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The Chinese Empire adopted a strategy to contain the development of the German Navy, so the British Navy became an important pawn used by the Chinese Empire to blockade the German Navy. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info╔╗

While the Chinese Empire helped Britain to vigorously develop submarines, it also helped Britain develop another asymmetric force, that is, British aircraft carriers.

This is despite the fact that the Chinese Empire has repeatedly declared that its own development of aircraft carriers is a mistake, which has misled the world's great powers and countries to continue to believe in the idea of the triumph of the giant ship cannon doctrine. But Britain was a special case, because the British navy was the biggest victim of the Battle of Jutland, a naval battle in which the main force of the British navy was lost, and the German naval aviation suffered from the heavy bombardment. Therefore, in the post-war treaty era, Britain was unable to build large capital battleships due to financial constraints, so it had to develop relatively cheap aircraft carriers.

Since the outbreak of World War II, Britain has become the country with the largest number of aircraft carriers in the world, with a total of 31 aircraft, surpassing the number of aircraft carriers in the Chinese Empire (nine). However, the tonnage of the British Navy's aircraft carriers is not large, and there is a big difference between them and the aircraft carriers of the Chinese Empire, which are more than 40,000 tons and 60,000 tons.

Before the outbreak of World War II, the British Royal Navy had 1 large aircraft carrier, HMS Eagle. There are 9 medium-sized aircraft carriers, namely USS Fury, USS Brave, USS Glory, USS Radiance, USS Victory, USS Dreadnought, USS Indomitable, USS Invincible, and USS Ark Royal. The others are light aircraft carriers with a total of 21 ships, including the Unicorn, the Giant, the Revenge, the Honor, the Ares of War, the Glory, the Ocean, the Triumph, the Theseus, the Perseus, the Warrior, the Majesty, the Magnificent, the Terrible, the Levitan, the Mighty, the Centatrium, the Centaur, the England, the Athletic and the Barrier.

According to the classification of aircraft carriers by the Imperial Chinese Navy, only those above 70,000 tons are called large aircraft carriers. 40,000 to 60,000 tons are called medium-sized aircraft carriers, and the following are classified as light aircraft carriers. The definition of an aircraft carrier in the British Navy differed from that of the Chinese Empire, in the United Kingdom. Those above 40,000 tons are called large aircraft carriers, 20,000 to 30,000 tons are called medium-sized aircraft carriers, and those below 20,000 tons are called light aircraft carriers.

After World War I, the British Navy was underfunded, so it converted a large cruiser under construction, HMS Fury, into an aircraft carrier. The front guns were removed, and a 69.5-meter-long flight deck was added to the front half of the hull, with a wooden flight runway. The aircraft carrier has a standard displacement of 19,153 tons, a speed of 31.5 knots, and carries a total of 10 aircraft (6 "Puppies" and 4 "SCHOTT 184" seaplanes). But. When it was completed, the grief of the British naval aviation found that due to the obstruction of the towering tower mast and chimney on the ship, the aircraft could not return to the mothership after takeoff, becoming the most frilled aircraft carrier in the history of the British Navy.

In order to break the forbidden zone for aircraft landings, August 2, 1917. British Navy Rear Admiral Dunning, with his superb piloting skills, piloted the "Puppy Dog" fighter to land on the foredeck of the "Fury" in a sideslip landing. It was the first time in the history of the British Navy that an aircraft landed on a sailing warship. A few days later, when Dunning tried to repeat the thrill again, the plane flipped out of the warship and crashed into the sea. Dunning was unfortunately killed in the line of duty. The lesson of blood led the British to carry out a major refit of the "Fury" in late 1917 and early 1918. The main guns and rear mast of the warship were removed, and an 86.6-long flight deck was added to the rear of the hull. In this way, bounded by the middle superstructure of the hull, the forward deck is used for aircraft take-off, and the aft deck is used for aircraft landing. Aircraft can take off and land at the same time without interfering with each other.

Despite this, the Fury still does not have an all-access flight deck. Although the aircraft was able to barely land, it was still very difficult to land due to the turbulence caused by the bridge, mast and chimney in the middle of the hull. ╔╗Therefore, the "Fury" at this time is still a very imperfect aircraft carrier for the British Navy.

