readx; Today is Chen Huatian's wedding, and the people who attend are naturally wearing formal clothes, except for the young fourth and fifth sons, the men in the Chen family are also all military uniforms, Chen Huatian and Chen Huajun, the older brothers, and then the seventeen-year-old third son Chen Huabiao, who is still studying at the Wuhan Military Academy, is also wearing the officer uniform of a second lieutenant. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Chen Jingyun himself didn't wear a military uniform.

Chen Jingyun has five sons, and three of these sons are already active soldiers, and the fourth son Chen Huayan and the fifth son Chen Huaheng will also enter the military academy when they reach the age, whether they want to do business or politics or even play art in the future, but they must join the army in their youth, because this is the death rule set by Chen Jingyun, because the status of the Chen family depends on the army, and the Chen family must continue to be in power in the army.

Today, Chen Huatian is wearing all his clothes, wearing the dress of a major general of the army, and the gold-wired border knife specially awarded by the general has a matching knife carved with gold peony, a silver double sword medal representing the military honor of the officer, a commemorative medal of the Korean War, and a five-color star medal representing those who have been wounded on the battlefield.

Due to the special background, Chen Huatian has obtained many opportunities in just a few years in the army, and the speed of promotion is incomparable with ordinary generals, he has been promoted to major general in only five years after entering active service, and his promotion to this major general is also related to today's marriage, Chen Jingyun can not let his son wear the school officer's dress to hold a wedding, and with the passage of time, after the outbreak of the war, it is impossible for his sons to stay out of the matter, and war is the best way for them to rise quickly, As long as there is a few years of war, Chen Jingyun will be able to arrange for Chen Huatian to be promoted to lieutenant general or even general, and then stay up in the army for more than ten years to accumulate contacts, and then his age will be about the same. When he dies, he can take over his position as the heir of Chen Jingyun, otherwise it will be empty talk if he wants to be Chen Jingyun's heir.

Chen Jingyun's eldest son got married, this kind of thing naturally cannot be a simple wedding, to some extent it is more like a political gathering, not only most of the domestic military and political dignitaries attended, but also the foreign ambassadors to China received invitations, when the people outside were busy with the wedding affairs, Chen Jingyun was in the back of the study to meet these important people one by one. After meeting with the people at home, he also had a small-scale conversation with the diplomatic ambassadors, and they naturally talked nonsense, empty and meaningless.

However, this superficial nonsense also reveals an attitude, that is, the hostility between countries is still hidden behind the scenes, and it is not yet time to tear off the skin.

After the lunar month is the Spring Festival, during this period of time China seems to be very calm, not only China seems to be much calmer, even the world situation seems to have calmed down all of a sudden, the civil war on the Spanish side is also silent, this proxy war has been fought from last year to the present, the two sides have won and lost each other, but on the whole it is the Franco side that has the advantage. And the reason why he can have the advantage is very simple, because he has the direct support of Germany and Italy, and then the United States also provided a lot of assistance to Franco, as for China, it did not play much influence in this war, and a lot of arms were sold, but Chen Jingyun sold arms on both sides, and real money was needed, so it was more difficult to control the situation in Spain.

Just after the Spring Festival, Chen Jingyun went to Qingdao to attend the commissioning ceremony of the Navy Shaohao, and at the same time to prepare for the review of the Navy.

As China's first and probably the only large capital ship to enter service in the thirties, the Shaohao should be taken seriously.

You must know that since the Shundi and Zhuan were put into service in the late twenties, China has not served a battleship, although the tonnage of the current Shaohao is only 27,000 tons, but the navy has given a stereotyped battleship class, which can be seen from the BB-7 number of the Shaohao. Of course, because the tonnage of the Shaohao is not high, and the main gun is only 12 inches, it is generally called a light battleship among the people.

In the thirties, not only China's Shaohao was a light battleship in service, but France and Germany both had light battleships of about 30,000 tons built and put into service, of course, the purpose of building these light battleships was different in various countries. For example, the purpose of China's construction of the Shaohao light battleship is very clear, that is, to escort the aircraft carrier formation, while the German armored ships or battle cruisers are used to break the diplomatic relationship, and the French light battleship is to be used to suppress the German broken ships.

The different strategies of the navies of various countries have a direct impact on the different shipbuilding thinking of the navies of various countries.

Standing on the Shaohao and looking at the many naval warships around the sea, Chen Jingyun felt a rare pride, it took him more than 20 years to finally build a powerful navy, and this navy will be able to fight for the interests of China in the upcoming world war.

Seeing Chen Jingyun standing without speaking, a large group of admirals around him also did not speak, Chen Jingyun was proud, they were not proud, the Chinese Navy can develop to this day, in addition to Chen Jingyun's strong support, and the efforts of these admirals are also inseparable.

In the two wars, the officers and men of the Chinese navy proved with sweat and bravery that they could defeat the enemy, and these two victories made the navy become more important in the country by a sharp rise.

"After the completion of the Shaohao last year, after nearly a year of testing and training, it has now been able to enter the navy service with a complete attitude." Guan Shijie said: "But there is only one high-speed warship, which is far from enough for the six aircraft carriers owned by our army!" ”

Chen Jingyun nodded, he naturally knew this.

