readx; To be honest, the current Chinese Navy is still in a very weak state, and the navy of the Nationalist Navy basically includes all the main ships of the Chinese Navy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The First Fleet, which included all the ocean-going capital ships of the Navy, was only one protective cruiser, three unprotected cruisers, and a number of destroyers of several hundreds of tons, and such a small cruiser fleet was obviously impossible to be seen by the great powers.

However, even if the current navy is very weak, but although the sparrow is small, it is still complete, this naval department of the national army not only contains all the necessary organs of the navy, but even sets up a detailed establishment plan for the first fleet and the second fleet, as mentioned earlier, due to the weak strength of the current navy, it is impossible to make a cruiser fleet out of the first fleet by enriching all the ocean-going ships into the first fleet, but this does not prevent Sa Zhenbing from entertaining himself They organized the four cruisers under the first fleet into two cruiser detachments, The two ships were organized into a detachment, and then the two detachments formed the so-called cruiser group. The six destroyers, which also belonged to the First Fleet, were also divided into three destroyer detachments, two of which were organized into one detachment, and then the three detachments became the so-called destroyer group.

According to the words of Sa Zhenbing and others, this is to prepare for a large number of American-made ships that are about to return to China, because needless to say, those ships will also join the First Fleet at that time, and the size of the First Fleet will more than double at that time, and appropriate division is also needed, Sa Zhenbing even thought about it, and when those warships return to China, the two 10,000-ton cruisers will be organized into a heavy cruiser detachment, and then the three light cruisers will also be organized into two cruiser detachments to form a fast cruiser group. The six 1,000-ton destroyers were also organized into three destroyer detachments to form a fast destroyer group. Add a detachment of heavy cruisers, and then a fleet of high-speed cruisers comes out.

But what! There is a problem here, the destroyer group is six full, and there are only two heavy cruisers, which is nothing to say, but the cruiser group only has three light cruisers, and there is a fast cruiser missing in it, and it takes four cruisers to form a cruiser group!

At this time, if you know enough about the generals of the navy, you will probably be able to guess the thoughts of Sa Zhenbing and the others, it's very simple, find an excuse to apply for ship building funds! Now that there is a gap in the establishment of the fleet, and there is not much shortage, but only one, Sa Zhenbing pondered that if the domestic situation is better, he is ready to send the report to Chen Jingyun to apply for another light cruiser from the United States.

The Navy always hopes that the more warships, the better!

Chen Jingyun knows some of these careful thoughts of the navy, such as the fact that the navy is going to show off at the induction ceremony this time, he knows it, and he has no opinion on it, as for the establishment of the navy now, Sa Zhenbing tried to use this establishment vacancy to apply for the purchase of ships again, that is what he does not know for the time being, after all, Chen Jingyun is not a bright and great immortal who knows everything, and the careful thinking of these generals of the navy is really not so easy to guess.

However, even if he knows, it doesn't matter, it is necessary to rebuild the navy, even if it is not to hook up with the United States, and after he Chen Jingyun reunifies China, he will start the pace of rebuilding the navy. It's just that without the help of the United States, it will be much more difficult to rebuild the project on its own, and it will not be said that a cruiser fleet can be built in a year or two.

Chen Jingyun is determined to rebuild the navy, so even if Sa Zhenbing and other admirals don't engage in these showmanship, compile these careful thoughts, when to build ships, and how much to build, Chen Jingyun has a number in his heart, this plan in his heart will not be affected by others, even if these admirals report every day, it will not affect his decision.

For example, the navy has repeatedly applied to continue the construction of Changle-class gunboats, and Chen Jingyun has not approved the plans of these gunboats, but only approved the construction of two 500-ton destroyers, one each at Mawei Shipyard and Jiangnan Shipyard. The construction of these two 500-ton destroyers is much more difficult than the previous construction of the 800-ton Changle-class gunboats, because Chen Jingyun has already issued a death order to the Navy Department, all the parts of these two destroyers must use domestic goods, whether it is the power system, naval guns, or other parts, all must use domestic goods, even if the construction period is long, the price is expensive, and even the mainstream destroyers whose surnames can lag behind the major powers do not matter.