The Rage was followed by the Brave class aircraft carriers, which were the British Navy's old battle cruisers "Brave" and "Glorious", which had thin hulls and fast speeds, and the British Navy began to convert them into aircraft carriers in 1924. They were of the same type as the Fury, but with a starboard island superstructure (the Fury was also fitted with an island superstructure when it was refitted again in 1938).

The Valiant-class aircraft carrier was also the largest and strongest aircraft carrier built by the Royal Navy during World War II, with a total displacement of 30,000 tons, and was also the largest aircraft carrier in Europe at the time, commissioned in 1928 and 1930 respectively. It has a standard displacement of 22,500 tons, a speed of 30 knots, and can carry 48 aircraft.

In the thirties, as the five-nation pact was about to expire, each country deliberately did not renew it, and each naval power further strengthened its naval power, building a number of large ships, and war was on the verge of breaking out.

When Britain considered that its naval strength was not enough to deal with the German Navy, considering that Germany had not been able to obtain the Chinese Aegis air defense heavy cruisers with strong air defense capabilities and related technologies from the Chinese Empire, this provided the British Navy with a new operational idea, that is, the German Navy's fleet anti-aircraft firepower was not strong, and British aircraft could break through the German Navy's anti-aircraft fire network to attack its capital ships, so the British Navy decided to build a new type of fleet aircraft carrier, so the military ordered the designers to design advanced aircraft carriers within the validity period.

At that time, the British Navy was worried that the Chinese Empire would export the Chinese Aegis air defense heavy cruisers and related technologies, so the British Royal Navy desperately curried favor with the Chinese Empire, hoping to obtain the technology, but the Chinese Empire politely refused. Therefore, the British Navy concluded that the German Navy could not obtain the advanced fleet air defense technology of the Chinese Empire, so it was confident and bold to develop aircraft carriers.

British designers considered the restrictions on the standard displacement of heavy cruisers in the Five-Power Convention, since Britain had always referred to aircraft carriers as aircraft-carrying cruisers and classified them in the ranks of heavy cruisers. As a result, the British Navy announced in 1933 that it would change its aircraft-carrying cruisers to aircraft carriers, which were not classified as heavy cruisers, but were classified as separate arms like the Chinese Empire. Thus circumventing the restrictions of the Convention.

As the first aircraft carrier built in the true sense of the word by the British Navy, the designers were still very conservative and did not dare to raise it to the tonnage level of the active aircraft carriers of the Chinese Empire at once. It is believed that the discharge should be gradually enlarged. Therefore, in order to provide the aircraft carrier with the largest flight deck area under the condition of tonnage limitations, the bow and stern are equipped with outward and stern protruding plates, and each of them is bent outward and downward. Due to the military's requirement to carry more than 60 aircraft and armor protection, the designers had to add one more layer to the original hangar, bringing the carrier aircraft to more than 70. Due to the increase in hangars, it is inevitable that the ship's side will be raised, and the displacement will also be increased. In order to reduce the weight, the designers could only reduce the thickness of the armor on the sides.

The designers also took into account the damage caused by the waves in the Atlantic Ocean to the bow of the aircraft carrier, and therefore designed the bow to be closed. The designers finally completed the design of the new aircraft carrier within the validity period and submitted it to the Navy, and after acceptance by the military, the military approved the appropriation for the construction of one in 1934, named "Ark Royal". The ship was not completed until then. Originally named "Jupiter", on April 13, 1936 after it was launched. It was officially named "Ark Royal" (the old ship "Ark Royal" of the same period was renamed "Pegasus").

The Ark Royal has a full load displacement of 27,300 tons, a speed of 31 knots, and 72 aircraft (48 in peacetime). Due to the success of the design of the "Ark Royal", it became the prototype of the Royal Navy's later aircraft carriers.

In 1934, the British Navy began to build the Tejas class aircraft carriers again. The lead ship, the Brilliant Bright, was completed and commissioned in May 1936. ╔╗Its successor ships "Victory", "Terrible" and "Indomitable" and modified ships "Resentment" and "Indefatigable" were successively commissioned in the flames of World War II. The outstanding feature of the Captain "Brilliant" is that it attaches great importance to the protection capabilities of warships, becoming the second country in the world to have armored protection under the flight deck and hangar. Due to the limitations of the weight of the armor, it could only be arranged with one hangar. Therefore, only 36 aircraft can be carried on board. The ship was also equipped with 16 single-barreled 114mm anti-aircraft guns and a 792 radar, which was a fairly high-end air defense configuration in Europe at that time.

