The Americans cried. They just shouted the slogan of standard battleships and built two Wada-class battleships, two Pennsylvania-class battleships and three New Mexico-class battleships in one breath, but they didn’t think that this was outdated technology. So the cowboys tried their best to terminate the ship-building plan of New Mexico-class No.3 and redesigned a Tennessee-class battleship with a maximum speed of more than 26 knots, which was scheduled to be commissioned before 1919. At the same time, the famous Lexington-class patrol also surfaced.
On November th, 1914, there was already a King Kong-class war patrol, three King Kong-class war patrols, and the naval battle in Shazhou, Dogel, which was the shipyard berth, proved the value of the war patrol. However, in less than a month, a basin of cold water was poured over to make the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship in I pull out my dagger, I peer four ways in vain, Takeshi Yamato and the Saxon-class battleship aware of their gap between European powers, and the designer Teng Kikuo was rushed to Britain to inspect shipbuilding.
The weakest link of Russian imperialist chain is on the verge of bankruptcy, but polar bears are greedy for the ocean. It is hard for outsiders to imagine that in 1999, the Russian Baltic St. Petersburg Shipyard started to build four Gangu super-dreaded ships in one breath, and in 1911, the Black Sea Nikolayev Shipyard built three Queen Maria-dreaded ships in one breath. When the Dutch poked out the German Saxony-class battleship building plan, the Russians announced the construction of a Nicholas I-class fast battleship equipped with three 356 mm main guns to make American steam engines and boilers.
In the middle and late 19th century, the Gaul rooster ranked second in the world because of superstitious belief in the concept of green water navy. The French abandoned their martial arts and terminated a large number of first-class armored ships and the plans to build ships. The French came to their senses, and the naval technology explosion era stopped for a few years. The French started to build an isolated-class battleship in 1999, which was far less than that of the contemporary German-British capital ship. In 1912, the keel of the Provence-class battleship was laid. Although it was equipped with a 34 mm main gun, it was along the isolated-class battleship. With the same size and power system, this super-feared ship has no technology upgrade. Due to the expansion of the frontier of the law of war, the French empire was once famous for its financial exhaustion, but the characteristics of colonial countries made them unable and afraid to give up the navy. The French just dug out a book and designed an expensive Normandy-class fast battleship equipped with a 34-gun design speed of 255 knots, and planned to build four ships.
December 13th, 1914, London, England
Navy spies came back with dim information, and the four secretaries of the navy were dumbfounded. Jellicoe frowned at the silence of the chief of staff, Lieutenant General Frederic Studdy. David Betty turned over the information in his hand until those shocking design parameters were familiar with it, and then he resented and handed back the newspaper.
That shallow newspaper, every word of which is thrilling to read, was locked in a cold ice safe by the Secretary of the Navy. It is said that Winston Churchill returned to his desk, took out a Xiao Mu box containing cigars and knocked on a Havana cigar holder.
"I have to give up the pride and shame of belonging to the Royal Navy and admit that Queen Elizabeth is not a mackensen-class patrol opponent or a Saxon-class battleship opponent." Sir Arthur Wilson, the successor of the First Sea Minister of Hill Station, took a look at Churchill and said with a frown, "In terms of armor or speed, the Queen and revenge are not as good as German mackensen. Maybe our warship has an advantage in endurance but lacks strategic depth."
"Fortunately, the caliber of the German main gun is metric and we have an inch. We have a millimeter more caliber advantage than the Germans!" Winston Churchill sniffed cigar tobacco and laughed at himself.
"Gentlemen, the Germans have found a way to deal with the big fleet, that is, amazing protection against the speed advantage of our patrol team and getting rid of a large number of battleships, so that the big fleet has a numerical advantage, but the French and Chinese forces can sit and watch the patrol fleet be destroyed and lose its reconnaissance power. The main fleet is surrounded by the German fast fleet and broken one by one."
Churchill’s straightforwardness made the fleet commander frown unconsciously. Although these professional soldiers looked down on the civilian background and did not understand the military Churchill, no one could deny that what the Secretary of the Navy said was true.
