Stalin had always been interested in battleships, which was no secret between the Politburo and the Military Commission.☆→In 1936, when the Americans had just agreed to produce the Type 35 heavy cruiser for the Soviet Union, Stalin instructed Orchonnie to see if he could buy the battleships from the United States, but the Americans firmly refused.

However, Stalin did not give up. When the North Carolina-class battleship officially started construction in late October 1937, he once again tried to convince the Americans to directly sell North Carolina-class drawings and related technologies.

This time it still ended in failure. The Americans refused to continue selling arms on the grounds that the Soviet Union interfered in Spain's internal affairs. Not only did they have no chance to purchase North Carolina, but they couldn't even continue to produce the 35 heavy cruisers and 36 light cruisers for the Soviet Union.

After the announcement of failure to directly purchase finished products and drawings, Stalin also tried to save the country in a curve, preparing to purchase some of the Soviet Union's technology that had not yet been broken through from the United States and produce battleships at home. At that time, Stalin was interested in the United States' mk6 406mm cannon.

However, even if it was to purchase some technology, the Americans still chose to refuse, so Stalin's ambitious battleship plan declared bankrupt, because even the United States, which had a good relationship with the Soviet Union, was unable to sell technology, and Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Japan, which had tense relations with the Soviet Union, were naturally even more unlikely to sell technology.

In desperation, Stalin's favorite battleship plan was dismissed just as it began its pre-research, and instead it was to fully produce the Type 35 heavy cruiser and Type 36 light cruiser.

There is not much nonsense about the Type 35 heavy cruiser. Here I will talk about the Type 36 light cruiser. In fact, this ship basically uses the hull of the Type 35 heavy cruiser, but the main armament is replaced with 12 155mm cannons. It is almost exactly the same as the Type 35 in terms of maximum speed and armor defense. However, the important difference between the Type 36 light cruiser and the Type 35 heavy cruiser is that from the day of service, all fire control equipment is complete, including the mp100 air alert radar and the mr10 fire control radar.

Among them, the mp100 air-to-air alert radar is very distinctive. It is installed at the highest point of the main mast and uses Yagi radar antenna. Its maximum air-to-air search distance is 200 kilometers and the maximum sea-to-sea search distance is 50 kilometers. The advantage is its light weight, and the disadvantage is that it is a two-coordinate radar (it only provides azimuth and distance information, and cannot measure height).

Of course, for a heavy cruiser, two-coordinate radar is enough. Anyway, this is an early warning radar, and it is enough to know the approximate distance and orientation of the enemy. As for providing accurate target information and guiding ship weapons to attack the enemy, this is the work of the mr10 fire control radar. The radar adopts a cone scanning system, which is mainly used to provide detailed target information for ship weapons systems and guide the weapon system to launch an attack. Its maximum effect distance is 30 kilometers and its effective effect distance is 25 kilometers. For an artillery cruiser, it is enough to effectively attack targets of about 25 kilometers.

In addition to radar, the ship also has a traditional optical aiming system as backup, but it was found to be rarely used in World War II. Because the reliability of the mp100 and mr10 radars is still very high. Moreover, each Soviet cruiser has installed two mr10s as backups. In actual combat, the probability of two fire-controlled radars being destroyed or malfunctioned at the same time is too low.

However, in actual combat, it was discovered that the combination of mp100 and mr10 still had certain problems, especially because mp100 is a meter wave radar, there were certain problems with the recognition rate of low-altitude targets. When the Luftwaffe used the low-altitude breakthrough tactic to injure the USS Moscow aircraft carrier, the Red Navy immediately added a set of low-altitude blind/sea search radar (mr15) to the large warship. This basically solved the problem. Later, these three sets of radar became the three troikas on the large warships of the Red Navy. As for destroyers, the mr10 was abolished and the mr15 with slightly less accurate mr15 acted as the fire control radar.

These three sets of radars also contributed greatly to the Red Navy in World War II, especially the Pacific Fleet. Taking advantage of the advantages of the radar, the Japanese who claimed to be the best at night war suffered a great loss in night wars.

Continuing to return to the previous topic, Stalin was determined to develop battleships, trying every means to purchase technology, but he was always hitting a wall. This time, the conditions proposed by the Germans made him very moved. In the eyes of steel, the only obstacle to the development of super battleships by the Red Navy was the overall design and giant cannon. After all, the Red Navy had not touched a battleship for more than 20 years, and in the Tsarist era, Russia's battleship design work relied on foreign countries.

This time, the Germans helped the Red Navy break through these two barriers in one fell swoop. If the Germans provide a full set of designs and artillery, the Soviet giant steel ships will soon be put into service!

Stalin was excited at the time and never thought about the overall design level of the Germans. To be honest, it was true that was the case. After all, the Germans had not touched battleships for more than 20 years. The interruption period of the 20-year period made the Germans' design ideas lag behind the world. Judging from the later design of the Bsmeer, this was still a battleship with the style of World War I, and it still took the path of comprehensive protection.

