Sun Hao was not surprised when he heard Shen Jun's words, if he wanted to gain a foothold in the South Sea, he had to take down all these islands. But Lu Ping's plan to control the entire Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Antarctic Ocean has to be said to be a bit crazy. However, if you can master all these oceans, future generations will be able to live a well-off life even if they make a living from fishing.

The strategic geographical location of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean is obvious, and if you want to control the Indian Ocean, you must take all the islands in the Indian Ocean, especially the island of Madagascar and the surrounding small archipelagos. The islands of Sri Lanka and the Andaman Islands in southern India are also very important, and only by controlling all these islands can you eventually achieve the goal of controlling the entire Indian Ocean.

Located between Asia, Oceania, Antarctica, South and North America, the Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean on Earth, covering about 46% of the Earth's water surface and about 32.5% of its total area. The span extends from the coast of the Antarctic continent to the Bering Strait, with Asia and Oceania in the west and the Americas in the east, spanning 151 degrees of latitude and a maximum width of 15,500 kilometers from north to south. The area including the sea is 181,344,000 square kilometers, excluding the area of the sea is 166,241,000 square kilometers.

There have been a number of important migrations in the Pacific in prehistoric times, most notably the migration of Austronesian peoples (more specifically Polynesians) from the coast of Asia to Tahiti, then to Hawaii and New Zealand, and later to Easter Island.

In October 1520, Magellan led five ships from the Atlantic Ocean to find a southwest outlet (henceforth known as the Strait of Magellan) and sailed westward, arriving at a calm ocean after 38 days of rough seas, which he called the Pacific Ocean.

The Pacific Ocean is rich in resources. The Sea of Ko and Sea of Okhotsk in the western Pacific Ocean are important fishing grounds, producing herring, cod, tuna, crabs, etc. The Columbia River on the west coast of North America is famous for its salmon production. There are a large number of manganese nodules on the seabed, and seawater can extract sea salt, bromine, magnesium, etc. ResourcesThe offshore continental shelf is rich in oil, natural gas and coal, and the deep-sea basin is rich in manganese nodule ore layers (the metal reserves of manganese, nickel, cobalt and copper are dozens to 1,000 times more than those on land), in addition to the seabed sand tin ore, rutile, zirconium, titanium, iron and platinum placer reserves are also abundant

The Pacific Ocean is of great importance in international traffic. The Pacific Ocean is served by a number of important sea and air routes connecting Asia, Oceania, North America and South America. The Panama Canal in the east and the Strait of Malacca in the southwest are the shortcuts to the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and the world's main shipping lanes, respectively.

If such an important Pacific Ocean, which integrates various resources and strategies, can be fully controlled by itself, it will be equivalent to mastering an endless cornucopia of them.

Thinking of this, Sun Hao's heart almost blossomed. However, if you want to control these vast oceans, you have to build more naval fleets. Fortunately, he opened a naval academy, which can provide a steady stream of naval forces for Huaxia.

He now has two major fleets, and if he wants to become an absolute hegemon on the sea, he has to form a new fleet again, and there is nothing to worry about in terms of personnel, but the selection of ships must be carefully considered.

In a few years, the first war will start, and if you use the Zheng He-class battleship as the main battleship, it will be a little insufficient. Now that the Zheng He-class warship has been exposed, many countries may come to buy it. In addition, he ordered so many warships in Li Gang, and he planned to sell them to Western countries.

In this way, its new fleet will have to form more powerful battleships. First, it can completely humiliate the warships equipped by various countries. Second, it can drag all countries into the maelstrom of the naval equipment race.

Huaxia should not only equip powerful battleships, but also equip its naval fleet with aircraft carriers as the theme. Sooner or later, battleships will become obsolete, Sun Hao knows this very well.

But in the coming decades, that is, before the aircraft carriers and missiles of other countries are equipped, battleships will still play a pivotal role on the sea. Whether it is a naval duel or a support for landing operations, it plays an important role that cannot be ignored.

It is absolutely impossible for Western countries to know that the aircraft carrier is equipped with aircraft carriers, and it is necessary to let them know that the sea is a world of giant ships and cannons, and that naval warfare is the idea of naval warfare headed by battleships. To make all countries fall into this line of thinking, it costs countless steel materials to consume

In the midst of the cannons of the giant ships. As long as the formation of an aircraft carrier-centered fleet in the future of Huaxia is not exposed, the navy's main battle thinking will not change in the next few decades.

However, a few decades later, some countries will also put forward the idea of theoretical naval warfare based on aircraft carriers. But that was decades later. The development of history is difficult for anyone to stop, and Sun Hao understands this very well. They may not be able to change much history, but they can lead them to change the tide of history.

The main warships of the re-formed fleet must have strong firepower and air defense capabilities, and in the future, the sea battlefield will be the world of aircraft, and it will certainly not work without strong air defense firepower. Now that he needs a more powerful fleet, he has to think about it.

The classic of the Germans - Bismarck, it's a pity that the firepower is too weak. One of the biggest drawbacks of the Bismarck-class battleships was that the anti-aircraft firepower was not matched. German shipbuilding focused on armored defense, and the battleships in World War II were the best German in this regard.

Bismarck-class battleship: hit more than 90 rounds of battleship main gun shells, more than 310 other shells, 6 to 8 torpedoes, detonated explosives in key parts, and then opened the drain valve and sank for 2 hours. It had also sunk the Hood, Britain's largest battle cruiser, in 6 minutes, and severely damaged the Prince of Wales. From this, it can be seen that the Bismarck-class battleships are still very good.

Bismarck's resistance to sinking is really good, mainly because the Germans have a better design of their watertight cabins. However, good sinking resistance and good defense still cannot be equated, many of Bismarck's defense designs are outdated, and the main engine is not important enough to protect it, which is also the disadvantage of Bismarck's battleship.

Bismarck is glorious as a battleship, if it weren't for the fairy torpedo, it should have been able to escape, he can be regarded as the last glory of the battleship, everyone can see his actual results, Bismarck's power is huge.

Although the battleship Yamato was extremely powerful in terms of displacement, its construction technology was far from being the match of the Germans and the Americans.

The original intention of Kou Guo to build the Yamato-class was to rely on quality superiority to defeat the quantitative superiority of the United States, but Japan was much behind the United States and Germany in terms of radar and fire control systems. During World War II, the metallurgical level of Kou was too poor, the accuracy of artillery was far from that of Europe and the United States, and the speed and range were not as good as those built by Germany and the United States.