This time, in addition to the Baden, they also brought back a cruiser and a destroyer, and the British were originally only allowed to salvage the German sunken warships, but the warships that had been soaked in the sea were basically scrapped. If it is a large ship of 20,000 or 30,000 tons, it is still valuable to fish it out, and a warship of several thousand tons is a bit wasteful, and there is no other use for transporting it back except for dismantling and scrapping.

Although during Operation Rainbow, the main warships of the High Seas Fleet were basically scuttled, but some small and medium-sized warships were retained, and these warships have been exposed to the wind and sun in the port for more than a year, and they are full of rust and no one cares.

According to the normal situation, these warships can only be used as target ships, and after Xia Han figured out these situations, he decided to steal the beams and change the pillars. After salvaging the two warships, they pretended to repair the loopholes and prepared to transport them back to the northeast, but secretly bribed the British officials and exchanged the salvaged warships for two unsunken warships.

Among these two warships, the light cruiser has a displacement of 4,500 tons, and the destroyer has a displacement of 1,088 tons.

After Zhang Tinglan saw these two warships, he was immediately overjoyed, the bodyguard of the aircraft carrier was finally there! An aircraft carrier formation will definitely not be able to have aircraft carriers alone, but also surface frigates and submarines underwater.

The submarine Fengjun has been solved, and there is still a great shortage of surface ships, and the Fengjun can only produce warships of about 1,000 tons at present, mainly shallow water gunboats, torpedo boats, patrol boats and the like, and destroyers and cruisers are all blank.

Now these two German warships are coming back and forth. In terms of actual value, it is not lower than the Baden, which is equivalent to making up for a vacancy in the Feng army, Zhang Tinglan and Shen Honglie and others boarded the two warships with great interest, and after looking carefully, Shen Honglie's face also showed greed.

"Marshal, our navy does not yet have four or five thousand tons of warships, see if you can use this cruiser as a flagship, I promise to use the fastest time to form combat capability."

Shen Honglie's face was hopeful. As an officer of the navy, he is absolutely salivating for the Haode ship, and the German shipbuilding Jishu is indeed remarkable, and it has a fatal attraction to him.

Zhang Tinglan actually has this thought. However, after weighing it repeatedly, he still shook his head firmly: "Chengzhang." I can't bear the child's wolf. If we keep these two warships. The British will see through our tricks, and the hope of getting a Mackensen-class battlecruiser is very slim. Therefore, these two warships must be dismantled, and they must be dismantled as quickly as possible before the Baden, so that the British will completely believe that we have built old warships in order to disassemble steel. ”

The warships are made of special steel. It is very versatile, and the Huludao shipyard is also building civilian ships, which can be used as a smoke bomb to confuse the British. As long as they can let it go. The Feng army will be able to get the bigger warship back.

"If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, we must be willing to pay the capital!" Zhang Tinglan said firmly: "But there is one thing you have to remember, you must find out the structure of the warship when dismantling, and after the dismantling, you must have the ability to build." ”

"Don't worry, even if we don't sleep, we have to figure out the key jishu of construction." Wu Yulin said confidently: "Dashuai, we took advantage of the chaos to sweep a batch of documents from Germany, including the drawings of the ship design, and we got some jishu talents from Germany, and now we have the finished product in front of us, although we have dismantled one, but we have the ability to build ten and eight ships!" ”

"Director Wu, if you want to build so many warships, it depends on whether our marshal will allocate money?" Shen Honglie said with a smile on the side, although it seemed to be a casual sentence, in fact, Shen Honglie had already raised his heart to his throat, and this was the first time he had asked Zhang Tinglan for military expenses.

Among the three armed forces, the navy is the weakest and has the lowest right to speak, but the development of the navy is the most money-burning project, and if we want to win enough funds, we must win Zhang Tinglan's full support.

Zhang Tinglan also knew Shen Honglie's thoughts, so he said with a smile: "I will never be stingy with the money that should be spent, but you also have to think clearly about what kind of warship you are going to build." ”

Shen Honglie and Wu Yulin glanced at each other, they looked at each other, and they didn't understand what Zhang Tinglan meant.

"Both the British and the Germans built the battleship as the core, building the sea liliang, so their cruisers and destroyers were patrol reconnaissance, or carried out sea escort, and were the assistants of the battleship. However, once we take aircraft carriers as the core, the reconnaissance mission can be completely handed over to aircraft, cruisers, and destroyers, and the most important mission is to act as a knife escort for aircraft carriers, and air defense and anti-submarine defense will become the main tasks. ”

Although the construction of aircraft carriers was mentioned, Wu Yulin and Shen Honglie had not thought deeply about it, and thought that it was simply replacing battleships with aircraft carriers. But after Zhang Tinglan's reminder, they suddenly realized that this was a revolution at sea.

