However, the Italians did not dare to bet immediately, after all, at this time, China's accession to the Entente was only in terms of public opinion, and everyone knew that although China was a constitutional monarchy, in fact, Yang Feng alone had the final say in everything. And Yang Feng has been a traitor with the Kaiser wolf for so many years, and the relationship has always been very iron, and even now those famous German generals on the European battlefield, such as Moltke Jr. and Hindenburg, all have Chinese titles.

But soon the news from Beijing reassured the Italians that the attack on the German minister Haijing was of course not a shooting or other violent attack, but a lecture on Sino-German friendship at Peking University, where the university students who were holding pictures of British children killed in the bombing of London were protesting against the loss of their shoes.

You must know that the name of this university is crowned with royalty, and basically the students here are all die-hard loyalists of the emperor, and such a thing happened at Peking University, and Emperor Yang did not say anything special afterwards, which can be said to be his connivance.

In addition, the reaction of Germany and Austria-Hungary also made the Italians clearly feel their panic, at the beginning of the discussion that China may join the Entente, Germany and Austria reacted quite calmly, but after the incident of the loss of shoes at the Chinese Royal Peking University, Germany and Austria obviously acted a little abnormally, and even proposed to Italy that they could negotiate on the Trantino issue, and in the future colonial partition, Algeria could be assigned to Italy.

At this time, William and Emperor Joseph were indeed panicked, and the change in China's wind direction even caught them off guard, in fact, in their predictions, Yang Feng could not join the Entente, because only joining the Allies was in the best interests of China, once the war was won, China could easily seize the Russian Far East and the British colonies in Southeast Asia, where William was not prepared to compete with Yang Feng, his target was Africa. Land outside Africa can be distributed in an amicable manner with Yang Feng.

And the war has been going on until now, Yang Feng's cousin has also let him confirm this inference, but he really didn't expect that the sky would suddenly fall, and if China really wanted to join the Entente, it would be a catastrophe for him, during this time, German and Austrian diplomats desperately ran to China to pull relations, and even Haijing was thrown away by William with a smile, but praised China's young generation for being very frank and brave to express their opinions, so that he really felt the free academic style of Chinese universities.

In addition to saving Yang Feng's mind, there is also to win over Italy. After all, even if Yang Feng really had this intention, I am afraid that he was still in a state of indecision, and now that he was an arms dealer, it was absolutely impossible for him to take action in the short term, which can be seen from the merchant ships that still sailed to Germany and Austria. But the problem is that such rumors will mislead others, especially those like Italy who are waiting for the price to sell, it is easy to be misled, so Italy must be won over first, and Emperor Joseph also takes the overall situation into account. After understanding the danger he faced, he was also ready to take out the Trentino, anyway, it was a big deal to get more points from the colony in the future.

But such good conditions made Yi Dao understand the urgency of the situation even more.

"The Italians are going to war, and the Italian representatives have already begun secret negotiations in London with the representatives of Britain, France and Russia." Yuan's attendant Changxi told Emperor Yang in a disgraceful manner.

"Good. Then kick them again and order the Persian Gulf Fleet to set sail and make a gesture to enter the Mediterranean, while the American Task Force sends several warships off Port-au-Prince. In addition, the Puerto Rican Army sent a division to the Port of Peace and had customs detain one or two ships of goods destined for Kuwait. Emperor Yang, who was admiring the super battleship, said with satisfaction.

Today is the day when the Huaxia and Yanhuang ships were launched for sea trials, until now. These two super battleships have been built for five full years, if you add the time to build the dock has been almost seven years, tens of thousands of workers for seven years of hard work, with a large number of sea water pouring into the dock is gradually floating, nearly 250 meters long, 36 meters wide steel giant beast is like a miracle, the four twin 380 mm cannon black hole muzzle shows the majesty of the sea overlord, on the left and right sides of the hull there is a golden dragon tens of meters long with teeth and claws.

"Your Majesty, what if the Italians invade Austria?" Yuan Shikai looked at the warship that was making a fire and preparing to start the main engine and sail out of the dock and said cautiously, after all, he was still a little uneasy about Emperor Yang's evaluation of Italy, after all, it was also a great power, although it was ranked first, but it was also a military power with a population of 30 million and an army of 870,000, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire only had a total of 100,000 second-line troops on the Italian-Austrian border. It is also difficult for them to draw reinforcements from elsewhere.

