Princess Katrina Kafu sat curiously on the side, looking at the world map on the table, on which were placed a bunch of models of warships, and listened to President Moe and several foreign teachers from the U.S. Navy talking about military affairs. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Now the main thing is that there is no armament, it is almost impossible to go to sea to fight, and even the defense of Danzhou is almost non-existent.

The Americans gave a shipside cannon and a thousand rifles, and sent the Kingdom of Eastern Hawaii as a guerrilla force.

If President Meng wants the military port to be well protected, he needs at least a hundred coastal guns!

It is still the most basic need, the geographical location of Danzhou is good, which has also caused the defense difficulties of Danzhou, the land can attack us from three aspects, and the naval battle can also be attacked from two directions, and it is convenient to send troops at the same time, the threat has also increased a lot!

Therefore, China has never developed Danzhou as a military base, mainly due to backward science and technology and backward armaments, and China's military thinking has always been conservative and defensive, which is a matter of no choice.

Cruisers were another important type of ship in the navy in the 19th century, in addition to ironclads, which developed from the single-deck warships of the sail era.

Originally, this kind of warship has a significant feature, that is, the artillery generally adopts the method of arranging the guns next to the ship, and is distributed on both sides of the warship, and does not pay attention to the size of the caliber, but focuses on the quantity, that is, the so-called "there are still many but not giant", so in that era of advocating giant ship cannons, this kind of warship is generally not used to directly participate in regular naval battles, usually only as an assistant to the ironclad ship, to perform some scattered work of escorting merchant ships, reconnaissance and communications.

President Moe and his chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel Rob Chris, talk about how to plan the navy, almost three times a day, which also makes President Moe's time at sea fulfilling.

The two of them put on the world map, put various models on the periphery of Danzhou, simulated drills, and deduced the naval forces that may pose a threat to Danzhou, the biggest threat is not from Japan at present, the Japanese have just reformed the law, and at this time it is just an uncivilized country, President Meng now has no money in his hands, otherwise President Meng would like to kill Japan today and squeeze everyone into a pulp!

The main threat still comes from Britain and France, the East India Company and the French Far East Fleet, the Russians are all emerging navies, this is not covered, these three parties are currently the main maritime forces in the Far East, President Meng's only shipside cannon ironclad ship compared with the real ironclad ship, it is simply impossible to take it, in the face of any fleet, it can be sunk in less than ten minutes.

So, President Moe and Chief of General Staff Rob Cles mainly talked about if defense.

After the mid-19th century, especially after the Battle of Lisa, the design of cruisers changed to a certain extent, and large-caliber guns that were not inferior to ironclads began to appear on some warships.

Speed and armor have always been the focus of contention in the idea of building warships.

President Moe is inclined to speed, Chief of General Staff Rob Criss is inclined to armor, and he is a loyal fan of warship artillery, which is also the mainstream idea of the world's navies at this stage.

For the naval powers, because of the strong national strength, the number of warships they have, the categories are complete, and they can be extravagant enough to design special warships for special tasks, and all kinds of warships have their own different purposes, and they are not confused (this situation still exists today in the 21st century, and naval powers can design and build special command ships for the sake of command, while a destroyer of a small naval country may play a variety of roles such as command ships, destroyers, and training ships at the same time, and the disparity between the rich and the poor is huge, which can be seen).

In that era, the ironclad ship was a fighter on the naval battlefield, and everything it was designed to carry out large-scale naval battles was considered, for which thick armor and heavy artillery were used; The purpose of the cruiser is to defend the merchant brigade, patrol and protect the overseas colonies, and the "Zhou subordinate department" in peacetime, and in wartime, it is used to cooperate with the ironclad ship to carry out reconnaissance and communication, as well as to sabotage the enemy's sea transportation lines, attack merchant ships and other tasks.

Therefore, the design of the cruiser was also originally closely related to its mission, and the capacity of the coal tanks was designed to be large for cruising to distant overseas colonies; In order to play the role of reconnaissance and communication, sneak attack and break diplomatic relations, it has a high speed. High endurance and high speed, this is the characteristic of cruisers in that era, and this kind of warship is an apt name - clippers.

Large naval states can have specialized warships for specialized purposes, but small naval states are overwhelmed.

The national strength is limited, the number of warships is not large, and from the cost considerations, it is impossible for a warship to serve only one purpose, and the cruisers, which were originally auxiliary ships, are sometimes forced to go into battle in the navies of these countries to participate in the fight against the ironclad ships.

The design of the early cruisers was not at all suitable for participating in large naval battles, so some were adapted, equipped with armor and large-caliber guns similar to ironclads, and cruisers that "combined with the advantages of fast ships and ironclads" came into being and became the treasure of small naval states.

Initially, these cruisers, which were designed to participate in naval battles, were not favored by the mainstream naval powers, until September 17, 1894, when the Battle of the Yellow Sea broke out between China and Japan.

President Meng is for this reason.,From the beginning, there was no idea of vigorously developing ironclads.,Facts have proved that ironclads are going to be eliminated by history after all.,But,Can President Meng cross the threshold of ironclads? After all, this era is the age of giant ship cannons, and the comparison is the thickness of the armor and the caliber of the cannon!

For a cruiser to stand out, it must have a speed and rate of fire that surpasses that of an ironclad ship, as well as heavy firepower, and a lightweight fighter must have higher skills if he wants to fight a heavyweight fighter.

Modern direct assembly of missiles, no one has used ironclad ships for a long time.

Such warships are now commonly referred to as unprotected cruisers.

From the single-deck warships of the era of sail battleships, the first to develop cruisers was this type of warship, which was first built by the British. Like the earlier shipside guns, the cruiser adopted the shipside gun arrangement, with the guns arranged on both sides of the warship. Different from the ironclad ship, in order to reduce its own weight, the pursuit of high speed, the cruising clipper is not armored, but later in order to prevent rust and wrap the copper skin on the bottom of the ship, this kind of warship used the early wooden hull, that is, the keel (called the waki) in Chinese historical materials, the hull is wooden, and later gradually developed into the iron waki, the iron hull, etc., the early production of the "Yangwu" cruiser of Fuzhou Shipbuilding is a typical cruising clipper.

For Britain, the hegemon of the seas, which had a large number of ironclad ships, it really did not make much value to add a type of cruiser protected with ironclads.

However, for naval countries with a small number of warships, this means that lower-cost ironclad cruisers can be used as ironclad ships, so that they can expand their naval power at a lower cost.

In 1870, Russia began to build the world's first ironclad cruiser "Generaladmiral", which is very similar to the early cruiser in terms of appearance, the only difference is that it is equipped with ironclad along the waterline.

Soon after the emergence of the waterline armored cruiser used to explore technology, the Russians introduced the ironclad design to the subsequent warships and began to build them in large quantities, "in order to travel far and wide, and often cruise the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea", "Britain and Russia have been jealous for a long time, and once they break up, they will hijack the ships and trap their commerce", and they are ready to use such warships to fight against the cruisers and even ironclad ships of the British Navy.

Britain was naturally unwilling to be controlled by others, and soon its own ironclad cruisers were built in British shipyards, and like Russia, British ironclad cruiser design also experienced a transition from waterline armor to ironclad forts.

For a time, there was a lot of shock in the field of ship design in the world, originally the cruiser was only an auxiliary ship, but now it is actually equipped with armor similar to ironclad ships, and the ships are getting bigger and bigger, some with a displacement of nearly 10,000 tons, except for the slightly thinner armor, there is no difference from ironclad ships. (To be continued.) )