Huang Zhedao: " The improvement of the armored cruiser is mainly in the firepower, the original Chitu-class armored cruiser's secondary artillery configuration is the same as that of the cadre-class battleship, there is also a big gap in the level of firepower, and the role of the 200 mm main gun and the 155 mm secondary gun is too repetitive, the role of the 155 mm auxiliary gun on the battleship is mainly a supplement to the slow rate of fire of the main gun, in the battle, attacking the target on the deck of the enemy ship, and the other is to deal with the 3000-5000 ton warship; but on the armored cruiser, these functions and the 200 mm main gun are somewhat overlapped, because in the rate of fire, the 155 mm secondary gun and the 200 mm main gun are not much advantageous, and in the face of 3000-5000 ton warships, although the 200 mm main gun has some excess firepower, it is not a knife to kill chickens, on the contrary, the 120 mm artillery of this level is faster than the 155 mm gun in terms of rate of fire, and it also has a certain lethality against 3000-5000 ton warships, and the armor will not be very strong for warships of Bi Jing's level. Therefore, our secondary gun configuration for the new armored cruiser is 4 twin 155 mm guns, 8 twin 125 mm guns, 4 twin 100 mm guns, 8 twin 75 mm rapid-fire guns, and 6 twin 50 mm rapid-fire guns. ”

Wang Hailong nodded and said, "Okay, no matter how it is changed, I just want to know how many of these two types of warships are planned to be built in this five-year cycle?"

Huang Zhe looked at Shang Jinfeng, and saw that Shang Jinfeng nodded, so he said: "These two types of warships will each build two, the battleships are still named after the ancient sword, named Longquan and Zhanlu respectively; ”

Wang Hailong touched his chin and said, "This is very good, the cadre class and the Chitu class are indeed not able to be compiled with other warships, so what warships will be built later?"

Huang Zhe ordered someone to change the drawing board for the third time, and said: "This is all the warships that will be built in this five-year plan." Others handed out a document to the attendees.

Wang Hailong also took the document, only to see that the cover was written [1907-1911 Five-Year Ship Building Plan] (first draft), about the thickness of more than 10 sheets of paper, Wang Hailong turned a page, only wrote on the paper:

two battleships: Cadre-class Improved;

four armored cruisers: two Chitu-class improved ships and two Jinan-class ships;

18 cruisers: 2 Qingzhou-class, 4 Qingzhou-class improved, 4 Dongchang-class, 8 Dongchang-class improved;

36 destroyers;

16 submarines;

Reserve 8-10 warships for the Marine Corps, with a tonnage of 4-50,000 tons.

Wang Hailong turned to the second page again, this is a detailed introduction to the types and parameters of the warships to be built, the improved battleships of the cadre class and the improved armored cruisers of the Chitu class are the ones introduced by Huang Zhe just now, and there are other Qingzhou-class improved types, Dongchang-class improved types, and newly designed destroyers and so on. Wang Hailong turned a few more pages, didn't read any further, and said: "In the past 5 years, only 2 battleships have been built, is it too little, we only have a total of 8 battleships now, and the Ocean and the Ocean are basically determined to take a back seat, so at the end of the 5-year cycle on the right, we still only have 8 battleships, and at most we can form two detachments." With the seas and islands we now control, 8 battleships is definitely not enough. ”

Huang Zhe said: "This is because the improved type of the cadre general class is essentially a transitional warship, mainly to accumulate technology and experience for the construction of battleships, it is impossible to build a lot, and we take into account that some of the captured battleships can be put into service after maintenance, so that the number of our battleships is sufficient, so only two improved battleships of the cadre class are built, and the battleships that are put into service after maintenance are in the back." ”

When Wang Hailong heard this, he hurriedly turned to the back, and sure enough, he saw that the last two pages were repaired warships, including nine battleships: the British Discord, the Majesty, and the Mars, the French Suflon, and the Russian Glory, Retvizan, Victory, Peresvet, and Poltava. There were three armored cruisers: the British Berwick, the French Kleber, and the Russian Warrior. There are also protective cruisers, destroyers, etc., and Wang Hailong didn't look at them carefully, but just calculated silently in his heart.

Wang Hailong is the commander of the fleet, and of course he is very familiar with the situation of the fleet; most of the warships of the People's Army Navy are prisoners, and there are six battleships, namely: the Tuoyang, the Yuanyang, the Weiyang, the Boyang, the Feiyang, and the Fuyang; among them, the Luoyang and the Yuanyang are too old and will be relegated to the second line in the current naval reorganization, while the remaining four are still in their proper years; and the armored cruisers are: Tuohai, Kaihai, Baohai, Jinhai, and Bahai, all of which are basically usable.

