
The organization of the Ming ship's parade was completely different from that of the British.
The parade of the British fleet was to have all the battleships put out to form a large battleship phalanx.
The reviewer carries the reviewer through the phalanx, as if a person is moving on his own to admire the artwork placed on the sea.
The Ming Dynasty's parade was a review fleet headed by the emperor on a ship, and the fleet under review was facing each other.
Both sides sailed at a speed of twenty knots, like two fleets meeting on the sea.
Zhu Jingyuan's emperor sailed from south to north on a ship, implying going north and returning.
The parade fleet goes from north to south, implying going south and going on an expedition.
The maritime frontier of the Ming Dynasty was in the south.
In general, it forms a symbolic meaning of the emperor watching the naval fleet go to sea to fight.
During the Taiping period, Zhu Zhongliang actually did this kind of thing.
Off the coast of Zhoushan Military Port, a large passenger ship of the royal family was parked in the open sea, watching the main fleet go to the South Atlantic to fight.
After the parade began, the first thing that appeared was the aircraft.
It was not like the Air Force parade, where thousands of planes came out in a wave.
Rather, from the very beginning, all the aircraft carriers were divided into groups, taking turns to continuously release and recover the aircraft.
Air Force parades don't recycle planes because that doesn't demonstrate capabilities.
But the Navy carrier-based aircraft need to do this.
For aircraft carriers, the continuous recovery and release of aircraft is their most important ability.
In total, twenty aircraft carriers took part in the parade.
The total number of aircraft they carry has already exceeded 2,000.
As long as all the planes take off and land twice, it can reach 4,000 sorties.
Enough for the entire fleet to always have planes flying over it.
The first wave of aircraft was a single-engine light fighter released by a 40,000-ton aircraft carrier, and theoretically the task that should be carried out was the air alert duty of the fleet itself.
But now it's the lightest and most agile airplane, the fastest take-off plane, the first wave to fly out.
This was followed by larger twin-engine fighters.
Then there were twin-engine medium bombers with a full load weight of sixteen tons.
This kind of bomber has reached the physique of a traditional land-based bomber, which is basically the same as the B25 in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.
In his previous life, Zhu Jingyuan's aircraft carrier USS Hornet in World War II once carried a specially modified B25 bomber to carry out the mission of bombing Tokyo.
The Hornet itself has a displacement of only 26,000 tons, and it is very difficult to operate a 16-ton B25.
At that time, those B25s were specially modified, abandoning almost all self-defense weapons, and did not even consider the problem of landing.
So it's a one-time special operations mission.
But now the aircraft carriers of the Ming Dynasty are also 40,000-ton armored aircraft carriers at the smallest, and there are a number of 60,000-ton modern aircraft carriers.
These combat carriers are also equipped with sixteen-ton steam catapults.
The engines of these bombers of the Ming Dynasty have also reached the limit of traditional propeller aircraft, and their work efficiency has exceeded the level of World War II.
Operating a sixteen-ton bomber, for these aircraft carriers, is a matter of course.
And the appearance of these huge planes on the navy gave the officials and generals of the Taixi countries who paid attention to the aircraft carrier a little shock.
Due to the restrictions of the naval treaty, the aircraft carriers of the Taixi countries were limited to 28,000 tons with a full load displacement.
That is, the level of York City in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.
At the same time, the Taixi countries have not specialized in the study of high-power catapults, and the current carrier-based aircraft are basically taxiing and taking off.
Small-scale hydraulic and gunpowder catapults, intended only for other types of warship catapult reconnaissance aircraft.
Or after the aircraft carrier deck is full, so that the aircraft in the front row can use the catapult to help complete the take-off as soon as possible.
Coupled with the gap in engines, it is impossible for the aircraft carriers of the Tessie countries to operate such a major aircraft.
Even if it is barely used, it can only be used as a disposable carrier-based aircraft, just like the Hornet.
The admirals led by Nelson were full of envy as they watched this large-sized aircraft pass through the sky and at the same time looked at the fleets that were coming into view.
In fact, what they don't know is that most of these planes they see are already facing obsolescence.
Bombers with sufficient payload capacity will be gradually replaced with turboprops.
Other fighter jets will be gradually replaced by jets.
At the same time, on the 60,000-ton aircraft carrier of the Ming Navy, the Ming Forbidden Army has been stationed.
That is, they can already drop atomic bombs.
That's what really changed the landscape.
But this kind of weapon is also absolutely secret in Daming at present, and except for the personnel who need to be contacted in actual combat, they don't know that this kind of thing exists.
Even if it is an aircraft carrier equipped with these weapons, it is only known that there is an additional group of people from the newly established forbidden army among the aviation forces on board.
It is necessary to prepare special weapons warehouses for them as required, using special training and combat methods.
The people on the ship, who had indirect access to these weapons, were able to guess that the people of the Praetorian Army had brought a new weapon, but did not know what this new weapon was.
For the vast majority of ordinary people, it is impossible to imagine the true power of atomic weapons.
At most, I think of things that increase in power by several times or even more than ten times, and I don't dare to think that there will be things with power increased by tens of thousands of times per unit weight.
Therefore, even if there is an indirect leak, it will not affect the actual confidentiality effect.
