After finishing his trip to Washington, Natsuki went to their last stop for their visit to the United States, Boston, the historic East Coast port of the United States. During World War II, it was the main base of the American Atlantic Fleet, but was later violently bombed by Western allies, and most of the port was razed to the ground. After the war, a large amount of European capital poured into the United States, occupying and controlling many high-profit industries. While changing the economic structure and political ecology of the United States, it also played a positive role in the recovery of the United States after the war. Today, Boston has many dock cranes, spacious and neat streets, and brand new buildings have brought a new look to the city. The prosperity of pan-Atlantic trade even makes Boston more vibrant than before the war.

In Boston, Xia Shu met several old acquaintances, including Haryanel, the U.S. Navy General, who once rivaled each other on the Atlantic battlefield. He has lived here for a long time since he retired in 1940, and Raymond Spruenz, who is currently the commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, with the headquarters in Boston. In addition, there is a Soviet team with a special mission that has been staying in Boston for almost a month. One of the leaders of this team is the young Soviet Navy Colonel Sergeige Orkievich Gorshkov, the vice chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers, Bubnov, led a delegation to Ireland a year ago. Gorshkov was a member of the visiting delegation, so he was also an acquaintance. However, in that delegation, Bubnov, who is in the core power circle of Soviet Russia, and Kutunetsov, the young and promising genius general, were too eye-catching, and the rest of the delegation members seemed dull.

The reason why Xia Shu was impressed by this Comrade Gorshkov was that the Soviet Union built a USS Gorshkov aircraft carrier in the old time and space. It later became a typical case of Russian arms exports scammers who could not limit people. They made India's Asan beat his chest and stamp his feet, and had nowhere to seek justice and vomit blood. In other words, the reason why the Russians named an aircraft carrier in the name of Gorshkov was to commemorate the naval commander-in-chief Sergeige Orkievich Gorshkov, who actively led the expansion of the Soviet Navy during the Cold War.

Gorshkov, 33, appeared in Boston not on vacation or defecting, but led nearly a thousand Soviet naval officers and soldiers to receive US-made equipment. In the summer of 1942, the Soviet Union signed assistance agreements with several European and American countries to obtain a large amount of weapons and equipment through free aid, loans or spot transactions. The three countries with the largest aid amount are Germany, the United States, and Ireland. According to the agreement, the Americans will provide the Soviet Union with a large amount of naval equipment including 64 T-class submarines and 225 PT20 torpedo speedboats in batches, as well as aircraft, combat vehicles, guns, ammunition, etc. According to the US, Gorshkov led a team to mainly receive the first batch of 9 T-class submarines and 45 PT20 torpedo speedboats. Soviet seafarers will conduct six to eight weeks of training in the United States, and then pass through the Arctic route countries.

Although Gorshkov has made many military achievements and has the opportunity to become another young naval general after Kutunetsov, he is still a middle-level officer and an executor of the existing strategy. During the meeting with Natsuki, his words and deeds were very reserved and he was basically silent on the topics at the strategic level. Based on the Soviet Union's special status in the world pattern, Natsuki did not mean to win over the other party, and he did not expect Ireland and the Soviet Union to become close friends one day. His words only showed the other party his understanding and prediction of the historical development trend: the future world will no longer be based on war and expansion, and major powers will seek peaceful development in competition, and the League of Nations rulings and peacekeeping operations will become the main means to resolve international or racial disputes.

Gorshkov responded mediocrely to these macro ideas that Xia Shu deliberately instilled, but he had asked many questions about the equipment technology and tactical organization of the modern navy. Before leading the team to the United States, this man had been transferred from the Northern Fleet to the Pacific Fleet for more than a year and organized and participated in many maritime combat operations. In the Northeast Asian War Zone, the naval forces of the two sides were very different, especially after the large cruiser "Kirov" was sunk, the Soviet Navy was completely suppressed. In this case, the Soviet Pacific Fleet did not stop its combat operations, but continued to find the enemy's weaknesses and actively opened up new forms of combat. Gorshkov introduced to Xia Shu.

It is said that after their submarines pass through the blockade of the Japanese fleet, they generally do not fight in the Sea of ​​Japan or the southern waters of the Korean Peninsula, but instead sail to the southeastern waters of China to attack Japanese transport ships that are not protected or have weak escort forces. The attack efficiency of this seems to be much lower, and in fact it is more effective than the previous combat deployment. The Soviet surface ships stationed in the Amur Peninsula and Peter the Great Bay and the naval aviation team suffered great losses in the early stage, but after adjusting the combat methods, they have sunk and injured more than 30 Japanese warships, causing heavy losses to the Japanese fleet blocking Peter the Great Bay.

