With the success of the first round of steam turbine testing, the project team quickly modified a number of ships to test the steam turbine.

After months of intensive testing, in the seventeenth year of Qiansheng, with Lin Ziran's approval, the Daheng Imperial Navy finally made up its mind to adopt a new type of steam turbine on a new type of warship.

Considering that the current production capacity of steam turbines is still relatively low and the cost is high, this new power system can only be used on capital ships for the time being.

The first capital battleship to use steam turbines was the battleship Higashitaishan.

In fact, the construction of the ship had already begun in the 16th year of Qiansheng, and it was originally planned to use the power system of steam engine and pure oil-fired boiler, but considering that the construction progress was not high, and it was too late to change the design, it was decided to change the power system configuration of the ship and prepare to use steam turbines.

After the improved design of the East Taishan battleship, compared with the original series of Ningyu-class and its improved Zhongluo-class battleships, the biggest change is that the speed is further improved, the endurance is further improved, in addition, after the use of steam turbines, it is expected that when it sails at high speed, it can also completely solve a serious problem of the previous series of battleships, that is, jitter!

The Ningyu-class battleship actually paid a huge price in order to achieve a high speed of 20 knots at that time, and one of the costs was only discovered during the sea trial after the completion of construction, that is, the battleship shook very badly when it was sailing at high speed, which in turn affected the hit rate of the battleship's main guns when it was sailing at high speed.

No way, in order to achieve more power in a limited space, the steam engine carried on it basically belongs to the extreme performance that has been squeezed, and the jitter problem is more serious.

However, with a steam turbine that is smaller in size and heavier and has more power, this jitter problem can be basically solved.

And because of the use of steam turbines and pure oil-fired boilers, it was possible to save more weight for the deployment of artillery and armor.

Plus it was originally intended to introduce a series of new technologies on battleships of this class, such as a new generation of 300 mm 50 times the caliber naval guns, an improved main gun layout, and at the same time a more advanced 120 mm 50 times caliber secondary guns, a new generation of optical rangefinders, a unified fire control system, a wireless telegraph system? Telephone communication system on board? Interior lighting system and much more.

Therefore, the new generation of East Taishan battleships is actually quite different from the Ning Yu class.

The standard displacement of the ship reached 20,000 tons? The full load displacement can reach more than two or three thousand tons? It is equipped with five twin seats, a total of ten 300 mm and 50 times the caliber naval guns.

This cannon is the top product of the Daheng Empire's industry, and the Jingzhou Machinery Company is responsible for the production of the barrel of the main gun? And there is the Jingzhou Arms Company integrated loading, gun mounts, etc.? It almost represents the top industrial manufacturing capacity of the current Daheng Empire.

The same? This is actually the top product on the Blue Star in the field of naval artillery.

Even if it is a new type of main gun on the side of the Krull Kingdom, it is only at this level.

Of course, the naval guns of the same level in the Krull Kingdom were in service so many years earlier than the Daheng Empire? Although unwilling? But I have to admit that the Krull Kingdom is still dominant in the field of large-caliber naval guns.

However, the Daheng Empire, which was able to follow up in time and produce a 300-millimeter and 50-caliber naval gun, was also proud enough.

Because so far? It's just that only the Great Heng Empire has followed up in time to get this level of artillery, and other countries can't.

The Valya Empire and the Kehl Empire are still competing with the rapid-fire system of large-caliber naval guns? Their large-caliber rapid-fire main guns are still stuck at the level of 280 mm, and even 300 mm ones have not yet been seen.

And several great powers such as the Olisa Empire, the Gafia Empire, etc.? Now even large-caliber rapid-fire guns of more than 200 mm can be made.

After all, Blue Star set off a wave of rapid-fire guns, and it was only three or four years? It is not easy for them to toss out an ordinary rapid-fire cannon with manual loading in such a short time? As for rapid-fire guns of a larger caliber? It needs to be mechanically loaded, which means a whole system, and it won't be able to do it for a while.

Looking at it this way, in fact, in the field of naval artillery, the Krull Kingdom and the Great Heng Empire are the highest gear, but Kyle and Valia are the second gear, and Olisa, Gafia, Orlan Kingdom, Iberan Empire and other countries that can make their own 170 mm caliber rapid-fire guns are considered to be the third gear.

As for other countries, it goes without saying.

The East Taishan is not only equipped with the top-of-the-line 300 mm and 50 times caliber rapid-fire large-caliber naval guns, but also greatly improves the layout of the naval guns, adopting a knapsack layout with two fronts and three rears, and a full central axis layout.

This is completely different from the previous series of warships, which also adopted the way of the broadside layout.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the technology of the triple turret was not mature enough, the Daheng Imperial Navy planned to adopt a triple layout of two in the front and two in the back, and directly put twelve guns on it.

However, the triple assembly technology is still a little worse, and there are too many problems to insist on, and in the end the navy still gave up this plan and continued to use the more mature twin assembly technology.

In terms of power, after adopting the power system of steam turbine and pure oil-fired boiler, it is expected that its maximum speed can reach 21 knots.

There is no doubt that the design of this battleship has adopted many bold new designs, which will bring a huge increase in combat effectiveness.

In the summer of the seventeenth year of Qiansheng, when the Daheng Empire decided to start building a number of new battleships and battle cruisers, the naval top of the Krull Kingdom next door also held a meeting.

At the meeting, the head of the Naval Intelligence Bureau of the Kingdom of Krull brought a huge piece of information to a high-ranking general of the Kingdom Navy and the Prime Minister of the Kingdom who came to the meeting!

A set of photos, to be exact!

A set of photos of the harbor of the Quping Naval Base!

The person in charge said: "We spent a lot of money to develop a staff member of the Hengguo Quping Naval Base, and gave him a specially developed state-of-the-art small camera, he hid this small camera in the chassis of the transport carriage and took it in, and then took this set of photos!" ”

As he spoke, he showed everyone this so-called small camera, which was only the size of a palm, and did not have the magnesium powder exposure facilities of cameras in those days.

"Although our advanced camera technology is not yet perfect, and the photos we take are not very clear, it is still enough to let us know a major piece of information!"

"That is, those new battleships of the Heng Barbarians are not the mixed main gun battleships that we expected before, nor are they the six-main gun battleships they used to have, but an unprecedented ten-gun battleship!"

"To be honest, although I don't know, I can't even understand why they are equipped with so many main guns on battleships, and directly abandon large-caliber secondary guns, but gentlemen, this is the new type of battleship of the Heng Barbarian, not one or two, but a lot, just on the photos, we found at least three warships with this multi-main gun layout, according to comparative calculations, two of them are about 10,000 tons, and one is about 20,000 tons!"