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On the newly built 30,000-ton slipway of Jiangnan Shipyard, Ye Zaifu, the director of Jiangnan Factory, and Ping Herang, the new chief engineer of Jiangnan Factory, followed Chang Ruiqing on the left and right.

Ye Zaifu was a well-known shipbuilding expert in the Republic of China, who studied naval architecture at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, and holds a bachelor's degree in naval engineering. At the end of 97, he was sent by the Admiralty of the Beiyang Government at that time to the Jiangnan Shipyard as a technician, and two years ago he had been promoted to the position of the top leader of the Jiangnan Shipyard. Although he has been involved in almost the whole process of the revival of China's shipbuilding industry over the years, it is the days after the signing of the Japan-China Treaty that excites him the most. As a result of this deceitful treaty and the GC revolution in Japan, a large number of engineers and skilled workers serving the Japanese shipbuilding industry crossed the sea to China. Among them is the current chief engineer of the Jiangnan Plant, former rear admiral of the Japanese Navy Shipbuilding, director of the fourth department of the Ship Administration Headquarters, and professor of the Faculty of Engineering of Tokyo Imperial University.

Speaking of the name Pingherang, everyone in the Chinese who are now related to the navy knows and knows it. Because it turned out that the most powerful battleships of the Japanese Navy, the "Nagato" and "Mutsu", were designed by him! Compared with such shipbuilding masters, Ye Zaifu, the director of the Jiangnan Plant, is simply an intern in the shipbuilding industry who has just started.

It is precisely with the joining of Hiraga Jean and a large number of Japanese shipbuilding engineers and skilled workers that the current Jiangnan Shipyard has been transformed from a first-class facility with the lowest technology. A shipyard that can only build 10,000-ton bulk carriers and 1,000-ton destroyers at most has become the world's first-class shipbuilding enterprise with the ability to design and build battleships and aircraft carriers!

Even Chang Ruiqing, who has never had much interest in China's shipbuilding industry. He also made a special trip from Nanjing to inspect the "Zhongshan" aircraft carrier under construction.

The "Zhongshan" is a 27,000-ton large aircraft carrier designed by the Bethlehem Shipyard in the United States, and its performance indicators are similar to the famous "Essex" class aircraft carrier in another time and space.

The standard displacement is 27000 tons, and the full load displacement is 4500 tons. The length of the ship is 265 meters, and the flight deck factory is 26 meters; The width of the ship is 2 meters, and the width of the flight deck is 292 meters; The average draft is 7 meters. The hangar is 7 meters long, 2 meters wide and 54 meters high. It has 2 heavy oil boilers and 4 steam turbines, with an output of up to 50,000 shaft horsepower. The maximum speed is 0 knots, the fuel load is 600 tons, and the cruising range is 5000 nautical miles / 5 knots.

According to the design requirements proposed by Chang Ruiqing. The thickness of the armor of this class of aircraft carriers is very impressive, with the waterline armor belt up to 6 mm thick, the turret armor 27 mm thick, and the turret base armor 2 mm thick. The hangar armor plates were up to 76mm thick. The main deck armor is mm thick, and the armored flight deck with mm armor is also used, which greatly improves the battlefield survivability of this class of aircraft carriers.

In addition, the anti-aircraft firepower of the "Zhongshan" class aircraft carrier is also very powerful, according to the current design, it has two twin 27mm high-level dual-purpose guns, and also reserves gun emplacements that can install six quadruple 40mm anti-aircraft guns and 50 single-barreled 20mm anti-aircraft guns. Moreover, the German company Krupp and the Swiss company Erlikon were specially commissioned to design 40mm and 20mm anti-aircraft guns for the air defense of surface ships.

Due to the sturdy armor and powerful anti-aircraft firepower that squeezed a lot of space, plus the size of the future carrier-based aircraft may be larger. Therefore, the number of carrier-based aircraft of this class of aircraft carriers with an unloaded displacement of up to 27,000 is expected to be only about 90.

If it is placed in another time and space, this class of 27,000-ton aircraft carriers is born. I am afraid that it will cause an uproar in the world's naval circles. But at this time and space, the news that China will have three of the world's most advanced aircraft carriers around 92 has not attracted much international attention, and the world's major naval powers have not adjusted their aircraft carrier construction plans. This is because the current naval structure of the world has changed dramatically due to Japan's temporary withdrawal.

