While Jochen was in Germany waiting for good news from American oil wells, Muntz invited him to the Wilhelmshaven Naval Base for the inauguration of the 1st Ocean-going Torpedo Boat Group. In Muntz's words, this is a new type of ship that Jochen asked to design and build, and it is also a brand new type of ship that the German Navy did not have before.

Faced with the invitation, Jochen readily agreed, and accompanied by Muntz, Jochen took a special train to Wilhelmshaven. Unlike the German Navy's main home port in the future, Wilhelmshaven was a German military port facing the North Sea, and the German naval fleet could only be deployed in Kiel and Wilhelmshaven respectively before the Kiel Canal was opened. This was the home port of the new 1st Ocean-going Torpedo Boat Brigade.

Entering the military port, Jochen was greeted by the officers and men of the Wilhelmshaven Naval Base, and after a brief welcome ceremony, Jochen and Muntz went directly to the docks, where the highlight of the day was the event.

The weather in Wilhelmshaven in October is good, and the sea breeze blows, and the towering mast of the naval battle flag is waving in the wind. The warships docked at the dock in an orderly manner, and the sailors were carrying out a series of tasks such as cleaning and replenishing supplies in an orderly manner.

At this time, the harbor was moored the German North Sea Fleet, whose main combat mission was to fight France. Since all the Elector-class 2 ships are in service and deployed in Kiel, they are part of the Baltic Fleet. As a result, the four Saxony-class ships were transferred to Wilhelmshamn, and together with the two Oldenburg-class ships, they formed the inshore ironclad fleet.

Wilhelmshaven was also the home port of four Irene-class ships of the 1st Heavy Cruiser Detachment and four Corolla-class ships of the 1st Light Cruiser Detachment, as well as the elite of the German Navy's cruiser fleet.

Now, Wilhelmshaven has added a new member, eight brand-new ocean-going torpedo boats docked at the pier, and the crews of the boats on the pier are lined up in eight squares waiting for the review. Amid military music, Jochen, accompanied by Muntz, inspected the new additions to the German naval sequence. Although they are new members, these sailors are elite drawn from various torpedo boat units, and each sailor is a skilled veteran. It also shows the importance and expectation of the Navy for this new unit.

The sailors held their heads high and watched the Imperial Crown Prince pass in front of them, and they knew from the beginning that their new ship was a new kind of Imperial Navy, and this new unit was built by the people who walked in front of them, and they also knew that their future tasks were incomparable to those of the torpedo boat force. Now they are trying to put the best foot forward in themselves, hoping to let the crown prince know that this new force, although new, is not a flock of chicks, but a blade ready to fight.

After the review, Jochen took the stage and gave a brief speech: "Today, a completely new force has been added to the sequence of the German Navy. You have come together for new missions, you have new ships, new weapons, new tactics, you have to face new problems, new challenges, new difficulties. But what remains unchanged is your rigor, seriousness, courage and struggle!

Each of you was originally the elite of the Torpedo Boat Force of the Imperial Navy, and you were tasked with coastal defense and the protection of the Imperial coastline. Now, the Empire has given you a new mission, and you will leave the calm shores and head out into the vast oceans to defy the winds, the waves, and take on even greater tasks.

Maybe your battleships are not as mainstay as the capital ships, and you can't be the ones on their own like the cruisers, but you have to be the escort of the fleet, the eyes and ears of the fleet, and the daggers of the fleet. You need perseverance to block the onslaught of high-speed ships on the fleet; It takes fearless courage to surprise the enemy's main force.

Your enemies have greater tonnage, thicker armor, and more firepower than you. But you can still stab your sharpest daggers, and you can kill them with a single blow. You are the all-rounders of the fleet, the elves of lightning strikes, and the light cavalry of the navy. The Empire is looking forward to your courage!

I declare that the 1st Ocean-going Torpedo Boat Brigade is officially formed! ”

The title "hussars of the Navy" apparently filled the officers and men of the newly formed ocean-going torpedo boats with pride. The daunting task described in Jochen's speech not only did not deter these navy people, but gave them confidence in the challenge. It is no longer a defensive force that retreats on the coast, but a force that has the opportunity to influence the tide of battle in a fleet showdown! This realization made everyone's blood boil.

The application of destroyers by the Germans in World War I was clearly problematic. Of course, this may have something to do with the fact that all its strategies and tactics are based on the decisive battle of the capital ships. The destroyer, or as the German Navy called it at the time, was supposed to be a large torpedo boat, which was somewhat different from the British destroyer's definition of "torpedo boat expulsion". These large torpedo boats were nothing more than an amplification of the inshore torpedo boats, and the task was also to carry out lightning strikes in fleet warfare.

