After the two finalized battleships, battle cruisers, gunboats, and submarines, Li Gang began to sell cruisers and destroyers.

Li Gang looked at Sun Hao and asked, "Mr. Sun, your naval fleet plans to use only battle cruisers, battleships, destroyers, and submarines?" ”

"Any questions?" Sun Hao asked puzzled.

After Li Gang heard this, he couldn't help but despise Sun Hao in his heart, but he said with a smile on his face: "Mr. Sun, the composition of a fleet requires many kinds of warships, such as battleships with strong firepower and thick skin, and battlecruisers with strong firepower and high speed. Cruisers are indispensable for a fleet, and cruisers equipped with strong offensive and defensive weapons have high speed and seaworthiness, and can conduct ocean-going operations for a long time in harsh climatic conditions.

A cruiser is a large surface ship with strong firepower and multiple uses, mainly operating in the open ocean. Its main task is to escort aircraft carriers and battleships, or to form mobile formations at sea as the flagship of the formation, attacking enemy surface ships, submarines or shore targets. You absolutely cannot ignore the role of the cruiser.

So, if you want to assemble a perfect fleet, you must configure cruisers. Torpedo boats, minesweepers, minelayers, landing craft, gunboats, patrol boats, supply ships. These ships are indispensable to a fleet, and I suggest that you form a fleet according to the types of ships I have given you, each type of the fleet has its role, and a strong fleet must also be equipped with these ships.

Only a fleet equipped in this way is the most perfect and powerful. Of course, submarines and aircraft carriers are more perfect. ”

After Sun Hao heard this, he was suddenly enlightened, and his mouth suddenly opened. I didn't understand the navy, thinking that as long as there were powerful battleships, battle cruisers, destroyers, gunboats, and submarines, I didn't expect that a fleet would need so many types of ships. Since Li Gang understands the configuration of the navy, he simply configures it according to what he says, so as not to trouble it in the future, Sun Hao thought to himself.

As for the aircraft carrier, of course Sun Hao knows her role, but Sun Hao feels that it is still the First World War period, and there is no need to build such a ship, and it cannot be prematurely exposed that the future naval battle is the world of aircraft carriers.

"Mr. Sun, as for the destroyers, I suggest you equip the French Mogador-class destroyers from World War II! The Mogador-class destroyer is the most famous first-class destroyer of the French Navy in World War II, and it was designed to counter the large destroyers of other countries, such as the Fukiyuki-class of the Kou country.

The Mogador-class destroyers were larger and more armed than the fleet destroyers built before the development of the country, and after they entered service, they fought on the front line of hardship for many years.

The ship's full load displacement: 4018 tons; Main dimensions: total length 137.45 meters, total width 12.60 meters, draft 5.00 meters, speed: 39 knots (trial voyage up to 43.78 knots), crew: 238 people, main guns: 4 twin 138 mm guns, triple torpedo |2 tubes. Air defense weapons: 4 37 mm anti-aircraft guns, 4 13 mm anti-aircraft guns; Anti-submarine weapons: 2 depth charge throwing slots.

I can help you convert the destroyer's main gun to a caliber of 152mm, so that the cruiser and the destroyer can agree with the chase. Equipped with sea-to-air radars and modified anti-aircraft guns, this kind of destroyer has become a high-speed anti-aircraft and anti-submarine hedgehog. ”

Although Sun Hao didn't understand what the destroyer was, he heard that the destroyer's displacement reached more than 4,000 tons, and the speed reached 39 knots, or even more than 40 knots, which alone was enough to prove that the speed of this destroyer was very good. Because the displacement of ordinary destroyers is only about 2,000 tons, and the speed of destroyers in World War I is not so high, Sun Hao still knows this.

"Mr. Li, in this way, the installation positions of the anti-aircraft weapons of the battle cruisers and battleships that I ordered before have been reserved for me, so that I can modify the air defense in the future."

"Okay!" The customer is God, Li Gang knows this truth very well, no matter what Sun Hao asks, Li Gang is full of promises.

Then, Sun Hao began to choose his own cruisers, since Li Gang said that a fleet must be equipped with cruisers, it should be correct. However, it is impossible for the cruiser equipped by itself to be equipped with a heavy cruiser of tens of thousands of tons, and it is enough to equip a displacement of about 10,000 tons, so as not to be too shocking.

Many kinds of cruisers in World War II had a displacement of more than 30,000 tons, or even more than 40,000 tons, and now that World War I has not yet begun, it is most suitable to equip about 10,000 tons by yourself. At Li Gang's suggestion, the two finally chose the Cleveland-class light cruiser of the United States. The Cleveland-class light cruiser was designed before the war of the United States Navy and entered service after the war, and it was also the cruiser that participated in the most wars in World War II.

In 1938, in view of the strong navy of the Kou country and the aggressive ambitions of the Kou country, the navy decided to build a new generation of cruisers, which were designed to completely get rid of the restrictions of various naval arms treaties. In view of the actual combat experience in the European theater of operations, this class was designed with the hope of increasing the range and enhancing anti-aircraft firepower in order to improve the overall combat effectiveness of the warship.

The ship has a displacement of 11,800 tons (standard) / 14,131 tons (fully loaded), and its main guns: triple MK16 152 mm naval guns × 4 secondary guns, twin MK12 127 mm naval guns ×6, 12 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns, 20 20 mm Erlikon anti-aircraft guns, dimensions 186 meters long, 20.2 meters wide, draft 7.5 meters. The power is 100,000 horsepower, the endurance is 10,000 nautical miles / 14 knots, the maximum speed is 32 knots, and the crew of 2 seaplanes is 1,258.

This cruiser was not a formidable cruiser in World War II, but before the First World War began, it was enough to crush the cruiser of any country. Sun Hao also asked to modify the ship's power system to increase the ship's speed to about 40 knots.

In the end, the two discussed the number of combinations and tonnage of each ship again, and did not stop the transaction until a fleet was perfectly matched.