It is said that you stand on the bridge and look at the scenery. The people who look at the scenery look at you upstairs. Your window is decorated with other people's dreams.

Historically, after the signing of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1895, Prince Noha Kitashirakawa Miyagi served as the commander of the Yiwei Taiwan expedition. In the same year, Taiwan invaded Taiwan in the same year. In order to deal with the seizure of Japan, the Qing government accused the establishment of the Taiwan Democratic Republic. Prince Nohaki Kitashirakawa led the Guard Division to attack Taiwan and launched the war of Yiwei for several months. A week after Tainan captured, Nohaki Kitashirakawa Miyagi returned to Tokyo in November due to infection (Yoksuka Nohaki), and died of illness the next day at his home (according to official Japanese official documents and telegrams).

Because Zhang Yunfei unexpectedly prevented the further escalation of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Japanese army did not further expand the war of aggression against China. Therefore, Prince Noku, who had died in history on an expedition to Taiwan, was able to survive.

However, there are many problems that come. Emperor Meiji is obviously unable to suppress Prince Noku of Kitashirakawa. Japan is still calm on the surface, but there are already many internal contradictions. A huge loophole appeared in the laws formulated by Emperor Meiji, that is, the General Staff can inquire about the relevant matters of the cabinet, which allows the military represented by Prince Noku of Kitashirakawa to legitimately interfere in government affairs, which has laid a huge hidden danger for the military to control the government.

In the view of General Yuki Ito, these are the most advantageous weapons for Prince Nohiko Kitashirakawa Miyagi to control Japan in the future. Therefore, General Yuki Ito turned to Prince Nohiko Kitashirakawa Miyagi a year ago.

At this time, Yuyuki Ito was a little numb, and I really didn't know how to return to Prince Nokuro of Kitashirakawa. Prince Nokuro of Kitashirakawa saw General Yuyuki Ito, and suddenly laughed and said, "As a soldier, this is not a question Ito-kun is willing to answer. Forget it, you just need to concentrate on building the empire's navy!"

"Hi!" General Yuki Ito nodded like a monstrosity and replied.

"By the way!" Prince Nori Kitashirakawa suddenly asked, "How is our Navy Six Six Plan going?"

General Yuki Ito replied: "Look at it, our shipbuilding plan is progressing smoothly, but compared with Zhang Yunfei's 99 Fleet plan, our warships cannot be compared with others in terms of quantity and quality!"

Prince Nojiki Kitagawa Miyagi frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"

Although Prince Nori Kitashirakawa was born in the 6th Army, he was exposed to a large number of influences in Western thoughts during his study in Germany. Especially the history of the West's rise by the ocean and the theory of sea power in the Mahan area. Both of them deeply influenced Prince Noriki Kitashirakawa.

In his opinion, the location is similar to that of Britain. They are surrounded by Haitian island countries on all sides. Then the British roads are examples of Japan's land and land. At present, the Meiji government of Japan is taking the British political and economic route. Originally, the navy had to fully learn the British Royal Navy route. However, Zhang Yun's enclave suddenly rose, disrupting the rise of the Japanese navy. At the same time, Zhang Yunfei deliberately tried to please Britain, and finally made Britain abandon the choice of Japan just now and instead supported Zhang Yunfei as an agent in the Far East.

Therefore, Japan lost Britain's help and asylum, which was concentrated in the military, especially in the navy. Since the Battle of the Andaman Sea, no warships were built by Britain. Although the Japanese Navy tried several times to place orders with British shipyards, they were rejected by the British government.

It turned out that Zhang Yunfei looked more like a Westerner in the hearts of the British and British governments. He was more suitable to be a pro-British Far East agent. Because Japan is not as capable as Zhang Yunfei. He could use cooperation with the British team to send troops to South Africa as a means to win over the British territory.

The British are the places where interests are concerned. Obviously, Zhang Yunfei has much greater benefits than Japan brings to the UK. In this way, Japan cannot order the most advanced warships in the world's most powerful countries. It will be greatly reduced to take the path of naval expansion and rise.

General Yuki Ito said: "Our local warships cannot be customized in the UK. They can only be built in Germany, France, Italy and the United States. Not to mention that these countries have their own strengths. Our local battleships are nearly 2,000 tons less than Honolulu in tonnage. In terms of firepower, the caliber of the main gun is the same as the number. However, in the second-class main gun, our local land is much worse than Honolulu's in both quantity and caliber..."

In the last few years of the late 19th century, the main guns of battleships of various countries were basically the same. Although the calibers were somewhat different, the attack effects were not much different.

For example, Germany's 280mm main gun, Britain's 305mm main gun, and France's 304mm main gun, due to the different methods and standards of calculation of caliber, the caliber regulations are somewhat different, but their firepower output is basically the same.

The battleships of this period were all two dual-equipped main guns, and the secondary guns were different depending on the sea area used. The battleships customized by Japan in Germany and France were designed according to Zhang Yunfei's battleships, with 18 152mm guns. However, it was unexpected that the Pangu-class battleships built by Zhang Yunfei later used dual-equipped 203mm guns on the second-level guns, and there was a big gap in both quantity and firepower output.

