Chapter 1360: Show Strength

Now China has come out of the past situation, rich life, national decency, and even national pride, so that the mentality of Chinese has undergone earth-shaking changes from a few years ago, especially the military, when looking at foreigners, there is no previous groveling, or inferiority, but a strong arrogance.

Strength produces confidence, it is precisely because of China's leapfrog development, with the help of the all-in-one machine and Yang Yuanzhao, to complete the process of industrialization of the huge China, which has caused China's rapid development, and in a few years, with the help of Germany, under the efforts of the Chinese, China's industrialization process has no dead ends, and even on the basis of the original industrialization, in materials, power, electricity, physics and many other aspects, has achieved leapfrog improvement, in this regard, even the United States is inferior, Made in China can be popular in the world, on the one hand, because the cost of production and manufacturing is relatively low, and on the other hand, it is not caused by leading technology.

Simple ideas are easy to imitate, but in the technology and materials to work hard, the difficulty of imitation is much higher, just like later generations, China in the design of various machines, have entered the world's first class or even leading level, but the materials and processing is not good, so that China in the most cutting-edge field, basically with the world's advanced a lot of difference, this is not imitation or import one or two products can make up.

Now that China has embarked on such a road, under the premise that the troika of microelectronics, materials, and processing go hand in hand, it may take at least 5 to 10 years for China to develop in one year, and other countries to catch up. This has enough confidence to show what was originally a secret or a killer feature. is not afraid to catch up and imitate, a generation behind. And even more often, the combat effectiveness is simply worlds apart, and China is confident that it is one step ahead of others.

Early the next morning, the reconnaissance plane formation took off again, but this time there was not only a Chinese pilot among the planes, but in the reconnaissance compartment behind, there was a young officer of the German Admiralty, who would be responsible for observing the results of today's submarine force. If possible, it will fly into the combat area.

China's current reconnaisance plane is a long-range high-altitude reconnaisance plane, and among this reconnaisance plane, it is not piloted by a single person, and ordinary reconnaisance planes are rarely piloted by a single person; although the reconnaisance plane lacks the necessary force, it is still under the condition that it is necessary for reconnaisance. There should be at least 2 people, a pilot, who is attentive to fly the plane, and an observer and a radio hand. It is responsible for observing and monitoring the radio, and most of the time, the reconnaissance aircraft is a San'er. Divide the latter into two people to execute.

Now, on this one reconnaissance plane. It was four people, and the reconnaissance plane had a relatively generous load. It's no problem to put on another person, as long as this person doesn't affect the overall work, this entered the reconnaissance plane of the Germans, which has become a step for China to show its strength to the German side, and even, it can be regarded as a perfect promotion of the Qin class, the Qin class as China's most advanced ocean-going submarine, it stands to reason that it should not be exported, this time it affects China's strategic security, but now, the submarine forces on the German side have been hit hard, and there is almost no value for improvement, and the combat effectiveness of German submarines should be appropriately increased. It was important to balance the forces between the Entente and the Allies, and of course, the submarines exported to Germany would have special identification codes and weaken some aspects of performance.

Herbert, a 27-year-old young officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel, was a senior staff officer of the Admiralty, and although he had several experiences in airships, he was very different from airships.

The airship is like a leisurely stroll, but the plane is full of speed from the first time, a reconnaissance plane came out of the hangar, he saw the pilot manipulating the steering stick, constantly pushing, afterburner, and then the plane began to glide on the runway, the speed became faster and faster, after a few minutes, the speed reached the highest, he felt the vibration of the fuselage, and then the plane left the ground and flew into the air, much faster than the airship.

The most suitable reconnaissance altitude for reconnaissance planes is between 4,000 and 5,000 meters, and the reconnaissance planes, after rapidly climbing to this height, began to fly level, and Herbert found that they had left the urban area of Paris, and in the sky, looking at the huge city underground, this was another feeling, and in the high altitude, the speed of the plane could not be felt.

But an hour later, when the blue North Sea appeared in front of him, he was still taken aback, he was sent to this mission today, he also did some work before participating in the mission, the German airship is famous, whether it is to conquer Belgium, or France, or even to take Paris, the airship has played an important role, now, the airship is still an important main force of the Air Force, but with the speed of the airship he knows, even if it is added to the maximum extent, from the vicinity of Berlin to the North Sea, Without four or five hours, absolutely impossible, how long is it now?

