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The sea distance from Kolkata to Medan is 2,300 kilometers, and it takes at least five days to travel at the speed of merchant ships, which gives Zhang Wei ample time to prepare.

As early as six days ago, after Zhang Wei convened a military meeting, the navy sent all 12 existing submarines to the Burma Sea, east of the Andaman Islands, to monitor the British fleet. Zhang Wei also departed for the port of Padang in West Sumatra on February 2, accompanied by Li Yunhai and Yang Yili, escorted by two battle cruisers and six 1935 torpedo boats.

On this battlecruiser, Zhang Wei approved the naming of the warship by Li Zhaoshui:

The G5 motorized torpedo boat was named the Sea Lion Torpedo Boat, and the Xuan number was from No. 1 to the rear, and now it is named exactly No. 20;

The S6 will become a series in the future, so it was named the Dolphin-class Type 1 torpedo boat, and the Xuan has now been named the 24th;

The 1935 torpedo boat was named the Victory-class Type 1 torpedo boat, and the Xuan had been named to the 9th;

The Novik-class destroyer was named the Lanfang-class destroyer, and now the Xuan has been named No. 7;

The submarines were named Lanfang-class Type 101 and Xinhua Type 101 submarines;

The Moltke-class battlecruisers were named Lanfang-class battlecruisers, which were No. 1 and No. 2.

The various warships of the Lanfang-class are models that are ready to be sold to the outside world, and the warships of the Xinhua-class are models that will be sold after World War I.

Li Zhaoshui said: "Your Majesty, we have chosen the Orion-class battleship this time, and if we buy 3 ships, we can guarantee a decisive victory." ”

After Zhang Wei communicated with Xiao Yu'er, he asked Xiao Yu'er to make a list of all the Dreadnought-class battleships produced by the United Kingdom, and after comparison, Zhang Wei said to Li Zhaoshui: "The Orion-class battleship has advantages and disadvantages, for the time being, I don't want to buy it yet, let's buy a worse one first, so that we can gradually take out the battleship and sell it, so I can't buy the Orion-class at the beginning, otherwise some technologies will be learned by the British in advance, which is not good." ”

"Then what type of battleship is Your Majesty going to choose?"

"I'm going to buy 2 giant-class battleships, and you can't say that you can't beat the 3 old British battleships with these 2 battleships. In addition, I want to buy a few more Lanfang battlecruisers and Lanfang-class destroyers, and when I get results this time, I can leave the takeaway to make money. ”

"Your Majesty, although the British battleships are old-fashioned, each equipped with 2 twin turrets, and the main gun is 343mm, so I chose the Orion-class battleship, for fear of embarrassing you."

"I don't know yet, it's not wrong that their main guns are 343mm, you haven't looked at how many times they have warps, there are only 30 main guns in times, even our battlecruisers can easily defeat them; And you didn't pay attention to their rate of fire? ”

"Your Majesty, I'm cautious, battleships can also be sold, I think this time we want to defeat the British old-fashioned fleet with absolute superiority, just to sell battleships in the future to show our prestige, but we can't be a little sloppy, I still hope to buy at least 3 battleships."

After communicating with Xiao Yuer, Zhang Wei learned that each battleship only had 414,000 points, so he agreed to Li Zhaoshui's request and agreed to buy 3, so he said: "You can buy 3 battleships this time, for the time being, we can't expose our strength too much, and I am ready to take the Japanese Navy by surprise, if we have more battleships, the Japanese will be wary of us, we must get used to pretending to be pigs and eating tigers, and the strength will be slowly exposed, and we will hit the enemy by surprise every time and make enough money." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, I understand what you mean, I just want to crush the British naval fleet with absolute strength this time and make us famous, so that we can sell warships."

"If you can't win the British Navy, then you can jump into the sea, as soon as our three battleships come out, they will be the most advanced battleships in the world, with epoch-making significance, the battleships of all other countries will be outdated, and the trend of the world's naval warships will be led by our Lanfang Kingdom in the future."

