The central government's thinking is still to focus on aircraft, speedboats, and more than thirty Soviet-Japanese submarines, plus a small number of former Japanese coastal defense ships as capital ships. The development of the entire navy should still follow a step-by-step process. Those large cruisers
This type of ship currently has neither the ability to repair nor the ability to maintain its ability to sail. To put it bluntly, it cannot afford to support it.
However, Yang Zhen's intention is to focus on personnel returning from the Soviet Union, plus Japanese naval instructors and technical personnel, to first establish command and technical colleges. Use Japanese equipment to expand the facilities of Dalian Shipyard and Huludao Shipyard.
production capacity, and the construction of two new marine engine production plants.
Among these ships, the ones in good condition will be put into operation as soon as possible. The large ships will be sealed first, and those with battle injuries will be repaired first by the two shipyards of Lushun and Huludao, mainly with Japanese technicians. Japanese technology will be used in Jinan.
and equipment, to build a new diesel engine production plant, specializing in the production of various high-power diesel engines.
After several discussions, the central government finally approved Yang Zhen's suggestion. However, the naval commander and chairman still rejected Yang Zhen's request to send someone else and insisted that Yang Zhen be responsible for this matter. In the words of the chairman, since you are
He poked a hole in the sky, so he still had to clean his butt by himself.
Don't worry about it. Let's settle this matter for now. As for other issues, we can wait until later. The chairman was half teasing and half expressing his somewhat dissatisfied attitude towards Yang Zhen's action. In fact, he has already made a decision.
Yang Zhen could only touch his nose and admit it in order to express his support.
After returning to the Northeast, Yang Zhen successively established a series of naval military academies, mainly based on the Japanese naval instructors he invited back, and built a large-scale marine steam turbine production plant in Shenyang. As for the naval headquarters, it was actually
The General Headquarters of the Anti-Japanese Alliance has become a rotating training base for the entire army. Li Mingfeng serves as the first deputy commander of the Anti-Union Navy and is responsible for the specific formation of the navy.
According to Yang Zhen's requirements, most of the large ships are to be mothballed. First, we must focus on the formation and training of the submarine force to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible. Among the coastal defense ships that are in good condition, we must also form combat effectiveness as soon as possible. Torpedo boats, minesweepers and submarine hunting boats
Class I light ships must also seize the time for maintenance.
A unified plan must be formulated for the replacement of weapons. For all ships that can be used immediately, the replacement of anti-aircraft artillery fire must be carried out gradually. The original Japanese-made 25mm anti-aircraft guns with poor performance must be uniformly replaced with the anti-aircraft guns produced by the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
37 anti-aircraft guns, or double 23 anti-aircraft guns.
The Japanese-made anti-aircraft machine guns were also replaced with 14mm anti-aircraft machine guns made by the Anti-Japanese Alliance. In order to reduce the caliber, all the Soviet-made 130 naval guns were replaced with Japanese-made 127 naval guns. Although the caliber was reduced a bit, as well as the range
Slightly closer. But compared to the Soviet-made naval gun whose rate of fire was not satisfactory, the specially developed Japanese-made 127 naval gun had better overall performance.
Yang Zhen's attitude is to unify the calibers of all the naval guns of medium-sized ships as much as possible. The calibers of small-caliber anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns are also unified. The Japanese-made 450 mm torpedo launchers of torpedo boats are made in Germany.
of 533 mm torpedoes instead.
After all-out repairs and formation, by the time the civil war broke out in the first half of 1946, a fairly small navy appeared on the western Pacific coast of Asia. A dozen Soviet-made and Japanese-made destroyers, coastal defense ships, and fifty
A number of Japanese-made and German-made torpedo boats, nine Japanese-made submarines and 11 sea sweepers formed the First Fleet and have begun cruising.
The most important Japanese-style landing ships were all renovated in the shortest time and put into front-line use. Although these Japanese-style landing ships have a large performance gap compared with various mechanized landing ships of the US military.
As the saying goes, something is better than nothing.
With the progress of the Liberation War and the completion of repairs on a large number of battle-damaged ships, more ships were gradually transferred into service. By the time of the founding of New China, the three major fleets formed by the navy already had six Japanese-made and Soviet-made heavy cruisers.
, eleven light cruisers, and more than seventy destroyers and coastal defense ships.
More than 100 minesweepers, submarine hunters, landing ships, more than 100 torpedo boats manufactured by Japan, Germany and the Soviet Union, as well as imitations of the Chinese, more than 30 submarines, and a large number of tugs, supply ships and transport ships
Navy. Although this navy cannot be compared with the U.S. Navy, its strength in Asia is definitely ranked first.
Although the main coastal defense ships among them are only responsible for escort and patrol tasks in the Japanese Navy. However, these coastal defense ships are large in number and generally not very old. Therefore, in the early days of the Chinese Navy, these ships, together with the 2,000-ton class
Are the following destroyers all converted into frigates? They have always been used as main ships.
The New China Navy, which uses Japanese-made survey ships, also completed comprehensive surveying and mapping of China's three major offshore seas based on the Japanese Navy's surveying and mapping data on China's coast before the founding of the People's Republic of China, ensuring the control of the Diaoyu Islands and the main islands in the South China Sea.
