The British finally discovered that when the triple gun was fired at a long distance, there would be a problem of ballistic interaction between them. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

As Fisher reported the matter to Ross, Ross fell into a deep state of concern.

Changing to a double installation will reduce four main guns, and the main battleships of the Royal Navy of the British Empire are inferior to the battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy in terms of firepower, whether it is the caliber of the main guns or the diameter of the main guns, they are three points weaker than the similar main guns of the Chinese Empire.

However, if the number of main guns is not reduced, then only one main gun can be fired, which in the high-intensity fierce engagement, the main gun fire is slow, and it will also suffer a big loss.

"The new battleship is equipped with twin main guns! I think that since our triple main guns have this problem, the triple main guns of the Chinese Imperial Navy should be the same. ”

Rose said with a pretended lightheartedness.

Fisher, however, was worried: "What if the Imperial Chinese Navy has a solution?" You can't take any chances! ”

Ross said impatiently: "You don't understand politics, and you don't understand what kind of international reaction will be caused once we modify the triple main gun in service." ”

"We will solve the problem of mutual interference in long-range firing of the triple main gun as soon as possible!"

In the end, Fisher failed to convince Ross that the new capital ship would temporarily cancel the triple main gun and replace it with a technically mature, safe and reliable twin main gun.

"I hope peace continues, and let's have enough time to solve the problem!"

Looking at Fisher's departing back, Rose whispered to himself.

Meanwhile, inside the Imperial Palace in Berlin, Wilhelm II was arguing with Bismarck.

Since Wilhelm II ascended the throne and succeeded to the throne, he was dissatisfied with Bismarck's monopoly on German power, and he wanted Bismarck to go home to retire, after all, he was so old and did not let go of his power, it was greed.

From Bismarck's standpoint, he accepted the will of Wilhelm I and Frederick III to take care of Wilhelm II and the German Empire, so although he was old, he was still unbearable to work as prime minister.

Due to the various special drugs of the Chinese Empire, Bismarck's life span was extended, and to a certain extent, it gave the German Empire a dose of booster effect.

However, Wilhelm II's father, Frederick III, died of throat cancer within half a year of his succession, as in history.

But this involves the games and secret wars of the world's major powers.

As soon as Frederick III came to power, he planned to sign a non-aggression reinsurance pact with the Russian Empire.

In his opinion, it is better not to break out into war if it can break out, even if the military strength of the German Empire is stronger than that of the Tsarist Empire, if it really fights, it will be a lose-lose situation.

Frederick III was the elder of Tsar Nicholas II, and the royal relationship between the two sides made it possible to re-sign the German-Russian reinsurance treaty.

Historically, Nicholas II did not refuse to sign a reinsurance treaty with Germany, but because of the death of Frederick III, Wilhelm II came to power, which broke the relationship between the two sides.

However, in reality, the Chinese Empire did not allow Germany and Tsarist Russia to sign a reinsurance treaty, which was not in the national interests of the Chinese Empire, nor was it in the national interests of the Allied member states such as Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Italy.

Of course, for the Entente bloc, it was also not allowed to ease relations between the Tsarist Empire and the German Empire and sign a reinsurance treaty.

Although Tsar Nicholas II hesitated, his mother was very supportive of Frederick III's proposal, and the peaceful coexistence of Germany and Tsarist Russia was the choice to echo the long-term national interests of the two countries, so Nicholas II had to resist the political pressure of the Entente and intend to agree to the reinsurance treaty.

As a result, the Central Powers, led by the Chinese Empire, prepared to get rid of Frederick III and let Wilhelm II succeed him in advance. The Entente, led by the United States, prepared to get rid of Nicholas II and re-install an obedient tsar.

This is the first time in 10 years that China and the United States have a common position, and although this position will completely push China and the United States to the opposite side of the war, the top leaders of the two countries have a surprisingly tacit understanding.

Frederick III's health doctor was an Englishman, a double agent who served both the British Empire MI5 and the CIA of the United States, and he secretly drugged Frederick III, during which time agents of the Chinese Empire gave the health physician a gamma lincy drug that could detonate the chance of cancer to 60%.

Two months later, Frederick III was diagnosed with throat cancer and died three months later.

At this time, the spy war between China and the United States began again.

