Compared with 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 did not have the energy to purchase the Tang Empire's submarine technology, so 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 capital ships. 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 businessmen, believed that the railway transportation between the road and the Tang Empire was the top priority, so they did not invest too much in the navy.
Anyway, 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 definitely not be high. In fact, these battleships are benchmarked against the Tang Empire's first-generation Dreadnought-class battleships, and their overall performance is still at the level of the World War I era.
It is impossible to expect these five battleships, which are slow, old, and have only 305 mm main guns, to attack the Tang Empire's fleet. Whether they can defeat Chu's battleships is a question mark.
In the early years, the 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 fled to the port of Shu to take shelter.
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 with the Shu navy.
With the help of Datang Group, Chu's three battleships underwent a series of modern modifications, used better boilers, installed radar systems, and significantly improved their combat effectiveness.
Although the main guns of these three battleships only have a caliber of 305 mm and a displacement of only 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 Er Dezi, nor did they unscrew the sea valve and sink 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 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 kind of combat effectiveness this "existential navy" has.
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 the Tang Dynasty to challenge the Navy of the Tang Dynasty would be too late.
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."
Ying Duo 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 speedboats near the coastline of the Shu Kingdom. This is learning from the suicide speedboat tactics of the Shu Kingdom, and using torpedo technology to make up for the shortcomings of the suicide speedboat attack distance.
In addition, the Qin State also built four aircraft carriers, which was the right path: according to Yingduo'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.
At that time, 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. Isn't it just around the corner that the Tang Empire will run out of fuel?
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 useful these submarines can be.
In fact, from the surface, Yingduo's vision is still very unique: he keenly captured the key direction of the development of the navy of a weak country: fast flying and submarine speed. 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 contradictions within the Qin Navy, and layman leadership, it is bound to be difficult to implement Yingduo's ambitious naval development plan.
But the plan is finally in place, and countries are also using this short period of peace to strengthen their military forces. 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!
Yes, the Tang Empire and the Qin Empire unanimously insisted on allowing 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, waiting for the moment when they think they are sure, to break the balance of the civil war in Great China. 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.
(End of chapter)
