Ma Yinchu was excited about the failure of the National Bank plan, and Yang Rui was distressed by the Japanese screwing the London Treaty. Although the Japanese representative in charge of negotiations in London, Reijiro Wakaki of the Hamaguchi Cabinet, and the representative of the Navy, Taka Tsuchibe, basically agreed with the British and American proposals, that is, the tonnage ratio of heavy cruisers and light cruisers between China and Japan and Britain and the United States was basically the same as that of capital ships, and it was roughly set at 6:10. Since China has built 12 heavy cruisers, Japan has built 8 and is building 4 heavy cruisers, which means that the United States will eventually allow 40 ships to be built; The tonnage of a single light cruiser is limited to 2,000 tons, and the tonnage is roughly 180,000 tons for Japan and 240,000 tons for the United States.

However, this ratio is difficult for the Japanese Navy to accept, and after the 6:10 ratio is enlarged, the number of US heavy cruisers far exceeds that of China and Japan, and once the US animals sneak attack, the Japanese Navy will suffer heavy losses. Whether to dismantle some cruisers and overwhelm the number of heavy cruisers over the level of sixteen to twenty-six, the Japanese Navy is considering; At the same time, the hard-line anti-treaty faction did not want to accept the 6:10 ratio given by Britain and the United States, and Kanji Kato and others wanted the ratio of 7:10, which caused serious contradictions with the representatives of the Hamaguchi cabinet.

Japan's abacus is like this, but Yang Rui doesn't care at all whether it's 7:10 or 6:10. As far as the wealthy US imperialists are concerned, if they really want to go to war, they will never build ships with a naval treaty, and then there will be a surprise attack in the style of Pearl Harbor? The superior people must first start the war machine to build a ship for two or three years, and then the sky will be overwhelming, and 7:10 or 6:10 will become 3:10 or 4:10 when the time comes. Is it necessary to fight for 7 or 6?

Of course, the treaty was not too smooth for China, and the Japanese Navy was dissatisfied with the proportion of cruisers. The Chinese navy is dissatisfied with the proportion of submarines: although the tonnage of the submarines of the three parties is the same, the combined tonnage of submarines in China and Japan has exceeded 100,000 tons. However, the treaty was limited to more than 52,000 tons, which was equivalent to dismantling half of the submarines; In addition, the tonnage of a submarine cannot exceed 2,000 tons, which is still too small for the vast Pacific Ocean; Finally, there is the problem of inspection caused by tonnage limitations, and the follow-up submarines of the Chinese Navy will be an improved version of the German-style XXI type, such as no artillery, water droplet shape, silencing tiles, snorkels, ......, these things really cannot be inspected by the British and American inspection teams.

China and Japan have their own troubles, looking at King Fushimi Miyahiro Gong and his attendant Shigetaro, chief of staff of the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet, Yang Rui can only smile at their complaints, and wait for the Japanese to finish. He said: "Your Royal Highness, the restrictions of this treaty are only cruisers and submarines, and although the tonnage of submarines is unsatisfactory, at least everyone is the same. What do we have to grieve? After all, the tonnage of the capital ship has long been determined, and we still have an advantage on the aircraft carrier......"

In the Japanese Navy, because of their different attitudes towards the Washington Treaty, they are divided into anti-treaty factions (military and political factions, similar to the Ministry of National Defense) and treaty factions (military order factions, similar to the General Staff); And because of the different attitudes towards the theory of aircraft carrier victory. It is divided into fleet faction and aircraft carrier faction. Among these types of people, the anti-treaty faction and the fleet faction roughly coincided, and the treaty faction and the aircraft carrier faction were similar to a small part, for example, Yamamoto 56 was both the aircraft carrier faction and the treaty faction.

