The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

() 120 nautical miles southeast of the Japanese archipelago, due east of the Izu Islands, in the dark night, two huge figures quietly separated, each surrounded by a dozen other ships, sailing in different directions, In front of the two teams of battleships, at least four or five submarines could be seen breaking through the water to open their way, and further away, there were no less than ten destroyers scattered to form a tight search array, ensuring that within [-] kilometers of their passage, no one would There is a potential threat!

Among them, in the fleet heading south, in addition to the huge battleship, there was also a slightly smaller behemoth accompanying them, about five kilometers apart from each other. They only communicated quickly with lights, and the radio remained silent.

The largest battleship, in the command room above the bridge tens of meters high, more than a dozen officers stood in multiple rows with distinct ranks. The one at the front was a short man carrying a general. Missing Commander Chuichi Nagumo!

At this time, he was much thinner than a few months ago, his face reflected a trace of gray under the dim light, but his eyes were sharper and brighter, looking from the side, it seemed to be shining like a small light bulb!The pursed lips, the stubborn chin, and the upright posture coldly looking at the scene outside gave the people present an invisible coercion! ..

Next to him, who was half a body behind him, was General Hidetoku Miyazato, the chairman of the armory committee, who was in charge of all the work from the launch of the battleship to its official service. He looked longingly at the back of Chuichi Nagumo's head for a while. , Only after the entire formation completed its turn and began to advance at a constant speed of [-] knots did it break the silence.

"Your Excellency, Commander! This trial voyage has to adopt such a cautious strategy, is it to prevent being discovered by the Chinese?"

Even though it was in the coastal waters of Japan, or at night, there were alert submarines cruising [-] nautical miles away, and destroyers cleared the way [-] nautical miles away.There are cruisers in formation ten nautical miles away, the sonar and radar are fully activated, and there are even night reconnaissance planes on the water. It is really impossible to imagine that under such strict defenses, radio silence and blackouts must be implemented...too careful!

Nan Yunzhong was expressionless.He only glanced at him out of the corner of his eye, and said in a deep voice: "For the mysterious enemy, no amount of caution is necessary! The Imperial Navy currently has no chance of making mistakes! These two 'Yamato-class' battleships are our decisive victory The guarantee, before the official service, there is no room for loss!"

"Hi! Got it!"

Hidetoku Miyazato bowed his head to accept the lesson, but he didn't take it seriously in his heart, even though he thought that His Excellency the Commander was able to escape from such a fierce naval battle, and escaped back to the mainland with nearly half of the capital ships from the enemy's conspiring sea and air encirclement.He was able to run back from the sunken battleship intact, and felt very admired, but he hardly participated in any tragic battles. He instinctively thought that his battleship was the strongest in the world, so it was necessary to hide it like this?

He didn't think there was anything wrong with this kind of thinking. Although the entire Imperial Navy had fully realized the threat of fighter planes to warships, it believed it after rigorous and careful research by the Fleet Administration Headquarters.The reason for being bombed and sunk by fighter planes many times is not that the planes are so powerful that no one can control them.On the one hand, the escorting fighter planes are not powerful enough. This is the conclusion drawn by the aircraft carrier faction headed by Commander Yamamoto 56; on the other hand, it is due to the poor air defense firepower of the battleship itself!

This is a ready-made model, not to mention others, but the biggest enemy on the other side of the sea, the Chinese navy. In several battles before and after, the Japanese flight team launched bombing with a super-dense fleet.But they were all stopped by its well-deployed and rigorous fire-control air defense forces, especially the precise anti-aircraft artillery and the dense rain of bullets, which caused heavy losses to the world's best Japanese fighters, in vain!

Well, what the Chinese can do.There is no reason why the Great Japanese Empire can't do it!

In the past, even until the service of the four "Kii-class" battleships, the anti-aircraft firepower on all Japanese battleships was very average, especially the last two naval battles, which made the navy finally realize its own shortcomings.Therefore, in the recent emergency shipbuilding and refitting, the entire anti-aircraft firepower has been greatly improved!

As far as the trial super battleship "Yamato" they are riding at the moment, according to the design finalized in 1936, the anti-aircraft guns only have six double-mounted 6mm high-angle guns and eight 127mm triple-mounted machine guns. In 8, when the hull was basically completed after the start of construction, after that tragic naval battle, it was immediately corrected and perfected!