After the six groups of carrier-based aircraft passed over the side of the review ship, the first batch of ships under review finally entered the field of view of the review ship.
It was two cruisers sailing in two columns that remained misaligned.
The number of fleet warships under review is too large, and if it sails in a single column, the time required for the entire parade will be uncontrollable.
So a double column should be adopted.
It is impossible for the ships in the fleet to be connected to each other, and it is impossible for one ship to sail next to the other, otherwise there should be frequent collisions.
The distance between the two ships is actually quite large, enough to swing the two ships and still very loose.
Under such a premise, let the two columns staggered, and the two ships of the same rank in the two columns deliberately staggered the distance of one ship.
Each battleship in one column faced the gap between two battleships in another column.
In this way, all the warships of the two fleets sailing side by side will be able to get the opportunity to directly confront the review ships.
Let all the ships be directly seen by Zhu Jingyuan, the Ming Emperor on the review ship.
The main officers and some soldiers of the cruiser stood on several decks and various weapons platforms, and saluted in the direction of Zhu Jingyuan's ship.
Zhu Jingyuan stood on the side of the foredeck of the review ship and waved to the officers and soldiers on the ship that sailed across from him.
Zhu Jingyuan actually wanted all the main guns to fire a salvo towards the outside of the fleet when the fleet passed by the ship.
But the cruiser did this reluctantly, and when the battleship's main guns fired a salvo, the deck had to be emptied.
Otherwise, everyone on deck could be blown away by the shock wave.
Allowing as many middle- and low-ranking officers and soldiers as possible to have the opportunity to meet with themselves, the emperor, is a more important thing than firing cannons in the air.
What's more, for the sake of safety, it is better not to start the review without firing the gun.
Therefore, Zhu Jingyuan's idea was only brewed in his heart, and he did not say it at all when he organized the parade.
Now the fleet under review continues to sail forward in this state.
After the sixteen cruisers, there were two 40,000-ton battleships and two 40,000-ton aircraft carriers.
Such a group of battleships and aircraft carriers was followed by another group of sixteen cruisers.
The combination of cruisers and capital ships after that was constantly circulating.
Until the entire fleet passed a quarter, this time the combination of battleships and aircraft carriers became 60,000 tons.
By the time the entire fleet was more than halfway through, the flagship fleet of the fleet under review appeared.
During the period when Yang Yuchun and Chen Huacheng were in the fleet under review, they were the 84,000-ton Hunan battleship of the same model as Zhu Jingyuan.
There were two 60,000-ton battleships in the front and rear of the flagship.
Together, these five battleships are now the most powerful main fleet in the world.
The core generals of the Ming Navy were all standing on the decks of the five capital ships at this moment, and their expressions were extremely serious and they saluted the review ships in the distance.
Zhu Jingyuan also waved at the main fleet passing by again.
The whole parade lasted more than two hours, and it was not until one o'clock in the afternoon that it was finally over.
All the reviewers led by Zhu Jingyuan ate in the dining room of the battleship where they were located.
Both the reviewing fleet and the receiving fleet themselves continued to sail, converging again after drawing two huge semicircles on the surface of the sea.
The flagship fleet of the fleet under review converged with Zhu Jingyuan's ship.
The entire fleet maintained a normal sailing posture and returned to Zhoushan Military Port, the home port of the Ming Navy.
When Zhu Jingyuan stepped on the ground again, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon.
At this point, Zhu Jingyuan, as the trusted emperor of the Ming Dynasty, all the ceremonies related to his enthronement were finally completed.
A new era in the name of the Grand Duke has officially begun.
Compared to the end of the war, the world gradually tended to be peaceful, and all countries in the world made every effort to restore and develop the era of well-being.
The future of the Grand Duke era made everyone look forward to it and be apprehensive.
The Ming people are more expectant, and the Ming Dynasty is already improving, all of which have been affected by the contribution of the emperor before he became the emperor.
So after he becomes the emperor, will the future of Daming be better?
It was mainly the people of the Tessie kingdoms who were worried.
Tessie's own situation, they know their own business.
The enthronement hall of the Ming Emperor is the most solemn event in the world and the most harmonious event.
All kinds of contradictions and problems have come to an end.
In fact, before Zhu Jingyuan ascended the throne, many people were about to be unable to bear it and were about to be unable to hold it back.
But they did not dare to make a move before Zhu Jingyuan ascended the throne.
In case their actions led the Ming into the war, causing the Ankang Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Jianyan, to refer to the practice of his predecessor, Emperor Taiping, and had to continue to serve as emperor because of the war, postponing the time of passing the throne to the intended heir.
So when Zhu Jingyuan really ascends the throne, will he hold a grudge against the country and people who caused this incident?
Will there be deliberate retaliation against these countries and people to vent their emotions?
Then no one could have predicted.
Even, even if it only delays and affects Zhu Jingyuan's enthronement ceremony, it will make people have the same worries.
So before Zhu Jingyuan completed all the rituals, many people were patient.
Now all the rituals are finally over.
How long can those people and countries who have ideas and plans continue to endure or prepare?
No one has access to accurate data.
It is only possible to prepare for the imminent arrival of war.