In the Wuhan Imperial Palace in Kyoto, an urgent telegram was presented to Li Weiguo. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"On the night of May 11, the combined Anglo-French fleet was dispatched, with the commander Admiral Lawrence, and the deputy commander, Vice Admiral Dale!"

"On the night of May 13, the German High Seas Fleet was dispatched, and the commander, Vice Admiral Tirpitz!"

Seeing these two pieces of news, Li Weiguo's expression instantly froze.

How is it that the commander of the German high seas fleet is not Hudier? Instead it became Tirpitz!

This sudden change made Li Weiguo feel that something was wrong.

He clearly learned from MacArthur's mouth that the final winner of the Anglo-French-German naval decisive battle that was about to take place in the Barents Sea would be the British and French navies, and the German High Seas Fleet would be completely annihilated, and the commander of the German fleet that caused this result was Hoodir.

But now that Houdir has suddenly become Tirpitz, two characters with completely opposite personalities, what kind of variables will this naval battle bring?

Li Weiguo did not dare to think about it, the result he hoped for was the total annihilation of the German High Seas Fleet, and then although the British and French navies won, it was also a crushing victory.

In this case, the main force of the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy entered Europe, and on the way back from the victory of the British and French navies, the main forces of the British and French navies were wiped out in one fell swoop, so as to completely control the entire Atlantic Ocean and various seas in Europe, and then capture the British mainland.

But now that there is a change, and the commander of the German High Seas Fleet is no longer Houdir, but Tirpitz, who is known for his cunning and ruthlessness, then the outcome of this naval battle may change.

After taking control of MacArthur, Li Weiguo regained a general grasp of the direction of history.

But this time, the variables made him feel a little nervous.

Whether it was due to MacArthur's butterfly effect, or whether another time-traveler had arrived, the latter is still uncertain.

turned on the communicator, Li Weiguo wanted to contact Zhao Kuangyin to determine if another traverser had arrived, but unfortunately he couldn't get through.

"Telegraphed Li Weijun and asked him to pay close attention to the movements of the British, French and German navies, and if Britain and France win, they will take the initiative to attack and annihilate them all. If Germany wins, they will immediately attack the British mainland and defeat Britain before Germany can react. ”

There is no need to elaborate on the fact that the decree was sent to the Pacific Fleet in the form of a telegram.

After Li Weiguo made the above decision, in order to calm the surprise in his heart, he opened a bottle of red wine and wanted to drink something to suppress the shock.

As a result, he just took two sips, and then Mingyue came to report, which shocked him again.

"Your Majesty, there is top-secret information from the German branch of the Chinese S.H.I.E.L.D., that the German military is secretly developing aircraft-carrying cruisers, and the new commander is Admiral Houdir, the former fleet commander who has just been transferred out of the German Imperial High Seas Fleet!"

Ahem!

Li Weiqing was glad that he only took a small sip of red wine, otherwise he would have squirted out in shock.

Aircraft-carrying cruisers?

Isn't this Nima another name for an aircraft carrier?

"What? Germany began to develop aircraft carriers? That's impossible! ”

Mingyue repeated: "It's true! Your Majesty, the minister has repeatedly verified! Kaiser Wilhelm II removed Hudil from his post as commander of the High Seas Fleet, and he was bound to appease Hudir, so he transferred Hudir to a secret unit, and Hudir was very dissatisfied because he lost his post as commander of the High Seas Fleet, so he drank and said that his department was developing an aircraft-carrying cruiser. ”

Li Weiguo said with a calm face: "The Germans developed an aircraft-carrying cruiser, but we leaked the news here?" ”

Mingyue replied: "It's not clear for the time being, the minister has already sent someone to the Alaska Naval Base to investigate this matter, and I believe there will be results soon!" ”

Li Weiguo sighed, although he had been prepared in his heart, he still didn't want this kind of thing to happen.

Although aircraft carriers appeared in Britain less than two years after the first appearance of fighter jets, it was very shocking to hear that the German Empire had aircraft carriers.

Thinking of the recent changes in the German Empire, Li Weiguo gradually had the answer in his heart, but it still needs to be verified in detail.

Of course, Li Weiguo was not afraid of Germany's so-called "aircraft-carrying cruisers", because the Chinese Empire also had aircraft carriers for a long time.

As early as when Li Weiguo ordered the development of aircraft, aircraft carriers were put on the agenda.

It's just that Li Weiguo has always been worried about being known and imitated by the outside world, so he has never allowed any information to be leaked, and has been conducting aircraft carrier tests in the Bering Strait of Alaska.

The first aircraft carrier of the Chinese Empire was built three years ago, and the main body was a decommissioned heavy cruiser with a displacement of 15,000 tons, and after three years of refit, it finally had the appearance of an aircraft carrier.

