"This year is the year of Jianyuan 3966, the first year of Guanghua, so it will be called the 39661 type iron battleship! In the future, the new ships of the Navy will be named in this way, and the number and the sexagenary branch will be used to combine the naming, and the more chaotic it looks, the better, and it is best not to let the enemy easily guess the model, which is conducive to secrecy work. ”

Li Weiguo finally made a decision and set the class for this batch of nine 10,000-ton battleships, and since then, every first-class battleship designed by the Chinese Navy has been named after a combination of China's founding yuan and year numbers.

In the eyes of Xu Shou and others, this naming method is written with the word "lazy", only Li Weiguo himself knows in his heart that the new China of his time and space also named the battleship model in this way, what 052, 055, are all numbers, in order to express his respect for the new China at that moment, he also used numbers to name the battleship model.

This is just the Chinese Navy itself named the battleship with numbers, after the advent of the 39661 type iron battleship, the Western powers naturally have to use their way to name the Chinese Navy ships, and finally the 39661 type A iron battleship is called the Dingyuan class by Europe and the United States, because the Dingyuan will become the flagship of the Chinese naval fleet, the most dazzling star, will be deeply remembered by the European and American powers.

There are a total of ten 39661 type iron battleships, in addition to the BB-X battleships that have been built, the other nine iron battleships will be renamed Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, Weiyuan, Zhiyuan, Jingyuan, Laiyuan, Jiyuan, Jingyuan and Pingyuan, although these nine belong to the same class of ships as 39661, but because of the construction error and other problems, the tonnage when it was finally built is not the same, limited by the technical level of this era, the maximum error is close to 1,000 tons, especially the largest tonnage of Dingyuan, The full load displacement is as high as 12550 tons, and the other eight ships are not much different, all of them are between several hundred tons.

As for the test ship BB-X. It will be used as a training ship, and can be used as a substitute to join the main fleet in battle if necessary.

For the average national navy, using a newly built large surface warship as a training ship is a bit too extravagant and wasteful. Normally, the navies of various countries use decommissioned capital ships as training ships. However, the Chinese navy is a bit special, unlike the navies of other countries, which have been established for hundreds of years, and have a large number of family members and a large number of naval officers and sailors to serve. The Chinese Navy started late, the foundation is thin, and there are no steam-powered ironclad ships as training ships, and the previous shallow water heavy turret ironclad ships are obviously not good. It does not meet the needs of future naval warfare, and if you want to train a large number of qualified officers and soldiers as soon as possible, you can only use newly built ironclad ships.

Therefore, the BB-X battleship was named Zheng He and handed over to the Shanghai Naval Naval Academy to be used as a training ship for naval cadets, and it is also to commemorate the glorious era of Zheng He's voyage to the West and the world, which means that the naval cadets trained by Zheng He can reproduce the glory of Zheng He's era in the future.

The case of the ninety-ninth fleet, in addition to the nine armored iron battleships. There were also nine main cruisers, with a displacement of about five thousand tons, whose speed was much higher than that of the battleships, reaching 18 knots. It is used for combat readiness cruises along the surrounding coast, and provides fire cover for capital ships in naval warfare. In order to increase the speed, part of the armor was naturally sacrificed.

Originally, the General Administration of Naval Ships planned to imitate the British unprotected cruisers or flat-armored cruisers, but they were all vetoed by Li Weiguo. Because he knew that unprotected cruisers and Pingjia cruisers were failures and were simply vulnerable in naval battles.

Li Weiguo preferred the Dome Cruiser and the Armored Cruiser, the latter of which was draped in armor. It will seriously drag down the speed, in this era of immature steam engine technology, the cruiser that is slowed down is the chicken rib, so it was temporarily vetoed by Li Weiguo, and finally decided to build nine dome cruisers.

The flat armor deck was changed to a dome armor deck with a flat middle and two slopes, that is, dome armor.

The flat armor in the middle part is raised above the waterline, while the oblique armor on both sides falls below the waterline. Because the central part is higher than the waterline, even if the waterline is damaged and flooded, it is difficult to submerge the armored deck above the waterline for a while, and the warship can still maintain a large buoyancy; The two sides of the armored deck that extends diagonally to the waterline have become inclined armor with a good bulletproof effect, and the resistance of the water outside the ship has played a better role in protecting the side of the warship near the waterline, that is, "resisting bombs with an inclination and isolating water leakage with a dome boundary", compared with unprotected cruisers and peace-armored cruisers, the advantages of dome-armored cruisers are quite obvious.

Of course, Li Weiguo also thought of the Chaoyong, the originator of the dome cruiser, whose performance in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle was too poor, and was often criticized by later generations as chicken ribs. In fact, the Chaoyong is a castrated version of the British export to the Beiyang Naval Division, and the British have done something on it, only covering the engine room and other vital parts in the middle of the warship, but it cannot protect the whole ship, and the British Navy itself uses the "perfect dome cruiser" designed by Rendale.

