If Germany brazenly occupies Jiaozhou Bay, how should it respond?

Lin Fei didn't come up with a good way in his heart, relying on the strength of the Qing government, it was absolutely impossible to hold Jiaozhou Bay, in Lin Fei's era, Germany only took one day to occupy all Jiaozhou Bay, and if he didn't want Jiaozhou Bay to fall into the hands of the Germans, Lin Fei could only send troops in person.

However, once Lin Fei sent troops, he would violate the alliance treaty signed with Germany, and if Germany switched to Britain and France in a fit of anger, he would lose an important ally in Europe, and Britain and France would be able to attack China without scruples.

But if Lin Fei does not send troops, then he can only watch the Germans invade and occupy Jiaozhou Bay, which is the land where the Chinese nation has lived for generations, how can the Germans occupy it?

If we put aside the factors of national feelings, and only talk about actual interests, the occupation of Jiaozhou Bay by the Germans will also have endless troubles, and in the future, Lin Fei overthrew the Qing court and settled in the Central Plains, how should these Germans be disposed of?

Faced with this qiē, Lin Fei could only prepare in his heart and adapt when the time came.

The United States is located in North America, far away from the two major places of right and wrong on the European continent and the Asian continent, and can concentrate on development and construction, and the United States is rich in resources, with oil and iron ore.

The United States still has countless talents, in this era, the United States is a paradise that European talents yearn for, and a large number of European talents immigrate to the United States, although Lin Fei wants to recruit a large number of European talents to China, but China cannot compete with the United States at all, Americans and Europeans both speak English, both believe in Christianity, and have the same customs and habits.

The United States has both resources, talents, and unique geographical advantages, and will inevitably become Lin Fei's great enemy in the future.

After another period of time, the information about the details of the Qing and Japanese warships was sent to Lin Fei, and the information stated that the Qing State was expected to buy four battleships, all of which were the latest British Majesty-class battleships, and the Majesty-class battleships were used as battleships with medium-caliber secondary guns, and the British had disdained to use them, so they simply sold them to the Qing State to balance Lin Fei.

The battleships ordered by Japan are all dreadnoughts, equipped with ten or more large-caliber guns, the caliber of the main gun is as high as 306 mm, and the length of the barrel is as high as 45 times the caliber, which is almost the highest level of the British naval gun, the firing range of this naval gun is as high as 20,000 meters, and with the advanced fire control system, it can completely hit the target at a distance of 10,000 meters.

Once this kind of battleship entered service with the Japanese Navy, it meant that Lin Fei's Emperor-class cruiser was completely reduced to a target ship of the Japanese Navy, and there was no possibility of victory.

So is it possible for Britain to build dreadnoughts? The answer is yes, because at this time the conditions for building dreadnoughts were ripe, and in Lin Fei's era, dreadnoughts were launched in 1906, and now they are in 1897, although there is a gap of nearly 10 years, but the gap between these 10 years is not caused by technical bottlenecks, but by the conservatism of military experts of various countries.

The current rise of China is like a heavy hammer, smashing the conservatism of military strategists from all over the world!

Lin Fei is once again facing a huge crisis.

Lin Fei has no other way but to enhance his military strength, surface warships, naturally the top priority!

On September 18, 1897, Lin Fei held a seminar on battleship technology, at which Lin Fei first said: "At this time, Britain, France, Germany and other countries have developed 'fully equipped heavy artillery' battleships, according to intelligence, the caliber of the main guns of these battleships has reached more than 300 millimeters, and the displacement is more than 15,000 tons. ”

The engineers looked embarrassed, and no one answered, Lin Fei said in a deep voice: "Why don't you speak, is it impossible to build?" ”

An engineer replied: "Report to Your Majesty, we really can't build a battleship with a displacement of 15,000 tons, and with our current technology, we can only barely build a battleship with a displacement of 10,000 tons." ”

Although the difference is 5,000 tons, it is barely okay, Lin Fei accepted this fact, and then asked, "What about the naval guns?" How large caliber can we build naval guns now, and can we build guns with a caliber of more than 300 mm? ”

"Well...... the engineers were embarrassed again, "Your Majesty, we can't make artillery with a caliber of more than three hundred millimeters. ”

"How so, didn't we get a lot of technical information back from Japan? Why can't it be built yet? Lin Fei frowned, if he couldn't make artillery with a caliber of more than 300 millimeters, then the navy would inevitably face a range disadvantage.

