Chapter 244 The Singing of the King's Power

Tianjin people have a witty saying, "Shanghai's silver, Fuzhou's ship; Ma'anshan's steel, Zibo's aluminum; Hangzhou's silk, Qingdao's cloth, Tianjin's steamed buns and sugar-coated haws."

The reason why Tianjin people say this is more of self-deprecation and ridicule. Indeed, in the past few years, Tianjin has not had a good industrial system.

Tianjin's textile industry is one of the four major centers across the country, but it is indeed not as good as Qingdao in terms of quality, color, sizing and other details. Tianjin has its own steel plant, power plant, machinery plant, shipyard... Up to now, none of them has real technology and production advantages in China.

Fuzhou is different. It has too many advantageous industries, especially in the four major fields of steam turbines, high-power diesel engines, special steel and radio communication technology.

Yongzhou-class battleship project, submarine project, 3000 horsepower steam turbine unit, 550 horsepower large diesel unit and power generation system, 954 submarine steel, sonar project, radio docking communication technology, 10-ton diesel crane... all settled in Fuzhou.

In Fuzhou, Fuzhou Ship Administration School has been promoted to China Ship Administration University and Fuzhou Naval College. In addition, there are Fuzhou Artillery College, Southeast University, Fujian University, Fuzhou Institute of Technology, Fuzhou Mechanical Engineering College, Fuzhou Medical College, Fuzhou Normal College, Fuzhou Mechanical College Vocational School, Fuzhou Electric Power College. Higher Vocational School.

The General Administration of China's Shipping Administration, reorganized by Fuzhou Shipping Administration, is set up in Mawei, Fuzhou. As the implementation center department of Chinese naval standards directly under the Ministry of the Navy, it is responsible for the national shipbuilding industry, and is also the first agency for the sale of warship contracts and naval technical exchanges.

Hu Chuyuan arrived in Fuzhou on March 10, 1901. At this time, Fuzhou was as cool and pleasant as autumn in the north.

He did not go to Fuzhou City or return to Mawei's hometown. Instead, he directly took a special train into Luoyuan Bay through the military-mand railway and finally stopped in the Macao Port Area.

It happened to be late at night. The night was as cool as a cold light. The lights on the port were bright, and the afterglow was sprinkled on the rippling bay. When you left the parking station, you could hear the sound of the tide.

Like the Yangtze River Shipyard, it is also a 24-hour three-shift shift. The surrounding factories and docks are brightly lit, and dozens of powerful searchlights are constantly scanning the surrounding areas and mountains.

This is still a mysterious forbidden place in China, and outsiders are prohibited from entering.

Hu Chuyuan drove into the factory area in a Shenbao car. After passing through layers of sentries, he came to the deepest submarine construction base, code-named 703 Factory.

7 is the special code name for submarine projects.

This factory area is covered in the interior of a conventional shipbuilding base. The dock outside can build warships below 3,000 tons, mainly for the construction of shower-class destroyers, and the four medium-sized docks inside are dedicated to submarine construction.

The submarine project of the Chinese navy was started in 1889. The submarine service number is V series. From 1890, a large amount of manpower and material resources were officially invested. The first V1-class submarine was built at the end of 1891. At this time, it had adopted a double-shell mechanism, a snorratory tube and periscope system, and a dual-power engine.

V1, V2 and V3 have not been officially put into service. Each model has only three or four ships built for various tests. In particular, a test boat of V3 has also been temporarily converted into a deep-water submarine to tow the wreckage of this submarine back to Keelung Port in Taiwan for more in-depth technical analysis.

V4-class submarines were officially built at the end of 1895, with an active number of 43, while V5-class submarines began to be built in early 1897, with an active number of 12.

The design underwater displacement tonnage of the V4 class is 1,320 tons, and the V5 class is 1,255 tons. The design of the former is relatively traditional. It is said that it is still on the water surface, while the latter is purely designed for underwater navigation. The underwater static diving speed can reach 5.7 knots, and the maximum depth of diving is 70. Rice.

703 factory is the most confidential military factory in China. The only people who really know the whole situation are Hu Chuyuan, and even Lv Han, Ye Fu and others are not very clear.

However, Hu Chuyuan's goal of coming to Fuzhou this time is not entirely to inspect the submarine project. He must first come to Chen Zhao'ao, who is the chief expert in the field of domestic submarines and one of China's top experts in the field of ship weapon systems.

After visiting the submarine construction dock, Hu Chuyuan held a confidential meeting in the conference room of Factory 703 overnight. In addition to Lan Jianshu and Ye Zukui who accompanied them, the participants were technical experts in the field of submarine such as Chen Zhao'iao, and John Holland, a special general consultant from the United States. .

Through the slide presentation, Lan Jianshu showed all kinds of technical data and intelligence related to the Japanese submarine that can be collected so far.

