Chapter 132: Copenhagen II

Claude also made a special trip to Denmark to meet Li Guang this time. If only because of the need to remove six hundred tons of batteries here, then it is completely unnecessary. Sure enough, after the dinner, Claude tactfully expressed his intentions. He hoped that Li Guang would cooperate with Germany's propaganda work.

Li Guanglai knew before he came that Germany was willing to give such a favorable price to sell arms, and it was definitely not just because Li Guang came to pick up the goods. If the PC can break into the Baltic Sea, German merchant ships can naturally get out of the way, and in fact, there are not a few German armed merchant ships that can get out of the North Atlantic.

The Germans obviously used Li Guang for propaganda, and a Chinese, especially a Chinese who had just defeated Chile, was not a small name. Although the war has only been going on for a month, it has already spread all over the world. This thing is really sensational, an individual with no political power, defeated a country, read legendary novels, watched legendary movies, and never seen such a magical thing. (These people have not read the time-traveling novel, and there are more pig's feet in it than such magical things) and the arrival of such a magical character in Poland can easily be understood by the outside world as supporting the war waged by the German Nazis. That's where Claude comes along.

Li Guang came to do business, but he didn't want to be used as a gun by the Germans. But then again, what's the point of being used. Li Guang prides himself on being a civilized person, but he has no moral purity, and as long as there are enough interests, Li Guang does not mind cooperating with the Germans a little.

Since it's business, there's something to talk about. The first question Li Guang raised was nothing else, but diesel engines. At present, the Naval Resistance Army has only two Pixiu and two Instigators, not because they are not capable of building them, but because they do not have suitable diesel engines.

This is a problem that Claude can't solve. Li Guang can be regarded as shooting himself in the foot, and his suggestion has made Germany vigorously develop submarines, and has also made Germany's current large diesel engines have no inventory at all.

Regarding diesel engines, Claude replied in a very positive way, and he himself managed these projects. Li Guang had no choice but to change his request, he needed to buy a German 12-meter rangefinder and a firing command computer.

The question was again rejected by Claude, and this thing was a German military secret. It is clear that the price paid by Li Guang is not enough in exchange for a product of this level.

But for Li Guang, these two things are quite necessary. In the battle between Statue Island and Chile, although the artillery of the Naval Resistance Army did not cause much damage to the Chilean battleship, the rangefinder was blown up beyond recognition.

The battleship captured by the Naval Resistance Army looked majestic, but the backwardness of this battleship was not only hard indicators such as speed, gun range, and rate of fire. One of the most critical factors is that the firing command system of its main guns is very backward. Only simple old-fashioned shooting commanders.

One of the main guns of the Baxia can be checked and fired, but the battleships are different, and such a powerful naval gun only relies on the gun table to shoot with experience, and the accuracy is extremely low. For example, this Chilean battleship has a range of about 27 kilometers from its main guns, but if it is fought by naval guns at a distance of 20 kilometers, the hit rate will probably not be higher than 1 percent.

For battleships, these things are software, but extremely critical. A small detail on the battlefield can make the difference between victory and defeat, and this is especially true when it comes to such critical software.

In this era, there were no electronic computers. The battleship uses a mechanical calculator, and there is a calculator in the main gun firing command post, which is composed of gears and turntables, and turns the relevant shooting elements turntable to the corresponding position, such as wind speed, the course of the ship, the speed, the distance of the enemy ship, etc. Then the machine will output the shooting elements.

The computer then automatically keeps track of the artillery, providing data for the gun's firing, which the gunner corrects according to the firing.

Li Guang was determined to get this thing, and the main artillery shells flew more than 20 kilometers in the air, at least 30 or 40 seconds, and the battleship would have already run hundreds of meters in these 30 or 40 seconds.

In thirty or forty seconds, if there is a force five or six wind when firing a shell, it can also blow the shell off by hundreds of meters. This requires calculating the wind speed, and with human experience alone, there is no way to grasp the combat effectiveness, which is simply gambling with one's own life and the fleet.

War is the thing that stimulates people's wisdom the most, and technological progress is said to be changing with each passing day. The captured battleship had been modernized in the United States in 1930, but for more than a decade, its rangefinder and command instrument had fallen behind.

The range and accuracy of the main gun are not something that Li Guang can improve. Battleships are absolutely not good with their rough skin and thick flesh, and the tactic of shooting at close range is a desperate move for small warships, and for the confrontation between battleships, it is self-defeating.

To improve the combat effectiveness of battleships, what Li Guang can do is to strengthen the software so that it can compete with the battleships of this era.

It was not easy to come to Germany, and as the war situation deteriorated, Li Guang didn't know if there would be another chance, so he urgently needed to buy these software now.

As a last resort, Li Guang took out a gift from Britain -- active sonar taken from a British submarine. The British active sonar surname is good, much better than the German. And if Li Guang sells this thing in the United States, he can also sell it at a good price. But there is no doubt that its value is better reflected in Germany.

Sure enough, when Claude heard the British active sonar, his eyes lit up at that time. Li Guang gave him an idea, this kid wrote an article, and as a result, he became a colonel from a major. If you can get the active sonar of the British, wouldn't it be a major general?

The same thing can be used very differently in the hands of different people. Britain's active sonar is put in Li Guang's hands, that is, it is sold for money, or imitated. It would be very different for the Germans to be able to improve the combat effectiveness of his few warships, and the hybridization of technology would likely bring about a leap forward in German active sonar technology. It can greatly improve the combat effectiveness of warships. At worst, it would raise awareness of the anti-submarine capabilities of British warships and contribute to the survival of submarines.

After Li Guang threw out this big killing weapon, Claude immediately contacted his boss overnight, and finally agreed to some of Li Guang's conditions in the Germans. Why part of it? In the eyes of the Germans, if Li Guang leaked the secret of the shooting commander, he would have done even more serious damage to Germany.

The rangefinder was sold according to Li Guang's request, but the main gun commander required by the battleship was only a product of the previous generation, and there was a considerable gap between the surname and the German battleship or the pocket battleship. The Germans boasted that this was a German product of three or five years, and it took three or seven years to equip battleships, even if it was a little behind the command instrument that was now equipped, it was no worse than the British. It is still difficult for Li Guang to judge whether it is true or not, but Li Guang has the impression that the Germans may boast in other aspects, and they are quite rigorous in technology, so they will believe it in desperation.

Li Guang sighed, it seemed that the things he took out were still not enough. However, Li Guang attached a small condition: after the Germans developed a new type of active sonar, they would sell 100 sets to themselves at cost price.

The Germans did not object to this, and it is no secret that Li Guang has submarines since he defeated the Chilean Navy, and the whole world already knows about it. In fact, there are not many advanced technologies in Li Guang's hands, one is the battery, and the other is the snorkel technology of the submarine. Li Guang still relies on battery technology to make money, and it can't be sold. As for the snorkel, Li Guang did not dare to sell it to Germany. German submarines are already powerful enough, plus this technology, don't really scrap the British, and by that time, who knows what will happen to history.

Li Guang was very depressed, a simple mechanical calculator with a function far worse than mobile phones in the 21st century, and Li Guang couldn't buy such a garbage product. However, with the 12-meter rangefinder and the shooting commander, the shooting accuracy of the cannon has been improved a lot, and it may be able to fight with the battleship.

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