readx; In the Andaman Sea of the Indian Ocean, two slender destroyers sailed from north to south, with five-color flags waving in the wind on board, there is no doubt that this is a warship belonging to the Chinese Navy, with a slender body, a tall tower-shaped shipyard and a high-level dual-purpose gun with a body barrel of six five-inch and forty-fold caliber barrels that are almost a symbol of the surname, and anyone who is a little familiar with the warships of the Chinese Navy can see at a glance that this is one of the destroyers built in large quantities by the Chinese Navy in recent years: the Zimei-class destroyer. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The Zimei-class destroyer is a follow-up overhaul of the Zi'an-class destroyer, which simply means that the tonnage has been increased, the speed has been reduced, and the anti-aircraft firepower has been increased.

A few years ago, the Navy also attached great importance to lightning strike capability, and the Navy's development plan had many plans for the construction of lightning light cruisers, but although the pressure of air defense gradually increased, the Navy once again increased the construction of air defense light cruisers, and the construction of new destroyers also increased anti-aircraft firepower again, and the lightning strike capability that had been highly valued in the past was further weakened.

Zimei class is the product of this situation, compared with the previous Zi'an class, the Zimei class tonnage is larger to reach 2,700 tons of displacement, and the firepower has also been changed from the beginning of the four-inch gun to the five-inch gun, but in order to reduce the cost and did not increase the power unit, so the speed has decreased compared with the Zi'an class, only 35 knots.

As the destroyer with the largest number of destroyers built by the Chinese Navy, the cost is naturally the most important reason, and the Navy does not have too many prayers, just hoping that the anti-aircraft firepower is enough.

Of course, the Chinese Navy cannot only have such a destroyer as the Mei-class, in fact, there are several other destroyers that have also been built in large quantities, some focus on anti-submarine, some focus on lightning combat and artillery warfare, but the number of these destroyers built is not much, a few less, more than a dozen, and the number of Zimei-class ships up to hundreds of ships is not worth mentioning at all.

Since the Zimei-class destroyers were officially commissioned in 1940, more than 70 or 80 destroyers have been put into service in just two years, and the speed of service is getting faster and faster, and the Chinese Navy's total order for the Zimei-class and the modification of the Zimei-class has reached as many as 200 ships.

What is called a naval competition, this is called a naval competition, the number of destroyers built is counted in hundreds, and the number of aircraft carriers built is also dozens of dozens. The only countries in the world that can afford to play a naval race of this scale are China and the United States, and in fact, compared to China, the Americans are building ships on a larger scale.

As for the former number one power in the world, Britain has long been unable to keep up with the pace of development of the navies of China and the United States, while the other naval power is still relying on the strength accumulated in the past decades to support, and as for the newly built ships, it can almost ignore the supply.

Although the Mei-class destroyer is estimated to be in the top five in the world in terms of single ship surname, its surname-to-price ratio is definitely second to none. As long as there is a Chinese navy, there must be a Zimei-class destroyer, whether it is the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, or the Atlantic Ocean, or even the Mediterranean Sea and the Baltic Sea, you can see the figure of China's self-Mei-class destroyers.

According to the division of the Chinese Navy's defense areas, in addition to the four major coastal defense fleets in domestic waters, the coastal coastal defense zones in Southeast Asian waters, that is, the coastal waters of Vietnam and Thailand, belong to the newly established Fifth Coastal Defense Fleet, which mainly has jurisdiction over the Cam Ranh Bay naval base and a naval base in the Gulf of Thailand. On the other side of the Indian Ocean, the Yangon Naval Base in Myanmar, the Aqab Naval Base in northern Myanmar, and the Phang Nga Port Naval Base in Thailand, which is still under development, will be responsible for the defense of the waters near these naval bases.

The coastal defense fleet of the Chinese Navy and the traditional First Fleet and Second Fleet are two different things, and they do not belong to each other. The coastal defense fleet is mainly responsible for naval base guards, coastal patrols, defense, etc. The only task of the main fleet is to fight a decisive battle with the enemy navy and compete for sea supremacy, so the two major fleets of the Chinese navy are not fixed, and the fleets and stations under their jurisdiction are also changing at any time.

Although to a certain extent, China's coastal defense fleet does not need to be responsible for ocean-going combat missions, but with the gradual increase in the sea areas that China needs to control, and the two main fleets belong to the existence of the pillars of the town, there dare to be easily mobilized, so some tasks in Pingyu are responsible for the coastal defense fleet.

For example, in the Indian Ocean, since the Chinese Navy successively acquired the two naval bases of Achab and Yangon from Myanmar, the Sixth Coastal Defense Fleet was established, and this coastal defense fleet is far away from the domestic navy, separated by Malacca, and it is easy to be isolated in wartime, so although the Sixth Coastal Defense Fleet is called the Coastal Defense Fleet, it is actually a sub-fleet with ocean-going combat capabilities. On some informal occasions in China, many people refer to the Sixth Coastal Defense Fleet as the Indian Ocean Fleet.

