When Tirpitz first heard that the power of the Fantasy class was stronger than the Bavarian class, his first reaction was disbelief, if the Fantasy class was stronger than the King class, he believed that the age of the fantasy class design was later than the King class, and there was newer technology, and the strength was a level higher, which was normal, but the Bavarian class, which was to eat some new British things, all of them, and added the genius design of German designers, and finally formed a perfect battleship, such a battleship could not compare to the Fantasy class.

Think about what kind of place China is, a country that relies on the help of Germany to have the ability to produce battleships, a country that was only able to produce 3,000 tons of armored ships before that, can surpass Germany in the field of battleships, this is too impossible, just like a boxer just took in an apprentice and taught him boxing, but the next day, the boxer's apprentice told the boxer that he could defeat the boxer.

Absurd to absurd, Tirpitz still earnestly asks Fabian repeatedly, Fabian solemnly promises that what he is talking about is not an illusion, but a fact, a fact that may really exist. But in fact, the design of the battleship, the young Fabian is first-class, all kinds of subsystems, after digesting the gains from Germany and Britain, under Yang Yuanzhao's design concept, high speed, high protection, high artillery density, these three are completely combined, whether it is speed, or protection, or the power of artillery, they are all above Bavaria, almost all the sub-projects of the battleship have been brought into full play, and Bavaria has almost failed when it encounters such a fantasy class.

Fabian simply sent the number to the German side. Tirpitz was half-convinced and familiar with Fabian's character. Knowing that he won't just talk nonsense, let's talk about it again. The quality of the battleship, as long as it is built, is intuitive, at a glance, just like the British battleships back then, Britain did not show all the numbers, no country will do this, this is equivalent to showing their hole cards in front of others, but all countries are counting from the surface. Basically, the strength of the Dreadnought is calculated, this is the battleship, power and strength, it is almost impossible to hide the past, at most do some small hiding.

The construction of a 45,000-ton giant ship is not overnight, and even if Tirpitz attaches great importance to it, it is impossible for him to personally come to the Far East to keep an eye on it, and he can only rely on Mumer. Fortunately, because the relationship between Germany and the northwest is getting closer and closer, and there are many various business and trade activities, Murmo comes over from time to time to see the progress. On the Qingdao side, the prototype of the giant ship has gradually taken shape, according to the current state. Looks majestic, but in terms of performance. It also depends on the specific launch before the final judgment can be made.

The performance of the armor. This point was the first to be recognized, and even the Bavarian class also used the Northwest special armor to improve the protection of Cheng dù, as for the artillery, the Northwest has a 13.5-inch artillery, and also has a certain range of artillery base, but the 15-inch 48 times the caliber of this indicator, to complete, is not very easy, this requires a breakthrough in many aspects, Krupp is still in the process of working public relations, the Northwest can actually be advanced.

With a team of naval officers, Mumo had the gunnery of the East Asian Fleet in command, he had served on dreadnoughts such as the Nassau class, and personally operated and commanded 305 mm, that is, 12-inch guns, and his vision was certain. The others, although they did not have this lieutenant colonel in terms of experience, were also industry insiders, and they watched the exercise in person, and absolutely nothing could escape their eyes.

The naval guns of large-caliber battleships, which are one of the most important subsystems on battleships, with battleships, often 20 kilometers, or even 30 kilometers of range, anything about them requires a long time to prepare, and also needs a qualified place, in the vicinity of Baotou, because in the past 5 years, Baotou's economy has developed rapidly, and the surrounding area of Baotou has been replaced by a piece of urban belt, in the city and city, except for some roads and railways, is neat farmland, Not very suitable for testing.

Fortunately, in the northwest to the north, it is the Mongolian grassland, Inner Mongolia is better, there is grassland, but further north, Outer Mongolia, there is a large area of the Gobi Desert, in the northwest military production is getting bigger and bigger, more and more products are even, specially built artillery test site, more than 1200 square kilometers of desert, is isolated by barbed wire and a large number of troops, for army equipment and artillery drills, and has produced 15-inch guns, as early as yesterday, pulled two over, all kinds of test bodies are well arranged, Specially waiting for Yang Yuanzhao to come to inspect.

Now from Baotou to any place under the jurisdiction of the northwest, the traffic is quite fast, the average speed of the train is as high as 150 kilometers per hour, almost more than 3000 kilometers per day, even if you add the time of stopping, go to the farthest trading city in the northwest control, it will not take more than 12 hours, through the development of the Mongolian grassland, from Baotou directly to the north, no need to detour to Oude, almost the route of the airship flight back then, so that there is less time.

