Before the 60s, the navies of all countries in the world had changed from the active position of battleships to the direction of aircraft carriers dominating naval warfare, and the US Navy changed the fastest, because the funds were relatively abundant, and the US Navy has been closely following the pace of the Datang Imperial Navy and making every effort to develop aircraft carrier battle groups.

By 1964, the U.S. Navy had built 22 large aircraft carriers, including 12 conventionally powered aircraft carriers, 10 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and four super-nuclear-powered aircraft carriers with a displacement of 100,000 tons. At this time, the Datang Imperial Navy had 18 aircraft carriers, of which 6 were new nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and the other 8 Chiyou-class and 4 Chang'an-class conventional-powered aircraft carriers were also about to reach their retirement years.

The Soviet Navy was too far behind, with a late start and slow development, because of the lack of funds and technical lameness, the Soviet Navy did not have four helicopter aircraft carriers until 1964, four Kiev-class helicopter carriers with a displacement of 40,000 tons, which looked like they were neither donkeys nor horses, and the only thing worth mentioning was the installation of a powerful missile weapon system on them, making them worthy of a war.

But in the jet age, such helicopter carriers were still too fragile, and the Soviet Navy built them only to save face, which can be described as chicken rib warships, and Tang and the United States simply looked down on them and did not take them seriously.

As far as the Tang and US navies are concerned, the gap between the two sides in terms of quantity and tonnage is narrowing at this time, and the Datang Navy has continuously eliminated various warships captured by Britain, France and Germany during World War II, and the total tonnage has dropped to 2.03 million tons. And although the US Navy is eliminating old warships, the total tonnage has not changed much. It has also reached 1.8 million tons, and it looks like it is about to surpass the Tang Empire.

And in the budget for the 1964 fiscal year, the Tang Empire suddenly announced that it would stop allocating funds for the construction of the next class of super aircraft carriers. At the same time, twelve conventionally powered large aircraft carriers will be decommissioned, so that the Datang Imperial Navy will only have 6 nuclear-powered supercarriers, and even if the US military decommissions all conventional aircraft carriers, there will still be 10 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and another 4 100,000-ton aircraft carriers are under construction.

The US Navy was happy, they chased the Tang Empire in the field of aircraft carriers for 30 years. Now that they are finally about to catch up with and surpass their opponents, the American media even cheered excitedly, thinking that they would henceforth be in the triad for hegemony among the Tang, the United States and the Soviet Union. The U.S. Navy is about to achieve world supremacy in the Tang Empire, and this day is celebrated.

However, the Americans were not happy for a few days, and the Tang Empire once again threw out a press conference that caused a sensation all over the world.

April 1, 1964. It's April Fool's Day in the West. The first nuclear-powered battleship in human history, the largest tonnage and the most powerful battleship in the history of the world's navy, and known as the ultimate battleship of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire, the Poseidon battleship held a large-scale groundbreaking ceremony at the No. 1 dock of Yanjing Shipbuilding Heavy Industry.

Thousands of mainstream media from all over the world gathered here, and after the groundbreaking ceremony, Zhang Meng, Emperor of the Tang Empire, Admiral Yang Ganglie, Minister of National Defense, and officials of the General Administration of the Navy and Ships held a press conference and broadcast it live to the world via satellite.

Zhang Meng personally attended the press conference, which is a long time since the legendary figure has been seen answering questions from reporters in public for countries around the world.

At this time. Books all over the world will mention the legendary founding emperor of the Tang Empire, and almost every sentence he said has been made up into reality. is known as the greatest prophet of mankind by the whole world, so Zhang Meng's personal answer to reporters' questions must be sensational, and countless media will participate in it, even if they are allowed to enter the venue.

Of course, Zhang Meng's attendance at the press conference this time was also to ensure that the United States, the Soviet Union and other countries would closely follow the pace of the Tang Empire and launch a new round of large-scale arms race of super battleships. Zhang Meng wanted to ensure that the United States and the Soviet Union were eventually completely dragged down by the Tang Empire, and the current Soviet Union was actually too tired to do anything, as can be seen from their inaction on large surface ships such as aircraft carriers. In fact, the United States is just holding on, building so many large nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and it will withdraw from the stage of history overnight, and this blow is not small.

When Britain announced the news of dreadnoughts, it caused a sensation all over the world, and now the Tang Empire's announcement of the ultimate battleship plan will also shock the world and will have a huge domino effect.

