Vol 3 Chapter 221: China Carrier Report

Yokosuka Pier, Japan.
There are many more workers at the docks than there were two years ago. Especially in 1935, the docks that had become somewhat deserted because of the country's defeat and the entire economy was on the verge of bankruptcy, began to restore some prosperity after 1934.
Many bankrupt businessmen and craftsmen began to go out to join the work, especially the residents near Yokosuka Terminal, and even every household went out to work as porters. The rest is a family workshop that maintains that family. Now, they can finally get some jobs, although they are only some of the most basic processing for Chinese goods, although they are only some cheap basic processing or harmful work. For example, used TV sets shipped from China. In these homework workshops, metal is recovered from used TV sets and then shipped back to China.
Some sailors on the shore used only a little yen to get drunk on the shore before returning to the ship.
"Baga, it's been a long time late for the shore. I could have found a woman for fun, and now I'll be on the ship for a long time." A sailor was holding the wine bottle in his hand, but it wouldn't be possible to lift it high. The wine came out, the economy was sluggish, and the seafarer career that was very profitable now has shrunk a lot. He waved his hands and threw it, and the wine bottle fell into the sea.
"Who has the Chinese caught our evidence? They now occupy Ryukyu, and the navy is stronger than us, saying that the ship is loaded with smuggled goods. If the ship is not stopped for inspection, it will be fired and sunk. Damn boss, deduct wages, deserve it Fined by the Chinese. "
Another sailor gave a stern bite, looked at the other ships parked at the dock, and said enviously, "If the boss has Chinese goods, instead of relying on smuggling, we can make a little more ..."
The ship where the two sailors were located was supposed to smuggle a batch of rice from China back to Japan this time. As a result, it was secretly busy for half a month, but was stopped shortly after it went out to sea.
"Yes, Yoshida, their boss has a relationship in China. Every time a ship is shipped back from the Philippines, it always sells smoothly."
"Yes, the newspaper said that we imported iron ore from Americans in Japan, then made steel locally, and sold it to them at a cheaper price than the Chinese made it. God knows that they There is too much steel needed. "
"The Great Japanese Empire is not as good as it was yesterday, but damn, I can finally see some hope."
"Yeah ... I heard some taverns say that the Chinese economy may drive the Japanese economy, it, who knows. However, in just two years, only their port towns change every time they go It looks like the development is really fast ... "
These crew members are not highly educated, but they are all educated, and they have more places to go and more to understand. The evaluation of current affairs and politics often has a perspective unique to the grassroots.
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The next few Japanese men in military uniforms stopped talking when they heard the words. Two of the young naval officers even angrily wanted to step forward to teach these drunken drunks, but a leading officer was quite majestic. Stopped, "They are telling the truth. Let's go to Tokyo."
No one knows that the man in the ordinary naval officer's uniform is the current Japanese naval minister. The former commander of the Navy, Yokosuka, will return to Tokyo to serve as a naval military officer.
Standing on the destroyer heading for Tokyo, Nagano looked to the distant Yokosuka Shipyard, where two old battleships were parked, covered with brackets. This was the last naval port he participated in as a naval commander in Yokosuka. Big thing: transform battleships and turn them into aircraft carriers like the Chinese.
Taking another look at the messy battleship that was demolished, Nagano turned himself into the destroyer and ordered to sail to Tokyo.
Empire, needs an aircraft carrier. Without money to build, you can only destroy these battleships that were once regarded as imperial artifacts, and instead change to aircraft carriers that are not even equipped with a main gun.
The era of cannon warships is passing.
In the Imperial Palace, Yamamoto fifty-six has been waiting in the side hall for a long time, but he has not seen the Emperor's call.
"Meet Chief Nagano"
Fifty-six Yamamoto saw that Nagano had come to the palace, and for a moment, he got up and performed military salute. Whether in military rank or military position, Nagano was higher than him.
