The basic design idea of the new cruiser was thus settled, but according to the classification of cruisers formulated by the Navy in 1883, the new ship was classified as a light cruiser because the main gun caliber was only 150. An armored cruiser of more than 6,000 tons is a light cruiser, compared to the British cruiser who is classified as a first-class cruiser even if it is a belt cruiser, Jochen has a feeling of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. When the armored cruisers of various countries think that their opponent is nothing more than a protective cruiser, but they find that the opponent is armed to the teeth, they will be dumbfounded, and then they can only watch themselves being hit by a small caliber but extremely fast barrel gun. Want to run? Let's see if you're fast enough.

Of course, there were not only cruisers in Muntz's naval plan, but also large warships in the 1888 naval plan, but due to the slow progress of Krupp's large-caliber tube withdrawal and large-thickness surface carburized and hardened armor. Therefore, Munz also very realistically postponed the construction of capital ships, so that for at least 2 years, Germany will not build capital ships. Originally, if the Erin class version had been scaled up, the construction of the new cruiser could have started early next year, but because of Jochen's intervention here, even the design and construction of the cruiser would have to be delayed by nearly a year. For a whole year between now and the end of 1889, the Imperial Navy will be completely devoid of plans for the construction of large ships. So in the next few years, will the Empire continue to build the 2,000-ton small cruiser planned in 1887?

Two years later, he finally began to implement the operational idea of the ocean-going lightning strike tactics proposed to Hippel when he graduated from the Kiel Naval Academy, of course, the premise of implementation is to have a combat platform commensurate with it, and what should this platform look like? Thanks to the British, they were once again ahead of the world and also gave Jochen an excellent example that could be used to convince the German Navy.

"Gentlemen, while our main focus for the next year is on the new light cruisers, there is a completely new ship that will also attract our attention. Last year the British built a ship designed for a completely new combat purpose, specifically to combat the ships of torpedo boats. Small ships do not need armor and heavy artillery, only speed, and the powerful torpedoes have threatened the safety of large ships, which should now be said to be the consensus of everyone. ”

"And Your Highness, you already saw this when you were 11 years old." Everyone here more or less knows about the debate nine years ago, so some people complimented it like that.

With a casual wave of his hand, Jochen continued: "And to destroy these small, nimble, and fast ships, you must use a large number of fast-firing naval guns to sink them before they attack, and because they are not armoured, the power of the guns does not need to be too great. However, the same torpedo boats were too small and therefore not suitable as a firing platform. Therefore, in order to be able to mount small-caliber guns and have a sufficiently stable firing platform, a larger hull is required. In order to catch up with agile torpedo boats, it needs to be faster, but this kind of ship cannot only be engaged in the simple work of fighting torpedo boats, so it must also have the ability to launch torpedoes to attack. And this new type of ship, which is larger than torpedo boats and smaller than cruisers, can be built in large quantities, so that it can not only provide defense against the attack of small ships of the enemy's main fleet, but also carry out surprise attacks on the large ships of the enemy's main fleet. And in the face of the threat of the huge torpedo boat forces of Russia and France. The British had already taken the lead in building such 'torpedo boat capture ships'. The British have already added this new type of ship to the fleet, and they should be quite satisfied with its performance. We are also facing the threat of French and Russian torpedo boat forces, and we are facing a greater threat of Russian torpedo boats in small ponds in the Baltic Sea than Britain, so we also need to build such 'torpedo capture ships'. ”

"If it is specifically used to deal with torpedo boats, then we can enlarge it on the basis of large torpedo boats, and our Shuoxiao shipyard can use the S-10 (Note 1) built by the Fujian Navy Division of the Qing Dynasty as a prototype. It can be enlarged to 200 tons, equipped with a new 88-mm 30-gauge tube cannon, and the speed is increased to 25 knots, which I believe is enough to meet the tasks of fighting torpedo boats. "There are all professionals in the field of shipbuilding, so we immediately came up with the most suitable and easy-to-implement design at the moment.

But Jochen's purpose was obviously not just to deal with torpedo boats, although he was not much worse than these real experts in the professional field, but the insight from later generations allowed Jochen to know the development of destroyers, and this kind of gadget was obviously inappropriate.

It is a pity that Jochen's butterfly wings have affected the development plans of the German Navy, otherwise the two 960-ton meteor-star notification ships built by the German Navy in history are very good platforms, and the elimination of the 15 mm thick protective deck, the removal of underwater torpedo tubes and the addition of surface torpedo tubes, and the installation of a more powerful power system are very much in line with Jochen's ideal early destroyer design.

But now Jochen can only honestly zoom in on the torpedo boat base. However, even if they are all enlarged on the basis of torpedo boats, there is a difference in how much they are enlarged. Jochen didn't want to honestly start with the little guy of two or three hundred tons.