With the large-scale expansion of Germany in Europe, after the Polish War, Britain felt a huge gap with the German Navy, so it accelerated the improvement of asymmetric combat capabilities, that is, the British intelligence reported that the German Navy's air defense capability was still weak, so the British Navy continued to develop aircraft carriers, preparing to inflict heavy losses on the German Navy in wartime.

During this period, the Chinese Empire became more and more jealous of the German navy, and tended to use Britain to contain Germany's national policy. As a result, the British Navy seized this rare opportunity and turned to the Chinese Empire for help in developing relevant technology for aircraft carriers.

Although the Chinese Empire needed Britain to contain Germany, key aircraft carrier technology was not disclosed to the British Navy. In order to appease the British Navy, the Imperial Chinese Navy decided to transfer the early technology of straight-through full-deck aircraft carrier construction to the British Navy, and the polygonal bevel-right-angle deck technology was not transferred to the British.

The British Navy did not care about this, and for them, it was very satisfying to be able to master the technology of building aircraft carriers with an all-through flight deck, and Churchill thought that it was impossible to chew more than he could chew, so he made every effort to develop aircraft carriers with a straight deck.

With the help of the technicians of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the British Navy began construction of the Grievance-class aircraft carriers. The blueprint is a retired Danxiashan-class straight-through flight deck aircraft carrier from the Chinese Empire, and further improvements on this basis, with a second hangar enlarged and increased armor. With a design displacement of 23,000 tons and a full load displacement of 32,300 tons, the class of aircraft carriers has been fully optimized due to the transfer of holographic design technology for the island and hull structure by the Chinese Empire, and the redundant equipment and armor have been largely removed, resulting in an increase in speed, with a maximum speed of 32 knots, 30 bombers and 6 fighters (at the time of design), which can carry 22 Avengers (1939) and 36-40 Wildcats or Hellcats (1940) when built.

The British Navy received a full set of design technology for the straight-through flight deck aircraft carrier from the Chinese Empire, which enabled the British Navy's aircraft carrier development to accelerate rapidly.

Following the Vengeance, the Royal Navy improved on this basis and, taking into account the growing smell of the Great War in Europe, quickly began the construction of Hawk-class aircraft carriers.

As an improved version of the Revenge class, the design displacement of the Eagle class reached 33,500 tons, and the full load displacement exceeded the 40,000-ton mark for the first time. It reached 46,900 tons, becoming the only country with a tonnage to enter the ranks of medium-sized aircraft carriers and the second country in the world to have medium-sized aircraft carriers. It became the same class as the Emeishan-class aircraft carrier of the Chinese Empire. The maximum speed of the Eagle-class aircraft carrier is 30.5 knots, but the straight-through deck limits the number of aircraft carried by it, and the flight deck is only 803 feet long, which cannot carry 135 fighters like the Emeishan-class aircraft carrier, and can only carry a maximum of 100 aircraft.

Due to the poor turbine technology of the British, in order to achieve a speed of 30 knots, the British Royal Navy spent a lot of money to import Parsons turbine systems from the Chinese Empire, using four-shaft propulsion. In terms of armor, the hull armor is 4.5 inches vertical. Horizontal armor 3.65 inches, hangar armor 1.36 inches.

Because the British Navy was unable to obtain anti-air radar, sea-to-sea radar, marine radar, fire control radar and radio jamming devices from the Chinese Empire, the British Navy had to install artillery systems in order to strengthen the self-defense capability of aircraft carriers.

The Eagle was equipped with eight twin turrets, with a total of 16 4.5-inch 45-diameter guns and eight 4.5-inch 50-diameter anti-aircraft guns. ╔╗ 8 8-pack 2-pounder bang guns, 8 units of 6-pack. 4 twin and 10 single 40-number Armstrong anti-aircraft guns. The installation of these artillery systems greatly affected the speed and carrier capacity of the Eagle.