Yang Rui's naval tactical thinking, Fushimi Palace, and King Bogong were clear. The Chinese Navy was built on the basis of this idea, but in the eyes of many Japanese naval officers, such a desperate attempt to take the empty mother is simply madness. It is precisely because of this that although China and Japan have been in alliance for nearly ten years. However, the joint cooperation of the Navy has always been inferior to that of the Army, and the Army is gradually unifying the caliber of weapons and regulations within the military. It is difficult for the two navies to even have a joint command - the Chinese Navy sees the battleship as merely the bodyguard of the aircraft carrier, while the Japanese Navy sees the aircraft carrier as just the eyeliner of the battleship, and neither of them obeys the other anyway.

Hearing that Yang Rui's tone seemed to agree with the signing of the treaty, Fushimi Palace was a little discouraged, he looked at Yang Rui and said, "Your Excellency, but until now, the plane still can't sink the battleship!" ”

"Can't be sunk?" Yang Rui looked at him and smiled. Unlike history, Japan's aviation industry was built entirely on China's help, which made Japanese aviation completely one step behind China's, especially its engines. After weighing it in his heart, Yang Rui said: "Now the plane can't sink the battleship because the engine power is not enough, the speed is slow and the ammunition carried is limited, but if the engine power is improved, the result will be very different." Now Taiyuan has developed an engine with a power of more than 1,000 horsepower, with which the speed of the aircraft will exceed 500 kilometers per hour, and it will not be difficult to sink the battleship in the future. ”

Yang Rui revealed the secret of the Taiyuan aircraft engine, the horsepower of the early 1,000s was already the level before World War II, but this did not satisfy him, he believed that the engine should have at least 2,000 horsepower. Yang Rui was like this, and Shigetaro Shimada, who heard that there was already a thousand-horsepower engine, said movingly: "Isn't this twice the power of the current engine?" Before he had time to admire, he saw that King Fushimi Miyahiro Gong was indifferent to this, and immediately changed his words: "But the aircraft is still too fragile, as long as the anti-aircraft artillery is enough, the battleship can still resist the attack of the aircraft." Your Excellency, I would venture to say that the real role of the air carrier is to cover the battleship for the final decisive battle. ”

"Huh, huh?" Yang Rui doesn't care that others don't agree with the theory of aircraft carrier victory, and at this time, not to mention Japan, even China has many opposing voices when questioning the aircraft. He smiled and said: "What I can be sure of is that once the new aircraft equipped with this engine destroys the enemy's aircraft carrier or air force, the enemy warship is just a live target for them, even if the battleship is built to 50,000 tons, dozens of high-explosive bombs wash the deck, and more than a dozen torpedoes hit the attack side, how can it sink." ”

Yang Rui said the ending of Yamato Musashi in his memory, which only made King Fushimi Miyahiro Gong's face tense even more, and his face darkened. As a determined fleet decisive faction, he must refute such a straightforward argument that battleships are useless, but because of Yang Rui's identity, he can only endure this breath. He interrupted Shimada, who was about to retort, and said in a suppressed voice: "Your Excellency, if there is really a 50,000-ton battleship, the level of its armor protection will definitely make the aircraft attack fruitless. ”

"Really? 1,000 horsepower is not the final power of an aircraft engine, which will reach 2,000 horsepower in ten years. The weight of the bomb is more than 800 kilograms, and the conditions for the torpedo to be delivered will be better...... "said. Yang Rui took out a chart provided by the Navy Office of the General Staff and said, "This is our summary of bombs dropped by dive bombers. Even with 7.25-inch armor, a dive bomber could penetrate it from an altitude of 5,000 meters with 800 kilograms of bombs. Your Highness, you should know very well how many inches of deck you can lay on the deck of a battleship. Taking a step back, even if the bombs could not penetrate the horizontal armor, they could sweep away all anti-aircraft fire from the deck, and in the absence of these anti-aircraft fires, how could the battleship withstand the dense torpedo attacks of the aircraft? ”

