Late July.

As the main forces of the 6th Army and the 11th Army approached Shibashi City in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, a large-scale urban battle began again.

At this time, the 19th and 20th armies had also crossed the Guanmen Strait and were heading towards Shigashiguchi City, Japan, which was closest to Guanmen Strait. The 24th Army was speeding up to cross the strait, and the 26th Army was stationed in major cities in Kyushu.

At home, with the six major armies showing their skills in Japan, many armies were jealous and asked the Ministry of National Defense to fight and demand an expedition to Japan.

Considering that the troops in Japan might still be relatively small, Zhang Yunfei ordered the three armies of the 8th, 9th and 10th to start boarding the ship, land in Japan, and attacking Japan.

Shimonoseki City, Japan belongs to Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. The administrative divisions of Japan are very different from those of China. The first level of Japan is the Tu, Dao, Duihe Prefecture, and the Tu, Dao, Dui, and the Tu, Dao, Dui, and the county of Japan are parallel first-level administrative regions and directly under the central government.

There is a city in Japan (Tokyo), a city (Hokkaido), two prefectures (Osaka Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture), and 43 prefectures. Each prefecture has several cities under it. Shimoguchi City belongs to a city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. It is located in the city closest to Kyushu Island on Honshu Island. It is also the first city that soldiers conquered on Honshu Island.

The fierce battle lasted for four days, and the next three days were street fighting. The 30,000 Japanese devils who resisted in Xiaguan City, except for thousands of people who escaped, the rest were either annihilated or captured by the soldiers.

The soldiers annihilated more than 20,000 enemies and captured thousands of people. In addition, there may be thousands of Japanese civilians "inadvertently injured" by the soldiers, but neither Chu Tianming nor Liao Yaoxiang investigated this kind of "inadvertently injured".

After occupying Xiaguan City, the major armies had received the latest order from the Ministry of National Defense, ordering everyone to split their troops and continue to advance towards the depth of the Honshu Island along the roads and railways.

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Tianjin.

Today's Tianjin Shipyard is very lively. Because Zhang Yunfei is going to visit Tianjin Shipyard today, all the employees of Tianjin Shipyard who received the news were very happy, just like the New Year.

Tianjin Shipyard is the former Tianjin Tanggu Shipyard. However, after nearly a year of transformation and development, Tianjin Shipyard has replaced cannons with bird guns. Not only has the scale expanded sharply several times, but it has added several large docks, but it has also established its own research institute.

However, the only thing that made the factory leaders ashamed was that in the past year, no ship was built in Tianjin Shipyard. The only thing that made the senior executives of Tianjin Shipyard shine on their faces was that several amphibious landing ships were about to be launched and could be delivered to the troops in one or two months.

At the beginning, Zhang Yunfei positioned Tianjin Shipyard as a manufacturing base for large warships, which is an aircraft carrier. It can also be built here, and the newly built dock is also a huge dock, enough to build large ships of 50,000 tons.

However, Zhang Yunfei also knew that he could not eat a fat man in one bite. In the past few years, he would definitely not be able to manufacture aircraft carriers that the navy urgently needed. Zhang Yunfei had turned to the second best. In the past two years, the Tianjin Shipyard's mission was to build large transport ships and amphibious landing ships that the troops were urgently needed.

Zhang Yunfei issued a mission last year for the design and manufacturing of amphibious landing ships. At that time, the Chinese team had not yet made an expedition to Japan. However, Zhang Yunfei knew that as the Chinese team went to Japan, the amphibious landing ship seemed to be in urgent need.

Now, since there are no amphibious landing ships, the ships used by soldiers to land and rush to fight on the beach are all kinds of, and even fishing boats are used. Since there is no suitable transport ship, it is often a big deal for soldiers to transport heavy equipment, which is very troublesome.

This time, the amphibious landing ship developed by Tianjin Shipbuilding is 1,000 tons, which is a small landing ship. The main reason is that the troops urgently need amphibious landing ships. If they are mounted on a large amphibious landing ship, the time will be delayed for a long time, and it will be far from being built to make a small landing ship.

The landing ship is the most practical weapon and equipment for naval landing warfare, also called an amphibious ship. It is a ship specially manufactured to transport landing soldiers, their weapons and equipment, and supplies.

In layman's terms, amphibious landing ships are a flat-bottomed armored ship with a shallow draft and are suitable for transporting troops to the beach to carry out landing operations.

At present, amphibious landing ships are no longer a new thing. All countries in the world have equipment, especially the US military has equipped a lot, with tonnage ranging from hundreds of tons to tens of thousands of tons. In the Pacific War, a large number of amphibious landing ships equipped by the United States played an important role in landing and scrambling beaches, especially in the battle for islands.

The amphibious landing ships being manufactured by Tianjin Shipyard, also known as tank landing ships, can carry several Type 39 tanks and hundreds of soldiers. Its range is 2,000 kilometers and a speed of 30 kilometers per hour, which allows the landing troops to reach the beach from the departure point, without having to transfer halfway.