"In case the Italians can't hit Austria, I'm afraid they'll have to let the Austrians into their house in the end." Yang Feng said with a smile, he had never considered this problem.

Yuan was stunned for a moment, and did not continue to discuss the issue of the Italians, but turned his attention to the super battleship in the dock, the huge chimney was emitting billowing smoke at this time, and the pungent smell of heavy oil made His Excellency the pampered chief attendant very uncomfortable, but His Majesty the Emperor had an intoxicated expression, so he had to endure it.

The starting time of the steam turbine is much slower than that of the diesel engine, especially this first trial start, it takes an hour or two for a dozen giant boilers to heat the steam, after a long wait, three giant steam turbines with a total design power of nearly 170,000 horsepower finally reached the starting pressure and began to rotate, and then the gear reducer drove the transmission shaft, and the three huge propellers began to rotate slowly under the water, and as the speed accelerated, the two giant ships began to move out of the dock little by little, Soon it left the dock completely and entered the sea, and a cannon salute on the deck rang out to salute His Majesty the Emperor on the shore.

Then Emperor Yang immediately sounded around a voice of praise for virtue, but those ministers and generals who came to visit should be said to be very sincere at this time, you must know that these are two super ships with a displacement of 40,000 tons, compared with them, even if the largest Edward VII class displacement of the British is less than 30,000 tons, and the caliber of the main gun is only 356 mm, which can be said to be two battleships that can sweep the entire sea as long as they go out.

The Huaxia and Yanhuang were still slowly accelerating, but soon the speed had exceeded twenty knots, and at this time, the battleship Qingcheng of the Beiyang Fleet drove up, parallel to these two battleships, this battleship with a full load displacement of nearly 20,000 tons, which used to be extremely huge in the eyes of these officials and generals, but now it is like a small toy compared to them. The three battleships kept almost the same speed and ran faster and faster, and it didn't take long for it to look small from the shore, Yang Feng immediately led people on his Nautilus, and the trimaran quickly soared to forty-five knots to catch up with the battleship on trial, and by this time the speed of the three battleships had reached thirty knots, and they were still advancing in unison.

At this time, Emperor Yang was already very satisfied, the Qingcheng had a speed of 32 knots with 120,000 horsepower, and the two ships of Huaxia Yan and Huang could still keep up with it, which means that the speed of the two was about the same, which completely met his standards, because now in Europe, except for the battleships built by Yang Shipyard and China, none of the self-built battleships of other countries has a speed of more than 30 knots. Britain's latest Edward VII class has even dropped its speed to twenty-six knots because of its thickened armor, so that Huaxia Yanhuang can guarantee absolute superiority in the face of those battleships. As for the standardized battleships of the Yang shipyard, because of the tonnage problem, the armor thickness can block 356 guns at most, and the 380 guns of the Huaxia Yanhuang ships can easily penetrate the main armor more than ten kilometers away, not to mention that because of the radar fire control system, these two super battleships do not need to attack the main armor at all, they can hit a high trajectory to deal with horizontal armor at a distance of 20 kilometers or even 30 kilometers.

"Your Majesty, it's thirty-two verses!" The captain of the Nautilus cautiously interrupted Emperor Yang's imagination.

Yang Feng was stunned for a moment, and then looked at the two super battleships that were still parallel to the Qingcheng, and it was obvious that the two battleships were still accelerating.

"How much power?" The guy hurriedly picked up the wireless phone and asked.

"Qi Song Xià, it's close to 200,000 horsepower!" Cheng Biguang's smug voice came from the microphone.

In fact, these two super battleships finally ran at a top speed of thirty-three knots, with a maximum power of 200,000 horsepower, of course, this is not strange in the trial voyage of a steam turbine battleship, basically they have to exceed a few thousand horsepower, but like him, it is more frustrating to exceed 30,000 horsepower than the design power, but there is no need to care about this problem, Yang Feng only needs to know that his super battleship is running as fast as Iowa.

The success of the sea trials is just the beginning, and it will take at least a year to go, and all the performances have been comprehensively tested, so that these two super battleships can really be handed over to the navy, and then there will be almost a year of training to really form combat effectiveness, and then basically China should make a move, the time can be said to be just right, with these two warships as the core, plus eight Kunlun-class battleships, twenty-four Hongwu-class battleships, and two aircraft carriers, the Chinese Navy will sweep the four oceans like a raging wave. (To be continued......)

PS: Happy New Year's Day!