So far, the main battleship of the Krull Kingdom Navy has been revealed.

That is to say, there are twenty-three first-class battleships in service in various fleets, and these first-class battleships are all a series of new battleships of the Krull Kingdom Navy after the first year of Qiansheng, including King-class battleships and follow-up ships, are basically battleships equipped with 300 mm and 350 mm caliber main guns.

In addition, there were eight new second-class battleships, which were basically second-class battleships equipped with 250 mm main guns.

There are also twelve armored cruisers that they classify as first-class cruisers, which is a little less, and that is purely because the navy of the Kingdom of Krull thinks that the armored cruisers with key protection are useless now, and they prefer to build large-tonnage first-class armored protection cruisers.

Of the more than 7,000-ton El class cruisers, they built more than two dozen of them one after another......

In fact, it is true that before the advent of hardened armor and rapid-fire guns, the early armored cruisers were of limited utility and were not as practical as the large-tonnage dome cruisers.

Even the Daheng Empire, which was the first to engage in armored cruisers, only built four Chongke-class armored cruisers before the advent of rapid-fire guns and hardened armor, and concentrated on building a number of Zhenbei-class dome cruisers in the next two years.

The mature development of armored cruisers still has to wait for the appearance of hardened armor and rapid-fire guns, which is why the Daheng Empire has vigorously developed Fengyang-class armored cruisers in the past two years, and now it has begun to engage in Klan-class armored cruisers.

As for the cutting-edge second-class cruisers and third-class cruisers in the navy of the Krull Kingdom, they are all built in a dozen, and there are many of them.

After the first year of the Qiansheng Dynasty, that is, after the rear-loading artillery was installed in the navy, the navy of the Krull Kingdom successively completed the refitting of their entire navy and built cutting-edge warships with a total tonnage of several hundred thousand tons.

In addition, the old warships built before the first year of Qiansheng were not retired and thrown away, and some of the old ships must have been decommissioned and scrapped, but many relatively new warships can still be changed, upgraded to continue to serve, used for escort, training, or simply lying in the port for backup.

The number of these old warships is even larger......

If they really replace it in a one-to-one way, I'm afraid that after they complete this plan, the navy will be able to control the world......

In the face of this situation, other countries will naturally not sit idly by and watch the navy of the Krull Kingdom dominate, and the Valya Empire opposite the Krull Kingdom is defending against the Krull Kingdom, so the Valya Empire has also begun to build ships on a large scale last year.

But this has aroused the vigilance of the Kel Empire, which has a grudge against the Valya Empire!

There is a conflict of interest between countries, and if you build a ship, other countries will follow even if it is for self-preservation, such as the Ibean Empire in the south, the Gafia Empire, and the Oran Kingdom, whether they want to or not, they are all forced to follow.

In addition, on the southern continent, the Olisa Empire has always been on guard against the Great Heng Empire, and regards the navy as the most important military branch to resist the Great Heng people, and has spared no effort to develop the navy over the years, and after the Orr War last year, they also felt some threats from the Krull Kingdom.

Under the double threat, the Orissa Empire has already shown a posture of building a large navy even if it shrinks its clothes and diets.

This led to a situation in which the Great Heng Empire had to face a global naval competition.

At present, all countries are holding back their efforts to develop their navies one by one, as if they had taken aphrodisiacs, triggering a global naval competition, and at the same time, various new technologies are constantly emerging.

After all, these countries participating in the naval competition are all industrial countries, not to mention the Krull Kingdom, the Valia Empire, and the Kekel Empire's industrial technology is stronger than Daheng, and after they invested heavily in research and development, many new technologies are constantly emerging.

This means that some of the new technological advantages on the warships of the Great Heng Imperial Navy may not be able to be maintained for long.

It's not because of technology leakage, but because you can develop it, and so can others, and it may do better, after all, after the industrial base of many things arrives, what is lacking is just inspiration.

Just like new weapons such as composite rangefinders and heavy machine guns, the Daheng Empire has worked hard to keep it secret for several years, but then it was not casually stared at by others, but it was made after knowing the principle.

These also gave the Great Heng Imperial Navy more pressure and a sense of crisis!

It forced the Daheng Imperial Navy to continue to conduct various experiments and attempts, trying to continue to move forward and widen the technological gap before other countries caught up.

Under the circumstance that the navy has limited funds and a limited number of ships to build, it is very necessary to ensure the performance superiority of warships as much as possible.

The battleship Gaoqing and the battleship Jinghe are responsible for being the vanguard of the Daheng Navy!

Once either of these two warships shows sufficient value, then the Navy will not hesitate to design a truly new warship based on these two test ships.

And before that, the Navy plans to build a batch of Crane-class armored cruisers to support it for a few years.

