Mahan immediately and resolutely objected, "Only capital ships can win the war, and no matter how many auxiliary ships there are (of course, it is just an exaggeration, the cost and personnel cannot be ignored.) Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info), and can only delay failure. Even if the capital ship is backward and useless in actual combat, you can also train personnel to reserve talents for the new capital ship in the future! And those newly built large dockyards, I don't need to say much about the value, right? ”

"I'm just whining." Roosevelt spread his hands and said, "It's definitely no fun to count on those old people with rigid heads, you have to pay more attention, the hope of the US Navy will eventually be pinned on the young people......"

In other words, Mahan's age is not too young, Roosevelt's map cannon actually injured him by mistake, but Mahan didn't care, but nodded in agreement, "Yes, we must encourage innovation, new strategies, new tactics, new designs, new power, new artillery, new ammunition, new armor, the Chinese Navy is in front of the world in these aspects, they can become the world's first, our US Navy must follow the same path if we want to catch up!" ”

"Well said, but quality alone is not enough, the Chinese Navy is strong not only because they have Haitian-class armored cruisers, but also because they have 12 such invincible warships at the same time! Giving up auxiliary ships is a very bold idea, and it is also extremely smart, before the breakthrough in torpedo technology, medium-sized lightning ships are indeed of limited value, it is better to save funds to build more capital ships, the British Empire can't learn this method, because they have a vast colony to take care of, but we in the United States are different, the west coast can't be kept anyway, and the east coast is safe enough, so we can concentrate on building capital ships, of course, the premise is that we must design an epoch-making capital ship worth building in large quantities, It's like a Haitian patrol! The Chinese were able to build 6 ships at the same time, with our world's first industrial strength (here is a bit bragging, it is indeed already the world's first in terms of production, but the quality is still a lot worse. At the same time, the construction of eight to ten 10,000-ton capital ships should not be a problem, and there is every hope that the Chinese Navy will be completely overwhelmed within ten years, and that time will be the time for us to wash away today's shame! ”

Mahan watched his best friend talk eloquently, and couldn't help but sigh, "If only you were the Secretary of the Navy." ”

"There will be such a day, my friend." , Roosevelt said with a smile, he is the man who will be the president of the United States in the future, and the position of Secretary of the Navy will not take long to get it.

That being said, but the president of the United States is not so easy to be, especially since Roosevelt wants to be not the kind of transitional president, but the head of state who really has huge power, then it is even more difficult.

It is not an easy task to obtain the support of financial capital, industrial capital and ordinary people at the same time, take the expansion of armaments as an example, industrial capital is undoubtedly welcome, and the people can also get more job opportunities, but the strength of industrial capital must be rapidly increased because of a large number of military orders, and may even shake the dominance of financial capital, causing their dissatisfaction, how to solve this problem, Roosevelt has not thought of a good way so far, but now he is still young, and fame needs to be slowly accumulated, There's also time to explore slowly.

Even a wise man like Roosevelt regarded the Chinese Navy as the greatest threat, but he did not know that the trump card that Li Hui really prepared was the Chinese Army, which had already begun to emerge before, but had not fully attracted the attention of the Western powers due to the popularity of the navy......

In mid-April 1896, the successful research and development of the system's main technology, "indirect fire support", greatly increased Li Hui's confidence. After entering 1896, there were only those technologies left after 1900 (although there were a few sub-technologies that were very high in the technology tree, but the premise technologies were too late to be studied). For example, even if the third-level acceleration cost 1,000 times more gold and silver (about 332 tons of silver), it still takes about three and a half months. But even with such a high price, Li Hui still feels that it is worth the money.

Because this technology is a prerequisite for many key army technologies, as long as these technologies are studied, the basic configuration of the Chinese army can be close to the level of the German army in the late World War I (less aviation and armored troops), even if the United States has copied the pointed rifle cartridges, and the size of the federal army has been repeatedly expanded, Li Hui is not afraid at all.

In fact, due to the guidance of Li Hui, a traverser, many weapons corresponding to these technologies have been successfully developed in the Dazeshan Arsenal, such as mortars and submachine guns, but after the successful development of system technology, not only can the system be used as a "mobile supply station", but also can directly master some mature tactics related to these weapons, which Li Hui, who can only talk about on paper, can't help solve.

However, the research and development work of the Dazeshan Arsenal is not meaningless, because of the lessons learned from the optimization of pointed bullets and matching rifles, Li Hui understood some of the limitations of system technology, if there was no such product in the world at that time, then after the successful development of the corresponding system technology, it could only produce the first kind of such product in history, most of which were very immature, and some of them could not satisfy Li Hui after optimization. Therefore, for low-tech weapons such as mortars and submachine guns, Li Hui asked the Dazeshan Arsenal to directly copy some more classic models according to his instructions, so that after the successful research and development of system technology, these mature products can be directly produced, and the value of the system has been greatly improved.

However, after "indirect fire support", Li Hui first researched its subsidiary sub-technology "mountain artillery", not only because this technology is one of the prerequisite technologies of "infantry artillery", and "infantry artillery" is one of the prerequisite technologies of "mortar", but also because after the research of "mountain artillery" technology is completed, a new class of troops - mountain soldiers can be unlocked......

Mountain soldiers, as can be seen from the name, should be a kind of special good at mountain warfare, in fact, it is true, if you fight on the plains, mountain soldiers are not stronger than the cheapest infantry, but if you fight in mountains and hills, the same number of mountain soldiers have a strong combat effectiveness equivalent to 3-5 times the strength of the infantry of the same grade! (To be continued.) )