The applause in the auditorium rose again, and the sound was like thunder. Although most of the representatives of the Inspectorate are not Westernized parties, and although most of these people have families and businesses and have a group of children and grandchildren, Zhang Junli and others have figured out the behavior of these people a long time ago - that is, they are strong on the outside and on the inside. Outside the home, if you can endure it, you can let it, and if you can kneel, you can kneel; This is not the case at home, they never treat their wives and children as human beings, they practice what they can, beat them when they want to, and even most of the time, they are insulted and wronged outside, and when they go home, they take out their anger on women and children.

In this way, the behavior at home is that they dare to scold their own people but not foreigners, and they dare to beat Chinese Christians and do not dare to touch foreign priests. Therefore, in the face of a possible war with the powerful United States, their true performance must be to endure and forbear, compromise and compromise and compromise, and only as a last resort will they start a war head-on.

At this time, there is no fundamental difference between Xu Jingxi's strategy and Jiang Baili's strategy, or these differences can be ignored, and what the deputies really care about is whether they still have room to retreat, if there is, they will take another step back in order to eliminate the scourge of war, if they retreat will not work, then they will have to resign themselves to fate.

Xu Jingxi, who was standing in the question position, was surprised by the applause, but he was not unprepared. Even if Mr. did not say it, he knew exactly what kind of nation he belonged to, and what kind of temperament the hundreds of deputies elected by this nation had, and Jiang Fangzhen's policy was welcomed by everyone, and it was no longer logical.

After waiting for a while before the applause stopped, Xu Jingxi touched the microphone with his finger, and then said: "Honorable deputy: We can indeed retreat, from Shanghai all the way to Sichuan, and even to Tibet. But as a soldier, I can't agree with that. Able to attack, he chose to retreat, abandoning the citizens of several coastal provinces; can fight regular warfare, but would rather let enemy planes bomb the whole territory. As a result, in the end, we had to fight special warfare with a shortage of guns and ammunition, and this kind of behavior is not beneficial to betraying the country! ”

The word 'traitor' came out. The temperature of the audience suddenly became cold, and Xu Jingxi didn't care about any questions at this time, and said bluntly: "The Philippines is 20,000 miles away from the United States, and he still has to defend; Hawaii is also thousands of miles away from the West Coast, but it is considered by the United States to be the last line of defense in the Pacific. On the other hand, in our country, the enemy's bombers have already covered most of the country's territory, and we still want to make concessions again, and we still hope that the other side will be merciful with peace as your subordinates.

I don't know why there is such a difference! If it is not our country, we should be inferior, and the United States is the master. Our country is a subordinate, the lord is angry, the subordinate can only endure and temporarily avoid, the lord beats people, and the subordinate can only grit his teeth and bear it. If that's the case, what's the use of national defense? What is the use of the navy? What's the use of soldiers?! Our country can kneel down when the ocean is like before, and use razing to defeat ......"

The more Xu Jingxi said the more angry he became, and the more agitated his tone became, but when he said the parable of the old man. Wu Jinglian, the speaker of the parliament, who was afraid that he would say the wrong thing, knocked the table with a wooden hammer, and the adjutant beside him kept reminding him on the side, but at this time, he didn't vomit or feel unhappy. still said: "In this regard, I can only say that the twenty-six spring and autumn periods of the founding of the country are too short, and the foreign slaves have not yet died." These people's waists are still bent, and their knees are still kneeling. Can't stand up at all. If the country is full of such people, China will sooner or later become the second ...... of the Manchu Qing Dynasty."

Wu Jinglian's hammer was about to break. Still couldn't stop Xu Jingxi's mouth, under his signal, two hospital police stepped forward to dissuade him, not wanting Xu Jingxi to be on fire, seeing the hospital police coming, he 'choked' and pulled out the sword on his waist and drank: "Get out of the way!" ”

'Ahh Xu Jingxi drew his sword in public, and the audience was shocked, only the reporters in the auditorium lit up their cameras and took pictures one after another, what is big news, this is big news!

When General Xu Jingxi, chief of the General Staff, was questioned by the Inspectorate and drew his sword in public and shouted the news of the dismissal of the hospital police, it appeared in the newspaper on the evening of the same day, and the Imperial Daily selected the clearest and most righteous one to be published on the front page, calling it the dry city of the country; Ta Kung Pao, Xinbao Bao, Xinmin Cong Bao, Beijing-Tianjin Times, and Independent Review selected a photo of Xu Jingxi's distorted face due to anger and published it. The titles and content of the two sides are also different, although the things described are the same. The former emphasizes the righteousness and fearlessness of the general, while the latter fears the interference of the military in politics, believing that this time he is drawing his sword, and next time he may shoot a gun......

Readers' responses have varied. But all in all, the former was full of praise and praise, and although the old and sophisticated did not agree, they had always been unremarkable.

