Anderson walked up to Heihachiro Togo and smiled, "General Togo, why do you want to sigh for Lu?" ”

Heihachiro Togo smiled lightly and said, "Mr. Anderson, you should be able to understand. ”

Anderson frowned and asked, "What should I understand?" ”

Togo Heihachiro gently patted the guardrail in front of him with his hand and said: "The reason for my sigh is: since Lin Yuan suddenly appeared in the first year of the first year, they have been extremely mysterious, and they are also extremely powerful, mysterious big ships, flying machines, radars, these things are really powerful, I am a little worried about the next battle." ”

Anderson smiled, "General Togo, what do you have to worry about?" Your warships are also up to date! Since the launch of the British dreadnoughts, your great Japanese empire has fully started the plan to build dreadnoughts, and in just two years, you have built four battleships and four high-speed battleships that sacrificed a certain amount of protection. ”

Heihachiro Togo shook his head lightly and said, "Mr. Anderson, you have always been a fast talker, the most tired of hypocritical politeness, how can you not know that these four battleships and four battlecruisers were built within two years with the full help of Britain, Germany, and your United States?" These eight battleships also cost us a lot of money! ”

Anderson said with a smile: "Your country's ability to make up its mind to build these eight battleships is what I admire, and your country's 'Ten Fleets' plan, which is the plan to build ten super dreadnoughts and ten battle cruisers, this plan can be approved by Congress after it is proposed, this kind of efficiency is what our country lacks the most, do you know it?" In our country, one more screw on a battleship will be besieged by politicians for half a day! ”

Heihachiro Togo smiled and said, "But these warships don't have the ability to resist the attack of flying machines!" ”

Anderson smiled: "Our domestic experts and British counterparts have analyzed that the aircraft cannot carry a large number of weapons, so it cannot be used in naval warfare, and the real protagonist in naval warfare ......" After speaking, Anderson turned around and pointed to those thick cannon barrels, and said: "It's still these big guys!" ”

Heihachiro Togo thought helplessly: "You don't know the true strength of the Dao Lin Yuan Flying Machine!" At this moment, a herald came over and said, "General Togo, Mr. Anderson, and the chief of staff of the fleet, Mayuki Akiyama, please come to the conference room. ”

Mayuki Akiyama was the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, a graduate of the Annapolis Naval Academy in the United States. Mahan, in the Russo-Japanese War of the Hayashi Battle of Mahammad in the era of Lin Yuan, it was he who single-handedly planned the "Great Turn in Front of the Enemy" that was talked about by later generations, allowing the Japanese Combined Fleet to defeat the Russian Baltic Fleet from afar.

Heihachiro Togo said, "Okay, Mr. Anderson, let's go, please." The two of them came to the conference room together, and Akiyama Shinyuki was already waiting inside, and when he saw the two of them coming in, he said, "Togo-kun, Mr. Anderson, let's discuss the next combat operation together." ”

When Anderson heard this, he immediately said: "Since it is a combat operation, I will not participate." ”

Akiyama Shinyuki smiled and said, "Mr. Anderson, the United States and Japan are already de facto allies, so it's okay for you to listen to it, besides, your company's equipment is still the key to our victory." ”

Anderson sat at the table at this time, and Akiyama Shinyuki said: "We are still twenty nautical miles away from Wonsan Port, and Wonsan Port is only two hundred nautical miles from Kiyojin Port. ”

"According to the information sent by various observation posts in Qingjin, Lin Yuan's fleet outside Qingjin is composed of eight Divine Beast-class destroyers, eight Star-class landing ships and four Martial Arts-class fire support ships, among which the Star-class and Martial Arts-class will definitely not take the initiative to engage us, so the main force of the battle is the eight Divine Beast-class destroyers, and the weapons and equipment of the Divine Beast-class destroyers, I won't say more, General Dongxiang, what do you say is the purpose of our battle?"

Heihachiro Togo said, "The purpose of the battle? Of course, it was to annihilate the fleet of Lin Yuan's troops and seize the sea control of Qingjin Port. ”

Akiyama Shinyuki said: "Very good, I think so too, let's look at our fleet again, first of all, we have four battleships, namely the Ise-class battleships Ise and Hinata, the Fuso-class battleships Fuso and Yamashiro, according to General Togo's suggestion, these two types of battleships have sacrificed firepower and protection, and increased their speed, their maximum speed is around 30 knots, which is close to the speed of the Divine Beast-class battleships of Lin Yuan's troops." ”

"We also have four Kong-class battlecruisers, and the maximum speed of these four warships is faster, which can reach 32 knots, which is already numerically superior to the Divine Beast-class destroyers of Lin Yuan's forces; However, our most powerful destroyer is the Blowing Snow class destroyer, this type of destroyer can fire a No. 1 torpedo with a speed of 35 knots, which is an excellent equipment for hunting Lin Yuan's warships! ”

In Lin Yuan's era, the Ise-class battleships, Fuso-class battleships, and Kongo-class battlecruisers had to wait until around 1910 to start construction, and the construction of Fuyuki-class destroyers did not start until 1928, but due to the launch of British dreadnoughts and the commissioning of the Divine Beast-class destroyers of Lin Yuan's army, Japan broke away from the development trajectory of Lin Yuan's era and carried out large-scale upgrading and improvement of weapons and equipment.

In this environment, these four-class warships were "born" in advance, but they are still different from the warships of Lin Yuan's era, for example: Togo Heihachiro saw the embarrassment of the Russian fleet that could not catch up with Lin Yuan's troops, and put forward the requirement that the speed of the new warships must be fast.

Britain and Germany did not want to sell related technology, but as Lin Yuan attacked the separatist forces in Mongolia and occupied Petropaplovsk, the power became more and more powerful, so they sold a complete set of the most advanced steam turbine technology to Japan, and Germany did not lag behind, and sold high-efficiency transmission systems and propeller systems to Japan.

When designing the protection system of the new warship, Japan also consulted Togo Heihachiro, who knew that the missiles of the Daolin Yuan warship were very powerful, and one could sink a Russian battleship, so he advocated the use of large-thickness armor, but at this time, Togo Heihachiro learned the technique of armor-piercing bullets.

It turned out that when Japan was designing the battleship, the principle and technique of the armor-piercing bullet had already matured, so Togo Heihachiro learned the principle of the armor-piercing bullet in detail from the technical personnel, and then made a judgment that if the missiles of Lin Yuan's troops also used armor-piercing warheads, then the new warship would need to be equipped with a thousand millimeters of armor to be able to block it, and such a weight would definitely be unbearable for the battleship!

Although the technical staff of the armor-piercing bullet repeatedly assured Togo Heihachiro that the people of China were absolutely incapable of mastering the technique of armor-piercing bullets, Togo Heihachiro still didn't dare to be careless, because he knew that Lin Yuan was too powerful!