The Giant-class battleship selected by Zhang Wei this time was not produced in Britain until 1909 in the original time and space, and it was not completed until 1911. The main performance indicators are as follows:

Normal displacement: 20,225 tons, full load displacement: 23,050 tons, total length: 166.4 meters, length between perpendiculars: 155.4 meters, breadth: 25.9 meters, draft: 8.8 meters, capacity: 755 people.

Boilers: 18 Babcock-Wilcox coal-fired boilers (Hercules is Yarrow coal-fired boilers), main engine: 4 "Parsons" steam turbines, power 25,000 shaft horsepower, propulsion: 4 shafts and 4 pulp, maximum speed: 21 knots; Endurance: 6,100 nautical miles / 10 knots, fuel: 2,900 tons of coal, 800 tons of heavy oil.

Main guns: 5 twin 305 mm guns/L50Mk11 (range 15 km, 110 ammunition each), secondary guns: 16 102 mm guns/L50, fish tubes: 3 457 mm guns.

Main armor belt: 279-178 mm, armored compartment: 254-102 mm, deck 102-44 mm, turret: 279 mm, gun mounts: 279-102 mm, conning tower: 279 mm.

Zhang Wei said: "This class of battleships is named Lanfang-class battleships, so it can't be named, it is still ships 1 to 3, so it is easy to remember." “

"Yes, Your Majesty, how many more battlecruisers and destroyers, torpedo boats, and submarines will be purchased?"

"I earned a lot of points from this trip to Pontianak, which is enough for us to spend, but this time the navy has to earn back as much as it spent."

"Yes, guaranteed."

"I'm going to buy 30 Sea Lion-class torpedo boats, 30 Dolphin-class Type 1, 23 Lanfang-class destroyers, 24 submarines Lanfang-101, 6 Xinhua 101-class battlecruisers, and 4 Lanfang-class battlecruisers.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, there is absolutely no problem. 3 dreadnought-class battleships against their 3 old battleships, 6 battlecruisers against their 6 old cruisers, Your Majesty, as far as our warship firepower and warship speed are concerned, you think, just if you want to let them go, they can't escape. ”

"We can't take it lightly, all the troop carriers and baggage ships have been sunk or captured, so we can ensure that we don't lose money, otherwise we won't make much money this time."

"Your Majesty, rest assured, even if you let go of a few of their small torpedo boats, you will not let go of troop carriers and baggage boats. What's more, the quality of our destroyers and torpedo boats this time is far beyond the level of dealing with them. ”

Seeing that Li Zhaoshui was full of confidence, Zhang Wei was relieved.

Since Li Zhaoshui agreed to this purchase plan, Zhang Wei immediately passed the order to Xiao Yu'er, and asked Xiao Yu'er to immediately start synthesizing the required crew.

"This fleet will be named the First Battle Fleet, the commander of the fleet is Li Yunhai, and the chief of staff is Yang Yili, but after the war is over, some warships will be transferred to strengthen the strength of the archipelago fleet."

Li Zhaoshui said: "Your Majesty, the archipelago fleet does not need battleships, just give them a battlecruiser, even a battlecruiser is about to go sideways in Asia." ”

"I know that giving them a battlecruiser just to be stationed in Ambon will be able to deter the surrounding Xiaoxiao; Give them another submarine team, 10 submarines, deployed in the port of Biton to ensure the safety of the northeast. But if you want to go sideways, then we have to wait until we get rid of Japan, because a few battleships alone can't run rampant in the world. “

When he arrived at Padang Port, Xiao Yu'er reminded all the crew members of the warship that they had been synthesized, and Zhang Wei did not release the warship, and was ready to release it when he was on the battlefield, so that it was easy to hide.

On 4 February, a telegram was received from an intelligence officer in Calcutta that the British Navy had left the port.

The General Staff calculates the optimal time and place of ambush based on the location, speed, range and other parameters of the port of departure and the port of destination.

On the evening of the 4th, Zhang Wei and others also boarded the Lanfang-class battle cruiser and quietly left the port under the cover of night, arriving at the predetermined waters in advance, arranging their pockets, and waiting for the arrival of the British army. Zhang Wei knew his level, and in order to ensure the success of this ambush, he handed over all the tasks to Li Zhaoshui, Li Yunhai and Yang Yili, and even he had to listen to their commands and never interfere with their actions indiscriminately.