Chapter 150 Navy
"Are we really going to fight?" Liu Guangzhong looked at Wang Mazi blankly.
"Take it seriously!" Wang Mazi nodded.
"Are you fighting the Japanese devils?" Liu Guangzhong asked again.
"Fight with the Japanese devils!" Wang Mazi nodded sincerely.
Liu Guangzhong sighed and lowered his head and stopped talking.
After a while, when Liu Guangzhong raised his head again, Zhang Chi realized that he seemed to have changed. He raised his glass with bright eyes and full of vigor and said, "Okay! I won't say anything. I'll give you a cup first. Thank you brothers and all the brothers from the New First Division for giving us this opportunity to be proud!"
"Sir! You are so serious!" Wang Mazi said and raised his wine glass.
Liu Guangzhong didn't say anything, drank one cup after another, and soon he drank three cups, making Zhang Chi and Wang Mazi unable to keep up with his rhythm.
Then, Zhang Chi was shocked to find that there were two lines of old tears on Liu Guangzhong's face.
This made Wang Mazi feel at a loss and asked quickly: "Sir, you are..."
Liu Guangzhong waved his hand and sighed: "Brother, you don't know the pain of our navy!"
"Sir, I understand!" Wang Mazi didn't say anything, but just raised his glass to toast Liu Guangzhong.
Although Zhang Chi didn't know what happened to the navy... Although Zhang Chi was a modern person, he had always had little knowledge of the Kuomintang's navy, and could hardly even be said to be unknown. This was mainly because the Kuomintang navy had almost no role in the War of Resistance, so this could be said to be a force that was left by history and people.
However, in this situation, Zhang Chi also felt that Liu Guangzhong had many difficulties in front of him, and he also felt that he was not as brave and incompetent as Xu Zhengkai. Looking at Liu Guangzhong's appearance, he couldn't help but rushing to his forehead with a burst of passion, raising his glass to Liu Guangzhong from afar and said, "Sir, after this glass, let's fight the Japanese together in the future!"
"Okay!" Liu Guangzhong was not refusing to come at this time, and just shouted happily, then raised his cup and blew it all out. Then he lit up the cup in front of Zhang Chi and said, "War the Japanese together, never stop until they die!"
That night, Liu Guangzhong was drunk until he was helped back to the room to rest by the guards and shouted: "Drink another cup, and after this cup, go fight the Japanese!"
Later, Zhang Chi learned from Wang Mazi that among the Kuomintang army, the navy was actually the most afflicted.
This frustration was not only because the Chinese Democratic Party Navy sank dozens of major naval warships into the seabed during the 1937 period, but during the September 18th Incident in 1931, the Japanese Navy occasionally took the Chinese Navy at sea, but Principal Jiang forced the navy to "not fight back."
This move is not entirely a non-resistance policy. Of course, there is still a "non-resistance" policy. At this time, Principal Jiang's purpose was to gain a few years to prepare, but what is more important and direct to the Navy is... The "Ninghai", the largest warship in the history of the Kuomintang, was still built in Japan. Once it broke up, it would definitely affect the delivery time of the "Ninghai".
So the price paid was that the navy swallowed his anger again and again on the Japanese side.
After the successful delivery of the "Ninghai" does not mean that the navy's nightmare is over. Then the Kuomintang hopes to build a "Ninghai" class cruiser "Pinghai"... This is actually the Kuomintang hopes to try to learn Japan's advanced shipbuilding technology and achieve the goal of localization, but many of the parts of the "Pinghai" "Jiangnan Shipyard" cannot be built, so it still has to rely on Japan.
This means that the Navy has to continue to swallow its anger.
In fact, there was nothing we could do if we couldn't bear to swallow our anger. At that time, the Japanese Navy claimed to be the world's number one, while the Kuomintang Navy had only dozens of old and dilapidated ones, and had no power to fight at all.
So in the final analysis, it is because the country's industry is backward and has to swallow this breath.
The Kuomintang Navy always thought that it would always be a day to be proud when it swallowed this energy, but in 37 years, the battle in Jiangyin almost wiped out the entire navy, and then it was even more depressed. This made all naval crew members lose their confidence in revitalizing the navy. This is why Zhang Chi saw that the navy had no spirit of soldiers at the port.
Zhang Chi was relieved after hearing this. As a soldier, Zhang Chi knew very well that an army was not afraid of lack of confidence and morale, which could be recovered in future training. On the contrary, if there was no desire to kill the enemy and no resentment towards the enemy, it would be difficult to deal with.
And Liu Guangzhong and the crew he brought obviously had the latter.
The next day, when Liu Guangzhong woke up, Zhang Chi and Wang Mazi took him to see the "Xianghe".
Liu Guangzhong looked at the "Shock Crane" standing in front of him like a mountain but couldn't react for a long time.
"This... is this what you are talking about?" Liu Guangzhong was a little unbelievable, and the seamen behind him were all exclaiming praise from time to time with their mouths wide open.
You should know that China's largest warship in the past, the Ninghai, bought from Japan, had a displacement of more than 2,000 tons, while the Xianghe ship was more than 33,000 tons... It is more than ten times larger than the Ninghai ship, so naturally the seafarers' eyes are straightened.
"Yes! Sir!" Wang Mazi smiled and said, "This is thanks to Captain Zhang..."
As he said that, Wang Mazi raised his head to Zhang Chi and said, "He took over this aircraft carrier!"
Liu Guangzhong looked at Zhang Chi with a shocked face, then looked at the aircraft carrier and said, "This... is this for us?"
"Of course!" Wang Mazi replied.
Liu Guangzhong did not change much when he heard this answer, but the crew members behind him all showed joy.
"But..." Liu Guangzhong said with some embarrassment: "Brother, we are our own family, and I am not afraid of making a fool of you... We can't drive this boat, nor can we use it. This..."
"Sir!" Wang Mazi replied: "You don't have to worry about these things. Americans can drive them. They can teach you how to drive them, how to use them, and how to fight against the Japanese!"
Liu Guangzhong nodded constantly when he heard this and said, "That's good, that's good!"
"Or..." Seeing Liu Guangzhong still stunned at the aircraft carrier, Zhang Chi said, "Let's go up and take a look!"
"Okay!" Liu Guangzhong then reacted and shouted, "Go up and take a look!"
The crew members followed him and cheered when they heard this. They were eager to try it out, but because Liu Guangzhong did not speak, he dared not act rashly. He rushed onto the aircraft carrier like a bird that was released from a cage.
Chapter completed!