"When will your eighth phase of development plan be finalized?" Chen Jingyun asked.

Guan Shijie said: "It has been largely completed, and it will be submitted to the State Military Commission for approval within half a month!" ”

Chen Jingyun said: "Compared with the first case at the end of last year, there is not much change, right?" ”

Guan Shijie said: "There are some changes in details, but they are not big, mainly because the construction of auxiliary ships and the construction of naval bases have been adjusted to a certain extent!" ”

The eighth phase of the development plan of the Chinese Navy was put forward from the beginning of 1936, thinking that at that time China had clearly withdrawn from the Second London Naval Disarmament Conference, that is to say, from January 1, 1937, the naval limitation treaty was not binding on China, and then China could start to build ships on a large scale, and when building ships, it was also able to optimize the design to the fullest, rather than saying that the construction of ships was limited to some frameworks as in the treaty era.

To carry out a new round of large-scale shipbuilding, it is not to say that it began at the beginning, this is to cooperate with the overall naval strategy and the existing situation, in terms of the simplest destroyers, during the London Naval Treaty, China could only build destroyers with a ceiling of 1,500 tons, which led to the fact that the Minxing-class destroyers built by China in the thirties were greatly restricted, and the navy sacrificed some of its surnames such as seaworthiness in order to obtain greater combat effectiveness, and there were certain problems with the firmness of the hull. Finally, from 1934 onwards, it had to be refurbished one after another. The original plan to build twelve was stopped, and only nine ships were built before the construction was stopped, and it was originally prepared to be built after large-scale improvements in the design, but in 1935, the Chinese Navy already had the idea of withdrawing from the Naval Limitation Treaty, so the construction plan was suspended for a year, and after officially withdrawing from the Second London Second Naval Disarmament Conference in 1936, the Navy simply abandoned the design of the treaty destroyer and no longer imposed strict restrictions on tonnage, in order to pursue a better surname.

Of course, not imposing strict restrictions on tonnage does not mean that there are no restrictions, and the biggest limitation is naturally cost.

In the case of a penny, you get what you pay for, how to build a new destroyer is also a big problem, and the aviation faction advocates that the new destroyer should have strong air defense and anti-submarine capability, while the destroyer's lightning strike capability and speed are not so important. Some generals in the navy who tend to fight at night and strike lightning hope that the new destroyer will have a strong lightning strike capability and a speed of more than 37 knots. And the tonnage of the destroyer is so much, and it is impossible to take care of everything.

In the end, after many discussions within the navy, the general requirements for the new destroyer were finally decided, and it was hoped to have more than five five-inch high-level main guns, four to six or more 40-millimeter anti-aircraft guns, four to six or more 20-millimeter anti-aircraft guns, one or two quadruple torpedo launchers, one or two triple-mounted depth charge launchers, and a speed of 37 knots.

And this destroyer because it needs to meet the needs of the aircraft carrier formation and the cruiser at the same time for mine attack field operations, there are two kinds of weapons, the main gun is the same, mainly the difference in torpedo and anti-submarine weapons, the aircraft carrier formation has only one torpedo four-series launcher, two anti-submarine launchers, and the lightning formation has two torpedo launchers, only one anti-submarine launcher, and there are also changes in air defense weapons, the aviation formation has six 40-mm anti-aircraft guns, six 20-mm anti-aircraft guns, In the lightning strike formation, there were only four 40-mm anti-aircraft guns and four 20-mm anti-aircraft guns.

In short, this is a generalized hull, but it is subdivided into two types of destroyers, and the reason why two different destroyers are not directly designed and built is naturally affected by cost factors.

In order to achieve the above surnames, the preliminary design plan given by the Department of Naval Administration stated that the standard tonnage would exceed 2,000 tons to reach 2,200 tons, and the power system must also use the high-pressure impulse steam turbine raised by Shanghai Power Company to achieve it.

In the end, the cost is not low, and the estimated cost will reach about 12 million, which is already very expensive for a destroyer, and a 20,000-ton aircraft carrier will be 60 or 70 million yuan this year.

The reason why it is so expensive is to a large extent the demand for speed, to run 37 knots to this destroyer, it will take almost 60,000 horsepower, and the increase in the price of the power system will directly drive up the cost of building a ship.

This destroyer, which began to be designed in 1935, finalized in 1936 and began to be built in January 1937, was named Zi'an, using the Chinese rejuvenation, long live China, world peace, national freedom in the self-character, the end word is the choice of Sichuan Ya'an's An. According to the general rules for the name of the first ship and the name of the class, the new destroyer of this class was officially finalized as the Zi'an class.

In the eighth phase of the Navy's development plan, the first batch of construction plans is twelve, and the main purpose is to fill the 10,000-character destroyers in service in the first destroyer fleet, and the six destroyers were all commissioned in 1920 and 1921, and they have been in service for 16 or 7 years, which is no longer able to meet the needs of modern naval warfare. After these swastika destroyers withdraw from the first destroyer fleet, they will enter several sea defense fleets to serve as second-line combat missions, such as supply escort and coastal patrol in wartime.

Naturally, the eighth phase of the Navy's development plan is not only destroyers, in fact, destroyers are just an addition, and the new generation of aircraft carriers and a new generation of light battleships are the core content of the Navy's eighth phase of the development plan.