The result was that the ship's displacement was greatly wasted, and its defense was not as awesome as advertised. In fact, not only the Pessim, but also the surface ships of the German Navy in World War II all had the same problem - wasting displacement. For example, Admiral Hippel's heavy patrol was standard, with a standard platoon of 14,000 tons, a maximum speed of more than 32 knots, and a armor thickness of only 80 mm, which was even worse than the United States' 4,000 tons smaller than it and started construction five years earlier (the German firepower was weaker).

There are problems with the German naval ship design ideas. At least Li Xiaofeng does not like the German design plans. Whether it is the Hippel-class heavy patrol or the swearing in the sky and under, they are really black-hearted buns. It is absolutely impossible to ask someone to pay for two black-hearted buns!

So from the beginning, Li Xiaofeng clearly opposed Stalin's opinion and firmly demanded that all the Spanish German devils be wiped out!

"According to the investigation by the intelligence department, all German warship designs have major problems except submarines. Their cost, displacement and actual combat effectiveness are seriously unequal. They are typical representatives of high-quality prices! The introduction of these backward technologies has no meaning to the Red Navy!"

"Who knows whether your information is reliable!" Orzhongnie Qize sneered and glanced at Li Xiaofeng.

The latter was not polite: "Oh. You have a more reliable source of information. Then present evidence to tell the facts... There is no evidence? Why are you blindly doing it without evidence!"

Li Xiaofeng first fought with Orzhongnikize. In fact, these two people have always had a competitive relationship. Both of them are second only to Kalinin and Ruzutak by Stalin and Sverdlov. If Stalin and Sverdlov decisively gave up the vacant seats that Kamenev and Zinoviev last time, these two would have had to fight for the blood.

Especially as the competition between Stalin and Sverdlov began to become more intense, who can gain the upper hand in the Politburo in the future depends more on the victory or defeat between Li Xiaofeng and Orzhongnikize. Anyway, starting from March 1938, these two people will fight each other whenever they have the chance.

"The world's major naval powers are vigorously developing battleships. Our Red Navy cannot lag behind. I think even if the design of German battleships is at the most advanced level in the world, it is still advanced enough compared to us... We cannot be too ambitious and should carry out our work down-to-earth!"

Stalin's words clearly mean that Li Xiaofeng is too ambitious and does not keep his feet on the ground. Li Xiaofeng was not polite about this and said sarcastically: "If someone builds battleships, we must build battleships. Are they eating shit? Do we also want to eat shit? Since 1934, four consecutive years of fleet exercises have proved a result every time - the era of battleships dominating the sea is gone forever. Who can control the sky in the future? Who can control the ocean? Our naval development focus should be adjusted according to the exercises. It is time for aircraft carriers to replace the status of battleships! I think the core of the Red Navy in the future is only aircraft carriers, so let the battleships go to hell!"

This was the first time that Li Xiaofeng said his heart, and it was also the first time he had a head-on showdown with Stalin, which surprised Stalin!

"Nothing nonsense, what can a few exercises tell..."

Before Stalin finished speaking, Li Xiaofeng pushed him back: "The exercise is not representative? Is the maritime conflict that occurred in Spain representative? Without aircraft carriers, we can suppress the German and Italian navies and efficiently block Franco's maritime lifeline? What's more, the battleships can't even handle the exercises, so what are you talking about?"

"This is a deviant..."

Li Xiaofeng blocked Stalin again: "Whose scriptures are gone? Whose paths are betrayed? When did the classics of imperialism become the principle that the Red Navy must follow? I think that if we want to catch up with the gap with imperialism, we must be ahead of our thoughts. The Air Force has shown great combat power and potential, so we should fully utilize it!"

"I firmly disagree with you making trouble!" Stalin finally became angry. He threw off his pipe and roared loudly.

"Nonsense?!" Li Xiaofeng glared at him without any weakness, "It is you who is really unreasonable. My arguments have facts and evidence, and what do you have? You are just a vocal and follower of imperialism! I will put my words here today, firmly opposing the battleship project that wastes money and money. No one is using any suggestion!"

Stalin was so angry that his lips were trembling and panting. After a while, he said to Sverdlov: "Comrade Yakov, are you watching him mess around like this?"

Sverdlov replied calmly: "In terms of military technology and theory, I fully trust Comrade Andre, who is an expert in this field. Moreover, as the person in charge of kgb, he has a full understanding of the development direction of military technology in the world. We laymen should fully trust and listen to his opinions. I agree and support Comrade Andre's opinions without reservation!"

Good guy, Stalin almost suffered from cerebral congestion. He never expected Sverdlov to give him face so much. He almost pointed to his nose and said, "Don't pretend to understand! And that's the case, I'm just standing on my side, go cool on the side!"

So what happened in the end? Stalin was very unwilling to mention the issue of the battleship to the Military Commission. He was preparing to use his huge influence in the Military Commission to toughly pass the battleship project.

