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"pretty!"

“Enjoyable!”

"That's a great shot!"

A roar of cheers rang out. Dozens of over-enthusiastic "gunners", old and young, Chinese and foreign, took off their ear protection and threw them hard. They jumped up with strange screams, and many of them hugged each other warmly. The attitude was as if the rocket had successfully launched.

It was as if he had done something extraordinary.

Zhu Bin rarely followed up by shaking his fist hard, and his heart ached secretly. "Xie Niang, you shot away tens of thousands of dollars with one shot. I'm sorry if you don't yell! If you don't hit, you have to give it to these guys."

A harsh training is not enough.

But it seemed that he was quite proud of him. He hit the target with one shot in front of the two bosses, and the effect seemed to be just right.

Someone quickly reported the test firing results on the radio. The designed dispersion area of ​​this shot did not exceed a radius of 10 meters, which was considered good at a distance of 20 kilometers. After all, this was the first time such a large artillery was designed. If this was done in

Maritime artillery battles can also achieve such accuracy, and you can definitely kill your opponent in a few salvos!

Chen Shaokuan was more concerned about the powerful penetrating power of the shells. When he saw the number, his eyes could not help but shine, and he asked: "What grade of steel plate is used for the target?! How does it compare to our battleship steel plate?"

Shen Chongji explained: "It is a steel plate ripped from the armor belt of the Japanese heavy cruiser we sunk. After re-smelting, the target is made. The strength is about three-fifths of the steel used in our warships, and is weaker than the comparable ST42 steel."

About 26%."

"In other words, if our artillery shell hits a Japanese warship made of this kind of steel plate at this distance, it can penetrate even if it is more than 400mm thick!?" Chen Shaokuan's eyes brightened! This thickness, but today's

No battleship in the world can do this. Japan’s most powerful battleship, the Nagato, has an armor belt of only 305mm! It’s still an old thing from 20 years ago!

Shen Chongji confidently clapped his chest: "That's absolutely no problem! Unless the warship they build is as thick as our new ship and has our special composite armor, otherwise as long as it is hit, it will definitely penetrate. This kind of main gun

Its power is considered top-notch in the world today!”

The main gun data of battleships in various countries are confidential and difficult to find out, but with enough data, we can roughly guess. Especially technical things cannot be faked. The metallurgical technology and gun-making technology of 20 years ago

It is clear at a glance how different the technology is from the current one. The quality can also be imagined.

Jiang Baili shook his head and sighed: "It's not just first-class, it's simply superb! With such power, I believe that the newly built battleship can sail the sea and be invincible!"

Zhu Bin liked hearing this, and the depression of losing tens of thousands of dollars in one shot was relieved a lot. After groping around the cannon for two times, he accompanied the two of them down to inspect the enclosed slipway of the shipyard, and finally boarded

Go up and down the heavy cruiser and experience for yourself the advantages of this completely different advanced warship in all aspects.

Because of their advanced design and technical equipment, the command towers of the two heavy cruisers are much smaller, and there is no spiral staircase surrounding the outer layer like other similar ships. There are also ugly turrets protruding from the tower, and fat and bloated command rooms.

The size and weight of the ship are more than half smaller than similar ships in Japan and Germany. In addition, high-strength composite materials are used as much as possible.

The benefit brought by the lowering of the overall center of gravity is a linear increase in wave resistance, which is enough to run rampant in the storm-prone Pacific Ocean. The sturdy high-strength alloy keel and dense compartments ensure that the hull is solid and square.

The design of the stern reduces resistance and makes the wake more dispersed, and the structure of the bulbous bow and flaring hull provides a more spacious space above and below the deck.

After the trip, Chen Shaokuan once again felt that his ship knowledge was lagging behind a lot. The CIC combat intelligence center of the entire ship was set up under the bridge. It mainly used radar detection and fire control instead of manpower. Wireless and wired centralized call broadcasting.

and call centers instead of common copper speakers, making the internal structure simpler and neater. Rows of color screens and keyboards replace complex manual labor, reducing the number of crew members on the entire battleship to one-third of the same number, only five.

Hundreds of people!

"No, I have to study harder. Otherwise, if I continue like this, I won't be qualified to command a cruiser." Chen Shaokuan secretly cheered himself up. He couldn't waste any more time, otherwise his dignified Navy Minister would not understand his own abilities.

I don’t know how to command the warships. How embarrassing it would be to tell them! Should I wait two or three years for the giant ships and artillery to form an army, and face the revenge operations of foreign enemies, and just be a spectator?

no way!

As a result, from now on, there is an additional student with the highest rank in the Naval Ship Command Academy.

