Comrade, Your Ingredients Are Too Complicated

Liugong Island, Beiyang Navy Admiral's Mansion.

Since Director Xiao returned to Weihai from Indochina, he has keenly discovered that something is not right about the state of his comrades.

In daily work and training, everyone's words and deeds are a little more impatient, even the French consultants are no exception. The calm style of the past seemed to disappear without a trace overnight.

There is no way, anyone who is forced to fall into the state of "the friendly forces are in trouble and cannot move like a mountain" will be very tortured.

If it were a younger army commander, he might be so anxious that he would have blisters at the corners of his mouth.

"Comrades, let me make a long story short. At the north end of Jinpu Road, the fighting has been in full swing since early September. The soldiers of the Air Force are working day and night to stop the enemy with all their strength."

In order to stabilize the situation, Director Xiao had to hold an impromptu meeting.

But before he could finish his opening remarks, there was an explosion in the war conference room. The comrades were furious, obviously because they were feeling grievances about not being able to participate in the war.

Seeing this, Director Xiao pressed down his hands to signal everyone to be calm.

He pointed to the tactical strategy board covered with cloth behind him, and then continued in a soft tone:

"I know that the comrades are all holding their breath in their hearts and want to go into battle to kill the enemy immediately. But for us now, completing the training tasks on time and in quantity is the primary goal."

"Of course, our North Sea Fleet cannot stay at the anchorage all our lives. I have made a plan in the past few days, which is about assisting the army in attacking important cities."

After speaking, Director Xiao went straight to the point and pulled down the dustproof cloth. On the tactical strategy board behind him, there was a coastal chart around Jinmen hanging.

In this battle, only the Lu Provincial Military Region can directly defeat the Kwantung Army and the North China Front Army coming from the south.

Then the strategic goal of the border area and the headquarters in the next stage must be to pursue the victory and take advantage of the enemy's defeat to regain the two major provinces of Chacha and Hebei and further expand the area of ​​the liberated area.

Chahar is an inland province, so the North Sea Fleet is naturally beyond its reach. But there are many coastal cities in Hebei Province, and comrades have more or less opportunities to show their talents.

Everyone here is a veteran with rich combat experience. After a little thought, they understood what Director Xiao meant.

As a result, the combat conference room was once again filled with people.

"Good! What a good idea! When the Japs attacked Jinmen, their navy sent a small fleet to provide support. Treat others in their own way, and we have to let the enemy have a taste of being attacked by land and sea. The taste of a pincer attack.”

"Yes! With the current strength of the fleet, we are fully qualified to cooperate with the air force to block the sea."

"When the time comes to lay siege to Jinmen, we must let the Japanese experience the feeling of calling the sky and the earth to no avail."

Seeing that the morale of his comrades had returned to its peak again, Director Xiao nodded with great satisfaction. Thanks to his trip to Indochina, he now only feels that he is terrifyingly strong.

After all, the Viet Minh can handle a series of messy things. There must be no military problems in the world that can stump him again.

Thinking of this, Director Xiao couldn't help but look out the window.

At the military dock not far away, a fully loaded steel behemoth with a displacement of nearly 10,000 tons was slowly leaving the port, about to start a new day of training.

That's right, when he returned to his parents' home this time, Director Xiao was not empty-handed. He brought home the flagship of the French Far East Fleet, the No. 2 ship of the Dugues Trouan class, La Motte Pict.

As a light cruiser designed during the interwar period, the La Motte Pict had a full load displacement of 9,350 tons. She is equipped with four twin 155mm main guns and four triple 550mm torpedo tubes.

In terms of air defense, the original equipment is a 75mm anti-aircraft gun with great power and durability, coupled with a French heirloom 13.2mm anti-aircraft machine gun.

This weak and weak combination was unable to move even in the Pacific Ocean in 1940. TG, who had experienced strong winds and waves, naturally looked down upon it.

After the Lamot Pickett arrived at Liugong Island, the comrades immediately put on the Mle1933/42 type, a 55-caliber 100mm anti-aircraft gun plus Bofors and Oerlikon suit.

Coupled with the world's most advanced radar technology, this old French firepower light cruiser has been transformed into a second life as an anti-aircraft cruiser.

Seemingly sensing Director Xiao's distraction, the legendary captain Philip followed the other person's gaze and looked towards the port.

After seeing the La Motte Pict, he patted his ally on the shoulder with a smile and congratulated:

"Xiao, I didn't expect that you would gain something unexpected from your trip to Indochina this time. It seems that the people in Vichy are not all idiots, otherwise this ship will not be able to return early."

"It's a pity that there are still a few gunboats and torpedo boats left over there. Although they can't fight in the ocean, they can definitely be used as training ships for the students to practice."

Unlike Phillip's regretful mentality, Director Xiao has always been a contented person.