From the design of warships to naval tactics, everything has to undergo earth-shaking changes, and Fengjun has no experience in using large warships, and if he wants to reach the sky in one step, the difficulty can be imagined.

The same is true for Zhang Tinglan, the United States, Britain and Japan have been exploring the use of aircraft carriers since World War I, but it was not until World War II that it took twenty or thirty years and a bloody lesson to figure out the aircraft carrier, which shows the difficulty.

However, Zhang Tinglan also knows that no matter how difficult it is, it must be insisted on, this is the only chance for the Chinese Navy, and if it is missed, if it wants to rebuild China's sea power, I don't know how many more years it will have to wait.

After visiting the warship, Zhang Tinglan gathered Shen Honglie, Wu Yulin, Xia Han and others and instilled in them his thoughts on aircraft carriers, including some mature ideas in later generations.

The aircraft carrier formation is a systematic project, including the construction of aircraft carriers, the equipping of escort ships, the development of carrier-based aircraft, and all related fields, materials, machinery, and processes that the navy and air force can be involved in, which is completely testing China's industrial level.

"You have to use the fastest time to come up with an outline for the development of the aviation army, and in addition, you have to inspect our industrial situation, what is lacking, and immediately find a way to solve it. In addition, don't just stare at the United States, Germany, Britain and France, other countries can also consider, such as Italy, in the field of naval jishu, it is also very good, and there are few interests in China, and when selling things, there are not many concerns. ”

Although the Italian army became the biggest laughing stock in World War I and World War II, it is fair to say that Italy still closely follows Shijie first-class in terms of industrial level, and has many advantages over Japan.

Zhang Tinglan has specifically learned about the situation in Italy, after the First World War, Italy is also in turmoil, because the Paris Peace Conference did not meet Italy's political demands, there is a sense of shame in the country, Mussolini is also preparing for the momentum, it can be said that Italy is on the eve of drastic changes, to China's procurement activities, to provide a lot of convenience.

"What the big marshal said is extremely true!" Xia Han knows the situation in Europe very well, and also agrees with Zhang Tinglan's judgment: "In fact, not only Italy, but also Czechoslovakia, Austria and other countries have some advantageous industries and a large number of talents. ”

Zhang Tinglan stayed in Huludao for seven days in a row, basically talking about how to develop the navy, Zuihou drew up a timetable for action, they Jihua within five years, the modification of an aircraft carrier, and the initial formation of combat effectiveness, within ten years, the formation of three aircraft carrier battle group.

It seems that the time is a bit long, but with the current accumulation of the Feng army, this is already a very short time, and the aircraft carrier is definitely not an easy to develop a heavy weapon at sea.

When the navy's development plan was determined, Zhang Tinglan hurriedly returned to Mukden, and just two days earlier, Wu Peifu sent a telegram to Zhang Tinglan, asking Zhang Tinglan's views on the division between the north and the south.

Wu Peifu is also a shrewd figure, and Zhang Tinglan has publicly criticized Sun Wen's party many times, especially after Sun Wen colluded with the Russians, which angered Zhang Tinglan. The direct army also wanted to take the opportunity to clear Sun Wen out of Liangguang, and there were several exchanges of fire with Sun Wen's protector army, and the two sides won and lost each other. The warlords in the southwest were more difficult to deal with than expected, and Wu Peifu had to seek Zhang Tinglan's support, so that Zuihou could get more arms and weapons.

After Zhang Tinglan returned to Fengtian, he immediately gathered all the civil and military officials, Zhang Tinglan went straight to the point and said to everyone: "Everyone, there is only one topic today, that is, to find a way to cut off Sun Wen's party and completely drive them out of Liangguang!" ”

"Dashuai, Sun Wen is the first provisional president of the Republic of China, his prestige is very high, he has a lot of followers, and he has also been valued by the powers. Zhu Qinglan said with a little worry.

Yang Yuting shook his head disappreciatively: "Because of this, we should attack Sun Wen, the greater his influence, the greater the threat he will pose to us competing for dominance. ”

"Marshal, I also think that a direct conflict with Sun Wen may affect the reputation of Fengjun." Jiang Dengxuan said on the side: "It's best to support Beiyang, let Wu Peifu and Sun Wen fight to the death, and we will reap the benefits." ”

These big men expressed their opinions and argued endlessly, Zhang Tinglan suddenly waved his hand: "Don't fight, let me summarize two points, first, Sun Wen must be eliminated, and second, Beiyang has no ability to solve them." ”

Zhang Tinglan gave two crucial judgments, it must be fought, and it must be fought by yourself!

"Since coming into contact with the Russians, it is very likely that Sun Wenyi's party will accept some of the ideas of the Russian majority, so that they will far surpass Beiyang in terms of organization and become a formidable opponent. It is unrealistic to expect Beiyang to deal with Sun Wen, they have the ability to solve Sun Wen, and they will not let him make trouble for so long, so the Feng army must send troops! (To be continued......)