Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Ship-Building Competition
These 5,000 Gurkha mercenaries who took money and sold their lives as if they were at home were given great expectations by the British army, and they wanted to be used as winners and losers in the most critical place of the battle, but the Ah San in front was scattered by the Germans' platoon guns at once, and then the scattered Ah San troops were chased by the Germans and scattered more and more Ah San troops, and there was only one British Yankee officer in the 100 Ah San servant army, how could he stop Ah San who was a hundred times open. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The British had no choice but to use this Gurkha mercenary army as a gendarmerie to cut down the scattered A-3 troops, hoping to regroup the army and fight the Germans again. When these Gurkha mercenaries couldn't lift their tired arms from slashing Asan, the German army came up with bayonets.
Later, when the Germans reported to the General Staff, they didn't feel that this Gurkha mercenary army was powerful, it was nothing more than a shot and two eyes, a bayonet and a bloody hole. When he killed, he was more docile than Ah San, who was running around.
The Gurkha mercenaries don't blame the British, they don't blame the Germans, they only hate the pig teammate Ah San's servant army, so that when they faced the German army, they were already willing to kill thieves and have no power to return to the sky.
The destruction of hundreds of thousands of A-3 servant troops was actually only a small matter for the British, and the remaining millions of A-3 servant troops in Africa greatly stabilized the British rule in the African colonies.
The Boers, descendants of the Afrikaners, who were originally dissatisfied with the British, were overwhelmed by a million Asan-servant troops almost in ten months. The German army, which had received the news, had also stopped its efforts to continue to devour the British and French colonies in Africa after defeating a division of the Anglo-French colonies in Africa -- hundreds of thousands of servant troops and millions of servant troops were two different things, and in short, quantitative change could lead to qualitative change.
The total number of combat troops that the Germans threw into the African theater was less than 200,000 but less than 300,000. This was only possible after Prussia had absorbed the German Confederation.
The Germans, who had stopped, began to levy and levy taxes on the newly sunlit lands - even though the Germans understood that Uncle Black's servants were limited in combat, the number of the three servants controlled by the British really frightened William.
During this period, several countries engaged in a series of military conflicts in Africa, and although millions of people died in the conflicts, everyone tacitly agreed that no war was declared, and it was only treated as a colonial armed conflict.
Spain, which was not strong, failed in its opportunity to seize territory in Africa, and was recaptured by the British, while Italy grabbed a lot of territory, but it could not ignore the British strongholds that were like thorns in the back, so they had to continue to send troops from home to put pressure on the British.
The Germans, on the other hand, finally got the land under the sun that they had coveted in West Africa, and the combined land area of the German colonies in West Africa was somewhat larger than that of Europe itself (including the already occupied France). The resources are also abundant, and it would be even more perfect if Uncle Black on the ground knew German. Unfortunately, the black uncles here are either indigenous or English and French, and this is also the first time that German has to go abroad.
When the new edition of the German map included France and the colonies of West Africa, the whole country was in a state of flux, and various celebrations were organized by the people, such as the Sausage Festival and the Oktoberfest.
But the German General Staff Headquarters was not so excited, although France was dead, but the hundred-legged insects were dead but not stiff, and the Free France established in London was sooner or later a piece of the heart of the Germans who occupied the whole territory of France. According to the British-stirring stick policy, a strong country is not allowed to appear on the European continent, and now Germany has become a thorn in the side of the British.
Fortunately, after occupying France and the West African colonies, the Germans were not afraid of the Atlantic naval blockade by the British, and now Germany's own homeland and West African colonies have formed a slightly weak and fragile industrial chain.
This industrial chain includes coal and iron compounding, machine (weapon) manufacturing, papermaking, printing, textile, printing and dyeing, animal husbandry, planting, breeding and brewing, etc.
At the same time, in order to deal with the blockade of the British at sea, King Wilhelm announced that the Germans were to walk on two legs, one for the army and one for the navy. After getting the drawings and craftsmanship of the 5,000-ton ironclad ship from the Great Qing Dynasty, the Germans began to build a dockyard to prepare for the construction of their own 5,000-ton ironclad ship and began to design a 10,000-ton ironclad ship.
The strongest British, who now dominates the Atlantic Sea and the Western world, only have four 10,000-ton dome armored ships and more than 20 iron-ribbed ships of more than 5,000 tons. There are more than 100 ironclad armored iron-ribbed warships of less than 5,000 tons. The total displacement tonnage of warships using all steam-powered or steam-sail hybrids (so that only a few test ships were built) exceeded half a million tons.
In terms of tonnage alone, even Japan, which is now on the fence, is no match -- with Lin Haiyang's support for many years, Japan's modern navy has grown from scratch and from weak to strong, but now it is only 400,000 tons in terms of tonnage. But now there are ten 10,000-ton ironclad ships, and the rest are not capital ships except for a few 5,000-ton ironclad ships.
Sheng Haizhou even made a report that he was going to put together some small boats (the oldest cruisers of two or three thousand tons) from the capital ship force and hand them over to the Naval Academy as training ships. The truth that the ironclad ship should be replaced in ten years has been firmly imprinted in the mind of the current naval commander Sheng Haizhou.
At that time, when Japan did not have a modern navy, a few ironclad ships of two or three thousand tons were a force for Japan to destroy the city and destroy the country, and ten years later, several ironclad ships of two or three thousand tons can no longer participate in the decisive battle of the capital ships of the combined fleet. In addition to the speed that can barely keep up, the current 10,000-ton main ironclad ships are not comparable to such small ships of two or three thousand tons in terms of the power of naval guns and gun fire and the thickness of protection.
A cautious person like Katsu Haizhou did not have the habit of letting an expensive naval warship give away people's heads, and there were at least hundreds of lives on that warship, and they were all the elite of the navy that Japan has cultivated today. Katsu Haizhou is now the first person in the new Japanese government and the commander-in-chief of the navy and army, but he takes time to read books and study and make progress every day in addition to dealing with official duties**********.
Today, Sheng Haizhou received Lin Haiyang's instructions that he was ready to double the size of the combined fleet within three years, and double it again in five years. Of course, it is still the same, the personnel are trained by the shogunate government, and it is not necessary to build ships without mentioning that industrial ships can build warships like dumplings.
Sheng Haizhou, who signed the document, finally didn't think of who to pit in the end, but he thought that it was a pit for the British ghost. Animals have the greatest chance.
After being taught a lesson by the British in North Africa, Spain finally realized the status quo - it turned out that Lao Tzu was no longer the Spain that had the invincible armada. After this defeat of teeth and blood swallowing, Spain was much more honest and did not dare to dominate Europe.
Italy, on the other hand, believes that the same is true of the servant army of the British, and without the naval support of the British in the Indian Ocean, these British strongholds would have been pulled out long ago. Even for the sake of hegemony in the Mediterranean in the future, ironclad ships should also be built. Having bought materials from the Germans, the Italians also began to build their own navy of ironclad ships.
Steamships and the like, Italy has been building, but most of them are merchant ships, and the construction of merchant ships and warships is obviously two different things. After altering the drawings obtained from the Germans, the Italians began to build their own navy of 5,000-ton ironclad ships.