The main reason why it took such a long time was that Li Weiguo was not in a hurry, because he thought that the appearance of aircraft carriers would be at least many years later, so the task given to the Navy Ship Administration was to first study and thoroughly understand the modification technology of aircraft carriers, and then build aircraft carriers, so as to strive to achieve it in one step.

Therefore, the Navy's General Administration of Ships was not limited by time, and began to slowly study the design drawings and modification experience of aircraft carriers.

After all, the Chinese Empire has no experience in building aircraft carriers, and all countries in the world also have no experience in building aircraft carriers, and the concept of aircraft carriers is as difficult for the Chinese Imperial Navy as it is for elementary school students to study calculus in college.

It is true that Li Weiguo can draw a sketch, such as pointing out the purpose and role of the aircraft carrier, and then instruct some straight-through flight decks, side-standing ship islands, elevators, blocking locks, and so on.

But these are just concepts, Li Weiguo can only explain to this extent, but how to design it needs to be studied by professional engineering experts.

The structure of an aircraft carrier is very complex, the development of aircraft carriers in Britain, France, the United States and Russia in history has also been accumulated bit by bit, through continuous construction and refitting, step by step to the end of the aircraft carrier finalization, in which countries have taken a lot of detours, almost every aircraft carrier is improved on the basis of the previous aircraft carrier, each is different, until it finally becomes a real aircraft carrier, the advantages of each aircraft carrier in front of it are integrated, and the disadvantages are thrown away, which took a hundred years.

In the 30 years of China's reform and opening up in later generations, the achievements of various industries are very high, that is, they can't build aircraft carriers themselves, so they have to spend money to import aircraft carriers from Ukraine to come back for research, even if they build their own first domestic aircraft carrier, they can only make slight improvements on the basis of Ukrainian aircraft carriers, and they can't build their own personalized aircraft carriers like Britain and France.

One of the most critical issues involved in this is the calculation of structural engineering.

In the simplest example, the island of the aircraft carrier is on one side, and if the other side cannot be designed to achieve a state of equilibrium, the aircraft carrier will capsize when it is launched. On the other side, carrier-based aircraft must be stacked, and the weight and number of carrier-based aircraft must be strictly calculated, otherwise one more carrier-based aircraft will be crooked on the starboard side, and one less carrier-based aircraft will be crooked on the port side. The wind and waves at sea are so big, the deck of the aircraft carrier is a rideboard, which cannot be calculated when designed, and it will be blown over by huge waves when the time comes.

This is the most basic problem, as well as all kinds of hangars, elevators, fuel depots, ammunition depots, flight command and control centers, air defense combat centers, and so on, every structural department must take into account, every part of the fuel lines, water lines, wires, air conditioning pipes have to be rewired and designed, as long as one of them goes wrong, it will lead to a series of disasters.

In short, an aircraft carrier looks simple, but in fact it is the most complex project, much more complex than a super-dreadnought battleship.

Therefore, the General Administration of Ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, although it carried out continuous design and calculations on paper, did not start the construction of aircraft carriers for a long time, and only carried out modifications on some decommissioned large surface ships.

In layman's terms, this is to practice with retired warships, and then start building aircraft carriers when the refit feels similar.

The first converted aircraft carrier was named Haiqi, which was originally a dome cruiser of the Imperial Chinese Navy, but was later decommissioned, dismantled, and returned to service eight years ago as a heavy cruiser, and now it has been decommissioned again, converted into an aircraft carrier, and then returned to service.

The recommissioned Haiqi aircraft carrier, with a standard displacement of 19,000 tons after the modification of the hull, has been lengthened, and a 75-meter-long flight deck has been installed in the front half of the hull at the front of the island, and a wooden flight runway has been laid for taking off 10 F15 fighters, and a 120-meter flight deck has been installed at the rear of the island for landing fighters and storing 20 F15 fighters.

Because it was an aircraft carrier converted from a decommissioned warship, the speed of the Haiqi was only 28 knots.

Since the Haiqi was the first converted aircraft carrier of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the first attempt did not remove the towering tower masts and chimneys on the ship, so it was not an all-through deck.

After continuous testing of the aircraft carrier Haiqi, the General Administration of Ships of the Chinese Empire quickly summed up the experience, and according to Li Weiguo's guidance, the necessity of an all-through deck was taken seriously.

So, the second aircraft carrier soon began to be refitted.

This time, instead of retrofitting the aircraft carrier flight deck with a decommissioned battleship hull, a battlecruiser under construction was chosen.

