A large number of admirals pondered for a long time, and finally came to a conclusion, to make full use of their own advantages!

What advantages does the Great Heng Empire have that other countries do not have?

The Great Heng Empire itself is where the greatest advantage lies!

It has a population of 200 million, 7.5 million square kilometers of land, of which 2.5 million square meters of arable land with power, and is rich in various mineral resources.

As long as it is fully developed, the Great Heng Empire will be able to build more warships than other countries!

Duan Hongxiao expounded on the future strategic development direction of the navy at the imperial meeting: that is, to crush the opponent with more, larger, and more advanced warships.

When Lin Ziran heard it, it was still the same old-fashioned way of thinking

The army is this virtue, but I didn't expect the navy to be this virtue!

I only know how to crush the enemy with numbers!

But what if you can't crush it? This situation has not happened before, and during the Hengao War, it was not that other countries jointly resisted, so that the numerical advantage that Daheng was proud of was ineffective.

And then he was on his knees completely!

If the Second Heng Olympic War breaks out and other countries intervene again, it will be difficult for Daheng to maintain absolute numerical superiority, what will happen when the time comes?

Could it be that it will be the same as the last Hengao War, fleeing back in disgrace, and finally the collapse of the empire and causing civil strife?

, Lin Ziran doesn't want it!

For this reason, Lin Ziran felt that he needed to knock one or two to the military generals, whether it was the army or the navy: Don't think about pushing flat all day long, use some brains!

In the face of Lin Ziran's beating, whether it was the generals of the army or the navy, they were all the same as the students listening to the teacher's lectures, and they looked well-behaved, but looking at their deliberately pretended listening expressions, Lin Ziran knew that if they wanted to change the traditional concept of Daheng people, I am afraid it would take time.

It's a long time!

The navy's request to continue to start construction of a sister ship of the Uni-President armored ship was finally approved by Lin Ziran.

After all, this has nothing to do with concepts, even if you use your brains to fight and use various tactics, but you have to have a number of supports.

The unification armored ship, which is now under construction, is already the best it can do under contemporary technical conditions in Lin Ziran's view, even if it is several years or even the next ten years, it will not lag behind, and if it is built again, it can also play a better role when used with the unification.

After the approval, the navy soon came up with a specific design plan, and the overall design of the Uni-President was still followed, with a turret at the front and rear, with a twin 250 mm 25 times the naval gun scheme, and at the same time a large number of 150 mm and 30 times the naval gun as a secondary gun.

The all-waterline armor belt, the conning tower and the turret were covered with armor and composite armor of wrought iron and hardwood.

The power system has eight coal-fired boilers, two horizontal steam engines, using two-shaft propulsion, with a total power of 6,500 horsepower, and the design index is required to reach the maximum speed of 15 knots, but whether it can reach the speed of 15 knots in the end needs to be known after the specific test of sea trials after completion.

Moreover, compared with the power systems of the same power of other first-class powers, this power system is much larger and heavier, occupying a relatively large hull space.

The failure rate is also relatively high, and at the same time, in the practical application of the Pingbo armored ship, it is also found that the time for the new generation of steam engines to maintain the highest power for a long time is at least nearly one-third less than that of other first-class countries' advanced steam engines.

In other words, the time for the Pingbo to maintain its maximum speed of fifteen knots is one-third less than that of warships of the same class in other countries.

This kind of performance defect is also very fatal at critical moments.

For example, when fighting with an enemy warship, everyone originally soared together with maximum horsepower and the same speed, but when you fight, you can't maintain the maximum speed, and you can only run a speed of about 12 knots and 13 knots, and you will fall into a huge passivity in tactical maneuvers.

Speed is very important for warships, otherwise the navies of various countries will not try their best to raise the speed.

But the Pingbo and even the Luohai and the warships under construction now, there is no way to do it with such defects in the power system, who makes their technology poor.

Being able to make such a power system is already the limit of the current steam engine technology of the Great Heng Empire.

There is a technology gap, but there is no generational gap!

Through other advantages, it can still be compensated.

For example, it is important to maintain a high speed while maintaining a high speed while controlling the cost and weight of the dome.

Therefore, Lin Ziran's strategy for the navy is to continue to work hard, spend money on research and development, especially basic research and development, and strive to improve basic technology, and at the same time develop some technologies that other countries do not have, such as the improved sextant rangefinder that is now in use, and the optical rangefinder that is under development, so as to achieve leapfrog development by using some advanced technologies.

In addition to technical research, we must continue to explore the mode of advanced naval warfare, everyone used to play front-loading guns, and now they have begun to play rear-loading guns, and their own side is also ahead of a position, so we should continue to use this first-mover advantage to stabilize and even further expand the advantage.

Finally, gradually expand the size of the fleet and train more professional naval officers who can adapt to the naval warfare of the new era.

Nowadays, the number of ships in the Daheng Imperial Navy seems to be quite a lot, and there are more than 30 warships belonging to the three major fleets in the ocean, but there are not many new warships that can be used, and many warships do not even have the value of upgrading and modifying rear-loading rifled guns, such as the captured 10,000-ton ironclad ship of the Endless Sea of the Jingzhou Fleet.

At first glance, it is a 10,000-ton ironclad ship, but in fact it is too old to even be refitted, and if it is really necessary to carry out a major surgical modification, the funds needed can directly build a new 8,000-ton armored ship of Unification.

Therefore, it is necessary to build a new batch of new warships to replace the original batch of old ships, which is the first phase of the navy's development plan proposed by the navy and finally approved by Lin Ziran.

To this end, in addition to the unification armored ship under construction, the two sister ships of the Luohai-class dome cruiser, the Luo'an and the Guang'an, will also start construction of another unification-class armored ship, which will be preliminarily named Luohe.

Then design and build a perfect dome cruiser, the tonnage from 2,500 tons of the Luo Hai class to 2,800 tons, this extra tonnage is to let the dome armor cover the whole ship, the preliminary plan for this perfect dome cruiser to build two, the first ship will be named Ansu, the sister ship named Nanfeng.

In addition to the three capital ships planned, it is also planned to design and build a number of 1,000-ton unprotected steel-hulled frigates, which are designed and positioned not to engage the main forces of the enemy fleet, but to be used for cruising, escorting, coastal blockade and other miscellaneous tasks; on the one hand, it is to replace the existing large number of old and backward old-style small and medium-sized warships of various types in the fleet, and to undertake all kinds of complicated non-fleet combat tasks.

On the other hand, it is also to maintain the size of the fleet and train naval personnel.

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