现在的“大和号”，副炮被减弱到保留了2座3连装155mm炮，保留6座双联高角炮之外，增加了6座新研制的76mm高she炮，和12座双联装37mm速she炮，更将25mm三联机关炮增加到了20座！

In this way, almost all the design points of the armament on the entire battleship are covered with gun barrels as dense as a forest. If you look down from the sky, it will look like a weapon warehouse floating on the sea!

After scientific calculations, the Fleet Administration Headquarters first came to the conclusion that the ship's anti-aircraft firepower was at least three times stronger than the original design!If you want to get close, you must break through the four-layer fire defense net in the distance. The premise is that all the fighters of the flying regiment are defeated. After that, you are eligible to face this unprecedentedly huge warship!

Not only the "Yamato", but also the traumatized "Omi" and "Suruga" during the maintenance process, also carried out a substantial update of the anti-aircraft firepower. For this reason, the secondary guns were removed and replaced with smaller calibers. It is to ensure full ten air defense capabilities.

As for other cruisers and destroyers, they are also scheduled to be remodeled. I believe that as long as the military factory can produce enough new anti-aircraft guns, all warships will have a new look.

It's just that the total number of ships in the entire Imperial Navy has shrunk by at least half compared to ten years ago!Especially battleships, now the new and old ones add up to only five ships, and there are two 7-ton big guys that have not been launched, although the base camp has confirmed the updated four super battleships, ten aircraft carriers and eight heavy ships. To complete the construction plan of patrolling and a series of attached ships, even if there is no shortage of money, it will take five years to complete!

Five years, five years without any problems, where can I get it?

Miyazato Hidetoku is respectful on the surface.Nan Yunzhong saw through the disobedient attitude inside at a glance.However, he had just experienced a disastrous defeat. When Commander Yamamoto 56 was used as a scapegoat to ensure his continued naval career, he was obviously more cautious and steady, so he did not scold him mercilessly as before.Instead, he slowed down his speech and said, "Miyazato, don't underestimate the ability of the Chinese people! They are very meticulous in their intelligence work on the empire, and they have known the existence of the 'Yamato-class' warships for a long time. None of them hit!"

"Now that we know how powerful this kind of battleship is, according to the general rules, they will never let it go easily! Therefore, we must be careful, after all, the current battleship has not yet reached full combat status!"

There is no need for a heavy hammer to beat the drum, and Colonel Miyazato is also very smart, especially as the person in charge of the trial stage.He didn't want to die before he left the school.Today's Pacific waters are already very uneven. Chinese submarines and warships are elusive, and it is impossible to tell which one has found the target. Calling long-range bombers to rush over to find fault is also quite troublesome.

He immediately accepted the lesson humbly, thinking that this was probably the conclusion drawn by His Excellency the Commander with blood, he couldn't help being awe-inspiring, and quickly put it down a little bit disapprovingly.

Under the night.The stars shine brightly and the field of vision is limited. The 263-meter-long huge body of "Yamato" is as majestic as a mountain.The gesture of splitting the waves is like a dark cloud advancing, and the momentum is compelling.

Although it has not yet officially served, under the three-shift work of the Japanese workers, all indicators have been basically completed, and the remaining work is only the integrated training of more than 3000 members.Finding deficiencies, this cycle usually takes at least half a year, but now, there are not so many of them.

Think of the past of the birth of these two warships.Miyazato Hidetoku was genuinely proud.In the world, who else can complete the construction of a 1937-ton giant ship at such a fast speed?From the start of construction in July 7 to the launch in October 1939, the entire construction work was completed in just two years and three months, and it has entered the sea trial in less than three months now. This speed is simply invincible.

In order to complete this super battleship with a total of four ships, Japan borrowed money to start construction with all its strength, and added a 5000mm thick plate rolling mill production line, as well as expensive equipment such as [-]-ton hydraulic presses. , I'm afraid it will have to be delayed for a year?

Now, Colonel Miyazato believes that even if he encounters the enemy immediately, he can command the battleship to fight. The quality of the imperial navy soldiers is impeccable, top notch!