When Xu Jingxi was questioned, Yang Rui was in Dalian, his trip was to inspect combat readiness, the Pacific war aircraft carrier was the protagonist, and the others were supporting roles. However, unlike before, this time he was no longer looking at the drawings, but at the actual thing, that is, the replacement ships of Yongning and Changning -- according to the statement of the representatives of China and Japan in the League of Nations after the negotiations in London, China and Japan will invite representatives of the League of Nations to serve as inspection teams to supervise the shipbuilding of the navies of the two countries in order to prevent an arms race in the Pacific. Changning sank in the Gulf of Aden, but Yongning had to be dismantled in public under the attention of the inspection team this year.

In the dock area of Dalian Shipyard, a slender aircraft carrier painted gray and white was quietly docked, and the officers and men on the ship stood on the flight deck in strict order and waited for Yang Rui to board the ship for review. In the distance, Yang Rui saw the aircraft carrier in the car, its bridge seemed to be lower than the Changning earlier, and the towering chimney was nowhere to be seen.

Accompanying Yang Rui is Ye Zaifu, who designed this type of battleship, more than 20 years have passed, he is already middle-aged, and he no longer needs to grow a beard and pretend to be an old city like before. Seeing Yang Rui take a closer look at the chimney of the aircraft carrier, Ye Zaifu explained: "My lord, the aircraft carrier is a double-deck hangar, and the hangar has an armored deck, so when designing, all the designs that will raise the center of gravity have been canceled. The bridge was larger, but it was made lower, and the chimney bent down to exhaust smoke. ”

Standing on the dock and looking up at the flight deck, Yang Rui asked, "The flight deck has also become shorter?" ”

"Yes, sir." Ye Zaifu said: "The aircraft carrier has a draft of nine meters at full load, thirteen.6 meters above the waterline, and is 2.5 meters shorter than Changning. ”

"How tall is that hangar?" Yang Rui heard that there were only thirteen.5 meters above the waterline, and he felt that he was indeed short.

"The height of the upper and lower hangars is five meters each, which is enough for various types of carrier-based aircraft to fold their wings." Ye Zaifu Road.

"Salute!" Colonel Tan Gen, who was waiting on the dock, saluted Yang Rui, and his military rank was demoted by one level because of the sinking of Changning. Chen Quartz, the general manager of the shipyard on one side, bowed.

"You kid!" Yang Rui slapped him with a smile, "Are you wronged?" He asked with a smile. Then he stroked Chen Quartz's back.

Tan was a very serious salute, but he was so kindly asked by Yang Rui. Thinking of the Yankees building so many battleships, he couldn't help laughing after all, and he said loudly: "Report to your lord, I'm not wronged!" ”

"Good!" Yang Rui nodded, "Don't keep staring at your own piece, look at the whole." After he admonished, he asked: "You are the old captain, how is the new ship, it is stronger than the previous Changning, right?" ”

"Report to the chief, stronger than Changning!" Tan Gen replied. "The new ship has a long deck, plenty of horsepower, plenty of fuel, and strong defense. The number of aircraft carriers also far exceeds that of Changning, which can be described as the world's first aircraft carrier! ”

Tan Gen commented on the new aircraft carrier like this, and Ye Zaifu and others, who didn't want to laugh, couldn't help laughing. The new aircraft carrier is indeed far superior to the old ship in terms of various countries, and its flight deck is 274 meters long, and the super old ship is 10 meters long and 32 wide; The horsepower is due to the use of new heavy oil boilers, which provide more than 40 kilograms of pressure per square centimeter, and the full power of the eight boilers can provide 170,000 horsepower, and the speed at full power is 34 knots. When cruising, only eight boilers are needed to reach speeds of twenty-six knots.

This, coupled with the Navy's repeated requests to increase the volume of the aircraft carrier's oil depot (the Navy believes that in actual operations, the actual range is less than half of the theoretical range, so it has repeatedly asked the Navy Design Bureau to increase the volume of the aircraft carrier's oil depot. Under this requirement, the new aircraft carrier will have a range of up to 16,000 nautical miles per 18 knots when fully loaded with fuel and 36,800 tons of displacement.

Defensively, the flight deck armor was the same, with enhanced anti-torpedo compartments on both sides. In addition, after discarding the 127-mm guns, the ship was equipped with 48 imitation Bofors 40-mm anti-aircraft guns and 64 20-mm modified Sispano guns with a rate of fire three times that of Erikon. With such an arrangement, the whole ship is already a fire hedgehog. Together with cruisers and destroyers in coordinated air defense, the chances of enemy aircraft trying to penetrate the net of fire are very low.

