Chapter 292: The Rebuilt Combined Fleet

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The 5th cruiser detachment picked up speed, quickly approached a position 500 meters from the Japanese ranks, and began to carefully "check". At the same time, several seaplanes also ejected, and they flew over the Japanese ship at a low altitude, inspecting them unhurriedly.

According to the list of ships submitted by Japan, the Chinese officers and men carefully checked each Japanese ship according to the "Illustrated Guide to Ships of Various Countries" in their hands.

The composition of the combined fleet at this time was: two Fuso-class battleships, two Ise-class battleships, four Kongo-class battlecruisers, and one Fengxiang-class aircraft carrier. Two Aoba-class heavy cruisers, two Furutaka-class heavy cruisers, two Tenryu-class light cruisers, and five Kuma-class light cruisers. Four Pufeng-class destroyers, four Isokaze-class destroyers, four Jiangfeng-class destroyers, and fifteen Fengfeng-class destroyers. In addition to the above combat ships, there are also the Notoro seaplane carrier and 13 auxiliary ships such as oil carriers, coal carriers, supply ships, and minesweepers.

At this time, the intelligence staff officer of the Huangshan also reported to Li Ang: "Report to the detachment leader, after checking, the actual ships owned by the fleet are completely consistent with those on the list." ”

Leon said, "Okay, got it. We will continue to follow them until we leave the NDZ......"

Lu Yishan, the political commissar of the detachment, said a little depressedly: "I really didn't expect that this Japanese navy was completely wiped out by us the year before last, and now there are so many of them." ”

"It's not surprising that by the time we started the war, two Kong-class battlecruisers had already been built, and the other two were almost finished. The four battleships have also been started. ”

"But other aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroyers, as well as those auxiliary ships, were built after the war. Although the construction of these ships is relatively low, it is not easy to complete them in three years......"

Li Ang smiled: "Hehe, they are rushing to work at wartime schedule." Three shifts plus holidays, I heard that their shipyard is tired of dozens of people in order to rush work......"

Qin Wenbin, chief of staff of the detachment, shook his head and sighed: "Hey, those Japanese are really bitter. I've heard that when the workers get exhausted, they are thrown out and given no treatment at all. Even if you are not exhausted, your wages are pitifully low, and you can't eat enough......"

Regarding the life of Japanese civilians and the extravagance of the upper class, domestic radio, television and newspapers have not been less. On the one hand, it is natural to black Japan, and on the other hand, of course, it is to give its own people an image contrast. If you don't occupy this kind of thing yourself, you will be occupied by others, and Mr. Wen has deeply learned the painful lesson of a certain dynasty in this regard, so he has been grasping it very tightly.

These Chinese propaganda will not be fabricated out of nothing, and these things are real events that happened in Japan. Because they are dark enough, they don't need to do any artistic processing at all, as long as they report according to the facts, it is enough to be shocking.

"However, they are still fighting so hard after their lives are so hard, I don't understand what they think. Leon shrugged, saying he couldn't understand what the Japanese were thinking.

Everyone also expressed their incomprehension.

They don't know that the so-called tired Japanese workers don't actually want to fight so hard at all, because the Japanese capitalists use a large number of "strong pills", "energy potions", "strong spirits", "courage candy", "superman syrup" and other stimulants. In later generations, these things were absolutely prohibited by law, but at this time, they were legal drugs and supplements, and they were widely used not only in Japan, but also in Europe and the United States.

These things were used by the armies of both sides on the Western and Eastern Fronts, where fierce confrontations were fierce, and were even listed as important munitions by both sides. As for the origin of these things, hehe, you know. Every year, China exports large quantities of these "special medicines for export only". Of course, only a small part of China is directly sold, and more are sold in the name of many foreign vest companies.

However, although these things are also used, other countries are not as ruthless as Japan, and they only use them in the front-line army, and they really haven't done it for workers like Japan. After all, it is not easy to train a skilled worker, and it is too cost-effective to be a disposable, except for a situation like Japan, which is crazy in a hurry, ordinary people really can't do it.

But the Japanese seem to be very indifferent to this kind of thing, in the history of the original time and space, Japan during World War II used this kind of thing in the army, in the past, the old Japanese army was generally considered to be very brave and not afraid of death, the so-called "militaristic brainwashing" is only part of the reason, more or these things are at work. After the war, Japan was still used by the people, and the so-called "death from overwork" often occurred, and many of them were due to overdose.

After learning about this situation, Mr. Wen ridiculed the Japanese government's short-sightedness.

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After talking for a while, they turned the conversation to the Japanese warships.

