Edo Bay, not a busy superport in later generations, was not supported by Japan's huge processing and export industry, and it was calm and simple, and it was even far less busy than the ports of Tang Seattle or Vancouver at this time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Two frigates drove into it, their muzzles facing the coast. The sluggish Japanese did not respond at all, and most of them just watched the two "big ships" from the shore with their mouths open. Ninety percent of the people here have never heard of a country in the world called the Tang State, and they don't know that the neighboring Qing State has been defeated by the Tang army. Moreover, since the opening of the Tokugawa shogunate, the shogunate has issued a strict lockdown order. In fact, both Korea and Japan were more stringent than the Qing Dynasty's lockdowns and sea bans. The Tokugawa shogunate even stipulated that all of Japan was forbidden to build large ships larger than 500 koku. Of course, in fact, similar requirements were also in the Braided Dynasty, which is the main reason why the shipbuilding technology of the Qing Dynasty declined, and was even less powerful than the shipbuilding technology of the Ming Dynasty.

Just when no one knew what to do, two frigates opened fire on the harbor. Although there are only four 130-millimeter naval guns on two ships combined, the power of firing high-explosive shells is still considerable. A powerful explosion swept through the entire port area in an instant, and suddenly the Japanese who had been stunned began to scurry around like groundhogs. And even the Tang people did not think of a problem - Edo is probably the most fire-prone place in the world, and even the houses in the port area are basically wooden, super flammable, and the flames set off after the explosion of high-explosive bombs actually set the entire port area on fire in the blink of an eye.

At this time, even the Tang Navy soldiers on the frigate were a little dumbfounded, Lin Huansheng stood in the bridge and said to the captain Jiao Qiang: "Captain." Are we going to continue shelling? ”

"Hit. Why not fight? This is a little devil. Jiao Qiang still had a serious expression. However, it can be seen from his somewhat fiery eyes that he is different at this time.

Lin Huansheng was a member of the Ming Dynasty, who followed Zheng He's fleet to the West when he was a teenager, while Jiao Qiang was a member of the Republic of China and a soldier of the national government who had experienced the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. His hatred for the Japanese is almost deep in his bones. Even when he was actually ordering the shelling of Japanese civilian facilities and civilians that did not threaten, he did not have the slightest pressure. For he had seen the odious invaders ravage his fellow man in the same way. Jiao Qiang also doesn't believe that hatred is isolated. The Japanese of this era have nothing to do with what is happening on the other side.

In terms of his understanding, the cubs born by these people in the future will also invade the land of Shenzhou. Of course, he doesn't understand the paradoxes of science fiction, and it seems that he can't realize that there must be no room for this group of Japanese people to play in a seriously changed history.

"Drive closer, let's bombard a little more inland, the shells are open to me, we are not here to engage in gunboat diplomacy, we are here for revenge and hatred!" Jiao Qiang picked up the intercom in the bridge and conveyed his voice to the whole ship. Even though there was only a part of the Republic of China on this ship, everyone thought that Matsudaira Yasufulai Sapporo had humiliated the Tang Dynasty before. And there is basically only one way for Datang to regret it, to knock you down.

This shelling was completely devoid of precise targets. According to the commander's request, the gunners pointed their guns at the place where there were Japanese or Japanese buildings. It's not that Jiao Qiang and the other captain are irrational, but in fact, the order they received from Vice Admiral Bai Nan is almost like this.

Bai Nan's original words are relatively simple: attack Edo Castle and make the enemy fearful.

Jiao Qiang thought about it for a while and decided that the best way to make the enemy scare was to destroy the city. Although the two frigates he led had a total of several hundred rounds of ammunition, he intended to use each one of them to the best of his ability.

Jiao Qiang looked at the Japanese city that had become a sea of fire, pinched his already a little rounded chin, and said, "It's a little uncomfortable to fight." ”

Lin Huansheng couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat and said, "Captain, you can still be unhappy like this, this shelling effect has already stood out." ”

Jiao Qiang said: "Do you know, our navy has determined the overall main combat ship establishment of 6 cruisers and 20 frigates, and the navy is still very satisfied with this. However, the army is reluctant, and the strange thing is that the army does not think that we have built too many ships and encroached on too much military spending, but that our navy is inactive and has no ambitions. The Army needed more powerful inshore fire support from the Navy, and they themselves lacked heavy artillery, so the Navy's 203mm naval guns were a feat for them. And with the existing ships of the Navy, the firepower of the free wind is very thin, although two 130 mm guns are good, but one ship has two, as for the 76 guns for land support, it is basically a tickle. So the Army wants our Navy to have more ships armed with 203-mm heavy guns. ”

