In addition, in terms of weapons and auxiliary facilities, Wu Aihua only followed the configuration standards of the Kitty Hawk when it was launched from the factory. If the configuration of the Kitty Hawk was followed after several major overhauls, even if Wu Aihua sold Wu Aihua, he would not be able to pay for such a huge contribution.
value.
The reason why Wu Aihua was so "reluctant" this time was because he was dissatisfied with the actions of the United States in later generations that would always deter others. Now, let my super aircraft carrier go to the four oceans to show off, so that the great powers can also have a taste of being intimidated.
In addition, when it comes to the choice of medium-sized aircraft carriers, Wu Aihua pragmatically chose the famous "Essex-class" aircraft carriers of the United States during World War II. Americans built a total of 24 aircraft carriers of this class before and during World War II.
The United States finally defeated Japan and made great achievements.
The Essex-class aircraft carrier has a standard displacement of 27,200 tons and a full displacement of 34,880 tons. It has a power of 150,000 shaft horsepower and a maximum speed of 32.7 knots. It can carry 103 combat aircraft of various types, with a maximum capacity of 3,442 people and a normal capacity of 2,400 people.
The Essex-class aircraft carrier exactly meets Wu Aihua's requirements of 30,000 to 50,000 tons. Moreover, due to its relatively low technology age, it only costs 10 points per ton. This makes Wu Aihua feel a little relieved. Each ship only costs 348,000 tons.
At that time, the Wuaihui's merit points had reached 2 million points per month. Wouldn't it be possible to equip 5 or 6 Essex-class aircraft carriers in one month?
Isn’t the United States known as the world’s strongest industrial country? Wu Aihua remembers that in the U.S. shipbuilding plan in 1942, the United States only planned 10 Essex-class aircraft carriers. So, let’s compare and see who is the best.
More aircraft carriers!
Of course, Wu Aihua cannot be compared, at least not yet. Because China is very short of oil. When Wu Aihua redeemed these two aircraft carriers, he was already planning to exploit oil fields in Shandong. Otherwise, after the war actually started, Chinese tanks
, aircraft and battleships may become fixed forts due to lack of oil.
Later, the Shengli Oilfield in Shandong had proven oil reserves of 14.5 billion tons and natural gas of 2,473.8 billion cubic meters. It was one of the world's famous large oil fields. By 1978, the production of Shengli Oilfield reached 20 million tons.
Wu Aihua's plan was to carry out preliminary infrastructure construction in 1942, officially produce 5 million tons of oil in 1943, and reach 10 million tons in 1944. Plus the annual output of 600,000 tons of Yumen Oilfield, alas, it is still not enough. However, this number is not enough.
The difference is not much different. The current domestic oil reserves are completely sufficient to last until the end of 1943. The difficulty lies in whether there is still oil available in the second half of 1943 and the first half of 1944.
Back to the issue of aircraft carriers. Heavy aircraft carriers and medium-sized aircraft carriers cannot be produced at present and can only be exchanged from the system. However, light aircraft carriers can be produced completely. Therefore, Wu Aihua has not exchanged them since the four major offshore fleets were established at the end of 1939.
It has passed a warship of less than 20,000 tons. All of these are produced by major shipyards.
The eight aircraft carriers needed to form the new Pacific Fleet and Indian Ocean Fleet were thus born in the 1940 shipbuilding plan. Although by the time Wu Aihua issued the order to form the two fleets, only four of the eight had been completed.
All ships can be delivered for use before April 1942.
On the naming of these aircraft carriers, Wu Aihua fully solicited the opinions of the Central Council, the Government Affairs Council and the political and military advisers. In the end, their suggestions were surprisingly unified. For the super aircraft carrier, they suggested naming it the "Mingshan class", the first
It was suggested that the second ship be called "Taishan", and the second ship was suggested to be called "Huashan". In addition, Songshan, Hengshan, Hengshan, Huangshan, Lushan, Changbaishan, Wuyishan, Emeishan, etc. could all be used for command; as for the medium-sized aircraft carrier, they suggested
The orders were given in the name of the emperor, so they were called the "Emperor" class, so China had four aircraft carriers including the "Ying Zheng", "Liu Bang", "Liu Ying", and "Liu Heng".
As for the light aircraft carrier, it was suggested that it should be more complicated. In the end, Wu Aihua adopted the "Thirty-six Tiangang Star" as the command. It doesn't matter what class it is, anyway, aircraft carriers under 20,000 tons are called "Tiangang class".
Without stopping, Wu Aihua overturned all the original orders and upgraded all heavy cruisers to "provincial level", all light cruisers to "city level", and all destroyers to "county level".
As for submarines or other ships, they are organized by number. The only eight battleships are ordered by their bearings, named North, Northeast, East, Southeast, South, Southwest, West, and Northwest.
This naming method is simple and clear. The only problem may be that provincial cities, including former ancient capitals, may not be enough. However, Wu Aihua is not too worried. When 30 heavy cruisers actually arrive, he will definitely think of new methods.
, who stipulated that China would only have the provinces it has now?
Although the Pacific and Indian Ocean fleets have been successfully formed, the ship configuration has not yet been completed. Not only are the two fleets short of 2 light aircraft carriers, but they are also short of 4 heavy cruisers. Originally, such heavy cruisers could be exchanged from the system.