"Report to Your Majesty, although we have technical information, it is not easy to understand the technical information." The engineer is right, it is a very difficult thing to understand the information and design and manufacture the weapon on its own, and it will take quite a long time.

"So how much caliber artillery can we make now?"

"Two hundred...... Two hundred and eighty mm. ”

"No! The range of the 280 mm guns is far worse than the 306 mm guns, and the British will definitely make larger guns, don't forget that they already use 343 mm guns on the Sovereign ships! ”

The engineers all lowered their heads in shame, Lin Fei sighed heavily, and ordered the meeting to be dismissed, the engineers walked out dejectedly, Lin Fei frowned, pondering, Xiyun lowered his head and stood aside, ashamed and inferior for not being able to help Lin Fei.

Lin Fei thought for a long time and said to Xiyun: "Let's go, let's go back to the office and invite Mr. Haber here." ”

Xiyun followed Lin Fei back to the office, and then invited the chemist Haber, who had already granted the green card to Haber at this time, and Haber officially became a Chinese citizen.

Lin Fei asked directly: "Mr. Haber, how is the research on ammonia synthesis technology?" ”

Haber smiled and said, "Report to Mr. Lin Fei, now we can synthesize ammonia in the real room." ”

Lin Fei smiled and praised a few words, Haber was very modest, "It is because of the technical information you gave me that we can complete the synthesis of ammonia so quickly, especially with iron powder, bauxite and potassium oxide as catalysts, how did you come up with this catalyst?" ”

In Lin Fei's time, high school students who had studied chemistry knew about this catalyst, but Lin Fei didn't say anything, but said with a smile: "Complete the industrial production research of synthetic ammonia, and wait until synthetic ammonia is produced, and develop this substance." ”

Lin Fei said and handed a copy of the information to Habo's hand, Haber took the information and read it, a little surprised, "Your Majesty, this is just a mixture of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin, what needs to be studied." ”

"I'm going to make their mixtures smooth and not explode during combustion, do you think you need to study them?" Both nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin can be used as explosives, and if they burn a little faster, a powerful explosion will occur.

Haber couldn't help but ask, "Why do you want them to burn smoothly?" ”

Lin Fei smiled mysteriously, "Mr. Habo, you will know the answer in the future." ”

Haber didn't ask much, and left with a smile, it turned out that the kind of thing that Lin Fei asked Haber to study was the propellant of rockets in Lin Fei's era, there are many kinds of rocket propellants, and the mixture of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin is one of them, this kind of propellant is relatively primary, but Lin Fei can't get a high-grade propellant for a while.

Lin Fei asked Xiyun to invite Tsiolkovsky in, and asked directly: "Mr. Tsiolkovsky, how did you design the rocket I wanted?" ”

Tsiolkovsky frowned, "Although I designed the rocket, we don't have propellant, and the rocket can't be used." ”

Lin Fei said with a smile: "I have already asked people to develop the propellant, what difficulties do you have, just bring it up." ”

Tsiolkovsky thought for a moment and said: "As for the people I worked with, I learned from them that what they used to make was fireworks, or a kind of fireworks called 'Sky Monkey', and I doubt that they really understand the principle of rockets. ”

"Haha, Mr. Tsiolkovsky, our Chinese monkeys are actually the same as rockets, if you teach them more, they will understand what rockets are."

Tsiolkovsky thought about it and agreed to leave, Lin Fei looked at Tsiolkovsky's back, and couldn't help but show a smug smile, this smile made Xiyun on the side confused, she couldn't help asking: "Husband, what are you laughing at?" ”

Lin Fei said excitedly: "Now that the rocket and propellant are being developed, my rockets should soon be able to be equipped on the battleship, and then I will use the rocket battleship to beat the battleships of the British and the Japanese devils." ”

Faced with the superiority of British and Japanese warships, Lin Fei came up with rocket battleships, which used rockets as weapons, and in naval history, rockets have never been used as main battle weapons, only on modern warships, rockets are used as anti-submarine weapons.

The history of rockets is very long, the ancient Chinese fireworks - the monkey, using the principle of rockets, spraying gas backwards, pushing objects forward, the weapon of the Ming Dynasty in China - the fire dragon out of the water, the flying fire god crow, is the earliest rocket in human history.

Although rockets appeared very early, but in modern times, they were not used in naval warfare, because of the lack of effective propellants, the range of guided rockets was too close, far from catching up with naval guns, until World War II, the Soviet Union developed Katyusha rockets, rockets were widely used, but at this time, the main weapons of the navy have become naval aviation, and rockets have lost the opportunity to be equipped on warships.