Chapter 165: Armed Intervention (I)
In the 26th year of the Republic (1911), Fangchenggang.
The Fangcheng Shipyard is located at the southernmost tip of the Fangcheng Peninsula, and part of it is an artificially built anti-wave tip. This is a brand new shipyard, which started at the same time as the Guangzhou shipyard, and because the local infrastructure is much worse than Guangzhou, the progress is almost a year behind the Guangzhou shipyard. Compared with the Guangzhou shipyard, the Fangcheng shipyard appears to be more pure, because it is a dedicated military shipbuilding plant.
No civilian ships are built here, only military ships and special ships of a secret nature are built. Therefore, this place is not open to the public, and the shipyard and the surrounding area are all military areas, and idlers are exempted.
At a time when the construction of dreadnoughts in Guangzhou and Jiangnan has attracted the attention of the whole world, this remote naval shipyard is tinkering with a new type of ship, which is an epoch-making and unprecedented new type of ship.
At this moment, the hull of this ship is almost finished, and its shape can be roughly discerned. First of all, the biggest difference between it and other warships is that it has a large deck that is very high from the water and runs through the whole ship, and the length and width of this large deck have exceeded the length and width of the hull, which is very unusual. The second difference is that the deck superstructure is small and located on the right side, even offset to the outside of the deck. The third difference is that its weapons are extremely weak, and there are only a few 13o mm naval guns and a bunch of small and medium-caliber guns under 75 mm on a warship of more than 10,000 tons, which is not as good as a destroyer.
If it is a military fan from later generations, you will recognize it at a glance, and this warship is undoubtedly an aircraft carrier
Yes, this is China, and the first aircraft carrier in the world. Moreover, this is not a messy aircraft carrier from the early days of the original plane, but a real, pure aircraft carrier. In the original history, the first real aircraft carrier, the Japanese "Hosho", did not appear in the world until 192 years.
Although in this era, the battleship is the real sea hegemon, but from later generations Wen Deji will certainly not forget that the aircraft carrier is the future sea hegemon. So although he is now also building battleships, aircraft carriers are not pulled down.
This aircraft carrier, named the "Yu Chao class," can actually only be regarded as an aircraft carrier of the nature of testing and training. As everyone knows, the aircraft carrier itself does not have any combat effectiveness, and its combat effectiveness comes from carrier-based aircraft. At present, China's aviation technology is not yet capable of creating carrier-based aircraft capable of subverting the hegemony of battleships.
Although the base master has all the relevant information in the optical brain, and even the drawings are ready-made, it is not so simple to turn these things into physical objects. Not to mention that China's industrial foundation is too thin, even if the great powers get these materials, it is impossible to quickly cross the technological gap of more than 20 years.
Of course, with the base's own equipment, it is not impossible to manufacture a small number of aircraft of the Yue era, but modern warfare is about quantity, and it is no longer possible to win by relying on a few new weapons, and no matter how good the weapon is, it is of little significance if the number is small. In addition, those "future" equipment are non-renewable precious resources, and Wendesi uses them to make various "hens" such as machine tools and production equipment, rather than directly manufacturing products. This kind of extremely uneconomical deal, Wen Deji will not be able to.
There is also an important factor, that is, the process and technology are best gradually, so as to lay a solid foundation, than the current mainstream of course, it is possible, but also to pull the exhibition of technology and technology, but too much is not a good thing. It's as if someone in the Middle Ages was trying to build a television set against a drawing, which was simply unrealistic.
Therefore, aircraft carriers at this stage are mainly used as technical reserves and training supplies. Of course, with the current combat effectiveness of carrier-based aircraft, although it is not a big threat to battleships, it is still very threatening to light ships below the cruiser, as well as merchant ships, even if it cannot be used in fleet decisive battles, but it is still very good to use it for reconnaissance, breaking diplomatic relations and attacking enemy light ships.
According to the naming rules of the Chinese Navy, aircraft carriers are named after dynasties and provincial-level administrative units, and the Yu Dynasty is the first dynasty in China, although some scholars now think that it may not be an independent dynasty, but Wen always says that if it is, then it will be counted. At present, this aircraft carrier still in dock is the first of the "Yu Dynasty class", and if there is no accident, then its future name will be "Yu Dynasty".
The design features of the "Yu Dynasty class" are the right side of the ship island that surrounds the chimney, the all-through deck, the closed ship, and the large square stern. Two elevators are arranged in front of and behind the island. The standard displacement is 1o6o tons, and the full load displacement is 136o tons. The waterline is 18o meters long, 21 meters wide, 6 meters draft, and the flight deck is 186 meters long and 186 meters wide. The power system is eight heavy oil boilers, four steam turbines, four-shaft drive, 60,000 shaft horsepower, maximum voyage -1 knot, range 86 nautical miles/2 knots.
The main armament is 4 x 13o mm high-level guns, 4 x 75mm high-level guns, 4 x 4o mm twin guns, 6 x 2 mm twin guns, and 1o x 2 mm anti-aircraft machine guns. The Yu Chao class can carry 3 carrier-based aircraft (including 6 spare aircraft). The rated occupant 8o is estimated to cost B140,000 yuan.