Taking advantage of the time when the Japanese were too busy dealing with the earthquake to start a war, Zhu Bin was busy here digesting and occupying the entire province, and vigorously expanding the ranks of the navy, army and air force. Chiang Kai-shek was not idle either, secretly thanking God.

Help gave me a certain amount of buffer time. First, I mobilized various forces to deal with the joint advance of Chen Jitang, Bai Chongxi, and Li Zongren, and then worked overtime to fully launch the troop reorganization work.

As for the navy, after three years of hard work, Jiangyin Lightning School, where Ouyang Ge is the principal, finally began to produce officer seeds. Coupled with the accumulation of returnees for many years, it was finally possible to convert the two 30,000-ton giants that had been used as training ships.

The ship was propped up.

The battleship "Liaoning" still served its purpose, while the aircraft carrier "Changbaishan" reluctantly increased the number of carrier-based aircraft to 60, and added four reconnaissance aircraft and 12 bombers. In addition, thanks to Zhu Bin's indiscriminate improvement of industrial strength,

Nationwide industrial construction and infrastructure construction and production

, brought about a surge in overall national productivity, GDP, and tax revenue. Especially last year, GDP and tax revenue more than quadrupled compared to previous years, and funds were unprecedentedly abundant. So Lao Jiang waved his hand very grandly and said to Jiangnan

The shipyard placed an order for four 1,500-ton destroyers.

This adds up to tens of millions of dollars! For the stingy training fleet directly under the Ministry of Military Affairs, it is already a big deal. Of course, for Zhu Bin, who is building piles of larger 2,500-ton destroyers for free. And at every turn

Thousand-ton heavy cruiser

Jiang could only envy and hate the ship. He couldn't get the money out of his hands no matter what. Not to mention that if he didn't approve it, he would be scolded by the whole country. Moreover, the orthodox faction of the Navy headed by Chen Shaokuan was in cahoots with classmate Xiao Zhu.

It was not easy for Chiang to start.

In terms of the army, Chiang Kai-shek's actions are much bigger. On the one hand, he is reorganizing a total of 80 divisions, adopting the suggestions of Seeckt and the German advisory group, and fully mechanizing them. It is expected that 30 divisions will be completed by the end of the year.

As for artillery, which is a key indicator, each division is equipped with three battalions of 36 75mm field guns or mountain guns, and one battalion of 12 105mm cannons. This is already the limit.

What concerned him the most was the teaching corps that had been expanded into a reorganized division. He selected elite soldiers to fill them in on the basis of the original regiment. He also spent 100 million yuan in anger, completely in accordance with the standards of the German mechanized infantry division.

killed an entire regiment of German Panzer III tanks. This

Produced by the Krupp Company, this 22-ton steel monster with distinctive Chinese origins and characteristics has a maximum armor of 50mm and a 50mm kwk38l42 main gun. It has strong power and fierce firepower and can compete with any current Japanese tanks and combat vehicles.

Duan is so fierce!

Although it is far inferior to Zhu Bin's newly equipped Cheetah 1, it is already comparable to an artifact for the Central Army, which previously only had a 6-ton iron armored vehicle.

In addition, like Zhu Bin, a heavy artillery regiment was equipped with a total of 24 105mm towed Krupp cannons and 12 150mm heavy artillery. In addition, a direct artillery battalion was also set up, with the same 12 150mm guns.

Heavy artillery, other regiments and battalions have also set up 75mm Bofors rifles, as well as many mortar batteries and anti-aircraft artillery batteries. Added together, the number of various guns in the teaching corps is more than 100.

It can be said to be capable and powerful!

A lot of effort has also been put into mechanization. There are a total of 500 trucks and nearly 200 geep vehicles. Of course, they are not all armored models like those under Zhu Bin, just ordinary models, plus vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns or anti-aircraft vehicles.

It's just a weapon, and this is almost making Chiang Kai-shek want to sell the iron.

When he learned through the Germans and Jiang Baili that Zhu Bin was building a large battleship with a standard displacement of 35,000 tons and a maximum displacement of 46,000 tons, he sat expressionlessly in the Tangshan villa for a whole day without seeing anyone or saying anything. It was later said that

He wrote thousands of very pessimistic words in his diary, which would make even a hard-hearted person cry.

Of course, Zhu Bin didn't know all this, and even if he knew, he wouldn't care about him. He brought this on himself.

The news, which was not deliberately hidden, quickly spread to Germany. When Hitler saw that the Chinese had completely designed and started building a battleship of this size by themselves, his face suddenly darkened. He grabbed several parties involved in the secret trade and cursed them twice.

