What Yang Hao never expected was that he just sent a congratulatory message, and he could actually send something. His Excellency accepted his congratulations gladly and subsequently assigned him a new job.

"I'm here for a vacation, okay! Is it really appropriate for you to casually throw tasks at people's heads without saying hello? ”

He looked unhappy and complained.

The Great Führer unceremoniously exposed his true colors: "I really want you to eat and wait for death, can you stand it?" Besides, you don't need to wander around the country for vacation, the scenery in those places has long been tired of seeing crooked, right? This time I went to Europe at the beginning of the 20th century to travel at public expense, and saw the original ecological imperialist civilization that has not been polluted by diversification, what a rare life experience! ”

Yang Hao was "convinced" of this powerful reason, and he didn't even talk about more conditions, and went into battle again as a special envoy to Europe.

This time, he is no longer a thin guard of honor like a train, but has a whole fleet to escort him!

From the tourist location, take the train straight down to Guangzhou, meet with Gu Weijun who came in a hurry, board the battleship together, raise the flag and whistle and sail out of the port and into the South China Sea.

Gu Weijun was depressed. He has also just completed the summary of the experience of the Russian envoy, and has given several training lectures in the ministry, passing on his experience to everyone, and then thinking about the taste according to the comments of the old-timers, and integrating it.

Originally, he planned to settle down and make sure that he had reached the standard of absorption and charging, and then accept a new task. I didn't expect to have a holiday just now, and I was going to have a good talk with Miss Tang to further increase intimacy, but I caught Yang Hao halfway, and I still got it to Europe all at once!

It's not just a mission to a certain country in Europe, it's to engage in "gunboat diplomacy" with a fleet!

Not to mention how difficult and challenging the work is. Just to cross the world's oceans and complete the long cycle of circumnavigating the world is maddening enough.

Thinking that a round trip may take a long time of a year and a half, and the dear Miss Tang family can't see it, Gu Weijun, who is in the stage of love, almost has a second illness attack and disobeys.

But he is a career-minded and self-motivated person after all. He is also an outstanding young representative with great ambitions, and with the support of ideals and a sense of mission, the private affairs of his children have finally been temporarily suppressed in the second most important position.

After seeing Yang Hao, he subconsciously thought that it must be this "Yang Ziyan" envoy who made trouble and deliberately arrested himself, and the purpose was likely to include the sinister intention of breaking up with Miss Tang - the evidence is clear, the last time he went on an envoy, didn't that guy specifically ask him about repentance of marriage?

And so. The young Ambassador Gu was not deep enough in the city, and he could obviously see that he was unhappy.

Yang Hao didn't guess the thoughts of this future diplomat, and his attention was temporarily occupied by the envoy's fleet and the mission he undertook.

This diplomatic move can be called a breakthrough move since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and it is another great move by the government organization to carry out the activities of the Chinese government in the 600 years since Zheng He's voyage to the West, and to travel around the seven seas with a large-scale formed fleet to visit countries around the world.

its purpose. It necessarily involves showing off military power and shocking countries. Seeking a favorable position in diplomatic relations, changing the prevailing political pattern and environment, and many other aspects.

And in this era, there is a special term that can be represented - "gunboat diplomacy"!

This was promoted by the Western powers to the whole world in the last century, and a method of aggression based on its own strong military strength to carry out colonialism, coercion and blackmail against other weak countries is a typical characteristic and necessary skill of imperialism.

Arguably. At present, all the countries that can be called great powers have done or are still doing similar things. In this world, it is the unipolar US imperialism that runs rampant with its powerful fleet, four or five fleets, all over the world. Thus redefining it as "hegemonism".

Since the Ming Dynasty abolished martial arts and stopped official overseas trade and exploration, the Chinese have completely bid farewell to the possibility of being the first to gain the right to speak in the world's oceans. Gone are the chances. When the warships of the Europeans sailed to the closed Qing Kingdom and knocked on the door viciously with new naval guns, the old empire, which had completely dulled its thinking and interrupted the martial spirit, could only hold its head and let others beat it indiscriminately.

Fortunately, Yang Hao's appearance turned the tide, stopped the car in time before the whole nation fell into darkness, and opened up a new scene after just over ten years. That's a full hundred years ahead of this world.

A hundred years of vicissitudes of life, how many stories can be sung and cried, even millions of words can't be written clearly.

Being able to witness this grand event representing the rise of the country's prosperity in person, Yang Hao's heart was not ordinary emotion and happiness.

