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"Throughout the history of the world, history has always been driven by many fortuitous events...... Faced with challenges from China, Germany and other rising countries, Britain began to try to build a trilateral entente system of Britain, France and the United States to continue to maintain its colonial empire in all corners of the earth, they did not think that history has deviated from there, and when they reflect on history today, people will always wonder, if there was mutual trust and collusion between the world, and not be swayed by secret treaties, then "will the lights of all Europe be extinguished?" Of course, this was just a speculation by later generations, and in that harsh environment at that time, almost every country was imagining the relationship between countries from the worst possible perspective......"

History of Modern International Relations

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North China Sea!

Historically, it was called the "Sea of Whales", of course, it was also called the "Sea of Japan" or the "Sea of Nicholas", and now it is called the "North China Sea", and among the many ports around the North China Sea, the most important is Vladivostok, but for the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, which has many ports, Vladivostok is only a "logistics support port", and only occasionally warships dock here,

But thanks to its enclosed environment, which is somewhat of an inland lake in China's territorial waters, it is where the final sea trials and pre-service training are completed after the construction of warships at Inchon or Dalian and the Kure naval yard is completed. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

On this day, although Jiangnan has already felt a little heat in summer, the air in Vladivostok, located in the north, is still a little cold in late spring.

The Navy's new battleship "Weiqing" is preparing for sea in Vladivostok Harbor after a long period of sea trials and training in the North China Sea. The "Weiqing" can be said to be the largest, most modern, and most powerful battleship in the world, and to a certain extent, its appearance will fundamentally change the balance of strength between the Chinese Navy and the US Navy, and will even fundamentally change the status of the Chinese Navy on the ocean.

However, as far as the navies of various countries in the world are concerned, they have never known about the existence of the "Weiqing" -- in the past four years, although there have been rumors in the naval circles all over the world that "the Chinese Navy is building a battleship with 15-inch naval guns," it seems that there is a fundamental problem that has not yet been solved -- 15-inch naval guns.

Due to national power constraints, the Chinese navy will never be able to compete with the two navies in terms of the number of warships in the face of maritime pressure from the United States and the United Kingdom. The Chinese Navy, which regards the US Navy as an imaginary enemy and the British Navy as a potential imaginary enemy, has also become aware of this, and after realizing this, it has decided to adopt the method of "surpassing the quality of the navy" to make up for the "lack of quantity," and to use the quality superiority of a single ship to offset the numerical superiority of the other side, so as to narrow the gap in combat strength with the British and US navies.

A few years ago, as the British and American dreadnoughts were equipped with 356-millimeter guns, the Chinese Navy, which was ahead of the navies of other countries in terms of firepower, found that the power of its own main guns was once again at a disadvantage, and the tradition of "attack first" was likely to be subverted by other countries. In view of the lack of muzzle velocity of the 14-inch gun, the new Admiralty ordered the immediate development of a more powerful naval gun and issued an order to the British company Vickers. Under the direct intervention of the Minister of the Navy, the new artillery was able to bypass the lengthy administrative approval procedures and quickly improve on the basis of the original 14-inch naval gun, but in the meantime, because of the intervention of the British Admiralty, the Vickers company stopped developing, to be precise, stopped developing the 15-inch naval gun for the Chinese Navy, and then the Chinese Navy tried to cooperate with the German Krupp company, during which the Vickers company secretly transferred the completed 15-inch naval gun technology to the Chinese Navy for commercial interests. The Incheon Naval Factory then improved the Vickers 15-inch 42-diameter naval gun by borrowing German technology, and finally provided the Navy with the world's largest caliber 15-inch naval gun two years ago, compared with the British naval gun, it has a 45-diameter naval gun, with a longer range and greater power, compared with the 15-inch naval gun under development in Germany, it uses heavy ammunition, and is more powerful.

The powerful naval guns brought it unprecedented striking capabilities, making the "Weiqing" with a standard displacement of up to 42,000 tons become the most powerful battleship in the world as soon as it was put into service, and this battleship to some extent means a new era of naval warfare.

Today, it is reloading supplies in an effort to saturate all of its supply and ammunition holds. It fills the cold storage with frozen fresh meat from Siberia, the food warehouse with flour from the northeastern reclamation areas and fresh vegetables from the coastal areas, and of course canned fruits and fresh juices from the Philippines, fills the tanks with heavy oil from the Nanyang Special Territory, and fills the tanks with fresh water.

To a certain extent, every voyage of a warship is a "national unity", and every warship is always loaded with supplies from all over the country, and it is this huge country that provides sufficient supplies for warships to sail on the seas and deter other countries on the ocean.

Of course, the most important thing is to load the ammunition compartment with shells. An electric locomotive with a slight motor sound was parked on the dock on the side of the board with a long train of convertible trunks, loaded with huge fifteen-inch shells, these shells that had just left the factory, in the past few months, had been sounded again and again in the turret of this battleship, and one after another shells weighing 871 kilograms had been hit again and again to a shooting range dozens of kilometers away, each time, it was a bombardment that shook the ocean, but unlike the past sea trials, this was the first time, and the battleship would be full of ammunition - It was its first combat-ready voyage.

The ship's crane was hoisting heavy and powerful shells into the air, then slowly lowering them through the ammunition supply window, through the decks, into the armored and sea-protected ammunition bays deep under the waterline. That's the most dangerous, but also the safest.

