1890 King of Southeast Asia

Recently, Gu Fan has been a little irritated because of the Japanese.

After the Qing Empire's revolution began, the Nanhua Navy has been in a state of combat readiness at all times, with at least four main battleships on standby at the Ryukyu Naval Port or the Banjarmasin Naval Base.

The purpose is to deter the Japanese and prevent them from interfering with the Qing Empire's revolutionary process.

However, the deterrence operation cannot be said to be completely successful. Japan did not actively intervene, but with the support of the Americans, it accepted the Qing Empire court's request for help and provided mercenaries.

Since then, Nanhua has continuously sent naval fleets to harass Japan. The Japanese Navy initially sent some warships to respond, and later simply formed a large fleet and stationed in Sasebo to counter-deter Ryukyu.

This approach annoyed the young naval faction, and the radical officers approached Sasebo with their ships and directly confronted the Japanese Combined Fleet.

At first, the Japanese only dared to shrink in Sasebo, but last month, the situation changed.

The two newly built battleships of the Japanese were delivered. The Japanese Combined Fleet had eight new and four old ships, twelve battleships, and six armored cruisers, with a total of eighteen battleships.

Among them, the two newly commissioned battleships were equipped with 356 mm main guns, corresponding to the Xuchang class and the Arab class.

The number of eighteen battleships gave the Japanese confidence and greatly increased their ambitions.

Nanhua had only six battleships, and Japan could form a three-to-one numerical advantage during the war. In terms of quality, the two 356 mm battleships seemed to have evened out the gap between the two sides.

Japan had planned to destroy two or three battleships of Nanhua at the expense of old battleships and armored cruisers.

The plan was leaked as expected. Gu Fan didn't know whether the plan was true or not, but he had to treat it with caution.

If the Japanese were true, even if the Japanese fleet was seriously injured, it would be a loss for Nanhua.

After all, Japan only needs to consider Nanhua, while Nanhua also needs to consider the Indian Ocean, the North Pacific Ocean, the Persian Gulf, etc.

Therefore, Gu Fan suppressed the young officers and gradually reduced the deterrence against Japan, hoping to ease the relationship and buy time.

Of course, Gu Fan did more than just that. He also ordered the navy ships to take turns for maintenance, recalled the battleships stationed in the Persian Gulf and Hawaii, counted the war materials, and so on.

No matter what Gu Fan thought, no matter whether Liu Yiming wanted to fight or not, Nanhua had to make a strong response-concentrating the fleet, which could be said to be preparing for war to some extent.

"Commander!" Gu Fan walked into the reception room and found Zhao Jiaxing there, and saluted immediately.

Although Zhao Jiaxing was the commander of the navy, Zhao Jiaxing had long stopped caring about things since the Navy General Staff got on track.

That is, he continued to stay in this position because he could not push out a candidate to take over the commander and there was no suitable place to go.

Gu Fan? Not enough qualifications. And he went to the Navy Headquarters, and there was no suitable person in charge of the Navy General Staff.

The headquarters and the staff were shouldered by one person? Then the power of the navy was too concentrated, and the meaning of the staff was gone.

"You're here too?" Zhao Jiaxing said in surprise.

"His Majesty asked me to summarize the navy situation." Gu Fan nodded and looked at Zhao Jiaxing in surprise.

Zhao Jiaxing used "also", which proved that Zhao Jiaxing might know the purpose of coming today, and also proved that Liu Yiming was not just interested in knowing the navy's recent situation.

"Commander Zhao, Chief of Staff Gu, His Majesty invites you in." Before Gu Fan could make a subtle move, Wang Linhai came.

"We'll be there right away." Zhao Jiaxing left the sofa and nodded to Gu Fan.

Zhao Jiaxing has been very happy recently. After the General Staff got on track, he no longer participated in the daily work of the navy.

After being freed from his busy work, he has been keeping an eye on the development of the navy industry and new equipment.

Recently, several navy-related projects he has been keeping an eye on have made breakthroughs. After Liu Yiming learned about it, he immediately asked him to come back from the Taiping Bay Fleet Base so that he could report to him.

Last night, he arrived in Chang'an, and this morning he came to the palace to see Liu Yiming, but he came too early. Liu Yiming was still discussing the Huaxia transformation plan and industrial plan with Xu Hui, so he could only wait.

Unexpectedly, during the half hour of waiting in the reception room, his subordinate, Gu Fan, the chief of staff responsible for the daily operation and operations of the navy, also came.

Although Gu Fan did not have a special expression when he came in, Zhao Jiaxing keenly noticed the fatigue on Gu Fan's face, proving that something had happened recently, and it was probably not a good thing.

Originally wanted to ask, Liu Yiming's secretary asked them to go in.

"Wait a little while, we will know." Zhao Jiaxing thought with a big heart.

"Your Majesty, the commander of the navy and the chief of staff are here." After a short distance, they arrived at the place. As usual, Wang Linhai opened the door first, and after getting Liu Yiming's permission, the two walked in.

When they walked into Liu Yiming's office, they found that the office work that was usually piled with books and documents had now become a large map.

