Super armored cruiser, this word made Makarov very interested, even the 12,000-ton Grombowie Germans did not use this word back then, so even the Germans used the word super to describe it, these three design schemes must be very amazing.

Makarov couldn't wait to open the bag numbered I after receiving the signal from Jochen, and while Makarov was carefully examining, Jochen was also thinking about how to balance the balance of power between Russia and Japan.

In fact, Jochen did not know that the Russians Tongguò's study of the Grombowie overestimated the protection capabilities of the Japanese armored cruisers, and that the main armor belt and upper armor belt of the Elizabeth class were both 100 mm at the same level, how could the Japanese have a higher level of armor protection than the Elizabeth class after using a heavier 240 mm gun?

Although the design originally provided to the Japanese had the same plan as the design for the Russians to reduce the speed and increase the main armor belt to 152 mm, the Japanese, who realized that speed was extremely important during the First Sino-Japanese War, naturally did not want to have the same speed as the Russians, so the main armor belt of the Asama class was 100 mm armor of the same level as the Elizabeth class.

However, the Asama Kai, which is now being built for the Japanese, has increased the thickness of the main armor belt to 150 mm after slightly increasing the displacement due to the increase in power and weight of the power system, but the upper armor belt is still 100 mm.

However, the Russians did not know this, they thought that the Germans could provide a design for enhanced armor protection, and they themselves chose this design, and the Russians did not get the maximum speed of the Japanese, so they thought that the Japanese should also adopt the design of armor strengthening to reduce the speed.

However, even if the Russians knew, it would not make much difference, and the Russians' 8-inch naval guns were still helpless to take the Asama class. Although the Russians' 12-inch guns can threaten the Asama class, the rate of fire of 0.7 rounds per minute is actually better than nothing.

Jochen's main concern was how to inflict maximum damage on the Japanese in the face of the low performance of the Russian battleships and the extremely poor quality of the sailors.

The Second Pacific Fleet's expedition was bound to lose, both because of the poor condition of the hull of the long-distance guide and the poor performance of the battleship itself. Or the Russian Navy has extremely poor tactical literacy, and it is unscientific to win the war.

You can't count on the Second Pacific Fleet, so you can only rely on the First Pacific Fleet, but the Japanese blockade of Port Arthur made it difficult for the battlefleet of the First Pacific Fleet to do anything, and the rare excellent Russian general Makarov actually died with the ship because of the ship's minemine sank, which really made Jochen think that God had abandoned the Russians.

Then the only one capable of turning the Japanese upside down is the cruiser with its home port in Vladivostok. In Vladivostok, the Japanese got the name of the Chinese character to be called Urayan, and the cruiser here was later called the Urayan Fleet.

The commander of the Ponyan fleet, Nikolai? Otovich? Essen, although he is inferior to Makarov in ability, qualifications, and fame. So much so that few people know him when it comes to the famous admiral of the Tsarist Russian Navy, but he is still a rare talent in the Tsarist Russian Navy.

Outstanding in the Russo-Japanese War, he contributed a lot to the reconstruction of the Tsarist Russian Navy after the war, and was an excellent general who was able to maintain the initiative in the Baltic Sea in the case of being far inferior to the German Navy in World War I, and finally obtained the rank of Admiral of the Tsarist Russian Navy and ascended to the peak of the power of the Tsarist Russian Navy.

And the Puyan fleet led by him can be said to be the only fleet that can maintain the glory of the Tsarist Russian Navy in the entire Russo-Japanese War, and it is really a shame if the first, second, and third Pacific fleets are called navies.

Due to the blockade of Port Arthur, only the Pur Salt fleet in Essen was able to move freely. At this time, Vladivostok was in a freeze period, but Essen was still actively getting the fleet into action. At the beginning of the war, he ordered the icebreaker to press out a passage and led his three armored cruisers, the Rurik (1st generation), the Russian, and the Grombowie, to rush out of the harbor and carry out a sea guerrilla attack on the Japanese.

During the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan owned only 417 ships with a gross tonnage of 180,000 tons. By the time of the Russo-Japanese War, the number had become 590 ships and 630,000 tons, and Japan's dependence on sea transportation lines had greatly increased.

The activities of the Urayan fleet posed a great threat to the sea transportation lines on which the Japanese depended. And the Russians themselves did a good job, and after sinking Japanese ships several times, the Japanese people were outraged. The Japanese Navy was supported by all the people of the entire Great Japanese Empire who starved and spent a lot of money, usually eating and drinking well, and being an uncle wherever they went, what are you doing to eat now? As a navy, it is impossible to protect the shipping lines of the empire and maintain the safety of people's lives and property, so we have taken all that white rice to feed the dogs, haven't we?