The special train opened, with the fastest speed to reach the shooting range, the huge naval guns, built has been installed on a turret, compared to the turret on the battleship, this elimination is slightly simple, for the muzzle adjustment room is not much, the left and right adjustment range is not much, the elevation angle is OK, or single, not the double turret used on the battleship.

A few German officers, first look at the artillery, 15 inches of this thing, without careful inspection, roughly glance, skilled gunners can already judge, this is 15 inches, the pipe-to-body ratio is the same, about 48 times, are similar to the previous design, and even the German officers, also went to check the shooting range, those specially made, for testing steel ingots.

This is a whole piece of steel ingot, a full 3 meters thick, because the accuracy of the naval gun is not very high, this steel ingot is a little large, the frontal area, almost 200 square meters, smaller than a battleship, this is a fixed target, not a moving target, all kinds of shooting elements and conditions have been tested, 200 square is enough.

The whole inspection process took more than half an hour, and several German officers returned satisfied, the northwest side is real, it is a standard naval gun, and the steel castings used are also standard, the texture is uniform and fine, in the artillery test, it is relatively commonly used, there is no sign of fraud. Yang Yuanzhao didn't say anything about the qiē done by the German officers, nor did he get involved, but just waited patiently, and after they finished the qiē, the next real yàn began.

Standing on the observation platform behind the side, this is a permanent reinforced concrete structure, enough to withstand the attack of 15-inch, or even 16-inch artillery, a permanent fortification composed of a reinforced concrete structure up to 15 meters thick, because there is a certain height, the entire training ground is unmoved, with special telescopes, you can see clearly in the distance, and the skillful movements of more than a dozen gunners, soon, the artillery was fired.

A puff of smoke rose, and the shell shot out quickly from the chamber, even if smokeless gunpowder was used, but the huge body of the 15-inch gun, in order to push it, the amount of explosives required was quite huge, and the shell crossed a distance of about 18 kilometers with a very high initial velocity, and plunged into the solid body of pure steel.

hit, using the telescope, clearly see, the shell at a good angle, through the steel plate, caused a burst of explosions on it, the first hit, next, a total of 20 rounds, each barrel continuously excited 10 rounds, responsible for the artillery lieutenant colonel, in addition to observing the hit rate, is also observing the firing speed of this artillery, I don't know if it is a single relationship, the speed of the artillery, it seems to be a little faster than the double-linked 12-inch gun, almost 3 rounds in a minute, which is for large-caliber heavy artillery, It's terrible enough, you know, even if it is a mature German 12-inch gun, their rate of fire is about 2.5 rounds at most, and under specific sea conditions, it can't even reach it, don't look at the difference of 0.5 rounds, it seems that the speed is not much, but it is amazing enough.

After the end of a round of artillery fire, the two guns fired alternately, and it took almost only a few minutes to complete all the shooting, and when the smoke cleared, the guards withdrew all the shells and dragged the real guns out of the entire exercise area, Yang Yuanzhao and the others took a car to the position of the steel ingots to see the effect of the 15-inch naval gun attack.

I can't see it clearly from afar, 18 kilometers away, it takes half an hour to use an off-road vehicle, when I arrive, the huge mean steel ingot, has been a little out of shape, 3 meters thick, the shell is impossible to cross, every shell, are deeply embedded into the inside of the steel plate, the shell with a strong kinetic energy, through the distance of 18 kilometers, at a super high speed, into the inside of the steel ingot, excellent armor-piercing performance is undoubtedly here, when the staff cut the steel plate, The armor-piercing capacity is calculated through the bullet point, the highest reaches 452 mm, and the lowest reaches 398 mm, that is, the average armor-piercing capacity of this 15-inch gun exceeds 400 mm.

Although this is only the value of homogeneous armor, which is far less than that of protective armor, it also means that most of the battleships, except for the key parts, the remaining positions, after being attacked by such a cannon, cannot be blocked at all.

The people present, including Mu Mo, were dumbfounded and looked at this qiē in front of them, as the most powerful battleship of human creation, this 15-inch gun, which has not yet been named, with its strength, proved his toughness, close to 900 kilograms of heavy ammunition, the lethality is extremely amazing, if it is replaced by a high-explosive bomb, I am afraid that in the range of thousands of square meters, there will not be any living people, this is the most powerful attacking weapon. (To be continued......)