Both of them are senior military officers. Although Zhao Jiaxing does not have a diploma from a formal military academy, he has received systematic teaching in private and is very sensitive to maps.

The two saw at a glance that this was a map of East Asia and Southeast Asia, and it was mainly a sea map. It did not show the full picture of China, only the coastline.

Seeing this, Gu Fan subconsciously judged that Liu Yiming was going to take action against Japan.

Because this is a military map, a military map must have a target. From the map, the target can only be Japan.

These places, of course, are not only South China and Japan, especially in the Southeast Asia part, as well as British British Borneo, Malaya, French Indians and so on.

But at this time, it was impossible for Nanhua to take the initiative to start a war against Britain and France, especially after South China refused to establish further diplomatic relations with Germany.

"Come? Gu Fan came to put the arrangement of our army. You will take a while and sort out the documents by the way." Liu Yiming took out a bunch of chess pieces.

Each flag is shaped by warships. According to the division of the battleship cruiser destroyer, it is painted with different colors.

Of course, there are too many destroyers, and a destroyer chess piece represents a destroyer team and six destroyers.

After sorting out for a while, after the distribution of South China Navy was placed, Liu Yiming took out another document, handed it to Gu Fan, and took out another bag of chess pieces at the same time.

These flags are not much different from the previous, including the color, but just inserted a small flag on the chess pieces -Japanese plaster flag, which represents Japanese warships.

"This ..." Gu Fan stunned after opening the file.

Because the document records the detailed records of August 10, the Japanese Navy's combat power deployment, warship chief, etc., some even have basic parameters of warships.

"The intelligence department provided, just finished it, and had not had time to send it to you." Liu Yiming said casually.

Gu Fan nodded and silently put a chess piece.

However, his speed was much slower, and he was even slower than Liu Yiming. The reason was that he read intelligence while swinging, but the more he looked into it.

"Well, you are here too." Liu Yiming didn't care about Gu Fan's "laziness" behavior, and shouted to Zhao Jiaxing.

"There are only three of us today. It is considered a secret meeting. The theme of the meeting is how to quickly destroy the Japanese Navy's power at the lowest price." Liu Yiming said.

"Is it Japan?" Gu Fan, who was familiar with, had no extra expression, and the unknown Zhao Jiaxing nodded.

"It is to teach this group of dwarfs, otherwise they always jump up and down." Zhao Jiaxing looked at the map.

"Let's talk about your situation first. How long does it take for the submarine to enter the battle? How long does it take?" Liu Yiming asked.

"I personally experienced the test of the 11th submarine. I think he can be able to use it in actual combat." Zhao Jiaxing took out a stack of photos.

Gu Fan took the photo a little unable to touch his head. He knew that the history of this weapon had continued after all, and the earliest can be traced back to 1850.

There are also submarines in various countries, including Japan, and South China has also imported some submarines or technologies from France and Germany. Gu Fan knows, but does not pay special attention.

After all, almost everyone and all navy at this time believe that the submarine cannot play a role in the war, including investigation.

After all, the weapon of submarine uses torpedo as the main attack method. It is huge, but the speed is slow.

How slow is it? Even if they are sailing on the water, separate submarines cannot catch up with the formation of the formation of the formation.

Just launching torpedo, torpedo boats, run fast, and mature technology.

Submarines can also play a little role in defensive ambush.

"Are the sixteen generations? What about technical data?" Liu Yiming asked in surprise.

Only for more than ten years, it has developed to the 16th generation. Is it too fast? Is it a boat of one or two hundred tons?

"Sixteen generations, in fact, there are only five types of ship types, which are improved based on ship types. There is a certain gap between technical data and is defined as a generation."

"The six ships we made before are the third -type boat improvement, the tenth -generation submarine, used for training." Zhao Jiaxing explained.

"The fifth type of ship type considers ocean cruise and followed the fleet, which greatly stretched the length of the hull to reach 70 meters, five meters wide, seven -meter -wide, and the water displacement was 989 tons."

"Equipped with two dedicated compact diesel engines, two motors. The submarine acts underwater and uses electric motors and sails."

"Underwater speed 7 sections, water cruise speed 16 sections, and the fastest surface speed can reach 23 sections to ensure that they can follow the large fleet."

"The special oxygen generator has been added, and it can stay underwater for 36 hours, but the submarine battery is only required for six hours of sailing. The technical department is undergoing new batteries."

"In terms of weapons and equipment, it is equipped with a 50 -fold diameter 76mm deck gun, and two rounds are prepared.

Five 533 mm torpedo launch tubes, the first four and two rear, 16 rounds, three rounds of the front launch tube, and two rounds of the latter tube. "

"The battery life is 7,000 kilometers full of oil theory, and the refueling pipe can be reserved for fast refueling at sea to ensure the battery life."

"Submarines are more secretive. In the fighting experiment, I personally participated in the submarine operation and hit the goals in many times."

"In short, I think that as a mature war machine, submarines can be put into actual combat, and they can get unexpected results."

After Zhao Jiaxing finished speaking, Gu Fan was stunned.