Jiao Qiang said with interest: "In particular, the two major shipyards in Long Beach and the West Coast have conquered the technology of sectional shipbuilding, and the army hopes that we will build more large ships and ships with heavy artillery, and even the commander of the army, Admiral Liu Fangwu, half-jokingly told us that we would go directly to the battleship." Commander Deng felt very hurt, because he was laughed at by the army because it was not big enough, so he had changed the development plan and sent it to the Ministry of Defense for approval, but the Ministry of Defense did not give it, let alone a retrial by the Congress. ”

Jiao Qiang treated this incident as an anecdote, and did not take the current battle as a thing at all. Because the enemy really has nothing to threaten him and his fleet. In fact, Jiao Qiang didn't know that the new plan delivered by Deng Xiyi was too terrifying, and the Ministry of Defense would implement it at all. After consultations, the Ministry of National Defense hoped that the Navy would give careful consideration, and proposed to increase the relative proportion of cruisers in the Navy's ships, and at the same time try to produce the first-generation battleships of the 10,000-ton Datang Navy.

These things are happening at the same time, so they haven't reached Jiao Qiang's ears yet.

The Navy finally came up with a type of all-steel with a standard displacement of 10,000 tons and a full load displacement of 15,600 tons. The battleship, named Zhuolu class, is named after the ancient battlefield. The ship is still in the sketch stage, with a total length of 176 meters, a width of 19 meters, and a draft of 5 in the design. 8 meters, powered by a steam turbine, the maximum speed has reached 20 knots, which has never been achieved by the Tang Navy. Since the navy did not think about the battleship for the sake of cost-effectiveness problem, the appearance of the Zhuolu class was basically that the army had a need for inshore artillery bombardment and the navy pushed the boat, so the Zhuolu class, as a type of battleship, was designed not to heroically fight the enemy at sea, but to bombard the enemy with its own heavy artillery.

In order to realize the practical use of "fire support ships", the main armament of the Zhuolu-class battleships was designed as two twin 305 mm heavy guns. Well, since the Don Army simply did not have heavy artillery of this caliber, it needed to be redesigned. The secondary guns were set up with twelve 130 mm single-barreled naval guns, which could be transplanted directly from the free wind, so there was no big problem. The smallest caliber was 8 double-barreled 57-mm guns for attacking close targets. In the end, the designer who had a brainstorm remembered that the Navy had asked Boeing to build a seaplane, and added a seaplane catapult to the bow of the Zhuolu-class. Of course, this is all his personal fantasies, the seaplane has not yet been built, the ship has not been built, and the seaplane catapult must have to wait.

In short, this huge naval warship will become the object of loyal worship of a group of multi-turret god cultists in China.

It's not that no one is opposed to this thing, such as the extreme realist Bai Nan. Bai Nan believes that if your army wants fire support, you can invest in bombers, anyway, Datang's aviation industry is developing very rapidly. Or just engage in some shallow water heavy gunboats and the like, this is the weapon that is really used to bombard the enemy on land near the shore. The cost is not too high, and it is easy to maintain.

According to Paiknam, battleships are weapons for decisive battles on the high seas, not fire support ships. Of course, this is a bit like another US congressman who misses the Great Empire in his face, asking for the continuation of the fire support of the USS Missouri's opposite shore, and finally came up with a story of a cheating DDG-1000. In the end, due to the disordered positioning, the DDG-1000 could only become a technical verification ship, and could not be used to fight China's more advanced Aegis ships at sea. In fact, the existence of the Zhuolu class is the same, could it be that a battleship of more than 10,000 tons was built, so that she could fight a sail battleship with a tonnage of less than 2,000 tons at sea?

However, Bai Nan's "sane" voice was eventually drowned out. A group of civilian officials believed that a powerful battleship was the best symbol of the Tang Dynasty's national strength and a proper face project; The army doesn't care whether your navy builds heavy gunboats or battleships, the artillery is big enough and fierce enough, and the military budget is not the army's military budget; The cultists of the Multi-Turret Cult competed and began to connect with various congressmen who understood military affairs but did not understand military affairs, which made the Congress also have expectations for battleships; As for the navy, it will never refuse you to give them a few more ships......

Therefore, in the end, the Zhuolu class still passed the three checkpoints of the Ministry of National Defense, the State Council and the Congress, and officially entered the preparatory stage, even if there was no complete design at this time, and there was no technical verification. The Tang people had an idea -- I must make this thing.

Because of this, the military spending of the Navy, which was originally reduced to the end, has risen again, and the National Council has never been short of money anyway. So Deng Xiyi ordered four more Pinghai-class cruisers, whose 203 mm heavy guns could quickly supply support firepower to the ground forces. Moreover, the Long Beach shipyard also intends to use this to test the segmented manufacture of warships. In addition, most of the funds were thrown on the research and development of the Zhuolu level.

Jiao Qiang had been fantasizing about becoming the captain of a battleship since before he crossed over, and it was obvious that he seemed to have hope. However, if he is promoted too quickly and the battleship is built too slowly, then I am afraid it has nothing to do with him. (To be continued.) )