readx; Standing on the bridge of the Lushan, looking at the empty and huge deck outside and the carrier-based aircraft on the deck, Chen Jingyun felt a sense of pride in his heart. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Since taking charge of China, Chen Jingyun believes that although he has not made much progress in people's livelihood, and has not been able to make all the people of the country have enough to eat, the peasants in the countryside are still living extremely hard, but they have made great achievements in the military-related defense industry.

Needless to say, China's army has defeated the Russian and Soviet armies one after another, and no one dares to underestimate their combat effectiveness. At present, China has more than 60 standing divisions, with more than 1.5 million standing field troops, and in peacetime, the only country with more land forces than China is Soviet Russia, a country that has taken an unusual path. The other powers, including Britain, France, and the United States, had shrunk dramatically after the end of World War I, and the number of their armies was only a few hundred thousand, and even the French army did not exceed one million now.

More importantly, the Chinese Army today is not the kind of army that had no quantity but no quality in the pre-Qing Dynasty, and although the equipment of the Chinese Army is not as good as that of Britain and France, the overall equipment level is close to the level of the European powers in the late World War I, and even exceeds the equipment level of the so-called "own army."

Not to mention artillery and machine guns, but in terms of tanks alone, China is currently equipped with more than 500 tanks in the world, which is the fourth strongest in the world, second only to Britain, France, and the United States. The reason why the above three countries have so many tanks is entirely because of the relationship between the First World War, during which these three countries produced a large number of tanks, and naturally a large number of tanks were retained after the war to continue to serve.

In the Second Washington Naval Treaty, the tonnage of China's capital ships has reached the same level as that of France and Italy, reaching 200,000 tons, and it not only has two 40,000-ton super battleships Yandi and Huangdi, but also two Shundi-class treaty-type battleships under construction. After the completion of these two battleships in two or three years, China will be able to have four super battleships equipped with 16-inch guns, and since these four battleships are all new super battleships, these four battleships alone will be enough for the Chinese Navy to have the strength to compete with its own navy.

You must know that although the tonnage of the capital ships of the Navy, which is more than 400,000 tons, more than double that of China, nearly half of these battleships are old battleships that are unusable, and there are only two Nagato-class battleships and two Kaga-class battleships that can really play a role, and there are also two Amagi-class battlecruisers. These six battleships are the true essence of the navy, and according to the provisions of the treaty, it is said that "Ben can continue to work on one treaty-type battleship this year." In this way, after a few years, it will be China's four new battleships against the seven new battleships called "Ben".

After all, the strategy of the Chinese Navy for a long time has been to conduct defensive operations and attack the supply line from the mainland to North Korea, which is completely competent in terms of the current strength of the Chinese Navy, and if the naval strength is more, there is no need to attack, and the main fleet can be placed directly in the Tsushima Strait.

The strength of the battleships is not small, but Chen Jingyun did not pay too much attention, although the role of these battleships is very great today, even between the thirties and forties, they can still play a huge role, but in a few years the main force of the navy is destined to be impossible to be them, and the battleships at that time can only be used to escort aircraft carriers in addition to carrying out shore bombardment.

And there is a very real problem here, that is, the Yandi-class battleships are only twenty-eight knots, and the Shundi-class under construction is only twenty-eight knots, which is not slow for the old battleships and even the battleships under construction in other countries. But for an aircraft carrier, this speed is too slow.

Among China's aircraft carriers, the Taishan, a modified aircraft carrier, is only a civilian ship refit, and cannot participate in actual operations except for training, so it cannot be counted, while the regular aircraft carriers of the Chinese Navy include two Huashan-class aircraft carriers and two Hengshan-class aircraft carriers. However, the speed of these four aircraft carriers is super-fast, and the maximum speed of the Huashan-class aircraft carrier is 32 knots, which is the same speed as the first-generation Huatai-class heavy cruiser built by China. However, the Hengshan-class aircraft carrier, which was improved from the Huashan-class aircraft carrier, was even faster, reaching thirty-three knots. The reason why the aircraft carrier needs such a fast speed is that in addition to the need to use high speed to escape when encountering the enemy, more importantly, the carrier-based aircraft needs deck wind when taking off, and the faster the speed of the voyage itself, the lower the take-off speed of the carrier-based aircraft itself, which can not only shorten the take-off distance, but also allow the carrier-based aircraft to take off with full load, and these are extremely important factors. And this has caused the aircraft carriers, whether they are designed by China or other countries, to be extremely fast.

If the speed of the aircraft carrier and the battleship is only one or two knots apart, it can barely make do, but if the difference is four or five knots, it is really difficult to cooperate with the operation, in the last naval battle in the East China Sea, the aircraft carrier and the two Huatai-class heavy cruisers and destroyer formations were not grouped together with the battleships.

The main force of the navy in the future will be aircraft carriers, and this is the policy that Chen Jingyun has determined when he rebuilt the navy more than ten years ago.

