As Lu Wan guessed, the ocean 100 kilometers south of Dagou is where the Navy's first real aircraft carrier, Deng Zilong, is located. Xiamen to Dagou nearly 300 kilometers, really want the land-based planes over there to rush to fight the dog to support the battle, then with the current range of the ghost dive bomber, I am afraid that before the dog fight, it will have to turn back, or fly over and no longer fly back, after the assistance is completed, directly in the dog landing, there is no airport in the dog, and the plane and the pilot are precious, the air force is not willing to take such a risk, so it can only be assisted by Deng Zilong's carrier-based aircraft, this is also the first battle since the aircraft carrier training.

The Deng Zilong test aircraft carrier has a standard displacement of 14,800 tons, a full load displacement of 18,100 tons, a length of 214.5 meters, a width of 23 meters and a width of 23.7 meters, a flight deck of 212 meters long and a width of 24.5 meters, and all bridges and chimneys are arranged sideways on the starboard side; Because it wants to reach a high speed of more than 30 knots, the ship has eight high-power oil-fired boilers, four Parson-type geared steam turbines, four shaft propulsion, and 120,000 shaft horsepower, so that it can run an astonishing high speed of 33.16 knots during sea trials.

At first, in order to save money, it was planned to build two simple aircraft carriers with a speed of 12,000 tons, 30,000 horsepower, and a speed of 25 knots, and then learned that the shipyard quoted only 6 million taels, and under Yang Rui's instructions, the parameters began to be upgraded, and the displacement was required to reach 13,000 tons, and the speed was not less than 30 knots. The tonnage expansion is good, but the speed makes the cost rise gradually, especially from the original two-axle four oars to four axles and four oars, and the power has doubled. The cost soared from the initial six million taels to ten million taels.

Ten million taels and a few more fractions will be a quasi-dreadnought. When the General Logistics Navy Office questioned the Bethlehem Steel Company's indiscriminate price increase, the Americans spread their hands. It's really going to be that expensive. The power of the dreadnought battleship is only 24,000 horsepower, and the horsepower of the newly built super-dreadnought is generally only 50,000 to 60,000 horsepower. Moreover, with such a huge horsepower, even if the displacement is increased by another 2,000 tons, only oil-fired boilers can be installed, not oil-coal mixed boilers as designed.

Yang Rui has no opinion on the use of all oil-fired boilers, but the cost has risen to 10 million taels, which is too scary. It is thought that the horsepower is indeed twice that of today's mainstream super-dreadnoughts, and the Japanese Kongo is said to be 50,000 horsepower and cost 18 million taels; Counting the Parsons steam engines, each one needs one million taels, plus propellers and other components, the additional four million is spent on the engine, most of the remaining four million is used to increase the boiler, and a small part is used to increase the hull, so the cost of 10 million is not too expensive, and finally agreed to the plan of the Americans.

The construction of naval ships is decided by the prime minister. This is also strange in the history of the world's navy, the price of 10 million taels is extremely expensive if it is simply built, after all, the hull of 15,000 tons is not only heavy, but also has no heavy armor and huge guns. However, in today's circumstances, it is necessary for the aircraft carrier to catch up with the Sino-Japanese war. The only thing to be thankful for is that Tobe took into account the factors of the Great War in Europe. The construction of the aircraft carrier was built in the form of a loan, although there was more interest. But when prices skyrocketed during the war, interest was nothing. On the contrary, it can make up for some back.

The construction of warships is always extremely cumbersome, but for the investment of such large-scale fixed assets, Yang Rui has always been the best choice, and in one step, if only 25 knots are required now, and then the growth rate of modification in the next few years, the money spent will not be less than now, not to mention, the effect is not much better. Although the real yàn aircraft carrier is only a real yàn, it can also be used to fight in the future, and since it is a real yàn, the speed cannot reach 30 knots, and the experience that has been tested is 25 knots, not 30 knots.

