According to the expansion plan of the Imperial Navy, starting from the thirteenth year of Qiansheng, the main ocean-going warships of the Daheng Imperial Navy should all be a series of warships designed and built in the seventh year of Qiansheng, that is, after the third naval development plan.

Before that, a series of warships were decommissioned and mothballed, and the capital ships with large tonnage were used as second-line troops after limited modifications and upgrades.

It is mainly the Yonglin-class capital ship, the Endless Sea-class battleship, and the Chongke-class three main warships of the early and middle stages of the Daheng Empire.

These three models have a total of twelve typical low-freeboard era capital ships, even in the Battle of Beauvois, which was useless, and the First Mobile Fleet at that time did not even take the Endless Sea battleship sent by the Orr Kingdom to sea, but let it stay at the Ryan military base.

However, these twelve battleships are also 10,000-ton warships, and the age of the ships is actually very new, the last of the Chongke class is the fourth ship, the Chonglin, which only served in seven years in Qiansheng, and only served for a total of six years.

The last of the Endless Sea-class battleships actually only served in the eighth year of Qiansheng, and the age of the ship was only five years.

Even if it is the Yonglin, it has only been in service for nine years.

At present, these warships, whether they are in the Daheng Empire or other countries, actually still belong to the category of first-line capital ships, and the new battleships of the Daheng Empire are now only eight in service, and they still need to keep an eye on these old warships for the time being.

However, in order to improve their combat performance, the Imperial Navy also took turns to upgrade and modify them, and it was definitely impossible to carry out major surgery, mainly to replace the old secondary guns with rapid-fire guns, and then upgrade some ammunition or something, improve the following fire control equipment, and don't count on the rest.

For example, if you replace the new main gun, how expensive the new main gun is, and the new naval gun is a complete system, the main gun plus the turret plus the loading mechanism, if the project is too big and the cost is too expensive, spend this money, the navy might as well directly build a new cutting-edge battleship.

However, even if you upgrade the rapid-fire secondary guns and improve the fire control and ammunition of the old main guns, you can still greatly improve the combat effectiveness of these old warships.

As for the ocean-going decisive battle, the Daheng Imperial Navy now has six new high-freeboard, fully protected Jingzhou-class battleships and a mixed main gun Gaoqing and a full-rapid-fire main gun Jinghe battleship; Four large-tonnage Toyo-class armored cruisers, eight medium-tonnage Kran-class armored cruisers.

With these twenty cutting-edge capital ships, it is enough for the Great Heng Empire to gain sea supremacy in a certain area when needed.

Even more radically, while the cutting-edge warships of other countries have not yet been completed and put into service, these twenty cutting-edge capital ships of the Daheng Empire are enough to defeat the fleets of old warships of other countries.

But it does not include the Kingdom of Krull.

The Becky-class battleships of the Krull Kingdom started construction in the eleventh year of Qiansheng, because the new warships were very urgent, and the Krull Kingdom had the most powerful scientific research and shipbuilding industry on the Blue Star, and its Betch battleship had completed the hull construction in just over a year, and after the emergency outfitting was completed, it was officially put into service in January of the thirteenth year of Qiansheng.

From laying the keel to commissioning, the Becky took only one year and eight months.

This proves the great power of the Krull Kingdom.

And if nothing else, in the next two or three months, there will be at least one ship of this class in service, within this year, the first three ships of the Becky class will all be in service, and the last three will also be all in service in the first half of next year.

These mixed main gun battleships are actually stronger than the Jingzhou-class of the Daheng Empire, strictly speaking, among the active battleships of the Daheng Empire, only the Gaoqing can compete with it.

As for the six-main gun battleships of the Daheng Empire, the earliest Luohe will not be put into service until the end of this year, but without the installation of unified fire control, the actual combat effectiveness of these six-gun battleships may not be as good as the mixed main gun battleships represented by the Gaoqing.

The Daheng Imperial Navy itself knew that it was unrealistic to expect the Jingzhou-level and even the follow-up Luohai-class to want to pull the Krull Kingdom Navy down.

The Daheng Imperial Navy is counting on a new generation of unified all-heavy artillery warships of the Ning Yu class and its follow-up ships, which were secretly started last year.

After the era of long-range artillery warfare came, the Daheng Imperial Navy would be able to use these new generation warships to completely establish maritime superiority.

When the Daheng Imperial Navy started a new round of shipbuilding plans in the thirteenth year of Qiansheng, the domestic development also continued to maintain a momentum of rapid development.

After all, the expansion of the navy requires huge financial support in addition to technical support.

A capital ship is tens of millions, and if you add the supporting port facilities, logistics system and personnel, the cost is huge.

Without sufficient military support, how could the Daheng Empire prepare to start construction of four battleships and one battlecruiser in one go this year, with a bunch of auxiliary warships at the same time.

And such a large-scale naval expansion, although it is still worse than the first power, the Krull Kingdom, but it has already surpassed the two traditional powers of Kekel and Walya, and as for the four earth-echelon powers of Orissa, Gafia, Oran, and Iberan, it is even more impossible to catch up.

Now the only one who can stabilize the Daheng Empire in terms of naval investment is the Krull Kingdom.

But how many years has the Krull Kingdom been able to continue to suppress the Great Heng Empire?

Especially in the past ten years, the navy of the Krull Kingdom has built a large number of outdated and backward warships, and only during the period from the eighth year of Qiansheng to the twelfth year of Qiansheng, they invested heavily in the construction of dozens of first-class battleships, second-class battleships, armored cruisers, and first-class protective cruisers.

It was only a first-class protected cruiser of 78,000 tons to about 10,000 tons, and they had built more than 20 of them in the past four years.

In addition to other auxiliary ships, the navy of the Krull Kingdom spent a lot of money in those four years to build a fleet of high-freeboard fort warships that were far more powerful than other countries.

However, twelve years after the reign of Qiansheng, these warships were rapidly becoming obsolete, and in the face of the new generation of warships of the Daheng Empire that adopted hardened armor, comprehensive protection, and rapid-fire artillery ideas, the combat effectiveness of these warships was greatly reduced.

This means that the countless naval investments have not served as well as they should have been, and the Krull Kingdom must once again spend a lot of money to build a new fleet.