The stunned Germans could no longer say a word, especially before they had slight doubts about the authenticity of the naval guns, but now, the real examples left them speechless, especially the lieutenant colonel officer, who stayed in China for a little longer, came to China in 1897, and several of them returned to China, but in general, the time in China exceeded 10 years, and in his impression, the Chinese were ignorant and timid, when did they have such a strong industrial production capacity.

If the most cutting-edge thing at sea, science and technology and industrial capacity is a warship, then artillery is another cutting-edge on land, and even in terms of the overall technical level, artillery is more difficult than a warship, take the dreadnought, from Britain to open the dreadnought era, after many countries have entered the ranks of non-violation, Britain, France, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Italy, the United States, and even including the current Japan, but there are not many countries that can produce naval guns, the core of which is Britain and Germany, France, the United States, Austria-Hungary and other countries, All of them were possessed after the two countries had diffusion technology.

But now, a country that a few years ago was poor and white, and could not even produce matches, can produce such things as battleship guns, how to look at how to feel illusory, but things are really in front of him, and even the development of the northwest, he also knows a little about it, these changes all come from the young Chinese in front of him, who is only 30 years old.

Looking at the change of the Germans from surprise to admiration, Yang Yuanzhao didn't say much, in fact, the northwest still left a hand, and the northwest did not hide any private interests in terms of naval artillery. This thing is as powerful as it is, if it is weakened. It's too much trouble to lower the caliber. You can't come up with a nondescript 14.5 inches, the original Bavarian class is 15 inches, but the tube body is a little lower, only about 42.

The hand left by the northwest is not something else, it is an armor-piercing shell, in fact, at the moment, it looks amazingly powerful, but it is just an ordinary shell. At most, a little armor-piercing design is added, and the real armor-piercing bullet can increase by about 20% on this basis, which is extremely amazing. In this case, even the key parts of the battleship may not be able to block the attack of such a shell. Armor-piercing shells are powerful, but too heavy, to obtain sufficient muzzle velocity and range. It is necessary to increase the charge and fire one round, which is equivalent to more than 3 rounds of ordinary shells, and the damage to the barrel is quite large. Even if it is a material of the Northwest, the performance is above that of Britain and Germany, and the life of an ordinary caliber artillery. It can reach 350 to 400 rounds, but with armor-piercing shells. The maximum lifespan is only 100 rounds, which is also a very helpless result. It is powerful but cannot be used more, otherwise, once or twice in battle, the barrel will have to be changed, which is a bit unworthy.

Artillery armor-piercing is really yàn, but it is one of the 15-inch naval guns, and then, a series of basic tests were carried out, testing the performance of this 15-inch naval gun in all aspects, firepower, durability, rate of fire and maneuverability, especially durability, when more than 300 rounds were fired continuously, there were no problems, and the performance and accuracy of the artillery were not greatly weakened, the lieutenant colonel's mouth was completely open, knowing that this 15-inch gun was good, but it was excellent to this kind of Cheng dù, Indeed, they never expected that, as far as the lieutenant colonel knew about the number of Bavarian naval guns, the power of this gun was much better than that of the 15-inch guns designed by the Bavarian class.

A complete test, there are many items that need to be tested, Yang Yuanzhao also spent a lot of money for the Germans, almost scrapped these two gun barrels, 15-inch naval guns, if imported or bought, the price is almost high, and even in the end it depends on whether the other party is interested in selling it to you, but for countries that can produce it, it is a big deal to process the guns after they are scrapped and melted, and the cost is not large, mainly because of the consumption of time and various machines.

The two guns were completely scrapped in 3 days, and the indicators for the newly made 15-inch naval guns in the northwest have basically come out, and the lieutenant colonel officer wrote in detail, recording in detail the process and number of the actual yàn this time, and then sent it to Germany through a top-secret channel, using radio technology instead of the previous telegraph line.

It is not that the Northwest opened up radio technology to Germany, but that Germany itself gradually developed it, radio technology, in the first Balkan War, has begun to be applied to the war, although it is primary, the distance is not far, and the reliability is not high, but it has shown its charm, and all countries have paid attention to this technology, and even set up a variety of practical rooms for this purpose, some of the technologies that have been used in the Northwest, such as increasing the density of machine guns, the application of artillery and barbed wire, These were present in the Balkan Wars, which in turn affected the armies of the whole of Europe.

