Chapter 150: The Navy
"Are you really going to war?" Liu Guangzhong looked at Wang Mazi in a daze.
"Seriously!" Wang Mazi nodded.
"Is it fighting with the Japanese devils?" Liu Guangzhong asked again.
"Fight the Japs!" Wang Mazi nodded sincerely.
Liu Guangzhong sighed, lowered his head and stopped talking.
After a while, when Liu Guangzhong raised his head again, Zhang Chi noticed that he seemed to have changed as if he had changed a person, and his eyes were bright and full of vigor He raised his wine glass and said, "Okay!" I won't say anything, I will first give a glass to a few brothers, and thank the brothers and all the brothers of the new first division for giving us this opportunity to raise our eyebrows! ”
"Sir! You're right! Wang Mazi raised his wine glass as he spoke.
Liu Guangzhong didn't speak, he drank one cup after another, and after a while, he had three cups of stomach, so that Zhang Chi and Wang Mazi couldn't keep up with his rhythm.
Then, Zhang Chi was stunned to find that Liu Guangzhong no longer knew when there were two lines of old tears on his face.
This made Wang Mazi a little at a loss, and hurriedly asked: "Sir, ...... are you?"
Liu Guangzhong waved his hand and sighed: "Brother, you don't know the suffering of our navy!" ”
"Sir, I understand!" Wang Mazi didn't say anything, only raised his glass and toasted Liu Guangzhong.
Zhang Chi didn't know what was going on in the navy...... Although Zhang Chi is a modern person, he has always had little or no understanding of the Kuomintang navy, and this is mainly due to the fact that the Kuomintang navy played almost no role in the War of Resistance Against Japan, so this can be said to be a force that has been forgotten by history and people.
But in this situation, Zhang Chi also faintly felt that Liu Guangzhong in front of him had a lot of hardships, and he also felt that he was not like Xu Zhengkai who was brave and incompetent, and looked at Liu Guangzhong's appearance, and couldn't help but rush to his head with a stream of blood, and raised his glass to Liu Guangzhong and said: "Sir, do this glass, let's fight devils together in the future!" ”
"Good!" Liu Guangzhong did not refuse to come at this time, he only shouted happily, then raised the cup and dried it up, and then lit up the finished cup in front of Zhang Chi, and said: "Fight devils together, never die!" ”
This night, Liu Guangzhong was very drunk, until he was helped back to the room by the guards to rest, and he shouted again and again: "Drink another glass, and after drinking this cup, go to fight devils!" ”
Later, Zhang Chi learned from Wang Mazi that in the Kuomintang army, in fact, the most aggrieved is the navy.
This grievance is not only that in the Battle of Jiangyin in 37, the Kuomintang Navy sank most of the main naval forces and dozens of warships to the bottom of the sea to block the shipping lane, but during the September 18 Incident in 31, the Japanese Navy challenged the Chinese Navy from time to time at sea, but President Chiang ordered the Navy to "not fight back."
In fact, this move is not exactly the policy of non-resistance, of course, there is still a policy of "non-resistance", at this time President Chiang's purpose is to buy a few years to prepare for the work, but for the navy is more important and more direct...... The "Ninghai," the largest warship in the history of the Kuomintang, is still being built in Japan, and once the face is torn, it will definitely affect the delivery time of the "Ninghai."
So the price paid was that the navy swallowed its anger again and again at the challenge of the Japanese army.
After the successful delivery of the "Ninghai", it did not mean that the nightmare of the navy was over, and then the Kuomintang hoped to make its own "Ninghai"-class cruiser "Pinghai...... In fact, this was the hope that the Kuomintang would try to learn Japan's advanced shipbuilding technology and achieve the goal of localizing it, but many parts of the "Pinghai" could not be made by the "Jiangnan Shipyard," so it had to rely on Japan.
This means that the Navy will have to continue to swallow its anger.
At that time, the Japanese Navy was known as the first in the world, while the Kuomintang Navy only had dozens of old and dilapidated ones, and it had no power to fight at all.
So in the final analysis, it is because of the country's industrial backwardness that we have to swallow this breath.
The Kuomintang Navy always thought that it would swallow this breath and raise its eyebrows one day, but in 37 years, the first battle of Jiangyin almost wiped out the entire navy, and then it was even more sluggish, which made all the navy sailors lose the confidence to revive the navy, which is also the reason why Zhang Chi saw that the navy was completely devoid of the spirit of soldiers in the port.
Zhang Chi was relieved after hearing this, as a soldier, Zhang Chi knew very well that what an army was afraid of was not lack of confidence and no morale, and these could be recovered in future training. On the contrary, if there is no intention to kill the enemy, and there is no resentment towards the enemy, it will be difficult.
And Liu Guangzhong and the crew he brought with him obviously have the latter.
The next day, when Liu Guangzhong woke up, Zhang Chi and Wang Mazi took him to see the "Xianghe" together.
Liu Guangzhong looked at the "Xianghe" standing in front of him like a big mountain, and he didn't react for a long time.
"This ...... This is what you call aircraft carriers? Liu Guangzhong couldn't believe it, and the seafarers behind him all opened their mouths wide and let out a sigh of admiration from time to time.
You must know that China's largest warship in the past, the "Ninghai," which was bought from Japan, had a displacement of just over 2,000 tons, while the "Xianghe" had a displacement of more than 33,000 tons...... It is more than ten times larger than the "Ninghai", which naturally makes those seamen's eyes straight.
"Yes! Sir! Wang Mazi smiled and said, "This is thanks to Captain Zhang......"
Saying that, Wang Mazi raised his head at Zhang Chi and said, "This aircraft carrier was handed over by him!" ”
Liu Guangzhong looked at Zhang Chi with a shocked face, then looked at the aircraft carrier again, and said, "This ...... This is for us? ”
"Of course!" Wang Mazi replied.
Liu Guangzhong didn't change much when he heard this answer, but the crew behind him looked happy one by one.
"But ......" Liu Guangzhong said with some embarrassment: "Brother, we are our own family, and I am not afraid of making a fool of myself in front of you...... We won't drive this boat, and we won't use it. This ......"
"Sir!" Wang Mazi replied: "You don't have to worry about this, the Americans will open it, they can teach you how to drive, teach you how to use it, and teach you how to fight the devils!" ”
Liu Guangzhong nodded his head when he heard this, and said, "That's good, that's good!" ”
"Why don't you ......" Seeing that Liu Guangzhong was still stunned at the aircraft carrier, Zhang Chi said: "Let's go up and have a look!" ”
"Good!" Liu Guangzhong reacted at this time, and shouted: "Go up and have a look!" ”
The crew members who followed couldn't help cheering when they heard this, they were already eager to try, but because Liu Guangzhong didn't speak, they didn't dare to act rashly, and now they rushed to the aircraft carrier like a bird released from a cage.
(To be continued.) )