"The following is the announcement of the Ministry of Defense of the Tang Empire on the construction of a new ultimate battleship!" Admiral Yang Ganglie saluted Zhang Meng, and then continued: "In accordance with the will of His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Empire, it is hereby allowed to disclose the basic data parameters of the newly built ultimate battleship Poseidon of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire. The Poseidon battleship, with a design standard displacement of 126,060 tons and a full load displacement of 150,000 tons, is equipped with 16 orbital kinetic energy guns as the main gun, four quadruple turrets, 300 mm orbital caliber, and a standard range of 600 kilometers. In addition, it is equipped with a powerful electromagnetic cannon anti-aircraft phalanx system, radar system and fire control system, with an average armor protection of 430 mm, which can resist the saturation attack of 24 high-power anti-ship missiles. The ship is nuclear-powered, designed to have a maximum speed of 35 knots, a standard cruising speed of 27 knots, a cruising range of 2 million nautical miles, and a fuel self-sustaining power of more than 10 years......"

With Admiral Yang Ganglie announcing some basic parameters of the Tang Empire-class ultimate battleship. There was an uproar at the scene. Media workers from all over the world were shocked. And people all over the world sitting in front of the television and radio gasped and were equally shocked.

"Let's start answering questions from reporters! The time is one hour, and His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Empire will answer directly, please pay attention to the order of your speeches and hurry up! ”

After hearing that the host of the press conference announced the answer to reporters' questions, thousands of reporters from all over the world held up the number plates they received, more eager than the buyers who were eager to get their favorite items at the auction, and they all wanted to know the real purpose of the Tang Empire's construction of the ultimate battleship Poseidon for the first time.

At this time, Zhang Meng had already delegated all his political and economic rights to the officials of the three provinces and six ministries to deal with himself, and he was only the supreme honorary leader of the Tang Empire and the actual supreme commander of the three armies. The answer in the military aspect undoubtedly represents the development direction and attitude of the Tang Emperor.

"First question! Reporter No. 3 friend! Zhang Meng's personality is still the priority of beauty, so he randomly chose a blonde beauty from the front row.

Of course, the media of various countries have long known about Zhang Meng's small personality. Therefore, this time, almost all of them sent the most beautiful beautiful reporters from their respective units to participate, hoping to win the jackpot.

"Hello! I'm Finney, an AFP correspondent, and I'm thrilled to be the first to answer your questions in the favor of Your Majesty! I would like to ask Your Majesty, why your country, which attaches great importance to the development of aircraft carriers and has always been the leader in the world's aircraft carriers, suddenly stopped building all aircraft carriers and announced the construction of battleships. Previously, your country has been publicizing that the battleship will retire from the stage of history, why is the battleship project restarted now? ”

"You're very good at seizing the opportunity and asking a lot of questions at once!" Zhang Meng smiled slightly. said: "The Tang Empire will not casually waste taxpayers' money to develop useless projects!" The resumption of the battleship project is due to the progress of science and technology, as you must already know, the new battleship of the Tang Empire will be equipped with advanced weapons such as orbital kinetic guns, and its effective range has reached 600 kilometers. It already has over-the-horizon combat capabilities. The reason why the battleships previously withdrew from dominance. Because it has a range of only 30 kilometers, it was blown up and sunk by planes before it could find the opponent's aircraft carrier. But now it's different, our new battleships have powerful radars that can detect the position of the carrier before the enemy can take off, and our orbital kinetic guns can destroy them before the enemy planes take off or arrive. Moreover, our battleships are equipped with a new Vulcan phalanx air defense system, electromagnetic guns instead of traditional reactive weapons, and a rate of fire of up to 500 rounds per minute. It is completely possible to shoot down any incoming missiles, planes and other targets, so the Tang Empire will start from now on. The battleship will be restored to dominate the core of future naval warfare. ”

In addition to explaining the power of the main guns equipped with the Poseidon Ultimate Battleship, Zhang Meng also revealed the combat performance of the new Vulcan Air Defense Phalanx system equipped on the Poseidon, which immediately surprised the audience.

"Second question! Reporter No. 5 friends! ”

"Hello! I'm Associated Press reporter Mira! I would like to ask His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, why is your Royal Navy so confident, and I also know a little about the power of the new orbital kinetic energy cannon, and all countries have studied it, but whether it can completely replace the traditional reaction weapon still needs to be verified, your country once announced the construction of super battleships, and the results show that it was a cover for your country, when your country was building super aircraft carriers, the result misled world public opinion, and caused Britain, France, the United States, Japan, Italy and other powers to spend huge manpower, material and financial resources to build their own super battleships, As a result, it turned out that they were all misled by the Tang Empire and became a pile of useless scrap metal, thus losing the opportunity to confront the Tang Empire, which was hailed as a shocking conspiracy in the thirties. ”

"Your name reminds me of a good friend of mine!" Zhang Meng was surprised in the face of sharp accusations, this beautiful female reporter's question was very sharp, but he was extremely thick and black, and still replied with a smile: "Back then, we just longed for the might and domineering of battleships, and wanted to enhance the international status of the Tang Imperial Navy, but soon we found that we did not have the super main gun technology to build battleships in China, so we changed to aircraft carriers halfway." You can't blame all the actions of normal people because of your stupidity as a conspiracy. ”

Zhang Meng also used sharp words and did not suffer at all, and then the other party's question not only defended the misleading behavior of the Tang Empire back then, but also pointed out that Sang scolded Huai Huai for being too stupid and scolding European and American countries, killing two birds with one stone, which is amazing.

