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Wilhelmshaven has always been one of the most important ports in Germany. With the North Sea just out of here, the daily throughput did not decrease much even at the height of the economy, and ships from all continents regarded Wilhelmshaven as a port into Germany.

Civilian ports and military ports cannot be generalized, there will definitely be a distinction.

The civil port looks very lively, and the ports of call are full of a wide variety of ships, but the cruise ships are to stop in the deep water.

Compared with the lively civilian port, the military port looks very deserted, if you know how to distinguish ships, you will feel sad at a glance, as the main port of the German Navy, the military port is parked with ships that are completely behind the world, and then the number is still a little pitiful.

"We will not have a plan to build ships in the near future." Richie confronted the commander of the defense of Wilhelmshaven: "I hope the Navy will understand." ”

Alfred. Valvacit, the commander of the defense of Wilhelmshaven, only nodded his head and did not express any dissatisfaction.

The actual situation is that the German Navy originally had its own shipbuilding plan, but Li Qi used practical information to make them understand that even if the ship was built according to the plan, it would be a coffin board that lagged behind the world.

Well, it is definitely too much to say that the coffin board is called, for example, the Navy has a plan for the construction of armored ships called the "Deutsche class", and she is a kind of pocket version of the battleship.

Li Qi is not optimistic about the construction plan of pocket battleships, not to mention that the caliber of the ship's guns is not good, and the speed is actually not comparable to the battle cruisers of various countries, so what is it used for after it is built? There is no such strength at all in the battle against the battle, and the speed of the battle cruiser is not as good as the battlecruiser. Say, what the hell do you want to do?

The Navy's answer was to be used as a shipbreaker, and they believed that the "German-class" pocket battleships could be used as the main force for breaking diplomatic relations on various ocean lines. It was planned to start construction of one in 1927 and complete two by 1934, and then design a suitable battle cruiser, such as the Scharnhott class, and it was planned to complete two and enter service by 1936.

Now the size of the German Navy is only 6 light cruisers and 6 ex-dreadnoughts, and not a single new ship has been added for eight years. Speaking of which, Richie wanted to boost the morale of the Navy or something, but ...... Why spend a lot of money on building some ships that are destined to have "no opponents"?

Of course, Li Qi knows the direction of the future development of the navy, and the future navy is the victory of the aircraft carrier, and the rest of the ships have become the existence of the arch guard aircraft carrier. It is definitely necessary to build battleships, but there must be a moderation, and one or two to boost the morale of the people is enough, and any more is really a waste.

Aircraft carriers are the direction that must be developed, and then there is vigorous research and construction of submarines.

Taking the aircraft carrier route is perfectly correct, but it is actually not easy to take. The study of aircraft carriers is even more troublesome than that of battleships, not a simple trouble, but an incomparably troublesome, and all that is involved is new technology, including the study of carrier-based aircraft.

In fact, the German Navy also has a research plan for aircraft carriers, that is, the "Seydlitz class" armored aircraft carrier, but the plan has been being studied, because of the lack of some technical and experience problems, it is just a drawing, and even the blueprint has not been finalized.

In fact, the German Navy had aircraft carriers during the First World War, and it was also the name of the "Seydlitz class", but to be honest, the aircraft carriers during the First World War were really not good, and the era was moving forward rather than backward after all.

There are not many countries that can play with aircraft carriers now, it should be said that there are very few, and even fewer countries are studying the death force of aircraft carriers, and it seems that Japan has seen the "future trend" from the US aircraft carrier tests, and then tried its best to study it.

What's so strange about Japan? That is, everything has to be divided into factions, what is the reformist, what is Satsuma, and then there is the army and the navy. There will continue to be factions within the troops, what westward faction and southbound faction. It's just a mess.

The current Japanese Navy, as far as Li Qi knows, is also divided into battleship factions and aircraft carrier factions. On the one hand, it is necessary to have super-battleships with larger tonnage and thicker guns, and on the other hand, it is necessary to think that aircraft carriers are useful. I don't know how the Japanese cabinet appeased the navy, but it actually used limited resources to let the navy build battleships and aircraft carriers at the same time.

Raeder took a group of German navies to Japan in the Far East, and they would watch the development of the Japanese navy as spectators. Naturally, you can't see things that are too secret, but you don't need anything too secret to distinguish between the "pipe faction" and the "ship-based faction", as long as you observe them from some aspects.

"What we need now is the experience and accumulation of large ships." Li Qi still needs to be appeased: "First accumulate our shipbuilding technology, and also cultivate a group of excellent shipbuilding designers, engineers, and workers, whose existence will become the foundation for us to build warships." ”

Alfred. Salvachit certainly agrees with Rich. In fact, the Navy has been fully loyal to Richie, because what Richie said is really not wrong, don't build behind closed doors with backward technology and concepts, if the warships built lag behind other countries, it will be really a waste.

In the Army and Air Force, the technical arms allow for certain mistakes, because the construction plan is not too wasteful. The navy should never make a technical mistake, because once a battleship has a certain scale once the keel is laid, no matter how much mistake it makes, it can only be built head-on.

A battleship, even a destroyer, has no value in building, and for the German Navy it is a matter of great distress to countless people. In the past, there was no way, but now Li Qi has found a partner for them, and they can use cooperation to take a country's navy to observe...... In fact, it also wants to be used as an experimental product, so why is the Navy in a hurry?

"Yes, Your Excellency Prime Minister, we will not be in a hurry." Alfrett. Valvacit smiled implicitly: "Actually, we are very patient. ”

By 1927, some designers had been focusing on the study of large cruise ships, because Richie's requirement was that the concept of cruise ship design should be possible to be modified.

