Comrade, Your Ingredients Are Too Complicated

In the vast Yellow Sea, the battle-scarred trading fleet is struggling forward.

Compared with the confidence when they first set out, all the surviving crew members now reveal fatigue and confusion, looking like a group of staggering old people.

There is no way. For this group of sailors who have just entered the Pacific Ocean, the sea and air battle a few hours ago was indeed a bit beyond the scope.

Although the trading fleet finally won the victory and even wiped out the attacking enemy in one go, they also paid a very painful price, especially the Fletcher-class destroyer as the flagship.

The DD-450, which was taken care of by the Kagoshima Tarumi Air Force, almost died in the seabed in the desperate fight just now.

If it weren't for the damage control team's efforts to seal the hole in the underwater part of the tail hull in time, Zhong Yun and his party would definitely end up falling into the water to feed the fish.

"Report to the major, the casualties have been counted. In this battle, a total of 32 people were killed and 71 were injured, of which 29 were seriously injured and needed to be treated on shore in time."

"In addition, the situation of the ship above the waterline is also not optimistic. At present, the power system of the entire ship has failed, and the three 127mm main guns at the rear have all been destroyed, and the two front main guns can only be operated manually."

"The only good news is that three of the five twin-mounted Bofors can still be used, and the remaining four Oerlikon gun groups can also be put into full alert at any time."

As soon as these words came out, Zhong Yun clenched his hands into fists, and his nails pierced deeply into his palms. Under the new and old hatreds, he could not suppress the anger in his heart at all.

If conditions permit, he would like to return to the battlefield immediately and pull a few Japanese corpses from the sea to whip them to vent his anger.

Captain Bird, the deputy captain, was also not very stable.

There were only 354 crew members on their entire ship, and one-third of them were killed or wounded in just one encounter. If the Republic of China's Air Force had not arrived at the rendezvous point in advance, their losses would definitely be greater.

Just when the two were determined to take revenge, the signalman of the combat intelligence center knocked on the door of the captain's room and brought a piece of good news that made people feel at ease.

"Captain, the Republic of China just sent a message."

"According to the information provided by the other party, we have now officially entered the Yellow Sea. In the next voyage, they will send a surface force to guide the route."

As soon as the voice fell, a long whistle suddenly came from outside, and the cheers of the crew also sounded.

Seeing this, Zhong Yun and his deputy captain rushed out without saying a word. As soon as they picked up the telescope to look into the distance, a familiar and unfamiliar single-wing fighter flew over the trading fleet.

Looking at hundreds of advanced escort fighters and old-fashioned destroyers with a tonnage of no more than one thousand in the distance, Captain Bird instantly understood the deep meaning of the commander-in-chief and Commander Nimitz.

"Captain, your hometown is a bit weird. The air force is strong, but the navy is weak. What's the way?"

"It's obviously a country with both land and sea, and the coastline is so long, why is the technology tree so crooked now?"

"To be honest, if the color of the sea was not wrong, I really thought I was back in London. The last time I saw so many Spitfires was during the Battle of Britain."

During World War II, each large force or major participating country had its own unique iconic equipment.

On land, if you see a shopping cart that is not as tall as an adult male, there must be a decent combat unit near the battlefield.

If you follow a son of the storm and accidentally enter the eye of the storm, you will see a towering illegal building in the distance just after you survive the typhoon.

Then congratulations, your aircraft carrier must have collided head-on with the combined fleet of the original.

Similarly, the various fighters of the British Royal Air Force are also deeply rooted in people's hearts. After all, their high and low designs and aesthetics can always leave an indelible first impression on people.

But today, the Eighth Route Army Air Force broke the inherent cognition of the ugly sailors with actual actions.

Perhaps in the near future, the entire Allied Forces will spread the "rumors" of bringing the British orthodoxy to the Republic of China. Who made the Royal Air Force unable to take advantage of the book?

Hearing this, Zhong Yun nodded with relief.

"Look, before I set out, I said that the Eighth Route Army Air Force was very strong and that they had carried out air raids on the Japanese mainland more than once. Now you believe it, right? The commander-in-chief's ancestors were businessmen, so how could he do a business that would lose money?"

"Remember one thing: what you hear is not what you see. The newspapers we usually read are all news that have been screened by the Investigation Bureau."

