After the "Northeast Incident", the Republic's Navy was able to expand rapidly.
On the third day of the September 18 incident, the Admiralty Department proposed an expansion bill to add five battleships. The excited members of the parliamentarians voted to pass the latest naval expansion bill without even holding a hearing. Lin Shu could only use the naval ships.
Bureau director You Xicheng called him and scolded him, but he couldn't scold Navy Commander Li Dingxin in person. If he scolded him in a hurry, the old man would resign.
At the National Defense Commission meeting, Li Dingxin was only criticized for his serious violations of the Navy expansion bill for submitting the Navy Expansion Act to Congress without passing the National Defense Commission, and he was seriously warned of him once. Li Dingxin, who was punished, was very satisfied. In his words, he said, "As long as he can, he can."
I was willing to get those five big ships and let me go home to farm!"
The "Kunlun Mountain Class" battleship was a product of an emergency after the outbreak of the "Northeast Incident". This class of battleships only simply amplified the hull of the "Parkling Class" battleship, increasing the displacement to 38,700 tons and increasing the caliber of the main gun.
To 380 mm, the armor defense was enhanced and the number of watertight compartments was increased, and a relatively backward comprehensive protection system was still adopted.
There are a total of five "Kunlun Mountain Class" battleships. Construction began in November 1932 and testing was completed in February 1936. The construction time has been shortened to three years and three months, which also shows the rapid progress of China's shipbuilding industry.
At the same time, the parliament also approved the construction plan for six heavy cruisers.
Today, Luoyuan Bay has become a fortified port area. More than 160 ships of all sizes are parked in the port. Since it was turned into a military zone in 1921, more and more people have been built around it.
The more turrets.
Luoyuan Guard District is located on the south side of the original Mabi Town, under a picturesque hill.
Located in a villa area in the security area, the deputy commander of the security area, Mao Zhongfang, was holding a family dinner to see Wei Zihao, who was transferred to the Nanyang Fleet. Wei Zihao was the cousin of General Wei Han, the former director of the Navy Ship Bureau.
Mao Zhongfang was General Wei Han's son-in-law.
Wei Zihao has been serving as commander in the Republic Navy's practice fleet. With the rapid development of the navy and the service of five "Parkling-class" battleships, the Republic Navy has already owned 18 new warships with a displacement of more than 6,000 tons, and also
There were 5 battleships and 5 heavy cruisers outfitting. Wei Zihao finally couldn't hold back and moved up and down, and finally got his wish and was transferred to the Nanyang Fleet as the commander of the 3rd Cruiser Detachment.
"You are lucky. When Cheng Yaoheng and Cheng were mostly halfway back to Fujian, there is still a future. Unlike when we were in Guangdong, we were always on the shore and followed the Democratic Party, and now we are a role guarding the fort." Mao Zhongfang
He raised the red wine in his glass and drank a little while, and couldn't help but sigh. In fact, he had the opportunity to return to Fujian at the beginning, but after Cheng Biguang's death, Sun Wen appointed him as the Minister of the Navy of the Law Guardian Army. He was confused for a while and missed the return of the north.
opportunity.
If it weren't for the late General Wei Han's face, I'm afraid even this deputy commander of Luoyuan Fortress would not be his turn.
"I originally wanted to go to the main fleet, but I didn't expect it to be a cruiser fleet." Wei Zihao also shook his head. The result is worse than he expected.
"I heard that the 'Yue Fei-class' heavy cruisers that are about to be equipped with each cruiser fleet will be well-equipped." Mao Zhongfang said: "The President has always been interested in promoting officers from Fuzhou Sea School, various battleships and cruisers.
Almost all the captains are from the first and second phases of the Naval Command Academy.”
"They are disciples of the emperor, and there is no way to do this. Besides, they are now the backbone of the navy. The Yantai Naval School and Nanjing Naval School were established after the Republic. The earliest graduates were four sessions later than Fujian Naval School.
They became the captain of the main battleship, and these officers from Fujian school may have become the commanders of each fleet." Wei Zihao was also a little grateful for himself. Due to the gap in naval talents, this group of people can still be reused due to the lack of naval talents.
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The next day, Wei Zihao took a destroyer to the South China Sea for training to Shantou Port where the Nanyang Fleet base was located. The Nanyang Fleet Commander Chen Shiying was in Beijing and had to accompany Gao Guisheng, the Minister of the Nanyang Fleet Military Order, to the 3rd Cruise Fleet to take office.
The 3rd Navy Cruiser Fleet is located in Zhanjiang. It is a major force behind the 3rd Battleship Fleet. It is responsible for patrol tasks throughout the South China Sea. It is dispatched much more frequently than the main fleet. As the 3rd South China Fleet
The main force's third battle fleet generally only carries the vigilance of the Japanese fleet on Taiwan.
The Nanyang Fleet's "Qinzhou" destroyer carried the sleepy sailors leaned across the wharf anchored at Zhanjiang Port. In front of it was the flagship "Guilin" of the 3rd cruiser detachment. The turbulent sea water hit the sides of the two warships.
There was a clanging sound on the side. Wei Zihao, who was thin on the dock, wore a snow-white general's dress and stepped on the gangway from the "Guilin" to the dock.
The "Guilin" belongs to the improved "Nanchang-class" cruiser, with a standard displacement of 9,200 tons. It is the first large warship built with a fully welded structure in the Republican Navy. The slender gray hull reflects the rising sun.
Below, a faint purple-red light was emitted.
