The General Staff of the Chinese Empire, the post-war summary work meeting is underway.

Although the Imperial Chinese Navy won the victory in the naval battle of the Solomon Islands, many problems were exposed throughout the course of the war, which once determined the life and death of the Imperial Chinese Navy, which aroused great attention from the General Staff, and actively listened to the summary report to find solutions to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future and threatening the Imperial Navy.

At the meeting, Chen Shaoyi gave a detailed account of the entire process of naval warfare in the Solomon Islands and put forward many ideas, many of which were endorsed and affirmed by General Wu Yong, Secretary of the Imperial Military Department, Minister of Military Aircraft, and Chief of Staff.

"The Imperial Navy went to the unknown sea to fight, and did not have much time to reconnoiter the local sea area and water pattern data, so the use of the original sea charts and water pattern data is particularly important, because the charts we used this time were drawn by the British in the early days, there was a fatal mistake, almost destroyed the Imperial Navy, so I propose to set up a special global sea area mapping force to re-examine and correct all the existing charts of the Empire."

Hearing Chen Shaoyi's suggestion, Wu Yong nodded and added: "The British have obviously been aware of this problem for a long time, there is a clear difference between the charts used by the British Navy in peacetime and the charts used in wartime, the latter is more accurate and detailed, and the former has a large number of loopholes and errors, and the British deliberately did not correct these mistakes, in fact, it is also a preventive and strategic deception, and we should take caution." ”

The establishment of a professional surveying and mapping force has been imminent, as the empire gradually grasps more and more sea areas, in the future will continue to compete with Britain for the control of other sea areas in the world, the future naval war flashpoint will appear more in the Atlantic, Indian Ocean and other areas that are unfamiliar to the Chinese empire, and an accurate chart must be available.

As a result, the Reich General Staff quickly adopted this proposal. Immediately draft the relevant documents, prepare them to be submitted to the National Assembly for approval, and then apply for special funds to set up a special surveying and mapping force.

"Also, we planned to ambush the British Navy in the Solomon Islands before the war, because of various battlefield changes. It would be nice to have a shipboard radio communication system, so that I could report back to the military at any time and let the military make all kinds of preparations as soon as possible. ”

Wu Yong nodded and said: "The general is not subject to foreign military orders, the battlefield situation is changing rapidly, it is impossible to completely follow the pre-war plan and deployment, and it is necessary to adjust tactics at all times to achieve the goal of defeating the enemy." If there is a radio communication system. Even if the navy is far away, we can always grasp the battlefield news, well, these suggestions are very good and can be adopted. ”

Radio technology is a top-secret program of the Chinese Empire, as early as after the appearance of the telegraph, Li Weiguo had already ordered the Imperial Academy of Sciences to collect relevant talents and technical materials from all over the world, and a group of scientists led by Mei Wuqi had successfully developed the radio. It's just that the current power is still very small, and the transmission distance is less than 100 kilometers. But it is already a world miracle, and if it is known to other countries around the world, it will inevitably cause a blatant uproar, and the military value of it is self-evident.

"We already have this technology, but it's still in the experimental stage, and it's already partially successful. It is believed that in less than five years, shipboard radio communications will certainly be realized. ”

"That's right! In the next war, we have one more killer means! ”

At this point, the room was filled with joy and confidence on everyone's faces.

Just when the Chinese Empire was still in the process of post-war summing up. The situation in Europe and the United States has changed dramatically.

The first is the United States, the civil war that lasted for more than ten years finally ended, and finally the government of the Confederate States of America won, the government of Lincoln of the United States of America was defeated and surrendered, and the whole of the United States of America was restored to unity.

Grant, who was born as an officer in the Southern Army of the United States, took advantage of the outbreak of the Sino-British War and the Chinese Empire's lack of time to intervene in the American Civil War, made peace with Britain, defeated Lincoln's Southern government in one fell swoop, and unified the United States.

However, there are gains and losses, and Grant is very clear that since the moment he chose to cooperate with the British to launch the War of Unification, the American government has gone against the Chinese imperial government, and although the two countries still maintain normal diplomatic relations, the smell of gunpowder is already very strong.

The Chinese Empire has always opposed the Grant government to unify the United States, because a unified American Congress poses a huge threat to the Chinese Empire, and now that Grant has done so, the friendship between China and the United States will no longer exist, and it will gradually lead to hostility and even war.

