Chapter 590: The Premature Battleship Bismarck
Although Wilhelm II vomited blood in anger, he had to admit that Italy had the timing so good that the German Empire could not refuse. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
After several months, Wilhelm II still had to hand over the design drawings of the most advanced battleships of the German Imperial Navy to the Italian Navy, and even had to ask the most advanced shipyard in Berlin to be responsible for handing over the most advanced equipment to Italy, along with a large number of experienced German engineers.
Of course, everything is free, because Italy has no money and does not want to give money.
Hit Germany hard, and Italy felt really uncomfortable.
However, even if it costs no money to get the battleship drawings of the German Empire, and no money is required for shipyard equipment and technical specialists, but in the end, the construction in Italy will require a large amount of high-quality steel, as well as various weapons and equipment, which seems to be difficult for Italy, which is in the third tier of industrial capacity.
As a result, the Italian military turned to Germany for help, hoping that Germany could help with some steel and weapons for the construction of battleships.
When Wilhelm II learned of this, he was so angry that he flipped the table again and cursed.
“duhurensohnvontausendvaeter!moegederblitzdichbeimscheissentreffen!”
"You (Mozarini) are a mongrel born of a thousand fathers, and you were struck in the ass by lightning while you shit!"
From then on, Wilhelm II hated Mozilini deeply and vowed to kill the biao.
No matter how much Wilhelm II hated Mozarini, in order to maintain German-Italian relations, he had to accept Mozilini's blackmail.
Hitra was also very hard, he understood Wilhelm II's mood very well, but now he had to persuade Wilhelm II to take care of the overall situation.
"Your Majesty, Italy is very important to the Empire at present, you should be patient for a while, and after the Empire completely breaks the blockade of the Chinese Empire against us, then we will let Italy return even the benefits of it."
"That's right! In the future, even the principal and interest will be returned! I'm going to swallow Italy completely! When Wilhelm II heard this, he immediately felt much more comfortable, and even began to look forward to a more powerful German Empire after the annexation of Italy.
Hitra knew Wilhelm II's temperament too well and took the opportunity to help him plan the future of the German Empire.
"Your Majesty, the current situation around the empire is still very grim, although Italy has fallen to the empire, it is only a breakthrough in the southern European continent, if you want to break through the blockade of the Chinese Empire on the Mediterranean, it is not enough to rely on one Italy."
Wilhelm II calmed down and slowly paced to the opposite wall, where his own guards stepped forward to open the curtains, revealing a huge map of the world.
This huge map of the world, most of which is covered in red, is the vast territory of the Chinese Empire, with its vassals, overseas territories, colonies, and semi-colonies attached to the Chinese Empire, followed by a yellow area, in which a considerable number of countries are in it, and they are in the camp of the Chinese Empire, hostile to the German Empire, but less dangerous than the Chinese Empire.
This is followed by a small number of white areas, which represent neutral countries.
The German Empire, painted green, occupied a large area of the European continent, including Germany proper, the German-occupied countries of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the merged Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Now there is another Italy, but the color of Italy is slightly lighter, pale green, indicating that the German Empire does not yet fully trust Italy, and will not paint it green until one day it is completely occupied.
Red is naturally the enemy, and this is what Wilhelm II reminded himself all the time.
The eyes fell on the Mediterranean line, where Gibraltar, Corsica, Sardinia, and Cyprus, the four red origins, like an iron ring on a chain, blocked the passage of the German Empire to Africa.
To the west, England across France is also red, the British Isles, which is under the de facto control of the Chinese Empire, connecting Iceland above and blocking Germany from entering the North Atlantic from the North Sea.
Turning his gaze to Eastern Europe again, although the Tsarist Empire is marked in yellow, his threat level to the German Empire is no worse than the red Chinese Empire, Wilhelm II knows very well in his heart that the Tsarist Empire has no ability to expand eastward to Asia, and now with the merger of Austria-Hungary into the German Empire, the territorial disputes and national contradictions between the Tsarist Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire will be completely transferred to the German Empire, and the last layer of window paper between Germany and Russia has been pierced, and the road to reconciliation is almost impossible, because the German Empire will not cut its own flesh.
