Regarding the navy's offshore offensive strategy, Lin Ziran felt that they were a little too aggressive, and it was not impossible to get a bunch of offshore offensive warships, but the premise was that the navy had absolute sea supremacy.

Otherwise, don't expect these offshore offensive warships to get close to other people's offshore waters!

Sea dominance is king.

The offshore offensive strategy is just an extension of sea supremacy!

However, the funds for building ships are limited, and if too much money is allocated for the construction of offshore offensive warships, then there will be less funds for the construction of ocean-going warships, and there are not enough ocean-going warships and not enough to be strong enough, how can you guarantee sea supremacy?

Without sea supremacy, how do you ensure that these slow-moving cans of tin can reach the enemy's ports without any problems? Instead of being hung and sunk halfway through?

As for the funds for the construction of ocean-going warships and the funds for attacking warships in coastal waters, this money does not come just out of the mouth, this money is limited, and it is impossible to build ships for the navy without restrictions.

In order to avoid the navy being too aggressive, Lin Ziran reminded the navy in a timely manner!

At present, the situation of the unification war is still grim, and it is hoped that the navy will continue to display the spirit of hard fighting to defend the maritime frontiers of the empire.

The point of this statement is the word hardship!

In short, before complete reunification, the navy should not expect to be able to get too much shipbuilding funds for expansion!

Even if the war of reunification is over, in the early post-war period, it will inevitably be focused on restoring the people's livelihood, so the navy's military spending will not increase by too much either.

In short, that's all there is to it, you have to think carefully about how to spend it, but don't expect to spend the money on some offshore offensive warship first, and then run over and ask for money to build ocean-going warships.

Hearing Lin Ziran say this, Duan Hongxiao and a few others in the navy naturally understood, but they were actually smart people, and no one would ignore the construction of ocean-going warships for the sake of attacking warships in the near sea.

They solemnly put forward at the Imperial Council today, and the focus is not on the warships themselves, but on emphasizing the offensive nature of the navy and the importance of the navy to the empire, so as to strive for greater investment in the navy.

They are also professional admirals, and they naturally know very well that attacking warships in the coastal waters is just the icing on the cake, and if they really want the Daheng Imperial Navy to dominate the Endless Sea again, what is needed is a large and powerful main fleet.

A hundred years ago, when the navy of the Great Heng Empire during the Sixth Dynasty dominated the Endless Sea, what did it rely on?

Rely on a fleet of mighty sail battleships!

At that time, the navy of the Daheng Empire had hundreds of sail warships with more than 20 guns, and its overall strength ranked among the top five in the world, and the gap between the navies of the top five countries at that time was very small, that is to say, the navy of the Daheng Empire at that time was actually the same as the world's first naval power at that time, and now it is still the first naval power, and the naval strength of the Krull Kingdom is almost the same.

In order to rebuild the glory of the Daheng Navy, it is necessary to have a large and powerful main fleet, and other offshore and inland river fleets are just secondary warships.

There is no need for Lin Ziran to remind Lin Ziran, and the admirals also know it.

When they say that they are attacking warships in the near sea, they are purely to show the determination of the navy in the subsequent expansion of foreign countries.

Well, I even made such a strange thing as an offshore offensive warship, which is enough to prove our navy's determination to expand abroad!

But this kind of thing is just a show, high-profile boasting for most of the day, in fact, the navy is just planning to get an offshore warship, anyway, in recent years, the strength of the imperial navy is not too strong, and it will take time to build the main fleet, you can first get a ship with strong firepower and defense to maintain coastal defense.

In order to save money, they didn't plan to build much tonnage, it was only more than 2,000 tons, and when the time came, they planned to get a few naval guns with a caliber of 200 mm or even larger.

The Navy's strategic planning this time is mainly for the sake of a new generation of ocean-going warships.

In the past few actual battles, the navy has believed that the cruiser Luohai has played an extremely good role, with speed and speed, protection and protection, and firepower, and there are almost no major shortcomings except for being a little more expensive.

The Navy believes that it can continue to build dome cruisers on a large scale, and in addition to the other two sister ships of the Luo Hai that are under construction, it should also design and start a new generation of dome cruisers, and in order to control the weight of the Luo Hai-class dome cruisers, only cover some key areas for improvement, and propose to comprehensively cover the dome armor, so that the dome armor protection capability can be further improved.

This is also the so-called 'perfect dome armor warship' newly proposed by the Navy

In addition, the navy has a very good sense of the many Nanguang-class unprotected cruisers that have been captured, and thinks that it can design and build a light and fast unprotected warship by itself, but it cannot be an iron-ribbed wooden hull, it should be an all-steel-hulled unprotected warship, and this steel hull can't block large-caliber naval guns, but it can block small-caliber shells.

In addition, the Navy wants to control the cost of such light unprotected warships as much as possible, so that they can be built in large numbers to replace the current large number of old wooden-hulled unprotected warships.

In the end, the navy also proposed to Lin Ziran that the navy wanted to build another armored ship, that is, the sister ship of the unification armored ship, of course, the details were improved.

The navy was very satisfied with the performance of the Pingbo armored ship in many previous naval battles, although the ship was converted from the middle of the armored ship, with not many main guns, but it still showed great combat effectiveness in actual combat.

Its perfect armor protection capability allowed it to withstand the naval artillery strikes of the combined fleets of the two states in the Battle of Quping.

Two hundred mm heavy guns, as well as a large number of one hundred and fifty mm naval guns, were enough to deliver a devastating blow to the enemy.

Moreover, the maximum speed of fifteen knots gives it excellent maneuverability, so that in actual combat, the ship is incorporated into the fast fleet together with the cruiser Luohai.

The Pingbo, which was halfway out and was still imperfect in all aspects, had such combat power, which made the Navy have greater expectations for the Unification armored ship.

The unification armored ship, which was only completed in May this year and officially started construction with a keel, is not only the first ocean-going main warship in Daheng that completely abandoned sail power and adopted pure steam power.

More importantly, this battleship is a main battleship specially designed and built by the Daheng Navy to exert the firepower of large-caliber breech-loading rifled guns.

This is important!

This means that the Unification armored ship will be able to maximize the powerful firepower of the rear-loading rifled guns!

Once the powerful firepower of large-caliber breech-loading rifled naval guns is truly brought into play, then the combat effectiveness of the armored ship Reunification will exceed the imagination of the navies of other countries!

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