Thirty nautical miles outside Port Arthur, Sa Zhenbing stood on the bridge of the Hai Xi, looking at the blue sea in the distance, how many years later, he will finally see this moment again. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Thinking about the majesty of the Beiyang Navy in those years, the naval fleet, known as the first in Asia and the fourth in the world, could only settle under the sea after decades of scenery, becoming a humiliating stroke in history.

Those friends back then also died at the bottom of the sea one by one and became a cannon fodder for the rise of the country, but what did they get in exchange for in the end? Aside from the death and martyrdom, has the country really become stronger? No!

There was even a moment when Sa Zhenbing kept asking himself in his heart, if they didn't go to the Beiyang Navy back then, but devoted themselves to learning and training themselves, then if they came to receive these warships now, and waited for the establishment of the Chinese Empire to report that blood, would they still end up like this?

If those people survive until now, they can at least guarantee that within two years, the Imperial Navy will return to the first position in Asia.

Although the total tonnage of their warships is not as good as that of neighboring Japan, Russia, and many other countries, all of these warships are the latest warships.

The two super battleships, weighing 22,000 tons, were the most massive warships since the establishment of the navy in the history of China, and even the other auxiliary warships were much more powerful than the Zhiyuan ships of that year.

Although the armament of warships is not very reasonable and even incomprehensible, no one can deny that this is indeed the most powerful fleet in Chinese history in recent decades.

In the distance, bursts of black smoke rose, and the soldiers in the fleet also cheered excitedly, it was their fleet, which belonged to the Chinese Empire's own fleet.

At this time, Sa Zhenbing's face finally showed a smile, and after waiting for decades, he finally saw this moment again. Since Ye Zuqi and Sa Zhenbing led the naval fleet to defect to the Chinese Empire, the burden on Sa Zhenbing's shoulders has never been lifted.

At first, he was hesitating, he was thinking, he was wondering, would the Chinese Empire leave the two of them aside? Can their enthusiasm be trusted and satisfied here?

But later, the two of them completely abandoned this, because the emperor had given them a clear answer, the empire should not only develop the navy, but also vigorously develop, and now it is the time to employ people, for the commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief of the two imperial navy, there is only one requirement, to train qualified naval soldiers and officers for the empire, at the same time, Wang Sirui also told them the empire's fleet plan, which is also the core motivation for the two of them to work hard in recent years.

They have been rooted in the navy all their lives, and naturally have their own set of opinions, and after learning about the future scale of the imperial fleet, they also began to formulate a whole set of talent training plans.

Those battleship officers of the same level of tonnage are good to cultivate, after all, there are ready-made warships that can be trained for them, but the only thing that makes the two of them have a headache is those two battleships, there have never been battleships in Chinese history, and they don't know anything about battleships at all, although they envy the giant ships and cannons of battleships, but they don't have any experience, let a captain in charge of cruisers be in charge of battleships, if it really comes to war, the consequences will be disastrous.

In particular, in recent years, the army has sent back one after another good news, during the Korean War, because of the weakness of the navy, it had to be forced to stop the offensive, and even lost several excellent army officers because of this, these are all stones pressed on Sa Zhenbing's shoulders.

Don't think that the navy is very easy to cultivate, for the simplest example, any naval officer must be familiar with the way of joint operations of the fleet, and the operation of a single ship is too simple, compared to joint operations that are no less difficult than ten times, it is like a drizzle.

The joint operation not only needs to cooperate with other brother warships, but also needs to take into account the formation of the entire fleet, and the most important thing is to move, sometimes even if a warship goes to the wrong position, it may be caught by the other side, which will lead to the defeat of the whole battle.

Even, those small-tonnage battleships, the main role on the battlefield is to drop torpedoes, and then it is to cover some of the main battleships, not to mention the artillery or something, this is not something they can control, if necessary, they must go to block the torpedoes for the main battleship, this is the most fatal.

For the cultivation of talents, they have been preparing for nearly four years so far, but they are still incomplete and still unsatisfactory.

Half an hour later, under the cheers of the entire fleet and led by a destroyer, more than 20 warships of all sizes officially joined the internal guard fleet led by Sa Zhenbing.

"If we could have had such a fleet back then, would the Japanese still dare to attack?" Looking at the huge fleet in front of him, Deng Haohong silently shed tears.

"Time does not create people, if Your Majesty could be born a decade or two earlier, Zhengqing would not have had the opportunity to make that kind of feat." Sa Zhenbing shook his head helplessly, with a look of loss.

It's not that I'm dissatisfied with this fleet, but I'm dissatisfied with the martyrdom of my friend back then, if, just if, the Lafayette in the capital can save a birthday banquet and save some annual expenses, how could the Beiyang Navy, which dominated Asia back then, fall to such a point?