Further down, there is the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which is marked in yellow, but there is a big question mark on it, because Wilhelm II is not sure about the attitude towards the Ottoman Turkish Empire.
It's a fickle country, no different from Italy.
But now in front of the German Empire is that there is no milk for the Ottoman Turkish Empire, so this makes Wilhelm II very entangled, he knows very well that if the passage of the Ottoman Turkish Empire is opened, then for the German Empire, it will break through the second blockade line of the Chinese Empire and fight a bloody way from the Middle East and West Asia.
The question mark was drawn by Wilhelm II, and when Hitra followed, he found it immediately.
"Your Majesty is planning to attack the Ottoman Turkish Empire again?"
Wilhelm II did not respond, but did not deny it either.
Hitra thought for a moment, and then said: "It's not impossible, if you operate smartly, maybe it's easier than winning over Italy!" ”
"Oh? Tell me about it! Wilhelm II was suddenly curious and turned back to ask.
After thinking about it for a while, Hitra said: "The Ottoman Turkish Empire is weak, weaker than Italy, but it has only resources, that is, population, and suzerainty over the Middle East. ”
Seeing Wilhelm II nodding, Hitra said again: "However, the Ottoman Turkish Empire has always been dominated by the Chinese Empire because it is too weak, especially after the Chinese Empire has clearly torn its face with our German Empire, the Ottoman Turkish Empire can only choose the powerful Chinese Empire." ”
Wilhelm II agreed: "Yes! If it were me, I would also choose the Chinese Empire. After all, the Chinese Empire is too strong, its military strength and economic strength are unprecedentedly strong, a world railway penetrates Constantinople, the center of the Ottoman Empire, the Chinese Empire has strong garrisons in Cyprus, Suez, Greece, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait, the Chinese Empire itself has expanded to the Eurasian border, and the Ottoman Empire has no choice at all. ”
"Yes! I'm sure they'll choose our German Empire in the end! Hitra suddenly said with great confidence and certainty.
Wilhelm II looked puzzled.
"Your Majesty, have you ever thought that the Tsarist Empire and the Ottoman Empire have been mortal enemies for hundreds of years, and it is impossible for them to get along with each other. The Tsarist Russian Empire gave all the Asian territories to the Chinese Empire, and the territory near the Transcaucasia was the land that the Ottoman Empire had been jealous of for hundreds of years, so although the Ottoman Empire did not dare to argue with the Chinese Empire, it would be dissatisfied. In addition, the Tsarist Empire is now a completely European country, which side will he expand towards next? ”
Wilhelm II replied: "The Russian Empire did not dare to expand in the direction of Asia, and he probably did not have the courage to go to war against the German Empire, so it is possible that he would expand into southern Europe." Are you saying that the Tsarist Empire would go to war against the Ottoman Empire again? Unlikely, the Chinese Empire will not let them fight! ”
Hitra smiled: "Your Majesty overestimates the Chinese Empire too much, they are likely to help the Tsarist Empire in the dispute between the Tsarist Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, because the Chinese Empire also wants to dismember the Ottoman Empire, after all, the Ottoman Empire is still the nominal suzerainty in the Middle East, and if the Chinese Empire wants to completely control the oil in the Middle East, it has to dismember the Ottoman Empire under the pretense of the hand of the Tsarist Russian Empire." ”
Wilhelm II asked rhetorically: "How do we do it, in your opinion?" ”
Hitra smiled slightly and replied: "This is a slow effort, we have to slowly make the Ottoman Empire understand the ambitions of the Chinese Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire, and then instigate the outbreak of war between the Tsarist Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, and finally help the Ottoman Empire when it needs it most, then the Ottoman Empire will fall to us." ”
Wilhelm II felt that it made sense, as if the road ahead was no longer dark and confused, and seemed to have found a way out.
"How long will it take for this to happen?"