Before that, Chen Zhao'ao and others actually got relevant reports.

The purpose of Hu Chuyuan's trip is very simple. He wants to listen to Chen Zhao's opinions in person and evaluate the specific combat names and advantages and disadvantages of this submarine.

After the slide demonstration, Hu Chuyuan opened the information book in his hand and asked Chen Zhaoao directly, "Mr. Chen, you are the top submarine expert in China. In the world, I don't think there are many people who are better than you. Let me ask you a question now. What is the Japanese submarine? Where is the biggest threat? What is the biggest disadvantage?

Chen Zhaoao smoked a cigarette and thought for a moment in silence. Then he slowly replied, "Your Excellency, you can rest assured that in terms of technical characteristics, these submarines in Japan are generally not much different from the Gustav-class submarines in France, but the tonnage is a little larger. According to my personal analysis, the Japanese submarine mainly increases the mileage of the cruise, but its submarine time is very limited. It is impossible to exceed 40 minutes, and the complete dive speed is less than 5 knots. As long as the domestic navy can properly use deep-water bombs and remote-controlled deep-water mines, it can restrain its opponents. Judging from the range of its appearance, their cruising radius should reach 700 kilometers, which can cover almost the entire southeast coast if it is based on Jinwu Bay Port.

When he finished speaking, Ye Zuyu suddenly proposed, "Can we use the existing anti-submarine means to add a single medium-sized multi-purpose patrol ship with a thousand-ton tonnage, two to three in groups, and cooperate with the destroyers to deal with Japanese submarines in offshore waterways."

Chen Zhaoao said, "This idea is more appropriate. The drainage tonnage of the shower class is 2,750 tons. At present, it is a little too big as a destroyer. We can completely develop a new type of destroyer with a drainage tonnage of 1,500 tons on the basis of the Spring Rain class, using a cheaper mass production setting and design. It is a second-class light destroyer, which increases anti-submarine capabilities and uses multiple ships for collaborative operations to make up for the lack of accuracy of active sonar detection.

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly. The cost of this kind of ship is relatively low. As long as the domestic warship manufacturing capacity can keep up, the problem is not too big.

The Spring Rain II and Showers are particularly excellent destroyers. They are designed to adopt high-end configurations. The price and production cycle are not low, and the two cannot form a high-level match.

Therefore, this new cheap destroyer is extremely important. It is equipped with a large number of submarines and merchant ships dedicated to containing rivals, and used for a large number of defenses on the southeast coast.

After a short technical discussion, this class of new destroyer is called the "Chunlu Class", and the drainage tonnage is reduced to 1,370 tons. It is designed by the General Administration of Shipping of China and produced in more remaining shipyards such as Hyundai Group, Guangzhou, Haiphong and Dalian.

The number of Chunlu-class constructions is very large, and the first batch is planned to reach 55, with a unit price of about 750,000 yuan.

Next, in view of the tendency that the overall design ideas of destroyers need to change with the development of new war ideas, Hu Chuyuan held a larger-scale technical seminar, attended by the main ship experts of the General Administration of Shipping.

Now is the stage of war, and there is no time to quarrel. Hu Chuyuan made a conclusion. The Chinese navy first began to implement a new tactical idea, replacing the existing cruiser system with a destroyer system, covering between the 1200-ton class and 5,000-ton class. All cruisers are developing in the direction of battlecruisers, and the tonnage is Between 5000 tons and 11,000 tons.

The Chunlu-class destroyer belongs to the third-class destroyer, and the Chunyu II-class and the shower-class belong to the second-class destroyers. At the same time, a new first-class destroyer "Tide Rain Class" has been developed, with a designed drainage tonnage of 4,200 tons and six ships were manufactured in the first phase.

According to the plan of Hu Chuyuan and the National Defense War Commission, China's full military counterattack will wait until about July next year, but this does not mean that China will have to endure the attack until then.

At least one thing, Hu Chuyuan is absolutely intolerable, that is, the strategic goal of trying to cut off and threaten China's coastal economy, followed by the raging activities of the French fleet in Vietnam and South Asia.

Before Hu Chuyuan secretly arrived in Fuzhou, the Pacific Fleet was ready to carry out a counterattack on the Ryukyu Islands. A total of 62 warships and 44 auxiliary ships were ready to go in Luoyuan Bay and Wuzhu Port.

On the evening of March 15, 1901, 17:00.

In the 27th year of Guangxu, the year of Xinchou, the 25th day of the first month, Jiazi Nayin: Frequent flowing water.

In the evening, the bright red twilight fell on the coast, and the sea was like a sea of red blood and golden red as fire.

