The design idea of key protection has aroused a fierce reaction among the Navy's designers, and there are some supporters and opponents of this extreme protection method, and the two sides have argued endlessly, and for a while they will not be able to come to a conclusion.

However, the designers of the Navy have calculated with an objective and rigorous attitude, this new battleship can control the displacement at a level similar to that of the German-class battleships, and the price is acceptable, but if you want to make it high-speed on the basis of the design of the existing German-class battleships, then the problems faced and the price paid are somewhat staggering.

Therefore, in order to meet the balance of speed, firepower, armor, and tonnage, it seems that there is no choice but to focus on protection design, so the design drawings of the new warship began to be officially drawn by the designers of the Navy.

Jochen didn't care about the controversy within the navy, and when they saw the Invincible for what it really was, they would stop arguing, and it would have created a false impression to the British that because the Germans knew about the existence of the Invincible, they began to build ships of the same type.

And this illusion would have helped Fisher to justify the Royal Navy in building more battle cruisers, because of budget constraints, after approving the construction of 3 Invincible-class, the British Royal Navy only approved the budget for 3 battleships in the 1906-1907 fiscal year, because the British thought that 3 Invincible-class were enough, and Fisher's personal advocacy could not convince Britain to continue building battlecruisers.

If at this time Germany starts to build the "same" warship as the Invincible, then Fisher will seize this opportunity to ask the Royal Navy to continue building the successor ships of the Invincible class, which is a good thing for Germany.

Because Jochen took Parsons, the British reacted much slower to the steam turbines than historically, and it was not until the Germans began experimenting with them on their 300-ton destroyers when the 1,400-ton destroyers using steam turbines began to enter service in batches.

Therefore, the invincible and dreadnought can still only use the three-expansion reciprocating steam engine, and the price necessary to achieve the speed will be higher, and if the Indefatigable class hastily built in order to deal with the German "same type" battleships will inevitably encounter this problem, such a battlecruiser will be less threatening in any way.

On October 2, 1905, the keel of a new battleship was laid on the slipway of the British shipyard in Portsmouth, and the British kept it secret, and the intelligence officers of the ND Bureau could not obtain any information about the battleship at all, but the more this happened, the more the German Navy cared, and the intelligence officers had to obtain scattered fragments of information from the channels that could be accessed outside the shipyard, and these fragments of information were pieced together little by little with the efforts of German naval technicians to piece together the possible appearance and performance of the new British battleship.

Jochen didn't care about the fruits of their hard work, and the Germans would be able to see the ship launched in four months. Now, Jochen was more concerned with the development of the war in the Far East.

In 1905, it quietly disappeared through the fingers, and the dark tide was surging among the countries of Europe, but it was still calm and peaceful on the surface, but the battlefields of the Far East were still rumbling with artillery and gunsmoke.

Since the outbreak of war in March 1904, 21 months of fierce fighting have devastated the Far East, with millions of troops on both sides clashing fiercely, leaving behind corpses in the aftermath of one battle after another. And further east, hundreds of thousands of tons of steel collided, adding a lot of scrap copper to the seabed.

Hundreds of thousands of lives were lost here, billions of pounds of wealth evaporated here, and the world was shocked by a protracted and incomparably tragic war, for there has been no war more tragic since Napoleon's wars than in the Far East.

To this day, the Russians continued to stalemate with the Japanese in the area of North Manchuria, and due to the contraction of the battle line and continuous reinforcements, the Russians began to gain a foothold, and with the onset of winter, the Japanese began to be unable to continue to advance northward, so the two sides entered a state of confrontation.

Although the confrontation has begun, the two sides still exchange fire from time to time, countless lives are still dying here every moment, and the snow covering up the messy battlefield will turn back into a dirty mud mixed with blood and gunpowder smoke in the sound of gunfire.

The situation was developing in the direction that Jochen wanted to see, Lenin returned home and began to lead the armed forces of the Bolsheviks**, although Nicholas II began to propagate the fact that Japan was the instigator of the war at home, and to write empty promises and divide and co-opt to destroy the unity of the rebels, but because the revolt provoked by the early repression could no longer be quelled in a few words, although it had a certain effect, it only did not make the situation worse.

