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Today, I will present a special chapter of nearly 6,000 words!

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"In order to fight against the Thor plan of the Chinese Empire, the Americans began to impose heavy taxes, the British were ready to smash pots and sell iron, the French lined up to sell blood, the Russians went abroad to work, and the Japanese planned to sacrifice three more generations of Japanese women!"

The Central News Agency of the Chinese Empire published this news on the front page of the next day, eating Guoguo to discredit the Entente bloc. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Ordinary people just laughed at the excitement, thinking that this was incredible, impossible to happen.

However, experts from all over the world have to admire the reporters and editors of the Central News Agency, believing that their judgment is very accurate, at least in order to counter the Thor plan of the Chinese Empire, the Entente bloc is crazy.

It's going crazy!

When the leaders of the Entente countries learned of the Chinese Empire's Thor plan, they were deeply frightened.

In the matter of dreadnought battleships, the Entente bloc was severely cheated by the Chinese Empire, which not only wasted a lot of valuable strategic time, but also caused a waste of resources and heavy losses.

Now the Entente countries have just acquired steam turbine technology, and are vigorously building dreadnought battleships, trying to fill the gap in the dreadnought battleships of the navies of various countries.

As a result, it was at this time that the Chinese Empire announced the ultra-dreadnought battleship program.

The displacement of a single ship is close to 40,000 tons, equipped with 12 16-inch 50-diameter main guns, 300 mm Chinese special steel armor, and a speed of 25.5 knots.

First of all, there is the problem of displacement, which seems to be the simplest, but if you are not mentally prepared, it is definitely quite painful.

You know, in history, it was not until after 1907 that the construction of super-dreadnought battleships began, not that countries have not been able to build super-dreadnought battleships, but that all countries did not expect that the crazy arms race would make the tonnage of battleships soar to more than 35,000 tons in a short period of time, so the shipyard docks of various countries can accommodate the highest tonnage of only 25,000 tons, and the long-term lack of 35,000-ton large docks makes it naturally impossible to build super-dreadnought battleships.

Nowadays, this is the case, the tonnage of shipyards in Europe and the United States is generally about 20,000 tons, and the number of 30,000-ton docks is very small, almost all of which are occupied by dreadnought battleships under construction in various countries, and there are no docks of more than 35,000 to 40,000 tons at all.

Therefore, when the European and American countries learned that the Chinese Empire was building a super dreadnought-class battleship, it was only a displacement of nearly 40,000 tons, and it was difficult for all countries.

In fact, because the Chinese Empire had long taken precautions and under the guidance of Li Weiguo's wise foresight, it had quietly started building a 50,000-ton dock many years ago.

Now the people who scolded the Chinese Empire in various countries are very ashamed, and they are directly slapped in the face by the Chinese Empire, and they can't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into.

Downing Street, Prime Minister's official residence.

Saul, Fisher, Cook, and other ministers were invited to meet William, and they held a closed-door meeting to discuss strategies against the Chinese Empire's super-dreadnought battleships.

The atmosphere in the conference room was very heavy, and everyone frowned and had sad expressions.

In the end, it was Fisher who spoke first.

"The super dreadnought battleship, that is, the tonnage, firepower, armor protection and speed, all suppress the dreadnought battleship by a grade, we have no problem in terms of technology, in theory!"

Technically, there is really no big problem, the 381 mm gun, that is, the British 16 inches, the British Empire can also be built, although there is an obstacle with 50 times the diameter, but 45 times the diameter is still no problem, just spend more research and development funds.

After all, when artillery is manufactured, it is necessary to carry out test firing at the shooting range, and several or even a dozen guns must be scrapped to test parameters such as accuracy, range, destructive power, and life. The cost of a 16-inch cannon is conservatively estimated to be 1.5 million yuan, equivalent to more than 10 million new pounds.

In addition to this, the most critical are naturally the boiler and steam turbine system, which are the most expensive equipment of all the components of a battleship. And to drive a 35,000-ton battleship, it has to reach a speed of 25 knots, and at least dozens of boilers and four steam turbine systems must be installed, which is absolutely a bottomless pit for eating money.

Therefore, the conundrum in front of Fisher seems to be only a question of money.

"Money?"

William smiled bitterly, he didn't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt were!

The money itself is fine, the problem is that there is no money!

