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Chapter 21 Anxiety

"Ten on the head, five on the tail, empty the water compartment and go up to the sea." U-52 captain Hu Qinzhai ordered that although the first two torpedoes that hit the cruiser Nishigen just now were not shot by him, in the continuous explosions behind, he determined that two of the three torpedoes shot by the u-52 hit the target, and the third one was shot empty. After driving underwater for a period of time, the submarine troops would form formations and follow the fleet westward again, so the submarines had to float.

The original blue combat inside the submarine had changed to the red when floating. The sailors looked at the open hatch excitedly, and they all thought that they could still see the wreckage of the Japanese cruiser when they went up.

When Hu Qinzhai climbed the straight ladder, he turned around and saw everyone's expectant faces. He moved his heart and said, "Captain of torpedo, listener, commander of the engine, come up to the bridge!"

The torpedo leader, the audio officer and the pilot rarely go to the bridge to be on duty. Huqinzhai now lets them go up, which is obviously a reward. The torpedo leader Qian Dazhuang grinned and didn't know what was being mixed when he jumped to the straight ladder. The person almost fell down, which made everyone laugh. Amid the laughter of everyone, the three people walked up the ladder to the bridge. Under the starlight, the slight sea breeze blew towards the faces of the three people. The air was indescribable, but at this time, there were only the sound of waves and the silhouettes of their own fleets facing the starry sky, and there was no shadow of the wreckage of the Japanese cruiser on the sea.

"Travel at 240, and move forward at full speed two-thirds. Also, in the navigation log: My submarine formation hit the Japanese cruiser Rijin for ten minutes and floated up, and the sea was empty." Huqinzhai issued an order to the boat, and then handed his telescope to the three people around him, pointing to the sea area behind and said. "The Japanese were hit by more than 20 torpedoes, and they should have sunk quickly."

The three of them took the officers' telescopes. Looking east, there was only a dark sea, but submarines kept floating up beside them. The sound of water breaking through the sea was rustling.

"Can't you go and see? If there are still people living there, they will drown?" The listener's tender face was a little naive. He was only fifteen years old, from Hubei. It is said that he was selected from the elementary school during the physical examination because of his excellent hearing. His family was poor. He heard that he could get paid for the soldiers and joined the army without saying a word.

"Can't go over!" The torpedo grows and a grand man is as famous as his name, speaking rudely, otherwise he would not be able to serve those extremely heavy torpedoes. "The air from the gas tank in the torpedo is gone. It will float on the sea. Whoever meets who is unlucky, who knows how many torpedoes are floating there."

The listener and the torpedo were whispering, but the silent engineer took a few deep breaths of sea breeze on the sea surface, stood for a while and then got off. It seemed that the turbines from Tonghua were all like this. Hu Qinzhai heard that these people were all orphans, and were raised by the revival and sent to various important positions. Such boring and dull people were not liked by Hu Qinzhai, but these people did not cover their skills. Whenever there was a problem with the submarine, whether it was a diesel engine or a compressor cabinet, these people could immediately find the crux of the problem and quickly solve the problem. It seemed that every bolt on the submarine was printed in their hearts.

With the light signal from Captain Ouyang Ge, the leader of the sixth group, the other four submarines gathered again next to the U-49 submarine, and the twenty-five submarines re-arranged as the navigation and speed given by the fleet. Hu Qinzhai turned around and looked at the dark sea in the east, feeling joy and uneasy in his heart. He finally killed someone!

The disappearance of the Hiigen cruiser did not immediately alert the Japanese, although it seemed to have disappeared out of thin air. Major General Matsumura Ryutsu, the commander of the Task Force on the Ibuki, looked at the entire chart and was extremely embarrassed. Except for the battleship, all the Japanese navy dispatched. After searching for more than ten days, they finally found the Chinese fleet. But in a short while, even their warships disappeared. Did the Chinese navy general Hiigen sink? The Major General could not believe it! With the two eight-inch cannons on the Hiigen, the Chinese navy's inferior artillery technique, it was impossible to sink the Hiigen. But Hiigen did not sink, so why can't you contact?

"Your Excellency, maybe the radio on the Hitomichi was malfunctioning..." Captain Ibuki Hiroji Kato guessed: "...In the artillery battle, the Chinese Navy will inevitably have shells hit Hitomichi, and it is entirely possible to interrupt the radio antenna."

