To be honest, Bismarck's first thought after getting detailed information about the Dakar incident was to beat these Chinese hard. He needs Xiao Lotian as an ally, but for a strong prime minister like Bismarck, he needs a controllable ally, which means you can't sabotage my strategy.

The Dakar event was not on the agenda at all, not even in any fanciful plan, and the feeling of being caught off guard was too bad.

In the end, it was Prince Carr's persuasion that made Bismarck change his mind, and everyone did not know that very night, in fact, there was an unsigned Prime Minister's order in the Prime Minister's desk drawer.

In the order, all engineers who were ready to be sent to the Ryukyus were suspended, and the continuation of heavy hydraulic presses in China was also suspended, without which the steel keels and crankshaft blanks of large warships could not be produced at all.

Of course, there are also many precision instruments, such as the pressure gauge of the steam boiler and the scope used in the modification of sniper rifles, which are all goods that the German industry is proud of, but China is very lacking.

It is conceivable that when the core parts of a warship cannot be produced by itself, and can only be imported from Europe and the United States across the ocean, this is to stretch one's own neck into someone else's rope sleeve.

Industrialization must start from the primitive foundation, and steel mills, precision machine tools, and heavy processing machinery are all indispensable. It is difficult to imagine that a country that could not even process and produce the crankshafts of warships could develop a real navy.

In that year, the First Sino-Japanese War was defeated, and the Qing Dynasty was not wronged at all, even if it was temporarily victorious, it would have to lose when it turned back. Because at that time, Japan was buying and building its own two-legged walk, while the Qing Dynasty could only choose to purchase this road, although Nanyang and Beiyang had their own shipyards, but in addition to the production of some light gunboats for coastal defense, the main warships were not thought of at all.

Prince Karl's intervention dispelled the idea of sanctions, which allowed the Ryukyus to obtain the most precious industrial equipment and technology, and allowed China's self-built warships to appear on the East Asian oceans earlier.

The meeting between the prince and the prime minister in the evening was very long, and they not only reached a consensus on the strategy against France, but also carefully analyzed the strange tactics used by the Chinese in the battle of Dakar.

Karl flipped through the cipher that had just been translated, and said with great emotion: "The battle of Dakar is actually not only a practical combat exercise on the performance of the Zhiyuan battleship, but also allows us to see a strange tactic practiced by these Chinese!"

"Complex...... Yes, please forgive me for not being able to describe the confusion in my mind in the right words, this classic battle of winning more with less, I think it can only be described in two words: complicated!"

"How did a battleship and 180 soldiers destroy a small city of 30,000 people? How did they defeat more than 3,000 French regular troops? It would be a great pity for us not to study the reasons for this......

"If I'm not mistaken, now His Excellency Moltke has led the researchers of the military department to begin a careful analysis of this campaign...... Thankfully, our intelligence officers waited for the arrival of the Zhiyuan at the predetermined location in the Atlantic, so that we had first-hand data to restore the battle!"

Don't look at Bismarck's anger on the surface, but in fact he is also very interested in the victory in Dakar, and the little sleepiness that the Prime Minister just had when talking about this topic immediately disappeared.

"First of all, this war is a classic night attack, and a surprise attack is the basic element of victory, although Molière tried every possible way to signal Dakar, but he did not expect the speed of the Zhiyuan to be so fast, and he did not give him any time at all......"

"Secondly, this battle fully proves the excellent performance of the battleship designed by Xiao Letian, and we can finally confirm with confidence that the direction of the future development of warships is to reduce the number of guns with high firepower and high protection, and the thinking of the era of sail battleships is really outdated......"

Speaking of this, Karl said with great emotion: "Three large-caliber naval guns, long-range bombardment of a city...... That must have felt great, and I really can't imagine how powerful a 210-caliber cannon can be in an explosion! I'm afraid that several successive salvos of battleships in the past may not be able to reach the power of that cannon, right?"

"Firepower, Protection, Mobility...... This is the mainstream of the development of warships in the future, and I suggest that according to the data fed back by Kevin, we should continue to build this type of warship as a killer weapon for our Prussia's future ocean breakthrough!"

Bismarck sighed, "That still needs to be considered in the long run, the navy is too expensive, and when there is no stable imperial financial surplus, blind investment is really not worth the loss......"

The prime minister didn't make it clear in the second half of his life, but Karl could already understand that Bismarck was still worried about Britain.

"Well, let's go on to analyze the secrets of these Chinese successes, and the third point is to Chinese have a set of effective infantry and artillery coordination methods......"

"The use of fireworks to orient long-range artillery is a very dangerous tactic that only these fanatical Chinese maniacs dare to try...... I even think that these Chinese soldiers are all fanatical martyrs, and they are exchanging their flesh and blood for a successful artillery covering......"

"It's hard to imagine how much danger those soldiers who release the signal will encounter, but these madmen are not afraid of death at all, even if they sacrifice themselves, as long as the firepower can successfully cover the target area and destroy the enemy, then their sacrifice is worth it......"

Bismarck nodded, "Yes, this is a very peculiar tactical idea, ostensibly it is to send its own soldiers to death, but it can make individual soldiers and long-range firepower soften together......"

"Our previous war mode was linear and flat, soldiers were soldiers, artillery was artillery, cavalry was cavalry, although there was cooperation with each other, but they were all placed in their respective positions like chess pieces!"

"But Xiao Lotian and his soldiers are different......" Bismarck pondered the terms that matched, "I think it is more important to describe this new tactical ...... in terms of three-dimensional."

"Yes, we all know that the root of war is actually effective firepower output, even if it is the Greek heavy infantry phalanx in the era of cold weapons, the spear of Rulin is also a way of firepower output, but it is not as long as the range of the musket......

"When gunpowder is widely used, firepower has become a subject of study for all military experts, our rifles are becoming more and more advanced, and our cannons are getting larger and larger, but our firepower output ideas are still very backward......"