The British Navy must be defeated!
If the British navy cannot be defeated, it will be impossible for South China to win the future war.
The only problem is how to defeat this navy with hundreds of thousands of tons of armored ships.
Of course, this is definitely a joke to outsiders. After all, in comparison, Nanhua's navy is simply weak and not worth mentioning.
Just thinking about defeating the Royal Navy is simply a dream!
Sometimes people have to have dreams. The same goes for countries!
In the early morning of the next day after he was promoted, a naval lieutenant who called himself Ma Guorong picked up Liu Tiannian in front of the officers' quarters. Liu Tiannian looked at Ma Guorong specifically.
There is nothing special about his appearance. He is the kind of person that people will forget after seeing him once. Lieutenant Ma Guorong
After asking him to get on the carriage, they took him directly to the Tianya Peninsula. After the carriage drove for almost half an hour, they finally arrived at the small bay in the peninsula. This bay was called an unnamed small bay, but it was the same as the Tianya Peninsula.
, are all military restricted areas, and there are more than a dozen small boats parked near the small pier in the bay.
Even though he was an instructor at the Naval Academy, Liu Tiannian did not know the use of those small boats. Then they took a carriage to a small dock with high walls. The dock not only had high walls but also a roof.
The dock was heavily guarded, and Ma Guorong showed his ID and made a phone call.
There's actually a telephone in here!
After multiple checks, the two finally entered the fence and had lunch in a wooden room. A simple meal for the workers: steamed buns, fish and meat and potato cubes. All the workers in Nanhua ate the same meal.
Because sea fish is cheap enough, it has always been the main meat for ordinary workers. Occasionally, it is replaced by beef offal and haggis offal, which are even cheaper.
During the meal, Ma Guorong asked Liu Tiannian a lot of questions, mainly about navigation.
Liu Tiannian naturally answered these questions one by one. As an instructor at the Naval Academy, he can naturally answer those questions easily.
"It seems that the commander-in-chief didn't choose the wrong person!"
Ma Guorong smiled, picked up the rice on the plate with chopsticks, and then said.
"The strength gap between us and the British Navy is too big. The tonnage of our warships is less than a fraction of theirs. This means that we must try our best to attack them by all means, such as torpedo boats! Do you know about torpedo boats?"
"Is it a lightning strike tactic? I remember this is a secret tactic of the Navy."
"Yes, the bay we are in is where the navy's torpedo boats are stationed, but their training is in Cape Bay,"
Cape Bay is the southernmost bay on the mainland. It is far away from settlements, and the navy conducts training there completely out of confidentiality.
"Lightning strike tactics are very effective, but although torpedo boats are small, they are still easy to be destroyed, so in the past few years, we have been studying new attack methods-submarines!"
"submarine!"
Liu Tiannian said in surprise/
"You mean the submarine?"
In fact, in this era, submarines had already been invented. As early as April 1863, French officer Simon Bourgeois built the world's first submarine, the "Diver", which was completely powered by mechanical power. It was 36 meters long and was longer than before.
Any submarine that comes out will be bigger.
"Yes, it is the submarine. After science invented the submarine, unlike the British who were disdainful, the French took great interest. They hoped to use new weapons to subvert the British advantage from underwater,"
"So do we!"
It was for the same reason that Liu Tiannian noticed it.
"However, even though the French noticed it, how could they use submarines to attack surface ships? So we thought of torpedoes!"
Then Ma Guorong explained it to him as plainly as possible. Obviously, Ma Guorong was a true expert in submarine technology. His knowledge was vast and profound, which Liu Tiannian could not match, and he could not help but be in awe.
"The submarine sails under the sea, which means it is extremely concealed. If a submarine launches a torpedo underwater to attack a surface target, it will definitely be easy to succeed."
Ma Guorong said.
"So, in the past two years, we have been studying this, how to combine submarines and torpedoes, and of course more importantly, how to sail the submarine for a long time at sea! At the beginning, we used a small three-expansion
Although it can drive a submarine to sail at sea, it will face many problems after diving into the water, such as unburned coal continuing to consume air, and its ignition problem. In short, after a series of attempts
, we proved that submarines using steam engines have no development potential at all! This delayed our research."
Ma Guorong shrugged regretfully, then took out a cigarette from the cigarette case with his slender fingers and said to Liu Tiannian.
"Later we got a new type of internal combustion engine, and the problem was finally solved. Compared with steam engines, internal combustion engines are simply a perfect machine. It is smaller in size, easier to install in small submarines, and does not take up too much space.
space……"
The internal combustion engine developed by Otto Company is definitely a miracle from the perspective of this era. Of course, this miracle is based on the gasoline engine provided by Zhu Xianhai. So far it has developed into a series of products, including the Navy
The submarine uses one of these models.
"I have heard of Otto's internal combustion engine, but unfortunately the power is too small to be used on warships, but it is suitable for use on submarines. After all, submarines are not big."
Liu Tiannian said.
"We will need larger submarines in the future. After all, we need to go to the ocean to fight."
Ma Guorong continued.
"The traditional psychology of the British navy is to go to the ocean to fight for sea control, defeat the enemy in the naval battle, and win the naval battle. Since the Battle of Trafalgar, this has been the only purpose of naval battles! But in fact, for the weaker party,
Said that what he pursues is not necessarily sea control, but to prevent the strong ones on the sea from using its sea control. Once the strong warships can only park in ports or bases, then they will have a powerful fleet.
It has no effect. If we can find a way to make them hide in the harbor, then the rules of engagement will change. This is what we need to do with submarines, which is to sink them at sea and make Britain huge.
The navy dare not go to sea!"
"As soon as we go to sea, we have to face submarine attacks. We don't necessarily have to have sea control, but we have to destroy the British's sea control, or let them have sea control in vain and cannot use it!"
On this point, Liu Tiannian and Ma Guorong undoubtedly have the same views, and it is easy for them to find common ground.
"So our purpose is not to compete with the Huang Navy for sea control, but to prevent the British from using their sea control."
After thinking for a while, Liu Tiannian said.
"In the past, my idea was to turn the sea into a dangerous ocean by laying mines, and to restrict the use of the British navy by laying a large number of mines. Of course, now that we have submarines, the effect may be better."
"No, the effect is better. I can tell you responsibly that when combined with torpedoes, it is an unprecedented miracle."
This chapter has been completed!