The god of war is indeed the god of war

In a word, he grasped the key point. The entire Soviet Far East, with an area of 6.2 million square kilometers, is only maintained by this long Trans-Siberian Railway. If this road is broken, will the Japanese still be able to carve up China with the Soviet Union? Japan is going to have those 6.2 million square kilometers, but it's the world's first-class power, well, at least if you look at the map.

"The border between the Soviet Union and our Mongolia is so long, and the Trans-Siberian Railway is so close to Mongolia, the nearest place is only more than 100 kilometers. We don't have to occupy it, we just need to use the infiltration of the detachment to destroy the railway. As long as it is destroyed once, the Soviet Union will definitely make a big move to deploy heavy troops. ”

At this time, the delicacies on the table were gone, and a map of Mongolia was laid out. Lin Yurong held chopsticks in his hand and pointed at the map.

Wang Zizhi tapped the map with his hand, looked at the map with blazing eyes, and added: "In fact, it is not only the border between Mongolia and the Soviet Union that we can attack, but also the railway lines around Manchuria are also the targets of attack. If the Soviet Union wants to deploy heavy troops on all fronts, I am afraid that it will not be enough to have hundreds of thousands of Red Army, right? And even if there are hundreds of thousands of people, they can't protect it, right? ”

"Hundreds of thousands of troops, if the hedgehogs are gathered together, it is an incomparably majestic scene, but if they are scattered on thousands of kilometers of railway lines, each kilometer is just dozens of people. After all, these hundreds of thousands of troops cannot all be combat soldiers, and they must also have transportation and logistics, command organs at all levels, and various auxiliary arms. And...... These Soviet Red Army can fight infantry, if they can send planes to bomb, can they still fly into the sky to fight? ”

The room was silent, except for the sound of Wang Ziji's fingers unconsciously tapping on the tabletop.

"We can use airplanes, Soviet...... I'm afraid that the Air Force will also be dispatched, right? ”

I don't know how long it took before Gao Shaojie muttered.

"Hmph, then it depends on whose air force is stronger" Luo Yaoguo's words revealed confidence in his own air force, he smiled faintly, and said:

"Our army aviation is no worse than the Soviet Air Force, our aviation industry is a lot higher than the Soviets in terms of fully imported German technology, and we will definitely be able to catch up when the time comes."

In fact, the early Soviet aviation industry was not very good, especially the manufacturing technology of aircraft engines was not up to par, and the service life was only a few dozen hours. It wasn't until the Great Depression in the United States that a lot of advanced technology and machines were exchanged from the Americans. On this basis, the Soviet Union produced the I-15 series of fighters in 1933, and with this fighter, the Soviet Air Force could be regarded as having a place in the world. The I-16, which left the factory in the same year, made the Soviet aviation industry once at the forefront of the world. Of course, this so-called front line was built on the basis that Germany, the real king of the air force during the First World War, was bound by the Treaty of Versailles. It's not the same thing as the history of this plane.

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Old man Sa is in a good mood these days, and he gave people a marshal in a daze, thinking that he doesn't have much credit, it seems that he is also taken advantage of by the old Deshao, right? But what...... There are some troubles, too.

It turned out that he was the Minister of the Navy of the Military Commission of the National Government, and he was in charge of the naval fleet of the National ** Army, the Fujian Mawei Ship Administration Bureau, and he was a real naval leader, but now he brought Sun Yat-sen to Beijing and became the Minister of the Navy of the Central Government of the Republic of China. Not to mention that the navy does not even have a small sampan, only an empty shell admiralty. Every day's work is to play a game of Go with Minister Wu Peifu of the Shell War Department, drink a little wine to pass the time, but it is also at ease.

Until recently, the Kuomintang suddenly had a whim, what kind of military reform should be carried out, and it is said that the navy is still focused on revitalizing the navy? That was the dream that Old Man Sa and the Chinese Navy had for 32 years, and now it is about to come true, and now not only Mr. Sa Zhenbing can't sit still, but even his disciples and grandchildren have also run to the Yamen of the Admiralty in Beijing, and they all come to him to get ideas, what kind of revitalization method should this navy have? Uh, if you want to revitalize the navy, you can't let Luo Yaoguo, a landlubber, have ideas, right? If so, where will the faces of the navy officers of the Republic of China go?