However, Grant was also a political and military adventure, he did not expect the defeat of the British Empire at all, in his opinion, the reason for cooperating with the British Empire in the first place was that the British Empire gave up supporting the Lincoln government and supported the Grant government to unify the United States. The second is that Grant believes that the British Imperial Navy is unprecedentedly powerful, and hundreds of warships will definitely defeat the Chinese Empire with less than 100 warships when they go to the Pacific Theater, and there is also the help of the Japanese Navy, so Grant has always believed that the British Empire will win, so he will be more determined to fall to the British Empire.

As a result, the British Empire was defeated, much to the disappointment and fear of the Grant government officials, fearing that the Chinese Empire would retaliate against them.

If Grant had been given a new choice and let him know that the British Empire would be defeated, he would not have agreed to cooperate with the British Empire and turned his back on the Chinese Empire as he had done at the beginning.

However, there is no regret medicine in the world, and since Grant has made his first year of junior high school, he must be prepared to be retaliated against by fifteen.

The U.S. military began to de-Chinese Empire, because all along, Grant's army was trained by officers of the Chinese Empire, and all the weapons and equipment of the Chinese Empire, so in order to get rid of the psychological influence of the Chinese Empire on the U.S. military, Grant had to reorganize the army.

As a result, the U.S. military abolished the town regiment establishment of the Chinese Empire, and the U.S. army no longer took the town as a unit, but changed back to the traditional British division and regiment establishment.

The US military is reluctant to give up the advanced weapons and equipment of the Chinese Empire, but the problem is that it is impossible for the Chinese Empire to export weapons and equipment to the United States anymore, and the US military has to solve the problems of ammunition supply and weapons and equipment support by itself.

To this end, the Grant government soon cooperated with the British Empire to build a large arsenal in the United States to imitate the various weapons and equipment of the Chinese Empire. For example, the patriotic rifle of the Chinese Empire. After the imitation, it was renamed the American-made Springfield rifle M1877, and other weapons and equipment of the Chinese Empire were also copied by the US military and were compiled into various American models.

There are some weapons and equipment that the US military cannot produce on its own, such as the 155mm heavy howitzer, which even the British have a toothache when they hear it. On the battlefield, they suffered all the losses of such shells. Although the British also copied a batch of 155mm heavy howitzers, the power of the grenades was much worse. The Chinese Empire used a new type of smokeless ammunition, and the British military has not been able to understand the composition of this new type of ammunition, so it can only replace it with hey medicine, and the power is naturally greatly reduced.

However, now that the Grant government is in agreement with the British Empire, a batch of 155mm heavy howitzers and shells will soon be handed over to the British Imperial Military for British military experts to study, and it is believed that it will not be long after. With the technical level of the British, they should be able to figure out the secret.

In addition, the weapon that European and American countries want to obtain from the Chinese Empire is the bloody heavy machine gun, but this kind of weapon The Chinese Empire is very cautious and will not sell it to countries like Britain, France and the United States, and it is impossible for any country with good relations with Britain to export it, which makes it impossible for the British to imitate it, so the US military cannot get it.

The Grant government received significant technical assistance from the United Kingdom. The slave owners who were originally plantations in the South won the Civil War. Now they seized a large number of factories in the north and turned them into capitalists, and when they found that capitalists were far more profitable than slave owners, they began to invest in factories.

As a result, the industry of the United States flourished again because of the natural advantages of the Great Lakes industrial area. Soon the United States will be re-developed, and with the technical assistance of the British Empire, the United States will become the next Chinese Empire.

Of course, the British Empire knew it was playing with fire, and they were playing with fire ten years ago. In order to destroy the United States, the American Civil War was provoked, ignoring the rising Chinese Empire at that time. Now that the Chinese Empire has risen, the British Empire cannot contain it, so it has resumed supporting the rise of the United States and used the United States to fight against the Chinese Empire.

However, the British Empire would rather let the United States rise than let the Chinese Empire dominate the world, after all, the Americans are also the species of the British Empire, and they are the same race.

Therefore, the British Empire tried to accommodate any request from the United States, and as long as the technology that the British Empire had, the United States could get it.

Especially for the navy, the Grant administration attached great importance to the fact that if it wanted to block the military threat of the Chinese Empire, it was necessary to establish a large naval force on the east coast of the Pacific Ocean.

Fortunately, there was plenty of steel in the United States, and the southern slave owners, who had just taken over the northern industry, pushed the price of steel too low and dumped it like cabbage for the sake of unfair competition, which made the American military very happy.

And the British Imperial military was also happy, because they transferred their technology to the American Navy, and they could also get cheap and high-quality steel from the United States, which was undoubtedly a relief for the British Imperial Navy that relied on debt to survive after the disastrous defeat in the war and the reparations paid to the Chinese Empire.