Other than that. The British Navy has developed 21 light aircraft carriers, including the Unicorn, Giant, and Revenge classes, which are mainly used for fleet air defense needs, and are based on the experience of the Chinese Empire in the large-scale modification of hundreds of aircraft carriers that served as transport aircraft during the Sino-American War. Of course, it was also the fleet air defense preparations that had to be taken because the main fleet of the British Navy could not obtain the advanced Aegis air defense cruisers of the Imperial Chinese Navy. That is, to replace the inadequacy of the air defense cruisers of the fleet with light aircraft carriers, and to prevent the approach of enemy aircraft with carrier-based aircraft. To a certain extent, this is an advanced concept of naval warfare, but due to the limitations of the British Navy's light aircraft carriers, which generally carry no more than 30 aircraft, limited speed and endurance, and other problems, the task of escorting the main fleet is limited.

However, the British Navy's concept of developing light aircraft carriers to serve as the air defense of the fleet has been recognized by many countries, including the Imperial Chinese Navy, which has to admire this advanced concept of the British.

Inspired by the British Navy's development of light aircraft carriers, the German Navy, which did not have the Aegis air defense heavy cruiser technology of the Chinese Empire, was also well aware that the air defense capabilities of its capital ships were limited and needed to be equipped with escort air defense. The German Navy built air defense cruisers and air defense destroyers on a large scale to serve as the air defense fire of the fleet, but during several exercises, the Germans found it difficult for their air defense cruisers and air defense destroyers to prevent German aircraft from penetrating.

For this reason, the German Navy also began to develop aircraft carriers after 1935. Due to the late start of the German Navy's emphasis on aircraft carriers, the German Navy lagged far behind the Chinese Empire and Great Britain in the development of aircraft carriers, and even lagged behind the US Navy and the Mexican Navy.

In 1935, the German Navy passed the Naval Enlargement Act of 1935, approving the construction of 20 escort aircraft carriers. Due to the bad relationship between Germany and the Chinese Empire at that time, it was unable to obtain aircraft carrier construction technology from the Chinese Empire, but the German Navy was very close to the US Maritime Self-Defense Force, and soon obtained the technology of the US Navy to build aircraft carriers in the early years from the US Maritime Self-Defense Force.

Thus, in March 1935, the German Navy's first self-built aircraft carrier, the Princess Charlotte, began construction at the Wilhelm Naval Shipyard.

The Princess Charlotte is the lead ship of the Princess Charlotte class aircraft carrier, with seven ships built in the same class, namely the Princess Charlotte, Prince Heinrich, Prince Sigismun, Princess Victoria, Prince Waldemar, Princess Sophie, and Princess Margaret.

As a fleet air defense aircraft carrier that the German Navy urgently started construction in response to the lack of fleet anti-aircraft firepower, the Charlotte Princess-class aircraft carrier is defined as a light aircraft carrier.

In terms of design, the Princess Charlotte class basically follows the blueprint of the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier of the US Navy 20 years ago, but the position and shape of the bridge have changed. In view of the turbulence caused by the Enterprise's bridge in the middle of the port side, the Princess Charlotte class placed the bridge forward to starboard, followed by a lateral chimney. The bridge has a total of 4 floors, including the first floor of the flying field (5 floors for the enterprise class). The top deck is an open-air deck, which measures 6.9 meters from the flight deck to the top deck, surrounded by thin steel plates. An air defense command post is located here, equipped with 12-centimeter and 8-centimeter binoculars for air-to-sea observation. The air defense command post was preceded by the command post for the operation of the ship. Later, there was the radar alert command post, with a simple radar antenna erected above the cylindrical radar room. Underneath the air defense command post is the compass bridge, which is 4.6 meters higher than the flight deck. On the deck of this level. In front is the compass bridge, behind is the herald post, and at the rear end is the open part, where the carrier-based aircraft take-off and landing command post is located. Below is the lower deck bridge, which rises 2.3 meters above the flight deck and is covered by the outward protrusions of the front and rear. ╔╗This bridge is equipped with a wheelhouse, a war room and chart room, a bridge wiring room, a medium wave measurement room and a pilot's standby room.