In addition, this landing ship has a shallow draft, and huge hatch doors are designed for both the bow and the stern. When you arrive at the landing point, open the hatch door. The soldiers and the loaded tanks can go down directly and climb to the beach to fight.

This landing ship has two 30mm cannons deployed on two pairs of installations, which can provide firepower support to the soldiers.

Zhang Yunfei visited Tianjin Shipyard this time and saw these amphibious landing ships that were about to be launched were just one of them. In addition, Zhang Yunfei wanted to personally see the 10,000-ton hydraulic press of Tianjin Shipyard.

Of course, this 10,000-ton hydraulic press was not developed in China. The largest tonnage hydraulic press developed in China is only a few thousand tons, which is far from this 10,000-ton hydraulic press. These 10,000-ton hydraulic presses were naturally disassembled from Japan and then reinstalled at the Datong Shipyard.

After occupying the Sasebo Naval Base in Japan, the soldiers had dismantled a large amount of equipment from the Sasebo Naval Base shipyard and transported all back to the country.

These equipment were dismantled by Zhang Yunfei. Now the whole country is under construction, especially the shipbuilding industry, which is urgently needed. This is also the reason why Zhang Yunfei ordered that the shipyard of the Sasebo Naval Base not be bombed by the Chinese Air Force.

As a shipyard that can manufacture battleships above 10,000 tons, Zhang Yunfei knew that the shipyard at Sasebo Naval Base must have a lot of equipment that he urgently needed. With these equipment, the construction of his own major shipyards can be greatly accelerated.

The reason why the Japanese navy is strong is inseparable from the strong shipbuilding industry in Japan. However, the shipyard at Sasebo Naval Base has been basically dismantled, and these equipment will be settled in China in the future.

This time, the equipment dismantled from the shipyard of the Sasebo Naval Base includes a 10,000-ton hydraulic press, which is a necessary equipment for manufacturing a 10,000-ton battleship or aircraft carrier.

In order to build powerful battleships, Japan spent huge amounts of money to add a large amount of new equipment to its shipbuilding industry. It purchased 15,000-ton hydraulic presses and 3 70-ton acid open furnaces from Germany, which cost a total of US$10 million.

With a 15,000-ton hydraulic press, large forgings including 650 mm thick armored steel plates (used by the main gun turret of large battleships).

However, these equipment bought by small Japanese cars at a high price have now been installed in the Tianjin shipyard and have been installed. These equipment will play a role in building the first large transport ship, or even the first large aircraft carrier in my country.

There are currently no more than five 15,000-ton hydraulic presses in the world. Only Germany, the United States and other countries have such equipment.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, Zhang Yunfei traveled lightly and was very low-key. He appeared at the door of Tianjin Shipyard. According to Zhang Yunfei's request, Tianjin Shipyard did not hold any large-scale welcome ceremony, but only a few senior executives of the shipyard welcomed him at the door.

Seeing Zhang Yunfei's convoy coming, the senior executives of Tianjin Shipyard stood upright. Zhang Yunfei's convoy had only three cars, slowly driving over and stopped in front of everyone.

Zhang Yunfei walked out of the car in casual clothes. The director of Tianjin Shipyard hurriedly brought everyone to greet him and shook hands with Zhang Yunfei excitedly. After Zhang Yunfei shook hands with everyone one by one, he slowly walked towards the huge factory area accompanied by everyone.

On the way, several senior executives from Tianjin Shipyard respectfully introduced the situation of Tianjin Shipyard to Zhang Yunfei. Zhang Yunfei seemed very excited and listened carefully.

Zhang Yunfei and his party first looked at the amphibious landing ships under construction. Zhang Yunfei even boarded one of the amphibious landing ships that were about to be completed, and entered the cabin and took a closer look.

Zhang Yunfei was a modern special forces soldier in his previous life. He had seen many modern amphibious landing ships. Although this landing ship cannot be compared with the modern amphibious landing ship, Zhang Yunfei was still quite satisfied. Such an amphibious landing ship is definitely the most advanced in the world.

"Yeah! Not bad!"

After falling from this landing ship, Zhang Yunfei personally praised everyone and received praise from Zhang Yunfei. Several senior executives of Tianjin Shipyard were obviously very excited.

After reading these amphibious landing ships under construction, Zhang Yunfei went to the research institute of Tianjin Shipyard and looked at the design work that had been completed. This is a large transport ship of 6,000 tons. It can transport equipment and soldiers, and can also be transformed into a naval supply ship for transportation and maintenance.

After reading the drawings of this transport ship, Zhang Yunfei was quite satisfied, but Zhang Yunfei combined his knowledge and gave some reference suggestions.

After leaving the research institute, Zhang Yunfei finally went to watch the installed 10,000-ton hydraulic press. Take a look at this 10,000-ton hydraulic press, which is the highlight of Zhang Yunfei's trip.

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