"God, I've never seen such a huge battleship! No wonder the British Navy has not done much in recent years, it turns out that they are building a completely new warship! In an attic not far from the slipway at Armstrong Shipyard, Hort, a German spy under the pseudonym Charles, was carefully observing the imminent launch of the giant ship with a high-resolution telescope in his hand. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

He slightly adjusted the focal length of the telescope to make the distant image clearer, this is the new Zeiss 28x telescope, which can be fixed on a specific bracket to easily see the battleship thousands of meters away. The main works of this battleship have been completed and can be launched at any time.

Hult was a veteran spy planted by the German Navy in Britain, and he passed on the earliest information about the British's London-class battleships and Edward's seventh-century battleships, and his rich spy experience allowed him to recognize almost all the British battleships and first-class cruisers. Not long ago, he had also spread the news that the British had sold the battleship Agile to the Italians, and for the first time he added his opinion to the end of the report - "This is a very powerful, excellent battleship!" It's different from all the battleships we've seen before! It has incredible firepower, high speed, and a well-balanced defense. It can definitely be a fierce opponent of the Mainz-class armored cruisers. ”

To his surprise, 2 weeks later, he once again saw the most elite warship of the British Empire! Compared to this battleship, whether it is the Edward VII-class battleship, the capital ship of the British, or the Agile that has just been sold to the Italians, or the Frederick III-class battleship, the current strongest capital ship of the German High Seas Fleet, are nothing more than a bunch of obsolete things.

"When I first saw this guy, I knew that a new era had begun, and all the previous battleships would be swept into the dustbin of history!" Hult commented.

At this moment, Hult was carefully studying the battleship in front of him. By referring to the buildings and scales next to it, he could roughly estimate that the length of the battleship was about 160 to 170 meters. This is a lot bigger than the mighty class, the largest cruiser of the British Empire. However, unlike the fatness of the Qiangsheng-class protective cruisers, this battleship gives people a solid, heavy, and indestructible feeling!

From the side, you can see 4 huge gun mounts, which are roughly estimated to be larger than the twin 10-inch guns of the Agile, and at the same time seem to be larger than the turrets of Edward VII, from which it can be seen that the British should have replaced the new 12-inch turrets. Judging by the arrangement, there was a turret in a kilometer, then there was a turret on the side chord of the battleship, there should be another one on the opposite side, and the other two turrets were placed on the central axis of the battleship in turn.

"The British have also finally come up with all-heavy artillery battleships." Although Hult is not proficient in warships, after all, he is from the navy, and he has been a spy for so many years, so he still has a certain understanding of warships. In fact, starting with the Mainz-class armored cruisers, the development trend of German capital ships has been obvious, although he does not know the construction of the German fleet, but he has realized that the future battleships will be equipped with multiple 12-inch guns, and now the British are doing the same.

After returning, Hult quickly sorted out what he had seen and sent it back to Germany through a special channel, and to the surprise of Hult and the German Navy, at about the same time, a ghost also wandered around the Germania shipyard, and the first German dreadnought, the Nassau, fell into the eyes of the spy.

"This is one of the most powerful ships I have ever seen, the Germans built this brand new battleship on the basis of Mainz, which has 5 huge twin 12-inch turrets. Because the two guns are arranged on opposite sides, the battleship has the firepower of 10 12-inch guns at a certain firing angle, which is more than a notch higher than the firepower of the Mainz!

In his report to the British Admiralty, the British spy described what he saw in equally shocking terms. And just after the report was sent, when the spy came to the shipyard again, several German military personnel who had been waiting for him for a long time quickly arrested him. Coincidentally, a few days later, Hoth's identity was revealed, but he was luckier than his British counterpart, and by the time the British found out, the buddy had re-embarked on the ...... of his homeland after a long absence.

As a result, the two European powers, Britain and Germany, knew that the other side was building a brand new super warship that could overwhelm all previous warships. And they both found that their ideas coincided, and the rivalry between the two great powers had already begun before the Daring Do and the Nassau were commissioned.

"That's not really good news." When Fisher saw the relevant information, he said with some frustration. "We tried in vain to end an era with a brand new class of warships, only to end it at the same time that we discovered that our greatest potential enemy was doing the same thing! Instead of completely overwhelming our opponents, we have pushed the competition between the two sides to a whole new stage! The whole world will go crazy for it, and all the powerful countries will focus their attention on this terrifying steel behemoth! ”

"So what do we do now?" A retinue next to him asked.

"The timing is a bit bad, the Imperial Army is entering the most critical stage of counterinsurgency, although the Boers have been suppressed, but it will take time for us to defeat them completely, the war between Japan and Russia has not yet broken out, this war will be directly related to the future relations between Britain and Russia and the situation in Europe, if the Russians win, then the empire and Russia will still be enemies, and if the Russians lose, we can win over. The former decided that we did not have sufficient funds to start this race, while the latter determined that we could not be politically tough on Germany. So our best bet is to do nothing! Fisher said helplessly.

Fisher was right, only Britain and Germany are building dreadnoughts, and if this matter gets out, then the construction of dreadnoughts will not know Britain and Germany, the French, Italians, Russians will abandon the original outdated construction plan and start building this new warship, by the way, and the Americans! The value of the British Empire's huge fleet of former dreadnoughts will shrink considerably! It's like if your deposit is worth $1,000 today, but it can only be worth $500 the next day, which invisibly narrows the ...... of the UK's advantage over other countries.

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