Admiral Cheng Biguang, the new chief of the Admiralty, stood beside Chen Jingyun and said in a low voice: "Although this Lushan is improved from the Huashan class like the Hengshan, due to the long construction time of the Lushan, it has experienced the first and second naval treaties in the process of construction, so it has undergone several design changes before and after, and the overall surname is very different from the Hengshan. ”

China's four aircraft carrier plans were put forward in the third phase of the naval development plan in 1919, and the two Shiguang-class heavy cruisers and Yaodi-class battleships started construction that year, but it didn't take long for the Washington Treaty to be dismantled, and the Yaodi-class battleships at that time were forced to stop work and dismantle, although the two Shiguang-class heavy cruisers and the two Hengshan-class aircraft carriers were able to continue to be built, but at that time, the navy considered that China could not continue to build capital ships in the next ten years under the restrictions of the treaty. Therefore, the design of the two Shiguang-class heavy cruisers under construction has been changed, and the previous cost restrictions have been cancelled, so as to increase the protection capacity and speed, so that the displacement of the Shiguang-class has increased from 15,500 tons at the beginning of the design to 16,500 tons, and the design speed has also been increased from the previous 33 sections to 34 sections. Although the cost has increased greatly, the navy is still ruthlessly allocating a large amount of funds for building ships, and the completion of these two Shiguang-class heavy cruisers has been delayed due to the change in design, and it was not until the outbreak of the Sino-Chinese War that the Chinese Navy accelerated the construction speed, and after working overtime, the first ship of the Shiguang-class was completed and put into service at the end of the Sino-Chinese War, and the Sino-Japanese War was already over when the No. 2 ship was put into service.

The commissioning of the two Shiguang-class heavy cruisers was delayed for several years, and the completion of the two Hengshan-class aircraft carriers was postponed, at first because of the Washington Naval Treaty, and later because the post-war economic crisis left the navy with empty pockets and could not come up with more money to support numerous shipbuilding programs, so the limited funds were put on the two Shiguang-class heavy cruisers and other light cruisers and destroyers, so the construction progress of the two aircraft carriers slowed down. The two aircraft carriers also took advantage of this time to make design changes and made a large number of optimized designs, and the final result was to increase the displacement of the Hengshan from 19,800 tons to 21,000 tons. If the Hengshan, which was commissioned last year, still roughly retains the structure of the Huashan-class aircraft carrier, then the No. 2 ship of the same class, the Lushan, has been changed beyond recognition, not only the internal compartment has been greatly changed, but even the exterior has also been greatly changed. The most direct impact of these design changes is that the displacement of the Lushan has increased from 19,800 tons to more than 22,000 tons, which is more than the increased displacement of the Hengshan, and the most obvious change brought about by the increase in displacement is that the armor protection capacity of the ammunition depot and wheel compartment of the Lushan has been greatly increased, and the thickness of the hangar deck has been thickened.

The changes were so large that the aircraft carrier, which had already begun construction in March 1921, spent several years on the slipway, and was not completed until January of this year. This time is already very long for this era, you must know that when China built the 20,000-ton Huashan aircraft carrier, it only took about a year in total, and the construction time before and after the Yandi-class battleship ordered by the United States was only about a year. Even for the Shiguang-class heavy cruise, which has also been rebuilt, the construction time adds up to just over two years, and the Hengshan aircraft carrier is slightly longer, but it is less than three years.

Therefore, this four-year construction period is very, very long, and you must know that after the completion of these warships, it does not mean that they will be able to have combat effectiveness, and after completion, they will have to conduct sea trials, and then they will have to be trained for about a year or two after they are officially put into service, so that they can form combat effectiveness. Of course, this is talking about the progress in peacetime, if it is a war time, it will basically be put into service directly after completion, and after a few months of hasty training, it will be able to go to the battlefield, and if it is a light warship, it is also possible to get off the slipway and directly participate in the war.

The ultra-long construction period has made the Lushan and Hengshan very different, and this change can be seen even if Chen Jingyun, a layman, is standing on the deck.

After getting off the Lushan aircraft carrier with some excitement, Chen Jingyun went directly to the Shanghai Arsenal, which was building several 14-inch coastal defense guns for the Lushun Fortress in China.

The next time, Chen Jingyun boarded the Yandi, the flagship of the First Fleet of the Chinese Navy, inspected the Chinese Navy, looked at the dozens of huge warships on the sea, especially the majestic figure of the Yellow Emperor not far away, Chen Jingyun felt for the first time that he had made up his mind to buy these two battleships It was a good business. The role played by the navy in the war was extremely limited. Although these two battleships do not play as much of a role in China's defense today as they thought, they do not look domineering.

It doesn't really matter whether the battleship is good or not, as long as it looks good, these battleships are a big toy for Chen Jingyun, and it's just fun to watch. In a real naval war in the future, it will only be aircraft carriers that will fight for control of the sea for China.

However, it has to be said that such a thing as a battleship is inherently suitable for serving as the spiritual pillar of the people!