Although the British lost a formidable ship, a cutting-edge patrol and an old-fashioned patrol in Dogel, they can still proudly declare themselves as the victorious side. David Betty recklessly sabotaged the German ambush plan and avoided a Trafalgar-style decisive battle. The strength of the big fleet did not suffer too much. As time went by, the shipyard repaired, modified and maintained the capital ship and returned to the Mediterranean fleet to compile two patrol ships. The northern British also easily regained their strategic advantage. David Betty Dogel’s sandbar battle was not severely criticized by his naval colleagues, but was promoted because of the need to declare.
From 1915 to 1917, five Queen Elizabeth class battleships, five revenge class battleships and three lookout class battleships will be put into service one after another. Although these ship-building plans have exhausted Britain’s finances in the next few years, the sharp edge of the naval arms race and the rich war bonus have made the pirates-born John Bull desperate, and the Royal Navy people feel that the situation is bright.
But when the Germans started to build mackensen-class battleships and Saxony-class battleships, everyone panicked. Three battleships and two battleships wouldn’t make the cow force arrogant, and the sun didn’t set. The terrible thing was that the British saw a bad sign, that is, the Germans changed from a simple shipbuilding competition to a sword-leaning one, but they could not outrun the British high-speed battleships, but they must beat those thin-skinned scum; The caliber and quantity of the main guns are not comparable to those of a small fleet, but they must be able to withstand the poor quality of shells. The same number of British battleships can annihilate a large fleet
"That’s better than building a ship. The British Empire has never been afraid of building a ship competition!" Lieutenant General Study, the chief of staff of the Navy, waved and made a powerful gesture.
"Can build a ship by where come from? The cost of the Queen-class first ship is estimated to be 30,000 pounds, and the average cost of five warships is also 270,000 pounds. Although the revenge level is the queen’s level, the displacement of the product has dropped by 5 tons, the speed has dropped by 23 knots, and the endurance has 4 nautical miles, but it still needs 240,000 pounds. The average cost of the three-class war patrol is 310,000 pounds! " Sir Arthur Wilson, the first minister of the sea, knocked on the table and said angrily, "The most terrible thing is that five Queen-class and five Revenge-class ships have been laid with keels, and there is not much room for improvement! Three high-end warships have made Downing Street Finance Minister unhappy to build a more luxurious and fast capital ship. What can we say about Westminster Palace 1? "
Arthur Wilson argued that Study snorted and stopped talking. The dark office fell into a dead silence when the office door was pushed open.
"Jazz, it’s not good. Damn it, American cowboys have exposed the enemy’s lies!" Churchill’s private secret Eddie Marsh came in panting, stumbled and accidentally bumped into the doorframe gripper, and the newspaper flew out and fell straight on the carpet.
That’s a tabloid newspaper in London. The headline is the captain of the American Hadley Express in jeans.
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The second gun Chapter 10 Preparing for Winter (2)
Chapter 10 Preparing for Winter (2)
In mid-December, Siberian cold air mass stubbornly raised light snow in southern Western Europe, accompanied by gorgeous snowflakes and flying. It was reported that Ross Geithner, the captain of Hadley express cargo ship and the crazy American cowboy, finally became a controversial figure in Europe and the world.
After the naval battle in Shazhou, Dogel, Germany and Britain fought a war of words, pointing at each other and ambushed the national fleet. When the world was confused by German and British diplomats and naval officers, the American cowboy returned from Kiel Port and waved his private diary to find the editor of the Dutch local newspaper.
Dutch journalists, such as Bao Bao, published the personal diary of Atlantic cowboy with illustrations, passionate burning wedges and editors’ notes.
The truth of the true and false war patrol of the Devlinger and the conspiracy of the former battle of the Luzov came to light, and the admiralty of the British Empire breathed a sigh of relief. The German people still celebrated the victory, and the world media and neutral people had another talk, and the American cowboy was accompanied by the Dogel Shoal shock that went down in history. The world first knew it.
After the naval battle, in order to cover up the tactical defeat, the Admiralty of the British Empire concealed the fact that the enemy was killed, and vowed that the enemy had to return to the factory for repair. While the sun was not setting, the imperial people gradually forgot and did not follow the big fleet to return to Scarpa Bay. On December 1, 1914, the British Admiralty issued a notice announcing that the enemy had been repaired. On the way back from the patrol, it was struck by thunder and overturned on the east coast of Scotland.