Previously, it temporarily stood on the united front in order to jointly deal with Frederick III, but with the death of Frederick III, the United States wanted to put the culprit on the Chinese Empire and split the relationship between the Chinese Empire and the German Empire. Equally. The Chinese Empire also wanted to blame the death of Frederick III on the United States and intensify the hatred of the German Empire against the United States.

In the end, the agents of the Chinese Empire successfully got rid of suspicion and led the anger of Wilhelm II and the German army and people to Britain and the United States.

Allies are used to be betrayed, not at all.

Although the British Empire was dissatisfied with Frederick III, it had not yet reached the point of killing Frederick III, but it was an indisputable fact that the health doctor was a spy of the British Empire, so the British Empire believed that the health doctor had been bought by the Chinese Empire and accused the Chinese Empire of being behind it.

So, China, the United States, Britain and Germany played a four-country game, and finally Bismarck came forward and told Wilhelm II that since Frederick III had died, no matter who did it, it must be determined that Britain and the United States did it, and only in this way could it be in the interests of the German Empire, because now unlike in the past, the Chinese Empire and other member states of the Allied Powers strongly opposed the German-Russian reinsurance treaty, which was beyond Bismarck's expectations, and he did not want to offend the entire Allied bloc because of this, so he persuaded Wilhelm II to do so.

As a result, Wilhelm II turned his anger at Britain and the United States, and at the same time was angry about Bismarck's crossing of himself and conveying to the Chinese Empire alone to abandon the German-Russian reinsurance treaty, and the relationship between the two became colder and colder.

At this moment, in the main hall, Wilhelm II quarreled with Bismarck, arguing about the withdrawal of the Chinese Empire from the Balkans.

Bismarck hoped that Wilhelm II would prevent Austria-Hungary from occupying Serbia, which would completely anger the Russian Empire, because the Serbian Slavs would arouse the sympathy of the Russian Empire and increase tensions in the Balkans.

"Your Majesty, the Chinese Empire suddenly withdrew its troops from the Balkans, secretly harboring evil intentions, I am afraid that it wants to provoke a European war, but they themselves have to withdraw outside, this decision is too clever, we must be cautious!"

Wilhelm II snorted coldly: "If we fight the European war, who are we afraid of in the German Empire?" ”

Bismarck said: "Your Majesty, do you understand why your father signed a reinsurance treaty with the Russian Empire?" His goal was to avoid a direct war with the Tsarist Empire, a cheap Chinese Empire. At present, the Chinese Empire is the strongest country in the world, and once the Allies and the Entente start a war and the Allies win, the biggest enemy of our German Empire will no longer be Britain, France, and the United States, but the Chinese Empire, and if we want to seize world hegemony, we must drive the Chinese Empire down. If we sign a non-aggression pact with Tsarist Russia, it will allow Tsarist Russia to go all out to wage war with the Chinese Empire and deplete the national strength of the Chinese Empire, which is to echo the core national interests of the German Empire. ”

He paused and said solemnly: "On the contrary, the Chinese Empire must also think so!" They prevented Germany and Russia from signing a non-aggression pact and withdrawing their troops from the Balkans in order to aggravate the contradictions and conflicts between Germany and Russia in the Balkans. Once a world war breaks out, Tsarist Russia will inevitably turn its main forces to the direction of Europe, which will inevitably reduce the defensive pressure of the Chinese Empire, but will instead make the empire fall into a passive situation of fighting on two fronts. ”

William fell into deep thought, although he was not happy with Bismarck, he undeniably had some intelligence, and he understood the stakes.

"Even if you're right, it's impossible for Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire to spit out the fat that comes to their mouths! Besides, the Ottoman Empire has already transferred the suzerainty of Kuwait to the Chinese Empire, and there is no room for maneuver in this matter! ”

Bismarck sighed, knowing that if Wilhelm II had made up his mind to put pressure on Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, he would definitely ease relations with the Russian Empire, at least not to let the Balkan medicine keg heat up again.

But now it seems that Wilhelm II clearly did not listen, and allowed the balkan medicine keg to continue to heat up.