The fleet of this "gunboat diplomacy" is nominally dominated by the South China Sea Fleet, which guards the gates of the country. After more than 10 years of use and continuous transformation and upgrading, the "Hebei-class" battleships are the center, one "Tianjin" heavy cruiser is the pioneer, the four "Langya-class" light cruisers are the escort with knives, the two large supply ships are the nurses, and there are more than a dozen destroyers, as well as submarine wolves lurking underwater, forming a model representing the declaration of military power to various countries.

The appearance and approximate performance of these warships have been exposed a lot in many naval battles, at least the basic size, displacement, main and auxiliary weapons, speed, etc., all countries have a certain understanding, and directly gave birth to the competition activities of super battleships that the great powers are still playing with their lives.

Up to now, the battleships under construction or completed design in Britain, France, Germany, the United States and other countries are generally close to 30,000 tons of full load displacement, and the caliber of the main guns has all reached the level of 356mm, and is moving towards 380mm, and the number of main guns has not hesitated to increase to the exaggerated number of 10 twin guns for five and 12 for six. Suddenly, it seems that the countries have steadily surpassed the strength of the Chinese Navy's warships, both in terms of number and caliber.

Therefore, it seems that there is no need for China to continue to keep secrets, and it is ready to show off its own weapons in a generous manner to show confidence to the great powers.

In Yang Hao's view, this is a proper act of continuing to collect the smoke of war.

Leading the fleet is the new deputy commander-in-chief of the navy Sa Zhenbing, the 50-year-old Beiyang veteran is the most fulfilling stage of life experience, professional experience, and energy, especially after the tempering of the previous patriotic naval battle, like a peerless sword. We will take this diplomatic voyage around the world as an opportunity to get to the fore!

When they met, the old gentleman looked Yang Hao up and down with sharp eyes, and said with a hearty smile: "Special Envoy Yang's last mission to Russia was a great success, and my colleagues in the army praised him a lot. This time, I'm going to follow suit! ”

Knowing that there was no malice in his words, Yang Hao also smiled and said: "The old general praised it falsely, we are just talking about it, the key is to see the bloody battles of the soldiers on the front line, and cooperate with each other, so that we can start and finish well and live up to our mission." ”

Sa Zhenbing nodded without hesitation: "This is as it should be." What kind of charter there is, you just have to draw it, and our navy sons will definitely do it properly. ”

Yang Hao hugged his fists and thanked him: "Thank you for your support." ”

He was a rookie who pretended to have never been on a battleship. Sa Zhenbing also introduced to him the basic information of his fleet in accordance with the usual practice, especially to make a clear and clear comparison between the powerful strength and the naval strength that the great powers and countries now know, so that he could have a clear idea and would not misjudge in negotiations or other actions.

Yang Hao can't pretend to be an understanding person, he hasn't seen him for ten years, and today's navy has already been reborn. You can't look at it with old eyes. Especially the countries of the Great Powers that were deeply affected, who directly skipped many of the detours of the early dreadnoughts. Entering the research and construction of super battleships several years in advance, the skills of sea combat, the performance of naval guns, and the strategy and tactics have all undergone too many changes.

After understanding, Yang Hao immediately said the basic principles of this diplomacy: "One of our purposes. It is to make the great powers misjudge the strength of our navy, believing that we do not have enough funds to support the construction of larger-scale battleships. But on this basis, it is necessary to properly disclose that our warships are superior in performance and more powerful in combat than their counterparts of the same displacement. Thicker armor and greater survivability. In this way, they will have doubts about the design and construction of existing warships, and will affect them to further increase the scale, tonnage, and caliber of the main guns of the warships, in order to achieve the goal of comprehensively suppressing our capital ships. ”

Sa Zhenbing frowned slightly, and asked without hesitation: "What do you mean, to properly expose the combat effectiveness of the 'Guangxi level'?" ”

Yang Hao nodded: "Yes, 40,000 tons of full load displacement, but only four triple twelve 356mm main guns, can prevent the bombardment of the ship's main guns of the same caliber, so how much armor thickness should be, I believe that countries must have something to consider." And this will also become an indicator of a new round of super battleship design and construction. ”

Sa Zhenbing stroked the short beard on his chin, and said hesitantly: "In this way, European countries will jump again." It is rumored that they are building super battleships with 380mm guns, if it is according to our armor protection standards, it is impossible to say that it will be redesigned, then the displacement is huge! ”

The two of them laughed knowingly at the same time.

If according to the standards declared by China to the outside world, with the industrial level of the great powers and countries in this era, to build a battleship platform carrying 380mm caliber main guns, it is definitely a super invincible pit!

Taking Britain and Germany as an example, the British "Queen Elizabeth class" has four eight 15-inch / 42-caliber main guns, normal displacement: 29,150 tons / full load displacement: 33,020 tons, side armor belt (maximum) 13 inches, main deck 2.5-5 inches, turret (frontal) 13 inches, (top) 5 inches, gun mount 10 inches, and command tower 11 inches. The total weight of the armor is 8100 tons.