On November 1st, the battleship Bold, King George V of England, struck a mine and sank. Less than two months later, another capital ship became a German mine. Sorrow and mourning became the theme of England. London residents took flowers and white candles to the streets or went to nearby churches to mourn the dead soldiers of the enemy ship and pray for the poor fleet.
The British Admiralty almost succeeded in crossing the sea, but things are unpredictable. It took the British Admiralty a long time to finalize an unremarkable sea area on the North Sea chart, but it did not want to benefit the Hadley express cargo ship route.
In mid-November, American cowboys just transferred a ship of iron ore to Germany and took on a new job-transporting a ship of grain for the British and running around constantly exhausted cowboys, returning from the east coast of Scotland. Hadley, the fast freighter, found a remote channel and cut back to Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
When the tired cowboys were ready to go to the red light district of Rotterdam to find some street vagrants to have a great love, the famous cowboy captain overheard the news of the sinking of the enemy ship, so the plot was exposed. On November 14th, Ross Geithner finally became the embodiment of justice and truth in the eyes of the British, the Germans, the Americans and the people of the world!
On December 14, Hamburg, Germany, the wind was cold and the leaves were piled up, but the Bloom-Voss Shipyard was in full swing.
The high-stand near the dry dock in the bay was built early, and both sides of the berth were filled with box keels waiting to be laid, as well as large forged steel with excellent materials that constitute the hull.
Wang Haidi and hippel Dry Dock Gaotai looked at the new warships that were about to start construction, and their breathing gradually became heavy.
In 166, several dilapidated wooden gunboats in the Prussian navy were suppressed by the Danes, and the German army was famous for its nature after the Franco-Prussian War, but its navy had several sail warships. In 1994, the German navy took a cautious step toward the sea, and at this time there were two Brandenburg-class battleships and an Augusta-class armored cruiser.
It’s been 16 years since the First Naval Expansion Act of 19 years. After being repeatedly ridiculed by the British, it bears the most vicious curse of the German landlord, and some conservatives are heavily bound. German sailors have made great efforts and made great efforts to build a fleet ranked second in the world and set sail for the ocean after the declaration of war at Charlottenburg Palace on April 4, 1914.
The bottom of the wide dry dock was paved with a double-deck bottom bearing machine, which roared and hoisted the first box keel of mackensen-class patrol No.1 ship mackensen into the slot.
Navy officials and shipyard workers cheered, knowing that every capital ship of the ocean fleet was fiercely debated by members of Congress for several times, and the thinking was grotesque. The emperor’s confrontation and compromise were aimed at the overbearing Royal Navy, and each ship was hard to come by and precious.
This is a glorious moment for that navy and the Bloom-Voss shipyard! On December 14th, another German capital ship was about to start construction in the cold wind of Hamburg Port!
"I remember that it was in the early autumn of 197, and I had the honor to listen to your graduation thesis defense" On Asymmetric Warfare in Battleship Age ".Although the sensibility lacked strict logic and detailed data theory support, the young people’s talents did not shine with wisdom and brilliance. It is a pity that William is a loyal believer in Mahan."
Franz von hippel, dressed in a dark general, turned his head and looked at his favorite hand, Heidi Wang, with a faint smile on her cold face.
The workers’ agitation doesn’t affect their proficiency. The second box keel is also hoisted. It is foreseeable that this cutting-edge warship will patrol the future, and the horizontal and vertical steel will be superimposed to strengthen the keel until the bulkhead extends to the deck, and then the external heavy armor and the dome armor, as well as the steam engine and boiler outfitting will slide along the dry dock track to the windy and high waves in the North Sea …
"Maybe …" hippel, a member of the Naval Officer Corps, once swore allegiance to Germany and the Hohensolen family, never expressed his views on the emperor William easily. However, at the moment when the mackensen War Patrol started construction, hippel’s religious reserve seemed to be broken.
Maybe hippel’s heart is not as calm as his expression. Maybe hippel has something of his own! Wang Haidi hesitated for a moment and waited for hippel by surprise at the bottom of my heart.
