The special train passed through the land of Shandong and entered Jiaozhou Bay, because of the relationship with the signing of the agreement with Germany, and now the forces in the northwest have entered in a big way, because the Entente and the Central Powers have not yet started a war, and at present it is only the entry of the civilian field, and has not yet expanded to the military field, and what has been obtained, it is inconvenient to stimulate Germany too much at this time.

There is no military development, but the development of Shandong, almost injected a strong needle, close to Qingdao, a series of new cities are being built, some coastal ports, after the completion of the initial transformation, the formation of a series of fortresses, the formation of a dense protection system.

Naval guns, especially 15-inch naval guns, for the northwest, processing is not difficult, even on land, without considering the weight and protection, can be extended to the extreme, land fortresses with 15-inch naval guns, his body tube ratio actually reached 53 times, the amount of charge that can withstand has also greatly increased, the range and power have also increased, it can be said that it is the most powerful artillery at present.

In the case of naval guns of the same caliber, there will not be any fleet of battleships that will challenge the land fortress, and the battleship cannot be endlessly equipped with armor, but the land fortress can be stacked in front of the naval gun, stacking several meters, or even dozens of meters of protective fortifications, although the naval gun cannot be moved, but under the premise of designing the angle of the naval gun and shooting the elements, it can even be launched faster than the battleship, and the hit is more accurate.

Even some extreme ones will choose to raise the fort to the mountain, not too high. One or two hundred meters is fine, and one side is condescending. Naturally has a longer range, and one side can only passively feint. Under the addition and subtraction, it is even more disadvantageous for the battleship. Since the era of dreadnoughts, there have been few battlefleets that challenge the feat of land fortresses, unless the caliber and firepower have an absolute superiority and hang the batteries to attack.

Naval artillery, for other countries, is a precious, high-tech thing, for the Northwest. After solving the problem of production technology and raw materials, it is a problem of mass production, and after the initial adjustment, especially after the parallel project and the second special steel plant in Taiyuan and the steel plant in Shandong were put into operation, it was even more rapid construction, and the scale was used to amortize the cost, counting the advantages of technology and labor in the northwest, in the same caliber of naval guns, compared with the United States. Britain and Germany, at least 40% of the cost, so Yang Yuanzhao has the confidence to build more than 12 sea fortresses. With a range of about 30 kilometers, it almost covers more than 300 kilometers of coastline on land.

The special train crossed this large construction site and quietly drove into Qingdao. When there is still one stop from Qingdao, stop at a secret small station. It's a separate turn, or even a connection. Connecting with a 2-kilometer-long rail car, which was able to turn to a railway to the new Qingdao shipyard, also for safety reasons, after the Qingdao shipyard could produce super-dreadnoughts, the northwest moved more cautiously.

The train gradually went deeper, almost more than 60 kilometers around, and it was not fast all the time, and only then did I see this huge shipyard on this desolate tidal flat.

It was completely different from almost a year ago, the Qingdao shipyard at that time was just in the ascendant, and a large number of docks did not stop, let alone be installed, but now, 9 capital ships, more than 600,000 tons of steel giants, are gradually forming here, and they are about to be launched, which makes Yang Yuanzhao feel a burst of heroism.

The top officer of the Qingdao shipyard in the northwest, the head of the 1st Special Operations Regiment, the German ambassador Mumer, and the commander of the German Qingdao Fortress, Victor, were all here, and they welcomed Yang Yuanzhao's arrival together.

When he heard that he had passed Fuzhou yesterday, he would pass through Shanghai this morning, and at most he would arrive at Qingdao Port tomorrow, because in his message, the day after tomorrow, it was the time for the two Fantasy class ships to be launched, just in time for their arrival, and it was estimated that these guests who came from afar had no time to rest, and it was estimated that they did not want to rest when they saw this.

The commander of Qingdao Fortress went back when he was busy with official business, and when Mu Mo had nothing to do recently, he did not stay in Beijing, nor was he in Baotou, most of the time, he was on the Qingdao side, to be exact, it was Qingdao Shipyard, he almost witnessed the process of Qingdao Shipyard from scratch, watching a huge dock rise from the ground, the success of a steel giant, especially the Fantasy class, he was introduced by Fabian more than once, understood the power of the Fantasy class, and witnessed it with his own eyes, he believed it better than anyone elseAs long as these Fantasy classes enter the High Seas Fleet, it will be a huge boost for the High Seas Fleet.

