The way people and weapons decide the war, four dreadnought battleships, Yang Rui found it hard to believe that they could play a role in two years, but for submarines, he believed in their effect and value, because this is just like the army used to use the company as the basic combat unit, the division commander will take twenty years to cultivate, but the company commander will be enough for the next two years to test the fire. Considering the completely new combat mode of submarines, Yang Rui has no doubts about building a submarine force of more than 6,000 people within two years, only 200 ships, to be exact, excluding the forty or fifty ships that were replenished during the war, where will the remaining 150 ships be built? United States? Germany?

If you want to make the First World War a little longer, it is best to go to Germany, and even after the construction of these 150 ships, you can take out another loan from Germany and place an order for another 100 ships, and when the First World War breaks out, Germany will not only be able to quickly produce submarine workers and docks, but also the corresponding materials and more than 100 submarines that are already in the docks, so how many merchant ships can be sunk by the additional submarines? However, submarine production can be safely handed over to Germany, what if it sells itself like last time?

Yang Rui thought about this question, and then said: "Then where to build these 150 submarines, we can't build so many in the past two years." ”

"Sir, we think it's better to put it in Germany." Bei Shoutong said: "This submarine was originally designed by them, if you rashly change the place, I am afraid that the requirements of all aspects will not be met, and then there is to buy Siemens motor technology, or develop high-power motor technology by yourself, and then it is low-carbon pressure-resistant steel ......"

Bei Shoutong raised a lot of questions in the context of overall preparations, which were actually what Yang Rui often thought about when he was thinking about war preparations. "Germany should be preparing for war at home, right? Can they build so many submarines? He asked.

"Yes!" Pei Shoutong and Xu Jingxi both nodded. Bei Shou said: "Even if the performance of the submarine has improved to this point. The German Navy has not ordered a single submarine to enter service, and if the shipyard is not supported by us, it already has the intention of not wanting to build another submarine. Several major shipyards in Germany have been building ships in batches since a few years ago. But all the ships built are dreadnoughts, small ships are rarely built, and those docks of less than 10,000 tons are empty, as long as we are sure that more than 100 ships will be built, and they will be built in batches, then the construction time of submarines will not take a year at all, and four months will be enough. These more than 100 ships. I don't think it will take two years, but a year to build it. ”

"Tipiltz is still so stubborn!" Yang Rui sighed, the father of the Grand Fleet has not even looked at the submarine until now. "You're right, but even if the Germans care about the order of more than 200 million marks, how can the whole thing be kept secret? After all, shipbuilding is abroad, what if the Germans want to sell us like last time? He said this. It also occurred to me that the ship was built in Germany. Did the more than 100 ships be dismantled and shipped back? Or send someone to drive back?

It seems that he has thought of this problem for a long time, and Bei Shoutong said: "Sir, if the technology of this self-guided torpedo is transferred to Germany......

Yang Rui wanted to rectify but wanted to wait for the war with Japan, he used to have a good impression of Germany, but now he is not, he is simply a reckless man who speaks with a knife and a gun. The technology of self-guided torpedoes was transferred to Germany, what can Germany do with it? Yang Rui still knows a little about the naval battle of World War I. For example, unrestricted submarine warfare, the Battle of Jutland. If the Germans had this thing, they wouldn't have won the First World War, would they? If only Germany had won. I just earned some dollars for my hard work, but the debts owed by Britain and France to the United States have become waste paper, so has the money I earned also become waste paper? And what will happen to the Russian side?

Yang Rui thought about these questions, and then felt that this was impossible. Because the United States itself is the same ancestor of Britain, and because the War of Independence was also friendly to France, coupled with the financial entanglement between Britain and the United States, Britain and France will be defeated, and the United States will definitely send troops, and once the United States sends troops, Germany will still lose the war as it has done in history.

Seeing Yang Rui thinking, Bei Shoutong said the thoughts of the General Staff, "Sir, the self-guided torpedo is not omnipotent, it is self-guided because of the sound, but the disadvantage is also the sound, as long as there is a bigger sound that overshadows the sound of the battleship, then it will be lost." The real yàn room is working on this problem, how to capture the battleship's other sailing features so that the torpedo can hit the battleship foolproofly.

