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Although it has 4 aircraft carriers and 2 super battleships, the "First Fleet of the Luftwaffe" must also be equipped with a large number of auxiliary ships if it wants to have the ability to fight independently. Japan, which has a large navy, is naturally the first choice, but Japan used to build capital ships too high for the needs of surprise attacks, resulting in the fact that now their own auxiliary ships are not enough, and how many can they squeeze out to sell to Germany?

Although the size of China's navy is far inferior to that of Japan, China's dependence on the navy as a land-powered country is also far less than that of Japan, and the decline in naval strength in a short period of time will not cause fatal consequences, and the construction of auxiliary ships is very fast, so there are more ready-made ships that can be sold.

Although there were some fears that the Axis powers would win World War II, the German Far East Fleet would inevitably set sail home to support the European theater after gaining the ability to fight independently, and then Japan's advantage in the Pacific would be reduced, which would undoubtedly be beneficial to China's national security. After all, because the distance is so far, even if Germany achieves a greater advantage in Europe, it will not pose a major threat to China, and as long as the Japanese side is not too strong, everything will be fine. Therefore, in principle, the Chinese top brass did not object to the sale of naval ships to the Germans, and even the officers and men of the navy, who were reluctant at first, no longer complained after the central government promised to build them more and more Haode ships

In fact, this arms sale is also a very good opportunity for the Chinese Navy. At the beginning, due to a lack of experience, the first batch of auxiliary ships independently designed and built by China had some problems to a greater or lesser extent, such as the excessive caliber of artillery, which increased the logistical pressure. Taking anti-aircraft artillery as an example, there are six calibers of 25mm, 37mm, 57mm, 88mm, 105mm, and 127mm on the first batch of ships, but in fact only 25, 37 and 1-2 kinds of large-caliber anti-aircraft guns are needed.

Some of these ships with flawed designs can meet higher requirements with simple modifications, but some don't. For example, the 88mm caliber anti-aircraft guns (105mm and 57mm have been identified as the two main calibers of proximity fuse anti-aircraft guns) that have been abandoned by the Chinese Navy because they are not suitable for China. Although the 127mm high-level dual-purpose gun was retained, its main purpose was already to the sea and the ground rather than the air. The emplacements of its guns want to be replaced by the mounts of other caliber guns, which cannot affect the overall performance of the warship. This is not an easy task. Even because of the weak industrial base of China's shipbuilding. In many cases, new problems arise due to reluctant modifications.

The key point is that it is not easy for China to build some warships, and it is really reluctant to retire early, but China's national strength is not enough to maintain a large navy. As a result, the total number of ships and the total tonnage were severely limited, and it would be a great waste to keep the quota for these inferior ships, so that now the Germans were a godsend. Due to the different military conditions of each country (for example, the 88mm anti-aircraft gun was abandoned in China, but not in Germany). The requirements for ships are also different, so China feels that the chicken rib ship type only needs to be simply modified in the eyes of the Germans and will be very useful, not to mention that Wegener, who is now in urgent need of auxiliary ships, is a little hungry, as long as it is not bad to a certain extent, he is willing to accept it

In the end, the Chinese government sold two Omaha-class light cruisers and two Porter-class destroyers that were originally purchased from the United States to Germany, in addition to two Xiangtan-class destroyers built by China and six old destroyers that were captured from the devil and the United Kingdom.

In addition, thanks to Wegener's efforts (in fact, the rapid change in the international situation was the main reason), the Chinese government agreed to sell the British aircraft carrier Ark Royal to the Germans, bringing the total number of aircraft carriers of the Luftwaffe First Fleet to a full five.

In addition, the Japanese Navy agreed to sell 2 old heavy cruisers, 1 light cruiser and 3 destroyers to the Germans and make some modifications according to their requirements, and at the same time, Japan bought from China two modified versions of the Admiral-class heavy cruisers (i.e., "Nanchang-class heavy cruisers") that were originally built for Germany at the cost of the Flying Dragon medium aircraft carrier and two Crescent-class air defense destroyers, because this heavy cruiser is not only not weak in air defense, but also has super ground attack capability (each equipped with a full 12 203mm naval guns, Even if the Japanese artillery was relatively poor, the power was quite amazing. Therefore, although the Germans, who had super battleships, no longer favored them, the Japanese Navy, which had only two old battleships left and refused to start building battleships again, spoke highly of it, after all, Japan was a resource-poor country, and in the operation to seize the island, the use of gunboats to output firepower was not only more fierce than carrier-based aircraft, but also many times cheaper

The reason why China agreed to sell its most haode "capital ship" (the heavy cruiser is positioned as the capital ship in the Chinese Navy) to Japan is mainly because the two improved Changsha-class cruisers of the Nanchang class have been completed not long ago and joined the People's Navy. With China's national strength, it is already quite difficult to maintain 4 cruisers, so it is naturally impossible to get rid of the old ships.

In addition, the failure of China's own aircraft carrier design and construction because the target was too high (see below for details) is also an important reason for this transaction, and the excellent performance of the Crescent-class destroyer has also made the heads of the Navy very hot, eager to buy it back for copying, and the "Crescent-class destroyer evaluation report" is also a piece of information sent back by the prince to the motherland

As a result, the German First Fleet had a total of 2 battleships, 5 aircraft carriers, 2 heavy cruisers, 3 light cruisers, and 13 destroyers, a total of 25 warships, and its hard power could already compete with the main fleets of the United States and Britain. However, among these 25 warships, there are German goods (most of the ones built by China are designed by Germany, and some of the hulls are made in Germany before, so they should be regarded as German goods, and only those like Xiangtan-class destroyers can be regarded as Chinese goods.) ), Japanese goods, American goods, British goods, and Chinese goods are simply the "universal brands" among warships, and the First Fleet of the Luftwaffe was once ridiculed by the Allies as the "universal fleet" (to be continued......