The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

"Pretty!"

"Enjoyed!"

"It's too accurate!"

There was a roar of cheers, some old and young, Chinese and foreign, and dozens of enthusiastic "cannon-friends" took off their earmuffs and threw them hard. They jumped up screaming, and many hugged each other warmly. The posture was similar to that of a rocket It was as if the launch was successful, as if it had done a very remarkable thing.

Zhu Bin slammed his fist hard, feeling a deep pain in his heart. Damn, tens of thousands of dollars were blown away with one cannonball. I'm sorry for myself if I don't yell!If you can't hit this, you have to give these guys a hard training.

But it seemed that he had a good face, and the effect seemed just right when he hit it in front of the two big shots.

Someone reported the test results on the radio soon. The spread area of ​​this design is less than 356 meters in radius, which is not bad at a distance of 10 kilometers. After all, it is the first Back to designing such a large artillery, if it can also shoot at such a precision in sea artillery battles, it can definitely kill the opponent in a few rounds of unison!

Chen Shaokuan was more concerned about the strong penetrating power of the shells. When he saw the number, he couldn't help but shine his eyes, and asked: "What grade of steel plate is used for the target?! How is it compared to our battleship steel plate?"

Shen Chongji explained: "It is the steel plate stripped from the armor belt of the Japanese heavy cruiser that we sunk, and the target is made after remelting. The strength is about three-fifths of the steel used for our warships, which is comparable to the st42 steel. About 26% weaker."

"That is to say, if our shell hits the Japanese warship made of this steel plate at this distance, it can penetrate even if it is more than 400mm thick!?" Chen Shaokuan's eyes brightened!This thickness, but no warship in the world today can do it, the most powerful battleship Nagato in Japan at present.Its armor belt is only 305mm!Still old 20 years ago!

Shen Chongji patted his chest confidently: "That's absolutely no problem! Unless the warship they build is as thick-skinned as our new ship Chapter 356 Shipbuilding Chaos ([-]) and has our special composite armor, otherwise as long as they are hit , must penetrate, the power of this kind of main gun is considered top-notch in the world today!"

The data of the main guns of battleships in various countries are confidential, and it is difficult to find out, but with enough data, it is generally possible to guess the same.In particular, technical things cannot be faked. It is clear at a glance how much the metallurgical technology and gun-making technology 20 years ago are different from the current one.The quality can also be imagined.

Jiang Baili shook his head and sighed: "It's not just first-class, it's simply super-class! With such power, I believe that the newly built warship is enough to sail the sea and be invincible!"

Zhu Bin loves to hear these words, and the depressed mood of losing tens of thousands of dollars in a single shot has eased a lot.After groping around the cannon for two laps, they accompanied the two of them down to inspect the enclosed berth of the shipyard, and finally boarded the launched heavy cruiser to experience for themselves the superiority of this completely different advanced warship in all aspects. place.

Because of the advanced design and technical equipment.The conning towers of the two heavy cruisers are much smaller, and there is no spiral staircase around the outer layer like ordinary ships of the same type.And the ugly turret raised on the tower, the fat and bloated command room and the watchtower on the top are also reduced as much as possible.Coupled with the use of high-strength composite materials as much as possible, the size and weight are more than half smaller than similar ships in Japan and Germany.

The advantage brought by the sinking of the overall center of gravity is that the anti-wave performance rises in a straight line, which is enough to run wild in the stormy Pacific Ocean. The strong high-strength alloy keel and dense compartments ensure the firmness of the hull. The square stern design reduces resistance and disperses the wake, and the structure of the bulbous bow and the flared hull provides more spacious space above and below the deck. <The Combat Intelligence Center is set up under the bridge, mainly with radar detection and fire control instead of manpower, wireless and wired centralized call broadcast and telephone center instead of common brass horns, making the internal structure simpler and more tidy, and the entire row of color se Screens and keyboards replaced complex labor, and the number of crew members on the entire battleship plummeted to one-third of the same amount, only five hundred people!

"No, I have to study harder, otherwise, if this goes on, I won't be qualified to command a cruiser." Chen Shaokuan secretly encouraged himself, and he couldn't waste any more time, otherwise his majestic Minister of the Navy would not understand his own I don't know how to command the situation of the battleship, how embarrassing it is to say it!Could it be that after two or three years, the giant ships and cannons have formed an army, and facing the revenge of foreign enemies, should they just be spectators?

no way!