"Yoxi." The Japanese naval officers nodded in the chart room. With the current poor quality of the radio, even a slight vibration may affect their sending of the report, let alone interrupting the antenna.

Seeing that everyone agreed with their speculation, Colonel Kato Hiroji continued: "Your Excellency, we should continue to search forward in the direction given by the Hiroshi. If the Chinese fleet was not destroyed by Hiroshi, then they should still be in the sea there."

Kato Hiroji's continued imagination was obviously recognized by Major General Matsumura. He bowed and said, "Okay! Go in the original direction, and the radio continues to call Hiroki until the contact is in progress."

The Japanese were slow to respond to the disappearance of the Japanese ship, but China was extremely sensitive. At around 6 pm, the Haiqi, who was premonitioned to deliver the goods to the Japanese ship, sent the telegram to Beijing. At this time, Yang Rui was visiting the Greater China National Defense University.

Military academies are the hematopoietic mechanism of the army. Without military academies, there would be no officers. How can the army come without officers? The founding of the Revival Army began with the South African military academies. After the success of the revolution, the military academies left over from the Qing Dynasty were immediately rectified. The principle of rectification was first divided into five types: military branches, including land, sea, air, logistics, and politics. One university and several lieutenant colonels were set up in the country.

The Army University Hall was still based on the previous one, and the infrastructure here was ready-made, and all it had to change was teachers and courses; the Naval University Hall was located in Ningbo, and the Naval Military Port was located in Xiangshan, which can be said to be adapted to local conditions; the Air Force University Hall was a bit troublesome, because it needed to be kept confidential, so it was temporarily set up in Qiandao Lake and placed with the Submarine Academy, and a new institute was set up after the war; the Logistics and Political University Hall was placed in Beijing.

These are university halls, and the army and the navy also set up many middle schools, which are basically divided by region. There is Jilin Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy in the northeast, Lanzhou Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy in the northwest, Baoding Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy in the north, Wuchang Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy in the middle of the year, Chengdu Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy in the southwest, Hangzhou Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy in the east, Guilin Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy in the south, and seven are divided by sea, the North Sea is Huludao Naval Non-commissioned Officer Academy in the east, and the South China Sea is Zhanjiang Naval Non-commissioned Officer Academy in the total number of three.

There are only middle schools and university schools, and no longer any primary schools are set up like the Qing Dynasty. In the past, students from primary schools and middle schools took unified examinations. Those who passed the examinations entered the Army Middle School and University schools. Those who failed the examinations were withdrawn from the middle schools run by the Ministry of Education and continued to take the exam next year. There were only four army schools in the late Qing Dynasty, namely Qinghe, Beijing, Xi'an, Shaanxi, Wuchang, Hubei, and Nanjing, Jiangsu. These four schools were actually reserved, but they moved their locations. Beijing's moved to Baoding, Xi'an's moved to Lanzhou. Nanjing's moved to Hangzhou. And because of the improvement of facilities and the expansion of scale, there were no complaints from Army Middle School and Primary School.

But the navy is different. The former Qing naval schools have a large number, including Mawei Naval Academy, Tianjin Naval Academy, Huangpu Torpedo Academy, Huangpu Naval Academy, Beijing Kunming Lake Naval Academy, Jiangnan Naval Academy, Yantai Naval Academy, Hubei Naval Academy, and eight majors are generally set up, including the driving and pipe wheels, and there are also manufacturing classes for torpedo and Mawei Naval Academy. Although there are many schools, there are times of teachers and very few students who graduate every year.

But the more this adjustment, the pressure is the greatest. Other schools will not talk about it. Take the Mawei Shipbuilding School, which is about to be cancelled as an example. All the generals of the Navy wrote a letter to plead with mercy to retain the Mawei Shipbuilding School, but because in 1911, only 15 graduates of the Mawei Shipbuilding School, and only one of the graduates passed the Navy University entrance examination. Those who wrote the letter could only make nostalgia for the reason. When Wanyan wrote to the Taiwei Mansion, Yang Rui rarely responded. He said, "The more nostalgia for the old love, the more they need to be revoked. If everyone is nostalgia, please take care of the Mawei School!" This statement was heard in the newspapers, and the Min generals in the Navy were very angry.