Thor suddenly said, "Let's issue more money!" It seems that there is only one option! ”

William shook his head and said: "Now the depreciation of the new pound is outrageous, and the renminbi has exceeded 10, and if it continues to depreciate, the pound will not be as good as the yen, and the people of the British Empire will fall into serious poverty!" ”

Cook snorted coldly: "Now is not the time to consider whether the people are poor or not!" Once the Chinese Empire builds a super dreadnought-type battleship, it will directly kill the existing dreadnought-type battleships of the Imperial Royal Navy! Once the next war breaks out, if our British Empire is defeated because of this, the lightest consequence will be to cede land and pay reparations, and eventually the country will be destroyed! ”

Thor nodded, "This is indeed a looming problem!" If we are defeated, the Chinese Empire will inevitably demand huge indemnities. Think about the results of the previous wars, we ceded land and paid compensation, and the amount of compensation was enough to build several more Royal Navy fleets! Instead of giving money to the Chinese Empire in vain, it is better to fight to the death and at all costs, we have no way out, do we? ”

A rhetorical question made William completely fall.

Instead of paying huge compensation for defeat, it is better to use this cost to build the Royal Navy of the British Empire!

Everyone supported the construction of super-dreadnought battleships, and William had no choice but to agree.

However, at present, the British Empire's finances are tight, and the military budget has exceeded 60% of the fiscal expenditure, and the only way is to issue long-term government bonds again, raise the interest rate to an attractive 5% yield, and at the same time secretly increase the British pound to deceive the British people.

In this way, the Royal Navy quickly received a huge grant to support the construction of super-dreadnought battleships.

But what is now facing the British Empire is not the construction of ships, but the construction of large dockyards, which can be as fast as one year and as slow as two or three years.

Seeing that the Chinese Empire had begun to build the Thor-class super-dreadnought battleships, the Royal Navy of the British Empire could only stare at it, with a look of envy, jealousy and hatred.

In contrast, the Confederate States of America were much more financially well-off, and because of Grant's dictatorship, they were able to allocate their budgets easily and even raise taxes on American citizens.

The United States has the second largest economy in the world, and there is still a lot of oil and water.

Successive U.S. administrations have pursued a strategy of enriching the people, and now Grant can easily get a huge amount of money to develop armaments and build super-dreadnought battleships.

However, the shipyard for the construction of super-dreadnought battleships, the American Navy also did not have it, and the dock had to be built first, and then the super-dreadnought battleship could be built.

In fact, even if the United States has a ready-made dock, it is impossible to build a super-dreadnought battleship immediately, after all, there are no design drawings yet, and designing a 10,000-ton battleship takes several months to calculate, and designing a super-dreadnought battleship has a huge amount of calculation data, and it is impossible to design it in less than a year.

The Chinese Empire had long been designed for a long time, so it could be taken out and used immediately.

But the United States did not, so it had to design first, and it happened that the construction of the dock would take at least a year, and when the dock was completed, the design drawings were completed, and it was just in time to start construction.

It's just that it was at least a year behind the Chinese Empire, which annoyed Grant very much, because it was equivalent to putting the American Navy at an absolute disadvantage in one year's time.

Britain and the United States have strong backgrounds, so tighten their belts and still get a lot of money to build super-dreadnought battleships.

Although the French Empire was not as rich as Britain and the United States, it was barely enough, and under the strong rule of the French Emperor Napoleon III, the French Imperial Navy also began to build large dockyards, raising funds from all sides, and also preparing to build super-dreadnought battleships.

As for the Tsarist Russian Empire and the Japanese Empire, they did not have the same background as Britain, France and the United States, and could only rely on further squeezing national wealth. The Tsarist Russian Empire had a large population and exported labor to Europe and the United States to earn foreign exchange. The Japanese, on the other hand, are Asian, and it is difficult to find a job in Europe and the United States, so they can only target Asia.

But in Asia, the Chinese Empire was strict with the Japanese and hardly granted visas. Many Japanese could only smuggle people to China to work and make money, but they basically could not make ends meet, and were often arrested by the police of the Chinese Empire, and then sent to the mines as hard laborers, without earning a penny, and the mortality rate was extremely high.

Therefore, Japan can only make money by women, and in order to build a combined fleet with dreadnoughts as the main force, a generation of Japanese women has been sacrificed, and now in order to obtain super dreadnought battleships, two more generations of Japanese women have to be sacrificed.

However, the Chinese Empire has cracked down on Japanese women very hard, and major entertainment venues strictly prohibit Japanese women from sitting on the stage to accompany guests. As a result, Japanese women can only go to European and American countries to engage in the leather and meat business, but their income is not high, and the foreign exchange sent back to Japan is limited.

But mosquito meat is also meat, and it can't stand the many Japanese women, and at the expense of several generations, you can still get a lot of foreign exchange and use it to build warships.

It can be said that the Japanese Empire is also gambling, and it is blocking the national fortunes and wants to fight to the death with the Chinese Empire.

