In order to ensure the chance of victory, the United States needs to first estimate the strength of the other side to formulate the best chance of victory, but China's secrecy work is really excellent, and the difference in race makes it much more difficult for American spies to infiltrate. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the outbreak of the Panama crisis, Theodore Roosevelt, who was not yet the president of the United States at the time, thought that there was a chance to find out the bottom and tried his best to lead the war, but President McKinley, who was still in the country at the time, was worried that the fight would turn into a full-scale war, and Britain intervened, and finally the US troops withdrew voluntarily. Nothing came out. By the time Theodore Roosevelt became president, the contradictions between China and the United States had become more and more acute, and any small friction could trigger a full-scale war between the two countries.

Moreover, in the past few years, many major breakthroughs have been made in Western military science and technology, especially naval science and technology, and it is undoubtedly a wiser choice for the United States to first digest these scientific and technological achievements and turn them into real military strength......

Due to the butterfly effect, many of the key inventions of this time and space appeared earlier than in history, especially in the naval field that was hit the hardest, such as the thermodynamic torpedo in history, which was not invented by the American E. W. Bliss until 1904, but this time and space was a full two years earlier. Because the current situation that the capital ship cannot compete with the Chinese Navy in the short term, increasing the range of the torpedo makes it more practical, which is undoubtedly a strange move against the Chinese Navy, which was seriously lacking auxiliary ships at that time.

However, Li Hui had already expected this, so after the Sage-class battle cruiser entered service, the next batch of warships produced by "Xia Ke Island" did not have even one capital ship, but all of them were a new type of 5,000-ton cruiser, and four batches of a total of 20 ships were "built" in a row at an astonishing speed of almost a year (in addition, 12 non-combat ships of at least 10,000 tons were built). With these 20 light cruisers, the Chinese Navy has finally made up for the shortcomings and loopholes in its types of ships, so that the US Navy has no loopholes to exploit.

Another shortcut opened up by the Americans was submarines, and John Philip Holland, the "father of modern submarines" who had not been seen for a long time in history and finally died of depression, was valued by the US Navy Department early, so that he gave full play to his design talent and put the submarine into practical use as a new weapon at a faster speed.

However, what the Americans do not know is that although China's combat submarines appeared a little later, they are even better in performance than those developed by Horan, and because of the support of systematic science and technology and optimization functions, the performance of this submarine designed by Li Hui himself is even better than that of the German submarines in the late stage of World War I.

On the other hand, China's sonar and other anti-submarine technologies also reached the world's advanced level at the end of World War I, and at the beginning of the 20 th century, when destroyers were still a new type of ship, the Chinese Navy had already set dealing with underwater enemies as its main goal, and the original lightning strike mission was relegated to the second place. Although no matter how advanced antisubmarine technology is, it cannot completely eliminate the threat of submarines, but it is enough to ensure that the enemy's submarine warfare strategy will not outweigh the losses. In particular, it is worth mentioning that several of China's major naval shipyards are fully operational, with more than 20 destroyers launched almost every year, which is so large in quantity, and counting the quality advantage, even the British Royal Navy is not able to match.

Due to the natural defect of the slow speed of submarines, generally speaking, they cannot pose a substantial threat to the large fleet, and their deterrent effect is mainly reflected in the breaking of diplomatic relations. Even if he reluctantly insisted, in the end, it would only be the enemy who would be dragged down first, and Li Hui couldn't ask for this!

In addition, small ships such as torpedo boats and patrol gunboats have also been upgraded and replenished, making the Chinese navy even more impeccable.

With so many auxiliary ships in active service, the Chinese Navy has not acquired a single capital ship for seven years, but its overall strength has been greatly enhanced, and as long as it does not make negligent mistakes, it is not afraid of capsizing in the gutter.

But even so, the Chinese Navy still inevitably slipped from the throne of the world's first, no way, no matter how advanced the Sage-class battle cruiser was when it was first put into service, it was inevitable that it would be a little outdated after seven years, you must know that some key technologies of the world's capital ships have also made major breakthroughs in these years. And the lineup of the capital ships is not strong enough, just the auxiliary ships have been strengthened, which can't hold the field!

The first breakthrough was the power system, and thanks to the strong support of the British government, Parsons greatly accelerated the progress of steam turbine research, and as early as a few years ago, it designed a super-powerful steam turbine engine for a 20,000-ton giant ship. Compared to traditional reciprocating steam engines, steam turbines are not only more thermally efficient and more powerful, but they are also relatively small (at the same power), freeing up more load and space when used as a power ship, which means that ships can use larger caliber guns, thicker (or more protective area) armor, or carry more coal, ammunition, and other supplies.

After years of hard work, British artillery designers finally solved the problem of increasing the rate of fire of large-caliber guns, and successfully developed a 12-inch (305mm) cannon with a maximum rate of fire of more than 1 round per minute.

Although this British naval gun has not yet caught up with the 275mm main gun of the Saint-class battlecruiser in terms of ammunition projection per unit of time, the larger caliber and bullet weight have brought a huge advantage in range, and the emergence of the naval gun fire control system has allowed this advantage to be fully exploited, and its importance even exceeds the maximum rate of fire of the naval gun to some extent.

The reason is very simple, after having a fire control system, the combat distance of warships will be much farther than before, and the confrontation between the capital ships often begins at a distance of more than ten kilometers, and if the range of the ship's guns is not as good as that of the other side, it will definitely be used by it to take advantage of this advantage to be beaten in vain at a long distance, which is too tragic...... (To be continued.) )