The officers of the Republic of China Navy have studied and believed that the first step in the revival of the navy is to unify the Chinese Navy. Although the current Chinese navy is weak, it is still divided into two and hostile to each other. It turned out that in the years when Sun Yat-sen was in trouble, the navy of the Republic of China was also divided into the navy and the navy, and some of the navies successively surrendered to Sun Yat-sen's national government, and became the main force of the Kuomintang navy in the south. The remaining Bohai Fleet, loyal to the Beiyang government, was annexed by Zhang Zuolin's Feng faction after the Second Zhifeng War. This part of the naval fleet, together with the Fengjun Navy established by Zhang Zuolin, now forms the Northeast Navy, and the commander-in-chief is Admiral Zhang Xueliang, who seems to be a unified individual with Vice President Zhang's son.

Now this commander-in-chief Zhang of the Northeast Navy has arrived. At this moment, he was sitting in the hall of the navy's yamen, holding a tea bowl and sipping tea, while chatting with Chen Shaokuan, minister of the Navy of the Nationalist Government, who came from the south. Sa Zhenbing was dressed in a robe and a horse coat, sitting on the upper seat leisurely, looking easy-going, as if the elders of the family were mediating the conflicts between their children and grandchildren.

At this time, Chen Shaokuan and Zhang Xueliang had finished their greetings, and finally began to talk about the reunification of the navy. I saw Chen Shaokuan's serious face: "General Hanqing." At present, the situation of China's coastal defense is well known. And this navy is not as good as the army, it is not a good division of defense areas, and then each can guard its own territory. In the year of the First Sino-Japanese War, we suffered the loss of our own war, and Japan at that time concentrated all its navy to form a combined fleet to fight a decisive battle with us. Now that China is finally starting to revitalize its navy, we also hope that the Northeast Navy can return to our ranks and form our Chinese combined fleet. ”

"Hahaha...... Houfu (Chen Shaokuan) is really joking. Zhang Xueliang's response was actually a big laugh: "What kind of combined fleet do we have to break the navy at that point?" Hehe, the navy of the whole country is added together, but I'm afraid that no one has a Nagato tonnage, right? ”

Zhang Xueliang didn't know whether he was really confused or pretending to be confused, so he listened to Chen Shaokuan's proposal as a joke. This scene was suddenly a little embarrassing, and Chen Shaokuan's face was also blue and white for a while.

"I'm afraid that little brother Han Qing doesn't know yet, right? At present, the shipyards in Shanghai and Guangzhou are being renovated and expanded, and China Iron and Steel Company has also imported 12,000-ton hydraulic presses from Germany, as well as wide and heavy plate rolling mills. The old man hurriedly came out to play a round game, sticking to his beard and smiling: "Even the battleship has now been with the German Hamburg Blom. The design of the Fox shipyard has begun in cooperation, and it is planned to start construction of two at the same time next year, and the battleship of this class will definitely not be worse than the Japanese Nagato."

"Huh, huh?" Zhang Xueliang still looked smiling and disbelieving. Indeed, Sa Zhenbing's words are a bit big, but the family is the most powerful battleship in the world After the Second Russo-Japanese War, the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet has been claimed to be the first of the world's seven warships

Sa Zhenbing and Chen Shaokuan glanced at each other, knowing that they wanted to talk to Zhang Xueliang about the merger of the naval fleet, but they were afraid that it would be useless. At present, the Northeast Naval Combined Fleet (also known as the United Fleet) is China's most powerful naval fleet, with a total of 26 ships and a total displacement of nearly 20,000 tons, including the most powerful cruiser in China at that time, the Haiqi cruiser, which once belonged to the Kuomintang that ruled Guangdong, but in the 12th year of the Republic of China, Wen Shude, the former commander of the Guangdong Fleet, was bought by the Beijing government at that time, and instigated six warships, including the Haiqi, to go north, and formed the Bohai Fleet. After the Second Zhibong War, it was annexed by the Fengjun Navy, so the Haiqi was also returned to the Fengjun. This time, the naval generals of the Nationalist Government planned to unify the navy, and probably more than half of the reason was for this precious cruiser.

