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Volume 1: The Arms Dealer¡¯s Feast Chapter 269: 10,000-ton Teaching Ship

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    After the war in the Yellow Sea and the South China Sea, all maritime power in both the East and the West has been lost. According to the view of sea power theory, the current Sino-German alliance is irresistible.

    Since returning to Qingdao after the war in the South China Sea, Jin Batian has spent his days busy with official business - battleships such as the Yanshan cannot go to sea freely at will.  Of course, the high cost of supplies is one thing. Besides, these battleships were originally used for decisive battles at sea. Now they go out to sea to fight whomever. No wonder the victorious countries after World War I also mothballed or dismantled their own ironclads.

    The General Staff is making plans to counterattack the European continent, but now half of the Korean Peninsula is still in the hands of the little devils. This is obviously not the time.  There was also Ryukyu that was snatched away at the same time as North Korea and Taiwan. Those who sneaked over from Ryukyu cried and shouted to the government in Nanjing and petitioned the motherland to send troops to regain Ryukyu. Although the principal also liked this tune, for now, it should be called North Korea.  Lord.

    Currently, Jin Batian¡¯s task as deputy commander-in-chief of the Central Navy is to distribute supplies and decide which ship to return to the factory for repairs first.  Before the South China Sea Battle with Britain, France and Italy, the Central Navy had only repaired its battleships, and many heavy cruisers were actually injured and went into battle.  But for the sake of the prosperity of the country and the survival of the nation, how can we take so much into consideration.

    After the battle with the maritime coalition of the Three Kingdoms, these battleships were all in a state of injury. Some seriously injured heavy cruisers almost lost power and had to be towed by friendly ships before they could return to Qingdao Naval Base.  This heavy cruiser, with a standard displacement of 13,000 tons and a full load displacement of 18,000 tons, can now be repaired and maintained at the Navy's newly built dry dock in Qingdao.

    However, the best maintenance method is to send it back to the original factory for repair - it will be as good as new when it comes out, with no trace of repair.  In addition, after these two battles, more than 2,000 naval personnel were killed and more than 14,000 wounded.  Although this number is only a fraction of the number of enemies that the navy has wiped out - the foundation of the Nanjing Central Navy itself is weak, and the reserve personnel are probably already on the ships.

    The number of people killed and seriously injured was enough to prevent several ships from sailing.  It is up to the two commanders Chen Shaokuan and Jin Batian to decide which ships are needed and cannot be launched.  At the same time, a group of people at the Nanjing General Staff Headquarters also believe that since the navies of the East and West are already weak, it is better to decommission a number of warships. As for the current craze for educated young people to join the navy, they can start as cadets and serve as cadets.  It also increases the talent pool for the future of the Navy.

    Finally, after referring to the conditions of each ship, Chen Shaokuan and Jin Batian decided to withdraw the ten oldest and most seriously injured heavy cruisers from active service.

    Destroyers are multi-functional ships, and it¡¯s okay to have more, and the first navy recruits start training on destroyers.  Battleships are the foundation of the country. If you do this, a large number of people will jump out and argue with you. There are only two aircraft carriers in total. If you cancel the establishment, they will be gone.  Although Jin Batian doesn't know how many years it will take for aircraft carriers to develop due to the butterfly effect, but in general, it is better to retain some to train aircraft carrier personnel.

    At this time, the Central Navy has a total of seventy 10,000-ton heavy cruisers. It is not a big deal to retire ten of them.  As for the personnel on the original ship, all personnel were assigned to work on the larger battleship, and the positions of a few personnel working on the destroyer supply ship were also promoted.

    Overall, this plan is a result that most people are satisfied with - of course, the captains of the ten heavy cruisers are definitely not satisfied.  However, the number of people was too small, and the commotion subsided after a few days. Chen Shaokuan used his authority to send these people to the Lianyungang Naval Academy as instructors.

    The Nanjing government sold the decommissioned ten most seriously injured ships to Jin Batian's Nanyang Military Industry at a package price.

    Sent to Limin Ship Recycling Yard for dismantling?  Don't even think about it.  Then it will really become scrap metal.

    According to Jin Batian¡¯s idea, just build a museum and display these ten ships for tourists to see for free, which is more valuable than dismantling and selling scrap steel.

    But there is no need to rush to build a museum. It takes ten years to educate trees and a hundred years to educate people. Jin Batian's plan is to transform these ten 10,000-ton heavy cruisers into ocean-going cruise ships - or teaching ships.

