The descendants of Zhao Chengxun, the eight pillars of the empire, were indeed extraordinary, and the senior engineers of the Nanjiang Naval Ship Design Institute were by no means a fictional reputation.

After half an hour of conversation, Bai Zhizhan felt like he was enlightened, and he felt like he was suddenly enlightened. Many questions that made Bai Zhizhan puzzled. Zhao Yu could explain them in just one sentence, at most a few sentences, and his insights and predictions on the development direction of the navy were also very unique.

Let's give a very simple example.

Bai Zhizhan mentioned that neither the seaplanes that have already emerged on the naval battle stage nor the conventional take-off and landing aircraft currently being rushing to develop in various countries, they cannot carry blockbusters that can pose a threat to large warships, let alone accurately drop bombs at targets. Due to the limitation of bomb loading capacity, even if the accuracy of the bomb drop is not considered, the aircraft will be difficult to pose a threat to warships protected by heavy armor.

In a word, if a bomb cannot be blown into a warship, then what is the use of an aircraft carrying and throwing bombs?

Zhao Yu did not answer directly, but gave an example.

submarine.

Before the war broke out, the great powers refused to believe that such ships that were only a few hundred tons, not even large caliber naval guns, and could only dive to avoid when encountering danger, posing a threat to a maritime power and even influence the direction of the war. Therefore, no country attached importance to submarines before the war.

As a result, the Kingdom of Bran was almost forced to death by dozens of submarines from the Tsuman Navy!

Some people believe that if the Thuman Navy could pay attention to submarines earlier and use one-tenth of the resources to build a high seas fleet to develop submarines and double the number of submarines, then the war is likely to end with the surrender of the Kingdom of Bran the second year of its outbreak.

Unfortunately, there is no if in reality.

In addition, the performance and tactical applications of submarines have also made rapid progress in the war and have become a well-deserved main warship.

Zhao Yu used submarines as an example, and was actually telling Bai Zhizhan that the development of technology is unpredictable, so the problems mentioned by Bai Zhizhan are actually not problems. As long as the technology is made and the performance of the aircraft is improved, it will inevitably change the appearance of naval warfare.

Does this need an explanation?

Coming out of the building, the cold autumn wind blew towards him, and Bai Zhizhan immediately woke up.

Zhao Yu is not only extremely smart, but also very capable of fooling people.

After saying so many words, almost all of them were saliva in summing up. No one said the key point. Even the few words that made Bai Zhizhan enlightened were not considered as foresight. Either someone had already proposed it or they were told in a novel way.

All are old wines in new bottles!

To be objective, it can be considered as clear as bystanders at most.

Still using airplanes to say things.

Technological progress is inevitable, and all classic military theories admit that tactics are driven by technology, and there are tactics that come with the same technology. For example, in the era of flintlock rifles, soldiers stood shoulder to shoulder in a row. After the Maxim machine guns boarded the war stage, trenches and foxgloves replaced the front lines. Tanks that appeared in the later stages of the war could crush the defense line composed of trenches, barbed wire and machine guns.

The same is true for naval battles.

From wooden sail warships to ironclad ships, to former dreadnoughts propelled by steam engines and propellers, dreadnoughts that dominate the ocean during the war, sneak attacks invincible submarines, and even destroyers that rely on torpedoes to change the balance of naval battles, without exception, they are all technical weapons.

With the advancement of technology, new technical weapons will inevitably appear on the stage of war.

By then, replacing battleships and changing the appearance of naval battles will be the inevitable result.

It can be seen that Zhao Yu did not reveal much valuable information to Bai Zhizhan.

The only thing to admit is that Zhao Yu has complete systematic knowledge and his understanding of technical weapons is far higher than that of professional soldiers such as Bai Zhizhan.

In fact, this is also what Bai Zhizhan couldn't understand the most.

Zhao Yu has never been to the battlefield, let alone participated in the battle. How did he know the trend of war and how did he rely on to judge the direction of military development?

Just guessing!?

It’s not surprising to guess some nonsense.

However, many of Zhao Yu's predictions are actually development trends. At least Bai Zhizhan believes that it is the way of fighting in the next war.

For example, Zhao Yu mentioned electronic technology.

This is definitely the most cutting-edge and not known to the outside world for the time being.

It was only in the past two years that the Imperial Navy discovered in practice that under certain specific circumstances, communication radio stations will be disturbed by electromagnetic waves emitted by themselves, especially short-wave radio stations. The Imperial Navy established an institution to study this phenomenon and explore the value of military applications.

Zhao Yu not only accurately stated under what circumstances would radio communication be disturbed, but also proposed that interference can be used to convert radio stations into a detection tool. This idea was only thought of by the Imperial Navy's research institute a few months ago.

How did Bai Zhizhan know?

The research institution is affiliated to the Imperial Naval Academy and recruited some students who studied communications to participate in the research. Bai Zhizhan is one of them.

Before he left the Naval Academy and went to the 21st Squadron, the relevant research started and there was still a long way to go before he achieved substantial results.

For Bai Zhizhan, the biggest gain from this in-depth conversation was actually to strengthen his previous beliefs.

Regardless of whether the aircraft can replace warships and become the dominant force in the future marine battlefield, the Imperial Navy must carry out reforms if it wants to sweep the world.

Objectively speaking, replacing the main ship with aviation troops at least doesn't look too illusory.

If you don’t seek change and still try brute force, even if you follow the example of the battle of Nanjiangkou and slept with firewood and taste gall for fifty years, there would be no other result.

The next time I lose, I am afraid I won’t have as good luck as I am now.

In the next month, Bai Zhizhan was reborn and mostly spent time in a shipyard or ship design institute, and borrowed a large amount of literature.

It is not only digesting the knowledge gained from Zhao Yu, but also recharging himself.

Although Bai Zhizhan studied aviation reconnaissance major and got good grades in the Excellence League, he didn't like this major. He only earned good grades a few days before the exam. The key is that aviation and reconnaissance are both newly opened majors, and the exam questions are relatively simple.

After a deeper understanding, Bai Zhizhan realized that he had wasted five years of time.

Fortunately, it is not too late to make up for it now.

This is like returning to the Naval Academy life, which lasts until the last day of the 78th year of the New Calendar.

Because tomorrow is New Year's Day, the chef specifically reminded him that he would have a dinner party in the evening, so Bai Zhizhan did not go to the design institute and stayed in the archives of the shipyard in the afternoon. After sunset, Bai Zhizhan brought a set of design drawings of the warship he had borrowed and rushed to the restaurant that had been brightly lit.

The hall was full of people, but there was no music playing, and everyone was gathered together.

What's the point of making a fortune?

When he approached, Bai Zhizhan discovered that there was a radio on the table in the middle of the crowd, and a technical worker from a shipyard was adjusting the channel.

Who got this radio?

Bai Zhizhan has seen a radio, and He Yongxing has one. But for ordinary people, the radio is definitely a rare high-end thing.

In fact, radio was promoted and popularized during the war.
Chapter completed!