Watch Fairy Tail Episode 155: Yamato begins construction
Episode 155 Yamato starts construction
Entering late October, Ming's submarine production suddenly increased. Originally, the monthly production was only a dozen, but now the production began to rise rapidly. By the end of October, the country had built 26 submarines throughout October, of which 12 were built.
They were all produced in the second half of the year. The Ming Navy Ministry approved the Maritime General Staff's request to "substantially increase the production of submarines" and at the same time delayed the construction plan of the last battleship.
In the "November Small and Medium-sized Ship Construction Plan" formulated by the Ministry of Navy, the goals for submarine construction are: 3 small submarines, 15 medium-sized offshore submarines, 10 large ocean-going submarines, and 4 other special submarines. A total of 31 ships
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Among the "other special submarines", two are "Archerfish" anti-aircraft submarines, and the other two are "Cow" - ocean-going supply submarines.
This kind of supply submarine is also an idea proposed to Xiaoqiang. It is an ocean-going submarine of about 2,000 tons. It has no torpedo tubes, only one deck main gun and one Bofors machine gun as self-defense weapons. In addition to its own
In addition to diesel, it can also carry nearly 800 tons of additional diesel, which can theoretically fill up five large submarines or eight medium-sized submarines with fuel. Of course, this is a theoretical value, which refers to filling from empty to full. In fact, it is impossible.
When a submarine meets a "cow", there is not a drop of oil left. Generally, just adding an appropriate amount is enough. In this way, one "cow" can generally provide oil for more than a dozen or twenty submarines.
With refueling, it is enough to cover a maritime war zone.
In addition to fuel, the supply boat also carries a large amount of food, fresh water, medicine, replacement parts, and a very professional maintenance team. These are things that ordinary attack submarines are difficult to carry in large quantities.
Xiang Xiaoqiang once wanted this supply submarine to carry some torpedoes to replenish combat submarines. Because according to Xiang Xiaoqiang’s experience in World War II, in addition to fuel, the most powerful consumer of submarine warfare is torpedoes. Once the torpedoes are used up, even if the submarine still has
A large amount of fuel, food and fresh water must also be returned, because there is no point in wandering on the sea anymore. But the submarine designers were embarrassed at first because the torpedoes took up a lot of space. The heavy-duty torpedoes used by submarines were very huge and lay there.
, like a big felled tree trunk. A few torpedoes can occupy a lot of fuel space. Therefore, Xiang Xiaoqiang had no choice but to give up for the time being.
He plans to let this "fuel cow" be tried for a period of time. If there is a serious shortage of torpedoes, then he will have to design another supply submarine-either without extra fuel and only torpedoes, or with a more powerful design.
Large, both are installed.
Entering November, the number of Ming Army submarines in Japan's peripheral waters has reached 61, half of which are in the Sea of Japan. The number of Ming Army submarines in the Sea of Japan has reached 30 - the density is quite high. The seabed within 100 nautical miles outside Vladivostok Port
, Japanese and Soviet shipwrecks are lying everywhere. Japan has now implemented a "fleet escort system." In the previous stage, when the merchant ships were about to arrive at the sea off Vladivostok, they collected the goods and formed a fleet, waiting for the wild to enter the port together. Now it is
As soon as they left the Japanese port, they immediately assembled into a fleet, ranging from a dozen to thirty or forty ships, escorted by thirty-five, seventy-eight, or eleven or twelve destroyers, and sailed to Vladivostok.
But this just matched the Ming Army's "Wolf Pack Tactics". Thirty submarines of the Ming Army were scattered in several layers in the northwest Sea of Japan. The closer to Vladivostok, the higher the density of submarines. Even if Japanese merchant ships formed a fleet, they always escaped.
The eyes of Ming army submarines could not be detected. When a submarine discovered the fleet, it immediately used radio to notify other submarines in front and on the left and right, and followed closely. So in the next few hours, or within ten hours, a large net began
Tightened up. A dozen submarines gathered in the direction of the convoy at the same time, following behind, left, and right.
At night, these submarines began to slaughter. More than a dozen submarines surfaced, riding the dark wind of the moon to increase speed, galloping back and forth in the fleet, constantly selecting targets, launching torpedoes... Then, explosions began to occur on the sea.
, balls of fire shot up into the night sky, illuminating the sea for miles around with bright red.
The submarine is very short and can easily be hidden in the dark background of the sea at night. Even if it is sailing at high speed on the water, it is difficult to see. The sound of the submarine's diesel engine has long been combined with the heavy engine sound of the surrounding cargo ships, and
The sounds of explosions were mixed together. Whether it was active sonar or passive sonar on the destroyer, it was of little use at this time. Besides, the destroyer had to save people and also run around to capture submarines. Sometimes, the destroyer had to lose sight of the other.
If you don't protect yourself, you will be hit by a torpedo...
Once a dozen wolves rush into a flock of hundreds of sheep and slaughter them, the shepherd, even if he has a gun, is basically helpless in the face of chaos.
October was the prelude to the glorious period of the Ming Army's submarine warfare. In this month, the Ming Army sank more cargo ships than in the previous three months combined. This was due to both the "wolf pack tactics" and the substantial increase in the number of submarines.
The reason for the high.
In early November, various relevant intelligence confirmed that submarine warfare began to have an effect on Japan at the strategic level. Some people in the Japanese cabinet continued to complain that maritime trade with the Soviet Union was becoming in danger of losing money, and proposed that Japan should terminate its maritime trade with the Soviet Union.
trade, or raise the price of goods again to cover the cost of more and more goods and ships sinking into the sea.
However, some people objected, saying that it was the current seemingly loss-making trade with the Soviet Union that allowed the Ming Dynasty to concentrate most of its submarines in the Sea of Japan, so that Japan's main Pacific route would not be too threatened and Japan could operate normally.
Other countries import steel and oil and export goods to Japan. If trade with the Soviet Union is terminated, then the Ming Dynasty will definitely transfer more submarines to the Pacific coast and block Japan's own routes. Therefore, it is better to continue trade with the Soviet Union and at the same time increase
The price of the goods made the Soviet Union pay for Japan's maritime losses. Vladivostok was the most important stronghold in the Far East that Russia had operated for decades, and the Soviet Union would not throw it away just for a few dollars.
When this information was collected at the Daminghai General Staff and the Navy Ministry, these old men who were still skeptical about submarine warfare gradually became optimistic. Where did this go? But it was just the beginning, and there were already people in the Japanese cabinet.
Calling. In the next few months, as Ming's submarine production continues to increase, and as the number of submarines around Japan continues to increase, more and more people in Japan will start calling. One day - it may not take too long
Soon, the war machine of the Japanese Empire will be unable to sustain itself.
According to information from the People's Guard, Japan began building an unprecedented giant battleship in Wu Port in early November. The total tonnage is expected to reach 60,000 to 70,000 tons. Moreover, according to Xiang Xiaoqiang's exclusive information, these are only two battleships of the same class.
It was just the first ship among the ships. Xiang Xiaoqiang originally wanted to give the information in more detail and bring out the names "Yamato" and "Musashi". But then he thought that this was too exaggerated, so he gave up for the time being.
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However, Xiang Xiaoqiang wrote in the intelligence: We don’t need to be anxious, and we don’t need to feel too much of a threat. Let Japan build giant battleships! We just need to build aircraft carriers while continuing to blockade Japan. Wait until those two giant ships are put into service.
By that time, the Japanese will find that they can no longer even use excess fuel for training. These two giant ships will either be parked in the harbor as a permanent sight due to lack of fuel, or they will be destroyed by us as soon as they go to sea due to lack of training.