After careful discussion, the Daheng Imperial Navy decided to build two new generation battleships at the same time, namely battleships equipped with first-class and second-stage rapid-fire main guns, and battleships equipped with only second-stage rapid-fire main guns.

The latter is also called the unified full-rapid-fire gun battleship scheme!

After finalizing the plan, the Daheng Empire, which had been waiting for a long time, finally started to build a new generation of battleships with a larger tonnage.

The new type of warship with the first-class main gun scheme was preliminarily named Gaoqing, and was equipped with two twin-mounted seven-year 300 mm and 35 times caliber naval guns.

Originally, the navy also wanted to use the nine-year 300 mm 40 times the caliber of the main gun, the caliber of the ship gun is the same, but the nine-year 300 mm 40 times the main gun compared with the seven-year 300 mm 35 times the main gun is a great improvement, first of all, with the further improvement of the processing technology, the barrel is further elongated to 40 times the caliber, and the ability of the barrel itself to bear the pressure of the chamber is also further improved, the combination of the two can make the shell obtain greater kinetic energy, effectively increase the depth and range.

Don't look at the difference between the two is only five times the caliber, but the difference in power is huge!

It's a pity that there is only a sample gun now, and a lot of problems were found during the test, and I am afraid that it will take another year or two to polish it if it is completely finalized.

However, although the old barrel is used, the turret is completely different

It is expected to be equipped with an integrated enclosed turret designed by the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, which greatly improves the defensive performance of the turret, and it is expected that the Jingzhou hardened armor with a thickness of 200 mm will be deployed on the front of the turret, even if the turret is hit by the enemy's large-caliber main gun, it can be carried by the enemy's large-caliber main gun, as for the shells of small and medium-caliber naval guns, hitting them is like tickling.

This means that the crew members can fight safely and stably in the fierce firefight, and thus ensure the combat effectiveness of the battleship.

At the same time, in terms of control and re-entry, hydraulic devices are adopted, and more importantly, it is equipped with omnidirectional loading in the integrated turret, which can greatly improve the rapid fire of the gun.

The rate of fire of this main gun, which weighs more than 40 tons, has been greatly increased to the level of one round per minute, which is twice as much as the main gun of the Jingzhou-class battleship that fires once every two minutes!

If you prepare ammunition in advance and reload urgently, the early rate of fire can be further increased to 1.5 rounds per minute.

The excellent performance brought by the new turret is also an important factor that many generals within the Navy cannot abandon.

In terms of secondary artillery, it is equipped with four single-mounted nine-year 250 mm 35 times caliber main guns.

This main gun is actually the predetermined main gun in the full rapid-fire main gun program, and it is only the main gun in the previous Fengyang-class armored cruisers, which is also deployed in an integrated turret scheme, with omnidirectional loading and tube retreat rapid fire, the theoretical rate of fire of the gun can reach four rounds per minute, this rate of fire can be said to be quite terrifying, and it is also an important reason for a group of people in the navy to never forget and want to engage in full-speed fire main gun battleships.

Equipped with two main guns, both of which use an integrated turret, the simplified internal design is also very different from that of the Jingzhou-class battleship, and at the same time, it further emphasizes comprehensive protection, and requires an increase in speed, at least eighteen knots, which leads to the tonnage being enlarged.

However, fortunately, the performance of the Jingzhou hardened armor is about 20% higher than that of the Luohai hardened armor, which also reduces the weight of the new battleship quite a lot, so the weight of the ship is not too excessive.

The standard displacement of this type of ship is expected to reach 15,000 tons, which is only about 500 tons larger than the Jingzhou-class battleships.

The second is the full-rapid-fire main gun scheme, which was initially named Jinghe, named after the mother river of the Great Heng people, which shows that the Imperial Navy attaches great importance to it.

The ship is also equipped with 250 mm and 35 times the main gun, but the number of main guns is extremely large, and the tonnage is huge.

The ship is equipped with six twin twin guns with a total of 12 250 mm 35 times rapid-fire main guns, all of which adopt an integrated turret design scheme, and the firepower is so strong that it explodes!

However, under the strong firepower, it also paid the price of relatively weak armor, the main armor belt is only 200 mm of Jingzhou armor, and the thickness of the turret is only 170 mm.

In terms of power, the ship is designed to maneuver at high speed, so it has a large speed.

Using a water-tube boiler and propulsion with twin shafts and double propellers, the ship's scheduled maximum power can reach 20,000 horsepower, which is the most powerful warship ever built in the Daheng Empire, larger than the Gaoqing, so the speed is also very good, and it is scheduled to reach about 20 knots.