The commander of the Yokosuka Navy has just been promoted and is now called by the Emperor. Yamamoto has a hunch that this person will become one of the real figures of the Imperial Navy in the future. Not to mention, he has just been promoted to the rank of empire in an emergency, and every indication shows that the position of the Minister of the Navy is not far from him.
Think about yourself. In the Sino-Japanese War, in order to save the last major strength of the Japanese Navy, after the overall defeat of the air force, it was urgently ordered to evade, and it escaped the disaster. If it were n’t for the Chinese carrier-based aircraft after the battle, there would be very little fuel left, it is estimated that neither themselves nor the sub-fleet could return to Japan.
However, in the end, he was defeated. Within the empire, he was less popular.
Nagano walked up to Yama itself, patted him on the shoulder, and said gravely, "Yamoto, don't have too much pressure, you were right in that battle."
Yamamoto was a little moved. He was very clear that the navy upstart in front of him, like himself, advocated the development of aviation. Although the empire is defeated today, it is not defeated to the Chinese battleships, but to their aircraft carrier fleets. Although this is sad, it also shows from the side that the theory that the two of them have adhered to over the years is correct.
"Mr. Nagano, to meet the Emperor this time, I will insist on my opinion to vigorously develop the navy aviation, and hope to get your support. Hay," said Yamamoto fifty-six, bowing low.
Soon, officials from the palace came out to summon the two, and they only went in. It was only when they came to Juzhi Pavilion that it turned out that besides the two, there were still some key figures in the political arena, the old Xiyuan Temple prestige and staff headquarters. A secondary officer was present.
"I'm calling some of you today to inquire about the future direction of the imperial navy." The emperor is holding in the hands of the Navy's development plan for the next five years that the Ministry of the Navy has just submitted. Xiyuan Temple had read it before coming, "This plan will completely abandon the battleship manufacturing, and instead learn the Chinese, build large aircraft carriers, and build fast cruisers for air defense, mine clearance, and anti-submarine use. According to the information of the imperial agents The Chinese are building tens of thousands of tons of large aircraft carriers in shipyards in the south. The Empire needs to make some kind of decision. "
In the plan, anti-submarine is the most important, because the Chinese did not show much submarine force from beginning to end. According to the development of Europe, the Japanese Navy's Ministry believes that the emphasis on air defense is more important than anti-submarine. The Empire's new ship should focus on aviation and air defense to ensure that it can handle quite difficult air defense missions in the future. After all, the Chinese have an advantage over naval carrier-based aircraft. They have a spear, and the empire should develop a thick shield. As for anti-submarine, it is not so urgent.
"His Majesty, the results of the Sino-Japanese naval battle have proved that the Chinese have come to the front of the empire in terms of naval aviation. We must hurry up and concentrate our forces to catch up with them." Yamamoto 56 said eagerly, in In his opinion, what the empire needs to do is to build an aircraft carrier at a speed that dazzled the Chinese, just like building battleships like crazy.
"Nagano, what's your opinion?"
Both are of the navy system, and even both of them have participated in this naval development plan, but Nagano ’s view of self-cultivation is slightly different from the plan. "Your Majesty. I also agree with and actively support the development of the Navy in the direction of the navy aviation. However, If you do n’t consider a low-ranking military position, it ’s just an ordinary soldier. I think that the opinions held by some other people in the military at present are very reasonable.

"You mean the views of Matsui Ikane's group of them?" The emperor was slightly displeased, but still asked what he meant.
However, Nagano's self-cultivation was clear. The Sino-Japanese armistice, in which Matsui Ikone and the military and political figures behind him played a great role. The Emperor should also have a certain tendency for that development line. So boldly said:
"The empire's economic crisis has just improved. The Army, Navy, and Air Force all need to develop. National strength is limited. How to develop and how to focus, I think it should be based on actual needs.