It is very clear within the navy that whether it is Gaoqing or Jinghe, the technical risk is very high, and the cost of more than 7 million ships also makes the navy feel toothache!

At the same time, according to the information obtained by the empire recently, in the next three to five years, the warships in service in various countries will basically be mainly armored such as steel-faced iron armor and nickel steel, and multinational warships will still adopt the open battery design for the performance of the ocean, and at the same time, a large number of armored cruisers and first-class cruisers will adopt key protection or dome armor protection.

In this case, it was extremely suitable for the firepower of the Reich's rapid-fire guns.

At the same time, the hardened armor used by the Empire is extremely good, and at the same time, the protection is extremely good with the use of inclined armor.

Hardened armor and rapid-fire guns were enough for the Imperial Navy to stabilize its coastal defenses and even have some advantages.

In this case, it is not surprising that the Navy is determined to build the number of armored cruisers of the Crane class!

After the four Crane-class armored cruisers, the Navy once again placed four additional orders for this class in the last month of the ninth year of the Qiansheng Dynasty, bringing the total order for this class of ships to eight.

This is also the largest number of capital ships scheduled to be built in the Great Heng Empire.

In the early days, there were only two Unity-class second-class battleships, and the Endless Sea-class battleships had one basic version and two modifications, but there were only six in total.

There were four basic types and two improved types of Jingzhou-class battleships, but the total number was only six.

The Toyoyang-class armored cruisers are two of the basic type and two of the improved type, for a total of four.

Only the order for the Crane-class armored cruiser has reached eight, and it is estimated that there will be more in the future, depending on the situation!

Well, this is not counting the two Bougier armored cruisers for the four countries on the east coast and the three for the Mongol Khanate, a total of five Bougier armored cruisers, this Bourgil armored cruiser is highly similar to the Klan-class armored cruisers, except that the exported Bougier armored cruisers use steel-faced iron armor and semi-rapid-fire guns, and the Klan-class armored cruisers used hardened armor and rapid-fire guns.

If these five ships are also counted, then there are thirteen ships in total, which is an extremely large number.

And this is already the exclusion of the order for two Bourgil armored cruisers of the Orr Kingdom, although the order is still there, but there is basically no difference between it and none.

Because of the influence of the Orr War, the orders for all large warships ordered by the Orr Kingdom were postponed without limit, and there was no money and no construction started, because the Orr War was not over, even if the Orr people gave money to Daheng to start construction and build a warship, the Orr Kingdom estimated that it would not be able to drive back, and it was estimated that as soon as the ship left the territorial waters of Daheng, it was sunk by the navy of the Krull Kingdom!

Now the money of the Orr Kingdom is basically used to purchase all kinds of urgently needed military supplies from Daheng, such as cannonballs, bullets, machine guns, army artillery, etc., which can be transported by land through the four countries on the east coast, the two countries in the south, or simply from the south of the Orissa Empire.

Although the process is tortuous and troublesome, and the freight is also high, there is a transportation channel.

So although the order for warships is gone, the Orr Kingdom has spent no less money in the Daheng Empire in the past year!

The gold that Crown Prince Holibat personally escorted and brought over had already been spent, and then they used a passenger ship of Daheng to secretly escort more than 400 tons of gold to Daheng, part of which was used as procurement funds, and some of them were deposited in the Royal Bank of Daheng in the personal name of Crown Prince Holybart.

Although they didn't say it, they could guess that this was one of the retreats left by the royal family of Orr, well, just one of them, it is rumored that the royal family of Orr has a large amount of private money in many large countries.

Whatever the Orrs think, they did bring in more than 600 tons of gold in two years!

It may be less than three years of production for the gold-producing kingdom of Orr, but for any other country on the Blue Star, these six hundred tons of gold are extremely valuable.

The Great Heng Empire itself actually has a lot of gold production, but compared to the Orr Kingdom, a country that produces more than 200 tons a year, it is a drop in the bucket.

With this batch of gold supplements, the Central Bank of the Great Heng Empire will be able to issue more Hengyuan banknotes to support Hengyuan's credit!

Thanks to the monetary law implemented by the Lin Dynasty, it was once again clearly stipulated in the law that the gold content of one Hengyuan was equal to 1.5 grams, and the Hengyuan banknotes issued by the central bank, printed by the Mint, issued by the central bank, and used as reserves by the gold reserves in the central bank's treasury are now considered hard currency in the world.

The large amount of gold in the Orr Kingdom has made them successful, and it has also brought them frequent wars!

The Orr war has been fought for more than a year and there is no sign of an end!

And this situation is something that all countries are happy to see except for the Orr Kingdom and the Krull Kingdom!