The reason why there are many Fujian people in the navy is that Mawei Shipbuilding Administration was established early. Now that the Naval Academy is adjusted in this way, Fujian will no longer have the convenience of geographical advantages. Many years later, the navy is all from Liao, Zhejiang, and Guangdong. But now the General Staff divides the navy into the North Sea Fleet, East Sea Fleet, and South Sea Fleet. People can't find any fault if they want to choose, and it's even more appropriate for the Naval Academy to be run near three military ports. So in the end, the Min people could only hate it.

The Naval Academy was abolished, and the new school redetermines majors and courses based on naval schools in the United Kingdom and the United States, and then apply for teachers according to the course. If the teachers were not qualified for the assessment, they would be dismissed all. As for those foreigners who were unqualified but difficult to dismiss, they would be compensated for losses according to the contract. Some things happened among them. First, the compensation for the dismissal of dozens of foreigners was more than 100,000 taels, which was really a lot of money. The unqualified Chinese teachers were given a monthly salary of three to five months. The difference between Chinese and foreign countries was so big that the public exclaimed that although the Prime Minister's Office had explained that Chinese personnel were not enough to support the existing schools. If foreign personnel were not appeased, it would be difficult to hire foreign teachers and the school could not handle them, but this kind of thing was generally the more it was explained, the more it was difficult to explain.

After a few months of turmoil, he was replaced by another thing. That is, Yan Fu of Tianjin Naval Academy was dismissed. In fact, students of Tianjin Naval Academy had long complained about his teaching, but once he was removed from the naval system - this person was appointed as an advisor when the Qing Dynasty re-run the naval a few years ago, but the Xin Dynasty did not have an appointment - the trouble caused was even greater than before. After all, it is necessary to dismiss Chinese and foreign personnel. If you want to re-run the navy, it must be a rectification of the school. However, Yan Fu is very famous. Everyone thinks that this person is unique and talented, and it is impossible to deal with the navy.

However, this person is famous, but he is not proficient in naval warfare. What's more, the new naval school no longer uses the main courses of scrutiny, arithmetic, and algebra, and only specializes in practical skills of the navy. Although he is good at foreign language, what are the benefits for the navy? In addition, this person has always been arrogant and does not participate in the skill assessment of teachers held by the Huludao Naval Academy. It is not surprising that he was dismissed by the Navy Academy. Looking at the messy remarks in the newspaper, Yang Rui was very puzzled. Why would a translator be considered a master of naval talent? Is it because he had learned the navy before? For decades, Yan Fuyi has never been on the ship, and he has never translated books related to the navy, so why is it difficult to run a navy without any other? As before, the noise in the newspaper was completely ignored by Yang Rui, but the outside world's evaluation of him gradually emerged. Public opinion generally believes that he is "ruthless and unreasonable" and is known as the Prime Minister of the Three Nos.

At this time, Premier Yang Jingcheng of the Sanwu was inspecting the Beijing National Defense University. He had no time to listen to the teachers' courses. He could only walk around everywhere. He saw the student dormitory from the library and then the school playground from the student dormitory. When it was close to eating, he ate in the school cafeteria to have a meal.

Yang Rui was walking around, and only the principal Yang Guobi and the security personnel were accompanied. If his photos were not frequently seen in the newspapers, the students in the school would probably not recognize that the Prime Minister would go to the school in person. Most of the teachers at the National Defense University were elderly people from the Fuxing Army and some Germans. In addition, some people from the General Staff also worked part-time here. The students were basically the company battalion commanders and regiment brigade commanders in the Fuxing Army. They came here to further their studies from the beginning, and the intermediate command position was promoted to the middle and senior command position. When they heard that the Prime Minister came to the school, the whole school surrounded the canteen.

Everyone was looking forward to what Yang Rui could say. But Yang Rui really didn't know what to say. Finally, at Yang Guobi's request, he had to start speaking: "You are all soldiers. The responsibilities of soldiers, the dedication of soldiers, and the honor of soldiers are all familiar with them, and there is no need to mention them too much. But I want to say that a soldier who only wants to be loyal to the country can only be said to be a qualified soldier, but not a qualified soldier. A soldier died in battle, but an officer died in battle. Especially in defeat, it is shameful to know that the pursuit of victory rather than loyalty in war.