In addition, the bow of the ship is hyperbolic and has good seaworthiness. The bow freeboard is 9 meters, which is much higher than the freeboard of the forward and type aircraft carriers. The German naval authorities accepted the lessons of the past. During the construction, the hull structure was strengthened. The so-called previous lesson refers to the fact that it occurred on September 26, 1933. During the exercise, the German High Seas Fleet was hit by a storm during the North Atlantic exercise, and a number of large and medium-sized ships were seriously damaged, and 54 people were killed. In view of the heavy damage caused by the storm, the German Navy paid attention to the strength of the hull structure, and the top deck of the new aircraft carrier extended all the way to the bow. In addition to the thickening of the steel plates of the deck, the spacing of the ribs of the hull. 600 mm in the front and rear ends, 1200 mm in the middle, thus making the entire hull. In particular, the bow and stern structure of the ship was strengthened. The bow of the ship is divided into 6 decks: the top deck, the upper deck, the middle deck, the lower deck, the lowest deck and the cabin deck. On these decks are the crew cabins, military cabins, warehouses, oil tanks and anchor chain rooms. The stern is modeled after the Enterprise, with a rather high aft freeboard to improve seaworthiness. The rudder was made of the Wasp, supported by the central part about half a balanced rudder, inclined outward.

The flight deck is the same size as that of the USS Enterprise. It has a length of 216.9 meters, a maximum width of 27 meters, and a length of 2.7 meters from the waterline to the flight deck. The flight deck is equipped with a lift at the front and rear (one less than the Enterprise), both of which are large (14 m x 14 m) to meet the needs of the ever-increasing number of new carrier-based aircraft. It is equipped with hydraulic landing arresting devices, a total of 4 units, 12 horizontal cables. The maximum blocking distance is 45 meters, the maximum deceleration is 2.5g (overload), the maximum blocking speed is 40 m/s, and the maximum flight weight is 6 tons.

In addition, there are two lifting canisters on the flight deck. The front part is large and is mainly used to transport torpedoes and aerial bombs, while the rear part is small and mainly used to transport aerial bombs. The ship is equipped with 72 800-kilogram bombs, 288 250-kilogram bombs, 456 60-kilogram bombs, and 36 black-headed torpedoes (6 torpedoes can be adjusted at the same time).

The Charlotte Princess-class aircraft carrier is planned to carry 15 Heinkel 110 fighters, 20 Heinkel 119 fighters, and 30 Messersmit bombers, a total of 65 aircraft. Since the hangar could not accommodate so many aircraft, it was decided to keep 11 of them on the flight deck.

The speeds of the seven Princess Charlotte carriers varied, with the highest speed being the Princess Sophie at 31 knots and the lowest being the Prince Heinrich at 28.8 knots. On average, it's only about 29 knots.

By the outbreak of the First World War, three Charlotte-class aircraft carriers had been completed, but did not participate in the battles, but had been tested in the Baltic Sea. Of course, the main reason was that the German navy was bent on seeking a decisive battle with the main forces of the British and French navies, but the Entente never gave the Germans a chance.

At the beginning of 1939, during the exercises in the Baltic Sea, the German Navy found that the aircraft carrier battle group composed of three Charlotte-class aircraft carriers had the upper hand in the operation of the main fleet of the German Navy, which attracted the attention of the German Navy's top brass, and the German Navy, which had never questioned the doctrine of the victory of giant ships and cannons, wavered.

After receiving the report from the Admiralty, Hitler was also taken aback, and after thinking of the fact that the Chinese Empire had developed an aircraft carrier battle group for a long time, Hitler believed that this might be a real fact that the Chinese Empire had always wanted to cover up, and that the role of aircraft carriers far exceeded the extent that the Chinese Empire had been making public to the outside world, indicating that the Chinese Empire was very likely to have been misleading the navies of the world's major powers on this issue.

As a result, Hitler ordered the German Navy to speed up the completion of the remaining four Charlotte-class aircraft carriers and immediately begin the development of the Queen Augusta-class aircraft carrier.

Just when the German Navy wavered in the theory of victory of the giant ship cannon doctrine and began to pay attention to the true power of the air carrier, the first nuclear-powered ultimate battleship of the Imperial Chinese Navy in the far east had been officially put into service, and the Imperial Chinese Government immediately dispatched a huge fleet of 60 warships of various types to sail around the world, showing the powerful "muscle block" of the Imperial Chinese Navy to the navies of other countries. ╔╗

For the Chinese Empire at this time. Although it has nuclear forces, it can carry out nuclear blackmail against the countries of the world, so that they can meet the harsh conditions set by the Chinese Empire. But. The use of nuclear weapons will create strong international public opinion pressure, and unless the Chinese empire has reached the point of exterminating all mankind, it is impossible to use nuclear weapons lightly.

