Xu Shouchang hurriedly said: "No need to hand over tomorrow, today. I have been secretly designing this kind of warship, and it has been modified for a long time."
Fang Xiaoyu said, "This is better, you can take it and take a look." Xu Shouchang agreed and immediately went to pick up the drawings.
Half an hour later, two of his assistants brought a large bundle of drawings together. Fang Xiaoyu looked at the large bundle of drawings and said, "Xu Shouchang, why are there so many drawings? You have designed a fleet, right?"
Xu Shouchang said: "There are many detailed drawings here, and after many modifications, there are even several design plans in some places, so I can't make up my mind, so I used them all for the master to decide." Fang Xiaoyu pointed
First, the largest full map of the warship was opened.
This warship was designed by Xu Shouchang as a behemoth with a standard displacement of 20,000 tons and a full load displacement of 23,000 tons. The warship was 163.4 meters long, 25.6 meters wide, and 8.5 meters draft.
Eighteen auxiliary cycle boilers and four multi-stage impulse steam turbines provided the warship with a maximum speed of 24,500 horsepower, with a maximum speed of 21 knots.
With a speed of ten knots, the warship has a range of 6,900 nautical miles. Its armor is also very thick, with the main armor belt reaching 102 to 249 mm, the deck is 76 mm, and the turret is 100 million.
Two to three hundred and three hundred and thirty mm, the cannon seat is 350 mm, and the command tower is 330 mm. Such heavy armor can almost completely resist all the attacks of the current naval guns.
Of course, the most important thing about a warship is the weapon system. On this warship, Xu Shouchang madly placed five double-equipped turrets, equipped with ten main guns of 305 mm and 45 diameters, and one hundred and two
There are four sub-cannons with 17 mm and fifty caliber and ten mechanical guns with 20 mm. These sub-cannons and mechanical guns are mainly used to prevent torpedoes and high-speed small ships.
Seeing this warship Fang Xiaoyu laughed, "The Holy Sect of the Much Turrets, I didn't expect Xu Shouchang was such a guy who advocated multiple turrets."
Seeing Fang Xiaoyu's smile, Xu Shouchang said: "Master, is there anything wrong?"
Fang Xiaoyu said: "The design is very good, bold and creative, but what does the three turrets on the bow of the ship mean in a font-shaped arrangement?"
Xu Shouchang explained: "In this way, eight main guns can be used at the same time, and six main guns can be used at the bow of the ship. We have advantages in any direction."
Fang Xiaoyu shook his head and said, "We cannot design warships in all aspects. I don't think such a design is necessary at all. You can turn the three turrets in front into two turret-type turrets arranged along the central axis, which can save a lot of water displacement. Or
All three turrets are arranged along the central axis, moving the command tower and the turrets at the stern, so that we only need to pay attention to side firepower."
Xu Shouchang nodded and said, "There are too many of these five turrets placed on the central axis, so it's better to install four seats. Such firepower is terrifying enough."
Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "It's good that way. It seems that your warship design is very mature, enough to take on the key points of the Chinese leading warship design."
Xu Shouchang said: "This is all the master's teachings. I don't know if the master can name the warship I designed."
Fang Xiaoyu said: "Okay, such an epoch-making battleship should give you a different name. The first ship is called "China".
"China?" Xu Shouchang said excitedly: "It's so great. If you name this warship after the Chinese leader, it will definitely become the guardian god of the Chinese leader."
As the first full-caliber heavy artillery steel armor battleship, the "China" has epoch-making significance. Later historians have included the construction of this warship as the most important milestone in the history of the development of battleships. This type of battleship
They are also collectively called Chinese ships, while previous battleships were called former Chinese ships.
As such an important symbol of power, Fang Xiaoyu decided to build six ships directly, as long as 100 million yuan per ship, of course the construction process is still very secret.
Fortunately, the four "North-class battleships that had just been launched attracted the attention of the whole world and made all countries start to imitate them desperately. No force discovered that such epoch-making warships had quietly been closed in several shipyards in remote Ryukyu Islands.
The dock lays its own keel.
The Chinese ship finally began to be built. With this kind of killing weapon, Fang Xiaoyu felt much more enjoyable to breathe.
There are more warships, and the bases naturally cannot be left behind. The reason why a strong naval country can become a strong country is not only because of how advanced warships it has, but also requires naval bases spread across important transportation sites as support. Fang Xiaoyu is confident that this is true. Therefore,
Naval bases and shipyards in various places have begun to be vigorously built.
Amami Naval Base in Ryukyu, Subic Naval Base in Sulu Islands, Puta Bay Naval Base in Kai Island, Moor Port Naval Base in the wild continent, Gubon Naval Base in Darland, Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Honolulu
The bases have begun to be large-scale.