The after-the-fact reactions of various countries were quickly collected by special personnel, and then reported to Li Weiguo for knowing.

Regarding the reactions of Britain, France, the United States, Japan, Russia and other countries, Li Weiguo can imagine it in his mind, and it is definitely a tragic picture.

However, Li Weiguo did not dare to be careless. The Entente bloc, which is constantly stimulated, will only want to go to war with the Chinese Empire more and more, and a world war is inevitable, but all this must be under the control of Li Weiguo, and there can be no uncontrollable situation.

Therefore, Li Weiguo needs to constantly carry out war games.

No, in the combat hall of the Imperial General Staff, Li Weiguo was conducting war rehearsals with military ministers and generals.

This time, because the construction of the super dreadnought battleship Thunder God battleship has begun, three to four years later, it will become the new main warship of the Chinese Imperial Navy and dominate the war at sea.

Therefore, this time, the General Staff deduced a simulated exercise in which the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, which had super-dreadnought battleships, would conduct a decisive battle with the main naval fleet of the Entente bloc.

The deduction was conducted by more than 100 combat staff officers from the Operations Staff Office, all of whom were high-achieving students who had graduated from military academies and had very solid military theories.

Of course, they are only responsible for the war games, and in order to prevent the situation of talking about war games on paper, after they have deduced, there will be military generals and front-line combat officers who will test them one by one according to their actual combat experience, so that theory can be integrated with practice, and the simulation will be as close to actual combat as possible.

At this moment, an operational staff officer from the sixth section of the war room was conducting a deduction.

"With the advantage of the range of the main guns, our fleet carried out an attack on the enemy in the sea area 30 kilometers away, and after five rounds of artillery fire, although it failed to sink the enemy ship, it successfully disrupted the formation of the enemy fleet. Subsequently, our fleet took advantage of the absolute superiority of sailing speed, implemented a rapid and large detour tactic, seized a favorable battle position from the flank and rear directions, and carried out a second firepower salvo in the sea area at a distance of 20 kilometers, focusing on attacking the enemy's flagship, interrupting the enemy's fleet's command, completely disrupting the enemy's fleet formation, forming a local advantage of fighting more and less, and attacking the weak with a strong force. Paid off! ”

……

"Not bad! Not bad! The speed and long-range fire strike advantages of our navy warships have been brought into full play! ”

"Also, the idea of focusing on attacking the flagship of the enemy fleet and paralyzing the command system of the enemy ship is very good!"

"Indeed! Since ancient times, in wars, there have been thousands of armies to take the head of the enemy commander, so as to turn the tide of the war in one fell swoop, often becoming the key to victory! ”

"This time, the wargame deduction of the six subjects is excellent! It can be seen that it has been studied for a long time and is worthy of praise! ”

……

In the hall, warm applause rang out and was given to all the operational staff officers of the Sixth Operations Section.

At this time, Lin Jiyun suddenly said: "Your Majesty, the results of the recent batch of outstanding cadets in the military academy are very high, and among the combat staff officers, many elites have been absorbed, so it is better to ask Your Majesty to comment!" ”

Li Weiguo smiled slightly, if it was before, he would only highly encourage the navy's war games. However, since the Rhode Island incident, Li Weiguo has felt that the navy has become arrogant from top to bottom.

It is arrogance, not arrogance, nor pride, the former is more threatening, a little careless, one mistake, I am afraid that the entire navy will be buried, just like the disastrous defeat of the mighty Japanese Navy at Midway.

Li Weiguo didn't want that to happen, so sometimes, he had to pour cold water on the navy to cool down.

So, he said, "First of all, it is certain that the first attack on the enemy's fleet command flagship is a very good tactic, which I call a decapitation tactic. In addition, taking advantage of the long-range advantage of the Imperial warship and the advantage of speed to carry out tactical maneuvers, divide the enemy, and cause the advantage of local forces and firepower several times that of the enemy, which is worthy of recognition and praise! But ......"

When the admirals received Li Weiguo's praise, they were immediately overjoyed, but after hearing the word "no", they suddenly became nervous.

In their experience, this is the turning point!

I hope not to be faulted by the emperor, otherwise face is a trivial matter, making the emperor unhappy, and not getting the emperor's praise and favor, it will be a big deal.

I only heard Li Weiguo's words turn around and said: "The first question! The battleship opened fire at a distance of 30 kilometers, and the 381 mm 50 times diameter main gun that we just tested could indeed do it, but this was the maximum range, and theoretically it could only be used to blow up fish, and it could play a deterrent role against a weaker enemy, but the enemy who dared to fight a decisive battle with the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy, would they do it? Obviously, they do not have the strength to fight a decisive battle with our capital ships, so instead of being afraid, they will despise us, believing that only if they are afraid will they carry out an artillery attack from such a distance. ”

The ministers of the navy, the generals, and the staff officers in the war rooms lowered their heads one after another, feeling that Li Weiguo's tone was a little unhappy, the situation was not good!