"At the beginning of 1914, Lei Deer tricked me into going to the naval headquarters and took me to persuade the stubborn old marshal Erpitz to let you return to Germany. The Emperor Yilang gave him the last care. Although I know that the biggest obstacle to your return to the ocean fleet is William’s position, I still let Lei Deer test the tone with a little luck. Of course, William’s position was noncommittal about this matter. Later, I learned that you applied for retirement. I think the ocean fleet needs you to be desperate to instigate Marshal Erpitz to disobey the emperor. I saw you retire in January.
Know about otaku. General hippel didn’t keep Wang Haidi waiting. He pointed to the high platform and started to build a patrol light way
"The original Cedritz and three Devlinger-class patrol ships will be the only force in the reconnaissance fleet, and they will put very strict requirements on the protection level of the patrol. However, you have revised the theory of’ asymmetric warfare’ and let me see the true value of the post-Cedritz patrol. What the German navy needs is not a strong ship but a slow-moving ship. Nor is it a superior ship with excellent quality but limited defense, but a fast main ship with both battleship defense and cruise speed. It is fortunate that the ocean fleet is on the right track!"
"General, I didn’t do it alone."
Although there are no proverbs in German dictionaries, such as the golden mean and the beauty in the forest will destroy, and there are no English euphemisms and gentlemen, it has somewhat offended some Germans’ inherent rigidity and preciseness. Wang Haidi still shakes his head and is humble because he is facing Franz von hippel!
"The most outstanding tactical commander of the ocean fleet is your superb command in the naval battle in Shazhou, Dogel, and the naval conference spared no effort to support my concept after the naval battle, so it is possible to implement it."
"No, I don’t have your courage and boldness" hippel patted Haidi’s shoulder and shook his head freely. "I am confident that I can command a fleet like an arm, but I never dare to go against the will of the high-level officials. This is my luck and my misfortune! Selim, there is a rebellious thought in your bones. I can’t tell whether it is good or bad, but the ocean fleet can take the initiative. You are absolutely courageous! "
"Bohr, the chief of the navy’s general staff, is not a bold and responsible leader. William’s ocean fleet has put on a layer of shackles. However, the British counterattack is imminent, more cruel and bloody. In 1915, the war was raging in the South Atlantic, the North Sea and the Daniil Strait. Are you ready?"
Wang Haidi took off his military cap and turned his head. He listened carefully to the collision between the Shipbuilder and steel and said confidently, "Of course!"
The second gun Chapter 10 Preparing for Winter (3)
Chapter 10 Preparing for Winter (3)
Influenced by the extreme front cold air mass, the cold wind swept across western Europe, and the road leading to the front line of East Prussia was full of mud. Goose yellow snow fluttered in Ruhr-gebiet, and the fallen leaves of the bodhi trees on the streets of Berlin were stacked, and Kiel children fought a snowball fight vigorously.
The winds in the North Sea are high, the waves are fierce and the waves are monstrous. A layer of sea ice has accumulated in many sea areas along the German coastline. Although it will not affect Jed Bay, the anchorage of the ocean fleet, the ocean fleet has made early preparations for antifreeze. Thick winter clothes and antifreeze oil are bundled to move warships.
The cold and long winter raged in Europe, and the war on the surface of the North Sea came to an end. The German and British navies licked their wounds, summed up the pros and cons, and actively prepared for the bloody and cruel in 1915.
Because of the "1914 turning point meeting", there are still a group of young people who have just entered the stage, and the German Navy is preparing for the winter in an orderly way.
The capital ship sailed into the shipyard one after another to refit the five main turrets of Mao Qi in Dogel Shazhou naval battle. The tragic experience of four destroyed turrets strengthened the defensive armor of the main turret and gun shaft of the neglected capital ship. The general water fish with chicken ribs was dismantled and transformed into a supply cabin; Near-life barrels will be replaced after combat training in the Baltic Sea at the end of December and the beginning of January, and the seaweed and shellfish attached to the hull will be cleaned and repainted with the gray paint of the German Navy. Derusting and fire protection painting go hand in hand; Ship life rafts, single life-saving equipment, ship damage control, fire fighting, anti-virus and medical equipment have also been supplemented.
The navy didn’t lie. The Saxon-class battleship is indeed a super battleship with excellent performance but limited to paper. This battleship is just a lie deliberately created to practice Wang Haidi’s political and military means, the ultimate goal of economy, the new sea theory, and the effect is very good.
