Special Forces of Crossing: Cloud's Anti-Japanese

Chapter 2514 Financial Crisis
Chen Shaokuan was really suffocated. After entering the Dongshan Fleet, he held three [-]-ton Songshan-class heavy cruisers, more than ten Hengshan-class frigates, and more than ten various types of submarines. Chen Shaokuan even gave birth to a challenge. The ambition of the Japanese Combined Fleet.However, what tasks did the Dongshan Fleet receive?Blockade the Taiwan Strait and surrounding waters.Objectively speaking, this task is very important, and there are battles to fight.When the Japanese joint fleet was still fully organized, it still had the ability to provide escort for the transport fleet. Therefore, although the vast majority of Japanese transport merchant ships chose to go around the Pacific Ocean in the Sulu Sea and the Celebes Sea to travel between the South China Sea and the mainland, they still Many Japanese shipping companies with relatively deep backgrounds chose the shortcut of going to the South China Sea and then to the Pacific and Taiwan coasts under the escort of warships.Therefore, when Chen Yuanyang was in charge of the Dongshan Fleet, the Dongshan Fleet could always win battles in the Pacific Ocean south of Taiwan, and even directly attack the Japanese naval base in the Philippines.Chen Shaokuan took over the Dongshan Fleet after the Battle of the Coral Sea. At this time, the Yamato aircraft carrier fleet under the Japanese combined fleet had been damaged, and the Wuwei aircraft carrier fleet had also suffered certain losses. Naturally, the Japanese combined fleet no longer has the capability to serve as a merchant ship. Escort capability.Therefore, although the Dongshan Fleet still has the task of blocking the Taiwan Strait and surrounding waters, it has no battle to fight at all.After the naval battle in the Solomon Sea, the Wuwei aircraft carrier fleet suffered a heavy blow, the Japanese even abandoned the naval base along the coast of the Philippines, and the Dongshan fleet completely lost the opportunity to fight.

Ouyang Yun has always attached great importance to the development of the shipbuilding industry since he gained a firm foothold in the South, and now it is the harvest season.The aircraft carrier manufacturing process is too complicated, and China's shipbuilding industry foundation is too weak, so it is still impossible to launch an aircraft carrier in a month or even a week like the traditional naval powers such as the United States and Japan.However, in terms of cruisers, destroyers, frigates, and submarines and other types of small and medium-sized ships, China's design and construction capabilities have firmly ranked among the world's first-class.Almost every week, new ships entered the sequence, and Chen Shaokuan was naturally very happy, but at the same time, the unwillingness in his heart became stronger and stronger.Why did he leave the center and surrender his status to the frontline army?Isn't it just counting on being able to lead the army to fight to wash away the shame of repeated defeats before?Now that he clearly has the capital to beat up the Japanese but can only stand still, this is simply a huge waste in his opinion.Under the control of this kind of thinking, Chen Shaokuan wrote to the Supreme Command again and again, offering advice and asking for battle, in short, he hoped to be able to join the battlefield immediately.

Now, the Battle of the Ryukyu Islands finally got a chance, so it's no wonder that he pulled out all the main force of the Dongshan Fleet in one go, and killed chickens with a sledgehammer.

Of course, there was no suspense in the battle. Chen Shaokuan had planned to take this opportunity to train his team, so besides the nine unarmed pure transport ships, other large and small gunboats and even the five armed troop carriers joined in. fought.

After the United States recognized China's absolute dominance in the Pacific War, the military exchanges between the two countries have been strengthened. It is just that China's unique missile speedboats and frigates have demonstrated powerful long-range penetration capabilities at sea. The Americans are very impressed by these two types of ships. They were unable to enter places involving military secrets such as the Haikou Shipyard, so they sent a large number of low-level naval officers into the Dongshan Fleet and the Haikou Fleet in the name of learning and exchanges, with the intention of further examining the combat capabilities of these two types of ships. , is it worth introducing.

There are 34 members of the exchange team dispatched by the U.S. Navy to the Dongshan Fleet. It was at the start of the Ryukyu Islands campaign. There are Americans on heavy cruisers, frigates and destroyers.

The flagship of the Dongshan Fleet is also Chen Shaokuan's ship, the "Fuzhou" Songshan-class heavy cruiser, and Joseph, as the head of the fleet, follows the "Fuzhou".At this moment, he and a captain named Brown were standing behind Chen Shaokuan, and the two of them looked at Yonaguni Island, which was almost completely covered by fireworks ten kilometers away, through binoculars. After being dumbfounded, Joseph couldn't help asking: " Commander Chen, is your department making too much of a fuss? Is such an island worth this level of bombardment?"

Chen Shaokuan had already put down the binoculars in satisfaction at this time. Hearing this, the corner of his mouth twitched and said, "It's a big deal? No, no, why do soldiers risk their lives to solve problems that can be solved with artillery fire? Price, cannonballs? Hehe!"

Chen Shaokuan’s statement actually appealed to the Americans, but Yonaguni Island was too small, and the bombardment of the Higashiyama Fleet seemed to never stop. Joseph thought that many of these shells were contributed by the Americans. Hearing this, his face became a little ugly.As a naval captain, Joseph knew more or less the secrets of the exchanges between China and the United States.Why were the top government officials willing to support China’s resistance against Japan for free at first, and then offered certain unequal conditions in exchange for China’s sending troops to South Asia and the Pacific?So in Joseph's ears, Chen Shaokuan's argument about "life is priceless" is particularly harsh.Joseph and his men have come for missile speedboats, frigates and Poseidon missiles, and their trip to China has not been a pleasant one so far.It has been more than two months since Joseph came to China, but up to now he has not seen the Poseidon missile with his own eyes.The Chinese guarded them like thieves, but any training involving the Poseidon ship missiles would be carried out secretly, which made him completely lose confidence in whether he could complete the task, and his perception of China and the Chinese also dropped again and again.With the financial resources of the United States and the style of the Americans, in the past, as long as they felt that the guided missile speedboats and frigates were indeed advanced, they would definitely buy them without even batting an eyebrow.But now, although Joseph does not know the specific situation, he also knows that the country has experienced a financial crisis.Otherwise, after the Ministry of the Navy put forward the request to introduce missile technology for missile speedboats, frigates and Poseidon ships, instead of immediately agreeing to the promise, the president would not send them to conduct inspections first.

People at Joseph's level cannot touch the truth.The reality is that the U.S. government really has a financial crisis.The occurrence of this situation is of course related to the rise of China.In the past, the United States was the supplier of almost all the dual-use goods of the other countries of the allies. Now?Because the Xuebing Army has completely controlled the high-end technology of the electronics industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and the military industry, the result is that loyal customers of similar products from the United States, such as Britain and France, began to switch to the Xuebing Army.And because China is now actually the leader of the allied forces, the United States cannot directly confront it in terms of strength or morality. , the economic crisis is unstoppable.

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