The gongs and drums in the new Mawei shipyard in Sanduao were roaring with firecrackers, and the two golden lions flew up and down on the drums. Today is the day to deliver the battleship to the navy, so the dock is full of officers in white naval generals and sailors in thick blue work clothes. Everyone's light stayed at three lead-gray painted ships not far away, and hung flags on the warships waiting to leave the port. The front is the Yanjing battleship after maintenance and upgrading, and the rear is the Xiajiang ship, the Xiajiang, which borrowed North Korea to order to avoid construction in Navy treaty, and the first ship of the Tianshan-class landing ship, the Tianshan.

Yanjing and Xiangjiang are no longer new, but Tianshan-class landing ships are the new favorites of the Navy. The standard displacement is 1,600 tons and the full load is 4,000 tons. In order to save costs, all civil standards are adopted. The door layout at the head and tail is laid out, and the shielded high tank deck is used. Two Rhineland plans are used to produce German Man's marine high-horsepower diesel engines, with a maximum speed of 13 knots, a small-caliber air-proof artillery, a maximum load of 2,050 tons, and can carry 4 landing crafts and 16 tanks. Of course, this is all appearance. The real reason for the Navy to order is that it uses the latest variable chamber system.

As we all know, ships with deep draft are suitable for sailing across the sea, and ships with shallow drafts are suitable for driving near the beach. Landing ships need to get close to the coast, so they cannot be too drafted. To solve this problem, the engineers of the Mawei Group have taken three years to develop a variable chamber system, so that a ship can have these two capabilities at the same time. When driving at sea, they can inject sea water, enhance the stability of the ship, and discharge sea water when landing to reduce draft depth and facilitate the beach rushing.

"Bingwen."

Although the Tianshan class is an important project in the Navy's expansion plan, and 12 ships will be built in the first batch, Bingwen's eyes were attracted by the improved battleship Yanjing. Seeing that the retired old officers such as Cheng Biguang and Wang Guangxiong had not arrived, they were ready to go up and take a look in detail. As soon as they stepped on the gangway, they didn't expect a shout came from behind. Turning his head to look, the commander of the First Fleet Shen Honglie and the commander of the Fleet Battleship Detachment Zhang Zhaoyang came in stairs.

"Brother Chengzhang, Brother Zhaoyang, why are you here too?"

All three of them were friends who had experienced the baptism of the Yudelan naval battle in the European war and participated in the Battle of the Bohai Strait. Seeing that he was about to board the ship, Shen Honglie laughed and said, "What? Commander Dangbing wants to steal my old Shen's warship?"

The two-ocean fleet does not mean that it is equally divided. The main goal of the first fleet is Japan. In order to deal with the Japanese battleship group such as Changmen, all four Yanjing-class ships were delivered to the first fleet, and the second fleet received all four Sichuan-class aircraft carriers. The earliest two Beihai-class aircraft carriers were handed over to the first fleet. So Bingwen was really jealous and said with a smile: "Brother Chengzhang, why don't we discuss and leave the Yanjing here for three months, and let the boys under my command experience it."

"Get out, I haven't settled the score with you for the last time when I went back to Anhai! If Yanjing is left to you for three months, I will have to make a major repair when I go back!" Shen Honglie waved his hand quickly.

The scene of the two commanders quarrels made Zhang Zhaoyang and the officers around him secretly funny. But it was also interesting to say that, although the Navy was one, it was a well-known secret that the two fleets fought openly and secretly. The second brother couldn't stand the old school of the eldest brother, and the eldest brother couldn't stand the second brother's conservativeness, so every exercise in the north and south was a splash. Especially two years ago, Shen Honglie pulled out two old Anhai to launch a night sneak attack. It happened that the second fleet's Xiangjiang light patrol was selected as a radar test ship at that time. As a result, the second fleet used this light patrol, which should not have appeared in the exercise, as a post-departure reconnaissance ship. So a "tragedy" happened. Taking advantage of the Dawn Second Fleet aircraft and submarines, they used more than a dozen exercise torpedoes like "deep hatred". One of them accidentally hit the propeller and caused damage.

After the exercise, Chen Honglie shouted that he was unwilling to accept the wrongdoing because the Xiangjiang River and the radar themselves were not in the exercise plan. In the end, the matter was heard by the president, and he kicked it away with a sentence like "In actual combat, don't you allow the enemy to use new weapons?"

Amidst the laughter, everyone boarded the newly renovated Yanjing. After more than 20 years of development, the Republic of China formed its own style in ship design. Unlike Japan's complicated tower islands, it was more in line with the simple design of France and Germany. Therefore, the overhauled Yanjing superstructure is not only very beautiful, but also very modern.

But wars are not as good as anyone else's appearance. With the collapse of the Navy Treaty, countries have built new battleships and emerged new concepts such as fast battleships. The Yanjing-class has gradually stopped the development speed of the Shanghai army. Therefore, after internal research, the navy decided to make medium-term improvements in advance, mainly to improve the capabilities of air defense, power and naval guns. The standard displacement of the Yanjing-class has increased to 36,200 tons, a full load of 44,520 tons, a maximum speed has been increased to 32 knots, and a range of shortened to 15 knots/12,600 nautical miles. In addition to adding an air-to-sea and sea-to-sea radar, 10 new dual-unit l56/120 mm high-level dual-purpose guns were replaced. The original 12 quadruple 40 mm rapid-fire aircraft remained unchanged, and 24 dual 25 mm machine guns were also retained, but new fire control sights were installed, so the air defense firepower was stronger.