If the empire insists on a deadly battle with the Chinese in the sea 10 years later, then it should build its navy with all its strength. As a result, we may eventually defeat the Chinese navy, but we will also suffer heavy losses, and the land we need most cannot be obtained. Because the weakening of the Army and Air Force will have extremely serious consequences. Even if we defeat them, we still need to face their millions of elite army, the navy will be beyond our reach.
If the empire insists on the strategic goal of acquiring more territories and resources, Chen believes that a defensive naval strategy should be adopted, with the construction of advanced large aircraft carriers and the conversion of more aircraft carriers to develop a defensive navy.
Although the minister did not participate in the land war between China and Japan, he knew that in terms of army construction, whether it was individual weapon preparation, soldier training, or armored forces, the Imperial Army was completely behind. We are even weaker than Soviet and Russian military forces in the Far East.
Your Majesty the Emperor Atonement Minister will say next.
In the previous series of wars, the empire defeated the strong and achieved great results, thereby covering up a series of problems caused by military backwardness. The actual situation today is that not only the navy, but throughout East Asia, the empire's navy is inferior to the Soviet Russian Far East Fleet, even worse than the Chinese carrier fleet, and the Army and the Air Force are also in a weak position ... "
"But we have a loyal warrior, and we have a supreme offensive spirit." The emperor interrupted Nagano's self-cultivation almost roaring, but he waved to signal him to continue.
Nagano leaned down and said, "This is exactly what the minister wants to say. It is because of the spirit of loyalty and loyalty that the empire can remain undefeated. In terms of weapons alone, the empire is not as good as Soviet Russia and China."
He knew that without him, the emperor would remember that the Chinese can fire a single soldier rifle, a high-speed, scary heavy machine gun, and a shoulder-fired artillery fired by a single soldier. The mysterious little mushroom cloud bomb (cloud explosion bomb) that the empire pays great attention to can be equipped with high-efficiency individual fire blasters of battalion-level troops, advanced tanks and aircraft that can't even penetrate 30mm battle guns, and dense heavy guns Swarm, amazing power of cannonball explosions ...
Although he is not an army general, it is equally clear that although many advanced weapons of the Chinese did not play too many roles on the battlefield, the Imperial Army obviously became the sharpening stone of the Chinese. He firmly believes that once the Chinese are encountered again in the future, the Imperial Army will definitely encounter the advanced equipment of the Chinese that has been hunted on a large scale.
As a naval general, he should have been indiscriminately seeking share for the navy, fighting for military expenses, and building more aircraft carriers as before.
However, as a sensible imperial soldier, the instinct of soldiers loyal to the king and warrior told him that once the empire develops its navy, it will be defeated in the hands of the Chinese. The Empire does not have decades to accumulate strength. The Chinese are becoming stronger day by day. On the other hand, if it can maintain a minimum of peace and allow the Empire to empty hands to occupy other countries and regions, it will only take five years to use the military capabilities of the Empire. Can completely ease over. Based on the summary and reflection of the Sino-Japanese war, more advanced weapons have been developed.
And building a navy is only a cycle of ten years.
For a long time, after repeated arguments and remarks by several people, the emperor seemed a bit tired, and waved his hand to signal their withdrawal.
"Let's all go down and see you again tomorrow."
After seeing a few people go, the emperor sighed: "Why don't you want to defeat the Chinese at sea, but the empire no longer has the strength and time to build a big navy. The empire needs rich resources and vast land The navy won, the army lost, and at best it could only maintain the island nation's unbeaten status. How can it defeat the enemy? "
During the Sino-Japanese War, the army was losing ground, but the navy's huge battleship formation was idle at sea, and once the war began, it was quickly defeated by the Chinese naval aviation. This had to make Hirohito see the fact that the Japanese Army could not defeat the enemy simply by relying on the loyalty of the loyal monarch.
