"Alfred, I have two pieces of news here, one good news and one bad news, which one do you want to hear first?" In the Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin, Germany, Jochen had two telegrams in front of him, asking his chief of the General Staff of the Navy.

"Let's hear the good news first." Tirpitz thought for a moment and replied.

"The good news is that Lieutenant General Spee's formation has arrived in Buenos Aires along the way, and the telegram sent back says that the tests and training have been completed perfectly." Jochen laughs: "And they were warmly welcomed by the Argentine government when they arrived, which was a good start." ”

"That's really good news, in every sense of the word." Tirpitz was similarly smiling.

"The advantages of fuel oil over coal in various aspects are clear, and the mastery of replenishment technology during sea voyages has greatly increased the range of activities of our warships, and the flexibility of carrying out tasks has also been greatly improved." Jochen laughs and says that this is what he hoped to see when he first researched oil-fired boilers.

"It would have been better if the Scharnhorst-class heavy cruisers had all-oil boilers." Tirpitz was a little remorseful: "This kind of sea replenishment technology can play a greater role in the fleet of our overseas bases, but the warships of our current overseas fleet are still all coal-fired boilers, even if it is the Scharnhorst class, only half of the oil-fired boilers, which is a serious mistake in the work of the Admiralty." ”

"But now we [don't have the energy and financial resources to call these warships back and do a large-scale refit one by one." Jochen also looked a little helpless, but he still looked at it more openly: "It's not your problem, Alfred, it's too presumptuous to ask for an all-oil-fired boiler when even the oil-coal boiler is still a new thing, and even I didn't put forward the idea of using an all-oil-fired boiler for the sake of safety, you don't have to worry too much." What matters is what we should do next. ”

"I think that the large and medium-sized high-speed ships we will build next should fully use oil-fired boilers, although the plan for large cruisers is to stay all on the mainland to fight against the British Invincible class, but such high-speed warships are obviously more threatening to put outside, and the advantage of using all-oil-fired boilers is more obvious. Light cruisers with all-oil-fired boilers can also gradually replace the coal-fired boiler warships that are now deployed overseas. "Tirpitz built yì to.

Tirpitz's idea Jochen agrees, and both large and light cruisers have ocean-going combat capabilities, so the use of oil-fired boilers is more valuable. Moreover, the number of large cruisers is smaller, and light cruisers need less fuel, which will not put too much pressure on the current naval logistics fuel supply system.

However, because destroyers and destroyer leaders do not consider long-term ocean-going operations, and battleships rely on the mainland as the decisive battle fleet, they still use a mixture of coal-fired boilers and oil-fired boilers.

Jochen was not prepared to complete the full fueling of the German Navy before World War I, there was no naval treaty to help reduce a large number of old ships, and there was no relatively peaceful international environment. It is relatively reliable for other ships to still use a mixture.

"The two Blücher-class ships that are now under construction are too late to revise their designs, and if they are changed to all-oil boilers now, it will greatly delay the progress of the project, but the one that is ready to start construction this year is still too late to be redesigned. The first 2 light cruisers of the Dresden-class have just started construction, and now it is too late to change the design, and these are not problems. Yochen nodded: "Then the construction of the follow-up ship of the Kiel-class oil and water supply ship can be continued." ”

The Kiel-class refueling ships are part of Jochen's plan to fuel the Navy, and are also an important part of the Far East Fleet's wartime chances of survival and success. It is said that it is an oil and water supply ship, but in fact Jochen is built according to the standards of a fast combat support ship. It has a full load displacement of 25,000 tons and can load 10,000 tons of various oils. 1000 tons of dry supplies and 500 tons of ammunition, using oil-fired boilers and steam turbines. With a maximum speed of 22 knots, it is completely possible to follow the fleet to act together, in fact, this is out of the category of a simple oil and water supply ship.

Historically, the British created the first generation of fleet oil tankers in 1910, but this kind of supply ships that could only supply ships with fuel for ships limited the scope of their tactical application and actual combat value, and the early fleet oil tankers, such as the British O1 class, leaf class and war class. In fact, it is very different from civilian oil tankers, and it does not have the ability to replenish during the voyage, so it can only complete the berthing replenishment work. It was not until 1938 that the fleet tanker Tismassen, built by Nazi Germany, had the function of replenishing fuel and other goods at the same time, creating a precedent for the multi-functionality of oil tankers.