"And don't underestimate that old destroyer. I just saw what appear to be air and sea radars and fire control systems on the top of its bridge."

"According to our hometown saying, this is called Lu Bu riding a dog, or pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger."

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In the evening of that day, the golden sunlight dyed the water surface in the west red, and the entire Majingzi Dock was bathed in the sunset.

To the east, it is adjacent to the Engineering College, Mechanical College, and Coal Storage Institute under the Naval Academy, and to the southeast, it is close to the iron wharf. There are railroad tracks between the three to facilitate the transportation of military supplies. It is the only place where the Eighth Route Army Navy can repair warships at this stage.

At this time, near the No. 3 dry dock. Hundreds of workers wearing rattan helmets and labor protection gloves are eager to try out the sea.

For the comrades, they are no longer satisfied with practicing with small boats. The upcoming Fletcher-class destroyer is the cutting-edge equipment that everyone has been thinking about day and night.

Looking at the workers with excited faces, the chief technical engineer from the French advisory group smiled and shook his head.

Considering that most of the people present had never come into contact with a 3,000-ton warship, he patiently commanded:

"According to the news sent back by the Air Force, we need to repair the rudder and propeller of the destroyer first, and replace the search sonar installed at the bottom of the bow."

"These tasks seem complicated, but in essence they are not much different from upgrading the Tong'an. So don't have psychological pressure, just perform normally."

"Prepare the docking procedure. The Fletcher-class destroyer is a big guy with a length of 114 meters and a width of 12 meters. I don't want it to hit the concrete wall."

Unlike the limited-time and illegal project of repairing Yorktown in three days, the chief engineer from France is ready to slow down and proceed step by step. After all, the Eighth Route Army has no arrangement to go to sea this year.

In the planned plan, he intends to personally fight a teaching game, using the severely damaged American destroyer to help the students further digest the knowledge taught in class.

As for whether the island has the ability to repair ships?

Just kidding, it is really not difficult to repair or upgrade a destroyer with an intact power system. If it weren't for the teaching, he could have taken his men to finish it in three days.

To put it simply, the process is to drag the damaged ship into the dry dock, drain the water to expose the part below the waterline, then remove and discard all the damaged things from the ship, and finally replace them with new parts and structural parts.

In addition to the finished radar, the two Liberty ships even have several spare 127mm main guns.

They are all ready-made parts, so there is nothing that can't be repaired.

Just as the comrades were ready to work hard, a series of loud whistles suddenly came from the east.

Looking at the source of the sound, six ships like "hills" were slowly sailing towards Liugong Island, and the leading flagship was still hanging a red flag fluttering in the wind.

Seeing the huge warships and transport ships getting closer and closer, people exclaimed, and some young men even shouted.

The movement outside aroused the interest of Huang He in the office.

After learning that the trading fleet was about to enter the port, he first greeted several colleagues, and then rode his bike to the turret behind the town hall in the northwest.

Holding the antique cannon of the last century, Huang He saw the trading fleet at a glance with the help of a telescope and the height advantage.

But with just a glance, the scars full of bullet holes and explosion marks came into view.

"Yamamoto! I R your ancestors!"

"What a good new ship, it just became half-dead when it came to my hands. You are a beast, you deserve to die!"

Pain!

It hurts so much!

This feeling is like a zero-krypton player in World of Warships who is reluctant to open even a high-level account, and finally got a level 9 Fletcher under the ravages of the young butcher.

In order to buy ships and accessories, he took money from one place to make up for another and finally gathered enough silver coins, and even spent the long-accumulated global experience to directly skip the blank hull.

As a result, at the beginning of the game, they were first lit up by the radar ship, then hit by Venice's pink cheating bullets and finally sent back to the home port by Hildebrand's tactical bombing squadron.

This kind of experience and this kind of encounter would make anyone autistic.

Fortunately, Huang He has always been an optimistic person. Looking at Fletcher, Benson and the Liberty Ship led by the Tongan destroyer, he joked with a bitter smile:

"Tsk, Sino-US task force, what a niche word. If this were in the future, I would really think it was the Three Body attack or the old Russians crawling out of the coffin."

"After these four ships are repaired, I must open up to the Japanese and let them see what a Henan destroyer that can call for air strikes and throw oranges at any time is!" (End of this chapter)