Then a new term spread in Japan: "Lucia's spy", which means the same as what we often call traitors. And the commander of the Second Fleet of the Combined Fleet was given the title of an expansive detective.

Why? Because since March, how could Hikonojo Uemura, who had been taking the Second Fleet to trouble the Urayan fleet, be helpless with a few cruisers? Not to mention merchant ships, even the Second Fleet's own transport ship, the Kanshu Maru, was sunk on April 26.

You're not in the village, how can the fleet of the Lu country be so rampant? In fact, Uemura himself was already so angry that he gritted his teeth, but it was not easy to find the Russian fleet in the vast sea, plus the fog in the Sea of Japan was also the help of the Russians, just one day before the Jinju Maru was sunk, outside the Wonsan Port in North Korea, the Puyan fleet passed by the Second Fleet, but because of the dense fog, the Japanese did not find each other.

On June 15, Essen led the Usashio fleet to rob the army's three transport ships Izumi Maru, Hitachimaru and Sado Maru in the Tsushima Strait, and the first wing of the Guards Reserve Infantry on the ship sent all the Russians to the bottom of the sea, not only led the soldiers of a wing to die in the belly of the fish, but also lost the 18 heavy guns carried on the ship, which directly affected the Japanese offensive against Lushun.

In this way, the matter is getting bigger, and you must be right to go to the village to be a detective, so many people went to the village to throw stones, and smashing the glass of the house was also a sign of patriotism, and the wife of the village ran back to her parents' house with the child for refuge.

The matter is not over, the previous five sorties were all in the Sea of Japan, sinking or capturing 24 Japanese ships of various types, and Essen decided to play with his heart beat again. In July, the sixth sortie directly led the fleet into Tokyo Bay, intercepted 12 ships in five days, sank the Japanese ship on the spot, and after the ships of other countries were looted, if they looked at it, they took the ships with them.

This was a crime committed against the wind at the gate of the capital in front of the eyes of all Japanese people, and the shock caused to the entire Japanese government is incalculable. This also led to the fact that the Japanese shipping line was full of rumors and trees, and the shipping was strictly shrunk, so it can be said that the operation of the Essen fleet to break diplomatic relations was quite successful.

If Essen's operation to break diplomatic relations can continue, it will inevitably bring greater pressure and greater losses to Japan, and at the same time, it can also contain the strength of the Japanese navy and provide some help for the decisive battle of the fleet in the future. Unfortunately, however, the order of the Russian high command put an end to Essen's greater victory.

Due to the imminent danger of Arthur, the battlefleet of the Pacific Fleet in Port Arthur decided to break out, and in order to ensure the success of the breakthrough, Essen's cruiser fleet was asked to go south to meet the friendly forces, and this order buried the Essen fleet.

Finding out that the Russians were going to break through, the Japanese estimated that the Urayan fleet might come to respond, so Uemura finally had a chance to vent the evil anger in his heart, even if the glass of my house was smashed, I must settle the account that frightened my wife and children! So he took the 4 armored cruisers of the Second Fleet and waited for the Puyan fleet to come to the door along the coast of Korea.

As expected, the Battle of Ulsan broke out on August 14, and Essen's mission was to meet the main fleet.

In this battle, the Rurik (first generation) sank, and the Grombowie and the Russians escaped back to Vladivostok, but the damage was so severe that they almost became a scrap ship, and Vladivostok could not repair this injury, so the glory of the Essen fleet ended here.

Therefore, Jochen believed that instead of strengthening the strength of the Russian battleship fleet, the strength of the Urayan fleet would be strengthened, and the stronger the power in his hands, the greater the Essen would dare to play, and the higher the threat to Japan's shipping lines, which would also directly affect the war situation on land.

The reduction in shipping would affect the Japanese economy and resources, while the sinking of a naval transport ship would make it difficult to replenish logistics and troops at the front, both of which would make the Japanese pay a higher price in the war.

However, no matter how beautiful the Urayan fleet is, it is only a broken fleet, and sea supremacy still needs to be obtained by capital ship duels, and the decisive naval battles of Russia are really miserable, so the Essen fleet cannot change the final result, so the sale of super armored cruisers to the Russians is in line with the result that Jochen wants to see the Japanese side pay a heavy price.

And the Japanese armored cruisers are already much stronger than in history, so if you want to make the Poyan fleet still have combat capability after the Battle of Ulsan, then you must give the Russians an armored cruiser that can fully overwhelm the Japanese and preserve combat effectiveness after the naval battle.

That's why Jochen decided to give the Russians the 3 perverted schemes that he had designed according to the historical prototype that Popper had designed. (To be continued......)

PS: Thank you for the book friend Bu Guansui for raising the question of the protection level of the Japanese patrol, I was indeed mistaken, so this chapter is round