Now Britain and the United States are arguing over a dozen Japanese battleships and armored cruisers in the port of Manila. The Americans bought these warships for $200 million, and of course they want to keep them on American soil. And Britain believes that the purchase of the capital ships of the Japanese Navy by the United States violates the Shanghai Naval Treaty, and these warships should be dismantled immediately!

However, no matter how they quarreled, no matter what fate would happen to these Japanese capital ships, there was one thing that the two naval powers agreed upon. The sea of the future is the world of the British and American navies! Japan, which has lost all its capital ships, and China, which does not have a single capital ship, will not be able to participate in the struggle for world maritime supremacy in the future. It is also true that even if China has an advanced aircraft carrier, it is impossible to make any great achievements, and the carrier-based aircraft on the "Zhongshan" class are only 270 together, and how much combat effectiveness can they have?

Chang Ruiqing also got such a point of view from the newspapers of Western countries. Now that the keel of the "Zhongshan" aircraft carrier had just been laid, Chang Ruiqing remembered this argument of Western naval observers, and he stopped, turned back to the short Hiraga Jean, and asked in English: "Mr. Hiraga, do you think it is possible for Soviet Japan to revive the Japanese navy?" ”

As a former rear admiral and shipbuilding expert in the Japanese Navy, Hiraga was well aware of the situation in the Japanese Navy and the Japanese shipbuilding industry, saying: "The Japanese Navy still has human resources, and the shipbuilding industry is basically intact, so the loss of six battleships and three battlecruisers is not a big deal. The results of the Battle of the Yangtze River Estuary also showed that battleships and battlecruisers were too vulnerable to the blows of air and underwater forces, and that the main force of the navy in the future might be aircraft carriers. However, considering the blow inflicted by the Japanese GCD on the Japanese economy and industry, as well as the current national policy of Soviet Japan going north, the Japanese Navy may not have a day of revival......"

"Japan's GCD's national policy of going north is fake. The social system they implemented was also conducive to the development of the military industry, although the Japanese people would pay a heavy price for it! ”

Hiraga was stunned for a moment, thinking and saying, "If that's the case." The navy of Soviet Japan did not inevitably have a day of revival. I studied the design drawings of the 'Nakayama' and decided that the construction of aircraft carriers was much less difficult than that of battleships and battle cruisers. Moreover, the 'Zhongshan' has put forward excessively high requirements for speed, armor, and anti-aircraft firepower, and if some standards are appropriately lowered in these aspects, the difficulty and cost of building the aircraft carrier will be greatly reduced. However, Japan is also limited by the "Shanghai Naval Treaty", and the total tonnage of aircraft carriers cannot exceed 000 tons, which will also limit the pace of revival of the Japanese Navy. ”

Chang Ruiqing smiled slightly, noncommittal. There are no restrictions on such a thing as a treaty for a Soviet state. Now the power of the GCD in Japan has slowly consolidated. It won't be long before they can erect an iron curtain. At that time, what they will do behind the Iron Curtain will not be known to the international community. Now it is up to Trotsky, the world leader of the revolution, to play the Japanese card.

That's the end of the topic about the Japanese Navy, and then Chang Ruiqing put forward a new shipbuilding idea. He pointed to the "Zhongshan" under construction and said: "Mr. Naifin (Ye Zaifu), Mr. Hiraga, our navy needs a kind of aircraft carrier that can accompany the 'Zhongshan'. warships that provide cover for air defense and anti-ship fire...... I envisioned it. The unladen displacement of such a warship should be around 25,000 tons, the speed should be more than 0 knots, the main gun fire can defeat all heavy cruisers, and the anti-aircraft fire is not inferior to that of the aircraft carrier 'Zhongshan'. ”

"Does the Chairman want a battlecruiser?" Ye Zaifu asked rhetorically.

"You can also count the battlecruisers, taking up the quota of capital ships, I want to build six such warships. However, the object of this type of battle patrol is not enemy battleships or battle cruisers, but enemy heavy cruisers and aircraft. Chang Ruiqing paused for a moment and said, "In addition." In the future, the Navy also needs a large light cruiser. ”

"Large light cruisers? What kind of ship is this? Pinghe looked at Chang Ruiqing with some doubts. It seems that he was very surprised by the shipbuilding concept put forward by the chairman of the National People's Congress who was born in the army and did not understand the navy at all.