Therefore, in the strict sense of the word, nuclear weapons cannot completely replace the role of conventional weapons. Unless the Chinese Empire is invaded by foreign military forces, the use of nuclear weapons will not be criticized by the international community, otherwise if the Chinese Empire uses nuclear weapons to invade, then it is conceivable that it will face strong international public opinion criticism.

Politicians in Europe and the United States have largely quickly seen through this factor, so they have openly criticized the Chinese empire's global nuclear blackmail policy in international public opinion. This brought great disadvantages to the Chinese Empire. In order to get rid of the negative influence of nuclear weapons on the empire, the Chinese empire publicly promised that it would not rule out the option of using nuclear weapons once it was threatened by external military forces, but promised not to use nuclear weapons against countries that did not have nuclear weapons first, so as to suppress international public opinion.

But in order to continue to deter the great powers. In particular, to intimidate Germany's huge naval development plans, the Chinese Emperor Wang Chenhao decided to send a huge fleet to travel around the world. Show Germany and other countries the strength of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

In the summer of the 39th year of Guanghua, a huge fleet of 64,000 officers and men composed of more than 130 warships of various types of the Imperial Chinese Navy appeared on the east coast of the Chinese Empire.

In order to make the entire fleet more conspicuous, the Chinese Emperor Wang Chenhao specially ordered all warships. Including the battleship's ship island (fish belly white), chimney (graphite black), artillery (metallic silver), etc., are all painted in the color of navy gray, so the world calls it the "big bad wolf fleet", from a famous cartoonist in Europe at that time, the fleet of the Chinese Empire was painted as a big bad wolf to visit the white rabbit's house. And published in the Nuremberg Times the next day, and was quickly reprinted by the world's major media, becoming a popular name for the Imperial Chinese Navy during World War II.

On June 5, the 39th year of Guanghua, the "Big Bad Wolf Fleet" departed from the Jiaozhou Bay (Qingdao) Naval Base. Wang Chenhao, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, personally led the Manchu civil and military forces to the scene to see him off. Under the warm summer sunshine of Jiaozhou Bay, more than 100 huge ships were draped with colorful flags, and the majestic warships of various types sailed in turn from the cruiser "Zhonghua," the imperial observation ship on which Wang Chenhao was riding; salutes were fired in unison, the national anthem was played, and all the officers and men on the ship wore snow-white naval uniforms, stood on the edge of each deck on the warship, and saluted His Majesty the Emperor in a procession, and the scene was very spectacular.

Looking at the powerful fleet in front of him, which had poured countless efforts into him, Wang Chenhao waved his greetings and lectured the officers and men of the navy with excitement and joy, which was nothing more than words such as "the officers and men have worked hard".

As the Guanghua Emperor, the first nuclear-powered ultimate battleship of the Chinese Empire, slowly sailed by, it suddenly aroused the shouts of the spectators on the sea and shore, and the crowd was excited. But for Wang Chenhao, he didn't pay attention to how powerful this ultimate battleship representing the image of the Chinese empire was, he just looked for a figure among the naval officers and sailors lined up on the ship.

Soon, Wang Chenhao saw it, and a kind smile appeared on his face.

"Your Majesty, look! That's Guoming! The Empress Li Youyi beside him couldn't help but shout, because her youngest son, Major General Wang Guoming, the Nineteenth Prince, who had just been promoted to King Yan, was saluting them.

Among Wang Chenhao's many children, Yan Guoming has the highest military talent, and he has grown rapidly in the Imperial Navy, and has been promoted to rear admiral staff officer of the Pacific Fleet Command at a young age, and has passed the selection examination for the captain of the battleship Guanghua Emperor by his own ability, and became the first captain of the battleship Guanghua Emperor.

"See!" Wang Chenhao hurriedly held Li Youyi's hand to soothe her excitement. Wang Chenhao understood that Li Youyi's most painful thing was this little son, and he couldn't bear to let him stay away from his side. For this reason, Wang Chenhao interceded for Guoming more than once, and finally got Li Youyi's permission.