As for carrier-based aircraft, the total area of the two-story hangar without elevators is 6,240 square meters, and the single-story hangar is 186 meters long and 20 meters wide. The carrier-based aircraft consisted of 36 impermanence torpedo bombers, 36 ghost dive bombers, 36 Haidongqing fighters, and two gray goose radar planes, a total of 110 aircraft. So many carrier-based aircraft naturally need large lifts, but because the lower deck is too close to the sea, the lower hangar can only use inboard lifts, and the upper deck is a broadside lift, with a width of more than 18 meters, which can lift two aircraft at a time.

Judging from various data, the new aircraft carrier tends to be perfect, but the actual combat capability remains to be tested by war. After boarding the ship and inspecting the sailors on the deck, Yang Rui visited the whole ship accompanied by Tan Gen, Chen Quartz, Ye Zaifu and others, and the first thing he saw was the flight deck.

"The outer layer of the armor is VH armor, in the middle is a new fiber and ceramic material, and the back plate is mainly a new type of steel and other auxiliary materials that absorb impact energy. Although only two inches of VH steel were used, the whole piece of armor had the protective effect of more than 7.5 inches of VH armor, which could withstand a 1,000-kilogram armor-piercing bomb dropped at an altitude of 1,000 meters at a speed of 300 knots at an angle of 60 degrees...... "Ye Zaifu turned over the teak wood on the surface of the flight deck and took out a piece of composite armor from underneath. He said that the new fiber is fiberglass, and the ceramic is alumina. "If it weren't for this new type of armor, the entire aircraft carrier would not have been designed like this."

If you really had to lay 7.5 inches of VH armor steel on the flight deck, the entire aircraft carrier would definitely roll over. The designer considered this, but the captain Tan Gen smiled and said: "I only learned today that there is such a precious thing on the ship, no wonder the anti-aircraft fire focuses on the sideboard." A thousand kilograms? The Americans don't have 500 kg bombs for their dive bombs until now, right? ”

The composite armor is similar to the mille-feuille that Yang Rui has eaten, but he is not surprised by the protective effect of the armor, he feels sorry for the money. FRP is also forgotten, alumina is a very difficult thing to process because of its high hardness, but fortunately, diamond is man-made, and artificial is not too expensive, which is barely acceptable. But even so, he still shook his head and said, "Expensive! The whole ship, except for the main engine, is the most expensive in this kind of armor. I heard that these two aircraft carriers cost more than 100 million? ”

Protection is a matter of designers, the cost is related to the shipyard, the general office Chen Quartz said: "My lord, this is the first ship, and it is the first time to build in a segmented way, everyone is afraid of mistakes, be careful and careful, and waste a lot of man-hours." ”

Yang Rui boasted in front of the Japanese about sectional shipbuilding, separate shipbuilding or something, but in fact, with current technology, sectional shipbuilding requires countless experience to barely achieve. The first one is to have qualified welded hull steel, metallurgical experiments took ten years to develop a kind of excellent performance of segmented shipbuilding steel, with a suitable welded hull steel but also have a suitable welding machine process, as well as strict precision control - in the first use of the segmented closure method to build the tanker, there was a keel deviation is too large, resulting in the hull can not be closed construction accidents, and finally is a scientific and perfect process management.

The Changning replacement ship is not an oil tanker or a merchant ship, once the keel deviation of the warship is too large, it cannot be cut and repaired at all, and the whole ship can only be scrapped.

"It's okay to be wrong." Yang Rui said, "The key is that the wrong problem cannot appear for the second time, a hundred problems we are wrong a hundred times and we will completely solve them, the new process is inevitably wrong, and we always have to pay the price." ”

"That's what the adults teach." Yang Rui's words reminded Chen Quartz of the test ships that have been scrapped in the past ten years, and the gross calculation is that at least 100,000 warships have been wasted, and 7,000 per ton is 700 million.

"Now you've got it all in hand?" Yang Rui asked again, he had high hopes for fast shipbuilding.

"It's basically all mastered." Chen Quartz nodded modestly. "There is basically nothing wrong with the construction of the ship this time, and the number of degrees is also fast, the slipway period of Changning is eight months and four days, and Yongning only takes seven months and one day, and the construction speed will be faster in the future."

"That's good." Yang Rui nodded. He was like this, Ye Zaifu was not surprised, but Tan Gen, who was listening, was completely frightened, he jumped up in a daze before grabbing Chen Quartz, he exclaimed: "You said that this ship was built in eight months?!" ”

"Silence! This is a military secret and must not be disseminated. Yang Rui smiled and drank him.

"Sir, this ......" Tan Gen was so excited that he couldn't speak. He knows exactly what it means to launch an aircraft carrier in eight months, which is equivalent to the fact that the seemingly weak Chinese Navy can launch more than 10 new Changning-class aircraft carriers within a year. Before that, he was still racking his brains with Chief of Staff Xi Dingmo and others to calculate how to use ten aircraft carriers of different sizes to deal with the 16 large aircraft carriers of the United States. (To be continued.) )