Yang Rui found a lot of reasons to convince himself, and also persuaded those people in the naval office of the General Logistics Department, but the aircraft carrier itself is only a carrier, and the carrier-based aircraft is the foundation of combat effectiveness, and the hull with a displacement of nearly 15,000 tons, in addition to installing two elevators, has also designed a hangar with a length of 85.6 meters and a width of 18.6 meters. Thanks to the smaller fuselage of the current aircraft, the Deng Zilong hangar can accommodate sixteen torpedo bombers, sixteen dive bombers, four reconnaissance planes and four fighters, for a total of forty combat aircraft and eight spare aircraft. Of course, this is only taking into account the fact that the Japanese Navy does not have an air force under the establishment, and when the Japanese really have evenly matched aircraft, the number of fighters will increase to twelve, the number of reconnaissance planes will also increase, and the number of bombers will be reduced to twenty.

Both the hull and the combat aircraft were determined, and the next question was who to appoint as the captain of the real aircraft carrier. In the hearts of Wen Shude and Yang Rui of the General Staff Navy Office, it is impossible for officers from the Min department to be appointed, and now the Min department accounts for seventy percent of the officers above the naval colonel level, and although there are contradictions within the Min department, the xenophobia is completely consistent; Even when the Manchu Qing Dynasty rebuilt the navy and vigorously supported Cheng Biguang and others of the Cantonese department, and at the same time set up a new naval school in Yantai to suppress the Mawei Naval Academy, the number of Min students in the class was still more than half, and the Min department also accounted for the vast majority of those places to study abroad.

In addition to the Min system, there are also Cantonese and Lu systems in the navy. The Cantonese system must have been excluded from the factor of Sun Wence's rebellion; Historically, Cheng Biguang Lin Baoyi's southbound Protector Fleet refused to fire on the residential areas of Guangzhou City because it did not listen to the orders of the great leader, and after Cheng Biguang was assassinated, he staged a wonderful drama of seizing ships, which was a good thing that Wen Shude led a group of Lu and non-Min officers under the instruction of the great leader. Later, although the Northern Expedition was successful, the hatred between the Min family and the Kuomintang could not be resolved, and in the open and secret struggle, although Chen Shaokuan disabled the thunderbolt system supported by the leader, the leader also revoked the Admiralty under his anger, and as a result, the last layer of face that the two sides tried to support was finally torn apart, and the so-called 20 aircraft carrier plans after the Anti-Japanese War, the so-called non-civil war, and the so-called preferring to die rather than go to Taiwan were nothing more than venting their anger and no longer believing in the Kuomintang.

Although Yang Rui is not clear about the history of the navy, which is difficult to look at directly. But he didn't feel at ease when he saw Wen Shude, and he didn't want another Min family in the army. Therefore, I only want to find people outside the Min Department and the Lu Department, which are actually the graduates of the Jiangnan Sailor School, and considering that the teaching of the Jiangnan Sailor School is extremely backward. What really catches the eye is finally the few international students who graduated from the Jiangnan Naval Academy and were sent to study in the Royal Navy in Greenwich, England.

The Manchu Navy reconstruction plan has no results, but it still cultivates some talents, Chen Guangshou of the Ministry of Officials took out a big list, there are more than a dozen people to choose from, according to the evaluation of the most outstanding are Lu Deyuan and Zhu Tiansen, Yang Rui originally wanted to choose Lu Deyuan, but then saw that his hometown was Xiuning, Anhui. He was immediately put into a separate book, and his principle was that he would rather not build a navy than appoint any Xiuning as commander or captain.

From the decision to build the Deng Zilong aircraft carrier three years ago, to the completion of the aircraft carrier a year ago, and now to the first operation of the aircraft carrier, the amount of money spent and the painstaking effort are extremely amazing. Others may not know, but Colonel Zhu Tiansen, who is the captain of the Deng Zilong, understands this very well. As the first captain of an aircraft carrier, in addition to participating in the construction of the aircraft carrier, he also deliberately attended a pilot training course. Try to fly, in order to comprehend the kind of invisible war that the Prime Minister is talking about, but before there is a concrete result. He found it hard to believe that an aircraft carrier could change the Navy.