But how can we win? Is it because we are not afraid of death? Even if we can win with big swords and spears against foreign guns and cannons, it is extremely rare. Real victory requires mastering military science and the art of war. It is not more afraid of death than anyone else. You are all students of the National Defense University. If you say that you only learn the spirit of not afraid of death after graduation, it is a shame for the National Defense University and a shame for the revival of the Army.

As the west wind drifts eastward, military science has been progressing. And the progress is getting faster and faster, so fast that we are all caught off guard. This is also the reason why the school requires everyone to master a foreign language. A middle- and senior officer who only focuses on his own land and does not pay attention to the military progress of countries around the world is a dereliction of duty. Taking artillery as an example, black gunpowder cannons have been in recent decades. After that, they began to use smokeless gunpowder. The cannon itself has changed from a mount to a steward retreat. The caliber is getting bigger and bigger, and the cooperation between infantry and guns is getting closer and closer.

It is not difficult to see from this that the development of science promotes the development of military technology, and the development of military technology is gradually changing the original war model. In the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese cavalry defeated the Russian Cossack cavalry. Why? Because the Japanese cavalry did not ride horses, they only fired guns - turned on machine guns and swept the machine gun, the Cossack cavalry could only be defeated. This means that the cavalry, a military branch that lasted for thousands of years, is dying. This is the result of the development of military science. It not only changes the war model, but also eliminates the military branch.

As long as we can predict and grasp the war model changed by military technology driven by technological development in advance, the Revival Army will stand at the top of the world's military. This is why Westerners have overwhelmed us in half a century with the advancement of technology and technology: they developed foreign guns and cannons, and they developed how to use foreign guns and cannons, so they won, that's all, this has nothing to do with white supremacy. But the development of science and technology is not only known in the West. As long as we can keenly discover the progress of military science and use it accurately, people will inevitably say that China is supremacy."

"Lt. General Moffett and Lieutenant Colonel Tian Shijie said in the telegram that the Japanese ships were chasing each other and would probably have exchanged fire in twenty minutes. Lieutenant Colonel Tian Shijie reported that the wolves would sink them according to the previously agreed plan." Li Zilong said in a low voice. Especially the word "sinking" was very light. "Sir, do you want to inform them to change the plan?" he asked.

"No need! The cleaner it is, the better." Yang Rui lit a cigarette. He was not only worried about the Japanese's revenge, but also worried about the fleet's losses. He had been coming tens of thousands of miles away. Now he was in the east of Taiwan, and that was at his doorstep. If the fleet had an accident in the artillery battle and the water press sank into the sea, then he would be sad.

There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests. Now he has a deeper understanding of this sentence. When Americans sign contracts and get black money, they say so well, but now? They use the excuse of changing the president and want to buy it. If they hadn't given the Nanyang Oilfield to Mobil, they would be afraid that the US Congress would have ruled that its contract with Bethlehem would be illegal. It would be easier for the Rockefeller family to deal with it. Morgan, the boss behind Bethlehem, would be a jealous wolf.

"Call someone to call Chong'an from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs." Yang Ruiyan burned her butt and didn't take a second sip. He believed that the Japanese cruiser must have sunk this time. The Japanese would not be able to find any revenge, so they should think of countermeasures in advance.

Half an hour, in Yinying Hall.

"What! Sinking the Japanese cruiser?!" The relationship with Britain, Japan, France and Russia was tense. Xie Zhangtai's hair fell a lot. Now he heard that the navy had sunk the Japanese cruiser. He was excited and took off his hat and began to scratch his scalp hard.

"It's not that it's sunk...oh, it's not. Just treat it as sunk." Although not yet informed, Yang Rui expected that the Japanese cruiser had sunk almost the same. "But what's good for us is that the Japanese don't know how the ship sinks. The only thing they know is that before the sunk, the cruiser had a fire with us, but it's impossible for Haiqi to sink it in a short time, and it's difficult to even hurt it."

"It's true, don't hurt me! Don't hurt me! The cruiser and our warships exchanged fire and sank in a while. Who sank this? As soon as this happened, the Japanese and British were going to make trouble again." Xie Zhangtai was not a navy after all, and he didn't understand the fleet's plans. His words were full of anxiety. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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