'Buzz ......'

The long whistle sounded throughout the sky, more than ten miles away in the city of Lushun, faintly able to hear the huge whistle, because of the sea, and Lushun is an important military port, whether it was the Beiyang Fleet more than ten years ago, or the later Japanese fleet, the Russian fleet, all appeared here. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

And those fleets will sound a warning whistle before entering the port, of course, this has become an international practice, whether it is a warship or a commercial ship, when docking, it must sound a warning.

Therefore, the people in the Lushun area are no strangers to this kind of whistle, but today it always feels a little strange, the sound of the whistle seems to be louder than before, and the resounding time is longer, for some experienced old people, or slightly older people, they may be able to guess that this should be more than 20 warships entering the port at the same time will be a movement.

The whistle is not sounded at the same time, but every time a warship enters the port, it is thought that after basically docking, the next ship will start to enter the port, so as to avoid port accidents to the greatest extent.

Although it is indeed a bit troublesome to do this, if there is an accident, it is basically a sign that the entire port will not be able to operate normally, and the damage will be huge.

At the entrance of Port Arthur, the narrowest point is only 330 meters, obviously, once there is an accident with such a width, the entire port will be completely paralyzed. Of course, another benefit is that Port Arthur has a particularly good geographical location, which is a natural haven, plus the attribute bonus of ice-free port, so in the Far East, Port Arthur is one of the ports with the best geographical conditions.

The first to enter the port, is an old-fashioned battleship, but said to be a battleship, but it looks very shivering, the wooden hull, the outside is just wrapped in a layer of iron, there are only two 100 mm 40 times the caliber of artillery, and there are even only four modified 37 mm infantry field guns installed on the side, such a configuration, at most, is to scare the pirates, if it is really on the battlefield, it is estimated that it will be difficult to hold on to a round.

Like those dozen old warships, they are basically in this configuration, and more advanced guns are not absent, but the wooden hull simply cannot withstand the recoil brought by those guns, and if it is forcibly installed, it may even cause the hull to disintegrate directly in battle.

More than a dozen old warships all entered the military port within 20 minutes, and the speed was so fast that it even made people a little suspicious, and even the people waiting to watch in the port and the media were a little surprised.

But obviously, they are a little surprised, these dozen old warships still play a role in Port Arthur, that is, the pilot ship, they are simply familiar with the hydrological environment here, there is no possibility of any deviation, plus some other factors, so it is not surprising that there is such a speed.

However, immediately afterward, it was not the warships of the Internal Guard Fleet that were not too backward to enter the port, but a 2,500-ton destroyer, and everyone couldn't help but feel a burst of disappointment when they saw the destroyer passing through the port quickly.

This kind of small-tonnage battleship does not seem to play a very obvious role in naval warfare, and the weapons equipped on it cannot pose a threat to some large warships at all, and it is difficult to penetrate even a cruiser of about 5,000 tons, let alone a battleship.

They were all looking forward to the Empire's new warship, but no one expected that the first warship they saw would be this ordinary destroyer with the number 401 printed on its hull.

However, no one explained anything to them, and under the guidance of the shore-based soldiers, the 401 destroyer leaned firmly on the corresponding dock. When the 401 ship approached the dock, the 402 ship appeared in the distance, which was a destroyer with the same specifications as the 401 ship, the two belonged to the same class, and the weapons performance and configuration were all the same.

Immediately afterwards, 403, 404, 405, and 406 destroyers of the same class sailed into the port, and the people in the port were even more disappointed, none of them could figure out what the empire was doing with so many destroyers?

However, with the completion of the six destroyers, the warships that entered the port later finally regained their confidence, because the next four cruisers that looked to be about 5,000 tons were followed by four cruisers that looked to be about 5,000 tons, and the hulls of these four cruisers were marked with the numbers 301-304.

Although they didn't have the battleships they wanted the most, at least, the performance of these four cruisers far surpassed the battleships such as the sunken Zhiyuan.

After the four cruisers entered the port, the battleships starting with 2 were officially unveiled, although there were only two, but they were still shocking, and the two battleships marked 201 and 202 appeared, and the four cruisers and six destroyers in the back, as well as several warships of the Internal Guard Fleet, had completely lost any light.