Two hours and 43 minutes after the fifteen carrier-based dive bombers were released, the lookout finally gave the plane a signal to return home, and the captain, Colonel Zhu Tiansen, suddenly let go of his hanging heart. The aircraft carrier was actually located between the Bass Strait and the Xiamen-Philippine shipping lane, although the plane took off before dawn. But it was already 6:34 and the sun had been out for an hour. In case that steamer deviates from the course. The whereabouts of the aircraft carrier are about to be exposed. Now the merchant ships have radios, once exposed, even if there is a submarine escort, the safety of the aircraft carrier will also be a problem, so Zhu Tiansen has been a thief since the release of the plane, if there is a dreadnought ship by his side, or even if there is a heavy cruiser, he can be a little more at ease, but now there are only a few submarines around him who can't keep up, he is very worried, very worried!

After confirming through the telescope that it was his own person who had returned, Zhu Tiansen asked the communications officer on the side, "Does the reconnaissance plane have any news to report?" ”

"Report sir, there's nothing out of the ordinary." The communications officer replied that unlike the captain's nervousness, the young man transferred from the army's communications department enjoyed life on the aircraft carrier very much, and it was much better than trenches, mountains, and broken temples.

"Keep on your guard!" Zhu Tiansen admonished, and then asked the general smiling aviation officer: "When can you take off?" ”

"Report to the sir, within half an hour of landing!" The aviation officer was Major Yao Xijiu, who was transferred from the Air Force, and he was the one who provided ground support for the seaplane aircraft carrier that escorted the hydraulic aircraft fleet last year, and he didn't want the seaplane aircraft carrier to have enough fun, so he finally came up with a bigger aircraft carrier, and it was also called a real Yàn aircraft carrier, which means that the official aircraft carrier will have 20,000 or 30,000 tons.

"Hurry up!" Zhu Tiansen looked at Yao Xijiu, who was smiling, and said, "This is not a place to stay for a long time, it's okay when it's dark, but it's not so easy to stay at dawn." With the help of the British, the Japanese would have known that we had returned home. ”

Zhu Tiansen was worried, but Xi Dingmo, the deputy captain next to him, said: "If you know, you know, can the Japanese warships catch up with us?" The speed of 30 knots is what the destroyer can run, but how far can the destroyer go in a high-speed assault? And then there's the submarine. ”

Xi Dingmo was also sent to the United Kingdom to study after graduating from the Jiangnan Naval Academy, and the cautious Zhu Tiansen was different, he believed that the aircraft carrier must be the future of the navy, as long as the horsepower of the aircraft was greater and the range was longer, he was not afraid of an aircraft carrier against the entire United Fleet, especially when the Japanese did not know how to play with airplanes and did not know air defense.

"When I arrived in the East China Sea, I always felt like I had no clothes on, and I was cold." Facing the officers beside him, Colonel Zhu Tiansen was not afraid of what others said about his timidity, and frankly said all his thoughts. He said that everyone laughed, although there were ranks in the army, they were all young people, and a year of hard work had made each other have a deep friendship, so that they would not hide anything in their hearts.

"Comrade Captain, all four reconnaissance planes have been released, there are submarines on the sea to help reconnoitre, and the Japanese have gone to chase the cruiser, even if it is south. It will also be in the evening or tomorrow. Lieutenant Colonel Tan Gen, an operations officer, said that he was also transferred from the Air Force. Last year, he commanded the escort of the hydraulic convoy.

"Who made our armor too thin." Zhu Tiansen was still worried, but he thought of the cruiser fleet as thin as his own armor. So he asked, "How is the cruiser doing over there?" ”

"Let's still tease around on the sea." Deputy Captain Xi Dingmo guessed, "If it weren't for them this time, I'm afraid the landing wouldn't have been so smooth." When this is over, isn't the order for us to go and answer them immediately? ”

As soon as Xi Dingmo said yes, everyone's hearts sank. It is more than 800 nautical miles from this position to meet the cruiser, and although this distance is only 30 hours for an aircraft carrier, anything can happen within these 30 hours. Zhu Tiansen just said that when he arrived in the East China Sea, he was like having no clothes on, and he was cold all over, but no matter how he had no clothes, he still had speed. But those cruisers are different, if the aircraft carrier is running naked, then they can only say that they are crawling naked, and once they are encountered by the Japanese Navy, they will be killed with one shot.