The German "Bavarian class" 8 twin 380 mm / 45 times diameter guns, design displacement: 28530 tons, maximum displacement: 32200 tons. broadside armor belt (maximum) 350 mm; turret (frontal) 350 mm; conning tower 350 mm; Three armored decks, each 30-40 mm thick.

It seems that they are all strong indicators, and the thickness of the armor seems to be able to withstand the bombardment of their own main guns, but that is judged by the current performance indicators of the armor-piercing shells they use. The naval guns of the new Chinese Navy use at least the ammunition technology of the late stage of World War II, coupled with the advanced degree of naval artillery technology, even if it is a "Hebei-class" 305mm/50L main gun and 5g heavy armor-piercing shells, it is enough to torture them to death at a distance of 18 kilometers.

Not to mention, the more powerful "Guangxi-class" and the 356mm/50L guns that will be replaced by this type of battleship will have armor-piercing performance to a higher level. With the two types of battleships of Britain and Germany, they can't carry it at all!

If you want to achieve a balance between the caliber of the main gun and the armor protection capability, you will have to adopt thicker and more armor, and it is needless to say that the displacement will soar at that time. Yang Hao even guessed maliciously that the Germans might be able to sort out the similar tonnage of the "Bismarck-class" in advance in a fit of anger!

You must know that the normal displacement of the "Guangxi class": 38,270 tons / full load displacement of 47,650 tons, that is achieved by relying on the world's 21st century industrial technology. If Britain and Germany want to force its performance, it is impossible to say that it will not have to increase at least 5,000 to 10,000 tons of armor or displacement. When the time comes, with their lame boilers and steam turbines, how fast and how long will they be able to run? It's worrying to think about!

More critically, the current Chinese Navy has long known that with the rise of aviation, it is certain that battleships will be eliminated. As a result, the originally planned 60,000-ton super-battleship with four triple 406mm guns was shelved and replaced by an aircraft carrier starting at 40,000 tons.

This is also due to the fact that in this world, Yang Hao tossed too much, and was targeted by the whole world, and there was no way to continue to build battleships, and relying on the B plane itself, if he wanted to complete the project of that kind of big guy, the difficulty and cost would seriously drag down the economic construction of the entire country.

The new Chinese Navy will certainly not continue to advance in the big pit of battleships, and fooling the great powers to further escalate the battleship competition is a wonderful deed that is pleasing to hear.

The mission of this naval diplomacy is to stimulate the great powers to continue to overdraw their precious financial revenues on battleships, and in the end there is no other way out but to start a war!

One old and one young, the two foxes understood the subtlety, and the laughter was meaningful, eerie and terrifying.

The fleet traveled mightily, along the most lively routes across the South China Sea. Along the way, ships from all over the world were able to observe from close range, and friends belonging to China and its neighbors all honked their horns in salute or cheered on deck.

For the first time, a foreign ship had a precious opportunity to get close to observe, and their eyes widened, and they couldn't wait to put the telescope directly on the battleship and scan it carefully from beginning to end, for fear of making a little detail.

The indispensable camera crackles wildly, and the posture that I can't wait to run out of film. The spy and intelligence personnel of various countries lurking in the middle of it were almost screaming excitedly, this kind of top-level information sent to the door in vain is equivalent to countless credits!

For a time, the wireless telegraph signals over the South China Sea were transmitted frantically with unprecedented intensity, and the navies of various countries also obtained valuable information as quickly as possible.

The British are not calm in the first place. According to the details of the trip previously obtained, the fleet will make a brief stop at the port of Sultan of Brunei for resupply, and then the next stop will be Malacca. Although it is not the first time that we have seen the demeanor of the four "Hebei-class" battleships, no one can say what kind of terrible changes will be brought about by visiting such a sensitive strategic point in the form of official diplomacy!

On the surface, the Chinese are imitating the two-year military visit around the world that the US "Great White Fleet" has just ended. However, it is not the new China that Taoguang has been in obscurity for more than 10 years, and under the threat of defeating Russia with the power of thunder, it is seeking another opportunity to shock the world from the naval side!

The great powers of the Chinese Navy are well aware of the strength of the Chinese Navy. A few tragic injuries from a decade ago are still nightmares they can't get rid of. All countries are also holding their breath and want to turn back to the Chinese to take revenge and settle the general account after completing the naval construction. As a result, their cutting-edge super battleships have not yet been built, and China has struck first.

It is the critical time when you can't go up or down, and whoever encounters it first will be unlucky.

Could it be that China intends to cross the course of steady escalation and directly challenge the most powerful hegemon, the British Empire?! (To be continued.) )