In addition, 9 battleships, 3 armored cruisers, and 4 battleships and 8 armored cruisers built by East China ** are ready for maintenance this time, so after this 5-year shipbuilding cycle, the People's Navy will have 17 battleships and 16 armored cruisers, which can be organized into 4 subfleets.

However, of course, Wang Hailong didn't want to compromise so quickly, so he thought about it for a while, and said: "After the end of this 5-year cycle, that is, in 1911, according to the development of the old time and space, super dreadnoughts should have appeared at this time, and the battleships we captured are all former dreadnoughts, and the 4 battleships built by ourselves can only be regarded as small dreadnoughts, which means that after the end of this 5-year cycle, all the battleships of our navy will be backward products, I don't know if this point was considered when formulating this plan?" Is it possible to consider building a few more improved types of Ganjiang, such as building 4-6 ships, although this type of warship is a little worse, but it can be regarded as a dreadnought. ”

Huang Zhedao: " We have considered this, first of all, we now have limited shipbuilding capacity, if only the construction of the improved type of the cadre class and the improved version of the Chitu class, then these two types of warships can only be built at most 4 each, and the other repair warships basically have no time to complete, and after the end of this five-year cycle, we will only have 10 battleships available, and can only be divided into two battleship detachments; and if these two types of warships are built 2 each, the other repair warships can be completed in about 3 years, then we will have 17 battleships, 16 armored cruisers available, and can be organized into 4 detachments。 In terms of cost, because it is a dreadnought type, the cost of the improved version of the cadre class is 20-30% higher than that of the previous dreadnoughts of the same class, which is almost equivalent to the price of repairing 3-4 warships of the same class. ”

"And although we are repairing all the former dreadnoughts, after the opening of the dreadnought era, the former dreadnoughts are actually still in service in the navies of various countries, in the First World War of the old time and space, in the Battle of Jutland, Britain also sent 10 dreadnoughts to participate in the battle with the Grand Fleet; and the Battle of Cape Sochi, Russia dispatched all the dreadnoughts, these examples show that in the era of dreadnoughts, even super dreadnoughts, the former dreadnoughts are still fighting a war. The complete withdrawal of the former dreadnoughts from the stage of history was after the First World War, so it is still valuable for us to repair these former dreadnoughts now. ”

In addition, after the Far East War, Russia's Far East Navy was completely wiped out, and even the ports in the Far East were lost, and the Japanese Navy was also heavily damaged, and there was no 10 years to recover, and Britain, France, Germany, the United States and other countries are far away from the ocean, because it is the main strategic target of Britain, France and Germany are all placed in Europe, and contain each other, it is impossible to put a large number of naval forces in Asia, although the United States has not contained, but now the overall national policy of the United States is still the Monroe Doctrine, and there is no external expansion, not to mention that the current strength of the US Navy is not strong, and the first dreadnought will not be put into service until 1910, and the large-scale riot army was after the First World War, so in 10 years, on the sea surface of the Far East, there was basically no military force that could threaten our People's Army Navy, not to mention that we still have modern warships to suppress the formation, even if there is only ** left, it is enough to defeat any fleet of this era. ”

After listening to Huang Zhe's explanation, everyone in the venue had a whispered discussion, obviously discussing this ship-building plan.

This fashion Jinfeng said: "In the next 10 years or so, our main military opponent should be the Qing court, and the military action is also mainly to deal with the Qing court, and the possibility of foreign war is not large, so our navy is now not very urgent to equip dreadnoughts, and large-scale shipbuilding requirements, and we have no need to leapfrog development, or should follow our normal steps, step by step, in this five-year cycle, the navy's shipbuilding should still be based on the accumulation of technology, Experience, training workers are the mainstay, and in the next five-year cycle, the formal construction of dreadnoughts, of course, whether to build ships on a large scale, what kind of warships to build, it depends on the progress of our industrialization and the development of science and technology in this five-year plan. Is there anything else you have to say?"

Wang Hailong listened, and also knew that it was unlikely that a major change would be made to this ship-building plan, and in terms of practicality, in the next 10 years, the maritime threat faced by East China is indeed not large, on the contrary, the war on land is imminent, and Bi Jing East China has made a resolution to formally establish the country in this five-year cycle.

Of course, Wang Hailong is also acceptable to this result, to be honest, after the completion of this five-year shipbuilding plan, although most of the warships are outdated, but the size of the fleet is still very considerable, it is estimated that the scale of the navy in East China will be second only to Britain, Germany, the United States and France, ranking fifth, which has refreshed the original Beiyang Fleet ranked seventh in the world. Therefore, Wang Hailong said: "Okay, I have no opinion. ”