After the Battle of Ian, the navy of the Krull Kingdom spent a lot of money to build new high-freeboard warships, but within two years, rapid-fire guns and hardened armor came out.

The navy of the Krull Kingdom was also very depressed at this time, because the dozen or so capital ships they had spent a lot of money on in the past few years were outdated because they did not have hardened armor and did not have comprehensive protection.

But it's good to say that you can still change the rapid-fire gun, and the key protection is a little worse, but it can be used anyway.

It is not possible to fight with the original low-freeboard warships in the ocean, and it is not possible to shell ports in the near sea, the speed is still slow, and the firepower is also weak, and the navy of the Krull Kingdom now only uses them for second-line operations.

As for the earlier warships, that is, before the first year of Qiansheng, that is, the battleships built during the ironclad period when they were still playing with front-loading rifled guns and central gun rooms, they were all decommissioned and mothballed, or simply sold and dismantled.

Anyway, these battleships of the ironclad era, even if they have been upgraded and refitted, are useless, and they don't even have the value of mothballing, after all, they still have a bunch of low-freeboard battleships between the first year of Qiansheng and the eighth year of Qiansheng and they don't know what to do with it......

It is better to retire and buy scrap iron, which can not only recycle scrap iron money, but more importantly, save maintenance costs and free up manpower.

The wealthy Krull Kingdom, even the old warships about ten years old have been dismantled and sold, other countries are incomparable, Rao is Kekel Empire and Walia Empire are not so luxurious, and neither is the Daheng Empire, although some of the warships built during the Unification War are old and have taken a back seat, but they are still in service.

Although these old warships are indeed useless, and in addition to wasting money, they actually don't play any role at all, but they are also thousands of tons or even tens of thousands of tons of warships, and it is good to keep them as training ships!

In the past few years, the navy of the Krull Kingdom has been uncomfortable, but the navies of countries such as the Keel Empire and the Walya Empire have also been uncomfortable.

They are also the same as the navy of the Krull Kingdom, after the Daheng Unification War, they set off a large-scale wave of shipbuilding, and before the Battle of Ian, they started to build a large number of capital ships, but as a result, these warships that cost a lot of money are useless, and they have to invest more money to build new high-freeboard warships.

As a result, from the eighth year of Qiansheng to the eleventh year of Qiansheng, after spending a lot of money and tossing for three years, I found that Damn, all the ships built in the past few years are key protection ships, and even a rapid-fire cannon can't stop them......

Now it is necessary to develop new warships equipped with hardened armor, comprehensive protection and rapid-fire guns.

In order to maintain the combat effectiveness and scale of the navy and keep up with the trend of naval reform, the money of various countries has been flowing out like a flood bursting its banks.

But no matter how bitter it is, regardless of whether it is a large country or a small or medium-sized country, they are all gritting their teeth and following closely, because everyone knows that we are now in an era of naval reform, and if we are one step behind, then we are falling behind step by step.

And if you don't keep up, is it hard to expect your opponent not to follow?

Once you don't have enough cutting-edge warships, but the enemy country has a vote of cutting-edge warships, I'm afraid that the end will be miserable!

Today's Olisa Empire is in such an embarrassing state.

In the last decade, in order to deal with the threat of the Great Heng Empire, they invested heavily in expanding the navy, originally thinking that they would only need to gradually replace warships in the future to maintain the size of the fleet and ensure the security of the endless strait.

But I didn't expect the Navy to change so quickly that the huge investment in the early years became useless, but in the last two years, they still gritted their teeth and continued to invest.

However, due to the influence of the Olissa Empire's own industrial strength and economic ability, it is impossible for them to continue to maintain a high level of ship building like several other powers.

In the first two years they were able to serve four new battleships, but now they have only three under construction, and now there are no plans to build them.

It's not just that they don't have money, but because after the technology of the battleship continues to improve, they no longer have enough technical ability to keep up with the times.

For example, naval guns, although they continue to develop naval guns, they have been stuck on new naval guns for many years and have not been able to solve the problem.

Hardened armor and rapid-fire guns are, although there is technology transferred from the Krull Kingdom, but having technical documents does not mean that it can be mass-produced.

With a powerful country like the Krull Kingdom, which is the most powerful country in the world, it will take a year or two to mass produce it, and the industrial strength of the Orissa Empire is not so strong.

As a last resort, they could only further cooperate with the Krull Kingdom, and decided to continue to build warships by building their own hulls and importing the Krull Kingdom's 350 mm and 35 times caliber naval guns.

Rapid-fire guns and hardened armor are also imported, otherwise they will not be able to make it themselves for a while, and it will be difficult to meet the demand for performance.

Even so, the number of new warships scheduled to start construction is only two.

The country of projectiles like the Orr Kingdom has newly ordered two battleships, and several other traditional powers and the Great Heng Empire, which one is not built by a dozen!