    How to teach on a ship? It¡¯s very simple. Convert some cabins into bedrooms or offices - most of them don¡¯t need to change the original bedrooms of sailors at all.  Convert the bridge into a classroom, dismantle most of the heavy firepower on the deck, lay down a soft plastic floor and turn it into a playground - this school will be fully functioning.

    The ancients said that reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles.  Among the many number one scholars in the Ming Dynasty, none was as famous as Xu Xiake, a white-haired traveler. This shows that eight-part essays have no future.

    The purpose of building this tourist teaching ship is that Jin Batian remembered that in his previous life, due to the war of aggression, this country carried out the largest war in the world.??'s retreat.  Tens of millions of people moved factories, schools, and all available materials to Sichuan and Yunnan in the southwest.  However, the emergence of this situation made the academic environment extremely relaxed. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, a large number of master-level figures appeared in the country.

    A few foreign students extracted penicillin, which was worth gold at the time, in a simple laboratory. Coalification technology and modified gas cars were all representatives of the black technology of that era.  But it is obvious that after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, no new generation of masters emerged from both sides of the Taiwan Strait - indeed, there is no future for sitting in a classroom and then taking the joint entrance examination. Exam-oriented education has been criticized for many years.

    "But now that the central government's troops are victorious on the battlefield, is it possible that students and professors from Peking, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Nanjing are allowed to take another excursion to Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan? That doesn't make sense.

    This 10,000-ton tourist teaching ship was thought up by Jin Batian as a way to make up for historical loopholes.

    But if you think about it, you will know that it is equivalent to traveling around the world at public expense - the cost cannot be too low. Fortunately, Jin Batian is very rich.  After all, there are only a limited number of people who can ultimately board this kind of tourist teaching ship to receive education.  In other words, only elite education can be provided.

    But having said that, elite education is worse than letting those with higher education move bricks or earn less than those who move bricks - then what is the point of higher education? Since you are destined to move bricks, it is better to exercise and read since childhood. Just move bricks to make money.

    For this matter, Jin Batian sent a telegram to Cai Yuanpei and other seniors in the education field. These education circles are also very interested in this kind of global teaching cruise ship. This will undoubtedly be a pioneering work in the education field.

    Wang Yangming (Wang Shouren), the most famous thinker, military strategist, philosopher, writer, educator and calligrapher of the Ming Dynasty, whose ideological proposition of integrating knowledge and action has influenced many senior masters in the East of the world - including President Jiang and 186, etc., and even more so in Japan.  He has many disciples, among whom famous people include Omi Sage Nakae Fujiki, Restoration Sansai Takamori, thinker and educator Yoshida Shoin, the pioneer of the Meiji Restoration (this is the prototype of Ginsan Takasugi and others' mentor), Navy Commander Togo Heihachiro,  There are a large number of loyal supporters such as Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of the Mitsubishi Zaibatsu, Eiichi Shibusawa, the father of Japanese capitalism, Takeo Hirose, the Japanese military god, and Yukio Mishima, the writer.

    Regarding the ratio of students to teachers, Cai Yuanpei and others also put forward their own opinions-each class should be limited to forty students.  According to the teaching experience summarized by these education experts for many years, once a teacher teaches more than 40 students, the effectiveness of the lecture will drop significantly - it doesn't matter if it is cramming teaching or literacy education, but elite education naturally requires  Pay more attention to this.

    In this way, it is impossible to put a boat on a school.  It is still possible to put seven or eight classes of a grade into up to ten classes - although the ship can carry more than a thousand people, there must always be dozens of engine personnel. Although the sea is much more stable these days than in the Caribbean era, pirates  There are still some, which is why Jin Batian only dismantled most of the weapons.  It is still necessary to provide a dozen teachers and a dozen security guards for these three to four hundred students.

    During the transformation process, only the 20mm cannon remained on the ship. This cannon was finally fixed on the side of the ship and blocked in direction - allowing it to only shoot at the sea surface but not the deck. In this way  Even if the pirates climbed onto the ship and snatched the operating position of the machine gun, they would not be able to attack the people on the deck.