"Let him go out and break in! This circumnavigation of the world will have an important impact on his future growth! ”

"I understand!" Li Youyi nodded, and when the crystal in her eyes was about to fall out, she hurriedly buried herself in Wang Chenhao's arms. Keep it out of sight. He didn't raise his head until he wiped it off, but Guoming's figure was no longer visible.

The entire viewing ceremony lasted more than two hours, except for the nuclear-powered ultimate battleship Guanghua Emperor. There are also 27 super battleships, including 8 Ming-class battleships, 4 Hawaiian-class battleships, 4 Yuan-class battleships, 4 Puerto Rico battleships, 4 Korean-class battlecruisers, and 4 Lanfang-class battlecruisers. The main fleet escort mission is 1 Fanjingshan-class aircraft carrier, 4 Wudangshan-class aircraft carriers, 4 Emeishan-class aircraft carriers, 32 Typhoon-class air defense heavy cruisers, 12 rainstorm-class hunting ships, 12 Song-class submarines, 22 Qinghaihu-class comprehensive supply ships, and 18 communication notification reconnaissance and hunting ships (including 6 Baigujing-class electronic intelligence reconnaissance ships).

The ultimate battleship of the Guanghua Emperor is the most eye-catching. This nuclear-powered, 20-inch cannon, displacement of up to 130,000 tons, speed of 32 knots of the ultimate battleship, from the very beginning of the world's attention, about her construction has been the attention of the world's media around the world, and even some reporters directly bought a house in Shanghai, squatting near Shanghai Shipbuilding Industry every day to watch the construction progress of the ship.

Until the Guanghua Emperor was completed and put into service. Its large hull and chimney-less exterior design finally made it clear to experts about its tonnage and the fact that it did use nuclear reactor technology.

Although the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal under the control of the Chinese Empire have completed the second excavation project. The canal was wide and deep enough for the Guanghua Emperor to pass safely, but the Imperial Chinese Navy wanted global access and that kind of deterrent. Therefore the Panama Canal was not taken.

After the "Big Bad Wolf Fleet" set off in a mighty way, it went all the way south along the coastal waters of China, and successively visited Vietnam, Siam, Luzon, Singapore, Lan Fang, the Dutch East Indies, Papua, Australia, and other places. Deterrence of the Dutch authorities.

After that, the "Big Bad Wolf Fleet" crossed the Strait of Malacca and went north into the Indian Ocean, passing through Burma, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and other places, staying at the Maldives naval base of the Chinese Empire for a day, then entering the Persian Gulf, visiting the Persian Empire, staying in Kuwait, the Persian Gulf territory of the Chinese Empire, for a day, leaving the Persian Gulf after replenishment, entering the Red Sea, and staying in Ethiopia for a day, showing off the powerful muscles of the Chinese Imperial Navy to the Italian Navy that was fighting in Ethiopia, The Italian Navy was ashamed of its own shame. Stopped for a day in Jeddah, on the Red Sea coast, to show off force to the Arab world.

The "Big Bad Wolf Fleet" then entered the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal, stayed at a base in Cyprus for a day, then visited Constantinople, and the next day entered the Black Sea to conduct a naval military exercise with the Turkish Navy to strengthen the military alliance between the Chinese Empire and Turkey.

Of course, the Imperial Chinese Navy is also telling the world that the Chinese Empire has easy access to the Black Sea and has influence in the Black Sea. The move was intended to demonstrate to the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, to deter the Soviet Navy from a series of recent actions on the Black Sea coast, to warn the Soviet Union not to get involved in Armenia on the Black Sea coast, and to prevent a possible Soviet military operation to invade Armenia's control of the Baku oil zone.

Next, the "Big Bad Wolf Fleet" of the Chinese Empire visited Nikolaev, the Soviet military town in the Black Sea, and for the first time, the mid- and high-ranking officers of the Soviet Navy were allowed to visit the Guanghua Emperor, the ultimate battleship of the Chinese Empire, to show off the strength of the nuclear-powered battleships.

During his five-day stay in the Black Sea, he visited Constanta in Romania and Burgas in Bulgaria, exchanging gifts with the local government and people, and delivering to them 210 million dragon dollars worth of arms that the Chinese Empire had promised to export to Bulgaria and Romania. Then, when the "Great Bad Wolf Fleet" of the Chinese Empire left the Black Sea and again passed through the Aegean Sea, it visited Athens, Greece.

