As the most important naval department under the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II, this German officer with the rank of colonel has the power to win over Vice Admiral Holmer, the commander of the Grand Fleet, and Vice Admiral Holman is about to receive Wilhelm II, much less than this colonel who can often visit the Kaiser, and he is here today for a special reason.

Next to this high-ranking German officer, Xiao Xingheng, senior counselor of the Chinese consulate in Hamburg, although he still maintains the solemnity of a diplomat, but his excitement is obviously difficult to hide...... while

However, the huge battleship Dayu slowly approached the port of Hamburg, and the 12-gun salute fired on the battleship pushed the entire welcome ceremony to a new climax, and the entire pier remembered the earth-shattering exclamation.

The choice of the Chinese Pacific Fleet to enter the North Sea to visit the German Empire first in the round-the-world voyage naturally fully demonstrates the cooperation and friendship between the two countries, and this is naturally clear to Colonel Seidon, but in addition to the friendship between China and Germany, what is more important is the close bond of interests and technical cooperation between the two countries.

However, at this moment, Colonel Seyden is naturally very enthusiastic about the Chinese fleet that has completely blocked the huge port of Hamburg at this moment, and Kaiser Wilhelm II's expectations for the navy, as the head of the naval cabinet appointed by the Kaiser himself, he is very clear. But. Since more than a year ago. Kaiser Wilhelm II sent a telegram to Chancellor of the Transvaal Republic, Kruger, questioning British interests, and he was also clear about another fact!

In today's military comparison, the German Navy would undoubtedly be devastated in the event of a war with Britain, but the Imperial Navy Office, the Naval Command, and the Admiralty Cabinet almost unanimously supported Kaiser Wilhelm II's "Kruger Telegram", because the German Navy could only gain more domestic support in the deterioration of diplomatic relations between Britain and Germany, and the naval officers were more convinced. Relations between Germany and Great Britain will not continue to deteriorate because of the rise of the navy, and time will bridge diplomatic relations between the two sides.

Now, as the only Chinese fleet in this era to have fought against the British Empire's navy, the visit to Germany, after a very excited observation of the huge Chinese fleet, Seydon suddenly had a very good sense of himself, which was obviously a strong and disciplined maritime power, but the German Empire did not seem to lag behind in the capital ships in comparison. On the contrary, it is quite ahead.

The navy of the German Empire has clearly grown exponentially over the past few years. In addition to the four first-generation Brandenburg-class ironclad ships that entered service in 93, four Emperor-class battleships based on the Chinese-designed Xia-class battleships have been introduced, two Chels-class battleships are modeled on the Chinese Shang-class battleships, three self-designed German-class battleships, and four Marken-class battlecruisers based on the Xuanyuan-class battleships.

The huge German main fleet composed of 17 battleships has been enough to realize the current desire of the German Navy to show its muscles in the Atlantic, in terms of military strength, the most direct opponent of the German Empire is undoubtedly the powerful British Empire, although the British Navy lost 6 of the strongest warships at that time after the Battle of the Far East, but under the strong industrial reserves, it was almost immediately resurrected.

At present, the main warships of the British Imperial Navy are all new warships launched in the past six years, and there are 8 majestic ships, 8 Dreadnought classes, other monarch classes, old man stars, 100 captains, 6 prestige classes, and 6 Vulcan class battle cruisers.

In contrast, in the Chinese Pacific Fleet, the new battleships of the German Navy are comparable to only 5 ships, such as Dayu, Chiyou, Xuanyuan, Tianwolf, and Tiankui, and others, such as Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, and Yuheng, although they are also strong ships, but in the eyes of Captain Saiden, they are obviously outdated objects......

However, a few minutes later, he immediately thought of the sea battle on the other side of the Atlantic a few months ago, and according to the information obtained at home, he had to pay attention again to the visit of this friendly country, and the Chinese won a crucial victory with the three battle cruisers that followed the Dayu into the port at this moment, and with a huge gap of 2 to 10 in the number of battleships, this battle report is undoubtedly of great value to the German Navy.

In the competition between Germany and the British battlecruisers, although the German side was one step ahead in the battle cruiser, 4 Xuanyuan-class battle cruisers have been listed, however, the British Empire on the other side directly launched the more advanced Vulcan battle cruisers, and there are 2 more ships in number, fortunately, the British battle cruiser design is obviously lagging behind, at least for now, the German battle cruiser still maintains the advantage of 1 ship, God knows when it will be surpassed by the British again.

Therefore, when Xu Shoushan led a group of naval commanders to the crowded port of Hamburg, he was really surprised, and when he saw Xiao Xingheng accompany the Germans over and make an introduction, he immediately realized that the purpose of his trip was almost completed.

After the two sides were just simple and polite, Xu Shoushan immediately invited Seyden to board the battleship Dayu to visit, this invitation naturally made the Germans overjoyed, he immediately quickly put together a German officer corps, in less than half an hour later boarded the battleship that had just anchored, compared to the cannon caliber and armor on the Dayu, the German battleship naturally did not lag behind.

And Xu Shoushan was very generous to show the Germans another miracle that shocked the entire German Navy, which immediately caused pink eye in the German Navy.

It is the huge naval fire control system squatting in the bridge command room, and now the German Navy still uses the body vertical rangefinder and the 90 type shooting command instrument of the technology transferred by China, but after studying the Chinese fire control calculation clock, Germany has developed a new type of 4-axis calculation clock, which also has good actual combat results.

However, compared with this Chinese fire control system, which has 3 control positions and nearly 20 shooting calculation valves, Colonel Seydon immediately lost all immunity, and he didn't even care about the next negotiations with Xu Shoushan, but expressed his eagerness to hope that the Chinese side would continue to transfer the new fire control system! (To be continued......)