Open an aircraft carrier to fight against Japan

Han Mingguang continued: "The four fastest warships in the Ryukyu Fleet, the Yoshino ship, is now called the Jingzhong ship, with a maximum speed of 23 knots, the Naniwa ship, now called the Zhongmeng ship, the Akitsuzu ship, now called the Zhongrui ship, and Chiyoda. Ship, now called Zhongsheng Ship, the top speed of these three warships is only [-] knots."

"On the other hand, there are three Japanese warships at the same level as the Yoshino ship, and the ship is younger than the Yoshino ship, and the speed may be faster than the Yoshino ship. There are also two Asama-class cruisers, with a maximum speed of [-] knots. Our speed is not high. If you have the advantage, how can you lure the enemy to go deep? You will be overtaken by enemy ships."

Lin Yuan said: "The firepower and protection of cruisers are far weaker than those of battleships, and the Japanese army is afraid that our warships are deliberately luring the enemy, so they may not dare to let the high-speed cruisers pursue them with all their strength. Therefore, as long as we carefully arrange to lure the enemy The route and the method of luring the enemy will definitely be able to lure the enemy over, and I plan to modify these four warships."

These words made the ship experts present frown. The best way to speed up the warship is to change the engine, change the piston steam engine into a steam turbine, or even a gas turbine. That would be the best. Don’t replace the propeller It's okay to replace it with a propeller with a shape that is more in line with hydrodynamics, but under the current conditions, these are nonsense.

Lin Yuan said: "This is how I think about it. In order to make our warship faster, the first step is to reduce weight. Take the Yoshino ship as an example. It is equipped with 8 1mm rapid-fire guns and 22 47mm rapid-fire guns. There are also five 5mm torpedo tubes, all of which can be dismantled, and the shells and torpedoes equipped for them are unnecessary. Together with the personnel who use these equipment, there are six small boats on them, which can also be removed In this way, hundreds of tons of weight will be removed.”

Lin Yuan went on to say: "I want to ask experts in the ship industry to help me analyze it. Will it have any adverse effects on the ship after it is dismantled?"

Wan Ling, a ship expert and the chief designer of the Beijing ship, said: "After the weight of the ship is reduced, the stability will not be good. In layman's terms, it will not be able to hold down the water. However, our operating environment is all offshore, and the waves are not It's big, so there's no fatal impact."

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "That's good. The following improvement work requires mechanical experts. Everyone knows that the propeller and the engine are not directly connected. There must be a gearbox between them. Gearboxes in this era The transmission efficiency is definitely not as high as ours, so I plan to replace the gears in the gearbox with the spare gears on our Beijing ship, and the comrades in mechanical design will search for information later to see if this method is feasible." The plan was agreed. After the completion, everyone split up and acted separately. To everyone's delight, the spare gear on the Beijing ship was indeed able to connect with the shafts of the four warships. With a speed of 22 knots, the elite ship reached a speed of 26 knots with its powerful horsepower.

The refitting process took three days. On April [-]th, under the command of the Beijing warship, the four warships sailed towards the Japanese fleet. Their purpose was not to draw the Japanese fleet into the encirclement, but to attack the Japanese first and anger them. They can only let them chase themselves into the ambush circle later.

These days, in order to retaliate, the Japanese fleet brazenly robbed the merchant ships of the Qing Dynasty at sea. At ten o'clock this morning, the Japanese fleet took aim at a group of Qing Dynasty fleets.

This batch of Qing Dynasty fleet is not ordinary, the yellow dragon flag is flying on the mast, and the cargo on board is almost pushing the side of the ship into the water!There were [-] ships in this fleet, and they were loaded with silver. The silver was borrowed from abroad. The Qing Dynasty used silver as currency. After fighting for so long, the money supply was exhausted, so they had to borrow from abroad.

Merchant ships are generally slow, like snails in front of warships. The Japanese warships quickly caught up with them. The Japanese warships pretended to ask the merchant ships to stop for inspection. The merchant ships were all on the vast sea before, and they did not know that the Japanese warships massacred civilians. Things, so the ship stopped.

At this moment, the sound of gunfire came from the sea.

The merchant ships were puzzled, and the Japanese warships were even more puzzled. Togo Heihachiro hurriedly raised a semaphore to ask who fired the gun!

At this moment, Dongxiang Heihachiro saw that the Takasago ship at the far end seemed to have been hit by a shell, and the foremast was shaking, and it might fall down at any time.

At this time, the observer reported: "At a bearing of 3000 and a distance of [-] meters, four ships of unknown nationality are approaching us."

Before Dongxiang Heihachiro could give an order, another shell exploded beside the Asama ship. He thought to himself: "Which country's warship is this? Is it really from some Ryukyu?"

At this time, the observer reported: "The other warship sent us a semaphore, telling us that they are Ryukyu warships, let us surrender quickly!"

Dongxiang Heihachiro was furious when he heard this, and said angrily: "These things that betrayed our Great Japanese Empire didn't beat them, they beat us instead."

The Japanese fleet lined up, and the Ryukyu warships were just behind them. Togo Heihachiro quickly ordered to turn the bow and fight back!He did not order to return fire with tail guns, because firing at the enemy at a distance of 3000 meters was just wasting shells in vain.

Before that, the merchant fleet had already slowed down, and the Japanese fleet also slowed down. If the battleship wanted to turn around, it had to turn the rudder, but the rudder was at a low speed, and the water pressure was not enough to turn the ship. The Japanese fleet wanted to If you want to turn around, you must accelerate first, but these days, they have robbed a lot of good things, all of which are hard currencies such as gold and silver, so the acceleration is slow.

The four warships behind are exactly the four warships transformed by Lin Yuan. The reason why their artillery is accurate is that there are drones from the Beijing warship in the sky to calibrate and shoot for them.

As mentioned earlier, when Lin Yuan was practicing sea-air coordination, he found that it was difficult to distinguish from the photos that the impact point was caused by the shells fired by that warship. Later, Deng Shichang and the soldiers of the Beijing ship came up with a clever method , They took out the signal bomb on the Beijing ship, took out the pyrotechnic agent that could emit colors, and put it into the warhead of the shell, so that when the shell exploded, it could produce smoke of different colors.

It happens that one battleship has one color, so the drone accurately calibrated the shooting for the battleship. The four battleships only kept the main guns at the front and rear. The 150mm artillery is not very powerful, but it is rare to be accurate.

The main guns of the four warships aimed at the Takasago ship, and soon four more shells hit the Takasago ship, and the fire spread. When Deng Shichang saw it, he immediately ordered: "Don't hit the ship anymore, shoot it into the water!" !Slow down the rate of fire!"

The main guns are also rapid-fire guns, using a spring-type retreating system, and the rate of fire can reach ten rounds per minute. The purpose of these two orders issued by Deng Shichang is to tell the Japanese that it is purely a fluke that we can hit you. Come chase us!Catch us and we'll be sunk.

Dongxiang Heihachiro was indeed in the trap. He was still wondering why the Ryukyu warships were so accurate?Later, seeing the shells plunging into the water, I thought, "They are just lucky!"

When the Japanese fleet turned their heads, Togo Heihachiro's nose was almost crooked!