It can be said that the Beiyang Naval Division was a pit, pitted by the British and the Germans, and finally fell into the pit and never recovered.

Li Weiguo naturally will not repeat the mistakes of the past, under his instructions, when the nine dome cruisers were designed, the dome armor was extended to the bow and stern of the entire warship, covering and protecting the entire lower layer of the warship in the horizontal direction, and the protection was directly improved in quality, and the degree of protection was close to that of the armored cruiser, but the speed was higher than that of the armored cruiser.

It's just that this kind of perfect dome cruiser was perfect before the 80s of the 19th century, and after the 80s, with the power of the steam engine greatly increased and the speed advantage of the armored cruiser was strengthened, the dome cruiser became obsolete.

Of course, Li Weiguo didn't care at all, because by the 80s, the dome cruiser that had been in service for more than 20 years should also be decommissioned, and at that time, it would naturally be replaced by an armored cruiser, which would have no impact on the Chinese Navy.

Nine dome cruisers started construction one after another, due to Li Weiguo's intervention, the design drawings were modified, so that the start of construction of the nine cruisers was postponed to the spring of the second year of Guanghua, so the class of cruisers was classified as 39672 type, respectively named after the nine seas, namely Haiqi, Haitian, Hairong, Haichen, Haiyue, Haidai, Haihuan, Haiyang and Haiji.

As for the supporting frigates, supply ships, and alert gunboats of the 99th Fleet case, these warships are very easy to design, and they are all ready-made, and they are not designed separately, unless the steam engine technology is greatly improved, the existing frigates, supply ships, and alert gunboats are enough to do the job.

However, there is a supplementary plan for the 99th Fleet case, which is secret and has not been made public. But Li Weiguo attaches great importance to it.

It was the submarine that had played a major role in the Third Yapian War, and this weapon was still a secret, and the news was tightly sealed.

The supplementary plan of the 99th Fleet case was to build a large number of submarines, but not now, because Holland's submarines could not follow the fleet to the sea to fight the enemy. According to Li Weiguo's naval development plan, the British Navy will be driven out of Asia in the next five years, and it is necessary to conduct a large-scale naval battle on the ocean to completely defeat the British Royal Navy's Asian Fleet.

At that time, the warring sea area should be in the offshore or deep sea, and the current Holan submarine has insufficient endurance, the underwater fish and radium generation system is not perfect, and the diving performance is insufficient, etc., all of which need to speed up research and development.

According to Li Weiguo's plan. The submarine design had to be completed in three years and meet operational requirements, and then it would take two years to build a large number of them in order to cope with the naval battle that would break out between China and Britain five years later.

To this end, Li Weiguo provided more than 10 million yuan of funds to Holan, no matter what Holan needed, he had priority treatment, and the purpose was to let Holan complete the development and development of the submarine project as soon as possible.

At the same time, in addition to submarines, Fish Radium is a big killer. After the Battle of Chongming Island, Li Weiguo noticed the huge role played by fish radium. Since the underwater submarine launch project of the submarine has not yet been completed (the launch system of the lead ship will also have to wait), it is better to develop a batch of Fish and Radium speedboats.

Although the Fish and Ray speedboats can only fight in the near and shallow waters, as long as they are taken by surprise, they are unprepared. It can also achieve great results, just like the Gatling machine gun on the Songhu battlefield, directly sweeping the enemy and turning the tide of battle.

The Fish Ray Boat program is also strictly confidential. The site where the Fish Ray Boat was built was placed at the Alcatraz Naval Base in the Taihu Lake, where closed security was provided to prevent the leakage of the Fish Ray Boat information. At the beginning, the ten shallow water heavy turret ironclad ships caught the British and French navies by surprise, and in the next war, Li Weiguo also planned to use the fish and radium boats to teach the enemy a good lesson.

It will be a war that gambles on the fortunes of the country, so Li Weiguo does not dare to be careless, and he will do his best to prepare for everything he can.

Li Weiguo stayed in Shanghai for a period of time, on the one hand inspecting the work of the navy, and on the other hand, he was also stabilizing the officialdom and the people's minds in various parts of the Yangtze River, so that they would know that Li Weiguo still attached importance to them and that he was touring the south shortly after he ascended the throne.

During this period, Li Weiguo would not be idle, but kept inquiring about news from Europe and the United States through the telecommunications room of the General Staff Headquarters in the capital.

The war broke out between Prussia and France, in the early days, because of the lack of French troops, although the war was declared but did not really send troops, until the signing of the Sino-French "Beijing Peace Treaty" memorandum, France paid war reparations and ransomed 60,000 French troops, the French emperor immediately led the army to fight against Prussia.

The famous Battle of Sedan did not take place, and the Prussian and French armies were inseparable, and both sides paid a huge price.

The main reason for this situation was that Li Weiguo exported a large number of Gatling machine guns to France and Prussia, of which one Gatling machine gun was sold to France for 200,000 francs, and 100 Gatling machine guns were sold to France, and 12 were matched. Five million rounds of 7-millimeter bullets earned twenty-five million francs in foreign exchange, offset by French gold and silver.