Lin Jiyun peeked at Li Weiguo, and then gave Wu Yong a look, wanting to ask His Majesty if he was in a bad mood today.

As a result, Wu Yong looked at his nose and pretended not to see it.

At this time, Li Weiguo continued: "Also, as the caliber of the main gun becomes larger and larger, the life of the barrel is limited, and it can shoot one or two hundred rounds. What a gross waste of taxpayers' money! What if only the last shell is enough to sink the enemy ship, but at this time the main gun runs out of life? You will be sunk by enemy ships! ”

Lin Jiyun and other naval personnel felt that the atmosphere was not good, and their noses began to sweat.

"Also, in the case of actual combat, can you easily have a decisive battle with the enemy fleet with the main fleet? Even if you want to, will the Entente fleet be willing? You know, the cost of naval warships is getting higher and higher, and the cost of our super dreadnought capital ship this time is more than 20 million yuan. What should I do if it breaks? You buy a luxury car yourself, what if you are not careful when you drive and someone scratches and hits? ”

"In the past, an ironclad ship was 100,000 yuan, and it could be pulled out for a decisive battle casually, and it was not too distressing to sink. But in the future naval battle, we will have a decisive battle at sea with the Allied fleet, the capital ships of both sides are expensive warships with millions of ships and tens of millions of yuan, and both sides will be very careful, if you are not absolutely sure to destroy the enemy's main fleet, it is absolutely impossible to fight you in a decisive battle! Only 1 percent chance of happening! ”

"And, most importantly, the most important one! You come up and fight the main fleet for a decisive battle! What about your cruising fleet? Didn't your main fleet reconnoiter before the decisive battle? If there is to go to war, it will also be the first war between the cruising fleets of both sides! Once the enemy fleet finds that it is profitable, it will fight you in a decisive battle, and if it is found that it is not cost-effective, or even loses both, it will not fight you in a decisive battle! ”

"Finally! And most importantly, where did the submarine go? In the decisive battle of the capital ship, will the enemy not send out submarines? The Japanese Navy has built more than 300 submarines, and the entire Entente has more than 1,000 submarines. And what about minelayers? It is impossible for the enemy fleet to fight far away from the mainland, there must be a large number of minefields around, this is so that once the war is unfavorable, the enemy fleet will retreat quickly, and the radium area is the best way to cover and retreat, you can directly catch up and attack the enemy ship, are you not afraid of touching radium? ”

……

Li Weiguo directly picked out a lot of faults, all of which were pointed to the point.

All the naval personnel present were all flushed with shame, and one by one they were eager to find a crack in the ground to get into.

Lin Jiyun was sweating profusely, his back was soaked, and he could feel that His Majesty was not just commenting today, but meant something, and seemed to be dissatisfied with the navy.

Could it be the last Rhode Island incident?

Lin Jiyun keenly sensed the problem, and hurriedly asked: "Your Majesty is wise, the commentary is straight to the point, and the ministers are humbly taught!" ”

"I find that the navy is becoming more and more unpopular, and it is okay to be proud, but not arrogant! Thought that with a super battleship, you can crush the enemy? With one inadvertent approach, an enemy submarine approaches, and a single Fish Radium or Water Radium sinks your proud super battleship! ”

Li Weiguo continued: "The battle of Guandu, you have all heard it! Yuan Shao's strength is several times stronger than Cao Cao, and he could have easily won the world! It's a pity that he was arrogant and arrogant, and was defeated by Cao Cao, who was cautious. But a few years later, as Cao Cao became stronger, he also committed Yuan Shao's arrogance and arrogance, and finally lost in the Battle of Chibi! ”

"Since ancient times, arrogant soldiers will be defeated, and you have all firmly remembered them! From top to bottom, all of them will get rid of those arrogant bad habits! ”

Finally to the point, the front is all foreshadowing, and the last paragraph is the core key!

Lin Jiyun knelt down directly, and at this time, he finally understood why Li Weiguo was mad!

"The minister is guilty!"

"The ministers are guilty!"

Hulala, led by Lin Jiyun, all the naval officials and generals pleaded guilty.

Li Weiguo glanced at everyone solemnly, this time the stern warning and beating, hoping to correct the arrogant habits of the navy!

This is a matter of national fortune and must be taken seriously. (To be continued.) )