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A hero belongs to an era, an era brings out a hero, and the era shapes a hero? Or did the hero create the era? No one seems to be able to say clearly. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

On March 10, 1868, the third Dreadnought-class battleship Royal Knight, built by William Royal Shipbuilding outside London, England, was launched for final testing, after which it was to be delivered directly to the First Detachment of the Home Fleet of the Royal Navy of the British Empire.

As the first industrial power in Europe and the most powerful maritime hegemon in Great Britain, in just two years and three months, a total of six Dreadnought-class battleships were launched, equivalent to eight shield-class battleships of the Zhenyuan-class battleships of the Chinese Empire, and forty-five first-class armored heavy cruisers. Their houses were burned, and the whole of England, both nobles and commoners, lived in an inexplicable panic.

The British, who have a strong sense of distress, frantically built ships at all costs, and spent almost all the reserves of their treasury to collapse, and many shipyards throughout Britain are implementing a two-four-hour three-shift system, otherwise Britain is simply impossible to build a huge fleet with the world's largest total tonnage in just two years and three months, in terms of the overall technical level of shipbuilding, the Chinese latecomers slightly surpass the Germans, but the Germans' shipbuilding level is compared with the British, Obviously, the two sides are not on the same level.

However, there is one thing that the British must also be convinced, that is, whether it is the German or the Chinese, the large-caliber naval guns, their power, range, technical parameters, etc., far exceed the level of the British, so that the British dreadnought-class battleships can only be equipped with 300 times the caliber of 308 mm twin naval guns.

Compared with the 40 times caliber 380 mm naval guns of the Chinese Empire and Germany, it is simply not the same, but in terms of power, once it enters the range of 5,000 yards, in fact, whether it is 308 mm or 380 mm naval guns, the result after being hit by them is the same.

Lin Haijiang, who has been paying close attention to Europe, has realized that the British are not waiting for the so-called excuse for war, but waiting for the commissioning of the six Dreadnought-class warships, so that the British Royal Navy has formed a huge advantage over the Chinese Imperial Navy, and its two firmament-class and two Imperial-class battleships have to deal with the six Dreadnoughts of the British Royal Navy, and their six Zhenyuan-class battleships have to deal with the eight shield class of the British? Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Greece have built at least three or four Zhenyuan-class battleships, while the Russians have built six Peter the Great-class battleships with a standard displacement of 28,000 tons.

Looking at the naval strength alone, the Chinese Empire and the British may be said to be on par, but if you balance the entire Allied bloc and the Entente bloc, the size of the German High Seas Fleet is comparable to the Imperial Indian Ocean Fleet without battle cruisers, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire are also the same, it can be said that the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire have invested almost all their funds in the development of the army, because the navy is not a branch of the army that can win by surprise, and it needs long-term continuous construction and talent accumulation reserves. Lin Haijiang's kind of shit luck is really unemutable.

It is also the only luck in the world to use armored protection cruisers to equip breech guns to fight wooden-hulled sail battleships, and it happens to stand at the point of the collapse of battleships.

On the whole, Lin Haijiang knew that his original strategy was to achieve a certain success, and deliberately leaked the design drawings of the firmament-class battleships, so he set off a large-scale naval arms race on a global scale, so that the national resources and funds of Britain, France, Russia and other countries were consumed on the giant ships. Moreover, in the case of the British Royal Navy's Dreadnought-class battleship, its maximum speed is only fourteen knots, and if this Dreadnought-class battleship is approached by a Breaking Wave-class destroyer with six torpedo tubes installed in front, then it is a huge live target with its maximum speed of fourteen knots.

However, it is not so simple for a destroyer to get close to a battleship, not to mention the battleship's 308-mm main gun, just a 150-mm secondary gun is enough for a destroyer of two or three thousand tons to drink, and the destroyers of the British, French and even Russians are generally between 790 and 1,800 tons, and a destroyer of 3,000 tons is built? The Chinese Empire is also unique in the world.

Lin Haijiang is replacing the main power system for the main ships of the empire, and the popularity of the new boiler steam turbine of large heavy oil fuel oil and fuel mixing has made the operation of the firmament-class battleships and empire-class battleships relatively stable, especially in terms of power and endurance of the ship, which are far beyond the European side, but in order to lead in terms of power, Lin Haijiang has paid a lot of price, and the price of these large heavy oil fuel mixed new boiler steam turbines with relatively reduced efficiency and volume can be said to be an eternal pain in Lin Haijiang's heart.