The biggest improvement comes from the main gun. The original l47/380mm main gun is no longer enough in front of newcomers in various countries, so the Navy replaced it with a newly designed l50/380mm main gun, and used the method of lengthening the diameter to improve the range and armor-piercing ability. Judging from the experimental results of live-fire shooting, the new l50 main gun is equivalent to the main gun used by the French Richelieu class, with a maximum range of 42,500 meters. After using the newly developed armor-piercing shell, the vertical penetration depth of 339 mm can reach 357 mm, which is close to the power of the l50/406mm naval gun used by the Shandong class.

Of course, the use of large medicine chambers to strengthen their power and increase the price after the launch of drugs is relatively high, and the life of the artillery barrels and medicine chambers has been greatly reduced. But even so, before the new battleships of China and Japan were put into service, the Yanjing-class was still the well-deserved king of the Far East! However, due to the strict confidentiality of data, the Navy deliberately spread false news such as poor artillery quality. Before this modification, a so-called "artillery quality fraud case" was planned, and the modification time was deliberately delayed for more than half a year. After all, countries were not highly rated by the Yanjing-class, believing that its comprehensive combat capability was weaker than the world's seven major battleships.

Such a good battleship is of course the favorite target of any naval general. Even if the Second Fleet is a hardcore aviation faction, it would not prevent Bingwen from wanting a ship to train as an imaginary enemy for several months. But how could Chen Honglie agree? This is his own treasure! If a few pits are smashed by a torpedo bomb or something, who is it?

"Brother Chengzhang, I heard that Japan's Canglong is about to be delivered?" When walking into the bridge to visit, Bingwen thought to wait for the North-South exercise to start, he must vent his anger on this big guy while asking about his old opponent's situation.

Due to the different goals they face, Chen Honglie paid more attention to the expansion of the Japanese navy and said: "Indeed, intelligence says that the Canglong will be delivered at the beginning of next month, and the Feilong will be completed by the end of the year. The two Nagato and the two Fusang will be improved last year, and the improvements of the four King Kong and two Ise will be completed before the end of the year. Japan has also launched the four sealed Hanoi class as the second-tier force, and the first Yamato class will also be launched at the end of the year. It is expected that 41 It can be delivered by the end of the year. On a heavy patrol, all four top-level ships will be completed in the middle of next year, and the four Ligan class ships have also started construction, and the first two are at the fastest speed. Information says that after the Soviet Union received loans and materials, Japan has also adopted plans to continue to build Sanyunlong-class aircraft carriers, four Agano-class light cruisers, four Dadian-class light cruisers, 32 destroyers and submarines to deal with us, but I guess they may not be able to get this money for a while.

Having said that, even if they can't get it for the time being, their overall preparations were three years earlier than us. There was no army drag in the past few years. In addition, the US and the Soviet Union deliberately supported it, and as long as they went south to get oil and water, they could start construction quickly. So I roughly calculated that their total tonnage would probably exceed 1.3 million tons by the end of 1941. It is still unclear whether our four Shandong and six Xi'an heavy cruises will be able to be in service by the end of 1941. If we subtract our two old Anhai, we will put aside the Tianshan and the supply ships, even if the four Liaoning-class aircraft carriers, which are 29,000 Liaoning-class aircraft carriers will be put into service next year, and they will only be one million to die." Chen Honglie frowned and said in a whisper, with a hint of bitterness in his tone, because everyone knows the relationship between Bingwen and Yang Qiu, and sometimes his words are useful than Chen Shaokuan.

Bingwen nodded. Since domestic arms were two years later than Japan, although industry was stronger, naval construction took time. The Shandong and Xi'an levels were both plans in the 36-year Naval Act. The 1938 Naval Act just passed by Congress will have to wait 42 years later. Therefore, the next two years will be a key year for one to rise and fall. As long as you survive, relying on industrial advantages, the first mate can get rid of Japan.

However, he did not have the same feeling of worrying about gains and losses as Chen Honglie. After all, in Yang Qiu's position, he needed to consider it thoroughly and could not completely destroy domestic construction and development by learning from Japan.

In fact, Chen Honglie was not very worried about the tonnage, because this is not the biggest problem for the Navy now, and what worries him the top leaders the most is still experience. The Navy is very different from the Army. The Army has made a lot of experience in Afghanistan in recent years, and the Air Force is the same. Except for a few of them who participated in the European War and the Battle of the Bohai Strait, the others are all newcomers after the war.

Bingwen was quite open-minded. His second fleet was basically mainly focused on aviation strikes, and his technology and experience were better than Japan. But just as he wanted to comfort him, there were bursts of taps behind him.

"Report! Commander-in-Chief Chen's telegram ordered the Yanjing to suspend its return to Qingdao, and two generals were asked to rush to Zhanjiang to meet him immediately."

"Now?"

Bingwen's heartbeat suddenly. He just joked with Shen Honglie to leave the Yanjing in the south, but the order came. What exactly is it? It is necessary to leave the strongest battleship in the south? Could it be that he and Shen Honglie's eyes met and four words popped out of their minds at the same time.

"The army went south!"

(To be continued)
Chapter completed!