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The 8-year Spanish-American War created a series of naval battles and the distance between the 8-year wars did not change much.

The battle of the Sino-Japanese Andaman Sea, the Yellow Sea Battle of China and Russia, and the recent battle of China-Japan Tsubasa, the Sino-Japan Ulsan Naval Battle and the Sino-Japan Midway Naval Battle are very different from the above. Although the aiming of artillery still relies on sight, the initial artillery command and control system has been put into use. The Chinese Emperor Qin Navy was equipped with a unified fire control command instrument from the United States.

With the help of it, the effective combat distance of the Qin Navy's large caliber gun was increased to 6oo joint caliber, and the effective shooting distance of the Japanese joint fleet battleship against the Qin Navy formation in naval battle is only

It is difficult for artillery to hit the target directly at this distance in naval battle. Before the war broke out, the naval circles of various countries had already understood it. In addition to equipping firepower control systems on artillery, it is also adopted as an effective measure to increase the hit rate. The direct approach is to increase the number of artillery, especially the main guns, on warships. The main guns are volleyed to increase the ammunition each time to achieve the goal of increasing the hit rate. Simply put, the determination of the shooting elements of the small target requires the calculation of the firepower control system. After obtaining the data, the future position of the target is roughly included in the entire area where the target is located.

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This requires as many main guns as possible on the hull to meet the needs of firepower delivery, but the increase in the number of main guns directly leads to increased hull size and displacement, increasing the hull strength and protection, and the difficulty in design and manufacturing. Public opinion. The limitation of national strength is also difficult to overcome in the short term, so the above arrangement plan was quickly accepted and became popular.

This is closely related to the shipbuilding level at that time: the size of the battleship at that time would not be sufficiently long to allow all or more than three main gun turrets to be arranged on the midline of the hull, and sufficient protection capacity was achieved. In terms of shipbuilding capacity at this time, it was necessary to ensure that the average hull protection standard of the battleship was within 6 ooo tons" and the weight of the hull was small that the keel could not bear. In order to ensure that the steam boiler and reciprocating steam-powered units occupied by the steam boiler and reciprocating steam-powered units installed at that time also made this installation method unusable. At the same time, in order to ensure that more than two main gun fire could be squirted during pursuit and retreat.

However, the biggest disadvantage of this arrangement is that different main guns use different fire control systems. When the main gun is fired, they cannot uniformly determine the bounce point or the solution of the various elements. This is very prominent in the Midway Naval Battle, especially in the Japanese Combined Fleet battleship formation.

The result of the Midway Naval Battle deeply affected the naval circles of various countries before this. The naval powers of various naval powers still had differences in their development directions. After this battle, they became unified.

As an artillery expert, Sir Fisher will certainly not ignore this influence. In the oo-year-old Jane's Battleship Research Publication, the Italian Navy's cruising designer, Shan Baxin, came up with a battleship concept using a unified caliber main gun.

Fisher makes it larger and practical. In conventional linear battles, he has 8:4 more than twice the main gun firepower of the opponent. Even if the opponent is in a retreat, he can continue to bombard the firepower of 6:2 more than twice the opponent's firepower. In particular, "Fearless" has two continuous navigation capabilities that the opponent cannot match at that time. Select the 8 main guns on the side are calculated and considered to be able to complete a firepower coverage of the target.

At the same time, in the pursuit battle, in order to enable the front main gun to effectively shoot the hull's freeboards to avoid the splash of the ship. The main gun uses a double-connected O-door 3o4 times the caliber than the greasy gunboat, each with a hull, one with a symmetrical arrangement on both sides, each with an 8o-degree theoretical shooting boundary, so the maximum firepower of side fire is 8.

Since the two double main guns on the side of the Fearless are designed with a fat side, they can also shoot forward, so in pursuit battles, the Fearless can fire six main guns at the same time, which shows how powerful the flag is.

Of course, these are all valid in theory and need to be tested in a stern way.

Although the British Fearless battleship has not officially installed a weapon system, its impact on countries around the world is conceivable.

This is mainly attributed to Zhang Yunfei's Emperor Qin government. They spared no effort to secretly make free publicity advertisements for the British, which caused the European and American powers to attach great importance to this battleship that had not yet been installed.

The German Empire, the largest European country in Europe, is the German Empire.

Due to the intentional or unintentional disclosure of Ambassador Jailin by the Imperial Qin government to Germany, the German Navy also obtained information on the launch ceremony of the USS Fearless battleship at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the UK. Although the Imperial Qin government had secretly handed over the design drawings of the USS Fearless battleship to the German Navy as compensation for Germany's losses in Qingdao.

However, the Germans' rigor and doubted that the Emperor and Qin government often acted rogue about them, so they secretly sent spies to infiltrate the Naval Shipyard of the Parksyas to verify the Fearless.

The results showed that the British Fearless battleship did match the design drawings given to them by the Emperor Qin government. In this way, the Germans really believed the design drawings given to them by the Emperor Qin government and the Navy Department and knew the weapon system that the Fearless battleship was about to be assembled.

Although the German Admiralty was mentally prepared, it was still shocked by the powerful firepower output and armor protection of Wuyou's side.

