readx; In accordance with the limitations and loopholes of the Washington Naval Treaty, Colonel Han Tonglin proposed to build a 33,000-ton or 27,000-ton air warship entirely. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info such warships will occupy the tonnage of aircraft carriers, the first half of the battleship is concentrated in three or three turrets, and the turret is temporarily deployed with eight-inch naval guns, but the turret seat is designed according to the fourteen-inch naval guns that can be equipped, if the war starts during the treaty, then you can urgently replace the fourteen-inch naval guns, so that you can get a main battleship equipped with fourteen-inch naval guns in a short time.

Of course, in order for the aviation warship to conform to the classification of aircraft carriers, hangars and decks must also be deployed in the second half, which does not require him to have the combat capabilities of an aircraft carrier, but at least it looks like an aircraft carrier.

To put it simply, this is a kind of battleship in the name of an aircraft carrier!

This kind of idea has made the top brass of the Chinese Navy very excited, you must know that the tonnage of capital ships is limited, although the tonnage of aircraft carriers is also limited, but China's aircraft carrier tonnage is quite a lot, a full 135,000 tons, and now only 80,000 tons are used, and there are still 55,000 tons that can be used. Moreover, although the status of aircraft carriers has been improved, according to the current scale of the Chinese Navy, four 20,000-ton aircraft carriers are enough to use, and the remaining tonnage is empty, and it is a waste to build more, if the remaining 50,000-odd tonnage is used to build aviation warships, then the Chinese Navy can add two aviation warships of about 27,000 tons.

At this time, although this kind of aviation was only equipped with eight eight-inch naval guns during the treaty period, it could integrate firepower, protection, speed, and even the air combat capability of aircraft carriers, and could not only be competent for the combat mission of balanced heavy patrols, but also the air warships could also provide combat aircraft to provide air protection for the fleet and air reconnaissance.

Because even if it is not modified, then this kind of aviation warship can integrate aircraft carriers and heavy cruisers in one, and effectively complete the task.

And if war breaks out during the treaty period or after the treaty expires, then the navy can completely replace these eight-inch guns with fourteen-inch guns in a short time, although the Shanghai Arsenal cannot make 15-inch or sixteen-inch naval guns for the time being, but the old 14-inch and 45-fold guns are still barely possible. And in this way, it will be possible to have two more capital ships equipped with fourteen-inch naval guns.

Such an attractive idea made the navy's top brass immediately ask the ship's administration department to come up with a specific design plan, and although the specific data of the warship design of this year is confidential, some concepts are difficult to keep secret, after the concept of this aviation warship was proposed, the Chinese navy was also discussed within the time was also quickly known by the intelligence agencies of other countries, so the warship designers of various countries saw a dawn to break through the restrictions of the Washington naval treaty!

That's aviation warships!

When the Chinese Navy itself was also carrying out the design and research of aviation warships, it said, "Ben, the United States, and the United Kingdom have all quickly carried out relevant research and design!"

And when the Chinese Navy sent the initial design plan along with the fourth phase of the naval development plan to Chen Jingyun after several months, it made Chen Jingyun, who had never known about it, cry and laugh, and then shook his head and was ready to shoot this nondescript design plan with a stroke of the pen. What are you kidding, the tonnage of aircraft carriers he won from the Washington Naval Treaty was not for building aviation warships, it was for building an aircraft carrier fleet.

However, when he saw that the design reasons said that various countries had also launched relevant designs, Chen Jingyun's mind immediately appeared such a scene, that is, after the thirties, China's regular aircraft carrier PK said, "Ben and even a bunch of American aviation warships, a large number of carrier-based aircraft taking off from China's aircraft carriers ruthlessly drowned those nondescript aviation warships." Thinking of this scene, Chen Jingyun put down the pen, and then tapped his fingers on the table while pondering.

After a while, he directly commented on the design plan of the aviation warship: "This ship is very good, I hope to have detailed content!" ”

Since such a thing as aviation warships has been proposed, and seeing that Britain and the United States and other countries are also very interested in following up, Chen Jingyun thought that if they could use aviation warships to bring them to the ditch and make various countries suspend or even stop the development of regular aircraft carriers, then the advantage that would be brought to the Chinese Navy in the future would definitely be greater than building two battleships.

Since he wants to bring Britain and the United States to the ditch, it is best to lie to his own people. Therefore, Chen Jingyun summoned Cheng Biguang and said that the concept of aircraft carrier warship is very good, and he hoped that the navy would continue to study and improve the relevant operational theory and the design of warships.

Chen Jingyun said so, and the Chinese Navy has presented a study of aviation warships, and the operational theories of various aviation warships have been continuously proposed, and various detailed design plans have also been taken out.

Naturally, this kind of big discussion about the types of ships is very difficult to keep strictly secret, so when Britain and the United States and other countries knew that China was designing aviation warships, they were not to be left behind, and soon came up with corresponding specific designs, anyway, aviation warships are just a concept, and the specific design is not a difficult problem after the concept is known, and the Chinese Navy, which has always regarded it as a major challenge, said, "This navy quickly determined the design of a new type of aviation warship. And quickly started construction of a 27,000-ton aviation warship ahead of China.