Radio technology is also in this war, played a considerable role, the German side also attaches great importance to it, they are the world's leading in natural science research, the basic research of radio technology is very deep, specially built a secret line, at least so that Germany can contact Basra through Guò Baotou, and then through the secret line of the Guò Baghdad Railway, transmitted to Berlin, Germany, so that the previous telegraph line can be bypassed, after all, it is under the leadership of Britain and France, the telegraph line built, There are a lot of secret things that can't be passed through the guò line.

Berlin, Admiralty, Tirpitz looked at the telegram in his hand, his face was full of disbelief, the technical parameters of the previous Fantasy artillery were sent to Germany by Fabian very early, and the entire Fantasy class has been studied all over again, and there are many breakthroughs in the design of the Fantasy class, overall, it is good, the design is reasonable, but many projects are impossible, or difficult to achieve.

Among them, especially in terms of naval guns, it was judged by Krupp's designers that it would be impossible to achieve at least 5 years, but now, these parameters are clearly marked, and even a little higher than the previous fantasy-level parameters, this is not a design number, but an actual, they saw the final results obtained after the test.

In the duel of battleships, Germany advocated anti-sinking and survivability, and Britain advocated firepower, but for the modified King-class, in the face of such a 15-inch gun, it was as weak as paper paste, even if the protective armor of the northwest was used, it only ensured that the key parts of the deck were relatively weak, and such artillery, one shot, was also sunk a little more.

"Bring in Krupp's artillery experts immediately!" Tirpitz didn't care about anger, there were some professional things, and he still had to ask the experts.

After the Krupp experts arrived, they read the message, and at first they couldn't believe it, especially the above parameters, and said that it was impossible, this must be a bold designer, forward-looking number jù, although the design is very reasonable, the difficulty of implementation is very large, let alone 5 years, it may not be realized in 10 years.

Looking at these senior designers, they repeatedly criticized this indicator, Tirpitz was also helpless, sighed, and told them unmistakably that this is no longer a design on paper, but a real, when the artillery is implemented, they don't speak, the design can be fake and empty, if you really want to write, 10 times higher than the number jù above, or even 20 times the design, you can easily get it out, at most to seek rationality, similar forward-looking design, On the Krupp side there are many, and there are even 600 mm calibers. It's not easy to get something real, you say this performance, you can always see the real thing, this can be tested casually, it's easy to be debunked, the Northwest can't be in this aspect, and still think about exaggeration, which means that the Northwest really makes zuò out. It's only been a long time, last year, didn't the Northwest still introduce things to them, but I didn't expect that this year, such a big killer weapon was made, is this reality?

"Now don't say anything about yours and mine, just say, this artillery cannon, can it be used on the Bavarian class." Tirpitz looked at the designers and stopped talking, and said straight to the point.

Several designers began to carefully check this number jù, and even draw it according to the number jù, and after several people discussed it fiercely, they cautiously replied: "Yes, of course, the total weight of this gun is almost 7 tons lighter than our 15-inch gun, and the overall volume is about 10% smaller, and it can be mounted on the Bavarian class, but it needs to be slightly adjusted." ”

"Then go and adjust, I want to see the Bavarian class, using such a game's naval guns!" Tirpitz knows very well that such an excellent artillery, 8 can save 56 tons of weight, which is almost a very small number for a traitor of almost 30,000 tons, but the 10% volume saved has a big effect, 56 tons of armor, may not make the entire 10,000-ton giant ship, how much to improve the protection capacity, but a certain volume of space, enough to place more cabins and watertight compartments, for the overall performance of the battleship, the improvement is not small.

Because of the emergence of the Northwest artillery, it has changed the design of the Bavarian class, and even accelerated the progress of the Bavarian class, the artillery is one of the very important subsystems of the battleship, in many cases, the battleship is waiting for the cannon, the Northwest cannon, the quality is enough, the life of 350 rounds is at least about 70% higher than the Bavarian class in the design, the most important thing is that his tube-to-body ratio is 48 times, 3 times higher than the 45 times the Bavaria-class design, this is not a small number, This is a huge increase in the power of artillery.

According to the assessment of Krupp's engineers, according to the above numbers, the equipment of such a gun will make the Bavarian class really reach the peak of firepower, and the dense network formed by 8 15-inch guns will easily tear apart the protection of any British battleship at present, as for the battle cruiser, it is almost an iron coffin, and any shell falling, I am afraid that it will kill those battle cruisers.

After the deduction of dozens of experts, the results were placed in front of Tirpitz, and after looking at the analysis one by one, Tirpitz almost instantly, issued an order: "Get it at any cost!" (To be continued......)