But Wu Aihua still feels that production is better in reality. If you want to become a world industrial power, you must learn to build large ships and warships. In future generations of China, our freighters can easily build 100,000-ton cargo ships, but we have never been able to build them.
Dare to build an aircraft carrier.
Some people say that China has long mastered the technology of manufacturing aircraft carriers, but it just doesn’t want to build them for the time being. In fact, how do you understand this? When it comes to certain aspects of aircraft carrier technology, China must have mastered a lot, but when it comes to
We have already had the technology to build an entire aircraft carrier, but we are deceiving ourselves and others. If you have never built an aircraft carrier, how can you say you have mastered that technology? You may have mastered general technology, but the performance of the aircraft carrier you built is lower than others.
What if there are too many and they are no longer usable?
The two fleets also need to train and run-in to finally form combat capabilities, which also takes time.
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On March 9, 1942, in the early spring of Jiangnan, the peach blossoms in the back garden of the Presidential Palace were in bloom. President Wu Aihua was playing with his two-year-old and three-month-old son Wenwen in the backyard. Wu Aihua had no opinion on the name of his son.
He refused to listen and named him Wu Wen directly. He hoped that his son would become an educated person in the future, unlike his father who only knew how to do martial arts and not know how to do literature.
"President, everyone is here." Just as Wu Aihua was teasing his son happily, Shen Ren came in and said.
"Okay, Wenwen, meet dad again." Wu Aihua stood up.
"Dad, goodbye." Wenwen sat on the lawn and waved to Wu Aihua reluctantly. Then, as if he had discovered a new world, he walked to a small peach tree and reached out to pick the peach blossoms.
"This guy wants ###peach blossoms again. I really don't know who he learned this from." Wu Aihua glanced at his son, muttered something in his mind, turned around and left.
The conference room of the Presidential Palace has long been filled with leading figures from all walks of life.
On the left side of the long conference room is a group of civil servants, headed by Chairman Chiang. Under Chairman Chiang, Vice President Li Zongren, then Zhou Nl of the Government Affairs Council, Deputy Speakers Mao Zd, Feng Yuxiang, Yu Youren of the Supreme Supervisory Council, Yu Youren of the Supreme Court
There are 9 people in total including Minister Wu Jingxiong, Vice Premier Sun Ke of the Government Affairs Council, and Foreign Minister Gu Weijun.
On the right side of the long conference room is a group of generals, headed by Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the National Defense Force Xia Zhongqing, followed by Deputy Commander-in-Chief He Yingqin, Chief of General Staff Jiang Baili, Deputy Chiefs of General Staff Bai Chongxi, Gu Zhutong, Director of the General Political Department Chen Cheng,
There are 10 people in total including Director of the General Staff Fu Lin, Navy Commander Chen Shaokuan, Air Force Commander Sun Jianjun, and Defense Minister Zhong Shoufu. Zhong Shoufu is a member of the Government Affairs Council, so he can only be regarded as half military general and half civilian official.
Seeing the arrival of the President of Wuhan University, Deng Xixian, Secretary-General of the Presidential Office, immediately said loudly: "Everyone, the meeting is now held. The first item of the meeting is for everyone to stand up and sing the national anthem!"
As the music played, everyone sang in unison: "China stands majestically in the universe, stretching out all over the world. Huazhou has come from the top of Kunlun. The rivers and lakes are vast and the mountains are endless. The heroes bow to Yao Tian for hundreds of millions of years."
The lyrics of this national anthem were actually changed after Yuan Shikai became emperor, but only one sentence was changed. The original text of "the five tribes of the Republic opened Yao's sky" was changed to "Xun Hua bowed and gave way to Yao's sky."
At that time, after Wu Aihua took office, the "ism song" produced by the Kuomintang Party was naturally very serious. It was a party song and could not be regarded as the national anthem. Besides, Wu Aihua had convinced all political schools not to do anything in China.
If we really want to pursue doctrine, let's adopt "pragmatism" and "eclecticism". As long as it is useful to China, we can use it.
"The second item of the meeting is for President Wu Aihua to speak." After everyone finished singing, Deng Xixian said loudly again.
"Colleagues, I think you all know the topic of today's meeting, and have also read the intelligence about countries around the world in recent months. Moreover, judging from my private conversations with you, everyone agrees with the military
Therefore, there is no need to discuss the issue of whether our country will participate in the war. Here, I will talk about my views on the world situation and my views on the world itself."
"In Europe, Germany showed strong combat power and occupied the entire Western, Central and Eastern European countries. Even the countries that it did not occupy still followed Germany's national policy. However, Germany encountered resistance in Soviet Russia. Although Soviet Russia lost
The division lost ground, but Soviet Russia was not easy to defeat; in addition, although the British failed in the homeland battle, the British still retained about 60% of their national strength. The British were recruiting troops in Canada and were ready to attack
Germany launched a counterattack, and now the United States has joined the war against Germany, Italy, and Japan. Under such circumstances, it will be very difficult for the Germans to achieve a complete victory."
"You have also realized that the world is currently in chaos, but it is too early to say who will win and who will lose, because there is a huge variable in this, and this variable is China. If we join the German camp,
The Soviet Union, the United States, and the like are definitely not opponents. Comrades in the military may know better that our cutting-edge weapons cannot be countered by the United States. If we join the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union, then Germany, Japan and other countries will also not be our opponents.