The construction of this battlecruiser began in 1893, and with the outbreak of the world war, after the Chinese Imperial Navy completely annihilated the Japanese Combined Fleet and the American Ocean Fleet, the main battleships under construction of the Chinese Imperial Navy slowed down the construction period, because the Chinese Imperial Navy had no opponents at all in a short time, and built more, but wasted military spending.

The conditions of the Navy were relaxed, so the General Administration of Ships could appropriate a half-finished capital ship and use it to continue the refit of aircraft carriers.

This is a super-dreadnought type battlecruiser with a full load displacement of nearly 50,000 tons, which is actually an improved version of the Bingyang class, which is equivalent to a fast battleship.

The fact that the General Administration of Ships converted a powerful super-dreadnought-type battleship into an aircraft carrier was obviously instructed by Li Weiguo's nod, otherwise the Navy would definitely skin these guys from the General Administration of Ships.

You must know that in the era of giant ships and cannons, battleships are a symbol of invincibility, but all the admirals of the Chinese Empire will not be willing to convert a future super-dreadnought battleship into an aircraft carrier, after all, the advantages of aircraft carriers have not yet been exposed and have not been reflected.

Converting the hull of a battleship with a full load displacement of nearly 50,000 tons into an aircraft carrier, if other countries know about it, they will definitely scold the Chinese to death, and scold the Chinese for having enough to eat, you must know that with the collapse of the American Navy, only the Chinese Empire in the world has a 50,000-ton super dreadnought battleship, what a glory this is, making other countries envious and jealous, but the Chinese Empire has converted such a behemoth into an aircraft carrier, how does this make other countries feel?

It's a super loser!

Of course, the countries are not yet aware that the Chinese Empire is converting super battleships.

The first super-dreadnought-type battleship to be converted was originally intended to be named Dingyuan, and like the Haiqi, Dingyuan was re-commissioned, but it was originally a super-dreadnought battleship, and now it has become an aircraft carrier.

The Dingyuan has been 60% built, the hull and power system have been completed, the horizontal deck has been laid, and preparations are underway to install superstructures and equipment such as the ship island and the main guns.

After the General Administration of Ships took over, the Dingyuan was secretly towed to Alaska for secret refitting.

Instead of being dismantled, the four main gun ammunition depots were cleverly converted into aviation fuel depots and airborne heavy machine gun depots, with up to 350 mm thick ammunition depot armor to make aviation fuel extremely safe. The internal cabins were rearranged, and the front and rear two large hangars were cleared to store parts for carrier-based aircraft.

The reason why it is not possible to store complete carrier-based aircraft is mainly because the current carrier-based aircraft wing is very huge, long and wide (the engine thrust is not enough, and the aircraft lift can only be obtained by the wingspan area), and the hangar cannot store the carrier-based aircraft at all, and all the carrier-based aircraft can only be placed on the flight deck, and the carrier-based aircraft can only be dismantled in the hangar and used as parts for maintenance.

The boiler smoke exhaust duct was modified, and the large chimney that was originally in the center of the hull was changed to the starboard side like the ship island, and after the weight calculation, the designers re-counterweighted the flight deck on the port side to ensure the balance of the left and right sides.

The huge hull allows for a long and wide flight deck.

This time, according to Li Weiguo's reminder, the designers moved the ship island to the starboard side of the hull, so that an all-through flight deck could be realized.

The 205-metre-long all-through flight deck, which allows for the placement of 50 of the latest F16 fighter jets, is made of steel instead of wooden planks.

This is not to prevent aerial bombing, the designers of the General Administration of Ships do not have such a great vision, their purpose is very simple, that is, to counterweight the aircraft carrier.

Previously, the island was moved to starboard, and the port side naturally had to be counterweighted to ensure balance, and this flight deck was one of the counterweight schemes.

Invisibly, the flight deck laid with steel plates is much stronger than the wooden flight deck, so that in future naval battles, the Dingyuan aircraft carrier has become the most resistant to beating among all aircraft carriers of the Chinese Imperial Navy, and various naval battle legends have been created by chance.

This is a later story, so there is no need to say more.

After the transformation of the Haiqi and Dingyuan, the Imperial Chinese Navy has actually mastered the original accumulation of technology for building aircraft carriers, and its experience has also become rich.

As a result, the drawings of the first self-built aircraft carrier of the Chinese Empire designed by the General Administration of Ships can finally be put into action.

In the thirty-second year of Guanghua, on April 15, 3997, and on May 18, 1897, the Imperial Chinese Navy officially started the construction of the first aircraft carrier.

At the same time, thousands of miles away in Hamburg, Germany, the German Imperial Navy also began to convert a large number of civilian ships and large ones into aircraft-carrying cruisers. (To be continued.) )