Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1165 Mental Preparation

"Musashi" was renamed "Dingyuan", and the naming of the other two aircraft carriers that had not yet arrived was simple. Xu Huandong named them "Zhenyuan" and "Jiyuan" respectively.

The "Zhenyuan" ship is the second ship of the "Dingyuan" class battleship.

The "Jiyuan" ship was a new type of dome-armored cruiser at that time... The "Dingyuan" class battleship was originally ordered for 4 ships, but two ships were canceled due to construction period and funding issues, and then the "Jiyuan" class battleship was purchased. "Ship.

These three warships can be said to be the main force of the Chinese fleet at that time, especially "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan", known as "Asia's No. [-] Ironclad Ship".

However, the naval battle at that time was no longer a period of victory based on tonnage.

Tonnage is indeed important, because at the same technical level, the tonnage of a warship represents protection and firepower.

But if the technology is backward, another meaning of tonnage is the target.

For example, the speed of "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan" is only about 15 knots ("Dingyuan" is 14.5 knots, "Zhenyuan" is 15.4 knots), and other warships such as the "Jiyuan" cruiser are only 16 knots.

And this is only the theoretical ideal speed, the actual speed will be slower.

At that time, the speed of Japanese warships was generally around 19 knots, and newly launched new ships such as the "Yoshino" ship could even reach 23 knots.

Needless to say, the importance of speed in naval battles is equivalent to the fact that the enemy can easily find a favorable position to attack the Chinese warships, and can also rely on speed to "attack in groups" to focus on a certain part and eat the opponent piece by piece. Lose.

Due to their slow speed, the Chinese warships could only watch the friendly forces being besieged without having time to reinforce them.

What's more serious is that the Chinese warships are equipped with backward naval guns. Its 150MM naval gun takes 2 minutes to fire one shot, and even the 305MM caliber gun requires 5 minutes of preparation time to fire one shot.

而鬼子军舰的152MM“快速炮”能够在1分钟内打出6发,120MM口径更是能在1分钟内打出10发。

The crushing speed and artillery fire rate made the Chinese fleet, which only had the appearance advantage of tonnage, vulnerable in the Sino-Japanese War of [-].

There are always rumors on the Internet that the Beiyang Navy is the strongest in Asia but was easily defeated by the Japanese. This is used to allude to the power of the modern Chinese navy and compare it to the Beiyang Navy. In fact, it is a malicious intention to hide key information in order to undermine China's confidence. .

The warships of the Beiyang Navy have never been the strongest in Asia. Not only were they not the strongest at that time, they were seriously behind the times.

What's more, most of the warships of the Beiyang Navy are purchased from abroad and are of reduced configuration. Moreover, due to the lack of independent research and development technology, various types of warships have problems such as improper matching, unreasonable firepower distribution, and unsystematic equipment.

This is completely different from China's modern independent production and complete industrial system.

The Eighth Route Army also had such a problem at this time.

For example, the aircraft carrier "Dingyuan" is from the Japanese, the destroyer is from Mao Xiong, and the other two aircraft carriers are from Yingjiang.

Integrating this system will immediately become a problem. Communication equipment and other things can still be disassembled and reinstalled, but the speed is objectively impossible to coordinate:

"Dingyuan" was modified from a battleship and its speed was too slow, which caused the destroyer to have to slow down to adapt.

The top speed of the "Essex" class aircraft carrier can reach 32 knots, which is no problem.

But what if there is an "Essex" class that is undergoing maintenance and repair and has to organize the "Essex" class and the "Dingyuan" into a two-carrier formation?

It is also necessary to slow down the speed of the "Essex" class aircraft carrier to adapt to the "Dingyuan".

This is the problem that exists without independent research and development and production capabilities. These problems cannot be solved. There are many similar problems, such as incompatible parts and logistical difficulties.

Fortunately, all the carrier-based aircraft of the Eighth Route Army use "Wildcat". When the "Musashi" was refitted, the hangar was also designed according to the size of the "Wildcat". Otherwise, even the carrier-based aircraft would not be able to land with each other.

However, there is still a problem that pilots cannot adapt to different flight deck lengths, which poses a huge safety hazard.

Only the weapon system is not a big problem, because whether it is a Mao Xiong or a Japanese Yingjiang warship, the secondary weapons are basically removed and replaced with anti-ship missiles and anti-aircraft missiles.

Wang Xuexin and Xu Huandong decided on a plan after discussing the problem of different speeds and different deck lengths:

The "Dingyuan" is usually used with an "Essex" class aircraft carrier for cruising and an "Essex" class aircraft carrier for maintenance.

During the war, the "Dingyuan" was brought back to the shipyard for maintenance. If the two "Essex" class ships were unable to fight, for example, if one of them was injured, the "Dingyuan" would be used as a substitute.

After all these were prepared, Wang Xuexin asked Professor Imos to make some noise in the geological community:

"For a long time, we thought that oil was formed by the death of marine plankton and deposited in the mud. This view is not necessarily correct!"

"Compared to marine life, there are also a large number of plants and animals on land. The density in many areas is much greater than that in the ocean, such as ancient primeval forests!"

“If it’s possible for oil to form in the oceans, it’s certainly possible for oil to form on land, and probably more!”

……

These words are a bit indifferent, and even contain a lot of speculation.

Needless to say why we did this, it was to lay the groundwork for "finding oil" on land in the future so that others, especially the Japanese, could prepare subconsciously.

Otherwise, Professor Imos would suddenly find oil within a month or two of arriving in China, and no one would believe him.

This statement was met with many doubts as soon as it was raised, but Professor Imos always answered calmly:

"Before the two iron balls hit the ground at the same time, Aristotle's theory ruled the world for more than 1000 years. Everyone thought he was right!"

"We may be here for more than 1000 years!"

Sometimes Wang Xuexin doesn't know whether Professor Ellis's words are lies or the truth.

Let's just say it's true. Professor Ellis said this to cooperate with Wang Xuexin's plan.

Call it a lie... Wang Xuexin has reason to believe that Professor Ellis has been convinced by him.

Because of the news from Ping'an Village, Professor Ellis and his team worked day and night to observe the samples produced by the drilling rig and analyze and discuss the possible rock formation structure underground.

It can be seen that he really hopes to produce oil to prove that there is oil on the mainland and that there is oil in China.

Sometimes Wang Xuexin felt a little guilty because he might not be able to tell Professor Imos the truth in the end:

Wang Xuexin signed an exploration team instead of Professor Emmaus's team.

The Eighth Route Army can block information from the exploration team but not from Professor Imos and his team.

Therefore, Professor Imos could not see the moment when the Eighth Route Army pumped out oil in Daqing.

Wang Xuexin even wanted to use his failure to convince Yingjiang that there was not really oil in the Northeast...

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