In addition to the continuous construction of these naval bases, the Ryukyu Shipyard has begun to build eight 30,000-ton docks and two 40,000-ton docks, while the Dharan Island Shipyard has six 30,000-ton docks and four 40,000-ton docks.
The largest shipyard in Moor Port is the shipyard.
After underwater blasting, the inlet and exit of Moore Port has been very wide enough to cope with any large-scale maritime transportation and fleet entry and exit, so the shipyard there is also the largest.
Moore Port Shipyard has twelve 40,000-ton docks and six 80,000-ton docks, and four 50,000-ton floating docks, plus eight 50,000-ton docks newly built by Shanghai Vladivostok Shipyard and the previous ones.
The shipbuilding capacity of the entire China Territory is already quite high, with a large number of small and medium-sized docks of less than 20,000 tons.
In order to make these shipyards run, most of the engineers and technicians of the 12 major shipyards in the Donghai counties were assigned to these shipyards, which reduced the shipbuilding capabilities of the 12 major shipyards a lot.
Re-enroll apprentices to fill the staff gap.
Anyway, the largest dock in the so-called 12 shipyards of the Lanfang Empire is only 10,000 tons. In Fang Xiaoyu's eyes, they are only equipped with small cargo ships and fishing boats. It doesn't matter if the craftsmanship is bad, and it's better to use it for newcomers to practice.
Although China has built so many large docks, everyone is puzzled by the way, the form a few years later finally makes everyone admire Fang Xiaoyu's far-sighted vision again.
After the launch of the "Northland" class battleship, countries in the Western Continent who were stimulated began to build battleships one after another. First, the Saar Empire first made partial improvements to the ongoing warship design and announced the construction of four 15,000-ton class ships.
The "Captain Hundred-Man" class battleships were in the fight against each other, and the Nantes Empire also followed suit and built four 16,000-ton "Breton" class battleships.
The Yaman Empire, which was extremely hated by these two countries, was not willing to fall behind. It immediately took out a plan for a 16,500-ton Brandenburg-class battleship and used the spring purchased from the China Leader on it.
Reduction technology.
The Saar Empire was surprised by the rapid growth of the Yaman Empire's naval technology and felt great pressure. He immediately announced the addition of four "Captain Hundred-Man" class battleships, and began to build a 17,000-ton "monarch" class.
Battleship.
Seeing that several countries were scrambling to build advanced battleships, other powerful countries were not willing to fall behind. The Cossack Empire, the Kingdom of Habvsburg, and the Grand Duchy of Sardinia all came up with their own design plans, but they did not have the technology of retracting the spring tube to build ships.
The technology is not as developed as the above countries, and the warships designed are also slightly inferior.
For a time, various new battleships in the Western Continent were scrambled to be placed on the ship, forming a craze of naval military competition.
The Boston Empire in the New World will naturally not fall behind. They soon started purchasing spring tube withdrawal technology with the Nantes Empire. At the same time, relying on their wealth, they took out a 18,000-ton Mississippi-class battleship.
and eight ships are planned to be built.
Although these warships are larger than the other, driven by a single expansion steam engine, these warships are generally not at high speed, especially the Boston Empire, which has a low technology. Their warships have a displacement of 18,000 tons, but only ten knots.
In order to increase the speed of battleships, all countries in the Western Mainland have begun to invest a lot of money to study new steam engine technology. At the same time, all countries have stepped up their espionage activities in China, leaving the agents of the China Intelligence Agency very busy.
All can capture spies sent by various countries.
In view of this situation, Fang Xiaoyu decided to form another Homeland Security Bureau, which was specifically responsible for anti-special and anti-espionage work. Huang Weihua, who made several contributions, was recalled. After Zhao Quan supported some intelligence officers and Liu Junxi supported a group of police officers, he was
He was appointed as the director of the China Territory Homeland Security Bureau, and was specifically responsible for the arrest of enemy spies in the territory.
With the strong assistance of Liu Junxi, the director of the General Police Administration, the anti-espionage activities quickly achieved fruitful results, and a large number of spies were arrested.
The Chinese ruled the counter-espionage laws have always been very strict. After being captured, they will basically be shot. Countries have lost a large number of spies one after another, and their respective intelligence networks have almost been paralyzed. Such a huge loss has finally made the intelligence departments of various countries restrained.
few.
Although many spies arrested, they also encountered many armed resistance during the arrest.
At these times, police officers who only had pistols but had not undergone strict military training were unable to get some strength, and even had police officers die and escaped by the other party several times.
In order to cope with this situation, Fang Xiaoyu decided to draw some personnel from the Special Operations Army to establish a special operation team for the Homeland Security Bureau. In addition, Fang Xiaoyu decided to strengthen the equipment of the armed police force and allow them to assist the Homeland Security Bureau in the arrest work at any time