During the visit of the "Big Bad Wolf Fleet" of the Imperial Chinese Navy, Li Dingxin made an exception and allowed Hitler and several senior German officials to board the Guanghua Emperor to visit, and opened the nuclear reactor compartment for Hitler for the first time. At the same time, the Imperial Chinese Navy sent 28 super warships led by the battleship of the Guanghua Emperor to hold joint military exercises with the main force of the German High Seas Fleet.-./-./

During the exercise, the officers and soldiers of the Chinese Empire showed off their combat effectiveness and achieved excellent results in the first place in the target shooting at four levels: 40 kilometers, 35 kilometers, 30 kilometers and 25 kilometers, respectively. The German Navy only won the 20 kilometers of target shooting.

The powerful combat capabilities of the Chinese Empire's navy made the German navy finally see what it means to have people outside the sky. The advanced ship-based weapons and equipment of the Chinese Empire made the German navy officers and soldiers full of envy and jealousy.

Although the German High Seas Fleet dispatched six Hindenburg Ultimate Battleships and two Bismarck Super Battleships to participate in the joint military exercise, German Navy Marshal Redel bluntly explained to Hitler after the exercise that the six Hindenburg-class battleships of the German High Seas Fleet could not defeat one Guanghua Great. The reason is very simple. Germany's 20-inch cannon could not penetrate the front armor protection of Guanghua Great for more than 30 kilometers. At this distance, it is obvious that Guanghua Great has long-range precision strike capabilities. The power of the shells that exploded at this distance during the exercise poses a huge threat to the armor of the Hindenburg-class battleships.

What Redell is most worried about is that the battleship of the Guanghua Emperor is powered by nuclear power. According to the official announcement of the Guanghua Emperor Emperor, the Chinese Empire, does not need to be refueled for 20 years. It can maintain a speed of 30 knots for several months, which proves that the Guanghua Emperor can engage in an endless war of attrition. For the main battleship of the German Navy, no warship can withstand such a long war of attrition.

Hitler was very sad. He originally thought that the Guanghua Emperor was just something boasted by the Chinese Empire, but he didn't expect that it was so powerful that the Hindenburg-class battleship built by the German Navy to do its best to manpower, material resources and financial resources were directly kicked out. This kind of blow was huge for Hitler and even the German Navy.

"From this perspective, unless we also master nuclear reactor technology and have battleships that can compete with the Guanghua Emperor, it will be difficult to put pressure on the Chinese Empire's Navy."

Hitler had to face the reality. He admitted that he had previously clamored to surpass the Chinese Navy to seize the world's maritime overlords. But this did not mean that Hitler surrendered, but for Hitler, he was angered.

"Nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors must be developed as soon as possible at any cost!"

It was precisely because Hitler and the entire German side were deeply stimulated by the strength of the Chinese Empire's navy. In particular, their self-esteem was deeply "harmed" by the powerful performance of the Guanghua Emperor. Originally, the Chinese Empire was preparing to shock the Germans and made them give up the idea of ​​competing for world hegemony with the Chinese Empire, but it really underestimated the determination of Nazi Germany to rise. Not only was Hitler not shocked, but instead inspired his determination to fight for strength and fight.

Although Germany's nuclear weapons program was constantly damaged and blocked by the Allies including the Chinese Empire and the British and French Allied Powers, Germany suffered up to 6 billion yuan in losses, including bombing of heavy water production lines in Norway, uranium mine production bases in eastern Germany, uranium enrichment facilities in Frankfurt and nuclear reactor laboratories in Hamburg, were bombed by the Allied Powers Air Force, or were destroyed by agents from various countries, including the Chinese Empire.

But the Germans learned it smarter. They strengthened the protection measures for various nuclear physics engineering facilities and even moved them directly into the basement.

The more countries try their best to crack down on Germany's nuclear weapons tests, the more determined the Germans are to develop nuclear weapons and speed up the research and development progress. In particular, the multiple atomic bomb test explosions of the Chinese Empire and the huge stimulation of the nuclear-powered battleship of the Guanghua Great in front of the Germans have become the driving force for the Germans to rise up to develop nuclear weapons.

Compared with the speed of nuclear weapons research and development in Britain, France, the Soviet Union and other countries, Germany has a strong industrial foundation and more talents, so its development will naturally be much faster.