"Your Excellency......" When King Fushimi Miyahiro Kyoko, who couldn't say it, was about to seal himself off completely, Shigetaro Shimada said again: "The plane needs to carry 800 kilograms of bombs to dive from a height of 5,000 meters, and it will take a very long time for this kind of plane to be manufactured." The engines of the aircraft were able to be improved. The ship's protective armor could also be improved. Sometimes the spear is sharp between the spear and the shield, and sometimes the shield is strong, how can the shield be completely abandoned because of the temporary sharpness of the spear? ”

People who can be the chief of staff naturally think quickly, and seeing Yang Rui speak with data, Shimada Shigetaro immediately compared spears and shields, which only made King Fushimi Miyahiro Gong breathe a sigh of relief, and Yang Rui's eyebrows were twisted. He looked at Shigetaro Shimada and said, "From the invention of the aircraft more than 20 years to the present, the speed of progress is far from being able to catch up with the warship, and it will be another 20 years." Aircraft engines are no longer propeller-type but jet-type, which is agreed by aviation circles in European countries. By that time, jet aircraft will significantly surpass propeller aircraft in speed and power, and bombs will no longer be measured in kilograms but tons, and then what shield will a battleship have against dive bombs of more than two tons? ”

After Yang Rui finished speaking, he looked at the Japanese again-Fushimi Palace still looked like 'I just can't listen', and Shigetaro's eyes were rolling in his bones. Want to find a reason to refute it. Seeing this, Yang Rui said: "I know that many people equate the path that the Chinese Navy is taking now with the path that the French Navy has taken before, and some people even think that China always mentions the theory that aircraft carriers will win." It's because he wants to take command of the Sino-Japanese Combined Fleet...... hehe. Who said that the superiority of your navy is battleships, and our navy specializes in aviation operations? It's not a fault to think that way. But ignoring technological progress will only pay heavy consequences. Compared with the United States, our industrial strength is far behind, and if we are still backward in tactics, we will not even have any hope of victory. ”

"Then Your Excellency thinks that aircraft carriers should be built instead of battleships, but the restrictions of the treaty ......" Unlike Fushimiya, this was the first time Shimada had met Yang Rui, and he still had great interest in this person who had the reputation of being the No. 1 military strategist in Asia.

"Our industry is rising, while American industry is declining, and the date the treaty expires is the day the United States withdraws from it. Once we completely let go of our hands and feet, it will not be us who will benefit, but the United States. The only feasible strategy for us is to build more aircraft carriers ourselves, and at the same time find a way to make the United States build more battleships......"

Yang Rui's strategy made Fushimigong close his ears again, this strategy seemed to him to be the way to death, but how did Yang Rui know his thoughts, he only said to himself: "The United States is not Russia, the Russian Baltic Fleet is on an expedition, and there can be no second decisive battle after total annihilation, and the United States is different, even if we annihilate the main force of the US Pacific Fleet for the first time, the United States, which understands the importance of aircraft carriers two years later, will build aircraft carriers that we cannot match, and the decisive battle at that time is the most difficult." ”

"But the people of the United States don't know how to fight at all!" Shigetaro Shimada said what all Japanese officers had in their mouths, and the U.S. Army's soy sauce behavior in World War I made this kind of rhetoric deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

"Americans don't go to war?" Yang Rui looked at the serious Shigetaro Shimada and laughed, and at the same time he was also very distressed - the Renaissance Army Army had established enough prestige for the victory of the Japanese Army and the German Army, so that the Japanese Army generals had no objection to the idea of mechanized warfare, but the Revival Army Navy did not have enough achievements to suppress the Japanese Navy that won the Battle of Tsushima, so it is now full of contradictions.

