Open an aircraft carrier to fight against Japan

Anderson walked up to Togo Heihachiro and said with a smile, "General Togo, why are you sighing?"

Dongxiang Heihachiro smiled lightly and said, "Mr. Anderson, you should be able to understand."

Anderson frowned and asked, "What should I understand?"

Dongxiang Heihachiro patted the guardrail in front of him lightly with his hand, and said: "The reason I sigh is: since Lin Yuan suddenly appeared in the Jiawu year, they have been extremely mysterious and powerful. Mysterious big ships, aircrafts, radars, these things are really amazing. It’s too powerful, and I’m a little worried about the next battle.”

Anderson smiled and said: "General Dongxiang, what do you have to worry about? Your warships are also the latest ones! Since the launch of the British dreadnoughts, your Empire of Japan has fully launched the plan to build dreadnoughts. In just two years Within a short period of time, you have built four battleships and four high-speed battleships that sacrificed some protection. You call this kind of warship a battlecruiser. Such a speed of shipbuilding is amazing!"

Togo Heihachiro shook his head gently, and said: "Mr. Anderson, you have always been a fast talker, and you hate hypocritical politeness the most. How can you not know that these four battleships and four battlecruisers are under the full force of the United Kingdom, Germany and your United States?" It was only built within two years with help? These eight warships also cost us a lot of money!"

Anderson said with a smile: "I admire your country's determination to build these eight warships, and your country's 'Ten Fleet' plan is to build ten super dreadnoughts and ten battlecruisers. This plan was actually approved by Congress after it was put forward. This kind of efficiency is what our country lacks the most, do you know? In our country, if one more screw is used on a battleship, the politicians will besiege it for a long time!"

Dongxiang Heihachiro smiled and said, "But these warships don't have the ability to resist aircraft attacks!"

Anderson smiled and said: "Our domestic experts and British counterparts have already analyzed that the aircraft cannot carry a large number of weapons, so it cannot be used in naval battles. The real protagonist in naval battles..." Anderson turned back and pointed to those thick barrels , Said: "It's still these big guys!"

Dongxiang Heihachiro thought helplessly: "You don't know the true strength of Lin Yuan's aircraft!" At this moment, a messenger came over and said: "General Dongxiang, Mr. Anderson, Chief of Staff Akiyama Shinyuki, please come to the conference room go."

Akiyama Shinyuki is the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet. He graduated from the Annapolis Naval Academy in the United States. His mentor was the founder of the well-known theory of sea power - Alfred Mahan. During Lin Yuan's era In the Russo-Japanese War in the Tsushima Sea Battle, it was he who planned the "big turn in front of the enemy" that was talked about by later generations, allowing the Japanese combined fleet to defeat the Russian Baltic Fleet that came from afar.

Dongxiang Heihachiro said: "Okay, Mr. Anderson, let's go, please." The two came to the conference room together, and Akiyama Shinyuki was already waiting inside. When he saw the two coming in, he said: "Mr. Dongxiang, Anderson Sir, let's discuss the next combat action together."

Upon hearing this, Anderson immediately said, "Since it's a combat operation, I won't participate."

Akiyama Shinyuki said with a smile: "Mr. Anderson, the United States and Japan are already de facto allies. It's nothing if you come and listen. Besides, your company's equipment is the key to our victory."

Anderson just sat at the table, and Akiyama Shinyuki said: "We are still [-] nautical miles away from Wonsan Port, and Wonsan Port is only [-] nautical miles away from Chongjin Port. We will enter Wonsan Port in a while to replenish fuel and fresh water. Then set off again to attack Lin Yuan's fleet."

"According to the information sent by various observation posts in Chongjin, Lin Yuan's fleet outside Chongjin consists of eight monster-class destroyers, eight Xingming-class landing ships and four Wushu-class fire support ships, of which the Xingming-class and Wushu-class He will definitely not take the initiative to fight with us, so the main force of the battle is eight monster-class destroyers, and the weapons and equipment of the monster-class destroyers, I will not say more, General Dongxiang, what do you think is the purpose of our battle? "

Dongxiang Heihachiro said: "The purpose of the battle? Of course it is to annihilate the fleet of Lin Yuan's troops and seize the sea control of Chongjin Port."

Akiyama Shinyuki said: "Very well, I think so too. Let's look at our fleet again. First of all, we have four battleships, namely the Ise-class battleships Ise and Hyuga, and the Fuso-class battleships Fuso and Yamashiro. No. According to your suggestion, General Dongxiang, these two types of battleships have sacrificed firepower and protection to increase their speed, and their maximum speed is around 30 knots, which is already close to the speed of the beast-class warships of Lin Yuan's army."

"We also have four King Kong-class battlecruisers. The maximum speed of these four warships is even faster, reaching 32 knots. They have surpassed the beast-class destroyers of Lin Yuan's troops numerically; but our most powerful is the Fuxue-class destroyer. , this type of destroyer can launch the No. 35 torpedo, and its speed can reach [-] knots, it is an excellent equipment for hunting and killing the warships of Lin Yuan's troops!"

In Lin Yuan's era, the construction of the Ise-class battleships, Fuso-class battleships, and King Kong-class battlecruisers had to wait until around 1910, and the construction of the Fubuki-class destroyers had to wait until 19(, but due to the launch of the British dreadnought , The service of the Shenshou-class destroyer of Lin Yuan's army, Japan broke away from the development track of Lin Yuan's era, and carried out large-scale upgrades and improvements of weapons and equipment.

In this general environment, these fourth-tier warships were "born" ahead of schedule, but they still have some differences from the warships of Lin Yuan's era. It was proposed that the speed of the new warship must be fast. Originally, the factory that produced the power system of the Japanese warship did not master the steam turbine technology, but the strong threat of Lin Yuan's troops made them ask for help from Britain and Germany.

The UK and Germany originally did not want to sell related technologies, but as Lin Yuan attacked the separatist forces in Mongolia and occupied Petropavlovsk, his influence became more and more powerful, so he sold a complete set of the most advanced steam turbine technology to Japan, and Germany Nor was it far behind, having sold high-efficiency transmission and propeller systems to Japan.

When Japan designed the defense system of the new warship, it also sought the opinions of Togo Heihachiro. Togo Heihachiro knew that the missiles of the Lin Yuan warship were very powerful, and one could sink a Russian battleship, so he advocated the use of thick armor. At this time, Dongxiang Heihachiro learned the technology of armor-piercing bullets.

It turned out that when designing warships in Japan, the principle and technology of armor-piercing bombs were already mature. Togo Heihachiro then asked the technicians to learn more about the principles of armor-piercing bombs, and then made a judgment. The warship, the new type of warship needs to be equipped with a thousand millimeter thick armor to be able to block it. Such a weight is absolutely unbearable for the warship!

Although the armor-piercing bomb technicians repeatedly assured Dongxiang Heihachiro that the Chinese people would never be able to master the technology of armor-piercing bombs, Dongxiang Heihachiro still did not dare to be careless, because he knew that Lin Yuan was really too powerful!