After several hours, the final decision was made: "From now on, we will no longer teach our advanced technologies to the Chinese! Some important researchers must also be withdrawn appropriately."

Hitler felt so distressed! Two battleships are equivalent to an order of 200 million German marks. If Germany were to build them, how many employment problems could be solved and how much profits could be made! This is great. In just four years, it was

If you try your best to cultivate a competitor, the losses will be too heavy!

On the other hand, he was unhappy! The real reason was that Germany had been constantly exchanging equipment for technology in the past few years. A large number of advanced technologies and equipment were obtained from Zhu Bin, which greatly hurt his Germanic self-esteem and noble elegance.

It's such a shame that the Li'an people actually need to import technology from the yellow people in the East!

The terrible thing is that most of these technologies are what the Germans are best at! For example, material technology involves a large number of raw materials such as chemical fiber, chemical industry, metallurgy, building materials, electronics, etc., and there are hundreds of formulas.

In terms of finished products, advanced high-precision machine tools, high-pressure turbochargers, high-power gasoline engines, and high-strength tool accessories were originally the strengths of German exports, but now they are imported from China.

In terms of metallurgical technology, which is the most important and critical, due to being fooled several times by Zhu Bin, Krupp introduced a complete set of titanium alloy smelting technology, and later high-strength alloy smelting technology. Among these technologies, high-temperature induction was involved.

furnace and oxygen bottom-blown converter steelmaking technology, as well as the more mysterious high-temperature plasma vacuum smelting technology, etc.

Among them, Germany cannot make high-purity single crystal graphite materials for the furnace bodies of various smelting furnaces, nor can the Germans make high-temperature nozzles and plasma guns. Neither can the Germans make ultra-low-temperature continuous oxygen production separators. They all need to be imported. The result is that Germany gives them to China for free.

Contributed a full 2 ​​million tons of steel plant equipment, including a large number of electroslag resmelting furnaces.

Germany is indeed not at a disadvantage. They have acquired a series of the world's most advanced metallurgical technologies at once. Industrial oxygen generators and oxygen bottom blowing, and natural gas top blowing converter steelmaking have greatly increased the steelmaking speed several times. Titanium alloys and space alloys have made steelmaking faster.

They have the materials to build unsinkable warships. After using machine tools and various equipment to exchange millions of tons of titanium ore materials from Soviet Russia, Germany can now smelt at least 100,000 tons of titanium alloys a year.

In addition, the Germans can now obtain at least 1 million tons of high-purity manganese, cobalt, nickel, vanadium and other strategic metals from Zhu Bin every year, plus millions of tons of copper, zinc, lead provided by gold ore,

As well as imported tungsten, antimony, etc., Germany has tens of millions of tons of strategic metal reserves alone!

There are many additional benefits. In order to maximize the supply of China's industrial equipment needs, Germany's machine tools, motors, chemicals, engines, ships, steelmaking and other industries have nearly doubled on the original basis, including

Due to the Japanese expansion of military production and the exchange of mineral raw materials from Soviet Russia, Germany has unknowingly secured its position as the world's second largest industrial body, taking a big step closer to the United States!

The recovery of national productivity has brought about an economic recovery with high growth rate. The National Socialist Party's position has been stable. Hitler himself has been put on a pedestal and has become a national idol. Zhu Bin's contribution is both inside and outside.

! Not to mention the shared technology and benefits Germany received in terms of aircraft and tanks.

All of this was forgotten by Hitler. To put it bluntly, the arrogance and neurosis in his bones that looked down on Asians made it difficult for him to accept the possibility of equal treatment.

Regarding the news that the Chinese had begun building battleships, Hitler, after getting angry, immediately ordered: "Find an appropriate opportunity to tell the Japanese that after all, we are allies now."

This move is really bad! The relationship between China and Japan is becoming more and more rigid. The military competition triggered by the rise of Zhu Bin has led to an early recovery of the world economy. Just by providing industrial equipment to these two countries, the orders Germany ultimately received were not enough.

Less than 3 billion U.S. dollars, not less than 1 billion U.S. dollars for the United States, the United Kingdom and France

Countries and Italy have a combined total of 500 million US dollars, and this number is still increasing year by year. This year, the Japanese went crazy and directly spent all the loans from various countries, military industry construction and immigration, the mining of new mines and the expansion of the army, which actually left them without a solution.

In the case of agriculture and light industry, we have emerged from the economic crisis ahead of schedule!

If the Japanese know this news, they will either launch a war immediately, or they will have to increase their efforts to build battleships. No matter which way, Germany will make a lot of money from the war! (..)

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