The people in the bridge command room, except for the Air Force, were all naval officers who were not from the Min family, and as soon as they entered the naval academy, they were pressed by the Fujianese, and even more so when they entered the navy, they all thought that the Fujian people were hateful, but now these Fujian people with bad deeds are so majestic to go to the coast of Japan to break diplomatic relations. And let them not be ruthless.

Hurry up and complete this ground support! Zhu Tiansen and Xi Dingmo were young after all, and they all understood what each other was thinking.

The plane was ready to land under the guidance of the ground crew. They all straightened their posture and adjusted their speed, and they were ready to land. The landing area is at the stern of the ship, which occupies only twenty percent of the entire flight deck. Less than sixty meters long, after the plane is grounded. I only rushed forward three or four meters and stopped, because every time it was a big stall landing. Although the tail hook hangs on the arresting cable, the aircraft stops suddenly, but the rubber tires of the aircraft often make a piercing scream under the friction, and the landing gear is broken from time to time before the landing gear that has not been forged, and after several accidents, the technical department believes that the load-bearing parts on the aircraft must be forged by the hydraulic press, otherwise the strength of the aircraft cannot be maintained.

The first to land in the dive bomber squadron was Captain Bao Bingchen, the squadron leader, whose tail hook hung on the first blocking cable with great precision, and the plane rushed up as if it had hit a wall, and the tires screamed, at this time the ground crew immediately rushed up, one person took off the hook to make the blocking cable return to the contraction position, and the other person signaled him to open the throttle to increase the rotational speed in order to slide forward to free up the landing position of the plane behind.

One after another, fifteen planes landed safely on the deck, because they were about to sail, and the ground crew checked the entire plane on the deck with great speed, refueled and reloaded, and in less than thirty minutes, the pilots who had just finished their rest took off again, including the malfunctioning plane that had not participated in the first attack before.

Like landing, take-off is an extremely dangerous event, and the ground crew who drill through the fleet of planes requires a lot of skill, and a careless, high-speed rotating propeller will cut off a hand or head. It stands to reason that in order to reduce the occurrence of accidents, the planes arranged on the flight deck can not be so close, but from the perspective of aircraft carrier operations, how many planes can be arranged on the deck determines the intensity of each wave of attacks.

Even if it has just landed, the plane still has to warm up before takeoff, the propeller rotates at high speed in the engine roar, and when the aircraft carrier turns the bow and begins to go against the wind at full speed, the flight commander finally raises the red flag, which is the order to prepare for takeoff, at this time the first plane has taxied to the take-off position and waits quietly, finally, the captain finally gave the take-off order, the flight commander lowered the red flag, raised the white flag, and with the white flag waved again and again, the plane took off one by one, and the second ground attack began.

Half an hour after the plane took off, Shigejun Matsuki, director of the Tainan Office who had just gone to work, received a report from the governor of the telegraph office, saying that the telegram did not know what was going on, and suddenly it was all out of work in the middle of the night. There were also telegraph inaccessible before, and it was generally destroyed by the living feudal or rebels on the mountain, and the director of the Matsuki Department was not surprised by this, but considering that the governor was clearing the living feudal on the mountain, he still called the wing commander of the second wing of Taiwan, Hideo Akutsu, but Ozuo didn't care about it, and the telegraph was not accessible since the beginning of the liquidation of the living domain, and it was not a big deal, and the real major event was that the Chinese army landed in Taiwan according to the staff headquarters. Do the people of Kochina have that guts? Ajiutsu Dazuo thinks that it is more practical to worry about the landing of the Chinese army in Taiwan than to worry about the sudden war of the United States against the empire.

These Second Brigades were not fully aware of what happened in Tainan City. The train came to a temporary halt five kilometers outside of Tainan until it received a telegram that the plane had arrived on time. Brigade Commander Lu Bangcai ordered the train to rush into the Tainan Railway Station, and the 3rd Regiment was the main attack when the Dagou landing, so the 2nd Wing of the attack would be responsible for the 4th Regiment.