Zhang Yunfei's warship relies on the British help

The flight also led other countries. Although European and American countries do not believe that their strength can increase the level of battleships to 21 quarters, General Yuki Ito has been paying attention to what Zhang Yunfei did. In the two naval battles, he had a premonition of the threat from Zhang Yunfei. Therefore, this time he also believed that the 99 Fleet plan in Honolulu was definitely not aimless.

General Yuki Ito clearly understood that Zhang Yunfei never did anything that he was unsure, let alone fighting an unsure war with the Russian Navy.

Russia is far ahead of Zhang Yunfei's Pacific Fleet in terms of the number of main battleships and large armored cruisers, and is still conducting military expansion plans, but Zhang Yunfei only formulated a 99 Fleet expansion plan. It seems that he really naively believes that Russia will not retaliate against Zhang Yunfei? Almost all European and American countries believe that the Russian navy will continue to distance itself from Zhang Yunfei's navy in a few years. The powerful people who have always measured the strength of the navy by quantity and tonnage have already predicted that if Zhang Yunfei does not expand his navy, they will definitely have a failure.

General Yuki Ito thought that Zhang Yunfei must have some secret weapon in his hand, otherwise he would not have looked at the Russian Navy plan so leisurely. Zhang Yunfei is rich, has a good international environment, and the support of the United Kingdom. Once the money is spilled, it will definitely be much faster than the Russian shipbuilding! But Zhang Yunfei didn't do that, why?

What exactly is Zhang Yunfei's trump card? Nothing is in the 99 Fleet's shipbuilding plan. It doesn't rely on quantity, but on quality! Therefore, there must be something tricky about the warships under construction in Honolulu, General Yuki Ito!

At the same time, although Germany and France did not lag behind Britain in the manufacturing process of warships, their design ideas were obviously different. Britain took the giant ship-cannon-high route, while Germany took the giant ship-thick armor-stable route. France took the neutral route, neither taking the offensive route as Britain, nor taking the thick armor-high route like Germany. France's warships were very neutral and took the strengths of the two families. Although they were the correct trend in later generations, at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries, due to the influence of industrial technology, this route was destined to be very useless and at a disadvantage, which also caused France to gradually withdraw from the historical stage in the battle for maritime hegemony.

The gap between battleships is not too big. It is on heavy cruisers, that is, on large Japanese armored cruisers, and the distance is very obvious. Because Japan has no money, based on Mahan's theory of cannon giant ships, it does not save money on battleships, but it can be compressed a lot on large armored cruisers.

The tonnage of armored cruisers built by Japan in Europe and the United States is 9300~: to about 950c~, and it has just reached the tonnage of Zhang Fei's current heavy cruisers. However, compared with the level 1 Wangshu and Feilian heavy cruisers built next in Honolulu, the tonnage is more than 5,000 tons.

This is not a little bad, it cannot be defeated by technology and luck. A 5,000 tons difference means that the Japanese Navy's armored cruisers are far less than those of Honolulu's heavy cruisers, regardless of degree, firepower, armor, and load. Therefore, even if they are finally formed, they are far from the opponent of the Pacific Fleet.

None of these are the issues that the Japanese Navy cares most.

Yukyu Ito sighed: "Our biggest problem is not just that these warships lag behind Zhang Yunfei's warships in performance, but how can we maintain and provide logistical support after our war is completed?"

Yuki Ito said a lot. Even Prince Nohiro Kitashirakawa Miyaki, the navy's newbie, understood the gap. After all, he did not understand the performance of the warship, but he knew how to compare the quantity and tonnage.

Prince Nori Kitashirakawa Palace asked, "What's wrong with the logistics?"

General Yuki Ito replied: "Originally, the Liuliu ship purchase plan was to use all the British Royal Navy warships. However, since the British government built Fuji-class battleships for us, under the pressure of Zhang Yunfei, we stopped building ships for us. Therefore, the warships built in our Liuliu shipbuilding plan are almost all major naval powers in Europe and the United States. When the fleet is formed, it will be a Wanguo Brand Fleet. In this way, the warships of each country are marked with different maintenance, gun calibers, and ammunition is diverse. Our current naval arsenals produce ammunition according to the British standard, which will bring huge expenses to our Navy Logistics Department. Moreover, once European and American countries are neutral in an emergency, we will have no ammunition supplements!"

Prince Noriki Kitashirakawa Guchi sighed: "Is the fleet that the Empire has worked hard to build is vulnerable to Zhang Yunfei's Pacific Fleet?"

Just as Prince Noku Kitashirakawamiya and General Yuuki Ito shook their heads and sighed at the injustice of God, the guards sent Soyoshi Kotaro's emergency telegram.

"Some ships and the Third Destroyer Fleet of the Pacific Fleet in Lushunkou and Weihaiwei Port left the port today and headed to the Baitan Naval Base of Ryukyu Kingdom to gather and standby!"

Putting down the telegram, Prince Nohiro Kitashirakawa and General Yukio Ito both looked shocked.
Chapter completed!