If they felt incredible when they saw the huge advantage of the Pangu-class battleship of the Imperial Qin Navy that had the induction of the Jiejie Navy in the Sino-Japanese Midway Navy before, they felt incredible. Now, compared with the weapon system of this Fearless battleship, ten strong millimeter main guns are obviously much stronger than the Pangu-class battleship of the Imperial Qin Navy. Germany is not allowed to pay more attention to it.

With targeted, the German Navy Minister Tilbert immediately summoned the famous German naval warship engineers to design the new battleships of De County against British dreadnoughts.

For this reason, the German Treasury specially allocated 8.5 million Jinmak to the German Admiralty to build new battleships to fight against the British Fearless Class battleships.

In fact, as early as the Chinese Emperor Qin government, the Germans had obtained the British fearless plan to build a brand new battleship, but because the Germans did not believe Zhang Yunfei, they did not make up their minds for the last time.

Because the new type of battleship breaks the layout of traditional warships, it is not easy for a nation like Germany to change.

Although it was not finalized to start construction, all preparations before construction were completed. Therefore, when the Navy decided to build a brand new battleship, the Royal Wilhelmshaven Shipyard Li Xuan began to build the Nassau-class battleship of the German Empire-class battleship of the Nassau-class battleship.

The Nassau class is the first-class dreadnought of the German Navy. Construction started on September 23rd of the year.

The 6-seater main gun turret is equipped with hexagonal configurations on the front and rear and sides. For example, the main gun is equipped with a door such as the mm main gun. Although the caliber of the main gun is smaller than that of the Fearless, it fires faster.

This hexagonal turret arrangement makes it possible to ensure that only 8 main guns can be fired at the same time in the side of the ship. This class of ships widens the hull and the weight of the turret on the side causes the warship to swing too much when navigating in the wind and waves. The use of larger caliber secondary guns to cope with artillery battles within thousands of meters is different from the battleships built by the British Navy at the same time.

In terms of power, due to the lack of experience in the use of large steam turbines by the German Navy, although the Navy of the Chinese Emperor Qin Government also quietly revealed some experience in steam turbines, the Germans did not believe that the Chinese would help them so kindly.

Therefore, the Nassau class still uses reciprocating steam rights to use coal-fired boilers with the highest navigation link 2 sections less than the Fearless.

Although Germany's Nassau-class battleships are only old, because the German fleet is not an ocean-going fleet, the Baltic Sea limits that Germany does not suffer in terms of sailing within this region.

The Germans did not pay attention to the seaworthiness of warships and only attached importance to armor protection. Therefore, although the Nassau-class battleships were weaker than the British Fearless battleships in terms of both degree and main gun caliber, the German artificial battleships were still stronger than the British Fearless in terms of survivability. At least the Nassau battleships were much thicker than the Desperate.

The British's fearless battleship slapped the Germans hard in the face to let the Germans know that the British are the real maritime overlords, so that the Germans retreated.

But obviously, the German Emperor William II did not buy the British account at all. Since the British provoked them, the Germans would not be willing to be left behind.

Because Zhang Yunfei gave the design drawings of the battle cruiser to the Germans as bargaining chips for German support to Zhang Yunfei.

Of course, that's already gone by.

However, although the relationship between Tsai-China and Germany is now somewhat subtle and hostile, the design drawings of this battle cruiser are genuine.

Previously, the Germans modified the German cruiser Bismarck according to the concept on the drawings and accumulated experience in designing battle cruisers.

At the same time, the Germans paid great attention to the current service of the Wangshu-class heavy cruiser and Feilian-class heavy cruiser of the Emperor Qin Navy. After obtaining the brilliant results of these two-class heavy cruisers from the Battle of Midway Island, the Germans couldn't wait to start construction of the battle cruiser.

The drawings Zhang Yunfei gave to the Germans are somewhat similar to those of the Feilian-class heavy cruiser, except that the battlecruiser requires a large main gun caliber, the Feilian-class heavy cruiser is a smaller version of the battlecruiser.

At least that's what the Germans think.

At the same time, the Emperor Qin Navy divided the warships into battleships, heavy cruisers, light cruisers, destroyers, gunboats, and torpedo boats in the classification of warships. The Germans liked this way of dividing according to tonnage, so the German Navy's high seas fleet also referred to the battle sequence division of the Emperor Qin Navy's Pacific Fleet.

This may be the fate effect! Who made the Emperor Qin Royal Navy Pacific Fleet very famous now?

In response to the British Fearless battleship, Germany started construction of the Shisau-class battleship. But this was just a defense. At the same time, Germany gave the British a left hook punch. The heavy cruiser Blüchel was launched a week later. The Germans did not like the term battleship cruiser, so they still used the name of Emperor Qin Navy to call it the heavy cruiser.

The new ship started construction at the Royal Shipyard in Kiel on September 27 after the name of "Heavy Cruiser". The ship was launched on September 27 after the Prussian Marshal Gerhard von Blücher who defeated Napoleon.

Similarly, Emperor William II of the German Empire brought a group of civil and military ministers to hold a grand ribbon-cutting ceremony accompanied by the Minister of Navy Tilberts.