In his opinion, if he can bring back a light cruiser without any effort, that is already the optimal solution under the current situation, and there is nothing to regret.

Besides, you can bite off more than you can chew.

Even if he could pack up the entire French Far East Fleet, he would not have enough manpower to drive more warships. It would be better to leave the ship where it is, which would more or less confuse the Japanese. "Hey, the advisory team we sent to assist Vietnam made a lot of noise on the Indo-China Peninsula some time ago."

"Especially in Siam, the main force of this devil's slave country, the number of casualties recently is really quite large."

"The above-mentioned military actions may have given Jean Decourt hope of restoring the country, so the admiral simply handed over the warship."

To put it bluntly, Philip actually has quite a lot of affection for the cruiser La Motte Pickett. After all, she is now the only warship in France that has sunk an Axis surface ship head-on.

From the perspective of the legendary captain, it is definitely a good thing that she can leave the Vichy camp and join the North Sea Fleet.

If it continues to stay in the Indochina Peninsula, even if this light cruiser is not forcibly requisitioned by the Japanese joint fleet, there is a high probability that it will be sunk by the U.S. Navy's aerial bombs in the future.

Hey, this is what a puppet state is like, there are no human beings inside or outside.

As if realizing that his mood was a little low, the legendary captain Philip forcibly ended his random thoughts. After a while, the smile returned to his face again.

"In short, you Eighth Route Army should treat her well. After being upgraded from the inside out, the La Motte Pickett should be qualified to compete head-on with the light and heavy cruisers of the Combined Fleet."

"Even if we can't beat Tone, Atago, and Mogami, we'll definitely be fine if we give a squeeze to soft persimmons like Aoba and Furutaka."

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IJN's cruiser can basically be regarded as an endorsement of thin skin and big filling. Even in Bai Maozi's magical world, the HP of each Japanese silver coin cruiser is surprisingly low.

As long as the angle is right, even the 127mm naval gun can give them a drink, let alone a light cruiser equipped with 155mm forward firepower.

Hearing this, Director Xiao nodded, obviously very confident in the new ship. He was in a great mood and even made a little joke.

"Philip, what you just said was a bit like destroying your own morale and giving others prestige. A mere Japanese cruiser is nothing. We need to take a longer-term view."

"I believe that the La Motte Pict alone can sink Italian battleships with naval guns in the Mediterranean."

Hearing that Director Xiao wanted to use cruiser cannons to sink the battle line, the legendary captain Philip was really confused for a moment.

He knew Italy well. It was the only imaginary enemy of the Toulon fleet in the Mediterranean.

Although the opponent's navy is not very strong, it also has two Littorio-class ships, two Andrea Doria-class ships, and two Count of Cavour-class ships.

Theoretically speaking, as long as it is not a large cruiser like Alaska or a battle cruiser like Scharnhorst, it is basically impossible for an ordinary cruiser to sink a battleship with frontal artillery fire, not even the Iron Bastard during World War I.

It turned out that Philip's idea was very correct.

In the night battle on Guadalcanal, Achou's Nanfa was beaten by various 127s, 155s, 203s and even Kirishima's 356s for a long time. The superstructure was beaten beyond recognition and he could still fight back.

On the other hand, the No. 2 North Carolina ship fired three salvos in seven minutes, and nine hits killed Kirishima.

Even high-speed battleships cannot withstand 406 super-heavy bombs, let alone light and heavy cruisers.

After getting a good sense of the atmosphere, Director Xiao didn't give in. He looked at his thoughtful allies with a wicked smile, and then directly announced the answer:

"When I was studying before, I discovered that there is actually a seventh battleship in active service in the Italian Navy, and its name is Vespucci."

As soon as these words came out, Phillip immediately rolled his eyes, but soon laughed again.

The Vespucci was indeed a battleship, and it was a cutting-edge surface ship that was only launched in 1930. But the problem is, this thing is a sailing battleship.

Let alone light cruisers, the North Sea Fleet can sink the opponent even if it sends a Benson.

Perhaps only the future 815 and 055 will find this strange thing very tricky. Well, the radar of the former cannot capture the signal, and the latter is afraid of walking cultural relics actively touching the porcelain.

"I'm convinced, I'm really convinced. I didn't expect you to be so knowledgeable."

Just as Director Xiao and the legendary captain were laughing and joking, a sharp and harsh air defense siren suddenly sounded over Liugong Island.

To be honest, although Xiao and Fei are both old comrades, neither of them has ever suffered an air attack as a naval officer.

After a very brief moment of panic, the two of them ran directly towards the door of the conference room.

"Everyone, return to your posts immediately! Haven't you always disliked the lack of fighting? Now the Japanese plane is here, let me test your training results!" (End of this chapter)