Chapter 779: The Worried Daheng Army (2)

In this regard, the military's research is very thorough, and it is because of the thorough research that the military can more clearly recognize the surrounding countries and understand the risks.

Although the Great Heng Empire is powerful, it is impossible to say that it really has the strength to beat the world at present or even in the next ten years or even longer.

Let's take a look at several of the main enemies around the Great Heng Empire, the feud of the Great Heng people, the Orissa Empire, which is also one of the eight great powers, has a perfect industrial system of its own, and also has a population of tens of millions.

If there is a real fight, people will be able to mobilize an army of one or two million in minutes.

Not to mention the Krull Kingdom in the east, the name of the world's first power is not for nothing, they have the largest, most advanced industrial system and scale, and the Krull Kingdom is not only the Krull Kingdom itself, the kings of several other kingdoms on the entire kingdom island, but also the king of the Krull Kingdom, strictly speaking, the Krull Kingdom should be called the Krull United Kingdom, the entire kingdom island has a population of more than 80 million.

Whether it is the Olisa Empire or the Krull Kingdom, they actually have the ability to drag the Great Heng Empire into the abyss of war.

And this is why the military has always wanted to exercise restraint and on the other hand, it has continued to carry out armaments.

Because the military's thinking is very contradictory, they think that if they can not fight, they will not fight, but if they do, they will be fatal with one blow, quickly and lethally crush the enemy's early resistance, destroy the enemy's mobilization and organization ability in the middle and late stages, and avoid fighting a war of attrition.

If it is fast enough, then it will be able to destroy the enemy's resistance before the enemy can transform the national power into war strength, and then destroy the enemy's war potential, and then win the war.

However, this method requires landing in the enemy country, and the sea crossing and landing operation is very complicated and troublesome, and considering the terrain and sea conditions of the Blue Star, in fact, the navy is more useful than the army.

If the navy of the Great Heng Empire can completely defeat the Orisa Imperial Navy, completely blockade the coast, cut off its sea communications, and blockade the endless straits, it will be enough to severely damage the industrial and economic strength of the Olisa Empire.

Taking a step back, even if the other party mobilizes and accumulates millions of troops on the mainland, it will not be able to threaten the mainland of Daheng without naval cover.

Not to mention the Krull Kingdom, if their navy is defeated and its sea communication is cut off, the huge kingdom island will be plunged into a food crisis in minutes.

Therefore, the navy can further effectively threaten the enemy, and taking a step back can also encircle the Daheng Empire's own coastline and protect maritime communications.

At the same time, it also takes into account that the Daheng Imperial Army is already quite awesome, and after more than ten years of reorganization, it has formed a standing army of about one million people based on first-line combat readiness troops and second-line garrison troops, and also has a perfect mobilization system and strategic material reserves.

If necessary, the Great Heng Empire will carry out an emergency general mobilization, and it will be able to mobilize at least two million more troops into the battlefield within three months, and at least five million troops within half a year.

The equipment is also top of the world.

Therefore, the army still has a great advantage.

This is also the reason why in recent years, the military expansion of the empire has focused on the navy.

The army empire can mobilize millions of people at any time, but in the case of the navy, the construction period of capital ships takes three or four years, and there is no way to speed up the construction process, so it is necessary to maintain a large navy in peacetime.

Several other powerful countries did this, and so did the Great Heng Empire.

Therefore, thirteen years after entering the Qiansheng Dynasty, the Daheng Empire, according to the fourth phase of the naval development plan, officially allocated funds for the construction of four battleships, one battle cruiser, four heavy cruisers, four light cruisers, and five destroyers in this fiscal year.

In addition to the above-mentioned capital ships, there are also auxiliary ships built together, such as offshore patrol boats and offshore torpedo boats; High-speed supply ships, minesweepers, minelayers, etc.

It is worth noting that the above construction plan is only the plan for this fiscal year, that is, all the above-mentioned warships will start construction this year, and as for the warships that will start construction next year, that will be next year.

According to this battleship construction plan, the Daheng Imperial Navy Ship Administration Department according to the Ning Yu class battleship, after improving the design of the Zhongluo-class battleship, the plan to build four, the class of ships is a perfect version of the Ning Yu class battleship, the firepower layout is exactly the same, but the internal watertight cabin design has been improved, strengthening the anti-sinking ability after entering the water, in addition to the integrated layout of the bridge, improve the layout of the optical instruments required by the unified fire control system, in order to improve the observation performance.

Therefore, in terms of appearance, it is different from the Ningyu-class battleships, but there is actually no change in firepower, protection, and power.

As for a battlecruiser, it is the third ship of the Qiping-class battlecruiser, although there are some changes, but it is not big, so it is still a battleship of the same class as a whole.

The heavy cruiser is a heavy cruiser with an upgraded design, and the navy feels that the original 10,000-ton heavy patrol is a little worse, especially the original design of the heavy patrol protection is too scum, so the new heavy patrol maintains eight 200 mm main guns and a speed of 26 knots in the early stage, and strengthens the protection, especially the side armor, which causes the tonnage to rise to more than 12,000 tons.

Moreover, this thing can still run 26 knots, in the current service patrol of contemporary countries is generally still stuck at 20 knots, and the newly built patrol is usually only about 23 knots, its speed and the eight main guns under unified fire control will bring it a great tactical advantage, and it is probably easy to hunt and kill the patrol and cruisers of various countries.

The light cruisers and destroyers are basically the perfect and improved models in last year's shipbuilding plan, and the overall change is not significant.

Because the construction of new warships continues to start, the scale of the Daheng Imperial Navy continues to expand, and the military expenditure of the navy is also increasing, in order to save military spending, and at the same time, the old warships are no longer useful, the Daheng Navy also decided to retire a number of old warships directly this year.

In particular, a number of old warships that were urgently started during the Unification War or received from other feudal towns were already backward in performance, and even had no value as second-line warships, and this time the navy simply retired them all.

In addition, even if it is a group of small and medium-sized warships that served after reunification, such as the famous, the world's first dome cruiser Luohai-class cruiser and its successor ship Ansu-class, the battleship was in service before and after the unification war, but the performance has long lagged behind, and the most important thing is that now there is no shortage of such small and medium-tonnage cruisers in the Daheng Imperial Navy.

So this time, these warships that are only about ten years old will be decommissioned and mothballed.