"I'm Kalimna, a journalist from Moscow, as far as I know, the core technology of the orbital kinetic energy cannon lies in the continuous parallel ultra-high voltage and current to generate an instantaneous huge magnetic field to propel the projectile to be launched, and the range of your orbital kinetic energy cannon has reached a distance of 600 kilometers in actual combat.

This Karina looked like a military expert, and asked about the key technical level in one sentence, Zhang Meng secretly praised it in his heart, so he replied: "Our battleship is equipped with a 300 mm caliber orbital kinetic energy cannon, which requires a huge instantaneous power support, but fortunately we use nuclear power to supply power, so we don't have to worry about power supply." As for the life of the instantaneous switching power supply, this involves one of our new material technologies, which is confidential and inconvenient to disclose! Next question! ”

"May I ask Your Majesty, your country's newly built battleship Poseidon is extremely domineering just by hearing the name, and has a kind of power to dominate the sea, if the Poseidon battleship is really as the data released by your country, it can be destroyed by the enemy 600 kilometers away, intercepting aircraft and missiles, does this mean that it will have achieved an innate advantage in the struggle for hegemony among the three countries of Tang, the United States and the Soviet Union, the three countries have always maintained world peace for twenty years with a nuclear balance without a nuclear war, and now the Tang Empire has the ability to intercept any aircraft and missiles, Will your country's NMD plan become seamless, and will this upset the balance, meaning that the Tang Empire can launch a nuclear strike on any country at any time without fear of a nuclear counterattack? ”

The audience was suddenly shocked and in an uproar.

Zhang Meng was even more surprised, this reporter's question broke the key in one sentence, after the Tang Empire fully deployed land-based and sea-based electromagnetic weapon systems, it can indeed sit back and relax and no longer worry about the nuclear counterattack of the United States and the Soviet Union.

Zhang Meng thought about it in his heart, and quickly replied: "All the military development and new equipment deployment of the Tang Empire are to ensure the safety of the lives and property of the citizens of the Tang Empire. The Tang Empire is peace-loving and will not easily use nuclear weapons unless it is threatened by serious national security! ”

Next, reporters from various countries continued to ask questions, involving various questions, Zhang Meng answered directly if he could answer, and played word games on those that were inconvenient to answer, and asked the other party to ask about the "relevant departments" and "relevant departments".

After the press conference, Yanjing Shipbuilding Heavy Industry officially started the construction of the ultimate battleship Poseidon.

As the ultimate embodiment of the world's giant ship cannonism, the Poseidon has become a mythical work of fanatical admirers of the Tang Empire's navy, and it is also a concentrated embodiment of the brilliant achievements of the Tang Empire's naval industry for nearly 30 years. The battleship uses a nuclear reactor as an energy source and an orbital kinetic energy gun as the main gun, which is a groundbreaking event in the history of the human navy, thus draped the Poseidon battleship with endless mythological colors, and has become the pinnacle of the era of the world's giant ships and artillery, and it is also a roar for the battleship to re-enter the historical stage after holding back for 30 years.

This is a cross-era sign, in addition to the start of the construction of the Poseidon battleship, the Tang Empire replaced all the battleships in service with their main guns, replaced the traditional reaction weapons with orbital kinetic energy guns, and also changed them to nuclear reactor energy supply systems. All kinds of heavy cruisers, light cruisers, and destroyers are equipped with orbital kinetic energy guns of different calibers according to their own power supply capacity.

With the Tang Empire announcing the official start of the construction of the Poseidon battleship, the world has set off a new round of battleship arms race, of course, with electromagnetic railguns as a new weapon, especially the United States and the Soviet Union, although they are not sure that the orbital kinetic gun can intercept missiles and aircraft, but they have taken Zhang Meng's every word very seriously for many years, knowing that despising his words will bring serious consequences, so the United States and the Soviet Union are nervous, once the Tang Empire completes the country's new generation of national defense system, without fear of nuclear strikes, At that time, it was the end of the United States and the Soviet Union, and the Tang Empire would unify the world with nuclear weapons.

Previously, they had been competing for many years in airplanes, artillery, surface warships, nuclear aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, super-energy computers, nuclear weapons reserves, conventional missiles, space races, etc., spending trillions of Tang dollars, even the United States could not bear it, and now they are being led by the nose by the Tang Empire to carry out a battleship competition, which is even more a money-burning competition, and the United States and the Soviet Union have never been forced to do so. (To be continued......)