This move was obviously provoking the UK and was very meaningful about this. The British government was very unhappy about this, but it still sent a spy to spy on the heavy cruiser. Of course, the British also had some construction parameters for the German battlecruiser provided by the Emperor Qin government.

The heavy cruiser with a tonnage of 18,000 tons is different from the Emperor Qin Navy Feilian-class heavy cruiser, but the flight is very high to a surprising decline.

I have to say that Germany has done a great job in improving the old-fashioned steam engine.

In terms of main gun fire, the Blücher used an Omm dual main gun with the door-induced Ommy-mm dual main gun obviously targeted the Chinese Navy Feilian heavy cruiser because the Feilian only has 8 milk mm dual main guns.

Although Blüchel had obvious intention of restraining Feilian, he only met the standard of a quasi-battle cruiser. Because his main gun had a caliber of only 0 mm, which was enough for a cruiser. For an armored cruiser, the main gun could be regarded as any armored cruiser.

However, in order to truly meet the standards of battleships, it must meet the standards of battleships in the main gun caliber.

Obviously, Germany's conservatism hindered the German Navy's innovative consciousness on battle cruisers. At the same time, Germany has begun to receive more or less influence from the Chinese Emperor Qin Navy because the Blüchel is obviously suspected of referring to the Feilian-class heavy cruiser.

But no matter what, Germany built a Blücher heavy cruiser with twelve Omm main guns. For Britain, this heavy punch undoubtedly hurts them.

But how could the British Empire, who always led the world in the navy, stand the provocation of the German Navy?

For this reason, Admiral Fisher, the First British Maritime Secretary, immediately responded.

In the report submitted to the British Parliament, Sir Fisher pointed out that the powerful firepower output and altitude of the USS Blücher were a fatal threat to the British Empire's ocean routes and overseas colonies. Because battleships could not catch up with it, cruisers and armored cruisers were not opponents at all. So he proposed a new naval battleship Jigo, which completely suppressed the German USS Blücher heavy cruiser, to fighter cruisers.

In order to deal with the twelve 2-mm main guns of the Bouchcher and the six-quarters drop, the British Parliament directly allocated special funds to the Admiralty. At the same time, Sir Fisher proposed the idea of ​​an "ideal cruiser" according to the requirements.

Then the British Navy Ship Design Committee proposed the "Ideal Cruiser" warship design plan to combine the firepower of the fearless battleship with the degree of the cruiser. This new ship is a very functional battleship. It has the characteristics of large-caliber main gun, high-speed aviation, and light armor. It is not used as the main force of the fleet with battleships as the target of combat, but to attack various types of cruisers. In order to pursue the advantage of degree, it deliberately reduced its protection ability, and thus created a fatal weakness. It became a fragile target in fleet battles. Then the UK officially named this new warship "battleship cruiser" Tiantuoho.

The Invincible Class Battlecruiser was quickly established and started construction under the stimulation of the German Navy.

On October 6, the Invincible Class Battlecruiser, the Invincible was started by Armstrong's Alvik Shipyard. The price was 7 mortars.

The Invincible Class Battlecruiser uses a boiler compartment in the hull of a long-ship hull to accommodate the steam boiler necessary to maintain high propulsion power. The Fearless battleship built at the same time was installed with an old steam boiler designed to design a maximum flight of 6 knots. The equipment port inch caliber main gun dual-mounted main gun gun mounts each have one middle of the stern. The two turrets are arranged in step-like arrangements on both sides of the hull. The theoretically, when the side turrets rotate at a certain angle, they can shoot at the other side, but the shooting range is extremely limited. Because the defensive armor is only slightly stronger than the armored cruiser and the two turrets are very close to each other, they are easily prone to death in battle. The two turrets and ammunition depots are used to explode chain explosions.

Of course, ideal warships are ultimately ideals and are actually difficult to build. This also determines that the battle cruiser's combat goal is to target cruisers and other warships, which are still vulnerable in front of battleships.

However, Fisher obviously realized the shortcomings of battlecruisers in this regard, but the vast number of British overseas colonies needed battlecruisers to maintain.

However, the cost of a battlecruiser is very high than that of any existing battleship, and it is even about to catch up with the cost of the Fearless Class battleship.

Britain has strong strength and Britain can only accept challenges for the large-scale naval arms race set off by the Germans.

Originally, in history, the Fearless Battleships and Battlecruisers were the first to be built by Britain, which caught the world's naval powers off guard. All the active and under construction battleships overnight, and the armored cruisers were outdated. At the same time, Germany, the United States and other countries built their own dreadnoughts two years later than Britain.

It can be said that the British in history have taken the lead and taken advantage of this plan.

But now all this has been broken by Zhang Yunfei. Not only did he reveal the battlecruiser early to Germany, but he also gave the Germans a vaccination in advance, so that Germany was not left behind by Britain.

The naval arms race between Britain and Germany has unreservedly begun for two years than the original history. According to the British Navy's shipbuilding degree, the USS Fearless will complete the installation of the weapon system in 2016. It will take another half a year to a year to a year to officially enter service at the latest at the end of the year or the beginning of the year.
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