Ever since, from now on, there will be a student with the highest rank in the Naval Ship Command Academy.

While Ri himself was busy dealing with the earthquake and didn't have time to start the war, Zhu Bin was busy here digesting and occupying the whole province, and vigorously expanding the army, land and air forces.And Lao Jiang was not idle, he secretly thanked God for his help, and gave him a certain amount of buffer time. First, he mobilized various forces to deal with the joint advance of Chen Jitang, Bai Chongxi, and Li Zongren, and then worked overtime to fully carry out the work of reorganizing the troops. .

In terms of the navy, after three years of tossing, the Jiangyin Dianlei School, where Ouyang Ge is the principal, finally began to produce officers. The giant ship was propped up.

The "Liaoning" battleship is still used for its own purpose, and the "Changbaishan" aircraft carrier barely increased the number of carrier-based aircraft to 60, and added four reconnaissance aircraft and twelve bombers.In addition, thanks to Zhu Bin's random improvement of industrial strength, the nationwide industrial construction, infrastructure construction and production have brought about a surge in overall national productivity, GDP, and tax revenue. It has more than quadrupled from previous years, and the funds are unprecedentedly abundant, so Lao Jiang waved his hand very grandly and placed an order for four 1500-ton destroyers to Jiangnan Shipyard.

This adds up to tens of millions of dollars!For the stingy and poor training fleet directly under the Ministry of Military Affairs, it is already considered a big deal.Of course, for Zhu Bin, he piled up larger destroyers of the 2500-ton class without money.With the heavy cruiser costing tens of thousands of tons, Lao Jiang could only envy and hate him. He couldn't afford that money no matter what.Not to mention that if it is not approved, it will be scolded to death by the whole country, and the orthodox faction of the Navy Department headed by Chen Shaokuan is in collusion with Xiao Zhu's classmate. It is not easy for Lao Jiang to do so.

In terms of the army, Lao Jiang's actions were much bigger.On the one hand, it is the reorganization of a total of 80 divisions, adopting the suggestions of Seekert and the German advisory group, and fully mechanizing Germany. It is expected that 30 divisions will be completed by the end of the year.The artillery on the key indicators, gritted their teeth and equipped each division with 36 75mm field artillery or mountain artillery for three battalions, and 12 105mm cannons for one battalion. This is already the limit.

What caught him the most was the teaching corps that had been expanded into a reorganization division.On the basis of the original regiment, select elite soldiers to fill in.And in a fit of anger, he spent 1 million yuan, completely in accordance with the standards of the German mechanized infantry division, and built a whole regiment of German No. 3 tanks.Produced by Krupp, this 22-ton steel monster with distinctive Chinese origin and characteristics has a maximum armor of 50mm and a 50mm KWK 38 L42 main gun.With strong power and fierce firepower, it can fight against any current Japanese tank and chariot, and it is extremely fierce!

Although it is far inferior to Zhu Bin's newly equipped Cheetah-1.But for the central army, which had only 6 tons of iron-clad armored vehicles before, it was already comparable to a magic weapon.

in addition.Also like Zhu Bin, equipped with a heavy artillery regiment, a total of 24 105mm towed Krupp cannons.and 12 150mm heavy guns; in addition, there is an artillery battalion directly under it, which is also 12 150mm heavy guns, and other regiments and battalions have also set up 75mm Bofors infantry accordingly, as well as many mortar companies and anti-aircraft artillery companies. Adding up the big and small, there are more than 100 various guns in the teaching corps, which can be described as sharp and powerful!

Great efforts have also been made in mechanization. There are 200 trucks and nearly [-] geeps. Of course, they are not the purely armored models under Zhu Bin's men, but ordinary models, plus heavy machine guns on board. Or just anti-aircraft weapons, and this is about to make Lao Jiang sell his iron.

When he learned through the Germans and Jiang Baili that Zhu Bin was building a large battleship with a standard displacement of 35000 tons and a maximum displacement of 46000 tons, he sat expressionlessly in the Tangshan villa all day without seeing anyone or saying anything. He swayed thousands of words very pessimistically in his diary, and he lamented that even a hard-hearted person would probably not be able to hold back tears.

Of course Zhu Bin didn't know all this, and even if he knew, he wouldn't bother him.This is all he asked for.