In the morning, the attack was too smooth, with the assistance of the aircraft, the landing of the three regiments was not blocked at all, the Japanese army of that brigade suffered heavy casualties after the bombing, the commander did not expect that after the bombing was completed, there would be an attack by the Zhi Na Army, and suddenly saw the Zhi Na Army kill the captain in front of him reflexively commanded the remaining soldiers to carry out a board charge, this kind of play is in line with Lu Wan's mind of a quick victory. Machine gun fire plus rapid mortar fire quickly reimbursed the remaining half of the Japanese army.

Before entering Tainan City, the Japanese police on the railway found that it was wrong - the train was not the right shift, the speed was wrong, and the entry signal was ......wrong, so a gunshot immediately alarmed the police and the second wing in the city, but at this time, Ajiu Jin Osa still thought that it was an attack by anti-Japanese elements, and it was normal for the police to shoot, and it was only when he heard the screams and gunshots coming from the train station next door that he felt that something was wrong. The anti-Japanese elements could not make such a move.

Although it slowed down many times, the train still rushed into the Tainan Railway Station at an uncontrollable speed, and the passengers who were waiting for the late train on the platform only saw the train spewing tongues of fire, spitting white gas and black smoke, and rushing into the train station like an eternal beast. Screaming in fright.

The train driver slammed the brakes, and the train slid far before finally coming to a stop. Before the train could stop, the soldiers jumped off the train. Rushing out of the train station amid the screams of the passengers, they began to attack the barracks of the 2nd Wing to the west of the station. At this time, the Marines no longer vomited to death like last night, and rushed to their respective targets one by one energetically. The Japanese policemen who resisted and fled were all shot or stabbed to death.

In the familiar whistling sound from the sky, Lu Wan looked at the trembling and trembling travelers lying and squatting on the platform, and smiled bitterly at the political commissar and chief of staff: "Such a bastard is really not a gentleman at all, how can we say that we are also a king teacher, how can we not look like a king master at all?" It's all a litter of bandits! ”

"Xiao Liu!" Lu Xinzhong, the political commissar who also felt that the influence was not good, shouted: "Quick! Get these compatriots to safety and don't get hurt. In addition, I would like to tell you that we are a revival army, and Taiwan will be liberated today. ”

"Yes!" The adjutant saluted and went to arrange it very quickly. Those passengers saw several teams of soldiers running over, trying to run errands and getting weak, and finally under the explanation of a few Fujian soldiers, everyone understood that this was not a bandit, it turned out to be Wang Shi.

Tainan City is the first place to be cultivated by the Han people, the capital of Taiwan during the Ming and Qing dynasties, Zheng Chenggong ruled Taiwan when the capital was set in Tainan, and the former Ming Ningjing King also established his palace here. In hundreds of years, Tainan City has been expanded and repaired several times, and the whole city has become very irregular, with the north and south as the axis, the east is a square city, and the west half of the city, although the width seems to be the same as the east, but the length is extremely long, and the northwest and southwest corners of the city are expanded outward, like two ears.

The north-south railway passes through the eastern half of the city, and the west side of the railway station is the infantry battalion and training ground, the northeast corner is the cavalry battalion, and the northwest corner is the artillery battalion and the engineer battalion. The artillery battalion was the first target for dive bombers, followed by the infantry battalion headquarters. Six dive bombers greeted the infantry battalion, eight greeted the artillery, and the remaining two raged cavalry, and in less than three minutes, the Japanese army was in chaos, the officers could not find the soldiers, the soldiers could not find the officers, and finally waited for the planes to drop the bombs, and the enemy had already arrived again, after the baptism of mortars and grenades, followed by shotguns and bayonets, Akutsu Daisa had already hung up during the bombing, and the remaining captain could not effectively organize the defense at all. In fact, even if the defense was organized, it was only an extra half an hour of support, and the lack of heavy firepower and curved firepower in the street fighting, coupled with the wall-breaking tactics of the marines, the final result of the Japanese army was still the annihilation of the entire army.

After two and a half hours of fierce fighting and suppression, Tainan was finally recovered, and the brigade commander Lu Wan stood on the west city gate, looked at the city where the smoke of gunpowder was not over, and then looked at the port under the coconut grove, and said to the adjutant with satisfaction: "Send a report to the Taipei Division Headquarters: Our division has occupied the city of Tainan and annihilated more than 2,700 people below the enemy's second wing. (To be continued......)