African Nationhood

On May 1914, 5, the General Staff of the Defense Committee of the South China Autonomous Territory submitted a complete set of "plans to capture the German Colony of Tanganyika."

Chairman Shi Jintang directly approved the plan after reviewing it, and then asked the staff to continue to deepen the details and try to leave no dead ends.

Chairman Shi and his delegation then returned to Handu (Bulawayo) and inspected the air force base.

The air force base is built in a Pinggu area on the outskirts of Handu, where there are aviation schools, airports, hangars and maintenance workshops.

At the same time, there is also an aircraft research and development center here, and most of the early aircraft research and development teams such as Otto Lilienthal and Wang Long settled here.

Upon hearing the news of Chairman Shi's arrival, Lilienthal and Wang Long from the aircraft research and development center also came out to greet Chairman Shi along with the people at the base.

When Shi Jintang saw the German, he found that the aviation expert had gray hair.

"Hello Dr. Lilienthal."

"Hello, Chairman Shi."

After the two parties shook hands and exchanged pleasantries, Lilienthal began to introduce Shi Jintang to his researchers. More than half of these researchers were Chinese, while only a small half were white.

Most of the researchers were very young, and most of them were extremely excited when they met the legendary Chairman Shi for the first time.

Shi Jintang encouraged these young people and hoped that they could keep improving and develop better, faster and more powerful aircraft for the South China Dominion.

The researchers couldn't help but nod their heads and say yes loudly.

After the greeting, Shi Jintang followed Lilienthal into the R&D center, where Shi Jintang and his party saw the helicopter project being developed by the R&D center.

Although people in the original time and space before 1907 used their ingenuity to create a series of direct-flying aircraft.

But they can't be considered true helicopters, as those mechanical devices can't really fly up and down.
In 1907, after the painstaking design of Maurice Rieger, Jacques Breguet, Louis Breguet and Paul Coonou, their aircraft floated to a height of more than half a meter and withstood 20 After a few seconds of the earth's gravity, it had no choice but to "closely contact" the ground.

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Lilienthal's flying monograph in this time and space was published two years ago. The young talents in the original time and space failed to create an aircraft that met the definition of a helicopter as expected.

In Nanhua, under the guidance of Chairman Shi, Lilienthal and his team finally created a prototype after many trials.

This helicopter is not yet a mature product and can only be regarded as a semi-finished product because there are still many technical problems that have not been solved.

Helicopters are not just as simple as installing propellers on the aircraft, they have to solve more difficult mechanical problems.

Aircraft use their wings to lift themselves up, allowing them to use a relatively small engine to provide propulsion.

But for helicopters, both tasks rely on their rotors.

In addition, torque is another serious challenge that has to be considered. Lilienthal and others have been trying to use new ways to offset the torque generated by this spiral motion.

This movement can adversely affect the helicopter's airframe through its massive main engines.

Even in later generations, helicopters are still a bigger "noise maker" and shake more than ordinary airplanes.

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Shi Jintang was a little happy to see Lilienthal's prototype. This prototype was already very close to later generations of helicopters.

After watching the helicopter project, Shi Jintang and others watched a flight show of a monoplane at the base viewing platform.

According to Yan Han's introduction, the total number of monoplanes in Nanhua is 4200, including wooden and all-metal fuselages. These aircraft are enough to protect the safety of Nanhua.

In the future world war, Nanhua was not prepared to carry monoplanes to fight in Europe, but it could attack when it captured German East Africa.

During the war to seize East Africa, they fought with the German army. Then Europe would know immediately that Nanhua had new aircraft, and then Nanhua could make another wave of quick money through monoplanes.

...It was already mid-May when I returned to Hanking, and Shi Jintang continued to inspect the naval base in Mapu Bay without stopping.

This inspection was only accompanied by navy generals, not the army or air force.

The south bank of Mapu Bay has completely become the naval bay. In addition to the Nanhua No. 1 Shipyard, there is also the Nanhua Special Shipyard.

Special shipyards specialize in building submarines, and the length of previous patrol-class submarines did not exceed 100 meters.

Nowadays, special shipyards are beginning to try to manufacture "Zhenhai-class" submarines with a hull of more than 100 meters. The new submarines use the latest diesel-electric class engines.

The hull of the new submarine continues to use the double-layer hull layout that has been successfully used on the "Guanghai-class" submarines.

The pressure endured by the boat over 100 meters on the seabed and the supply of oxygen inside the boat were a huge test.

Now the Naval Research Institute has found "potassium superoxide", a new material for the "air regeneration board". Once this compound is successfully made, it can ensure the oxygen breathing problem of submarines during long-term dives.

However, it is not easy to manufacture this substance. First, you must have the ability to electrolyze potassium oxide before you can prepare pure potassium metal. Only with pure potassium metal can you prepare potassium superoxide.

After listening to Xue Youfu's explanation, Shi Jintang felt a little dizzy. He could no longer accept these advanced knowledge.

After all, as we get older, our brain’s ability to be exposed to new things has also declined.

"You guys do a good job and ask for anything you need. Even if we can't provide it, we can find professionals from other parts of the world to assist you."

"Okay, Chairman."

After talking about the new submarine, Shi Jintang looked at the ships parked inside and said, "How many ocean-going ships does your navy have now?"

Xue Youfu replied immediately without thinking: "Report to the Chairman, our navy currently has a total of 218 warships of various types, with a total tonnage of 50.8 tons.

Among them, there are 10 battleships (including battleships and heavy cruisers), 45 cruisers, 84 submarines, and 80 destroyers. "

Hearing this, Shi Jintang nodded, "Our navy in Nanhua still focuses on offshore defense.

If we were to fight a war with the German Navy in the Pacific, how do you think we could ensure victory? "

Xue Youfu couldn't help but become anxious when he heard this.

"Generalissimo, do you really want to go head-to-head with Germany? Is it worth it?
How about we wait for a good opportunity and don't be so impatient! "

"I didn't say we should fight now. As the ancients said, 'Everything is done in advance, and failure to do so will result in failure.'

If we make plans in advance, once the opportunity comes, it will soon save a lot of preliminary preparation work? "

Xue Youfu no longer hesitated after hearing this, "We have the Marshall Islands in the south of the Pacific and the Mariana Islands in the west.

To ensure victory, we only need to randomly dispatch one of the three existing fleets there, and we can definitely guarantee victory. The German fleet is not strong in ocean-going capabilities, and at the same time, they do not have as many submarines as we do.

What's more, our active sonar equipment is undergoing actual combat testing. Once the test passes, it can be installed and used. "

"What if other national forces come to interfere?"

"Over in the Western Pacific, that is, Japan may have some combat power, but their warships will definitely not be able to do well when encountering our Nanhua submarines."

Seeing Xue Youfu's confidence, Shi Jintang nodded.

Japan's navy has been abolished due to the Siemens fraud case at the beginning of this year, so it is not a big problem for Nanhua to take over Germany's islands in the Pacific.

"Then your Navy Department will quickly formulate a plan to capture Germany's Western Pacific Islands in the near future."

Xue Youfu nodded immediately, "Yes, Chairman." (End of Chapter)