"The S-10 is indeed a very good design, with a displacement of 120 tons, a speed of 24.2 knots, and three 350 mm torpedo tubes, which is a very good idea if enlarged to pose a huge threat to most current torpedo boats." Jochen first affirmed the designers' thinking, and then changed gear: "But we should take a long-term view. If the tonnage of this torpedo boat capture ship is only more than 200 tons, its endurance and seaworthiness will not be too high. And I think that it is too wasteful to be able to confront torpedo boats in the coastal sea, so that they have a certain long-distance ability, can accompany the main fleet to maneuver, can accompany the light cruiser as a mobile reconnaissance force in the ocean, can have the ability to fight when encountering the enemy's light fleet, and can carry out torpedo assault in the face of the enemy's main fleet. And after entering the offshore waters, it can inflict a huge blow on the enemy's torpedo boats, and such a multi-purpose ship may have a better cost-effectiveness ratio. And I think that the displacement will be increased to 400 tons, the speed will be increased to 26 knots, the aspect ratio will be appropriately increased, and the forward bow will be used. In terms of firepower, the 105 mm 35 times diameter tube was selected to withdraw the gun, and I remember that the Reich now has twin rotating torpedo tubes, which are installed on the central axis of the hull. Also, for high speed, a lot of boilers will definitely be needed, be careful not to fill the deck with chimneys, refer to the flue merger of the Saxony class, increase the deck space, so that there is room for a few more rotating torpedo tubes. ”

In 1893, the British built the first real destroyer, the Havok, which was only 270 tons, and the Germans started directly from the 400-ton class, and Jochen can be regarded as raising the size of the hull to 1900 at once. The disadvantage of this is that the requirements for the power system are increased, and the advantage is that the increased torpedo tubes can meet the requirements of allowing the destroyer fleet to have a torpedo attack capability much higher than that of this era, and from the first stage, Jochen wants to let the destroyers of the German Navy always have the torpedo attack capability that overwhelms other countries.

In this period, torpedo boats, in order to speed sail and quickly drain the waves on the bow used the turtle-shaped bow deck, and the result of this was that there was no available deck space in the bow, and the impact of the waves on the bow on the guns was often used to build an increased platform on the bow deck to install the guns, but this design had many inconveniences, so the destroyer slowly evolved into a short bow type. However, the short bow type still has the problem of low rear freeboard, and the rear deck is wet when sailing at high speeds. The solution is naturally to increase the freeboard of the hull as much as possible, but simply raising the deck by one layer will lead to a higher center of gravity. So Jochen's solution was to learn from the sloping flat deck design of the U.S. Navy's Fletcher-class destroyers in World War II. The entire deck becomes a ramp, which brings some inconvenience to the sailors' daily deck operations, but greatly helps the seaworthiness of the ship. Jochen had also considered a design similar to the Long Bow + Holland Slope of the Type 65 artillery frigate of the Republic Navy in the previous life, but for the sake of saving trouble, he finally chose the design of the Fletcher class. The bow is tilted forward, the turtle back is eliminated, and the bow has a certain range of dù to form a V-shaped profile, thereby increasing the bow deck area, so that the main gun is directly installed on the bow deck, and a V-shaped wave plate is set in front of the main gun. However, the heightened platform Jochen did not cancel it, but instead made it join the bridge in a stepped arrangement, and the platform was equipped with small-caliber guns.

"A ship capable of carrying out ocean-going torpedo attack missions, this design is expected to be very much in line with Colonel Tirpitz's interest." Muntz said with a laugh. Unlike in history, the German Navy's tactics of torpedo attacks at this time were not taken lightly, as Jochen had always emphasized the defense strategy of offshore torpedo boats. Therefore, Tirpitz was also not transferred to the cruiser. Maybe it was the exchange with Jochen in 1887, maybe it was Hipper's painstaking study of lightning strike tactics, but Tirpitz now has a great deal of interest in Hipper. For the lightning strike tactics that Jochen once proposed, the North Sea torpedo boat detachment under the leadership of Tirpitz studied it quite deeply. However, due to the lack of a suitable combat platform, some purely theoretical results cannot be verified. Therefore, Yochen is ready to wait for the completion of the new ship to intervene, and give priority to the formation of a scale in the North Sea for them to conduct formation combat research.

"The name of the new ship is called an ocean-going torpedo boat, what do you think, Your Highness?"

"It's very vivid, just call it this name." For the 400-ton ship, Jochen really thinks that they can only be called torpedo boats (Schnellboot), and want to turn them into destroyers (Zerstorer), and wait until they exceed 1,000 tons.

Note 1: The S-10 is a torpedo boat ordered by the Fujian Navy Division after the Sino-French War, and it is also the first large torpedo boat built by Germany to break through 100 tons.

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