Hitra thought for a moment and said, "We don't want to think about it in a short time, because once we intervene in the war between the Tsarist Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, it may detonate a larger war, and it may force the Chinese Empire to intervene in advance and break out a full-scale war with us." At present, our German Empire cannot start a full-scale war with the Chinese Empire, so we must develop for at least ten or eight years and have the confidence to do so. ”
Wilhelm II suddenly sighed and said: "Then in the past ten years, will we have to endure the humiliation of being blockaded by the Chinese Empire?" ”
Hitlah said: "Of course not! We can't defeat the Chinese Empire with hard power now, but we can use soft power to make trouble for the Chinese Empire! After all, the rule of the Chinese Empire in the United States, Britain, Japan, and India was not so solid, and we could carry out enemy infiltration operations to attract the attention of the Chinese Empire, so as to buy time for the German Empire to grow and grow. ”
Wilhelm II finally understood that no matter how he planned, if he wanted to fight against the Chinese Empire, there were only four words - "buy time"
On this issue, Wilhelm II and Hitler agreed on it.
On the other hand, Italy got everything it wanted from Germany and could finally start building the Italian Navy's own super-battleships.
A few years ago, in the early days of the outbreak of the world war, the Imperial Chinese Navy quickly defeated the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy and the two-ocean fleet of the American Navy with its super fast battleships, thus laying the final victory capital of the world war in one fell swoop.
Today, the secret of the victory of the Imperial Chinese Navy is no longer a secret, and all countries in the world know that the Imperial Chinese Navy won the naval battle with its super fast battleships.
Fast battleships, as the name suggests, are the perfect combination of traditional battleships and battlecruisers, achieving the perfect balance of firepower, armor and speed, allowing battleships to maximize their war potential and effectiveness.
Since the beginning of the world war, six years have passed, the German Empire has not stopped the development of super battleships, although they have not been able to get the equipment and technical support of the Chinese Empire, but the German technology has accumulated enough before, formed its own development style.
After the analysis and study of the super-fast battleships of the Chinese Empire, the German High Seas Fleet cut the order for the construction of battlecruisers after the war and switched to the production of super-fast battleships.
One of the fundamental problems is the strength of the armor and the power of the steam turbine.
The higher the armor strength, the more volume per unit will be saved. In the past, it took 10,000 tons of armor to block the bombardment of giant armor-piercing shells, but now only 5,000 tons of armor are needed to block it, so the weight of 5,000 tons of armor saved can be used to increase the number of boilers, increase power, and thus increase speed.
In addition, the power output of the steam turbine itself is the problem of using more advanced and advanced technology to increase the output horsepower of the steam turbine, which can also increase the thrust and increase the speed.
The German Empire's Krupp steel and the technology and information obtained from France about the most advanced Harvey steel in the United States have made great progress in steel materials.
With the addition of an improved steam turbine system, the Imperial German Navy designed its own super-fast battleship in the first years of the 20th century.
Bismarck-class battleships, in honor of the iron-blooded Chancellor Bismarck, Wilhelm II personally named this new class of battleships after Bismarck.
Only one Bismarck-class battleship was built, first, the Imperial German Navy had no money, and second, the fast battleships were still in the groping stage, and they did not dare to build too many at once.
The Bismarck, with a standard displacement of 50,000 tons, is equipped with 4 twin 406 mm 50 times diameter main guns, 6 twin 152 mm 55 times diameter high-level dual-purpose secondary guns, and 16 37-mm high-level dual-purpose machine guns.
The installation of anti-aircraft weapons was proposed by Hitler and personally approved by Wilhelm II.
On the premise of ensuring 320 mm armor protection, the Bismarck's tank experiment data reached a speed of 29 knots, thus making the German Empire the second country in the world after the Chinese Empire to master a super-fast battleship.
Italy, of course, has naturally become the third.
However, the equipment of the Italian Navy was technically castrated by the German Imperial Navy, making the Italian version of the Bismarck battleship inferior to the German Navy's Bismarck battleship in terms of overall performance.
Even so, the Italian Navy, which had begun construction of the Roman battleship (a castrated version of the Bismarck-class), was so excited that they had even begun to clamored for a PK with the most powerful super battleship in the Chinese Empire. (To be continued.) )