With these 2 ships, or rather, the 5 Fantasy-class and 4 Orion Alters in the entire Qingdao Shipyard, these ships that are powerful enough to become the strongest warships of the High Seas Fleet, each of which has the ability to independently defeat and sink the King-class, 9 together, even more powerful than the 20 ships of the High Seas Fleet, and excellent command, so that these nine ships can play the effect of one plus one is greater than two.

The fantasy class has reached the final stage, all kinds of interior decoration, signal lines, weapon systems, and even the decoration of the inner warehouse, have all been completed, only some sub-projects, such as the final finishing and connection of the power system, the final test of the weapon system, of course, is a bullet-free test, a live ammunition test, it needs to be at sea, but the entire battleship has come out, 10 mighty 15-inch guns, standing tall, which is rare in the sea trials of the battleship, but Fabian is not dissatisfied, More than 1,000 different installation methods and arrangements, after a long period of computer calculations, one by one, the final artillery arrangement was the most perfect, in his opinion, it is impossible to continue to adjust.

As far as the installation of artillery is concerned, it has revolutionized Fabian's cognition, the most difficult to adjust the artillery system, on the slipway, the installation and adjustment have been completed, which is a huge super dreadnought, at least 4 months of time, it is expected, at most, 6 months, this battleship will complete all the sea realization, after remaintenance, into the sequence of the high seas fleet, this speed, from the day the keel was laid, only more than 8 months, plus 6 months of testing, 14 months, In one year and two months, it is not impossible to get a battleship close to 50,000 tons, this is a real existence, the northwest not only has eye-catching engineering capabilities in the field of basic engineering, but also creates a miracle in the manufacture of warships.

On the slipway of the Fantasy-class No. 1, there are not many workers in the construction, its progress is a little faster, it has been basically completed, Fabian, Linus and others, standing together at the same time, are pointing at the battleship, when Yang Yuanzhao and Mu Mo approached, they heard that they were commenting that this Fantasy class is comparable to a few Orions.

Fabian meant 2 ships, Linus was 3 ships, and Mu Mo suddenly interjected: "It should be ten!" ”

Everyone laughed, if it was one-on-one, the real 10 Orions, none of them may be the opponents of this fantasy class, Orion's artillery, except for a few parts, will be bounced off by the armor on the battleship, the new armor is two or three times that of ordinary armor, and almost all of them are more than 700 mm of protection of carbon-doped armor in important parts, ordinary armor-piercing shells have not been adjusted, and they cannot penetrate at all, only in a small part of the connecting parts, the open belt of the deck, it is possible to hit, but it will not have too much impact on the battleship, Unless it's too many hits. In this case, one-on-one, with superior firepower, superior protection, and even superior speed, how many Orions come is not an opponent.

It's a pity that the battlefield is not a number jù formula, 10 guns are 10 guns, and the degree of protection is the degree of protection, on the battle line, with the power of 15-inch 48 times the caliber of artillery, under the premise of adjusting some shells, At most, it is equivalent to 1.5 battleships, Fabian is relatively overestimated, Linus and Mumo are even more boundless, but this attitude also represents their mood, a battleship that participated in all aspects, personally designed and supervised the construction of the battleship, and is currently the world's largest tonnage, the largest strength, and the most technical achievements of a battleship.

Happy times are always so easy to pass, people who haven't seen each other for a long time, and even keep recalling, on the fleet from Berlin, Germany, to Qingdao, they first got together to design all kinds of experiences of fantasy class, it was just a year ago, a qiē seems to be still vivid, at that time, at the beginning, they were just thinking about a really fantasy battleship, but now, the 45,000-ton battleship is placed in front of them, this human history, the most powerful, the strongest and fastest warship, With their current understanding, it is almost impossible for anyone to send him to the bottom of the sea with artillery fire, and a sense of success and happiness is born from the heart.

Looking at the steel monster under his feet, Yang Yuanzhao was not as excited as Fabian, perhaps, the first battle soon after, was the last elegy for the battleship, and even the battleship under his feet, even if there were a lot of positions left that could be modified and modified, he couldn't adjust too much, the disadvantage of air defense was a weakness that he couldn't change, and it seemed that the air force was still a toy, of course, this is for all countries in the world, the air force in the northwest already has actual combat capability. It will be his terminator, a behemoth with a huge investment, millions of pounds, maybe a dozen small planes, can send him to the bottom of the sea, and its terminator has not only appeared, but is gradually being carried forward. (To be continued......)