And after World War II, the Americans took over the Tismasson as war reparations and renamed it Konica (AOR-110). The Americans were very satisfied with its performance and began to conduct further research on the integrated supply ship, and the final result of the Americans who were not short of money was that it had a full load displacement of more than 50,000 tons, a fuel material carrying more than 30,000 tons, a speed of 26 knots, and a Sacramento-class fast combat support ship capable of following the aircraft carrier task force, and this kind of ship could only be played by the Americans even if it entered the 21 st century.

Because considering that in the future, there will be only a few ships that can use supply ships in the German Navy, which has not yet been completely eliminated from coal, Jochen gritted his teeth and decided to build a deteriorated fast combat support ship, which will all be named after the port where the German naval base is located, which means a mobile logistics base, and only one ship has been started and built so far, which is the Kiel.

Of course, since it is an deteriorated version, the performance is naturally heaven and earth compared with the Sacramento class, not only the huge difference in tonnage and loading, but also the speed of material replenishment, and although it can carry 500 tons of ammunition, it actually does not have the ability to replenish ammunition during navigation. But in any case, something is better than nothing. In order to dilute the role of the Kiel class, it is only called a fleet oil and water supply ship, and its various performance indicators will not be announced to the public, and even its ability to replenish during navigation will be concealed from the outside world.

However, even if it is an inferior version, even if it is built according to the standards of a civilian ship, but considering that it is only 1908, the cost of the ship is still very amazing, in order to promote the 25,000-ton hull to reach a speed of 22 knots, the photodynamic system is expensive, which is also the reason why only one of the Kiel class has been built.

"Your Majesty, I don't think we need to be too anxious about the follow-up construction of the Kiel-class oil-water supply ships, after all, we are now deploying fewer ships overseas that use fuel, so the construction of follow-up ships can be gradually carried out according to the construction of large cruisers and light cruisers, and the Kiel-class as a military auxiliary ship adopts the construction standards of civilian ships, and the construction period is still relatively short, so I think it is enough for us to start construction with only one next." Tirpitz was built to.

Yoheng thought for a moment, then nodded, "Then do as you say." Tirpitz agreed that the Kiel-class was not suitable for building a large number of jochens at the moment, and that the fast combat support ship was really a type of ship that only local tycoons could play.

"In addition, the warm welcome received by Spee in Buenos Aires is a good start to our sales tour, and then your Admiralty will cooperate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to do its best to win orders from the Argentines, how is your Admiralty preparing for the design of the warship to be marketed to the Argentines?" Jochen asked.

"Rest assured, we have prepared 26 copies of various designs in different configurations, and there is always one that meets the requirements of the Argentine." Tirpitz was confident.

"Don't take it lightly, the Argentines have a lot of choices, the British and the Americans will be our competitors, and I think the Americans are our main threat, the Americans have an innate advantage over us geographically, and in the future the Argentine warships will be repaired and maintained closer to the shipyards on the east coast of the United States, and the maintenance cost will be lower. And the Argentines are relatively tight, and I think the Americans may try to take the order through the price war, so we can't be careless on our side, this is a rare big order. "Jochen isn't as confident as Tirpitz.

As a result of the news that Brazil had ordered two dreadnoughts from Britain, Argentina suddenly found that its cruiser fleet, which was originally proud of South America, had immediately become useless, and the Argentine Navy immediately demanded the purchase of warships of the same class to confront it.

However, the Argentine Congress believed that at this time, domestic funds were tight, and the navy could only be maintained at about one-third of the Brazilians, so it could only build a small fleet. However, as the border conflict between Argenti and Brazil, Uruguay, and Chile gradually heated up, in 1907 the Argentine government finally passed the bill of naval expansion for the purchase of 3 dreadnoughts, 9 destroyers, and 21 torpedo boats, which was naturally a tempting big cake for Germany.

Historically, the Germans had not even completed their own dreadnoughts at this time, so naturally they did not have any chance to participate in this competition, so when the Argentine government began to contact shipyards at the end of 1908, only 2 British shipyards and 3 American shipyards participated in the bidding.

Originally, the Argentines liked the two designs of the Armstrong shipyard very much, but in the end, the Fore River Shipbuilding Company in Massachusetts, USA, snatched the order at 2.2 million pounds each, which is 224,000 pounds cheaper than the British Armstrong shipyard per ship.

Therefore, whether the Germans will have the same result as the British, Jochen actually has no bottom in his heart. (To be continued......)

ps: Because of the Dragon Boat Festival activities, it has not been updated, and the result is not updated to defeat the character

In order to fish for u47, I went bankrupt, and for 3 days, I spent more than 30,000 yuan of various resources and more than 150 barrels before I got R1292 in the early morning