Seeing that Sa Zhenbing and Chen Shaokuan were silent for a while, Zhang Xueliang just looked at the two with a smile. The room is extremely quiet. In the end, I heard Sa Zhenbing cough, nodded at Zhang Xueliang, and said with a smile: "Our northern and southern navies belong to China, and it stands to reason that there should be no distinction between them." However, at present, the national situation is there, and it is not something that our navy can change, after all, China still has the final say in the army, and the navy is just an appendage. ”

“…… Since the southern navy cannot be combined into a single force for the time being, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble...... It is better to follow the old practice of Beiyang and Nanyang, and change the name of the Northeast Navy to the Beiyang Navy, which is responsible for protecting the northern seaports and shielding the Beijing Division. And the Southern Navy was renamed the Nanyang Navy, responsible for the security of the southern coastline, right? ”

Old Man Sa's words are quite pertinent, and he also divides the territory of the North and South Navy, so that everyone can be at peace for the time being. It's just that the responsibility of guarding all mouths in the North Ocean was thrown to the Northeast Navy. After speaking, he brushed his beard reservedly. Zhang Xueliang just smiled: "What Sa Dinggong said is very much in line with my father's intentions, in the future, the north and south navies will guard one side to ensure that Haikou is safe." ”

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The warlords have always been unable to get rid of the idea of supporting their own troops, and China's navy has always been inseparable from the way of guarding Haikou in the South and North Seas. In fact, not only the navy, but even most of the people in the Military Commission of the National Government are also this brain, which makes Luo Yaoguo, a soul from later generations, a headache.

At present, his position is only that of Minister of Armaments, member of the Military Commission, and member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang. The affairs of the army, even if he is the head of the hand, there are ordinary sworn friends like Bai Chongxi, An Sihua, Wu Ziliang, and Li Shunen. There are also students from the Whampoa Department, plus a "foreign monk" from Germany to help chant the scriptures, but they can also exert extraordinary influence.

But in the affairs of the navy, those Fujian guys really don't buy his account, even if it is the "foreign abbot" Gunther, who is also the president of the Naval Academy and the president of the Naval University. It was useless for Lütjans to help chant the scriptures together. Most of the Fujian admirals grew up reading the English scriptures, and they didn't take the German abbot seriously at all.

“…… The main responsibility of our future navy should be to defend the southern and northern seas, as well as the seaports of Guangdong and Fujian. Therefore, the optimal configuration of the two ships should be one for the southern and one for the northern navy. The South and North Fleets will take this as the core, supplemented by heavy cruisers, light cruisers, destroyers, and aircraft carriers, to form a powerful and complete naval fleet, which will always be on alert and cruising between the various seaports, so that the enemy will have no chance to take advantage of it, so as to achieve the goal of keeping the enemy out of the country."

Chen Shaokuan, director of the Navy Department of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, said this, and he is now submitting a proposal for the reconstruction of the Navy to the Military Commission on behalf of the Navy Department. The two warships he referred to as the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan were the two battleships that were still drawing drawings, and the Admiralty had already named them "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan" respectively, and the Admiralty's calculation was to try to unify the Chinese Navy after these two warships were launched, and then use these two warships to be the flagship and core of the South and North Ocean Fleets respectively to do the great cause of defending Haikou.

Luo Yaoguo was also sitting precariously at this time, listening to the opinions of the Admiralty with the members of the Military Commission. At the same time, he secretly looked at the expressions of the other members of the Military Commission with the corner of his eye, and saw that they all nodded with a smile, and his careful liver was pulled out of the cold. This Chen Shaokuan also looks like a dignified and famous general, and the eyebrows are full of sharpness, but why doesn't this brain turn around? The naval spirit of the British Empire, which is "destroyed when it sees the enemy".

