"So because the new armored cruisers of the British are likely to be stronger than the two heavy cruisers of N and O, the General Staff of the Navy hopes to build new cruisers that can overwhelm each other, right?" Jochen said playfully, "So have you ever thought about what kind of heavy cruisers can overwhelm the British's new armored cruisers?" Or is it just to increase the number of heavy cruisers of the same type as N and O? ”

In fact, Jochen has always thought that the value of the Blücher armored cruiser is very embarrassing, of course, it is not that Jochen does not like this ship, the last armored cruiser of the First World War is the last generation of armored cruisers in the First World War, Jochen likes this one, but just likes it, and its performance is not the best among his peers.

In the list of candidates for the strongest armored cruisers, Rurik II, Blucher, Minotaur, Tennessee, San Giorgio, Jochen believes that the strongest should be the San Giorgio class, although it is inferior to Rurik II in terms of firepower, but it is more average in speed and protection, although the Blucher class has the highest speed in its class, but it is a little stretched in terms of firepower.

Although there are also people who can achieve a certain advantage in fire control and salvo fire with a unified main gun, there is actually no unified fire control when Blucher was born, and by the time Blucher can play this advantage, the era of armored cruisers has passed, and standing in front of her is an opponent of a completely different magnitude.

It has to be said again that the Italians are a really brilliant mess in the field of armored cruisers. Ale? It seems that I forgot something? Hawkers,Something you forgot must not be very important.,So don't think about it.。

Not to mention that the battle cruiser was an unattainable opponent of the Blucher, but the Germans alone imagined the so-called new armored cruiser of the British stronger than the Blucher. The Invincible, which Britain revealed in the unofficial magazine Battleship in 1906 in order to confuse the Germans, was also an armored cruiser armed with 10 9.2-inch guns.

So even such an opponent is not something that the Blucher can deal with, so Jochen has doubts about the value of the Blucher's existence, and what is the value of a warship that cannot be designed to overwhelm his imaginary enemy? Is it enough to reach a level close to that of an imaginary enemy? Was it really the right thing for the Germans to follow the British in their footsteps?

As early as 1882, Fisher said, "Is it wrong to make every warship as advanced and perfect as possible?" It was this attitude that enabled the British to make the naval construction of all countries run behind the ass of the Royal Navy before the First World War.

In Jochen's view, this attitude directly determined the final outcome of the battle between the British and German navies in World War I, so what Jochen had been doing was to lead the German Royal Navy to the front, and it was absolutely unacceptable for the battle cruisers to suffer any more losses now.

"Your Majesty, from my personal point of view, even if the performance of the new armored cruisers of the British is stronger than that of the N and O ships, it is still limited, so I am personally more in favor of increasing the number of builds, because there is no need to redesign, and the production of various parts and components does not need to be adjusted, and the number can be increased in a relatively short period of time." Tirpitz was built to.

Tirpitz believed that as long as the Scharnhorst class continued to be built, it would continue to ensure that the gap in the field of armored cruisers would not be opened by the British, and there was no need to take the risk of designing and building stronger ships

"However, there are also some people in the navy who believe that we should build stronger ships to ensure our technological superiority in this area and further reduce the distance between us and the British." Although Tirpitz was not very appreciative of the design of the new ship, disagreements within the navy were to be reported to Jochen and then decided by His Majesty the Emperor.

However, as the chief of the general staff of the navy, it was his advantage to be able to speak directly to the emperor, so he continued: "However, the cost of the heavy cruisers N and O is already very high, and if larger and stronger heavy cruisers are built, it will be difficult to control the price, and the design and construction period will be long, so it will not be possible to form a numerical advantage. Therefore, I think it is most reasonable to continue to build ships of the same type. ”

If the Invincible class was not the battlecruiser Tirpitz's construction, Yochen would have nodded directly, but now, Jochen could only oppose Tirpitz's opinion, but Jochen still made a request first: "Alfred, your construction is indeed very safe, and it is indeed the best choice in terms of efficiency-cost ratio, but I want to look at the opinions within the navy before making a decision."

They want to build a new design that can overwhelm the British's new armored cruisers, they don't just talk about it, they always have to have a basic design idea, let them sort out all kinds of designs, I will make a decision after reading it, if there is any leapfrog design, then it would be a pity to miss it. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, I will do my best to sort out the design plan and send it over for you to review." Tirpitz said respectfully.

Tirpitz was very efficient, and after 2 days, all the design sketches were sent to Jochen, saying that the sketches were really grassy, and it was obvious that these were the layout plans that the Navy designers had in their minds, and then accompanied them with words to describe them, all without further in-depth design, but such sketches were enough to judge the designer's design ideas.