"Since it can't be stopped, please give Your Majesty the order to rearm for war! I think the recent series of actions of the Chinese Empire is unusual, during the Balkan War, they were training the actual combat ability of new soldiers, and now that the troops are withdrawn, it should be that more than two million recruits in the whole country have been rotated and formed a combat effectiveness. The recent military accidents of the Chinese Empire have occurred frequently, and the outside world thinks that it is the failure of the military industry of the Chinese Empire, but I think that it is the inevitable result of the crazy training of the Chinese Imperial military. ”

William suddenly frowned and asked, "If the Chinese Empire wants to make a move, it should inform us, after all, we are allies!" ”

Bismarck smiled bitterly: "If it were Your Majesty that you were going to start a war and prepare in advance, would you still have to tell others?" Even if it is an ally, as long as the allies are notified an hour before the ultimatum, it is not a breach of contract. If it were our German Empire, I would have informed the Allies before the war began, and would not have given the Allies time to prepare. Because once the allies are preparing for war, they will inevitably leak the news and make the Entente countries vigilant, so that the Entente will prepare for war, and this will lose the opportunity to do so. ”

William agreed: "What you say does make sense, but if the Chinese Empire wants to go to war, who will they attack first?" ”

Bismarck said: "Japan! ”

William asked rhetorically, "Why are you so sure!" ”

Bismarck replied: "Because the Chinese Empire has been holding on Japan, even we know that if Japan participates in the Assassin Alliance within the Chinese Empire, then Britain, France, and the United States will inevitably participate in it." However, the Chinese Empire only stared at Japan and shouted and killed, on the one hand, it was bullying Japan's weakness, and on the other hand, why not paralyzing Britain, France, the United States and other countries? Let Britain, France and the United States think that they were lucky not to be discovered, this is the genius of the Chinese Empire. ”

William frowned again and said: "Attacking Japan will inevitably cause an all-out war of the Entente and detonate a world war!" ”

Bismarck said: "There will be a time difference of three months to half a year, enough for the Chinese Empire to destroy Japan first!" ”

William asked puzzledly: "Why is there a time difference of three months or even half a year?" Japan is a member of the Entente, and once it is attacked by the Chinese Empire, Britain, France and the United States will inevitably declare war as soon as possible! ”

Bismarck nodded, "You're right! Japan is a member of the Entente, and once it is attacked by the Chinese Empire, Britain, France and the United States will definitely declare war! But it takes time to prepare for the declaration of war and the real intervention in the war, after all, the Entente has to face not only the Chinese Empire, but also the entire Allied Powers, it is a world war, and it is necessary to carry out a national war mobilization, which is very time-taking, I say that three months is the fastest, Britain and France are parliamentary, procrastination and efficiency, and there is no half a year to complete the national war mobilization! But the United States is a dictatorship and will be the first to complete the war mobilization! ”

William asked rhetorically, "How much time will it take us?" ”

Bismarck estimated: "With the quality of our soldiers in the German Empire, it will take a month and a half to complete the general mobilization for war at the earliest!" ”

William asked again, "So what if we also prepare in advance?" ”

Bismarck laughed: "Seven days! In just seven days, we will be able to complete the general mobilization for war! ”

William said solemnly: "If it is completed in seven days, we will definitely be able to catch the Entente by surprise, and we will take advantage of it!" ”

Bismarck nodded: "Theoretically! If General Stephen's blitzkrieg can be carried out, it is completely possible to attack Paris in one fell swoop before the French Empire completes the general mobilization for the war! ”

William's eyes lit up and he asked, "So can the blitzkrieg be executed?" ”

Bismarck shook his head and said: "Lacking equipment for rapid attack, although we have imitated the dragoon regiments of the Chinese Empire and formed our own chariot troops, although the chariots are highly mobile and cause great damage to enemy personnel, it is difficult to overcome strong fortifications, trenches and minefields, and their role is limited. ”

William thought for a moment, then said, "I approve it!" Let's mobilize for war! But if it is done in secret, it will not be good to arouse the vigilance of the Entente! ”

Bismarck nodded and said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, the minister understands what to do!" It's a pity that if we carry out war mobilization with great fanfare, thereby arousing the alarm of the Entente countries, then it is possible to make the Chinese Empire abandon the prepared war plan! We can also get a few years of development right! ”

William understood what Bismarck meant, and said: "We are developing, and the Entente are also developing, especially the United States, which is developing too fast and has surpassed us, which is not a good thing, but I think that the Chinese Empire should have started earlier, and it is correct not to let the United States develop." (To be continued.) )