Wen Desi was next to the dock at this time, and he asked, "When will the Yu Dynasty be completed?"
The director of the factory introduced on the side: "Mr. Wen, the Yu Dynasty is a first-generation aircraft carrier, the structure is relatively simple, in order to speed up the construction, we have transferred part of the outfitting work to the dock. After launching next month, the outfitting period can be compressed to less than half a month. It is expected to be completed in February next year......"
"What about carrier-based aircraft?" asked Wen Deji again.
An officer next to him hurriedly replied: "Efei's J-IH and Chengfei's J-2H each sent 1O prototypes, and Hainan Airlines is still doing further tests to determine which one to choose." Now our pilots are using the No. - simulation site for take-off and landing training... ̈"
Carrier-based aircraft pilots have been training for a long time, and the "-simulating site" he mentioned is a very advanced simulated site. The entire site is made of steel plates, which are exactly the same as the layout of the aircraft carrier's flight deck, and under the steel plates are motor-driven hydraulic devices, which can simulate the state of the aircraft carrier undulating and swaying in the waves, which is very close to reality.
"Hmm......" Wen Desi nodded with satisfaction, and then pointed to the two ships at the outfitting dock and asked, "Xu Guo and Chen Guo are soon, right?"
These are also two ships with poor weapons, with a displacement of about seven or eight thousand tons, and it can be seen from the hull that they were repurposed from merchant ships. The rear deck of the Xu Guo is very long, the superstructure is concentrated in the front part, and there are several cranes on the rear deck. The layout of the Chen Guohao is the opposite, the superstructure has been moved to the back, but there are two tall poles on the front deck. At the moment, it seems that both ships are being painted, and it is clear that construction is nearing completion.
The director said: "Yes, Mr. Wen, the Xu Guo water engine carrier will be completed nationwide at the beginning of next month, and the Chen Guo airship carrier will be completed by the end of this month...... Seaplanes and carrier-based airships are ready...... "According to the naming rules of the navy, ships carrying aircraft other than ordinary aircraft, such as seaplane carriers and airship carriers, are named after the ancient countries of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
"Okay, very good......" Wen Deji was in high spirits today, and he was about to talk about the seaplane carrier and the airship carrier to go up and have a look, when Gong Zisui, the confidential secretary who came in a hurry, interrupted his plan.
"Mr. Wen, the Hanoi consulate urgently telegraphed......" Gong Zisui took out a telegram with an ugly face. She is the confidential secretary in charge of Southeast Asian affairs. "Last night, there was a riot against wealthy Chinese in Hanoi......"
"What?" Wen Deji took it, and his face suddenly became gloomy. "Immediately return to the Guangzhou Provincial Government and immediately notify the relevant personnel to come to Guangzhou for a meeting......"
The next morning, Guangzhou, Guangdong Provincial Government.
After receiving Wen Desi's order, Xin Jie, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission and chief of the General Staff, Zhang Lizheng, premier of the State Council, and other relevant people rushed from Wuhan to Guangzhou overnight.
Early in the morning, the meeting began in the conference room.
Gu Xiaolu, secretary general of the central government, first reported the situation: "...... According to the preliminary statistics of the consulate, a total of 12 people were killed, 2 were injured, another 17 people were missing, and 6 women were violated by the gangsters, with property losses of about 230,000 yuan...... In addition, according to the latest report this morning, another ...... died of his injuries."
The participants were already aware of the contents of the information along the way, but it is only emphasized again.
"Why is Sun Wen dead, hasn't the consulate already warned them?" asked Rosie a little strangely.
Gu Xiaolu replied: "The consulate also asked the survivors of the Alliance, and according to them, Sun Wen didn't believe our warning and thought that we were scaring him, so he ......."
Wen Desi sighed: "I really didn't expect that Sun Wen would die in this way. I originally thought that he was a revolutionary pioneer, and I wanted to let him go, but I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen...... It seems that our intelligence network in Vietnam is still very flawed, and we only know that this kind of thing is coming to an end. ”
"I'm sorry, Mr. Wen, this is our ineffective work...... Wang Qi, Minister of State Security, and Xia Xiao, Director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, the two intelligence chiefs, couldn't sit still. Fan Han is very calm, because their Central Social Affairs Department is not responsible for foreign countries.
"Let's talk about your work, now it's time to discuss how to deal with this incident, how we should deal with it......" Wen Deji waved his hand and asked the two of them to sit down.
Wen Deji looked at everyone's expressions and continued: "Because of the previous events, many people in our organization are not used to the Alliance. That's right, I don't have a crush on them either. But, let me make it clear here, the Confederate is a bastard, but it's also ours. Even if we want to deal with them, it will have to be done by ourselves, and no one else needs to do it."
"And although many of the people killed this time were members of the League or sympathizers, there were also many innocent people, which is absolutely intolerable" Boon Duc said with a gloomy face: "This time, the French and Vietnamese authorities must give us an explanation, otherwise I will give them an explanation."
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