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“…… Another writer writes even more emotionally: "Patriotism is pouring out of us, and we have never been more acutely aware of being an American." It can be said that President Roosevelt's purpose of reassuring the people and building momentum for the Navy has been fully achieved.

But on the other side of the ocean, we face unprecedented challenges. The Chinese, who have just acquired some muscles, are caught up in a kind of "victim" fantasies, and they take it for granted that this challenge is some kind of provocation!

After a long discussion, Emperor Hongwu of Nanjing and the officials of the Admiralty made a decision - to meet the challenge!

Almost on the same day that the "Great White Fleet" crossed Cape Rennes and entered the Pacific Ocean, after a long debate, China finally passed the "Naval Law", which was regarded as the first step towards war, according to the requirements of this law, 20% of the revenue from land sales in Northeast China and Siberia will be used for naval expansion in the next 10 years - this means that the navy will invest more than 4 billion Chinese dollars in the next 10 years to expand its naval strength, which is far more than the British navy invested in the same period. However, at the time, no one knew about this huge investment.

How to meet the challenge from the United States?

This was a question for the navy at that time, whether it was just a few old "sea-class" battleships. In that case, the ridicule that would have sparked must have come from the world would have backfired, and almost everyone had their eyes set on the shipyards -- in the dockyards of Incheon and Dalian, seven cutting-edge "Sengoku"-class warships ordered during the war were nearing completion, and the most urgent task now was to step up outfitting work in an effort to greet the visit of the "Great White Fleet" with a powerful "Sengoku-class" before the arrival of the US Navy.

Eventually, before the U.S. Navy visited, six of the seven cutting-edge Sengoku-class warships, in addition to the "South Korea", entered service and appeared to the world on the Boso Peninsula two months later......

1902 - The road to war

Horror!

When the beautiful lines and silhouettes of the battleship "Qin Guo" as the lead ship appeared in the sight of the officers and men of the "Great White Fleet," after a moment of admiration by the people, almost everyone was stunned, and the 17,000 officers and men of the Great White Fleet were all in unprecedented horror at that moment.

What kind of battleship is this?

Almost everyone was asking in such horror, and the sailors turned their gaze to the officers, trying to get answers from the officers, the six Chinese warships painted in navy gray were markedly different from any other warship in the past.

"Oh! My God! ”

When seeing the Chinese greeting ship clearly, William? Halsey, a young officer who graduated early because of the president's expansion of the navy, looked in horror at the two gun turrets in front of the Chinese warship, and the two turrets in front of the command tower were stacked high and low one in front of the other.

"Oh my God, there are actually three main guns in one turret, there are six in total!"

"No, it's just the bow, and the stern! There are also two triple turrets in the stern! Oh God, one of their warships, almost equal to one of our fleets! ”

Under the gaze of tens of thousands of officers and men of the "Great White Fleet", six Warring States-class battleships sailed majestically towards them, and under the sunshine, this fleet was so magnificent that it even overwhelmed the "Great White Fleet" with 20 warships in momentum

"My God, six...... This is the most cutting-edge warship in the world! Battleships of a unified caliber! Each battleship has 12 naval guns of at least 12-inch caliber, and my God, these Chinese guys, left the whole world behind in one night......"

Yes!

After the entry into service of the "Sengoku-class" warships, overnight, all the old warships will be obsolete. As a backward naval nation, limited by limited financial resources, due to the limited number of warships that can be built, the Admiralty has always set the design index of each capital ship quite high, and does not hesitate to adopt the latest design ideas and technologies. Starting from the "Zhenhai class", almost every warship is like this, and the same is true of the current "Warring States class".

The seven "Warring States class" were built during the Sino-Russian War according to the funds provided by the special expansion project of the Navy, and they did not use the old design of the "Jinghai", but adopted the cutting-edge unified caliber scheme, that is, the "all-heavy artillery battleship", which canceled the secondary caliber main guns (mostly 7-10 inches) used for attack on the previous battleships, and was equipped with the main guns of a unified caliber and multiplier ratio, and only retained the secondary guns used to defend against light warships. Under the condition of increased accuracy, a greater number of large-caliber guns with the same ratio of the same diameter ratio for salvo fire can effectively hit targets in long-range naval battles. It is powered by a high-powered steam turbine, which gives it the protection of a battleship and the speed of a cruiser. The ship is a technically revolutionary warship, although to some extent, the "Jinghai-class" transformation made it the ancestor of the Sengoku-class battleships.

However, the Sengoku-class battleship with a displacement of 26,580 tons was a truly epoch-making battleship, and its four triple twelve-inch main gun turrets were equipped on the center line of the hull, giving it a firepower that the old warships could not match. Due to the use of the main gun with unified ballistic performance, not only the firepower of the battleship is prompted, but also the commander on the ship can unify the command of all the main guns to aim at the same target for salvo fire, and use the covered fire projection range to improve the hit rate of the main gun. According to the tests conducted after the Sengoku class was put into service, the hit rate of the Warring States ships with unified command and fire control increased by more than five times compared to the previous battleships!

It's just that at this moment, when any naval officer sees the "Warring States class", he can realize that compared with the previous battleships, the "Warring States class" has been doubled in combat effectiveness, making it obsolete the battleships built before by various countries since the day it was born. Any naval country can see the opportunity to challenge Britain's maritime supremacy from the "Warring States class" -- the British Royal Navy's huge number of capital ships are outdated because of the emergence of the Warring States class, and all countries only need to build new battleships (i.e., Warring States ships) with similar characteristics in accordance with the new standards created by the "Warring States class", and the number of new battleships is not less than that of Britain, so that they can challenge Britain's maritime supremacy!

