In addition to the six "South Zhuhai" class ships, there are also 12 10,000-ton cruisers and at least 20 large destroyers.

These are all new types of warships built after the outbreak of the Great War.

Although the term "heavy cruisers" was seriously emphasized out of habit, in fact, these battleships built after the outbreak of the Great War were no longer heavy cruisers.

The reason is simple.

The concept of "heavy cruisers" itself comes from the two naval arms treaties, specifically those with 8-inch guns. The light cruiser, on the other hand, was armed with a 6-inch gun. As for other indicators such as tonnage, the two types of cruisers were not specifically distinguished.

After the abrogation of the treaty, the concept of a heavy cruiser ceased to exist.

It is precisely for this reason that those built after the abrogation of the treaty are generally called post-treaty types.

The main difference, which is tonnage. All post-treaty warships solve the problems of treaty warships by increasing their displacement.

At a similar technical level, the only way to compensate for the shortcomings in the performance of the battleship is to increase the tonnage.

If anything, the post-treaty heavy cruiser is a big circle.

Of course, there is also a clear distinction in terms of use.

Although the Liangxia Navy has always had no shortage of air defense warships, and has also specially built a number of ocean-going cruisers focusing on air defense, all the large warships have placed special emphasis on air defense combat capabilities, and without exception have strengthened air defense firepower, and all of them have become genuine air defense warships.

On heavy cruisers, this was particularly prominent.

Even if the standard displacement was increased to 15,000 tons, the main guns of the Liangxia Navy heavy cruisers were still 200 mm naval guns developed and put into production before the war, and no larger caliber main guns were used, no longer barrels were used, and no improvements were made to increase the rate of fire.

The biggest role of the 9 200mm naval guns was actually to provide artillery support for the marines.

Obviously, the Nuland Navy is not so single-minded.

For example, on the 17,000-ton cruiser being designed, the Nuland Navy proposed to be equipped with a stronger main gun than the Mk15 55 times the diameter of the 8-inch naval gun, and preferred to expand the caliber of the main gun, rather than using a long barrel for generalists, and improving the firing mechanism to increase the range and rate of fire.

There is no doubt that the adoption of large-caliber main guns will inevitably pay a greater price.

It's all about quantity.

With just 3 task forces, there are 12 new heavy cruisers, and there are not so many new heavy cruisers in the Nuland Navy!

The "Oregon" class only completed the design, and the "Des Moines" class had only one technical framework.

Even the "Baltimore" class has only a few ships!

What's more, in addition to heavy cruisers, the Liangxia Navy also has more powerful large cruisers, and 12 have already been delivered.

As for the large cruisers of the Nuland Navy, not only were they not built, but there were only 4 in total.

In fact, the difference in numbers is also reflected in other warships, such as large destroyers, which are more suitable for ocean-going operations.

In the last war, destroyers were small ships, and they were called "lightning strikers", which were fast warships that used torpedoes as their main weapon.

It is similar in nature to the current torpedo boats.

For a long period of time, torpedoes were used by many second-rate navies as a weapon to challenge and defeat first-class navies.

The most representative is the Locke Navy.

It is a pity that cruel facts have proved that it is by no means one or a few advanced weapons that determine the right to dominate the sea, and it is absolutely impossible to change the rules of the game at sea by relying on a few advanced weapons.

It was not until the latter part of the last war that destroyers took on the heavy responsibility of anti-submarine and received the attention of the Navy.

However, due to the limitations of anti-submarine technology and submarine tactics, destroyers have always been regarded as auxiliary warships and have not become the main force of the fleet in the last war.

The most obvious is tonnage.

Most of the destroyers are around 1000 tons, and reaching 1500 tons is remarkable.

Even after the Great War, the pace of development of destroyers was very slow. In addition to the impact of the naval holiday, it is mainly related to the use.

To put it simply, there is no need for large-scale.

It was not until the outbreak of this war that the destroyer embarked on the road of large-scale.

The first to make destroyers larger was the Liangxia Navy.

Interestingly, the Liangxia Navy continued to increase the tonnage of destroyers, or to build large destroyers, not to give it stronger air defense or anti-submarine warfare capabilities, but to let it keep up with the task force and not become a shortcoming in the task force.

Among them, the most important thing is cruising speed and endurance.

The destroyer was made bigger just to carry more fuel and, as the tonnage was increased, to install a more powerful propulsion system.

Of course, the indirect benefit of this is that the destroyer has gained a relatively comprehensive combat capability.

This lays the foundation for becoming a generalist at sea in the future.

The newest destroyers of the Liangxia Navy have a standard displacement of more than 3,000 tons, which is almost twice as many as those built before the war.

With a larger tonnage, in addition to being equipped with more high-level dual-purpose guns, more anti-aircraft guns can also be placed.

Interestingly, these large destroyers did not enhance their torpedo combat capabilities, nor did they strengthen their anti-submarine warfare capabilities because they wanted to cover aircraft carriers.

Of course, this has something to do with the tactical tradition of the Liang Xia Navy.

The least important torpedo in the world is probably the Liangxia Navy.

Not to mention before the war, the war has entered its fourth year, and most of the warships of the Liangxia Navy still use heavy torpedoes developed before the war.

The torpedoes used by the Liangxia submarine were actually produced using technology imported from the Manman Empire.

Feelings: In the case of being able to solve the problem with giant cannons, or bombs, the fleet commander of the Liangxia Navy will not consider using torpedoes.

As for anti-submarine warfare, as long as there are enough escort warships, this is not a problem.

It's just that no one dares to underestimate the anti-submarine combat effectiveness of the Liangxia destroyer.

So far, in terms of the efficiency of anti-submarine warfare, the destroyers of the Liangxia Navy far exceed those of other navies.

The key is that the Liang Xia Navy was the first to be equipped with active sonar!

The captains of the Nuland submarines, who went to sea and never returned, and the officers and men on the submarines, had the most say in how much this kind of submarine exploration equipment was.

Just in the first few months of this year, the rate of losses of the Nuland submarine increased almost tenfold year-on-year!

Of course, the biggest gap is in quantity.

Although in absolute number, the destroyers of the Liangxia Navy are not many, and the speed of construction is not fast, but in terms of the relative number of destroyers calculated by tonnage, the destroyers built by the Liangxia Navy during the Great War are almost one and a half times that of the Newland Navy, which is almost equivalent to the Newland Navy and the Royal Navy of Bran combined!

It is precisely in this way that the Liangxia Navy can equip all task forces with enough large destroyers.

Of course, the number of large destroyers was not reduced because of the need to build escort destroyers.

All of this reflects the huge gap between the two sides in terms of industrial strength, especially in the field of heavy industry, which directly affects and determines the size of the navy.

Crucially, the Liangxia Empire has not yet carried out a full-scale war mobilization.

If the Liangxia Empire carried out all-out war mobilization, even according to the standards of the Nuland Federation, the scale of industrial production could be increased by 30%.

With such an opponent, there is still hope of victory?

Sp was so impressed that he didn't return to reality until a staff officer hurried to the open cloister.