Chapter 36: The Jiawu Memorial (Part 2)
At 5:40 in the morning, the small-scale naval battle ended. At this time, Lin Jianzhang's second team came to meet. It turned out that after Lin Jianzhang completed the attack mission of the north turret, he destroyed the last remaining turret of the first team in the south. So after Zhang Yunfei's verbal commendation and some small promises, the two teams met and continued to drive to the shipyard in Yokosuka Military Port.
At around six o'clock, Zhang Yunfei's Nanyang fleet finally approached the dock of Yokosuka Military Port and arrived at the destination of Yokosuka Military Port Shipyard.
From the overpass, Zhang Yunfei looked at the huge shipyard in the telescope, which represents Japan's highest shipbuilding technology. At this time, the six docks were lined with warships under construction. In the two docks on the left, there were two warships of the same size, both of which were more than 100 meters long, and they were half built. In the other four docks, there were two warships of 4 or 50 meters long in each dock, which should be gunboats, and they were basically about to be launched.
Yokosuka Shipyard, in 1866 (the first year of Keio), Tokugawa Shogunate, pursued the advice of Orikuri Tadasushi, and hired French engineer Franois Léonce Verny to set up the Yokosuka Ironmaking Institute. In order to deal with the civil war, the shogunate transferred most of Nagasaki's equipment here. When equipment was gradually increased to become a shipyard, the shogunate collapsed, and the subsequent work was completed by the new government in 1871. After the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry and other institutions, it was changed to the management of the Navy Ministry in 1871. In 1884, it was changed to the direct jurisdiction of the Yokosuka Guardian. Later, it increased its investment because Japan was not only satisfied with purchasing warships like the Qing Dynasty. Japan's policy was to first imitate it and finally make it locally.
In history, it was directly reflected after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894. After the naval war, the fate of the two fleets was different. Li Hongzhang issued a death order for the two countries to return to the base with scars. Jingyuan and other ships must be repaired within 15 days, and Dingyuan and Zhenyuan must be repaired within one month. On November 14, the already repaired "Zhenyuan" ship hit a reef when it returned to the Weihai Marine Port and lost its combat capability. The Lushun, which could be repaired, had been captured by the Japanese army. Guandao Lin Tai committed suicide in despair, causing the Beiyang Navy to suffer a major blow in both military and personnel. The situation of the Japanese side was that all the participating ships had been completely repaired within 10 days, reappeared near the Chinese coast and participated in the Battle of Weihai Guard.
At this time, the huge differences in the development paths of the different naval development between the Qing government and Japan were revealed, that is, the Qing government relied entirely on purchasing warships from abroad, while Japan vigorously developed its own shipbuilding industry while purchasing warships, and gradually transitioned to its own manufacturing. In 1905, the "Samo" and "Anyi" battleships with a displacement of up to 19,800 tons were started at the Yokosuka Shipyard and the Wugang Naval Factory respectively. Japan began to build the "Kingang-class" battleship in 1911. The first ship "Kingang" must also start construction in the UK. This is the last main ship built by the UK for Japan. The remaining
The warship started construction in Yokosuka. Since then, Japan has completely escaped from foreign constraints and has its own perfect industry and shipbuilding industry. The Yamato-class built by Japan in World War II can be regarded as an "unprecedented" work in the history of battleships. The standard displacement is 64,000 tons and the full load displacement is more than 72,000 tons. Although it is huge, the speed still reaches 27 knots. This class of ships is equipped with 9 triple-mounted 460 mm/45 times the caliber main gun, with a bullet weighing 1,460 kilograms and a maximum range of 42 kilometers. Such advanced, the huge warship has entered the era of aircraft carriers due to naval battles, which has not achieved any decent results.
But despite this, Japan's shipbuilding technology has accumulated in the process of building these warships. After the end of World War II, it can be quickly converted to civilian use, and in 1955 it surpassed Britain to become the world's number one shipbuilding power, and has so far led the world's highest level of shipbuilding technology.
Zhang Yunfei sighed, not that he sighed that the Qing Dynasty shipyard was not as good as others, but that he sighed that such a good shipyard was not his own.
At this time, the outer dock of the shipyard was full of soldiers, and crew members were crowded with secrets! They surrounded the shipyard, as if they were protesting Zhang Yunfei's military operations, and seemed to be trying to block Zhang Yunfei's shells with their bodies! There were also some soldiers with guns aiming at Zhang Yunfei's guns? But the distance was too far, and even if the bullet hit the body, it would be like a massage! However, Zhang Yunfei didn't dare to try it. If he encountered a copycat warhead, he couldn't joke.
Putting down the telescope, Zhang Yunfei sighed: "This is just the Japanese people who have just popularized primary school education. When will the Qing Dynasty do this? Since this is the case, let's fulfill you! Let's go see your damn emperor together!" After that, he waved his hand to signal the fire.
Lieutenant Colonel Pablo then issued an order to fire the entire fleet. No matter whether there are people or not, what international conventions are violated, his boss Zhang Yunfei will have a headache!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
In an instant, the fire clouds soared into the sky! A loud noise was made. Then the flames burned the sky and the thick smoke covered the sea. The Japanese who vowed to defend the shipyard to death were killed and injured. The dead bodies were one after another. Some of them flew up and fell into the sea, and some were scattered around the dock. Soon, the fire engulfed the entire shipyard, and the thick smoke covered the entire shipyard, and the blood made the entire Yokosuka Port red.
While the main gun was firing, the rapid-fire guns of each ship were not idle either!
Da! Da! Da! Da! Da! Da!
The machine guns ruthlessly fired the stubborn Japanese. Once the person being beaten was like a puppet in a theater, swaying in various positions until the bones were shattered, the flesh and blood splattered, and the smell was stinking!
At this time, many soldiers of the 35th Japanese Regiment, who were originally staying behind and waiting for the Qing army to land, were frightened, crying, howling, and verbally. After a while, under extremely depressed spirit, the commander of the regiment Hirata Ichiro immediately collapsed, and the reckless suicide charge began. The soldiers of the 35th Regiment, who were crazy, rushed towards Zhang Yunfei's fleet. Facing the rain-like rapid-fire machine guns, most of the charges of thousands of people were killed on the way to charge. However, Hirata Ichiro also rushed into the sea and kept firing with the Murata rifle and even the combshot in his hands, and were finally shot into a sieve by the machine gun.
Not only the sea and land officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, but also the intellectual soldiers who have always faded life and death were deeply touched by a certain heartstring.
Zhang Yunfei, who was standing on the overpass, saw it and said to the trumpet: "I know that the charge cannot save the defeat, but I am not ashamed to live a life of silence. I still move forward bravely and repay my determination to die. In the name of full loyalty, I am still honored even if I lose! This is the spirit of the samurai! It is a pity! China is 450 million people but not as small country as Japan! It is sad!"
After hearing Zhang Yunfei's words, the same thoughts were also thinking in the minds of more than 5,000 soldiers in the entire fleet! The difference is that only people who are inspired are bloody.
After Zhang Yunfei finished speaking, he said to himself in his heart: "The only thing I can do is this! Let the dead souls of these damn Japanese come to pay tribute to the spirits of heaven that were killed in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895!"
Chapter completed!