Nanjing Jinling Shipyard.

The machine rumbling there, and the shipyard was busy.

When the navy's strength cannot be rapidly improved in a short period of time, Wang Hengyue has focused more on aircraft carriers and submarines.[]

Nanjing Shipyard is undoubtedly a very important submarine production base.

Here, a large number of Chinese and foreign engineers, designers and technical workers gather here.

Before the European War, because the traditional "big ship and giant cannon" dominate the naval world, many naval generals despised the role of underwater submarines in naval warfare. They believed that the victory or defeat of naval warfare mainly depends on the face-to-face competition between large warships "thick decks" and "large-caliber artillery". Submarines have no position on the naval warfare stage, and at best they are used to defend against the attacks of enemy warships. However, after the beginning of the European War, when the submarine appeared on the naval warfare stage, it showed an impressive advantage. Its flexible and maneuverable combat capability made huge surface combat ships sink into the deep sea with the bodies of many sailors.

War tells people that submarines are elusive and magic weapons, and submarines are effective naval combat weapons. The dazzling glory of submarines has lasted for a long time, and their combat power is not as predicted by some military experts.

The Chinese Navy under the leadership of President Wang Hengyue is undoubtedly a country that attaches the most importance to submarine production and development!

The manager of Nanjing Jinling Shipyard is surnamed Chen, and this man is undoubtedly an outstanding genius figure in the history of Chinese submarines.

〖China's earliest submarine was built in 1880. This submarine was first built by a "daoist" named Chen. He first designed the drawings and called on the Qing government to support it. He also expressed his willingness to guarantee the contract that if it is proved to be unsuitable after completion, the labor cost will not be collected, and the materials used will be compensated at the price.

Daoist Chen's suggestion was supported by the Qing government. In the summer of 1880, construction began at the Tianjin Machinery Bureau.

The project was carried out under absolutely confidential conditions at that time. Dao Zheng Chen personally led more than ten craftsmen to enclose the walls inside and outside the machine bureau, and was on high alert. Then he purchased wood and iron sheets and started construction. After a whole summer of construction, the "underwater machine ship" was completed.

It is "like an olive, with a water mark and a water absorber on it. If the water mark shrinks into the boat one foot, the boat will fall into the water thousands of feet. It must send mines under the water and place them under the enemy ship." On the 18th of the 18th month of the 1880 period, the Mid-Autumn Festival, this "underwater ship" conducted a trial voyage in Haihe. According to records, the ship sailed half-floating on the water surface, which was extremely flexible and quite suitable for use: sinking into the water, the water mark still floated about a foot of the water surface, leaving nothing on the water surface, and the mines were all satisfactory...............

But strangely, this successful submarine that was not officially used or continued to study, has disappeared from now on, leaving neither a name nor more records, and people even know what the power propulsion system of the first submarine made by the Chinese looked like, how to ascend or submerge, how the hull structure, etc.

But Wang Hengyue remembers this man, the maker of China's first submarine, can even be said to be the "father of China's submarines"!

Wang Hengyue asked Yang Fangyun to find ways to invite the Taoist senator named Chen and let him serve as the director of Jinling Shipyard.

When Wang Hengyue invited him out of the mountain and asked him for his real name, he smiled slightly: "I just want to do something practical for the Chinese submarines, and I don't want to leave any eternal heroic names. Everyone likes to call me "Taoist". Then I will call him Taoist Chen from now on."

This is also a beautiful story.

The chief engineer of Jinling Shipyard was also a Qing official.

The man's name is Wei Han, who was once the shipbuilding director of the Navy Department of the Qing Dynasty. In the first year of the Republic of China, he was appointed as the director of the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau. After Wang Hengyue obtained national power, his first thing he did was to transfer Wei Han from Fujian to Nanjing Jinling Shipyard as chief engineer.

This Wei Han is an amazing person!

He organized the development of China's first cruiser, "Kaiji" ship: made China's first iron armored ship, "Longwei" ship: participated in the manufacture of China's first steel turtle torpedo ship, "Guangyi" ship: China's first mine hunting ship, "Jianwei" ship: presided over and participated in the construction of "Kaiji", "Henghai", "Jingqing", "Huantai", "Guangjia", "Guangyi Xiao" Guangbing", "Guanggeng", "Longwei", "Fujing", "Tongji", "Fu'an" and other ten-ear hot boats: made indelible contributions to the development of China's shipbuilding industry.

His family is also one of the most famous naval families in modern China. Wei Han’s nine brothers and cousins ​​are all named Navy Gao, and six of them graduated from the Shipment Administration School!

Wei Han graduated with the first place in the first class of the first students in the Shipbuilding School and stayed in Fuzhou Shipbuilding to do technical work. Later, he became one of the first naval officers in China to go overseas for inspection and study abroad. During his study in France, while learning shipbuilding skills, he also studied law. He hired an assistant to the Royal French Bar Association. From the day of his reputation, he was awarded the title of Doctor of Law.