The Greek government was resisting the Bulgarian military invasion at this time, and the two sides were fighting fiercely in the Balkans, and the Greek army, although with the military assistance of the Entente, was generally at a disadvantage. Another task of the "Big Bad Wolf Fleet" of the Chinese Empire was to sell arms to various belligerents in Europe, and the cabins of each ship were loaded with a large amount of munitions, especially the 22 Qinghai Lake-class large supply ships, which were filled with tens of thousands of tons of munitions.

In the mid-thirties, the Imperial Chinese Navy developed a variety of supplies for the voyage of a variety of items, which is the "Qinghai Lake" class, which concentrates the missions of an oil tanker, an munitions ship and a quartermaster ship into one ship, and the Chinese Empire calls itself a "high-speed combat support ship."

Its main mission is to accompany the battleship battle group and the aircraft carrier battle group, or the task force composed of battleships and aircraft carriers, to provide the formation ships with fuel, ammunition, food, spare parts, and other consumables for navigation, so that the fleet can stay away from the base for a long time and persist in sea activities at any time.

As a result, the Qinghaihu-class integrated supply ship became the world's first comprehensive supply ship, and it was also the world's largest and highest-speed integrated supply ship in the entire 20th century and even the 21st century. A total of 24 ships of the "Qinghai Lake" class were built by 20 large shipyards in the Chinese Empire, including 4 ships built by the Royal Shipyard.

The Qinghaihu-class supply ship has a light displacement of 19,000 tons, a full load displacement of 51,400 to 53,600 tons, a length of 241.7 meters, a beam of 32.6 meters, and a draft of nearly 12 meters. The power plant uses 2 Parsons steam turbines with an output of 100,000 horsepower, 4 boilers, two-shaft propulsion, a speed of 26 knots, a cruising range of 6,000 nautical miles at 25 knots, 10,000 nautical miles at 17 knots, and a crew of 601 (including 24 officers).

Although it is an integrated supply ship, it is also equipped with weapons systems, because the Imperial Chinese Navy has summed up a wealth of experience through previous wars, and its dependence on supplies has increased dramatically.

The Qinghaihu-class supply ships are armed with two MK33 twin 88mm rapid-fire guns, two MK32 Vulcan Phalanx short-range air defense weapon systems, and four 12.7mm M2 heavy machine guns.

Load is the biggest advantage of a supply ship. The first-class deck of the Qinghai Lake class is the supply deck, which is a fully flat deck, and the cargo distribution area is on this deck, and there are no obstacles such as pipes and thresholds on the deck that hinder the handling of goods. The secondary deck is the winch deck, and all winch control stations are located on the left and right sides of the deck, which has a good view of the supply area. The cargo compartment is divided into three parts by two longitudinal bulkheads, with dry cargo and ammunition in the middle and fuel on both sides. The cargo handling in the ship is convenient and fast, and the general dry cargo is handled by lifts, conveyors, forklifts and other mechanical equipment. In order to facilitate the handling and distribution of goods, the distribution area is covered, with five gates on both sides leading to each supply station, and there is also a forklift channel from the distribution area to the helicopter platform to transport the goods directly to the helicopter platform to ensure vertical supply of goods.

There are multiple supply stations on board, which can replenish dry and liquid cargo at the same time. There are 6 supply gantries in the replenishment operation area, 7 dry cargo replenishment stations, 6 liquid cargo replenishment stations, 3 double-hose fuel receiving stations and 5 single-hose fuel receiving stations. The nozzle of the hose used is 178 mm, and each pipe can transport about 500 tons of oil per hour. Some refueling stations use a double-hose and dual-probe refueling system, which can simultaneously transmit marine oil and aviation fuel to aircraft carriers and battleships. The ship is equipped with two 5-ton cranes and one 15-ton crane. The standard loading capacity is 177,000 barrels of fuel oil for liquid cargo, 2,150 tons of ammunition for dry cargo, 500 tons of dry cargo, and 250 tons of frozen cargo.

In addition, in order to protect the safety of the supply ship as much as possible, the Qinghaihu class is equipped with anti-air and anti-sea radar systems to detect the enemy's approach in advance.