At your request, I am here to publish some information about this book and to answer some of your questions.

First of all, let's talk about the information on the warships that appeared on both sides in the naval battle in the volume "Burning, Legend in the Clouds". The following information is completely original by Fengrui, please indicate for reprinting.

As for the British Navy, the flagship is the heavy cruiser "York", she is the lead ship of the "York" class heavy cruisers, and only two battleships of this class were built, "York" and "Exeter".

Due to the restrictions on the construction of battleships in the Washington Treaty, the 10,000-ton cruiser with 203-mm guns became the best choice for the compensatory strength of the navies of various countries, and was welcomed by the British Admiralty.

This type of battleship is classified as a first-class cruiser in the classification of cruisers in the London Naval Treaty, also known as heavy cruisers.

However, the design and construction of the York-class heavy patrol coincided with the highest calls in Britain for naval budget cuts. Under this pressure at home, the British Admiralty decided to build a first class of downsized heavy patrols.

The reduction of the four 203-mm turrets of the ordinary heavy cruiser to three could not only reduce the construction costs, but also ensure the number of cruisers in the fleet and ensure the overseas interests of Britain.

And so the heavy cruisers of the "York" class were born. Due to the strict limitation of the tonnage of the battleship, she was not considered a competent heavy cruiser, at least the author believes that the construction of such a cruiser of the first rank is a waste of resources.

The standard displacement was limited to 8,200 tons, and the basic structure design of the "York" was quite successful, and the tonnage at the time of construction was only more than the standard 50 tons.

Overall length 175. 25 meters, the width reaches 17.37 meters, and the draft is 6.17 meters at full load. The standard displacement is 8250 tons, and the full load displacement reaches 10350 tons.

It is equipped with 8 oil-fired boilers and 4 Parsons gear reduction steam turbines, with a total power of 80,000 shaft horsepower and a maximum speed of 32. 3 knots, four-axle four-pulp propulsion, reaching a range of 10,000 nautical miles at 14 knots.

For a heavy cruiser, her speed and range were quite satisfactory.

But then there is the depressing part, it is really surprising that the defense of such a heavy cruiser with a displacement of 10,000 tons with a full load and displacement is not as good as that of the light cruiser produced by the British in the later period.

The thickest part of the ship's armor is only 121 mm, not only that, but such a main armor belt does not cover the whole ship, only covering the boiler room and power compartment of the battleship, which is almost one-third of the area of the whole ship.

This is the so-called key defense strategy advocated by the British and American navies, which is actually a plan to reduce the weight of armor.

Although she reached the level of protection of other heavy cruisers with 203 guns of her time, according to the author, historically the "York" was sunk in Crete by three manned demolition boats of the Italian Navy, and this means of protection should bear some responsibility.

The "York" was equipped with six 203-mm MKVIII naval guns, which were the standard naval guns of British heavy cruisers during World War II. It weighs 17 tons, has a diameter of 50 times, fires armor-piercing shells and grenades, has a muzzle velocity of 855 meters per second, a range of 28,030 meters, and a barrel life of 550 rounds.

Six guns were installed in three twin turrets, but unfortunately, these heavy turrets had only 25 mm of armor, I really don't know what the British thought, if they were bombarded by a battleship above the cruiser, the turret protection was almost equal to zero.

This class of warships is also equipped with 4 MKV secondary guns, with a caliber of 101.6 mm and a firing range of 15,020 meters.

As anti-aircraft firepower, the ship was also equipped with two 2-pounder MKII guns, which proved to be obsolete in the early days of World War II, so much so that they were later replaced with multi-pack ping-pong guns and 40mm Bofors guns, although at the time of this writing, the "York" had not been equipped with those new anti-aircraft guns, only two 20mm guns were replaced by the bridge.

The ship was also armed with 533 mm torpedoes, and she had two triple torpedo tubes, which were placed on either side of the ship's chimney.

Finally, there are the aviation facilities, where the York-class is equipped with two Fairy IIIF reconnaissance aircraft, equipped with rotary aircraft catapults.

This is the basic information of the heavy cruiser "York", which can give you a general understanding of the British flagship in this article.

I'll find time to introduce you to other weapons that have appeared, but I don't have enough time today, so I'll have to continue another day