After Wei Han returned to China... he served as the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Office... the chief engineer... that is, the chief engineer. He organized the development of China's first cruiser, the "Kaiji". This ship is called "a giant ship that has never existed in China."

At this time, Fuzhou Shipbuilding Officer, under the leadership of Wei Han and others, also built three Clippers.

After the Battle of Majiang in China, Wei Han and his colleagues learned the lessons of the fall of the Fujian Navy in Majiang, and felt deeply that the armored ships must be made as soon as possible to enhance the combat effectiveness of the navy. It is recommended to develop the armored ships as soon as possible. After the Battle of Majiang in China, Wei Han and his colleagues learned the lessons of the fall of the Fujian Navy in Majiang, and felt deeply that the armored ships must be made as soon as possible to enhance the combat effectiveness of the navy. It is recommended to develop the armored ships as soon as possible. At the end of 1887, under the auspices of Wei Han and others, the first ironed ships built by China themselves, "Dragon Hard" ships were officially launched one by one.

In 1904, Wei Han was transferred to Guangdong and was in charge of the Guangdong Mine Bureau, Torpedo Bureau, and Huangpu Ship Bureau. He also served as the General Office of the Huangpu Naval Academy, the General Office of the Huangpu Naval Academy, and the General Office of the Huangpu Naval Academy, and the General Office of the Industrial Academy.

In the first year of the Republic of China, Wei Han returned to the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau and became the director. Although he was over 60 years old at this time, Wei Han was ambitious and focused on reviving the Shipbuilding Bureau. In the spring of 1915, Wei Han also brought outstanding students from the Naval School to the United States to study aircraft and submarine manufacturing.

When Wang Hengyue officially hired him as the chief engineer of the "Nanjing Jinling Shipyard", Wei Han was nearly 70 years old, but he did not consider that he was old at all, so he accepted the appointment happily and set off for Nanjing the next day.

Wang Shuyue's army was mostly young officers, and they were full of enthusiasm and vitality.

At Nanjing Jinling Shipyard, both of them are already old. Although they are old, they are full of experience. This kind of experience cannot be obtained overnight by relying on life on the battlefield!

The foreign experts equipped for Daoist Chen and Wei Han were the Americans Holland and Ximéng Lake who built the first submarine for Wang Hengyue and served as consultants for the Navy of the National Revolutionary Army for a long time!

Two outstanding Chinese ships and submarine manufacturing experts, combined with two equally outstanding American submarine manufacturing and invention experts, form the main leadership of Nanjing Jinling Shipyard!

"This is the "Jinling 2" we are developing. Wei Han pointed to a half-manned submarine on the side and said, "We applied to purchase ten small aircraft, and planned to be carried by submarines. We previously built the "Jinling 1, a submarine, and installed a steel cylinder behind its hull, which was equipped with a seaplane. In the first test, it took us more than four hours to assemble the bulk aircraft on the narrow submarine deck, but the test flight was not successful. This "Jinling 2" is the sister boat of "Jinling 1," we

In the new test, after the submarine is surfaced, the aircraft will be taken out of the cylindrical hangar for assembly, and then the submarine will dive, and the aircraft will float on the surface and take off before taking off." "Okay, don't be afraid of failure." Wang Hengyue nodded and encouraged: "We are ahead of European and American countries in this technology. We are not as good as them on the warships, but we can't fall behind on the submarine, but we must also lead them. Britain is a maritime power, what do they fear the most? What they fear the most is not a battleship cruiser, the submarine they fear the most! "

Speaking of this, he glanced at the people on the side: "During the European War, the Germans used a large number of submarine troops to attack Britain, and the British did not draw a reassuring conclusion from their disasters and salvation. Although they never succumbed to Germany's submarine warfare, they were almost killed by it. The terrible warning that submarines threaten Britain is correct. The British are most concerned about their islands that will never be subject to this form of harm,

They were afraid of submarines in their hearts!" "It was completely correct." Holland, an American who could barely speak Chinese, said: "To do this, the most important step is to eliminate the entire German submarine fleet as soon as possible. According to the provisions of the naval armistice clause, there were 176 German submarines in service to the Allies, and all of them were sunk to the bottom of the sea, with a few exceptions. More than 200 unin service and unbuilt German submarines were destroyed on site.

To completely resolve the problem, the Versailles Treaty stipulated that Germany could not hold, build or purchase submarines. This gave Britain the largest submarine fleet in the world."

Wang Hengyue sneered: "British has the largest submarine fleet in the world?"

No, the largest submarine fleet is not in Britain, but here!

In China led by you!

I can't beat you in the face of the sea, but I can use the submarine as the undersea ghost to give you the heaviest blow!

I won’t compete with you for battleships or cruisers, I will focus on developing aircraft carriers and submarines!

In the possible future naval battle, this will be the most advantageous weapon of the Chinese Navy!

Wang Hengyue believed in this!
Chapter completed!