"Oh my God! What do I see? Weidenfeller's eyes shrank violently, and his eyes stared at the two huge battleships, unable to believe that this was true.

"Oh my god, this warship is too big, isn't it? One of them is top of the little guy's ten, and it looks like it. ”

"Tut, if we had these warships in the early years, little Japan would have died long ago, right?"

On the wharf, there was a lot of discussion, and the people just watched the excitement, but those media were very different, after all, their work was somewhat special, and they had more contact with things, especially those foreign media reporters, although they did not dare to say that they knew a lot about warships, but at least they knew some of the situation.

Just like the two battleships that just appeared, it was indeed beyond everyone's prediction, not that they thought that the Chinese Empire should not have battleships, but why did they have such advanced battleships? Who sold it to them?

What the? You ask him where he knew that this battleship was advanced? Do you need to ask about this? You can see it just on the surface.

As the first country in the world to develop dreadnoughts, Britain is also the first country to build dreadnoughts, and the British still have a lot of say in this regard.

Don't look at these two battleships, they actually started construction earlier than the British battleship Intrepid, but because of Wang Sirui's strict requirements and the fact that the Americans deliberately slowed down the construction speed, in order to allow technicians to take advantage of this opportunity to understand these technologies, the construction progress of these two battleships was not fast, and it took three years to complete the sea trial.

Britain began to build its first dreadnought at the end of 1904 (the butterfly effect was half a year ahead of schedule), but it was officially delivered in early 1906, and the entire construction period was only a year and a few months, making it the fastest battleship in the whole world.

But compared to the mature technology of the British, the first Dreadnought-class battleships in most countries were basically built in 1907, and some were only delivered in 1908, that is, during this period.

And these two Dreadnought-class battleships have already appeared here, what does this mean? It shows that someone sold this dreadnought-class battleship to the Chinese Empire in advance.

And think of the United States seems to be the first country to start building dreadnought-class battleships, and those two dreadnought-class battleships disappeared after sea trials, at this time, the Chinese Empire suddenly had two more dreadnought-class battleships, that is to say, these two battleships are the two dreadnought-class battleships previously built by the United States.

Although this is only a possibility, in the eyes of many people, the news exploded in an instant, and it had a huge impact on all countries, especially Japan and Russia.

And the fact is that the Dreadnought-class battleships built by the British have fallen behind the two Dreadnought-class battleships of the Chinese Empire in all aspects, because these two Dreadnought-class battleships directly jumped over the South Carolina-class battleships, which were originally the first dreadnoughts planned to be built by the United States, but because of their lack of design experience, they were built according to the previous construction model.

And this warship, which should have been named the Delaware-class battleship, was the real first dreadnought-class battleship in American history, but the Delaware-class battleship was not very brilliant in history, and the subsequent United States modified the Delaware-class battleship, and finally built an improved version of the Florida-class battleship, and the Delaware-class battleship was also dismantled and decommissioned in 1924.

And because the United States has free experience research on these two battleships, so far, the United States has completely ruled out the plan to build Delaware-class battleships, but plans to upgrade them based on Delaware-class battleships, and directly build the historical Florida-class battleships.

But in any case, the newest battleship of the United States has just put forward a plan, and various departments are still intensively renovating the drawings of the two battleships, and there is still some time before the construction of the new ship begins.

That is to say, the two battleships of the Chinese Empire are currently ahead of the world in terms of gunfire, speed, and armor defense.

Although this record is unlikely to last long, or even be surpassed by the United States in a few years, at least at this moment, they have regained their position in Asia, and in the future, they will also have their own shipbuilding industry.

The next day, when the national media were reporting on the strong return of the Imperial Navy, Japan became nervous again, the rise of the Chinese Imperial Navy, which was not good news for Japan, and what was even worse was that the reality was too far from the intelligence given to them by the British, especially the two Dreadnought-class battleships, which made the Japanese feel great pressure.

Although the Imperial Chinese Navy was still inferior to Japan in terms of total tonnage, with these two Dreadnought-class battleships, it was clear that the Chinese Empire had regained its position as the first navy in Asia.

PS: Thank you Ryuma Sakamoto and the two Huaxia-class space battleships for their tipping support! (To be continued.) )