Professor Li said: "The main difference is the equipment, their equipment is at least one generation more advanced than the steelmaking equipment we imported last year, but in addition to the equipment factors, the auxiliary materials they add when smelting are different, although they are unwilling to say any technical details, but according to their clues, I already have some clues, and I will convene the project team to carry out relevant research when I return to China." ”

The middle-aged man asked several other people one after another, while holding a notebook and constantly flipping through it.

After concluding more than two hours of discussion, he said: "What we want to see this time is almost enough, some details are not enough at that time, and I will let adults continue to fight for the opportunity to visit, when the time comes, everyone must open their eyes wide, there are not many opportunities to see the top technology factories in the contemporary world!" ”

"You are all experts in various scientific research fields in the empire, you should know what this visit means to us, even if it is just a general view, but it still saves us a lot of detours!"

"The industrial development of the empire is up to you!"

A group of technical experts all looked serious, and they said: "Director Bai, don't worry, even if it is shameless and makes people look like fools, I will pretend to be crazy and stupid to take out their technology!" ”

Director Bai then said: "In addition, the Military Intelligence Bureau has already contacted some of their technical backbones disguised as a third party according to the technical list we listed, but it is very obvious whether a few can be dug up in the future!" ”

Professor Li, who spoke before, said: "How many can be dug up, these middle-level technical backbones seem inconspicuous, but some middle-level technical backbones and even grass-roots technical backbones in key positions have mastered the core technology, even if they themselves can't understand these technologies, then it doesn't matter, as long as we know the specific technical details, then we can better sort out the resignation and copy it." ”

"Hmph, they don't let us import equipment, so we'll just poach people!"

"The industrial development of the empire must not be allowed to be delayed!"

While a group of technical experts were discussing these, in the next room, Wu Yuhao, the secretary of the navy, was chatting with several naval officers from the Ship Administration Department.

Wu Yu Hao Shaoqing said: "There is feedback from the Military Intelligence Bureau, they have already identified the new warship that started construction three months ago in the Krull Kingdom, this is their new generation of warship, which is quite different from their previous generation battleship, Admiral Kenneson, equipped with a 350 mm 35 times caliber naval gun, the ship's gun is extremely powerful, which is consistent with the huge hull we saw when we visited their shipyard before!" ”

"We don't know much about the other performance details, but what is certain is that they still don't have homogeneous hardened armor and rapid-fire naval guns, because we have information that their main armor is more than four hundred millimeters thick, and if they use homogeneous hardened armor, they don't need it at all!"

"But it's worth noting that this data is at least fifty millimeters less than the main armor belt of their previous generation of Admiral Kennethan, which means that their armor technology is still a breakthrough!"

At this time, a naval colonel said: "We preliminarily judged that they should have tried the hardening process on the composite armor, but they did not have the process of hardening a large piece of armor, so the hardening area of the composite armor is small, and it needs to be combined with multiple armor plates to be used, and such armor plates are easy to break and collapse when they are bombarded by heavy artillery!" ”

"In addition, the tonnage of their new warships is very large, and our preliminary estimate is at least seventeen thousand tons!" Another lieutenant commander said: "And we also learned that they also require the new warship to reach a speed of eighteen knots, such a large warship, and they are still paying more tonnage on the ship's guns and armor to be able to achieve considerable firepower and protection, in this case, there is not much tonnage left for the power system, so that it reaches eighteen knots, you can imagine how excellent the performance of their power system is!" ”

During this meeting and visit, it was actually an opportunity for the Great Heng Empire to have a deep understanding of the Krull Kingdom, and the information that needed to be obtained by the spy door with great effort in the past now only needs to go to their factories and shipyards to take a look from afar, and then combined with some secret channels or open channels to collect, basically you can know a rough idea.

In fact, pure military information is very difficult to keep secret, some technical details can be kept secret, but it is impossible to keep it secret for too long after a new weapon is released, unless you hide it.

The Jingzhou-class battleships of the Daheng people, when they were still under construction, others knew that the Daheng Empire was going to build a new battleship of 14,500 tons.

After the outfitting was installed, everyone knew that it was equipped with four naval guns of 300 mm and 35 times the caliber of the ship.

As for the speed and thickness of the armor, these are naturally top secrets, and the outside world cannot easily know.

The same is true for the Krull Kingdom, they also have the habit of keeping new warships secret, often keeping them secret for a few years, and after accumulating a bunch of new warships, they pull them out to shock the world.