Nagumo Chuichi didn't have that kind of ambition.After experiencing the Great War in the East China Sea, he truly realized the gap in technology, especially night battles, ultra-long-distance bombardment, and all kinds of unimaginable technological equipment that changed their familiar combat modes beyond recognition!Being led by the nose for most of the night, and almost wiped out in the end, such an unforgettable failure is enough for him to remember for a lifetime!

More importantly, he completely abandoned his arrogant attitude and truly valued the strength of the Chinese navy.In many confrontations from 1934 to the present, the opponent has almost never lost, and almost never lost major ships. On the contrary, they have fought more and more, and the speed of shipbuilding is incredible.In contrast, the Imperial Navy is retreating steadily. A considerable part of this is caused by advanced fighter jets, and part of it is due to the update speed of weapons and equipment. The Empire is obviously lagging behind!

No matter how large and strong a battleship is, shields can't stop sharper and sharper spears!Only when the attack is powerful can it play the role of defense.In this regard, the 460mm main gun of the "Yamato" is undoubtedly a terrifying lethal weapon that surpasses the whole world, but its range is only 42 kilometers, and the truly accurate range is still about [-] kilometers. In battles where fighter planes are getting more and more annoying, at least they have to wait until a certain degree before they have a chance to play.

Then there is a premise, can the ship's speed of less than 28 knots catch up with the enemy's fleet generally exceeding 30 knots?Judging from the last naval battle, it is almost impossible!The extremely fast "Ki-class" has a theoretical maximum speed of 30 knots, but the opponent has been flying a kite all night and can't touch it. The initiative to start the war is always in the hands of the opponent.

But at a range of more than thirty kilometers, hitting with a cannon is like a blind man's luck, but the opponent can hit it, and it must rely on radar.However, the radar of this ship... Nagumo Tadashi sighed when he thought about it.

Although there are some technologies revealed by the Germans, the so-called "No. 17 Air-to-air Radio Sounder" and "No. 18 Sea-to-Sea Radio Sounder" that were hastily developed are huge in size, and their functions are really horrible!The air-to-air is okay, it can detect a fleet of aircraft 100 kilometers away and a single aircraft 50 kilometers away, and a bit of angular deviation is acceptable.

But for the sea, it was terrible.The distance of only 35 kilometers is not even comparable to optical instruments, and the precision is even lower than 1000 meters. Is it aimed or not?There is a ninety-nine percent chance of firing the cannon and directly hitting the air!

The worst thing is that they don't have an electronic fire control system, which makes the battleship only serve as an auxiliary in addition to adding a bunch of radar soldiers.certainly.It's much better than nothing, at least at night, you won't be forced to suddenly fire and attack within 20 kilometers, and you won't be able to see anything like a blind man.

This was all forced out by the Chinese!

Chuichi Nagumo sometimes sighs, is it true that powerful enemies are the source of motivation for progress?However, the Imperial Navy, with the ambition to be the pinnacle of the world, is being stimulated and attacked by the Chinese who they completely look down on. This is really a helpless absurdity!

But, this time, as long as the trial training of the two super battleships is perfectly successful.As long as the ghosts and beasts of Britain and the United States don't cheat people, if they fight again, the initiative and the final victory must belong to the Imperial Navy, and it must belong to Lieutenant Admiral Nagumo Chuichi!

"I will live up to the entrustment of my senior, and I will succeed!" He clenched his fists and looked into Sponge's eyes.Bright and bright!

At this moment, in the southern waters less than a hundred nautical miles away from them.A battleship with a very strange shape to the contemporary people sails steadily at a speed of 28 knots. The difference is that compared with the general battleships that burn heavy oil and make thick smoke, this guy can hardly see any smoke, and the sound of the engine It's so small that you can't hear it from a distance.

Can be seen faintly under the starlight.The size of this warship is about the same as that of the "Yangtze River Class Amphibious Assault Ship", but its lines are smoother, its sloping bow, and the design that flutters upwards and outwards can adapt to the sea conditions of strong winds and waves.The slender and well-proportioned hull with an aspect ratio of about 9.1 times can hardly see the traces of welding gaps and steel plate swelling. Outside the high and low buildings, the common steel masts, turrets, chimneys, cranes and even catapults are all gone!If it weren't for a 127mm dual-mounted high-level dual-purpose gun on the front deck of the bow, who would believe that this is a warship with a full load displacement of 2 tons? !