Standing up and looking at the moon outside the palace, the emperor suddenly made a decision, "The empire must have a stronger army and air force, at least, to ensure future superiority over the Soviet Union in the Far East. They are not Chinese, they are far away Europe, their Far East, should be the natural farm of the Empire. "
"Mr. Cai, Commander Deng, this large aircraft carrier has used nearly one third of our skilled shipbuilders in New China, and has used one half of the large and very large take-off, transportation, and transportation equipment. There are more than a dozen distribution plants built. "
Horseshoe Bay Naval Base near Fangchenggang, Guangxi.
The Navy is definitely a golden hole. Zhang Shusheng spent a lot of money in the Southwest. From the outsourcing of equipment and training of workers to self-developed equipment, self-made equipment, and training of workers, the military expenditure has been astronomical.
Today, it has the most advanced shipbuilding equipment, the most modern shipyards, the most skilled shipbuilders, and two of China's largest military ships-large aircraft carriers with a displacement of 40,000 tons.
One of the earliest ships with the keel was laid at the end of 31, and has been under construction for nearly four years.
It can be said that the Horseshoe Bay Naval Shipyard is not the most advanced in the world as a whole, but it must be working hard to develop to the most advanced. Many advanced machinery and shipbuilding technologies are not even foreigners. This is the consistent approach of the Southwest, and it is excellent overall and particularly advanced in some areas.
On the basis of the three existing aircraft carriers, the aircraft carrier plan of New China within five years also includes two large aircraft carriers of the 40,000-ton class and two medium-sized aircraft carriers of the 20,000-ton class, enabling New China to maintain one in about 1940. A medium-powered naval force consisting of seven aircraft carriers. Although the number of aircraft carriers built by the lunatics of World War II is far less than that, overall it is enough for war in Asia.
After all, in the early stages of the war, all China needed was to be able to win a war in the Pacific Ocean facing at least any naval power, and at best the Malacca Strait, not to provoke the World War from the outset and compete with the whole world for an arms race. .
As long as the Navy plan is implemented and enough workers are trained, civilian shipyards can quickly turn into warships during wartime. In addition to the crazy shipbuilding plan that will begin in 1940, New China is not afraid of any future World War II. Enemies, even if they meet the lunatic of the earth, the Americans, can single out.
However, after all, the foundation of New China is weak, especially the lack of experience in building large warships. Although there are a full set of drawings and a considerable number of senior scientific personnel stationed in the factory for a long time, the progress is still slow. Four years, while exploring and improving.
"In four years, it is not short or long, but your worker training plan is very good." Cai Min nodded. These defense plans were formulated in the Southwest. He, the defense minister, also On the visit after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was impossible to give pointers, and it was more about the attention and supervision of senior management.
Compared to Lieutenant General Deng Haogan, the commander of the navy, and Major General Xu Jinguang, the commander of the base, Cai Yan still knew that he was a layman, listened and talked less, and responded to the spirit of the chairman.
This is also a key point of the inspection by the central military and senior officials at the grassroots level. If you don't understand, don't blindly command. Ask more, look at it, pay more attention to it.
Commander of Horseshoe Bay Base, Rear Admiral Xu Jinguang just wanted to explain, and Navy Commander Deng Haogan said, "Yes, Minister Cai. Because of the chairman's instructions, we have adopted a construction mode with the highest labor cost from the beginning, three shifts Work system. The shipyard implements a three-shift system and trains three full-time workers. Although at the beginning, it encountered many difficulties, such as overworked skilled workers, and required shifts to ensure the quality of warship construction. In addition, labor costs It was also very high, but we persevered. The advantage of this is that once the war comes, we can start to build more warships.
At present, in our shipyard, in addition to skilled old workers, there are also many technical school students who come to the factory to study. Their enthusiasm for learning is very high, and many people can enter the shipyard to work in advance. "
Accompanied by several base guards and central guards, Xu Jinguang accompanied Cai Yi to board the ship, which was already undergoing deck welding. The entire aircraft carrier can already see the general appearance, the huge hull, the high warped bow, and the upper island of the ship have also been repaired.