The news that was not intentionally hidden quickly spread to Germany. When Hitler saw that the Chinese had completely designed and started building such a large-scale battleship, his face immediately darkened. After hours, it was finally decided: "From now on, don't teach the Chinese our advanced technology! Some important researchers should also be withdrawn appropriately."

Hitler is distressed!The two battleships are equivalent to an order of [-] million Deutsche Marks. If they are built by Germany, how many employment problems can be solved and how much profit can be obtained!This is good, in just four short years of effort, he has cultivated a competitor all at once, and the loss is simply too heavy!

On the other hand, he is upset!The real reason is that Germany has been exchanging equipment for technology in the past few years. The large number of advanced technologies and equipment obtained from Zhu Bin has greatly hurt his German self-esteem. It is simply too shameful for the yellow race to import technology!

The terrible thing is that most of these technologies are what the Germans themselves are best at!For example, material technology involves a large number of raw materials such as chemical fiber, chemical industry, metallurgy, building materials, and electronics, with hundreds of formulas.

In terms of finished products, advanced high-precision machine tools, high-pressure turbochargers, high-power gasoline engines, and high-strength tool accessories were originally the strengths of German exports, but now they are imported from China instead.

The most important and most critical aspect of metallurgical technology, because of being fooled by Zhu Bin several times, Krupp introduced a complete set of titanium alloy smelting technology, and later high-strength alloy smelting technology.Among these technologies, high-temperature induction furnace and oxygen bottom-blown converter steelmaking technology are involved, as well as the more mysterious high-temperature plasma vacuum smelting technology and so on.

Among them, the high-purity single crystal graphite materials for various smelting furnaces cannot be manufactured in Germany, nor can the high-temperature nozzles and plasma guns, nor can the ultra-low temperature continuous oxygen separators, all of which need to be imported. The result is that Germany gives China free of charge Contributed a full 200 ​​million tons of steel plant equipment, including a large number of electroslag remelting furnaces.

Germany did not suffer. They obtained a large number of the world's most advanced metallurgical technologies at once. Industrial oxygen generators, oxygen bottom-blowing, and natural gas top-blowing converter steelmaking greatly increased the speed of steelmaking several times. Titanium alloys and space alloys made it easier They had the materials to build an unsinkable warship.After exchanging millions of tons of titanium ore materials from Soviet Russia with machine tools and various equipment, Germany can now smelt at least [-] tons of titanium alloys a year.

In addition, the Germans can now get at least 100 million tons of strategic metals such as high-purity manganese, cobalt, nickel, and vanadium from Zhu Bin every year, plus millions of tons of copper, zinc, and lead provided by gold ore. As well as imported tungsten, antimony, etc., Germany has tens of millions of tons of strategic metal reserves alone!

There are many additional benefits. In order to maximize the supply of China's industrial equipment needs, Germany's machine tools, electrical machinery, chemicals, engines, ships, steelmaking and other industries have nearly doubled on the original basis, including Japan's own expansion of military production and the exchange of mineral raw materials from Soviet Russia, unknowingly, Germany has firmly secured its position as the world's second largest industrial body, and is taking a big step towards the United States!

The recovery of national productivity brought about a high-growth economic recovery, the status of the National Socialist Party was stable, and Hitler himself was promoted to the altar and became the idol of the whole people. Zhu Bin's contributions are all inside and out. !Not to mention the shared technology and benefits that Germany has obtained in terms of aircraft and tanks.

All these were forgotten by Hitler. To put it bluntly, the conceit and neuroticism in his bones that looked down on Asians made it difficult for him to accept the possibility of equal treatment.

Regarding the news that the Chinese started building battleships, after Hitler finished his anger, he immediately ordered: "Find an appropriate opportunity and tell Ri himself, how to say, we are also allies now."

This move is really bad!The relationship between China and Japan is becoming more and more rigid. The military competition triggered by the rise of Zhu Bin led to the early recovery of the world economy. Just providing industrial equipment for these two countries, Germany finally received an order of no less than 30 billion U.S. dollars. The United States has no less than 10 billion U.S. dollars, and the United Kingdom, France, and Italy have a combined 5 million U.S. dollars, and this number is increasing year by year. This year, Ri himself went crazy and directly spent all the loans of other countries, military construction, immigration, and new mines. Mining and army expansion actually allowed them to get out of the economic crisis in advance without solving agriculture and light industry!

If Japan himself knows the news, he will either launch a war immediately, or increase the production of battleships more vigorously. Either way, Germany will make a lot of war fortune! ! ! !