But he is!And it is also the real main ship in Zhu Bin's so-called "Ocean Fleet", which has almost all the advanced technology and equipment, and is at least three to forty years beyond the contemporary nuclear-powered missile cruiser! <In the combat center, in front of the spacious, bright, and sci-fi command podium, Zhu Bin occupied a small half of the space, staring at the real-time data displayed on a LCD screen, grinning with horror.

Next to him, the great Tesla master was also staring at another main control screen with vigor and vigor. On it, the real-time operating status of three 50mw small liquid metal coolant reactors and the status of the connected power generation system were impressively displayed. Can use one word to describe stable!

"How about it, Nicholas, the battleship we jointly designed is powerful enough? Does it meet the standard of advanced weapons in your mind?" Zhu Bin asked proudly.

Tesla nodded with satisfaction: "Very good! I can now be sure that one such advanced warship is enough to top a fleet without a large number of aircraft carriers! Moreover, the stability of the nuclear reactor is not as bad as I thought! It will be maintained in the future The main force of world peace depends on it!"

"That's it! I don't want to see whose work it is!" Zhu Bin patted the leather seat and hummed in satisfaction.

This "Xianzhou-class" nuclear-powered missile cruiser is the overall shape design provided by him. Tesla personally designed the high-response power system and electric drive control system, coupled with the intelligent photoelectric radar fire control system, to form a It is a super-advanced gadget with the size of a heavy cruiser, the armor of a quasi-battleship, 15kw super electric propulsion, ultra-long-range air-to-sea-to-underwater radar detection and fire control linkage system, and an intelligent command system!

The shell of the hull is made of ultra-high-strength medium-thick plates mixed with space alloys, which can provide the main defense capability equivalent to 305mm homogeneous armor. Hit it directly, otherwise it is impossible to penetrate it!

The surface of the special material has extremely high anti-radar detection efficiency. It is almost difficult to detect by radar these days, unless you observe it with the naked eye at close range. The noise of the all-electric propeller is so low that it is even difficult for submarines to detect. !

For the air, it can scan a super long distance of more than 300 kilometers, for the sea, more than 40 kilometers, the precision is not greater than 50 meters or even lower, and the deep sea detection and scanning can also be included beyond the general torpedo attack range!In cooperation with comprehensive forecasting and anti-submarine helicopters, a warship can easily control an area with a diameter of at least 300 kilometers and a maximum diameter of 500 kilometers!Not to mention a few warships, even a group of warships who want to sneak attack gang fights have no chance!

武备方面也是十分强大！前后甲板下清一se的箱式垂直发she系统，装备有2x4联装hc1长矛反舰、2x4联装hd1鱼叉反舰、2x8联装飞镖防空、2x8联装暴风反潜火箭等多种武器，总数高达350枚！

As a conventional weapon, the double-mounted gun on the bow has a 60-fold barrel, 70 rounds per minute, and a conventional range of 1524 kilometers. If the front-end electromagnetic reconnection device is turned on, it can hit as far as 75 kilometers and has 1000 rounds of ammunition.In addition, there are four 4mm 30-tube near-defense guns to ensure terminal defense equipment. ,

Such a powerful battleship, in Zhu Bin's opinion, can run amok in the world with one ship.

As the lead ship "Yingzhou", it is the first time to conduct a long-distance sea trial of more than 2 nautical miles. At the same time, a series of experiments such as penetration, attack and breach of the defense network of Japan and the United States are carried out, which is of great significance!Although Tesla didn't like wars, he was happy to see the application of his inventions, so he insisted on checking the progress along the way, which made Zhu Bin's original plan to sweep all the way from the coastal waters of China to the Eastern Pacific fell through!It's never a good look to kill on a rampage in front of peaceful scientists.

While speaking, the chief of communications suddenly shouted: "A suspicious submarine was found 55 kilometers ahead on the left! It is preliminarily judged to be the Japanese Navy, and it is heading towards us at a speed of 15 knots! How to deal with it!"

Zhu Bin's eyes lit up, and he immediately ordered: "Turn on the electromagnetic reconnection acceleration, and use the main gun to sink him!" (To be continued. Mobile phone users, please go to read.)