The reconnaissance plane was still speeding up, but sitting in the plane, he couldn't feel it at all, and almost an hour later, after crossing the British Isles, he was already surprised, and it took more than an hour to travel from Berlin to England, which was a miracle, but this miracle appeared in front of him.

It would be nice if the airship had such a fast speed, but in a blink of an eye, Herbert knew that it was impossible, the huge body of the airship, in order to support such a fast speed, required kinetic energy, which is not something that the airship can bear, which is known to those who know a little about dynamics, but it is such a small aircraft that can withstand it.

Perhaps, this is the reason why China adopts aircraft as the direction of development, although it is said that airships are derived from the technology of the Chinese, but in the subsequent war, the Chinese rarely used airships, at least not as often as Germany, I didn't think it was strange before, really did it on the reconnaissance aircraft, only to find the problem, it turned out that China already has such a mature aircraft, no wonder not to put the airship in the eyes.

In the radio communication, the news kept coming that Herbert's plane was the second wave today, which took off at about 11:30 in the morning, and he would take over the previous group of planes and continue to carry out reconnaissance missions.

The gradual interaction of radio waves, in fact, after yesterday's liquidation of the four fleets, there are not many fleets in the North Atlantic waterway, although the Allied merchant fleet, although it is said to be very large, the United States and Britain combined, at least tens of millions of tons of scale, but it is impossible to send them all, the Entente countries are affected by Germany's unlimited submarine warfare, has not been completely eliminated, their huge production capacity, has not yet been finally manifested, the ships of the North Atlantic route that often travel to and fro, may only be about 3 million tonsAbout 600,000 tons were dried up yesterday, and not many can be found today.

The first wave only found 3 fleets, all of which were small fleets of less than 10 ships, and it seemed that they were overwhelmed by yesterday's results, and even Deng Jieqian did not express his position and attacked these three small fleets

The plane was slowly flying forward, and there was news coming non-stop, Herbert was a little impatient, although he didn't ask directly, but the scouts around him saw it, quietly communicated with the captain, and notified Deng Jieqian by radio.

Deng Jieqian also knew about Herbert's existence, but he was waiting, and his intuition told him that the days of such a search and attack without scruples would not be too long, after all, Britain and the United States were not fools, so sending merchant ships to death, I am afraid that the future merchant ships would be under the protection of the group, although the Qin-class has a great threat to destroyers and light cruisers, but it is stronger against it, or rather, Britain and the United States will adjust the sonar, and if it goes further, even the Qin-level will not dare to approach to a range of several hundred meters, plus early warning and dodge, The threat of the Qin class will be greatly reduced,

So these three or four days will be the best time, and once you miss it, you won't have such a good opportunity in the future.

However, the wait did not lead to any results, and just when Deng Jieqian was thinking about leaving anything alone and achieving a result first, the second search and reconnaissance plane formation sent information that they had made a discovery more than 270 nautical miles away from the British Isles, a huge fleet of 42 merchant ships, 2 heavy cruisers, 4 light cruisers, and 12 destroyers.

To be honest, it is not a common thing to be able to meet such a large fleet here, and this fleet is not deliberately made by the United States, 3 days ago, in the waters of the North Atlantic, there was a storm, and 4 fleets were affected, including a fleet of warships from the United States, and in the end, these 4 fleets came together to form the largest group of ships, and also had the most powerful escort force.

42 merchant ships, more than 20 escort warships, this is a big goal, but also a good window to show China's submarine power, Deng Jieqian almost did not take long, directly made a decision, take this ship group.

To deal with such a huge ship group, the most important thing is that there is an astonishing number of warships, relying on the detachment alone is not enough, in Deng Jieqian's order, all submarines, must be closer to the position of the ship group, this time, 31 submarines are ready to set off for the whole army, completely leave such a somewhat strange ship group, on the premise of the previous huge results, and then fill in a heavy stroke, 42 merchant ships, the total tonnage is definitely larger than yesterday's 300,000 tons, and the most important thing is that there are more than 20 ships, Two of the heavy cruisers were the main heavy cruisers of more than 13,000 tons, which was the largest ship in the Entente even in the Entente. (To be continued.) )