"The more advanced the technology, the more the war will evolve into a duel between industrial strength and scientific and technological level, and at this point, especially in terms of industrial strength, we are only one-third of the Americans at most, so I have always thought that the tonnage ratio involved in the naval treaty is all ice floes on the water, and the real problem is under the surface of the water - industrial strength and scientific and technological level, these two points we do not have an advantage, even if the tonnage of warships is one to one? Could it be that after a decisive battle, the Americans would surrender or sue for peace? ”

Yang Rui said. "The reason why the U.S. military has achieved nothing is because the U.S. military has never fought a long war. Except for the civil war. And, for a country that is mostly Christian Puritans. We should not doubt the sacrificiality of its soldiers at all. The war between China and Japan and the United States was by no means a war for the seizure of colonies, it would only be a reproduction of the Crusades. In the eyes of those American soldiers, they were not fighting for the colony, for their vital interests, they were fighting against the devil, and they could go to heaven after death. To say that such an army has no combat effectiveness is simply an insult to the IQ......"

Fushimi Palace's ears were half-closed and half-open this time, and Shimada was a little red-faced, and when he wanted to refute it again, Yang Rui no longer theorized. He only said: "The Heilongjiang oil field is about to be exploited, and if conditions permit, I can persuade the local lord to allow the Japanese Navy to take a stake in the oil field." ”

Although the Sakhalin oil field is 'rich', the oil is buried so deep that the Japanese feel deceived, and in the large-scale procurement that began last year, seeing that the Chinese are drilling rigs and oil pipelines, everyone guessed that the reserves of the Heilongjiang oil field are amazing. This time, King Fushimi Miyahiro Gong came to visit, in addition to the treaty, the other thing is the oil field. He hoped that Yang Rui would allow a company dominated by the Japanese navy to take a stake in the oil fields. At this time, when he heard that Yang Rui took the initiative to talk about the oil field, Fushimi Palace's ears were full of joy, and he said, "Your Excellency, how much production will the oil field have?" "I'm worried about Yang Rui's long-term prospects. He added: "How much can we produce in this decade?" ”

"At least two thousand tons!" Yang Rui looked at the Japanese with two fingers, only thinking that they were too two. "After completion, the annual oil production will be at least 2,000 tons, and I can call the shots. 800 tons to Japan. The stake in the Japanese Navy was set at 800 tons. If it's not enough, I can give up the capacity that belongs to the Chinese side. The field was sold to Japan at the actual cost of the field. ”

"Ah ......" Fushimiya couldn't help but sigh for a moment, and his eyes lit up and brightened. Eight hundred tons is enough to meet Japan's current demand for oil, which is 40 times the production of Sakhalin. "Your Excellency......" he swallowed, "Your Excellency, what are the conditions?" ”

"The conditions are very simple, that is, the construction, use, and training of Japan's 80,000-ton aircraft carrier tonnage, as well as the construction of related naval aviation, will be incorporated into the Chinese naval management system, so that the naval and air forces of the two countries will closely cooperate and integrate." Yang Rui said, "When the Washington Naval Treaty expires, if none of us can convince anyone, then simply have an actual combat exercise, and if the aircraft carrier wins, the navies of the two countries will build aircraft carriers in the future, and if not, they will build battleships." ”

"Your Excellency, is it a simple battleship fleet against an air carrier fleet?" King Hirohiro Fushimi was still thinking, and Shigetaro Shimada asked his own questions. "The point of view of our country is not that the air carrier is useless, but that the combination of the air carrier and the battleship ......"

"It's not a combination, it's an aircraft covering the battleship for a decisive battle, right?" Yang Rui corrected in time.

"That's true." Shigetaro Shimada nodded in acknowledgement. In the Japanese Navy at this time, except for Narumi Osaue, no one dared to ignore the importance of battleships, including Rear Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the highest-ranking and former captain of the Amagi aircraft carrier. In real combat exercises, the Japanese battleship fleet could not do without aircraft carriers.