On the cruiser "Guilin", officers and soldiers lined up on the side deck to welcome their new fleet commander.
Wei Zihao climbed onto the warship from the tilted gangway and saluted the naval flag and the officer on duty: "I request permission to board the ship!"
"Authorize to board the ship, sir!" The officer on duty was wearing a straight white summer dress, his right hand in white gloves raised his right forehead flat on his right forehead, his body stretched even more straight, and he looked at the new head boss of the fleet and replied loudly.
After getting on the deck, Captain Liu Wenqing led all the officers and soldiers to pay tribute to the new commander.
Liu Wenqing is a graduate of the first phase of Fuzhou Naval Command College and has known Wei Zihao for a long time. Although Wei Zihao followed Cheng Biguang and took the "Preservation Fleet" to Guangzhou, and after Wei Zihao returned to the north in 1921, he became the flying training fleet.
Deputy Commander, Fuzhou Sea School has already graduated from four classes.
However, at that time, the Republican Navy had only a few warships, mostly concentrated in Mawei to prevent the attack of the "Southern Fleet". These people who worked on ships such as "Haitian", "Hairong", "Haichou", "Haichen", and "Yingrui" at that time.
The officers of the sea school school naturally knew each other with their "predecessors".
Later, Wei Zihao could only watch these "officials" leave the ponytail one by one and go to a new type of frigate and destroyer. Later, these people were promoted to cruisers and even battleships as captains. Wei Zihao and others, as "seniors", were promoted to
This group of people can only stay jealously on the "antiques" in the navy and live in Fuzhou.
It is almost every naval officer's dream to be a captain of a battleship.
Of course, the "Guilin" cannot be compared with the "Parkling-class" battleship of the Republican Navy, but compared with the flagship "Haichen" cruiser where Wei Zihao was originally located, this 183-meter cruiser is a giant. Wei Zihao Station
Looking at the tall bridge under the sun and two triple-mounted front main turrets on the deck, I was a little unbelievable: Gao Guisheng, the Minister of the Nanyang Fleet of the Republican Navy, was on the 3rd Cruiser Fleet's main officer and the "Guilin"
The officers and soldiers read out the appointment letter issued by the Military Commission.
The Republican Navy now has 4 fleets, the East China Sea Fleet, the Strait Fleet, the Beiyang Fleet and the Nanyang Fleet.
Among them, the Nanyang Fleet, which was formed the latest, was the most powerful, with two "Parkling-class" battleships and 7 cruisers. However, the Beiyang Fleet, which was responsible for protecting Beijing and Tianjin, only one included two cruisers and 6 destroyers.
The 5th Cruiser Detachment made the commander of the Beiyang Fleet Wang Chongwen complain that his Beiyang Fleet was the young wife raised by his stepmother.
In fact, we cannot blame the Navy. The important and important ports in the north were originally in the hands of the British and Japanese. Although the Republic finally regained the sovereignty of Weihai and Qingdao through hard work, the construction of the military port has been obstructed by the Japanese and there is not enough
The Republican Navy could not put the main fleet in a dangerous situation.
The 3rd Cruiser Detachment currently has 2 cruisers and 4 destroyers, but the fleet will be expanded soon. The Navy has decided to complete the "Yuefei-class" heavy cruiser No. 3 and the latest "Wuchang-class"
Cruisers are added to the 3rd Cruiser Detachment.
The large cruiser of the "Yuefei" class is the product of the confrontation between China and Japan after the "Northeast Incident".
The Republican Navy needed a large cruiser to perform combat missions at the first level. The Navy initially formulated a heavy cruiser with a first-class equipment of 8-inch main guns and a displacement of about 12,000 tons. However, with the intervention of the president, the equipment caliber was finally selected.
The 254mm 10-inch main gun was originally intended to interfere with Japan's ongoing aviation combat ship renovation program.
Due to the increase in the caliber of the main gun, the Navy and Shipbuilding Bureau had to change the design again. In the end, the "Yuefei" class heavy cruiser was redesigned to a standard displacement of 21,700 tons, a full load displacement of 28,600 tons, equipped with 10 254mm main guns, with a designed speed of 34
The "monster" of the festival, this type of warship has caused chaos in the naval construction plans of various countries since its launch. In order to deal with the heavy cruiser of "Yue Fei" class, the Japanese announced their withdrawal from the Washington Naval Treaty and regain the abandoned Tiancheng
Class battlecruiser construction plan.
In fact, the "Yue Fei" class cruiser was a warship that was not very successful when Lin Shuo interfered with the next level. In order to reduce the cost, six warships of this class started construction together, but the cost of each of them was still as high as 21.7 million yuan, which is basically equivalent to one.
The cost of the "Parkling" class battleship is 70% but its firepower and protection are more than half the difference between a battleship, and its speed of 3 or 4 knots higher than that of a high-speed battleship does not seem to be very effective.
During the Dongshan Island naval combat exercise organized by the Admiralty, a formation composed of six "Yuefei"-class heavy cruisers was completely defeated by a formation composed of two "Parkling"-class battleships and four light cruisers.
From then on, the Republican Navy even lost interest in building heavy cruisers.
In naval battles, a formation composed of heavy protection light cruisers is completely able to entangle heavy cruisers. Now the speed of high-speed battleships is as high as 30 knots, making it difficult for heavy cruisers to get rid of such big attacks. When the heavy cruiser formation encounters high speed
When a hybrid formation of battleships and light cruisers with enhanced protection is inevitably in awkward dilemma.