The imperial royal naval authorities said that this new naval weapon - the submarine - was ignored, but rather said that it was extreme contempt for it.

The reason for this is that the bosses in the British noble house have a dangerous idea of ​​arrogance and luck. Why do they ignore the real situation of increasingly perfect submarine performance? Most British naval bureaucrats think so: How dare a small submarine of hundreds of tons be compared with the Royal Navy of the Empire of the Sun? Challenging the Royal Navy of the British Empire is overestimating their abilities.

In their opinion, if the weak naval countries want to waste time and money, then it is welcome to do so. Who is deceiving themselves? The ostrich mentality of the British may only be awakened when they are severely beaten during World War I!

In fact, every person involved in submarine tests once said shamelessly that their Ming would change the power between countries that ruled the ocean and those that had not yet ruled the ocean. This was something that would certainly make the British navy shudder. At that time, the Royal Navy was not only the largest navy that could not compete with, but also greater than the combined power of any navies of the nation that could be united. Since Britain was in a unique position in the world, Britain was a very small industrial island country, whose livelihoods depended on trade, and especially the vast colonies under the Sun-Down Empire for supply, it was absolutely necessary to maintain a navy that had overwhelming advantage.

It is quite cost-effective to use a submarine to reduce the combat value of surface ships and thus change the current situation of the navy. From this, it is a very cost-effective way to infer that if a small submarine is exchanged for a warship, it would be a nightmare for the British Navy. Therefore, it is natural for the submarine to be interpreted as a weapon of a weak country by the British. In the high-sounding words of Admiral Wilson, the submarine is "despicable, boring and hateful anti-British!"

Zhang Yunfei had known that the British did not pay attention to submarines. However, at present, submarines have not yet been developed to the point where the navies of various countries have attached great importance to them. Although the Pacific Fleet successfully used submarines to attack the Russian Far East Fleet, it was because the Russian Navy was arrogant and swinging on others' territory and was defeated. If a country was replaced with a military port with a defensive mechanism, the Pacific Fleet's submarines would still be difficult to work.

However, in the long run, the huge value of submarines cannot be ignored by Zhang Yunfei. For Zhang Yunfei, who is very clear about the future navy, in addition to forming a huge sea wolf submarine force, he also needs to have sufficient anti-submarine escort awareness.

Of course, these were also obtained from the British's bloody lessons.

During World War I, the British Admiralty was still adhering to the ostrich theory of "defending the route", and the poor situation of British shipping sites shocked the whole world. At the end of 19166 and January 19177, the losses of British and Allied ships reached about 300,000 tons per month, about twice the monthly losses in summer. In February 1917, the losses of British and neutral ships were 469,000 tons. In March, the total losses were

After 500,000 tons, the total losses spiraled to more than 850,000 tons in April. At that time, the German government had been persuaded by the Navy's General Staff to agree to conduct an unrestricted submarine warfare. They believed that sinking 600,000 tons of merchant ships per month would force Britain to surrender within six months, and the results of the submarine warfare have exceeded people's estimates. Even if the United States eventually participated in the war against Germany, it would be useless. Because, before the United States joined the war, the war had already ended.

In the end, even the Royal Navy's planners frankly predicted that if we could not think of a way to subdue submarines, Britain would be defeated by November. So we suggested that the Navy generally use escorts, especially ocean escorts. The Navy's sub-official officials immediately refused. They said that escorts were only defensive measures, and to defeat submarines, offensive measures were required. They repeated the old tune of opposing escorts, which was the British ostrich policy.

It was not until the Americans joined the war that a large number of destroyers escorted the British to avoid the embarrassment of surrender within six months. Therefore, Zhang Yunfei had to take the navy's wolf pack road and be prepared for submarine frigates.

As early as this year's trip to Europe and the United States, Zhang Yunfei ordered a large number of new local destroyers, called lightning destroyers in the West. Although these destroyers were only about 6c0~, the British tried the new ground steam turbines on it, so they reached 26 high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high-speed high

The British Ostrich Policy told Zhang Yunfei that if you want to dominate the ocean in the future, you must first watch your own route. It is urgent to build a fleet of destroyers or even several land destroyers. Don’t wait until the war begins and then follow the old path of the British Ostrich Policy.

A total of twenty-four 600-ground destroyers were ordered from the UK and France.

He has returned to Pearl Harbor, Honolulu. Of course, the most happy place is Major General Yu Haitao, the commander of the patrol fleet, and the other coastal patrol fleet has also been renamed the Destroyer Fleet. It is under the jurisdiction of the Pacific Fleet.

The original ten coastal gunboats, together with the captured Russian and Spanish gunboats, were all assigned to the Honolulu Coast Guard. Among them, the First Detachment of the Coast Guard was responsible for patrolling the waters around Hawaii. The Second Detachment of the Coast Guard was responsible for patrolling the waters around Luzon.