"That's fine. In the exercise, the six aircraft carriers of the Chinese Navy were the main force, with Truk Island in the Pacific Ocean as the base, and engaged the main force of the Japanese Navy based on Shan Guan Bay, and the two sides competed for sea supremacy in the waters of Iwo Jima, and once the marines of our army landed at the Iwo Jima airfield, land-based bombers could attack the whole of Japan, so the occupation of the Iwo Jima airfield would be a victory. What do you think of this exercise? Yang Rui thought about it for a while and agreed to Shimada's conditions. At the time of the expiration of the treaty, Japan had only four aircraft carriers at most, namely the two large aircraft carriers Amagi and Akagi, the dragon champ that was still in the shipyard, and Japan's first aircraft carrier, Fengxiang. As for the remaining 15,000 tons of tonnage after the completion of the Longxiang, it could not be built during actual combat exercises.

According to the standard carrier-based aircraft, the two ships of Tiancheng Chicheng have 144 aircraft, and then count the 24 aircraft of Long Xiang and the 15 aircraft of Fengxiang, which is only 189 aircraft; The Chinese Navy's six aircraft carriers are designed to have 72 aircraft each, and by then the number of carrier-based aircraft on a single ship will be increased to 80 to 84 by replacing carrier-based aircraft that can fold their wings by a large margin and carrying out deck mooring, and a total of more than 480 aircraft will certainly be able to turn the Japanese Navy around.

Yang Rui is already an invitation to fight, Shigetaro Shimada thought quickly and looked at King Fushimi Miyahiro Gong, he finally struggled and said: "Since the Japanese side is on the defensive, it should be able to use the airfield on the island and set up a certain number of air groups and land forces."

"China's navy is simulating an attack by the US Navy, and the scale and time are roughly clear to the Japanese side, and it is not interesting to deploy land-based aircraft." Yang Rui retorted. "Besides, the Japanese Navy can't afford to rely on the protection of land-based aircraft. There are airports on Iwo Jima, but are there airports on other islands? ”

Even though there are only 42 Chinese aircraft carriers, the disparity in the number can still be roughly calculated, but he stopped Shimada, who was still trying to fight for his own favorable conditions, and only asked: "Your Excellency, how can you determine whether the attacking plane has been shot down or not based on only rubber bullets and lime powder shells?" ”

"Live ammunition is fine." Yang Rui flashed coldly, and said, "Our army's training and exercises have stipulated the casualty rate, so there is no need to worry about casualties, but the plane is not afraid of being shot down, how can the battleship prove that it has been sunk by the plane?" You can't get live ammunition, right? ”

Every battleship is the lifeblood of the Japanese Navy, and as soon as he heard that the two bigwigs wanted to play for real, Shigetaro Shimada immediately said in a round game: "Your Excellency, Your Highness, we still have five or six years to go, and there will always be a way when the time comes!" There's always a way! ”

"No, if you don't use live ammunition, how can you get real combat results?" King Fushimi Miyahiro pushed Shigetaro Shimada away - every time he heard Yang Rui preach the theory of the victory of the aircraft carrier, he could only close his ears and not listen to the etiquette that he was not very good at words, and a drill close to actual combat would be the best counterattack to Yang Rui's point of view. "If, as Your Excellency said, the battleship is outdated, then sinking it will also be the ultimate fate of the battleship, but the time is a little earlier, and there is nothing to regret about it. I'll report this to the emperor myself, so don't bother. ”

"His Royal Highness is so courageous!" Yang Rui, who was very upset by the diehards of the Japanese Navy and wanted to smoke the Japanese for a long time, greatly appreciated Fushiminomiya's reasoning, "Then let's settle the matter." The time of the exercise is in the 25th year of Shenwu, and the framework is the framework I just said. ”

"It's a deal!" Fushimi Gong raised his hand and said, he wanted to high-five Yang Rui as an oath.

"It's a deal!" Yang Rui slapped his hands and said angrily. (To be continued.) )

PS: The night before, inspired by the monarchs of the Southern Dynasty, I didn't sleep all night and briefly deduced the final outline, and it was roughly completed at noon. Then I wanted to send a message to announce that I wouldn't change it yesterday, but the backstage message was actually at least 500 words, so ......,