Now, however, in the face of the six "Warring States-class" battleships that came out of nowhere, these US Navy officers and men, who were once full of pride and confident that they could use 20 battleships to force back the aggressive posture of the Chinese Navy, have to helplessly face the reality that they have not only failed to suppress the momentum of the Chinese, but have lost all their sharpness in the first "encounter" between the two sides -- the powerful power stored in the six "Warring States-class" has far exceeded the "Great White Fleet" that the United States is proud of.

"My God!"

Rear Admiral Robbie, who was the commander of the fleet, although he was old, immediately realized the revolutionary significance of the six warships when he saw the powerful striking capabilities stored in them, and after a moment of horror, he immediately regained his composure and said in the calmest tone possible.

"I think that what we are witnessing today will be the beginning of a new era, and believe me, gentlemen, from today onwards, they ......"

Staring at the slowly approaching battleship, Rear Admiral Robbie let out a final sigh.

"They started a gate of the age of the sea, and in this gate world, the whole world, every country will put the last gold coin into the sea......"

Yes, these six warships are bound to set off a frenzy of major powers to build new battleships, any country, if it does not want to be surpassed by other countries, is bound to need to build a new military fleet, and the United States is no exception, and the most irritating thing is that the fleet that the United States spent two years building was eliminated by the Chinese overnight.

If the United States wants to continue to maintain a posture of not being inferior to China in this race, it will inevitably need to build new warships, whether it wants to do it or not, and as for these twenty warships that have just entered service - they have become a pile of scrap metal!

"After today, the whole world will re-examine its fleet!"

Compared with the horror of the Americans, Rear Admiral Johnson of the British Navy, who was an observer of the ship, boarded the battleship "Mississippi" at the invitation of the United States when he was in Australia. A practical test of the reliability of the machinery and the quality and endurance of the crew? And the performance of the Americans is undoubtedly very good, even surpassing the Royal Navy.

Just when Major Johnson was emerging as another great power in the world's naval club, China's new warships once again shocked Johnson, making him realize for the first time that the Royal Navy may have several times as many warships as the United States Navy, but now, in front of this new type of warship, they are like children's toys that are not worth mentioning.

Not only will they re-examine their fleet, it can even be said that from today onwards, the Chinese have redefined warships and redefined war, and what is even more fatal is that China has taken out six new warships at a time to meet the challenge from the other side of the Pacific.

"For the UK, maybe that's a good thing!"

Major Johnson thought that since the latter part of the last century, the United States had gradually transformed from an agrarian country to an industrial country dominated by heavy industry, and in 1894 it officially replaced Britain as the world's number one industrial power. The continuous development of industry accelerated the process of accumulation of production and the concentration of capital, allowing the United States to rapidly transition to the imperialist stage? At this time, the western United States has been developed, Latin America has become its backyard, and the Caribbean Sea has become its inner lake? With no way to vent its exuberant energy, the eyes of the United States began to look at the distant world?

And when they tried to set their sights on the world, on the other side of the Pacific, the new empire met this challenge decisively, which was undoubtedly a pleasant thing for Britain, at least so that Britain would not have to focus on Europe while at the same time need to be fully prepared for the world's leading industrial power. More importantly, the confrontation or confrontation between China and the United States in the Pacific will benefit Britain's world policy.

As a naval officer, Johnson first considered the interests of Britain, at this time, looking at the six majestic new warships, he did not feel any fear, but looked at them with curiosity and appreciation, at this time, for him, in addition to rejoicing in the decisive attack of the Chinese, it was more curiosity about these six new warships.

"Boom ......"

In the horror of the crowd, as the flagship of the fleet, the "Qin State" battleship first fired a salute, this is to welcome the visit of the Great White Fleet, although according to the prevailing international practice, the Great White Fleet is hoisting the flag of the rear admiral, but the "Qin State" is still in accordance with the welcome received by the Great White Fleet along the way, with 21 salutes to welcome the guests who came from afar. Dismount is dismount, but etiquette is etiquette.

After greeting the fleet with a 21-gun salute, the Great White Fleet also paid the highest respect to these new sea Tyrannosaurus Rex in front of it with a 21-gun salute in horror, and for a time the air was filled with gunsmoke, soot and oil smoke from the salute, and the thunderous cannon sound echoed on the sea.

A few hours later, at the port of Yokohama, the "Great White Fleet," which had just been "dismounted," received an unprecedented warm welcome, as if the indifference and hostility that had never existed had existed, and even in the eyes of the officers and men of the Great White Fleet, the reception received in Toei was the warmest and most solemn during the entire voyage!

On the morning of the third day after the arrival of the Great White Fleet in Yokohama, Yuan Shikai, the governor of Dongying, personally entertained 30 high-ranking officers below Rear Admiral Robbie in a manner appointed by the emperor? On the afternoon of the next day, Li Weizhong, who was famous in the world naval circles because of his great victory in the Battle of Le Maire, presided over a naval reception in Yokosuka, and at this naval reception, this usually majestic military god was thrown into the air amid the cheers of the young US Navy ensigns.

On the fourth day, almost in the midst of all the attention, those US Navy officers and men finally got their wish to set foot on the "Warring States-class" warship, in the past three days, although the eyes of the four provinces of Dongying were as beautiful as the white swans of the "Great White Fleet"? But it is attracted by the battleship with extraordinary destructive ability, but on the other hand, the eyes of the whole world are attracted by the "Warring States-class" battleship, and the majestic twelve giant cannons are even more with the pride of a new empire? Powerful and confident fresh breath, at the same time, these six never-before-seen giant ships have become a microcosm of China and a symbol of China.

In the following two days, during the visit of tens of thousands of US Navy officers and men, the powerful "Sengoku-class battleship" left a deep impression on every US Navy officer and sailor, and also left a mark in their hearts -- an invincible mark! (To be continued.) )