The newly arrived twenty-four destroyers, together with the captured Russian destroyers, were assigned to the destroyer fleet commanded by Haitao. During naval warfare, they cooperated with the main fleet to harass and attack enemy ships. At other times, they were responsible for the shipping routes between Hawaii and Luzon and Qing dynasties to fight against pirates who raided passing ships. They were divided into three destroyer fleets. The first destroyer team was responsible for the safety of the routes between Hawaii and Luzon, the second destroyer team was responsible for the safety of the routes between Hawaii and Luzon, and the third destroyer team was responsible for the safety of the routes between Dahui and Luzon.

At the same time, in order to improve the escort system, the Honolulu General Staff formulated a series of escort regulations, which not only provided protection for passing ships, trained naval officers and soldiers, but also made profits from it. After all, this is also a bodyguard industry, isn’t it?

The development of large-scale destroyer fleets is the future direction of the navy, so Zhang Yunfei attaches great importance to such small warships.

"We need a lot of equipment for this small fast destroyer. How many small dock spaces dock docks dock?" Zhang Yunfei asked.

After carefully checking the data of each shipyard, Zhang Er said: "Young Master, there are only two empty spaces in the small dock in Manila's old shipyard. I wonder how many of these small destroyers will be built?"

"How many ships?" Zhang Er asked Zhang Yunfei and shook his head and smiled, "What's the point of making a few ships? It's necessary to build dozens or hundreds of ships!"

"Hundreds of ships?" Zhang Er was shocked and asked, "Master, although this type of small tonnage destroyer costs only tens of thousands of pounds per ship, it cannot be built so many!"

In Zhang Yunfei's heart, he had always had a huge plan. In addition to imitating Germany's underwater sea wolf plan composed of a large number of submarines, it also included the group of wolves on the water, which was to prepare to build groups of high destroyers. The tiger could not hold back the group of wolves. In the battle of the Tyrannosaurus, the Japanese Navy largely occupied the advantage of a large number of destroyers and kept harassing the Russian fleet, which eventually made the Russian fleet disrupt its formation in order to avoid a large number of torpedoes, giving the Japanese main fleet an opportunity to take advantage.

Zhang Yunfei was too lazy to explain to Zhang Er that this kind of thing was to tell the naval generals, and they didn't understand it very well. After all, the idea of ​​giant ships and cannonism has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of every naval personnel around the world, and it is difficult to change for a while.

So Zhang Yunfei changed his questions and asked: "How many shipyards in China can build destroyers for us?"

Zhang Er knew much about domestic problems, and there was no need to read the documents on the spot to search. He directly replied: "Although there are no large warships built in China with a capacity of more than 10,000 tons, there are many docks like this that build small ships with less than 1,000 tons!"

"Tell me!" Zhang Yun really didn't know much about domestic shipyards. He almost didn't know any famous shipyards except Jiangnan Manufacturing. This was also because the Qing Dynasty did not have naval and coastal defense since the 1898-1899, which caused the shipyard to fall behind.

Zhang Er said: "The shipyards in the Qing Dynasty have Lushun Naval Repair Docks (for repair, no shipbuilding equipment), Dagukou Docks, Weihaiwei Naval Repair Docks (for repair, no shipbuilding equipment), Jiangnan Machinery General Administration, Mawei Shipbuilding Bureau, Guangzhou Huangpu Shipbuilding Bureau, etc. The largest docks are the 12,000-ton dry docks of the Shipbuilding Bureau under the Jiangnan Machinery General Administration, and the docks of other shipyards are only 10,000-ton docks...."

"... There are many private shipyards, and large-tonnage shipyards are basically run by foreigners. There are Xiangsheng Shipyard, Jesong Shipyard, Rui Shipyard, Bandung Iron Shipyard, Hefeng Shipyard, Dongjiadu Way, etc. Among them, Xiangsheng Shipyard and Jesong Shipyard have two docks of more than 10,000 tons, which can be repaired and used for ships with a fleet of less than 15,000 tons in various countries! There are also many small docks of thousands of tons, but they are all made of wooden hull ships, and their technology and equipment are not as good as those mentioned above! However, if the young master only needs to provide them with some advanced equipment during the war, it is still OK to build a thousand tons of destroyers!"

Zhang Yunfei was surprised that there were so many shipyards and docks. In his opinion, China in the late Qing Dynasty should have been a time when ship technology was seriously lagging behind and could not keep up with the trend. Now it seems that China is worthy of being a shipbuilding power. As long as there is enough technology and equipment, the wisdom of the Chinese people is still endless!

Zhang Yunfei was never happy before, and he didn't even know what the reason was. Perhaps he was happy that his huge destroyer construction plan could be implemented, or perhaps he was proud that his country had such a strong family background!
Chapter completed!