The sun rose in the east, and Scheer, who had rested for a night, stood on the bow of the ship again, and the sailors almost showed relaxed expressions, although along the way, the cabins were full, there was hardly much place to lie down and sleep, and hammocks were hung in many places, but the long voyage of thousands of miles was finally about to reach the end, and Qingdao had finally arrived.

From afar, you can see the harbor and fortress, this port that has been operated by Germany for almost 20 years, maybe in the near future, it will become someone else's, and in exchange for the group of warships that Scheer will go to meet, I don't know, what the battleships are like, whether such an exchange is worth it.

Spee walked up to Scheer and said, "Scheer, I'm about to arrive, I need to enter the military port to report on my work, and you need to keep moving forward, rest assured that the ship will send you there!" ”

Scheer's heart was a little complicated, in anticipation, with a little bottom in his heart, who came with him, officers above the lieutenant colonel, and the same, in Germany, the captains of battleships were mostly colonels, and a few were rear admirals, but this time, all the lieutenant colonels, and even the captains of the heavy cruisers, which were completely unimaginable before, even if he was just in the position of captain of the battleship, he was only a few years out of office.

Spee knew Scheer's mood at this time, he didn't know much about the Qingdao shipyard, so much so that he heard Fabian say a few words, these could not help Scheer at all, the more he knew about the navy, the more he knew that the difficulties of a naval construction, Germany back then, how many years behind Britain had formed the current scale, as for the United States. It has the world's largest industrial output, but it is on a battleship. It's still more than one level off.

The East Asian Fleet finally docked at the Qingdao military port, to be exact. On the side of the military port, after a short stop, he left in a hurry, and put down Spee and several other main leaders, the purpose of course was the Qingdao shipyard dozens of kilometers away, and it would take more than an hour to take the waterway.

Between the shipyard and Qingdao, there are not only telegraph lines, but also telephone lines. The arrival of Scheer and others was notified very early here, and all the officers who came, but the number of more than 4,000 people is enough to start two Fantasy-class, and it can also be matched with some Chinese seafarers, these ships will definitely not be able to sea trials in Chinese waters, according to previous estimates, up to 5 months of sea trials. All in Southeast Asia, where there are enough supply ships and ports to cope with the attrition of the entire fleet, unless there is a major attrition. It is necessary to overhaul or replace the engine and naval guns or something, so that you need to return to Qingdao, such a method. It is guaranteed that these warships are secretly put into service.

Compared to the great powers, they focused more on the coast of China, the southeast of Indonesia. More suitable, after crossing Borneo. Deep into the Pacific Ocean, where there is no end, not the main channel, and not many people, it is a good place.

Yang Yuanzhao did not go to the harbor to greet him, his identity, at present, is almost the same as the national leader, this is just a commercial activity, he is more concerned about the sea trial command system, as long as this system is completed, not only the German high seas fleet will be greatly improved, even if it is the future Chinese Navy, in the case of this item, there is no need to run in for a long time, once on the ship, familiar with the operation of a qiē, you can play the maximum hit rate, this is a temptation that is difficult to refuse.

Next, the electronic command and control system will not be installed on the battleship, but some of the personnel responsible for the collection and design of the number will set off with the battleship, mainly to record most of the number of points, especially the habits when shooting, so as to adapt to the command system, reduce unnecessary operations, and strive to make this command system have a better hit rate. In the era when there is no radar, and in the era when the level of computer application has not been improved by a greater margin, this is already the ultimate that the Northwest can do.

At sea level, a few plumes of smoke appeared, and as time went on, the plumes of smoke became more and more numerous and denser, and when the 10,000-ton armored cruiser appeared to the south of the shipyard, the personnel in charge of the lookout reported that the East Asian Fleet had been discovered.

The German ambassador Mümmer and the battalion commander of the German army battalion stationed at the shipyard both went to the port to greet them, and the deck of the East Asian Fleet in the distance was full of people. These are German naval officers, I heard that they are about to arrive at the shipyard, most of them have come out, even including some senior officers, they also followed the sailors out, Jiaozhou Bay is a German territory, and it is not close to the main channel, there is not a single ship for dozens of miles, they are not worried about being discovered, they come out generously, and they will arrive in about half an hour.