Thus, the great naval plans of Britain and the United States were realized. The two countries began to build warships, and the British Navy designed a number of all-steel battleships, first tried in the United States, let the United States pay for it, and if it succeeded, then built it on the British Empire itself and provided it to the British Navy.

In Europe, with the end of the Sino-British naval battle of the Solomon Islands, the all-steel battleships of the Chinese Empire made the ironclad ships of all countries in the world obsolete overnight.

The German Navy said it was very hurt, because they had just purchased sixteen capital warships in the Chinese Empire, including eight Saxony-class ironclads delivered to the German Navy in 1874, and eight Akna-class dome cruisers delivered to the German Navy in 1877. The Chinese Empire switched on and handed over the eight Akna-class dome cruisers to the German Navy.

But the German Navy didn't want it!

The Sino-British naval battle of the Solomon Islands showed that ironclads were a tragedy in front of all-steel battleships, and the German Navy spent a huge amount of money to buy eight Saxony-class ironclads from the Chinese Empire, which became obsolete in only two years, and the main culprit was the Chinese Empire. And the British Navy's dome cruisers are also a tragedy in front of the armored cruisers of the Imperial Chinese Navy. And the German Navy has to receive eight newly built dome cruisers at this time, and this Nima is so injured!

The complaints of the Germans did not receive sympathy from the Chinese Empire!

The whole world is laughing at the fact that the German Navy spent a huge sum of more than 20 million yuan to buy a bunch of scrap iron back!

But there is a Bismarck in Germany, and this bull B coaxed character is not so easy to get along with.

In the eyes of others, the Germans became unjust and were slaughtered by the Chinese Empire, but in Bismarck's eyes, it was different, which gave him an excuse to cry with the Chinese Empire!

For politicians, any excuse can be used to exert 100% power. What's more, Bismarck, who is good at diplomacy, can definitely exert 200% power with the excuse in his hands.

Therefore, Bismarck, through the Chinese Embassy in Germany and the German Embassy in the Chinese Empire, made a request to the Chinese Empire, hoping that the Chinese Empire would build all-steel battleships and armored cruisers for the German Navy, saying that the German Navy had just bought 16 new warships from the Chinese Empire, and all of them would be obsolete overnight, which hurt the German people very much, and hoped that the Chinese Empire would give some compensation.

This is the angry little daughter-in-law!

When Li Weiguo learned about this, he was immediately happy.

Well, for the sake of China and Germany being allies of each other, we, the Chinese Empire, agreed to build all-steel battleships and state-of-the-art armored cruisers for the German Navy. We will never sell this epoch-making naval equipment to Britain and its allies, you see that our Chinese empire is very good to you Germany!

So, Bismarck got up, but he hoped to build an overhaul factory on German soil to maintain new battleships and armored cruisers, after all, Germany was too far away from the Chinese Empire, and it was too difficult and inconvenient to repair the warships to the Chinese Empire.

Li Weiguo knows very well that Bismarck wants to realize the construction of new warships in Germany, and he wants technology!

Because an overhaul factory is equivalent to allowing the German Navy to repair large warships on its own, and conversely, it is equivalent to allowing the Germans themselves to build all-steel battleships.

However, Li Weiguo thought of the dreadnought battleships that were being secretly built in the Jiangnan shipyard, and when the dreadnought battleships came out, these all-steel battleships would become obsolete overnight.

Well, while the all-steel battleships are still fresh, they should make more money.

So Li Weiguo waved his pen and agreed to Bismarck's request.

But good things can't be given to Germany for nothing, you need to buy them with gold, Bismarck naturally agreed happily, and thought that he had taken a big advantage, and he was happy to be upside down.

All-steel battleships are very expensive, the Chinese Empire built 4 10,000-ton Brandenburg-class battleships for the German Empire, with a single ship priced at 6 million yuan, and 4 4,000-ton Duke August-class armored cruisers, with a single ship priced at 800,000 yuan; Because it was sold to Germany with technology, after which the German Navy could build all-steel battleships and armored cruisers on its own territory, the price was more than twice as expensive, but the German Navy still paid happily.

You must know that the British Navy does not have all-steel battleships, they are still slowly groping, tentatively building, and the German Navy will immediately get new battleships in 3 to 4 years, and after actual combat, it will definitely be stronger than the new all-steel battleships of the British Navy.

It is possible to compare the British Navy, and this is what excites the German Navy.

However, the German Navy was not happy for a few days, and just after paying a huge advance payment of 10 million yuan, it heard that the French Navy had also ordered new battleships in the Chinese Empire, which made the German Navy feel like it had been tricked. (To be continued.) )