In line with the current maritime combat mode, the Soviet Pacific Fleet urgently needs to update and strengthen submarines and torpedo speedboats. Therefore, after receiving this batch of American-made equipment and forming combat effectiveness, the Soviet Union is very confident in further reversing the maritime situation in the Northeast Asian theater.

Looking at the ambition-filled expression on Gorshkov's face, Xia Shu couldn't help but sigh. If you want to say that Russia is really an absolute fighting nation. Looking at the world, few countries are more resilient than them. The more they reach a desperate situation, the more they can burst out the power to survive and win.

In fact, as far as the information mastered by the Western Allies have been formally equipped with the US Navy's T-class submarine and PT20 torpedo speedboat, both with mature design and superior performance, demonstrating the profound technical background of the old industrial power... The former is the second combat submarine designed and built by the United States after the war. The surface/underwater displacement is 1,500 tons/2,400 tons. It is provided by 4 16-cylinder 2-stroke diesel engines and 4 motors respectively with surface and underwater power, dual-axis propulsion, and surface.

It is faster than most submarines in the 1920s and 1930s, with a very large combat radius. It is equipped with 10 533mm torpedo tubes and can carry 24 torpedoes, and there are also 76mm deck guns, 2 12.7mm machine guns and 7.62mm machine guns, which can be said to be full of firepower. It is said that according to the requirements of the Soviet Union, these T-class submarines were slightly modified before delivery to launch German-made line guided torpedoes, further improving their combat capabilities.

As for the PT20 torpedo speedboats, they are also equipment that has withstood the test of war. Compared with the high-speed torpedo boats twenty or thirty years ago, they are more practical, have higher stability, and have stronger attack power, and have adapted to the development trend of naval combat mode well. When they are in the hands of the Soviet Navy, as long as they are used properly, they will definitely be able to teach the conceited Japanese Navy a good lesson!

For the sake of all parties, during his visit to Boston, Xia Shu did not visit the camp of the Soviet military team, but was invited by the US side to board Spruins' flagship "Alaska". Standing on the towering bridge of this new battle patrol, looking around the harbor, the US Atlantic Fleet is now far smaller than ten years ago. It basically does not pose a threat to the coalition of Western allies, but this does not mean the decline of the US Navy. The baptism of World War II not only allowed the US military to deeply understand the true meaning of modern warfare, but also helped them eliminate a large number of old equipment. For example, this "Alaska" is regarded by the US military as a mixture of battleships and heavy cruisers. This class of war

The ship adopts a flat deck type and a ball nose, with a battleship-style command tower. The seaplane device is still in the cruiser mode. Its standard displacement is 28,000 tons and uses a 12-inch, 305 mm caliber main gun. Therefore, the outside world generally regards it as a reduced version of the battle cruiser, or a new interpretation of the battle patrol. The superior airworthiness and advanced avionics configuration give it the ability to perform a variety of combat missions. Their purpose is not to fight against enemy battleships and battle cruisers, but to lead cruiser formations to hunt enemy large raid ships, provide escorts to aircraft carrier formations, or to rely on powerful maneuver power to perform combat missions alone.

Through conversations with American officers, Natsuki was convinced that the arduous journey of World War II greatly increased the American people's national defense awareness, and the young generation is very enthusiastic about joining the army. The US military, which could only implement a recruitment system, has never encountered the trouble of lack of soldiers in recent years. Therefore, although the United States in 1943 was "castrated" by the Armistice Treaty and was not satisfactory in some aspects, its military strength and war potential have reached the forefront of the world. It may be a bit difficult to fight Japan alone. If it can make good use of the current situation to get rid of some constraints, it is entirely possible to recover or even surpass its state before World War II!

On August 14, 1943, the Irish royal aircraft "Celtic Glory" took off from Boston Military Airport and landed successfully at the Limerick-1 Airport after 11 and a half hours of uninterrupted flight. After arriving in Ireland, Xia Shu reexamined the aid agreement signed by Ireland and the Soviet Union and the subsequent supplementary agreement. In addition to providing the Soviet Union with two important military technologies, wireless guided bombs and wired guided rockets, Ireland also provided 46 surface ships, 355 military aircraft, 642 self-propelled artillery and a large number of guns and ammunition in installments. This transaction did bring benefits to Ireland.

The benefits of observation have played an active role in maintaining vitality in the Irish military industry and improving economic and social stability, and are of great significance to the construction of the Soviet military and the development of the military industry. Since the signing of the aid agreement, Ireland has sent thousands of technical teams to the Soviet Union to teach by example and deeds, and has accepted six batches of nearly 2,000 Soviet officers and soldiers to receive technical and tactical training in Ireland. These external factors, together with the Russians' own tenacity and tenacity, have enabled the Soviet military to survive the low tide and win the victory in the battlefield in Northeast Asia. The more they fight, the braver they become, the stronger they fight, and the final victory of the Japanese war may arrive earlier than people had expected.
Chapter completed!