"Britain and the United States have recently prepared for a new round of naval meetings in London. On the one hand, the disposition of nine Japanese capital ships is discussed; On the one hand, it was discussed to limit the total tonnage of the cruiser. I envisaged that the large light cruisers would occupy the quota of heavy cruisers, with a displacement of no more than 10,000 tons, a 50mm cannon for the main guns, a speed that should exceed that of all heavy cruisers, and also require powerful anti-aircraft firepower. Mr. Hiraga, can such a ship be designed? ”

Hiraga shrugged: "Isn't it just to build a heavy cruiser with a displacement equivalent to a battle cruiser and a light cruiser with a displacement equivalent to a heavy cruiser, and at the same time greatly strengthen the anti-aircraft firepower?" It's not difficult at all. ”

He didn't say much of a thing, the construction and design of warships in this era was limited by naval treaties, and all naval engineers were pursuing to design ships with greater firepower, speed, and survivability while tonnage was limited. And Chang Ruiqing's current shipbuilding concept is to sacrifice anti-ship firepower in exchange for anti-aircraft firepower and speed, which is really not a little difficult for a naval shipbuilding expert like Hiragarang.

Ye Zaifu, the director of the Jiangnan Factory on the side, raised a question at this time: "Chairman of the Committee, is the Navy really not considering a decisive battle of the fleet in the future?" I'm afraid it's hard to seize sea supremacy with 270 aircraft on three aircraft carriers, right? ”

Chang Ruiqing waved his hand and said: "There is no need to think about the decisive battle of the fleet, and the future Chinese Navy will definitely take the path of air superiority." So I also need you to design an aircraft carrier with a displacement of about 20,000 tons, a relatively simple structure, easy to build, can carry 70 to 0 aircraft, and has a maximum speed of 0 knots. The construction cycle of this class of aircraft carriers requires that it be controlled within a ...... month"

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At the same time that Chang Ruiqing inspected the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai, a team of experts sent by the Soviet State Planning Commission had already arrived at the port of Yokohama, Japan.

In the deserted port of Yokohama, the bulk carrier Minsk from Nikolaevsk slowly approached the wharf, and on the deck, Kuibyshev, the former deputy chairman of the Soviet State Planning Committee, was very serious about the dilapidated seaport in front of him. He had studied the relevant materials before coming to Japan, and they depicted Yokohama as a modern and prosperous port, the largest port in Japan, and an important industrial center in Japan, with a concentration of important heavy industries such as steel, oil refining, chemicals, and shipbuilding. But what Kuibyshev sees now is a chaotic, dirty, ruined harbor. If it weren't for the fact that several American grain ships flying the Stars and Stripes were unloading their cargo, Kuibyshev would have thought this was an abandoned port.

"Vasily Vladimirovich, are you sure this is the largest port in Soviet Japan?" Beside Kuibyshev stood a very tall Slavic man about his age. This person was Kuibyshev's deputy, the deputy head of the Soviet expert group Kaganovich. Both he and Kuibyshev were figures on Stalin's line. He had previously served as Deputy People's Commissar for Food, and during the months of Stalin's trip to the Far East, he had been relegated to the rank of deputy head of this small group of experts to help Soviet Japan. If this errand is not done well, it will probably have to go to the Gulag for labor reform.

Kuibyshev also sighed and said with a wry smile: "This is indeed Yokohama, the largest port in Japan, Comrade Lazarmoiseyevich, and the challenges facing us and the Japanese GCD are very, very difficult!" ”

Kaganovich agreed with him and said: "Yes. That's why Comrade Trotsky sent us to Japan, and I think this nascent Soviet state was too important for the Soviet Union and for the GC International. By the way, do you think that the Japanese side will agree with the layout of the world revolution proposed by Comrade Trotsky? ”

Kuibyshev shook his head and said that he did not know, but the first task of their visit to Japan was to conduct a comprehensive survey of the Japanese economy, and then on this basis, to formulate a plan that could maximize the promotion of the Japanese economy, especially industrial development. Of course, it would be better for Japan's future industrial layout to take into account the needs of the world revolution, but it was not the task of the two "economic experts" to discuss this issue with Japan, and a military delegation of a higher rank had already arrived in Tokyo a few days earlier. (To be continued.) )