This kind of injustice can be regarded as a big mistake for Li Weiguo to grasp, because the French standing army is too small, counting the 60,000 French troops who have redeemed their homeland, there are only 80,000 troops that can send troops to fight, and the newly recruited soldiers are still training and have no combat effectiveness, while the Prussian army adopts a compulsory military service system and mobilizes 600,000 troops, and the French army is absolutely weak in this regard.

In this case, the French Emperor Napoleon remembered the crushing defeat of the French army on the battlefield of Songhu and asked the Chinese government for a Gatling machine gun.

Li Weiguo knew that if the French were given time, they would thoroughly develop the Gatling machine gun within two or three years, so there was no need to keep it secret, so it was better to sell it to France generously, smash a huge sum of money at the French, and cash out foreign exchange.

Don't look at Li Weiguo, who was very rich when he was in Shanghai, and if he could develop Shanghai for more than ten years, he could catch up with the prosperity of London in the United Kingdom and New York in the United States, but with the reunification of China, Li Weiguo, who moved the capital to Beijing, found that he was more and more short of money. It is easy to build a Shanghai, but if there are 1000 or 1,000 of them, the amount of money spent is simply astronomical, resulting in a serious fiscal deficit in the first year after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Therefore, in line with the principle that mosquitoes are also meat, Li Weiguo severely knocked the French 25 million francs, or about 3 million yuan, which was just enough for the construction cost of the first phase of the Liaoning Central and South Industrial Base.

After getting the Gatling machine gun, although the French scolded Li Weiguo for being black-hearted, they soon became happy after the actual battle, and the French army with the Gatling machine gun could defeat a Prussian army with a regiment, and the Prussian army killed was bloody.

As a result, Prussia immediately contacted the Chinese government and wanted to import Gatling machine guns.

Li Weiguo is very talkative, as long as he has money, he can sell it, the price is higher than that given to the French, who made the Prussian army suffer heavy casualties, this is the best advertising effect.

Bismarck scolded Li Weiguo for being black-hearted, but he had to agree to the harsh conditions put forward by Li Weiguo, and finally reluctantly bought 100 Gatling machine guns and 5 million rounds of ammunition, which was a full 1 million yuan more than the French, a total of 4 million yuan.

What devastated Bismarck the most was that the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau could not provide five million rounds of ammunition immediately, at most two million rounds of ammunition were delivered first, because the Chinese Shence Army itself was consuming such ammunition and the stock was insufficient, but it did not refund Bismarck, but said that it would pay the remaining three million rounds of ammunition within a year.

Don't be so pitiful!

The Franco-Prussian War should be over in a year, so what's the use of sending bullets again?

Unfortunately, this is an overlord clause, and the Prussian government must pay the full amount first, otherwise the Chinese military will not sell weapons and ammunition to Prussia.

Bismarck is very sad, he is known as the iron-blooded prime minister, he has always played with others, and played the European countries around, but unfortunately now he has met Li Weiguo, and he has been pitted by others, and there is no reason to go.

What a gas!

"Puff ......"

Bismarck, who couldn't figure it out, vomited blood, which left his body with a hidden illness from then on.

Without the Battle of Sedang, the Franco-Prussian War would not end for a while and a half, and this is exactly the result that Li Weiguo is happy to see.

Of course, the British were also very happy that Prussia was not so strong and would not have one more competitor, but would be able to drag down France, which echoed the interests of the British.

However, something suddenly went wrong on the American side, and Lincoln's small friend of the United States of America guerrillas grew stronger, and the Confederate government forces were defeated one after another, losing most of the country's territory.

The situation throughout the United States was in turmoil, and the British government seemed to have foreseen a victory for Lincoln's Northern Army, which now had an army of millions of black slaves.

However, the British government is unable to send more troops to help the Confederate government forces, and once the Southern Army is defeated, a powerful Northern military government will inevitably rise, which will be a nightmare for Britain and threaten Britain's world hegemony.

At this time, the Shence Army from China's overseas theater organized an expeditionary force to arrive in New York, although the strength was only more than 12,000 people in one town, but it was equipped with advanced equipment, and at the same time, it also brought a large number of new weapons and equipment to the US Yugoslav military government, including 155 mm heavy howitzers and Gatling machine guns, which quickly armed the US Yugoslav Army.

Soon, Lincoln's guerrillas encountered the Chinese Shence Army, and like the Anglo-French forces on the Songhu battlefield, Lincoln's guerrillas encountered the American version of Waterloo, and on the way to attack Washington, Lincoln's guerrillas were defeated by more than 10,000 Chinese Shence Army head-on, and were almost wiped out.

In the aftermath of the war, the Washington Daily published a front-page headline praising the Chinese Shence Army for beating Lincoln's friends, which made the prestige of the Chinese Shence Army tremble across the American continent, and even the European powers took it seriously, and they realized a serious problem.

China is really going to rise! (To be continued.) )