Moreover, the self-guided torpedo is electrically propulsed, so that it is convenient to correct the rudder angle through the guò battery, and at the same time, the electric can also be concealed, and the torpedo trajectory cannot be seen under normal circumstances, if this torpedo can be mixed with ordinary white-headed torpedoes or hot torpedoes, and cover it with those torpedoes with tracks, it is even better. However, because it is electric, its speed and range are not as good as that of a hot torpedo, and now the number taken out of the real room is 1,800 meters at 30 knots and 2,060 meters at 20 knots, which is still a lot worse than a hot torpedo with a range of nearly 10,000 meters at 35 knots. The real room believes that only by waiting for a new type of battery to be developed can its range be increased, but this will take time. ”

Listening to Bei Shoutong talk about the new battery, Yang Rui just smiled, the so-called new battery is his mobile phone battery, although he doesn't know the technical content of that thing, but he can't study it for more than ten years. He saw the two of them looking at him with a smile, and knew that the staff department wanted to implement the Ding plan, so he smiled deliberately: "But this torpedo will turn around?" Oh, what was the acoustic range? ”

"Four hundred meters. Mr. Xu Jingxi said.

"That's right, as long as you get within four hundred meters of the battleship, those tens of thousands of taels of torpedoes can be exchanged for a battleship of millions of taels or even millions of taels, this transaction is really a huge profit!" Yang Rui said with a smile. Seeing that the two of them looked nervous, they said seriously: "Okay, are we still doing less technology deals with Germany?" This time I'll take a look at the situation first, and if they don't know each other like they used to, then leave them alone. If Germany does not build submarines, the United States can also build them, and if they really hand over tens of millions of dollars of orders to the Germans, although the Americans will not say anything, they will still have a pimple in their hearts.

Let's build a ship, but either there is a place to build it, or it's okay. The matter of submarines should be kept secret, and even if it is not kept secret, we can't let others know that we have built so many submarines. But as soon as the Congress convenes, so much money for building ships still needs to be approved by the Congress, and it is impossible for the members of Congress to be all of our minds. What to do......"

"Sir, we can say that this is a submarine instead of a small torpedo boat, and a submarine needs more than two million marks, which is about 800,000 taels of silver and a ship of more than 600 tons, as long as the configuration is higher. The price is reasonable. And that kind of submarine supply ship, let's say it is an ocean-going torpedo boat or a cruiser, almost two thousand tons. It shouldn't be a problem to say it's more than three hundred taels. Yang Rui was worried about the problem, and Pei Shoutong quickly thought of a countermeasure.

Seeing that he was doing this, Yang Rui thought about it sideways, and felt that it could only be like this. Even if the Japanese go to Germany to see. If you see the outline of this little boat, you will not be suspicious. After thinking about it, he said again: "Then there are still two problems, one is that submarines are going to burn oil, and we block the coast of the Japanese, and their warships can also blockade our coast, even if they want to give face to the foreigners, I am afraid that diesel fuel cannot be transported in." What to do? Submarines need 70 or 80 tons of diesel fuel every time they sail, and these 200 submarines need more than 10,000 tons of diesel. If you sail four or five times a year, you need 60,000 or 70,000 tons of diesel. If the war drags on for a long time, after two or three years, it will be even worse; And where are you going to put these two hundred submarines? At present, the navy can only be anchored in Nanjing, and there is not a single nest, and if these two hundred submarines want to be put down, it will still take a lot of places. ”

Yang Rui was worried about the problem, the staff had already planned, and Bei Shoutong said: "Sir, the oil will be found in Nanyang soon, not in Shaanxi, this Nanyang is still good!" But that's what a railroad is going to be built. ”

Bei Shoutong said Nanyang, and Yang Rui remembered the previous arrangement. Daqing is in the Russian sphere of influence, the victory is too close to the sea, and the other oil fields he remembers are only Xinjiang and Nanyang, and there is a classmate in the university who is from the Zhongyuan oil field, so he arranged for someone to survey, which is still before the big uprising.