"It's finally here!" Scheer said with a little melancholy, the naked eye has seen that the tall docks in the distance, although most of the docks, the height of the land is tens of meters, but from a distance, a large number of docks are densely distributed here, even if Scheer is a German officer, he can't help but admire, this is probably the largest shipyard he has ever seen, densely packed docks, at least seventy or eighty.

Some worries in his heart began to calm down, what he was most afraid of seeing was poverty and whiteness, and then the so-called warships were built indiscriminately, he knew that German engineers were in charge, but it was only a long time, less than a year and a half, which was not enough time for Germany to even build a shipyard, how could it be possible to produce battleships.

The Northwest is a master of construction, as a senior of the Admiralty, he knows very well that the Kiel Canal, which was completed around June 1913 ahead of schedule, because of the emergence of the Northwest, not only has the tonnage of the passage increased by 80%, but also the shipping conditions and traffic capacity are much larger, not only the current King-class can pass smoothly, and even the future Bavaria-class can also pass, according to this actual capacity, basically no more than 60,000 tons of warships can pass.

Kiel Canal, as the largest canal in Germany, is a tight spell that restricts the high seas fleet, in order to be able to quickly cross the Baltic Sea to the North Sea, Germany built the Kiel Canal, but when designing, I did not expect that in just a few decades, the sea power will develop so rapidly, to 1907, had to be re-excavated, a canal that was built less than 10 years ago, re-excavation and expansion, which is also the first time in history.

Because of the relationship between money and time, the scale of this excavation is relatively small, and even during the excavation of the warships, most of them need to consider the depth of this canal, the king class is quite obvious, considering the problem of draft, with a wide hull as the basis, under the conditions of high sea clearing, the seaworthiness is not good.

Now that the problem has been solved, the depth of the Kiel Canal has reached the extreme that can be achieved at present, and the depth has been greatly increased, and the newly designed Bavarian class can not consider the relationship between the Kiel Canal and the Kiel Canal, and there is no need to design a relatively wide hull for the passage of the Kiel Canal, and a relatively high freeboard can be designed to cope with the stability of the complex sea conditions, which greatly increases the Bavaria and its combat effectiveness.

At that time, Scheer was also very grateful to the workers in the northwest, it was their hard work that made the Kiel Canal not a German mantra, but became a booster, the new canal, under the impetus of the northwest, carried out the charging operation, according to the tonnage to save 30% of the voyage consumption, this is the first time in Europe, and the amount of charges is much higher than the Suez Canal, the Suez Canal is only charged according to the tonnage, without taking into account the saving of voyage charges, relatively low, The Kiel Canal charges at least 10 times more than the Suez Canal. There was a backlash, but it was not large, and soon a large number of ships swarmed in, so that the Admiralty obtained a lot of financial resources, and it is estimated that in a year at most, it will be able to fund an additional battleship.

As a high-ranking member of the Admiralty, Scheer admired the construction ability of the Northwest very much, but the earthwork of the excavation and other foundations is earthwork, the dock is a dock, and the construction of battleships is the construction of battleships.

However, the iron facts in front of them proved that the northwest seemed to have incredible magic in terms of construction, and could build huge projects like stacking blocks or casting magic, and with the approach of the battleship, they clearly saw the huge battleship in each dock.

Standing on Scheer's position, you can clearly see that the general outline of the battleship looks relatively thin, not the traditional wide layout of the battleship, I think it is about the consideration of speed, in Spee's brief introduction, Scheer knew that the speed of the battleship is more than 27 knots, basically catching up with most of the British and German battle cruisers, so the fantasy class is also named fast battleship, with the word fast, which is compared with the battle cruiser, and his main task is to form a generation difference and overwhelming advantage over the battle cruiser.

So big, an officer next to him exclaimed, this battleship that is still in the dock, the first feeling to them is big, all the naval officers who come, dealing with all kinds of warships all year round, they know very well, what kind of size the capital ship is, although there are still a few kilometers or so, it is not clear, but the height of the stage and the forest-like superstructure, still give them a huge shock, the Chinese really created a miracle, in such a short time, produced so many steel giants.

Scheer was a little strange, could it be that he sacrificed firepower and only cared about speed, but according to Spee's introduction, this fantasy class has 5 twin 15-inch batteries, 10 15-inch naval guns have the firepower, with a slightly narrow hull, can it be accommodated.

Scheer wanted to see it carefully, but the early morning mist and distance made it difficult for him to see clearly, and even the outline of the ship was blurry. (To be continued......)