For the Chinese Empire, including the Imperial Emperor Chenhao, everyone knew very well that as long as the industrial capacity and technological reserves reached a certain level, nuclear weapons would come naturally, which was difficult to stop. Wang Chenhao knew this very well. In history, China could develop nuclear weapons under such difficult circumstances, let alone the current powerful Germany, Britain, France, the Soviet Union and other countries would sooner or later develop nuclear weapons. What the Chinese Empire had to do was to gain as much as possible before the other side developed nuclear weapons.

Hitler also knew that although Germany had made rapid progress in nuclear weapons research, due to war, Germany's nuclear facilities were often air strikes and harassed by the Allies, and nuclear raw materials and related technical equipment were strictly restricted by the Chinese Empire, making it impossible for Germany to master nuclear weapons in a short period of time. For this reason, Hitler did not have the trump card to call the Chinese Empire, so he could only tolerate everything.

Admiral Denitz, the commander of the German Navy's submarine, advised Hitler that the British Navy's large-scale equipment of Tang-class submarines and Song-class submarines (Tang-class modifications) from the Chinese Empire, causing significant losses to the German Navy's Seawolf (U) series submarines. Although the cost of importing submarines from the Chinese Empire was high, basically five or six German Seawolf submarines could defeat a Tang-class or Song-class submarine. Overall, the British suffered a small loss. What made Denitz the most tragic was that the speed of German submarines was far from keeping up with the navigation speed of surface ships or merchant ships, which caused German submarines to float to the sea to drive at full speed to barely catch up with their prey. Obviously, German submarines faced a huge threat from British surface anti-submarine cruisers, destroyers and anti-submarine aircraft.

After entering the second half of 1940, the losses of German submarines increased significantly, but the losses of merchant ships of Allied countries decreased significantly. German submarine tactics also faced an embarrassing environment where they did not dare to attack the merchant fleet of the Chinese Empire. Many merchant ships of Allied countries directly hung the flag of the Chinese Empire, which led to factors such as the inability to distinguish the situation of German submarines, which basically lost their effectiveness in the German navy's breakthrough tactics.

Hitler has been planning how to trap Britain to death like in World War I, so he attached great importance to Denitz. The German naval submarine force developed extremely rapidly, but it was still unable to trap Britain to death, which largely made Hitler feel dissatisfied.

However, Hitler still valued Denitz very much, so he listened to Denitz's report patiently.

Denitz suggested that Germany continue to improve its relations with the Chinese Empire, and should not be limited to importing energy and daily necessities from the Chinese Empire, but should introduce the Chinese Empire's submarine technology to strive to restart the sea battle and defeat Britain as soon as possible.

Hitler knew very well that if he wanted to obtain advanced submarine technology from the Chinese Empire, Germany would have to pay a considerable price in exchange for interests, but he still agreed to Denitz's suggestion and sent someone to contact the Chinese Emperor.

At this time, as the British and French Allied countries gradually stabilized the situation at sea, the threat of German submarines to the Allied Transport Lines became smaller and smaller. Many Allied fleets no longer paid huge "capital tax", "protection fees", "cargo commission" to the Chinese Empire, and they were able to arrive at their destination smoothly under the protection of the Allied Navy's escort formation.

The Chinese Empire's income in this regard has been greatly reduced, especially the cargo commission tax. The Chinese Empire levies up to 12% commission on the protected merchant ships of the Allied Powers. This huge income has always been one of the happiest things for the Chinese Empire. But now with the improvement of the escort ability of the Allied Powers, more fleets no longer need to rely on the Chinese Empire, and this huge income has been greatly reduced, which has made the imperial government very dissatisfied.

Therefore, when Germany proposed that the Chinese Empire hoped that the Chinese Empire would provide relevant technologies and equipment for Tang-class submarines and Song-class submarines (Tang-class reform), after weighing the pros and cons, the Chinese Empire believed that appropriately improving the strength of German naval submarines would bring more income to the Chinese Empire. Therefore, what surprised the Germans was that the Chinese Empire had long restricted the export threshold for military technology to Germany was finally lowered, and it actually allowed Tang-class submarines and Song-class submarines (Tang-class reform) to export to Germany.

The German Navy naturally refused to miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and immediately signed a military purchase agreement with the Chinese Empire. Of course, the Germans hoped to import some Tang-class and Song-class (Tang-class modified) submarines in a smaller batch. Then they copied them themselves. After all, the price of submarines in the Chinese Empire was too expensive (nearly 10% higher than the cost of selling similar submarines to the Allies).