    In addition, these several levels of the bridge were converted into one large classroom and a dozen small classrooms.  In addition to teaching, the small classroom can also be used as a laboratory.  The big classroom is naturally a public classroom or auditorium.  From the deck to the bridge and the cabins used as dormitories, the inside and outside are covered with one to two inches of soft plastic - it's no joke that the all-steel thing will be bumped. When this train first appeared, it was still thought of with iron head skills.  Anyone who competes with a locomotive has a tragic result.

    These ten decommissioned heavy cruisers will be renovated after all the Central Navy fleets have been repaired. The reason for not being in a hurry is that the war has not come to an end yet, and the sea lanes will be more stable after the battle is over.

    Jin Batian knew about the agreement between the principal and Adolf to divide the world. According to this treaty, Europe, West Asia, and Africa belonged to Germany.  Most of Asia, including Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, etc., belong to the Nanjing government. In view of the fact that Britain has a large number of colonies in the Americas that do not fall within the scope of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, etc. (such as Canada, etc.), one person and half - the Antarctic is also handled in the same way.  I can't go now.

    Before the New Year at the end of December 1938, good news came again from the Army. All the little devils on the Korean Peninsula were driven into the water. The Navy also contributed to this. In order to deal with some fortresses of the little devils, Chen Shaokuan led the  The main force of the fleet used naval guns to bombard the sea for half a month.  This half month of naval gunfire has knocked away the last trace of courage of the Japanese, and also proved that flesh and blood and permanent fortifications on the ground are far from enough.Compared to over a ton of high-explosive artillery shells.

    After defeating the main force of the fleet from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, that is, from the East and West, the Central Navy finally began to show its domineering power over anyone else in the world, openly intercepting merchant ships from various countries in the sea outside Japan, and arresting all those deemed to be transporting military supplies to Japan.  The boat took people with them to check and seize it.

    Before the destruction of the United Fleet, the Japanese exchanged it for a large amount of money. Considering the unstable currency values ??of various countries during the war, the Japanese must have required this money to be settled in gold, silver and other precious metals.  In the end, the money came back after settlement, but now the devils have discovered one thing. The gold and silver are shiny and beautiful, but they are useless if they cannot buy food, steel, rubber, oil and other supplies.

    Sitting on Jinshan Mountain and starving is the best description of the Japanese now.  However, before attacking the Japanese mainland, the Nanjing government decided to regain Ryukyu first. Eat it one bite at a time.  The principal promised to recover Ryukyu after the Korean War when the Ryukyu people came to Nanjing to petition. It is hard to take it back now.

    ¡°Furthermore, the commander of the attack on Japan¡¯s main island has not been chosen well. It is a big deal to plant the red flag on Mount Fuji.  Judging from the current state of the little devil, whoever intervenes will only interfere, but this person is likely to become the next leader of this country with his merits and reputation.

    So, planting the flag is not such a simple matter.

    Jin Batian actually inquired about some inside information - because he was not from Huangpu, Jin Batian himself had no chance - if the principal wanted to pass on the position, he would naturally pass it on to his students.  Among them, Zhang Zhizhong, Xu Tingyao and others who are very popular are also out of luck, because they are the same age as the principal and one of the founders of Huangpu.  Of course, when training a successor, you need to find someone young, not someone of the same generation.

    In this way, the scope is much smaller.  Guan Linzheng, a serious first-term student of Huangpu, has been fighting directly against the Japanese and Russians in the north during the Anti-Japanese War. Now he has been promoted to the position of commander of the reorganized 17th Army that has completed the armor change. If he takes the Japanese mainland, with this  His reputation was second to that of the president, and he was able to take the post of president of Army University, commander-in-chief of the Army and chairman of the Military Commissariat, which was widely expected.

    Although it doesn¡¯t matter who holds the position of military committee chairman to Jin Batian, it is certainly better to have someone he knows.

    Jin Batian has already established himself in the Navy and is preparing to take over as Commander-in-Chief of the Navy after Chen Shaokuan. If you don¡¯t do this for me, your supply of refined oil and ships will be cut off. Besides, for having made so many contributions to the country and the nation, I will be rewarded.  It's not too much to be a commander-in-chief of the navy.  Finally embarking on the path of becoming the Space Pirate King - your goal is probably more important than that of the Night Rabbit clan.

    In order to regain Ryukyu, Jin Batian led the Qingdao Squadron with six main battleships, using the Yanshan as the flagship to cover the army's landing in Ryukyu.