There is no way, the tonnage of the new generation of large-caliber battleships is eighteen knots, and the new generation of armored cruisers is generally running up to twenty knots, if the speed of the Jinghe is too low, then it will be outdated without construction......

The Anling-class armored cruisers, which have strong firepower, fast speed, and slightly weaker protection, have a standard displacement of 15,500 tons, which is even larger than the tonnage of the Gaoqingzhou battleship......

As for the cost, both ships belong to the top new battleships, and the cost is top-notch!

Because the technical characteristics of the two ships are too different, the navy is not sure which one will be better to build in the future, so these two plans are just to build one separately first, and whether to add orders in the future will have to wait and see.

The reason why it is so conservative is that the development of the Daheng Empire's navy has a great deal to do with the lack of a reference object.

How good it used to be, just copy it directly from the battleships of the Krull Kingdom Navy, the Endless Sea-class battleship, it is said to be independently designed, but in fact, the design ideas of the warship are basically to imitate the King-class battleships of the Krull Kingdom.

It's just that after the Jingzhou-class battleships, the Daheng Imperial Navy has embarked on the road of independent development.

As for the design and development of the current Jingzhou-class sub-class ships, then they can only think about it themselves.

This is also why in the past two years, the Daheng Empire has carried out a lot of test ships, all kinds of tests, and a lot of tests, just to constantly test various new technologies and new ideas, and then find a suitable development route.

However, this is only on the surface, although the navy is tossing and turning, but in fact, except for Lin Ziran himself, no one knows that the development path of the Daheng Empire's navy has long been determined, that is, unswervingly moving towards the road of all-heavy main gun battleships.

To this end, research work has been carried out many years ago on hardened armor, smokeless gunpowder, rapid-fire guns, water-tube boilers, armor-piercing shells, unified fire control, integrated turrets, triple assembly, steam turbines, oil-fired boilers and many other technologies.

These technologies have never appeared before, and Lin Ziran personally instructed the relevant research institutions to carry out these technical researches, many fields could not even find experts, because these are completely new fields, and no one has been exposed to them before.

These new technologies, which began to be researched many years in advance, have also yielded results over the years, including Luohai hardened armor and small and medium-caliber rapid-fire guns, armor-piercing shells, smokeless gunpowder and water-tube boilers, which eventually led to the emergence of the Jingzhou-class battleships.

The current large-caliber rapid-fire guns and integrated turret technology directly gave birth to the Gaoqing battleship and the Jinghe battleship.

And when more new technologies are developed, then they will continue to be applied to new warships, and eventually until the emergence of 'all-heavy artillery battleships'!

In this regard, Lin Ziran is confident and patient!

But Lin Ziran himself knew these things, but the generals of the navy could not predict the future, so the generals of the Daheng Imperial Navy were actually very worried in the past two years.

The successful development and completion of the Jingzhou-class battleship only brought a sense of security to the generals of the Daheng Imperial Navy for a year or two, but it was soon canceled due to the outbreak of the Battle of Ian in the Orr War and the naval technological changes set off by the navies of various countries around the world.

The biggest feature of the Jingzhou-class battleship is not actually rapid-fire guns, hardened armor and the like, but the ocean-going combat capability brought by its high freeboard.

However, naval powers such as the Krull Kingdom have already built high-freeboard battleships, especially the construction speed of the new warships on the Krull Kingdom's side makes people feel scared.

Just over a year after the outbreak of the Battle of Ian, the Krull Kingdom started construction of more than a dozen new-generation high-freeboard battleships, a number of second-class battleships, a large number of armored cruisers, first-class cruisers and other high-freeboard battleships.

This kind of national strength is enough to make any other country on the Blue Star daunting, even if it is the Great Heng Empire that cries about external expansion every day, and will fight whoever is not pleasing to the eye, its admirals will gasp when they see their ship-building plan, especially the naval attache of the Great Heng Empire in the Krull Kingdom, who sent back a report in the first half of this year.

The report states that he personally took a ship to several important shipyards in the Krull Kingdom in the name of sightseeing, and saw one huge warship after another under construction!

Although they couldn't get close to observe, they could only see a large warship under construction in the shipyard from a distance, and they could see the strength of the Krull Kingdom.

The navy of the Krull Kingdom started to build more than a dozen new battleships in one go, and the Krull Kingdom passed the Navy Act in the second half of this year, which did not mention any fleet expansion or anything like that, and the core was to build high-freeboard ocean-going warships to replace a large number of low-freeboard warships in the past, and maintain the combat effectiveness of the Navy by replacing them one by one.

However, how many warships are there in the navy of the Kingdom of Krull?

In fact, this number is not clear to most of the officers and men in the navy of the Krull Kingdom, because they have too many warships......