What's the mod? Just look at how many cruise ships were converted into aircraft carriers during the First World War. Li Qi really has a similar idea, of course there must be a professional heavy aircraft carrier, but judging from Germany's resources, there really can't be much heavy aircraft carrier, at least before the integration of European forces, two should be the limit, so how can some modified aircraft carriers also play some roles.

With the idea of being able to retrofit in the future, the construction of the cruise ship needs to leave some room for transformation from the beginning, but this is not difficult for those designers, but it is ...... Whether the plan is reliable or not requires actual operation to know.

"Yes, the first cruise ship that was built will not be commercially operated, there will be an excuse to make changes to that cruise ship." Richie even found a place to renovate, and it was in Königsberg. He said: "When the time comes, there will be a navy supervisor to record the whole process, and what kind of navy size we should have in the future depends on whether the plan is really practical." ”

Alfrett. Valvacit nodded frequently: "We...... are all waiting, hoping that waiting will pay off abundantly. ”

A group of people walked around this side of the military port and attracted the attention of some people. Needless to guess, although the size of the German navy has not increased, the monitoring of the German navy's military ports by those powers has not been relaxed for a moment.

"Is it finally getting started?" Itzighir. Born in England, Bell's public capacity on the German side was that of a supervisor, and he told his companions: "The German Navy has not had any new ships in service for eight years, and there has not even been any chance of building ships." Our intelligence system shows that some time ago, a group of officers of the German Navy went to Japan in the Far East, and I think they finally understood that the re-emergence of a country cannot be done without the participation of the navy. ”

"The Theory of Sea Power" is already an old-fashioned thing, first proposed by Mahan of the United States, and then accepted by every country in the world. Britain is an island nation, and their rise is the history of the development of the navy from weak to powerful, and there is simply no country that knows better what a strong navy means than the United Kingdom.

As the Chancellor of Germany, there must be a reason to go wherever he goes. Bell believes that the prime minister of a country does not come to Wilhelmshaven on a whim.

"It's just not clear what kind of shipbuilding plan the German Navy has?" Orlando. Harris said with a smile: "The total tonnage of their navy is only 35% of ours, and it is not easy to have a reasonable fleet configuration. ”

Yes, after difficult negotiations, there was also the British element of wanting to indulge Germany, and the tonnage of the German Navy could build 35% of the total tonnage of the British.

Considering that the British Navy is a global navy, every overseas colony needs a strong enough navy to deter, and even more importantly, a strong navy to maintain world hegemony, and the British almost every year has a ship construction plan.

Germany did not have overseas colonies, and in fact it really did not need a large fleet. The fleet is huge, which means that the investment increases, and it is also necessary to consider the daily consumption and maintenance consumption, and it is not the end of the construction of the battleship.

It is very realistic that Germany is currently struggling to raise a fleet of 6 light cruisers and 6 ex-dreadnoughts, and that is because the German economy is not good. It's all hard to build a ship with 35% of the total tonnage of the United Kingdom, what to build? Just to show presence?

"I know that the British have been encouraging us to develop our armaments, but they seem to have overlooked the fact that it is very difficult for us to develop our armaments." Li Qi smiled bitterly: "Even if it is the most suitable era for us to develop armaments, we will only have to make a small fuss because of the economy." ”

It's only 1927, and if Litchie remembers correctly, it won't just be Germany, after the economic depression comes, any country should be disarmed, and then the construction of the Navy will also fall into a long period of pause, as if it is called a "naval holiday" or something, anyway.

There is really no hurry, when it comes to the period of "naval holiday", countries should be desperately trying to mothball the warships they have built, or sell some warships to some small countries, as if it has evolved to the point of selling even the capital ships. Li Qi was thinking about it, and when the time came, he would have to study it carefully, even if not for imitation, at least to figure out the system.

That's right, it's the system, any country and any branch of the military, will have its own system, especially the countries of the world powers, their technical weapons should be whatever way is the way, but it will not be "bent" suddenly.

In that way, find out the way, even if there is a difference, but the system can always find some routines, even if it is to know where the bomb should be dropped in the future, it can cause greater damage, and it is absolutely appropriate to spend some costs.

"It's just...... The ship-building routines of the East, learned from the British, they are afraid ...... "Alfret. Salvachit was not a purely clerical job, he was a practical person, and some of his treatises were published. He carries some concerns: "Will it go out of its own way, or will it be influenced by us?" ”

Richie would love to do a shrug motion, but couldn't. "That country, their ambitions are beyond our imagination," he said. Just for the sake of ambition, they will also get rid of the shadow of the British Navy and develop their own system according to the needs of their own country. ”

"Your Excellency, I am afraid I need to tell you that a country's navy does not have to change." Alfrett. Salvachit was not polite, and said directly: "Even if their ship-building style changes, as officers who command or operate ships, they will always carry the characteristics of the British Navy." ”

Li Qi was stunned, and thought about it very strangely, as if he ...... The Japanese Navy in World War II has gotten rid of the British naval warfare mentality and developed its own naval will, and there may be a shadow of the British Navy in the tactics of war, but the main direction is a Japanese tactic with full characteristics.

Speaking of which, in the application of aircraft carriers, the Japanese Navy has come to the forefront of the world, and the British Navy is also backward in this regard, not to mention the United States, which has almost no actual combat experience, and as for Germany, Italy, and so on, it has to stand aside.

In addition, after all the countries of the world have stopped, there are two countries that are developing by leaps and bounds in submarines: Germany and Japan.

What to say about Germany's submarine development, there may not be much leading thing in technology, but it has come to the forefront of the world in terms of tactics.

Japan's submarine development is even more bizarre, and not to mention the problem of concealment, they designed submarines to be larger. What's even more bizarre is ...... In order to research a model that could carry an aircraft for sneak bombing, they put in more effort than they imagined...... (To be continued.) )