To put it mildly, if that money had been saved to develop the navy, Japan would not have been compensated 200 million taels of silver in the future, and what would be the final result? The small money was squandered by the Lafayette, the big money was taken away by the Japanese, and the bottom of the sea was left to the Beiyang Fleet.

But those of them dare not speak out, how can they change the decision of the upper echelons? Women are in chaos, the harem is in chaos, this is the navy's evaluation of the Empress Dowager Cixi.

"Haohong, Your Majesty has decided to appoint you as the commander of a detachment fleet, you have to work hard, no matter what kind of situation you encounter in the future, don't lose your mind, and don't be as reckless as your father, although it is a feat and has won the respect of the people of the whole country, but the country has lost him, and there will be a fault line in the talent of the entire navy, if your father is still alive, it will only take two years at most for our fleet to stand up again." Sa Zhenbing taught to Deng Haohong beside him.

"Yes, Commander, I will definitely do my best to make the Imperial Navy stand up again." Deng Haohong was stunned for a moment, then suddenly overjoyed, and immediately said.

Deng Haohong, Deng Shichang's eldest son, Deng Shichang was posthumously awarded the title of Prince Shaobao after the martyrdom of the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, and the eldest son Deng Haohong inherited the position of Deng Shichang and served as the Guangdong Water Division.

Later, with the help and careful training of Deng Shichang's friends, Deng Haohong soon gained real power and served as a pipe band.

It can be said that Deng Haohong is impeccable in terms of operational command experience, which is why Sa Zhenbing did not arrange for Deng Haohong to go abroad to receive warships, because he knows very well that after this fleet returns to China, it will mix the internal guard fleet, and then divide it into two to form the first fleet and the second fleet of the empire respectively.

Whether it is qualifications or experience, Deng Haohong is qualified to be the commander of a detachment, after all, he has a seventeen-year naval career and a ten-year pipe and belt career here.

Therefore, when Sa Zhenbing submitted this proposal to Wang Sirui, Wang Sirui did not say anything and directly agreed to this request, but the specific appointment has not yet been issued, but it doesn't matter, it is nothing more than the first fleet and the second fleet, and these two fleets will divide these warships equally, and which fleet will be the same.

Looking at the warships with bright red five-star red flags, everyone couldn't help but feel a surge of blood in their bodies, some excited, some excited, some nervous, and some disappointed, because they didn't go to serve on those new warships.

After the two fleets reconciled, under the leadership of the Inner Guard Fleet, a group of more than 40 warships returned to Port Arthur in a majestic manner, and not far behind this fleet, there were several thousand-ton warships slowly following, but they never dared to approach, let alone express any sense of battle.

Of course, let's not say it's them, let's just say that these more than 40 warships are placed here, let the Japanese warships that participated in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle come over and see if they dare to take the initiative to attack? Even if the old wooden battleships were removed, the Japanese would not dare to make any changes.

The two 22,000-ton battleships alone are enough to scare them, and the size of one battleship alone is four or five times their size, as for the naval guns on it, this can only be hehe, to put it mildly, as far as their warships are concerned, any one of them will directly bow down if they are hit by a shot, and there is no room for negotiation at all.

These two dreadnoughts were completely customized according to Wang Sirui's requirements, because some data were not determined at that time, so the final tonnage was 2,000 tons heavier than the approximate tonnage, but it doesn't matter, after all, what was said at that time was an approximation, and it can't be controlled according to the approximate data, right?

So, the final data for these two dreadnoughts is 155 meters long, 25.5 meters wide, 253 mm of broadside armor, 52 mm of deck, 200 mm of gun mounts, 305 mm in front of the turret, and 300 mm in the conning tower.

The firepower configuration of the whole ship is also very frenzied, with 5 305 mm 45 times caliber twin main guns, arranged according to the front two and three back, and the front is an overlapping design, which saves a lot of space and can improve the firepower density of the ship's guns.

The five main guns alone were a headache, and there were 16 127 mm 50 times the caliber secondary guns, which were installed on both sides of the warship, eight on one side, and were also equipped with two 533 mm torpedo underwater launch tubes.

This is the full firepower configuration of these two battleships, of course, Wang Sirui also has a strange request, that is, there are about ten open spaces on the warship, which are only slightly smaller than the secondary gun position.

In Wang Sirui's words, those places are shells, and the Americans are also depressed, but Wang Sirui is the customer, although they don't understand it, they still do what Wang Sirui asks.

And are these ten open spaces really used for shells? In fact, no, but the reserved position of the high-level dual-purpose 88 mm guns, which can not only increase the future air defense capabilities of the battleships, but also increase the power of their artillery fire, 88 mm guns, if they use armor-piercing shells, are still very threatening to thousand-ton warships. (To be continued.) )