Of course, these officers and men did not know that the vast majority of these Japanese ships in front of them had come out several years earlier than the original time and space. This is also quite normal, because their original fleet has been emptied by China, so naturally all their energy is focused on new ships. Coupled with the strong support of Britain and France, the performance of these warships that came out of the line ahead of schedule was not only worse than the original, but even better.

The four King Kong class have not changed much, but it's too late to change them. In addition to the fact that the construction time of the Fuso class and the Ise class was advanced, it seems that there is not much difference between them and the original version of the original time and space, and they are both "quasi-holy relics" with six twin 356 mm 45 times diameter main guns, but the quality has improved a lot. The Fuso class is an improved and enlarged version of the new Hanoi class (six-turret version of the Orion class), the new Hanoi class is an emergency product, and there are many design flaws, which have been changed in the Fuso class.

The improvement of the Ise class was a step further, and in the Sino-Japanese naval battle in the East China Sea, the Japanese combined fleet was blown out by Chinese long-range artillery shells and torpedoes. After that, their Ise class learned the lessons of the Sino-Japanese war, vigorously strengthened the horizontal and underwater defenses of the deck, and greatly increased the damage protection against heavy shells falling vertically from high altitudes and underwater torpedoes. In addition, the improvement of the power system has changed from the original kerosene mixed boiler to a heavy oil special boiler, and the power has been greatly improved, and the speed has been increased from 23 knots in the original version to 25 knots in the original version.

As for cruisers, well, Japan now does not have a division of "heavy cruisers" and "light cruisers". According to their own standards, it should be "first-class" and "second-class" cruisers, the former is equivalent to a heavy cruiser of the Chinese standard, and the latter is equivalent to a light cruiser of the Chinese standard, which is defined according to the Chinese standard for the convenience of this book.

The two heavy cruisers of the Aoba class and the Guying class are completely different from the ships of the same name in the original time and space, first of all, the tonnage has risen, the standard row of the Guying class has reached 11,000 tons, and the Aoba class has reached 12,500 tons, and the armament has also become a four-seat twin-mounted 203 mm 50 times the diameter main gun of British technology, instead of the original Japanese self-made 200 mm gun, don't look at the difference between the two guns is only 3 mm, but the difference in performance is extremely large.

There were also quite a few changes to the Tenryu-class and Ballmill-class light cruisers, with the displacement of the Tenryu-class increased to 4,000 tons, and the Ballmill-class to 6,000 tons. The main gun was replaced with a British-powered 152 mm gun (the original version was a 140 mm gun), and a depth charge dropper was added.

In the original time and space, their navy has repeatedly marched from victory to victory since the First Sino-Japanese War, and it has never suffered much loss at all, especially the loss of submarines, so it attaches great importance to submarines and anti-submarine warfare. Their submarine construction time is generally about three years, yes, you read that right, a submarine with a displacement of 1,000 tons Japan will build for three years, and the battleship will be the same treatment.

Not to mention anti-submarine, until World War II, the anti-submarine of the Japanese Navy became a joke, and most of their light ships were not equipped with even one anti-submarine weapon. So they were beaten out by American submarines in World War II, while their own submarines were mediocre and good. After World War II, Japan's sea went to the other extreme, turning into an anti-submarine fleet.

Japan's performance in this regard is similar, because it has suffered enough from Chinese submarines, coupled with the wonderful performance of German submarines after the war, so that this re-established combined fleet also has a tendency to go extreme anti-submarine. Since the Sino-Japanese War, their naval technical department has devoted a great deal of energy to the research of anti-submarine weapons, and has also achieved great results; not only have they taken the lead in inventing the deep-shell projector, but even the "hedgehog bullet," a weapon that was only available in World War II in the original time and space, was actually concocted by them more than 20 years in advance.

Of course, the "hedgehog bullet" is not a high-tech thing, that is, a matter of thinking. However, it is still quite surprising that it can be invented by Japan, which has always ignored anti-submarine before, at least after Wen Deji got the news, he was embarrassed.

Of course, the "hedgehog bullet" is the name of the Chinese side, and the Japanese themselves call this weapon the "Taisho four-year type 32 combined thunder cannon". That's right, their hedgehog bullets are 32 packs, which is a bit more than the original 24 packs.

Japan has now equipped almost all its ships with anti-submarine weapons, not only the light ships below the heavy cruiser level are not left behind, but even the capital ships such as battleships, battle cruisers, and aircraft carriers, and even auxiliary ships such as supply ships and coal carriers have also been equipped with a few hedgehog bomb launchers.

Their destroyers have not changed very much, that is, the displacement is a little larger than the original, and the smallest Pufeng class is also more than 1,000 tons, and then a large number of anti-submarine weapons are equipped, from deep-bomb slides, deep-bomb projectiles to hedgehog shells. Of course, this is also related to the fact that their main task at the moment is escort.