The Chinese Navy has never had the so-called Pacific Fleet or the South China Sea Fleet, the East China Sea Fleet, the Indian Ocean Fleet and the like, and has always been called the digital fleet, and many good things in China are called according to the location of these fleets, for example, the first fleet is called the East Pacific Fleet, and the second fleet is called the South Pacific Fleet, and now the Sixth Fleet is stationed in the Indian Ocean, and it is reasonable to be called the Indian Ocean Fleet.

This kind of thing is not surprising, the British Z Fleet is not also called the Far East Fleet, but this name did not exist for long before it completely disappeared, because this Far East Fleet was destroyed by the British at the beginning of last year, and in the Singapore War, it was said that "I not only conquered Singapore, but also the aircraft carrier mobile fleet of this navy wiped out the Z Fleet in one fell swoop, and it was a brilliant record of total annihilation, so that the British Far East Fleet sank into the vast sea without being able to play any role."

After I occupied Singapore, that is, I was granted the right of passage to Malacca, and after passing through the Strait of Malacca, Ben's mobile fleet entered the Indian Ocean and prepared to destroy the British Indian Ocean fleet.

At the same time, as an important naval force in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and as a Chinese navy with undeniable special interests in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, it is also closely following the engagement between the navies of the two countries.

Of course, in order to avoid misunderstanding, the ships sent by the Chinese Navy will take the initiative to inform the Chinese Navy, and the Admiral is also helpless about the Chinese Navy's practice of following behind the Chinese Navy, but now the relationship between China and the Chinese Navy is still in close cooperative relations, and they can only acquiesce to the two Chinese destroyers behind them.

On the destroyer Ziyuan, Lieutenant Colonel Pan Anqun looked into the distance with a telescope and said, "This fleet, and after a while, he put down the telescope: "These are the formations of my own people are not bad!" The anti-submarine formation is very well arranged! ”

A captain next to him said: "These people have been able to win the Battle of Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Singapore in succession, and naturally it is impossible for them to be useless. ”

"This time, I think the British are going to be unlucky again!" Lieutenant Colonel Pan Anqun turned around and walked off the bridge, saying as he walked: "Sort out what we have observed about the situation of the army, and then report it to the Yangon base, I think those people above are also urgent to know how the training of this navy is!" ”

The top brass of the Chinese Navy really urgently needs to know, 'To what extent has the combat strength of this navy risen, and whether this navy, which has successively defeated the US Navy and the British Navy, has there been signs that the Chinese Navy cannot control it?' He said: "Whether the navy, especially the carrier-based aircraft unit, can still maintain the high quality before the war after being consumed by the naval war is something that the top brass of the Chinese navy needs to know."

After all, the Chinese Navy's judgment of the strength of the Navy could only be judged by their hardware and equipment, and then it was judged by several actual battles of the Navy, but the information that the Chinese Navy was able to obtain in the previous naval battles was extremely effective, and it was useful for judging that the Navy's training and preparation for war were seriously insufficient, and due to the lack of a comprehensive understanding of the Navy, this also prompted the Chinese Navy to send a small force to follow the Navy and try to obtain it in the most intuitive wayIntelligence on the engagement of the present Navy and the British Navy.

From February 1942, it was said that "after passing through the Strait of Malacca, the First Mobile Fleet of Aircraft Carriers led by Vice Admiral Tadaichi Nagumo, it went straight to the island of Ceylon (LisLanka), which is an important base of the British Navy in the Indian Ocean, and the Indian Ocean Fleet deployed in it is the largest presence of the British Navy in the Indian Ocean." The mission of the Nagumo Mobile Fleet is to destroy this British naval fleet in order to completely solve the threats faced by the Navy in the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific, to ensure that the landing force occupies the islands in the South Pacific, and to provide maritime security for the landing operation that is about to be launched in Australia.

Subsequently, the Nagumo Mobile Fleet and the British Indian Ocean Fleet engaged in a large-scale engagement, and as Pan Anqun expected, the British Indian Ocean Fleet suffered another heavy defeat, including the sinking of the aircraft carrier Athletic, and the sinking of two heavy cruisers and a number of destroyers and light cruisers, if you add the sinking of the Invincible aircraft carrier and other battleships in the Z Fleet of the Battle of Singapore, etc., after two naval battles, the British Navy's maritime power in Asian waters was severely damaged, Britain even took the initiative to retreat from the eastern part of the Indian Ocean, and even abandoned the Andaman Islands and fully retreated to Ceylon and India.

At this time, China, which has always liked to take advantage of the chaos, sent a small fleet and part of the landing force, and then landed in the Andaman Islands, of course, the words used were definitely not occupation or other invasion words, but "In view of the fact that Britain is currently unable to guarantee the safety of the people on the Andaman Islands, in order to avoid the safety of the lives and property of the people on the Andaman Islands, China has decided to accept the invitation of the pacifists in the islands to send peacekeeping troops into it." ”

He has repeatedly claimed that China has no interest in changing sovereignty over the Andaman Islands, that the place is still part of the British Empire, and that China is only sending peacekeepers for peaceful purposes.