After more than a year of continuous contact and negotiation between the Orr Kingdom and the Great Heng Empire, it was finally in the second half of the twelfth year of the Qiansheng Dynasty that the procurement of the No. 4 battleship and the No. 7 and No. 8 armored cruisers in the fleet procurement plan were finalized.

After the contract between the two sides is formally signed, the construction of these three warships will start in the last few months of the 12th year of Qiansheng, and it is expected that the hull construction will be completed in two years and delivered within three years.

In addition to the kingdom of Orr, negotiations for the purchase of warships from other countries and the Daheng Empire were also going on simultaneously, especially after the two naval battles of Beauva, which reached a new peak.

During this period, the Great Heng Empire sold the hulls of the four Klan-class armored cruisers that were under construction and had not yet been built and were originally scheduled for their own use, to the Orr Kingdom and the Mongol Khanate respectively.

Subsequently, an order was signed with the Kingdom of Trowell, one of the three countries on the east coast of the Southern Continent, for a Crane-class armored cruiser.

In this way, the order for the own use of the Crane-class armored cruisers was reduced from 16 to 12, but the foreign trade order increased from 9 to 14, and the total order reached 26.

This number, even for the extremely fierce competition in the navies of various countries, is quite terrifying, and at present, no country on the Blue Star has built the number of main warships to reach the level of the Crane-class armored cruisers.

Even if it was a dozen large-tonnage first-class protection cruisers built by the people of the Krull Kingdom before, the most one level was only fourteen, and more capital ships were basically only a few ships, one was six, and eight was already a lot.

However, in just a few years, 26 Crane-class armored cruisers have been built.

This number also proves the success of the design of this class of ships, with only a hull of more than 8,000 tons, it can achieve the performance of tens of thousands of tons, and the Daheng Empire has also launched many collocations very intimately, allowing countries to match their own ideas according to their own ideas.

Therefore, the Klan-class armored cruiser is actually a series, with many sub-models, and the basic procurement of various countries is different, some pay attention to speed, some pay attention to firepower, and some pay attention to protection, just like another fist star product in the Daheng Empire, a series torpedo boats!

The Torpedo boats of the A series have been sold for many years, and more than 200 have been sold......

And the A series torpedo boats sold by the Daheng Empire now and the A series torpedo boats sold a few years ago are completely different things.

The same is true for the Crane-class armored cruisers, which are sold this year and last year, and the self-use version is not the same as the foreign trade version.

This is not to say that the artillery is different, in fact, as long as other countries can afford to pay for it, for example, the Orr Kingdom is not bad for money, and even the 300 mm and 45 times caliber naval guns that are still under development can be bought.

However, the Great Heng Empire dismantled the artillery, turrets, and reloading mechanisms and sold them.

Only ship guns and turrets are sold, but the internal omnidirectional mechanical loading equipment is not sold!

This whole system is integrated into an integrated turret in the Daheng Empire, including naval guns, closed turrets, mechanical loading equipment in the ammunition compartment, etc., when all these things are added up, it can achieve an ultra-high rate of fire for large-caliber naval guns.

However, the Great Heng Empire does not sell omnidirectional loading equipment to the outside world, the reason is naturally for secrecy, and if you buy artillery or something, you will buy it, after all, other countries basically have it.

But other countries basically don't have these things like the filling mechanism, and the Great Heng Empire will naturally not sell it stupidly by itself, and then let others map and copy it, after all, this thing is just a matter of mechanical structure design, and there is no technical difficulty for a real industrial power.

Once they get it and map it, they can get it done in minutes.

Therefore, the foreign trade warships of the Daheng Empire are equipped with semi-automatic loading mechanisms, although omnidirectional loading can also be realized, but the last step is to manually transport, instead of the same as for self-use, the shells are directly lifted from the magazine to the closed turret and loaded.

Therefore, the rapid-fire rate of the large-caliber naval gun of the foreign trade version is not as good as that of its own use, but it is still much higher than the rate of fire of the previous large-caliber naval gun.

The rapid fire of the large-caliber naval guns exported by Daheng today is still at the top level in the world, and even surpasses other countries, at least so far, the large-caliber naval guns of other countries have not had such a high rate of fire.

For example, the two-hundred-millimeter rapid-fire gun, with a rate of fire of three rounds per minute, is still under development for the same naval guns of other countries......

In the new generation of warships exported by Daheng, the rate of fire of the 300 mm naval guns with the money is in place can reach one shot a minute, and there is a cheaper version of one five minutes per round if the money is not in place, and the ship guns that are two minutes a round are too bad, and the people of Daheng no longer sell this thing......

And the rate of fire of one shot per minute, this is already the top level of the capital ships of other countries today, even if it is the rate of fire of the main guns of the latest battleships of the Krull Kingdom, it is only this number.

And the Klan-class armored cruiser of the Daheng Empire sells so well, also because it is equipped with a large-caliber rapid-fire main gun, although the rate of fire of this rapid-fire main gun is not as good as that of the Daheng Navy, but it is also better than other countries, otherwise other countries are not stupid, how could they come to purchase.

Even the Orlan Kingdom came around the bush and asked the Daheng Empire to purchase an armored cruiser, but they wanted to purchase the first ship, and then build the second ship and the third ship by themselves, so they also proposed to purchase a separate naval gun system later, and hoped to obtain the technical authorization of the Daheng Empire.

I don't care about the Great Heng Empire!

Anyway, the ones that are exported are not afraid of the foreign trade version that you imitate, and there is nothing bad to sell at the right price.

In this way, when the two sides were near the end of the twelfth year of Qiansheng, they really reached a warship purchase agreement, and the Oran Kingdom purchased a high-speed armored cruiser from the Daheng Empire, with a speed of 23 knots, equipped with 250 mm and 45 times the caliber rapid-fire gun, and also reached a purchase agreement for some important parts, mainly Luojing armor and naval artillery systems, and simultaneously transferred some technology.

As for the rest, the Oran Kingdom can take care of it on its own!

And the price of this purchase order is much more expensive than the simple export of warships, and when converted, the entire order amount reaches 15 million, which is more expensive than their direct order for two armored cruisers.

When this order was finalized, the Great Heng Empire's ordnance export in the twelfth year of the Qiansheng Dynasty came to an end temporarily.

Before the curtain came to an end, starting from the eleventh year of Qiansheng, in the past two years, the Daheng Empire signed orders with foreign countries for two battleships and nineteen armored cruisers of various types, a total of twenty-one capital ships!

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