However, the result was quite miserable. Not only was it once again firmly opposed by Sverdlov and Li Xiaofeng. Trotsky, who was half dead, also disagreed: "Super battleship project? How much does it cost? The huge expenditure of the Red Navy in recent years has been quite amazing. From aircraft carriers to cruisers, destroyers have swallowed up a large amount of funds. At this time, launching the battleship project will bring us a huge financial burden... Even if our economic construction has achieved gratifying results, we cannot make trouble casually, let alone make a fortune!"

Trotsky firmly opposed the battleship project from an economic perspective, while another very important Fu Longzhi in the Military Commission recognized Li Xiaofeng's theory: "From previous fleet exercises and Spanish maritime operations, the value of aircraft carriers is indeed better than that of battleships. Moreover, our navy also preserves a large number of modernized battleships, and within the next five years, there will be no shortage of battleships... On the contrary, in the Pacific direction, as our conflict with Japan intensifies, the Pacific Fleet is under great pressure. We should speed up the renewal of the Pacific Fleet and replace them with more new cruisers, destroyers, frigates and submarines."

Although Fu Longzhi didn't speak much, because of Lenin's trust in him and his lofty personal reputation, even Stalin had to make three points for what he said. When Fu Longzhi also opposed the battleship, Stalin could only retreat in a bad mood.

It is conceivable that Stalin would never be happy about this failure. He only summarized one truth: "The so-called friends and allies are unreliable. I can only believe in my own strength. In the future, in order to consolidate and safeguard the interests of the Soviet proletariat, I must strengthen my strength as soon as possible!"

Stalin was preparing to strengthen his strength, but this was inevitably subject to two restrictions. Whether it was Sverdlov or Trotsky, it was impossible for him to watch the steel scramble for power. The new power struggle was launched in full swing among the three factions, whether in the central or local, the struggle was in a white-hot trend.

In this tense atmosphere, Li Xiaofeng called Wufengjievic to his office: "Comrade Wufengjievic, how long have you been my confidential secretary?"

Wufengjievic was called in for no reason and asked another question. He was puzzled and could only answer blankly: "Comrade Andre, it should be almost 20 years."

Li Xiaofeng nodded: "Yes, it's been 19 years. Even a child should be adult. Comrade Wufengjevich, I think it's time for you to take on more important jobs!"

Wufengjevic was surprised. No matter who it is, he would have ambitions, especially those who serve the highest leadership of the central government. With his influence, his ambitions are even stronger than ordinary people. For a long time, he had thought about doing something, and it would be better to be on his own. But he did not expect that the opportunity would come so suddenly.

At the same time, Li Xiaofeng also said to himself: "You are already very familiar with the work of the central government, and it is meaningless to continue to keep you in the central government. What I mean is to let you accumulate experience in the local area and fully experience the situation at the grassroots level... Of course, I will fully respect your personal opinions, and there is no problem if you are unwilling to leave."

Wufengjevic pondered for a moment and replied solemnly: "Comrade Andre, I am willing to go to the place to receive exercise!"

Li Xiaofeng nodded with satisfaction. Among the people who the Patriarch sent him, except for Wufengjievich, he was more satisfied. The others were all the same as a middle-aged man. Those people had been released long ago, and the success rate was not high. Even though the Patriarch kept sending people over later, those were still too young and childish, and they needed time to train. The only thing that made him more satisfied now was Wufengjievich. If this kid could achieve some results in the local area, he would not mind focusing on cultivating this kid.

To be honest, when he proposed to let Wufengjievich go to work in the local area, he was worried that this kid was not happy. After all, the confidential secretary of the elder of the Politburo was equivalent to the steward of the prime minister's family. He was not a seventh-rank official, but a cruel person who could accomplish things and make things worse by one sentence. And when he was sent to work in the local area, he would lose his advantage of relying on the chief, and not everyone was willing to accept this gap.

Fortunately, Wufengyevic did not disappoint Li Xiaofeng. This kid was indeed a material for the officialdom. He agreed immediately, and this decisiveness satisfied Li Xiaofeng.

Li Xiaofeng ordered lightly: "Very good. In recent times, you have straightened out the work in your hands and prepared for handover."

Wufengjievich left without asking anything. Maybe some comrades want to say that they have to ask where they were arranged to go to? But Wufengjievich felt that this was a waste of time. He knew that Li Xiaofeng would not cheat him and would definitely plan a good place for him. Since that is the case, why bother to be talkative and talkative? When it comes time to tell him, the chief will naturally tell him. He is too talkative, but instead makes the chief feel that you are in disguise and want to be in charge of the official position.

However, Wufengjievic didn't know that Li Xiaofeng didn't tell him, but had not chosen a good place yet, or the position he chose for Wufengjievic would face certain competition. For example, Stalin was preparing to move his confidant to that position. Based on this, Li Xiaofeng still had a lot of work to do.

So what is this position that made Stalin interested? It is very simple. This position is the Secretary of the Leningrad Municipal Party Committee... (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!

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