Just as the battleship was preparing for its first battle-ready voyage, a new detachment sailed along the pier to reinforce the crew of the "Wei Qing." This is a detachment of young officers. These young officers did look very young, and some could even say that they were just children - not even a few beards. They were newly promoted students at the Naval Academy, and each of them was proud to have served on this warship, and only the best midshipmen were allowed to come here. The whole team looked lively, brisk and proud, and under the lead of the military band, they drove towards the gangway of the "Wei Qing". Soon, the military band stopped at the gangway to continue playing, perhaps, the navy has now abolished the British pace, the British military salute, but it does not mean that the British naval etiquette has been abolished, after all, for many years, the British navy has influenced the Chinese navy in many ways, and this group of young people with the characteristic precision and neat steps of naval officers, along the gangway to board the warship.

When the party reached the aft deck, the officer leading the group saluted the commander who was reviewing them on the ship, reporting the arrival of their team. At the end of the loading and unloading work on the dockside, an order was given to the team to face the bridge.

It was at this time that the crane staggered the last fifteen-inch shell, glowing with a dark cold light, into the ammunition compartment. The crowds of orderly workers who had been busy on the dock gradually dispersed, and the music gradually faded away, leaving only the sailors still standing in formation. At this time, Vice Admiral Deng Shichang left the cabin, and when he walked out of the cabin, he once again looked at the imperial pen hanging on the cabin, "Four seas and one heart", and then closed the cabin door.

"Four seas and one heart" is His Majesty's expectation for the navy, and it also shows a reality -- the Chinese navy is composed of four navies, and long before the northeast unified the whole country, China was two large, two small and four navys, namely the northeast, the Beiyang, the Nanyang, and the Guangdong, and after the completion of the national reunification in the northeast, along with the reunification of the navy, the struggle between the four major factions of the navy will always be inevitably fierce -- in the navy, the northeast navy is undoubtedly a great meritorious, and the strength of the Beiyang navy is quite strong, as for the Nanyang navyIt is precisely because of this that the navy has been doing everything possible to eliminate "local differences" in the past ten years, and the suppression of the Fujian system is even more unprecedented -- the Mawei Ship Master School has been directly removed, but despite this, many years of "internal strife" still have an impact on the navy, and most of the auditoriums of various naval units still hang "four seas and one heart" Although now through the removal of the "Mawei Shipbuilding School", the influence of the Fujian people on the navy has been fundamentally blocked, but the formation of history is always difficult to change in the short term.

"This is the most powerful warship in the world!"

Walking to the bridge, looking at the two twin 15-inch turrets in front of him, Deng Shichang's mood couldn't help but stir, this battleship with a full load displacement of more than 50,000 tons is so powerful that it is completely beyond his imagination, and more importantly, now, he is the captain of the world's first ship, he is about to command this battleship to Pearl Harbor for its first voyage, which is the habit of the Chinese Navy warships after they are in service, and their performance is tested through a long voyage.

After a moment of sighing, Deng Shichang looked at the officers and men in front of the bridge, they stood there with their heads held high, looking at themselves, these officers and men of the navy are all the best members of the navy without exception, and now their armbands are all sewn with the emblem of the "Wei Qing" without exception, and now, they are waiting for their speeches.

Walking to the loudspeaker on the bridge, Deng Shichang took a deep breath, as the captain of the ship, it was necessary for him to give a speech to the officers and soldiers.

"Ladies and gentlemen......"

Deng Shichang began to speak, which is a routine duty as an officer, but although almost a decade has passed, his Chinese still has a Cantonese accent, but compared to the past, it is much better, as early as many years ago, the government department conducted a Chinese language test, requiring government officials to speak Chinese, and as an officer, he is no exception.

The young officers listened intently, and were fascinated. His speech was heard throughout the ship through a PA system. He extended a warm welcome to the young officers and men and explained to all the officers and men how honored they were to be a member of the unprecedented warship "Wei Qing" and that it would be one of their life's honors to participate in this voyage. Because, they are in service on the most powerful warships in the world. After returning home, they will be able to proudly proclaim to the world, "I served on the Weiqing". They have now boarded the newest and most powerful battleships, and they will be honored like never before.

No warship of the Royal Navy dared to match it, and no large warship in the world could survive its guns. After four months of rigorous training in the North China Sea, the "Wei Qing" has become the most powerful and combat-effective warship in the world today.

Isn't the fleet of the British Navy all over the Atlantic? Doesn't it have the most powerful naval fleet in the world? However, none of their warships can compare with the "Wei Qing", in a word, each of them should be proud of this.

Indeed, for every soldier on the ship, they are indeed very proud, proud that they have become a member of the "Wei Qing", and they are glad that they are so lucky, because after today, the "Wei Qing" force will shake the whole world, just like the "Warring States" in those years, until now, in the clubs of the navy, there are still newspapers of various countries - without exception, there are reports about the "Warring States", at that time, the whole world was discussing him, and the next will undoubtedly be the era of the "Wei Qing".

Finally, after the end of the speech, more than an hour later, with Deng Shichang's order, under the afterglow of the setting sun, the powerful "Weiqing" slowly sailed out of the berth, once again towards the North China Sea, and then it will sail to the Tsugaru Strait, from there into the Pacific Ocean, all the way to warm Hawaii, to Pearl Harbor, the largest naval base of the Chinese Navy in the Pacific, and then begin a six-month seaworthiness training there, and then, Whether it will be the flagship of the Pacific Fleet or the flagship of the Home Fleet is not up to Deng Shichang, for him, the only thing he needs to do now is to command the warship and sail towards a distant target. (To be continued.) )