Lin Haijiang could only comfort himself with cutting-edge weapons and advanced technology, which were originally expensive, and due to the hesitation and hesitation of Nicholas I on the Russian side, the Chinese Empire had already built a complete system of fortifications on the Omsk front, which was built on the permafrost zone and composed of permanent fortifications and semi-permanent fortifications, and stationed Chekov's 300,000 troops, and 200,000 horses were trained and reorganized in Krasnoyarsk. The headquarters of the 10th Army of the Northern Military Region of the Chinese Empire was stationed in Krasnoyarsk, and the remaining 10 armies were to build a permanent defense line along the border demarcated by the North Sea Line, and four of them were deployed in the Angara River valley.

Now the Friendship Defense Line has become the strongest defense line in the world, the three heavy artillery divisions and five field artillery divisions of the Chinese Empire secretly entered the rear of the Friendship Defense Line, it can be said that these eight artillery divisions are almost 80% of the strategic artillery of the Chinese Empire, which is also the main reason why Chekov is desperate for Lin Haijiang, Chekov as an authentic Russian annihilator, Lin Haijiang is still more appreciative, in addition to fighting in other people's homes, Lin Haijiang has nothing that he dare not use, the latest incendiary bombs, A large number of high-altitude grenades were transported to the Friendship Defense Line, and Lin Haijiang wanted to turn this place into a meat grinder, and he would be sorry for Tsarist Russia if he didn't wring millions of catties of minced meat.

What made Lin Haijiang even more excited was that the "Sunshine Project" of the General Administration of Scientific Research of the Imperial Administration of Science and Technology had made a breakthrough, and it was quickly converted into military use, and the effect of various calibers of sunlight shells was very satisfactory after testing, so Lin Haijiang quickly rushed back to Nanjing, at the secret weapon test site of the Purple Mountain, Lin Haijiang ventured to watch the test of the prisoners of the resistance army on the Indochina Peninsula using mustard gas and chlorine gas weapons that had just been developed, and Lin Haijiang was very satisfied with the concentration and effect of the war agent. However, the test was forced to end because of a mistake.

The reason for the end of the test is very simple, that is, all the prisoners of the Indochina Resistance Army who participated in the test and wore gas masks were also poisoned, which made Zhang Qiliang, who is now protected by the guards, startled a lot, and immediately evacuated the head of state and the expert group.

Although there are a little twists and turns, it does not have much impact on Lin Haijiang's interest, because the process of making gas masks is relatively simple, and mustard gas and chlorine gas are different, in history in 1822, Despeuz found mustard gas in a failed chemical experiment, and he himself became the first victim in the history of mustard gas, and the German Meyer first synthesized pure mustard gas decades later, so Lin Haijiang hired chemists everywhere from Europe with high salaries, Gathering these people together and giving them basic guidance and direction, the artificial synthesis of mustard gas Lin Haijiang still follows the old path of the German Meyer, because the synthesis method invented by the German Meyer is still one of the most important synthesis methods of mustard gas in later generations.

Li Anmin, who had palpitations, recalled the wails of the poisoned captives with some horror: "What is this mustard gas?" Why is it so scary? ”

The only one present who was smiling was Lin Haijiang, Lin Haijiang smiled slightly and looked at the pale chief and said: "The pure product of mustard gas is a colorless oily liquid with a faint smell of garlic, and the industrial product is yellow, brown to dark brown. Mustard gas is a liquid erosive poison, invading the human body will cause systemic poisoning, after absorption, part of the metabolism in the body into non-toxic or low-toxicity products, part of the body and a variety of biochemical components such as protocells, proteins, enzymes and other alkylation reactions, after poisoning, lymphoid organs atrophy, bone marrow hematopoietic tissue destruction, hematopoietic cells decrease or disappear, intestinal mucosal epithelium and glandular cell nuclei concentrated fragmentation, villous edema, necrosis, mucosal shedding, submucosal inflammation, bleeding, resulting in diarrhea, hematochezia, loss of water and electrolytes, In severe cases, shock can be fatal. ”

Li Anmin felt that the Führer's smile and explanation seemed a little too terrifying, he could be regarded as the master of the sea of corpses and blood, but that was not at all comparable to the one in front of him, Lin Haijiang did not care about Li Anmin's feelings and continued: "Chlorine gas is yellow-green gas at room temperature and pressure, which can be liquefied into golden liquid chlorine by compression, which is one of the main products of the chlor-alkali industry, and its power and utility are much greater than mustard gas, which is the fundamental guarantee of the imperial army's invincibility and invincibility!" ”

(To be continued)