"Did you really find it?" Yang Rui asked, "How do you know?" ”

"The news after the general report said that it was basically certain that there was oil, but it was buried deeper, and it was said to be a kilometer away." Bei Shou is the same way.

"Just find it!" Yang Rui was determined in his heart, lit a cigarette, he didn't know whether this oil field was big or not, whether he wanted to take it out and partner with Mobil, and after the Congress opened the case of Guò Mobil's exploration rights, and then get out of the Shaanxi Oilfield as a sole proprietorship, and then discover another oil field, then its stock will go crazy. Why, do you ask Rockefeller to borrow more money, or do you negotiate a big loan in a year?

When Yang Rui was thinking about these things, Bei Shoutong took out a map, pointed to eastern Zhejiang, and said: "As for the home port of the submarine, we still think that the Xiangshan Mountain in eastern Zhejiang is more suitable after exploring and comparing, where the island is surrounded on three sides, the strait is ten to twenty kilometers wide, nearly sixty kilometers inland, and the water depth is also suitable, about ten meters. It is most appropriate to use this as a home port for submarines. ”

"Elephant Mountain? It seems that the navy's ones are also there? Yang Rui asked, after the loss of the Manchu Navy Lushun Weihai, the remaining fleet was anchored in Nanjing and Xiangshan, and now the surface ships were handed over to the Americans, and the underwater ships Yang Rui did not know whether to hand them over, after all, submarines have too many secrets.

"It's there. A few years ago, when the navy was being rebuilt, Sa Zhenbing and Zaixun also inspected it, saying that they were planning to use it as the home port of the foreign fleet. "Bei Shou is like-minded.

"And did they take a closer look?" Yang Rui said, "Forget it, they just look like they go." Since it is said that Xiangshan is good after comparison, the submarine is set at Xiangshan. ”

"Sir, there's another place for the submarine." Xu Jingxi next to him pointed to the map and said: "The blockade of Japan still needs to start from the Sea of Japan, we plan to seize the port of Qingjin in the north of Korea at the beginning of the war for replenishment, and the submarines here will be responsible for the west coast of Japan. ”

"The location of Qingjin is good, but where is there a fort? What if the Japanese fleet came over to blockade it? Yang Rui asked, "Even if there is artillery, I'm afraid that when we occupy it, the shore artillery will be destroyed by the Japanese defenders." ”

Seeing that Yang Rui was worried about the Japanese fleet attacking the shore, Xu Jingxi and Bei Shoutong looked at each other and smiled, and said, "Sir, this is the content of Plan E." ”

"Plan E?" Yang Rui is different, the Sino-Japanese battle is the top priority of the General Staff, and the battle plan has been made four, but I don't want to have a fifth.

"Yes. Plan E was conceived only in recent days. Xu Jingxi said. In accordance with the denial strategy that Mr. taught earlier, we have now thought of a solution to the Japanese Navy. ”

Xu Jingxi, a 'Mr. Yang Rui's old face turned red. Only then did he remember that when he was in South Africa, he had talked a lot about the students of the first phase, most of which came from military literature, movies, and forums in later generations, although he did not say that he would invent missile satellites in the future. But the development trend of the war in the past hundred years still said a lot, because these things were only said to the first phase of military cadets, so his handouts were copied one after another, and then passed on to the next few issues, only to wait for Yang Rui to see these sorted out handouts, found that there was too much sensitive information on them, so he ordered a ban.

The denial strategy is a description of the United States to later generations of PLAs to counter their maritime superiority. The main thing is to use the Vostok 21D missiles and submarines as weapons to keep the US aircraft carriers out of the East Asian seas. This can be regarded as one of the effective strategies of a weak naval state against a strong naval state. It's just that there was Dongfeng 21D in later generations, but now there is none.

