Chapter 1227: 1228 The lagging navy
Compared to the huge navy of the Tang Empire, Qin's navy can be described as mini. Even compared to the navies of other countries, it is far from powerful.
Because of the war between Shu and Qin, this navy had no energy to purchase the submarine technology of the Tang Empire. Therefore, the Shu navy inherited by Qin did not have submarines available.
So what kind of warships does the Shu navy have? In other words, how much wealth did Qin inherit from the navy of Shu?
First of all, the Shu Navy has a very small number of battleships. It only has 5 old battleships. When the world's navy was developing rapidly, Shu did not choose to follow up because it focused on problems.
In the past ten years, the Shu Kingdom, which was entirely run by merchants, believed that rail transportation between the road and the Tang Empire was the top priority, so they did not invest too much in the navy.
In any case, Shu itself has no intention of competing with Chu and the Dorne Empire for supremacy in the southern seas, so the development of its naval power is very conservative.
The five old battleships generally have a displacement of around 17,000 tons, and their full load does not exceed 22,000 tons. It can be said that they are very beautiful in size.
With this kind of displacement, the level of protection will certainly not be high. In fact, these battleships are benchmarked against the first-generation Dreadnought-class battleships of the Tang Empire, and their overall performance remains at the level of the World War I era.
It is impossible to expect these five slow-moving, old battleships with a main gun caliber of only 305 mm to attack the Tang Empire's fleet. Whether they can defeat Chu's battleships is a question mark.
In the early years, Chu State built three battleships with the support of the Great China Empire. As soon as the war with the Tang Empire started, these battleships took refuge in the ports of Shu.
The war later ended, and the Great China Empire's plan to rely on the navy of the vassal state Chu to cut off the Tang Empire's sea transportation lines went bankrupt, and these three battleships were not used at all.
However, although Chu's three battleships did not have the guts to challenge the Tang Empire's navy, they did have the guts to fight the Shu navy.
With the help of the Datang Group, Chu's three battleships underwent a series of modern modifications, used better boilers, and installed radar systems, significantly improving their combat effectiveness.
Even though the main guns of these three battleships only have a caliber of 305 mm and a displacement of about 20,000 tons, their equipment is indeed better than the five battleships of the Shu Kingdom, so...it is hard to say who will win in a real fight.
In terms of cruisers, the Shu Kingdom has a large number, because the Shu Kingdom hopes that its warships can protect its merchant fleet and increase its presence in low-intensity conflicts.
This kind of businessman's thinking led the Shu Kingdom to build 33 cruisers of various types. Until the demise of the Shu Kingdom, these warships never participated in any decent actual combat.
Later, these warships all surrendered to the Qin State. They did not have the character of Erdezi, nor did they turn on the sea valves and scuttle themselves tragically. They just honestly changed their flags and became the Qin Navy.
After all, Qin was a landlocked country before and they did not have a navy. Therefore, after taking control of Shu's ports and establishing their own navy, they still relied on Shu's naval team.
However, the Qin State instinctively did not trust these Shu naval commanders, so they placed a large number of their own people on each warship. This behavior directly led to two results: the first was that the Qin landlubbers who knew nothing but were in high positions affected the navy's dispatch and command, reducing the combat effectiveness of the naval fleet; the second result was that the middle and low-level officers and soldiers of the Shu navy There are complaints about the lack of promotion channels, which also affects the navy's combat effectiveness.
Due to a lack of training and the temporary lack of enough fuel, this navy has not left the port for more than a year. One can only imagine what the combat effectiveness of this "existential navy" is.
As for destroyers, the Shu destroyer force, most of which are not equipped with torpedoes, has almost no decent combat effectiveness. It would be fine to expect them to fight pirates and patrol the sea areas, but to expect them to leapfrog and challenge the Tang Dynasty Navy was really a waste of time.
It is such a navy that is actually not very good, but in the hands of the Qin State, it has to perform the impossible task of "attacking the southern waters of the Tang Empire and containing the Tang Empire fleet".
Yingduo was also unsure, so he decided to increase naval military expenditures in the next year and allocate funds to the navy to build more warships to complete the confidential and arduous task.
Qin’s shipbuilding plan is very large and seems to be very targeted: Qin purchases technology from Cyric and Dorn, builds 150 submarines of various types by itself, and purchases from external sources!
Although the senior officials of the Qin State who had fought in the war did not understand naval warfare, they had a very vicious vision: they did not place their hopes on the weak surface naval forces. They were prepared to use submarines to fight an asymmetric war!
In addition to submarines, the Qin State is also preparing to deploy 300 torpedo boats near the coastline of the Shu Kingdom. This is learning from the suicide boat tactics of the Shu Kingdom, and using torpedo technology to make up for the shortcomings in the attack distance of the suicide speedboats.
In addition, the Qin State also built four aircraft carriers, which was the right path: according to Ying Duo's plan, when Dorne's main fleet and its own submarines had dispersed and consumed the Tang Empire's naval fleet, he The aircraft carrier fleet can defeat the Tang fleet in an upright manner and seize control of the sea.
By then, in conjunction with Dorne's aircraft carrier, the two countries will form a huge naval aircraft carrier formation. Hundreds of aircraft and dozens of warships will be on the route of the Tang Empire. Will the Tang Empire's fuel run out be just around the corner?
It’s just that we don’t know how many of the 150 submarines planned by Yingduo can be produced and built in the future, and how much role these submarines can play.
In fact, on the surface, Ying Duo's vision is still very unique: he keenly captured the key direction of the development of the navy of a weak country: flying and diving quickly. Just because of technical limitations and time constraints, it is hard to say how effective Qin's system will be.
Moreover, due to personnel changes, various conflicts within the Qin Navy, and lay leaders who are experts, etc., it is bound to be difficult to implement Ying Duo's ambitious naval development plan.
But plans are finally in place, and countries are also using this short period of peace to expand their military strength. Even, in order to detonate this war at the appropriate time, both sides tacitly agreed to leave a fuse and a barrel of explosives that could be ignited at any time!
That’s right, the inexorable insistence of both the Tang Empire and the Qin Empire allowed the Great China Civil War to continue. Zhao Jie received support from the Qin State, but was unable to make the Northern Expedition; Zhao Yu received assistance from the Tang Empire, but was unable to successfully march south...
Everyone is waiting to break the balance of the civil war in Dahua when they think they are sure. Then the real chess player comes off the stage, kicking off a new round of war.
The main theme of human development is war...Peace is just a precious thing interspersed between wars. The development and progress of science and technology have made war more cruel and peace more precious.