    The Ryukyu Kingdom itself is composed of the Ryukyu Islands, which is composed of multiple islands. The Ryukyu Kingdom itself has been a vassal state of China since ancient times - the same as North Korea, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, and the Philippines.  At the end of the Qing Dynasty, due to the decline in national power, the Japanese directly sent troops to occupy it, and Okinawa Prefecture was established here.  However, the current Nanjing government no longer recognizes the bad debt left by the Qing court. At the beginning of 1939, the Nanjing government directly declared that Ryukyu is an integral part of the country.

    Landing operations are also a great test for the troops.  But now that the Central Army is strong and the Japanese army stationed in Ryukyu is weak, it will be easy to bully them.

    The essence of Ryukyu is Naha in the south, and it would be unwise to attack here directly.  The naval fleet led by Jin Batian circled around the nearby waters and sank all the ships flying the menstrual flag on several Ryukyu islands, regardless of size, and then sent hundreds of sailors to occupy Okinagabu Island in small boats.  There was only one small team of Japanese soldiers on the island, and the battle lasted only a few minutes. They were reduced to ashes under the smoke of the landing navy's guidance ship guns.

    After the island was temporarily safe, the transport ships behind and the towed landing craft also came to the island with engineering personnel and supplies, preparing to build a temporary airport here.  As for the personnel on the island, let them help build the airport. Food is taken care of here - if you don't come, you must be a die-hard loyalist of the Japanese, and you will die.

    After looking for local people and asking about the situation in Ryukyu at this time, I found out that although the Japanese soldiers had strengthened their defense in Ryukyu, in the end because the waterway was cut off, the Japanese soldiers were only a dissatisfied division, roughly mixed with a  The tour group is almost the same.  As the war became more and more unfavorable to the Japanese, the Japanese base camp had actually abandoned this place. Only a few Japanese officers still had the idea of ????death for their country, but the hearts of the soldiers below were unstable and they had a tendency that they could no longer control.

    This dissatisfied Japanese division now often has soldiers deserting - and some even work as door-to-door sons-in-law for local residents.  For most people, staying alive is the most important thing. It seems that the imperial education provided by the Japanese is still not thorough enough.

    Get this news and prepareZhang Lingfu, commander of the 40th Division fighting on the mainland, felt much more relieved.  Today's little Japs are no longer the ones who dared to jump to Shaanxi and Shanxi for the decisive battle. To say that many of those Japs soldiers were die-hards, did they just end up fulfilling their wish to go to Jiuduanban - just that  The longer the journey, the more lonely ghosts there will probably be.

    Then many landing craft were towed here. For the safety of nearby shipping routes, the Marine Corps captured Ipingya Island not far away - there was a lighthouse here and a squad of Japanese troops were stationed there.

    Because they did not want to destroy the lighthouse, the naval guns did not appear. This small-scale battle became more intense. A dozen Japanese soldiers guarding the lighthouse tried their best to pull the big bolt and shoot, but they fell to the automatic weapons and semi-automatic weapons of the Marine Corps one after another.  Under the weapon - I have long said that pulling the big bolt is outdated, but the Japanese just don't believe it.

    The 40th Division that regained Ryukyu spent a week transporting personnel and supplies, and built an airstrip on Okinagabu Island within half a month.  After making all preparations, Zhang Lingfu began to command the troops to launch the landing operation against Naha.

    Although the Japs on Naha Island have made countless preparations and deductions in the past few years, the air and sea are dominated by the Central Army. Although it is a division against the previous division, the Japs' artillery shells are useless.  If they lose a little less, there is no way to replenish the personnel. Here, Zhang Lingfu not only has the artillery and bombing support of the navy and air force, but the supply levels and firepower of the two sides are not at all on the same line.

    On the first day of the Forty Division's landing operations, they notified the Navy of all the bunkers placed by the Japanese near the coast. After cleaning them with naval guns, the Japanese soldiers stationed in Naha did not have many tricks they could use - Ryukyu itself was too small.  , and cannot even use the mountain guerrilla warfare once used by the Japanese troops stationed in Taiwan.  And support from the main island is a no-brainer. Nowadays, the arsenal and shipyards on the main island are often bombed or shelled by naval artillery by the Central Army. Occasionally, some small factories that have not been bombed have moved to the countryside, and the remaining ones have moved to the countryside.  The little planes and small ships are either hidden in the mountains or in the inland rivers and seas - they can't get out of the main island. They are supporting the colonies. What a joke.  (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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