Yang Rui wondered: "Is there any progress on the aircraft engine?" ”

"Yes." Xu Jingxi and Bei Shou laughed together. "I have found a way to solve the problem of heat dissipation, and the preliminary practice has been successful."

"Ideas?" Yang Ruiqi said. The reason why the star-shaped engine could not be developed, or even if it was developed, was not as good as the rotary engine, it was because the cylinders of the rotary engine rotated. helps to dissipate heat; And the star-shaped engine cylinders are fixed. Poor heat dissipation. Before the engine room was mentioned by Yang Rui, and at the same time dismantled the current popular rotary cylinder engine, seeing that people were cut from a whole piece of nickel steel, they thought it was a problem with metallurgical materials, but they did not develop a 'heat-resistant' cylinder block material for several years. Now that Xu Jingxi said that he had changed his way of thinking, Yang Rui was very curious about what this new idea was.

"I have thought about the problem of heat dissipation in the real yàn room system, and I think that we still have to take the path of V-type water-cooled engines, that is, we can't just think about heat resistance. It's about heat dissipation, but it's not about using water to dissipate heat. Instead, it is intended to dissipate heat with air. There was also such an idea before, but at that time the air only cooled the front of the cylinder, because the vortex could not cool the rear, so now there is a thing that allows the air to be directed, so that the air flow can surround the entire cylinder when flying, so that the engine can effectively dissipate heat and dissipate heat evenly. Xu Jingxi parroted the words of the technician to Yang Rui, with a smile on his face. Now they've come up with something that has been put on an airplane engine and it's very effective. ”

"So that means the star engine was built?" Yang Rui said. He didn't know what was new in the real room. In fact, the real yàn room is just a simple fairing, which adjusts the size and direction of the windward airflow, effectively dissipates heat and solves the problem of resistance, which is really not a technical problem, but a problem of thinking.

"Yes. Now the real yàn room simulates flight, blowing a fan against the engine, and the engine can run without failure for fifteen hours, and the final damage is not due to the heat dissipation of the cylinder. Xu Jingxi continued to introduce the situation of aircraft engines, which is the key premise of his plan, "Compared with the rotary cylinder engine, the star-shaped engine can be built larger, the number of cylinders is more, and the power of the nine-cylinder star-shaped engine has reached 200 horsepower, according to calculations, this can carry 500 kilograms of torpedoes or bombs." ”

Xu Jingxi talked about torpedo planes, Yang Rui understood what he meant, using torpedo planes as the executors of the denial strategy, this is indeed feasible, the current warships have no air defense consciousness at all, anti-aircraft machine guns have not appeared, and a large number of torpedo planes are arranged in Qingjin Port, and shore artillery can be completely dispensed with.

He thinks so, but Xu Jingxi doesn't think so, he can stand out with Pei Shoutong in the staff because his ideas have always been bold and weird, always unexpected, and Pei Shoutong is a rigorous and meticulous type, and his imagination is rich. Xu Jingxi took out the last copy of the text in Yang Rui's contemplation and said: "Sir, the Japanese army was blocked by us in Korea, Northeast China and Jinjing area, and after these troops went ashore, the sea route was cut off by us, and the Japanese mainland was effectively blocked by us, so why can't we take this opportunity to occupy Taiwan?" ”

When Yang Rui heard the word 'Taiwan', his heart couldn't stop beating wildly, and under the eager eyes of the two staff officers, he took a deep breath and said: "Is Plan E a plan aimed at Taiwan?" ”

"Added Taiwanese content." Xu Jingxi said: "Sir, the Japanese army was trapped by us in the north, and the sea route was cut off, and we have torpedo planes to achieve a denial operation, with torpedo planes with a range of more than 600 kilometers. A hundred kilometers off the coast, as long as the weather is good, ships cannot get close; When the weather was bad and the sea conditions were extremely bad, the Japanese navy could not land and could only shell along the coast. But at this time, submarines and mines can also intercept them outside important ports. That is to say, as long as we open up airfields in Taiwan's major ports -- I have read reports from the air force -- it is not difficult to open up airfields, and a slightly leveler grassland is sufficient, and it is not too long, three or four hundred meters is sufficient, and such conditions can completely set up airfields along the coast of Taiwan. Arrange planes to drive away the Japanese fleet. ”