"At present, the interior of the warship and the deck work are not completed, the remaining lines are laid, and the installation of weapons will have to wait until next year." Xu Jinguang, as the base commander, is almost at the shipyard. For him, it is the most The important thing, in addition to the management and command base, are these two aircraft carriers.
Standing on the No. 1 carrier, the ships passing by to transport materials have become very small, and the height above the water of several floors is spectacular.
"Look, Minister Cai, Commander Deng, next to the second ship, the keel laying has just been completed, but because we have accumulated enough experience and skilled workers in the production of the first ship, the second ship must be completed 40 years ago. . "
The busy shipyard is full of workers with hard hats, both male and female, most of them are young. Cai Ye listened to Xu Jinguang's introduction, and there were still a considerable number of returning overseas Chinese.
These overseas Chinese are also shipyard workers abroad, and have been bullied by foreign shipyard bosses. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, they responded to Shu Sheng's recruitment in various places and returned to participate in shipyard work. I have to say that maybe their technology is a little different from the state-of-the-art shipbuilding technology in the Southwest, but they are superior in proficiency and have strong learning abilities.
Looking away, the No. 2 ship in the distance can only see some small figures.
After receiving the telescope from the guards, Cai Yan only saw that there were more various types of supports in the ship's dock. Many steel-framed supports came and went like spider-weaver workers. On the basis of the keel, the construction of the warship began. Framework.
"Can the families of these overseas Chinese be resettled? Can you pay attention to your safety work?" Cai Yan saw from the report that the shipyard's resettlement plan for workers is very comprehensive, whether it is commercial or medical, education and other social institutions. complete.
"Mr. Cai is assured that whether it is a shipbuilder or a state-owned company, staff from the security department will carry out inspections. Although the shipyard cannot guarantee absolute confidentiality, it will not lose core technology, and various confidentiality work is also very fruitful. Some problems were found, but they were all dealt with in a timely manner. Some crisis management plans were also conducted by the security department. We have done a good job of maintaining security in this regard. After all, Horseshoe Bay is a big base. "
Xu Jinguang is right. Horseshoe Bay is a large naval base with a small city scale. The military management and confidentiality work are very good.
"Woo ..."
At this time, the sirens of large ships came from the distant military harbor. Cai Ye could clearly see that an aircraft carrier was returning to Hong Kong without using a telescope.
"That's our Chinese carrier. After the Hanking entered service, it formed a special mixed fleet with the Chengdu. The Wusong and Ningbo military ports, which are resident in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, remain in the southeast and are the main force of the South China Sea Fleet."
During the talk, many warships behind the aircraft carrier also came into view. All were thousands of tons of cruisers or smaller destroyers. The main fleet of the South China Sea Fleet usually patrolled back and forth in Fangcheng Port and Guangdong Zhanjiang Military Port. One place, after all, there are large secret radars in both places. Compared with the radars of the British who are still in the preliminary stage, the radars in China are much more advanced.
Cai Yan laughed at Deng Haogan next to him. "Commander Deng, I really look forward to the launch of these two aircraft carriers and two medium guys at Jiangnan Shipyard. At that time ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Your navy has seven aircraft carriers. "
"Mr. Cai is assured that the People's Army Navy will use its own strength and courage to defend the motherland and territory."
Deng Haogan looked at the aircraft carrier fleet entering the port in the distance, and could not help but think. He seemed to see a larger-scale aircraft carrier fleet that would officially become an army a few years later.
China, in the future, will reproduce the invincible fleet of descendants of the Oriental Dragon that Zheng He went to the West when he sailed to the West. China's fleet must be world-class. To this end, both the Navy and these workers are willing to work for ten, twenty, thirty years. Now, they have worked hard for more than ten years, and what they need to do is to explode the absolute power belonging to the Chinese Navy and the Chinese shipbuilding workers in the next decade.
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