.Coupled with the large number of aviation troops transferred from the Air Force, the situation of old China having no defense at sea has been completely changed.
Some of the destroyers and coastal defense ships brought back from Singapore and Japan had no maintenance structure due to excessive battle damage, and were directly dismantled as scrap steel. Some destroyers were too old and difficult to repair and maintain, as well as some destroyers in the later stages of the Japanese war.
Hastily built, low-quality coastal defense ships were also partially dismantled into scrap steel.
Compared with those coastal defense ships that were too old or were manufactured with poor quality due to lack of raw materials in the later period. Yang Zhen paid more attention to the Japanese minesweepers and submarine hunting ships of all levels. As long as these ships can be repaired, almost all
Serve on the front line.
A century-old navy is not something you can just talk about. It requires exploration step by step. Fortunately, Yang Zhen sent people to the Soviet Union to study the navy in advance, and immediately after the war, he invited all the instructors from the Japanese Naval School.
After returning, he established a complete naval education system, which provided continuous technical support for the development of the navy.
Especially those Japanese-made submarines, which played a big role in China establishing its own deterrent force. The Japanese Navy not only has its own submarines, but also has several German-made submarines. The performance of these submarines, at least after the war,
Over the past few years, it has still been in a leading position.
While building his own navy, Yang Zhen was also ordered by the central government to provide the newly formed North Korean navy with four Japanese-made destroyers, eight coastal defense ships and a number of speedboats. To the newly formed North Korean government, except for the aircraft, which were made in Northeast China
In addition, a navy with all Japanese weapons was formed.
The only setback was that a large number of warships manufactured by the United States and Britain in the postwar world were decommissioned and entered the international naval ship market. Yang Zhen also sent people through Hong Kong to buy back a batch of American-made landing ships, as well as British-made frigates, etc.
China is in urgent need of light ships. However, Yang Zhen's attempt to sell excess Japanese coastal defense ships was unsuccessful.
The curtain of the Cold War has come to an end, and all countries are embracing each other or siding with each other. The large-scale sale or aid of decommissioned American and British ships has made the international arms market unsatisfactory. Moreover, the performance of American and British ships is better than that of the ships built hastily by the Japanese Navy at the end of the war.
, the performance is much better, and the source of accessories is more guaranteed.
Moreover, although a large number of British and French colonies became independent after the war, few of these countries had money. As a result, after a lot of effort and bartering, Yang Zhencai sold five Japanese destroyers and eleven
A Japanese coastal defense ship and a number of home-made gunboats and torpedo boats.
On the contrary, a large number of Japanese-made light weapons and Japanese-made artillery seized during the war were sold in large quantities. These trophies, which the Chinese no longer needed, provided China with a large amount of materials during the civil war. Especially the urgent needs for industrial construction
, and based on raw materials that are not available in the region, as well as rubber from Southeast Asia, the most critical thing is funds.
The large number of weapons left behind by the remnants of the Korean army after they disarmed them were sold by Yang Zhen through various means as soon as the Korean army surrendered their weapons to the Anti-Japanese Alliance. Yang Zhen even took a deposit from some forces in Southeast Asia.
, which was a somewhat unreliable method to disarm the Japanese troops.
Although the central government did not agree with Yang Zhen's decision to become an arms dealer, facing the urgent need for funds for industrial construction and the U.S. blockade, the central government finally agreed with Yang Zhen's approach.
Suddenly, a large number of Japanese-made light and heavy weapons appeared in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The European sovereign states that were trying to restore colonial rule were in a hurry. They also continued to protest against the Americans who were responsible for destroying Japanese weapons. The Americans faced
In this case, there is nothing you can do but stare blankly.
In the face of suppression by Western countries, those former colonial rebels were in dire need of anti-tank weapons and anti-aircraft weapons, and had a huge demand for weapons. Yang Zhen adopted a barter method and sold the trophies, not only obtaining a large amount of urgently needed supplies and funds
, and also made many friends.
It’s just that the Japanese, who have just recovered a little from the post-war difficulties, are watching the ships they built, driven by the Chinese, sailing in various sea areas. The newly established Coast Guard can only rely on
Looking at the few old ships donated by the Americans, it can be said that I have mixed feelings in my heart.
But what the Japanese are thinking at this moment is not something Yang Zhen can consider. What he wants is not only the remaining ships of the Japanese Navy, but also the equipment in the Japanese factories. The battleship Nagato and the aircraft carrier Katsuragi
After handing it over to the Soviets and silencing the Soviets, Yang Zhen still focused his main energy on Japan.
While Yang Zhen was carrying out forced demolition of the entire Japanese mainland, the domestic situation was also constantly changing. The Chongqing negotiation reached an agreement, but it was still a piece of waste paper. But although the civil war was still not avoided, the time of its outbreak was
Because of the comparison of strength, it was postponed for more than half a year, and it was not until the end of 2006 that it fully broke out.
During this civil war that lasted less than three years, Yang Zhen basically stayed in the Northeast. First, the Northeast was at a critical moment of construction, and it was not suitable for Yang Zhen, the helmsman, to move away. Second, it was because the central government was cultivating more talents.
, from the perspective of being able to command talents suitable for modern warfare, it is better to let Yang Zhen stay in the Northeast.