In Xu Jingxi's narration, Yang Rui's mind calmed down, and he reorganized his thoughts. Asked: "The Japanese Navy can't get close to Taiwan, so can we land very lightly?" I remember that the Japanese Governor's Office has a lot of troops, and there is also a fleet stationed in Keelung Port, and we only have more than 200,000 tons of merchant ships. Most of them are still sailboats. I'm afraid I won't be able to send many people up. ”

"Sir, now that the large-scale rebellion in Taiwan has been suppressed by the Japanese army, five years ago there was only one Taiwan garrison in Taiwan, numbering about 6,400 people, and now this garrison is divided into two teams, the first garrison is stationed in the Keelung area of Taipei, and the second garrison is stationed in the area of Tainan in Dagou. In addition to these 6,400 people, there are only more than 10,000 policemen on the island. These people did not have heavy weapons, and because of the advocacy of the previous governors of Taiwan, Gentaro Kodama and Goto Shinpei. Of the more than 10,000 policemen, 40 percent are Taiwan natives, which means that once we attack Taiwan, most of the policemen will stand idly by, even if they do not take refuge.

I believe that as long as one division of troops crosses the sea and ascends to the stage, then under the condition of effectively rejecting the Japanese navy, these 6,000 people can be wiped out very quickly, and even if they hide in the mountains and do not have the support of the local residents, they will not be able to support them for long. Taiwan ceded Japan for 18 years, and in the past 18 years, nearly 100,000 people have been killed who refused to submit to Japanese rule. Except for the previous governor, Gentaro Kodama, the other governors all stopped the rebellion by killing. Now that the large-scale revolt in the island's ports has been stopped, many of the people in the mountains have not yet been conquered, and many of them have thought about it again. The current Governor Sakuma Zomathew is not a gentle man, as long as we can land a brigade, even a regiment, the whole island will be in chaos, and in Taiwan, the Japanese army will have no popular support. ”

When he was in South Africa, he had heard about submarine warfare and aircraft warfare introduced by Yang Rui, and he had the intention of recovering Taiwan, and when the submarine was completed, he was always staring at the aircraft, and he just wanted to preemptively strike at them when these two weapons were not yet known to the Japanese, and when they reacted and then dealt with them, they had already failed. This is the reality of Japan, even if they win during the First Sino-Japanese War, even if they win during the Japanese and Russian periods, they cannot fight for a long time, and once they are caught off guard by new weapons and new tactics, then they will definitely not have the capital to turn around, this is the sorrow of a small country, he can only go step by step, once lost, there will be no recovery.

"There is no problem with the idea, then you can talk about the specific arrangement." Yang Rui has been psychologically adjusted, he always thinks of the current Taiwan as the Taiwan of the future, afraid of the interference of the United States, the difficulty of recovering Taiwan is too high, now Xu Jingxi briefly said, he understands that the difficulty is indeed not high, the key is how to go up, food can be collected locally, and the lack of ammunition can be transported by airship.

"My vision is to consider the entire war against Japan as a whole, and the most important part of this whole is the liberation of Taiwan." Xu Jingxi said. "The plan is mainly divided into three stages: one is to lure the snake out of the hole, that is, to lead the main force of the Japanese army, or most of the main force, to the north, so as to reduce its remaining mobile forces. To this end, Korea and Northeast China will launch a large-scale war to mobilize all Japanese land forces. At this stage, submarines and planes cannot be dispatched, and we will only fight a war with Japan similar to the Russo-Japanese War, and if Japan wants to land elsewhere in the Bohai Bay to attack Beijing, then we will have to resist hard. However, if we use the slogan of recovering Korea, then in the case of the chaos in Korea, most of the Japanese forces will be pinned down in Korea and the northeast. (To be continued......)