At that time, it would be years before the navies of other countries wanted to keep up.

However, even so, some basic things still cannot be kept secret, such as the size, the caliber and diameter of the main gun, and other things that are too obvious in appearance, and intelligence officers only need to look at them from a distance to basically be able to judge seven, seven, eight, eight.

When Ding Quankun left with the mission, the mission had already obtained a large amount of industrial and military information, but these things, in fact, did not need to be seen, as long as they took the time to collect public information, they could also be collected and sorted out.

There are no impermeable walls in this world!

The rapid-fire guns of the Great Heng Empire are kept secret enough, and the secondary guns on the warships are covered with gun jackets most of the time, unless they are training on the vast uninhabited sea, or in the closed military port where their own secrecy is covered, the gun jackets will be lifted for training.

But even so, basically all the countries that pay attention to the Great Heng Empire know that the Great Heng Empire has come up with a new naval cannon, and it is secretly unwilling, as for how advanced it is, how advanced it can be, it is nothing more than faster rapid fire and greater power!

However, why can they fight so fast and why is it so powerful, this is what they don't understand.

However, the mission's intelligence gathering behavior is only incidental, and more importantly, through this meeting, the relationship between the two sides has been eased, even if there will be no deeper cooperation, even if the Krull Kingdom is still on guard against the Daheng Empire, and the imperial side is still rushing to surpass the Krull Kingdom, but at least on the surface, the two sides will not go-for-tat.

This is good for both countries!

After Ding Quankun and the others came back, Lin Ziran also listened to the report of the visiting delegation, not only from the Krull Kingdom, but also from the Valia and Kekel empires.

After listening to the report, Lin Ziran already had a rough idea in his heart.

War will not break out in a short time, but the future is certain!

This is the inevitable result of the continued development of industries in various countries!

Blue Star is so big, and the international market is so big, it can accommodate a superpower called the Krull Kingdom, plus a few powerful countries, but it definitely can't accommodate two superpowers!

If the empire continues to develop, it will inevitably compete with countries such as the Krull Kingdom in many fields in the future, and when the competition is fierce to a certain extent, there is no second way except war.

Similarly, if it were the Valia Empire or the Kkarl Empire, if their industry continued to develop enough to challenge the Krull Kingdom, they would also be at war with the Krull Kingdom.

Or maybe the Empire has a conflict of interest with the Walya Empire and the Keel Empire.

Interests are limited, and when many parties are competing for these interests, conflict is inevitable, and war is inevitable.

Perhaps, it's time to plan ahead for future wars.

In late August and September of the 10th year of the Qiansheng Dynasty, Lin Ziran frequently held many long special meetings, and listened in detail to the various aspects of the industrial development of the empire and the development of the national defense industry.

At the same time, he also secretly convened the generals of the army and navy many times to discuss the detailed technical details of naval strategy and tactics.

At the army meeting, Lin Ziran focused on the army's efforts to strengthen ideological construction, and at the same time focus on the development of the army's rapid-fire artillery, replacing it with the Fuyuan Type 5 rifle, and at the same time developing a number of new weapons, such as light machine guns that can accompany the infantry.

Intensify the upgrading and replacement of rapid-fire mortar guns, develop more advanced rapid-fire mortar guns, and the rapid-fire mortar guns equipped with smokeless powder propellant should be further improved in terms of effective firing range.

It is important to develop and equip new weapons, but it is even more important to make effective use of these new weapons and equipment, and the army must work hard to improve its tactics to bring out the performance of these equipment.

Lin Ziran absolutely did not allow the army to hold a large number of new weapons, but to fight a war with backward tactics!

At the naval conference, it was much simpler, the strategy and tactics of the navy had long been decided, and what was needed now was to further expand the size of the fleet and build more advanced warships in service.

The construction of the Gaoqing and Jinghe, two new warships representing different development ideas, has been carried out smoothly, and the navy should further study the development direction of future warships according to the performance characteristics of these two warships and the development of technology.

At the meeting, Lin Ziran put forward for the first time the latest idea to several senior naval officers, that is, to use multiple ships equipped with six or eight or more large-caliber main guns of the same caliber and the same caliber to carry out a devastating blow to the enemy fleet at a long distance!

And this kind of battleship equipped with multiple large-caliber main guns, Lin Ziran called it a "unified all-heavy artillery battleship"