There are really all kinds of strange designs in these sketches, and of course there are some quite reliable works among them.

"Alfred, this design is very interesting, it looks very powerful, if it is built, our people will definitely be overwhelmed by her majestic appearance, it is very good to use it for propaganda, but this ship is a mobile ammunition depot at all, right?" Jochen shook a sketch in his hand and said with a smile on his face.

You don't even need to look at it, Tirpitz knows which design he is talking about, and listening to Jochen's ridicule, Tirpitz almost wants to cover his face: "Your Majesty, that design is one of the first plans to be rejected." ”

"I know it's unreliable, but she's beautiful, isn't it, let them make a model and put it in my collection, and for the first time in my collection there is a model of a ship that would never have been built." Jochen smiled and asked to satisfy his little hobby.

Unlike the triple, quadruple and even six-pack designs in World War II, the battleships of World War I were basically a casual stack of two-pack turrets, and Jochen had such a thing in his hand.

In the design of the Scharnhorst-class, four main turrets of the same type were added to the two sides, so that the whole ship has up to 8 twin 240mm main turrets, and the side projection capacity is up to 12 guns, which is simply the ultimate product of the multi-turret Cult!

What is a turret for a week? We have 1 more here than you! Of course, such a design is handsome, and if it is made, it will definitely be worshiped by the Multi-Turret God Cult in future generations. But obviously, there must be all the problems with the holy relics, so this kind of thing should be made into a model to meet your own aesthetics and then pass it directly.

The other design is much more reliable: "Alfred, this design allows them to continue, as a design reserve, and if necessary, it can be released to confuse the British." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Tirpitz said, taking the sketch Jochen handed over.

This sketch is a reliable version of the design just now, reducing the 4 turrets on the side to 2 and arranging them in an oblique span, which not only reduces the turret, but also ensures the side firepower.

Such a layout can be seen on the Rivadavia-class battleships built by the United States for Argentina in the future, so it is quite reliable, 6 main turrets, although the side turret firing range is somewhat limited, but the side projection capacity of 12 240 mm main guns can still be used to fool people.

"Oh, I finally saw a design solution that is indeed innovative in terms of firepower." Jochen smiled and said, "This design is very bold, borrowing from the Japanese design?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, it is true that it borrowed from the design scheme of the two armored cruisers that the Japanese started construction at the beginning of the year." Tirpitz saw the sketch in Jochen's hand and said, "However, although it seems that the caliber of the main gun has been increased, the overall firepower has not been increased too much, and this design is not conducive to fire control, so I actually don't think it is of much value." ”

The two turrets on the sketch in Jochen's hand only have two turrets in the bow and stern, which is a complete regression of the German Navy's design ideas, but the two turrets on this design are the DRH.L.C/1899 turrets equipped with twin 283mm naval guns that are now used by German naval battleships, and this heavy cruiser is designed to be equipped with 4 283mm naval guns of the same type as the battleship!

This is simply the German version of the Tsukuba-class armored cruiser, except that the caliber of the main gun is slightly smaller, the main armor belt has been increased to the same standard as the Scharnhorst class, and the speed is also the same as the Scharnhorst class at 25 knots, of course, the tonnage will be slightly higher.

Oh, I forgot what I forgot before I remembered it, why are there no Tsukuba-class and Kurama-class in the shortlist of the strongest armored cruisers? This is an armored cruiser armed with a 305 mm gun? It can even be called a battle cruiser of the pre-dreadnought era!

Jochen scoffed at this statement, not to mention that the maximum speed of these two levels of armored cruisers was only 21 knots, and the Tsukuba-class and Kurama-class were both started in 1905, which was not a few months different from dreadnoughts, and even dreadnoughts could not be thrown off, what kind of cruiser was it?

In addition, the purpose of the Japanese in building Tsukuba and Kurama was not to seriously want a type of high-speed ship that could be used to protect shipping risks, break traffic, and reconnoitre, but because armored cruisers were relatively cheap and relatively easy to build, they used the hull of armored cruisers to equip battleship guns so that they could have a kind of armored cruiser that could quickly increase the strength of the combined fleet.

However, this kind of thing is useless, and in Jochen's eyes, it is better to call her a thin-skinned battleship than an armored cruiser, similar to the sacred relics of the multi-turret cult, combining the low speed of a fleet battleship with the thin armor of a battlecruiser, which is simply an unsuccessful design.

In contrast, the design in Jochen's hand is really an armored cruiser, but it is still not the warship that Jochen wants. R1152