In order to alleviate the economic pressure at home, Nicholas II finally accepted the construction of Count Witte and decided to sell the construction rights of the Manchurian Railway and the maintenance and operation rights of the South Manchurian Railway branch line in exchange for funds. With the help of the Germans, the United States and Russia held secret talks in Berlin, and finally reached an agreement, which the Americans bought for 20 million US dollars, or about 45 million rubles, and promised to support the maximum preservation of Russian interests in the Far East.

Of course, such a price was definitely a loss for the Russians, but the promises of the Americans and the current state of affairs in Russia left Nicholas II with no choice. However, the news that the shrinking Russian army had stabilized the front in North Manchuria and began to inflict heavy casualties on the Japanese who continued to attack strengthened Nicholas II's determination to continue fighting.

So, in December 1905, when the cold climate made the Japanese basically no military activities in Manchuria, the Russians, who thought that the climate in North Manchuria was still very warm, began to act actively, and after a long period of reinforcement and accumulation, the Russian army was greatly replenished, and the number of artillery and machine guns once again had an absolute advantage over the Japanese.

However, because of the heavy defeat in the early stage, Kulopatkin did not have the confidence to have another large-scale battle, so the active activities of the Russians were only to begin to regain some of the points lost in the early stage, so as to make the current Russian defensive line more solid.

However, such a slightly timid decision allowed the Russians to concentrate more superior forces into battle, so after a month of repeated battles, the Russians rarely used a battle loss ratio close to 1:1 to annihilate more than 20,000 Japanese troops and recapture several strategic support points, since then the possibility of the Japanese wanting to continue to the north to completely defeat the Russians has basically been cut off.

The Russian fleet in Vladivostok also made several voyages at this time, because knowing that he was no match for the Japanese navy at this time, Essen led the fleet to leave immediately after a false shot in the Sea of Japan, so the results were almost negligible, but this was tantamount to adding insult to the already tense Japanese shipping.

On the other hand, the Japanese began to be unable to hold on, as the war fell into a stalemate, the Japanese army, which was originally invincible, began to be unable to move an inch, and there was no good news of a big victory on the front line, and Japan, which was waiting for the list of the dead every day, began to stir.

In order to appease the domestic situation and occupy some more land to force the Russians to submit, the Japanese launched an attack on Sakhalin, deliberately mobilizing the main naval forces, including captured, salvaged and repaired Russian warships, to cover the landing of the army, but to the surprise of the Japanese, the Japanese did not encounter any resistance at all.

Originally, the Japanese thought that the nearly 10,000 Russian troops who might be stationed on the island were all gone, and although the Japanese won another great victory in domestic propaganda after occupying the entire territory of Sakhalin, the Russians' unresponsive response made the Japanese feel uneasy.

They realized that the Russians didn't care about losing their worthless islands, and that the Russians were building up strength to fight back, and they guessed correctly, and soon they saw the might of the Russians in the bitter cold.

The Japanese top brass began to find that the situation was beginning to get out of their control, and the Russian winter offensive was even worse news for the Japanese top brass, losing more than 20,000 people, and completely losing the possibility of crushing the Russians on land, so as the Russians continued to increase their troops in North Manchuria, the Russian army made a comeback, and the southward offensive would be a foregone conclusion.

At this time, the Japanese realized that it would be difficult to end the war if they continued to fight, so they desperately hoped that someone could help them end the war, which was getting deeper and deeper, and they began to contact the Americans frequently, but they did not know that the Americans were no longer on their side.

On the other hand, Jochen was a little surprised, that is, Britain and France came together much slower than expected, and the French still did not make any small moves in Morocco, and the French did not seem to have the support of the British.

However, after thinking about it for a while, Jochen understood that the reason why Britain and France had not approached quickly was because he had instigated Russia to continue to insist on fighting in the Far East. The French could not leave the Russians alone and therefore generously contributed to Russia's request for loans, while the British could not leave the Japanese alone and provided assistance to Japan.

If the proximity is too obvious, then it may make the warring Japan and Russia distrust Britain and France, and the French do not want to lose Russia, a quasi-ally that can contain Germany, because they are close to Britain. Britain was equally reluctant to let the Japanese misunderstand that they were secretly contacting Russia, and as a result, the speed at which Britain and France moved closer was affected.

Both countries have the heart to move closer quickly, but both have misgivings, so the estrangement between the two countries will persist until the armistice between Japan and Russia, and perhaps only certain stimuli can accelerate this process.

At this moment, a huge ship in the shipyard of Portsmouth unveiled the mystery she had always had, and the unusually high-profile grand launching ceremony was held. R1152