Chen Jingyun's idea is very simple, he did not expect the two destroyers to form any combat effectiveness, in the short term, at least in the short term for ten or eight years, the main force of the navy will still rely on the purchase of warships, and he has never had the luxury of hoping that he will be able to build more than 10,000 tons of main warships within three to five years, or even tens of thousands of tons of warships. Since the main warships have to be purchased from outside in the short term, they can also be bought. Then there is no too urgent need for domestic shipyards, so that they can have time to upgrade their technology and complete the industrial chain of the entire warship manufacturing system, including the comprehensive improvement of power, steel, artillery and other aspects, so as to achieve the purpose of completely building their own warships, rather than building a hull by themselves as now and before, and then most of the subsystems such as power and naval guns are imported, and these self-made methods are not as convenient and fast as those purchased directly, well, the surname can also be more secure, and the price is cheaper!

The construction period of these two destroyers is likely to be very long, at least not like the previous gunboats, the construction work began quickly after the money was paid, and then the construction work was completed and launched in less than half a year. In order to build these two destroyers, it is necessary to cooperate with many industrial departments, such as armor steel for warships, Southeast Iron and Steel Company has successively put into production of ordinary steel, and even artillery steel has achieved small-scale mass production, but the steel used for warships is not so easy to get out, although Chen Jingyun spent a great price in order to introduce steel-related technology, but those high-tech shipbuilding steel, especially rigid strength armor steel, is still a big problem for the newly established Southeast Iron and Steel Company. Of course, the current two destroyers do not have high requirements for armor, and they will not require a large number of armor belts like those battleships, as long as the destroyers need ordinary key defenses. To a certain extent, even if the Southeast Iron and Steel Company cannot produce qualified armor steel for a while, it will not affect the construction of destroyers.

In addition to shipbuilding steel, the power system is also a great problem, both Mawei Shipyard and Jiangnan Shipyard have had the experience of building their own power systems in history, but these experiences and technologies have obviously lagged far behind the world's mainstream. The current mainstream power system of warships is coal-fired boilers and steam turbines, especially the Parsons steam turbine is the dominant power development of warships, whether it is Britain or the United States, and even the Parsons steam turbine is used, and even the Parsons steam turbine is used in those warships ordered by the Chinese Navy to the United States. The difference is that these warships ordered by China use the power mode of oil-fired boilers and Parsons steam turbines, which is more forward-looking than the mainstream coal-fired and kerosene combined model.

In order to develop steam turbines, Chen Jingyun directly asked Huaxia Bank to invest in the construction of Shanghai Power Company to carry out the imitation and development of foreign Parsons steam turbines. But then again, the difficulty in the development of this steam turbine lies in the material part, and the task of developing high-level energy materials has to be handed over to the Southeast Iron and Steel Company.

The difficulty of naval artillery is smaller, the original Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau is huge, and it has also developed artillery and other large-caliber naval guns, but the technology is a little more backward than the world's mainstream ones, and after the Nationalist Army accepted the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, it was changed to the Shanghai Arsenal, and in addition to continuing to produce ammunition and rifles and other light weapons, the Shanghai Arsenal also launched research work on large-caliber naval guns. And it is with the full support of the Navy Department.

In order to develop the navy, the Navy Department placed the plan of expanding the naval arsenal in the Sino-US naval cooperation plan in the Shanghai Arsenal, which can be said to have invested heavily in it, and also allocated all the naval gun technology provided by the United States to the Shanghai Arsenal, including the production of ammunition for eight-inch guns, including torpedo production, including six-inch guns, five-inch guns, four-inch guns, and technical data on matching ammunition.

The Navy Department intends to build the Shanghai Arsenal into an exclusive arsenal for the Navy.

With the support of these technical data, coupled with the financial support of the navy, the Shanghai Arsenal has developed rapidly, and has now realized the production of ammunition of caliber below the eight-inch gun, and has started the imitation work of naval guns of various calibers, of which the progress of the four-inch gun is quite satisfactory, and this four-inch gun is the main gun of the two 500-ton destroyers in the future.

In fact, whether it is power, armor protection, or naval artillery, these difficulties are directly due to the trouble of materials. For example, in the naval artillery part, why large-caliber naval guns cannot be imitated now, it is because the special steel on the side of the Southeast Iron and Steel Plant is not up to standard, and why is the steam turbine so difficult, or that sentence, the Southeast Iron and Steel Plant cannot provide qualified materials.

In this era, warship manufacturing was the assembly of all the industrial sectors of a country, and the entire country's industrial system needed to be upgraded to be able to build a warship. And the most critical part is the basic material part, in simple words, steel, various types of special steel.

Without these basic materials, any so-called advanced design and concept is utopian, whether a country is strong or not, just look at their basic materials industry, a country that even makes shipbuilding steel even if it designs Star Destroyers, it can only make others laugh off their big teeth.