Hu Chuyuan did not believe that the submarine force of the Japanese navy could be powerful. He personally waited for the ship to see Lin Yongsheng off. The remaining main warships of the Pacific Fleet had been assembled, and a number of warships were transferred from the Nanyang Fleet.

Everything was so silent. Hu Chuyuan walked up to the deck with a strong tone and drank wine for every soldier and officer of the Ningyuan, and he himself held a glass.

Don't respect heaven and earth.

Fate is in the hands of the Chinese people themselves.

He only respects everyone in the list, every soldiers who are about to go to the Ryukyu battlefield to fight to the death in order to protect the safety of the economic hinterland of China's southeast coast.

When he picked up the white porcelain bowl, a cold wind suddenly blew in the sky, roaring past, as if it had a turbulent and bloody smell.

Looking at the more than 500 soldiers calmly, Hu Chuyuan had a fierce flame burning in his heart. He didn't know if these people could come back after they went, but he knew that as long as there were these people, China's coastal defense would always be safe.

In Asia, no country can challenge the Chinese navy.

This is the dignity of Hu Chuyuan and the dignity of each of them.

At this moment, he couldn't help but want to say something.

After a pause, he decided not to say anything, because he knew that everyone knew... The navy had been raging for a long time, and it was time for them to understand that small submarine tactics could not reverse the gap between giant ships, unless their submarines could be as strong as Chinese submarines.

fart.

Their submarine is just a pile of shit.

Hu Chuyuan really didn't say anything. Suddenly, he drank the liquor in the porcelain bowl. Then, he threw the bowl into the distance, crossed the deck, and snapped on the sea.

The soldiers were stunned.

Hu Chuyuan made up his mind at this moment and said to Lin Yongsheng, "I'll go with you."

Enough, it's enough for him to just say this sentence.

Hundreds of soldiers on the Ningyuan were shocked. Lin Yongsheng was even more shocked, and then hurriedly persuaded, "Your Excellency, how can you... go to danger? What's more, you still have to stay and supervise the follow-up troops... Your Excellency?"

Luo Zhongming, the first mate of the Ningyuan, also hurriedly advised, "Your Excellency, the enemy has submarine troops and is also good at using chemical weapons, which is really dangerous."

Hu Chuyuan sneered indifferently and resolutely, and squeezed out a word: "Bullshit."

Immediately, he said, "Let Lan Jianshu and Sun Zongyuan come up, and I will work here. I will wait for you to restore Ryukyu for the first time and give you an award at the first time... I said that I am a fart. If you can't even kill them, then dig a hole with me and sink into the Pacific Ocean. Anyway, I don't have it. I have the face to go back to China!"

His words were very vicious, which made Lin Yongsheng and Luo Zhongming a little embarrassed, but they also had a lot of motivation.

Lin Yongsheng gritted his teeth and agreed to Hu Chuyuan's boarding request.

He thought, anyway, this is not the first time.

He thought about it. If Ning Yuan was sunk, he would swim across the Pacific Ocean with Hu Chuyuan on his back... He must also send Hu Chuyuan back to China, because all Chinese know that as long as Hu Chuyuan is still alive, China will never be defeated.

As long as Hu Chuyuan is still alive, China will be the world's first hegemon sooner or later.

No one in China dares to refute or admit this.

The news of Imperial Prime Minister Hu Chuyuan's expedition with the ship quickly spread in the Pacific Fleet, and everyone's morale seemed to have risen a lot, more than doubled.

Yes, Hu Chuyuan is the invincible sun. The golden light shines on the land of China and on the flag of the Chinese navy.

After Lan Jianshu, Li Cunyi, Sun Zongyuan and others urgently boarded the ship, a few minutes later than the scheduled time, the Ningyuan horn set sail and took the lead in leaving the port towards the exit of Luoyuan Bay.

After its figure, another five Ningyuan-class battleships, four Jinzhou-class second-class battleships and four Weiyuan-class battlecruisers form a real China's second main fleet, followed by more than 30 shower-class and Chunyu II-class destroyers, and six Xiangyang-class cruisers on both sides. The ship.

Six Ningyuan class.

Ningyuan class, a sister-class battleship of the British King Power class, officially served in the Chinese Navy in September 1894, with eight 305mm Krup main guns and 24 75mm rapid-fire guns.

In the Chinese navy, the Ningyuan class can never be regarded as a first-class battleship. Compared with the Liangzhou class with a steam turbine power unit of the same tonnage, its strength is weaker.

Even so, that's enough.

How can you use a cow knife to kill chickens?

With the large-scale service of the 15,700-ton Yongzhou-class, 12,000-ton Liangzhou-class, and 10,500-ton Jinzhou-class battleships, perhaps this will be the first and most likely to be the last appearance of the monarchy in the history of world war.

The whole world should pay attention to this moment and take a look at the masterpiece of this epoch-making battleship.

(to be continued)