But the Chinese Empire certainly disagreed and required Germany to import at least 100 Tang-class submarines and 50 Song-class submarines (Tang-class reform) from the Chinese Empire. Then the Chinese Empire would transfer the production lines of these two-class submarines to the German Navy and allow Germany to assemble and produce them on its own.

Faced with the overlord terms of the Chinese Empire, Denitz urgently needed to obtain the advanced submarine technology of the Chinese Empire, so he persuaded Hitler to ask the German parliament to allocate funds to purchase.

In the end, the German Navy purchased 100 Tang-class submarines for 290 million dragon coins and 50 Song-class submarines (Tang-class modified) for 160 million dragon coins. In addition, 320 million dragon coins were invested separately to purchase the production lines of Tang-class and Song-class (Tang-class modified) submarines, including a large number of red-headed torpedoes purchased separately. The German Navy's military purchase was as high as 880 million dragon coins. Despite this, the Chinese Empire still restricted the German Navy. For example, although the production line was sold to the German Navy, Germany could produce most parts by itself, but key steam turbines, red-headed torpedoes, radio enemy-to-me recognition systems, sonar arrays and other equipment were all produced in the Chinese Empire and then transported to Germany for assembly.

It can be said that the Chinese Empire still holds the neck of a German submarine. Once the war situation changes, the Chinese Empire can terminate the provision of key equipment to Germany at any time, which is equivalent to controlling the number of German naval equipment Tang-class submarines and Song-class (Tang-class modified) submarines, thereby affecting the development of the war situation.

Of course, what the Chinese Empire wants is the balance of power between British and German submarines on the Atlantic, which is in line with the strategic interests of the Chinese Empire.

Although the Song-class submarines currently in service in the Imperial Navy have not been exported to the outside world and have maintained their advanced status. However, the right problems faced by German submarines at this time are also the problems that the Imperial submarines will face.

Although the Song-class submarines in service in the Chinese Empire are very powerful and are known as ocean black holes, they are difficult to detect by sonar systems in various countries in the world because their noise is very close to ocean noise, and ordinary sonar soldiers cannot judge them at all. At the same time, the underwater speed of the Song-class submarine is as high as 25 knots, and can catch up with most warships and most merchant ships.

However, as navies of various countries successively developed advanced turbine systems, the speed of warships basically exceeded 25 knots, or even reached 33 knots, and there were basically very few warships below 25 knots. Even if there were, they were warships of low value, and were even less valuable than a red-headed torpedo of the Chinese Empire. At the same time, the huge progress in navigation also greatly improved the speed of civilian ships. Especially after World War I, civilian ships suffered from the slow speed in the early days and were often chased by submarines with more than ten knots. After the outbreak of World War II, most slow ships gave up going to sea, and merchants basically used ships with speeds higher than 20 knots to transport cargo, which is also one of the direct reasons why German submarines are deteriorating in their battles.

Of course, for the Song-class submarines of the Chinese Empire, the underwater speed of 25 knots is still a nightmare for the merchant fleet if they are used for combating wars. But for the Chinese Empire Navy, they have always been at the forefront of the world in submarines, and civilian ships or warships that submarines cannot deal with. In particular, the speed of many merchant ships even reaches 30 knots, which has exceeded the hunting speed of Song-class submarines, which is something that the Chinese Empire Navy cannot tolerate.

In fact, as early as when the Chinese Empire started construction of two Song-class submarines in June of the 19th year of Guanghua, the Imperial Shipbuilding Administration was studying the design of the next generation of submarines. However, at that time, the submarines of the Chinese Empire were more than one generation ahead of the international generation, and submarines of various countries would take at least 20 years to catch up with the Song-class submarines of the Chinese Empire. Therefore, the Imperial Navy had sufficient research and development time in submarines.

The Yuan-class submarine was launched since the end of the 19th year of Guanghua, but in the past twenty years of Guanghua, the Yuan-class submarines were not recognized by the Imperial Navy. During this period, six test boats of the Yuan-class submarine were launched one after another, but their performance has not made any breakthroughs compared to the Song-class submarines. The Imperial Navy successively postponed the service time of the Yuan-class submarines, and used the design indicators to be used for the General Administration of Shipbuilding and requested redesign and improvement. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)

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