As for the Chinese Navy, which has vigorously promoted submarine technology in this plane, of course, it is impossible to pull down such a thing as anti-submarine weapons. The Chinese Navy is not equipped with depth projectors and hedgehog shells, because Mr. Wen does not look down on these things. With the support of later generations, Mr. Wen naturally did not take this kind of detour, but directly got on the anti-submarine rocket depth bomb, which can not only be anti-submarine, but also anti-torpedo. Last year, the "Yu-3" anti-submarine torpedo was developed. On the contrary, the most primitive anti-submarine device, such as the deep-bomb slide, has been retained, one is because it is not suitable for the use of rocket-deep bombs when it is considered to be some of the more crowded, and the other is that it is used to drop mines. Yes, the deep-bomb slides on Chinese warships are basically completely crooked, and their main purpose is to drop mines.

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At this time, the heavy cruiser Huangshan passed by the Japanese Fengxiang.

When he saw this Japanese aircraft carrier, Li Ang's face suddenly became embarrassed: "...... Made, these Japanese actually completely copied our Yu Dynasty! If it weren't for the different flags and planes parked, I would definitely have regarded it as our own Yu Dynasty, which is really unreasonable! You see, the appearance of the entire warship is almost identical, and even the antenna position has not changed!"

The corners of Political Commissar Lu's mouth twitched, and he said, "I don't think it's strange at all, because they have been copying our things since ancient times. Even their former capital was named Luoyang. I heard that when they were designing aircraft carriers, they bought several large-scale models of the Yu Dynasty from China. ”

That's right, among the Japanese warships, the Fengxiang aircraft carrier is also one of the ships with the greatest changes compared with the original space-time ship of the same name, it is almost completely copied from China's Yu Dynasty, at least in appearance. Political Commissar Lu is right, the main thing they use to refer to is indeed the model sold by the Chinese toy company, and there are some photos, videos and other materials published in various media.

However, the appearance is good copycat, but the internal structure and subsystem can't be copycated, and the model is a model after all. Because the power system is not as good as that of the Yu Dynasty, the maximum speed of the Fengxiang is only 28 knots. Leaving aside the rest, the most important subsystem on the aircraft carrier, the carrier-based aircraft, this is something they are completely helpless about. Because it was only this year that China lifted the embargo on arms sales to Japan, it was still limited to army weapons, and aircraft were only sold to them transport planes and reconnaissance planes.

As a result, the Japanese had no choice but to rely on themselves, and there were three types of carrier-based aircraft on the Fengxiang: Type 74 Ship Battle, Type 75 Ship Attack, and Type 76 Ship Explosion. The Type 74 Naval Combat is the carrier-based version of the British "Puppy Dog" fighter that was introduced, and the Type 75 Naval Attack and the Type 76 Naval Explosion were both developed by them, but the engines were all imported from the United Kingdom. It is worth mentioning that the Type 75 naval attack is a kind of three-winged aircraft, and the shape is very conspicuous.

The performance of these aircraft is not very good, at least in the eyes of China, it is very mediocre, but it is still good in the world. However, one of the big drawbacks of these aircraft is that their wings cannot be folded. However, the Japanese also had a way, in order to increase the number of aircraft, they added an additional layer of hangar under the original hangar, so that the number of aircraft was actually more than the 36 of the Yu Dynasty, reaching 46.

The Japanese are still very satisfied with their own brain hole, you see, without changing the dimensions of the original, they have added an extra layer of hangar, look how smart I am!

However, they also don't want to think that China's Yu Dynasty is a test aircraft carrier and a training aircraft carrier, so there is a lot of space designed for sailors' cabins and other living places. It's not impossible to build a double-decker hangar like the Japanese, but it's not necessary. However, as soon as the Japanese changed like this, the living space of the Fengxiang was greatly compressed, even if they did not have as many people as the Yu Dynasty, the habitability of this aircraft carrier was also very difficult.

Although the Japanese copycat behavior made the Chinese naval officers and soldiers a little uncomfortable, there was nothing they could do about it, because there was no patent right for such things as the appearance of weapons. But Mr. Wen doesn't care much, if you want the shape of the cottage, it's good to be a copycat, anyway, the drawings and core technology are not given to you, and you can only paint the tiger according to the cat.

Next, the rebuilt Japanese combined fleet continued to advance with the Chinese navy all the way, or escort. It was not until it had crossed the Wansheng Islands (formerly the Natuna Islands), the southernmost point of Chinese territory, that the Chinese navy returned home.