In the face of the fact that the United States and Britain were also quickly following up and preparing to start the construction of the corresponding aviation warships, and the Chinese Navy was also very loud, demanding that the construction of aviation warships be started as soon as possible, but every time the Admiralty submitted a plan to build a ship, it was opposed by Chen Jingyun, and the reason for the opposition was the same, that is: I am very optimistic about this ship, but the design is still flawed, and I hope you will make design modifications!

In the face of Chen Jingyun's opposition, the Chinese navy was helpless, so that the design and discussion of China's air warships lasted from 1924 to the thirties, when it was said that the air warships of Ben and the United States and Britain had already been put into service, but China's air warships still did not have a shadow, and it was not until the late thirties, when China's regular aircraft carrier formations shone brightly, that the navies of various countries understood that they were taken into the gutter by the air warships proposed and advocated by the Chinese Navy.

Of course, these are all future events, and Chen Jingyun will naturally not be able to predict it.

Although the aviation warships were photographed back to their original form by Chen Jingyun again and again, they did not hinder the implementation of the fourth phase of the Navy's development plan.

After the reunification of the Chinese Navy, that is, in 1915, the first phase of the naval development plan was officially launched, and then in 1918, the second phase of the development plan was launched, and the core of the second phase of the development plan was to purchase two Yandi-class battleships, and then in 1920, the third phase of the development plan was proposed, the core content was to build the 446 fleet, and continue to build two battleships independently, but this plan was only halfway through the implementation and was forced to suspend because of the Washington Naval Treaty. The two Yaodi-class battleships, which were at the heart of the plan, were forced to stop work and dismantle. However, after the outbreak of the Sino-Chinese War last year, the Navy quickly restarted the third phase of the development plan again, and restarted the construction of the two battleships under the name of the "wartime emergency shipbuilding plan."

Within a few months, however, the war was over, and then the Second Washington Naval Treaty was once again suspended.

Although the plan was repeatedly disrupted, it was impossible for the development of the navy to stagnate, so the navy once again formulated the fourth phase of the navy's development plan in accordance with the 'wartime emergency shipbuilding plan' that had not yet been completed during the war.

The core of the plan was naturally to start the construction of the two treaty-type battleships, in addition to the continuation of the construction of two Hengshan-class aircraft carriers, as well as two light cruisers and a number of destroyers that were urgently launched during the war.

The core of the fourth phase of the Navy's development plan is to form a huge navy with four battleships and four aircraft carriers as the core, in addition to the four battleships and four aircraft carriers as the core, there are also heavy and light cruisers and destroyers as auxiliary uses. According to the fourth phase of the Navy's development plan, from 1924 to 1927, the Chinese Navy will have two 40,000-ton battleships, two 35,000-ton battleships, four 20,000-ton regular aircraft carriers, and three 15,000-ton heavy cruisers. In addition to the above-mentioned capital ships, there are also a number of light cruisers and destroyers that form air defense, anti-submarine, and lightning strike forces to assist the capital ships in combat.

Such a plan may seem like a huge one, but in fact, many of the contents are a continuation of the previous phase III development plan and the wartime emergency shipbuilding plan, so it does not cost more military spending.

The navy after 1924 seemed to be lively, but in fact, the navy received a military quota in the 1924 budget that was not even as good as in previous years.

Thanks to the increase in tariffs over the past few years, this artificially created trade barriers have allowed domestic industry and commerce to be protected and developed to a certain extent, and in addition, the political axe has invested huge sums of money in infrastructure construction for several consecutive years, stimulating domestic consumption and making the domestic economic situation much better than the previous two years. Taken together, the increase in China's fiscal revenue in 1924 finally broke through the difficult situation since 1920 and rose from 18.6 billion yuan last year to 250 million yuan in one fell swoop, an increase comparable to that of the wartime boom period when World War I broke out.

Last year, China fought two major wars, and the direct military expenditure was as high as 780 million yuan, and the indirect expenditure was 300 million or 400 million, so that the proportion of military expenditure last year accounted for more than 50 percent of the fiscal revenue. At the strong request of Zhuang Nan and Ma Yinchu, the military budget for 1924 plummeted by half, from 53 percent last year to 27 percent this year. The proportion of military spending has been reduced to the lowest point in history, and you must know that the lowest proportion of military spending was 28 percent in the previous year just after reunification, and this year's 27 percent has once again set a record low.

In this way, the navy received 25 percent of the military spending, and the military expenditure was about 140 million, and then the air force also took a small 5 percent or about 30 million. The rest was all taken by the Army. However, the navy had already received a large amount of funds for the wartime emergency shipbuilding program last year, and even the fourth phase of the development plan was a continuation of the wartime emergency shipbuilding program, so although the proportion of military spending in 1924 was not high, the pressure on the navy's military spending was not great.

It's the Army that's really stressed!