Chen Shaokuan was really frustrated. After joining the Dongshan Fleet, he had three 20,000-ton Songshan-class heavy cruisers, more than ten Hengshan-class frigates, and more than ten submarines of various types. Chen Shaokuan even had a challenge. The ambition of the Japanese Combined Fleet, but what tasks does the Dongshan Fleet receive? Blockade the Taiwan Strait and surrounding waters. Objectively speaking, this task is very important. There are wars to fight, and the Japanese Combined Fleet is still fully organized. At that time, it still had the ability to provide escort for transport fleets. Therefore, although the vast majority of Japanese transport merchant ships chose to go through the Sulu Sea and Celebes Sea and bypass the Pacific Ocean to travel between Southeast Asia and the mainland, there were still many with deeper backgrounds. Japanese shipping companies chose the shortcut of taking the South China Sea and then the Pacific coast of Taiwan under the escort of warships. Therefore, in the era when Chen Yuanyang was in charge of the Dongshan Fleet, the Dongshan Fleet could always win battles in the Pacific waters south of Taiwan, and even Being able to directly attack Japan's naval base in the Philippines, Chen Shaokuan took over the Dongshan Fleet after the Battle of the Coral Sea. At this time, the Yamato aircraft carrier fleet under the Japanese Combined Fleet had been crippled, and the Wuwei aircraft carrier fleet had also suffered certain losses. , the Japanese combined fleet naturally no longer has the ability to escort merchant ships. Therefore, although the Dongshan Fleet still has the task of blockading the Taiwan Strait and surrounding waters, it has no battle at all. After the Battle of the Solomon Sea, the Wuwei aircraft carrier fleet suffered a heavy blow , the Japanese even abandoned the naval bases along the coast of the Philippines, and the Dongshan Fleet completely lost the chance to fight.
Ouyang Yun has always attached great importance to the development of the shipbuilding industry since he established a foothold in the south. Now it is the harvest season. The aircraft carrier manufacturing process is too complex and the foundation of China's shipbuilding industry is too weak, so it is not yet able to achieve the level of traditional naval powers such as the United States and Japan. In that way, an aircraft carrier can be launched in a month or even a week. However, when it comes to cruisers, destroyers, frigates, submarines and other types of small and medium-sized ships, China's design and construction capabilities have firmly become the world's best, almost every week. Chen Shaokuan was naturally overjoyed when a new ship entered the order, but at the same time, the unwillingness in his heart became stronger and stronger. Why did he leave the center and surrender his status to the front-line troops? Wasn't he just hoping to lead the army into battle to wash away his repeated mistakes? Is it the shame of repeated defeats in the war? Now that he clearly has the capital to beat the Japanese, he can only stand still. This seems to him to be a huge waste. Under the control of this idea, Chen Shaokuan repeatedly Three wrote to the Supreme Command, offering advice and asking for battle. In short, he hoped to join the battlefield immediately.
Now that the Ryukyu Islands Campaign finally got a chance, it’s no wonder that he would pull out all the main forces of the Dongshan Fleet and kill the chicken with a sledgehammer.
Of course, there was no suspense in the battle. Chen Shaokuan planned to take the opportunity to train his team, so in addition to the nine unarmed pure transport ships, more than fifty ships, other large and small gunboats and even the five armed troop carriers joined in. the battle,
After the United States recognized China's absolute dominance in the Pacific War, it strengthened military exchanges between the two countries. China's unique missile boats and frigates have demonstrated strong maritime long-range penetration capabilities. Americans are quite impressed by these two types of ships. Interested, they could not enter places involving military secrets such as the Haikou Shipyard, so they sent a large number of low-level naval officers to the Dongshan Fleet and Haikou Fleet in the name of study and exchange, with the intention of further examining the combat capabilities of these two types of ships. , is it worth introducing,
The U.S. Navy's exchange group stationed at the Higashiyama Fleet had a total of thirty-four people. When the Battle of the Ryukyu Islands was about to begin, they naturally did not want to miss this rare opportunity to observe actual combat. The leader of the exchange group, Colonel Joseph, gave an order, and the entire exchange group was dispatched, so almost There are Americans on every heavy cruiser, frigate and destroyer.
The flagship of the Dongshan Fleet and Chen Shaokuan's ship is the Songshan-class heavy cruiser "Fuzhou". As the leader, Joseph moves with the "Fuzhou". At this moment, he and a captain named Brown are standing behind Chen Shaokuan, The two of them used telescopes to look at Yonaguni Island, which was almost completely covered by fireworks ten kilometers away. While dumbfounded, Joseph couldn't help but asked: "Commander Chen, are you making a big deal out of such an island? Is it worth this level of bombardment?"
Chen Shaokuan had already put down the telescope with satisfaction at this time. Hearing this, he curled up his lips and said: "To make a mountain out of a molehill, no, no, why should soldiers risk their lives to solve a problem that can be solved with artillery fire? Their lives are worthless." Price, cannonballs, hehe."
Chen Shaokuan's statement is actually very appealing to the Americans. However, Yonaguni Island is too small, and the shelling of Dongshan Fleet seems to be endless. Joseph thought that many of these shells were contributed by Americans. After hearing this, his face became a little ugly. As a naval colonel, Joseph knew some of the secrets of the exchanges between China and the United States. Why were the top government officials first willing to support China's anti-Japanese war for free, and then offered some unequal conditions in exchange for it? When China sends troops to South Asia and the Pacific, doesn't it just want to spend money to buy Chinese people as cannon fodder? So to Joseph's ears, Chen Shaokuan's argument about "life is priceless" seemed particularly harsh. Joseph and his men were missile boats, frigates and Poseidons. Ship-to-ship missiles are coming. So far, their trip to China has not been pleasant. It has been more than two months since Joseph came to China, but so far he has not seen Poseidon missiles with his own eyes. The Chinese are guarding against them like thieves. , any training involving Poseidon ship-to-ship missiles would be carried out secretly, which made him completely lose confidence in whether he could complete the mission, and his perception of China and the Chinese people also dropped again and again. With the financial resources of the United States and the American style , In the past, as long as they felt that the missile speedboats and frigates were indeed advanced, they would definitely buy them without blinking an eyebrow. But now, although Joseph does not know the specific situation, he also knows that the country has already experienced a financial crisis, otherwise , the President will not immediately agree to the request of the Navy Department to introduce guided missile boats, frigates and Poseidon ship-to-ship missile technology but instead send them out for inspection first.
People at Joseph's level cannot access the truth, and the fact is that the U.S. government really has a financial crisis. This situation is of course related to the rise of China. At one time, the United States was almost all allies and other countries in dual-use military and civilian As a supplier of goods, now, because Xuebingjun has completely controlled the high-end technology of the electronics industry, the pharmaceutical industry and the military industry, the result is that loyal customers of similar products in the United States such as Britain and France have begun to switch to Xuebingjun, and because China is now actually The United States is already the leader of the Allied Forces, and the United States cannot directly confront it in terms of strength or morality. As a result, it can only sit back and watch the military and China gain strength until all walks of life in the country shrink due to overcapacity, and the economic crisis will not be possible. Containment occurs,