And the Orissa Empire, as one of the world's first-echelon powers, only started construction of two battleships after the arrival of the era of rapid-fire guns and hardened armor, which has to make people look at the strength of the Orissa Empire again.

However, it soon became known that the Orissa Empire had only started to build two battleships, and they spent more money on the construction of armored cruisers, and they announced a high-profile plan to build six armored cruisers.

The intelligence officers of various countries also quickly found out that this armored cruiser was a bit special, and at first glance, they thought it was an upgraded version of the Klan-class armored cruiser, the foreign trade warship of the Daheng Empire, but the tonnage was larger, the protection was better, and the firepower was stronger.

And this kind of armored cruiser is also a very typical decisive armored cruiser.

I have to say that there are still many smart people in the Orissa Empire, and they quickly discovered the mystery of rapid-fire factions and hardened armor.

After testing, they found that the 300-millimeter naval gun seemed to have a large caliber, but the rate of fire was too low, and the ammunition projection was too low to be of much use.

Moreover, when the new generation of warships of various countries are generally equipped with more than 200 mm hardened armor, even a 300 mm caliber heavy gun is difficult to effectively penetrate at a long distance, and it is difficult to get a single shot.

It is better to equip a large number of rapid-fire and higher-rapid-fire naval guns and smaller caliber main guns, and directly rely on more projection to wash the deck.

In fact, this theory is also known to the Krull Kingdom and several other countries, so the Krull Kingdom Navy has built a hybrid main gun battleship in a low-key manner, but several countries such as the Kyle Empire have also studied it.

On the part of the Olisa Empire, due to financial problems and the strength of hardened armor, they simply engaged in better armored cruisers and directly relied on secondary main guns and rapid-fire guns to win.

And this theory, in fact, is also the theoretical basis of the Klan-class armored cruisers of the Great Heng Empire, and has been generally accepted by all countries, but the Olisa Empire has done it more extremely, and they simply built armored cruisers with larger tonnage and better protection to replace the battleships as the main force in the decisive battle.

This is still the only one of several naval powers.

The Olisa Empire gritted its teeth and continued to maintain the balance of naval power, but even they knew that it would not last long.

Fortunately, the Orissa Empire also has a geographical advantage, they do not expect to attack the Great Heng Empire, but adopt a defensive strategy, the most important purpose of the navy is to block the endless strait and protect their coastal waters.

At the same time, among their low-freeboard battleships, the proportion of turret battleships is relatively large, and their bunch of second-class battleships are purely for offshore operations, and their protection capabilities are quite excellent, and they can still support them for a long time in coastal operations after being equipped with a large number of rapid-fire guns.

Therefore, for a long time in the future, a large number of their low-freeboard warships can actually still play a big role, coupled with their shore fire prevention and wartime torpedo boat attacks, mine-laying and other means, to a certain extent, to relieve their pressure.

But with the development of technology, these old warships can no longer support a few years, and the Olisa Imperial Navy must keep up with the times, so they also quietly cooperated with the Krull Kingdom to obtain their technology, and then began to produce their own rapid-fire guns and hardened armor, and started their new generation of warships.

The situation in the Orissa Empire also reflects the tense geopolitical relationship between the Central Continent and the Southern Continent.

The Great Heng Empire and the Orr Kingdom formed a de facto alliance, and the Daheng people vigorously supported the Orr people to develop their military power.

The Krull Kingdom and the Orissa Empire also began to move closer to each other because of their own interests, and the Krull Kingdom also began to support the Olisa Empire's navy, in order to find a potential ally on the Western Front that could contain the Daheng Empire.

And this behavior of the Great Heng Empire and the Krull Kingdom also made the smell of gunpowder in the Central Continent and the Southern Continent stronger and stronger.

The four countries on the east coast sandwiched in the middle, the kingdom of Lieji on the side, and the alliance of the three countries on the west coast in the west of the southern continent could not be left out, and they had to be involved whether they wanted to or not, either choosing to take sides or choose to be armed and neutral.

The frequent activity of the diplomats of the Great Heng Empire, who repeatedly publicly declared that the Great Heng Empire was a civilized and open empire, without any intention of other countries' territories, let alone any idea of unifying the central continent or even the southern continent, which to a certain extent eliminated the potential concerns of the four countries on the east coast and the alliance of the three countries on the west coast about the expansion of the Great Heng Empire to the south.

Coupled with the actual conflict between them and the Orissa Empire, and the friendly cooperation with the Great Heng Empire in recent years, this has made the four countries on the east coast gradually lean towards the side of the Great Heng Empire, which can be seen from the fact that the weapons and equipment of the four countries on the east coast have gradually shifted to the procurement of the Great Heng Empire.

In the early years, they only ordered two cruisers from the Great Hengren, but two years ago they had ordered two Bougier-class armored cruisers from the Empire, and now, they have ordered four Crane-class armored cruisers.

Of course, the Boogier armored cruiser was actually a foreign trade warship specially designed for them from the beginning, and naturally it could better meet their needs in all aspects.

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