Originally, Zhang Chi thought that his training of Liu Guangzhong for the Chinese Navy would end here, after all, the US warships and the instructor corps had come, and there would be no new regiment to do anything next.

But to Zhang Chi's surprise, White hoped that Zhang Chi could continue to train.

"I don't understand!" Zhang Chi looked at White suspiciously: "Are you a teaching group?" And we don't know anything about the equipment of warships and naval battles! ”

"This ......" White replied with some hesitation: "That's the case, there are many Japanese guns on the 'Pinghai' aircraft carrier, and we don't know anything about these guns, I think, maybe you know more about the weapons and equipment of the Japanese!" ”

This is also true, the Americans, especially the US Navy, will only fight American artillery, while the Chinese army, because of the long-term war with the Japanese army, will from time to time capture some Japanese equipment and even artillery on the battlefield and equip itself, so the Japanese artillery is really more than the Americans.

"On the other hand......," White said to Zhang Chi, "the training of the navy in physical fitness and military discipline is also necessary, and it is more convenient for you to train Chinese troops Chinese, at least there is no need for a translator." Moreover, as a Marine Corps, the new 1st Division also needs to understand each other with the Navy, so that it can better cooperate on the battlefield. ”

Zhang Chi couldn't help but nodded, what White said really made some sense, but it was just ...... When did the new 1st Division become a Marine Corps?!

"As for the naval battle, this can be left to us!" White asked Zhang Chi, "What do you think?" Anyway, you don't have much to do during this time! ”

"No problem!" Zhang Chi nodded, this is just a trivial matter for the new regiment, and it is foreseeable that there will definitely be many places to cooperate with the navy in the future battles, after all, this is the Pacific Ocean, and any operation cannot be separated from the navy.

What Zhang Chi didn't notice was that when he saw Zhang Chi agree, Colonel White secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Later, Zhang Chi learned that the reason why Colonel White would let the new regiment continue the training of the Chinese Navy was not only because of what he said, but also because most of the teaching group he led was a "rookie" who had only joined the army for a few months and had almost no actual combat experience, except for a dozen or so technical personnel in the field of aircraft carriers, and some of them had not even experienced basic military training, so training the Chinese Navy had become a very thorny problem.

The reason for this is because, as I said before, since the United States experienced several large-scale naval battles after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese army, experienced sailors have not had time to replenish for a while, so most of the crew members of destroyers such as the "Clemson" class used to escort merchant ships are "rookies" who have only been in the army for a few months, and at most there is a "master" class crew member on a ship who is responsible for passing on experience and knowledge while driving the warship.

Therefore, if Zhang Chi didn't get involved in these things, White really didn't know how to start the next training.

AFTER PARTICIPATING IN THE TRAINING OF THE CHINESE NAVY, ZHANG CHI FOUND THAT THE FIREPOWER OF THE "PINGHAI" AIRCRAFT CARRIER WAS NOT ORDINARILY POWERFUL: THERE WERE 16 MAIN GUNS OF 125MM, 45 ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS OF 25MM, AND 22 ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS OF 13.2MM...... This total has 83 guns.

AMONG THEM, ZHANG CHI IS MORE PUZZLED BY THE 16 125MM MAIN GUNS, BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT IN MODERN TIMES, MOST AIRCRAFT CARRIERS ARE NOT EQUIPPED WITH NAVAL GUNS, THIS IS BECAUSE IT IS BASICALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS TO LET THE ENEMY INTO THE RANGE OF THE MAIN GUNS, AND THE BASIC ONLY FIGHTERS OR MISSILES THAT CAN GET AIRCRAFT CARRIERS ARE BASICALLY AIR DEFENSE OR CLOSE DEFENSE WEAPONS, OF COURSE, THE SOVIET AIRCRAFT CARRIER IS A LITTLE SPECIAL, IT STILL LIKES TO INSTALL ANTI-SHIP MISSILES INTO THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER.

But after thinking about it, Zhang Chi felt that this didn't seem strange.

First of all, the radar equipment of the Japanese is relatively backward, so there is still a possibility that the aircraft carrier will collide with the enemy's warship, so it is still necessary to equip the aircraft carrier with naval guns. The United States is much more advanced in its shipbuilding ideas in this regard, and since the Essex-class aircraft carriers, the number of main guns on the aircraft carriers has been reduced to 12, and they are all high-level and dual-purpose, that is, they can shoot flat and air defense.

The second should be that the Japanese are more stubborn in their thinking, and they always have the thinking of a giant cannon ship, so how can such a large aircraft carrier not be equipped with some large-caliber giant guns.

I don't know that it is useless for an aircraft carrier to be equipped with naval guns...... Used to hit warships? The fighters on the aircraft carrier can basically repel the enemy's warships thousands of miles away, and even if an enemy warship can approach the aircraft carrier, there are escort destroyers to deal with it.

Used to hit ground targets? That's even more nonsense.

Because if the aircraft carrier can sail into the distance where the ship's guns can hit the ground target, this also means that the enemy's large-caliber long-range artillery can also hit the aircraft carrier, and even more so, the enemy's land-based fighters can find it in a short time and treat it as a good target. This is very dangerous for an aircraft carrier full of carrier-based aircraft.

As a result, the naval guns on the aircraft carrier are useless in most cases, but they and their ammunition take up valuable space and load on the aircraft carrier.

Therefore, Zhang Chi found White in the next second.

"Colonel!" Zhang Chi said to White, who was looking at the aircraft carrier structure diagram in the office: "I have a suggestion, I hope to replace the naval guns on the 'Pinghai' with the high-level dual-purpose guns of the US military, and if possible, other anti-aircraft guns will also be replaced with American anti-aircraft guns, this is not a big problem!" ”

"But...... Why? White asked, "Is it because of the lack of ammunition?" But what I know is that you have also captured the Japanese arsenal at Rabaul, and you have the ability to produce these shells! ”

"It's not a question of whether you can produce shells!" Zhang Chi replied: "On the one hand, I think that these naval guns are redundant for an aircraft carrier, and on the other hand, there may be confusion in the supply of ammunition. Just imagine, the 'Pinghai' aircraft carrier and the destroyer escorting the ship use different types of shells of different calibers, which will not only make it difficult for them to replenish their ammunition, but also once the aircraft carrier or destroyer is short of ammunition on the battlefield and there is no time to replenish it for a while, and the ammunition between them is not universal, there will be a phenomenon that the shells cannot support each other! ”

White couldn't help but be stunned, he obviously didn't think of this aspect of the problem.

This is not to blame White, who has always lived in the American army, which is never short of supplies, so he has no worries about this at all.

As a member of the Chinese army, he had already experienced all kinds of hardships in Burma with uncommon weapons and ammunition. (To be continued.) )