Therefore, at a time when British destroyers were generally armed with 102 mm guns, all German large torpedo boats were equipped with 88 mm guns. It seems that the Germans thought that rapid-fire guns on large ships were enough to deal with enemy torpedo boats. As a result, German large torpedo boats often fell behind when it came to British destroyers.

After all, there are a large number of light cruisers on both sides in the decisive battle of the fleet, and there will not be too many problems for the British destroyers to hand over to the cruisers. However, as a large torpedo boat with lightning strikes as its main task, it did not achieve the desired results in naval warfare. The appearance of German large torpedo boats in the Battle of Jutland was more of a harassment, containment, and cover, and they did not have the courage and arrogance to kill the torpedo assault.

In the Battle of Jutland, 13 torpedo boats of the German Navy's 6th and 9th torpedo boat detachments fired only 26 torpedoes in the face of 24 British battleships, causing almost no damage to the British army.

Referring to the results of the battle of the super dreadnought Daring being killed by a single mine, I believe that the British battleship's rotten underwater protection system will definitely not disappoint the Germans. Jochen had reason to believe that if the number of torpedoes fired could be multiplied by three, the British would have at least 2 battleships lose their combat effectiveness and withdraw from the battlefield, and if they were unlucky, they would not even have to go back.

And now, all Jochen had to do was to establish the idea of a fleet all-rounder and a fleet assault for these pathfinders and pioneers of the nascent Imperial Navy destroyer force. The Imperial Navy, on the other hand, had to equip these new forces with stronger torpedo attack capabilities. It is believed that when this new force finally grows up, the British will be able to see in horror the fans of torpedo attacks all over the ocean.

After the ceremony, Jochen went on a tour of the ship, and it was his old acquaintance Tirpitz who had been promoted to colonel by this time. And as a specialist in lightning warfare, the Navy gave him the command of this completely new fleet. Tirpitz also brought in a group of his old buddies to set the framework for the unit, including Yochen's classmate and roommate Hipper.

Hipper was highly regarded by Tirpitz, so this time the ocean-going torpedo boat brigade was formed, and Tirpitz asked him over, and because of Jochen's suggestion, the rank of the ocean-going torpedo boat unit was one level higher than that of the shore defense torpedo boat unit, so Hipper, who was transferred to serve as the commander of the first boat, was also promoted to major.

This was also the foreshadowing of Jochen's future upgrade of the ocean-going torpedo boat to a destroyer. You must know that in historical Jutland, a major was enough to command a brigade of torpedo boats. However, a low rank also means less experience, and in the framework of Jochen, the future destroyer force will have to take on a big role, so the detachment commander must be an experienced senior officer, and the colonel is the minimum standard.

However, the current standard displacement of ocean-going torpedo boats is only 420 tons, and if a brigade is equipped with only 4 ships, it will be insufficient. Fortunately, the Navy, which has received a large amount of funds, has opened its doors and said that increasing the number of ships built can reduce the cost of a single ship. As a result, four more ships were built immediately after the launch of the first ship. And the Germania shipyard is also powerful, and when the first batch of 4 ships was completed, the second batch of 4 ships were also launched one after another, and the speed was staggering. Therefore, the Navy decided to simply wait for all eight ships to enter service before forming an army and forming a brigade. This decision also made the ceremony even more grand.

At this time, the German torpedo boats were still numbered according to the shipyard, and G stood for Germania. And the new ships of this class are called Project 1889 ocean-going torpedo boats. The lead ship, the G-1, is also the flagship of this new unit. Boarding the G-1, Tirpitz introduced on the side: "The 1889 ocean-going torpedo boat was designed with the participation of His Royal Highness, and I have mentioned various performance indicators. Here I would like to tell you, Your Highness, how we feel in our specific use. ”

Yoheng nodded, there was really no need to introduce himself more on paper, the intuitive feeling of the troops' use was more important.

"Your Highness, although the power system output of the new ship is as high as 6000 horsepower, it has never reached the designed speed of 27 knots, and the maximum speed at sea trials under the standard displacement state is only 25.7 knots, although it is indeed a rare high speed, but this is still a problem, so this problem needs to be solved." Tirpitz reacted to the problem as soon as he came up.

It's the old problem of wasting power and not reaching the speed standard, and this Joheng has no good way now, so he can only directly tell him that he has no choice: "Alfred, you should know that there are too many possible reasons for the speed not to meet the standard when the output power is sufficient, and there is no way to solve it now." The Naval Institute for Strategic Studies, led by the Admiralty, has already begun construction, and it will be necessary to conduct a more detailed study after it has been completed to find out the problem. ”