"General Houfu, can you defend Haikou with two battleships? Japan can have ten battleships"

As soon as Chen Shaokuan's words ended, Hu Hanmin, who was sitting at the top of the conference table, frowned and asked first. Hu Hanmin didn't know much about the navy, but simply counted the numbers, Japan has ten battleships, and even if we wait until the second ship of Zhenzhen and Dingzhou comes out, there are only two, ten to two larger, so most of them can't beat others. Battleships are expensive...... If you accidentally break it, it will be distressing.

"Chairman Hu, you should ask Minister Luo of the Ministry of Armaments about this, this shipbuilding work is now under the Ministry of Armaments."

After speaking, Chen Shaokuan gave a clean military salute to Hu Hanmin and ended his speech, kicking the ball to Luo Yaoguo. But listening to his last tone, he was faintly dissatisfied. It turns out that the Admiralty has always wanted to get hold of the shipyard, and the Mawei Shipyard originally belonged to the Navy, but now the Ministry of Armaments has taken it away, and the Admiralty is worried about this matter.

Seemingly...... You'll have to get control of the navy

Luo Yaoguo was thinking about the conspiracy to eliminate dissidents in his heart, but there was a spring breeze smile on his face, he stood up and saluted respectfully at Hu Hanmin, Chiang Kai-shek, and Xu Chongzhi, and said with a smile: "Japan's so-called ten battleships are not all battleships in the strict sense, and four Kongo-class battleships are actually second-class battlecruisers. At present, the standard displacement of the King Kong class is only more than 26,000 tons, and although it has eight fourteen-inch (356mm) main guns, its firepower can be called powerful, but its armor protection level is obviously insufficient. Based on the experience of the Battle of Jutland, such a battlecruiser was very vulnerable in the face of a real super-battleship, and the two battleships in our plan were real super-battleships"

“…… In addition to the four battlecruisers, the Japanese Navy also has six real super battleships, two of which are Fuso-class battleships with a displacement of about 30,000 tons, these two battleships are characterized by being equipped with twelve fourteen-inch guns and six turrets, but the battleships of this class are too slow, and the current level of protection is also average. I'm afraid that in future battles, we will be left far behind our battleships, right? At that time, the initiative to fight or not to fight will be in the hands of our Minister Chen. ”

“…… The Japanese Ise-class battleships were actually a modified version of the Fuso-class, and similarly had six turrets and twelve fourteen-inch guns. The current displacement is more than 31,000 tons, and the level of speed protection is average, and the speed is also slow. If the result of our new battleship is the same as that of the Fuso class, whether to fight or not to fight is in my hands, so there is no need to worry. ”

“…… Among Japan's ten battleships, the really powerful ones are the Nagato and Mutsu ships. The initial design of these two battleships was completed in 1916, and the construction of the first ship, the Nagato, began on August 28, 1917 at the Kure Naval Yard in Hiroshima Prefecture, and was launched on November 9, 1919, and completed on November 25, 1920. The construction cost was 43.9 million yen or more at the time. These two battleships used the 410 mm guns, the largest caliber of the battleships at that time, and in the Battle of Vladivostok in the Second Russo-Japanese War, it was the 410 mm guns of the Nagato and Mutsu ships that destroyed the protective walls of the 9th to 11th fortresses on Russky Island, and it can be said that the Vladivostok fortress was captured by the Nagato and Mutsu ships, and it was also after this battle, the Nagato was praised as the world's first warship by public opinion in various countries. Moreover, intelligence shows that the displacement and speed of the Nagato-class battleships are larger and faster than the data released by Japan, and its displacement is likely to reach 40,000 tons, and the speed is as high as 26.5 knots, these two battleships are the real threat to our new battleships in the future. The Foss shipyard also used these two warships as imaginary enemies to design new warships. ”

As soon as Luo Yaoguo's words came out, the bigwigs of the Military Commission had nothing, but Chen Shaokuan, who was the Minister of the Navy, had an unbelievable expression.

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